EROAD's world class telematics solution for the civil sector supports safe operators and productive assets.
Full visibility over all your assets, vehicles and auxiliary equipment.
Accurate, reliable and easy to use technology that works in the field.
Improve fleet productivity and utilisation through access to advanced data insights.
Industry leading safety solution to protect your business and team.
Cost-effective asset management with smart service scheduling and vehicle inspections.
Proof of service to build strong, sustainable customer relationships.
Excellent support from our friendly team.
EROAD's "whole of fleet" telematics solution and utilisation reporting ensure you can maximise productivity, improve return on investment and ensure you are delivering the best possible outcomes for your customers.
EROAD's advanced, secure fleet tracking provides operational transparency and enhanced control.
Vehicle information is displayed on digital maps, allowing you to see at a glance the location of vehicles and staff in the field. You can confidently allocate resources, optimise routes, plan accurate schedules, and maximise productivity.
EROAD's in-cab telematics solution provides world class tracking and management for your road going assets and vehicles – where improving driver behaviour, managing service and maintenance, health and safety compliance, and managing on and off-road work movements are key requirements.
From Heavy and Light Vehicles to Powered and non-Powered assets – our solution has all the bases covered. From the in-cab Ehubo2 that provides industry leading telematics, driver behaviour and health and safety capability – through to wired and battery powered asset tracking devices – we can ensure that you not only have visibility of your assets but the information you need to make sure they are being fully utilised and delivering on your contract commitments.
ETrack Wired is designed to take care of tracking your powered assets and equipment – when you need a full tracking and management solution but don't require the in-cab experience of the Ehubo2.
An ultra-small, waterproof, satellite-ready tracking device, EROAD Asset Tracker accurately tracks and monitors trailers, generators, and other mobile assets, wherever they are located.
A combination of ultra-small size and long-life battery makes Asset Tracker easy to mount to any asset, enabling you to monitor it at all times.
EROAD's asset tracking solution not only covers your primary assets but also gives full visibility and tracking of your auxiliary equipment usage – including hours of usage and location tracking that enables accurate proof of service reporting and service management.
Stop watch geofence allows you to set time limits for geofences and monitor time-on-site targets. The Geofence Site Activity provides complete visibility of activity on site – including turnaround time, site entry and exit time and duration of auxiliary equipment usage – to facilitate invoicing, proof of service and handling supplier queries and disputes.
Geofence Customer Tags let you create SLA reports for your customers based on activity on site and schedule them direct to their inbox.
Knowing where your assets are and what they are doing is the first step. Our suite of utilisation tools then takes you to the next level of productivity management.
Utilisation Reports allow you to see vehicle or group utilisation percentages based on running hours or distance. The report lets you determine target running hours and then report on exceptions to this KPI.
Trip Investigator allows your dispatchers to interrogate departure and arrival times from point to point to help optimise travel routes.
Advanced geofence tools such as time alerts for vehicles running behind schedule.
EROAD also has its own Pool Booking platform targeted and increasing utilisation of pool cars.
Integration with job management providers like My Trucking can provide income per kilometre reports for profitability analysis.
Improve driver safety, behaviour and performance with a comprehensive suite of technology and tools.
EROAD are experts in helping you manage the risks associated with fleet management and supporting a safety focused culture in your organisation. Creating a safe workplace is a key goal for all of our customers. We provide you with driver-friendly tools and the reports you need to meet your obligations under the Chain of Responsibility legislation – from safer driving, to safer vehicles.
Multiple driver-centric applications on a single platform will revolutionise safety compliance for your business: Drive Buddy, Messaging, Fuel Management and Driver Login.
EROAD's Ehubo2 device bridges the gap between after-the-event management reporting and as it happens behind-the-wheel influence on driver behaviour. This is delivering faster and more sustainable safety outcomes for our customers.
The Ehubo2 and EROAD Depot software delivers a single, consistent platform for your drivers. Monitor live vehicle and driver behaviour and deliver coaching and scoring to a driver directly in-cab.
Benchmark your drivers against their industry peers and compare them to the EROAD population of 60,000+ vehicles.
Driver Login on the Ehubo2 is a flexible platform to ensure you can track all of your employees, including temporary drivers, with no key fobs, no fuss. You can monitor driving time and location of drivers in real time, using the Depot web application.
Driver accountability has a very real impact on safe driving – a recent EROAD study found that vehicles where a driver was logged in had 50% less speed events than vehicles with no identified driver.
Drive Buddy supports your drivers with visual, easy-to-understand messages. In-cab feedback and alerts enable drivers to develop and maintain good driving habits.
Stay in touch with your drivers with our secure two-way messaging service. Broadcast a message to the entire fleet or specific vehicles to improve productivity, safety and job management.
We make it easier for you to monitor your staff's safety when they're driving. A visual and audible alert reminds the driver to buckle up, and sends a notification to your fleet manager.
Provides drivers with the road network speed data they need to make better driving decisions.
A solution for tax, regulatory and health and safety management including electronic FBT, vehicle servicing and compliance.
A driver interface that seamlessly connects drivers to vehicles, and vehicles to dispatchers.
Automate FBT claims, monitor maintenance, repairs and servicing; and be alerted to vehicle defects – all electronically. Reduce paperwork for your dispatchers and your drivers and increase compliance.
Track vehicle defects easily by capturing and displaying them in real time on the Defect Board — ready for you to take action.
Any items that drivers report as failed or need attention, feed straight into the defect management portal to manage and monitor repairs. The Inspect portal is a fully auditable tool to help identify when faults were reported, when they are booked in for repair and when the repair was completed.
Inspect can be used either on a Mobile device, through our Inspect Application – or right on the in-vehicle device (the Ehubo2). This gives you the ultimate flexibility for drivers, supervisors and service people to use the device that best suits their needs.
Maintenance and repairs are a significant component of your business expenses. Scheduling periodic and systematic vehicle inspections helps to keep on top of the health of your fleet and avoid unexpected repair bills or compromised vehicle integrity.
Support for calculation of FBT using the Operating Cost method to minimise payment of FBT by your business.
Easy logbook capture of trip purpose for your drivers, as our EROAD system automatically records all other required trip details.
Headline metrics that help fleet and operations managers select a representative 12-week period to accurately show the business usage of the vehicles in your fleet and, that allow them to monitor business vs private usage.
Reports highlight when a driver doesn't complete the logbook to improve compliance.
Largely automated record keeping stored for the requisite period and quick to audit.
Maximise asset performance with accurate and insightful reporting, including industry benchmarking, through a single source of truth.
EROAD's Analytics and Reporting were founded on two core principles – unparalleled accuracy and reliability to give you complete confidence in the data delivered. The Ehubo2 has been independently verified to accurately record location and distance at a tax audit level of +/- 1%.
EROAD's web application, Depot, allows you to view and monitor your vehicles in real time from any web-enabled device. Depot is home to a range of powerful tools and insightful reports, all designed to help you better manage your business.
Benchmarking is the differentiator for EROAD's Analytics suite. EROAD is in a unique position to generate high quality, advanced data analyses based on the big data we have access to through the over 60,000 EROAD equipped vehicles throughout Australasia.
Drivers can be benchmarked against other drivers in your industry – and across the whole transport sector. The Fuel Efficiency report delivers a view of performance using a simple traffic light rating system. The report rates vehicles against the fuel efficiency benchmark for Make and Model, across EROAD's national fleet – allowing you to easily identify vehicles which have room for improvement, and to make vehicle purchasing decisions based on fuel efficiency.
Leaderboard shows how your drivers compare within your organisation and to EROAD's industry benchmarks and tracks how they perform over time, with scores based on key driver metrics.
A summary of smart, driver-specific feedback, this report highlights specific areas for improvement and key messages, making it easy to empower your drivers to adopt safe driving habits.
EROAD's powerful Virtual Speed Camera tool helps you to pinpoint areas of risk and set safe operating speeds for your fleet. You can create geofences around your key high-risk areas such as customer sites, loading zones and schools and set specific limits.
Over Speed Dashboard provides a record of vehicle speeding events that exceed posted speed limits. It presents an overview of the speeding behaviour across your fleet, including trends, and enables you to focus on individual speeding events.
Take swift action to address excessive speed, protecting your business, your drivers and the public. Max Speed Alert provides in-cab speeding notifications to help you meet health and safety compliance, avoid the costly impact of an on-road incident and support driver training and incentive programmes.
Improve fatigue management with Trip Investigator. It shows you exactly where your vehicles have travelled the previous day or week, and allows you to identify excessively long trips and after-hours travel.
Provide your customers with accurate and detailed on-site monitoring, proof of service reporting and contract compliance.
Build strong and sustainable business relationships with your customers and improve contract compliance through the monitoring and sharing of reliable and informative reporting of on-site activity. Have a complete overview of your own and your contractors' fleets and keep your team up to date with key site information.
EROAD's Proof of Service provides a new 'gold standard' for contract reporting with a map visualisation of asset or fleet activity for the reporting period, as well as a complete drilldown to all sensor events.
It simplifies contract reporting to help customers retain and invoice civil maintenance or construction engagements.
The report delivers an accurate, verifiable record of service of auxiliary equipment activity based on EROAD's highly accurate tracking devices – Ehubo2 and ETrack Wired.
Once the vehicle's auxiliary equipment is physically connected to EROAD's hardware – the report can deliver an accurate, verifiable record of service to your customers. The proof of service report can deliver a comprehensive description of civil contracting activity including pavement gritting, sweeping, snow clearance, mowing, road sweeping, road marking or of construction activity such as digging, rolling or grading.
For a completely frictionless experience, customers additionally have the option to provide the Contract Owner with a log-in to view activity completed in their own portal view.
Visualisation of auxiliary equipment activity on a map (base map layer and satellite map layer) clearly denoting activity. Activity can be viewed across a day, week or month for selected vehicles or groups.
CSV extract including vehicle, activity type, data/time, road location start – end, distance and average speed for granular proof of service reporting.
Proof of Service Login for your own customers.
EROAD Share is a unique feature of the EROAD platform that allow you to have the same visibility of a partner or sub-contractor's fleets as you have of your own. This gives you the ability to continue to deliver high-quality service to your customers, whilst ensuring the safety of all drivers working for you.
For example, if a vehicle is off the road due to repairs and you need to utilise a sub-contractor's asset, or you rent a truck from a hire company, at the click of a button they can share data directly from the non-fleet vehicle back to you. This ensures your drivers, dispatchers and management have minimal business disruption, letting you get back to business.
EROAD's geofence reporting will give you a complete view of site activity – by customer, branch or region – using tags, so you can easily interrogate your performance and confirm contract compliance through KPI's such as the number of visits, arrival/ departure time and time on site.
EROAD's Partner Gateway is a unique feature of the EROAD platform. Through our Partner Gateway and available APIs EROAD has integrated with key job management platforms like ICOS LIVE and My Trucking, giving you a single view in the EROAD Depot software and the ability to improve your customer service.
Online transport management is made easy with EROAD and My Trucking. EROAD's easy-to-use electronic solution simplifies health and safety compliance and fleet management.
My Trucking replaces paper-based systems with powerful, cloud-based job management software. They make it easy for operators to move away from paper, streamlining the process for dispatchers, drivers and accounts. It targets small to medium transport businesses.
Together, EROAD and My Trucking will help you improve cashflow, deliver better service to your customers, and run a more efficient business.


