LOS ANGELES, 5 AUGUST 2010 — Editor's Note: In his series of comic essays, The Imagined Dénouement, Mr. Shulaise selects a book he has not read and — based solely on the appearance of its cover — presupposes what the final page would (or more accurately, should) be.
and virulent, which will have the added benefit of greatly reducing the population of any flesh-eating zombies.
The survivors of an atomic disaster will have to tap into the same pioneer spirit that made the USA the greatest and most advanced civilization in the history of the world. Will you, your wife and your children face hardships? The plain answer is "yes." But stop for a minute and think of the benefits a nuclear disaster will bring.
What will you see as you exit your disaster shelter? A world nearly wiped clean of the myriad of problems that burdened it before! The industries that employed unsavory workers will be idle. The insects that made your family picnics difficult to enjoy will be gone. The modern influences that threatened your children – everything from the popular "music" on the radio to the unwelcome philosophies of the new breed of public school teachers – will be silenced!
And just who will you meet in this newly-washed world? People like you! Those who shared the same forethought, the same vital urge to plan ahead, the same valiant fortitude you showed. People who think like you, look like you, speak the same language and share the same values as you. Gone will be the cacophony of gobbledy-gook languages and the crazy-quilt of foreign ideas expressed by those who spoke them!
You and your fellow survivors will share so much in common that the goal to rebuild, renew and re-arm the new USA will be quickly and easily achieved. You will march shoulder to shoulder bravely into the future, secure in the knowledge that atomic disaster can be survived. And, as with anything, practice makes perfect. Having survived the first attack, you will be all the better prepared for the inevitable future ones.
God bless you, brave pioneer! And God bless the USA!
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Forget chips and cheese or chips and curry sauce - Max's Bar and Grill has taken Glasgow's love for chips to another level.
Forget chips and cheese. Move over chips and gravy.
Max's Bar and Grill have just created the most Scottish version of chips, cheese and gravy we've ever seen.
The Queen Street pub have came up with crispy fries topped with black pudding, haggis, mince and cheese curds - all smothered in whisky sauce.
The Poutine special is selling for £4.50 and is already causing a stir on social media with many hungry eaters wanting to try them out.
It could be a step too far, but if you ask us, they look pretty tasty!


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Orlando City SC: The Final 3
A Good September
After a July and August to forget, September has given the Lions their best start of the season. Capturing nine points in three matches, and collecting their first three game win streak of the season, the Lions are making a post season push. With just three matches left, the soccer lads are hoping to slide into the 6th and final play-off spot in the east. It won't be easy, but the current run of form has given everyone involved a lot of hope.
Rookie Scoring Record Shattered
Cyle Larin broke the single season rookie scoring record in a 5-2 win over the east leading New York Red Bulls. Larin has been knocking on the door of breaking the record since tying it back on August 1st, where he scored two goals against the Columbus Crew. With a hat trick against the Red Bulls this past Friday, Cyle Larin was not only able to break the record but completely shatter it. The rookie record of 11 goals in a single season has been in place since 2003, but it now belongs to Cyle with 14. With three matches to go, only Larin knows what the final number will be. In any case, this should secure the MLS Rookie of the Year honor for him.
Montreal Impact Are Coming to Town.
If you have yet to make it to an Orlando City SC match, this Saturday, October 3rd will be an awesome one. In a match with HUGE play-off implications, you can be sure the Citrus Bowl will be rocking on Saturday night. This is the first trip to Orlando for the Impact, and I can assure you it will be one they won't forget! In the previous two meetings, the Lions traveled north of the border to claim a draw and a loss at the hands of Montreal. The Lions hope to make history on Saturday as they try to shut down former Chelsea scoring legend, Didier Drogba. With 7 goals in 6 games, the task looms large for the Lions to shut Drogba down. The battle for the 6th and final play-off spot will be decided in this match-up. Make no mistake, the club and the supporters will pull out all the stops to secure the three points in this one.
Tickets Still Available
Tickets are still available for the final two home games of the season. Visit the Orlando City SC website for more information.
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Hey, guys! Our moderator and friend ESToomere has kindly set up a multiplayer match for Metrocop for later today. We're gonna be playing the oft-forgotten Day of Defeat: Source, starting at 4pm UTC. You can see more details of the event, including server info, on the Steam Group.
You're all invited to join and take part in the fun of Nazi/Allied shooting; we might also end up playing some other games if we feel like it. If you don't own Day of Defeat: Source, it's just $9.99/€6.99 on Steam, go get!
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Many years later, when Moses had grown up, he went out to visit his own people, the Hebrews, and he saw how hard they were forced to work. During his visit, he saw an Egyptian beating one of his fellow Hebrews. After looking in all directions to make sure no one was watching, Moses killed the Egyptian and hid the body in the sand.— Exodus 2:11-12Underneath Moses' robes of royalty beat the heart of an Israelite. He believed in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Moses saw how his people were being mistreated as slaves. He could have said, "That is tough for them, but I have it made in the shade right now. I don't want to do anything to jeopardize my position."
But Moses' heart went out to the Hebrew people. He wanted to do something for them. What he did was the wrong thing, but I think we could safely say that his heart was in the right place. Hebrews 11 tells us, "It was by faith that Moses, when he grew up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He chose to share the oppression of God's people instead of enjoying the fleeting pleasures of sin" (verses 24–25).
Moses thought it was better to suffer than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. This reminds us that God's worst is better than the world's best. What are the hardest things about being a Christian? Being persecuted, being harassed for your faith—those are the worst things about being a Christian, I would suppose.
What is the best the world has to offer? I guess it would be success, fame, fortune, or maybe all the pleasures that can be experienced. But the worst the Christian life has to offer is still better than what the world has to offer.
Yes, there is fleeting pleasure in sin. I will tell you to stay away from sin, but I won't tell you that it is never any fun. There is that rush. There is that excitement. But then there are the repercussions.
Moses decided to take the hardest thing rather than the best of all that Egypt could offer him.


Taking their inspiration from cellular membranes, researchers from the Institut Européen des Membranes (CNRS / ENSCM / Université Montpellier 2) in collaboration with the Institut de Chimie Radicalaire (CNRS / Aix-Marseille Université) have developed the first dynamic membrane for water filtration which, depending on the water pressure, can adjust the size of its pores in an autonomous manner. In addition, it is capable of repairing itself if it breaks, thereby prolonging its lifetime and ensuring greater safety of the filtered product. This research is published in the journal Angewandte Chemie.
Whether made of ceramics or polymers, membranes are used in a wide range of applications, particularly in the pharmaceutical and food processing industries. Also involved in water desalination and the production of drinking water, the membrane market is growing by 10% each year. The membranes used until now are fixed structures, i.e. the size of their pores cannot be adjusted. Furthermore, they are liable to tear which, if not immediately detected, can be a health hazard.
Taking inspiration from cellular membranes, the team of researchers has developed a novel type of filter: a dynamic membrane whose pore size can be made to vary as a function of the pressure of water flowing through it. This membrane is made of a combination of three polymers with different solubilities that form micelles, nanoparticles in constant interaction with each other. Up to a certain pressure, when the force of water increases, these micelles have a tendency to flatten out and thus reduce the size of the pores within the membrane. For instance, at a low pressure of approximately 0.1 bars, the size of the pores is around 5 nanometers (1), which allows macromolecules and viruses to be filtered. By moderately increasing the pressure, pores of the order of 1 nanometer are obtained, which blocks the passage of salts, colorants and surfactants. However, if the pressure is raised to 5 bars, the morphology of the membrane undergoes a drastic change and the pores reach a diameter of more than 100 nanometers, which instead makes it possible to filter bacteria and suspended particulate matter. This unique property will allow users to employ a single type of membrane for all their filtration requirements.
But that is not all: these 1.3 micrometer-thick dynamic filters are capable of self-healing. If the membrane tears, the physical equilibrium that holds the micelles together is broken. The micelles then seek to restore this equilibrium and reorganize themselves so as to fill the tear. A perforation 85 times larger than the thickness of the membrane can thus be repaired without human intervention and without stopping the filtration operation. This self-healing ability means it is possible both to extend the lifetime of membranes and to enhance health safety guarantees.
Schematic representation of a membrane failure (red impact) immediately repaired by water flowing through it (blue).
Scanning electron microscopy image of the membrane with an atomic force microscopy enhancement of the surface.
Dynamic Interactive Membranes with Pressure-Driven Tunable Porosity and Self-Healing Ability. Prashant Tyagi, André Deratani, Denis Bouyer, Didier Cot, Valérie Gence, Mihail Barboiu, Trang N. T. Phan, Denis Bertin, Didier Gigmes, Damien Quemener. Angewandte Chemie. Published on-line on the 13 June 2012. DOI: 10.1002/anie.201201686.


