Kambo is "one of the strongest natural antibiotics and anesthetics found in the world and one of the strongest, natural ways to empower our immune system." ¹Kambo is the name given to the traditional Shamanic frog poison cleanse that is used to strengthen and heal mind, body and spirit. The scientific name for this frog is Phyllomedusa bicolor or "Giant Monkey Frog". This frog lives in the Northwestern part of the Amazon Rain forest, namely Colombia and on the border between Brazil and Peru and is used by indigenous tribes there to gain strength, immunity and hunting magic. This cute frog secretes a poisonous waxy poison from its skin, the potency of which repels all predators.
The poison from the Giant Monkey Frog is applied to the skin after small burns are made with the tip of a glowing stick. Once applied, Kambo stimulates a strong physical purge while toxins and 'bad luck' or 'panema' are eliminated from body and spirit.
As well as this energetic clearing effect, Kambo has potent physical benefits as well. Kambo is traditionally used to gain strength, maintain or regain health, and to provide immunity. The poison is applied often times before hunting parties depart in order to increase strength, improve vision and lend the hunters a 'magical' ability to locate prey. Kambo is also traditionally used to cleanse the body of just about any illness including Rainforest specials like malaria and spider bite.
Deltorphin — a very potent delta-opioid receptor agonist. (Dermorphin and Deltorphin are 4000 times stronger than morphine and 40 times stronger than endogenic b-endorphines. (1).
Cleansing Kambo has a detoxifying effect on the internal organs, including the liver (usually one vomits up bile) and the intestines (through evacuations) as well as the entire digestive system. The Katakana natives also use Kambo as the antidote for snake bite, as a medicine for many illness, and as an overall health tonic. There are many accounts of people using kambo and bouncing back from fatigue, expression, addiction, bad luck, sicknesses, and age related symptoms.
Outside of the forest, Kambo has been the subject of nearly three decades of medical research. As with venoms from snakes and scorpions, researchers believe that Kambo will open up a new world of treatments for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic Pain, Cancer, HIV, Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's, Depression, Vascular problems, Hepatitis, Diabetes, Rheumatism, Arthritis, Addictions and much, much more. Their work consists of attempting to identify, isolate and reproduce the incredible and unique chemical cocktail that Kambo is. It contains dozens of Peptides (short chains of amino acids), some of them bioactive which means they have an affinity and selectivity for binding with receptor sites in humans (A receptor is like a lock that, when opened with the right key—the bioactive peptide—triggers specific chemical reactions in the body). The peptide families represented in Kambo include bradykinins (phyllokinin), tachykinins (phyllomedusin), caerulein, sauvagine, tryptophyllins, dermorphins, deltorphins and bombesins. Recent studies have shown that Kambo contains multiple antimicrobial peptides effective against drug resistant strains of bacteria, fungi, protozoa, parasites and virus, providing opportunities for the development of new and more efficient nanotechnological-based therapies for treating infectious diseases. Several years of ongoing research by the University of Paris have shown Kambo to be super effective at killing cancer cells and Queens University in Belfast recently won a prestigious award for their ground breaking work with cancer and frog secretions.
Kambo is one of the strongest natural anti-inflammatory, antibiotic, antimicrobial and anaesthetic substances found in the world and one of the strongest, natural ways to strengthen the immune system. It also detoxes the liver and the intestines so it's a powerful cleanser. Immediate and short term effects include enhanced mood, alertness, clarity, focus, energy and increased resistance to stress, tiredness, hunger and thirst. The mind becomes still, you feel lighter and everything becomes easier to manage. In the longer term, Kambo empowers the immune system, rousing the body's defence systems to their natural functions so that existing health problems are improved or resolved and future ones are less likely to occur. In spiritual terms, Kambo works in a mystical fashion as a light that opens the way, helping us to overcome obstacles and release blockages on an emotional level. It clears our energy field and realigns the chakras enabling us to break negative habits and live and think more naturally.
Despite the billions of pounds/euros and dollars being poured into researching and developing mainstream synthetic medication from Phyllomedusa Bicolour frog secretions, no one has yet managed to reproduce the original! Kambo in its original, natural form is a holistic treatment that works on the mind, body, energy and spirit at all levels in ways that we don't completely understand yet. The native peoples of the Amazon are quite right to use the word 'magic' when describing this substance.
What does a Kambo Treatment cost?
Charges for treatment are not regulated by the IAKP. Each practitioner is free to decide what to charge based on their experience, expertise and prevailing conditions of the country they are working in, however excessive charging is discouraged to allow maximum access to this medicine. This means that you will find large variations in treatment costs around the world. Obviously treatments will be cheaper in those countries where Kambo is freely available and more expensive in those where it is not. Costs may also vary if you take Kambo in a retreat centre or from a practitioner who is travelling and working in a country where there is no other available properly trained practitioner. Be aware that there may be a difference between what an untrained person will charge and what a trained practitioner will charge. Someone who is offering Kambo for free, to experiment on you or for donations may not have any training or confidence in their skills. You may also find the opposite though so ask questions before you decide to go ahead.