SpaceObs, website run by Leonid Elenin, the most mysterious amateur astronomer that discovered Comet C/2010 X1 or Comet Elenin.
Elenin was visible on STEREO A HI1 from September 6th to the 22nd where it then moves out of the field of view. To see it you need to play the frames very quickly and look for a fast moving barely visible fuzz ball moving on the center of the frame from right to left. So, though we could not see it on SOHO, it was still definitely visible to STEREO A HI1. Since September 23, the comet Elenin may be visible in the field of view of spacecoronagraph C3, installed on the spacecraft SOHO. As comet disintegrated or still disintegrating, there is a strong chance that we did not see anything or see it, but only after post processing of the original images. On images comet will move from left to right, "under" the Sun. It may be seen as a fuzzy, hardly visible cloud.
This is the statement of Leonid Elenin on his website dated to September 26, 2011.
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Politische Soziologie und Psychologie
Leyenaar
Political Empowerment of Women
The Netherlands and Other Countries
lieferbar ca. 10 Tage als Sonderdruck ohne Rückgaberecht
ca. 146,06 €
2004. Buch. XII, 324 S. Softcover
Springer. ISBN 9789004140998
Format (B x L): 16 x 24 cm
Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe: Nijhoff Law Specials; 59
The problem of ensuring that women are at the heart of political decision-making is now very topical in Europe. This is because, despite all of the international agreements, the research, the recommendations and the untold other efforts, the participation of women in political bodies remains low in most European countries. European governance, in short, still fails to include 50 per cent of women in its political decision-making. Why do political leaders attach importance to this issue? The under-representation of women in national parliaments poses a problem in terms of both the practice and the theory of politics. In practical terms, the under-representation of women in political leadership is even more remarkable when one realizes that women have succeeded in gaining access to other sectors of society in many European countries. Moreover, equality between men and women is now a leading political principle all over Europe. Taking part in decision-making however, in politics as well as in the private sector, typically remains a male privilege. This book explains the high level of current concern for the under-representation of women in politics. It explores the reasons behind recent favourable attitudes towards sharing political power with women in the Netherlands, and in other European countries. It identifies the many obstacles and strategies and it points out future expectations about the representation of women in Europe. Under which circumstances can political players be influenced to change institutions and procedures in favour of newcomers to politics. The current 'crisis of politics' opens a window of opportunity for changing the underlying male-biased structures.

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Agonocryptus leurosus är en stekelart som beskrevs av Gupta 1982. Agonocryptus leurosus ingår i släktet Agonocryptus och familjen brokparasitsteklar. Utöver nominatformen finns också underarten A. l. flavosternum.

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Q: How to programmatically check/uncheck Excel checkboxes I created a program using VB.NET 2010 that creates Excel documents with checkboxes.
The problem is I cannot check/uncheck the checkboxes by using the code below:
Dim xlWorkSheet As Excel.Worksheet = xlWorkBook.Sheets("sheet1")

xlWorkSheet.Shapes("chkDB").ControlFormat.Value = 1 ' doesn't work

xlWorkSheet.OLEObjects("chkDB").Object.Value = 1  ' doesn't work also

How do I programmatically check a box in Excel?

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Politique étrangère is a journal of debate and analysis on major international issues. It is the oldest French journal in this field. The first edition dates back to 1936 under the aegis of Centre d'études de politique étrangère (Centre for the Study of foreign policy). Since 1979, it has been edited by Ifri.
Its purpose is to highlight all aspects of the debate in international relations, to propose in-depth analysis of current affairs and to be a reference tool on a long term basis for academic circles, decision-makers and the civil society. Each issue includes at least two sections related to an event or a dimension of international debate and also several articles focusing on deciphering topical issues.
In Politique étrangère, much space is also devoted to current affairs developed in French and foreign publications in international relations.
Alain Antil, Denis Bauchard, Christophe Bertossi, Corentin Brustlein, Thomas Gomart, Jolyon Howorth, Ethan Kapstein, Jean Klein, Jacques Mistral, Mansouria Mokhefi, Dominique Moïsi, Philippe Moreau Defarges, Éliane Mossé, Laurence Nardon, Françoise Nicolas, Dorothée Schmid, Hans Stark.
Texts submitted to the editing team must be the product of an original work not subject to a previous publication.
These texts are anonymously evaluated by peers, in a system of multiple reading. Readers may be either members of the editorial board or external people, French or not, all selected for their competence.
Politique étrangère is available on subscriptions at Armand Colin, in bookstores (DifPop) and on the webportail CAIRN.info (pay per view included).
Previous issues (1936-2004) are available on the webportail Persée.fr.