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So, you're no longer happy with your short hair? Miss your long, luscious locks? Cheer up, you're not alone. We have all been there.
Now, if you're searching for a shortcut to making your hair grow faster, you should know there's no such thing as a scientific formula that will magically accelerate hair growth.
Your hair normally grows at about a quarter to half an inch monthly. However, hair growth depends on many factors, including your living habits, your diet, the products you're using, and your overall health, to name a few. That being said, there are a few things that are considered very useful to encourage faster hair growth.
Here are the products that I found very useful, when I had a massive hair loss. Thank god, my hair is back to it's normal self again. So, let's get your hair to the Elsa-worthy length, shall we?
Silk pillowcases for faster hair growth – truth or myth? Let's start by telling you that silk contains proteins that are beneficial for maintaining the healthiness of your hair follicles, so while you're sleeping on your silk pillowcase, your hair is nourished. Moreover, as a smooth fabric, silk doesn't bind hair the way other fabrics do. It's the only material that doesn't create friction between the pillow and your hair, so you will have less hair breakage, and thus, healthier hair. Considering these things, it's safe to say that silk pillowcases help encourage faster hair growth by keeping your hair perfectly healthy.
For silk linen, you should definitely try out Lily Silk, an online store selling 100% pure silk products, with worldwide free express shipping and 45-day money back guarantee.
Some people dispute the fact that biotin is beneficial for hair growth, saying there's no scientific basis that claim there's a relationship here, even though research shows that not only does biotin encourage faster hair growth, but also prevents dryness of hair.
In case you didn't know, Biotin is present in different foods, like dairy and eggs, carrots, wheat products, halibut, nuts, fruits, vegetables, and so on. Unfortunately, some people are not able to absorb biotin from food, so if you fall under that category of people, you should consider taking supplements of it or using biotin-based hair products. For Biotin supplements check out Herbspro or Professional Supplement Center.
For hair products with Biotin check out Perfume Worldwide, Overstock and Herbspro.
We all know that brushing with care like it is spun from gold is what our hair needs. And no, we're not saying you should go all Marcia Brady on your hair and brush it 100 times a day. You need to brush your hair three or four times tops, but what your hair really needs – especially when it comes to encouraging faster hair growth – is a good hair brush. Using the ideal brush for your type of hair will stimulate the circulation in your scalp and will also feed your hair follicles, thus ensuring undisturbed and faster hair growth. The best hair brush money can buy IMHP is Mason Pearson boar bristle. These brushes aren't cheap, but they are worth every penny. Check them out at Straweberrynet.com.
Sorry if I'm acting like Captain Obvious here, but I cannot emphasize enough the fact that heat damages the hair. So, try not to repeatedly crimp, perm, curl, or bleach your hair. These are processes that seriously alter your hair and damage the natural makeup of every strand. However, drying or styling the hair manually is not always possible, so make sure you're using heat protectors every time you're heat styling your hair. Heat protector products reduce the hair porosity, reduce moisture loss, and lubricate the hair surface, while maintaining the hair fresh and encouraging healthier and faster hair growth. You can find excellent heat protectors in very reasonable prices at HQhair.
Scalp massage works like a charm; rub the oil into the scalp, wait for a while and voilà –you'll see the difference in no time! Not only will your hair feel softer and thicker, but the massage will encourage faster hair growth. Now, some people opt for homemade oil treatments, but why bother? There are oil products for massaging scalp made by professionals who know what they're doing. There are different brands of such products, and the reason why they are so popular is because they retain the moisture of your hair and encourage growth.
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There is something for everyone in League City. Old League City offers historic homes with massive oaks lining the streets. The "coastal" League City-Kemah area has the second largest sailing marina in the United States with adjacent communities enjoying both a master planned community and coastal living feel. West of I-45 "west League City" contains many new homes with well designed communities and amenities. There are many excellent schools in League City to choose from.


Lea Michele has a new role - she'll be appearing alongside heartthrob Charlie Hunnam in motorcycle club drama Sons of Anarchy.
She'll reportedly take on the role of Gertie, who is described as "an empathetic truck stop waitress and single mother who connects with Gemma [Katey Sagal] during a difficult time".
The next season of Sons is planned to be the last, but Kurt Sutter did reveal that a prequel series is planned to be in the pipeline in a few years time, once he's had a break from the show.


I never really wanted to be in business, especially anything that had to do with selling. I fell into the olive oil biz to supply my own habit.
We took our first trip to Italy more than 20 years ago because my wife Judith is Italian-American. We loved the countryside, the food, and especially the people. And I had my olive oil epiphany. Most Americans never taste the kind of olive oil that really makes Italian food what it is.
I realized that the best olive oil is rarely exported. It's not really economical since the good stuff is mainly produced in small quantities and can't supply the demand of a mass market like the entire US. I knew I couldn't go back to supermarket oil, so I carried home several liters, planning to hoard it until we could afford to go back to Italy.
We did make it back, and in 1999 we were driving from Sicily to Rome to catch a plane home. We had to spend the night someplace, and even though the restaurant was closed that particular night, we stayed at Don Alfonso. The next day chef and owner Alfonso Iaccarino showed us around the family farm, and we left with pasta, tomato sauce, and extra virgin olive oil.
We had to rush off because the road down to Sorrento was under construction and would be closed for the afternoon. In the car, Judith turned to me and said, "you should import that olive oil." So it started.
On later trips I met Marco Bettini in Umbria, and decided to offer his family's incredible olive oil. I was also able to finally start importing Olio Novo from Chianni, the little town in Tuscany where we stayed on our first trip. The Sicilian oil has special meaning for us, since Judith's grandmother was born there in 1887. The California olive oil industry has matured and offers extra virgin olive oils as good as any produced in the old world.
- Don't lose any money.
- Have plenty of good olive oil in my kitchen.
- Go to Italy more often.
It's worked so far, although we don't go to Italy as much as we'd like to. Over the years I've found other things I want to eat, and I've added them to the Real Good Food offerings. What started as a way to keep my own kitchen supplied now provides extra virgin olive oil and other ingredients to Portland's best restaurants and home cooks. But I'm still my own best customer.


