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Articles Posted in U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
Nachshin, et al. v. AOL, LLC
November 21, 2011 by Justia Inc
This case involved a proposed class action settlement between AOL and plaintiffs where the parties agreed that AOL would make a series of charitable donations. At issue was whether the district court abused its discretion in approving the proposed class action settlement, including a proposed cy pres settlement distribution. The court held that the cy pres distributions here did not comport with the court's cy pres standards. While the donations were made on behalf of a nationwide plaintiff class, they were distributed to geographically isolated and substantively unrelated charities. The court concluded that the district court judge did not have to recuse herself pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 455(a) or (b)(4), 5(iii). The court declined to address the issue of whether the class notice was sufficient. Accordingly, the court reversed in part, affirmed in part, and remanded. View "Nachshin, et al. v. AOL, LLC" on Justia Law
Posted in: Class Action, Internet Law, Trusts & Estates, U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
Suzlon Energy Ltd. v. Microsoft Corp.
This case stemmed from Suzlon's demand that Microsoft produce documents from the Microsoft Hotmail email account of Rajagopalan Sridhar, an Indian citizen imprisoned abroad. Microsoft objected to the production and the district court agreed, finding that Sridhar was entitled to the protections of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), 18 U.S.C. 2510-2522, even though he was a foreign citizen. The court held that the ECPA protected the domestic communications of non-citizens like Sridhar. Thus, the decision of the district court denying the production of documents was affirmed. View "Suzlon Energy Ltd. v. Microsoft Corp." on Justia Law
Posted in: International Law, Internet Law, U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
GoPets Ltd. v. Hise, et al.
September 22, 2011 by Justia Inc
This case was brought pursuant to the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), 15 U.S.C. 1125(d)(1) over the registered domain name "gopets.com." The main issue on appeal was whether the term "registration" applied only to the initial registration of the domain name, or whether it also applied to a re-registration of a currently registered domain name by a new registrant. The court concluded that such re-registration was not a "registration" within the meaning of section 1125(d)(1). Therefore, the court held that, because Edward Hise registered gopets.com in 1999, long before GoPets Ltd. registered its service mark, Digital Overture's re-registration and continued ownership of gopets.com did not violate section 1125(d)(1). The court held, however, that the Hises violated the ACPA in registering the additional domains because the Hises acted in bad faith and the court affirmed the district court's award for each of those registrations. The court also affirmed the district court's conclusion that the Hises' use of gopets.com violated the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. 1051 et seq., and remanded for determination of any relief that the district court might find appropriate for that violation. The court finally vacated the district court's award of attorney's fees and remanded for reconsideration by the district court. View "GoPets Ltd. v. Hise, et al." on Justia Law
Posted in: Copyright, Intellectual Property, Internet Law, Trademark, U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
Louis Vuitton Malletier, S.A. v. Akanoc Solutions, Inc., et al.
Louis Vuitton sued Managed Solutions Group, Inc. (MSG), Akanoc Solutions, Inc., and Steven Chen (collectively, Defendants) for contributory copyright and trademark infringement, contending that Defendants were liable for their role in hosting websites that directly infringed Louis Vuitton's trademarks and copyrights. After trial, a jury found Defendants liable and awarded damages against each defendant. In response to Defendants' motion for judgment as a matter of law, the district court set aside the jury's verdict and award against MSG. The district court otherwise denied the motion. The court affirmed the district court on all issues of liability raised by the appeal and cross-appeal but vacated the judgment and remanded with instructions that the district court award statutory damages in the amount of $10,500,000 for contributory trademark infringement and $300,000 for contributory copyright infringement, for which Akanoc and Chen should be jointly and severally liable. Accordingly, the court vacated and remanded. View "Louis Vuitton Malletier, S.A. v. Akanoc Solutions, Inc., et al." on Justia Law
Stearns, et al. v. Ticketmaster Corp, et al.; Johnson, et al. v. Ticketmaster Corp, et al.; Mancini, et al. v. Ticketmaster Corp, et al.
Appellants appealed the district court's denial of certification of their putative class action in Mancini v. Ticketmaster; Stearns v. Ticketmaster, and Johnson v. Ticketmaster. Appellants' actions were directed against a number of entities that were said to have participated in a deceptive internet scheme, which induced numerous individuals to unwittingly sign up for a fee-based rewards program where amounts were charged to their credit cards or directly deducted from their bank accounts. The court held that Rule 23 did not give the district court broad discretion over certification of class actions and the district court erred when it based its exercise of that discretion on what turned out to be an inaccurate reading of the California Unfair Competition Law (UCL), Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code 17200-17210. Therefore, the court reversed the district court's denial of the motions for class certification of the UCL claims in Mancini and affirmed its determination that Mancini and Sanders were not proper representatives. The court affirmed the district court's dismissal of the California's Consumers Legal Remedies Act (CLRA), Cal. Civ. Code 1750-1784, claim in Stearns; affirmed the district court's refusal to certify a class regarding the CLRA injunctive relief claims in Mancini; reversed the district court's dismissal of the Johnson action regarding the CLRA claim; and affirmed its refusal to certify a class regarding the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA), 15 U.S.C. 1693-1693r, claim in Mancini. View "Stearns, et al. v. Ticketmaster Corp, et al.; Johnson, et al. v. Ticketmaster Corp, et al.; Mancini, et al. v. Ticketmaster Corp, et al." on Justia Law
Posted in: Banking, Class Action, Consumer Law, Internet Law, U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
CollegeSource, Inc. v. AcademyOne, Inc.
August 9, 2011 by Justia Inc
CollegeSource, Inc. (CollegeSource), a California corporation with its principal place of business in California, sued AcademyOne, Inc. (AcademyOne), a Pennsylvania corporation with its principal place of business in Pennsylvania, in federal district court for the Southern District of California, alleging that AcademyOne misappropriated material from CollegeSource's websites. AcademyOne moved to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction and the district court granted its motion. The court held that AcademyOne was subject to specific personal jurisdiction, but not general personal jurisdiction, in California with respect to CollegeSource's misappropriation claims. Under the doctrine of pendant personal jurisdiction, AcademyOne was also subject to personal jurisdiction in California with respect to the remainder of CollegeSource's claims. Therefore, the court reversed the district court's dismissal of CollegeSource's complaint and remanded for further proceedings. View "CollegeSource, Inc. v. AcademyOne, Inc." on Justia Law
Posted in: Contracts, Intellectual Property, Internet Law, Trademark, U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
Perfect 10, Inc. v. Google, Inc.
Perfect 10 moved for a preliminary injunction against Google, arguing that it was entitled to an injunction because Google's web and image search and related caching feature, its Blogger service, and its practice of forwarding Perfect 10's takedown notices to chillingeffects.org constituted copyright infringement. Perfect 10 also argued that it was entitled to an injunction based upon Google's alleged violation of the rights of publicity assigned to Perfect 10 by some of its models. At issue was whether the district court erred in denying Perfect 10's request for preliminary injunctive relief. The court held that Perfect 10 had not shown a sufficient causal connection between irreparable harm to Perfect 10's business and Google's operation of its search engine. Therefore, the court held that because Perfect 10 had failed to satisfy this necessary requirement for obtaining preliminary injunctive relief, the district court's ruling was not an abuse of discretion. View "Perfect 10, Inc. v. Google, Inc." on Justia Law
Posted in: Intellectual Property, Internet Law, Trademark, U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
TrafficSchool.com, Inc., et al. v. Edriver Inc., et al.
July 29, 2011 by Justia Inc
Plaintiffs claimed that defendants, owners and managers of a for-profit website called DMV.org, violated federal and state unfair competition and false advertising laws by actively fostering the belief that DMV.org was an official state DMV website, or was affiliated or endorsed by a state DMV. The district court held that defendants violated section 43(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. 1125(a), but rejected plaintiffs' claim under California's unfair competition statute. The district court issued an injunction ordering DMV.org to present every site visitor with a splash screen bearing a disclaimer and denied monetary relief and an award of attorney's fees to plaintiffs. Both sides appealed. The court held that plaintiffs had established sufficient injury for Article III standing and that plaintiffs had met both prongs of the test in Jack Russell Terrier Network of Northern California v. American Kennel Club, Inc. for Lanham Act standing. The court held that the district court committed no error in holding that defendants violated the Lanham Act but remanded for the district court to reconsider the duration of the splash screen in light of any intervening changes in the website's content and marketing practices, as well as the dissipation of the deception resulting from past practices. The court held that the district court did not err in denying damages. The court held that because the district court erred in finding that defendants'c conduct was not exceptional and that plaintiffs had unclean hands, its denial of attorney's fees was an abuse of discretion. Therefore, the court remanded for the district court to consider the award of attorney's fees anew. The court held that the district court's findings that defendants were jointly and severally liable were not clearly erroneous. The court held that the district court did not abuse its discretion by refusing to hold DMV.org in contempt for technical breaches of the injunction. Accordingly, the court affirmed in part and reversed in part, remanding with instructions. View "TrafficSchool.com, Inc., et al. v. Edriver Inc., et al." on Justia Law
Posted in: Business Law, Consumer Law, Corporate Compliance, Internet Law, U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
Irigoyen-Briones v. Holder, Jr.
Petitioner appealed the Board of Immigration Appeals' ("BIA") determination that it did not have jurisdiction to accept an appeal filed one day late due to a post office error. At issue was whether the 30 day deadline for filing a notice of appeal with the BIA was jurisdictional. The court held that the 30 day deadline must be read as a claim-processing rule that was not jurisdictional. The court also held that, since the BIA erred as a matter of law in concluding that it lacked jurisdiction, the court must remand to the BIA to permit it to fully reconsider whether, under the circumstances presented, it would hear the appeal from the immigration judge's decision in this case. The court also concluded that all the BIA needed to do to avoid subjecting aliens to the risk of losing their appeals due to bad weather or delivery service error was to allow people to send notices of appeal over the internet.
Posted in: Constitutional Law, Immigration Law, Internet Law, U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
Simonoff v. Expedia, Inc.
Plaintiff purchased travel arrangements through Expedia, Inc.'s ("Expedia") website and Expedia emailed him a receipt, which included the expiration date of his credit card. Plaintiff claimed that this email receipt violated the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act ("FACTA"), Pub. L. No. 108-159, 117 Stat. 1952, an amendment to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. 1681 et seq., in part to combat identity theft. At issue was the meaning of the words "print" and "electronically printed" under FACTA, in connection with an email receipt. The court held that "print" referred to many different technologies, all of which involve the making of tangible impression on paper or other tangible medium. The court also held that a receipt, under FACTA that was transmitted to the consumer via email and then digitally displayed on the consumer's screen was not an "electronically printed" receipt. Accordingly, the court affirmed the district court's dismissal of plaintiff's claims under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6).
Posted in: Consumer Law, Internet Law, U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