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Meet the class of 2022 officers
On Friday, October 19, freshmen gathered around the SGA headquarters to vote on who they wanted to represent their class. After a weekend of waiting, they announced the winners on Tuesday, October 23; Kiara Mclean as president, Vivienne Merk as vice president and Madison Siegel as secretary.
"When I found out I won, I was shocked," Mclean said. "I didn't think I was going to win. I was proud of myself that I put in the work and effort to win."
Though they have only been officers for a short amount of time, they have in mind what they hope to accomplish. They have put together ideas of what they want to contribute on campus.
"Right now, we're fundraising, and all of that money is either going to go towards a senior trip or a senior memory," Merk said.
Being a representative for the freshmen class means being the voice for them when some students may not have a say in certain situations when making a decision.
"I love being involved in my school and helping students have a choice of what happens at school," Siegal said.
The freshman officers provide leadership and guidance to help the class of 2022 have a smooth first year of high school.
"I want to make our freshman year and hopefully the next three years of our high school experiences to be wonderful," Mclean said. "I want everybody to be friendly and come together."


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Trevor Knight discusses his experience with the culture at Texas A&M
Michael Wayne Bratton | 7 years ago
One of the biggest question marks in the SEC heading into the season is the state of Texas A&M's offense. The unit overhaul included not only a new offensive coordinator in Noel Mazzone but the loss of two starting quarterbacks and the transfer of Oklahoma graduate Trevor Knight.
After a strong showing this spring, Knight was named A&M's starting quarterback by head coach Kevin Sumlin. You can read a detailed write up on how Knight will fit into Mazzone's offensive system. Of course the knock on Knight during his Oklahoma career has been his inconsistency. If working in Mazzone's simplistic offense remedies that issue, the Aggies could return to having one of the best offenses in the SEC this season.
Now firmly entrenched as A&M's starter under center, Knight has quickly gained the confidence of his coaches and teammates. Knight recently discussed his seamless transition to College Station with Jeff Tarpley of 247Sports and the quick rapport developed with everyone at A&M.
"Coach Sumlin has been top notch for me," Knight said. "He's welcomed me in with open arms, as have the whole A&M culture. Those guys have been unbelievable to me. Trying to step into a leadership role but not being there for four years, to gain their respect. I think I went through the process in a good way. They respect me, and I respect the heck out of them. Those type of guys who are going to make a bunch of plays. It's not a bad deal when you're walking into a receiver group like that and really a whole offensive unit like we have at A&M."
As for how far the Aggies can go in his only year on campus, the senior quarterback has no doubt the team can succeed in a big way this season.
"We got talent; everybody has talent though. I truly believe in the culture of a team, which drives you win those really close," Knight said. "We're heading in the right direction, despite what everybody thinks."
Both Knight and his Aggies teammates and coaches are in the unique situation of having to rehab their public image this fall after failing to meet expectations in season's past. One thing is sure, if everything goes according to plan this time, both Knight and Texas A&M will be very thankfully the past led them to this union.
Michael Wayne Bratton
A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Michael Wayne Bratton oversees the news coverage for Saturday Down South. Michael previously worked for FOX Sports and NFL.com Follow on Twitter.


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Потоцький Сергій Іванович (19 вересня 1883, Тамбов, Росія — 29 січня 1958, Москва) — радянський російський композитор.

Закінчив клас фортеп'яно (1914) і композиції (1916) Московської консерваторії.

Автор опер, кантат, музики до фільмів: «Гармонь» (1934), «Дума про козака Голоту» (1937, у співавт.), «Вершники» (1939), «П'ятий океан» (1940), «Богдан Хмельницький» (1941), «Бойова кінозбірника № 9» («Квартал № 14»), «Роки молодії» (1942) та ін.

Література
 Музикальная Энциклопедия. Т. 4. — М., 1978. — С. 413.
 Музыка: Большой Энциклопедический словарь. — М., 1998. — С. 438.

Посилання

Російські композитори
Радянські композитори
Радянські кінокомпозитори
Сергій Іванович
Поховані на Ваганьковському кладовищі


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Integration of Bitou and Knysna Bulk Water Supply study phase launched
May 21, 2013 southcapenetGarden Route News
The local Knysna- and Bitou municipalities within the Eden region recently experienced the worst drought in over hundred years. This resulted in severe water restrictions being implemented in these municipalities.
Fltr: Bitou Executive Mayor, Cllr Memory Booysen, Knysna Executive Mayor, Georlene Wolmarans (sitting), Eden Executive Mayor, Cllr Wessie Van der Westhuizen and Mr Drikus Jacobs, Managing Director of Aurecon (George office) busy signing the service level agreement at the launch.
The drought necessitated the considering of cross-boundary projects as identified in Eden's Regional Bulk Water Masterplan. The regional integration of bulk water supplies of the two municipalities was subsequently, in collaboration with the two municipalities, identified as a key project requiring implementation.
Eden District Municipality therefore launched, in collaboration with Bitou and Knysna, a Feasibility Study of the Regional Integration of a Bulk Water Supply System for Bitou and Knysna municipalities on Tuesday, 29 April 2013, at the Council Chambers of Eden. According to Mr Faan van der Merwe, Eden's Project Manager: "Aurecon Consulting Engineers was appointed during October 2012 to carry out the study. The study will be undertaken in three phases. The first phase entails the inception/scoping report summarising the data gathered for the study area and overview thereof. This was presented by Dr Mike Shand of Aurecon Engineers at the launch.
The investigation is aimed at combining individual municipal bulk water for the optimal development of regional supplies for medium- and long term in a phased approach. The objectives therefore are to identify the water resource and bulk water requirements of both Knysna and Bitou Local Municipalities for the next 20 years and also to explore the technical and economic viability of integrating the bulk water supply systems of Knysna and Bitou. The regional bulk water supply scheme might involve developing potential new surface water, ground water, re-use, and desalination resources in an integrated manner and considering opportunities for integrating the planning and operation of these systems. Consideration would be given to link the schemes with a new bulk water pipeline which will pump water in either direction.
Knysna's Executive Mayor, Cllr Georlene Wolmarans, at the event, said: "We all had a big scare during the drought period here in our district. One of the towns in our municipal area, Sedgefield, was entirely out of water for a short while". Wolmarans added by saying: "The drought may have been a blessing in disguise, as it really highlighted the realities of our water supply infrastructure and ultimately led to the fast tracking of the augmentation projects in our area."
Cllr Wessie Van der Westhuizen, Eden's Executive Mayor, emphasised: "These occasions create opportunities whereby local government, institutions and organisations, reflect on present day thinking and ponder questions around boundaries of certain processes and spheres of responsibilities. The reality of co-operative governance and working together is brought to the fore during occasions of disasters and despair. Similar thinking occurred in the area of water supply and quality of distribution for the eastern coastal areas of the Eden District."
Executive Mayor of Bitou, Cllr Memory Booysen, Mayoral Committee members, Municipal Managers and officials from participating municipalities including Eden's project manager, Mr Faan van der Merwe, as well as officials from Department: Water Affairs and the Development Bank of South Africa also attended the launch.
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Category: Bees, Wasps & Hornets
Actual Size: 1/2″
Characteristics: Golden brown and black with pale orange or yellow bands on their abdomen.
Antennae: Yes
Habitat: Social insects that live in hives with 20,000 to 80,000 individuals
Habits:
The honey bee is the most important species of pollinators.
Visits an average of 50-100 flowers on foraging trips for pollen.
Honey bees are not typically aggressive and will only sting when provoked.
Pest Overview
Honey Bees in Georgia and Tennessee
These bees are active pollinators that, true to name, produce honey. Their colonies can survive for years. Queen honey bees are slightly larger than male honey bees, also known as drones. They are found all over the nation and pollinate more than 100 types of crops. The two main types are Africanized honey bees and European honey bees. The latter is much more aggressive than the former. Honey bees will swarm when the colony becomes too large for its hive.
Honey Bee Habitat
Honey bees often build their nests in tree crevices, but will occasionally build nests in attics or chimneys. Honey bees are most visible in summer and late spring when new queens leave their old colonies along with thousands of workers to build new nests in tree hollows or crevices. At this time, large groups of bees can be seen swarming together to find a new nesting place. It takes a swarm approximately 24 hours to locate a new nesting site. While most swarms are harmless, certain species of bees, like the Africanized honey bee, are extremely aggressive and may attack unprovoked.
Honey Bee Behaviors, Threats, & Dangers
Honey bees do sting, but can only sting once. Only female workers are capable of stinging and are not likely to sting when foraging for nectar and pollen in the backyard. Bee stings generally happen when these docile bees are provoked or accidentally crushed. The stinger of the honey bee, having barbs, will remain in the skin unless physically removed. The method of removing the stinger, either grasping with fingers, tweezers, or scraping from the skin, is not as important as removing the stinger as quickly as possible. Honey bee stings are quite painful and even life-threatening to a small percentage of people who are allergic to the venom.
If a bee swarm is sighted, the most important thing to do is leave it alone. Always call a professional bee control expert for help with hives and swarms.
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Марко Мендо́са (; 3 мая 1963, Сан-Диего, Калифорния) — американский рок-музыкант, бас-гитарист.

