The problem we're trying to solve is quite simple: market fragility.
Because of an ageing population, we are seeing demand for social care services is outstripping what the market can supply. This fundamental issue affects social care, all council services directly or indirectly, and our partners and providers across the health and social care sector.
Focusing on the management of supply and demand, we began to look at how our input – the decisions we make – has a wider economic impact, positively affecting more than our core responsibility to meet the health and social care needs of our communities.
The result – our data visualisation tool the Bridge – empowers us to shape the market through smarter commissioning, with the programme being delivered in partnership with NHS Digital, the Local Government Association, West Midlands Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (which I chair) and local partners from across Shropshire.
By taking large datasets from health and social care and applying predictive analytics, artificial intelligence and deep learning, we can better understand the current demand in social care, allowing organisations to better predict and prevent future demand. This approach will help inform the way the council and its partners commission services in the future, leading to a more efficient use of resources and better outcomes for our communities.
Our journey started with ideas on how we could possibly turn adult social care into a driver of the local economy, rather than a drain.
In 2018, the council and West Midlands Adass commissioned an economist to look at the wider economic impact of health and social care. In his report Sherman Wong showed how the health and social care industry is one of the most economically valuable sectors in the region.
The findings of this report gave way to long discussion about how we could effectively calculate the economic value of commissioning decisions to help us make them more effectively. The process was lengthy and resource intensive, requiring more data on market supply and demand. The big challenge for us was to look at how we could better use and model our data and present it in a way which would engage with the user and allow them to interact with it.
As there was no current cost-effective tool available on the market meeting all of our requirements, we began working with the games industry to develop a prototype which could use data and perform predictive analytics through simulation.
Our first prototype was presented at the Adass spring conference and was successfully received. We called it the Bridge after its ability to bridge multiple datasets and having strategic functionality like that of a ship's bridge, from where a vessel is commanded. This prototype could use models informed by data from Mr Wong's economic study, allowing people to interact with the simulator and see the results intuitively and in real time.
Further developments and modifi cations to the Bridge followed our successful bids for £20,000 as part of the LGA and NHS Digital social care digital innovation programme. This allowed us to present our second prototype at the National Tech Severn event in July 2018, attended by ministers, MPs, directors and chief executives from the public and private sectors, all of whom had the opportunity to use the Bridge.
With further funding from NHS Digital and the LGA announced in November 2018 we could install the Bridge permanently at the council for accelerated development.
The greatest barrier to innovation has been the procurement paradox.
Project work can loosely fall into four categories. Councils can run something that exists, grow something that exists, transform something that exists, or innovate by creating something new.
The procurement process involves several fundamental questions. How much will it cost? How much will it save? How long will it take to implement? And what are the challenges, barriers, or risks?
Unlike running, growing or transforming projects, innovation projects struggle to answer these questions without first doing the project. The paradox is that you cannot to procure an innovation project without answering the questions, which can only be answered by completing the project.
Within a week of the award we ran another event with colleagues from the LGA, NHS Digital, the West Midlands Academic Health Science Network, Public Health England, Adass and some of our most innovative local enterprise colleagues, all gathered to discover the predictive benefi ts of data visualisation.
The Bridge layers thermal mapping data with social care data to map areas of invisible demand. With this insight it is possible to put early preventative measures in place to negate the need of costly intervention to help people stay independent in their own homes.
Using existing data, such as demo graphics, gross value added and other socioeconomic information, the Bridge visualises the economic impact of a commissioning decision across an area. It has been hailed as a game changer both locally and nationally, encouraging new ways of thinking about the wider impacts of decisions.
By helping to direct us in a new way in interacting with data, the tool helps us turn data into insight, shaping the future of how the public sector provides services to local communities. Its ability to visualise data and promote engagement and comprehension is inspiring and we are excited in leading the way in this innovative way of predictive analysis.
The next phase of our project will implement the Bridge at Shropshire Council, concluding in March. Following this the team will expand the capabilities of the Bridge and incorporate more datasets.


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Support Small Business - Pass the DREAM Act, Protect DACA
We strongly urge expeditious passage of a clean Dream Act into law, protecting young immigrants who were granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status. We also urge continuation of legal protections for immigrants with Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The small business community in particular has benefited from the contributions of DACA and TPS recipients, and work authorization has enabled immigrants to become small business owners and employees, and higher wages have enabled them to become small business customers, boosting local and national economic growth.
Since 2012, the DACA initiative has provided 800,000 immigrant youth with temporary protection from deportation and renewable work permits. One of DACA's most critical features is the work authorization it provides recipients. Work authorization is critical to helping DACA recipients fully participate in the labor force, and has enabled DACA recipients to start their own businesses. A survey conducted by the Center for American Progress of DACA recipients found that they are starting small businesses at a higher rate than the general population. Five percent of respondents became small business owners after receiving DACA, compared three percent of the general population.
Overall, 87 percent of DACA recipients are currently employed, and many have found employment in small businesses. Small businesses thrive when they are able to hire skilled and committed employees, regardless of immigration status, and many of these employees are DACA recipients. Ending DACA would cause businesses to incur at least $3.4 billion in turnover costs.
DACA has also had a significant positive impact on wages. The average hourly wage of recipients increased by 69 percent after receiving DACA. As DACA workers earn higher wages, they purchase more goods and services from small businesses and helping to fuel economic growth. Small businesses rely on a strong economy to provide a robust and sustainable customer base. Without DACA, U.S. gross domestic product would be reduced by $433.4 billion over the following 10 years.
As DACA recipients receive higher wages, they also pay more in taxes, increasing local, state and federal tax revenues. Ending DACA would reduce contributions to Social Security and Medicare by $24.6 billion over the next decade. As wages disappear and tax revenue dries up, the ripple effect of slashing hundreds of thousands of jobs from the economy would hit Main Street small businesses hard.
TPS recipients also significantly contribute to the U.S. economy. Most TPS recipients are from El Salvador, Honduras and Haiti, and if they were removed from the labor force, the country would lose $164 billion in GDP over the next 10 years. Terminating TPS for these three countries would also result in a $6.9 billion loss to Social Security and Medicare contributions over a decade. Finally, businesses would experience nearly $1 billion in turnover costs.
There is no question that ending DACA and TPS for will destroy lives and tear apart families and communities, but it would also devastate the national economy and small businesses. DACA and TPS recipients are small business owners, small business employees and small business customers. On behalf of the thousands of Main Street small business owners we represent, we urge you to pass a clean Dream Act into law, ensuring legal protections for young immigrants, and continue legal protections for individuals with Temporary Protected Status.
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Farm Heroes Gold Cup II
Farm Heroes Saga: Gold Cup II
Design, Web App
Deliver to winners of Farm Tournament an exclusive digital experience that creates a Final Round in which a champion (single winner) is crowned. Create an accurate reproduction of 5 Farm Heroes Saga game levels and a leaderboard system. The webapp should be tied into the pre-existing CMS allowing for multi-language and access to only certain players (winners of previous rounds).
Having seen our work on the Candy Crush Challenge project the Farm Heroes team wanted to try and leverage some of the system we had already created to enable them to create an overall winner of a sequence of in-game challenges.
We started by collaborating once again with SpinKick to extend the CCS level system to accommodate FHS. Fortunately it was built in such a way that this was a relatively straightforward task, apart from building in the unique Farm Heroes +1 game mechanic it involved simply updating assets and creating new level json files.
We needed to change the way the leaderboard system worked as all players would be competing in one overall leaderboard and we needed to be able to illustrate that players finishing in the top 10 positions were prize winners. As we were expecting tens of thousands of players we took the decision to only display the top 50 on the dynamic leaderboard to reduce the update time for players score and current position. We created animations for when a player enters the top 50 for the first time or their position changed within to add dynamism to the experience.
We created a sequential level system so players had to progress through the same 5 levels in a pre-defined order to ensure that there was fairness in the experience for players, it was important to King that every player stood the same chance of being the overall winner.
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package brut.androlib.res.data.value;

