Having woken up with a stuffy nose and headache—my second cold of the trip—I spent the entire morning in my apartment at Residence Liberty, organizing maps and schedules for my return trip to Vienna the next week. When it was getting towards lunchtime, I walked to the train station and caught the #20 bus to Muggia. I was looking forward to having a good meal at Taverna Cigui, located on the outskirts of Muggia and known for its local Triestine and Istrian cuisine.
Making a guess as to which would be the closest stop, I got off the bus and hiked uphill for 30 minutes to the hamlet of Santa Barbara. I found the farmhouse at the end of a country road, surrounded by vineyards and olive trees. The front door was locked and all seemed to be deserted, except for a loud noise emanating from around the side of the house. I followed the sound to find a woman vacuuming a rug on the porch. Her back was to me, and she obviously couldn't hear me over the machine, so I waited patiently for her to finish. Finally she turned around, startled to notice me standing there. To my dismay, I learned that the restaurant was closed while the owners were in Austria and wouldn't reopen until later that week.
Drenched with sweat, partly from the unusually hot, muggy weather and possibly also from a slight fever, I made my way back downhill to the nearest bus stop to return to Trieste. Given my past difficulties trying to find a restaurant that didn't close on Mondays, I headed immediately to one that I knew would be open, a place I had been to once before: Ristorante Al Granzo.
When I was there the previous year, I had gotten sick after eating their granzievola alla Triestina. But since this was a dish I planned to include in my cookbook Flavors of Friuli: A Culinary Journey through Northeastern Italy, I wanted to sample it one more time before recreating it at home. Still, it was with some apprehension that I took a seat at my table.
To start, I was served a complimentary antipasto: a mini panna cotta topped with one tiny shrimp and a balsamic reduction. The granzievola alla Triestina was just as I remembered: warm crabmeat mixed with garlic, parsley, and bread crumbs, served in the shell of a spiny spider crab. Next, I had the zuppa di pesce, which I noted in my journal was the worst I had ever eaten. The soup contained two mussels, a couple of razor clams, one extremely tough calamaro (squid) stuffed with crabmeat, a bunch of tiny whole shrimp, and some pieces of fish that had an unpleasantly bitter taste.
Not surprisingly, my stomach was sick again after eating at Al Granzo. Whether due to food poisoning or the cold I was fighting, I was feeling quite chilled by the time I got back to my apartment. I spent the rest of the day curled up in bed under all the blankets I could find. I never did get to eat at Taverna Cigui.
Heat the olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat. Add the bread crumbs and parsley; cook and stir until the bread crumbs begin to turn golden brown, about 5 minutes. Stir in the crabmeat, water, and lemon juice; cook until the crabmeat is warm, about 4–5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Season to taste with salt.
As soon as I was awake and dressed the next morning, I headed straight to Pasticceria Penso. As usual, the kitchen was a flurry of activity. Twenty-five sachertortes had just been pulled from the oven to cool. The patriarch of the family, Italo Stoppar, was spreading sheets of sponge cake with chocolate pastry cream, then rolling them up jellyroll-style. His elder son, Lorenzo, was filling pastry horns with vanilla pastry cream, then dusting them with powdered sugar. Younger son Antonello was busy adorning crostate (tarts) with a colorful assortment of berries and kiwi.
I stayed for a couple of hours, chatting and observing, feeling in that moment as if I truly belonged there. Years earlier, when brainstorming things to do with my life after my dance career had suddenly been cut short, I had made a list of "fantasy jobs"—one of the top entries had been to work in a bakery. Even though I was not actually working at Penso, my experience of hanging out in the kitchen nearly every day sufficed to satisfy that craving.
During our chat, Antonello casually mentioned how he wanted to open a bakery in San Francisco. This was not the first time an Italian had shared such an idea with me. When I was staying in Castiglioncello during the 1990s—first as a dance student, and later as a Pilates instructor, at the summer festival Pro Danza Italia—I had made the acquaintance of Rossano Bocelli, cousin of singer Andrea Bocello and owner of my favorite hangout, Gelateria Bocelli. I remember talking at length with him about his dream of opening a gelateria in San Francisco. At the time, I had actually taken him seriously, but of course those plans were never to materialize. So when Antonello expressed a similar desire, I knew better than to expect him to follow through. Still, I allowed myself a brief moment of fantasy, imagining myself quitting my job teaching Pilates in the dungeon of a gym in San Francisco's Federal Building and spending my future days immersed in chocolate, pastry, and buttercream.
Around midmorning, I left to do a couple of errands. One of my goals on this trip was to procure a spiny spider crab shell in which to photograph the dish granzievola alla Triestina for my cookbook Flavors of Friuli: A Culinary Journey through Northeastern Italy. Called granzievola in the Triestine dialect (and granseola in Venetian dialect), this crab is native to Mediterranean and northeast Atlantic waters—a species I had no chance of finding back at home.
The night before, I had searched the phone book in the lobby of my apartment building, Residence Liberty, for seafood markets within walking distance. I set out from the bakery on a carefully planned circuit, hoping to buy a crab to cook in my tiny apartment kitchen, thus providing me with my sought-after shell. Although I had seen granzievole on prior trips to Venezia's Mercato di Rialto, there were none to be found here in Trieste. I was told at several markets, where the workers were not too busy to ask, that it was still too early in the season and that I may start seeing granzievole toward the end of October.
Feeling defeated, I gave up and moved on to my next errand: visiting a couple of nearby bookshops I had discovered while scanning the yellow pages. I had better success there, with the purchase of two new cookbooks on Triestine and Istrian cooking to add to my growing collection.
As it was time to start thinking about lunch, I walked up to Piazza della Libertà, a hub for buses outside the train station, and caught the #20 bus to the tiny fishing village of Muggia, south of Trieste on the very outskirts of the region. I arrived a half hour later and headed straight along Muggia's waterfront to Ristorante Lido.
I had read about Lido in Friuli: Via dei Sapori, a gorgeous coffee table book that features a number of local restaurants, so I was expecting it to be fairly upscale in comparison to the casual osterie I had been frequenting. When I arrived, the spacious dining room was empty, save for a table off to the side where the hotel's staff were enjoying their midday meal.
As a complimentary appetizer, I was served a little plate of fritto misto, mainly itty bitty fried calamari and breaded sardoni barcolani (European anchovies). Next, I ordered the granzievola appetizer. Unlike the "alla Triestina" preparation that is mixed with bread crumbs and served warm (and which eventually made it into Flavors of Friuli), this was a simple crab salad in a dressing of lemon juice and olive oil. But I was thrilled to see the crab served in its shell! Could this be my solution? As the waiter began to clear my plate away, I hurriedly explained about my cookbook project and asked if I could take the crab shell home with me. Despite my rather unusual request, he responded with surprising graciousness and took the shell to the kitchen to be washed. Minutes later he returned with a foil-wrapped package containing the shell—I couldn't have been happier!
For my main course, I had scampi alla busara, an Istrian dish of langoustines served in tomato sauce. I had eaten scampi once before in Trieste and was prepared for the messy ordeal of breaking open the shells to extract the delicate meat. Fortunately, Lido provided all the proper tools: a nutcracker and tiny fork, a huge lobster bib, and most importantly, a finger bowl of water and some packages of moist towelettes.
After lunch, I took the bus back to Trieste and was walking home to my apartment when an Illy espresso cup caught my eye in the display window of a bar. I had been looking for a cup to take home with me so that I could style a photo for Flavors of Friuli, but all the cups I had seen so far had been sold in expensive packages of four or more. This one was being sold individually for a reasonable 4.50 Euros. I felt thrilled to have scored, in one day, not only a granzievola shell but also my coveted Illy cup!
A little further along the waterfront, I came upon the Chiesa di San Nicolò dei Greci, the city's Greek Orthodox church. Though plain on the outside, its sumptuous interior popped with gold gilt, a checkered marble floor, paintings that covered walls and ceiling, and silver chandeliers holding dozens of sparkling tapered candles.
Back home that evening, I prepared a dinner plate of leftover zucchini and string beans, a tomato, some fresh mozzarella, and a slice of bread spread with baccalà mantecato (puréed salt cod) and settled in to watch an episode of "Survivor" on my laptop.
Here is my recipe for scampi alla busara. Since langoustines can be tricky to find in the United States—most are imported from Scotland—you may substitute any type of fish or shellfish that you like.
Heat the olive oil in a large pot over medium-low heat. Add the onion and garlic; cook and stir until the onion begins to soften, about 8–10 minutes. Add the bread crumbs; cook and stir until golden brown, about 2–3 minutes. Stir in the tomato sauce, white wine, parsley, and black pepper. Place the langoustines in the pot; bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low; cook, covered, until the langoustines turn pink, about 3–5 minutes. Season to taste with salt.
This month I have an article featured in the Dream of Italy newsletter: "Muggia Carnevale Unmasked." If your idea of the Italian carnevale revolves around elegantly dressed courtesans waltzing to Vivaldi at a masked ball or mysterious caped figures drifting past the shadows of Venice's Grand Canal, then you're in for a surprise. In Muggia, not only are masks taboo, but you are more likely to see participants dressed as snowflakes, sewer rats, or platters of pasta.
The Dec 2011/Jan 2012 issue is now available to subscribers at DreamofItaly.com.


