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CR Home
Customer Service/Billing
Long Term Water
Castle Rock Water
Water Efficiency Master Plan
Water Efficiency Master Plan survey
As with most plan redevelopment, Castle Rock Water asked for input in September and October 2022 from customers for the 2022 WEMP plan update, and the online survey received 133 respondents. The results of this survey were compared with a similar survey conducted in 2015 and the statistically significant surveys conducted bi-annually by the Town of Castle Rock.
An overwhelming majority of respondents practice indoor conservation efforts.
Almost 75% did say they monitor for overspray and water waste.
Regarding advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and real-time access to water usage, 30% would look at this information daily/frequently and make adjustments and 56% would look at it periodically to keep track of usage or leaks.
Two-thirds of respondents support the ban on front yard turf for new development and those that opposed were primarily concerned about aesthetics.
2022 respondents tended to engage more in indoor and outdoor conservation efforts than 2016 respondents.
While 72% of respondents from 2022 had heard of CRconserve.com, similar to 2016 percentages, there was a 10% dip in percentage of people who visited the website. Yet, the Town's survey indicated 82% felt more education is warranted.
Comments generally were in support of more stringent conservation efforts:
Easier programs to help residents to remove turf and create a ColoradoScape
Require builders to install low-flow faucets, instant water heaters, etc.
Annual irrigation checks for non-residential customers
Enforce home owner associations (HOAs) to practice conservation
More aggressive structured fee scheme. Pay a LOT more for watering grass after reaching low cost limit.
Real time monitoring and alerts (text/email) when there's a spike
Stop rapid development
Conservation is a water supply
Castle Rock Water has seen a water savings of more than 20% since establishing a mix of conservation programs and we thank our community for their support in attaining this remarkable achievement.
Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) through the Office of Water Conservation and Drought Planning requires that water providers with total demand of 2,000 acre-feet per year (AF/yr) or more develop and implement plans that encourage customers to use water efficiently. The plan will cover the steps taken and an estimate of the amount of water that has been saved. The plan should be updated at least every seven years. Castle Rock Water's 2015 Water Efficiency Master Plan (WEMP) is being updated in 2022.
The WEMP outlines how conservation is a viable method to extend water supply. Conservation is one avenue in water supply and the Water Resources Strategic Master Plan addresses additional long-term water supply sources. The WEMP focuses on demand-side activities, such as education, rates, rebates, audits and regulations. This plan also solidifies the Town's commitment to efficient water use and conservation. Other plans that address conservation include the Water Use Management Plan and the Drought Management Plan.
Effective management of the community's resources is good environmental and financial stewardship. Continuing to be a leader in conservation and efficiency has the potential to save the customers and community tens of millions of dollars in renewable water investments over the next thirty years. For instance, 18% conservation could save the community approximately $56 million to over $72 million in future investments.
The Town has a population of 78,000 in 2022, and is consistent with the projected timeline of coming from 56,600 in 2015 to doubling by 2055.
The Town has 300 days of sunshine, receives less than 15 inches of precipitation each year and is in a high mountain, semi-arid environment.
The Town's water supply and demand forecasting model projects a demand of 15,400 acre-feet to serve a population of 105,200 people in 2050. If the community can conserve 18% of that future demand, the demand will decrease by 1,610 acre-feet.
Soon after implementation of the 2006 Water Conservation Master Plan, the Town decreased its water consumption from 165 gallons per capita daily (GPCD) to 135 GPCD. The current 5-year average consumption rate is 118 GPCD with a goal of 100 GPCD by 2055.
In 2017, eighty-seven percent of the Town's water was pumped from the deep groundwater wells; in 2021, 33 percent was from renewable water sources, including indirect potable reuse. The goal is to reach 75% or more by 2050.
The overall primary water users are residential accounts, using 68% of demand. However, individual high water use accounts include public parks, HOAs and one large commercial facility.
Almost half of the 3.2 billion gallons of water consumed each year (2021 statistic) in Castle Rock goes toward outdoor irrigation.
2015 Accomplishments
2022 Proposed Actions
Approximately 25 strategies were implemented or expanded over the past seven years. These are the most impactful.
1. Water budget rate structure changes
Implemented in 2009, this billing structure promotes water conservation through a tiered rate system that rewards conservation and charges respectively more for consumption. In 2020, the water budget rate structure for non-residential customers was adjusted for actual plant material and irrigable area. An adjustment for residential customers is currently being evaluated. Residential customers that remove turf with a SmartScape/ColoradoScape rebate do have their budget adjusted accordingly.
2. SmartScape Landscape Renovation Program expansion to non-residential customers
In 2018, this rebate (now called ColoradoScape) was extended to non-residential customers and has accounted for the removal of almost 200,000 sq. ft. of turf on commercial and HOA spaces with an average 29% water savings per account retrofitted.
3. Changes to local building code
All new construction that includes landscaping must abide by the annually updated Landscape and Irrigation Criteria Manual.
Residential new development must install a WI-FI enabled smart irrigation controller and every non-residential project must be installed with a smart controller, rain sensor, master valve, and flow sensor.
Properties require prescribed soil amendment and tilling.
In 2018, Kentucky Bluegrass was no longer allowed to be installed in new development or non-residential renovation.
Spaces less than 10 feet cannot have overhead irrigation, and medians, islands, and roundabouts are not allowed to have any irrigation.
4. Registration for landscape professionals
Initiated in 2004, all landscape professionals working on non-residential properties or residential new construction must be registered with the Town and have had training on the requirements of the Town, as well as water conservation landscape best practices. The Qualified Water Efficiency Landscape (QWEL) certification became a requirement in 2022.
5. Town park landscape and irrigation retrofits
Over the past several years, the Town has taken the initiative to decrease water consumption in Town-owned and maintained parks by installing synthetic turf fields, weather-based central control system, rain and flow sensors. Additional ball fields are scheduled for synthetic turf.
6. Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI)
AMI will allow real-time monitoring of water usage which will bring more awareness to water use and potentially provide earlier detection of leaks. Feasibility and funding have been obtained and implementation of AMI is beginning in 2022.
7. Indoor conservation incentive program
In 2019, the addition of ultra-high efficiency toilets (with a recycling program) and whole-home water monitoring system rebates were added.
8. Customer education and engagement
Adjustments to customer education include a Water Wiser certification expiration, an online course offering and expansion of course topics including winterization and ColoradoScape design. A ColoradoScape Front-Yard Renovation contest and CRconserve.com website further outreach efforts and promote engagement with contests and consumer conservation tools.
9. Water loss reduction strategies
In 2014, water loss was calculated at 7.9%. Castle Rock Water conducts an acoustic leak detection test on 1/3 of the distribution system each year to find leaks and prioritize maintenance of problem areas.
10. Watering schedule
In 2018, the watering schedule was extended from June 1-August 31 to May 1-Sept. 30 to encourage efficient water use during the irrigation shoulder season. Through education and enforcement, non-residential customers were required to adhere to a redesigned three-day-per-week irrigation schedule. Water monitors provide education and issue violations to offenders who irrigate on the wrong day, wrong time and have water waste.
Various community surveys show that customers support more stringent conservation measures. Castle Rock Water plans to retain the effective strategies implemented in the past and proposes several additional ones. With conservation measures primarily implemented by customers in their own actions, Castle Rock Water is urging customers to provide input to this plan--please, take the WEMP update survey.
Some additional strategies proposed and/or in process:
Front-yard ColoradoScape requirement for new development
For new residential development, Castle Rock Water is proposing to restrict turf in the front yard and limit the back yard to a maximum of 500 sq. ft.
Non-functional turf elimination for non-residential common spaces
For non-residential customers, including apartment complexes, condominiums, townhomes, home owner's associations (HOA) common areas and commercial businesses, the focus will be to eliminate non-functional turf. Non-functional turf is defined as those areas of turf where play or recreational activities cannot or do not take place.
ColoradoScape demonstration garden
There are xeric gardens at various water facilities. In 2022, a public facing garden was installed at the new Castle Rock Water Administration building. A new educational demonstration garden, almost an acre in size, is planned for installation to begin in 2023 near the Ray Waterman Regional Treatment Facility in the Terrain.
Additional rebates
The turf renovation rebate was expanded from $1 per square foot to $1.20 and available funding is proposed to be expanded from $145,000 to $300,000 for both residential and non-residential programs. Additional products, such as the hot water recirculation system and tankless water heaters are being considered. Funding for rebates primarily comes from water violation and excessive use surcharges.
Pilot projects and efficiency neighborhoods
Castle Rock Water will continue to work with community builders and industry partners to create more efficient homes. Currently, a graywater recycling system for the home which takes shower water, and utilizes it for flushing toilets is being studied—as is a whole home water monitoring system. Castle Rock Water works with builders to develop Water Efficiency Plans in entire neighborhoods.
Currently each Castle Rock resident uses about 118 gallons of water every day (averaged over a year.)
Water schedules were put in place to level out peak demand and had an added benefit of water conservation.
Residential customers make up almost 70% of the customer base and use most of the water consumed in Town.
Imported WISE Water
Peak Demand
Securing the Future
Reuse Water
CRconserve


