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Emotions Run High Over Dam Removal Questions
The Argo Dam was first built as a hydroelectric dam in 1914. Detroit Edison decided it wasn't worth the investment and sold it to Ann Arbor in 1963. (Photo by Mark Brush)
The city spent millions to reconstruct the dam after it was damaged by a flood. It's now maintained primarily for recreation on Argo Pond. (Photo by Mark Brush)
Laura Rubin, executive director of the Huron River Watershed Council. The Council advocates for removal of the dam, saying it would help restore the river and save the city money in the long term. (Photo by Mark Brush)
Mike Taft, head coach for the Huron High School rowing team. Taft has spent many mornings and evenings on this stretch of the river for the last ten years. He says it's an ideal spot for rowing. (Photo by Mark Brush)
Sumedh Bahl has overseen operations of the 4 dams owned by the city of Ann Arbor. He says yearly maintenance on the Argo Dam costs between $35,000 and $45,000. (Photo by Mark Brush)
The earthen embankment next to Argo Dam. The city recently agreed to fix problems with the embankment's toe drains. The problems were cited by the State's Dam Safety Program. (Photo by Mark Brush)
There are close to two hundred hydroelectric dams in Michigan, and almost half of those stopped making power a long time ago. Many of these dams are getting old and they need attention. The communities that own these dams are faced with a decision: pay to fix them, or pay to take them down. As Mark Brush reports it's a decision that often stirs people's emotions.
Map of Hydroelectric Dams in Michigan (pdf)
The Ann Arbor Chronicle on Argo Dam
The City of Ann Arbor on Argo Dam
More about Rowing on Argo Pond (pdf)
"Why remove Argo Dam?" from the HRWC
"The Ballad of Argo Dam" by Dave Barrett
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/MPMGLRC_ENVRPT_20100824_01.mp3
(Sound of Argo Dam)
The controversy around Argo Dam in Ann Arbor started when the State's Dam Safety Program said there were problems were with the embankment next to the dam. The repair costs were estimated to be up to $300,000.
Laura Rubin is standing next to the dam on the Huron River. Rubin is the executive director of the Huron River Watershed Council, and she wants to take this dam out. She says taking the dam out would save the city money in the long run. She says it will also return the river to a more natural state, and would be better for fish and wildlife. Rubin says when she looks at the pond made by the dam, she doesn't see good things.
"When I look at Argo Pond I see really a stinky, stagnant, non-oxygenated pond. It's not really functioning. Other people look at it as, you know, this beautiful pond that they go down to. And it's really, that's just one of perspective, and sort of your background and your training."
The people who like the dam accused Rubin and the Watershed Council of overhyping the problems with the dam, and with Argo Pond. The people most outspoken were the members of a local rowing club.
Rubin and others in favor of taking the dam out said the rowers could find better places to row on the Huron River, and the city could pay for the move.
Mike Taft is a coach for the Huron High School rowing team. He and many of the other rowers said the other places just wouldn't work.
"You know my kids grew up here and this is where we spent our time. So, you can find what you want on various stretches of this river, and this is a one of a kind the way it is."
Some environmentalists accused the rowers of digging their heels in – of not considering other options. Taft feels that accusation is unfair.
"I think this is not about the rowers. I think it's about the Watershed Council pursuing their absolute aim here, which is to take out this dam."
People with the Watershed Council say they do want the dam out, but they say they respect the rowers concerns.
The city of Ann Arbor put together a committee to help them with the decision. They held meetings and heard from some experts. They came to agreement on a lot of other issues about the river, but on the Argo Dam they just couldn't agree.
Steve Yaffee is an expert on ways to manage environmental conflicts. He's written extensively about the Spotted Owl case out west and he facilitated some of the Argo Dam meetings. He says in hindsight, he felt like the process could have been better informed. He thought it would have helped to have outside experts weigh in on the questions about science and about the alternatives for rowers.
"Because I think the rowing interests weren't convinced that there were environmental benefits. And the environmentalists weren't convinced that there weren't options for the rowers. And if you're not convinced of that, why work with that."
Yaffee says for communities facing these big controversies it's important for all the parties to first sit down and talk broadly about what they want for their community. He says it's also important to have some creative thinkers at the table. People who can articulate a vision for the future and can come up with solutions.
For now, the city is planning to keep the dam. If it does, taxpayers will probably have to pay close to half a million dollars in repair and maintenance costs in the next several years, and for many cities with tight budgets money is often what ultimately drives their final decision of whether or not to keep a dam.
Author Rebecca WilliamsPosted on August 24, 2010 Categories ReportsTags ann arbor, aquatic, dam, dams, energy, power, umich, water
Fixing a Broken Ecosystem
Steve Dahl is a commercial fisher on the North Shore of Lake Superior. When he's fishing for herring, Dahl pulls his gill net up and passes it across his boat, plucking herring from the mesh. (Photo by Stephanie Hemphill)
In one net, the catch is about 40 herring. The catch varies widely depending on time of year and weather. (Photo by Stephanie Hemphill)
At the Vanilla Bean Bakery and Cafe in Two Harbors, MN a sign goes in the window when there's fresh herring. Owner Paul Bergman says it pulls in the customers.(Photo by Stephanie Hemphill)
Spawning adult herring... well... it WAS spawning. (Photo by Randall M. Claramunt MDNRE, Charlevoix Fisheries Research Station)
More formerly spawning adult herring. (Photo by Randall M. Claramunt MDNRE, Charlevoix Fisheries Research Station)
The beloved invader. Because alewives are the main source of food for some sport fish, some people forget that they're an invasive species. (Photo courtesy of NOAA Fishery Service)
For decades, exotic species have been invading the Great Lakes and mixing up the ecosystem. A few years ago the constant changes led to the collapse of the food web in Lake Huron. That event has gotten people interested in restoring native fish with the hope that they'll be more stable, but as Peter Payette reports, not everyone wants the food web in the Great Lakes to look exactly like it did a century ago.
The Herring Replacements: the Beloved Alewife
Say it together now… "Coregonus artedi"
More from the Wisconsin Sea Grant
Once upon a time, every Great lake was stuffed with lake herring. Trout would feast on them and so would people all over the Midwest, sometimes smoking or pickling the white flaky meat. Herring can grow more than two feet long. Every year commercial fishing nets would haul tens of millions of pounds of herring out of the lakes.
Fisheries biologist Mark Ebener says herring, or cisco, would lay so many eggs in the fall it was a food source for other fish. Ebener says it still is in Superior.
"You go into parts of Lake Superior in December and the whitefish are just gorged on cisco eggs."
But herring largely disappeared from the lakes in the middle of the last century for a variety of reasons including overfishing. Biologists like Mark Ebener thinks restoring the fish should be a top priority. He's with Chippewa Ottawa Resource Authority. It's a tribal fishing agency based in Sault Ste. Marie. Some Michigan tribes have commercial fishing rights on the Great Lakes that date back to treaties signed in the 19th century. They'd like the states to be more aggressive about restoring native species. Ebener says if we want a stable ecosystem in the lakes, herring are crucial.
"It was the prey species. So if you want to restore the connectivity of the lakes and the historic predator-prey dynamics, why would you ignore herring"
While nobody would admit to ignoring the fish, figuring out exactly what happened to lake herring has not been a priority, but that's changing.
Grand Traverse Bay is the only place herring are still known to breed in Lake Michigan. State fisheries biologists have been coming to this breeding ground near Elk Rapids for three years. The Department of Natural Resources and Environment wants to know why this remnant population doesn't expand. Randy Claramont is the team leader. He says the primary suspect is an invasive fish that eats new born herring. They just picked one up in the net.
"There's our predator. There's a rainbow smelt. Right in where the cisco are, we also got an adult rainbow smelt."
It's not likely that a large scale effort to restore herring as the main prey fish in Lake Michigan would have universal support. That's because the state is also responsible for managing the lake's popular salmon fishery. Salmon are not native to the Great Lakes but are generally considered to be the most exciting sport fish to catch. Lots of anglers come up north to do this, so politically speaking, the salmon has clout.
Jim Dexter, the Lake Michigan basin coordinator for the Michigan DNRE, doesn't think salmon like to eat herring.