import brut.androlib.AndrolibException;
import brut.androlib.res.data.ResResource;
import brut.androlib.res.xml.ResValuesXmlSerializable;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlSerializer;

/**
 * @author Ryszard Wiśniewski <brut.alll@gmail.com>
 */
public class ResIdValue extends ResValue implements ResValuesXmlSerializable {
    @Override
    public void serializeToResValuesXml(XmlSerializer serializer,
                                        ResResource res) throws IOException, AndrolibException {
        serializer.startTag(null, "item");
        serializer
                .attribute(null, "type", res.getResSpec().getType().getName());
        serializer.attribute(null, "name", res.getResSpec().getName());
        serializer.endTag(null, "item");
    }
}

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At some Twin Cities area restaurants, chefs are stepping into the pizza arena — some for the first time — to change the way we think about one of life's great pleasures.
Chef Russell Klein has never featured pizza on a menu before ("My history with pizza is eating it," he said with a laugh), but you'd never know it.
Not given the impressive output at his Foreign Legion, an applause-worthy result for a first-timer. He shrugs off the praise.
And how. Kudos to the Florida rock shrimp marinated in olive oil and fiery dried chiles, the brightly flavored fresh San Marzano tomato sauce, the sweet roasted red peppers, the squeaky-fresh mozzarella and the lively house-made pepperoni.
The crust also merits praise. It's fueled by a sourdough starter and leaves the oven nicely blistered and glistening with olive oil, a sure-handed marriage of crispy and chewy.
The menu offers six selections ($10 to $14). There's also a great happy hour bargain: On weekdays from 3 to 6 p.m., the restaurant becomes a slice shop. Although slice is a relative term; they're roughly a quarter of a whole pizza, and they chime in at $4 a pop.
Erik Anderson, consulting chef behind Uptown's new Scena Tavern, is another pizza neophyte. Again, the outcome is so impressive that his newbie status seems inconceivable.
"I didn't think I could have this much fun making pizzas, or be so proud of them," he said.
His pride is understandable. Each bite of the gently crispy crust quietly suggests its tangy sourdough roots, and diners will appreciate Anderson's playful and insightful approach to toppings.
That could mean fashioning a sauce by reducing cream and white wine with liquid from just-opened clams (then going to town with juicy clams, mellow dried chiles and perky parsley), or using familiar potatoes and onions as a means of introducing Midwesterners to an Italian Alpine cheese.
Anderson categorizes his pizzas as piadini ($11 to $16) — that's Italian for "flatbread" — and it's an understandable strategy, as the menu's five selections sport thin but sturdy flatbread-esque crusts.
Another reason to love: The plate-size, oval-shaped portions don't overwhelm, meaning that eating the whole thing doesn't become an exercise in dietary shaming. Besides, who wants to schlep around that pesky leftovers box?
Chef Ben Rients and his crew at Lyn 65 Kitchen & Bar have an affinity for pizza, and then some.
For starters, the crust is spectacular. It's a seamless fusion of springy, sturdy bottom and agreeably bubbled and chewy top, a sleight-of-hand that's achieved by a combination of super-wet (and sourdough starter-fueled) dough that's aged for 72 hours and then baked for 90 transformative seconds inside a blazing, thousand-degree oven.
As for toppings, these stocking cap-clad cooks seemingly spend their off hours concocting attention-grabbing ways to adorn that stellar crust. I'm still kicking myself for missing the short-lived combination of beer-braised goat and house-made goat's milk ricotta. Oh, well.
The menu's five choices ($11 to $14) change every eight or so weeks, but the ingredients roster always showcases a house-made sausage, a braised meat and some kind of interpretation — often a rather liberal one — on pesto.
Right now, expect to find a flurry of seasonal mushrooms scattered over a decadent cream sauce, along with a lovingly rendered Margherita ("that's our pizza gateway drug," said Rients with a laugh) as well as the near otherworldly delights of a vinegary kale pesto topped with a lively compare/contrast blend of pickled peppers and sweet onions. Pepperoni seems deadly dull by comparison.
Rients offers a heck of a late-night (by Minnesota standards, anyway) deal: Sunday through Thursday, starting at 9 p.m. and running until the kitchen closes (no later than 11 p.m.), diners can snare any one of the menu's pizzas, along with a tap beer — the bar curates eight microbrews — for just $10.
Devotees of ultrathin-crust pizzas have a refuge at Pazzaluna, a crust so firm and sleek that it tiptoes toward cracker status.
It's at its very best when chef Seth Teiken steps into disciplined Margherita mode, sticking with acidic San Marzano tomatoes, ultrarich mozzarella, a fragrant sprinkle of dried oregano, a few splashes of fruity extra-virgin olive oil and a handful of freshly harvested basil. Some combinations are classics for a reason, and this is one of them.
Bitter greens and soft-cooked egg top a pizza at Lyn 65 Kitchen & Bar.
Not that the handful of other pizzas ($14 to $18) aren't worthwhile. Far from it. Fennel seed- and red chile-packaged sausage packs a punch, and the eternal pairing of prosciutto, pears and gorgonzola was practically tailor-made for pizza lovers.
Don't take my word for it; follow the example of hockey fans.
Another reason to visit: Catch the later (9 p.m. to close) happy hour, and enjoy a pizza (select from three varieties) for just $5.
Finally, newish Victor's on Water is schooling the western suburbs on how to do pizza.
I realized we were in for something special as we watched chef Tyler Fiecke grab a fennel bulb and shave the heck out of it.
His efforts were the basis of what turned out to be the Francis Drake, which also sported scallops and shrimp on a blistered, wonderfully this-side-of-doughy crust.
What a winner. It was equally delicious cold the next morning at breakfast, a clear sign of success.
The menu's five choices ($15 to $18) usually hang around for three or four months before getting pulled out of rotation. There's one exception, and that's the Keith Richards. Like each one of Fiecke's hefty, garnished-to-the-rafters iterations, it's obviously designed for sharing, and it's truly one for the ages, a blend of tender grilled artichokes, charred onions, mildly seasoned sausage and teasingly smoked fontina.
Yes, there's a happy hour bargain. From 4 to 6 p.m. daily, take a seat in the restaurant's stylish bar and feast on any one of the menu's pizzas for $10.


