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Cities Cracking Down on Climate Law-Breakers
Cities are tightening building codes and pressuring owners to translate climate goals into energy efficiency and savings. New York is one leading the way.
By Courtney Humphries, InsideClimate News
New York's Hearst Tower was built to use 26 percent less energy than required by code, with an emphasis on natural lighting and temperature controls to reduce waste. The mayor's proposed energy code updates aim to similarly reduce energy use in more buildings. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty
To mitigate climate change, cities need to target buildings—the "mother lode" of greenhouse gas emissions, as New York Mayor Bill De Blasio called them last week.
At a news conference, he announced a pathbreaking proposal to set stricter energy efficiency standards in the city's aging buildings—and to fine building owners who don't comply with the codes.
Other cities may need to crack down, too, if they are to meet their climate goals. Across the U.S., cities have pledged to reduce emissions, with some (like New York) aiming ambitiously for 80 percent reductions by 2050.
"If you're a city that's concerned about climate change, you have to focus on buildings, because that's where the carbon is," says Cliff Majersik, executive director of the Institute for Market Transformation, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit focused on climate and energy.
Building energy codes—and the ability to strengthen them—are among the most powerful tools cities have to improve energy efficiency, Majersik says. But even as municipal leaders tout energy efficiency, many aren't doing enough to ensure that their existing energy codes are followed. Cities may need to adopt stronger tactics to translate climate goals into real energy savings and ensure builders aren't gaming the system.
In New York, a quarter of the city's emissions come from 14,500 buildings over 25,000 square feet in size. The city earmarked $2.7 billion in its capital budget to retrofit its own buildings, and more than 1,600 municipal and public housing buildings have been upgraded. Now, the mayor wants to force privately owned buildings to meet the same strict standards with new boilers, windows and insulation. In the long term, such measures save money through lower utility bills, but getting to that point can be a battle.
The city has already had to adopt tougher tactics to make new buildings and renovations comply with its existing codes.
As it was tightening energy code enforcement in new buildings in 2014, "nearly every project that came in did not meet the energy code," says Emily Hoffman, who is in charge of compliance. When Hoffman's team began pointing out problems with the designs to developers, they discovered that "the applicants weren't used to getting any kind of pushback on energy code compliance."
That's changed now that the city has told the team to crack down on the problem, she says. They are seeing much better compliance to begin with, and can stop work on projects that aren't up to code.
A Confusing Patchwork of Rules
Fire and safety codes for buildings have existed for well over a century, but energy codes date back only to the late 1970s. In hundreds of pages, they prescribe efficiency standards for wall insulation, windows, heating and cooling systems, and lighting.
Nationally, it's a confusing patchwork. States and some local jurisdictions adopt their own codes based on two model codes established by private groups. Many jurisdictions use older versions of the model codes, while some have chosen to go beyond the models.
While there are examples of super-efficient green buildings, most buildings hew to the minimum allowable standard, which is why energy codes have been important efficiency tools. Energy codes "are one of the few policy levers that the government actually controls at some level," says David Cohan, who manages the Building Energy Codes Program at the U.S. Department of Energy.
"We know that the codes, if followed, would be producing increasingly efficient buildings," says Maureen Guttman, president of the Building Codes Assistance Project, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C. "But we also know that if they're not adopted and if they're not used, then none of those energy efficiency savings are realized."
A task force led by the Institute for Market Transformation estimates that on average, each dollar spent on code compliance and enforcement returns six dollars in energy savings.
Low Compliance, Few Enforcement Resources
Architects, engineers and builders are responsible for complying with energy codes, as are subcontractors who work on aspects of the building like wiring and ventilation. The job of enforcing codes falls to building departments that issue permits for new construction and renovations; they review plans and other documentation, and conduct inspections of the site during construction. But building offices frequently lack the time and staffing to review plans for energy code compliance. Some have a single staff member, and health, safety and fire codes take precedence.
"People who run these code departments are really stuck," says Guttman. Furthermore, "about 80 percent of current code workforce expects to retire in the next 15 years. So we have this huge crisis looming. Not only do cities not have the financial resources to do all of the important code enforcement work that they want to do, but soon may not have the staffing resources to do that work."
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 brought new attention to the issue of energy code compliance; it required states that accept stimulus funds to develop and implement a plan to achieve 90 percent energy code compliance by 2017. The act led to a flurry of assessment studies and compliance programs, including New York City's. But while states are technically on the hook for demonstrating compliance, the wording of the legislation was vague and hard to enforce.
Small studies have found that buildings, by and large, don't fully comply with codes:
In Colorado, compliance rates in 2013 were 90 percent for residential buildings but only 28 percent for recent commercial buildings.
Massachusetts found an average compliance rate of 80 percent in recently built commercial buildings in 2012, which improved somewhat in a follow-up study; however, no building fully complied with the code.
In New York, a similar study found compliance rates as low as 36 percent for commercial buildings and 61 percent for residential buildings.
In California, Lea Haro, supervisor of compliance and enforcement for the California Energy Commission's energy efficiency division, says that compliance rates in the state's existing homes are estimated to range from 10 to 38 percent, because of the large amount of unpermitted work.
The Department of Energy published early results in 2015 from a series of rigorous studies on energy use in buildings. A study on single-family homes, Cohan says, found that on average, homes met energy efficiency standards, but specific elements often failed to comply with energy codes. That suggests that homeowners are missing out on energy savings totaling hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars each year in some states. A study on commercial buildings is underway.
"Ultimately, the hope is that this spurs both states and local governments to make this a higher priority," Cohan says. "We're basically handing them proof that they're not enforcing their own laws."
It's Easy to Game the System
Meanwhile, an alternative strategy to comply with energy codes is making the job of enforcing energy codes even harder. Called the performance pathway, it allows building designers to skip some of the detailed requirements of prescriptive codes if they can show that the proposed building meets an energy performance target, using a software-based energy model.
Energy modeling allows designers to see how building elements work together and achieve high efficiency. But Duane Jonlin, Seattle's energy code and energy conservation advisor, warns that "energy modeling for code compliance is typically used to make worse buildings."
To show that a proposed building is energy-efficient, an energy model compares it to a hypothetical baseline—a similar building that meets the prescriptive code. Although the baseline building and the proposed project should be matched, it's fairly easy to adjust certain elements to make the proposed design look better, says Jacob Knowles, director of sustainable design at engineering firm BR+A in Boston.
Few building departments are equipped with the expertise to review energy models to make sure the baseline and proposed buildings reflect accurate assumptions.
One of the most visible examples is the enduring popularity of glass-walled towers, even in cities with strict energy codes. Standard glass walls can have a major impact on energy use, and prescriptive codes often limit the percentage of glass in outer walls. But developers can add features in an energy model, like high-efficiency heating systems to "make up" for the energy lost by glass walls. The result is buildings that meet code requirements but could be much more efficient.
The small hypothetical energy savings in a model often disappear in the real world. In some cases, the project runs over budget and energy-saving features are "value engineered" out of the final building. "If you value-engineer something out, you should have to remodel the building, but unfortunately that doesn't really happen," Majersik says.
Michael Rosenberg, an energy code developer at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who has led efforts to curb misuse of energy models, says that commercial buildings often use more energy than expected because the complicated control systems that govern lighting, sensors, and heating and cooling are improperly calibrated or nonfunctional.
Codes are beginning to focus more on requiring commissioning, a months-long process of ensuring all these systems are working, he says.
These Cities Are Stepping Up Code Enforcement
In response to the 2009 stimulus package, many states launched programs to educate design, engineering and construction professionals, whose licenses are on the line when they stamp documents asserting a project meets code.
In some states, energy utilities are also funding compliance education, but efficiency advocates say they could do more. Several groups have created checklists and software tools to improve how building plans document energy use and help building officials review them quickly.
Some cities are also stepping up code enforcement.
Dallas, for instance, uses professional third-party energy code reviewers and inspectors to handle details that building department staffers can't.
Washington, D.C., created a Green Building Division in 2013 to enforce its energy code and new green building legislation. Its manager, David Epley, says the division improved the compliance rate of new buildings from 74 to 99 percent in just two years using an approach developed by the Institute for Market Transformation. The division's staff includes five plan reviewers, funded by building permit fees, who check for compliance at several points along a project's timeline, from the design phase through a year or two after construction.
In Seattle, which has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2050, "the energy use in new buildings has to be reduced by 70 percent," says Jonlin. To achieve that, its building department employs several mechanical engineers to review plans. "It's a luxury that hardly any building departments can afford," he says.
When the King Street Station in Seattle was remodeled, the designers sought out LED lighting that could match the building's historic look while lowering its energy use. Credit: Mat Hayward/Getty Images
Jonlin's staff is supported by a yearly grant from Seattle City Light, the city's publicly-owned electric utility, as well as building permit fees, and an hourly fee to review plans with energy models, which he says can take between three and twenty hours.
More importantly, the reviewers have the power to push back against developers.
"Hardly anybody gets away unscathed," he says, with most projects requiring at least a couple of cycles of corrections. That sets Seattle apart from nearby communities. "I get complaints all the time" from developers who don't face similar hurdles in other places, he says.
New York, Washington and Seattle have all benefited from funding made possible by construction booms, but they also have a mandate from the city government to enforce codes.
"Developers are some of the most powerful people in any community," says Majersik. Building officials "have to know that the mayor has their backs if they're slowing down permitting for a powerful developer."
Those kinds of tactics may be needed to turn ambitious energy policies into reality. "Without the policy, nothing else would happen," says Cohan, "but the policy alone doesn't solve the problem."
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James Astin (born 16 August 1900-1979) was an English professional footballer who played as a full back.