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If ever the description "the man had a full life" could be levelled at someone then that man would have to be Coates Kinney. During the 19th century he was, at various times a wistful and skillful poet. For a short time he was a politician, filling the role of Senator in the State of Ohio for two years. He was a lawyer in Cincinnati and worked as a journalist on several publications and newspapers. He served in the US Army during the American Civil War as a commissioned officer, achieving the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the appointment of Paymaster. Finally, he held several school teaching posts.
Coates Kinney was born on the 24th November 1826 at Keuka Lake in Yates County, N.Y. At the age of thirteen the family moved to Ohio where Kinney showed that he had a strong thirst for learning. He had temporary periods of employment in a woolen factory and a sawmill but he saw better things ahead for himself. After attending the Springboro Academy, which was a boarding school, he went on to Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and took up language studies, but this lasted only one year. He spent a number of years studying the law and writing while also finding the time to teach at various schools in Ohio.
His ambitions lay firmly with becoming a lawyer and he read law at a firm in Lebanon, Ohio along with studying under a court judge at Bellefontaine. Finally, at the age of thirty, he was admitted to the bar and practiced law for three years before transferring his skills to journalism. He wrote for papers such as the Ohio State Journal and the Cincinnati Times. This was all halted though with the onset of the Civil War and Kinney served his time in the US Army from 1861 to 1865.
He was twice-married and his second wife bore him three daughters.
Coates Kinney died in Cincinnati on the 25th January 1904, aged 77.


