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Wire and cement at least the base of the rock wall if you need a long term wall. We've used expanded metal, barbed wire, chicken wire, orchard fence, etc.. Sometimes all the junk wire in the yard disappears behind the first large rock at the base of the wall and is filled with cement.
How to Repair a Damaged Stone Wall. Rock walls serve as a timeless method of marking boundaries, retaining livestock and protection. Landscape designers and gardeners alike now use rock walls for similar reasons and find that using mortar or simply dry stacking them without a bonding agent adds tranquility to gardens.
The rotation of the rock forces some of the mortar out from under the rock thus creating a solid connection to the wall surface. 7 Remove the excess mortar with the edge of the trowel or a joint tool.
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An exterior wall, though, presents another opportunity. When you attach drywall to a cinderblock or cement wall, you'll need something called hat channel, so named because it is shaped like a hat when viewed from the side.
If at all possible, pour concrete footings in the fall before the ground freezes. If the ground doesn't freeze where you live then, naturally, this isn't as big of an issue. If you don't get the footing poured before the weather turns cold, it's ok.
Building good looking stone walls A method even beginners can tackle sucessfully to build rock walls, using concrete foundations, mortar, and formwork. Stone walls at the entrance to our property, completed in the summer of 1993/1994.


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The goal of this repository is to promote transparency and ease-of-access to the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) supported public studies involving techno-economic analysis (TEA). As such, this database summarizes the economic and technical parameters associated with the modeled biorefinery processes for the production of biofuels and bioproducts, as presented in a range of published reports and papers. The database serves as a quick reference tool by documenting and referencing the results of techno-economic analyses from the national laboratories and in peer-reviewed journals.
The analyses presented in this database may be distinguished in several regards, such as cost year, feedstock cost, and financial assumptions (tax rate, percent equity, project lifetime, etc.), and reflect details as they were provided in the original studies. Accordingly, the intent of this database is not to directly compare one technology pathway against another, and caution should be taken in interpreting the outputs as such.
This work was authored by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, operated by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Contract No. DE-AC36-08GO28308. Funding provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office. The views expressed in the article do not necessarily represent the views of the DOE or the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the U.S. Government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this work, or allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes.
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FAOSTAT provides time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture for some 200 countries.
The national version of FAOSTAT, CountrySTAT, is being developed and implemented in a number of target countries, primarily in sub-saharan Africa. It will offer a two-way data exchange facility between countries and FAO as well as a facility to store data at the national and sub-national levels.
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United States is experiencing increasing interests in fermentation and anaerobic digestion processes for the production of biofuels. A simple methodology of spatial biomass assessment is presented in this paper to evaluate biofuel production and support the first decisions about the conversion technology applications. The methodology was applied to evaluate the potential biogas and ethanol production from biomass in California and Washington states. Solid waste databases were filtered to a short list of digestible and fermentable wastes in both states. Maximum methane and ethanol production rates were estimated from biochemical and ultimate analysis of each waste and projected on a GIS database. Accordingly, the optimal locations for methane and ethanol production plants were approximately determined.
The available net power for transportation and electricity generation was evaluated considering three process efficiency factors in the waste to power life cycle. The net power from methane and ethanol would ultimately cover ~ 6 - 8% of the transportation needs for motor gasoline or cover ~ 3 - 4% of the electrical power consumption in each state.
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Converting forest lands into bioenergy agriculture could accelerate climate change by emitting carbon stored in forests, while converting food agriculture lands into bioenergy agriculture could threaten food security. Both problems are potentially avoided by using abandoned agriculture lands for bioenergy agriculture. Here we show the global potential for bioenergy on abandoned agriculture lands to be less than 8% of current primary energy demand, based on historical land use data, satellite-derived land cover data, and global ecosystem modeling. The estimated global area of abandoned agriculture is 385?472 million hectares, or 66?110% of the areas reported in previous preliminary assessments. The area-weighted mean production of above-ground biomass is 4.3 tons ha?1 y?1, in contrast to estimates of up to 10 tons ha?1 y?1 in previous assessments. The energy content of potential biomass grown on 100% of abandoned agriculture lands is less than 10% of primary energy demand for most nations in North America, Europe, and Asia, but it represents many times the energy demand in some African nations where grasslands are relatively productive and current energy demand is low.
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An Integrated Global Land Use Data Base for CGE Analysis of Climate Policy Options
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Global Forestry Data for the Economic Modeling of Land Use
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In recent years, considerable concern has been raised about the sustainability of the world's forested ecosystems (FAO, 2003). With deforestation rates in tropical regions estimated to be as high as 12 million hectares per year (FAO, 2003; Houghton, 2003), much of the concern has centered around tropical deforestation. In contrast to these developments in tropical areas, there is evidence that the area of forests in temperate regions is expanding. Given the large potential storage of carbon in both temperate and tropical forests, these changes in land use can potentially lead to large fluxes of carbon both into and out of forests (Houghton, 2003; Plattner et al. 2002; Dixon et al., 1994). In addition to the potential carbon fluxes, forest management and land use change influences a host of other local and global environmental impacts.
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Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000
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Agricultural activities have dramatically altered our planet?s land surface. To understand the extent and spatial distribution of these changes, we have developed a new global data set of croplands and pastures circa 2000 by combining agricultural inventory data and satellite-derived land cover data. The agricultural inventory data, with much greater spatial detail than previously available, is used to train a land cover classification data set obtained by merging two different satellite-derived products (Boston University?s MODIS-derived land cover product and the GLC2000 data set). Our data are presented at 5 min ( 10 km) spatial resolution in longitude by longitude, have greater accuracy than previously available, and for the first time include statistical confidence intervals on the estimates. According to the data, there were 15.0 (90% confidence range of 12.2?17.1) million km2 of cropland (12% of the Earth?s ice-free land surface) and 28.0 (90% confidence range of 23.6?30.0) million km2 of pasture (22%) in the year 2000.
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Global Agricultural Land Use Data for Climate Change Analysis
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The Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE) at the University of Wisconsin has been developing global databases of contemporary and historical agricultural land use and land cover. SAGE has chosen to focus on agriculture because it is clearly the predominant land use activity on the planet today, and provides a vital service?i.e., food?for human societies. SAGE has developed a ?data fusion? technique to integrate remotely-sensed data on the world?s land cover with administrative-unit-level inventory data on land use (Ramankutty and Foley, 1998; Ramankutty and Foley, 1999; Ramankutty et al., in press). The advent of remote sensing data has been revolutionary in providing consistent, global, estimates of the patterns of global land cover. However, remote sensing data are limited in their ability to resolve the details of agricultural land cover from space. Therein lies the strength of the ground-based inventory data, which provide detailed estimates of agricultural land use practices. However, inventory data are limited in not being spatially explicit, and these data are also plagued by problems of inconsistency across administrative units. The ?data fusion? technique developed by SAGE exploits the strengths of both the remotely-sensed data as well as the inventory data.
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Q: Pygame character shaking for collisions I'm practising at pygame and I was trying to implement block id detection in my code, but after I finished it I noticed that my character is shaking. For seeing if block id detection was the problem I temporarely removed it, but nothing changed. I checked what type of collisions is the character facing and saw that he detects whatever collision type only in 1 of 2 frames. So how can I fix it ?
import pygame
from pygame.locals import *
import os

pygame.init()
pygame.mixer.pre_init(4410, -16, 2, 512)