Born in Hapton, Lancashire, Astin joined Football League First Division club Burnley from the British Army in the summer of 1921. He made his league debut on 10 December 1921 in the 1–0 win over Huddersfield Town. Astin then spent a period of time out of the side before returning to the team for the 1–0 victory over Bolton Wanderers on 18 February 1922. He played the following 12 consecutive matches, his last appearance for Burnley coming on 17 April 1922 in the 1–2 defeat away at Liverpool. He joined Bury at the start of the 1922–23 season, but failed to play a game for his new club before retiring from football at the end of the campaign.

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Greg Dempson's NFL picks are 4-2 this season at Pick Sixty and from the late card he has free play "live" today out of the Music City. The line on this game opened at Cardinals -2.5 with a total of 41.5 and we issued an early preview for this game as our Tip of the Week at our new Facebook betting page (ARI at TEN, Cards TT OV 22). Gameday betting has pushed this total up to 42.5 at sports betting sites (Greek has 42 -122) and Greg still likes the over.
Has Carson Palmer's career been resurrected since that move from Cincinnati to Oakland, and now Arizona? Well, Palmer has completed a league-high 70.4% of his passes for an average of 326 yards per game with eight touchdowns and two interceptions in the past four weeks. Only New England's Tom Brady has put up more yards per game (357.3) in that stretch. Larry Fitzgerald has been "lights out" during Palmer's superb stretch, with 28 catches for 281 yards and five touchdowns. Last week, Larry finished with 96 receiving yards while his 12 receptions were his most since matching a career high 13 against Seattle on Oct. 18, 2009. Fitzgerald has 10 touchdown catches this season.
This week Palmer and Fitzgerald face a Tennessee team that has allowed an average of 29.0 points during its four-game home losing streak. I do not believe that Chris Johnson will be able to run the ball vs. the Cardinals. In his last game, Johnson's struggles continued with 46 rushing yards on 12 carries. He's averaging a career-low 3.8 yards per carry and the Cards have the league's third-best run defense at 84.5 yards allowed per game.
If you cannot run the ball your other option is the passing game. Games that stretch out due to the clock stopping allow for higher scores. The Titans also take a lot of penalties and Arizona should be able to take advantage. We've seen 75-percent of the non-Conference games this year go over and I feel this game will add to that tally.


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17 Judge Roy Moore Quotes
"Unfortunately, many of the young people who attend public schools and universities in America today are being persecuted for their profession of faith in Christ."
- Judge Roy Moore
Topics: America, Persecution
"America is not just one nation under God, she is also 50 sovereign states under God."
Topics: America, God
"Obamanomics is simply the philosophy of socialism, loosely defined as "collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production or distribution of goods." Nations that embrace socialism inevitably experience stagnation and economic decline."
Topics: America, Failure
"In the postmodern view that prevails today, there seems to be no objective truth or established law. Truth seems to be in the eyes of the beholder. Likewise, the words of the law and the United States Constitution mean only what new "empathetic" judges say."
Topics: Truth, America
"The truth is that while liberals now hold the reins of power in Washington, D.C., the American people have not abandoned traditional morality and a conservative philosophy of government."
Topics: Politics, Morality, America
"Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists."
"Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government."
Topics: God, Government
"The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power."
Topics: America, Sin
"It is encouraging that so many of our youth are not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. Like our forefathers, they know America is a Christian nation. It is a shame that our president and some of our other public officials do not share that view."
Topics: America, The Gospel
"We must preserve our moral foundation and the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as gifts of God. Then we need to demand that anyone who wishes to represent us do the same."
Topics: Morality, Liberty
"Today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it was recognized throughout our history as such."
Topics: Government, History
"If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you."
Topics: Government, Liberty
"The federal courts need to respect the rights of the great majority of the American people who believe in God and recognize that the only purpose of the religion clause of the First Amendment is to preserve the rights of conscience given to us by the Creator."
Topics: America, Conscience
"When we forget God, we lose the only true basis for morality and ethics, and we are cast upon the shifting sands of moral relativism in which anything goes, including lying, cheating and stealing."
Topics: Immorality
"We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem!"
Topics: Children, Self-esteem
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'Challenge' Champ Paula 'Walnuts' Meronek Ties The Knot - See Wedding Pics!
'challenge' champ paula 'walnuts' meronek ties the knot – see wedding pics!
The last time we saw Paula "Walnuts" Meronek in a wedding dress, she was lamenting her silver medal finish in the "Race to the Altar" challenge during "Battle of the Exes," but this weekend, she and her white gown were second to none. After announcing her engagement to Jack Beckert in December and sharing news that she was pregnant in February, Paula and her main man officially tied the knot on Saturday, and we have to say — we've never seen her look so happy. Those two "Challenge" wins? Peanuts compared to this bliss.
This shot deserves some prime photo album real estate.
"#perfectday thanks to all our friends and family for making it the best day of our lives…we are truly blessed," Paula wrote alongside an Instagram photo that shows her and Jack with "I do" and "Me too" inscriptions on the bottoms of their shoes. (Wonder if they looked to Kailyn and Javi of "Teen Mom 2" for creative inspiration?) The couple's hands are adorably intertwined over the bride's baby bump.
Paula seems to have finally gotten her fairytale ending, and we couldn't be more thrilled for her. After the weekend-long celebration, it's no surprise she woke up this morning and made a Twitter oath to blow off any and all housework. You deserve as much, Walnuts — a big congrats!
Check out pics from the wedding, and wish Paula and Jack the best!
"One great man giving me away to another," Paula captioned this photo.