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Lincoln Center's American Songbook Presents William Bell & Special Guest John Leventhal
The Appel Room
John Lloyd Young, Cafe Carlyle Historic Manhattan Jazz Club
35 E 76th Street, (212) 744-1600
Ms. Lisa Fischer & Grand Baton at the Blue Note Jazz Club NYC
The Jazz Foundation of America presents Jon Hendricks' "Miles Ahead"
Jon Hendrick's "Miles Ahead" at The Jazz Foundation of America
Valentine's Day Weekend Upcoming Events, Jazz at Lincoln Center
This weekend, the most romantic place in town is Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall, where events include outstanding jazz vocalists from three distinct generations and styles offering just the right blend of swing and seduction to get you in the musical mood for Valentine's Day. The headliner in Jazz at Lincoln Center's big Rose Theater is the sumptuously-voiced Dianne Reeves – one of the gold standard of contemporary jazz singers - whose current album, "Beautiful Life," contains what might be my single favorite song by her, a lavishly-re-imagined and de-reggae'd version of Bob Marley's "Waiting in Vain." (Friday, February 10, and Saturday, February 11) Meanwhile in the more intimate space of Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, the man of the moment is the veteran Freddy Cole, who is the torchbearer for a dynasty of musicians (including his late brother Nat and niece Natalie) that has been serenading lovers for over 75 years. (Thursday, February 9, through Sunday, February 12) On V-Day itself, the exceptional young singer Brianna Thomas takes the stage at Dizzy's. Like Ms. Reeves and Mr. Cole, her music is rife with rhythm, romance, and constant invention – not to mention a formidable sense of humor. (Tuesday, February 14) The only thing left for JALC to do is install a flowers and candy concession somewhere on the fifth floor of the Time-Warner Center – maybe it's not a coincidence that they call it "rose" hall.
Monty Alexander "Looking Back"
Roger Miller's "Big River"

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Bilderlahe ist ein Ortsteil der Stadt Seesen im Landkreis Goslar in Niedersachsen. Der Ortsteil liegt nahe dem Harz zwischen Engelade und Rhüden.

Geografie

Ortsgliederung
Zu Bilderlahe gehören die kleinen nördlich des Dorfs gelegenen Siedlungen Adenhausen und Burg.

Geschichte
Bilderlahe wurde erstmals urkundlich um 1100 als Bidela erwähnt. Die Namensschreibweise änderte sich mehrfach über die Jahrhunderte, 1238 hieß der Ort Billerla und bereits 1297 Bilderlahe.

Mit der Zerstörung der Burg Wohlenstein 1519 wurde auch Bilderlahe zerstört. Aus den Trümmern errichtete der neue Herrscher, der Herzog von Braunschweig, schon bald ein Amtshaus im nahen Tal der Nette. Heute steht an dieser Stelle die ehemalige Amtsdomäne.

Von 1523 bis zur Restitution 1643 herrschte der Braunschweiger Herzog über Bilderlahe, bevor es wieder zum katholischen Hochstift Hildesheim kam. Zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts gehörte Bilderlahe unter französischer Besatzung zum Königreich Westphalen, wurde dann im Königreich Hannover zum Sitz des Amtes Bilderlahe, bevor Hannover und damit auch Bilderlahe 1866 zu Preußen kam.
Ab 1885 gehörte der Ort zum Kreis Hildesheim-Marienburg. Am 1. Juli 1972 wurde die bis dahin selbständige Gemeinde Bilderlahe nach Seesen im Landkreis Gandersheim eingemeindet. Am 1. August 1977 kam Seesen und damit auch Bilderlahe zum Landkreis Goslar.

Politik

Ortsrat
Der Ortsrat, der Bilderlahe vertritt, setzt sich aus sieben Mitgliedern zusammen. Die Ratsmitglieder werden durch eine Kommunalwahl für jeweils fünf Jahre gewählt.

Bei der Kommunalwahl 2021 ergab sich folgende Sitzverteilung:

Wappen
Das Dorfwappen von Bilderlahe zeigt zwischen zwei Adlerflügeln einen schräg nach unten gekehrten,
schwarz-gelben Zinnenschnitt auf rotem Grund. Diese Bestandteile entstammen dem Familienwappen der Grafen von Wohlenberg, die seit dem 12. Jahrhundert den Ambergau beherrschten.

Kultur und Sehenswürdigkeiten

Musik
 Frauen Gesangsverein "Klingende Runde"
 MGV Concordia (Männergesangverein)

Bauwerke
 Burgruine WohlensteinDas Dorf liegt unterhalb der  hohen Anhöhe Woldenstein, auf der sich seit 1295 die Burg Woldenstein befindet. 1519 wurde sie in der Hildesheimer Stiftsfehde zerstört. Heute besteht in Teilen noch der 18 m hohe Bergfried, der über 2,5 m starke Mauern verfügt.
 Katholische St. Michael-Kirche von 1717, benannt nach dem Erzengel Michael (Lindenallee 13). Außerdem ist sie mit einer von August Schaper erbauten Orgel ausgestattet. Seit 2010 Filialkirche der Pfarrgemeinde Maria Königin in Seesen.
 Evangelische Gustav-Adolf-Kapelle von 1956 (Lindenallee 6), sie gehört zur Propstei Gandersheim-Seesen.

Sport
Der Pferdesport ist in den letzten 25 Jahren stark angestiegen und ist heute ein bedeutender Teil der wirtschaftlichen Situation; beispielsweise Reitsport, ehemals auch Trabrennsport.

Seit 1920 besteht der "SV Engelade/Bilderlahe".

Regelmäßige Veranstaltungen
 Bilderläher Beerenfest
 Bilderlaher Laternenumzug

Persönlichkeiten
 Walter Gericke (1907–1991), Fallschirmjäger-Offizier im Zweiten Weltkrieg, dann Bundeswehrgeneral

Literatur
 Dirk Stroschein: Bilderlahe. Das Dorf und die Menschen. Fotobildband, Bilderlahe 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-032402-4
 Dirk Stroschein: Bilderläher Chronik. Nachrichten von gestern. Die 1950er Jahre. Bilderlahe 2009
 Dirk Stroschein: Bilderläher Chronik. Nachrichten von gestern. Die 1960er Jahre. Bilderlahe 2011
 Dirk Stroschein: Bilderläher Chronik. Nachrichten von gestern. Von 1970 bis 1974. Bilderlahe 2011
 Dirk Stroschein: Bilderläher Chronik. Nachrichten von gestern. Von 1975 bis 1979. Bilderlahe 2011
 Dirk Stroschein: Die Mechtshäuser Christenheit. Chronik der ev.-luth. Kirchengemeinde Mechtshausen-Bilderlahe. Bd. 1, Seesen 2004
 Dirk Stroschein: Die Bilderläher Diaspora. Chronik der ev.-luth. Kirchengemeinde Mechtshausen-Bilderlahe. Bd. 2, Rosdorf 2006
 Sonja Mertens/Dirk Stroschein: Bilderläher Beerenbuch. Historisches, Wissenswertes und Rezepte. Bilderlahe 2005
 Heinrich Ernst Boeters: Die Boeters und ihre Papiermühlen. Eigenverlag, Seevetal 2009