def check_collision(rect, tiles):
    hit_list = []
    for tile in tiles:
        if rect.colliderect(tile):
            hit_list.append(tile)
    return hit_list

def move(rect, movement, tiles):
    collision_types = {"top" : False, "bottom" : False, "right" : False, "left" : False}
    rect.x += movement[0]
    hit_list = check_collision(rect, tiles)
    for hit in hit_list:
        if movement[0] > 0:
            collision_types["right"] = True
            rect.right = hit.left
        elif movement[0] < 0:
            collision_types["left"] = True
            rect.left = hit.right

    rect.y += movement[1]
    hit_dict = check_collision(rect, tiles)
    for hit in hit_list:
        if movement[1] > 0:
            collision_types["bottom"] = True
            rect.bottom = hit.top
        elif movement[1] < 0:
            collision_types["top"] = True
            rect.top = hit.bottom

    return rect, collision_types

def load_map(path):
    map_file = open(path, "r")
    content = map_file.read()
    map_file.close()
    content = content.split("\n")
    game_map = []
    for row in content:
        game_map.append(list(row))
    return game_map

def check_walk_frame(image_list, walking_counter, current):
    if walking_counter%60 <= 20 and walking_counter%60 != 0:
        current = image_list[0]
    elif walking_counter%60 > 20 and walking_counter%60 <= 40:
        current = image_list[1]
    elif walking_counter%60 > 40 and walking_counter%60 < 60:
        current = image_list[2]
    elif walking_counter == 60:
        walking_counter = 1
    else:
        current = image_list[1]
    return current, walking_counter

game_map = load_map("game_map.txt")

class Player(object):
    def __init__(self, x, y, image):
        self.image = image
        self.x = x
        self.y = y
        self.width = self.image.get_width()
        self.height = self.image.get_height()
        self.hitbox = pygame.Rect(self.x, self.y, self.width, self.height)
        self.momentum = 0
        self.speed = 6
        self.moving_left = False
        self.moving_right = False

WINDOW_WIDTH, WINDOW_HEIGHT = 1300, 650
FPS = 60
TILE_SIZE = 100

def main():

    window = pygame.display.set_mode((WINDOW_WIDTH, WINDOW_HEIGHT))
    display = pygame.Surface((1200, 600))

Slid_animations = [pygame.transform.scale(pygame.image.load(os.path.join("Slid_anim\\Slid_anim2.png")).convert_alpha(), (82, 128)),
                   pygame.transform.scale(pygame.image.load(os.path.join("Slid_anim\\Slid_anim1.png")).convert_alpha(), (82, 128)),
                   pygame.transform.scale(pygame.image.load(os.path.join("Slid_anim\\Slid_anim3.png")).convert_alpha(), (82, 128))]
Slid_Current_Image = Slid_animations[1]
Dirt = pygame.image.load(os.path.join("dirt.png")).convert_alpha()
Grass = pygame.image.load(os.path.join("grass.png")).convert_alpha()
Dirt_image = pygame.transform.scale(Dirt, (TILE_SIZE, TILE_SIZE))
Grass_image = pygame.transform.scale(Grass, (TILE_SIZE, TILE_SIZE))
Sounds = {"grass_1" : pygame.mixer.Sound(os.path.join("grass_1.mp3")),
          "grass_2" : pygame.mixer.Sound(os.path.join("grass_2.mp3")),
          "jump" : pygame.mixer.Sound(os.path.join("jump.wav"))}

float_scroll = [0, 0]
scroll = [0, 0]
Walking_Counter = 0
Slid = Player(0, 100, Slid_Current_Image)

Cloud_Layer_1 = [pygame.Rect(200, 50, 150, 90), pygame.Rect(800, 150, 100, 60)]
Cloud_Layer_2 = [pygame.Rect(100, 80, 230, 110)]

clock = pygame.time.Clock()
run = True
while run:
    clock.tick(FPS)
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            run = False

    display.fill((145, 255, 255))

    cloud_1 = pygame.Rect(200-scroll[0]*0.8, 50-scroll[1]*0.5, 150, 90)
    cloud_2 = pygame.Rect(100-scroll[0]*0.6, 80-scroll[1]*0.3, 230, 110)
    cloud_3 = pygame.Rect(800-scroll[0]*0.8, 150-scroll[1]*0.5, 100, 60)
    pygame.draw.rect(display, (50, 200, 200), cloud_1)
    pygame.draw.rect(display, (0, 200, 200), cloud_2)
    pygame.draw.rect(display, (50, 200, 200), cloud_3)

    float_scroll[0] += (Slid.hitbox.x-scroll[0]-600) / 20
    float_scroll[1] += (Slid.hitbox.y-scroll[1]-300) / 20
    scroll = float_scroll.copy()
    scroll[0] = int(scroll[0])
    scroll[1] = int(scroll[1])

    Slid_Current_Image, Walking_Counter = check_walk_frame(Slid_animations, Walking_Counter, Slid_Current_Image)
    display.blit(Slid_Current_Image, (Slid.hitbox.x - scroll[0], Slid.hitbox.y - scroll[1]))

    Tile_rects = []

    y = 0
    for tile_row in game_map:
        x = 0
        for tile in tile_row:
            if tile == "1":
                display.blit(Dirt_image, (x * TILE_SIZE - scroll[0], y * TILE_SIZE - scroll[1]))
                Tile_rects.append(pygame.Rect(x * TILE_SIZE, y * TILE_SIZE, TILE_SIZE, TILE_SIZE))
            elif tile == "2":
                display.blit(Grass_image, (x * TILE_SIZE - scroll[0], y * TILE_SIZE - scroll[1]))
                Tile_rects.append(pygame.Rect(x * TILE_SIZE, y * TILE_SIZE, TILE_SIZE, TILE_SIZE))
            x += 1
        y += 1

    Slid_Movement = [0, 0]

    if Slid.moving_left:
        Slid_Movement[0] = -Slid.speed
    if Slid.moving_right:
        Slid_Movement[0] = Slid.speed
    Slid_Movement[1] += Slid.momentum
    Slid.momentum += 0.4
    if Slid.momentum > 5:
        Slid.momentum = 5

    Slid.hitbox, collisions = move(Slid.hitbox, Slid_Movement, Tile_rects)

    keys_pressed = pygame.key.get_pressed()

    if keys_pressed[K_a]:
        Slid.moving_left = True
        Walking_Counter += 1
    else:

        Slid.moving_left = False
    if keys_pressed[K_d]:
        Slid.moving_right = True
        Walking_Counter += 1
    else:
        Slid.moving_right = False

    if not Slid.moving_right and not Slid.moving_left:
        Walking_Counter = 0

    if keys_pressed[K_SPACE] and collisions["bottom"]:
        Slid.momentum = -15
        Sounds["jump"].play()

    if collisions["top"]:
        Slid.momentum = 0

    surface = pygame.transform.scale(display, (WINDOW_WIDTH, WINDOW_HEIGHT))
    window.blit(surface, (0, 0))

    print(collisions)

    pygame.display.update()

pygame.quit()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

A: The problem is actually the collision system in your move function. You somehow wrote hit_dict = check_collision instead of hit_list = check_collision but you never used hit_dict (which isn't a dict). The collision system works by first moving the player on the x-axis and checking for any collisions, then it does the same for the y-axis. It's important to split the movement for both axes, otherwise it won't know where to go when the player is in a block - e.g. move to the left or to the top of the block? Therefore you also have to update your hit_list for both axis.
def move(rect, movement, tiles):
    collision_types = {"top" : False, "bottom" : False, "right" : False, "left" : False}
    rect.x += movement[0]
    hit_list = check_collision(rect, tiles)
    for hit in hit_list:
        if movement[0] > 0:
            collision_types["right"] = True
            rect.right = hit.left
        elif movement[0] < 0:
            collision_types["left"] = True
            rect.left = hit.right

    rect.y += movement[1]
    hit_list = check_collision(rect, tiles) # hit_list not hit_dict
    for hit in hit_list:
        if movement[1] > 0:
            collision_types["bottom"] = True
            rect.bottom = hit.top
        elif movement[1] < 0:
            collision_types["top"] = True
            rect.top = hit.bottom

    return rect, collision_types

I'm pretty sure you copied that collision system from somewhere...