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Tata Communications honored by Frost & Sullivan for creating robust IZO™ Cloud Enablement Platform
Frost & Sullivan 2019 Global Product Line Strategy Leadership Award recognizes the company's cloud enablement platform that provides a unified user experience and addresses critical business challenges
Santa Clara, Calif., March 18, 2019
After reviewing the market, Frost & Sullivan has awarded Tata Communications with the 2019 Global Product Line Strategy Leadership Award for Global Hybrid Cloud Services. The award recognizes the company as a leader in creating a robust, global hybrid cloud offering. Today, Tata Communications' IZO™ cloud enablement platform acts as a one-stop-shop for customers looking to pursue more deliberate multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies to balance performance and cost while meeting the specific needs of applications and workloads.
"Tata Communications' continues to focus on providing a better customer experience through its product offerings. The company is demonstrating this through its continued strategy to add value-added services such as security, automation and standardization to its IZO™ cloud enablement platform to enable digital transformation for its customers as well as efforts to drive speed and delivery to achieve a unified user experience – this has resulted in a strong, positive experience for its customer."
Karyn Price, Senior Industry Analyst for Cloud Computing at Frost & Sullivan
Through its IZO™ cloud enablement platform, Tata Communications has integrated multiple, popular infrastructures, hypervisors, and operating systems for management into a single, streamlined platform. Within that single view, the company addresses some of the most critical business challenges today through the integration of services higher up in the stack that offer significant value to its customers.
"Tata Communications' continues to focus on providing a better customer experience through its product offerings," said Karyn Price, Senior Industry Analyst for Cloud Computing at Frost & Sullivan. "The company is demonstrating this through its continued strategy to add value-added services such as security, automation and standardization to its IZO™ cloud enablement platform to enable digital transformation for its customers as well as efforts to drive speed and delivery to achieve a unified user experience – this has resulted in a strong, positive experience for its customer."
The company's hybrid cloud platform supports a set of standard APIs that make it easy to integrate or migrate workloads, or to split applications and workloads into a hybrid configuration among a variety of infrastructures. It also provides business management features, including showback/chargeback by department, resource allocation, usage monitoring and metrics, and user profile management. An embedded workflow engine provides service level agreement (SLA) management; as well as third-party application integration and key IT infrastructure library (ITIL) services such as incident management. A customer-facing self-service portal facilitates the self-service delivery of approved applications and services to both internal customers and partners.
In addition, comprehensive security features are integrated directly into the platform to help customers meet their IT security requirements. These features incorporate a homegrown threat intelligence platform using big data and artificial intelligence capabilities, which is an integral part of the company's global Cyber Security Response Centers (CSRC). The CSRC footprint currently covers India, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates, with expansion plans in the US and Europe.
Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has developed a comprehensive product line that caters to the breadth of the market it serves. The award recognizes the extent to which the product line meets customer base demands, and the overall impact it has in terms of customer value and increased market share.
Frost & Sullivan Best Practices awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.
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About Tata Communications
Tata Communications is a leading global digital infrastructure provider that powers today's fast- growing digital economy. The company's customers represent 300 of the Fortune 500 whose digital transformation journeys are enabled by its portfolio of integrated, globally managed services that deliver local customer experiences. Through its network, cloud, mobility, Internet of Things (IoT), collaboration and security services, Tata Communications carries around 30% of the world's internet routes, and connects businesses to 60% of the world's cloud giants and 4 out of 5 mobile subscribers. The company's capabilities are underpinned by its global network, which is the world's largest wholly owned subsea fibre backbone and a Tier-1 IP network. Tata Communications Limited is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange of India, and it serves customers in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide through its technology capabilities and partnerships. www.tatacommunications.com
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Cory Curtis: 13 takeaways from Titans win in Baltimore
by: Cory Curtis
Titans beat the Ravens 30-24 in overtime to get to 7-3, their best start since 2008.It wasn't perfect, but they delivered in the clutch and sometimes, that is better than perfect.
1. Challenge accepted – With both teams struggling headed into this game we played down the "revenge" element in this one and quickly saw… We were wrong.When John Harbaugh went out and challenged the Titans before the game, Malcolm Butler, Jeffery Simmons, Rashaan Evans and company were more than happy to accept. As Brown said "that set the bar early, it set the tone".
2. Overcoming injuries – Both of these teams came in with a ton of injuries but I was very concerned the Titans just had too many… Then Ty Sambrailo got hurt and Jayon Brown and Derrick Henry left the game briefly, so did Ben Jones and so did Jonnu Smith. The Titans kept playing though because Mike Vrabel always says EVERYONE on this team is expected to do their jobs and help this team win.
3. The bad snap – That takes me to the bad snap. Of course, yes, it seems crazy to have Jamil Douglas snap it out of the gun to Derrick Henry in the wildcat on his first play, but it goes back to #2, Vrabel expects everyone to be able to do their job if they are in the game.
4. Panda Sighting – Yep, that was Isaiah Wilson dressed for the first time and yes, he was an injury away from getting on the field!
5. Grown man – AJ Brown did not start the game well. Not only did he drop a couple of passes, he was not aggressive enough in going to get them. In the money time though Brown rose to the occasion with two "grown man" plays. On 2nd and 7, he took a short pass 25 yards just ripping thru arm tackles. He picked it up on a knotch on 3rd and 10 breaking 3 tackles, just refusing to go down and then pushing linebacker Patrick Queen into the endzone like was on roller skates. He got a nice push from Jeremy McNicholls, but that play was all AJ Brown and I don't think there is another receiver in the NFL that could make that play. He said he was just trying to get the first down, then he saw the end zone and the Titans looked destined to win.
6. Who wants it more – Lamar Jackson said the Titans did.
7. Encore peformance – Last year in the playoffs the Titans did a great job of using the boundries on Lamar Jackson, shrinking the field and largely keep him under wraps. They did it again. Jackson ran 13 times for 51 yards, that's less than 4 yards a carry from a guy considered the most electric player in the league. Daquan Jones and Jeffery Simmons did a great job inside and the edge rushers did a great job pushing him to the boundry. They did not allow "the big one" again and it's a huge reason for the win.
8. Feeling 100 – Corey Davis stepped up big again for the Titans after returning from his brothers memorial service. Davis had 5 catches for 113 yards. It was his 3rd 100 yard game of the season and he also hauled in at least 5 passes for the 6th time in 8 games. (He missed 2 games due to Covid). Someone is going to pay him, we just have to wait and see if it's going to be the Titans. Ryan Tannehill is coming to him much more regularly this season and Davis has delivered. He is much more than a blocker and he makes this team better, I don't care where he was picked in the draft.
9. Elevating – One of critiques of Ryan Tannehill has been when things are good, he's really good. When things break down he has not been good enough to elevate everyone around him, for about 3 quarters that was the case Sunday, but in the 2nd half he really elevated. He completed 11 of his last 12 passes and led the Titans to scores on 4 consecutive drives to finish the game. He led this team to the win, guys stepped up around him, he elevated his game and elevated the others around him.
10. Next man up – Jayon Brown is done for the year with an elbow injury, so it's next man up… But, who is that man? Will Compton? David Long? Is it time to bring back Wesley Woodyard?
11. "Special" Teams – The Titans got a clean game from that unit and did not give a way a single point. Stephen Gostkowksi was 3 for 3 on field goals and looked good doing it.
12. Stepping Up – The defense made plays, critical ones at critical times. After Ryan Tannehill threw a pick the Ravens took over at the Titans 22 and managed only 3 points. That's a huge stop from the defense. That 3 and out to start overtime also won the game.
13. Things shake out – 6 teams in the AFC entered the day 6-3… They went 3-3 with the Titans, Colts and Browns winning and the Ravens, Raiders and Dolphins losing. It never looks like you think it is going to. I promise you in 2 weeks this thing will look nothing you thought it would when they were all 6-3.
by Emily Proud / Jan 15, 2021
Nashville, Tenn. (WKRN)- The Titans are now in the market for both an offensive and defensive coordinator with Arthur Smith accepting the Atlanta Falcons head coaching job. Where do they go from here? Kayla and Emily discuss some of the latest names in the coaching search and talk about Urban Meyer to the Jaguars on this episode of Sports Extra Daily.
by Kayla Anderson / Jan 15, 2021
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN)- The Tennessee Titans will be without an offensive coordinator.
ESPN's Dianni Russini reported on Friday that the Atlanta Falcons have offered the head coaching job to current Tennessee offensive coordinator Arthur Smith, and the team later confirmed that he accepted.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Filip Forsberg scored the tiebreaking goal at 5:48 of the third period to lead the Nashville Predators over the Columbus Blue Jackets 3-1 in their season opener.


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As with many major life events, it can be challenging to make the necessary changes needed to ensure a high quality of life is maintained. But it is possible, and in the case of dental care, a vital one given the close links between the health of a person's teeth and gums and their overall wellbeing.
• Early to mid: Generally no support is required.
• Mid-stage: Some help and support may be needed.
• Late stage: Oral healthcare needs to be provided by a carer.
You will need to ensure that the dignity of the person with dementia is respected and that, where possible, many of their old routines such as brushing their teeth, continue to be performed by them as long as this doesn't compromise the health of their teeth and gums.
• Chaining – The carer begins brushing and the person with dementia takes over.
• Hand over hand – The carer's hand is placed over the person with dementia's hand to guide brushing.
• Yawning – Yawn facing the person and hopefully stimulate a yawn in return so they will open their mouth.
When you're booking an appointment for a person with dementia, request a morning time slot when most people with dementia are more alert. Ensure that the dentist is aware of the dementia diagnosis and any pertinent medical records and medications.
Thanks to a partnership between the Australian Dental Association and Alzheimer's Australia, dentists are increasingly aware of the best ways to treat a person living with dementia and how to ensure this person continues to enjoy not just optimal oral health but an overall high quality of life.