About: The Surrey Starlets were formed in 1998 when programme director Kim Cope formed an after school club in Chessington as a way for the youth of Surrey to keep off the streets and become part of an athletic team. Entering their first competition only a year later, the Starlets placed 2nd and have gone from strength to strength ever since. With athletes ranging from 5-30 in age, the Surrey Starlets have gained success in competing both nationally and internationally and have been given the opportunity to represent Britain at the World Cheerleading Championships in 2007, 2013, 2014 with invitations to 2015 and 2016, and have gained a 10th place in the team event as well as 5th in the group stunt division. The Starlets aim to give the youth of Surrey the opportunity to compete at a national level whilst learning life skills such as team work.
We are now running weekly recreational cheer classes in addition to our competitive squads. These are a perfect opportunity for new athletes to gain some experience and enjoy taking part in the sport without the pressure or commitment of competing.
Classes cost £7 per week and fees are collected half termly.
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The email era is over: candidates are on their phones! Each time you change the status of an application in your Talent Clue, they will receive push notifications on their phone. They will be informed of the entire process, without having to do anything extra.
When you post your offer, you will always be able to see what it looks like in the app. You can add a header image and multimedia content in the description and requirements, but above all you can feel confident that the mobile application experience will be extremely positive.
We make it really easy for you. Every time you post your offer on a channel (your web, social networks, aggregators...), it will automatically be posted on the mobile app at the same time. Your candidates will be able to search through all of your offers and apply using their mobile device.
No more filling out forms with tiny fields and a thousand steps. Now your candidates can apply in one swipe! They only have to swipe right to apply, or swipe left to continue viewing other offers.
By searching through your talent pool, you will get a list of candidates that fit your new vacancy. And after? Directly invite them to apply with a mobile notification! With a single swipe, they'll be yours once again.
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In 2016, Europe launched the Levi's® Music Project, designed to provide access to music education in areas that need it most, whilst partnering with the most loved and relevant music artists in the world. We sat down with Rhodri Evans, who is leading the project across Europe. He looked back at some of the highlights of 2018 and gave us a sneak preview of what to expect this year.
The Levi's® Music Project brings together two of our core tenants as a brand and a company, that giving back never goes out of style, and our brand's heritage in music. Since its launch, the consumer and industry reaction has been extremely positive.
Today, the project is active in four markets across Europe – the UK, France, Germany and Spain – and we have 10 community music spaces that together deliver hundreds of hours of free music education every week. It's a project that is really shifting the dial with the consumer for the positive.
Germany: Our group of young musicians in Kassel had the chance to play on stage at the 'Milky Chance and Friends' festival in front of more than 9,000 people.
Spain: Our first Spanish project, in partnership with Rosalĺa, concluded with a special performance at the famous Apolo venue in Barcelona.
UK: We launched our fourth UK project in Liverpool in partnership with rapper Loyle Carner and Liverpool Football Club to great success.
France: We established the project's first full-time studio location in Paris in partnership with the Main's D'Oeuvres organisation and our artist partner Gaёl Faye.
On an industry level, the project was shortlisted for a Cannes Lion Award and was commended in the prestigious Campaign Week Awards in the UK.
In the UK, we will be taking over a whole venue at the Liverpool Sound City festival – with a mixture of public learning spaces, music master classes and live performances where Loyle Carner and his group of local young musicians will show the world the music they have been working on.
The French project also plans an amazing end celebration with a similar live event to the UK, featuring Gaёl and his music students performing their collaborative music.


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Permanent magnet d.c. motors are same as that of ordinary d.c. shunt motor with the difference that there is permanent magnet instead of stationary field winding for producing the required magnetic flux. These stationary electromagnets are fixed to the outer shell of the motor.
The constructional features of permanent magnet d.c. motor is shown in the Fig. 1. As seen from the figure the cylindrical steel stator supporting the electromagnets also provides return path for the magnetic flux as it is made up of magnetic material.
The armature (or rotor) consists of slots for windings, commutator segments and brushes same as those in conventional d.c. motors. The stator is having some structure having cylindrical shell of uniform thickness which is magnetized in radial direction. The material used for permanent magnet is having high residual flux density and high coercivity. For the motors having the rating upto 150 kW. The material like Alnico may be used. The ferrite magnets are are used in the fractional kilowatt motors while rate earth magnets even though costly are economical in small and large motors. The materials used in rate earth magnets are newly developed materials like somarium cobalt and neodymium-iron-cobalt which gives high residual flux density, high coercivity with maximum energy product.
The latest trend is to use neodymium-iron-cobalt material which gives large flux density, coercivity and maximum energy product than somarium cobalt. It is also having good mechanical properties and comparatively less expensive.
These motor normally run on 6 V, 12 V or 24 V d.c. supply. This d.c. supply can be made available from batteries or from rectification (a.c. to d.c.). Because of the interaction between flux produced by permanent magnets and current carried by the armature, the torque is produced.
The equivalent circuit of a permanent magnet d.c. motor is as shown in the Fig. 2.
Ra is representing the resistance of the armature winding. The field winding connections are absent because of permanent magnets.
The set of typical performance characteristics of permanent magnet d.c. motors are shown in the Fig. 3.
The speed-torque characteristics are almost linear which makes it suitable in servomotors. With increase in torque the current increases. The efficiency of this motors is better than conventional motors owing to absence of field losses. As the field flux is remaining constant, the speed control is not possible with flux control method. Thus the method used for speed control is armature control using a rheostat or using electronic circuits. The speed obtained are below the normal speed.
1. These motors do not require external excitation for producing magnetic fields. Thus there is saving in energy required for creating magnetic fields.
2. As the windings on the field are absent, the size of such motor is small as compared to equal rating conventional motor.
3. The cost of these machines is low.
4. The efficiency of these motors is high compared to conventional motors as the field losses are absent.
5. The motors designed upto 12 V or less produce less TV and radio interference.
6. These motors produce less air noise.
1. The excessive currents in the armature windings of these motors may demagnetize the permanent magnets because of armature reaction m.m.f. The other sources of demagnetization are improper design, or brush shift or temperature effects.
2. The flux density produced in the air gap by the permanent magnets is limited.
3. The speeds above normal speeds are not possible flux per pole can not be controlled.
4. As the magnets are totally enclosed to prevent them from magnetic junk, as compared to conventional motors their temperature is higher which is limitation in applications where the motor is used for short period.
These motors are extensively used in automobiles for windshield wipers and washers. They are also used in blowers used in heaters and air conditioners. They are also used to raise and lower windows and in slot cars. For disc drives in personal computers these motors are used. The rating available for these motors is upto 150 kW. These motors may also be used in applications such as fans and radio antennas, electric fuel pumps, marine engine starters, wheel chairs and cordless power tools. In toy industry, tooth brush, food mixer, ice crusher, vacuum cleaner and in portable electric tools these motors are extensively used.
ii) The motor output when running at 1800 r.p.m. when source voltage is 48 V.
iii) Stall torque when fed from 20 V source.
At no load, all the power developed is used to supply rotational losses.