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Yoshitomo ist ein Pseudonym des deutschen Komponisten, Chorleiter und Dirigenten Karl (Carl) Zimmer (* 7. Juni 1869 in Guben; † 28. August 1935 in Berlin). Weitere Pseudonyme sind Hussan Bey, Lorenzo Perez und Charles Room.

Biografie
Carl Zimmer dirigierte von 1894 bis 1908 in Berlin ein Symphonieorchester, mit dem er auch Tourneen nach Russland und Ungarn unternahm. Im November 1897 gab er, von Budapest kommend, mit seinem Orchester unter den Namen Budapester Symphonie-Orchester und Neues Symphonie-Orchester acht Orchesterkonzerte im Großen Musikvereinssaal (Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde). Später lebte er in Ägypten und ab 1914 wieder in Berlin. Da seine Konzerte relativ gut besucht waren, konnte die Orchestervereinigung die Nachkriegs- und Inflationsjahre überstehen.

Zimmer schrieb Salon- und Unterhaltungsmusik (z. B. Frühling am Mühlbach, Liebesgruß) und Potpourris (Mosaik, Echo der Welt). Einen besonderen Schwerpunkt in Zimmers Werk bildeten exotische Tonmalereien (Japanischer Laternentanz, In den Teegärten Ceylons, Am Glockentempel (Studie aus Peking), Sakura-no hana (Japanisches Kirschblütenfest)), die er unter dem Künstlernamen Yoshitomo verfasste und publizierte. Sie gehörten bis in die 1930er Jahre hinein zum festen Bestandteil der Programme von Kur- und Konzertorchestern. Auch auf Schallplatten waren sie ein Erfolg, was viele Einspielungen namhafter Orchester der Zeit belegen. Außerdem komponierte Zimmer den Marsch der Kurbrandenburger, der 1911 zum Marschwettbewerb des Verlages August Scherl eingesandt wurde und dort den 3. Preis erhielt. Im darauffolgenden Jahr wurde das Stück in die preußische Armeemarschsammlung eingetragen.

Er starb 1935 im Alter von 66 Jahren in Berlin. Beigesetzt wurde er auf dem St. Elisabeth-Friedhof an der Ackerstraße. Das Grab ist nicht erhalten.

Tondokumente (Auswahl)
Am Glockentempel. Studie aus Peking, Komponist: Yoshitomo (Pseudonym für Karl Zimmer 1869–1935), Interpreten: Philharmonisches Orchester Stuttgart, Dirigent: Emil Kahn, Elton 242 (mx.  ?  )vgl. grammophon-platten.de
Mosaik. Potpourri von Carl Zimmer, 1. Teil / (mx. 3228) dto., 2. Teil : Künstler-Orchester Géza Komor vom Hotel "Der Kaiserhof" Berlin, Tri-Ergon T.E. 1189 (mx. 3227)
Sakura-no hana (Japanisches Kirschblütenfest). Stimmungsbild (Yoshitomo) / (mx. 260 be) Grammophon Gr 19 747 (mx. 259 be),
Japanischer Laternentanz. (Yoshitomo, d. i. Carl Zimmer), Paul Godwin mit seinem Künstler-Ensemble, erhalten in der Mediathek der SLUB Dresden
Japanischer Laternentanz (Yoshitomo, d. i. Carl Zimmer) : Edith Lorand und ihr Orchester, Parlophon P.1837-II (mx. 7762) anzuhören auf YouTube
Im Teehaus zu den hundert Stufen – Japanische Reminiszenz (Yoshitomo) : Ferdy Kauffman und sein Orchester, Electrola E.G.2189  (mx BD 9273-II), anzuhören auf YouTube
Echo der Welt. Potpourri mit Rezitation und Gesang (C. Zimmer), 1. Teil / (mx. 38 985) dto., 2. Teil : Tanz-Orchester "Dobbri" (d. i. Otto Dobrindt), Beka B.12 434 (mx. 38 984), anzuhören auf YouTube

Literatur

Weblinks

 6. Gubener Adventskalender vom 29. November 2013, on line bei guben.de
 Thomas Engelhardt : Geschichte(n) aus der Neißestadt. In: Lausitzer Rundschau v. 4. Dezember 2013, on line bei