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Many popular sports, its fans do understand the game and enjoy it to the fullest, but still, they are not aware of certain terminology of the game. Handled the ball is one such dismissal in the game of cricket which is still rare and probably that is why many crazy cricket fans probably are not aware of this terminology of cricket. So let us know what exactly is handling the ball or handled the ball in cricket.
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It is one way of getting out or it is one name of dismissal in the game of cricket. There are only nine such incidents in test cricket and only two such dismissals have occurred. Before knowing about those incidents, let us know the rule on 'handled the ball'.
Handled the ball rule comes under the Law 33 of the 'laws of cricket' which is governed by the Marylebone Cricket Club or the MCC. There are two circumstances which can be the reasons for a batsman to get handled out. One is the batsman holds the ball with one or both of his hands intentionally and without prior permission given by the fielding side. In the other situation, the batsman is given out if he returns the ball to the fielder without prior permission given by the fielding side.
The second situation is a bit confusing because returning the ball to the fielding side can also be seen as a 'good gesture' by the umpires. One more way to get out handled out is to stop the ball going into the stumps by hands and not by pads or bat. Many such incidents of handled the ball situations have occurred in the past.
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Desmond Haynes (55) – West Indies Vs India at Wankhede Stadium, Bombay – 24th November 1983
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Mohinder Amarnath (15) – India Vs Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne – 9th February 1986
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Last week at Comic-Con, Katie Schoolov of KPBS, the local PBS station of San Diego, did a profile piece on longtime cartoonist for Mad Magazine, Sergio Aragonés, who is most famous for his Groo comic and has been at every SDCC since it started back in 1970, below are some of the highlights:
Where he understands his impact:
"This is great because when you're a cartoonist, you work at home all by yourself," Aragonés said. "But when I come here, I realize I'm doing right, because that's what they like."…..
Where he recalls how far the convention has come:
"In the beginning, there weren't that many people, probably a thousand or less," Aragonés said. "Then we went to the convention center because it grew up so much.This is what happens. Masses of people. Millions, millions of people. People dressed like Batman, people with horns, and rifles, and things,"
Despite the more than 100,000 people who attend Comic-Con, and the sizable crowd at Aragonés' booth, he said fewer people are coming for the comics.
"A lot of people are interested in movies, television," Aragonés said. "Many of them don't even know about comics, which a lot of people complain. But I love it because, like this (comics) they discovered these things when they were kids."
"Comic Con is internationally known, so every time it gets mentioned, San Diego gets mentioned. There's over 1000,000 people that come. When they come they stay in hotels, they buy food," Aragonés said. "A city grows according to its needs. I think it's been for the best. Before it was only sailors, their tattoo parlors, it was kind of a seedy little place. But it has really changed a lot."
"I compare, many times, the comics to horses. Horses were the only way to travel before, so everybody had to have a horse. Suddenly the car comes in, and horses stop being the main way to travel. But horses didn't disappear. We have horse races, we have Western cowboys, we have movies. Horses are a very valuable thing," Aragonés said. "Comics are going to be here for a long time. Why? Because people like the feeling of it. What is going to disappear is the bad artists because there won't be a place for them."
"The old-timers, they keep coming, and they keep saying hello, and you see them grown from kids to adults," Aragonés said. "It's a pleasure being here because you're the recipient of all these years of memories."
It seems at 80 years old, the veteran cartoonist will continue to show up as long as there is a San Diego Comic Con.
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Ridiculously cute prehistoric animal-shaped baby bottles found in Europe
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For the first time, researchers have analyzed residue within small clay bottles with spouts dating back to the Neolithic era thousands of years ago, and have discovered that these vessels may have been ancient baby bottles.
It turns out that bottle-feeding is not a modern phenomenon, but a go-to move parents have been using for thousands of years prior to the advent of the baby bottles we recognize today.
Multiple such vessels can be found in museums around the world, including the Wien Museum in Austria, which is home to several of them. They come in all kinds of interesting shapes. Some even have what appear to be the feet and heads of animals.
Four Neolithic baby bottles dating back to the Bronze Age. Image via Enver-Hirsch, Wien Museum.
While the suspected purpose of these pottery pieces is that they were used as baby bottles, or even as bottles for the sick and elderly, scientists had been unable to examine the residue contained inside to figure out what liquid, if any at all, had been poured in them at one time.
"Possible infant feeding vessels first appear in Europe in the Neolithic (around 5,000 BCE), becoming more commonplace throughout the Bronze and Iron Ages," University of Bristol School of Chemistry's Dr. Julie Dunne said according to Sci-News.
"The vessels are usually small enough to fit within a baby's hands and have a spout through which liquid could be suckled. Sometimes they have feet and are shaped like imaginary animals. Despite this, in the lack of any direct evidence for their function, it has been suggested they may also be feeding vessels for the sick or infirm."
With these thoughts in mind, Dunne and her team set out to analyze the contents, or at least what remained of them and extracted samples, kind of like how archaeologists are also analyzing the contents of pottery found in Egypt to learn more about ancient alcoholic beverages.
In a study published in Nature, the team described the process of discovering more about the infant diet of thousands of years ago and what they found.
"The study of childhood diet, including breastfeeding and weaning, has important implications for our understanding of infant mortality and fertility in past societies," the team wrote.
Stable isotope analyses of nitrogen from bone collagen and dentine samples of infants have provided information on the timing of weaning; however, little is known about which foods were consumed by infants in prehistory.
The earliest known clay vessels that were possibly used for feeding infants appear in Neolithic Europe, and become more common throughout the Bronze and Iron Ages. However, these vessels—which include a spout through which liquid could be poured—have also been suggested to be feeding vessels for the sick or infirm.
Here we report evidence for the foods that were contained in such vessels, based on analyses of the lipid 'fingerprints' and the compound-specific values of the major fatty acids of residues from three small, spouted vessels that were found in Bronze and Iron Age graves of infants in Bavaria. The results suggest that the vessels were used to feed infants with milk products derived from ruminants. This evidence of the foodstuffs that were used to either feed or wean prehistoric infants confirms the importance of milk from domesticated animals for these early communities, and provides information on the infant-feeding behaviours that were practised by prehistoric human groups.
A modern recreation of an ancient baby bottle being suckled by a modern baby. Image by Helena Seidl da Fonseca via Nature.
The analysis of the bottles proved successful and gave the research team more knowledge about prehistoric infant care.
"These very small, evocative, vessels give us valuable information on how and what babies were fed thousands of years ago, providing a real connection to mothers and infants in the past," Dunne said. "Similar vessels, although rare, do appear in other prehistoric cultures (such as Rome and ancient Greece) across the world."
So, now we know that mothers were using bottles to feed babies farther back in history, even if the sample size of the study is not as wide as the team would have liked.
"Ideally, we'd like to carry out a larger geographic study and investigate whether they served the same purpose," Dunne said.
An assortment of Neolithic baby bottles that provided samples for analysis. Image via Nature.
But why were these bottles necessary? Well, just like taking care of infants is quite a task today, it would have been even more difficult during Neolithic times. Using bottles to feed allowed a mother to take on other tasks while someone else fed the baby, as well as giving her a break from breastfeeding.
Archaeologist and study Co-authorDr. Katharina Rebay-Salisbury noted:
"Bringing up babies in prehistory was not an easy task. We are interested in researching cultural practices of mothering, which had profound implications for the survival of babies. It is fascinating to be able to see, for the first time, which foods these vessels contained," wrote Rebay-Salisbury.
Conveniently, the technology now exists giving scientists a rare look at what mothers were feeding their babies, and they can compare it to what babies are fed today.
"This is a striking example of how robust biomolecular information, properly integrated with the archaeology of these rare objects, has provided a fascinating insight into an aspect of prehistoric human life so familiar to us today," University of Bristol Professor Richard Evershed said.
Learning more about our past helps us learn more about ourselves. It's fascinating to discover that even mothers dating back thousands of years ago turned to bottle-feeding their babies, whether it be to give themselves a break or so that they could pay attention to other responsibilities. These ancient clay vessels still had residue inside allowing future researchers to analyze it when the right technology had been developed. And now, it's likely that other pottery will be similarly examined to unlock secrets they may still hold.
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Hang glider killed at Fort Funston identified
By Hannah Albarazi :: Bay City News August 24, 2015
A man who died Sunday afternoon while hang gliding at San Francisco's Fort Funston has been identified by the medical examiner's office as 69-year-old San Francisco resident Rafael Lavin.
At about 3:50 p.m. Sunday, emergency crews received a report of an accident at Fort Funston in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco Fire Battalion Chief Jeff Barden said.
Lavin was found about 30 feet below a cliff south of the launch pad, park service officials said.
A U.S. Park police officer, a National Park Service lifeguard and a U.S. Park ranger performed CPR on Lavin, but a fire department medic pronounced him dead at 4:23 p.m., park service officials said.
Witnesses said the man flew the hang glider into a cliff without trying to steer away, Barden said.
He said first responders are not sure whether Lavin suffered a heart attack or whether he got caught in an updraft of wind.
Park service officials said witnesses told them the accident occurred shortly after takeoff and may have involved mechanical failure.
The cause of the collision and the cause of Lavin's death remain under investigation.
Lavin's Facebook profile shows photos and videos of Lavin and friends hang gliding in various locales.
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The VAT annual accounting scheme is open to most businesses with a turnover of up to £1.35m per year. The main benefits of the scheme include the requirement to file one VAT return per year. This can significantly reduce the amount of administration time and the associated cost of preparing and submitting quarterly VAT returns.
A recent First-Tier Tribunal case highlighted an unusual quirk in the way the scheme works and cost one taxpayer dearly. The taxpayer appealed against a penalty of almost £27,000. The background to this penalty started when the taxpayer (a small company employing less than 10 employees) began to use the VAT annual accounting scheme. However, the company experienced significant growth with turnover increasing from £700,000 in 2015 to £2.75m the following year. The taxpayer failed to realise the impact of this on using the VAT annual accounting scheme.
Businesses using the scheme make interim (usually nine monthly) VAT payments during the year, based on their estimated total liability for the year. These payments are followed by one balancing payment which is submitted with the annual VAT return. However, the taxpayer in this case did not submit a final VAT return on time and HMRC issued an estimated assessment.
The taxpayer admitted that they knew this assessment was too low although they did not know the exact shortfall at the time. The taxpayer eventually submitted the missing VAT return and HMRC issued a penalty assessment based on 15% of the 'potential lost revenue'.
The Tribunal examined whether this penalty was justified and had some concerns that the taxpayer might have been treated somewhat harshly due to the way HMRC calculated the potential lost revenue. However, ultimately the penalty was upheld, and the taxpayer was left with a costly bill for failing to submit a correct VAT return on time.