Личное
Мендоса провёл юношеские годы, живя с бабушкой в Тихуане, Мексика. Сейчас он живёт в Хантингтон-Бич, Калифорния, и имеет пятерых детей: Марко Рентериа, который является бас-гитаристом, Аарон, Ева, Вера и Макс. Он женился на своей нынешней жене Лии 2 декабря 2001 года.

Мендоса — известный сторонник права на ношение оружия. Он любит охоту, рыбалку и вообще быть на свежем воздухе. Мендоса любит охотиться с другом, музыкантом Тедом Ньюджентом.

Дискография
 1990 Ward One: Along the Way (Bill Ward)
 1993 Nothin' but Trouble (Blue Murder)
 1994 Screaming Blue Murder (Blue Murder)
 1995 Real World (Tin Drum)
 1995 Out of My Tree (John Sykes)
 1995 Seeing For The Very First Time (Barbara Weathers)
 1996 Feels Good (Michael Ruff)
 1996 Smashing! (Right Said Fred)
 1996 Kissing Rain (Roch Voisine)
 1997 Loveland (John Sykes)
 1997 Sugar Cane (Rafael Aragon)
 1997 20th Century (John Sykes)
 1998 Date with the Devil's Daughter (Robert Williams)
 1998 7 Deadly Zens (Tommy Shaw)
 1998 Live in L.A. (Mendoza Heredia Neto)
 2000 One Night Only (Thin Lizzy)
 2000 Into the Light (David Coverdale)
 2000 Nuclear Cowboy (John Sykes)
 2001 Full Bluntal Nugity (Ted Nugent)
 2002 Craveman (Ted Nugent)
 2004 Mythology (Derek Sherinian)
 2004 Bad Boy Live! (John Sykes)
 2005 World Play (Soul SirkUS)
 2006 Live… In the Still of the Night (Whitesnake)
 2007 Are You Listening? (Dolores O'Riordan)
 2009 Play My Game (Tim "Ripper" Owens)
 2009 No Baggage (Dolores O'Riordan)
 2009 Smoke and Mirrors (Lynch Mob)

 Трибьют-альбомы
 1999 Little Guitars: A Tribute to Van Halen
 2000 Metallic Assault: A Tribute to Metallica
 2001 Stone Cold Queen: A Tribute
 2002 Pigs and Pyramids: An All Star Lineup Performing the Songs of Pink Floyd
 2002 One Way Street: A Tribute to Aerosmith

 Сольные альбомы
 Live For Tomorrow (2007)
 Casa Mendoza (2010)
 Viva La Rock (2018)

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт
 BBC Marco Mendoza site
 MARCO MENDOZA TALKS ABOUT THE «NEW» THIN LIZZY

Бас-гитаристы США
Персоналии:Хантингтон-Бич
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After an accident that leaves you injured, you may be unable to work and concerned about your family's financial state. Medical bills may be piling up after your slip and fall accident. You may be in significant pain from injuries sustained in an auto accident. You may be injured to the point you feel you need to file a disability claim. If any of these pertain to you, a Lansdowne, PA personal injury attorney at Lundy Law may be able to help.
According to accident lawyers in Pennsylvania, not all injuries qualify as a personal injury. In order for you to have a personal injury claim, the incident that caused your accident must have been due to the negligence, carelessness or disregard of another. The negligence does not have to be intentional as most personal injury cases are due to an accident, but the person must have acted in a way that a reasonable person would not have under the same circumstances. This is why it is important to discuss your case with an injury lawyer in Pennsylvania to determine if you have a personal injury claim.
Auto accidents can cause devastating injuries that may leave you needing extensive medical care. You may be unable to work or take care of yourself. When the accident is caused by someone else's error, you must deal with the other driver's insurance company, causing stress that can delay healing. An auto accident attorney at Lundy Law can deal with the insurance companies, taking the responsibility from you so that you can focus on recovering from your injuries. This may not mean you plan to file a lawsuit against the other driver, but that you want to protect your rights under the law. An auto accident attorney will do just that.
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Thanks to Alistair McAlpine for this guide.
EXACT LOCATION: Pakuratahi Forest, Wellington, New Zealand. By car from Wellington, take SH 2 and turn right at Te Marua (7.5km north of Upper Hutt). Follow Plateau Road to its end to reach Tunnel Gully. The run starts from the upper car park of the Tunnel Gully Recreational Area, at a sign-posted white metal gate.
DIFFICULTY: Easy track | tough gradient.
FEATURES OF INTEREST: Breath-taking 180° vistas across Wairarapa, Cook Strait, Wellington and Hutt Valley. As Mount Climie Ridge is the tailbone of the Rimutaka range that separates Wairarapa from Upper Hutt it cops weather from all directions including snow and ice in winter.
RUN IT: Looking for hill work on a non-technical trail? Consider Mount Climie. Carry water as the route is dry and chuck in a jacket.
From the white gate at the end of the car park settle into your work on the gravel access road. Your goal is a scattering of communication towers on the open ridge above and you won't lose your way on this run even in the dark.
A few minutes in you'll notice a trail dropping away to your right through northern rata, miro and rimu. This fire-break is frequented by mountain-bikers, walkers and the occasional horse rider, stay on the main trail. Tane's Track is signposted to your left a little further up but stick to the relentless gravel track. You'll know you're gaining altitude when the surrounding bush changes to kamahi and beech forest.
A couple of kilometres up you'll catch a view through a gap in the vegetation but don't use this as an excuse to stop, keep plugging. There are a couple of short stretches where the grade eases to get your hopes up, these were included as a joke by those who created this track.
After a winding climb you'll reach the first communication tower then exit the bush onto open tops at North Climie tower and briefly celebrate. You've broken the back of the climb and now only have to run the final kilometre along the ridge to 'Climie tower No.2' (860 m).
At the end of the track skirt around the tower enclosure and run the final 100m of single track across the only true snow tussock on the Rimutaka Range. A knoll looks south over stunning views of Wellington Harbour, Mana Island and east over Lake Wairarapa. Or just as likely you won't be able to see anything because of the cloud.
Beware: Don't be misled by the boardwalk to the west of the knoll, especially in fog. Yes, this inviting 10m long slope is a quick way down but it is a launching platform for para-gliders and will drop you into the abyss.
The Fig Tree Café closes at 4pm so don't loiter on Mount Climie. The run down is made more satisfying by the knowledge that you have completed the run up.