Weblinks
 Website von Bilderlahe
 Website des Bilderläher Dorfchronisten

Einzelnachweise

Stadtteil von Seesen
Ehemalige Gemeinde (Landkreis Goslar)
Ersterwähnung im 12. Jahrhundert
Gemeindeauflösung 1972

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"superbe maison, bien située et la gentillesse d'Irini est un plus au voyage."
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amending Laws 2002, chapter 393, section 22, subdivision 6, as amended; Laws 2005, chapter 20, article 1, section 20, subdivision 3, as amended; Laws 2006, chapter 258, sections 17, subdivision 8, as amended; 18, subdivision 6; Laws 2008, chapter 179, section 21, subdivision 3; Laws 2008, chapter 365, section 4, subdivision 3, as amended; Laws 2010, chapter 189, section 16, subdivision 4, as amended; Laws 2011, First Special Session chapter 12, section 10.
The sums shown in the column under "Appropriations" are appropriated from the bond proceeds fund, or another named fund, to the state agencies or officials indicated, to be spent for public purposes. Appropriations of bond proceeds must be spent as authorized by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, section 5, paragraph (a), to acquire and better public land and buildings and other public improvements of a capital nature or as authorized by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, section 5, paragraphs (b) to (j), or article XIV. Unless otherwise specified, money appropriated in this act for a capital program or project may be used to pay state agency staff costs that are attributed directly to the capital program or project in accordance with accounting policies adopted by the commissioner of management and budget. Unless otherwise specified, the appropriations in this act are available until the project is completed or abandoned subject to Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.642.
To the commissioner of natural resources for the purposes specified in this section.
(a) For the state share of flood hazard mitigation grants for publicly owned capital improvements to prevent or alleviate flood damage under Minnesota Statutes, section 103F.161.
(b) Levee projects, to the extent practical, shall meet the state standard of three feet above the 100-year flood elevation.
(c) Project priorities shall be determined by the commissioner as appropriate and based on need, and to the extent possible, address needs in the Moorhead area first.
(d) This appropriation includes money for the following county, township, and municipal projects as prioritized by the commissioner: Ada, Afton, Alvarado, Argyle, Austin, Borup, Breckenridge, Browntown, Climax, Crookston, Delano, Granite Falls, Inver Grove Heights, Maynard, Melrose, Minneota, Minnesota River Area II, Montevideo, Moorhead, Newport, Nielsville, Oakport Township, Oslo, Roseau, Rushford, St. Vincent, and Shelly.
(e) This appropriation includes money for the following watershed projects: North Ottawa, Bois de Sioux Watershed District; Quick, Two Rivers Watershed District; Redpath, Bois de Sioux Watershed District; Roseau Wildlife Management Area, Roseau River Watershed District; and Shell Rock Watershed District.
(f) For any project listed in this subdivision that the commissioner determines is not ready to proceed or does not expend all the money allocated to it, the commissioner may allocate that project's money to a project on the commissioner's priority list.
(g) To the extent that the cost of a project exceeds two percent of the median household income in a municipality or township multiplied by the number of households in the municipality or township, this appropriation is also for the local share of the project.
To the commissioner of administration for the purposes specified in this section.
(2) to predesign, design, conduct hazardous materials abatement, construct, repair, renovate, remodel, furnish, and equip the State Office Building, Administration Building, Centennial Office Building, 321 Grove Street Building, and other buildings and parking facilities located on the Capitol campus as determined by the commissioner of administration to meet temporary and permanent office, storage, parking, and other space needs occasioned by and in furtherance of an efficient restoration of the State Capitol Building and for the efficient and effective function of the tenants currently located in the Capitol Building.
In addition to any other approvals required, the commissioner of administration must submit the schematic design, design development, and work packages to the Capitol Preservation Commission, and may not proceed with a work package until the commission approves that work package.
The commissioner must incorporate life safety (Tier 1), water management (Tier 2), and selective restoration of architectural features (Tier 3), as described in the Minnesota State Capitol Exterior Stone Repair Project report dated May 8, 2013, into repair work on the exterior stone of the Capitol that is funded under this appropriation.
The commissioner of administration must not construct or place any permanent building, structure, or facility for offices, parking, storage, or other use, in the area commonly known as Lief Erikson Park in the Capitol complex.
(5) include a written, signed tenant agreement for tenancy in the Capitol building after renovation.
For the purposes of this paragraph, "tenant representative" includes the secretary of the senate, on behalf of the senate; the chief clerk of the house of representatives, on behalf of the house of representatives; the governor; the court administrator, on behalf of the judicial branch; and the attorney general, on behalf of the attorney general's office.
(b) The commissioner of administration must not install new windows in the Capitol building office spaces that cannot be opened by the tenants of the building, unless otherwise approved by a tenant occupying an office.
(c) The commissioner of administration shall consult and collaborate with the director of the Historical Society on plans and specifications for construction authorized under subdivision 2.
The plans and specifications for a new legislative office building as provided in 2013 H.F. No. 677, article 12, section 21, are subject to approval by the house Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration in addition to approval by the senate Committee on Rules and Administration.
To design, construct, furnish, and equip one or more parking facilities in the Capitol complex to accommodate up to approximately 880 parking stalls, with a net replacement of approximately 675 parking stalls, including to address temporary parking needed during construction of permanent parking facilities.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any parking facility proposed to be located on state-owned land located on the block bordered by Sherburne Avenue on the north, Park Street on the east, University Avenue on the south, and Rice Street on the west, must not require demolition of the historic Ford Building unless approved by the house Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration and the senate Committee on Rules and Administration. The parking facilities must accommodate the needs of members and staff of the house of representatives as well as other tenants of the Capitol complex.
The parking facilities developed with this appropriation are exempt from the requirements for design competition under Minnesota Statutes, section 15B.10.
Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, under Minnesota Statutes, sections 16C.32 and 16C.33, if the commissioner elects to utilize a design-build delivery method to design and construct one or more parking facilities with this appropriation, the Capital Area Architectural and Planning Board, in cooperation with the commissioner, shall create a selection committee to act as the board under Minnesota Statutes, sections 16C.32 and 16C.33. Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 16B.33, if the commissioner elects to contract with a primary designer to design one or more parking facilities with this appropriation, the Capital Area Architectural and Planning Board, in cooperation with the commissioner, shall create a selection committee to conduct the selection process in accordance with the standards in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 15B and 16B. Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 16C.33, subdivision 5, paragraph (b), after obtaining and evaluating qualifications from each design-builder, in accordance with the weighted criteria and subequatorial and procedures set forth in the request for qualifications, the selection committee shall select a short list of up to five proposals.
If the commissioner does not receive any proposals, the commissioner may either (1) solicit new proposals, (2) revise the request for qualifications and thereafter solicit new proposals using the revised request for qualifications, or (3) request selection of a primary designer pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, section 16B.33, 16C.08, or 16C.095, and proceed with competitive bidding pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, sections 16C.25 to 16C.29.
The bond debt from the appropriation under this subdivision shall be user-financed. Parking fees collected shall be deposited into a state parking account and credited to the debt service account in the state bond fund as provided under Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.643.
To the commissioner of administration to complete the design of, perform hazardous materials abatement for, and demolish the south wing of Building 17 and adjoining buildings, and design, reconstruct, and furnish the new south wing of Building 17 and adjoining buildings as a new skilled nursing building, construct a new distribution and service tunnel to serve buildings 6, 17 north, and 19, and the future 17 south, and design, construct, and equip a network and server room, including installation of new fiber optic lines.
To the Public Facilities Authority to match federal grants for the clean water revolving fund under Minnesota Statutes, section 446A.07, and the drinking water revolving fund under Minnesota Statutes, section 446A.081. This appropriation must be used for qualified capital projects.
To the commissioner of management and budget for bond sale expenses under Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.641, subdivision 8.
The commissioner of management and budget shall schedule the sale of state general obligation bonds so that, during the biennium ending June 30, 2015, no more than $1,280,165,000 will need to be transferred from the general fund to the state bond fund to pay principal and interest due and to become due on outstanding state general obligation bonds. During the biennium, before each sale of state general obligation bonds, the commissioner of management and budget shall calculate the amount of debt service payments needed on bonds previously issued and shall estimate the amount of debt service payments that will be needed on the bonds scheduled to be sold. The commissioner shall adjust the amount of bonds scheduled to be sold so as to remain within the limit set by this section. The amount needed to make the debt service payments is appropriated from the general fund as provided in Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.641.
To provide the money appropriated in this act from the bond proceeds fund, the commissioner of management and budget shall sell and issue bonds of the state in an amount up to $178,795,000 in the manner, upon the terms, and with the effect prescribed by Minnesota Statutes, sections 16A.631 to 16A.675, and by the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, sections 4 to 7.
CANCELLATION; BOND SALE AUTHORIZATION REDUCTION.
The $2,000,000 appropriation in Laws 2009, chapter 93, article 1, section 11, subdivision 7, for the Alexandria aircraft surveillance facility, is canceled. The bond sale authorization in Laws 2009, chapter 93, article 1, section 21, subdivision 1, is reduced by $2,000,000.
To design, renovate, construct, furnish, and equip ancillary support and program facilities, including improvements to basic infrastructure,such as sanitary and storm sewer and water lines, public streets, curb, gutter, street lights, or sidewalks, to make improvements for building envelope and structural integrity for the purposes of stabilizing the buildings for sale, for hazardous materials abatement, and for demolition that will facilitate the relocation of the facility's ancillary support, treatment, and residential programs from the Corkboard buildings and of all or portions of surplus, nonfunctional, or deteriorated facilities and infrastructure or to renovate surplus, nonfunctional, or deteriorated facilities and infrastructure to facilitate the disposition redevelopment of the Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center campus. If the property is sold or transferred to a local unit of government, the unspent portion of this appropriation may be granted to the local unit of government that acquires the campus for the purposes stated in this subdivision.
Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.642, the bond sale authorization and appropriation of bond proceeds in this subdivision are available until December 31, 2016.
To demolish or improve surplus, nonfunctional, or deteriorated facilities and infrastructure at Department of Human Services campuses statewide.
(a) Up to $8,600,000 may be used to predesign, design, construct, furnish, and equip renovation of existing space or construction of new space for skilled nursing home capacity for forensic treatment programs operated by state-operated services on the campus of St. Peter Regional Treatment Center.
(b) $4,000,000 may be used to prepare and develop a site, including demolition of buildings and infrastructure, to implement the redevelopment and reuse of the Ah-gwah-ching Regional Treatment Center campus. If the property is sold or transferred to a local unit of government, the unspent portion of this appropriation may be granted to the local unit of government that acquires the campus for the purposes stated in this subdivision.
Up to $400,000 may be used for a grant to the city of Walker to connect the water reservoir to the city.
(c) $1,000,000 may be used to renovate one or more buildings for chemical dependency treatment specializing in methamphetamine addiction, and demolish buildings, on the Willmar Regional Treatment Center campus. If the property is sold or transferred to a local unit of government, the unspent portion of this appropriation may be granted to the local unit of government that acquires the campus for the purposes stated in this subdivision.
(d) Up to $2,210,000 may be spent by the commissioner of finance to retire municipal bonds issued by the city of Fergus Falls and to retire interfund loans incurred by the city of Fergus Falls in connection with the waste incinerator and steam heating facility at the Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center. $447,610 of unexpended nonsalary money from state-operated services may be transferred as a grant to the city of Fergus Falls to retire interfund loans incurred by the city of Fergus Falls in connection with the waste incinerator and steam heating facility at the Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center. This money is only available upon satisfactory completion of implementation of the final master plan agreement, as approved by the Department of Administration, the Department of Human Services, and the city of Fergus Falls.
(e) Up to $400,000 may be used for a grant to the city of Fergus Falls for hazardous materials abatement, improvements to basic infrastructure, including sanitary and storm sewer and water lines, public streets, curb, gutter, street lights, or sidewalks, to make improvements for building envelope and structural integrity for the purposes of stabilizing the buildings for sale, and to demolish all or portions of surplus, nonfunctional, or deteriorated facilities and infrastructure or to renovate surplus, nonfunctional, or deteriorated facilities and infrastructure to facilitate redevelopment of the city's waste-to-energy incineration plant located on the grounds of the Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center campus.
Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.642, the bond sale authorization and appropriation of bond proceeds in this paragraph are available until December 31, 2016.
(f) The provisions, terms, and conditions of any grant made by the director of the Office of Environmental Assistance under Minnesota Statutes, chapter 115A, to the city of Fergus Falls for the waste incinerator steam heating facility that supports the Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center and that may come into effect as a result of the incinerator and facility being closed, are hereby waived.
For the cost of improvements and betterments of a capital nature and acquisition by the council and local government units of regional recreational open-space lands in accordance with the council's policy plan as provided in Minnesota Statutes, section 473.147. Priority must be given to park rehabilitation and land acquisition projects.
$300,000 is for a grant to the city of Bloomington for environmental analysis and review, design, and construction of a multimodal trail connection across or through Long Meadow Lake in the vicinity of the old Cedar Avenue bridge and for development of a segment of the Minnesota Valley State Trail from Fort Snelling State Park to the Long Meadow Lake crossing to serve as a hiking and bicycling trail connection to renovate and restore, or to replace, the Old Cedar Avenue Bridge for bicycle commuters and recreational users. Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.642, the bond sale authorization and appropriation of bond proceeds for this project are available until December 31, 2017.
$6,000,000 is for a grant to the county of Dakota to acquire land for a regional park and wildlife area adjacent to the Vermillion Highlands Research, Recreation, and Wildlife Management Area in Dakota County.
$1,800,000 is for a grant to the city of Minneapolis to complete land acquisition for and construction of the Cedar Lake Trail.
$3,500,000 is for a grant to the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board to design, construct, furnish, and equip a new cultural and community center in the East Phillips neighborhood in Minneapolis.
$250,000 is for a grant to the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board to predesign completion of the Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway by providing a link between northeast Minneapolis on Stinson Avenue and Southeast Minneapolis at East River Road.
$2,500,000 is for a grant to the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board to mitigate flooding at Lake of the Isles in the city of Minneapolis. The grant must be used for shoreline stabilization and restoration, dredging, wetland replacement, and other infrastructure improvements necessary to deal with the 1997 flood damage and to prevent future flooding.
$321,000 is for a grant to Ramsey County to construct a bicycle and pedestrian trail on the north side of Lower Afton Road between Century Avenue and McKnight Road in the city of Maplewood. This appropriation is not available until the commissioner has determined that at least an equal amount has been committed from nonstate sources.
$9,000,000 is for a grant to the city of St. Paul to predesign, design, construct, furnish, equip, and redevelop infrastructure at the Como Zoo.
$2,500,000 is for a grant to the city of St. Paul to acquire land for and to predesign, design, construct, furnish, and equip river park development and redevelopment infrastructure in National Great River Park along the Mississippi River in St. Paul.
$2,000,000 is for a grant to the city of South St. Paul for the closure, capping, and remediation of approximately 80 acres of the Port Crosby construction and demolition debris landfill in South St. Paul, as the fifth phase of converting the land into parkland, and to restore approximately 80 acres of riverfront land along the Mississippi River.
$191,000 is for a grant to the city of White Bear Lake to construct the Lake Avenue Regional Trail connecting Highway 96 Regional Trail with Ramsey Beach.
To abate hazardous materials, design, construct, or improve basic infrastructure, including sanitary and storm sewer and water lines, public streets, curb, gutter, street lights, or sidewalks, to make improvements for building envelope and structural integrity for the purposes of stabilizing the buildings for sale, demolish all or portions of surplus, nonfunctional, or deteriorated facilities and infrastructure or to renovate surplus, nonfunctional, or deteriorated facilities and infrastructure at to facilitate redevelopment of Department of Human Services campuses that the commissioner of administration is authorized to convey to a local unit of government under Laws 2005, chapter 20, article 1, section 46, or other law. These projects must facilitate the redevelopment or reuse of these campuses and must be implemented consistent with the comprehensive redevelopment plans developed and approved under Laws 2003, First Special Session chapter 14, article 6, section 64, subdivision 2, unless expressly provided otherwise. If a surplus campus is sold or transferred to a local unit of government, unspent portions of this appropriation may be granted to that local unit of government for the purposes stated in this subdivision. Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.642, the bond sale authorization and appropriation of bond proceeds in this subdivision are available until December 31, 2016.
For grants under Minnesota Statutes, section 116J.435.
$3,500,000 is for public infrastructure, including land acquisition, to support a private research park within a designated bioscience subzone that is adjacent to and complementary to research facilities of a college or university. Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.642, the bond sale authorization and appropriation of bond proceeds for this project are available until June 30, 2015.
$1,000,000 is for a grant to the city of Worthington for public infrastructure to support an agricultural-based bioscience training and testing center for incubator firms developing new agricultural processes and products.
For a grant to the city of Bloomington for environmental analysis and review, design, and construction of a multimodal trail connection across or through Long Meadow Lake in the vicinity of the old Cedar Avenue Bridge and for development of a segment of the Minnesota Valley State Trail from Fort Snelling State Park to the Long Meadow Lake crossing to renovate and restore, or to replace, the old Cedar Avenue Bridge for bicycle commuters and recreational users. This appropriation is added to the appropriation in Laws 2006, chapter 258, section 17, subdivision 8, as amended. Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.642, the bond sale authorization and appropriation of bond proceeds for this project are available until December 31, 2017.
For the cost of improvements and betterments of a capital nature and acquisition by the council and local government units of regional recreational open-space lands in accordance with the council's policy plan as provided in Minnesota Statutes, section 473.147. Priority must be given to park rehabilitation and land acquisition projects. This appropriation must not be used to purchase easements.
For a grant to the city of St. Paul to predesign, design, construct, furnish, and equip phase 2 renovation of exhibits at the Como Zoo.
For a grant to the city of Bloomington for environmental analysis and review, design, and construction of a multimodal trail connection across or through Long Meadow Lake in the vicinity of the Old Cedar Avenue Bridge and for development of a segment of the Minnesota Valley State Trail from Fort Snelling State Park to the Long Meadow Lake crossing to renovate and restore, or to replace, the old Cedar Avenue Bridge for bicycle commuters and recreational users. The city of Bloomington must consult with the city of Eagan and Dakota County on the renovation project. Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 16A.642, the bond sale authorization and appropriation of bond proceeds for this project are available until December 31, 2017.
This appropriation is added to the appropriation in Laws 2008, chapter 365, section 4, subdivision 3, as amended by this act.
For a grant to the city of Inver Grove Heights for park and trail development on the west bank of the Mississippi River in Dakota County at the site of Mississippi River Bridge JAR 5600, commonly known as the Rock Island Bridge. Any park or trails developed with this appropriation must connect with any local, regional, or state trails in the vicinity, and the historic Rock Island Bridge.
For a grant to the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board to: (1) design and construct an appropriate monument in Sheridan Veterans Memorial Park on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis to memorialize the war service of Minnesota veterans of all wars; and (2) match money provided by Hennepin County to restore the flagpole monument and plaza, and make other infrastructure improvements of a capital nature for the Veterans of World War I Victory Memorial Parkway, consistent with Hennepin County's planned infrastructure improvements.
To the commissioner of administration to predesign, design, construct, renovate, furnish, and equip certain existing state data center facilities and decommission certain other existing state data center for the purpose of decommissioning and repurposing or for maximizing capacity and utilization of such facilities.
CAPITOL RESTORATION; COLLECTION OF RENT.
Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 16B.24, subdivision 5, paragraph (d), the commissioner of administration shall not collect rent to recover bond interest costs or building depreciation costs for any appropriations utilized for the restoration of the State Capitol campus, between calendar years 2012 and 2017.
This act is effective the day following final enactment.
Signed by the governor May 24, 2013, 1:40 p.m.