Einzelnachweise

Dirigent
Komponist (Deutschland)
Deutscher
Geboren 1869
Gestorben 1935
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Album Review: Allow RILEY To Reintroduce Herself
Kyle Denis October 8, 2020 October 8, 2020 Album Reviews, Music
Amber Riley rose to fame as Mercedes on the beloved musical comedy series Glee. Her robust voice anchored many a solo and landed her the role of Effie White in the West End debut of Dreamgirls for which she won the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Now, the SAG Award winner and Grammy nominee would like to reintroduce herself as RILEY.
For her first proper post-Glee project as a solo artist, RILEY opts to dive head-first into the world of trap&B and alternative R&B while finding unique ways to blend those styles with her gorgeous theatre voice. On the project's lead single, "BGE," Riley lays down some vaguely empowering lines about her authenticity ("I got that hood, that's still in me"), but the pre-chorus feels like it was written for a completely different song. The laidback West Coast feel of the song is a promising sonic direction for RILEY — one that she should explore further. The next two tracks, "Temporary" and "Creeping," are the standouts from the EP. On the former, RILEY achieves a sublime blend of the alternative R&B sound and her big vocals. This is the best-written song on the project and her most convincing vocal performance. She delivers emotive growls and belty moments, but she also knows when to pull back. Although the pre-chorus feels very wordy at times, by the first repetition she figures out how to make it work. Much of RILEY suffers from subpar mixing, but this works to her advantage on this track; her belts float under and over the instrumental like she's swimming for answers. "Creeping" sees RILEY trying her hand at trap&B. She tries on a couple of different flows and she shows off her knack for catchy melodies, specifically in the chorus. In fact, with some slight tweaks to make the production more interesting, "Creeping" has real hit potential which is promising for RILEY.
The final triad of tracks offer more hit-and-miss moments. "Ride" is a mundane pop-influenced R&B song that does nothing to advance the project or RILEY's artistic profile. "Hood Living" is a well-intentioned attempt at reclaiming the recent romanticization of the hood. RILEY and BJ the Chicago Kid have solid vocal chemistry and their vocal performances almost sell lyrics like "Top Ramen on the stove, good weed/House keys, tight jeans." It is "A Moment," however, that really pulls the weight on the project's back half. Co-written by Jordin Sparks, "A Moment" is a stunning and tender ballad that transports RILEY back to the vocal-focused lane of her musical theatre background. She performed the song on Jimmy Kimmel Live! as a tribute for her friend and co-star Naya Rivera in light of her tragic passing. "A Moment" easily has the best production on RILEY simply because it doesn't drown out her voice. RILEY's debut EP is a solid start to a new career. She opens up a multitude of avenues for exploration while still staying true to herself as a vocalist. With some new writers (seriously, the songwriting is just not good on this project), producers, and engineers on deck, RILEY will certainly be one to watch in the future.
Key Tracks: "Temporary" | "Creeping"
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Q: Deriving Sample Complexity from given expectation bound In equations (1.6) and (1.7) of this paper, the authors provide an upper bound on an expectation term and the corresponding sample complexity. I am a bit confused as to how they derive their sample complexity term (1.7), though I could be missing something obvious here.
The bound is of the form:
\begin{align*}
\sqrt{E \| Y_n -Y\|^2} \le C \left [ \sqrt{\Gamma \frac{A\log p}{n}} + \Gamma \frac{B\log p \log(np)}{n}\right] \|\Sigma \|
\end{align*}
They state that if you assume $n \le p$, and select a tolerance $\epsilon \in (0,1)$, then there is a (different) constant C such that
\begin{align*}
n \ge C \left[ \frac{A \log p}{\epsilon^2} + \frac{B \log^2 p}{\epsilon} \right]\Gamma \implies \| Y_n - Y\| \le \epsilon\| \Sigma \|.
\end{align*}
My working so for is:
\begin{align*}
P(\| Y_n - Y\| > \epsilon \|\Sigma\|)
& \le \frac{1}{\epsilon\|\Sigma\|} E \| Y_n -Y\|\\
&\le \frac{1}{\epsilon\|\Sigma\|} \sqrt{E \| Y_n -Y\|^2}\\
&\le \frac{1}{\epsilon}C \left [ \sqrt{\Gamma \frac{A\log p}{n}} + \Gamma \frac{B\log p \log(np)}{n}\right]\\
&\le \frac{1}{\epsilon}C \left [ \sqrt{\Gamma \frac{A\log p}{n}} + \Gamma \frac{B\log^2 p }{n}\right]
\end{align*}
where the first inequality holds by Markov's inequality, the second by Jensen's, the third by the given bound, and the fourth by the assumption that $n\le p$. I'm just not sure how they get their sample complexity from here.

A: I think you did the main part of the job. One useful observation to keep in its toolkit is that for $a,b\ge 0$,
$$
\max(a,b)\le a+b\le 2\max(a,b)
$$
so that since we do not care about the value of the universal constant $C$, we may as well treat both terms separately, depending on which one dominates. Imagine for example that
$$
\sqrt{\Gamma \frac{A\log p}{n}}\ge \Gamma \frac{B\log^2 p}{n}.\tag{1}
$$
Then for $\|Y_n-Y\|\le \varepsilon \|\Sigma\|$ to hold with probability at least $0.99$, it suffices that
$$
\frac{2C}{\varepsilon}\sqrt{\Gamma \frac{A\log p}{n}}\le 0.01.
$$
For sure, this holds if
$$
n\ge C'\frac{A\log p}{\varepsilon^2}\Gamma.
$$
Similarly, if the reverse inequality of (1) holds, then we get the same high probability result if we set
$$
n\ge C''\frac{B\log^2 p}{\varepsilon}\Gamma.
$$
So, in general, taking
$$
n\ge \max(C,C'')\left(\frac{A\log p}{\varepsilon^2}+\frac{B\log^2 p}{\varepsilon}\right)\Gamma
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will always give $\|Y_n-Y\|\le \varepsilon \|\Sigma\|$, regardless of the regime we are in.

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Center Brayden Schenn (upper-body injury) seems likely to miss his second straight game. Schenn, who left Saturday's contest against the Minnesota Wild, did some light work in practice Thursday but was nowhere near full go.
"A little bit (of work), but obviously he wasn't involved in everything, so again, question mark for tomorrow," Blues coach Mike Yeo told NHL.com.
Forward Pat Maroon will be a healthy scratch for the first time this season.
Maroon, a St. Louis native, signed a one-year $1.75 million free agent contract with the Blues in the offseason. He has seven assists in the first 13 games, but is struggling to score.
"I think it's been very frustrating for him, which is understandable," Yeo told NHL.com. "First off, you know how important it is for him to put that jersey on, what that means to him and how he wants to contribute. Secondly, he's betting on himself this year. We know how important that is. It's tough. We've seen a lot of good things despite him not scoring, his forechecking, his puck presence in the offensive zone, his physicality, his power-play (contributions), all these things.
"I think some things can start to get in your head and obviously confidence starts to play a part in that. I think maybe a little reset here can help him out."
Forward Nikita Soshkinov will replace Maroon in the lineup and will make his Blues debut. He will a line with Tyler Bozak and Alexander Steen.
Soshkinov and Bozak were teammates in Toronto.
"He's been working hard and this will be a good chance for him," Yeo told NHL.com. "He's playing with a guy in Bozie that he's familiar with, two guys that are responsible. I don't expect perfection without the puck for Sosh; that's not what I'm looking for. What I'm looking for is his speed to be a difference maker. He's got two smart players who can read off of him. For me, the way I should see it is his speed should impact the game all over the ice. Hopefully we can see that tomorrow."
The Blues won once in three meetings against the Sharks last season.
San Jose will be playing its second game in as many days after losing 4-3 at Dallas on Thursday night. The Sharks had their two-game winning streak snapped.
Defenseman Brent Burns recorded two assists, including career No. 400, and forward Evander Kane tied the game 3-3 in the third period for the Sharks before center Devin Shore got the game-winner, his second goal of the night, at 14:13 of the third for the Stars.
Sharks defenseman Joe Thornton played in his 1,500 career game. He is the 19th player in league history to reach that milestone.
"He does things that people don't even know or see to be able to play," Sharks general manager Doug Wilson told the San Jose Mercury News about Thornton. "If he ever shared his actual routine with everybody, people would not believe it. But you don't put that much work in if you don't truly, truly don't love it. This is a really special person."