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Effects of the APOE ε4 allele and education on cognitive function in Japanese centenarians
Yoshiko Lily Ishioka, Yasuyuki Gondo, Noriyuki Fuku, Hiroki Inagaki, Yukie Masui, Michiyo Takayama, Yukiko Abe, Yasumichi Arai, Nobuyoshi Hirose
Center for Preventive Medicine
Center for Supercentenarian Medical Research
Department of Legal Medicine
Apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 allele and education have been reported to affect the cognitive function in young-old adults. However, the effects and interactions of the ε4 allele and education on cognitive function in very old age, particularly in centenarians, are not well known. We studied 542 Japanese centenarians. Using the data in total of 452 participants (74 men and 378 women, mean age 103.6 ± 3.2 years) who were genotyped and assessed cognitive function with the Mini-Mental States Examination (MMSE), we examined the effects and interactions of the ε4 allele and education on the MMSE score. First, we coded education as three levels: low, middle, and high based on the formal educational levels (analysis 1). Second, to clarify the modifying effect of education, we adopted a new coding for education into two levels, considering a periodical background (around 1900) of gender differences in educational attainments (analysis 2). In analysis 1, the main effects of the ε4 allele and education on the MMSE score were significant after adjusting for age. Further, there was a significant three-way interaction effect between the ε4 allele, education, and gender on the MMSE. Analysis 2 showed that the modifying effect of the ε4 allele by education was observed only in women with the ε4 allele. These findings suggest that both the APOE ε4 allele and education appear to be associated with cognitive function even in centenarians, but the interaction between the ε4 allele and education might depend on gender in this cohort.
Accepted/In press - 2016 Aug 24
Apolipoprotein E4
APOE
Centenarian
Gene–environment interaction
Ishioka, Y. L., Gondo, Y., Fuku, N., Inagaki, H., Masui, Y., Takayama, M., ... Hirose, N. (Accepted/In press). Effects of the APOE ε4 allele and education on cognitive function in Japanese centenarians. Age, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-016-9944-8
Effects of the APOE ε4 allele and education on cognitive function in Japanese centenarians. / Ishioka, Yoshiko Lily; Gondo, Yasuyuki; Fuku, Noriyuki; Inagaki, Hiroki; Masui, Yukie; Takayama, Michiyo; Abe, Yukiko; Arai, Yasumichi; Hirose, Nobuyoshi.
In: Age, 24.08.2016, p. 1-9.
Ishioka, YL, Gondo, Y, Fuku, N, Inagaki, H, Masui, Y, Takayama, M, Abe, Y, Arai, Y & Hirose, N 2016, 'Effects of the APOE ε4 allele and education on cognitive function in Japanese centenarians', Age, pp. 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-016-9944-8
Ishioka YL, Gondo Y, Fuku N, Inagaki H, Masui Y, Takayama M et al. Effects of the APOE ε4 allele and education on cognitive function in Japanese centenarians. Age. 2016 Aug 24;1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-016-9944-8
Ishioka, Yoshiko Lily ; Gondo, Yasuyuki ; Fuku, Noriyuki ; Inagaki, Hiroki ; Masui, Yukie ; Takayama, Michiyo ; Abe, Yukiko ; Arai, Yasumichi ; Hirose, Nobuyoshi. / Effects of the APOE ε4 allele and education on cognitive function in Japanese centenarians. In: Age. 2016 ; pp. 1-9.
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El Strindheim IL es un equipo de fútbol de Noruega que juega en la Tercera División de Noruega, la cuarta categoría de fútbol en el país.

Historia
Fue fundado el  en la ciudad de Trondheim como un club multideportivo que cuenta con secciones en atletismo, balonmano, patinaje y esquí de fondo, la cual es su sección más exitosa y que ha producido campeones mundiales de la especialidad como Petter Northug.

Su sección de fútbol ha jugado en al menos dos ocasiones en la Tippeligaen, una en 1985 y la otra en 1994, en ambas descendió en tan solo una temporada.

Jugadores

Jugadores destacados
 Olav Kildal
 Tom Aune

Equipo 2016

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Página oficial
 Página oficial (sección de fútbol)
soccerway.com

Equipos de fútbol de Noruega
Equipos de fútbol fundados en 1926
Deporte en Trondheim
Noruega en 1926

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Common clues: Related on the mother's side; Related to Mom; Maternally related; Maternal kin; Mother's brother, e.g.
A mother is the biological or social female parent of a child or offspring, while the male parent is the father. The maternal bond describes the feelings the mother has for her (or another's) child.
Faces of mother and child; detail of sculpture at Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Mothers typically have a very important role in raising children, and the title mother can be given to a woman other than a biological parent who fills this role. This is most commonly either an adoptive parent or a stepmother (the wife of a child's father). The term can also refer to a person with stereotypical traits of a mother.
Mothers are celebrated yearly, on Mother's Day, in many countries around the world. In many branches of Christianity, the Virgin Mary is also celebrated as the "Mother of God".
"Mum"/"mummy" (British English), "Mom"/"mommy" (American English), "maman" in French, "mama" and "ma" (from italian Mamma) are some familiar or colloquial words for a mother. In many south Asian cultures, the mother is known as "Amma" or "Oma" or "Ammi" (with variations of "Ammi-ji" or "Ammi-jan"). Many times these terms denote affection or a maternal role in a child's life. In some societies, single motherhood, the state of an unmarried mother, has been treated as a serious social issue.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Mother".


The visit to the Chapel of the Holy Cross requires the ascent of a mountain.
Churches are constructed for many reasons: to provide a place for the community to gather out of the cold or the sun; to capitalize upon a prime location for visibility, marketing and access and, in the Old Testament tradition, to mark a holy occurrence.
Most of the churches in the Holy Land, for example, were not designed with marketing or access in mind. They commemorate a spiritual event.
Walking up the ramp to the Chapel of the Holy Cross the feeling is that construction of this chapel was built to honour the sense of the sacred that exists in this spot. Rotate through 360 degrees and every movement seems to yield a view and the feeling that we stand in the presence of something beyond our design. Awe is the appropriate response.
Drop to our knees and construct an altar in this place.
Not all feel this of course. The hundreds who ascend the mountain do so for different reasons. For some, it is just another stop on the trolley route, for others it presents astounding vistas that prompt them to whip out their SLRs and phones to catch the sun playing on the rocks.
For some of us though, the chapel provides occasion and place to stop and give thanks for the dusty and parched wonder of the desert and the forces of creation that led to this expression.
What provokes a sense of wonder and delight this day?