"One thing that's important to remember is that if you have a huge herring population, I don't think you'll be able to maintain the type of salmon sport fishery that we currently have."
But it's a different story in Lake Huron where the salmon disappeared in 2004. That was after the food web, dominated by exotic species, crashed. The upheaval has sparked interest in rebuilding a more stable ecosystem, and that's why the Michigan Steelhead and Salmon Fishermen's Association actively supports efforts to reestablish the herring in Huron. The state planted 40,000 herring there last year. Managers of the project think they'll need to plant a million fish a year for a number of years to reestablish the species in the lake. That would cost millions of dollars.
For the Environment Report, I'm Peter Payette.
Author Rebecca WilliamsPosted on July 15, 2010 Categories ReportsTags aquatic, fish, wildlife
Replumbing Chicago to Keep Carp Out
These fish get big. They eat a lot, and if they get into the Great Lakes, people worry they'll swallow up the food web. (Photo by the USFWS)
And they jump out of the water, creating a hazard for boaters. (Photo by the USFWS)
This is one way to keep from getting smacked in the face. A U.S. Fish & Wildlife official drives a boat on a river filled with asian carp. (Photo by the USFWS)
Ground zero, or is it? The site of the electric fish barrier on the Chicago Ship and Sanitary Canal. It's where the U.S. government has drawn the line to try to keep the fish out of the Great Lakes. This photo was taken in 2004. The barriers have since been built. (Photo by the USACOE)
A concept drawing of one of the barriers. Millions of dollars have been spent to build and operate the barriers. With carp DNA and one live carp found beyond the barriers, some fear the effort was too little to late. (Image by USACOE)
Red marks river entrances to the Great Lakes. The black circles show where Asian carp DNA have been found. Some say hydrologic separation is the only solution. (Image by USACOE)
You might recall that Michigan got a kind of asian carp scare a few weeks back. Biologists found one asian carp near Chicago, past an electric barrier that was supposed to keep them away from Lake Michigan. They worry if carp make it to the Great Lakes and rivers in Michigan, they could crowd out native fish. Congress worries the barrier might not be enough and it wants a more permanent solution. Shawn Allee reports that won't happen anytime soon.
"Eco-Sep" – The Corps of Engineers' Study
Brush up on your Asian Carp Knowledge
More on the Electric Barriers
Joel Brammeier's with the Alliance for the Great Lakes, an advocacy group. When I meet him, I expect him to be completely freakin' out, since just a few weeks ago biologists found one live Asian carp on the Great Lakes side of the electric carp barrier. That's the, um, wrong side of the barrier, since we want Asian carp to stay on the other side, the side closer to the Mississippi. Anyway, Brammeier's is either a good actor, or maybe he actually feels OK, since now other people, the right people, are freakin' out, too. Those would be people in Congress.
"We've seen over the past few months, more energy devoted to predicting and preventing a crisis to the Great Lakes than I've ever seen in my life."
Brammeier says Congress doubts that electric barriers, poisons, or other gadgets will keep the carp out of Lake Michigan for good, so there's talk about the mack daddy of Asian carp prevention: hydrological separation. This just means cutting off canals that connect Lake Michigan to rivers that head west. That'd make it impossible for carp to swim to the Lake.
"I think what folks are realizing now is that the only way to achieve that is physical separation between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. That's easy to say, but it's incredably difficult to conceptualize how that happens."
Brammeier says the good news is that back in 2007, Congress already asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to figure all this out. The bad news is that the study's moving too slow for Congress. The Army Corps was planning to finish its proposal in, say, five years. Tomorrow, a U.S. Senate committee will debate asking the Corps to speed things up. They want the study finished in less than two years.
"Twelve to eighteen months with the right people, the right funding and leadership strikes me as a generous amount of time to get the answers we need. It's simply a matter of prioritization."
"To do that in 18 months in my and my team's opinion is not a reasonable assumption."
This is Dave Wethington. He's in charge of the study for the Army Corps of Engineers. Wethington says the real issue isn't whether the Corps can propose some way of separating Lake Michigan from rivers that head west. He says it can do that. It's that that there's a lot to consider.
"What kind of impacts could there be to commercial shipping, passenger boats, recreational boats. What kind of flood risk could there be, to the Chicago area specifically."
None of this is enough for some Michigan congressmen. Representative Dave Camp is from the 4th district.
"The problem is that it's taking far too long. This will speed that up. What we're trying to bring is this sense of urgency to the problem that, frankly, the bureacrats don't get."
Camp admits even if he gets his study eighteen months from now, he'd still have a problem. Re-jiggering the water canals around Chicago won't be cheap, and there'd probably be a fight over that, too. Still, he says he'd rather have that fight sooner rather than later. After all, we might still have time to stop the carp's invasion, but we're pressing our luck if we wait too long.
By the way, we still don't know where that carp that was caught beyond the electric barrier came from. Scientists are using DNA tests to figure out whether it just swam through the barrier or whether someone released it into the wild. Biologists say that happens from time to time.
That's the Environment Report. I'm Rebecca Williams.
Author Rebecca WilliamsPosted on July 13, 2010 Categories ReportsTags aquatic, asian carp, barrier, fish, invasive, invasives, river, rivers, usacoe, wildlife
NOAA Looks Into Navy Sonar
Critics of sonar say it's so loud that it confuses whales and other marine animals, and can cause them to be injured or even die. (Photo courtesy of NOAA)
A new federal ruling could
protect marine animals by
changing how and where
the Navy uses sonar. Samara Freemark reports:
Critics of sonar say it's so loud that it confuses whales and other marine animals, and can cause them to be injured or even die. That's why environmental groups have been pushing for tighter regulations on the technology.
This week the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, took a step in that direction. The agency acknowledged that current policies are not doing enough to protect marine mammals. And NOAA says it will identify critical marine habitats impacted by sonar.
Michael Jasny is a policy analyst with the environmental group the Natural Resources Defense Council. He hopes the policy will be a first step to banning sonar in those habitats.
"It's not a prescription, it's a plan. And it sets in motion potentially a very significant change. I mean, the proof will be in the pudding, of course."
Jasny says his organization will work with NOAA and the Navy to negotiate sonar policy so that marine mammals are not hurt.
More info from NOAA
Author Samara FreemarkPosted on January 22, 2010 Categories News SpotsTags animal, animals, aquatic, boat, boats, communicate, communication, dolphin, dolphins, fish, fishes, mammal, mammals, marine, navy, ocean, oceans, radar, ship, ships, sound, sounds, submarine, submarines, water, waters, wave, waves, whale, whales, wildlife
Farmland Back Into Wetland
The government's Conservation Reserve Program pays farmers to return a
certain amount of agricultural fields to their original wetlands. As Tanya
Ott reports, a new study finds those efforts might be paying off:
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The government's Conservation Reserve Program pays farmers to return a certain amount of agricultural fields to their original wetlands. As Tanya Ott reports, a new study finds those efforts might be paying off.
Research ecologist Hardin Waddle and his colleagues at the U-S Geological Survey wanted to know how frogs and toads were faring in ditches and creeks on farmland versus restored wetlands. So they suited up and set out into the Mississippi Delta on a frog hunt.
"We went out there at night with flashlights and we captured any individual we saw. We measured them and we looked for any kind of growth abnormalities or things like that."
They didn't find disease, but they did discover significantly more frogs and toads on the marginal farmland that had been restored to wetlands. Waddle says amphibians are great indicators of the overall health of wetland conditions. So that means restored wetlands can be just as good for frogs and toads as preserved wetlands.
For the Environment Report, I'm Tanya Ott.
Author Tanya OttPosted on January 15, 2010 Categories News SpotsTags aquatic, water, wildlife
Noisier Oceans Bad for Whales
Beluga whale (Delphinaptherus leucas) with its mouth wide open, White Sea, Russia, Kareliya. (© Andrey Nekrasov / WWF-Canon)
Scientists say the oceans are
getting noisier. The racket threatens
whales and other marine mammals that
communicate through sound. Nancy
Greenleese reports:
https://environmentreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/spot_greenleese_011909.mp3