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** ACCREDITATION FOR THIS YEAR'S TROOPING THE COLOUR NOW OPEN**
Applying for accreditation for Trooping the Colour on Saturday, 13th June 2020 - including Major General's and Colonel's Reviews
Following the success of last year's media arrangements on the Queen Victoria Memorial (QVM) for Trooping the Colour, we will be offering similar positions this year.
Similar to last year, TV broadcasters alongside photographers will be invited to apply for accreditation to access the QVM for Trooping the Colour on Saturday, June 13th.
We are dedicating an area on the QVM (about a third of the memorial facing Canada Gate) for camera crews, but personnel and equipment must be kept to a minimum (one camera and one tripod per crew). The rest of the memorial will be reserved for photographers for views along The Mall and towards Buckingham Palace (see below).
Please be aware media accreditation on the QVM will be for broadcasters and photographers only.
Applications are now being accepted and will close on Tuesday, 19th May, 2019. To apply for media accreditation, photographers and broadcasters must email press@royalparks.org.uk with the following information:
Photographer or broadcaster?
Proof of published work
Confirmation of your appointment to cover the event from the publication/broadcast editor
Whether you would also like to cover the Major General's Review on May 30th and/or the Colonel's Review on June 6th
Please title your email – 'Trooping the Colour 2020 accreditation'
Applicants will be notified if they have been successful for Trooping the Colour (limited space is available) via email.
Separate confirmation emails will be sent to those wishing to cover the General's Review and/or the Colonel's Review once requests have been processed.
NB. The Royal Parks does not accredit media for Horse Guards Parade Ground during these events. This must be done via the British Army by emailing: armyinlondon@gmail.com