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Developer Accidental Queens, creators of A Normal Lost Phone and Another Lost Phone, have a track record for making narrative focused adventure games within the framework of technology like smartphones and chat clients. Their newest game does not stray from what they're known for, but it is still an exciting project with a much bigger scope.
Alt-Frequencies is an audio focused experience that tells its story through radio stations.The hosts for these radio stations serve as the game's characters, each of them having distinct personalities and motivations. Players control a radio dial in a world that is stuck in a time loop, that resets every few minutes. Equipped with the ability to record conversations those hosts talk and then transmit them to other stations. You can manipulate conversations and information to progress the game's story.
What your character's motivations are and what that story exactly is, did not become clear in my demo. What is clear is that the time loop, how it affects the people of this world and the origins of it, will be a central part of the game's narrative.
The concept of Alt-Frequencies is certainly an evolution of what Accidental Queens has done and what some of their contemporaries, like Emily Is Away, have done. Having performances bring to life conversations that were only in text before and seeing how the game's narrative can branch out is exciting on paper.
I do have concerns that the inherent repetitive nature of the game's design – relisting to radio loops, discovering which conversation clips and which radio stations to send them to – can become frustrating. Still, the possibilities here and Accidental Queen's history have me really looking forward to Alt-Frequencies' full release this May. Alt-Frequencies is made with mobile gaming in mind, but it will also get a PC release.
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Regular client Steve hopped aboard today and this is the first trip we've had together where it wasn't blowing 30 MPH and stormy. Clear skies, a light breeze and 43 degree temperatures awaited us as we idled out of the marina. Steve is a solid fly fisherman and so we would be fly fishing today. We started fished hard and 2nd spot of the morning we see bait getting busted and jumping out of the water. No bites. Huh? We scaled down leader and changed the color of the fly and next cast Steve lands a nice bluefish. Several mackerels would either track the fly all the way to the boat or take a short swipe at the fly. Later on we found tarpon but they were not taking flies in spite of watching a few of them bust on bait. We ended the day on a wreck catching a few more fish before calling it a day.


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Jeremy Verdusco
KEYWORDS water industry / water treatment / well drilling
Knowing how to calculate the gallon-per-foot volume of a cylinder can save drillers money when it comes to grouting. Source: iStock
I drove over to Lansing in early February for the Michigan Ground Water Association's annual Fundamentals course for well drillers. Good stuff, and a big thanks to the MGWA for the hospitality.
The training featured a lot of great information, and I could only make it to the first day, so I'm sure I just scratched the surface. I listened to lectures on well classification, isolation distances and sanitary best-practices, as well as basics on rotary, cable, jet and auger drilling. I learned a lot. Drilling 101 was just what I needed. Yes, I've soaked up plenty of information about the industry in my short time at National Driller. But the learning doesn't stop and it only helps me serve you, the readers, better.
Great chance to take off my editor's cap, and put on a student cap for a day.
I want to take a minute to pass on a basic tip-mainly for rotary drillers, but really for anyone who uses grout products. Steve Buer of Buer Well Drilling mentioned it, and it seemed like it was both simple and, based on the reaction from the class, not very well known. It's a calculation for the number of gallons needed to fill an annular space.
The basic equation:
Diameter in inches squared x 0.0408 = gallons per foot
So, if a pipe has an interior diameter of 6 inches, that works out to 1.47 (rounded up) gallons per foot of space. If you have a 100-foot cylinder with a 6-inch interior diameter, that's 147 gallons. Of course, that fills the entire borehole, so grouting around a casing you'd subtract that from the total. For simplicity's sake, let's say the casing has an exterior diameter of 4 inches. That casing would displace 0.65 gallons per foot, or 65 gallons over the 100-foot length. Subtract 65 from 147, and you need about 82 gallons of grout (and if you're using much more than that, math isn't your problem).
Figuring there was more than one way to grout a well, I also dug around and found this equation, which does the same thing:
(Borehole interior diameter in inches squared – pipe exterior diameter in inches squared) ÷ 24.51 = gallons per foot
Using the same numbers: (36-16) ÷ 24.51 = 0.82
Again, multiply that by the 100 feet of well in the example and you get 82.
Now, I've never considered myself a math person. But I am a big fan of working smarter, not harder. Math has its uses, and in this case a little bit of it can save drillers a lot of money over time. So, write down one of these equations, plug it into your smartphone on the jobsite and stop wasting bentonite.
On page 40, you'll find our interview with Robert Bittner, P.E., the new president of the Deep Foundations Institute. That feature by freelance writer Holly Case originally appeared in The Foundations Report eNewsletter. If you're interested in that sector, you can subscribe through our website. Go to nationaldriller.com, click on Home, and then click on eNewsletters. You can also subscribe to National Driller's eNewsletter, and get the latest industry news between issues.
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Which may explain why Patrick dropped out of engineering school after a year and obtained a fine arts degree. A sculptor since he was 14, Patrick enrolled in the prestigious St. Martin School of Fine Arts in London in order to study at the feet of Sir Anthony Caro, (1924-2013) lauded as the greatest sculptor of his generation. "Not only was he my teacher but I got a job with him as his personal assistant." Later Patrick was invited to show at the Beckett gallery with Robert Bateman. "I had an early career doing wildlife sculpture. I haven't found my métier yet but I'm quite handy in stone or steel or bronze", says Patrick.
The second project is a monument Patrick designed to commemorate construction workers who were killed on the job. It sits at the offices of the International Union of Operating Engineers in Oakville." I wanted to depict something that was archetypal of construction in Canada," says Patrick. The monument uses three layers of materials—stone, concrete and steel representing the three historical phases of infrastructure in Canada.
"The columns are replicas of the Burlington Skyway, "said Patrick. "And then I wanted the theme of a garden in the sky and so it will be covered with wisteria. Wisteria represents rebirth, nobility…it is appropriate for honoring people. Construction workers die—if a policeman dies it's a state funeral…but not an immigrant worker—it's not even in the paper." In addition, the monument will align perfectly with the solstice twice a year". The names of those who died are carved inside the pylons.
Patrick Bermingham took over the company 20 years ago and almost immediately took steps to divest the ownership. "The chances of a company surviving into the 5th generation are one in a thousand," he said. He started by selling shares in the company to employees, and more recently the company was purchased by the French holding company,Vinci. "I chose them because they are very well run, very profitable and because they are the best chance to continue going forward in the future. So I've tried to set the company up for success in the long term", Patrick explained.
Will Vinci move the company? "Hamilton still provides an enormous advantage to us…a talented skilled labour pool that we need to work in the company…its well located—halfway between Paris and Tokyo. We work in a 1000 miles radius everywhere between Halifax and Calgary. And we work in the Arctic. And Internationally New York is the shortest trip I make, I get there in under an hour." To illustrate how beautifully situated Hamilton is, in 2014 Patrick invited then mayor Bob Bratina to breakfast on the high level bridge against the backdrop of Cootes Paradise, the Bay and the escarpment. He would like to see a sort of street party where the bridge would be closed and people be invited to picnic in the natural setting. A similar approach could be used in other Hamilton Neighbourhoods, he said.