The oceans are already noisy from military sonars and oil and gas exploration. Scientists say it could get worse. Some of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, is getting soaked up by the oceans and seas. The carbon dioxide makes the water more acidic. Sound travels through that acidic water more easily. A UN climate change panel recently issued a report raising concerns about the chemistry change. Mark Simmonds of the Whale and Dolphin Conversation Society says already there's an "acoustic fog" in the world's waters.
"The ambient noise levels in the oceans because of pH are likely to rise. This is a very unexpected finding. They're anticipating that marine mammals will have further problems communicating."
The noise confuses marine mammals. So, they're beaching themselves and running into ships more often.
For The Environment Report, I'm Nancy Greenleese.
Author Nancy GreenleesePosted on January 19, 2009 Categories News SpotsTags aquatic, climate, conservation, fish, global, government, governments, help, helping, international, mammal, mammals, nation, national, nations, noise, noises, noisy, ocean, oceans, protect, protections, save, saves, saving, sea, warming, water, waters, whale, whales, wildlife
New Concerns Over Wastewater Sludge
Triclosan is an active ingredient in many products claiming antibacterial properties. (Photo by Kinna Ohman)
A wastewater treatment plant which is equipped to produce sludge (or biosolids) ready for agricultural use. (Photo by Kinna Ohman)
Sludge will be sent through this press for dewatering and to get it ready for the farmer. This wastewater treatment plant provides Class B biosolids, or sludge for the farmers. Class A biosolids need to go through more complex treatment and screening. (Photo by Kinna Ohman)
After sewage is cleaned at a wastewater treatment plant, sludge is left behind. This
sludge is often used on farms as fertilizer. But the wastewater treatment doesn't get
rid of all the drugs and chemicals we flush down the drain. Kinna Ohman reports
researchers are finding some of these chemicals are affecting wildlife and could be
getting into our food:
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Take a tour of any wastewater treatment plant and you'll soon understand the main
objective: to separate the liquids from the solids. Until the mid 90s, most of these solids,
or sludge, used to go into landfills or were dumped in the ocean. But in 1994 the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency started a program to promote the use of sludge on farm
fields as fertilizer. The EPA thought this was the perfect solution… turning waste into a
useful product.
But scientists have found something which could turn the EPA program on its head.
Rolf Halden is an assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Center for Water
and Health. He says sludge contains most of the chemicals we use:
"If you look at municipal sludge, it really is a matrix that reflects the chemical footprint
of our society."
Halden's focused on one chemical he's found in sludge called Triclosan – and
there's a lot of it out there. It's in antibacterial soaps, and can even be in our toothpastes,
deodorants, and shampoos. Until recently, most if it was thought to break down. Now,
Halden says they found something different:
"In the work that we have done at Johns Hopkins, we have demonstrated for example that
Triclosan when it enters a wastewater treatment plant is not effectively being degraded
and half of the mass is left over."
Halden and his colleagues found this leftover mass in sludge. And since half the sludge
produced each year in the US goes to fertilize farm fields, Halden says we might want to
think about our food supply:
"We really create a pipeline of contaminants that are first discharged into the water and
then accumulated in sludge and then applied in agriculture which opens a pathway for the
contamination of the food supply and the further distribution of these chemicals in the
At this point, scientists are still studying levels of this chemical. They haven't even
begun to understand Triclosan's effects in agriculture. But there's something they do
know about it.
Researchers found Triclosan can mimic a thyroid hormone in the North American
bullfrog and disrupt its growth. When its tadpoles were exposed to low levels of
this chemical for a short amount of time, their growth into a juvenile frog was impaired.
But this doesn't sound like that big of a deal… the frog doesn't die, it just doesn't grow
properly, right? Keep in mind that this study tracked exposure to Triclosan over four
hours. Halden says by spreading wastewater sludge in agriculture, we could be exposing
wildlife to chemicals like Triclosan for their entire lives.
"When these chemicals are transported into the environment with the agricultural
fertilizer, which is the municipal sludge, then they sit there for in the soil, not only for
seconds but for days and weeks and for months and to even years and in some situations
in sediments, in aquatic sediments, they can sit there for decades and this implies that
organisms are, for their lifespan, exposed to very high levels of these contaminants.
What the outcome of that is really not fully understood right now and requires more research."
The U.S. Geological Survey has also been looking for chemicals in sludge – or biosolids –
and they've found steroids, antihistamines, and antidepressants. Ed Furlong, a research chemist
with the USGS in Denver, Colorado, says they are now studying how these chemicals react in agricultural
"We've identified that many of the compounds are consistently present in biosolids from
across the country. We're now trying to understand what happens after those biosolids
are applied to the soil."
The USGS is not the only agency looking at this issue. The Environmental Protection Agency has been conducting its own survey of chemicals like Triclosan in sludge. They say the results of the survey won't be released until next
summer. Then comes the complicated process of deciding what to do with the survey
results. A decision about whether to stop using sludge with hormone disrupting
chemicals to fertilize farm fields could be years away.
For the Environment Report, I'm Kinna Ohman.
The EPA on sludge and biosolids
Fact sheet on Triclosan
Author Kinna OhmanPosted on September 3, 2007 Categories FeaturesTags aquatic, biosolids, chemicals, contaminants, csrees, deodorants, drugs, epa, farm fields, fertilizer, hormone, liquids, research, rolf, sediments, sewage, shampoos, soil, solids, survey, triclosan, us geological survey, usgs, waste, wastewater treatment plants
Ten Threats: Hidden Costs of Invasives
Foreign ships like this one from Cypress are known as "Salties" around the Great Lakes. These ships are responsible for bringing aquatic invasive species into the Lakes, and we're all paying a price. (Photo by Mark Brush)
In looking at these threats to the Great Lakes, almost everyone we surveyed agreed the worst threat was alien invasive species. Shipping goods in and out of the Great Lakes has helped build the major cities on the Lakes. But shipping from foreign ports has brought in unwanted pests. Zebra mussels are probably the most infamous, but there are more than 160 aquatic species that have invaded the Lakes and changed them, almost always for the worse. So why can't we keep them out?
Today we begin an extensive series called "Ten Threats to the Great Lakes." The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Lester Graham is our guide through this series:
Well, let's say I import widgets.
(Sound of widgets dropping into a cup)
I've been getting widgets from somewhere in Asia, but I found out I could get widgets from an eastern European company for a dollar-a-widget cheaper. The factory there can ship them directly to my warehouse in Great Lakes City, USA by ship across the Atlantic and into the Great Lakes.
Pretty good deal. I get good widgets, the shipping costs are cheaper, my profits go up, and it means cheaper widgets at the retail level. Everybody wins, right?
Well, the ship that brought the widgets also brought an alien invasive species that stowed away in the ship's ballast. A critter that's native to eastern European waters is now wreaking havoc on the Great Lakes ecosystem.
Aquatic alien invasive species that have invaded the Great Lakes now cost the economy an estimated five billion dollars a year. Five billion dollars of what's considered biological pollution.
So, who's paying the price?
Cameron Davis is with the environmental group Alliance for the Great Lakes.
"Unfortunately, in most instances, who pays for those hiddens costs are you and me. We pay for our water agencies to have to clean zebra mussels out of their pipes, we pay our agencies through taxes to have to keep Asian Carp out of the Chicago River, we pay through our taxes in any number of ways to try to fight these invaders."
So right now, taxpayers and utility ratepayers – even those who never bought a widget and never will – are paying the price. Davis says that's just not right.
"One of the things we need to do is make sure that those ships are paying full cost for everything that they bring, not just the widgets, but the stowaways like the zebra mussels, things like that that they have on board."
So, why target the ships?
Dennis Schornack chairs the U.S. Sector of the International Joint Commission. The IJC is a bi-national agency that monitors a water quality agreement between the U.S. and Canada. Schornack says that's the way it usually works: the polluters pay.