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Le rappel pneumatique de soupape utilise comme son nom l'indique un gaz en guise de ressort, pour fermer les soupapes d'un moteur à combustion interne. Ce système est introduit en 1986 par Renault sur son moteur de F1 "V6 turbo EF 15" monté sur la Lotus 98T, depuis il a fait des émules sur les moteurs utilisés en compétition moto.

Concept

Les concepteurs de moteurs à fortiori de compétition sont confrontés pour la commande des soupapes à des paramètres totalement opposés : réduire l'inertie et la résistance offerte par le système, tout en gardant une commande fiable et puissante des dites soupapes.

Les ressorts et assemblages de ressorts ont vite montré leurs limites et leurs inconvénients : fréquence d'utilisation relativement basse et prélèvement de puissance important au moteur. Donc pour augmenter la vitesse de fonctionnement du moteur, il faut utiliser des ressorts plus durs et les combiner pour contourner leurs fréquences de résonance, ces techniques sont aux antipodes du rendement du moteur.

Les ingénieurs de Renault Sport eurent l'idée de remplacer les ressorts de rappel de soupape par un soufflet à gaz comprimé, (comme une pompe à air fermée). Le système comporte un piston, solidaire de la queue de soupape, muni d'un joint d'étanchéité, qui coulisse dans un cylindre solidaire de la culasse. Ce cylindre est traversé par la tige de soupape et est alimenté en azote sous une pression environ , avec un clapet anti-retour, afin de compenser les pertes en gaz. L'azote prisonnier dans le cylindre fait office de ressort avec des caractéristiques intéressantes pour cette utilisation (suppression de l'inertie et de la puissance consommée lors de la compression du ressort).

Une réserve d'azote sous haute pression (), largement suffisante pour la durée d'un grand prix, alimente via un détendeur tous les rappels de soupape du moteur.

Avantages
 Le système permet des lois de levée de soupapes plus flexibles : levées plus longues, ouverture/fermeture rapides, fréquence de fonctionnement élevée, pas de rebond de soupape à la fermeture.
 Il suffit de faire varier la pression d'alimentation en gaz pour modifier les caractéristiques du rappel des soupapes, alors qu'avec les ressorts, il faut démonter tout le haut moteur pour les remplacer afin de modifier les paramètres.
 Ce système ne comportant aucune pièce mobile, mis à part la tige de soupape, est très fiable; il faut juste assurer son alimentation permanente en gaz sous pression.

Inconvénients
Il faut impérativement que le système soit sous pression avant le démarrage du moteur et le reste durant tout son fonctionnement, ce qui nécessite :
 Soit une réserve de gaz adaptée à chacun des circuits automobiles (gaz stocké (azote sous haute pression) à recharger très régulièrement) ;
 Soit une réserve plus modeste associée à un compresseur d'air, ce qui sous-entend aussi de n'utiliser que l'air ambiant, et non pas de l'azote qui est à priori plus stable car ne dépendant ni de la pression atmosphérique ni du taux d'hygrométrie.

Notes et références

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Affolement de soupapes
 Commande desmodromique

Liens externes
 Distribution pneumatique Renault F1

Organe d'un moteur à explosion
Dispositif mécanique
Technologie automobile


Thursday, September 15, 2016 5:30 PM Russellville High School AWAY 1 Warren East High School HOME 7 Game Recap .
Tuesday, September 13, 2016 5:30 PM Central High School – Madisonville AWAY 4 Russellville High School HOME 1 Game Recap .
Tuesday, August 16, 2016 5:30 PM Russellville High School AWAY 2 Todd County Central High School HOME 7 Game Recap Tonight was a very busy night of soccer for Russellville Jr/Sr High at Todd County. All 3 teams were in action. Our new era of middle school soccer started the night with a 6-0 loss.