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The new Cheddar Stuffed Pretzel Nuggets are a limited-time menu offering through December 2015 and like all Auntie Anne's pretzels, are freshly baked all day long. The average price point of the new product will be $4.99 and will allow guests to satisfy cravings any time of the day while out shopping or traveling.
The Cheddar Stuffed Pretzel Nuggets will mark the brand's first new pretzel product to join the menu since the roll-out of Mini Pretzel Dogs in 2013.
At its more than 1,500 locations around the world, Auntie Anne's mixes, twists and bakes pretzels from scratch all day long in full view of guests. Auntie Anne's can be found in malls, outlet centers, and Walmarts, as well as in non-traditional spaces including universities, airports, travel plazas, amusement parks, and military bases. In addition, it has extended the brand onto retailer's shelves and also serves as a distributor for fundraising products. Available at select retailers nationwide, pretzel fans can enjoy Auntie Anne's prepare-at-home products, from frozen Classic and Cinnamon Sugar Soft Pretzels and Pretzel Nuggets, to frozen Pretzel Dogs and Pretzel Pocket Sandwiches, to a versatile Pretzel Baking Kit. For more information, visit Auntie Anne's website, Facebook page, Twitter or YouTube account.
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"That number represents 58% growth from the 2021 Western Conference Finals. It is also up 17% from 2019, the last Conference Finals series played during the traditional window."
The NHL has been enjoying the fruits of its new media deals all year. Even a sweep in the Western Conference Finals couldn't slow down that momentum.
According to a press release from Turner, the Colorado Avalanche and Edmonton Oilers delivered the most-watched Western Conference Finals since 2015. The series averaged 1.8 million viewers over four games. All four games represent the most-watched Oilers games on cable ever.
Game 4 was the high water mark. The overtime thriller is the most-watched Western Conference Finals game on cable since 2013, peaking with an audience of 2.2 million.
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"I want the Black community to always know that they have somebody in me that's going to at least tell the world what we're feeling and why, whether I agree with it or not."
Stephen A. Smith is out promoting his new memoir Straight Shooter. He recently sat down for a conversation with Men's Health magazine.
Interviewer Rachel Epstein covers a wide variety of topics with Smith. Some are about what can be found in the book. Some are about the First Take star's public perception.
She asked how Smith balances the responsibility of representing the Black community with his brand. On ESPN, Smith is known for being unique and unapologetic for his sometimes over-the-top persona.
"Number one by being fair," he said. "By trying to gather as much information and educate myself on issues as much as I possibly can."
He added that he has never felt pressure to think a certain way or say a certain thing. Even if pressure existed, he prides himself on not giving in to it.
"I never feel an obligation to agree with my community. I believe we all have a right to think the way we want to think. But I do feel a responsibility to make sure that the perspective emanating from my community is heard, even if I disagree."
Stephen A. Smith is one of the highest-paid and most visible employees at ESPN. He said that a certain responsibility comes along with that status. He wants the Black community to know that even if he doesn't agree, he will make sure people know what he is hearing when he is on TV talking about an important subject.
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NBC has tabbed Kathryn Tappen as its sideline reporter for the network's upcoming coverage of Big Ten football, according to a report from Andrew Marchand of The New York Post.
According to Marchand, Tappen was in line to replace Michele Tafoya as the sideline reporter for Sunday Night Football but was passed over by the network in favor of Melissa Stark.
Tappen has hosted Notre Dame football's studio coverage and Peacock Sunday Night Football Final. She also worked as NBC's lead interviewer for its coverage of the PGA Tour, but left that broadcast team at the end of 2022 as part of the network's larger shakeup of its golf coverage.
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With our Instagram feeds inundated with Paris fashion week content for Spring, it's nice to have the little reminder that Kendall will forever be our off-duty style icon. With a wardrobe rife with everything from crop tops to menswear-inspired silhouettes, she's got a look for every occasion and we're certainly here for it.
No word yet whether Kendall will be making her way with her model besties to Paris Fashion Week before it's finale, but we still have a few days of high-fashion shows on the schedule and our fingers crossed that she'll make at least a few more appearances on the catwalks of the City of Lights.


With 2016 officially underway, it's time to leave last year in the past and embrace everything new—and that includes fashion trends. Though chilly temps might still be the norm in most parts of the country, spring styles are already front and center in the fashion world. And as much as I love my sweaters and boots, the latest designs for the spring season make me glad to live in a place where I don't have to wait until May to wear them! Keep an eye out for these must-try trends to add to your wardrobe in 2016.
As soon as Victoria Beckham's half-moon handbag design walked (or rather, was carried) down the runway at her Spring 2016 show during New York Fashion Week, fashion-followers everywhere starting lusting after the new "it" purse. As Glamour writes, the crescent-shaped style has all the key components of a bag of the season: it's highly Instagrammable, has a distinguishable shape, and, perhaps most importantly, it's roomy enough to hold all of your must-have items. Check, check, and check!
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If one thing is for certain, it's that this particular trend of 2016 is not made for the gym, tennis courts, or any other type of sweat-inducing activity. Spring's sneakers put a spin on the classic shape, elevating the once-simple shoe to a more interesting level. While some designers opted for a pointed toe or luxe fabrics, others showcased colorful stitching and metallic finishes. To find your new favorite pair of kicks, Lyst's shoe collection is a good place to start. The sampling of different designers from across the industry ensures you'll find just the right surprising sneakers for you.
A staple of '90s fashion, the slip dress is trending once again for the new year, and it's sexier than ever. The subtle, strappy slip of decades past has gotten a makeover, with feminine lace, ruching, and hints of graphic color. Still, if wearing the lingerie-inspired piece outside of your bedroom seems too risqué, top your slip dress with a light oversized sweater or layer a simple tee underneath.
What are you favorite trends for the 2016 year?


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Deborah Dugan is an American executive who was the first female president and CEO of the Recording Academy, which presents the Grammy Awards, in 2019 and 2020. She served as the president of Disney Publishing Worldwide from 2002 to 2006, having been at the company a total eight years, and CEO of Entertainment Rights North America from 2007 to 2009, and CEO of (RED) from 2011 to 2019. In April of 2022, she became CEO of diabetes nonprofit Beyond Type 1.

She has contributed to the Huffington Post and Forbes.com and appeared on Mad Money with Jim Cramer, PBS News Hour, and NPR's All Things Considered, among other outlets. Dugan has been the co-chair of the storytelling nonprofit the Moth since 2008.

Early life and career
Dugan grew up on Long Island and in Florida. Her father was Thomas Dugan, who worked for a time in the U.S. Justice Department and served as inspector general of the Peace Corps under Sargent Shriver, and her mother, a homemaker. Thomas passed away when his daughter was six, and she worked from a young age. She attended the University of Florida, majoring in education, making the dean's list, and graduated. She then went to and graduated from the University of Utah Law School. Dugan became a corporate attorney on Wall Street while doing pro-bono work for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.

Career
She transitioned to working at SBK Records, where she worked with artists like Wilson Phillips then when the company merged with EMI/Capitol Records, she became its executive vice president working with musicians like Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Tracy Chapman, and Joan Baez. She then worked for Disney Publishing Worldwide for eight years, becoming its president in 2002, where she oversaw 275 magazines, including Discover and Disney Magazine, and published more than 4,000 new books, generating $1.8 billion in global retail sales.

Dugan then worked for British media company Entertainment Rights as president and CEO of the North America division, restructuring it and growing its biggest content work, one year, 27 percent. She was senior advisor to the Tribeca Enterprises Board from 2009 to 2011,  where she evaluated and executed revenue streams for Robert DeNiro and Jane Rosenthal's company and rebranded its school.

CEO of (RED)
In 2011, Dugan started work as CEO of (RED), co-founded by Bono and Bobby Shriver after interviewing for a job that wasn't the right fit. The nonprofit aims to enlist the help of private companies and citizens in the global fight to eradicate AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa (it now tasks itself to also combat the effects of COVID-19). She rearranged her life to travel to Africa, among other things, and, under her tenure, (RED) began to partner with Coca-Cola, Salesforce, Bank of America, Vespa, Snapchat, Nickelodeon, Moschino, Jeremy Scott, Latin America's telecommunications companies Claro and Telcel, German multinational SAP, among others. Notable campaigns under Dugan also include the Super Bowl, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Beats by Dre, Starbucks, and Amazon. During this time the organization, with a team of 25 in New York, reached $660 million for the Global Fund and impacted the lives of more than 110 million.

From 2011 to 2015, Dugan also contributed to Huffington Post, in 2017 and 2018, to Forbes.com. In 2017 she was awarded PTTOW!'s Nelson Mandela Changemaker Award.

Recording Academy presidency and settlement
In response to the outrage over the low female representation at the 2018 Grammys and then-CEO/President Neil Portnow's comment that women musicians needed to "step up" in order to achieve parity, an 18-person task force led by Time's Up co-founder Tina Tchen was created to study the Recording Academy's problems and make recommendations. After a search, on May 8, 2019, its board of trustees confirmed that Dugan would be its next president and CEO. She began her tenure on August 1, 2019, succeeding Portnow. Dugan was the first woman president of the $60M nonprofit, and her contract was for three years.