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New Zealand's third largest island
For the island of the Andaman Islands, see Stewart Island (Andaman and Nicobar Islands). For the islands in the Solomon Islands, see Stewart Islands. For the island in Greenland, see Steward Island.
Native name:
Rakiura (Māori)
Foveaux Strait
47°00′S 167°50′E / 47.00°S 167.84°E / -47.00; 167.84Coordinates: 47°00′S 167°50′E / 47.00°S 167.84°E / -47.00; 167.84
New Zealand archipelago
1,746 km2 (674 sq mi)
Highest elevation
Mount Anglem
Largest settlement
Oban (pop. 322[citation needed])
Pop. density
0.22 /km2 (0.57 /sq mi)
Stewart Island, officially named Stewart Island/Rakiura, (Māori: Rakiura), is the third-largest island of New Zealand. It lies 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of the South Island, across the Foveaux Strait. Its permanent population is 381 people as of the 2013 census, most of whom live in the settlement of Oban on the eastern side of the island.[1]
1 History and naming
3 Settlements
4 Economy and communications
6 Ecology
6.1 Flora
6.2 Fauna
6.3 Threats and preservation
7 Claims of independence
History and naming[edit]
Paterson Inlet at sunset
Mudflats near Oban
The original Māori name, Te Punga o Te Waka a Maui, positions Stewart Island firmly at the heart of Māori mythology. Translated as The Anchor Stone of Maui's Canoe, it refers to the part played by the island in the legend of Maui and his crew, who from their canoe, the South Island, caught and raised the great fish, the North Island.
Rakiura is the more commonly known and used Māori name. It is usually translated as Glowing Skies, possibly a reference to the sunsets for which it is famous or for the aurora australis, the southern lights that are a phenomenon of southern latitudes.[citation needed]
For some, Rakiura is the abbreviated version of Te Rakiura a Te Rakitamau, translated as "great blush of Rakitamau", in reference to the latter's embarrassment when refused the hand in marriage of not one, but two daughters, of an island chief.[2] According to Māori legend, a chief on the island named Te Rakitamau was married to a young woman who became terminally ill and implored him to marry her cousin after she died. Te Rakitamau paddled across Te Moana Tapokopoko a Tawhiki (Foveaux Strait) to the South Island where the cousin lived, only to discover she had recently married. He blushed with embarrassment; so the island was called Te Ura o Te Rakitamau.
Captain James Cook and his crew were the first Europeans to sight the island from the Endeavour in March 1770. As the ship sailed south around it, Cook recorded its insularity and described the strait that separates it from the South Island. It is argued by Margaret Cameron-Ash that he decided to hide it. She points out that he was operating during the period of intense Anglo-French rivalry that filled the twelve years between Britain's success in the Seven Years' War and France's revanche in the American Revolutionary War [3]. He recalled the Admiralty's verbal instructions to conceal strategically important discoveries that could become security risks, such as off-shore islands from which operations could be mounted by a hostile power. Cook knew he had to hide Foveaux Strait and depict Stewart Island as a peninsula. Consequently, he altered his journal entry and redrew his chart of New Zealand showing the two southerly islands joined by an isthmus.[4]
The strait was first charted by Owen Folger Smith, a New Yorker who had been in Sydney Harbour with Eber Bunker from whom he probably learned of the eastern seal fishery. Smith charted the strait in the whaleboat of the sealing brig Union (out of New York) in 1804 and on his 1806 chart it was called Smith's Straits.[5]
The island received its English name in honour of William W. Stewart. He was first officer on the Pegasus which visited in 1809 and he charted the large south-eastern harbour that now bears the ship's name (Port Pegasus), and determined the northern points of the island, proving that it was an island.[6][7] In 1824 he initiated plans in England to establish a timber, flax and trading settlement at Stewart Island and sailed there in 1826,[6] with it becoming known as Stewart's Island.
In 1841, the island was established as one of the three Provinces of New Zealand, and was named New Leinster. However, the province existed on paper only and was abolished after only five years. With the passing of the New Zealand Constitution Act 1846, the province became part of New Munster, which entirely included the South Island.[8] When New Munster was abolished in 1853, Stewart Island became part of Otago Province until 1861, when Southland Province split from Otago. In 1876, the provinces were abolished altogether.
For most of the twentieth century, "Stewart Island" was the official name, and that is still in common use by most New Zealanders. The name was officially altered to Stewart Island/Rakiura by the Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998, one of many such changes under the Ngāi Tahu treaty settlement.[9]
Satellite image of Stewart Island
Northern part of Stewart Island, with a view over some of the bays
Stewart Island has an area of 1,680 square kilometres (650 sq mi).[10] Its terrain is hilly and, like most of New Zealand, Stewart Island has an Oceanic climate. The north is dominated by the swampy valley of the Freshwater River. The river rises close to the northwestern coast and flows southeastwards into the large indentation of Paterson Inlet. The highest peak is Mount Anglem (980 metres (3,220 ft)), close to the northern coast. It is one of a rim of ridges that surround Freshwater Valley.
The southern half is more uniformly undulating, rising to a ridge that runs south from the valley of the Rakeahua River, which also flows into Paterson Inlet. The southernmost point in this ridge is Mount Allen, at 750 metres (2,460 ft). In the southeast the land is somewhat lower, and is drained by the valleys of the Toitoi River, Lords River, and Heron River. South West Cape on this island is the southernmost point of the main islands of New Zealand.
Mason Bay, on the west side, is notable as a long sandy beach on an island where beaches are typically far more rugged. One suggestion is that the bay was formed in the aftershock of a meteorite impact in the Tasman Sea.
Three large and many small islands lie around the coast. Notable among these are Ruapuke Island, in Foveaux Strait 32 kilometres (20 mi) northeast of Oban; Codfish Island, close to the northwest shore; and Big South Cape Island, off the southwestern tip. The Titi/Muttonbird Islands group is between Stewart Island and Ruapuke Island, around Big South Cape Island, and off the southeastern coast. Other islands of interest include Bench Island, Native Island, and Ulva Island, all close to the mouth of Paterson Inlet, and Pearl Island, Anchorage Island, and Noble Island, close to Port Pegasus in the southwest. Further offshore The Snares are oceanic islands, a volcano and some smaller islets, that were never connected to the larger Stewart Island.
Stewart Island has a temperate climate.[11] However, one travel guide mentions "frequent downpours that make 'boots and waterproof clothing mandatory'",[12] and another guide says that rainfall in Oban, the capital, is 1,600 to 1,800 mm (63 to 71 in) a year.[13]
Owing to an anomaly in the magnetic latitude contours, this location is well placed for observing Aurora australis.
Settlements[edit]
Overlooking Oban and Halfmoon Bay on Stewart Island
The only town is Oban, on Halfmoon Bay.
A previous settlement, Port Pegasus, once boasted several stores and a post office, and was located on the southern coast of the island. It is now uninhabited, and is accessible only by boat or by an arduous hike through the island. Another site of former settlement is at Port William, a four-hour walk around the north coast from Oban, where immigrants from the Shetland Islands settled in the early 1870s. This was unsuccessful, and the settlers left within one to two years, most for sawmilling villages elsewhere on the island.
Since 1988 the electricity supply on Stewart Island has come from diesel generators; previously residents used their own private generators. As a consequence electric power is around three times more expensive than in the South Island, at NZ$0.59/kWh in 2016.[14] The Southland District Council has partnered with Meridian Energy to develop renewable energy sources for the island, and experiments with photovoltaic and wind generation are in progress.[14]
Economy and communications[edit]
Fishing has been, historically, the most important element of the economy of Stewart Island, and while it remains important, tourism has become the main source of income for islanders. There has also been some farming and forestry.[citation needed] Oban has mainly sealed main roads, and some gravel roads on the outskirts.
Stewart Island Flights links Ryan's Creek Aerodrome and Invercargill Airport and aircraft also land on the sand at Mason Bay, Doughboy Bay, and West Ruggedy Beach. A regular passenger ferry service runs between Bluff and Oban. The only ferry/barge link to the South Island for vehicles is to Bluff.
Oban has phone and broadband (ADSL) services. Cellphone coverage is provided by Spark and Vodafone. All these services rely on a radio link to Bluff, so broadband speeds are limited.[citation needed]
Stewart Island is able to receive most AM and FM radio stations broadcast in the Southland region. Television services are available via satellite using Sky or Freeview. Analogue terrestrial television services could be received on Stewart Island from the Hedgehope television transmitter located in the South Island prior to the analogue switch off on April 28, 2013.
Oban, Halfmoon Bay, New Zealand 1977
From 1841 to 1853, Stewart Island was governed as New Leinster Province, then as part of New Munster Province. From 1853 onwards, it was part of the Otago Province. In local government today, Stewart Island is part of the Southland District and the Southland Region. However, it shares with some other islands a certain relaxation in some of the rules governing commercial activities. For example, every transport service operated solely on Great Barrier Island, the Chatham Islands, or Stewart Island is exempt from the Transport Act of 1962.
Ecology[edit]
Flora[edit]
Although the clay soil is not very fertile, the high rainfall and warm weather mean that the island is densely forested throughout. Native plants include the world's southernmost dense forest of podocarps (southern conifers) and hardwoods such as rātā and kāmahi in the lowland areas with mānuka shrubland at higher elevations. The trees are thought to have become established here since the last ice age from seeds brought across the strait by seabirds, which would explain why the beech trees that are so common in New Zealand, but whose seeds are dispersed by the wind rather than birds, are not found on Stewart Island.
Noeline Baker purchased land near Halfmoon Bay in the early 1930s, and with a checklist by botanist Leonard Cockayne populated it with all the local indigenous plants. She gifted the land and her house to the government in 1940, and today Moturau Moana is New Zealand's southernmost public garden.[15]
Fauna[edit]
There are many species of birds on Stewart Island that have been able to continue to thrive because of the relative absence of the cats, rats, stoats, ferrets, weasels and other predators that humans brought to the main islands. There are even more species of birds, including huge colonies of sooty shearwater and other seabirds, on The Snares and the other smaller islands offshore. The birds of Stewart Island include weka, kākā, albatross, the flightless Stewart Island kiwi, silvereyes, fantails, and kererū. The endangered yellow-eyed penguin has a significant number of breeding sites here [16] while the large colonies of sooty shearwaters on the offshore Muttonbird Islands, are subject to muttonbirding, a sustainable harvesting program managed by Rakiura Māori. Meanwhile, a small population of the kakapo, a flightless parrot which is very close to extinction, was found on Stewart Island in 1977 and the birds subsequently moved to smaller islands (Codfish Island) for protection from feral cats. The South Island saddleback is similarly preserved.
Threats and preservation[edit]
As the island has always been sparsely populated and there has never been very much logging, much of the original wildlife is intact, including species that have been devastated on the larger islands to the north since their habitation by humans. However, although habitats and wildlife were not threatened by invasive species historically, now there are populations of cats, rats and brushtail possums on the island, as well as a large population of white-tailed deer, which are hunted for meat and sport, introduced to coastal areas. There is also a small population of red deer confined to the inland areas.[17] Almost all the island is owned by the New Zealand government and over 80 per cent of the island is set aside as the Rakiura National Park, New Zealand's newest national park. Many of the small offshore islands, including the Snares, are also protected.
Claims of independence[edit]
Residents of Stewart Island have held a number of mock promotional fund-raising events regarding a declaration of independence for the island, and to have it renamed to its original name of "Rakiura".
In the late 1950s or early 1960s, they had a local printer overprint "INDEPENDENT RAKIURA" on eight values of some earlier New Zealand postage and health stamps. Eight different values, from one penny to £1, were overprinted on the stamps, and their original values were blotted out with small black circles. The stamps were sold to collectors, with the proceeds helping to refurbish the Rakiura Museum.
An effort to raise NZ$6,000 for a new swimming pool at the island's school involved selling 50-cent passports for the newly "independent" island. On 31 July 1970, a mock ceremony featured a declaration of independence, and the new republic's flag was unveiled.
These efforts were not serious attempts for independence, and Stewart Island remains a part of the New Zealand state.[18]
^ 2013 Census QuickStats about a place: Stewart Island
^ "Features: Rakiura National Park". Department of Conservation (New Zealand). Retrieved 2014-05-06.
^ Cameron-Ash, M. (2018). Lying for the Admiralty: Captain Cook's Endeavour Voyage. Rosenberg. p. 80-93. ISBN 9780648043966.
^ Cameron-Ash, M. (2018). Lying for the Admiralty. Sydney: Rosenberg. pp. 141–145. ISBN 9780648043966. ; But see also G.A. Mawer, review of Lying for the Admiralty: Captain Cook's Endeavour Voyage, The Globe, No. 84, 2018, pp.59-61; Nigel Erskine, "James Cook's False Trail: Hidden Discoveries, Altered Records", Signals, No. 125, Dec 2018-Feb 2019 pp.72-73.
^ Howard, Basil, and Stewart Island Centennial Committee. Rakiura: a History of Stewart Island, New Zealand, Basil Howard Reed for the Stewart Island Centennial Committee, Dunedin, 1940, p.22; Charles A. Begg and Neil C. Begg, Port Preservation, Christchurch, Whitcombe & Tombs, 1973, p.61; Peter Entwisle, Behold the Moon: The European Occupation of the Dunedin District 1770-1848, Dunedin, Port Daniel Press, 1998.
^ a b Foster, Bernard John (1966). "Stewart, Captain William W.". In McLintock, Alexander (ed.). An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 19 May 2019 – via Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
^ John O'C. Ross, William Stewart, Sealing Captain, Trader and Speculator, Aranda (A.C.T), Roebuck Society, 1987, pp. 97-117.
^ Paterson, Donald Edgar (1966). "New Leinster, New Munster, and New Ulster". In McLintock, Alexander (ed.). An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 18 May 2019 – via Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
^ Schedule 96 Alteration of place names
^ Walrond, Carl (3 September 2012). "Stewart Island/Rakiura – New Zealand's third main island". Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
^ "weather". Stewart Island. Stewart Island Promotion Association Inc. 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
^ "Weather in Stewart Island". When to go & weather. Lonely Planet. 2012. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
^ "Weather". Wilderness Experience. Raggedy Range. 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
^ a b "Stewart Is may lead NZ in green power". 26 April 2008. Archived from the original on 3 June 2010.
^ Taylor, Leah. "Isabel Noeline Baker". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
^ C. Michael Hogan. 2009. Yellow-eyed Penguin: Megadypes antipodes, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg
^ "Rakiura Island temperate forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund.
^ Stewart Island (New Zealand)
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Stewart Island.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stewart Island.
Stewart Island News
Stewart Island Promotion Association
Populated places of the territorial authority of Southland District, Southland Region, New Zealand
seat: Invercargill City
Mararoa Waimea Ward
Five Rivers Area
Eyre Creek
Garston
Josephville
Lowther
Lumsden
Mossburn
Nokomai
Parawa
Te Anau Area
Knobs Flat
Manapouri
Waikaia Area
Ardlussa
Kauhoe
Waikaia
Wendon
Wendonside
Waiau Aparima Ward
Riverton Area
Colac Bay
Gummies Bush
Orepuki
Pahia
Riverton/Aparima
Waipango
Tuatapere Area
Blackmount
Merrivale
Monowai
Papatotara
Piko Piko
Pukemaori
Te Waewae
Tuatapere
Wallace Area
Isla Bank
Ohai
Otahuti
Otautau
Wairio
Wreys Bush
Waihopai Toetoes Ward
Toetoes Area
Curio Bay
Fortification
Haldane
Mokoreta
Otara
Pukewao
Quarry Hills
Slope Point
Titiroa
Te Peka
Tokanui
Waipapa Point
Waikawa
Waimahaka
Waihopai Area
Ashers
Gorge Road
Grove Bush
Kapuka
Kapuka South
Longbush
Mabel Bush
Mokotua
Oteramika
Rakahouka
Roslyn Bush
Timpanys
Winton Wallacetown Ward
Te Tipua Area
Brydone
Edendale
Mataura Island
Morton Mains
Ota Creek
Seaward Downs
Te Tipua
Waitane
Wallacetown Area
Lochiel
Ryal Bush
Spar Bush
Tussock Creek
Waianiwa
Wallacetown
Waimatuku
Winton Area
Centre Bush
Dipton
Dipton West
Hedgehope
Kauana
Lady Barkly
Limehills
Oreti Plains
Otapiri
South Hillend
Springhills
Stewart Island-Rakiura Ward
Port Pegasus*
Port William*
* - uninhabited settlement
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'Lost' Monitor Lizard Rediscovered in Papua New Guinea
Varanus douarrha was first described for science in 1823, but the original specimen went down in an 1824 shipwreck.
(Image: © Valter Weijola)
A monitor lizard lost to science in an 1800s shipwreck has been rediscovered on an island in Papua New Guinea.
The medium-size monitor, Varanus douarrha, was first identified by French naturalist René Lesson in 1823. The scientific name was inspired by the pronunciation of the lizard's name in Siar, the language of the people who share the lizard's home of New Ireland island. [Album: Bizarre Frogs, Lizards and Salamanders]
The specimen of the lizard collected by Lesson went down in a shipwreck off the Cape of Good Hope in 1824, however, so the monitor lizard was never systematically studied. Scientists knew monitor lizards roamed New Ireland, but figured they were the common mangrove monitor species (Varanus indicus) found all over New Guinea. (There are about 90 species of monitor lizard worldwide.)
Not so, new research finds. Valter Weijola, a zoologist at the University of Turku in Finland, did fieldwork on the island in an effort to survey the monitor lizards there. He and his colleagues found that the monitor lizards there are both morphologically and genetically different from Varanus indicus. In fact, V. douarrha has been present on the Bismarck Islands, of which New Ireland is a part, for longer that V. indicus, the researchers reported April 26 in the Australian Journal of Zoology.
The new monitor lizard is the only large animal endemic to the remote island of New Ireland. (Image credit: Valter Weijola)
V. douarrha is black with yellow speckles that are concentrated more densely on its underbelly. It grows to about 4.3 feet (1.3 meters) in length. For comparison, the largest monitor lizard — the Komodo dragon — can grow to 10 feet (3 m) long. V. douarrha is the only large native animal known to live on New Ireland, though fossils have been found of large flightless birds and rodents.
Last year, Weijola and his colleagues discovered another new monitor lizard, V. semotus, on Mussau Island, which is in the northern part of Papua New Guinea. The discoveries show that there are more endemic species, or native animals found nowhere else, on the islands than previously realized, Weijola said in a statement.