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Technology | Pharmaceuticals | November 24, 2015
FDA Approves Dabigatran for Prophylaxis of DVT, Pulmonary Embolism and After Hip Replacement Surgery
Approval based on phase III trial data demonstrating the safety and efficacy of PRADAXA compared to enoxaparin
November 24, 2015 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals' dabigatran (Pradaxa) for the prophylaxis of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) in patients who have undergone hip replacement surgery. There are an estimated 300,000 total hip replacement surgeries performed in the United States each year. Without preventive anticoagulant treatment, the incidence of DVT ranges from 40 to 60 percent for primary elective hip surgery patients.
"This milestone represents the fourth FDA-approved indication for Pradaxa in five years — a testament to the company's continued leadership in the evolution of anticoagulation care for patients and clinicians," said Sabine Luik, M.D., senior vice president, medicine and regulatory affairs, Boehringer Ingelheim. "Pradaxa has the longest real-world experience of any novel oral anticoagulant, and we are dedicated to ongoing research. Physicians and patients choosing PRADAXA may have added assurance knowing that it is the only novel oral anticoagulant with more than five years of use in clinical practice and a specific reversal agent."
The FDA approval is based on the results of two randomized, double-blind, phase III trials in patients undergoing total hip replacement, RE-NOVATE and RE-NOVATE II. In RE-NOVATE, 3,494 patients were randomized to three groups receiving prophylactic treatment with one of two doses of dabigatran (220 mg or 150 mg) once daily or enoxaparin 40 mg once daily for 28 to 35 days. The first dabigatran group was given a dose of 110 mg on the day of surgery and 220 mg daily thereafter; the second dabigatran group received a dose of 75 mg on the day of surgery and 150 mg daily thereafter. In RE-NOVATE II, 2,055 patients were randomly assigned prophylactic treatment for 28 to 35 days with dabigatran 220 mg once daily or enoxaparin 40 mg once daily. Patients receiving dabigatran were treated with a dose of 110 mg on the day of surgery and 220 mg daily thereafter. The results of RE-NOVATE showed patients taking dabigatran 220 mg had a lower composite total of venous thrombo-embolism (VTE, which comprises DVT and PE) and all-cause death (6.0 percent) than those on enoxaparin 40 mg (6.7 percent). In RE-NOVATE II, the composite total of VTE and all-cause death occurred in 7.7 percent of patients in the PRADAXA group vs. 8.8 percent of patients in the enoxaparin group.
There were higher rates of major bleeding in RE-NOVATE (2%, 1.6%) and RE-NOVATE II (1.4%, 0.9%) with 220 mg vs. enoxaparin. In the two studies, the rate of major gastrointestinal bleeds in patients receiving dabigatran and enoxaparin was the same (0.1%) and for any gastrointestinal bleeds was 1.4% for dabigatran and 0.9% for enoxaparin. The most common adverse events in both studies were gastrointestinal disorders. Incidence was the same across the dabigatran and enoxaparin treatment groups (39.5%). Dyspepsia (including abdominal pain upper, abdominal pain, abdominal discomfort, and epigastric discomfort) occurred more frequently among patients receiving dabigatran (4.1%) compared to enoxaparin (3.8%). Gastritis-like symptoms (including gastritis, GERD, esophagitis, erosive gastritis and gastric hemorrhage) were less common in patients receiving dabigatran (0.6%) compared to enoxaparin (1.0%). Clinical MI was reported in two (0.1%) dabigatran patients and six (0.3%) enoxaparin patients.
Dabigatran was initially approved by the FDA in 2010 to reduce the risk of stroke and systemic embolism in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF). In 2014, the FDA approved two additional indications for PRADAXA for the treatment of DVT and PE in patients who have been treated with a parenteral anticoagulant for five to 10 days, and to reduce the risk of recurrent DVT and PE in patients who have been previously treated.
For more information: www.us.boehringer-ingelheim.com
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OSA Publishing > Optics Express > Volume 17 > Issue 5 > Page 3078
High efficient optical focusing of a zone plate composed of metal/dielectric multilayer
Hyun Chul Kim, Hyungduk Ko, and Mosong Cheng
Hyun Chul Kim,* Hyungduk Ko, and Mosong Cheng
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3128, USA
*Corresponding author: khc99@tamu.edu
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Hyun Chul Kim, Hyungduk Ko, and Mosong Cheng, "High efficient optical focusing of a zone plate composed of metal/dielectric multilayer," Opt. Express 17, 3078-3083 (2009)
Optics at Surfaces
Effective refractive index
Field enhancement
Surface plasmons
Surface waves
Zone plates
Diffractive lenses (050.1965)
Surface plasmons (240.6680)
Surface waves (240.6690)
Plasmonics (250.5403)
Original Manuscript: December 9, 2008
Manuscript Accepted: February 4, 2009
We numerically investigate the optical field enhancement by a metal/dielectric multilayered zone plate. The optical field enhancement at the focal point of a zone plate originates not only from surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs)-assisted diffraction process along the propagation direction of incident light, but also from multiple scattering and coupling of surface plasmons (SPs) along the metal/dielectric multilayer films. By comparing multilayered zone plates to a conventional monolayered zone plate, we present the effects associated with the number of building blocks and different dielectric materials in the building block on the efficiency of the transmission.
©2009 Optical Society of America
Multiple extraordinary optical transmission peaks from evanescent coupling in perforated metal plates surrounded by dielectrics
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Opt. Express 18(8) 7893-7898 (2010)
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Opt. Express 16(13) 9554-9564 (2008)
Metallic Fresnel zone plate implemented on an optical fiber facet for super-variable focusing of light
Hyuntai Kim, Jinseob Kim, Haechan An, Yohan Lee, Gun-yeal Lee, Jeongkyun Na, Kyoungyoon Park, Seungjong Lee, Seung-Yeol Lee, Byoungho Lee, and Yoonchan Jeong
SPPs coupling induced interference in metal/dielectric multilayer waveguides and its application for plasmonic lithography
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Fig. 1. Schematic figures of the proposed multilayered zone plate structure: (a) Top down view in xy plane, and (b) cross-sectional view in xz plane (y = 4.0 μm).
Fig. 2. Field distributions of the transmitted field in xz plane: (a) monolayered zone plate (Mono-ZP) and (b) multilayered zone plate (Multi-ZP) with N = 5, and (c) comparison of the normalized intensity for the Mono-ZP and Multi-ZP, respectively, along z direction. The inset shows real part and imaginary part of effective refractive index as a function of the width of two metal plates.
Fig. 3. (a) Comparison of transmission efficiency (η) and spot size (FWHM) as a function of the building block for the Multi-ZP and corresponding thickness for the Mono-ZP, respectively. (b) The transmission efficiency and spot size when the focal planes of each building block coincide.
Fig. 4. Comparison of the normalized intensity for the various dielectric materials along z direction: SiO2 (ε = 2.16), Al2O3 (ε = 3.20), HfO2 (ε = 3.92), and ZrO2 (ε = 5.15), respectively, with N = 5. The inset shows real part (Re(neff)) and imaginary part (Im(neff)) of effective refractive indices, and propagation lengths (Lspp) of SPPs as a function of the dielectric permittivity (εd) at w = 30 nm.
(1) tanh ( β 2 − k 0 2 ε d w / 2 ) = − ε d β 2 − k 0 2 ε m ε m β 2 − k 0 2 ε d


Objectives We investigated whether the extent of biomechanical exposures and job strain in midlife separately and jointly predict disability in old age.
Methods Participants of the Finnish Longitudinal Study on Aging Municipal Employees (FLAME) in 1981 (aged 44–58 years) responded to disability questionnaires in 2009 (1850 women and 1082 men). Difficulties in performing five activities of daily living (ADL) and seven instrumental ADL (IADL) were used to assess severity of disability (score range: 0–12, 0=no disability). Information on biomechanical exposures and job strain was collected by questionnaire at baseline. Adjusted prevalence proportion ratios (PR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) were modelled using mixed negative binomial regression with robust variance. The joint effect of two exposures was quantified using the concept of relative excessive risk due to interaction (RERI).
Results The overall prevalence of disability (score: 1–12) was 46.7% (women: 41%; men: 57%). Compared to low-level exposures in an adjusted model, the PR of high baseline biomechanical exposures for each one unit increase in the disability score was 1.31 (95% CI 1.10–1.55) and PR of high job strain was 1.71 (95% CI 1.26–2.32). Associations were rather similar in gender-stratified analyses. Furthermore, the joint effect (high strain/high biomechanical) was multiplicative (women: PR 1.32, 95% CI 1.21–1.45; men: PR 1.27, 95% CI 1.13–1.44), but no additive effect was observed when fully adjusted.
Conclusion High biomechanical exposure and job strain in midlife were strongly associated with the severity of disability in later life. The workplace could serve as arena for preventive interventions regarding disability in old age.