Architecture expert John Hill's comprehensive new book 100 Years 100 Buildings (Prestel, $40) highlights an important structure from each of the past hundred years. It begins with London's Holland House, built by Hendrik Petrus Berlage a century ago and considered to be the first steel-framed building in Europe. Today, Norman Foster's ultramodern 2004 skyscraper 30 St. Mary Axe (a.k.a. the Gherkin) is reflected in Holland House's front windows. The enlightening volume rounds out with downtown L.A.'s Broad museum, completed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in 2015 and still the hottest ticket in town. High-profile highlights from around the globe include Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye (1931), Frank Lloyd Wright's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1959), and Jørn Utzon's Sydney Opera House (1973), while lesser-known works are sprinkled throughout.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's iconic Barcelona chair was originally designed for the 1929 Barcelona Pavilion in its namesake Spanish city.
Philip Johnson's Glass House (1949) in New Canaan, Connecticut, is now owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and is open for tours during the summer and early fall.
In 1943 Frank Lloyd Wright received the commission for what we know today as the Guggenheim—or, more officially, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The structure was completed in 1959, in a prime location on Fifth Avenue adjacent to Central Park.
The Salk Institute (1965) in San Diego, California, was designed by Louis I. Kahn. The central plaza was left as an open space to highlight the site's natural beauty.
Montreal's Habitat 67 housing complex on the Saint Lawrence River was designed by Moshe Safdie for Expo 67, the main event of Canada's centennial celebrations.
Louis I. Kahn designed a new library for New Hampshire's Phillips Exeter Academy in the 1960s.
Zürich's Stadelhofen Station was reworked and expanded by Santiago Calatrava in 1990, after his plan won a 1983 design competition.
The Bloch Building (2007) at Kansas City, Missouri's Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art was designed by Steven Holl Architects. The museum expansion appears as five boxes aboveground, but is actually one continuous building below.
Álvaro Siza's Fundação Iberê Camargo (2008), a Porto Alegre, Brazil, museum dedicated to the work of Iberê Camargo, is reflective of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim museum in Manhattan.
Los Angeles's newest museum, the Broad, was completed in 2015. The Diller Scofidio + Renfro–designed structure garners as much attention as the works it houses.