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Works by Octavio Novaro
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The First Metals in Mendeleiev's Table: Further Arguments to Place He Above Ne and Not Above Be. [REVIEW]Alejandro Ramírez-Solís & Octavio Novaro - 2014 - Foundations of Chemistry 16 (2):87-91.details
In a recent paper in this Journal, one of us argued against placing He above Be in Mendeleiev's system of the elements. In it the goal was to dispute the notion that in Mendeleiev's system of the elements the location of He should in fact lie above Be, which has a very similar electronic configuration, rather than above the noble gas column. That paper was based on rather old, Hartree–Fock limit studies on the strikingly limited non-additive contributions in the He3 (...) and He4 systems in contrast with the much larger non-additivity obtained for the Be3, Be4 and Be5 oligomers. In a recent benchmark multireference Averaged Quadratic Coupled Cluster results on Be2 and Be3 we showed that the delocalized non-additive contribution comprises 94 % of the binding energy of Be3. Here we use this and other pertinent information (drawn from the same paper) to conclude that He may not be associated with Be in Mendeleiev's Table, despite their quite similar spectroscopic ground states. Furthermore, we use the new results to show that the large non-additivity implies that less than 2 % of the Be3 binding is located in each Be pair contained within the Be trimer. The rest of the interaction energy is necessarily delocalized over all three Be atoms. This might actually announce the bulk properties (i.e. "the electron gas") that in solid-state physics explain the large electric and heat conduction for the solid Be metal. Thus, in the case of beryllium the metallic characteristics are already evident in Be3, a far cry from the monoatomic helium gas. (shrink)
Philosophy of Chemistry in Philosophy of Physical Science
The Periodic Table in Philosophy of Physical Science
On the Rightful Place for He Within the Periodic Table.Octavio Novaro - 2008 - Foundations of Chemistry 10 (1):3-12.details
Many different arguments have been put forward in order to assign the best place for a given element within Mendeleev's Table: its spectroscopy, its chemical activity, the crystalline structure of its solid state, etc. We here propose another criterion; the nature of the few body corrections to the pairwise additive energy. This argument is used here to address a question often brought forward by Eric Scerri in Foundations of Chemistry, namely the rightful place of helium; either above the column of (...) the alkaline earths (beryllium, etc.) or rather above the noble gas elements. (shrink)
The First Metals in Mendeleiev's Table: Part II. A New Argument Against the Placement of Hydrogen Atop the Alkali Metal Column. [REVIEW]Raymundo Hernández & Octavio Novaro - 2014 - Foundations of Chemistry 16 (3):177-180.details
Every so often an experiment trying to give reliable evidence for a metallic hydrogen solid is reported. Such evidence is, however, not too convincing. As Eric Scerri has recently reiterated, "the jury is still out on that issue" . This search stems from the common spectroscopy shared by the hydrogen atom and all the alkali metal atoms, and perhaps is guided by a desire to place hydrogen atop the alkali metals, in Mendeleiev's Table, reinforced by the fact pointed out by (...) Scerri that there is no other obvious place for hydrogen in said Table. But H2 is a light gas at room temperature, while Li, Na, K and the other alkali elements form solid metal crystals. At very low temperatures, of course, hydrogen solidifies, but it is formed by H2 molecules . Our purpose here is to use a new argument to break this impasse: "should H be grouped with the alkali metals with which it shares a common spectroscopy, but which solidifies in a completely different fashion?" This argument has been proposed before in a couple of papers in this journal to establish a similar question for He and the alkaline earths , as is discussed in "Precedents" section. (shrink)
Activity of Closed D-Shells in Noble Metal Atoms.Octavio Novaro - 2004 - Foundations of Chemistry 7 (3):241-268.details
The Periodic Table has the column of the noble gas atoms (He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe, Rn) as one of its main pillars. Indeed the inert chemical nature of their closed shell structure is so striking that it is sometimes extended to all such structures. Is it true however that any closed shell, say a closed d-subshell will denote a lack of chemical activity? Take the noble metals for instance, so renowned for their catalytic capacity. Platinum has 10 electrons in (...) its valence shell which makes one of its excited states to be a closed 5d10–6s0 state. Surely this state would not be expected to be crucial to the catalytic activity of platinum, or would it? Or take palladium whose ground state is precisely the 4d10–5s0 state, should we expect that an isolated Pd atom at near zero-point temperature would attack a closed-shell hydrogen molecule efficiently? We shall here show that this is precisely the case; the closed-shell excited states of nickel and platinum are indeed crucial, through symmetry avoided crossings, for their reactivity. Other valuable catalysts as ruthenium depend on their excited states with maximal d-shell occupancy for their activity. The most notable confirmation of this new finding; that closed d-shells are vital to the catalytic activity of noble metals however, is the case of palladium whose closed-shell ground state is indeed capable of attacking hydrogen and hydrocarbon molecules even at temperatures well below 10 K as was predicted theoretically and immediately confirmed experimentally. (shrink)
Inorganic Chemistry in Philosophy of Physical Science


Is it possible to personalize the gift of an e-book?
I asked Arsen Kashkashian, head buyer at the Boulder Book Store, if he had any ideas, and he was as stumped as I am.
"I'm not sure what the best way to personalize an e-book would be," he said.
usually the same price as e-books available for Kindle, and can be used on multiple platforms. But you can't use a store gift certificate to purchase them because buying the e-book is a transaction with Google, and Google doesn't accept indie bookstore gift cards. Currently, there isn't a way to give an e-book as a gift from most independent bookstores.
It is possible to give a Kindle e-book as a present from Amazon. According to Amazon's FAQ on the subject, you don't need to own a Kindle to give someone a Kindle e-book gift: "Kindle books can be given and received by anyone with an e-mail address." You can schedule the date the e-book gift is delivered to the recipient, and if the recipient isn't happy with your selection, he or she can exchange it for another.
"Even if people have e-readers, they want to give a physical book, because it's so impersonal giving e-books."
As for Barnes & Noble's Nook books, you can't give someone a specific Nook book, but you cangive them a Barnes & Noble gift card to purchase Nook books, or you can lend a Nook book from one reader to another. Although you can give a friend specific songs from iTunes, that isn't possible yet for iBooks -- the only way to give an iBook is through an iTunes gift card or certificate. It's all a little confusing, because each type of e-book and e-reader has its own rules. Last month, Open Road Media launched a website with instructions on how to give e-books from Apple, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo and the Sony Reader Store.
Still, these digital transactions via email feel a little chilly to me. One year I gave someone a subscription to Netflix, and almost a year later I received an email that said the person never used the credit that was about to expire, which made me feel like I had never given them a gift at all.
I spoke with Cathy Langer, lead buyer at the Tattered Cover, who said, "I contend that even if people have e-readers, they want to give a physical book, because it's so impersonal giving e-books. And this was actually proven with several customers I've helped."
I told her that I am leaning toward giving actual books to friends and family that have e-readers, and she said that my thoughts on this subject are typical. "I've been predicting almost since last Christmas that I'm not afraid of the holiday season. People ordering off of Amazon has cut into our business to some extent, no matter what. But even though people are getting e-readers for Christmas and Hanukkah, when someone wants to give a gift of a book, they want to give the gift of a physical book. Even though there are e-readers in millions of households, the gift-giving vehicle is still the physical book."
Langer gave some examples of how this dynamic has played out among customers at the Tattered Cover that she's helped. "I had a customer who wanted two copies of 'Ready Player One' [by Ernest Cline], which is a futuristic, hip novel from Random House that was big this fall. He said, 'I read it on my Kindle, and I loved it, so I want to give it as gifts.'"
It's almost as if the e-book has become the lower-priced preview mechanism for readers who might then go onto buy the physical book for themselves or others.
And for kids, although there are some wonderful interactive e-book programs, printed books still are the rule. Langer said, "A couple days ago, there was a little girl -- maybe 5 years old -- traipsing through the store with her grandfather, and they were talking about a book. He said, 'Well, we can get that for you on your Kindle,' and she said, 'No, Grandpa, I want a real book.'"
Langer said, "Giving books as gifts is a very strong, personal statement. It's an object of love and affection and real meaning. It's an object rather than just a commodity of words."
I agree -- for this year, I'm sticking with printed books for gifts. In future years, who knows? But as long as no one invents digital beer, there will always be some presents under the Christmas tree.
Jenny Shank is the is the author of the novel "The Ringer" (The Permanent Press, 2011), a finalist for the Reading the West Book Awards.


Abstract: Accurate identification of criminal suspects by witnesses is vital for police investigations. Methods such as Cognitive Interviewing techniques have been employed for this reason to enhance witness recall. In the current project, we demonstrate the benefit of including a focused breathing exercise during face construction using the EvoFIT recognition-based facial composite system. Twenty participants, half of whom received the focused breathing instruction, each constructed a facial composite of an unfamiliar face seen the previous day. A further 40 participants attempted to name the resulting composites. A significant increase was found in accurate identification of composites constructed by the focused breathing group.
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The most widely recognized mark of quality in the business world today, ISO 9001:2000 registration .
ISO registration is a rigorous process by which the hospital improves and monitors the delivery of patient care, continually measures quality, and places the highest priority on eliminating medical errors.
A hospital's continued registration with ISO 9001:2000 keeps us focused on efficient, effective, and safe patient care. The ISO process supports consistency and continuity organization-wide in the delivery and documentation of patient care. It also creates a foundation for continuing improvement through quarterly internal audits and annual independent audits, which are required for maintaining registration.
ISO is an international agency that develops and publishes voluntary standards covering almost the entire range of technology. The ISO 9001:2000 family of standards pertains specifically to service and manufacturing industries and represents an international consensus of good management practices.
What is ISO 9001:2000 ?
How does ISO apply to healthcare?
How does ISO registration facilitate a safer hospital?
What are the requirements to earn the ISO 9001:2000 registration?
Q. What is ISO 9001:2000 ?
The International Organization for Standardization is an international agency with close to one hundred member countries. The ISO 9001:2000 series is a management tool that provides a comprehensive operational framework to achieve control and consistency in all aspects of business from technical to administrative.
ISO 9001:2000 provides a model for a documented quality system, a foundation for information accuracy, and a building block for continuous improvement. Registration provides evidence of good management practices within the organization and that the organization has measurable quality management practices aiding consistency and efficiency. Through its internal auditing requirements, ISO 9001:2000 can facilitate an organization's ongoing compliance to accreditation standards and regulatory requirements.
Q. How does ISO apply to healthcare ?
Quality in healthcare is more important today than ever before. Today's healthcare consumers are better informed and participate in the care they receive. This has increased awareness that the quality of service delivered is dependent not only on the hands-on practitioners, but also on every individual within the organization whose activities contribute to a patient's experience. The current trend toward public accountability continues to be one of the major factors driving the momentous changes in the healthcare industry.
Q. How does ISO registration facilitate a safer hospital ?
With ISO 9001:2000 registration, the hospital strives to become one of the safest hospitals. ISO 9001:2000 requirements are more demanding than those of any other healthcare quality management system. Freeman has implemented consistent policies and procedures that are continuously measured and improved for the best possible care. System processes are evaluated, adopted, and continuously monitored to promote safety and error prevention.
Q. What are the requirements to earn the ISO 9001:2000 registration ?
The two roles of ISO 9001:2000 standards are quality management (achieving results that satisfy requirements) and quality assurance (demonstrating requirements for quality achieved). ISO 9001:2000 standards detail requirements that constitute smart business practices for any operation.
ISO 9001:2000 has requirements that specify WHAT must be achieved within the quality system to retain effective management control; they do not specify HOW to achieve requirements, thereby allowing organizations the freedom to develop systems to respond to internal and external influences. ISO standards support consistency, continuity, and continuing improvement of management practices based on a universally accepted Plan-Do-Check-Act continuum.