"The cost of the impact of these unwanted creatures is something that's not baked into the price charged for the widgets. So, somewhere that external cost needs to be captured back into the price. The ship owners themselves are the likely target to pay for this through a permitting fee which, of course, they will pass on to their customers, the people who made the widgets."
So all of us who buy widgets end up paying a little more, but paying permits and fees could cost shippers more than they can afford. George Kuper is with the Council of Great Lakes Industries. Kuper says he understands the first impulse is to make the shippers pay.
"The problem with that, of course, is the shippers were already close to non-economic as a method of transportation, which puts us right up against an environmental challenge because shipping is by far the most environmentally un-intrusive method of moving large amounts of materials."
Kuper says using other methods of transportation such as trains or trucks to move that cargo from East Coast ports might burn more fuel and cause more pollution.
But of all the shipping on the Great Lakes, only six percent of the tonnage is carried on ocean-going vessels. The rest is transported on Great Lakes carriers that never leave the lakes and don't bring in new invasives. So, the question is this: is that six percent of cargo worth the damage that aquatic invasive species cost each year.
Many experts say there is a fairly simple answer to all of this. Technology is available for cargo ships to eliminate invasives from their ballast tanks. Requiring those ships to use that technology would likely add some to the cost of every widget, but supporters of the idea say it would greatly reduce the environmental cost to the Lakes.
For the GLRC, this is Lester Graham.
The Council of Great Lakes Industries
Northeast Midwest Institute on biological pollution
Author Lester GrahamPosted on October 10, 2005 Categories Features, Invasive SpeciesTags alien, alliance for the great lakes, aquatic, asian carp, ballast, canada, chicago river, economy, great lakes, ijc, industry, international joint commission, invasive, pipes, polluter, pollution, profit, retail, ship, shipping, species, taxes, taxpayers, technology, trains, transportation, trucks, utility, warehouse, water, zebra mussels
Bill Aims to Slow Spread of New Invasives
A new bill aims to prevent new invasive species from entering our country. (Photo courtesy of USGS)
Many states are asking the federal government to take a new approach in fighting aquatic invasive species. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Shawn Allee has more:
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Many states are asking the federal government to take a new approach in fighting aquatic invasive species. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Shawn Allee has more.
Currently, federal agencies try to control invasive species after they start disrupting ecosystems in U.S. waterways.
But now the U.S. Senate is considering a measure that calls for testing species for potential harm before they're allowed into the country. Allegra Cangelosi is with the Northeast Midwest Institute, a regional advocacy group.
"Believe it or not, the door's been wide open. So anybody in any state, unless the state has a law, can make a decision to bring a new organism to our waters, cultivate it, let it get loose and do whatever."
If passed, the law would put new restrictions on the pet industry. Federal agencies would decide whether it's too risky to import a specific fish or other aquativ species. The act would also beef up inspections of ships that might carry invasive pests.
For the GLRC, I'm Shawn Allee.
Read the National Aquatic Invasive Species Act of 2005
Learn more about invasive species
Author Shawn AlleePosted on July 25, 2005 Categories News SpotsTags aquatic, ecosystem, harm, invasive species, lake, northeast midwest institute, organism, pet, restrictions, river, ships, testing, waterway
Re-Using Land to Meet City's Changing Needs
Don Mikulic with the Illinois Geological survey hunts for the fossilized brachiopods and snails available in the quarry. (Photo by Shawn Allee)
The quarry and the entire Chicago area were under a vast coral reef more than 430 million years ago. (Photo by Shawn Allee)
The flat, terrace-like structures are called "wetland cells." They'll be planted with native wetland species. (Photo by Shawn Allee)
Some of America's grandest city parks were built when urban areas still had room to grow. But today, older cities wanting new parks face shortages of space, money, or both. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Shawn Allee looks at one major city's development of a park … from below ground
Some of America's grandest city parks were built when urban areas still had room to grow. But today, older cities wanting new parks face shortages of space, money, or both. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Shawn Allee looks at one major city's development of a park from below ground level:
At first blush, an old quarry site doesn't seem to be a good candidate for a new city park, especially this one.
For the past fifteen years, the city of Chicago has used this quarry as a landfill. The site, called Stearns Quarry, lies off the beaten track, in Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood, more than two miles southwest of downtown.
Right now it's kind of ugly. Tractors are patting down a mound of debris and dirt that's piled up thirty-feet above the nearby street.
(Sound of trucks)
I find the project manager, Claudine Malik inside the site's construction trailer. She's hovering over a map of what the park might look like by next year.
"It's a twenty-seven acre site. It's roughly a square and if you think of it as broken up into about four separate areas, that helps you map it out mentally. As you come in, there's an athletic field, It goes down to a pond, which will be stocked for fishing. The majority of the section is a sledding mound. And along the back wall, which is a long preserved quarry wall, is a series of wetland cells that lead down into the pond."
That's a lot of different uses to cram into the site's 27 acres. It's hard to imagine a stone quarry turned into a landfill and then turned into a city park. To get a better idea of how it will be transformed, Malik and her team take me on a ride around the site.
(Sound of truck starting)
The plan puts every inch of ground to use because there aren't many chances to put new parks in the city. Malik says rising land values in Chicago make even small land purchases pricey. And everybody seems to have ideas for the park.
Local residents, the state of Illinois and the city gave designers a tall order to fill. Since they're all putting money into the five million-dollar project, everybody gets something they want.
Soon we spot Don Mikolic, a scientist with Illinois' Geological Survey. He's checking the quarry walls before the park's complete.
(Sound of tapping)
"There's part of a snail right there."
Turns out, the quarry's produced some of the best aquatic fossils in the Midwest.
"In fact you can probably find specimens from this specific quarry sitting in some of the biggest museums around the world."
And some of the limestone exposed by quarrying will be left for park visitors to view. These walls offer more than just natural history though. Stearns Quarry is part of the region's architectural history too. The quarry opened in 1833, a few years before Chicago became a city. Its limestone strengthened Chicago harbor and can be found in historic Midwestern churches.
Malik says the site's history will find its way into the design as well. Just another thing for the planners to work into the park. Which makes you wonder, what's driving a park to be all these things at once? To get some perspective, I head to the offices of the American Planning Association.
The APA is a professional organization for urban planners. Megan Lewis researches parks for the APA. Lewis says parks like Stearns Quarry face bigger challenges than the grand old parks designed in the 19th century.
"Now, you can't really approach park planning especially in a city in the same way, because you don't have the luxury of having all of that land available to you. So you sort of have to see what is there that can become a park and what do we do with it?"
Lewis says the mix of recreation, open space, even history, has a lot to do with the demands from so many competing interests. To see how thing have changed, she gives the example of Frederick Law Olmsted. He's most famous for developing New York's Central Park, a hundred and fifty years ago.
"The planning was sort of done in isolation. He would come up with his grand idea and he maybe only had a few people involved. But I think that now, so many people are empowered to say, This is what I want this place to be like, that planning doesn't really happen in isolation anymore. Which is good, because you want it to be a democratic process."
(Sound of quarry)
Back at Stearns Quarry, you can see just how those demands are being incorporated. Meeting all those different needs in a relatively small area with a relatively small budget is played out in each square foot.
This new use of the site is again reflecting the city's needs. The little piece of land has evolved as the city has evolved. First it provided stone for building the city. Then it was a dumping ground. And now it's a break from the asphalt and concrete, a place to play and rest in a bit of nature.
Author Shawn AlleePosted on May 16, 2005 Categories FeaturesTags american planning association, aquatic, central park, chicago, downtown, fishing, fossils, history, illinois, land, landfill, neighborhood, new york, park, pond, recreation, stone, urban planning, wetland