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Convenience Store News with underwriting support from Altria, The Hershey Company, Workjam and The Coca-Cola Company, has launched a new platform to facilitate engagement among all stakeholders in the convenience store industry around diversity and inclusion. This webcast is the part of a multi-touch digital and print program that will focus on the business case for c-store retailers to place a greater emphasis on diversity and inclusion.
In this special webcast, CSNews Editorial Director Don Longo will be joined by Dr. Edward T. Rincon, a research psychologist with a 45-year record of conducting research studies for U.S. private, public and academic institutions, and Jason Greer, founder and president of Greer Consulting, a labor management and employee relations consulting firm located in St. Louis.
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Academic calendar changed for spring 2021 semester
Changes include later starting date and no spring break
Alicia Venter, News Editor|October 7, 2020
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In an attempt to "prioritize the health and safety of [St. John's] students, faculty, administrators, and staff," the University's spring 2021 academic calendar has been altered as of Wednesday Sept. 30, according to an internal communication from the University.
The semester now begins on Thursday, Jan. 28 instead of Wednesday, Jan. 20. Classes will be held on President's Day and the University will offer no spring break for students and faculty.
"The main reason for the calendar adjustment is to prioritize the health and safety of our students, faculty, administrators, and staff by reducing spring break travel and the potential COVID-19 exposure of members of the campus community," the email, addressed from Nada M. Llewellyn, associate vice president for Human Resources, Chief Diversity Officer and Deputy General Counsel and Simon G. Møller, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, said.
"We know that this change may disrupt your spring break vacation planning and we want to communicate this to you as early as possible," the email said.
As of now, Easter holiday recess will be observed and Final Exam week remains the same. Easter break falls on April 1-5, and Final Exam Week is May 6-12.
"Easter is the most important religious celebration of the Christian community," Møller said in an email to the Torch. "Students and employees will be reminded and expected to practice appropriate health and safety protocols when participating in religious celebrations and visiting with family."
Regardless of whether the semester transitions to a fully online format, there will be no spring break according to Møller.
"The elimination of Spring Break is already factored into the revised academic calendar as the start date of the Spring, 2021 semester was changed to Thursday, January 28," he said.
"As we continue to navigate the uncertainties related to the COVID-19 health crisis, we are grateful for your continued patience as we work to keep our community safe" the email continues.
According to the email, the changes were made upon the recommendation of the University's Academic Calendar Committee, which is composed of faculty, administrators and students. The changes were subsequently approved by University President Conrado "Bobby" Gempesaw.
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Emdad Rahman: The team at Meena Bazar have delivered a successful community event in east London.
The showcase gathering took place at The White House venue in Newham and was attended by over one thousand visitors from London, Hertfordshire and Birmingham.
Meena Bazar is a social platform, which aims to support women into social enterprise activities.


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Fluor completes Stora Enso's consumer board project in China
US-based Fluor has completed its work with Stora Enso's consumer board machine in Beihai, Guangxi, China.
US-based Fluor has completed its work with Stora Enso's consumer board machine in Beihai, Guangxi, China.
As part of its collaboration with Stora Enso, Fluor provided procurement and construction management services for the board machine and associated infrastructure, including power, water and effluent treatment facilities.
The facility, constructed with an investment of €800m, was integrated with a sustainable eucalyptus plantation.
Fluor Asia Pacific business president Ken Choudhary said: "Fluor leveraged our nearly 40 years of experience in China to deliver this consumer board machine for Stora Enso and the Beihai community safely and on an unprecedented timeline."
More than 5,500 Fluor employees worked on the project, which produced the first consumer board 18 months after the start of construction.
"Fluor leveraged our nearly 40 years of experience in China to deliver this consumer board machine for Stora Enso and the Beihai community."
The consumer board machine has been designed to produce up to 450,000t of liquid packaging board and other high-grade paperboard products per year, in order to meet the demand in China.
Fluor life-sciences and advanced manufacturing business president Juan Hernández said: "We look forward to delivering the same results on the project's second phase, a mechanical pulp mill, as it completes in the fourth quarter of 2016."
Since 2012, Stora Enso has been using tree plantations on around 85,000ha of land in the Guangxi region.
The plantations have been certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the China Forest Certification Council (CFCC).
Image: Stora Enso's consumer board machine in Beihai, Guangxi, China. Photo: courtesy of Stora Enso.
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Holly	 January 10, 2020 travel
Me with my friend Jay, who unfortunately was a victim of police corruption in Laos
I had read numerous posts online about police corruption and scams in Laos. State workers in Laos, including police and teachers, are very much underpaid and sometimes not even paid for months at a time, so corruption is one way that they can earn a liveable wage, namely targeting unsuspecting tourists and backpackers.
The vibe given in Laos is that the police turn a blind eye to drugs, especially as they are openly sold on menus in bars, in milkshakes and on pizzas. I saw this particularly in Vang Vieng, which is a big backpacker party destination and had a bar which had a separate 'happy menu' where you can order drugs which included marijuana, MDMA, opium and mushrooms.
I never thought this would never happen to me, let alone someone I knew. But the sad truth is that you don't even have to have drugs on you to be a victim of police corruption and scams in Laos.
My friend Jay from Belgium unfortunately had to learn this the hard way.
Jay had just been sitting and talking with his friend Ron on the street and smoking cigarettes at around 11pm at night. Two people approached them on mopeds and told them that they were undercover agents and wanted to check their bags for weed. They did not find anything in Jay's bag and in Ron's bag they found rolling tobacco, which they claimed was a mix of tobacco and weed, which it was not. It became apparent that they were falling victim to the famed police corruption and scams in Laos.
Meanwhile, the 'agents' had called a police pick up, which arrived to take Jay and Ron to the police station. Jay said he was shaking with fear in the back of the police car and Ron held his hand to try and calm him down.
"The only thing I thought in the car was that they would kidnap me"
When they arrived at the police station Ron and Jay were made to sit in separate rooms. Jay asked five times if he could call his friends to at least let them know where he was, but they had taken his things including his phone and would not give them back.
They interrogated Ron for an hour and left Jay sitting outside waiting for his turn whilst being intimidated by other officers.
"I sat there for an hour shaking with stress and anxiety and I was repeatedly told by an officer that I would spend the night in jail"
After they had finished with Ron it was Jay's turn in the interrogation room. As Ron passed Jay the officer said to Jay: "Your friend is going to sleep in his hostel now and you will spend the night in jail."
The interrogation
When Jay walked into the interrogation room there were two officers sitting behind the desk, and on the desk was a security belt with a bag of marijuana sitting on top of it. Jay later found out that Ron had been wearing a security belt with weed in it, which he did not know about as Ron had neither told him, nor offered him any as they had only been smoking cigarettes.
"It's my country, so my rules"
The two officers said that they had seen Jay and Ron smoking a joint on the side of the road. Jay denied it a dozen times but the more he said it the more aggressive they became, shouting "you will spend the night in jail", that he was a "bad guy" and "your friend told us that this is your bag of marijuana" *(he hadn't). The police officer continued to shout: "It's my country, so my rules. You are a liar. I can see it in your face that you smoked and I can smell it." They said that they would test Jay to see if he had taken drugs or not and that he would be in more trouble if they found out he had lied. This really scared Jay as he had in fact had one puff of a joint three days previously when tubing.
"You're a liar"
"You will get in more trouble if you say you don't smoke and lie to us"
"Make a big problem a small problem and say you smoked"
Jay was very scared and the police officer then tried a different approach. "I don't want to stop your holiday," he said "just make a big problem a small problem and say you smoked." After being in the interrogation room for over an hour it was 2 am by this point and the police officer was now fed up. They got the handcuffs out to put on Jay and it was then he realised that they would release him if he just said he had smoked, so he admitted that he had smoked three days ago. Once he had admitted this the officers became a lot calmer. They made Jay write out a "confession", sign it and on every page they put his finger print.
Photo by Bill Oxford on Unsplash
Once they had Jay's "confession" they asked for his passport which was back at the hostel. They drove him back to the hostel but kept his phone until he returned out with his passport. Once they had his passport they said that he could pick it up from 6 am, by this point it was 4 am.
Now that they had Jay's passport they had all the power.
Personally, I had just returned from the Vang Vieng bars to find Jay distraught and scared and all my other friends consoling him. Jay said that the police officers kept using English law terms which he did not understand and he was scared to go back to the police station on his own, so I offered to go with him as support, along with his best friend Eva. So off I went to bed, setting my alarm for 6 am, which said it would ring in one hour.
Getting back the passport
We walked to the police station through a deserted and peaceful Vang Vieng and when we arrived the police station was closed. The cleaning lady went inside to tell them to open up and we sat inside waiting for a police officer, expecting it to be a different officer. An officer came down the stairs, doing up the top button of his shirt and Jay said that this was the officer from last night. I couldn't believe that he was sleeping upstairs and back on duty after only a couple of hours sleep, but I guess this is only testament to the poor working conditions that officers face.
The officer wanted to speak to Jay again in the interrogation room and he was very afraid to go back in there, but after a couple of minutes Eva and I were allowed to join. The officer had wanted Jay to pay 10 million kip, which amounts to about £860 / €1,000 / $1,125, but if he admitted again to the charges it would be brought down to 5 million kip, which he did. The fine was still €500 which you cannot even draw out of Laos ATMs due to a daily withdrawal limit of 2 million kip. We protested this price, but the police officer, who was a young guy, said firmly that if Jay did not pay then he would go to jail for two years instead. The choice was his.
Paying up
When we came back with the money he wanted to give Jay one last lecture, which went along the lines of "You come to my country and take drugs, it is illegal here as it is in yours, yet you still do it. You got off lightly and you could have gone to prison instead, but I do not want to cut your holiday short. You are lucky."
"I can tell you for sure that this was the most terrifying night of my life, I have never felt so unsafe and powerless. I will never forget this and feel like I have suffered a trauma"
I really felt for Jay as he personally had no drugs on him and was unaware that Ron did. The police also got lucky with Ron that he in fact did have drugs on him, even though on the face of it they could not possibly have known that he did as he was also only smoking a cigarette. Is this corruption? Yes because that money most probably went in the police officer's pocket. Unjust? Perhaps not for Ron because at the end of the day he was in possession of drugs, but for Jay, yes because he was not smoking weed and had none on his person. A scam? For sure as local bars who sell drugs are quite often cooperating with the police. They sell you drugs and then the police wait to pick you up outside. The people on mopeds who first approached Jay probably scan the streets for backpackers and tourists to see who they can target. But that's police corruption and scams in Laos for you, and I hope this will serve as a warning for those looking to travel to Laos and other parts of South East Asia. It may seem like a relaxed place when it comes to drugs, but it most certainly is not.
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Q: azure media services streaming url generate dynamically on server side (using Razor MVC .Net ) I have a manifest url that i need to display at the src below .How can i display it from server side Code using ASP.Net MVC    .My question is how are azure streaming urls to be used within an existing web application?
<link href="//amp.azure.net/libs/amp/latest/skins/amp-default/azuremediaplayer.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="//amp.azure.net/libs/amp/latest/azuremediaplayer.min.js"></script>