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ASLA-NY is proud to have supported Council Member Mark Levine and Tupper Thomas from New Yorkers for Parks at the May 27th Rally for Parks at City Hall Park. With trees donated by the New York Restoration Project and turf donated from a TPL Playground Program contractor, a pop-up park was created to set the stage for the event. Below is the press release from Levine's office.
NEW YORK — On Wednesday, May 27, City Council Parks Committee Chair Mark Levine, and New Yorkers for Parks alongside elected officials and more than 100 people from across the city, representing community gardeners, park users, church groups, and New Yorkers who care about their parks, gathered today to show their passionate support for our city's green spaces. Parks supporters from across the city called on the Administration to fund key initiatives for public green spaces to address the equity gap. There are currently hundreds of struggling parks in low and moderate income communities that have fallen behind highly funded parks in wealthier areas.
Funding proposals the Council has called for that are not part of the Mayor's Executive Budget includes support for the Community Parks Initiative, Green Thumb Program, and the hiring of additional gardeners, playground associates and maintenance workers. All of these programs are vital to advance a meaningful Park Equity Agenda.
The Mayor's Executive Budget provides increases in funding for parks enforcement officers and tree maintenance, but cuts that impact parks operations remain in place. At yesterday's executive budget hearing, Commissioner Silver acknowledged that the Mayor's budget proposal cuts the jobs of 150 maintenance workers and gardeners, as well as staff at Community Parks Initiative sites. Additionally, the Administration's ten year capital spending proposal allocates no funding for midsize anchor parks and represents a cut from the previous administration's capital plan.
"As the city embarks on one of the biggest building booms in its history we must plan for green space and open space. Parks are anchors of healthy neighborhoods all over the city, and we must do more to ensure that every community has healthy green space–especially low- and moderate-income areas. I look forward to working with the Administration, colleagues in the City Council and parks advocates from across the five boroughs to ensure our green spaces are fully and equitably funded," said Council Member Mark Levine, Chair of the City Council Parks Committee.
"Vibrant parks are the center piece to quality of life in New York City. In many communities in my district, the local park is the only green space that is available to my constituents. Unfortunately, our city's parks have been underfunded for way too long, resulting in parks that are unsafe or rundown. Now is the time for the city to invest in green spaces in every neighborhood–New Yorkers deserve access to high quality parks no matter where they live," staid Council Member Rafael L. Espinal, Jr., of Brooklyn.
"Quality parks increase the health of our neighborhoods. They provide a welcome change of pace from City life and afford children of all economic means a free place to play. As we as a Council make strides against economic and environmental injustices, it is crucial that we address the equity gap in our Parks system and prioritize providing higher quality parks to those living in low-to-moderate income communities," said Council Member Vanessa L. Gibson (D-16th District, Bronx). "By increasing Parks funding, we will have an opportunity to better care for those parks without private endowments while adding significant value to our communities. I thank Council Member Levine for his leadership on this critical issue.
"The residents of Northern Manhattan know all too well the inequities that exist in our parks system. Though we boast the second greenest area in Manhattan we have only a fraction of the requisite resources. Today, I am proud to join my colleagues as we call for greater equity and transparency, so that the communities like mine in Northern Manhattan receive the resources we deserve," said Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez.
"Central Park and Riverside Park in my district depend on funds from private donors to cover basic operating costs, and other parks are not so lucky. I join Council Member Mark Levine in calling for more funding for New York City parks," said Council Member Helen Rosenthal.
"Our parks are largely supported by volunteer organizations in our communities and they do a wonderful job, but they need our support so I stand with my colleagues and New Yorkers for Parks in calling for more funding to provide cleaner, safer parks and gardens," said Council Member Donovan Richards (D-Queens).
We need to provide more funding for our Parks to close the equity gap in the city's parks system. Funding should be distributed equally so our children, families, and seniors can continue to enjoy our parks for recreational activity," said Council Member Darlene Mealy.
Restore $8.7 million for gardeners and park maintenance workers.
$1 million increase for the Green Thumbs Program to support the City's more than 600 community gardens.
Restore $750,000 in funding for the Parks Equity Initiative.
$5.4 million to hire 200 additional playground associates.
$500K to support a Master Planning process for the city's mid-sized parks–especially those which are regional draws with high usership.
$5 million for the Green Thumbs Program to address infrastructure needs.
This week will mark important developments in the budget discussion for our city's precious green spaces. As our city grows, providing healthy parks will be crucial to making life more livable for all New Yorkers. This means investing in playgrounds, community gardens, street trees, and adequate staffing for the critical maintenance work needed to ensure our parks can thrive.
Please join Council Member Mark Levine, New Yorkers for Parks, The New York League of Conservation Voters, El Puente, American Society of Landscape Architects, New York Chapter, advocates, activists, community gardens enthusiasts and elected officials from across the city for a rally to stand up and fight for our parks.
Community gardens play an important role in the neighborhoods they serve by providing much needed green space to neighborhoods and schools. These gardens help to promote environmental education, encourage local food production and activate unused open space in neighborhoods. Because the budget for supporting the City's 628 community gardens and 483 school gardens is so small, the Council calls on the Administration to allocate additional capital funding of $5 million in the DPR's budget in Fiscal 2016 for the Green Thumb program. The funding will provide for infrastructure needs such as fencing, irrigation systems, and other equipment needed for the community gardens.
Community gardens play an important role in the neighborhoods they serve by providing much needed green space to neighborhoods and schools. These gardens help to promote environmental education, encourage local food production and activate unused open space in neighborhoods. The Green Thumb program has historically relied on federal block grant funding which has been inadequate. As such, the Council urges the Administration to include additional baseline funding of $1 million in DPR's budget in Fiscal 2016 for the Green Thumb program to support the City's more than 600 community gardens.
DPR's tree and sidewalk program helps to repair severe sidewalk damage caused by tree and root growth citywide. Currently, DPR's budget includes annual funding of only $3 million for the tree and sidewalk program. Over the past several years, DPR has experienced significant budget cuts in this area, resulting in a huge backlog of repair orders. As a result, to ensure that DPR has adequate funding to begin to make safe the approximately 25,000 backlogged sites, the Council urges the Administration to include additional baseline funding of $3 million, for a total of $6 million, in DPR's budget in Fiscal 2016 for the tree and sidewalk program.
Playground associates play a vital role in the City's neighborhood parks by providing supervised recreation in the local parks and playgrounds. Currently, the DPR has only 145 playground associates to serve all of the City's 680 playgrounds that have comfort stations. Consequently, many City playgrounds lack the services of playground associates. City playgrounds remain a vital source of recreational opportunities for every New Yorker, and supervised recreational activities are crucial in fighting obesity and keeping the City's kids healthy. The Council calls on the Administration to include additional baseline funding of $5.4 million in DPR's budget in Fiscal 2016 to hire 204 additional playground associates.
Code, Parks' Rules and Regulations, and acting as Parks' ambassadors. Public safety in parks and playgrounds is one of their most important responsibilities. However, because there are only 182 PEP officers available many City parks are left without any PEP presence. To address the need for additional PEP officers and to ensure that more City parks receive the benefit of having PEP officers present, the Council allocated $5 million in the Fiscal 2015 budget for 80 additional PEP officers. However, because the funding was not base-lined, it is not included in the Fiscal 2016 Preliminary Budget. The Council urges the Administration to increase the baseline funding for PEP officers in Fiscal 2016 by $5 million for 80 additional PEP officers, bringing the total number of PEP officers to 360, including 98 that are privately funded in Fiscal 2016.
Last year, the Council successfully negotiated an $8.7 million funding allocation for additional gardeners and City Park Workers (CPWs) including a $3.7 million allocation from the Council to help maintain neighborhood parks citywide. The majority of this funding was later used by the Administration to support the expense component of the Community Parks Initiative (CPI) program. CPI is a new City initiative launched by the Administration to aggressively tackle equity issues in the City's under-resourced communities by investing $130 million in parks with less than $250,000 of capital investment over the past 20 years. Because the Fiscal 2015 allocation was not base-lined, all workers associated with the funding are in jeopardy of losing their jobs in Fiscal 2016 and in the out-years. For the current year, DPR has a total of 750 CPWs and 150 gardeners including 50 gardeners and 100 CPWs that are paid for with this funding allocation. Increased public spending is needed for the wellbeing of the City's precious green spaces, especially in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. The Council calls on the Administration to restore and baseline the $8.7 million funding for park maintenance workers in Fiscal 2016.
The Fiscal 2015 Adopted Budget includes $750,000 allocated by the Council for the Parks Equity Initiative program. This program supports community programming in smaller neighborhood parks through grants to local community groups. The groups do outreach and programming in neighborhood parks. This initiative was absorbed into the new citywide Community Parks Initiative (CPI) program launched by the Administration after the 2015 Budget was adopted. However, the Council's allocation was not base-lined and therefore not included in the Fiscal 2016 Preliminary Budget. To help support volunteer stewardship groups in parks in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods, the Council recommends that the Administration restore and baseline this funding in Fiscal 2016.
Fiscal 2015 Adopted Budget to support DPR's tree pruning efforts. With the Fiscal 2015 Council funding the DPR has experienced the highest level of block-pruning in over 13 years. DPR will prune over 70,000 trees this year, out of 590,000 street and park-perimeter trees that need to be pruned resulting in a pruning cycle closer to the industry standard of seven years if sustained. The failure to restore this funding could hinder the DPR's efforts to reduce the pruning cycle. Since adequately pruning trees would help minimize the danger posed by falling tree limbs, the Council urges the Administration to restore and baseline this funding in Fiscal 2016. This action will restore total funding for tree pruning to $4.4 million in Fiscal 2016.
The Fiscal 2015 Adopted Budget includes a $750,000 allocation provided by the Council for a total of $3 million for tree stump removal citywide. The funding provided in Fiscal 2015 will allow the DPR to remove 6,700 stumps and continue to remove 99 percent of reported dead trees within 30 days. However, the Council's allocation was not base-lined and therefore not included in the Fiscal 2016 Preliminary Budget. As such, to ensure that DPR will continue to meet its target for tree stump removal, the Council urges the Administration to restore and baseline funding in the amount of $750,000 in Fiscal 2016 for tree stump removal.
Laura Starr, Past-President of ASLA-NY, wrote the following essay regarding the upcoming Mayoral Transition and how crucial it is for the new administration to understand the importance of the design and stewardship of our open spaces.
It has often been noted that the Bloomberg administration has seen a major expansion of parks and public spaces in New York. Walk the Highline; meander through the new Brooklyn Bridge park; travel along a bikeway and gardens through the Battery and up the West Side; sit in café seating where there used to be street; go to Williamsburg, Hunter's Point, the Harlem River: one can scarcely avoid encountering new green space. We must not lose this momentum and the structural underpinnings of this progress as we usher in a new administration with different priorities.
Like no mayor before him, Mayor Bloomberg understood how to bring the genius of the cultural capital of the world to bear on its own future. Using regulatory changes, he altered the contract game to favor the best design, not the lowest bid; as a result, we have world-class talent reshaping our city. He mandated that public works be state-of-the-art exemplars of green design. He broke with tradition to hire talented commissioners based on merit rather than patronage, and they in turn broke bureaucratic barriers, making stormwater gardens and bike lanes. In response to Sandy, some of the world's best minds are channeling a forced adaptation to climate change into a positive aesthetic, economic, and community transformation. The next mayor should continue to enable New York's brain power to focus on the green challenges of our century.