On January 16, 2020, Dugan was relieved of her duties and placed on administrative leave, accused of bullying her assistant, whom she inherited from Portnow, resulting in the assistant taking a leave of absence. Recording Academy Chairman Harvey Mason Jr. took over as interim president and CEO. In response, Dugan made claims that the organization was complicit in corruption, citing "voting irregularities, financial mismanagement, 'exorbitant and unnecessary' legal bills, and conflicts of interest involving members of the academy's board, executive committee and outside lawyers". On March 2, 2020, the Recording Academy announced that it had officially fired her. A letter was sent to its members informing them of the action taken by its board of trustees. The organization also tightened their conflict of interest rules that June.

In April 2021, the Recording Academy eliminated its secret voting committees that existed for 28 years.
Within two months, it had settled with Dugan for an undisclosed amount.

Awards
 Forbess 100 Most Powerful Women, Social Entrepreneurism issue
 Elles Top Women to Help Change the World
 Innovation Fellow, Columbia University Business School
 Tribeca Disruptor Awards Fellow
 PTTOW!'s Nelson Mandela Changemaker Award

Board memberships and associations
Dugan is on the board of the Moth, co-chairing it since 2008, and the London-and-Nairobi-based creative nonprofit Girl Effect. She is also on the board of advisors of CITYarts.

Dugan is a member of Association of American Publishers, MPA – The Association of Magazine Media, and International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

External links
 Twitter account
 Dugan on Mad Money with Jim Cramer

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Q: How can I replace all the values of a Python dictionary with a range of values? I have the following dictionary:
mydict = {('a', 'b'): 28.379,
          ('c', 'd'): 32.292,
          ('e', 'f'): 61.295,
          ('g', 'h'): 112.593,
          ('i', 'j'): 117.975}

And I would like to replace all the values with a range from 1 to 5, but keep the order of the keys. As a result, I would get this:
mydict = {('a', 'b'): 1,
          ('c', 'd'): 2,
          ('e', 'f'): 3,
          ('g', 'h'): 4,
          ('i', 'j'): 5}

The length of the dictionary is actually 22000, so I need a range from 1 to 22000.
How can I do it?
Thanks in advance.

A: Using enumerate to iterate on the keys, you can do:
mydict = {('a', 'b'): 28.379,
          ('c', 'd'): 32.292,
          ('e', 'f'): 61.295,
          ('g', 'h'): 112.593,
          ('i', 'j'): 117.975}

for i, key in enumerate(mydict):  # iterates on the keys
    mydict[key] = i

print(mydict)
# {('a', 'b'): 0, ('c', 'd'): 1, ('e', 'f'): 2, ('g', 'h'): 3, ('i', 'j'): 4}

Important note: dicts are only officially ordered since Python 3.7 (and in the CPython implementation since 3.6), so this would n't make much sense with older versions of Python.

To answer your comment: enumerate takes an optional second parameter start(that defaults to 0)
So, if you want to start at 1, just do:
for i, key in enumerate(mydict, start=1):  # iterates on the keys
    mydict[key] = i

A: The most simple is to create another dictionary from the keys of the previous one.
mydict2=dict()
for i,key in enumerate(mydict):
    mydict2[key]=i+1

A: You can do this with a one-liner which is more compact:
mydict = {('a', 'b'): 28.379,
          ('c', 'd'): 32.292,
          ('e', 'f'): 61.295,
          ('g', 'h'): 112.593,
          ('i', 'j'): 117.975}

{k: i for i, (k, v) in enumerate(mydict.items())}

A: Pandas solution for this:
import pandas as pd
a = pd.DataFrame(mydict, index=[0]).T
a[0] = list(range(0,len(a)))
a.to_dict()[0]

#  {('a', 'b'): 0, ('c', 'd'): 1, ('e', 'f'): 2, ('g', 'h'): 3, ('i', 'j'): 4}

A: This can be done gracefully with dict.update and itertools.count, and explicit loops can be avoided:
>>> mydict = {('a', 'b'): 28.379,
...           ('c', 'd'): 32.292,
...           ('e', 'f'): 61.295,
...           ('g', 'h'): 112.593,
...           ('i', 'j'): 117.975}
>>> from itertools import count
>>> mydict.update(zip(mydict, count(1)))
>>> mydict
{('a', 'b'): 1, ('c', 'd'): 2, ('e', 'f'): 3, ('g', 'h'): 4, ('i', 'j'): 5}

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Strategic thinking is a focus on analyzing an organization's past and current situations to make decisions for future actions. Most of the analytical techniques managers use to think strategically are frameworks that allow them to identify, clarify, and understand relevant factors in setting an organization's future course. Such frameworks are invaluable to help one come to grips with an organization's complexities. When one thinks strategically, one is engaged in a guided process that organizes disparate information into a coherent set of ideas that can be discussed among organizational members. Strategic thinking results in a prediction of how the world works and how an organization should be involved in that world. A good strategy focuses minds, organizational energy, resources, and actions.
Strategy is a journey from a current state to a future state, mainly by creating an organization's position supported by a set of activities. The positioning refers to a market space for servicing customers or stakeholders. The activities are internal to the organization and include processes formed from a cumulative learning about how to do business.
Strategic thinking includes decisions about where to win and how to win in markets in order to maximize long term organizational value. Where to win includes decisions on positions in markets. How to win includes approaches to implementation. For example, an organization may choose to service customers in two different geographic markets, one that involves competing on price and another competing on specific product features. Each market is referred to as a business strategy that involves unique actions to achieve desired outcomes. Together, the two make a corporate strategy.
Once market decisions are made, the organization identifies, develops, and supports organizational competencies, strategic imperatives, and initiatives to implement the strategy. The strategic imperatives function as goals to increase the organization's effectiveness. On-going organizational excellence is necessary, but not sufficient for gaining competitive advantage which is what makes strategic thinking essential to organizations. As strategic decisions are made and implemented, an organization engages in change management to move the organization from a departure point to a preferred level of functioning. This entire process is often referred to as strategic planning, yet this attribution is a misnomer. Planning is only one part of the entire process.
This approach to strategic thinking involves knowing the sources of information to inform choices and knowing how to manage the risks inherent in the decision-making process. Strategic decisions are relatively long-term and include commitments that are not easily changed. Strategic decisions involve big bets and thus, are adventures into the unknown; the future is difficult to forecast and uncertainty, and possibly ignorance, are prevalent.
To start a major strategic thinking effort, leaders need to identify a core challenge the organization is facing. This challenge identification avoids developing a strategy that is devoid of organizational reality. Challenges often come from various places such as external threats, new market opportunities, or failures within an organization such as poor organizational design.
Executives and analysts study strategies to explain sustained differences in the performance of organizations. Strategy is the closest to a determinant of success as is possible. Thinking strategically helps organizational members gain control over the organization and its future. Strategic thinking is also a means of learning about organizations and how people manage them.
Too often business literature is replete with what managers must do to be effective. Managers have been learning to play by rule books developed by consultants and researchers, many of which have been developed just to be viewed as new. Information is often over-simplified and summarized into algorithms or success formulas. This newness and simplification can fly in the face of proven management principles that have withstood the test of time.
Proven principles and frameworks increase the clarity of an organization's critical thinking about the ways in which organizational members create and implement strategy by allocating resources to sustain or achieve competitive advantage. The creation and implementation processes are complicated because of the various types of uncertainties and tensions that create organizational risks. As allocation decisions are made, they are phrased to take into account these inevitable risks. For example, when deciding on a strategy one takes into account various sources of information such as market behavior, customer needs, the environment's macro-economic conditions, and the organization's competencies. As this information is reviewed and used to make decisions, organizational members are always cognizant of potentially missing information, the difficulties and cognitive biases inherent in decision making processes, and the politics involved with implementation. This awareness results in a constant critical review of information and processes.
Espoused versus actual strategy. Executives may tell others about what is the organization's strategy. A prudent analyst would develop his or her own analysis and strategic definition to decide if the espoused strategy is the actual strategy as enacted by the organization.
General Electric's Strategy: General Electric has been the focus of strategy discussions for decades. The company has been a management model as one of the few examples of a successful conglomerate, and a source of continued innovation. It has demonstrated how strategic thinking could create organizational value. Nothing seems to last forever. John Flannery took over the CEO position in late 2017 and was facing unprecedented challenges related to GE's strategy. Among the challenges was for GE to decide which strategy creates profitable growth. Which businesses would it shed (Flannery stated that he would sell $20 Billion worth of businesses)? Which would get more investment (such as jet engines and health care). Flannery went back to the basic strategic decisions discussed in this brief introduction. Going back to basics is often a critical step when companies experience persistent decline is their core metrics.
In future blogs I'll fill out these ideas and show how strategy can be an effective means to create organizational value.
[i] About DARPA. http://www.darpa.mil/about-us/about-darpa. Accessed May 8, 2018.