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The lifestyle of Katihar, an emerging city in the northern part of the state of Bihar, has evolved since ages. After being ruled by the various dynasties including The Magadhas, The Mauryas, King Ajatshatru, King Ashoka, The Palas, The Guptas, The Mughals, The British, there has been drastic changes in the culture and ethnicity of this particular region which has shaped the lifestyle of the people living here. At present, we can say that the lifestyle of the city of Katihar is a mixture of both the ancient times and the modern times.
Despite the emerging modernization in Katihar, the residents of the city still believe in customs and culture. The people here are quite orthodox and have faith in their own respective Gods. These days, there are natives and migrants from all over the country who have settled down at this place. The lifestyle of this city is quite simple. People from different culture and diversities reside together in this region and work for the economic progress of the city. Apart from being amongst the major tourist attraction in the northern part of the state of Bihar, the city is also known for its rich cultural values, practices and traditions followed by the people.
The city of Katihar is mostly known for its traditional culture. Although after the Independence of the country and due to the influence of western culture, the city has become slightly modern with some sort of changes in the lifestyle. A long while ago, the men here used to wear dhoti while the women wore sarees but due to the changes in the lifestyle and its effect on the apparels of the residents, the men have started wearing trousers and pants while the women adorn themselves with salwaar kameez and fancy sarees. The women also wear traditional sarees and ghagra cholis along with matching accessories during important occasions or festivals. Even the style of draping the sarees has changed along with the changes in the lifestyle of the people. The younger girls in the city mostly are seen in salwaar kameez, churidars or kutas. The youth in the city is seen experimenting with the branded and modern fashion wear. Even the markets in the city have altered themselves according to the changing lifestyle of the residents of the city. There are also various kinds of accessories sold in the city which are purchase both by the residents of the city as well as the tourists who visit here.
Modernization and westernization has had a great impact on the culture, customs and traditions of the city of Katihar which has evolved significantly. But unlike most of the cities, Katihar has retained most of the age old customs and traditions. Along with the changes times, there has been a drastic change in terms of the food, clothing and culture in the city. For example the food habits of the residents are gradually leaning towards the western food including fast food, junk food, etc. from the old traditional food. There are more and more fast food joints opening up in the city in the present days. Also the clothing and the apparels in the city have evolved due to the influence of the western culture. Instead of traditional and age old clothes and apparels the cloth retailers in the city have started selling branded, western clothes which is more in sync with the present lifestyle of the residents of the city.
Apart from the food and clothing, the city has evolved in terms of various other things. There are quite a few beauty salons, gyms and spas that have opened up in the recent years in the city. Thus the city of Katihar has emerged with all the modern facilities in the present days.
Due to the influence of the western culture, the cosmetic industry seems to be a boom in this city. There are several cosmetic shops located throughout this city. Below is a list of the cosmetic shops in the city of Katihar.Katihar being a fast developing city is evolving in all terms including the latest fashion and trends. The residents here, especially the women like to dress up and are also inclined towards branded beauty products and cosmetic items. All the latest cosmetic goods including the various international brands are available in Katihar.
Apart from these, the people in Katihar also enjoy going to theaters or cinema halls to watch movies. Some of the prominent theatres in the city include Prakash Talkies, Vasant Talkies and Shyama Talkies. Different Hindu and Bhojpuri movies are played in these theatres which are watched by the movie-buffs in the city. The youth in the city hangout in the various food joints and shopping complexes spread across the city. The residents of the city also spend some quality time with their families and friends by hanging out in the restaurants. Thus, the different sources of entertainment here, makes the city of Katihar even more active and lively then it already is.


How gut-wrenching. So hard to place these things on the altar. I hope the Lord has made the burden light for you. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for sharing things so clearly.
Thank you for posting this part of your journey. Your words carry a spirit of humble earnestness and I appreciate the things the Lord taught me as I read them. May God bless you as you continue to follow His path for you!