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LHôpital d'instruction des armées Percy (HIA Percy) è un ospedale militare situato nella cittadina di Clamart, non lontano da Parigi. Gestito dal corpo sanitario delle forze armate francesi, presta opera di servizio sanitario, oltre che ai militari, anche a pazienti civili.

Al suo interno vi si addestra il personale appartenente al corpo - destinato a compiere missioni all'estero - ad affrontare e gestire numerose situazioni di emergenza come ustioni gravi o contaminazione da radiazioni.

LHIA Percy salì alla ribalta delle cronache mondiali il 29 ottobre 2004, quando, per un misterioso e mai del tutto chiarito male del quale era affetto, nel suo reparto di ematologia, fu ricoverato – morendovi l'11 novembre dello stesso anno – il leader palestinese Yasser Arafat.

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Forze armate francesi
Ospedali della Francia
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GIS Education Weekly: Can Carmen Sandiego Fix America's Geography Woes?
The spread of automated essay scoring
Vice: Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students' Essays - "Essay-scoring engines don't actually analyze the quality of writing. They're trained on sets of hundreds of example essays to recognize patterns that correlate with higher or lower human-assigned grades. They then predict what score a human would assign an essay, based on those patterns." Via Audrey Watters. The article includes an interactive map; screen capture at right.
TES: GCSE results: 'A tectonic shift in geography entries' - "Geopolitical and environmental crises help to explain why more students are choosing geography GCSE" There's a quote from Sir Michael Palin.
University of Michigan: Research shows certificates boost MOOC completion rates - "'The effect of paying is transient and lasts only for a few weeks, but the certificate effect lasts until the participant reaches the grade required to be eligible to receive the certificate,'" Sriram [S. Sriram, associate professor of marketing at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan] said." There are very few 100% free MOOCs that provide 100% free certificates anymore. I'm happy to report Esri MOOCs are among them.
Minot Daily News: Jim Hill teacher Kristi Reinke tries to keep geography interesting - "Minot Public Schools teacher of the year Kristi Reinke is always trying to make things new." Among other things she uses Mystery Skype.
EdSurge: Carmen Sandiego Is Back. But Can She Fix America's Geography Woes? - "HMH [Houghton Mifflin Harcourt] says it refashioned Carmen as a 'global citizen' in response to requests for more material around social-emotional learning—which is to say the ambitious goal of teaching Americans geography has been somewhat scaled back in favor of lessons on community, world culture and responsibility." Short answer to question posed in the title of the article: "no."
NCRGE: NCRGE Initiates Research Networks on Geography Education and Libraries, Powerful Geography, and the NAEP Geography Assessment - "The National Center for Research in Geography Education (NCRGE) has initiated three research networks supporting further implementation of the Road Map for 21st Century Geography Education project's landmark report on geography education research. " The projects: Geography Education and Libraries, Powerful Geography, NAEP Geography Assessment.
Spectrum: New autism map points to diagnostic deserts in United States - A new online database called GapMap includes 28,000 autism resources such as therapy clinics, educational supports and diagnostic centers. Autistic people in the U.S. live 11 miles, on average, from a resource and about 22 miles from a diagnostic center.
Harbour Times: Geographic Information System enhances young people's analytical capabilities - "Three years ago, Hong Kong Education City (HKEdCity) collaborated with Esri China (Hong Kong) to offer the professional geographic information system (GlS) software to primary and secondary school students in Hong Kong free of charge, with a hope that the software can enhance young people's problem-solving abilities." The article by Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong recaps the impact of the collaboration and the results of a recent competition.
Resources for Teaching and Learning
Twitter: And now, a full-throated defense of using ZIP Codes for spatial analysis - Bill Morris responds to the CARTO post I noted last week. He argues: "ZIPs should only be used in a worst-case scenario, sometimes you find yourself presented with the worst case. And I'll offer a few gentle nudges of reassurance to you poor souls."
Science: Geography of loss—a global look at the uneven toll of suicide - This set of maps is part of a series of articles on suicide. Slightly related: A Massachusetts representative proposed a bill making 988 a national suicide call line. Yes, please.
GeoNet (Esri): World Geography GeoInquries - "The long-awaited World Geography GeoInquiries collection has released 15 "Level 1" activities and ArcGIS Online maps, based on the content from the award-winning book, Mapping Our World. The activities are designed for middle and lower-high school geography classrooms, are based on the C3 Framework for social studies, and tied to leading world geography textbooks. All activities are licensed under Creative Commons for easy reuse by educators."
The Denver Channel: CU Anschutz unveils out-of-home gun storage map to help improve safety, prevent suicide - "Faculty members with the Colorado School of Public Health and University of Colorado School of Medicine at the Anschutz Medical Campus said this new tool, called the Colorado Gun Storage Map , can help improve safety and prevent suicide. Using the map, community members in a crisis can pick where they want to temporarily and voluntarily keep their firearm." Those offering the service include law enforcement, guns shops and others.
LinkedIn: GIS Career Reflections and Opinions - Nathan Heazlewood shares the results of a survey on GIS career experiences and preparation. I did not have time to visualize the results or draw any conclusions. The sample size (N) is currently small (less than 100 when I last looked); Nathan is looking for more participants.
NOAA: Using Flood Exposure Maps Webinar - On September 5 NOAA offers a live, online interview (about 40 minutes) with a guest speaker who has experience using flood maps to engage stakeholders. Free; includes certificate of attendance.
Twitter: Birds as GIS Software - A thread from Caitlin Dempsey of GIS Lounge finding birds that match the colors of GIS software logos. This is just fun; special thanks to Caitlin for careful attention to attribution.
Universal Hub: For $300, Amazon could have ordered a GPS from Amazon that would have kept another Amazon truck driver from smashing into that bridge in Dedham - Meta!
Points of Interest (Mapbox Blog): Mapping 70 billion pain pills by pharmacy location - Mapbox shares some of the details on how the Washington Post made the map.
TES: How a Bake Off teacher uses cake in geography lessons - "The new series of The Great British Bake Off sparked an unlikely education debate last night after revealing that one of its contestants uses her cakes to help teach geography." She uses cake to teach coastal erosion.
West Virginia Explorer: Shepherd University to use drones to help U.S. Forest Service - "Faculty and students from Shepherd University will travel to Randolph County over the next five years, where they will use the school's drone fleet to help the U.S. Forest Service reclaim strip-mined land in the Monongahela National Forest, according to school officials."
Neiman Lab: Every crime map needs context. This USC data journalism project aims to scale it - "The grant provides around $120,000 per year for five years, and the team now includes part-time data scientists to crunch the numbers, designers to visualize the trends, and journalists to put it all into context [for local communities]. This is Crosstown LA, a nonprofit news project based at USC, but it has the potential to expand to other regions."
University of Hawaii: UH Mānoa provides new features in new online campus map - "The new map has search functions to find specific buildings or points of interest. It can help users locate the closest ATM, water refill station or eating spot. It will help users find services such as lactation stations or where to pay for parking."
University of Northern Colorado: UNC welcomes new changes on campus - Among building and institute changes is merging and renaming. "The name changes have also affected two departments that were formerly separate. The geography and GIS and Environmental and Sustainability Studies is now known as Geography, GIS, and Sustainability."
The Tripolitan (Troy University, Alabama): New Troy department prepares students for wide range of technical careers - "Geospatial informatics launched this May under the College of Arts & Sciences, merging the preexisting surveying and geomatics science program in the math department with the faculty of geography from the department of social sciences. The department offers a surveying and geomatics sciences program along with minors in unmanned aerial systems (UAS), geographic information systems (GIS), surveying and geomatics sciences and geography. The UAS, GIS, geography and surveying and geomatics sciences minors can all be completed online."
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Santiago (Lungsod sa Santiago - Bayan ng Santiago - Municipality of Santiago), antaño conocido como Paypay,  es un municipio filipino de cuarta categoría, situado en la parte nordeste de la isla de Mindanao. Forma parte del Segundo Distrito Electoral de la provincia de Agusan del Norte situada en la Región Administrativa de Caraga, también denominada Región XIII.