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La Universidad de Palestina (UP; ) es una institución privada palestina de educación superior ubicada en Al-Zahra al sur de la Ciudad de Gaza. La universidad fue establecida en el 2005.

Facultades
La universidad tiene facultades de ingeniería, tecnologías de la información y la comunicación, administración de empresa, derecho, comunicación, pedagogía, cirugía oral y dental y farmacia.

Programas e investigación
Cada especialización en la universidad tiene un comité supervisor de conferenciantes. La universidad tiene un equipo de TIC que se encarga de organizar la comunicación entre los conferenciantes y alumnado a través utilizando un programa tecnológico desarrollado por este equipo universitario.

La universidad ofrece un repositorio de acceso abierto para uso académico por centros de investigación, profesorado y alumnos. La universidad también publicó Lightweight Opencourseware en árabe.

Véase también
 Universidades de Palestina
 Cultura de Palestina

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Página web oficial de la Universidad de Palestina
 Página web oficial de la Universidad de Palestina

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Educación en Palestina
Universidades de Palestina

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Q: How to pass data from a component to far component in vue js 3 I can't find a way to pass data from a component to a non child component in vue.
I'm working with a blade file and I have a component to toggle between darkmode and lightmode. I want my dark logo to show if dark and light logo to show if light. The problem is provide/inject can't solve the issue I see in Vue dev tool that my value is provided but when i check the other component the injected value is undefined. I did it before in a dropdown component and i was able to pass the value because It was about one parent component and its child but now I can't do it.
I need a way to pass data from my Switchdark.vue component to Svglogodark.vue component.
My Switchdark.vue

<template>
    <div
        class="flex cursor-pointer items-center justify-between"
        @click="modeToggle"
    >
        <div
            class="flex h-4 w-12 items-center rounded-full bg-gray-300 p-1 duration-300 ease-in-out"
            :class="{ 'bg-green-400': toggleActive }"
        >
            <div
                class="h-3 w-3 transform rounded-full bg-white shadow-md duration-300 ease-in-out"
                :class="{ 'translate-x-7': toggleActive }"
            ></div>
        </div>
    </div>
</template>