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"The way the cabin is set up, everyone is facing in the same direction with the seat essentially as a barrier in front of them," Mr Joyce said.
There is growing frustration within the federal government as some states warn they will keep their borders closed to tourism while community transmission continues in NSW and Victoria.
The cautious Ms Palaszczuk, who is facing an election on October 31, said the border restrictions were reviewed at the end of every month. But she said would ultimately be guided by health advice.
"I will always put Queenslanders first, that's my job," she said.
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After the National Cabinet meeting a fortnight ago, Ms Palaszczuk outlined a three-stage road map out of the coronavirus lockdown.
Apart from schools re-opening to all students, cafes, bars and restaurants opening, borders were flagged to re-open on July 10.
Now the goal posts have been moved, with the state's Chief Medical Officer Jeanette Young saying a September opening of borders would be a more "realistic" option.
"We need to hold firm and manage our domestic borders very carefully," she said.
Ms Palaszczuk is at odds with Queensland tourism industry bodies who want interstate travellers to come to the Sunshine State for the June-July school holidays which is normally a peak time for the sector.
It is understood there is unrest amongst her ministerial colleagues, given every month the border remains closed costs the state's tourism industry billions of dollars each month.
Queensland Tourism Industry Council chief executive Daniel Gschwind said he wanted the Palaszczuk government to stick to the original July date.
"We're keeping our fingers crossed. July 10 was in the original road map. We are hoping for the best case scenario to be realised," Mr Gschwind said.
"The Premier has said all along this is based on advice from the Chief Health Officer and it is subject to the infection rate being managed well and as far as I can tell it has been."
Mr Gschwind said tourism operators were "desperate" to rescue at least part of the winter holiday season.
He said the difference between a July re-opening and September was critical.
"It certainly makes it a lot harder to stay afloat. We can all hold our breath for a certain amount of time, but then you come up for air. The situation is dire," he said.
Gold Coast tourism operator Anthony Ardern says they could move across the border to NSW. Paul Harris
Gold Coast tourism operator Anthony Ardern said ongoing border closures would force them to miss their peak whale watching season which coincided with the June/July school holidays.
The Tour Collective general manager – who operates four businesses including Sea World Cruises and Whales in Paradise – had stood down 85 staff and was struggling with existing restrictions on 20 people on boats when they normally take 600 people a day.
"We were getting excited and were ramping up but when we heard the Premier's media reports this week we were saying "oh, no'," Mr Ardern told The Australian Financial Review.
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Mr Ardern said he had grown so frustrated with the ongoing uncertainty over the border opening that he was considering moving across the border to Tweed Heads in NSW.
"I'm toying with the idea," he said. "But we definitely need the borders open and preferably with the travel bubble with New Zealand."
Federal Tourism Minister Simon Birmingham and business groups warn lingering border closures will see more jobs lost.
"Australian jobs depend upon this, and the livelihoods of Australians depend upon it, and I don't want to see them crippled unnecessarily so," Senator Birmingham said.
Commonwealth deputy Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly said there was no health reason to stop interstate travel.
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University of Adelaide emeritus professor of virology Chris Burrell said a return to domestic travel was a "calculated risk" as small amounts of new infections continue in Australia.
"I do think we're in a good position now where we can start to free things up. Freeing up interstate travel is quite an important priority," he said. "I'd wear a mask if I was flying."
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National Observatory for Regulatory Improvement gives Merida the highest rating
By Yucatan Times on June 24, 2020
The National Regulatory Improvement Commission (CONAMER) and the Business Coordinating Council (CCE) announced that the Mérida municipal administration received national recognition by obtaining the highest rating from the National Regulatory Improvement Observatory.
This recognition positions Mérida as a national example of a modern government that generates favorable conditions for attracting investment, generating sources of employment, and being close to the people.
Mayor Renán Barrera Concha
Regulatory improvement is a public policy that consists of generating clear rules, simplified procedures, and services, as well as effective institutions for its creation and practice.
The Sub-National Regulatory Improvement Indicator evaluates 3 general pillars, which are public policies, institutions, and tools.
Based on the analysis of these factors, Mérida is positioned as the most advanced municipality nationwide, with a rating of 4.0 out of 5 possible points.
The National Observatory for Regulatory Improvement is an instance of citizen participation, chaired by the Business Coordinating Council, which monitors the efficiency of governments with regard to their relationship with citizens and companies.
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National Catholic Register News https://www.ncregister.com/news/georgetown-student-group-invites-planned-parenthood-s-cecile-richards-to-campus
Georgetown Student Group Invites Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards to Campus
Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington criticized the invitation as being incompatible with the values a Catholic college should promote on its campus.
Cecile Richards (photo: Erich Schlegel/Getty Images)
BRIAN FRAGA News March 7, 2016
Editor's note: This article was updated March 8 to include Cardinal Donald Wuerl's comments.
WASHINGTON — Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the largest abortion provider in the United States, will speak sometime next month at Georgetown University, the country's oldest Catholic and Jesuit university.
Richards was invited to speak by the Georgetown University Lecture Fund, a non-partisan student-run organization that says it strives to bring speakers to Georgetown's campus "to enlighten, educate and, occasionally, entertain."
Helen Brosnan, the student executive board chairperson at the Lecture Fund, told the Register in an emailed statement that Richards' talk will not be open to the public, and only those with a Georgetown University identification will be allowed to attend.
"We extend invitations to any and all speakers, they accept or deny the invitation, and we plan accordingly," Brosnan said.
That the leader of the country's largest pro-abortion organization has been invited to speak at a Catholic university angered several pro-life activists and Catholic observers, including Father Frank Pavone, the national director of Priests for Life.
"The abortion controversy is not about viewpoints, but about victims," Father Pavone told the Register. "It is not simply about beliefs, but about bloodshed."
Georgetown University released a statement on March 3 noting that Richards is not being paid to speak, and student groups may invite any outside speakers and guests to campus. The university added: "An appearance of any speaker or guest on campus is not an endorsement by the university."
The university also said that it strives to ensure its Catholic and Jesuit values, "while at the same time providing a forum that does not limit speech either in the content of the view being expressed or the speaker expressing the view."
'Catholic-Identity Abuse'
Patrick Reilly, president and CEO of the Cardinal Newman Society, a nonprofit with the stated mission to "promote and defend faithful Catholic education," told the Register that while Georgetown says it is committed to the free exchange of ideas, "we've seen how this plays out time and again."
"There will be no effort to 'exchange' any notion of Catholic moral teaching with Cecile Richards," Reilly said. "No, Georgetown will sit back and allow a prominent public figure responsible for the deaths of more than 2.8 million babies to spout off to its undergraduates. It is one more example of Georgetown's legacy of Catholic-identity abuse."
Father Pavone also said that allowing Richards to speak on campus "is not a matter of free speech or academic freedom."
"Georgetown University's defense for inviting the head of the largest criminal enterprise and child-killing industry in America adds more evidence to the argument I advanced in my new book, Abolishing Abortion: that the debate over abortion — even within the Church — has become far too abstract for our own good," Father Pavone said.
Lila Rose, president of Live Action, the pro-life media organization that has investigated Planned Parenthood and works to build a culture of life, told the Register that allowing Richards to have a platform at Georgetown University is "gravely wrong" and antithetical to the university's Catholic identity.
"Over 320,000 children a year have their lives ended. Those children — their stories and the beautiful purpose that God had and the love he had for each of them — are not with us because of Planned Parenthood," said Rose, who added that it would have been a different matter had Richards been invited to debate someone articulating the pro-life position.
"But she has been given a platform to express the extreme pro-abortion position that she upholds," Rose said.
Georgetown's Explanations
In addition to arranging forums on a variety of topics that range from nuclear-energy alternatives to urban economics, the Lecture Fund, according to its website, also hosts "an active calendar of individual speakers who address a wide range of subjects and disciplines." Previous speakers have included Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, actor Bradley Cooper and billionaire philanthropist Warren Buffet.
The Lecture Fund's board consists of only undergraduate students, said Brosnan, who added that the student-run organization exists "to enrich the academic experience of the Georgetown community." Like all past lectures, Richards' talk, which is free of charge to those who attend, will be followed by a question-and-answer period.
In its official statement, Georgetown University said it respects students' rights to express their personal views and is committed to sustaining a forum for the free exchange of ideas, even when those ideas may be difficult, controversial or objectionable to some. Georgetown University also said its long-standing "Speech and Expression Policy" governs the university's response to controversial speech.
Father Pavone noted that the university's policy also says that the right of free speech and expression does not include "activity that endangers or imminently threatens to endanger the safety of any member of the community."