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News: 09/01/2016
HALTER Program given FEMA award
Glen Ellen's Julie Atwood will be recognized at the White House for her work with the HALTER Project.
HALTER (Horse & Livestock Team Emergency Response), a Glen Ellen-based grassroots initiative, is a recipient of the 2016 Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Individual and Community Preparedness Award in the Awareness to Action category. This prestigious award is presented annually by FEMA, the U.S. Government agency responsible for emergency response efforts. HALTER also received an Honorable Mention in the Community Preparedness Champions Award category.
HALTER, founded by Glen Ellen resident and rancher Julie Atwood, has a mission to support first responders and community volunteers by providing resources for training, equipment, and fundraising to assist in emergencies involving horses, livestock, and other animals.
The HALTER Project is among 11 recipients of the honor nationwide out of a total of 160 applications from local and state governments, nonprofits, the private sector, community-based organizations, and individuals.
The 11 FEMA Individual and Community Preparedness Award recipients will be recognized on Sept. 13 and 14 in Washington, D.C. Atwood will accept the award at the White House on behalf of HALTER.
"It's gratifying to have our emergency preparedness efforts recognized by the nation's top agency responsible for responding to natural and man-made disasters," said Atwood. "This FEMA award not only validates all our work to date, but hopefully will spur the community to further action to protect our county's horse and livestock resources in individual emergencies and regional disasters."
According to Atwood, many communities lack comprehensive plans, resources, and trained responders to address the life-saving needs of large animals in an emergency. She founded HALTER to raise awareness and promote emergency preparedness throughout the west, where wildfires, floods and earthquakes are a constant threat, animals are transported continually for recreational and commercial purposes, and accidents happen every day. Though it was initially focused on Sonoma County, today HALTER has been tapped for mentoring throughout Northern California and other rural regions, where ranching and owning horses and farm animals are fundamental to the region's culture, economy, and lifestyle.
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Memorial Day: Our Day to Remember
As we Americans immerse ourselves in holiday plans this long weekend, we should try to remember its purpose; i.e., to honor those who fought, and died for the principles by which the United States was created, and for which we hopefully will continue to fight to maintain those principles -- embodied in our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
We are emphasizing the sacrifices of our soldiers in wars of liberation from tyranny by presenting images of the cemeteries in which our soldiers were buried in various parts of the world. You may be unaware that some of these exist.
St Mhiel, France
For the most part, these graves of America's finest are maintained by the very elderly in these countries -- because they remember how they suffered until these soldiers sacrificed themselves so these foreigners, whom they had never met, and whose languages they did not speak, could live in a relatively free environment.
Aisne-Mame, France
Many of the younger residents of these countries resent the US, and some even hate the US.
Ardennes, Belgium
Flanders Field, Belgium
Henri-Chapelle, Belgium
We met a Belgian fellow who professed his hatred for the US military, referring to them as imperialist pigs.
We clarified their status for him with the reminder that that the cemeteries in Ardennes, Flanders Field, and Henri-Chapelle were filled with the bodies of US soldiers who died so that he could live in a political environment in which he was free to express his hatred for their sacrifice.
Meuse-Argonne
Had it not been for their sacrifices, chances are he would be sporting a swastica on his sleeve, speaking German and marching in Goose-Step wearing jackboots -- or existing in a concentration camp. Colin Powell expressed our imperialism motives quite well when he advised "...we ask only for enough land to bury our dead" [after they have fought and died for you.]
We found a few sites in the Pacific of which we were unaware, but in retrospect, we're not surprised:
Australia, the Philippines [at Clark Field], Thailand in Kanchanaburi, and Indonesia.
In Burma, there are numerous unmarked graves which we are only now finding.
We found additional sites in areas we couldn't imagine; for example, Tunisia, Srpska [formerly in Yugoslavis], Warsaw-Poland, and not surprisingly, in Sicily.
Not having saluted the US flag before ...
Although we would like to keep this day apolitical, we must comment that it is embarrassing that the United States is led by a President whom we're not sure is even a US citizen, who is married to a woman who expressed her disdain for the US, and who was caught on video at Ground Zero expressing her consternation that she had to sit through a ceremony honoring the US flag ["All this for a 'flag'?"]
"All this, just for a flag?"
We're not sure how this embarrassing duo came into the White House, but we will not regret seeing them depart.
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FB IPO - Scam of the Year?
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Less than a week into the Facebook IPO, and there's already a class action stockholder suit against Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Morgan Stanley [the underwriter, and OMG, not that paragon of financial virtue -- Goldman Sachs! Seems that MS and GS withheld vital information about projected profitability from the public -- but informed their best clients.
Joe, say it ain't so!
It looks like what we've been talking about all along: market manipulation, or should we call it fraud! --
Nah; fraud would mean a criminal indictment, and that won't happen in this Administration, since Mark has a key to the Oval Office, and Goldman Sachs seems to be running the SEC, Treasury, and the Fed.
OMG! It's getting so BIG! (c) Visual Photos
The MSM pumped this up trying to get investors to offer up their savings to to the FB god.
The biggest pumper seemed to be the Washington Post, perhaps because Donald Graham [WaPo's Chairman] sits on the Board of Directors of Facebook.
OMG! I'm so happy, Don! Can I call you dad? (c) Mashable
[Graham was listed as holding less than 1% -- which means he could own as many as 2 MILLION shares, worth as much as $75 MILLION -- perhaps we'll see the WaPo hyping the stock again soon].
Most IPOs in recent times have fallen flat on their opening day; this one, having been disparaged by savvy investment brokers, had little in the way of legitimacy as a money-making enterprise -- in spite of Facebook's wholesale and unacceptable client data harvesting, plus its intrusive advertising schemes.
It's still not profitable, and its attempts so far to become profitable have been at the expense of the privacy of FB subscribers -- who have tightened their hold on private information regarding themselves and their families.
Those negatives didn't help the IPO. But, here's how it worked
1) MSM public hype about the coming IPO
2) Early subscriptions for Wall Street [read Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.,] insiders
Ex-US Citizen Ed Saverin (c) dweam
3) Lots and lots of really positive hype [e.g., Washington Post] to let us know what a spectacular success this IPO would be because FB is led by a Wunderkind Zuckerberg -- who is tied to Obama and is smarter and richer than anyone in the universe, so we should adore him [and his co-founder, Ed Saverin, who just renounced his US citizenship as a tax-dodge].
4) Founder Zuckerberg got to ring the NASDAQ opening bell to draw attention to the IPO.
5) Hedge traders waited for a soaring price [it got all the way to $45] so they could exercise their Sell orders and take a quick profit and run
6) But, there were so many pending Sell orders that the NASDAQ had to cancel FB trades for nearly two hours [SEC was in full Nap Mode] and the NASDAQ later apologized and said it was "their" glitch [i.e., - they couldn't control the number of sellers all dumping their shares at once].
7) Pre-Market opening price was pumped to $42.24
8) Within minutes, share prices dropped by almost 20% to $38, then to $35.
9) Brokers [Goldman Sachs?] then artificially pumped in more "Buys" driving the price up to $41 temporarily and hoping for a general surge, where it held for two hours before it plummeted again to $38.25 where it closed. Later, it dropped to $30, but wobbled around with a fairly low volume.
Recent reporting [29 May 2013] notes that NASDAQ explained away the 18 May 2012 IPO Debacle by claiming a computer "design flaw" causing 30,000 shares to be held in limbo for two hours rather than trading.
Oddly, NASDAQ itself claimed a $10.8 Million profit by "shorting" 3 MILLION shares of FB stock "in an unauthorized error account". The SEC fined NASDAQ $10 Million; but we've seen no SEC actions against Goldman Sachs, or the other brokerages, or .... the Washington Post.
If you had bought in after the opening bell, you would have immediately lost $4 a share.
[Price on 4 June 2013 was $23 a share -- a loss of $15 a share - or nearly 50%]
Wow! We cleaned out those suckers! [Trading Places]
The Insider Traders were at Goldman Sachs, who, according to the SEC, sold more than 24 million shares at $37.58
[with a par value of $4 per share, would have netted about $792 million in profit].
We'd think the SEC would be all over this -- if Zuckerberg were not a White House pal -- and a major contributor to the Obama reelection campaign.
Looking at the nuts and bolts of this scam, we note that SEC records reflect:
How did she know when to sell? (c) Zimbio
The SEC Registration: The IPO
"Facebook, Inc. is offering shares of its Class A common stock and the selling shareholders are offering shares of Class A common stock. We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling stockholders. This is our initial public offering and no public market currently exists for our shares of Class A common stock. We anticipate that the initial public offering price will be between $ and $ per share."
The company created more than TWO BILLION shares, with a stated [notional] par value of about $4 per share, with an artificial opening price of $38 per share. That created about $72 BILLION -- out of thin air.
That's not quite the same as the Fed creating $14.5 TRILLION with their printing presses and shipping it to Europe a while back, but, Goldman Sachs seems to have the process down pretty well since they're plugged in to both the SEC, the US Treasury, and the FED.
On opening day, more than 580 Million shares were traded with an approximate value of $22 BILLION [current volume has been only around 60 million]. That's a lot of value for seemingly worthless paper.
Let's look at the insider selling on Friday:
Goldman Sachs: Listed direct sales of 19 Million shares at $37.58 [$ Million]
Listed "indirect" sales: 70 Million
Remaining shares: 66 Million
DST Listed Direct Sales: 132 Million [Value: $5 BILLION]
How much? (c) Disney
But, let's examine Zuckerberg's wealth.
It was based, pre-IPO, on the hyped value of the stock before it was offered.
And, there were over 2 BILLION shares created.
So, on paper, the company was worth more than $75 BILLION -- because, uhhh, Goldman Sachs said it was? And then they sold that stock as if it actually had value?
Of course, the related question arises, why is GS rated as a bank, and why is it engaged in high risk stock ventures using depositors' funds -- guaranteed by the FDIC?
FB Futures? (c) shutterstock
Oh, yeah, this happened with Barney Franks' banking reform act, which made our financial system safer.
Will Facebook follow the same roller coaster value ride that Yahoo did?
Stay tuned -- but, don't invest just yet.
Evil Doers - Foiled Again!
Click here for related story [Washington Post (Sponsored Propaganda Story)]
Still another stunning victory against international evil-doers.
The Washington Post gives front page coverage to a "successful CIA counter-terrorist operation"
[a story worthy of George Orwell's 1984].
FBI PR Series
(c) Projections Movie Blog
"The latest al-Qaeda bomb plot targeting US aircraft was unraveled from inside the terrorist group by operatives — including an agent who posed as a willing suicide bomber ... penetrating al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen and recovering the explosive device ... the CIA tracked the bomb's movements for weeks and then killed suspected plotters in a drone strike after the device was seized."
What this situation lacks is a video of an Efram Zimbalist, Jr. clone, pulling up to the CIA HQ with a background of patriotic music and flags waving.
[For you younger folks, that was the script for an FBI-sponsored TV series of long ago; today, the CIA uses the Washington Post for its PR campaign.]
I'd feel less cynical about this latest revelation if so many of the previous "busts" hadn't had the appearance of "entrapment" [i.e., the FBI recruiting a potential terrorist, furnishing him with the materials for a bomb or weapons, creating an attack plan, and then wrapping it all up with a high-visibility arrest of the guy they recruited.
DHS News Team
(c) UrbisMedia
The Intelligence Biz seems to have evolved into a Media Circus since Obama has come into office; not that it wasn't already headed down that path since 9/11.
The steady stream of nonsense stories about counter-terrorist successes tend to be intellectually embarrassing.
Basic rules for the professional Intelligence Biz:
1) Don't publicize your operations -- successful or otherwise.
2) Don't disclose sources and/or methods
3) Don't publicize your source placement [see #2 above]
4) Don't kill off participants; they probably have lots of information on other operatives, cells, locations,networks, communications systems, etc. There was probably a year's worth of interrogation opportunity destroyed by the "drone strike" [if the event actually occurred].
5) Brief the SSCI and the HPSCI in general terms to keep your funding
6) Don't create press releases to show that Homeland Security is "working".
Terrorist Camel with Exploded Cigar
(c) Choss Climbers
This BS story reminds us of the legendary "camel spotting corps" in the Mojave Desert designed to prevent attacks by marauding Arabs.
It was touted as one of the most successful military operations in history since, during its existence, there was not one successful attack by Arabs in the Mojave!
Of course, there were neither camels nor Arabs in the desert at the time; but, the program was dubbed a success nonetheless.
Sorry folks.
This "news" story is such a patent piece of journalistic pap that we have to grade it D-
it's clearly a campaign publicity stunt.
Retired Intelligence professionals around the country must be either laughing, or throwing up at this BS press release. Once again, the US has become the laughing stock of the world.
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Markets Crashing - Again?
The Dow: 500 Point loss in only a few days
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The Dow is plunging again today; looks like it's lost about 500 points in the last few days, which indicates bad stuff is happening.
17 Banks -- in the toilet (c) Newsmaker Today
"Moody's Investors Service is reviewing the creditworthiness of 17 banks and securities firms with global capital-market operations. It may cut ratings on Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse Group AG and UBS AG by as many as three levels."
Sarkozy welcomes his Socialist successor
Now, all that bad news was processed before France ousted President Sarkozy and voted in a Socialist President -- who promised the French he would give them lots of money and more freebies; and, before Greece ousted their pro-austerity government.
And, the deep thinkers announced this morning -- before the markets opened -- that everything was hunky-dory.
[Keep moving, nothing to see here, keep moving]
The reality is that Europe is about to play serious politics with the Euro.
A solid work ethic, quality merchandise, a balanced budget
(c) Christian Science Monitorbudget.
They're all blaming Germany because it instituted all the austerity reforms, made the sacrifices necessary, and it now has full employment, a balanced budget, and a stable banking system -- vs the rest of Europe which is still feeding from the welfare trough.
But, but, those nasty Germans!
They should SHARE their wealth!
It only works until you run out of other people's money
(c) Marty Nemko
Spain, Portugal, and Greece are all crying the blues because they can no longer retire at full pay when they're 40, or get free health care, or take two years off from work coincident with a pregnancy.
This is a terrible situation. One report included an interview with a gentleman who complained that he could no longer afford wine with his lunch. What an incredible sacrifice!
Great idea;
really poor implementation
The European leadership is demanding that Germany step up to the plate and provide more low interests loans [no matter that the last series of loans was not repaid], and to support the rest of the European Economic Community; after all, the Germans now have plenty of money, industrial growth, lots of exports, solvent banks, and so, they should share their wealth!
And the EC is right there, ready and willing to spend Germany's wealth, since they have all burned through their own savings and credit limits to accommodate their Socialist programs.
Something we can look forward to here in the US should we be silly enough to allow Obama to be reelected.