Green spaces have been called vanity projects by some, but this is a damaging fallacy that rests on a benighted understanding of the relationship of urban design to the economic and physical welfare of our city. The fact is that the green network of parks, plazas, bioswales, bike lanes, and green roofs constitutes infrastructure, with all the economic, social, and public-health implications of that word. Like other infrastructure, the green network creates jobs and raises revenue, directly and indirectly. It fosters the growth of business by creating oases that people want not only to live near but to travel to—to eat, to shop, to decompress. It raises property values by making the city as a whole, as well as specific locales, more desirable. The green network improves the mental and physical health of the citizenry. Trees and parks filter out air pollution, reducing rates of asthma and cancer; people who live near them have lower blood levels of cortisol, linked to many diseases; those who exercise outdoors do so longer and more often than do those who must rely on a gym; walking through a green space improves mental performance on tests. The green network physically protects the city, diverting storm water from the overburdened combined sewer system. Its pleasant spaces will provide barriers against catastrophic storm surges. The green network provides space for social gatherings, summer programs, gardening, sports, and playgrounds, knitting together our communities as surely as does other infrastructure. Increased social cohesion in turn renders the city more resilient in emergencies, as was shown by Eric Klineberg's famous study of survival rates during the Chicago heat wave of 1995. These functions reinforce each other. The city makes parks, but in the long run parks remake the city.
Our boroughs desperately need green network infrastructure. It is common in city-planning circles to speak of high-performing buildings. We should come to speak of high-performing green spaces as well. Public spaces exist in the all boroughs, but many are so low-performing as to go unnoticed–wasted through want of intelligent design, programming, and policy. Yet the money exists to bring high-performing green spaces to all areas of the city. Fort Tryon Park and Jamaica Bay are not situated in particularly rich zip codes, but public-private partnerships there have created what are in essence mini-Central Park Conservancies, enabling these areas to employ world-class designers and plan to widen the functions of green space. The next mayor can best serve the city by fostering collaborations of interested parties–the city, the educational and cultural establishments, community leaders, developers, transportation planners and environmental authorities–to create high-performing green infrastructure in every borough.
One hundred and fifty years ago, the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted saw much of this. He created a great park in what was then the "outer borough" of northern Manhattan, and New York flourished around his vision. His first, and still unsurpassed, high-performance green space was the product of a heady collaboration between visionary political leaders and the greatest landscape architect of his century. In our century, too, we have made progress, and it must not stop now: as New York redesigns its shoreline in response to climate change and prepares to absorb a forecast million more residents, we should follow Olmsted's example, plan intelligently, and lead the world in bringing the benefits of the green network to the people.
Laura Starr is recent past President of the New York Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects and a principal of Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners.
On the Upper East Side of Manhattan, a significant cultural landscape is at risk of demolition.
The Russell Page-designed viewing garden at the Frick Collection (East 70th Street b/w Fifth and Madison Avenues) is threatened with demolition, part of an expansion plan that would replace the garden and complementary elements of the Frick's landmark-protected architectural ensemble with an 11-story tower. This garden, considered by the New York Times to be one of his "most important works," is one of the rare surviving Russell Page landscapes in the U.S. and the only one in NYC.
Please take a moment to sign your name to the online petition, (click here) calling upon the Frick to withdraw its ill-conceived plan. It's important to send a strong message to the Frick's Board of Trustees and Director that our community of landscape design professionals feels strongly about protecting the legacy of Russell Page and to preserve a masterfully-designed cultural landscape.
IMPORTANT: When signing the petition, please include your professional or academic suffix (ie: ASLA, AIA, etc.) and consider sharing a comment in the optional box, relating why this issue is important from your perspective.
To learn more, visit the website of the Unite to Save the Frick campaign. And read about the Page garden's recent listing in The Cultural Landscape Foundation's "Landslide 2014" initiative.
The American Society of Landscape Architects, New York Chapter, opposes the Frick Collection's expansion proposal that would destroy the superbly designed Viewing Garden by British Landscape Architect, Russell Page. Our members are urging the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission deny the Frick's request.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission defines a landmark as a building, property or object that has a special character or special historical or aesthetic interest or value as part of the development, heritage, or cultural characteristics of the city, state, or nation. The Frick's viewing garden, which the Commission approved in 1974, is an inextricable element of the Frick's architectural character that helps it meet this definition of a landmark. The Frick's 1974 Landmarks designation was done before Page's death in 1986. As the work of a master landscape architect and a rare American commission, the Russell Page-designed garden is today eligible under Criterion C of the National Register of Historic Places criteria when evaluating significance of a property.
Located in New York City amid the world's most prestigious art museums, the Frick Collection offers art lovers a refreshing contrast to the enormous white boxes that contain many of the city's important collections. The Frick provides an increasingly rare intimate art experience. Still, we understand the need for cultural institutions to stay relevant and to grow in order to attract visitors. The work performed by Landscape Architects is almost always part of a development project – we are by no means advocating for zero growth. However, in this case, we believe the importance of this garden should give the Board Members of the Frick sufficient reason to devise alternative expansion plans that would retain the garden. The Frick's plans should seek to balance the benefits of economic development with the need to retain sufficient green space in our urban environment. This aspect of our city is easily lost in the shadows of tall buildings, making healthy landscapes difficult to grow. New York City's parks and green spaces make our city a more gracious place to work and live. They are worth preserving, and in the same civic spirit of the original gift of the Frick Collection, this garden should be spared demolition.
The garden is an important work of art in its own right. It is a significant piece in the Frick's collection. The museum's own horticulturist said that viewing the precious outdoor space from the street or from the light-filled Reception Hall Pavilion is "like viewing an Impressionist painting." It contributes to the museum's unique character by setting the building in an appropriately quiet, contemplative green space which prepares visitors for the culturally enriching experience within the museum.
Architecturally, the original house was conceived as a "country house in the city," a low lying structure with a large sunny garden that faces central park. The notable landscape architecture firm of the Olmsted Brothers designed the sunny garden on Fifth Avenue. The side garden designed by Russell Page, the subject of this petition, also contributes to that original concept. His original design intent was to create an enclosed terrace on East 70th Street that would evoke the charm of catching a glimpse into a private Parisian garden compatible with the Neo-classical architecture of the mansion. The Frick's horticulturist also noted that this garden is meant to be a surprise discovery for passersby. Page's garden is designed to slow, or stop, a busy New Yorker, to pause for a moment — a respite from the city. It's an oasis everyone can enjoy. Green spaces, such as the Frick's garden, contribute to our mental and physical well-being.
We agree with the Cultural Landscape Foundation's assessment: One of the wonders of the Frick is that it doesn't fill up its site, that it has a bit of room to breathe. One of the problems with green space is that it is often just seen as inherently ephemeral and too often viewed as places to "put stuff." Unless it is deeded as a park, it's just real estate with some plants stored on it.
This garden space is too special to erase from the cityscape. It has demonstrated its value to the citizens of New York City, and in turn its value to the Frick Collection. Should the Frick change direction and decide to save the garden, the members of the ASLA-NY stand ready to assist the Frick to retain this important work of landscape architecture while still achieving their expansion goals.
Difficulty achieving project approvals from the Department of Buildings has been an on-going challenge for landscape architects. Most department officials only focus on buildings – after all that's the name of their agency. But in the spring of 2011, Landscape Architects began experiencing absolute road blocks at the agency. To gain DOB approval Landscape Architects had to pay an architect or engineer to sign and seal their landscape drawings and forms. This was even necessary when the landscape architect was the prime consultant on the project.
That practice will finally come to an end on October 1, 2014. After a concerted effort by the ASLA-NY DOB Task Force, the DOB added language to the latest revision to the building code that included a definition of landscape architect and a reference to the professional licensing of our profession including the land development tasks we perform. This was codified in Local Law 141 of 2013 (see excerpt below) which, in one of his last acts as mayor, Michael Bloomberg signed into law.
This outcome is a direct result of the advocacy work of ASLA-NY. Our local chapter mobilized both members and non-members alike to volunteer their time to effect positive change for our profession. The effort lasted nearly 3 years, culminating in the Task Force Chair, Adrian Smith ASLA testifying before the New York City Council. Other task force members were in the audience ready to testify and still others came to the hearing but were turned away because the hearing room was too small.
We should also recognize that National ASLA Advocacy staff helped facilitate our outreach efforts to members and to members of the New York City Council.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT. A person licensed and registered to practice the profession of landscape architecture under the Education Law of the State of New York.
§28-104.6 Applicant. The applicant for approval of construction documents shall be the registered design professional who prepared or supervised the preparation of the construction documents on behalf of the owner.
§28-104.6.1 Verification of professional qualification required. The department shall not accept construction documents or other documents submitted in connection with applications for construction document approval or work permits under this code by any person representing that he or she is [an architect or engineer] a registered design professional or landscape architect without verifying, by means of lists compiled and made available by the New York state department of education pursuant to paragraph e-1 of subdivision four of section sixty-five hundred seven of the education law, that such person meets the qualifications established by law to practice as an architect or engineer in New York state.
Adrian Smith is ASLA-NY's current Trustee and is a past chapter President.
For the last few years, I have had the pleasure of working for NY ASLA members as our chapter's Trustee on the National Board. I meet with the other trustees from around the country and the Executive committee twice a year – once at the annual meeting in the fall, and once at the mid year meeting every spring.
It's my job to raise issues of import to our region at these meetings so that others from around the country and ASLA staff can hear what matters to us, and possibly help us find solutions. Here are just a few examples: I worked hard with a small coalition of other trustees to craft arguments to support linking licensure and membership; I enlisted the help of our professional practice group to see if they could help us with the prickly issue of how the intellectual property of landscape architects is not being respected, especially by many of our public clients; and with the help of our colleagues in the Advocacy and Government Affairs group at national, I was able to rally our members to contact their council members last summer and fall about the upcoming changes to the NYC Building Code that codified the definition of landscape architects and what we do.
We don't always find solutions right away, and sometimes the will of the majority outweighs the will of the minority (which is where I often find myself), but measured, steady improvements are being made in the way our society and the board of trustees is run. Over the course of the last year or so, I have served on a task force that is looking at the way the Board of Trustees operates and how we can improve not only our meetings, but also how we engage new ASLA members. We need to encourage them to become active in the issues that are critical to the continued success of our profession. I also serve on the Membership Services Committee, to work at creating, maintaining and improving the value of the services ASLA provides its members.
As a member of the local Chapter Executive Committee, I also help with local projects. I enjoy working for our members to help raise awareness in the public's eye about our profession. I can report on one small but important step on that front: On Monday, December 30, 2013 former mayor Bloomberg signed Intro 1056-A into law as Local Law 141 of 2013. This was the bill that we had been working on with the Department of Buildings to improve the process by which projects are filed with the DOB. This law is an update to the Building code that now includes a definition of our profession. It does not yet allow us to sign forms the same way that engineers and architects can, but it is an important beginning. The new law becomes effective on October 1, 2014, so soon thereafter, we will begin again to work with our friends at the DOB to revise their procedures to allow landscape architects to submit their own work without having to hire architects or engineers to do it for them. I want to give credit to the hard working task force who took time out of their business day to meet with DOB officials and to testify before the City Council Committee on Housing and Buildings. We'll be gearing up again soon, so stay tuned!
Finally, I want you to know that I raise my voice at the national meetings for you. And I have been very successful at upholding the reputation that New Yorkers have for being outspoken! It's because we care and because we are passionate about what we do. So please, if you have issues that you think could be helped by an airing at a national meeting, tell me. Send me a message or give me a call, and I'll be sure to voice your concerns. The meeting is coming up in May, so send me your ideas as soon as you can. And if you have any questions about what's going on with the society at a national level, please ask. If I don't have the answer right away, I'll be sure to get it for you.