<script>
import { provide, ref } from "vue";
import Svglogodark from "./Svglogodark.vue";
export default {
    components: [Svglogodark],
    props: ["theme"],
    data() {
        return {
            toggleActive: false,
        };
    },
    mounted() {
        if (this.theme === "false") {
            this.light();
        } else {
            this.dark();
        }
    },
    methods: {
        dark() {
            document.querySelector("body").classList.add("dark");
            this.toggleActive = true;
            this.$emit("dark");
        },
        light() {
            document.querySelector("body").classList.remove("dark");
            this.toggleActive = false;
            this.$emit("light");
        },

        modeToggle() {
            if (
                this.darkMode ||
                document.querySelector("body").classList.contains("dark")
            ) {
                this.light();
            } else {
                this.dark();
            }
            const isDarkModeOn = this.toggleActive;
            createCookie("isDarkModeOn", isDarkModeOn.toString(), 60 * 60 * 24);
        },
    },
    setup() {
        const toggleActive = ref(toggleActive);

        provide("toggleActive", toggleActive);

        return {
            toggleActive,
        };
    },
};
</script>

<style></style>

My Svglogodark.vue:

<template>
    <svg
        v-if="toggleActive"
        xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
        xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
        width="170"
        height="70"
        viewBox="0 0 4792 1625"
    >

    </svg>
</template>

<script>
export default {
    inject: ["toggleActive"],
    created() {
        console.log(this.toggleActive);
    },
};
</script>

<style></style>

I will have two SVG and i want them to show if I'm in dark mode or not.

A: Use vuex here you can learn about it. vuex-docs
Or
You can use simple way that is LocalStorage
\\store item
localStorage.setItem('theme', 'dark');

\\you can get anywhere
var theme = localStorage.getItem('theme');

console.log(theme); //'dark'