Geografía
Municipio situado al nordeste de la provincia, fronterizo con las de Surigao del Sur y Agusan del Sur.
Su término linda al norte con el municipio de Jabonga; al sur con el de Cabadbaran; al este con las mencionadas provincias; y al oeste con el de Tubay.

Barangays
El municipio de Santiago se divide, a los efectos administrativos, en 9 barangayes o barrios, conforme a la siguiente relación:

Historia
A finales de 1898 se instalan en este lugar un grupo de indígenas procedentes de Jabonga, siendo el  lugar reconocido por el municipio de Cabadbaran como barrio de Santiago

En 1924 la crecida del río Aciga destruye todas las propiedades, plantas y animales. los pobladores abandonan el lugar estableciéndose en el barrio de Jagupit, que fue nuevamente destruido por una nueva crecida el año de 1936, trasladándose al sitio de Paypay,  habitado por dos grupos de indígenas,  manobo y mamanoás.

Papay aumenta su población tras la construcción de la carretera nacional.
Hacia finales de 1936 el nombre de Paypay fue cambiado por el de Santiago en honor al apóstol Santiago.

En 1964 el entonces barrio de  Santiago solicita formar un nuevo municipio segregándose del de  Cabadbaran. Su deseo fue logrado el 15 de junio de   1969.

Referencias

Localidades de Agusan del Norte
Lugares con nombres de personas
Municipios de Filipinas de Cuarta Categoría


Charleson Recreation Area is an area of fantastic recreational opportunities located on the northern edge of Atikokan, ON. Summer or winter, if you prefer your activities motorized or not or maybe even a mix of both, there is something to attract every outdoor activity enthusiast.
If you like your adventure mixed with a bit of high octane, there are motocross tracks open to the public with several events throughout the racing season; a 4x4 mud racing track which holds the very popular Mudfling weekend every summer and snowmobiling on world class trails in the winter.
For those who prefer a more quiet approach to their adventure, there are a wide variety of mountain biking trails for all skill levels, horse riding trails and snowshoe trails in the winter. The lakes around Charleson provide some of the fishing and canoeing opportunities this area is famous for and is the site of canoe racing event every Canada Day.
Take a look through our website to get an idea of what the Charleson Recreation Area has to offer and then start planning your next outdoor adventure to Atikokan!


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Two major account administration issues face security professionals. The first is inaccurate permissions assigned to accounts that either prevent a user from doing his or her work or violate the principle of least privilege. The second is the unauthorized use of those permissions, either by someone other than the legitimate user accessing the account or by the user performing some illegitimate action. In this video, learn the use of user access reviews and continuous account monitoring techniques.
The (ISC)2 Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) certification is an excellent entry point to a career in IT security. To help you prepare for the SSCP exam, instructor Mike Chapple has designed a series of courses covering each domain. In this installment, Mike covers the objectives of Access Controls, the first domain, which comprises 16% of the questions on the exam. Topics include identification, authorization, and authentication, including multifactor and mobile device authentication. Learn about the identity management life cycle, and find out how to implement authentication mechanisms and access controls.
To join one of Mike's free study groups for access to bonus tips and practice questions, visit certmike.com.
Q: This course was updated on 05/18/2018. What changed?
A: New videos were added that cover subject/object model. In addition, the following topics were updated: registration and identity proofing, SSO and federation, and advanced authorization concepts.


You know what they say: when it rains, it pours…and sometimes you literally cannot see out of your car thanks to the monsoon storms! (Okay, maybe no one says that last part.) This past weekend was beyond crazy in hot, hot AZ, and while I certainly blame global warming, I also know that part of our insanity was thanks to the current monsoon season that we experience once a year. Think: over 100 degrees during the day without a cloud in the sky, shifting to super strong winds, buckets of rain, and dropping temperatures in the evening.
This may seem a bit extreme, but after this weekend, I'm not so sure.
That was my crazy start to the week. And while I was absolutely terrified driving home, I'm so beyond thankful to have had Alex (and Katie) with me. As soon as the rain was too much I turned to Alex and said, "I can't see." He calmly asked me questions and told me what a great job I was doing. And he reaffirmed my instincts as far as how to safely get home went. As cheesy as it sounds, I'm happy I had my rock with me during the storm.
The entire top of a palm tree fell next to my work this morning!
What kind of weather are you having this summer? Here's to hoping it's not as insane as mine!


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Q: Mac OS .deb packaging trouble I've searched a lot, but didn't find the solution.
I need to package my ios app into .deb.
I have installed Mac Ports and dpkg, I have control file in DEBIAN folder in MyApp folder
I run /opt/local/bin/dpkg-deb -b MyApp and get error.

dpkg-deb: ignoring 3 warnings about the control file(s)
Can't use format gnu: No such format 'gnu': Invalid argument

There is another topic: How to create .deb packages on Mac OS X, but no answer to this question.

A: I assume you are using a tar implementation that does not support the GNU tar fotrmat, which dpkg-deb expects for its usage.
You should install GNU tar and either recompile dpkg to use that (usually named gtar) instead of simply the executable tar, or prepare a PATH environment to prefer the GNU tar when using dpkg-deb.
Newer dpkg versions detect this requirement at build time and will abort the build, to make sure this does not happen.

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This centuries-old city has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Countless churches and palaces bear witness to the power and unsurpassed wealth of this small republic. The lagoon city was founded in northern Italy during the troubled times of the decline of the Roman Empire. The remains of the evangelist Mark were transferred to Venice in 829. The streams of pilgrims that followed gave the city much added importance. Since then the sacred symbol of the lion has been the city's coat of arms. Venetian troops later occupied eastern Italy and, in 1204, even Constantinople. At the height of its power Venice ruled the Mediterranean. The demise of the "serrenissima repubblica" began with the fall of Constantinople and the opening of the Western Hemisphere by Spain, Portugal and Holland. Venice's political importance declined after the Congress of Vienna and it was given to Austria. Returned to Italy in 1866, Venice has inspired generations of artists, writers and musicians. More than a city, it is a symbol of wealth and beauty as well as death and decay.
The splendour of this 1000 year old church is stunning and enchanting. With five domes and decorated arches and windows, it is the result of numerous extensions and conversions. Its core is still the building erected in the 11th century above the floor plan of a Greek cross. Here also lie the bones of the Evangelist Mark, the city's relic that gives it its identity. The books about the shrine fill entire libraries. The cathedral treasury contains the richest Byzantine gold and silver treasure in the world. Most of it comes from Constantinople, which was plundered by the Venetians in 1204. The Museo Marciano has found its place in the gallery above the vestibule.
A lift takes you up to the belfry of San Marco and on to the viewing platform with a panoramic view of a sea of gables and shingles interspersed with dozens of towers. The visit of the tower is recommended at the very beginning; because the panorama provides a first, helpful overall orientation and a feeling for the unique location and structure of the lagoon city. Originally built in the 10th century and considerably raised in the 12th, the almost 100-metre-high Campanile collapsed in 1902, but was immediately rebuilt from the original material.
Bacaro – the name is derived from the wine god Bacchus – is the name given to the simple taverns in Venice. There are few chairs, but a long bar and a large selection of wines with a few snacks. Do Mori not far from the fish market is the oldest Bacaro of Venice and already over 500 years old. Countless pots and copper kettles hang from the ceiling, more than 100 excellent wines await you in the bar. There are also many different tramezzini.
The Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari is the great Gothic Franciscan church of the city. On the outside it is modest and simple, as is the mendicant order itself. Inside, however, it documents the power and wealth to which the disciples of Saint Francis have come. The Frari turns out to be an art shrine of the very first order. The tomb pyramid of the sculptor Antonio Canova immediately catches the eye in the enormous nave. Opposite is the tomb of Titian with his Pesaro Madonna. Precious altar leaves by Bartolomeo Vivarini and Giovanni Bellini hang in the choir chapels. A sculpture of St. John by Donatello stands where the composer Claudio Monteverdi is buried. Everything, however, is surpassed by Assunta, the sky-driving Mary, who floats freely above the high altar. Titian created it and, at the end of the Renaissance, already anticipated the Baroque era with it.
Music from Venice has been an integral part of European cultural history since the 16th century. Monteverdi and Vivaldi are the most famous names. The Venetian multiple choir gave decisive impulses for innovations in vocal and instrumental music. Under the name "Violins in Venice" the chamber music ensemble Interpreti Veneziani gives concerts more than 200 days a year. They take place in the former church San Vidal. In addition to Venetian music, the programme also includes works by Bach.
The massive Casa Rezzonico, built by Baldassare Longhena and Giorgio Massari, is a special jewel of Renaissance architecture even by Venetian standards. In the 18th century it belonged for a time to Carlo Rezzonico, who later wrote history as Pope Clement XIII. Today the building houses the Museo del Settecento Veneziano, which impressively documents the opulent lifestyle of the aristocracy at the end of the Republic. This "18th century museum" extends over all three floors and, with furniture and decorative pieces, pictures and ceiling paintings, reflects the life of the aristocracy of that heyday.
It's the Palace of Palaces. The Doge's Palace was the power centre of politics, the highest symbol of Venetian civilization and an eye-catcher on all representations of Venice. 120 Doge's have guided the fate of the maritime republic from here for almost 1000 years. In its present Gothic form, it was created in the 14th and early 15th centuries. Its lower façade is colossal: covered in marble and structured by countless columns and arches. In between there are sculptures of Adam and Eve or the drunken Noah. The tour through the interior of the Doge's Palace is overwhelming. It begins opposite the Loggetta and the Campanile at its high Gothic main portal, the Porta della Carta. On the now following path through the palace one encounters "miracle upon miracle", as the French statesman François de Chateaubriand, blinded by so much splendour, raved.
Napoleon once called it the "most beautiful salon in the world", which has not changed much until today. The 175 metre long, slightly trapezoidal Piazza San Marco offers a variety of moods. At every time of day and season it appears different and new. It was the scene of processions and secular festivals. It is a meeting place and stage of vanity for locals and tourists. Only on foggy winter days or very late at night is it deserted. Then it turns into a magical backdrop. Important buildings line the 800-year-old square. Under the arcades there is space for luxury shops and noble restaurants.
More than 400 bridges cross about 150 canals and connect 100 islands. Some are nameless or inconspicuous. Some are of particular importance from a traffic or cultural-historical point of view. The Rialto Bridge, which has connected the districts of San Marco and San Polo since the 16th century, is world-famous and most frequently photographed. Business flourished here for many centuries: merchants and seafarers unloaded their goods at the quay behind which the banks and trading houses were located. Bridge architect was a certain Antonio da Ponte, who was able to assert himself against star architect Michelangelo with his practical design because he left enough space for shipping traffic.