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Severodonetsk ( tr.: Sivirodanietsk;  ) es una ciudad a orillas del río Donéts perteneciente al óblast de Lugansk, al este de Ucrania. Es el centro administrativo del raión homónimo, aunque hasta 2020 no pertenecía al mismo ya que es una ciudad de importancia regional.

Desde el 11 de octubre de 2014, Severodonetsk ha sido la sede provisional del óblast de Lugansk y Kramatorsk la del óblast de Donetsk, tras los acontecimientos que rodearon la guerra del Dombás.

Severodonetsk tiene varias fábricas y un importante centro de producción química de nitrógeno.

Toponimia
La ciudad aparece en mapas más antiguos como Donets (Donetz, Donez) por el río Donets. Severodonetsk significa "Donetsk del norte".

Geografía
Severodonetsk se encuentra en el noroeste del óblast de Luhansk, a 110 km de Lugansk, la capital de iure del óblast. Se encuentra en la margen izquierda del río Donéts, en la confluencia del río Borovaya, y está conectado con Lisichansk por tres puentes.

La ciudad está ubicada en la zona esteparia y se levanta sobre dunas de arena y suelos de ríos. El terreno dentro de la ciudad y sus alrededores es plano con elevaciones leves (50-80 m sobre el nivel del mar). Alrededor de Severodonetsk, los bosques de llanura aluvial crecen en suelos aluviales cortados por numerosos lagos en forma de meandro del Donéts.

Clima
Severodonetsk tiene clima continental húmedo (Dfb) según la clasificación climática de Köppen. Los veranos son cálidos y, a veces, húmedos, con temperaturas máximas promedio de 26-27 °C y mínimas de 14-15 °C. Los inviernos son relativamente fríos con temperaturas máximas promedio de -1 °C y mínimas de -8 a -6 °C. La primavera y el otoño son generalmente fríos a templados.

Historia

De 1934 a 1951
La fundación de la ciudad moderna de Severodonetsk está estrechamente relacionada con el comienzo de la construcción de la planta de fertilizantes nitrogenados de Lisichansk dentro de los límites de Lisichansk en 1934. La propia ciudad de Donets era parte de Lisichansk. El primer asentamiento de trabajadores en el sitio de construcción fue Liskhimstroy, cerca de Donets, en 1934. En septiembre de 1935, se inauguró la primera escuela en el asentamiento, se inició la producción de una planta de ladrillos de silicato y se construyeron las tres primeras casas residenciales de dos pisos. En 1940, había 47 casas, una escuela, un club, un jardín de infancia, una guardería y 10 edificios de una planta de combinación química en Liskhimstroy.

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Liskhimstroy fue ocupada por tropas alemanas el 11 de julio de 1942. Fue liberada por el Ejército Rojo el 1 de febrero de 1943. El 10 de diciembre de 1943 comenzaron los trabajos para restaurar y ampliar la planta de fertilizantes nitrogenados de Lisichansk. También se restauró por completo el parque de viviendas de antes de la guerra, que ascendía a 17.000 metros cuadrados.

En 1950, se propusieron cuatro variantes de un nuevo nombre para Lisjimstrói: Svetlograd, Komsomolsk del Donets, Mendeleyevsk y Severodonetsk. En el mismo año, Liskhimstroy pasó a llamarse Severodonetsk, en honor al río Donets, y recibió el estatus de ciudad. El día 1 de enero de 1951, la planta química produjo su primera producción de nitrato de amonio.

Guerra ruso-ucraniana

Durante la primera fase de la guerra ruso-ucraniana, Severodonetsk fue capturada por milicianos prorrusos en mayo de 2014. No se celebraron elecciones presidenciales de Ucrania en 2014 en la ciudad ya que los militantes no permitieron que se abrieran los lugares de votación y gran parte de las propiedades de la comisión electoral fueron robadas o destruidas. El 22 de julio de 2014, las fuerzas ucranianas recuperaron el control de la ciudad. Los intensos combates continuaron alrededor de la ciudad durante varios días; el 23 de julio de 2014, la Guardia Nacional de Ucrania y el Ejército de Ucrania emitieron un comunicado en el que decían que «continuaban con la limpieza de Sieverodonetsk».

Un puente que cruza el río Donets sufrió graves daños durante los combates. Éste fue reinaugurado en diciembre de 2016, financiado al 93,8 % con fondos de la Unión Europea. Debido a la guerra, en donde los separatistas controlan la ciudad de Lugansk, la capital del óblast fue reubicada por el gobierno ucraniano temporalmente en Severodonetsk.

Invasión rusa de Ucrania de 2022

Demografía

En el censo de 2001 el 69.85% de la población declaró que su lengua materna es el ruso y el 29.19% el ucraniano.

Economía
Es un importante centro industrial, con el 22.18% de la producción industrial del óblast. La principal fuente de ingresos de la ciudad proviene de la industria química y cuenta con 32 grandes empresas industriales y 1.200 empresas privadas que sirven a la industria. Se destacan la fábrica química Azot, una de las plantas químicas más grandes de Europa, y la de vidrio Impulse.

La construcción de la planta M8 se inició en 1963 con el fin de proporcionar a la URSS materiales semiconductores de germanio (Ge) y galio (Ga), que forman parte del carbón de las minas de Lisichansk, con un contenido de Ge de 50 g/t. Sin embargo el contenido inicial de germanio en la materia prima no fue suficiente aunque el problema se terminó solucionando y la fábrica produjo semiconductores para la URSS.

Infraestructura

Educación
Severodonetsk tiene una red desarrollada de instituciones educativas de todo tipo, desde instituciones y centros de educación primaria hasta superior. Cada año, unos tres mil estudiantes de otras ciudades vienen a estudiar a Severodonetsk. En total, hay aproximadamente 6000 estudiantes, 9706 escolares, 4112 niños en edad preescolar en la ciudad. Algunas de las más importantes son la Universidad Nacional de Ucrania Oriental Volodymyr Dahl o la Universidad Estatal de Asuntos Internos de Luhansk.

Transporte
Hay un aeropuerto nacional a 6 km al sur de Severodonetsk.

Cultura

Un periódico local se publica en la ciudad desde abril de 1965.

Arquitectura

La ciudad es el centro de la diócesis de Severodonetsk y por lo tanto tiene su propia catedral, la catedral de la Natividad del Santo Cristo, templo construido en 2001 en forma de cruz con muchas cúpulas y espadaña. Otras iglesias importantes en la ciudad son la Iglesia de la Santa Cruz (1996) y la Iglesia del Icono de la Madre de Dios "Ternura" (1993).

Deporte
La ciudad ha tenido dos clubes de fútbol importantes en su historia: el FC Khimik Sieverodonetsk, club que participó en las ligas soviéticas de Ucrania, posteriormente en la liga ucraniana y se disolvió en 1998; y el FC Molniya Sieverodonetsk, cuyo mayor éxito fue quedar 4º clasificado en la Segunda división de Ucrania.

El primer campeonato ucraniano de bandy, en el año 2012, resultó en el club local Azot Severodonetsk convirtiéndose en campeón nacional.

Ciudades hermanadas
Severodonetsk está hermanada con las siguientes ciudades:
  Ceadîr-Lunga - Moldavia
  Jelenia Góra - Polonia
  Sérpujov - Rusia
  Rivne - Ucrania

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Localidades del óblast de Lugansk


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