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It's kinda sad that there are so few Hanukkah specials out there. There are, of course, some great ones to choose from like the The Rugrats Hanukkah episodes, the Even Stevens Hanukkah special, or even An American Tale. And yes, if you wanted to, you could include the Adam Sandler animated movie Eight Crazy Nights. But there just aren't that many specials dedicated to Hanukkah as there are for Christmas.
That's why this year the Hallmark Channel decided to try and tackle the lack of Hanukkah movies, and apparently they failed spectacularly at it.
Original straight white Christmas image
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by nonnie9999 | November 24, 2019 · 3:49 am
Strange things are afoot at the Circle-Ukraine
From Vox:
Ed MacMahon, a lawyer for Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, who faces charges of campaign finance violations, has told the Daily Beast that his client helped Republican Rep. Devin Nunes arrange meetings meant to advance the Ukrainian investigations into the Biden family that are at the center of the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
Now, another lawyer for Parnas — Joseph A. Bondy — has told CNN that Parnas is willing to testify before the House Intelligence Committee about Nunes's involvement in the Ukraine scandal.
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Tagged as 2016 election, Adam Schiff, Burisma, campaign finance, conspiracy theories, Democratic National Committee, Derek Harvey, Devin Nunes, Donald Trump, Hunter Biden, Impeachment, John Solomon, Lev Parnas, Mike Pompeo, The Hill, Ukraine, Viktor Shokin, whistleblower
You can dress 'em up, but you can't take 'em anywhere!
From RAWSTORY:
During today's hearing in the House's impeachment inquiry into President Trump, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) referenced a POLITICO article from last month which reported that a lawyer who worked for Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee when Devin Nunes (R-CA) was the committee's chairman, fed information on Ukraine to President Trump.
[While questioning former National Security Council official Fiona Hill, Swalwell asked] if she ever heard the name of the recently indicted Rudy Giuliani associate, Lev Parnas, "who was influencing President Trump and Rudy Giuliani about some of the debunked conspiracy theories you referenced earlier."
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Those Maleficent Men and Their Lying Machines
From The Chronicle (Duke University):
Stephen Miller, White House senior advisor […] drew a firestorm of media attention this week after hundreds of his emails with a former Breitbart editor were reported by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Miller, an immigration hardliner who was reportedly an architect of President Donald Trump's controversial "Muslim ban," sent the emails to Katie McHugh, then an editor at Breitbart, in 2015 and 2016. The SPLC report paints a picture in which Miller would send information and story ideas—sometimes citing VDare, which has published work by white nationalists, and InfoWars, which is known for promoting conspiracy theories—to McHugh, who then often wrote about the topics for Breitbart.
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by nonnie9999 | October 7, 2019 · 1:25 am
Hogwash out of Oshkosh
From David Boddinger at SPLINTER:
Chuck Todd, the normally insufferable host of NBC News' Meet the Press, has appeared increasingly uncomfortable over the past few days with the talking heads who appear on his show to repeat GOP talking points about Donald Trump.
But something happened on Sunday to trigger Todd, and that something was Republican Sen. Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, which rhymes. Johnson appeared on NBC acting like a combative, right-wing lunatic, and spewing pro-Trump conspiracy theories that sounded like they came straight from Fox News, Breitbart, or even InfoWars.
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It's time to play the music! It's time to light the lights! It's time to meet the Commies on the Muppet Show tonight!
From RICHARD ROEPER at the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES:
After multiple viewings of the now-infamous Fox Business Network's take on the new "Muppets" movie, I can come to only one conclusion.
Bonkers. They're bonkers.
In a segment on "Follow the Money," FBN's Eric Bolling paired up with Dan Gainor of the right-wing Media Research Center to deliver a report that seemed straight out of "Saturday Night Live."
"Liberal Hollywood depicting a businessman as evil, that's not new," said Bolling. "Dan, let's point this out, this oil muppet, evil man that he is, is called Tex Richman."
Gainor: "Yeah, it's amazing how far the left will go just to stoop, to manipulate your kids, to convince them, to give [them] an anti-corporate message, I mean . . ."
Bolling: "I'll put it out there. Is liberal Hollywood using class warfare to kind of brainwash our kids?"
Bolling asked that with a straight face. And he wasn't even wearing a tinfoil hat.
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Birthers of a Nation
From DORIAN DE WIND at The Moderate Voice:
A few months ago, I commented on a piece by Pulitzer Prize winner Leonard Pitts at the Miami Herald calling birthers "morons," "jackasses," "imbeciles," "idiots," "doofuses" and "pinheads."
He also called the birther movement "not just claptrap, but profoundly racist claptrap."
I said, "While I agree with Pitts on the claptrap, I would not call the birthers morons, imbeciles, idiots, etc. I believe that these people, especially the founders and leaders of this 'movement,' are extremely intelligent, capable and resourceful," and gave some examples to back my claim up:
How else would a movement that started in mid-2008, following Obama's win in the Democratic primaries be able to convince, a mere two years later, 20 percent of all Americans and 30 percent of Tea Partiers into believing that the president was not born in the United States?
How else would people such as Andy Martin (known as "King of the Birthers"), Jerome Corsi (of John Kerry swift-boating fame), Alan Keyes, Orly Taitz, etc., be able to convince a majority (51 percent) of likely Republican presidential primary voters that the president was born in another country? (2011 survey from Public Policy Polling)
How else could this movement attract reputable and intelligent Republican Party leaders, notables and pundits such as Senator Richard Shelby, Tracey Mann, Liz Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, Camille Paglia and others to grant the movement legitimacy, to defend the birthers or at a minimum to humor these conspiracy-minded people?
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In Album Review Metal Music Reviews
Ymir – 'Ymir' [Album Review]
By David van der Merwe 11/20/2020 3 Mins Read
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Twenty-one years is a long time to spend on a debut full-length, by anyone's standards. But that's exactly what happened with Ymir's eponymous record for Finland's Werewolf Records. A 1999 demo (Trollsword), followed by a 2006 EP (Silvery Howling) and then… nothing. Fourteen years of radio silence, while black metal fans subconsciously clamoured for pagan black metal combining the mysticism of Arckanum with the myth-and-legend fire of Immortal – which is pretty much a spot-on comparison for what Ymir has crafted here. So the big takeaway is that Ymir is worth the wait.
Being published by Satanic Warmaster's label carries its own pros and cons: in the Finnish extreme metal paradigm, pros come up on top: here's a well-respected, established and uncompromising artist in his own right known for his long association with both black metal and dungeon synth, so Ymir's connection gains credibility. Outside of this cluster, however, the cons rear their ugly heads: in a world where merely posting Burzum album covers on your social media gets you banned, any association – no matter how tangential or fleeting – with nationalist leanings equals bad press. Consequently, Ymir may well experience some negative feedback from the keyboard brigade.
Black metal of this kind can arguably be seen as a contemporary skaldic tradition.
This sad state of affairs, where artists can't be appreciated just for their art, does have one very positive outcome, though: a return to the underground. Part of the appeal of black metal is its taboo so this is an entirely understandable – even commendable – move. Artists like Acherontas have closed down social media accounts and moved back to email newsletters (not quite zines, but close enough) for focused fan engagement. While some may argue that a retreat from public presence (like social media) is bad business, within black metal the percentage of artists who actually earn a living from their creative output is so low that contemporary methods of promotion can be seen as having a negligible impact on revenues earned.
Thankfully, Ymir does not explicitly connect with any unpleasantness, so a more considerate audience, one willing to actually engage with the creative product, is unlikely to suffer any social consequences. Instead, the themes neatly fill the sword-and-sorcery mould – quite obviously expressed by the likes of "Pagan Mysticism" or "Resurrection of the Pagan Fire." Even the title track speaks of dark and dangerous mythology, telling the tale of the Nordic titan ruling over the crumbling world of men.
Ymir does not rewrite history or break with tradition, but it's still an engaging celebration of all things bleak and dark. While so much black metal from its ancestral home in the far north conjures images of ice and emptiness in long winter nights, Ymir adds a razor edge of violence. The snow is muddied, stained red from battle and melting in the face of sacrificial pyres desperately keeping the darkness appeased. It's a very visual, but equally visceral album and one that whole-heartedly upholds the Werewolf Records ethos of idealism, rigour, will and power.
Ymir Track Listing:
1. Pagan Mysticism
2. Silvery Howling
3. Ymir
4. Frostland Conqueror
5. Winterstorms
6. Resurrection of the Pagan Fire
Record Label: Werewolf Records
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Author David van der Merwe
This is Dayv. He writes stuff and makes being an aging goth cool again. Actually, nobody can do the latter, so let's just stick to him writing stuff. Predominantly about black metal, tattoos and other essential cultural necessities. He also makes pretty pictures, but that's just to pay the bills.
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Aquatrols Blog / Agriculture / Aquatrols Introduces New Commercial Director of Agricultural Products
Aquatrols Introduces New Commercial Director of Agricultural Products
Agriculture, Press Releases
Aquatrols announced today that Greg Kvistad has joined the company as Commercial Director to further develop its agricultural products business.
Kvistad brings with him with a wealth of experience within the industry, having spent the last 19 years in sales leadership and account management positions at FMC Corporation, where he was highly instrumental in growing crop protection business. Prior to his tenure at FMC, Greg held sales positions at Asgrow and Ciba Seed Companies.
Greg has deep roots in agriculture. Raised on a row crop and turkey farm in Minnesota, he completed his undergraduate education in Ag Business at South Dakota State University and later earned his MBA from Washington State University. Kvistad sees opportunities for Aquatrols to make a larger impact in the agricultural world, as water remains a central focus for the industry.
"I am excited to start a new challenge with Aquatrols and I look forward to working with the team to further develop and grow their agricultural products business. I am fortunate to be joining such a respected family company that has served the turf and agricultural industries for over 60 years," he said.
Aquatrols President and CEO Tracy Jarman echoed Greg's excitement about his new role with the company.
"We are excited to welcome Greg to the Aquatrols team. His background and expertise in agriculture and crop protection will help to enhance our presence in the industry as we continue on our mission to change the way the world grows," said Jarman.


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WHO reports record one-day rise in global coronavirus cases amid European outbreak
A woman walks her child to school during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Bay Ridge area of Brooklyn
By Lisa Shumaker
The World Health Organization reported a record one-day increase in global coronavirus cases on Thursday, with the total rising by 338,779 in 24 hours led by a surge of infections in Europe.
Europe reported 96,996 new cases, the highest total for the region ever recorded by the WHO.
Global deaths rose by 5,514 to a total of 1.05 million.
The previous WHO record for new cases was 330,340 on Oct. 2. The agency reported a record 12,393 deaths on April 17.
As a region, Europe is now reporting more cases than India, Brazil or the United States.
India reported 78,524 new cases, followed by Brazil at 41,906 and the United States with 38,904 new infections, according to the WHO, whose data lags the daily reports by each country.
According to a Reuters analysis of more recent country data, COVID-19 infections are rising in 54 countries, including surges in Argentina, Canada and much of Europe.
Infections in the United Kingdom have reached record levels with over 17,000 new cases reported on Thursday.
"We are seeing a definite and sustained increase in cases and admissions to hospital. The trend is clear, and it is very concerning," said Dr Yvonne Doyle, medical director for Public Health England.
France's new daily COVID-19 infections remained above the record 18,000 threshold for the second day on Thursday with new measures to curb the outbreak expected.
The average number of new infections reported in Belgium has been increasing for seven days straight and Germany reported its biggest daily increase in new cases since April on Thursday.
While India still leads in the globe in most new cases reported per day, new infections are down 20% from its peak.
In the United States, which has the largest total number of cases and deaths in the world, new infections are edging higher along with the most hospitalized COVID-19 patients since early September.
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Briefing-meetings-running errands-day, all work related, yet no real work done so far.
It's only been a few days and the carnations are already dying from the heat.
i love this piece by Link and Bunnage, "If Biscuits Were People", 1996. Many of these characters i couldn't recognise, but Bryan Adams is Rich Tea, Nelson Mandela is Tri-Iced Sweetmeal, and Martin Scorsese is Bourbon. How cool is that?