I did it! I finally got caught up on my finances!
I'd been months behind for the last year or so. When I did my taxes in April 2009, I remember I only did my finances as far as December 31, 2008, and I didn't really do much to get caught up since then.
In the last month or so, I've been whittling away at it, taking bigger and bigger bites out of the pile, and now I've finished!
- Over the last year and a half, I've had three mysterious withdrawals for which I don't have the bank machine slip. I always take the slip, so this is strange. Also strange is that these are only at the Somerset and Bronson bank machine. There's no conclusive evidence to conclusively say that I did or didn't make these withdrawals. I checked my e-mails, my photos, my Blackberry calendar (including backups of my tasks, notes, and appointments), and my known cash expenditures between the previous and next withdrawals, but nothing conclusive.
- Adjusted for contributions, my RRSP fluctuates each month as much as the equivalent of a plus or minus 20% APR (and as much as +47% in one month, if my math is right).
- I have not yet made any credit card purchases on a Saturday this year.
Of course, things are never always done. I have yet to do my taxes, and seeing as it's 2am and I have a couple other things to do, that can wait until closer to the April 30 deadline.
If you think someone might have made a copy of your debit card, you should change your pin and keep an eye on your account. The banks are usually very helpful if you need to change your card because it's not that uncommon that cards get copied.
When my credit card was stolen the thieves went on a spending spree, but if someone smarter has your card they might be taking out smaller amounts here and there, thinking you won't notice.
It's weird, though, because it sorta fits the right pattern. In the months when I normally took out $60 per withdrawal, it was $60, etc., and the time spacing is consistent. The time of the most recent one (the others were too old to get the time for) was when I was in that part of town.
When I called my bank, they said that it's highly unlikely that there would be so few transactions once a thief found that they had a valid card and PIN.
I figure I either lost the withdrawal slip or I accidentally selected "no statement".
Serves me right for taking so long to do my finances; if I'd done it within a couple weeks I'd probably have remembered the withdrawal.


It was a nice night for Minnesota sports, as the Lynx, Wolves, and your Minnesota Wild were all victorious, the latter victorious 2-1.
Niklas Backstrom, who was held out of the game with a knee injury sustained in the first period of Minnesota's 3-2 loss to Nashville Tuesday, watched Josh Harding fill his skates nicely, stopping 14 Winnipeg shots.
Harding has been lights out at home.
Matt Cooke assisted on the first Wild goal, scored by Jonas Brodin, before netting one of his own in the second off a rebound on a Torrey Mitchell shot.
The only goal Harding surrendered was a 5-on-3 in the first that was finished by Bryan Little, scoring on a deflection in front.
It's the first Wild victory of the season, with the winner coming in the second, a period in which Minnesota has outshot opponents 54-19 this year.
Mike Yeo and Co. are back in action against the Dallas Stars, a 7 p.m. puck drop from the X Saturday.


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The Clunk Orchestra, The Sound It Makes Review
The Clunk Orchestra : The Sound It Makes Review
by Bea Willis
Bringing us sounds from down under, the Melbourne Australia based quartet that call themselves, The Clunk Orchestra, they have released their debut album titled, The Sound It Makes. "The name of this band is The Clunk Orchestra because that's the sound it makes in front of an audience" was saxophonist Ron Anderson's explanation at a concert last year. Hence the title of this disk.
Clunk offers eight instrumental tunes composed by band members past and present, and performed live in the studio. It's true that the diverse tunes have a variety of built-in musical surprises and gritty improvisations: never a dull moment. But essential to Clunk is the movement of feeling and energy in the music; that's the sound it makes.
The "orchestra" is actually a quartet on this release as the players (Ron Anderson tenor, alto, soprano saxophone; Geoff Spooner, guitar; Ben Harmsen, bass; Marek Podstawek, drums and percussion) create the funkified sound that is cornerstone to the success of the Clunk sound. The opener "Painting Music" captures the energetic spirit of the quartet. The melody is lyrical and set to a jazz-rock-fusion feel. The tune has many twists and turns through an interesting progression. Spooner's color changes in his sound adds interest. Anderson's melodic solo is well supported by Podstawek's deep bass line and Harmsen's energetic drum support. Spooner's electric guitar solo builds the energy and brings out all the finer points of jazz fusion.
"Chunnel" starts with a funky guitar intro and builds upon that theme for the duration. The band is well versed at many styles and the funky fusion of this track suits them just fine. The tune has multiple sections that keep it interesting and building in a thoughtful way. Anderson plays with fire and purpose. Spooner finds the rock core of the tune and ratchets it up a notch. Harmsen takes a nice solo with some hip double stops. Podstawek also gets the spot light in which he shines as he works over the kit. The band builds each passage and develops the tune in a manner that makes you feel like you have traveled to a musical destination that was satisfying.
At times The Clunk Orchestra's tunes churn into a background radio friendly sound you can take with you on a weekend drive, while at other times its edgy sound perks its head and funks the casbah.
Either way, The Sound It Makes, is a confident collection of instrumental tunes that swirl around the jazz and funk genre.
Tracks to sample first: "Painting Music," "Chunnel" and "Andrea Dorian." The song to take a chance on is "Freeway."
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Overview about: Transport and Environment
Transport plays a fundamental role in post-industrial society, despite the benefits to human welfare that a well-developed transport network can provide, there is a growing awareness of the potential inconveniences that can be attributed to its considerable growth in recent years (Bielli et al., 1998).Transport facilitates access to jobs, education, markets, leisure and other services, and has a key role in the economy (WHO, 2000). Many argue that the transport sector places a burden on the environment that far exceeds its carrying capacity, and the risk exists that ecological sustainability is seriously endangered by economic development (Bielli et al., 1998).
Transport firs became a significant source of air pollution after the problems of sooty smog from coal combustion had largely been solved in western European and North American cities. Since then, emissions from road, air, rail and water transport have been partly responsible for acid deposition, stratospheric ozone depletion and climate change (Colvile et al., 2000). The impact of a transport system on the environment varies according to the different transport modes involved (Bielli et al., 1998). Most recently, road traffic exhaust emissions have been the cause of much concern about the effects of urban air quality on human health and troposphere ozone production (Colvile et al., 2000).However, Urban travel consumes significant energy use and is a major contributor to harmful emission (Copper et al., 2001).
Accordingly, Transport accounts for 26% of global CO2 emissions and is one of the few industrial sectors where emissions are still growing (Chapman, 2007).Transport sector emissions grew 1412 million tones (31%) worldwide between 1990 and 2003 (ECMT, 2007). Transport share of CO2 emissions is gradually increase in all region of the world; its share of world emissions increased from 22% in 1999 to 24% in 2003 (ECMT, 2007).
The impact of transport on the global climate is not limited to vehicle emissions as the production and distributions of fuel from oil, a 'wells to wheels' approach, produces significant amounts of greenhouse gas in itself (Weiss et al., 2000). Elevated concentrations of GHG cause increased atmospheric heat retention, this creates higher global temperatures or what is more commonly known as global warming which suspected to cause adverse environmental consequences including coastal zones flooding and desertification (El-Fadel et
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Teigen welcomed Luna with husband John Legend in April, and since then she's kept it real about motherhood with comical tweets about her life as a new mom.