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HomeSuccess StoriesThe Goddard School
The Goddard School
Owner: Maria and Butch Aggen
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Maria and Butch Aggen are passionate about childhood education. Their interest in creating an inspiring, nurturing learning environment led them to become Goddard School franchisees in 2007. Since that time, their award-winning business has become one of the most successful arms of the overarching corporation. The Aggens have 40 employees focused on providing a top-notch educational experience for children while remaining collaborative with their parents. Services include classroom programs for infants through fifth grade, daycare, summer camp, before- and after-school care, and educational events.
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The Aggens have received numerous accolades. Their awards include being named the Cedar Park Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year, being honored by the state of Texas with the Governor's Small Business Award, and winning the Best Childcare Award from Hill Country News. They also have the distinction of being the only private preschool in Texas that is accredited by both NAC and AdvancED. Furthermore, their company is the only preschool in Texas that has been named an "Exemplar School" by the Partnership for 21st Century Learning.
What's Great About My Mentor?:
The Goddard School had little name recognition in Cedar Park when it was first launched. The Aggens also faced competition from other childcare businesses within their market. Over time they not only built the brand, but also flourished as one of the most recognized and awarded businesses in their state.
SCORE workshops and mentorship opportunities continue to help the Aggens grow their company. "We are constantly striving to excel and improve and felt SCORE mentoring would assist us in that effort," says Butch Aggen.
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Exemplary Clinical Models of Teacher Education
Sara R. Helfrich, Ohio University
Sara L. Hartman, Ohio University
A volume in the series: Advances in Teacher Education. Editor(s): Diane Yendol-Hoppey, University of North Florida. David T. Hoppey, University of North Florida.
In Press 2023
Across settings, teacher education programs utilize innovative practices to prepare teacher candidates, yet rarely is this work shared in a way that is accessible to stakeholders. This book presents exemplary models utilized by universities in a variety of settings, with the objective of sharing with readers a sampling of research-based teacher preparation models that are currently in place at accredited universities and colleges across the country, in an effort to help others that are developing or redesigning their programs. Authors of the included chapters focused on the setting in which their college/university is located. Location impacts every aspect of a clinical model of teacher preparation, including the number and proximity of placements that are available for teacher candidates, access to resources, and diversity of experiences. The authors, in describing their clinical model, address how their location impacts their model, sharing information about the resources to which they have access, how they make use of available resources in potentially unique ways, as well as how they overcome a lack of resources to provide a meaningful and diverse experience for their candidates. Readers will be able to use this book to learn more about how similar colleges/universities are embracing their locations and resources to further the learning of their candidates and to implement these ideas within their own programs.
All those involved in teacher preparation – state-level policy makers, university and P-12 administrators, and educators who bridge university and school settings to work together to prepare teacher candidates – will benefit from this book. It can serve as a resource for these individuals to help inform them of how universities and colleges across the country are implementing a clinically-based teacher preparation program so that they have a model for creating, implementing, assessing, and maintaining their own program. Additionally, teacher education faculty and staff may utilize it for help with self-studies and accreditation purposes, and as a text to use within courses in principal and/or superintendent preparatory programs.
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The Institute of Radiation Safety and Ecology, the territory of the scientific and experimental unit, the old headquarters building (the late fifties – the early sixties), now the IRSE administrative building.
The idea to establish the Institute of Radiation Safety and Ecology (IRSE) arose after Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site was shut down (STS) while a new structure of the test site as a research center was being formed. A decree of RK President, N.A. Nazarbayev No. 409 on the closure of STS was issued on August 29, 1991, and in May of 1992 – a Resolution of the RK Cabinet of Ministers No. 779 "On establishing the National Nuclear Center and the RK Atomic Energy Agency". According to the Resolution adopted by the RK Cabinet of Ministers dated October 29, 1993 No. 1082, IRSE became part of NNC RK based on military unit 52605.
Military unit 52605 was formed specifically for nuclear testing at STS in June of 1948 in the 4city of Zvenigorod (Moscow region) being a central element forming the test site, and consisted of two basic structural sections – Unit administration and Scientific and technical subdivisions (scientific and experimental unit) based on which IRSE was subsequently set up. A commander of the military unit – a test site chief managed the activity in each subdivision of the test site. A lieutenant general P.M. Rozhanovich was the first commander and M.A. Sadovky was an academic adviser of military unit 52605.
By the end of 1948 there were a few departments operating on the scientific sector: department of physical measurements, biological and armament department, and each consisted of laboratories. The Institute of Chemical Physics (ICP), USSR Academy of Sciences, headed by academician N.N. Semyonov who gave lectures on fundamentals of nuclear physics in person, became the main base for personnel training in the sector of physical measurements. M.A. Sadovky was the academic adviser of test site officers. At that time he was also a Deputy Director of this Institute. Personnel was trained by sepcialists from the Institute of Chemical Physics O. I. Leipunsky, I. L. Zelmanov, G.L. Shnirman, P. А. Yampolsky, V. B. Miller and some others. The same specialists became academic advisers of respective laboratories of the sector. Specialists of the State Optics Institute, headed by professor M.A. Yelyashevich, were also involved in officers training. The Burdenko General Hospital and the Institute of Biophysics, USSR Academy of Medical Sciences became the main centers of biology sector employees training.
The hero of the socialist labour (1949), laureate of the Lenin (1962) and four State Prizes AS USSR (1966). One of the outstanding specialists in explosion physics. During the years of the Great Patriotic War he worked as a chief of explosion physics department of the Institute of Chemical physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1943, he determined a functional dependence of shock wave on the amount of trotyl detonated. Later "Sadovky's formula" was improved with respect to nuclear explosion and was ubiquitously used to determine a so-called trotyl equivalent of nuclear blast yield. Since 1946 M.A. Sadovky being a Deputy Director of the Institute of Chemical Physics of Academy of Sciences (ICP AS) headed a special sector on experimental research into all of the parameters for a nuclear explosion. In 1946 М.А. Sadovsky was appointed the first academic advisor of Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site. He held that position for up to 1968 greatly contributing to the theory and practice of nuclear tests. In 1949 after the first nuclear bomb was tested М.А. Sadovky was awarded the Stalin Prize and the rank of the Hero of the Socialist Labour. Since 1958 upon insistence of I.V. Kurchatov, Sadovky was involved in solution to a problem related to nuclear test ban and control of compliance with potential agreements in this field. Since 1968 being a head of the Institute of Earth Physics AS USSR, М.А. Sadovky was for a long time an academic adviser for that development by efforts of USSR Minsredmash (Ministry of Medium Machine Building) with an automated equipment complex of seismic stations.
The organizational and staff structure of the scientific and experimental unit was repeatedly modified since membership and types of subdivisions depended a lot on specific experimental tasks. Initially, the testing program set the following major tasks: physical, biological observations, observations of the explosion impact on different types of structures and armaments. It then became necessary to undertake a more detailed study of radiation effects of nuclear explosions, particularly, radioactive contamination of the area. To that end a radiochemical laboratory was removed from the structure of the former sector of physical measurements and a radiation line was created on its basis. A biological sector was transformed into a medical and biological line with a stronger focus on issues of the study of nuclear effects on bioobjects.
Before testing the first Soviet nuclear charge it was clear from the American experience that a nuclear explosion, especially at low altitudes and on the ground surface, is followed by radioactive fallouts. Therefore, a radiochemical laboratory was set up for research into radioactive contamination of the area on the scientific and experimental unit from the very beginning of tests. After testing at STS, it became obvious that it was necessary to undertake far more detailed studies of processes of radioactively contaminated areas including formation of fission fragments and isotopes of induced activity, formation of radioactive particles, their compositions, properties, behavior in the air and many other things. Therefore, a separate radiation focus area was set up. For nuclear effects to be studied relative to living organisms and, eventually, to personnel and population, a medical and biological line of research was established which existed until the test site was disbanded. A special attention was paid to effects of ionizing radiation since this pathology was hardly studied at that time. Radiation problem arose only after the first nuclear explosions. This challenge had to be virtually solved from scratch and the Test Site became a place to study it intensively. In fact, the foundation of medical radiology and radiobiology was laid down at STS, initial recommendations were developed for radiation protection and radiation safety standards. A group of specialists including those of the STS scientific and experimental unit were awarded the State USSR Prize for their work in radiation medicine in 1969.
On August 29, 1991 the Decree No. 409 issued by Kazakh SSR President N.А.Nazarbayev Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site was shut down. Nuclear tests conducted at this test site were discontinued forever. All of the sites and objects of the former test site were released to the newly set up National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NNC RK). By June of 1994 the last Russian military units including military unit 52605 located in the test site territory left Kazakhstan. Together with military units most of scientific sector personnel left Kurchatov, much of instrumentation was moved out. Akhmetzhan Tleubayevich Seisebayev, Doctor of Biological Sciences became the first Director of the Institute who faced the most difficult period – organization and formation of the Institute. Laboratories of the scientific sector of the military unit became part of the IRSE scientific and instrumentation basis. Subsequently, the instrumentation basis of the Institute was greatly enhanced while implementing several international projects and being awarded a number of international grants, first of all, ISTC, NATO, IAEA Projects. Among key personnel there were staff members of the scientific and experimental unit G.S.Smagulova, V.А Azarov, V.Yu. Sergeyev and others. To enhance human resources of the Institute, a decision was made to establish an Almaty IRSE Department based on the NNCR Institute of Nuclear Physics, headed by А.V.Yushkov. From among the INP staff, apart from А.V.Yushkov, S. Khazhekber, O.I. Artyomyev, N.N. Lashkul and others were actively involved in division activities. Since 1995 the last chief of radiation safety service, Candidate of Technical Sciences, S.G. Smagulov was an IRSE Director. From 1997 to the middle of 2002 the Institute was headed by M.A. Akhmetov, later by L.D. Ptitskaya until May of 2006. 2006 through 2018, Sergei Nikolayevich Lukashenko was a Director of the branch "IRSE", NNC RK.