       <video id="vid1" class="azuremediaplayer amp-default-skin" autoplay controls width="640" height="400" poster="poster.jpg" data-setup='{"nativeControlsForTouch": false}'>
                <source src= "manifestUrl"type="application/vnd.ms-sstr+xml" />

            </video>

A: Two options at least:

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*Use server variable in javascritpt such as below:

source src= <%url%> type="application/vnd.ms-sstr+xml" />
where url is a C# variable in ASP.NET controller in which you assign the full URL to url variable.

*Usually you may want to allow end users to enter/update the URL through a textbox. To do this you can choose to databind a textbox to a Model in MVC. The model should have a URL property which is then bound to the textbox. This is common technique ASP.NET MVC databinding technique and you can easily find lots of samples.

Hope this answers your question.

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Amazing collection with over 50 Halloween Text Styles that you must have. The list contains ASL files tha you can load in Photoshop and use for any layer but the layer styles look good especially for text effects and shapes. Check out this list with over 20 terrifying Halloween text effects Photoshop tutorials and layer styles.
If you want to create really scary typography for posters, flyers, here is an amazing source of inspiration. I also added free Halloween text styles if you want to obtain great looking results more rapidly.
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In this tutorial you will learn how to create a spooky Halloween text effect in Adobe Photoshop. This tutorial will show you how to use a couple of Photoshops layer styles, along with some textures and blend modes. For the word" HALLOWEEN" uses Arial Black or other similar, as will be only the guide we use to create our own letters. Step 3 Click on the word" HALLOWEEN" WITH THE Horizontal Type Tool (T) and click on Create Warped Text.
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Editors in chief of news organizations are well advised to steer clear of corporate entanglements. They generally avoid doing paid speeches for special interests, stay off of the boards and councils of companies and groups that their reporters cover. The goal is to lead coverage of all newsmakers without fear of polluting the product….
Huffington Post journalists: Isn't that precisely what you want your editor in chief doing?
And we're so sure that Ariana and Trav jotted down that "story" together? Anyone betting against a HuffPo staffer ghosting it?
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Yemen government says UN silence led to Houthi attack on Saada
Officials condemn attack that killed dozens of civilians at a busy market
A man injured by an air strike on a market in Yemen's Saada province arrives to receive medical attention at a local Al Jomhouri hospital in Saada, Yemen July 29, 2019. Reuters
The Yemeni government said on Tuesday that the UN's lack of condemnation of Houthi crimes led the rebels to carry out a rocket attack on a market in the northern province of Saada, which killed dozens of civilians.
"The UN or the UN envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths unfortunately is not condemning this crime," Hamza Al Kamaly, Yemen's deputy youth minister, told The National.
"They are ignoring the terrorist acts carried out by the Houthis."
The four-year war begun by the Iran-aligned rebels has killed tens of thousands of people and left millions on the brink of famine, the UN says.
Since the uprising began in 2014, the rebels have killed thousands of innocent Yemenis, Mr Al Kamaly said.
"The UN is allowing the Houthis to kill civilians without commenting on their heinous acts," he said.
Preliminary reports by the UN indicated that 14 people died, including four children.
"An additional 26 people, including 14 children, have been reportedly injured. Several of the wounded are in a critical condition," said the UN, citing reports by local health authorities.
This is not the first time the international community ignored the Houthi atrocities, said Majed Fadhil, Yemen's deputy human rights minister.
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"The disregard by the UN and the international community for the continuous massacres committed by the rebels against children, women and men were also seen in the provinces of Hajour and Hajjah," Mr Fadhil told The National.
"The time has come for the international community to take a clear stance against the rebels."
Information Minister Muammar Al Eryani wrote on Twitter that the Houthis had fired Katyusha rockets at the Saada market.
"I call on the international community, the UN and the UN Secretary General to condemn this heinous crime and to designate the Houthi militias as a terrorist organisation," Mr Al Eryani wrote.
The crimes committed by the militias against civilians is a punishment "for the position they have taken against the rebels and for their support towards the Coalition", he said.
In response a UN official told The National that the world body has continuously condemned the violations carried out by the rebels.
Lise Grande, the UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Yemen, issued a statement late on Tuesday denouncing the attack on Sadaa.
"This is a terrible turn of events. For three months, the number of reported civilian casualties in Saada has been falling," Ms Grande said.
"This is a reversal of everything everyone has been working towards these last weeks and months.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are leading the Arab Coalition that intervened in Yemen in 2015 to try to restore the internationally recognised government, which was driven from the capital Sanaa by the Houthis in late 2014.
The Coalition called the attack a massacre against innocent civilians.
"Coalition forces were working with tribal leaders in the province to transfer injured civilians to the city of Jazan in Saudi Arabia," Coalition spokesman Col Turki Al Malki said.
"The attack carried out by the Houthis on Al Thabit market is a terrorist act to spite Yemenis and the tribes of Al Thabi."
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That is a real question I've been asked on multiple occasions. I don't feel I really need to answer it here however, I think this is a great platform to explain what Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is, what it isn't and why you need it for your website.
Why can't you just call Google and tell them you want to be #1 for your search term?
I like to use the analogy of a race car when talking about why you need Search Engine Optimization. Imagine you and your competitor each have a brand new finely tuned race car.
The race starts and for the first few laps you are neck and neck. Then car #1 hits the pit stop, they fill the gas, change the tires and tweak the performance settings. Car #2 skips their pit stop and gains a lead. But then, after a few more laps Car #1 starts to catch up and eventually pulls a head. After a few more pit stops and fine tuning Car #1 eventually gets so far ahead it can stop for a tune-up and still maintain it's lead. Eventually Car #2 breaks down or runs out of gas and disappears from the race. Search Engine Optimization is the process of keeping your website ahead of the competition.
Obviously I am suggesting that Car #1 is the website that is being optimized. It is constantly being updated and fine tuned. If your competition isn't doing the same you will eventually pass them but it in a long term and consistent manner. Yes there are tricks you can use to get a quick bump in the ranks but in time they end up causing more harm than good.
Fast, Efficient & Error Free Website – It seems like an obvious statement and yet we websites all the time running on so called "affordable" hosting providers that are slow, full of errors behind the scenes and believe it or not we still see many that are not mobile friendly! We used to say being mobile friendly as it's own requirement but the internet has moved so far passed that it that we consider not being mobile friendly an error.
Content – Videos & Images are important but without words and proper formatting and design of those words the search engines will not know what your page is about. Images and Videos should include all the "Behind" the scenes tags, alt tages, title tags etc. and the filenames and descriptions should also be optimized to reflect your content. Finally your content needs to be properly structured, identified and optimized for both substance and readability. It is NOT a matter of just dropping search terms into the words as much as possible. In fact do not that or your site ranking could suffer.
Links – The more high quality websites that link to you and your content the more credible your content is in the eyes of a search engine.
Yes web hosting matters. Think of web hosting like you would compare buying a steak at the butcher or a steak at Wal-Mart. Sure one probably be more expensive but the quality will be worth it.
What is included? Email? Back-ups? Security? FTP? Databases? All these items are important and you will find many of the so called affordable hosting companies charge additional fees for all of these items.
How many other sites are on the server? This is something you can easily check by entering your domain on this page https://viewdns.info/reverseip/ Ideally you do not want more than a few hundred. Think about this, if there are over 5,000 other websites on the same server as yours, what are they doing? Are sending spam? Viruses or worse? The reputation of the IP Address of the server is important.
Secure Socket Layer – Otherwise known as an SSL or that little padlock in your browser url. This is important to have now as Google Chrome is actively labeling websites without them as "un-secure". While you may not be transmitting sensitive data seeing "un-secure" in the browser while visiting your website can turn some people off. Find out if the host provides or sells SSL certificates and more importantly will they install it for you and make sure your site works with the https extension.
If you are using WordPress there are a number of plugins you can use to help you optimize your website. Remember these don't actually do it for you they are tools.
Still not sold on getting an SSL certificate? Note all the SEO plugins listed above use them!
This has been just a brief overview of the minimum actions you should consider when optimizing your website. If you would like to learn more contact us and we would be happy to set up a consultation.