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Mare Cognitum – An Extraconscious Lucidity
By Invisible Oranges Staff August 27, 2015 2:00 PM
I wasn't aware of California's Mare Cognitum before last year when sole member Jacob Buczarski released the group's third record, Phobos Monolith via I, Voidhanger. That album was a fine primer on the basic points of Buczarski's style: sharp black metal with a deep space aesthetic and long song lengths. Like most atmospheric black metal bands, the ideal listening condition is total immersion. Unlike most atmospheric black metal bands, I found the music solid enough to listen to the whole thing.
Buczarski's work goes for the same sweet, dreamlike effect that I think both Myrkur and Liturgy have dabbled in. The difference is that Mare Cognitum makes the hi-fi black metal vibe work without coming across like a slap in the face.
I like the second Mare Cognitum record, 2012's An Extraconscious Lucidity, even better than the third. The songs are more digestible and the melodies are a bit more focused. That album was only released via download, as well as 150 CD-R's, but Buczarski has remastered the record, which will be released with new artwork and a 12-page booklet with lyrics, again by I, Voidhanger.
I don't have a favorite label, but I admire what I, Voidhanger is doing right now: focusing on progressive acts that don't rely on technicality or gimmicks to give their songs flavor. We're streaming a second album from the label tomorrow—one that isn't a reissue.
The second edition, streaming below, sounds quite different from the first. The vocals are a bit harder to hear, but the guitars and electronic elements sound more well-defined than the original pressing.
Buczarski had the following to say about the reissue. "The reissue of An Extraconscious Lucidity is really the release of a completely new album. Although I decided to call it a remaster for simplicity's sake, it is a lot more than that, as I dug into each piece of the original recordings and drew out what I felt was missing in the first release. Now, with more powerful sound and visual presentation, I feel that this is the album I wanted to release three years ago finally becoming reality. It is really the completion of an unfinished work – so you are truly experiencing An Extraconscious Lucidity for the first time."
—Joseph Schafer
An Extraconscious Lucidity will be released on September 25 via I, Voidhanger. Follow Mare Cognitum on Facebook here.
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On the top of the tea cosy is a cup of tea in a knitted, china cup. The cup is embellished with a pink rose design, and the tea fills the cup.
The tea cosy is fun to knit with all the separate components, each one a mini work of art. The construction of the main cosy comes together like magic. Inspired by footballs, the patchwork consists of pentagons, hexagons and half hexagons and it shaped the cosy to a dome shape, which is perfect to cover a teapot.
I'm sure any granny would be proud to have a tea cosy like this, it has a real cottage feel, and is a little bit reminiscing of by gone days when patchwork was a necessity rather than a fashion style.
Full instructions are given of how to knit the tea cosy over a 5-page pattern including charts for the intarsia work and a map of how to assemble the parts to make the patchwork cosy.
This tea cosy is a large sized cosy that covers a teapot that holds 10 cups of tea.


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Q: Colored notification icons in status bar and always-on screen I am trying to find a way to have my notification icons be in color like the yellow icon in the image below. I haven't found an app that does this for me so I am going to start developing my own app (I've never touched android development) that "catches" all of my notifications and pushes a new, colored, notification in its place. My question before embark on this journey is: Is it even possible to do something like this by creating an app or is it something that needs to be changed within the OS?
I have an LGG6 phone and I really like the Always-On screen but I wish the notifications were in color (and even pulsated, but that's for later). My goal is to eventually create something that will push the colored notifications to the built-in Always-On screen but figure I should start by creating the colored notifications first.
EDIT: I should clarify, I intend on making this app solely for my own use and don't need any polished or elegant method.
Notification icons

A: You can bring back the old colored notification icons by changing your target SDK to KitKat but that is very bad since you need to target the latest SDK version.


Program for movies shown at the Edinburg Theatre during the week of October 18, 1937. They included New Faces of 1937, One Man Justice, You Can't Have Everything, Born to Dance, and The Outcasts of Poker Flat.
Edinburg Series, Mary Ann Williamson Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
Edinburg Theatre, "Edinburg Theatre Program," Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed April 19, 2019, http://archives.countylib.org/items/show/11674.


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Q: If $f(z)g(z) = 0$ for every $z$, then $f(z) = 0$ or $g(z) = 0$ for every $z$. This is for homework, and I would really appreciate a hint.  The question states
"If $f$ and $g$ are holomorphic on some domain $\Omega$ and $f(z)g(z) = 0$ for every $z \in \Omega$, then $f(z) = 0$ or $g(z) = 0$ for every $z \in \Omega$."
I tried contrapositive first.  So suppose there exists points $z_0$ and $z_1$ in $\Omega$ such that $f(z_0) \neq 0$ and $g(z_1) \neq 0$.  But I immediately get stuck here because I can't say anything about $f(z_0)g(z_0)$ or $f(z_1)g(z_1)$.  Maybe a direct proof would be better?  So by the Cauchy integral formula, I can say
$$ \int_{\partial \Omega} \frac{f(w)}{w - z} dw \int_{\partial \Omega} \frac{g(w)}{w - z} dw = f(z)g(z) = \int_{\partial \Omega} \frac{f(w)g(w)}{w - z} dw = 0 $$
for all $z \in \Omega$.  Again I get stuck here, because I don't see how this implies $f(z) = 0$ or $g(z) = 0$ for all $z \in \Omega$.