"Cecile Richards' speech as well as actions endanger and imminently threaten the unborn, including those whose parents may be on campus," said Father Pavone, adding that the policy also states that speech that is "grossly offensive on matters such as race, ethnicity, religion, gender or sexual orientation" is inappropriate in a university community.
Said Father Pavone, "I would argue that, based on the same reasoning, and grossly offensive language of Cecile Richards and Planned Parenthood toward the unborn, refusing to recognize their humanity and basic rights, based on age and dependency, is likewise inappropriate."
Abortion, Contraception and Fetal Body Parts
Along with Planned Parenthood's provision of more than 2.8 million abortions since Richards became its president in 2006, the Cardinal Newman Society highlighted Planned Parenthood's advocacy of birth control, including abortifacient contraceptives commonly referred to as the "morning-after pill," as well as the series of undercover videos released by the Center for Medical Progress that purport to show Planned Parenthood officials discussing the procurement and sale of fetal body parts for profit, which is against federal law.
The videos prompted several state and congressional investigations, though Planned Parenthood officials say those probes have not uncovered any evidence of wrongdoing.
Responding to the undercover videos, Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston, then the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, said last summer that the news stories concerning Planned Parenthood focused attention on two larger issues in society.
"The first is abortion itself: a direct attack on human life in its most vulnerable condition," Cardinal O'Malley said. "The second is the now-standard practice of obtaining fetal organs and tissues through abortion. Both actions fail to respect the humanity and dignity of human life. This fact should be the center of attention in the present public controversy."
In a recent fact sheet on Planned Parenthood, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops noted that Planned Parenthood is the nation's largest provider of abortion. From 2014-2015, Planned Parenthood affiliates performed 323,999 abortions. Planned Parenthood today performs one out of every three abortions in the United States and provides almost 17 times more abortions than birth-oriented services.
Rose said Georgetown University would likely never allow speakers on campus who espouse violent ideologies, such as Ku Klux Klansmen or Islamic State militant fighters.
"Georgetown has the right as a private university to uphold the values of the school," Rose said. "If the school has Catholic values and promotes human rights in general, giving a platform to the most extreme abortion group flies in the face of justice, and it's really a promotion of abortion, which is a grievous moral wrong as well."
Said Rose, "Ultimately, Georgetown is espousing the most violent and unjust ideology of the day, which is the pro-abortion ideology."
Cardinal Wuerl
In a statement released March 7, Cardinal Wuerl said that Richards' Georgetown appearance was incompatible with the values that should prevail on an authentically Catholic university's campus.
"What we lament and find sadly lacking in this choice by the student group is any reflection of what should be an environment of morality, ethics and human decency that one expects on a campus that asserts its Jesuit and Catholic history and identity," Cardinal Wuerl said.
"One would prefer to see some recognition by this student group of the lives and ministry, focus and values of people like Blessed Óscar Romero, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta and Pope Francis in place of that group's seemingly constant preoccupation with sexual activity, contraception and abortion. The Archdiocese of Washington is always open and ready to dialogue with the students, faculty and administration of the university on issues of such significance.
"The apparent unawareness of those pushing the violence of abortion and the denigration of human dignity that there are other human values and issues being challenged in the world lends credence to the perception of the 'ivory tower' life of some on campus. This, unfortunately, does not speak well for the future. One would hope to see this generation of Georgetown graduates have a far less self-absorbed attitude when facing neighbors and those in need, especially the most vulnerable among us."
Added Cardinal Wuerl, "Perhaps those so interested in learning more about the killing of unborn babies and disrespect for the dignity of all human life might take a look at the recent America magazine issue that speaks at length about the extent of violence and persecution the people of faith around the world suffer. It would be beneficial for these Georgetown University students to learn more about these serious problems in the world. The contribution to a better world today can take inspiration from the Gospel and its proponents, such as Pope Francis, and from the Jubilee Year of Mercy, rather than from the organized efforts to facilitate the violent destruction of unborn children."
Concluded the cardinal, "The Jesuit community on campus clearly has its work cut out for it and a long way to go as it tries to instill at Georgetown some of the values of Pope Francis. Until then, it is hard wholeheartedly to share in the cry, 'Go Hoyas!'"
Register correspondent Brian Fraga writes from Fall River, Massachusetts.
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If you play sports or exercise regularly, any serious athlete or physio will tell you that you need to be combining your fitness routine with regular Sports Massage.
Regular massages will reduce your risk of injury, improve your recovery time post-workout, enable you to exercise more frequently, and make sure any little tweaks or niggles don't turn into something bigger and nastier.
The name Sports Massage defines an overall approach to massage therapy, rather than something that's exclusively for sportsmen and women. Though it has been primarily designed to help improve performance and reduce pain and injury in sport, fitness and exercise, its results-driven approach makes it highly effective for people from all walks of life, particularly for anyone looking to improve flexibility, ease tight or painful muscles or combat postural or musculoskeletal pain – whether from an every day injury or simply (and frequently) from spending long hours at a desk.
Sports Massage techniques can also be used to reduce the impact of previous injuries, and the resulting scar tissue or inelasticity that may be impacting on your body's ability to heal or move properly.
What Is Sports Massage Like?
Sports Massage is not the relaxing, tranquil treatment that you'd find at any spa. Instead, it's a sports therapy designed to improve quality of movement, boost recovery from injury or exercise and ease pain. It is administered by qualified professionals who have been rigorously trained in the musculoskeletal structure and anatomy of the human body.
A variety of stroking movements usually carried out with the palm of the hand and fingers. It can be used with varying pressure and speed according to the purpose and stage of the massage.
It is most commonly used at the start and finish of a session, and its purposes are to relax the client, warm the tissues, relax the muscles, allow the therapist to sense the condition of the muscles and tissues, stimulate the nerves and increase lymph and blood flow.
The basic Petrissage movement is a 'kneading' movement designed to compress and then release the soft tissue, using either direct pressure or by picking up and squeezing the skin and muscle.
It is is generally used to have a deeper effect on soft tissue than Effleurage, and includes kneading, squeezing, and other loosening techniques. The benefits of Petrissage include increased mobility between tissue layers, stretching of muscle fibres, muscle relaxation, improving blood and lymphatic flow and aiding with the removal of waste products.
A repetitive technique designed to stretch, loosen, soften and lengthen muscle tissue. Strokes are applied with gentle pressure along the muscle fibre and held for a short period of time to fully stretch the muscle, then repeated until the muscle is entirely relaxed.
Myofascial release is designed to free up fascia that may be impeding on blood vessels or nerves and improve circulation and nervous system transmission. Results include a decrease in muscle tightness, increased range of motion and reduction in pain in the affected area.
Relieves chronic tension of soft tissue, and can improve flexibility, range of motion and posture. As the name suggests, the focus is on the deepest layers of muscle tissue, tendons and the fascia (the protective layer surrounding muscles and joints). Despite what many people believe, Deep Tissue Massage does not need to be painful, although firmer pressure is often needed to encourage tight areas to release.
Usually applied to particularly aggravated areas, often where there is referred pain or tenderness, trigger point therapy can eliminate pain and re-educate the muscles into pain-free habits. A long-term treatment, after a few sessions it can reduce swelling, stiffness and tension to improve circulation, flexibility and co-ordination. Counter-intuitively, while this technique can be uncomfortable, it can simultaneously feel good and will clearly highlight the source of the discomfort.
This technique can be used as an alternative to trigger point pressure. Rather than a single point of pressure on the affected area, firm strokes are applied across the grain of the muscle to provide pain relief to increase blood flow, promote healing and reduce pain. Deep friction massage can also be used to break up scar tissue.
This technique lengthens shortened or spasmed muscles, strengthens weakened ligaments and muscle, and increases range of motion. The client will be asked to contract the muscle for a few seconds against an anti-force applied by the therapist, stretching the muscle. This is then repeated a number of times to apply the full effect of the technique to the muscle.
Your Massage Therapist will generally use several of these techniques at different stages of a massage to provide the best treatment for you. As a result, the selection and order of these techniques will vary from client to client and massage to massage.
So, what does a Sports Massage do?
Sports Massage helps to combat the effects of injury and negative effect of intense and/or frequent sports or fitness training.
It eases tight or sore muscles and improves joint mobility, helping the body move better and recover from exercise faster. It accelerates healing of soft tissue injuries by encouraging the flow of blood carrying oxygen and nutrients, and by treating the muscle tightness and inelasticity that can hinder blood flow.
It can also improve posture, and help address the musculoskeletal impact of today's sedentary and deskbound working practices.
Lastly, in addition to its physical effects, Sports Massage Therapy can also reduce stress and anxiety, improve mental and physical relaxation and promote a greater sense of well-being.