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Here's Why We're Watching Virios Therapeutics' (NASDAQ:VIRI) Cash Burn Situation
Simply Wall St
28 September 2021, 3:33 pm ·3-min read
Just because a business does not make any money, does not mean that the stock will go down. For example, although Amazon.com made losses for many years after listing, if you had bought and held the shares since 1999, you would have made a fortune. But while the successes are well known, investors should not ignore the very many unprofitable companies that simply burn through all their cash and collapse.
Given this risk, we thought we'd take a look at whether Virios Therapeutics (NASDAQ:VIRI) shareholders should be worried about its cash burn. In this article, we define cash burn as its annual (negative) free cash flow, which is the amount of money a company spends each year to fund its growth. Let's start with an examination of the business' cash, relative to its cash burn.
See our latest analysis for Virios Therapeutics
Does Virios Therapeutics Have A Long Cash Runway?
A company's cash runway is the amount of time it would take to burn through its cash reserves at its current cash burn rate. In June 2021, Virios Therapeutics had US$22m in cash, and was debt-free. In the last year, its cash burn was US$11m. So it had a cash runway of about 2.0 years from June 2021. Arguably, that's a prudent and sensible length of runway to have. Depicted below, you can see how its cash holdings have changed over time.
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How Is Virios Therapeutics' Cash Burn Changing Over Time?
Because Virios Therapeutics isn't currently generating revenue, we consider it an early-stage business. So while we can't look to sales to understand growth, we can look at how the cash burn is changing to understand how expenditure is trending over time. Its cash burn positively exploded in the last year, up 427%. With that kind of spending growth its cash runway will shorten quickly, as it simultaneously uses its cash while increasing the burn rate. While the past is always worth studying, it is the future that matters most of all. So you might want to take a peek at how much the company is expected to grow in the next few years.
How Hard Would It Be For Virios Therapeutics To Raise More Cash For Growth?
Given its cash burn trajectory, Virios Therapeutics shareholders may wish to consider how easily it could raise more cash, despite its solid cash runway. Issuing new shares, or taking on debt, are the most common ways for a listed company to raise more money for its business. Commonly, a business will sell new shares in itself to raise cash and drive growth. We can compare a company's cash burn to its market capitalisation to get a sense for how many new shares a company would have to issue to fund one year's operations.
Since it has a market capitalisation of US$44m, Virios Therapeutics' US$11m in cash burn equates to about 24% of its market value. That's fairly notable cash burn, so if the company had to sell shares to cover the cost of another year's operations, shareholders would suffer some costly dilution.
How Risky Is Virios Therapeutics' Cash Burn Situation?
Even though its increasing cash burn makes us a little nervous, we are compelled to mention that we thought Virios Therapeutics' cash runway was relatively promising. We don't think its cash burn is particularly problematic, but after considering the range of factors in this article, we do think shareholders should be monitoring how it changes over time. On another note, we conducted an in-depth investigation of the company, and identified 5 warning signs for Virios Therapeutics (2 are a bit unpleasant!) that you should be aware of before investing here.
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Q: Pandas: rounding halfway values in dataframe using np.round and applymap I want to understand why I get different values when using 1) np.round and 2) applymap on the same DF
my df
 df1 = pd.DataFrame({'total': [25.23, 3.55, 76.55, 36.48, 45.59]}, index=['cat1', 'cat2', 'cat3', 'cat4', 'cat5'])

      total
cat1  25.23
cat2   3.55
cat3  76.55
cat4  36.48
cat5  45.59

np.round returns
np.round(df1, 1)
      total
cat1   25.2
cat2    3.6
cat3   76.6
cat4   36.5
cat5   45.6

appymap returns
df1.applymap(lambda x: round(x,1))
      total
cat1   25.2
cat2    3.5
cat3   76.5
cat4   36.5
cat5   45.6

As you can see, np.round rounds up halfway values while applymap rounds down. What's going on?

A: This is documented behaviour in python 2: round and np.around in python 3 you get the same results:
In [63]:
np.round(df1['total'], 1)

Out[63]:
cat1    25.2
cat2     3.6
cat3    76.6
cat4    36.5
cat5    45.6
Name: total, dtype: float64

In [69]:
df1.applymap(lambda x: round(x,1))

Out[69]:
      total
cat1   25.2
cat2    3.6
cat3   76.6
cat4   36.5
cat5   45.6


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Starring Nushrratt Bharuccha & Rajkummar Rao, the Global Premiere of Chhalaang is this week 13th November 2020 exclusively on Amazon Prime Video!
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Anticipation is growing by the day since the trailer of Nushrratt Bharuccha and Rajkummar Rao starrer Chhalaang. From rap challenges to reminiscing about their school days, the stars are all rearing to go for its release. The leading lady, in particular, seems to have taken this film as a learning curve and thanks no one else but his leading man.
Nushrratt Bharuccha says, "I worked with him Love Sex Aur Dhokha (LSD) with him but we didn't star opposite each other. Working with Rajkummar was a learning experience, it was an eye-opener. He has done so many roles, his filmography is so diverse, he is very enriched as an actor, he knows exactly what to do, how to do. I was watching him from behind the monitor, I was watching him in front of me, it just made me feel like I am now going to become a better actor. I will take some things back from his performance and put them into my own performances."
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Directed by Hansal Mehta, Chhalaang is a hilarious, yet inspirational journey of a PT master from a semi government funded school in Northern India. Montu (Rajkummar Rao) is a typical PT master for whom it's just a job. When circumstances put everything that Montu cares for at stake, including Neelu (Nushrratt Bharuccha) who he loves, Montu is forced to do what he has never done - Teach.
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Q: Why am I getting error cant find method? I am working on an assignment that requires me to use queues. A portion of the code comes straight out of my book, however I am getting several errors in my dequeue method of my ArrayUnbndQueue class.
public class ArrayUnbndQueue<T> implements UnboundedQueueInterface<T>
{
    protected final int DEFCAP = 100; // default capacity
    protected T[] queue;              // array that holds queue elements
    protected int origCap;            // original capacity
    protected int numElements = 0;    // number of elements in the queue
    protected int front = 0;          // index of front of queue
    protected int rear = -1;          // index of rear of queue

    public ArrayUnbndQueue()
    {
        queue = (T[]) new Object [DEFCAP];
        rear = DEFCAP - 1;
        origCap = DEFCAP;
    }

    public ArrayUnbndQueue(int origCap)
    {
        queue = (T[]) new Object[origCap];
        rear = origCap - 1;
        this.origCap = origCap;
    }

    private void enlarge()
    {
        T[] larger = (T[]) new Object[queue.length + origCap];

        int currSmaller = front;
        for (int currLarger = 0; currLarger < numElements; currLarger++)
        {
            larger[currLarger] = queue[currSmaller];
            currSmaller = (currSmaller + 1) % queue.length;
        }