A: Let's assume that $f$ is not identically $0$. Then there is a point $z_0\in\Omega$ such that $f(z_0)\neq0$. Since $f$ is continuous we find a neighbourhood of $z_0$ on which $f$ is free of zeros, $U$ say. But since $fg=0$ we have $g=0$ on $U$. Now use the identity principle to conclude $g=0$ in $\Omega$.

A: This question is about the Uniqueness/Identity theorem.
Suppose $f(z)$ and $g(z)$ are not identically zero in $G$. Let $h(z) = f(z) g(z)$ which is analytic in $G$ and $h(z)= 0 \; \forall z \in G$. Then the set $\{ z \in G \,|\, h(z) = 0\}$ has a limit point in G.
(i.e. G is the closed set where $h(z)=0$)
By the Uniqueness/Identity theorem, $h(z)$ is identically $0$ and the only way for that to be true is if either $f(z)$ or $g(z)$ is identically $0$ in G.


Conceived in the late 1990s and launched in June 2003, the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has been a hallmark of international resource governance efforts and is now a global standard for transparency in extractive sectors. Initially designed as a voluntary process of extractive sector revenue disclosure for payments from companies to governments, the EITI has evolved into a broader instrument seeking to improve transparency and accountability within the natural resource management value chain, including corporate beneficiary ownership. A large number of resource dependent governments have committed to the EITI, which receives extensive support from donors, non-governmental organizations, and extractive industry companies. At the moment, the EITI has 52 members spread across all four major continents, including several high-income countries such as Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States (Figure 1).
The EITI has articulated 11 specific goals, falling into three broad categories (see Figure 2). These goals are set out in the core EITI documents – the EITI Principles, the EITI Articles of Association, the EITI Requirements, the Overview of Validation, and the protocol on participation of civil society – all of which were included in the EITI Standard 2016.
By early 2017, a total of 50 studies, either independent or commissioned by the EITI, had attempted to assess one or several of the EITI goals included in Figure 2. Table 1 sums up the findings of these studies, with assessments being characterized as either success, mixed (i.e. diverse outcomes within study sample, suggesting a partial success), or failure to reach specific goals. The table also notes when the study concluded that the analysis was 'too early' to strongly conclude on the findings. Although we provide an overall 'success' percentage for each goal, those figures only provide an idea of aggregate findings across relevant studies, but one should refer to the online appendix to better account for variations in the studies' scope, methods, timeframe, sample size, and quality. As such, these aggregated assessments need to be treated with caution.
Since about 2012, the adoption of the EITI has spread from mostly low-income and aid-dependent African countries to middle-income countries across all four major continents. (Figure 1). Thus, the existing evaluations deem the EITI relatively successful in increasing EITI participation and support from governments (Goal I-3). However, several evaluations consider the EITI either a failure or a mixed outcome in terms of country participation by pointing to the lack of adoption by some resource-rich countries that are also considered to be highly corrupt. Some of these countries include the petro-states in the Middle East and North Africa. Some evaluations also point at the ability of many governments to delay the actual implementation of the EITI and suggest that institutional adoption is mostly driven by external pressures – such as foreign aid dependence or the need for diplomatic and security support.
Beyond the EITI itself, the initiative has also played a role in promoting and legitimating transparency as an international norm of governance, including through other resource revenue transparency instruments in the EU, US and Canada, as well as greater reporting by private and state-owned companies around the world. An indirect institutional contribution of the EITI has been to refine multi-stakeholder governance that came to prominence in the 1990s as a result of the 'good governance' agenda. In this respect, the EITI has frequently been touted as a novel and effective model of 'tripartite' governance between governments, companies, and CSOs, and the evaluations find that the EITI has been successful in institutionalizing of multi-stakeholder governance mechanism (Goal I-4).
The EITI has been fairly successful in setting up standards for auditing and reporting (Goal O-1). The definition and implementation of transparency standards have been a major objective and operating mode for the EITI, for which the initial goal was to reduce corruption in extractive industries revenue management. The scope of the requirements was repeatedly criticized in the EITI's early years for the data requirements not being detailed enough and for the EITI's narrow focus on revenues flowing from companies to government, but the EITI Standard has since evolved to cover several other aspects of the natural resource value chains.
There is so far little systematic evidence that the EITI has been successful in promoting public debate about, and action for, better natural resource governance (Goal O-3). This absence of evidence is in contrast to general perception that the EITI has contributed to international and domestic debates on resource governance. One possible reason for this lack of evidence is that civil society – and even more so the 'public' in general – is a diverse entity with dissimilar, and sometimes conflicting, objectives and expectations with regard to natural resource governance in general, and in particular with regard to how resource revenues should be distributed and invested. Two other possible reasons are that the EITI has to a large extent been a national-level initiative – with mostly technical discussions involving experts and activists – and little apparent relevance for the general public's needs when it comes to information and changes to natural resource governance at the local level. Further, while the public may be well aware of resource revenue mismanagement, the space for public engagement can be severely limited due to repression or coercive forms of influence exerted by the central government, local authorities, and in some cases by traditional leaders.
Policy options: compare the impacts and cost-effectiveness of implementing the EITI Standard vis à vis other targeted natural resource governance interventions.


MIAMI (CBSMiami) – On Friday, Lufthansa Flight 461 to Munich, Germany out of Miami International Airport became the first flight where passengers could use biometric technology to board the plane.
"For tonight's flight, we are launching an exciting boarding process that eliminates the need for your boarding card or passport," said a boarding agent at Gate 17.
That means passengers will no longer have to fumble through their bags, trying to find their documents, or even worse, misplace them before a flight.
This biometric technology, designed by the information technology company SITA, is a facial recognition service. The photo you take is matched to other photos in the system, such as passport or visa photos along with your information.
"This very quickly gives us a positive ID on the individual," said Chris Maston with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CBP.
According to CBP, the process takes less than 2 seconds and has a 99% matching rate. In the 1% chance of error, there are still customers officers and gate agents who can check documentation.
Lester Sola, the aviation director and CEO of Miami International, said 2018 was a record year with more than 45 million travelers. Numbers are predicted to grow and they needed to look toward new technology to make traveling quicker and more efficient.
Biometric technology was presented to him in late 2017. By April 2018, the technology was implemented for some international passengers flying into Miami. Miami International Airport was the first in the country to do so.
For the past year, this was only an option for passengers flying internationally into Miami. Now some airlines will have the technology for passengers as they board a plane to depart.
Some passengers like Nathan Wood and Chandra Seepaul already love the idea.
"It's nice and quick like us Aussies," said Wood.
"Less stress, very fast. And then you don't need to fold your passport and boarding pass in your hand, sometimes you don't know where you put it," added Seepaul.
The process is voluntary. Kids who don't reach the camera are still ineligible. When asked about security or privacy concerns, Wood and Seepaul weren't deterred.
"The government is already watching us, so if it makes it quicker, that's easier," joked Wood.
Sherry Stein, the senior manager of Projects and Innovation with SITA, said the information is what the system already has anyway.
"If you have to enter the country, you have to supply that information. It's nothing new," said Stein.
So far, the technology is only being used for international travelers at some airlines in select airports – Miami and Orlando being two of them. But that list will quickly expand, according to industry experts.
Stein adds the goal is to use this technology to make the traveling process more streamlined, where you won't need to show several documents and forms of identifications multiple times while traveling.
Call it curb to gate, reservation to destination, if you ask the CEO of MIA, he calls it the very near future.