This is a template document to be used for agreements between device manufacturers and academic research institutions to form partnerships for submission of grant applications to the NIH for clinical research. The goal of this document is to provide standardized terms covering essential components of such agreements (e.g., intellectual property, data and publications, reporting requirements, etc.). In some cases, the template language may be used "as is" whereas in other cases it may be a starting point for discussions. For Word document version of the template agreement, please contact Dr. Nick Langhals (nick.langhals@nih.gov). Drafts of this and other documents were the focus of specific discussions at a June 2015 BRAIN Initiative workshop titled, "Industry Partnerships to Facilitate Early Access Neuromodulation and Recording Devices for Human Clinical Studies." Information on the workshop and links to videocast proceedings are available in the June 2015 Workshop materials.


The accomplishments we have achieved over the past 24 years are greatly based on the knowledge that playing as team members we will progress individually, and that our whole organization is as strong as it weakest member. That's why we invest in the individual, guaranteeing them support in both personal and professional aspects of life. That's what makes us a winning team!!
The project has been prepared with the financial assistance of the European Union.
The content of the materials is the sole responsibility of Tim Kabel d.o.o.
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A pleasing specimen of Pyromophite from the classic French location of Les Farges Mine. The Pyromorphite is seen as intergrown bush-like forms displaying divergent prismatic crystals, measuring to 0.6cm tall. The Pyromorphite crystals show the typical parallel growth and hopper terminations. The colour of the Pyromorphite is a rich green with a fair lustre. The matrix is tan coloured Goethite gossan with inclusions of Pyromorphite. A fine specimen of Pyromorphite from this well regarded location.


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Game ReviewsRolling Gunner Over Power
[PS4] Rolling Gunner + Over Power Review
ININ Games and Mebius are ready to rock your world with shoot 'em up Rolling Gunner + Over Power on PS4. Find out why in our Rolling Gunner + Over Power review!
ININ Games and Mebius are ready to rock your world with excellent shoot 'em up Rolling Gunner + Over Power on PlayStation 4. After releasing on Nintendo Switch back in 2019, the game is now finally out on PlayStation, and it includes the main game as well as the Over Power DLC rolled into a single package. As for the game's story, you'll be playing as a pilot who stands to be humanity's last hope. The now-sentient sentient computer system BAC has control over almost every single engine in the world, and things are not good for humanity, with the planet's population has been cut down in half. It is up to you and the special Rolling Gun weapon to save the day before it's too late!
The game can be played either in its original version or in its Over Power version. What's new for Over Power? Along with a new control scheme – more on this below – you'll also get to enjoy a new arranged soundtrack as you play through the six stages that Rolling Gunner has to offer. To make the whole experience feel fresh for those of you that have already played through the original experience, the Over Power update also adds additional enemies and attacks you'll have to watch out for!
Depending on if you're taking on the original version or the Over Power version, there will be some differences to consider. For both, you'll control your spaceship with the left analog stick or the D-Pad. For the original version, you'll shoot with the Square button and can use rapid-fire with the R2 button. The L2 button will be for activating your bomb. In the Over Power version, you can shoot with the L1 button as you change weapons with the L2 button for different shooting patterns. Your mighty bomb is set to the R2 button. Once you've charged up enough energy, you can use the buster beam with the R1 button, or you can have the game take over and automatically activate the buster beam as soon as it's charged up. You could also treat this as a twin-stick and use the right analog stick to aim and attack.
Then we have the Limiter. This is a special ability that can be charged up by collecting the many medals left behind by enemies. Once you've collected enough to increase your energy to the max – which is 1,000 – you can press the bomb button to activate a special mode where you can boost the types of medals you get from defeating enemies to collect additional energy. Once this additional energy is at 100%, you can press the bomb button again to activate the Limiter, which will greatly increase the power of the attacks from the Rolling Gunner.
The game can be played in one of four difficulty levels: Novice, Casual, Original, and Expert. Novice has the simples score system and the lowest challenge of the bunch, which is a good option for those of you who don't have much experience with bullet hell shoot 'em ups. Casual slightly increases the challenge without things feeling overwhelming. Original gives you the standard experience, with enemies that are a bit more intense while offering you a chance to boost your score. And then there's Expert, which considerably bumps up the challenge, so you'll have to be on high alert at all times!
There are also different spaceships to choose from, each one with different stats for attack range and movement speed while also offering different attack patterns and defense mechanisms to consider. There's the FR-42RX STORK, which is the basic aircraft type and the most balanced of the bunch. The RF-42RA Attack STORK trades off movement speed for a wider attack range and a bit of extra power. The RF-42RS Super STORK is the fastest of the group but features a narrow attack range, so you'll have to compensate accordingly.
Unlike the usual shoot 'em up rule of "one hit and you're done," for Rolling Gunner, your spaceship will have a health bar, which you can check on the upper left corner of the screen. When you're hit, that health bar will go down, and once it's depleted, you'll lose a life. You can get a shield power-up to repair some of the damage you've received, and you can gain an extra life – or two – as you bump up your overall score by destroying all enemies and collecting the score items they drop. There's even a power-up that will increase your max shield!
Trophy-wise, this one has a full trophy list with a Platinum trophy. The list is split into 28 Bronze trophies, 11 Silver trophies, and 3 Gold trophies. You'll get trophies for completing each of the six stages in Rolling Gunner + Over Power. On top of that, if you manage to complete each of those six stages without dying as you defeat all enemies, mini-bosses, and bosses. There are trophies for clearing the game in the Novice, Casual, Normal, and Expert difficulty settings. You'll also get trophies for getting a 1-up power-up, using your mighty bomb, making the Rolling Gunner lap 100 times around your ship, reaching a score of 100,000,000 in a single run, or reaching a cumulative total of 1,000,000,000, 2,500,000,000, and 5,000,000,000 points, to name some examples.
If you're a shoot 'em up fan, then getting this one is a no-brainer. It's a hectic and fun bullet hell game on PlayStation 4 that is enhanced by offering the Over Power DLC right from the start so that you can take on each version separately since each one feels like a different experience. Rolling Gunner + Over Power is out on PlayStation 4 with a $29.99 asking price.
This Rolling Gunner + Over Power review is based on a PlayStation 4 copy provided by ININ Games.
Solid bullet hell with DLC included
ININ Games Mebius
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