        // update instance variables
        queue = larger;
        front = 0;
        rear = numElements - 1;
    }

    public void enqueue(T element)
    {
        if (numElements == queue.length)
            enlarge();
        rear = (rear + 1) % queue.length;
        queue[rear] = element;
        numElements = numElements + 1;
    }

    public T dequeue()
    {
        if (isEmpty())
            throws new QueueUnderflowException("Dequeue attempted on empty queue.");
        else
            {
              T toReturn = queue[front];
              queue[front] = null;
              front = (front + 1) % queue.length;
              numElements = numElements -1;
              return toReturn;
            }
    }

    public boolean isEmpty()
    {
        return (numElements == 0);
    }

}

The public T deque method is exactly copied from my book.
The QueueUnderflowException class was not actually shown in my book so I was getting other errors in my interface and in this class, but I wrote the code for that
public class QueueUnderflowException extends RuntimeException
{
    public QueueUnderflowException()
    {
        super();
    }
    public QueueUnderflowException(String message)
    {
        super(message);
    }
}

Netbeans gives me an error that it cant find method QueueUnderflowException, else with no if, and missing return statement.
I have tried to add brackets around the throws exception line, like the code below. This removes my "else with no if" error, and i could probably move the return statement to out side of the else statement, but I still get the can't find method error
public T dequeue()
        {
            if (isEmpty())
            {
                throws new QueueUnderflowException("Dequeue attempted on empty queue.");
            }
            else
                {
                  T toReturn = queue[front];
                  queue[front] = null;
                  front = (front + 1) % queue.length;
                  numElements = numElements -1;
                  return toReturn;
                }
        }

A: throws new QueueUnderflowException("Dequeue attempted on empty queue.");
should be
throw new QueueUnderflowException("Dequeue attempted on empty queue.");

A: You need to change your  public T dequeue()
public T dequeue() {
  if (isEmpty())
  throws new QueueUnderflowException("Dequeue attempted on empty queue.");//throw
                                                                     //not throws
  // this should be throw not throws
}

You are throwing exception from this dequeue method. To do this you need to have throws in method signature.
public T dequeue() throws QueueUnderflowException{
 throw new QueueUnderflowException("Dequeue attempted on empty queue.");
}

A: Not sure whether it will resolve all your erros but you need to use throw instead of throws in such statements:
            throws new QueueUnderflowException("Dequeue attempted on empty queue.");


How can municipalities grow the market for clean, low-emission heating sources in new and existing homes and buildings? Can building electrification really save consumers billions of dollars compared to other carbon reduction strategies? Those and other questions are answered within new white papers that highlight opportunities and challenges of finding ways to significantly support building electrification, slash emissions, and help consumers face the least home energy costs.
3 white papers that discuss these decarbonization strategies in detail are "California's Building Decarbonization Opportunity: Knowing Where We Are and Delivering What We Need," "Rate Design for Building Electrification," and "Strategies and Approaches for Building Decarbonization." Below are highlights from each paper.
This paper outlines the most important costs and barriers that need to be overcome to deliver the benefits of building decarbonization to all Californians, and it is a model that can be extended outward to the entire US. As the building decarbonization market continues to develop, regulators and stakeholders will need to understand short- and long-term risks to customers, utilities, policy goals, society, and climate as related to investing or not investing in certain technologies and intervention strategies.
The authors, Alejandra Cunningham, Michelle Ralston, and Katie Wu, say that some risks like impacts to air quality or to policy goals will be inherently difficult to quantify. Yet, it will still be imperative to understand, manage, and reduce these very risks.
The rates that gas and electricity utilities charge customers are a product of a complex, negotiated process that inherently involves policy choices. Those choices are made to align with the principles of cost-causation, address the needs of individual customer groups, balance cost burdens across different groups, or support other policy goals. Rate design elements are balanced so that they collectively reflect the real costs of using different fuels, and rate design can convey price signals to support building electrification where it is societally beneficial.
As certain states adopt increasingly aggressive greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction and climate change policies, regulators are asked to consider shifting attention from conservation and energy use reduction to reducing GHG emissions. With cleaner electricity on the wires, building electrification is an increasingly important strategy for meeting GHG reduction policy goals. Several states, particularly in the northeast, already promote moving from expensive and carbon-heavy delivered fuels, such as oil and propane, to less carbon-intensive fuels, such as gas and electricity.
This paper discusses a wide range of example strategies and approaches, from market development to direct installation, and the workforce training and consumer education that must be part of a building electrification initiative. It presents best practices from across the nation that can inform building decarbonization approaches. Cunningham, Ralston, and Wu discuss successful initiatives that focus on affordability and equity; workforce training and development; industry and customer engagement and incentives; financing; and local government initiatives.
The authors say that overarching regulatory frameworks should consider the long-term market development process necessary for successful building decarbonization. Stakeholders will likely have to prioritize implementation depending on funding availability and the state's ability to leverage certain market development milestones to scale building decarbonization efforts. Nevertheless, prioritized implementation approaches should overlap so that market supply and demand develop in parallel.
By incorporating best practices to cut building emissions, municipalities can pursue zero-emission buildings "in a way that upholds our values – with a focus on affordability and equity, supporting workers, and creating a positive experience for consumers," adds researcher Cunningham. Local governments are on the ground and have the best understanding of their building stock, the authors concede, noting that a suite of energy policies will allow them to play a strong role in accelerating building decarbonization. From energy benchmarking, consumer education, and especially leading-by-example, local jurisdictions will be the face of the electrification effort.
The Building Decarbonization Coalition unites building industry stakeholders with energy providers, environmental organizations and local governments to pursue fast, fair action that accelerates the development of zero-emission homes and buildings in California. Through research, policy development, and consumer inspiration, the BDC activates strong leadership to help California cut one of its largest sources of climate pollution, while creating safe, healthy and affordable communities.