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A Requiem for Nigel
February 14, 2018 in Fowl, Invaders, Opinion, Science, Uncategorized | Tags: Colony, decoy, gannet, individual, lonely, Mana Island, mate, Nigel, obituary, sad | by Wayne | Leave a comment
For Valentine's Day, I have saved this troubling obituary from the animal world. Last month, Nigel the lonely gannet died. Nigel lived on Mana Island, a desolate stony island about 25 kilometers northwest of Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. Mana Island was once the home to many sea birds, but after the island was intensively farmed during the 19th and 20th centuries, the colonies failed. The…nutrients…provided by the birds gave the island rich soil but, without the birds this abundance faded away and the island's ecosystem crashed (this is a sort of microcosm of what happened to the larger New Zealand ecosystem during the 19th and 20th centuries as waves of invasive creatures swept the remote archipelago). New Zealand conservationists have been working to restore the empty island however they were left with a problem. Gannets live where other gannets live. How could they lure the oceangoing birds back to start a new bird colony?
The solution they settled upon was to play bird calls on electronic speakers and put out concrete decoys painted the handsome black white and ocher of live gannets, however this strategy did not lure gannets to Mana…except for Nigel. He arrived a few years ago and selected a beautiful replica gannet and began to woo his concrete love with mating displays, nests, and excited chatter. He even tried to preen her concrete feathers and explore physical intimacy with her. Videos of Nigel trying to impress his inanimate mate became a real hit in the human world (where analogies are not unknown). This year other living gannets finally arrived at Mana Island, and naturalists hoped that Nigel could find fulfillment and raise a family with a real bird, but it was not to be. In late January of 2018, a ranger found Nigel dead upon his nest next to his concrete consort. The futility of his life and bleak melancholy of his end have attracted worldwide attention.
Ornithologists have speculated that Nigel was an odd bird, somehow injured, addled, or damaged, which is why he left his original colony. His defects, if any, were certainly not visible to the human eye and he looked like a healthy handsome seabird. Gannets dive from 30 meters (100 feet), and achieve speeds of 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph) as they enter the water. Their speed and mass, and matchless skill as divers enables them to catch large fish deeper than most airborne birds can venture. Nigel did all of this, but things just didn't work out.
Except, maybe they did: there are now gannets nesting on Mana Island, brought there not by statues, but by a live gannet. As one contemplates Nigel's lonely life, it is hard not to imagine HIM transformed into a beautiful statue which says "Our Founder." We will watch the colony with interest and see if the gannets make it after their 40-year absence from Mana.
Nigel's life and his death raise bigger questions about the nature of life and how organisms work together, collectively and individually. This blog has visited these issues before in posts about blood, clonal colonies, lonely geese, and siphonophores (animals made of other animals where the individual zooids serve in the capacity of organs).
I have a long running philosophical argument with a friend concerning the nature of humankind. He asserts that each person is a magnificent individual—a whole self-contained universe. I don't think that is correct. No animal is quite so solitary (unless it is the last of its kind) and especially not us: we are colony animals like mole rate or termites or honeybees. If you see one human, you have a whole infestation. This means our culture is as much who we are as ourselves (as becomes incredibly evident in heartbreaking cases of feral children or abused hermit loners). The splendid fantasy of being alone is just that—a fantasy. In reality we are as tied to our banks, gas companies, annoying colleagues, and odious loudmouth leaders more than we would ever like to admit. We will come back to these ideas in subsequent posts, but for now Happy Valentine's Day and RIP Nigel. There really should be a statue of him, we could all see some of ourselves in that stone mirror…and some of humanity's real nature in the living colony birds coming back to roost on desolate Mana Island.
Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus), sky pointing courtship display
April 8, 2015 in Farm, Fowl, Invaders | Tags: Canada, domestic, flock, flying, goose, hand-fed, LG, lonely, pet, pilgrim, weird, wild | by Wayne | 3 comments
My parents' geese
My parents have a lovely flock of pilgrim geese: I think these geese are mostly a hobby, but I suppose if society ever falls down, Mom & Dad could probably ramp up production and live on them. The geese spend most of their time in a big pond in a field next to a pretty meadow (which in turn is next to an oak forest). The birds play and frolic and pursue their goose romances all the while conniving against one another like Roman patricians. They practice a very intense form of goose politics (goosetics?) which involves lots of self-aggrandizing honking, aggressive jostling, and occasional political murders. The ganders even look a bit like Roman senators with haughty hungry expressions and cloud-white plumage in place of togas (although the females are gray and slightly gentler).
Pilgrim Gander
Today's flock has reached a parity point where new hatchlings replace unfortunate geese lost to the hardships of nature, society, and misadventure, but it was not always so. The first generation of geese arrived as gormless puffballs in the mail. With no elders to teach them of coyotes, foxes, weasels, hawks, owls, and bobcats, they had to learn some hard lessons on their own. But even once they learned to survive against the wild animals which live in the forest, they still had a lot to learn about the world (like how to fly).
LG the Canada Goose
This is where a very strange character enters the story. One day a wild Canada goose landed on the pond with a female mallard duck. It became obvious that this unhappy duck was the unwilling paramour of the goose, but whenever she tried to fly away from him (I am calling this goose a he, but who really knows?), he would leap into the sky and coral her back down to the pond with his mighty wings and expert flight skills. This weird pair kept to themselves and my parents watched their dysfunctional relationship with bemusement, christening the big strange goose as "LG" (which is short for Lonely Goose). One day a vast flock of migrating ducks landed on the pond, as they made their way to some rich wetland. When they flew off, the mallard female joined them, and LG could not find her among the throng so she escaped and rejoined her kind and her further adventures are unknown.
My mother feeding LG
LG however stuck around and began to insinuate himself into my parents' flock of ignorant catalog-bought adolescent domestic geese. At first they were standoffish and he was sadly alone at the bottom of the gooseatics hierarchy, but soon he was whispering in ears, teaching useful life lessons, and plotting against less-popular geese. When he moved into the middle of their society he was able to teach them to fly. I have a distinct memory of LG flying from the farmyard down to the pond with the pilgrims flying after him. He landed gracefully on the pond and bobbed scerenely on the water as the pilgrims crash landed pathetically into the mud and the fields like the aftermath of some WWI aerial battle. Indeed, flying lessons were not without casualties and my mother's favorite pet goose swerved into a barn in order not to fly into her (which illustrates a degree of self-sacrificing care).
Once the flock knew how to fly, LG ascended to the top of the hierarchy and he has been a top goose ever since. At first my parents were afraid that he would fly off with the whole flock and the domestic geese would all turn feral, but the opposite seems to have happened. Who knows what LG's real back story is? He has a hole in his foot and he looks somewhat old. I speculate that he spent his life flying back and forth between the Arctic Ocean and Alabama until one day he saw a farm pond where he could retire and work his wiles on perfectly naïve geese. Geese live loooong lives (they can get to be more than 30 years old) so this may be true. Or maybe he is some sort of bird-sanctuary renegade or just a big human-loving freak.
Whatever the case, these days LG has a special pilgrim goose girlfriend whom he looks after when she is nesting. He doesn't seem to be fertile with pilgrim geese and they raise broods of pure pilgrim goslings… but maybe it's best not to pry too closely into other people's domestic arrangements.
LG leading the pilgrims!
LG is mean as a serpent to the other geese (aside from his mate, with whom he is exceedingly tender) however he is very adroit at managing the humans in his circle. He enjoys eating corn out of people's hands (which most of the domestic geese will not do) and he tolerates being petted. He is a very weird, weird wild animal. I kind of love LG, and I always get angry when people badmouth Canada geese for defecating on golf courses or aggressively chasing dumpy middle managers into mud holes. He makes his own way in life. If he ever got tired of his girlfriend and his minions and being hand-fed corn he still has mighty wings and he could fly back to the enduring freedom of the sky above, but I really think he has retired and settled down. I still wish he could narrate his biography, but I guess his friendship will have to suffice.
The Oaktree in the Snow
February 5, 2014 in Art, Color, Gothic, Trees | Tags: age, Caspar David Friedrich, depression, lonely, oak, Painting, romanticism, solemn, tree | by Wayne | Leave a comment
In previous posts I have written about the great German romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich who came to prominence and fame at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Unfortunately for Friedrich, art is fickle. As he approached his middle years, the melancholy and dramatic realism which was his specialty fell out of fashion. His patrons abandoned him and his art became even more bleak and pessimistic (which did nothing to help his sales). Although fashion abandoned Friedrich, his genius did not desert him: his works became more somber and metaphysical, but their lonely beauty and solemn majesty also became more pronounced.
The Oaktree in the Snow (Caspar David Friedrich, 1829, oil on canvas)
Here is a picture from 1829 of a denuded oak tree standing alone in the snow. Although leafless and broken the tree is still magnificent. The artist has painted the dark tree looming up into an indifferent sky above the viewer. The desolate winter landscape accentuates the bare branches and gnarled trunk of the tree which seems to strive against the cold grasp of winter–and even against time itself. There is a paradox to this work: the very emptiness and plainness of the composition awakens an imagined spring within the heart of anyone looking at the picture. Sadly, for Friedrich, spring was never to come again: his work did not regain its popularity in his life (and a stroke in 1835 robbed him of his ability to paint with oils). Yet The Oaktree in the Snow is a triumph—a fully realized painting of existential complexity in the simplest and boldest of compositions.