Kambo is 100% safe in the right hands. It's true that there have been accidents in the past and that people have died but the number is very small and the circumstances of these deaths have shown that Kambo should not have been given to them because of their pre-existing health conditions. This applies to all medicines, natural or pharmaceutical, there are always contraindications. Not only is it important for the person giving Kambo to understand these contraindications but it is also important for people taking Kambo to disclose all there health issues to the practitioner. In this way, we can ensure that no more mistakes happen. Kambo is not for everyone. Also be aware that if you are travelling in South America and seek out a remote tribe to take Kambo with, that they may not have full knowledge of western health conditions so be very careful in these situations.
What happens during a Kambo treatment?
Kambo is intense but fast. The unpleasant effects are strong and immediate but over within 30 - 40 minutes. The dried Kambo is mixed with a small amount of water and divided into small dots. Then small points called gates are placed into the surface of the skin. The points are approximately 1/8" across but can be smaller or slightly larger depending on the treatment. The top thin layer of skin is blistered with a hot stick and the skin is peeled off to expose the epidermis underneath – this is similar to when you have a blister and the skin rubs off. There is no blood. The number and position of the points varies from person to person depending on individual needs. If you have a series of treatments in the same session, the same points are reused. The small dots of Kambo are applied to the points. This is the only way to take Kambo – it is not safe to ingest it, snort it or to introduce it into the blood stream directly. The Kambo enters directly into the Lymphatic System so the effect is very fast. Most people experience a warm to hot flush on the upper body and face along with increased heart rate. At this point, different people will react in different ways. Some will feel dizzy, foggy or spaced out; the occasional person will shake or even faint. Some people have swollen lips or face and slight skin tingling. The Kambo will be racing around your body, scanning it for problems and then going directly to work on those areas. You may experience a throbbing or burning sensation in those areas for a short while. Some people may feel some abdominal discomfort and need to defecate. Once the Kambo has cleaned the body you will purge all the toxins out. This purging process works on a physical and emotional level. You may feel tired at this point and need to rest. Within a short time – usually an hour or so you will feel much better and you can drink and eat normally. Within a day or so, depending on your state of health, you will start to feel the real benefits.
Kambo is not psychoactive even when taken regularly. There are some old reports of Indians experiencing hallucinations with Kambo but this is probably when it is taken in extremely large quantities e.g. 10 times in a night and used in conjunction with an hallucinogenic snuff. Kambo can produce a very short altered state of reality in some people and many people receive insights and messages about living a healthier life during these few minutes.
The burn marks will heal and fade with time but depending on your skin colour and type you may always have small visible scars. Most people see their Kambo scars as a badge of honour. The same points can be reused after 2- 3 months. After the dots of Kambo are removed, the points are dressed with a natural tree sap. This helps them to heal faster and ensures they stay free from infection until they scab naturally.


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by David Rosen, U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area Historian
On April 14, 1912, RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic, resulting in the loss of 1,517 lives.
In response to the disaster, the first Safety of Life at Sea Convention was held in London the following year. In March 1913, Coast Guard Cutter Seneca was assigned to the first International Ice Patrol, or IIP.
Each year since, a patrol has been maintained. No further vessels have been sunk by icebergs in the area, a tribute to the diligence of the IIP watchstanders.
Captain-Commandant Ellsworth Bertholf was keen to assume this responsibility to forestall a proposed dissolution of the Revenue Service as part of a budget cutback. He re-defined the service by adding the Ice Patrol.
In 1915, Bertholf and Sumner Kimball merged the military Revenue Service with the civilian Lifesaving Service into the modern-day Coast Guard. Bertholf stressed the unique combination of peacetime functions and war preparedness of the Coast Guard, convincing both Congress and the White House of its critical role.
By the early 1920s, it became apparent that Coast Guard officers with professional training were needed to perform ice patrol duties. The Coast Guard therefore established an oceanographic unit at Harvard University to conduct research for the IIP from 1923 to 1931, it was headed by Edward "Iceberg" Smith, who regularized the ice patrol's tracking of the movements of icebergs. He also initiated a method of iceberg forecasting the number of bergs annually drifting south of Newfoundland.
During the summer of 1928, Smith assumed command of the Coast Guard Cutter Marion, a 125-foot vessel built for offshore-patrol duty. He went to western Greenland to apply his surveying methods to the birthplace of icebergs.