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Waves of Approval for…This Oceanic Feeling
By Paul H Birch
This Oceanic Feeling, are a new three piece band fronted by singer/songwriter & producer Chris Braide, drummer Ash Soan, and bass & guitar specialist Lee Pomeroy, all of whose reputations precede them as they prepare to release their debut album Universal Mind on 17th July 2015 through Cherry Red Records.
Braide and Soan had been founder members of The Producers alongside Trevor Horn, and on linking up again after singer returned from the USA, they found their old chemistry was still there and the idea of forming a new band immediately took shape.
The muse was swiftly awakened and an album's worth of new songs came into life, the lyrics tasked to face the unresolved dualism between fake and real self and their eternal fight for dominance. "It's a positive album, one that I'm proud of and one that I had to make," said Braide enthusiastically. On inviting Lee Pomeroy to join them their distinctive creative venture solidified further and This Oceanic Feeling was born. Braide compares the album's sound to "The Police or Yes 90125-era, big shiny new wave pop music with rock trousers on and occasionally prog sandals!" Having exclusively heard extracts from the album, RAMzine can attest that this appears to be the case, but also has a transatlantic modern flavour to it.
This sound is a combination of the three individuals varied backgrounds. Chris Braide is renowned for producing and writing songs pop stars such as Beyonce, Lana del Rey, Paloma Faith, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, David Guetta and Sia amongst others, and recently producing and co-writing Marc Almond's new album The Velvet Trail. Drummer Ash Soan's diverse pedigree includes playing with the likes of Adele, Lily Allen, Rumer, Mark Owen, Cher, Dido, The Wanted, Nelly Furtado and on Billy Idol's latest album Kings And Queens of the Underground, while Lee Pomeroy has worked with some of the longtime established greats, as performing in the band for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert (Tom Jones, Robbie Williams etc) and for the return of ELO in Hyde Park last year, Rick Wakeman, It Bites and James Morrison, last year touring with Steve Hackett on the 2014 Genesis Revisited Tour and currently working with Take That. A diverse range of music to say the least, but each at the top of their individual games.
Universal Mind is said to be for those whole their melody with a meaningful after taste, and listeners are invited to "Take the journey across its cinematic landscape, from darkness to light, to escape the person you were and embrace the person you really are." Track listing for the record is as follows:
Lie Detector
Put Down The Gun
Universal Mind
I Play Debussy
Johnny Tragic
Karma Camera
Pre-orders on both the CD and vinyl editions of Universal Mind are currently available prior to its general release on 17th July.
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Hideo Kojima Talks On Podcast Over The Weekend
In a recent broadcast of Hideo Kojima's Podcast, titled Hidechannel Radio, the renowned developer made some important announcements whilst in Sapporo in the midst of the Metal Gear Solid Summer Camp tournament currently underway.
Kojima had announced the day before that a drama CD for PSP title Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker was coming and that familiar voices from the Metal Gear games would be working on localisation of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow for the Japanese release of the latest in the renowned series.
He followed this up yesterday with details of the voice actors that will be doing the dubbing for the title but as of yet has not announced who will voice who. He did, however, mention that further details will be unveiled at this year's Tokyo Games Show.
One of the attendees at the Podcast managed to ask Kojima about a potential ZOE sequel which he replied that it is a heavily requested project but is not at the forefront right now due to various limitations at the moment.
Posted by DGN Staff - Patrick Honeyman on Tuesday, August 17, 2010
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This extension implements a Foreign Data Wrapper for Treasure Data. It is supported on PostgreSQL 9.4 and above.
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Specify your API key, database, query engine type ('presto' or 'hive') in CREATE FOREIGN TABLE statement. You can specify either your table name or query for Treasure Data directly.
Also, you can specify other API endpoint.
You can also use IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA. It will import the tables on the specified Treasure Data database into the Postgres schema. CREATE SCHEMA local_schema; IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA sample_datasets FROM SERVER treasuredata_server INTO local_schema OPTIONS ( apikey 'your_api_key', query_engine 'presto' ); \det+ local_schema. List of foreign tables Schema | Table | Server | FDW Options | Description --------------|------------|---------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------- local_schema | nasdaq | treasuredata_server | (apikey 'your_api_key', database 'sample_datasets', query_engine 'presto', "table" 'nasdaq') | local_schema | www_access | treasuredata_server | (apikey 'your_api_key', database 'sample_datasets', query_engine 'presto', "table" 'www_access') | (2 rows) Note that "time" column will NOT be imported by IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA.
apikey : API Key for Treasure Data. See Get API Keys.
database : Database name on Treasure Data that the foreign table corresponds to.
table : Table name on Treasure Data that the foreign table corresponds to. This option can't be used with query option.
query: SELECT statement that is sent to Treasure Data directly. The SQL needs to be a valid Presto/Hive query on Treasure Data and return the same column names as columns of the foreign table. Also, this FDW with this option doesn't support INSERT statement. This option can't be used with table option.
query_engine : Query engine name (presto or hive) that queries on the foreign table use.
query_download_dir : If it's set, a query result is downloaded to the specified directory first and then each row is fetched from the downloaded file. If it's not set, query result rows are directly fetched from stream. This option can be useful when a result file is large and a TCP connection might be disconnected during streaming fetch. The default value is not set (= streaming fetch).
endpoint: Treasure Data's API endpoint (optional).
import_file_size : Approximate maximum size of chunk files uploaded to Treasure Data. The default value is 134217728 (128MB).
On IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA, you must specify apikey and query_engine. You can also specify endpoint which is optional. Those values will be set into the imported tables' option. You can use ALTER FOREIGN TABLE to modify table options if you want to modify after import.
This FDW supports INSERT INTO statement. With atomic_import is false, the FDW imports INSERTed rows as follows.
At the beginning of INSERT INTO query, an empty chunk file is created.
Each INSERTed row is appended to the chunk file.
If the written size exceeds a threshold specified by import_file_size, the chunk file is uploaded to Treasure Data and imported into the target table. And then a new empty chunk file is created again.
When all INSERTed rows are appended, the last chunk file is uploaded to Treasure Data and imported into the target table.
With atomic_import is true, the FDW imports INSERTed rows as follows.
At the beginning of INSERT INTO query, an empty chunk file is created. And a temporary table is created on Treasure Data.
If the written size exceeds a threshold specified by import_file_size, the chunk file is uploaded to Treasure Data and imported into the temporary table. And then a new empty chunk file is created again.
When all INSERTed rows are appended, the last chunk file is uploaded to Treasure Data and imported into the temporary table.
Finally, the imported rows in the temporary table are atomically copied to the target table using INSERT INTO (target table) SELECT * FROM (temporary table) query on Treasure Data.
Pros : Even if some chunk files are uploaded and imported to Treasure Data, they are rolled back when the INSERT INTO query is aborted after that.
Cons : It needs to issue an INSERT INTO (target table) SELECT * FROM (temporary table) query on Treasure Data. It takes an extra time and resource to finish the INSERT INTO statement.
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As Catholics we believe that human beings are created in the image of God, and that each shares in God's purpose to bring life and allow creation to flourish, underpins the work and nature of the school, and is endorsed in our mission statement.
At Saint John Wall we recognise that the personal development of our pupils, spiritually, Morally, Socially, culturally and vocations plays an important part in their ability to learn and achieve.
Saint John Wall aims to deliver SMSCV education through all aspects of School Life: Curriculum, House System, Extra Curricular activities, school trips, pastoral system, assemblies, masses and services as well as Cross Curricular Days.
On Cross Curricular Day Year 7 have explored healthy lifestyles.
Pupils have opportunities to reflect on learning experiences both in and out of lessons. For example, team talks following sports matches to reflect on how the game was played and agree the next steps; a reflective log in music lessons where pupils assess what they have done well and identify the next steps to make progress changed over time, an opportunity to listen back, make changes and re-record.
In Science lessons, pupils study various topics that contributes to their perspective on life.
RE and Lay Chaplain organise Masses and services for the pupils to experience and also participate.
Pupils are able to visit the Chapel and speak with the Lay Chaplain.
Pupils celebrate other religions such as Diwali.
During Arts week pupils created a contempary version of an 11th century San Damianio Cross.
Pupils in Year 10 and 11 have opportunities to be Faith Ambassadors, leading pupils in their spiritual development.
All year groups can belong to the chaplaincy team: writing, arranging and taking part in all Collective Worship including Masses and Services.
During British Values week pupils have the opportunity to explore different religions, including Judaism and events which have impacted the religious practices today.
Looking at right and wrong: History pupils learning about the Suffragette movement.
In Year 10 Religious Studies lesson, pupils study the sensitive topic of euthanasia.
In History, pupils study the impact of how the Germans treated different sections of society.
Fund raising activities always have a high profile within the school. Pankhurst House selling cakes for Macmillan and the Summer Fete.
Loudmouth Theatre Company come in and work with pupils on Moral issues such as love, relationship and life changing decisions.
Assembly on the Holocaust – Keeping the memory alive.
In Food Technology pupils examine food packaging and how products are labelled.
There is a willingness to participate in a variety of social settings. In Year 7 English, classes have the opportunity to learn in a variety of settings. Expectations for learning are carefully transferred from classroom to ICT suite, to Library.
The warm relationships enjoyed by pupils with their teachers is commented on by all visitors to the school.
Christmas Dinner for the elderly that live in the local Community are invited to attend and be part of the celebrations.
BBC News School Report: Pupils work together as a team to decide the story, communicate clearly to their audience and work to a deadline.
In Geography pupils investigate flooding and learn the social consequences of flooding.
House Competitions such as the Maths quiz, pupils working in teams to achieve house points with the support of their peers.
In science pupils study the reproduction – aspect of life and relationship.
During British Values week, pupils have the opportunity to visit local places of interest including Birmingham Art Gallery.
The cultural environment of the school is a warm and caring one created so that pupils may thrive.
Pupil successes are celebrated in as many ways as possible; posters around the school, achievement assemblies and celebration evenings all help to show pupils how they are valued as individuals. It is always heart-warming to see pupils celebrating the achievements of their peers.
Displays celebrate and value both academic and extra-curricular achievements throughout the school.
The PE Department encourage opportunities for girls in what may be perceived as typically male dominated sports for example Football.
Year 7 visit a local Gurdwara and go on regular trips to St Mary's Convent.
Year 7 take part in Community Week and experience various cultural activities such as dancing.
EAL Department work with a school in Poland and have visited Poland to experience school life there.
Pupils from each house learn and celebrate their patron – Nelson Mandela, John Paul, Emmeline Pankhurst, Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi.
All pupils look at who God is calling them to be in collective worship.
Year 7 and 8 have vocational days on cross curricular days within school.
Year 9 have a vocational day.
Year 8 options process focus on God's calling.
All departments allow opportunities for links to vocations within lessons.
Career advice and interviews focus on who God is calling them to be.