This present paper is a part of a complex 4-year scientific project – a study on the in vitro reaction, cytogenetical, physiological, and biochemical observations on a series of Labiatae and Asteraceae. The biochemical investigations on peppermint aimed to evince some possible alterations of the quantity or the composition of volatile oils from in vitro regenerants provided on Murashige-Skoog culture medium, and on other variants of MS supplemented with growth regulators. Phytochemical analyses were accomplished on first year regenerants of Mentha piperita. The amount of volatile oil was established by hydrodistillation of dry biomass (100 grams of dry biomass/variant). Volatile oils were submitted to gas-chromatographic analysis combined with mass spectrometry, in order to identify the chemical components within the volatile fractions. The specters were compared to the one from Wiley data system. All the results were related to control – plants provided in vitro on hormone-free MS, and also to the initial biological material, that was the source of explants. The amount of volatile oil within the analysed samples varied between 0.2 and 7.5% of dry biomass, compared to 1.5-3.5%, and 0.5-4% (according to references), [1, 2]. The highest amount of volatile oil was registered within the regenerants provided on hormone-free MS (7% dry matter). Volatile oil's major components were L-mentol, mentona, eucaliptol, and pulegone. Volatile oil spectrum varied with the medium variant on which the in vitro plants were regenerated. 116 The chemical profile of the essential oils showed that the monoterpens represent between 87.2 and 92.35% (mostly cetons and alcohols), and the sesquiterpens represent between 1.82 and 4.10% (especially hydrocarbonates). There were mostly quantitative differences within the analysed samples, which proves that the method we used to regenerate neoplantlets of Mentha piperita reproduced the initial genotype.
Mentha piperita, volatile oil, in vitro cultures.