Some 1,000 persons attended a memorial meeting in Shaaray Zion Synagogue here yesterday for Isaac Shalom, prominent philanthropist, who died July 24 at the age of 81 and was buried four days later on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem. Mr. Shalom, a Brooklyn industrialist, had been president of Ozar Hatorah, an organization which provided religious and secular education for thousands of Jewish children in Moslem countries.
Sponsored by the Syrian Jewish community here – Mr. Shalom was a native of Aleppo, Syria – the memorial session heard eulogies by Rabbi Solomon David Sassoon, who flew from England for the purpose, as well as Rabbi Abraham Hecht, Orthodox leader; Samuel Haber, executive vice chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee; and Dr. Mordechai Hacohen, former director-general of Ozar Hatorah and now manager of the American Bank and Trust Co., New York.


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Inductee January 15, 2015
Best known for his dramatic photographs of the American West, Ansel Adams achieved a popularity that few other photographers have known. Dedicated to wilderness preservation, he succeeded in changing the way Americans perceived their natural environment.
Adams was born in San Francisco on February 20, 1902 to Charles and Olive Adams. When he was fourteen, he visited Yosemite and took some of his first photographs with a Brownie box camera. Inspired by the area's majesty, he joined the Sierra Club in 1919 and took a job as the custodian of the club's Yosemite headquarters. His interest in photography grew as he explored Yosemite's valleys and climbed her peaks. He discovered that he could make photographs that were "an austere and blazing poetry of the real."
In 1931 he published a book of photographs entitled Taos Pueblo, the first of more than three dozen books he would write during his career, and in 1936 he was selected for a solo exhibition at Alfred Stieglitz's famed gallery in New York City. He was instrumental in establishing the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, a major step in the recognition of photography as a legitimate art form. Though workshops, seminars and lectures, he educated and inspired countless photographers. His contributions to the technical realm of photography were immense, including the fundamental "Zone System," a set of techniques that help produce consistently excellent negatives and prints based on observation of the light and dark ranges in the subject.
Adams' lifelong association with the Sierra Club included 37 years on its board of directors. During his tenure, the Club evolved into a powerful national organization that lobbied to protect the environment. In 1968 Adams was awarded the Conservation Service Award, the Interior Department's highest civilian honor, and in 1980 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, for his efforts to preserve America's wild and scenic areas.
Adams died on April 24th, 1984 in Monterey, California. He was survived by his wife, Virginia, and their children, Michael and Anne. Later that year, the Minarets Wilderness in Inyo National Forest was renamed the Ansel Adams Wilderness, and in 1985, an 11,760-foot peak in the Sierra also was named for him.
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The city is seeking bids for a dredging project that represents the beginning of the end of the Blossom Street Extension ferry project.
"This is the start of Phase III, the final phase of the project," said Economic Development and Industrial Corporation Executive Director James Cowdell on Wednesday.
The $400,000 project will be funded through a grant from the Seaport Advisory Council. In June the Seaport Advisory Council awarded the city $3.2 million to pay for Phase III of the project. The council has invested a total of $5 million in hopes the project could see a ferry in port in under two years.
Bids are due for the dredging on Oct. 9.
Dredging season is on a short, very specified timetable in the Northeast, running from November to Jan. 15, 2013. Cowdell said dredging must be completed before the final Phase III work can begin.
Cowdell said he hopes the final work, which includes the actual pier for a ferry, installing a 60-foot wave attenuator and inland property upgrades, would get under way next spring.
"Then all that will be left to do is shopping for a boat," Cowdell said.
The project is already four years in the making. Phase I was completed in 2008 when EDIC rebuilt the boat ramp at the end of Blossom Street Extension and tore down an old building, as well as upgraded the drainage and put down new asphalt for the driveway. Phase II included installing a steel bulkhead that protects the shoreline while also expanding the waterfront access from 60-feet to 150-feet.
The dredging and ensuing construction are the last hurdles.