In terms of the Christmas spirit, there are very few that can beat the Germans.
Every year, cities and towns throughout Germany (and Austria for that matter) set up the weihnachtsmarkt, or Christmas market, in a open and public area for people to gather and celebrate the holidays together.
And so while you might not find yourself in Germany or at a weihnachtsmarkt anytime soon, there is one way you can bring the warm Christmas cheer into your home.
If there's ever any type of drink that you could call "Christmas cheer in a cup," it's gluhwein!
Etymologically, the word gluhwein comes from the German word gluhen, or to glow. The traditional story is that, during the wintertime, people would heat their wine and turn it into a warming beverage using hot irons. The iron itself was hot and glowing as it would come out of the fire, so it would radiate within the wine cup and also make the wine shine as well. And so these people would drink their "glowing wine," or gluhwein!
Nowadays, the modern form gluhwein – this one without a hot iron rod in it – is a favorite staple of any German and Austrian weihnachtsmarkt, or Christmas market. As you walk through the stalls and the shops, it's pretty near a requirement to have a cup of gluhwein to sip on as you go!
The basic ingredients for a good gluhwein should include red wine, oranges, cinnamon, sugar and cloves. After these base ingredients, you are free to add or subtract what you'd like to give your gluhwein your own personal flair.
Truthfully, making homemade gluhwein is really, really simple. There's not much more than having to combine all your ingredients together into a stockpot and to slowly heat them together.
Please note that heating, however, does not mean boiling. Bringing your gluhwein to a boil will evaporate the alcohol and will invariably remove some of the warming – some might even call it "fuzzy" – sensation that comes with each sip. It's far better instead to let your gluhwein seethe over lower heat for a more prolonged period of time.
Choosing the right type of wine to use is a big consideration for your gluhwein as well. You'll want a dry or semidry wines that doesn't have a strong flavor profile. Wines with a strong tannic or acidic profile will overpower the other contributing flavors and will actually bring out a fairly unpleasant taste. The ideal mulling wine might be, for example, a relatively inexpensive and young merlot or syrah wine. Generally try to avoid the cabernets and riojas for this recipe.
For those a bit more adventurous, gluhwein can sometimes be made mit Schuss, or translated to "with a shot." Sometimes this could mean a shot of rum, or perhaps even a cherry liqueur, but this is a pretty far deviation from the traditional gluhwein preparation. It is very tasty, though!
For this recipe, we were very fortunate to learn the "secrets" of a homemade recipe from a family friend, and there certainly were some surprising elements to her recipe.
For one, this recipe included a bottle of white wine as well. This was the first time either of us had seen a gluhwein made with both red and white mixed together, but we took a leap of faith and tried it anyways. Needless to say that we're glad we did, and it made the cut into our final tested recipe.
Our original referencing recipe had an additional curious ingredient: lemons. Gluhwein already takes on a citrusy profile with oranges added to it, but we were very curious to add the tart lemon taste to the gluhwein as well. It is a delicious concept, although you should be mindful to not add too many and make the gluhwein itself too tart.
For spicing the wine, we added whole allspice and cardamom pods to the cinnamon and clove base of our original recipe. These aren't very traditional spices for gluhwein either, but they turned out to be fantastic complements to the rest of the gluhwein flavor profile.
And as we do with almost all other recipe, we replaced regular sugar in the recipe with coconut sugar. Surely this is as un-traditional as it gets, but we're pretty partial over here to using this type of "healthier" sugar when absolutely needed.
Of course, this is the beauty of gluhwein and its versatility as a recipe. There is no particular strictly right answer to making a good gluhwein, provided it tastes great, gives you that warm and "fuzzy" feeling, and fills you with the holiday spirit!
How do you make your gluhwein? Do you make it mit Schuss? Comment below!
Keep your gluhwein simmering at this low heat until ready to serve, then enjoy!


When I first saw Sailor Moon (a movie I took out of the library) I despised it; however, my niece Nealie, gave me this video (which includes the episode "Talk Radio") and I wanted to give the cartoon another chance. I'm glad I did. Serena is 14 and suddenly discovers that she is a hero of the ancient moon civilization and must save Earth from evil forces, and this collection discusses her origin and has her foil a plot against a love-line radio show's listeners. Serena is adorable, the animation is a hoot, and her mentor cat, Luna, is a delight. I finally see why adolescent girls love Sailor Moon.


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Bill Text: TX HB24 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Engrossed
Texas House Bill 24 (Adjourned Sine Die)
TX State Legislature page for HB24
Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to increasing criminal penalties for certain family violence offenses committed when a child is or may be present during the commission of the offense.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed) 2019-05-10 - Referred to Criminal Justice [HB24 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB24-Engrossed.html
By: Romero, Jr., Neave, Burns, et al. H.B. No. 24
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
relating to increasing criminal penalties for certain family
violence offenses committed when a child is or may be present during
the commission of the offense.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 22.01(b-2), Penal Code, as added by
Chapter 34 (S.B. 1576), Acts of the 85th Legislature, Regular
Session, 2017, is redesignated as Section 22.01(b-3), Penal Code,
to read as follows:
(b-3) [(b-2)] Notwithstanding Subsection (b)(2), an
offense under Subsection (a)(1) is a felony of the second degree if:
(1) the offense is committed against a person whose
relationship to or association with the defendant is described by
Section 71.0021(b), 71.003, or 71.005, Family Code;
(2) it is shown on the trial of the offense that the
defendant has been previously convicted of an offense under this
chapter, Chapter 19, or Section 20.03, 20.04, or 21.11 against a
person whose relationship to or association with the defendant is
described by Section 71.0021(b), 71.003, or 71.005, Family Code;
(3) the offense is committed by intentionally,
knowingly, or recklessly impeding the normal breathing or
circulation of the blood of the person by applying pressure to the
person's throat or neck or by blocking the person's nose or mouth.
SECTION 2. Section 22.01, Penal Code, is amended by adding
Subsection (b-4) and amending Subsection (f) to read as follows:
(b-4) Notwithstanding Subsection (b), unless the conduct is
punishable under Subsection (b)(2) or (b-3), an offense under
Subsection (a)(1) is a state jail felony if the offense is committed
against a person whose relationship to or association with the
defendant is described by Section 71.0021(b), 71.003, or 71.005,
Family Code, and the offense is committed in the physical presence
of another person who is younger than 18 years of age.
(f) For the purposes of Subsections (b)(2)(A) and (b-3)(2)
[(b-2)(2)]:
(1) a defendant has been previously convicted of an
offense listed in those subsections committed against a person
whose relationship to or association with the defendant is
described by Section 71.0021(b), 71.003, or 71.005, Family Code, if
the defendant was adjudged guilty of the offense or entered a plea
of guilty or nolo contendere in return for a grant of deferred
adjudication, regardless of whether the sentence for the offense
was ever imposed or whether the sentence was probated and the
defendant was subsequently discharged from community supervision;
(2) a conviction under the laws of another state for an
offense containing elements that are substantially similar to the
elements of an offense listed in those subsections is a conviction
of the offense listed.
SECTION 3. Section 22.02(b), Penal Code, is amended to read
(b) An offense under this section is a felony of the second
degree, except that the offense is a felony of the first degree if:
(1) the actor uses a deadly weapon during the
commission of the assault and causes serious bodily injury to a
(2) regardless of whether the offense is committed
under Subsection (a)(1) or (a)(2), the offense is committed:
(A) by a public servant acting under color of the
servant's office or employment;
(B) against a person the actor knows is a public
servant while the public servant is lawfully discharging an
official duty, or in retaliation or on account of an exercise of
official power or performance of an official duty as a public
servant;
(C) in retaliation against or on account of the
service of another as a witness, prospective witness, informant, or
person who has reported the occurrence of a crime; [or]
(D) against a person the actor knows is a
security officer while the officer is performing a duty as a
security officer; or
(E) against a person whose relationship to or
association with the defendant is described by Section 71.0021(b),
71.003, or 71.005, Family Code, and the offense is committed in the
physical presence of another person who is younger than 18 years of
age; or
(3) the actor is in a motor vehicle, as defined by
Section 501.002, Transportation Code, and:
(A) knowingly discharges a firearm at or in the
direction of a habitation, building, or vehicle;
(B) is reckless as to whether the habitation,
building, or vehicle is occupied; and
(C) in discharging the firearm, causes serious
bodily injury to any person.
SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act. An
offense committed before the effective date of this Act is governed
by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed, and the
former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For purposes of
this section, an offense was committed before the effective date of
this Act if any element of the offense occurred before that date.
SECTION 5. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails
over another Act of the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019,
relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted
SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.