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Seisebayev Akhmetzhan Tleubayevich
Seisebayev Akhmetzhan Tleubayevich, Doctor of Biological Sciences, who encountered the most difficult period during which the Institute was being set up and formed, was the first Director of the Institute of Radiation Safety and Ecology, National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan (IRSEЭ). In 1957 A.T. Seisebayev (01.01.1936 - 02.04.2017) graduated from the Agronomy Faculty of the State Kazakh Agriculture Institute (Alma-Ata city) and for 2 years worked as a chief agronomist in Ulytau state farm of Karaganda region. Then in 1959, he took the post-graduate course under the Institute of Botany AS Kazakh SSR. In 1964 Akhmetzhan Tleubayevich defended a Candidate's thesis on the subject "Comparative study of the impact of various factors on corn variability" majoring in Genetics. After defending А.Т. Seisebayev took the lead of a radiation cytogenetics laboratory of the Institute of Botany AS Kazakh SSR and headed it for 30 years. В 1969 awarded an academic title as a senior staff scientist majoring in Radiobiology. In 1959–1992 A.T. Seisebayev was a Ph.D. student, a junior staff scientist, a senior staff scientist and a head of laboratory in the Institute of Botany, Institute of Nuclear physics and the Institute of Experimental Biology AS Kazakh SSR. In 1991 he defended a Ph.D thesis on the subject of "Modification of radiosensitivity and mutational variability in plants" majoring in Radiobiology and Genetics. After Semipalatinsk Test Site (СИП) was shut down in 1992 Akhmetzhan Telubayevich was transferred to a newly established "National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan", Kurchatov city. He was entrusted to set up the Institute of Radiation Safety and Ecology NNC RK. In such highly tough and strenuous conditions along with the development of a scientific line of the Institute, proper skills of an administrator and an economic executive had to be gained. A well coordinated team, consisting of the first Directors of the Institute on NNC RK headed by Gadlet Andiyanovich Batyrbekov, designed a Republican industrial scientific and technical program "Development of atomic energy in the Republic of Kazakhstan", viability of which had been verified with time, and defined a strategic line for the Center and, respectively, for IRSE. This program had biological lines of research managed and supervised by A.T. Seisebayev. As a result of organizational, technical and creative activity Akhmetzhan Tleubayevich made a substantial contribution to organization and formation of the Institute.
Smagulov Samat Gabdrasilovich
In 1995 Smagulov Samat Gabdrasilovich was appointed to the position of the Director of the Institute (1995–1997). S.G. Smagulov (14.07.1946 - 11.07.2014) was a retired colonel, Candidate of Technical Sciences . In 1970 Samat Gabdrasilovich graduated from Tomsk Polytechnic University majoring in "Radiation chemistry". After graduation he was sent to the Service of Special Inspection of the Ministry of USSR Defense. S.G. Smagulov worked at Semipalatinsk Test Site between 1970 and 1998 during frequent underground nuclear tests. Between 1970 and 1975 he oversaw environmental radioactivity in order to identify nuclear debris of explosions conducted at other test sites; between 1975 and 1989 he was directly involved in over 100 nuclear tests; 1988 to 1994 – a chief of the Radiation Safety Service of Semipalatinsk Test Site. 1994 to 1995 he held the position of a Department head. Being a Director S.G. Smagulov was actively engaged in defining IRSE scientific priorities and solving priority tasks as well as made a significant contribution to laborious and labour-intensive management of work on elimination of the entire infrastructure of nuclear weapon tests at STS that assisted in successfully and timely implemented international tripartite agreements of RK (Kazakhstan, Russia, the USA). Samat Gabdrasilovich (in co-authorship) was awarded the RF Governmental Prize in science and technology (1996) for successfully completed operations on dismantling of the last nuclear charge at Semipalatinsk Test Site. From S.G. Smagulov's memories: "Nuclear and explosive technologies were designed and tried out so seriously like no others in the history of mankind. The Soviet nuclear program, reportedly, proved to be none the worse and largely even more effective than the American pioneer one. We have something to be proud of!" (S. Smagulov. Tokens of fate. Nuclear warhead test operator's reminiscences. – Sarov, 2012. – 212 p.).
Akhmetov Murat Abdrashitovich
In June of 1997 Akhmetov Murat Abdrashitovich was appointed an IRSE director. In 1975 M.A. Akhmetov (date of birth - April 4, 1953) graduated the Novosibirsk State University majoring in Physics, Candidate of Technical Sciences (2001). Being the chief of the RK Atomic Energy Agency Department he first came to Kurchatov in November of 1993 along with the first IAEA's mission to the test site. Later M.A. Akhmetov would repeatedly come to Kurchatov to accompany foreign and international expert teams as well as to participate in research projects and conferences. Over the period of working as a Director he showed profound expertise, scrupulously gained insight into a task that was set and soon found optimal ways of solution. Since Murat Abdrashitovich correctly and clearly set tasks and being at the same time an intellectual with a big heart, he was easy to work with. In M.A. Akhmetov's time radioecological, medical and biological studies continued, natural environment was being restored and health of people was being recovered in regions of the Republic of Kazakhstan where explosions were conducted and there were enterprises of atomic industry and facilities. Under Murat Abdrashitovich's guidance, the Institute began the first areal research into test site territory. First of all it concerned the central part along radioactive plumes passing from venues of atmospheric tests in southern and south-eastern directions and then the staff proceeded with research into the southern part of the test site. That was the territory of the Abralinsk region in the south of STS of 1,332 km2. Afterwards, there were environmental measures developed and implemented for radioactively contaminated areas, suggestions to use those areas in the national economy. While heading IRSE NNC RK, M.A. Akhmetov made a significant contribution to work management on elimination of nuclear weapons infrastructure at STS which assisted in successfully and timely implemented RK international agreements. For a great personal contribution to nuclear tests remediation in Kazakhstan he was awarded a "Yeren yenbegi ushin" medal on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the test site closure (August 27, 2001).
Larisa Denisovna Ptitskaya
In 2002, the Institute was taken over by Larisa Denisovna Ptitskaya. L.D. Ptitskaya (date of birth - February 23, 1941) started her labour activity in 1967 as an engineer of "Kazgidromet" enterprise right after graduation from the Kazakh State University. After 2 years she became the head of supervisory service for radioactive contamination of the natural environment in the territory of Kazakhstan and Central Asia. In 1986 for her conscientious work L.D. Ptitskaya was awarded a USSR national decoration – a "For Distinguished labour" medal and in 1991 she was awarded a "Labour Veteran" medal. Besides, Larisa Denisovna was involved in remediation of the Chernobyl NPP accident. In 1995 Larisa Denisovna, as an experienced specialist in radioecology, was employed by NNC RK to the position of an IRSE Deputy Director for Science, then transferred to the position of a Director. Larisa Denisovna was a scientific and research supervisor in radioecology for the territory of the former Semipalatinsk Test Site, an executive officer for assessment of radioecological situation all over the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan, a project manager as part of the INTAS program. In her time the Republican budget program "STS. Radiation Safety Assurance" began. For the last 3 years of 17 that she had worked, she was a Deputy Director for Radiation Safety Assurance at Semipalatinsk Test Site. Under the guidance of L.D. Ptitskaya a methodical hardware basis was created and introduced. The basis allows to get down to radiochemical and gamma-spectrometric analyses and above all start determining isotopes of weapon-grade plutonium in samples collected. At the same time a new team of young specialists was being formed for radioecological research. A great attention was given to advanced training. Biological research began. Apart from radioecological research, L.D. Ptitskaya contributed a lot to elimination of military infrastructure in the STS territory. She was directly involved in defense of the Ministry of Ecology prepared by the Environmental Impact Assessment Institute to destroy 181 tunnels, a few dozens of boreholes and consequences of "Omega" experiments. Larisa Denisovna supervised scientific and research programs under INTAS and ISTC.
Lukashenko Sergey Nikolayevich
In 2006 Sergey Nikolayevich Lukashenko was appointed a Deputy Director General for Radioecology, National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan as well as an IRSE Director. In 1986 S.N. Lukashenko (date of birth – December 14, 1962) graduated from the Lensovet Leningrad Institute (Technical University), engineering physics and chemistry faculty majoring in "Radiaiton Chemistry". In 1986 he was sent to the Institute of Nuclear Physics (INP) of the Kazakh SSR Academy of Sciences and placed on the radioactive isotope laborator. Sergey Nikolayevich worked in the laboratory until 1997 from being a lab-assistant to a junior staff scientist. In 1997 he was appointed a head of Applied Nuclear Physics Department (ANPD), the Institute of Nuclear Physics and held this position as long as 2006. Over that period with S.N. Lukashenko directly involved a new laboratory for low-background measurements was established (LLM) which he headed until 2006. After being assigned to the position of the Deputy Director General for Radioecology NNC RK Sergey Nikolayevich was also charged with Institute management. Over the period S.N. Lukashenko worked the Institute expanded its scope of activities including such areas as development of individual dosimetry methods, development of new methods to determine internal exposure doses, development of new methods for radioactive waste treatment. S.N. Lukashenko also greatly contributed to proficiency of Institute's young scientists. Under the guidance of Sergey Nikolayevich, the Institute began large-scale radiobiological and radioecological research. The first full-scale experiments were set up in the territory of Semipalatinsk Test Site (STS). Methodological approaches were developed and scientifically justified for assessing contamination levels of aquatic environment, air basin, vegetation cover based on regularities of artificial radionuclides transfer in "water-bottom sediments", soil-air", "soil-vegetation cover" systems and numerical parameters obtained to characterize these regularities. An experimental and theoretical assessment of the quality of farm products produced at STS was made and the possibility to produce it with a guaranteed quality in terms of radiation was proved. In 2016 S.N. Lukashenko defended a doctoral thesis (Doctor of Biological Sciences) "Radioecological justification to return areas of Semipalatinsk Test Site to the economic use: fundamental and applied aspects".