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It has been 75 years since the world economy has had a real depression. There have been plenty of recessions, some of them painful, but nothing to match the slump suffered in the 1930s.
But consider the following. Imports into China are down 45% year on year. Unemployment in the United States is rising at 600,000 a month. The German economy shrank by 2.1% in the final three months of last year. Factory output in Britain is dropping at a rate not seen since industry was on a three-day week during the miners' strike of 1974.
So is this the "Big One"? The honest answer is that we don't know and we might as well admit it. One reason we are in this mess is that we assumed far greater foresight than actually existed. All the fancy models purporting to show only a minuscule risk of financial blow-out were flawed. They assumed the complexity could be captured by mathematics and pseudo-science. One silver lining to the storm cloud over the global economy is that there will now be an overdue revolution in how we do economics. Already, the cutting edge of the profession is looking to other disciplines - biology and psychology in particular - to explain why models that work in theory come a cropper in practice.
As Richard Bronk notes in his fascinating new book*: "Standard economics assumes that economic agents are perfectly rational; that is the basis of its predictive equilibrium-based models. Modern versions generally allow for certain types of information problem and market failure, and recognise that institutions and even history play a role; but they still assume that these factors do not call into question the underlying model of agents as rational utility maximisers within those constraints."
Bronk's book is about the lessons economists can learn from the Romantic movement, from Wordsworth's poetry and the philosophy of Nietzsche. We all have passions, paranoias, dreams and delusions, he says, and these shape our future. "In many cases, economic activity is as much a function of creativity, imagination and sentiment as is the act of writing a poem or painting a picture."
There have been many economists down the years who have expressed scepticism about reducing their discipline to a mechanistic subject. Malthus told Ricardo to be wary of becoming too attached to abstract hypotheses; Schumpeter talked of creative destruction; Hayek saw the market as a voyage of discovery; Keynes stressed the importance of "animal spirits".
Somewhere down the years, these insights have been lost. It is as if physicists still thought that the Newtonian view of the world was all that mattered, and that Einstein had never been born.
In retrospect, Chuck Prince of Citigroup best summed up why life does not always turn out the way the models say it should. Three weeks before the crisis broke, Prince said there was so much liquidity around that the financial markets could not be disrupted by the turmoil already evident in the US sub-prime market. "When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated. But as long as the music is playing, you've got to get up and dance. We're still dancing."
Prince's comment is now seen as the height of folly, but it was not seen as such at the time. One commentator noted that defaults on junk bonds were running at their lowest rate since 1995 and it made sense for Citigroup to make money while the going was good. Most other players in the financial markets behaved the way Prince did, and those that didn't were investors who put their trust in judgment, feel and experience rather than on market signals.
What we now know is that even the very recent past is an unreliable guide to the future; that risks are not distributed in a linear and predictable way; that human beings do not always act rationally even when they think they are; and that shocks are much more likely than economic orthodoxy would suggest.
All of which explains why it is virtually impossible to say where the global economy goes from here. The big picture is of globalisation going into reverse, with industrial production and trade flows collapsing. Dharval Joshi, economist at RAB Capital, says that if history is any guide the UK and the US could well be braced for the Big One.
On the four occasions in the past 100 years when households in a major country have seen their net worth shrink there has been a strong correlation with lost output. For every three percentage point drop in net household worth in the US during the Great Depression, the Japanese crash of the 1990s, the UK housing collapse of the late 1980s and the US dotcom bust, there is a subsequent one point drop in output.
In the downturn, lower house and equity prices have seen wealth as a percentage of GDP fall by 90% in the US and 80% in the UK. That would imply a 25-30% shortfall in output in the US and Britain relative to trend - which would fully justify Ed Balls's comment that this could be the most serious global recession in more than 100 years.
This is not yet the conventional wisdom, though the mood is getting gloomier. Mervyn King says Britain is in a deep recession; he says cheap money, fiscal expansion and the "unconventional measures" the Bank of England has up its sleeve will eventually work. Even so, at its worst point later this year, King thinks the economy will be contracting at an annual rate of 4% - with the risk that it could be worse than that.
Interestingly, the governor cited Keynes at the Bank's inflation report press conference, noting that animal spirits were currently depressed. With confidence so weak, it is hard to envisage an early or a robust recovery.
Having said that, we may be as blind to the potential for an upswing as we were to the looming crisis. Baroness Vadera was recently pilloried for mentioning "green shoots", yet there have been a few in recent weeks - signs of buyer interest returning to the housing market, surveys of manufacturing, services and construction that were slightly less dreadful than the previous month, a gradual thaw in the credit markets.
Clearly the good news is outweighed by the bad, but it should not be dismissed out of hand. The consensus is that 2009 is a write-off and that 2010 will not be much better, and if I had to stake my life on it that's probably what I would say. But the consensus is invariably wrong, and anybody claiming to know for sure where the economy is heading is lying. We have had more than enough strident professions of certainty, it is time to admit we know a lot less than we think. Let's read some Wordsworth instead.


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Over 300,000 young people in Wales given entrepreneurship opportunities through Big Ideas Wales!
Over 300,000 young people across Wales have been inspired to follow entrepreneurial ambitions through Welsh Government's Big Ideas Wales service in the last 5 years.
The youth entrepreneurship service has met this extraordinary milestone through its Role Model Network. Entrepreneurs across Wales, have joined the Big Ideas Wales Role Model network to share their experience with budding entrepreneurs through workshops, with the aim of opening young people's minds to new ideas and opportunities that exist and help them think positively about their own future. By investing their own time in our communities across Wales, our Role Models have inspired the next generation of entrepreneurs and helped them on their entrepreneurial journey.
The most recent milestone of engaging 300,000 young people is the equivalent of reaching over 300 young people every school day for the last 5 years.
"It has given me great joy to be a part of the role model network for so many years. Seeing young entrepreneurs develop their ideas and confidence spurs me on to keep delivering guidance and inspiration to a new generation of young people.
"I am so proud to be a Big Ideas Wales role model and to see that as a network we've reached the milestone of engaging 300,000 young people is a real success I am glad to be a part of. The last 12 months has been a difficult period as a business owner, but knowing I have a platform through Big Ideas Wales to help budding young entrepreneurs keeps me positive."
- Annette Gee, Owner of Taskforce Paintball and Role Model
Since the project started in January 2016, Big Ideas Wales has supported 402 young entrepreneurs in starting their own business, and has delivered in all secondary schools across Wales.
Two of the young entrepreneurs in Wales who have benefitted from the Role Model Network in finding out about Big Ideas Wales are two 20-year olds from Anglesey who have created a clothing brand inspired by the Welsh language and their coastal surroundings.
From what started as a Sixth Form project to come up with a business, two friends Sion Davies and Sion Owen, created their brand Dillad Arfordir Clothing in the summer of 2019. Big Ideas Wales' Role Model Gaz Thomas delivered a talk at their school, briefing them on the business project and first introducing them to the service.
The pair first heard about Big Ideas Wales through one of its free award events, Big Ideas Celebrated, which was hosted at Bangor University where Sion Davies studies. Speaking about the event, he said: "When we attended the event, we had only just started at that point so it was really useful to hear from individuals and already established businesses about their ideas and products.
"We competed against great individuals and companies and even picked up the Best Business Skills Award which really got our business going. After winning, we had local radio and press waiting to know the story of the business that had started in a classroom."
Since the pandemic hit, Dillad Arfordir Clothing is one of the many businesses that has benefitted from having an online presence, with the company achieving a higher volume of sales at the end of 2020 than in previous years. Talking about working through the pandemic, Sion said: "While certain parts of the business have been interrupted or completely halted because of Covid, it's been a huge relief having the support of Big Ideas Wales throughout it all. There's always someone on the other end of the phone ready to give guidance and put us in touch with other business owners who can help us."
Since first discovering Big Ideas Wales, Sion Davies has trained to become a Young Ambassador. This has seen him give numerous presentations both in person and online, and he's even gone back to his Sixth Form in Anglesey to give a talk to the students undertaking the same business plan project that sparked the birth of Dillad Arfordir Clothing. Not only was he once one of the budding entrepreneurs himself, but Sion has been sharing his experience and success through the Role Model Network contributing to Big Ideas Wales engagement of over 300,000 young people.
Another young entrepreneurs who has benefitted from such support is a 22-year-old from Caerphilly who has opened her own clothing company in a bid to tackle 'fast fashion'.
Shaunnah Crosbie set up Shaunnah's Sew Crafty, after graduating from the University of South Wales with a degree in Costume Construction. Having previously worked in the costume department for several television and theatre productions, including BBC's Doctor Who and Netflix's Sex Education, Shaunnah turned her attention to sustainable fashion and began offering sewing workshops to teach people how to upcycle or fix used things.
Shaunnah found out about the service at university when Fran Hunt, a prop designer and Big Ideas Wales Role Model delivered a workshop about entrepreneurship and enterprise, encouraging Shaunnah to take up the free support offered by Big Ideas Wales.
"Since the very beginning to now, the service has been a fantastic help with setting up my business. I have dyspraxia and Irlen Syndrome, which means I struggle with writing and structuring documents, but Big Ideas Wales were a massive help when it came to proofing my business plan and explaining financial forecasts." - Shaunnah Crosbie - Shaunnah's Sew Crafty
With the coronavirus pandemic halting Shaunnah's in-person sewing workshops for the time being, she's put some of her free time towards training to become a Young Ambassador for Big Ideas Wales. In the last two months, Shaunnah has participated in online boot camps, given talks, and networked with other budding young entrepreneurs. Not only was she once one of the budding entrepreneurs herself, but Shaunnah has been sharing her experience and success through the Role Model Network contributing to Big Ideas Wales engagement of over 300,000 young people.