I've been a fan of this band since Jethro first put drill to seed...andI missed this release the first time around (thanks RT musicman for the info). If you missed it too...A digitally re-mastered and expanded three disc Collector's Edition of Jethro Tull's brilliant 1969 sophomore release.
CD 1 includes Stand Up re-mastered and 11 bonus tracks (including BBC radio sessions and the classic singles Living In The Past and Sweet Dream), while CD 2 contains a 1970 live show from Carnegie Hall.
A DVD-Audio disc features a 5.1 mix of the Carnegie Hall show plus an interview with Ian Anderson.
Comes as a deluxe digipack with a replica of the original vinyl gatefold pop-up and a detailed booklet.
I am shut away in my home studio at the moment working to restore the demos of Quadrophenia. Bob Pridden is doing surround-sound mixes of selected tracks. Jon Astley is remastering the original vinyl mix, and evaluating his own 1996 remix (the one where you can properly hear Roger's astonishing vocals). I am sitting in a pile of notes, desk diaries, photos (I took a lot of my own between 1971-1973 when Quadrophenia emerged), original lyrics and writing liner notes.
I am really enjoying this work. Bob's mixes are mind-blowing. My demos are among the best I've ever done, and include some real quirky tracks that didn't make it onto the final album. I still find studio work strange – I have to have the speakers very low in volume, not what I'm used to. This package, due in October if all goes well, is another Live at Leeds and Hull – or even another Lifehouse Chronicles – in the making. You are going to love it. I hope so, because I am missing this summer sunshine to get it completed on time.
So I am enjoying working with the music, but I'm enjoying writing about it too.


yes, this was the first thing i tried.
I too am looking for the solution to taking the digitized file from mach3 and editing it in a cad/cam program. So far anyone who has info isn't saying anything. Some help would be a good thing!
My first "O" flute trials went well, i got a smooth clean cut on the plexi- both the bottom (tip) and side left a really smooth finish , before and after the finish cut. As with my other tips i went slow 8-10 ipm feedrate, and .030-.045 at about 2000 (as far as i can hear the rpm-speed control is set low but motor doesnt stall). I ran a project that took 2 hours to cut this way and had no problem at all.
I have been playing w/acrylic for a few months and here is my standard parameters- 8-10ipm feedrate,.035- .045 depth of cut on 1/8 or 1/4 2flute endmill (up spiral) or ball nose- & LOW rpm (1-2000). These settings have eliminated (for me) almost all re-welding and tool clogging (I know the rpm is correct when the chips look good). One thing i discovered w/acrylic is the feed rate and the rpm have to be adjusted (minor) for every different pice of plastic i cut. The mfg state its the slight variations in the formula that causes this.
I also just started to use an "O" flute bit designed for acrylic (amana tools), i'll have to get back to you after this week-ends projects.


a way that all points generated in the course of the animation are within the axis limits.
axes and appropriate limits entered.
Diffusion of one field across another.
Barn raising, This one may take afew minutes.


Nutrition is one of the most important factors involved in an individual's health and disease, because it affects almost every system. It has been shown that dietary habits contribute importantly to the pathogenesis of many of the major causes of death in the United States.
One of the most challenging nutritional problems in the United States today is obesity. Between 1980 and 2004, the prevalence of obesity doubled among adults. About 97 million adult Americans are overweight or obese. Today, more than 20% of adolescents are overweight. Approximately one third of the American population and more than half of African-American women are overweight.
Obesity is a risk factor for many diseases, including hypertension, coronary artery disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis, cancers of the breast and endometrium, and hepatobiliary disease. There is an increased awareness of obesity, but it remains a major problem. The overall cost to society of obesity is estimated to be more than $100 billion per year.
Malnutrition is also a problem in the United States. Surveys have shown that among general medical and surgical admissions to hospitals, approximately 50% of the patients suffer from some form of malnutrition. Approximately 25% may actually have functional disease related to it, and 10% may have evidence of advanced malnutrition. Malnutrition is a problem that targets a number of specific populations, including elderly persons who live alone, chronically ill patients, adolescents who eat and diet erratically, and patients with recently diagnosed cancer, because chemotherapeutic and radiation therapeutic protocols may promote nutritional problems. Even obese patients may suffer from malnutrition, most commonly secondary to catabolic stress.
*This chapter was written in collaboration with Robert F. Kushner, MD, Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago.
treatment, and protein-calorie malnutrition may be a factor in development of decubitus ulcers and wound disruption. Five of the leading causes of death in this country—heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes mellitus, and atherosclerosis—are diet related. Therefore, knowing what patients eat, the nutritional adequacy of their diets, and their clinical nutritional status is a necessary component of physical diagnosis.
This chapter focuses on the aspects of the history and physical examination that constitute a nutritional assessment. At present, there is no standardized set of dietary history questions or method for assessing nutritional status. Rather, nutritional assessment requires the integration of information obtained from the medical history and physical examination. Throughout this chapter, nutritionally focused questions and examples of diet-related diseases are provided to assist in building history-taking and physical examination skills. The chapter begins with a review of the medical history and physical examination, demonstrating the integration of nutritionally focused information. Then it covers the nutritional assessment of select patient groups, followed by some pathophysiologic correlations.


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Lynas' licence could be revoked if work on PDF doesn't start by March 2021
KUALA LUMPUR, July 16 -- The operating licence granted to Lynas Malaysia Sdn Bhd will be revoked if the rare earth mining company does not begin the process of developing a permanent disposal facility (PDF) by March 2021.
Science, Technology, and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said the operating licence for the company has been renewed for three years starting March this year and the company is required to begin the process within the first year from the licence's renewal approval date.
"If Lynas is unable to begin work within the time frame, then in March 2021, its operating licence could be revoked," he said during the Ministers' Question Time at the Dewan Rakyat sitting today.
Khairy said this in his reply to a supplementary question from Yeo Bee Yin (PH-Bakri) who wanted to know if the government will revoke Lynas' operating licence if it did not fulfil the requirement as stated under the Atomic Energy Licensing Act 1984 (Act 304).
Earlier, replying to a question by Tan Sri Noh Omar (BN-Tanjong Karang) on the extension of Lynas' operating licence, Khairy said the company's application to renew the licence which expired on March 3, had been approved for another three years until March 2, 2023.
The license was approved by the Atomic Energy Licensing Board (AELB) after the company managed to meet several key conditions stipulated under the Act 304.
Serba Dinamik clinches contracts worth RM548.2 mln
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 -- Integrated engineering services provider, Serba Dinamik Holdings Bhd kicked off 2021 by securing 11 contracts in operations and maintenance (O&M), engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) as well as information, communications and technology (ICT) space.
Carbon Trust unveils Energy Efficiency Accelerator for ASEAN F&B companies
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 14 -- The Carbon Trust has launched the UK-ASEAN Energy Efficiency Accelerator (the Accelerator) to support businesses across Southeast Asia scale up energy efficiency improvements.
BoxLNG, HoSt Holding collaborate to develop CBG projects in India
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 13 -- BoxLNG, the India-based distributed clean bioenergy project developer has signed a technology collaboration and investment agreement with HoSt Holding B.V. (HoSt) of the Netherlands.


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Q: Allow only 2 users to read an object from a public class I'm building a private chat between 2 users.  Currently I've got the "Chat" class open to everyone (read/write) and there is where all messages (objects) go.
I was thinking about adding objects with permission to read only between two users so only they can see what they chat.
I'm grabbing the messages using:
NSUserDefaults *defaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];

PFQuery *fquery = [PFUser query]; // query to get the chat partener
[fquery whereKey:@"objectId" equalTo:[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] stringForKey:@"friendid"]];
PFUser *friend = (PFUser *)[fquery getFirstObject];    // got it!

PFQuery *query = [PFQuery queryWithClassName:@"Chat"]; // new query for grabbing messages
[query whereKey:PF_CHAT_ROOM equalTo:chatroom]; // @"Chat" = @"Chat"
if (message_last != nil) [query whereKey:PF_CHAT_CREATEDAT greaterThan:message_last.date];
[query includeKey:PF_CHAT_USER]; // current user
[query includeKey:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", friend]]; // its friend/partener
[query orderByAscending:PF_CHAT_CREATEDAT]; // sort by date
[query findObjectsInBackgroundWithBlock:^(NSArray *objects, NSError *error)
{
// adding the messages to an array;
 }];

For writing messages to parse:
PFObject *object = [PFObject objectWithClassName:@"Chat"]; // class name
object[PF_CHAT_ROOM] = chatroom;
object[PF_CHAT_USER] = [PFUser currentUser];
object[PF_CHAT_TEXT] = text;

PFQuery *query = [PFUser query];
[query whereKey:@"objectId" equalTo:[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] stringForKey:@"friendid"]];
PFUser *friend = (PFUser *)[query getFirstObject];  // query to get the chat partener

PFACL *roleACL = [PFACL ACL];
[roleACL setReadAccess:YES forUser:[PFUser currentUser]];
[roleACL setReadAccess:YES forUser:friend];  // setting read permission for those guys

object.ACL = roleACL;
[object saveInBackgroundWithBlock:^(BOOL succeeded, NSError *error)
{
    ....
}];

Is this the right way to go?

A: I've implemented a similar app taking the same approach which seemed to work. But I think you've over complicated for what it needs to be.
You need a Chat class which you seem to have. This may be something similar to:
Chat
Object ID, Message, Author, Date, Date Seen, ACL, etc....
(there's many good schemas out there just google it)

Then when you create a new chat message to a friend you simply just create a new PFObject setting the other user's ACL permission to like you've done correctly.
The user can read his messages by calling
PFQuery *query = [PFQuery queryWithClassName:@"Chat"];

The response of the query will only be the chats that the user has read permission to, not everyones. Therefore there's no need to specify any further query parameters unless you're looking for unread messages, etc..