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Q: How to take mysql database backup using whenever gem in ruby? I am using the whenever gem for taking the mysql database backup, I used cron job for this but when I run a shell command using system"mysqldump -u root -ppassword app_production > /output_path/app_production.sql",this will run only once after running whenever --update-crontab store command on terminal.
My schedule.rb is:
set :output, "/output_path/app_production.sql"
set :environment, 'production'

every 59.minute do
  system"mysqldump -u root -ppassword app_production > /path/app_production.sql"
  # runner "MyModel.some_method"
  # rake "some:great:rake:task"
end

Am I missing something in this ?

A: There may be a few things to check to make sure that this is running.  Are you sure that app_production.sql contains a correct dump? Or is the file created without any content?  Also try using command instead of system.  I think command is a whenever command where system is ruby.
every 59.minutes do
  command "mysqldump -u root -ppassword app_production > /path/app_production.sql"
  # runner "MyModel.some_method"
  # rake "some:great:rake:task"
end

UPDATE:
you can also look at the backup gem for backup purposes.  It has a lot of features including notifications so I suggest you look at it.

A: I already get this problem. the solution is :
set :output, "/output_path/app_production.sql"
set :environment, 'production'
every 59.minute do
   command "mysqldump -u root -ppassword app_production"
   # runner "MyModel.some_method"
   # rake "some:great:rake:task"
end

after running the command, take a look now at the ouput  file
I hope that it can help you :)


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Soil and erosion mapping on the Port Hills and Banks Peninsula
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Environment Canterbury (ECan) Environment Canterbury (ECan) 5 years 11 months
Start date: 01 Jul 2017
Producing up-to-date soil maps
Improving the soil data coverage of New Zealand is an ongoing effort by MWLR that is financially supported by many regional councils. While substantial progress has been made in flat and rolling country, hill country is still underrepresented in the national soil map and database despite its importance for livestock farming, forestry, conservation and recreation. Also, soil material that erodes from hill country will not only degrade the soil cover in the hills but has a significant impact on water quality, ecosystem health and infrastructure.
From previous work dating back to the 1930s, we already have a general understanding about the soil pattern on Banks Peninsula. There are two dominant soil types and soil forming environments:
Deeper soils developed from loess – a fine-grained, windblown sediment. They occupy the lower slopes and flatter ridge top positions.
The steeper slopes, where loess did not accumulate, are dominated by shallower and stonier soils derived from the dark-coloured volcanic rock that is so typical for most of Banks Peninsula.
The differences in the soils origins are directly linked to their functionality: susceptibility to erosion, movement of water in the soil, nutrient supply to plants, and the retention of contaminants.
Improving our knowledge of the soils on Banks Peninsula and other hilly land in New Zealand is therefore vital to making better land use and management decisions to safeguard and enhance the benefits of the New Zealand environment.
Since 2017 Environment Canterbury has been funding MWLR to undertake soil and erosion mapping on Banks Peninsula, including the Port Hills. Over the next years we will incrementally add new areas to S-map, eventually covering the whole peninsula. The initial focus is to secure and incorporate legacy data and concentrate on the land surrounding Lyttelton Harbour, supporting the ongoing effort to minimise erosion and sedimentation that negatively affects its water quality and ecology.
Stage 1 (2017-2018): New soil and erosion mapping was undertaken on the eastern side of the Port Hills from the Sign of the Kiwi to Gebbies Pass; the legacy soil maps from the 1980's were integrated into S-map (the northern slopes between Worsley's Spur and Godley Head, and the western slopes between Worsley's Spur and Gebbies Pass).
Stage 2 (2018-2019): New soil and erosion mapping from Gebbies Pass to Adderley Head to cover all of the Lyttelton Harbour catchment.
Stage 3 (2020-2023): Remaining areas of Banks Peninsula.
Stages 1 and 2 of the project have been completed, while Stage 3 is currently in progression.
In this work we combine a mix of methods:
Analysis of spatial data (e.g., aerial imagery, topography, climate) using geographic information systems and geo-statistics to guide field work
Field descriptions of morphological properties of soils, sediments and rock at selected locations across the area
Chemical laboratory analysis of selected soils and soil properties
Development and testing of predictive, spatial models for various soil properties in Banks Peninsula using geostatistics.
Survey outcomes
The soil maps resulting from Stages 1 and 2 have been uploaded to S-map Online, and can be explored from there.
A scientific, peer-reviewed article on how the different soil-forming factors in the area impact on soil formation has been published in the JGR Earth Surface Journal.
http://doi.org/10.1029/2021JF006198
Historic soil surveys
Harris & Harris (1938): Soil survey of Duvauchelle Bay - Wainui District, Banks Peninsula.
http://doi.org/10.7931/DL1-SBP-0001A
Griffiths 1974: Soils of part of the Port Hills and adjacent plains, Canterbury, New Zealand.
New Zealand Soil Bureau Bulletin 35 (pdf, 7.9MB)
Trangmar & Cutler (1983): Soils and erosion of the Sumner region of the Port Hills.
http://doi.org/10.7931/DL1-SSR-70
Trangmar (1986): Soil-landscape relationships, Barrys Bay-Wainui district, Banks Peninsula
http://doi.org/10.7931/DL1-DOR-CH20
Figure 3: Assessing soil characteristics in the Port Hills by augering (May 2018)
Figure 4: Erosion features in the Port Hills (May 2018)
Figure 2: Section through hillside showing distribution of soil derived from loess and basalt in rel…
Figure 5: Tunnel gully erosion in loess dominated soils.
Figure 1: Typical ridge cross section in the Port Hills, showing regolith types and erosion; source:…
Ian Lynn
Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand
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Lynn (2018): Best practice erosion and sediment control measures for the rural landscape of the Port Hills – a literature review. Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research Contract Report LC3299 (pdf, 2.4 MB)
Trangmar (2003): Soil conservation guidelines for the Port Hills. Landcare Research Contract Report LC0203/111 (pdf, 8.5 MB)
View soil mapping results in S-map Online (free registration required)