If you're considering making the jump from being a company driver to an owner-operator truck driver there are several things that you can do to help become more successful. Start by creating a business plan. Before you decide to go out and purchase or lease a truck, take the time to put your personal finances and financial goals down on paper. Understanding and knowing where you are financially is extremely important. Next, you need to operate from the mindset of business owner. This is your truck, this is your business, and responsibility now falls on you. Last but not least your driving habits need to be fine-tuned. The little things matter more now and every detail has the potential to affect your bottom line.
The Pros at Team Run Smart (featured above), are pillars of success in the trucking industry.
Creating a business plan is one of the most important steps you will take as a successful owner-operator. The plan you create serves as a financial road map that allows you to track your income and expenses over time. When you know your operating cost per mile, you are able to calculate how many miles you need to drive each week to cover your expenses in order to break even. This is known as your breakeven point, the point where your business expenses along with your personal expenses are covered and every mile driven over that point puts money in your pocket.
Too many drivers try to make the transition from being a company driver to an owner-operator and fail to run their truck like a business. These drivers are caught in the "company driver mindset." They think they are just a truck driver and as long as they drive the miles everything will be alright.
Operating from the mindset of a business owner means recognizing the challenges you may encounter and having a plan in place to handle them. Saving receipts and tracking every expense, sending in quarterly estimated tax payments, and planning ahead for potential events such as weather, breakdowns, and tires are just some of the obstacles you may need to plan for. Someone can be business minded with excellent intentions, but without a plan of how to execute your intentions, you are setting yourself up to fail.
Don't judge the performance of your business by the size of your settlement check. There are always ways to improve your business's performance. Changing some habits might put more money in your pocket while running the same amount of miles. Try sacrificing a few MPH for RPMs. In other words, slow down and ease off the fuel pedal to maximize your fuel efficiency. You now pay for fuel, and slowing down just might put some cash back in your pocket.
Driving slower also means less wear and tear on your tractor. Take the time to do a really good pre-trip and post trip evaluation of your tractor trailer. The sooner you notice a problem that can be fixed, you can prevent a bigger breakdown later on. This will help to minimize down time, and avoid more extensive maintenance expenses. If you check things thoroughly and regularly, you can schedule repairs during home time and save your drive hours to be on the road and not waiting in the shop.
The transition from company driver to owner-operator is not something that happens overnight. As an owner-operator your primary goal is to make more money. With a business plan in place you can make educated business decisions based on numbers. You're going to have a lot more expenses and accounting for them will only help plan for the difficult times. Knowing your expenses, being business minded, and practicing good daily driving habits will allow you to create a solid foundation on which to build your business as a successful owner-operator.
August 2014. In the article Funding Your Retirement – The Basics, we addressed the initial steps to take to prepare in creating a retirement fund. In this article, we continue with what to look for when choosing a retirement account.


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40 Alan Turing Rd, Surrey Research Park, Guildford
This office is now off the market
The office listing at 40 Alan Turing Rd, Surrey Research Park, Guildford GU2 7YF is no longer advertised on Realla
Office under offer in Guildford
8 months ago. Similar availability from Kingstons (Guildford) Ltd
Flexible Ground floor
36 Car spaces
Separate loading door
Property facts for 40 Alan Turing Rd, Surrey Research Park, Guildford
The property is located in the centre of the Surrey Research Park, half a mile from the A3 which connects directly to the M25 (Junction 10). Both Heathrow and Gatwick airports are within 25 miles. Guildford railway station provides a frequent and fast service to London Waterloo in 25 minutes. The Research Park is widely regarded as the best of its kind in the UK.
Buildings 1000 & 2000, Cathedral Hl, Guildford
The stunning double height entrance provides a true sense of arrival and vibrant space at the heart of Cathedral Square, merging seamlessly into the new feature café.
Cathedral Hl, Guildford GU2 7YB
12 days ago. Knight Frank LLP
Building 2, Guildford Business Park, Guildford
The property comprises a four storey office building of steel frame construction. The building recently underwent an extensive refurbishment. The property is located on Guildford Business Park, around an eight minute drive from the town centre. The A3 is in close proximity providing access to the M25 as well as Gatwick and Reading,
Energy Performance Rating - A
Guildford Business Park, Guildford GU2 8XG
9 days ago. JLL
Building 3, Guildford
The property comprises an office building of steel frame construction containing 53,231 sq ft of space over three floors. The property is located on Guildford Business Park Road which benefits from being in close proximity to Guildford Railway Station and junction 10 of the M25.
Energy Performance Rating - C
Guildford Business Park Rd, Guildford GU2 8XH
29 days ago. Bray Fox Smith Limited
Building 4 Guildford Business Park, Guildford
27,519 to 107,424 sq ft
The property consists of a three storey office building of steel frame construction. The property is in close proximity to the A3, Guildford town centre and railway station are also nearby.
Guildford Business Park Rd, Guildford GU2 8SG
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Last Game: Last night at home against Binghamton, the Pens won 4-0. John Muse had a 33 save shutout. For Lehigh Valley, the Phantosm were last in action in Charlotte on Wednesday and lost 6-2. Connor Bunnaman and David Kase scored gals in a losing effort for the Phantoms.
Last Meeting: March 23 in Allentown, the Penguins snatched victory from the jaws of defeat with a last minute goal by Sam Lafferty and then an overtime goal by Ryan Haggerty to stun the Phantoms and win 5-4 in overtime.
Why You Should Care: Pens need to keep winning just to keep pace and hope they close ground on Providence for fourth in the division. Lehigh Valley won't make it easy on the Penguins tonight at home for them.
Other Game to Watch: Bridgeport and Providence rematch at Webster Bank Arena. The Sound Tigers clinch with a win and will be looking to payback the loss the Bruins laid on them last night. We Penguins fans want a Sound Tigers win.