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Time equals money? Valuing ecosystem-based adaptation in a developing country context
Liselotte C. Hagedoorn, Mark J. Koetse, Pieter J. H. van Beukering, Luke M. Brander
Journal: Environment and Development Economics / Volume 25 / Issue 5 / October 2020
Print publication: October 2020
To guide investments in ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) in developing countries, numerous stated preference valuation studies have been implemented to assess the value of ecosystem services. These studies increasingly use time payments as an alternative to money. There is limited knowledge, however, about how to convert time to money and how the type of payment affects willingness to pay (WTP). In this study, the results of choice experiments using time and money payments are compared in the context of EbA measures in Vietnam. Six, of which five individual-specific, conversion rates are applied. WTP estimates are found to be higher for time payments. Moreover, the type of payment vehicle as well as the conversion rate has substantial effect on mean WTP and WTP distributions. We discuss implications of these results for the conversion of time to money and the use of resulting WTP estimates in cost benefit analyses in developing countries.
Edited by Jetske A. Bouma, Pieter J. H. van Beukering, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Book: Ecosystem Services
Print publication: 29 January 2015, pp i-iv
5 - Economic values of ecosystem services
from Part III - Valuing ecosystem services
By Pieter J. H. van Beukering, VU University Amsterdam, Roy Brouwer, VU University Amsterdam, Mark J. Koetse, VU University Amsterdam
Print publication: 29 January 2015, pp 89-107
Ecosystems provide important commodities and environmental benefits to society. As such, the management of ecosystems is an economic, social, and political issue encompassing all sectors of an economy. It involves trade-offs between competing uses and users, as well as between additional economic growth, ecosystem protection, and further natural resource depletion and degradation. Any particular use of ecosystems has its opportunity costs, consisting of the foregone benefits from possible alternative uses of the resource, including non-use. Decision-makers are faced with balancing these varied resource uses, for example, between freshwater demands from agricultural irrigation on the one hand, and the desire to protect rivers for fish and wildlife habitat on the other hand. Striking a balance between the trade-offs of economic growth and ecosystem resource use, possibly leading to their degradation and depletion, is crucial for the sustainable management of our natural resources. Economic valuation contributes to an improved natural resource allocation by informing decision-makers on the full social costs of ecosystem exploitation and the full social benefits of the goods and services that healthy ecosystems provide. This chapter addresses the various dimensions of economic and social value, before explaining the different valuation and evaluation techniques in Chapters 6 and 7, respectively.
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Part III - Valuing ecosystem services
Print publication: 29 January 2015, pp 87-88
6 - Economic valuation methods for ecosystem services
By Mark J. Koetse, VU University Amsterdam, Roy Brouwer, VU University Amsterdam, Pieter J. H. van Beukering, VU University Amsterdam
Print publication: 29 January 2015, pp 108-131
Various valuation methods exist and have been applied to estimate the values of different ecosystem services. The methods reflect the extent to which the services provided by ecosystems touch on the welfare of society either as direct determinants of individuals' well-being (e.g. as consumer goods) or via production processes (e.g. as intermediate goods). The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of available valuation methods, to discuss their advantages and disadvantages, and to provide guidance on when to use which method. In doing so we do not aim to be comprehensive; extensive details of the underlying theory and on the actual practice of applying the valuation methods are provided in general texts, including Braden and Kolstad (1991), Freeman (2003), Bateman et al. (2002), Mitchell and Carson (1989), Champ et al. (2003), Bockstael and McConnell (2007), and Kanninen (2007).
A number of economic valuation methods have been developed to estimate the value of changes in ecosystem services. An important distinction is between market-based and non-market-based valuation methods. Market-based valuation means that existing market behavior and market transactions are used as the basis for the valuation exercise. Economic values are derived from actual market prices for ecosystem services, both when they are used as inputs in production processes (production values) and when they provide direct outputs (consumption values). By observing how much of an ecosystem service is bought and sold at different prices, it is possible to infer directly how people value that good. Examples of market-based methods are the use of direct market prices, net factor income and production function methods, and the calculation of replacement costs, defensive expenditures, and avoided damage costs.
Part IV - Paying for ecosystem services
Part V - Governing ecosystem services
Print publication: 29 January 2015, pp vii-x
7 - Trade-offs and decision-support tools for managing ecosystem services
By Luke Brander, VU University Amsterdam, Pieter J. H. van Beukering, VU University Amsterdam
Making decisions between alternative investments, projects, or policies that affect the provision of ecosystem services often involves weighing up and comparing multiple costs and benefits that are measured in different metrics and are incurred at different points in time. For example, the establishment of a new protected area might involve costs in terms of the purchase of land, compensation of local communities, and ongoing maintenance and enforcement costs; and benefits in terms of biodiversity conservation, recreational use, and improved watershed services. These costs and benefits are likely to be measured in different units, incurred by different groups and have different time profiles. Organizing, comparing, and aggregating information on such a complexity of impacts, and subsequently choosing between alternative options with different impact profiles require a structured approach. Methods for evaluation or appraisal of complex decision contexts provide systems for structuring the information and factors that are relevant to a decision.
Benjamin Franklin's description of his own approach to making complex decisions sets out the intuition behind evaluation methods (Franklin, 1772):
When difficult cases occur, they are difficult chiefly because while we have them under consideration, all the reasons pro and con are not present to the mind at the same time . . . To get over this, my way is to divide half a sheet of paper by a line into two columns; writing over the one "Pro", and the other "Con". . .
Print publication: 29 January 2015, pp v-vi
Part I - Introduction
Print publication: 29 January 2015, pp 1-2
Part II - Measuring ecosystem services
From Concept to Practice
Edited by Jetske A. Bouma, Pieter J. H. van Beukering
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Despite the growing popularity of the concept of ecosystem services, policy makers and practitioners continue to struggle with the challenge of translating it into practice. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, this volume takes up the challenge to provide a framework for the effective implementation of simple concepts into complex ecosystem-related decision making. Addressing the measurement, valuation and governance of ecosystem services, the book is specifically designed to guide students and policy-makers from definitions and measurements to applications in terms of policy instruments and governance arrangements. Each chapter discusses key methodological approaches, illustrating their applications at various scales by drawing on case studies from around the world. Presenting a range of perspectives from across many fields, this text ultimately considers the crucial question of how ecosystem service delivery can be safeguarded for generations to come.
1 - Ecosystem services: from concept to practice
from Part I - Introduction
By Jetske A. Bouma, VU University Amsterdam, Pieter J. H. van Beukering, VU University Amsterdam
Print publication: 29 January 2015, pp 3-22
Ecosystem services are hot, and they have been hot for a while. In 1998, Costanza et al. published their famous article about the societal value produced by ecosystems through ecosystem service delivery, an article which at the time this introduction was written had been cited more than 10 000 times. In 2005, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA) framed the need to protect biodiversity and the world's ecosystems in terms of ecosystem services (MEA, 2005). In 2009, "The economics of ecosystems and biodiversity" (TEEB) followed up by presenting an approach to help decision-makers recognize, demonstrate, and capture the values of ecosystem services and biodiversity. And by now, most (inter)national policies in the field of nature conservation refer to ecosystem services when explaining the need for nature conservation, biodiversity protection, and sustainable resource use.
Despite the popularity of the concept of ecosystem services, policy-makers and practitioners are struggling to implement the concept in practice. An important reason for this science–policy divide is the lack of an interdisciplinary framework that guides policy-makers through the definition and measurement of ecosystem services to their valuation and the translation of these values into effective policy instruments and governance arrangements (see also Daily et al., 2009).
Edited by Pieter J. H. van Beukering, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Elissaios Papyrakis, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Jetske Bouma, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Roy Brouwer, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Book: Nature's Wealth
Print publication: 28 March 2013, pp vii-ix
Nature's Wealth
The Economics of Ecosystem Services and Poverty
Edited by Pieter J. H. van Beukering, Elissaios Papyrakis, Jetske Bouma, Roy Brouwer
Increasing pressure from economic development and population growth has resulted in the degradation of ecosystems around the world and the loss of the essential services that they provide. Understanding the linkages between ecosystem service provisioning and human well-being is crucial for the establishment of effective environmental and economic development policy. Presenting new insights into the relationship between ecosystem services and livelihoods in developing countries, this book takes up the challenge of assessing these links to demonstrate their importance in policy development. It pays special attention to innovative management opportunities that improve local livelihoods and alleviate poverty while enhancing ecosystem protection. Based on eighteen studies in more than twenty developing countries, the authors explore the role of biodiversity-, marine-, forest-, water- and land-related ecosystem services, making this an invaluable contribution to research on the role of ecosystems in supporting the livelihoods of the poor around the world.
Part II - Marine-related ecosystem services
By Pieter J. H. van Beukering
Print publication: 28 March 2013, pp 107-114
Marine-related ecosystem services
Coastal regions are special in many ways. First, coastal ecosystems are among the most productive systems in the world. These ecosystems produce disproportionately more services relating to human well-being than most other systems (MEA 2005). Second, 60% of the world's population lives in coastal zones. The total number of people living in coastal areas has doubled in the last 20 years (Goudarzi 2006). Coastal regions are home for more than 250 million poor people around the world (Brown et al. 2008). Therefore, coastal and marine resources are of increasing importance for human well-being in various ways (e.g. food, employment). Third, coastal ecosystems experience the heaviest impacts from human uses and environmental changes (Adger et al. 2005, Donner and Potere, 2007, Jackson et al. 2001). Future pressures from climate change, population increases in coastal areas, pollution, aquaculture development, greater human mobility and the spread of invasive species are likely to further exacerbate these trends (Brown et al. 2008). As a result, these characteristics of coastal ecosystems pose crucial challenges for the maintenance of ecosystem services and poverty alleviation.


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C. L. Penney, "The Book Called Celestina in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America" (Book Review)
TROTTER, G. D.
I thought you would find this interesting: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Volume 32, Issue 2 C. L. Penney, "The Book Called Celestina in the Library of the Hispanic Society of America" (Book Review) TROTTER, G. D. Editors: Claire Taylor Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (1955), 32, (2), 116–117.
https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.32.2.116