Loreto Rainbow Homes are set up in Loreto Schools. The Loreto Schools share their infrastructure with the Homes as part of their commitment and social responsibility to the less fortunate.
Loreto Rainbow Homes follow a child centric approach where children's interest is priority.
Loreto Rainbow Homes practices accountability and transparency.
Child progress is tracked through web-based information system and key performance indicators are monitored periodically.


If you own a business and you want to pass it to your children, you probably want to know how much tax you will have to pay for the transfer. It can be either a capital gain tax (if you take the form of selling), gift tax or inheritance tax.
Some people just sell shares to her successor at market price. Some people set up a company with very little capital and borrow money from a bank to buy the shares. The successor (who can be her children or her relatives) will own the shares of the new company (holding company). If the existing business is profitable enough, banks will be willing to lend money to the new company.
Some people set up a trust that leaves its voting right to the current owner and gives benefits of dividends to her children etc.
The point is to book as much as losses possible to lower the corporate income to lower the valuation. The valuation depends on its income, dividends, and its net assets (marked to market). I will write it more in details later in this blog.
I would like to provide a free consultation in a brief form as to how much the shares of your company is and how to reduce the cost of the transfer. There should be several options to transfer the ownership.


This is the twin to a previously reviewed double length from Ape Entertainment, Bizarre New World. This also had a three issue series that introduced the story and characters, and this was also released in an over-sized trade paperback-like edition.
Contrary to the title, there are three stories contained within, though the middle one is only a couple of pages, and less a story than brief character building exercise. None the less, it was probably my favorite piece in the book. Maybe it was because of the Iron Man-like nature of one of the boy's fantasy future that got me, but the art and artist were also different, making the coloring a bit more vibrant than the rest of the comic which had been, like the first three-issue prequel, drawn in a sort of sloppy, colored-pencil style. The colors are thus are a bit muted, a bit less bright and crisp than I'd have preferred.
As far as story is concerned, White Picket Fences doesn't start out with any context. (I remember this about the previous series also.) It just dumps you into a story about three (or four) boys, living in a strange and exciting town where anything can happen. The year might be 1950, (I don't think we know), but the comic ends up feeling like a cross between Leave it to Beaver and Evolution (the David Duchovny movie from 2001). Anyway, the first three-parter is better than this book, but this is pretty fun too. There are lots of other good things out right now though, and I'm sort of on the fence about the next three promised issues.
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Because it's Wednesday, have a laugh with this cute punkin discovering dandelions.
Saving California water and saving the Colorado River.
Fascinating look into the lives of the Ku Klux Klan.
Eco-friendly stoves help save lives.
Asteroids to trash to drought. What's not to love?
Huge asteroid will pass close to Earth Monday... can be seen with 'strong binoculars'.
A Dutch man decides to pick up plastic trash on his way to work. A 20 year old tells us he can get the plastic out of our oceans.
Racism defined by a self-described redneck.
How we can address gun violence and gun safety.
It's not just California having an epic drought.
Lions and Chemicals and Iran, oh my!
700 different chemicals used to frack. Yummy!
How many different things are made.
More ways to humiliate the poor. Being poor is very expensive. When will the rich millionaires in Congress realize that? Never?
Tom Cotton thinks a nice little war with Iran would only take a few days. Kinda like what we did in Iraq. Only better!
To lower the state-wide usage of water by 25%.
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.)—Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a statewide drought after two years of below-average rainfall, low snowmelt runoff and a court-ordered restriction on water transfers.
Schwarzenegger warned that residents and water managers must immediately cut their water use or face the possibility of rationing next year if there is another dry winter.
"We must recognize the severity of the crisis that we face," the Republican governor said Wednesday at a news conference.
He signed an executive order directing the state's response to unusually dry conditions that are damaging crops, harming water quality and causing extreme fire danger across California. Many communities already require water conservation or rationing.
The statewide drought declaration is the first since 1991, when Gov. Pete Wilson acted in the fifth year of a drought that lasted into 1992.
Snow measurements last month found that the Sierra held just 69 percent of an average winter. Runoff into California rivers was at 55 percent of a normal year. The state's major reservoirs are at 50 percent to 63 percent of their capacity at a time when they ideally would be full.
Conditions could be even worse next year if there is another dry winter, Water Resources Director Lester Snow said.
"We need at least above normal in terms of our snowpack, and then we're still going to be tight," Snow said. "The idea is to put programs in place now to soften the impact in 2008 and to prepare for a potential third year of drought in 2009."
California's population has mushroomed since the last drought, while the water supply has dwindled, he said.
An eight-year drought in the Southwest means California can't depend on Colorado River water to help supply Southern California. And a federal judge's order last year requires that more Northern California water be left in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to aid declining fish populations.
"We're suffering the perfect storm, if you will," said Timothy Quinn, executive director of the Association of California Water Agencies. "The purpose of the governor's declaration is to send a wake-up call."
California has never resorted to statewide rationing during droughts, Quinn said.
Worst-hit so far is the San Joaquin Valley, which could soon merit an emergency declaration because of crop damage, Snow said.
# For indoor conservation High-Efficiency Toilets: EBMUD customers can receive rebates for purchasing qualifying WaterSmart High-Efficiency Toilets, which use less water and remove waste effectively. For toilets using 3.5 gallons per flush or more, devices such as displacement bags, toilet dams, or adjustable flappers save water and are a less expensive alternative to replacing your toilet.
# Shower head: Install a water-efficient shower head that uses no more than 2.5 gallons of water per minute. A standard shower head uses 5 to 10 gallons per minute.
# Energy Efficient Washing Machines: A high-efficiency machine uses 30 percent less water and 40 percent to 70 percent less energy. EBMUD customers can get rebates for purchasing and installing approved high-efficiency washing machines from a list of qualifying washers.
# Install Aerators: Low-flow aerators can limit flow rates of 2.2 gallons per minute for kitchen faucets and 1.5 gallons per minute for bathroom faucets. EBMUD provides its customers with free devices.
# Replace worn washers on faucets and look for hidden leaks. Check the reading on your water meter. Don't use any water for 30 minutes, then read the meter. If it shows water used, then you have a hidden leak that needs repair.
# Water yards less frequently but more deeply. Watering to the root depth of your plants creates a healthier and more efficient garden. This means applying a half-inch of water to moisten the soil to a depth of 6 inches.
# Routinely check your irrigation system for leaks. Drip irrigation systems apply water more accurately and at a much lower rate than overhead spray. EBMUD offers rebates to customers who install drip irrigation systems.
# Adjust your irrigation controller according to the seasons. Add days to your watering schedule for the summer season and reduce the number of days as fall approaches.
# Don't automatically serve water at restaurants, make the customers ask for a glass.
# Turn off your faucet while you brush your teeth.
The total time for the water being on is typically under two minutes.
A ten-minute shower takes as much as 230 L (60 U.S. gallons) of water, while a navy shower usually takes as little as 11 L (3 U.S. gallons); one person can save 56,000 L (15,000 U.S. gallons) per year.
# Do only full laundry loads, full dishwasher loads.
# Skip washing your car, and when you must, invest in a spray control for your hose or use buckets. Park your car on your lawn and use biodegradable soap.
# In more severe droughts, fine people for running water down gutters or late night extravagant watering. Let your lawn die. Better yet, pull up the grass and put in drought resistant plants. Start taking rinse water out to your garden. Make new housing complexes have some sort of gray water reuse system and restrict the building of pools.
This is the new reality, guys, not Bush's reality. We can do it, we just need to be wise. There's lots of ideas out there that will help us cut back our usage.
Because water wars are coming and we should be ready.


Air cleaner into the air inlet has a coarse effect filter or dust mesh, should pay attention to regular cleaning, wash after natural drying, so as not to produce a sound.
Use the air purifier to pay attention to the regular replacement of the filter element, the time to replace the filter element to determine the actual use of the product.
Check the product specification for any notes. For example, the use of chlorine dioxide type formaldehyde scavenger in the wardrobe to absorb formaldehyde, which may produce oxidation gas will be hung in the wardrobe of beautiful clothes color fade.
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The negative ion is the principle of the nature of the air to simulate the air to the system, it is very short life in the air, so the export should be close to the people's breathing.
In the process of the generation of negative ions in the surrounding environment, due to the electrostatic interaction, easy dust, should be promptly wiped out.