The Marion Expedition was one of the most comprehensive oceanographic studies made by the United States. It departed Boston for Davis Strait and Baffin Bay in July. The 73-day cruise to the Arctic covered 8,100 miles, during which Smith and his team of scientists surveyed an area of nearly half a million square miles between Greenland and Canada. The crew made more than 1,900 recordings of water temperature and salinity at 190 observation stations.
Throughout the 1950's, IIP gained more confidence in the aerial reconnaissance and the surface patrols became limited to the severe years. While the aircraft began to bear the load of the reconnaissance operations, the ships focused on obtaining ocean and current data.
Today, the IIP monitors the iceberg danger area by physically patrolling the area with Coast Guard aircraft and by receiving reports from commercial aircraft and vessels. All iceberg observations are fed into a computer, which produces a drift and deterioration model using weather and current data. Watchstanders use the model to produce a daily iceberg warning chart which is broadcasted twice daily to the maritime community outlining the iceberg warning area.
Domestic Icebreaking Operations
For the Revenue Cutter Service, ice breaking primarily began as a means to support traditional missions that were impossible in the winter without preparations for ice.
With the advent of steam propulsion in the 1830s and the purchase of Alaska in 1867, ice breaking became a seasonal mission of the Revenue Cutter Service. Early vessels, including Cutters Thetis and Bear, had reinforced hulls which made them ice resistant, but it was not until the early 1900s that cutters were built primarily for ice breaking operations.
By the 1920s, the Coast Guard had become fully committed to ice breaking operations with the original intent of the Revenue Cutter Service – to utilize ice breaking primarily in Alaska and in support of other traditional missions.
On December 21, 1936, domestic ice breaking became a major mission for the service. The Coast Guard was given the first statutory authorization for icebreaking operations – signifying the importance of keeping ports and waterways open for vital economic resources along the Great Lakes and New England coast. Icebreaking operations have evolved from a means to complete primary missions to one of the Coast Guard's 11 statutory missions.
From 1936 to 1941, the Coast Guard initiated an intensive, comprehensive study into icebreaker technology. Rear Admiral Edward Thiele spearheaded the research, studying the Swedish icebreaker Ymer – commonly considered one of the best icebreakers of the time.
Over the next few decades, the Coast Guard introduced many more classes of cutters with icebreaking characteristics – the 180-foot Balsam Class buoy tenders followed by the 110-foot Appalache class cutters.
Eventually came the commissioning of 15 65-foot icebreaking harbor tugs in the 1960's and nine 140-foot Bay Class cutters in the 1980's, many of which still serve the U.S. nation.
Today, the Coast Guard conducts icebreaking operations during the winter months in the Northeast and Great Lakes regions. Operation Renewable Energy for Northeast Winters, is a region-wide effort to ensure Northeast communities have the security, supplies, energy, and emergency resources (i.e. home heating oil) they need throughout the winter.
The operation utilizes 225-foot Juniper class buoy tenders, 140-foot Bay class icebreakers and 65-foot harbor tugs to ensure the safe navigation of commercial vessels supplying goods to ports throughout the Northeast. During the 2013 to 2014 icebreaking season, U.S. icebreakers facilitated the safe passage of 20 billion barrels of petro chemical, valued at $3.3 billion.
In the Great Lakes, the Coast Guard conducts ice operations jointly with Canada.
Using a system approach, both U.S. and Canadian-flagged icebreakers facilitate commerce through ice impeded waterways to support both inter-lake and intra-lake trade to both U.S. and Canadian ports. Operation's Taconite and Coal Shovel assist commercial vessel transits in the connecting waterways of the Great Lakes by utilizing one 240-foot Icebreaking buoy tender, six 140-foot Bay class icebreakers and the Canadian Coast Guard ships Samuel Risley and Griffon.
Both the U.S and Canadians work jointly to facilitate nearly 200 commercial vessel transits with an estimated $4.5 billion worth of cargo each winter season.

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Remembrance of Allah, Dhikr
What is meant by remembrance of Allah, Dhikr?
Dr. Bilal Philips
When we speak about the remembrance of Allah, we are talking about all of the aspects. We are not talking as some people, who mistakenly think it is only referring to repeating names of Allah over and over again. And actually from the sunnah you will not find any form of remedy in any authentic narration which the Prophet (ﷺ) said to repeat the name of Allah over and over again, though it is the common understanding of people today.