If you do like bicycle rides, then you gonna love this post. Why? In today's article I want to share with you my favorite bike riding fashion staples that are ideal for stylish cycling days. Believe me, everyone gonna turn their heads when they will see you on a bike! This is a perfect Polyvore fashion resource for stylish cyclists who want to ride their bikes and look pretty chic and refined.
A lovely chambray shirt is styled with a pale pink shorts, thong white sandals, cool golden watches and pearl white necklace.
If you want to create a luxury sporty street style outfit then you better get inspired by these marvelous Polyvore sets. I've got a perfect compilation of comfy and relaxed outfits that will easily underline your individuality. If you think wearing luxe sports garments is a hard thing, then you better think twice, as I've got a perfect selection of different combos that are easy to style and wear. Believe me, each one of these looks is a perfect way to make you look special and trendy. Read on to find out more and let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
Cream cropped tank top looks pretty cool teamed with hippie blush floral slacks, pastel blue satchel bag and blush brogues.
This is denim skirt situation! Today's post is dedicated to my favorite fashion staple that is so on trend this year. Yes, I am talking about denim skirt. This beautiful piece has gotten makeover, in a chic way. You can find so many interesting styles to choose from, from fitted pencil skirts to front button-down minis. I decided to share with you my favorite ways how to make this beautiful bottom garment look dressy and unique on you. So, what are you waiting for? Scroll down to find out awesome ways how to dress it up in a modern way.
I don't know how about you, but I am absolutely in love with double denim looks. Here we see lady who appears in a light blue denim shirt tucked in high-rise front-buttoned knee-length pencil skirt. I love the way this skirt is unbuttoned from the bottom.
In today's post we are going to see my favorite 18 single earrings you should buy this year. This trend comes back this year offering us absolutely spunky and hot designs. I am pretty sure, each one of the showcased styles will freshen up all your neutral and basic color outfits. Personally, I consider these earrings to be edgy, yet easy to pull off. A single earring has the ability to make any girl or lady look cool and chic. Keep on reading to find out more about this pretty jewelry.
If you are in search of something relaxed, functional and trendy, then how about marrying boho chic with hipster fashion? This is a perfect combination for those ladies who want to make a statement on the streets and wear something unique and special, without pulling too hard. Personally, I am one of those persons who wants to see only hipster style mostly with a little boho chic clothes in my wardrobe. If you are brave enough to wear boho edgy styles, then you are more than welcome to look through this Polyvore fashion sets compilation. Read on to find out more about these two styles combo possibilities.
This outfit looks really fun, relaxed and casual. We see a black-white striped spaghetti strap day dress worn with wide-brim black fedora, chunky black flat sandals, fringed backpack and rounded plastic sunglasses.
In this post we are about to see the best casual cocktail style outfits to try this year. You are going to be wowed and pleasantly surprised by variety of Polyvore fashion sets. Before we start looking through various ideas and tips that will help us to create your lovely casual party look, I wanted to make it clear and explain to you this style.
We see a creative outfit that consists of an asymmetric abstract print sleeveless T-shirt teamed with black skirt. Complete the look by adding pointed-toe velvet black shoes, black leather shoulder bag and glitzy geometric shaped sunnies.


Economic rationality, conceptions of rationality used in economic theory. Although there is no single notion of rationality appealed to by all economic theories, there is a core conception that forms the basis of much economic theorizing. That view, termed the neoclassical conception of economic rationality, takes rationality to consist primarily of the maximization of subjective utility—that is, the maximization of one's own personal desires. Although it is sometimes assumed that subjective utility is equivalent to self-interest (concern for getting one's own wants and needs met exclusive of the effects on others), these are not identical, because the notion of subjective utility allows that one might have preferences that are not purely motivated by self-interest.
The neoclassical conception of economic rationality has been subjected to different criticisms, some of which are ethical in nature. For example, some critics contend that in failing to provide any ethical criterion for the selection of basic goals or ends, economic rationality fails to discriminate between legitimate and illegitimate pursuits on the part of individuals. Without such criteria, some economists consider the theory incomplete but not necessarily false. Other critics note that economists often view economic rationality as a normative concept (that is, it can be applied to a wide variety of people and situations), and economically rational people would thus be required to maximize their individual interests or utility, which could lead them to violate the interests and rights of others. . However, not all economists support that view. Some defenders of the neoclassical conception argue that the drive to maximize one's individual interests often leads to cooperation with others and, through the "invisible hand" (the idea that self-interested acts drive social welfare) of the market, to the ultimate common good of all.


Preferred rucksack: Vango Pumori 70 when a frame rucksack is needed. Otherwise it's the old boy-scout Karrimor, still going strong.
Would not walk without: Sunglasses, camera.
Biggest walking disaster: Damage to femoral nerve caused by over-tightening the rucksack's waist-belt that was severe enough to need surgery. Be warned!
Preferred boots: Has a pair from Berghaus that took a crippling year to break in but which are, consequently, as tough as… well, old boots.
Preferred rucksack: Aztec Merlin 55 for its adjustable back.
Favourite walking snack: Raisins, Green and Blacks chocolate bars, dried apple slices, Werthers Originals.
Would not walk without: My daft hat. It may look like a pale green pork pie but it's a lot better than sunstroke. Also glasses with photochromic lenses.
Biggest walking disaster: A terrible attack of vertigo near Heddon's Mouth. And ending up thigh-deep in seawater a couple of times. But it's all character-building, innit?
We welcome feedback on all aspects of this site – and we'd love to hear from you about your walking experiences. Feel free to use the form below to contact us.


The Bebe grits are an easy digestible food that meets all the health criteria prescribed for children's nutrition allowing quick preparation of sweet dishes or standalone meals.
Because it is easily digested, it is indispensable in the preparation of sweet dishes with which you will fulfil the wishes of children: the following are the most popular milk grits, sweet fruit cakes, delicious dumplings buttered with breadcrumbs, puddings and parfaits. It is used in children's nutrition for children older than 1 year!


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Looking to the future - NFYFC Development Plan
The NFYFC's Board of Management has today published full details of its long-term development strategy - entitled "Looking to the Future".
The document highlights the structure of the NFYFC and where it is now, as well as explaining the values of NFYFC and its six themes of development for the future.
The plan also includes the NFYFC's mission and vision statement.
Click here to download the full development plan. A PowerPoint presentation of the plan is also available here.
The Board of Management is very keen to get feedback from YFC members and county staff about the plan before it is next presented to NFYFC Council on Sunday 21st February. To give your thoughts on the development plan, simply complete this survey. This survey will close on Sunday 13th March.
NFYFC Statement: FFA march - 23rd March
NFYFC is conscious of its responsibility to respect the differing views of YFC members aged 10 to 26. The organisation cannot endorse a march that it has not had any part in organising but respects the purpose of the march and the decision of any member who wishes to participate.
It was discussed and agreed by the NFYFC Council to share the details and purpose of the march as requested by the Farmers for Action (FFA). The NFYFC Council agreed that YFC members are free to decide if they take part in the march, and also to be aware of the following:
Principles of young farmers – hard-working stewards of the countryside who wish to be paid fairly for their work
The importance of education and business acumen
The need to help educate our consumers and retailers on the quality and value of our produce
The opportunity of being an ambassador for farming and the YFC
The need for compliance with the law regarding march restrictions announced. Visit http://farmersforaction.org/farming-to-london-march-20161/index for information
Exemplary behaviour to promote key messages in the best possible way
YFC Buzz - Correction
There was an error in the latest edition of YFC Buzz about the dates for the regional competition finals.
The latest edition of the YFC Buzz, which was released on 29th February, stated that the Northern Regional Finals in Public Speaking and Performing Arts were taking place on 2nd and 3rd April.
This is incorrect. The Northern Regional Finals are taking place on 19th and 20th March, at the same time as the Southern Regional Finals. Public speaking will be on 19th March and Performing Arts will be on 20th March.
The NFYFC would like to apologise for this error.


Move over the McRib, this is how you do it.
This burger is inspired by the burger from Big Papas Food Truck in Sydney.
Step 1: To Start We Need to Cook Some Beef Ribs.
For the rub we are keeping it simple, 1-part salt to 1-part black pepper.
Step 2: Next You'll Need a Rack of Beef Ribs.
Coat with the rub and make sure you cover all sides.
These are ready to hit the BBQ.
Step 3: Setup Your Kettle BBQ Using the Snake Method.
Have the BBQ sitting at 265f or 130c before placing the beef checks opposite the charcoal.
Cover with the lid and smoke 3 to 4 hours.
Step 4: Next, We Need to Make the Patty.
Setup either a mincer or food processor with the cutting blades.
I'm using chuck beef; I find it has great flavour for a burger.
I like my burgers to have a fat ratio of 70% meat to 30% fat, this will give you juicy, tender burgers.
Step 5: Season With Salt and Pepper.
Now the beef is minced, take a hand full and mold them into patties.
I can't stress enough how much better burgers are if you make your patty's from scratch.
Place them in the fridge for half an hour just to firm up.
Step 6: The Beef Ribs Have Been Cooking for 3 Hours, They Are Ready to Wrap.
Wrap with foil before place back on the bbq for another 2 hours.
After a total of 5 to 6 hours take the ribs off the bbq and let them rest for at least half an hour.
Step 7: Time to Make the Sauce!
Step 8: Setup Your Bbq for Grilling and Place Cast Iron Pan Over the Heat.
Fry off some bacon until it's nice and crispy.
If you want to make your own bacon, you'll find our homemade bacon recipe on the channel.
Take the bacon off and set one side.
Step 9: Now, Place the Patties Over the Charcoal.
Make sure to rotate the patty minute.
Cook for 2 minutes before flipping.
Place on top a couple of slices of cheese.
Next, place your buns on to toast.
Once the patties and cheese have melted together, remove from the grill.
Step 10: Once Your Beef Ribs Have Rested, Slice Between the Bones.
Look at that beautiful smoke ring.
Step 11: Now It's Time to Make This Burger.
Start by spoon sauce onto the top and bottom buns.
Step 12: There You Have It! a Short Beef Rib Burger.
It's a little tricky to eat but hell does it taste amazing.
Looks amazing! Totally going to make this sometime during the summer.