In fact we even have books on the ninety nine names of Allah. In which you are told to say this name of Allah so many times and this is going to happen for you. Your wife can't have a baby, she says this name so many times, and she will get a baby. Your business is failing, you say that name so many times, and you will get success. These are the great promises in these books but of course these books should be burnt because they are lies. They are falsehood. It is not found in any authentic hadeeth. Whenever the Prophet (ﷺ) told to make dhikr of Allah, he gave us phrases, statements. Such as; SubhanAllah, Glorify be to Allah. These are statements which have meaning. Not a word repeated over and over and over again. Even common sense tells us that this is not logical, it is not reasonable. Somebody wants to call on you. They want to ask you for help to do something for them. But they just keep repeating your name over and over again. Muhammad, Muhammad, Muhammad! You are going to say this person has lost his mind. What is it that you want? Repeating my name is not going to achieve anything. So we can understand that in common terms in our own lives then surely it must be obvious to us with regards to Allah. And this is why, when we look in the sunnah we will not find that. We will only find the Prophet (ﷺ) telling us to make meaningful statements.
Ibn Taymiyyah in his 'Essay on the Heart' says:
"As a result of that, a Syrian sage of the past, I believe it was Sulaiman al Khawas May Allah have mercy on him said: " Remembrance of God in relationship to the heart is like nourishment relative to the body, thus as the body cannot find pleasure in food when it is sick, likewise the heart cannot find sweetness of remembrance of Allah, when it is in love with the material world or something to that effect."
This is not a hadith. This is a statement Ibn Taymiyyah who believes, it is attributable to Sulaiman al Khawas. Sulaiman al Khawas was among the leading ascetics of Syria and a contemporary of Ibrahim ibn Adham. He used to attend the classes of Imam al Awza'ii in Lebanon. On one occasion, Sa'eed ibn Abdul Aziz attended a class of al Awza'ii, in which he mentioned the ascetics and said: "we need to be like these people." Ascetics are people who are focused on the remembrance of Allah, living simple lives, etc., but staying within the bounds of the shari'ah. Without realizing that Sulaiman al Khawas was present, Sa'eed, this person who narrated this, commented on Sulaiman al Khawas saying: "I have not seen anyone more ascetic than Sulaiman al Khawas." At this point Sulaiman who was sitting there in the gathering heard him say that, he covered his face with his turban, got up and left. Al Awza'ii then went to Sa'eed and said: "Do you think about what comes out of your head? You have harmed one of the attendees by praising him to his face." Sa'eed later visited Sulaiman in his house in Beirut at night and found him in darkness. When he asked him why? Sulaiman replied that the grave would be darker. Then Sa'eed asked him why he was alone in the house without any companion. He replied, he disliked having a companion who he was unable to serve. Meaning he did not have enough money, so he would not like to bring people into his house. He could not do anything for them. So Sa'eed offered him some dirhams but he refused saying that whatever little he had was a result of great effort and he disliked making himself get used to easy money.
The statement of Sulaiman, Remembrance of Allah in relationship to the heart is like nourishment relative to the body. Which type of remembrance is true nourishment for the heart? People think dhikr or remembrance in the narrow sense, repeating certain prescribed statements of remembrance. However, dhikr is in fact the heart's remembrance and consciousness of Allah which should accompany every believer's actions and statements. Sa'eed ibn Jubair said: "dhikr is obedience to Allah. Whoever obeys Allah has in fact remembered Him. Whoever does not obey Him, he is not one who remembers Him. Even if he says tasbih, SubhanAllah and recites the book a lot."
Ibn Taymiyyah also stated in his Majmoo' al Fatawa:
"Every statement made by the tongue and conceived by the heart, which takes one closer to Allah including learning knowledge, teaching and commanding the good and forbidding evil is a form of dhikr of Allah. This mindfulness of Allah is the nourishment of the heart. While the formal form of dhikr wherein a person remembers Allah with specific words at specific times as defined by the Sunnah aids and develops the true remembrance of Allah. "
Furthermore, since dhikr is the nourishment of the heart, a heart which lacks it is dead. And the Prophet (ﷺ) said:
"The similitude of one who remembers Allah and one who does not remember his Lord is like the similitude of death and life."[1]
Dhikr is the obedience to Allah. Whoever obeys Allah has in fact remembered Him. Whoever does not obey Him he is not one who obeys Him even if he says SubhanAllah and recites the Qur'an often." It is a thought which is worth reflecting on.
[1] [Narrated by Albukhari (6407) on the authority of Abu Mussa al'Ashaari.]
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The International Space Station's New AI-Powered Bot Is Actually Pretty Cool
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Composite image of CIMON, showing how the bot will look once it's deployed on the ISS. Seems friendly enough,
Image: DLR
Introducing CIMON, a floating, basketball-sized robot that will serve as a companion and assistant to crew members aboard the International Space Station. Infused with artificial intelligence, the floating bot is reminiscent of HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey, but far less evil. We hope.
Earlier today, SpaceX successfully launched a recycled Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida carrying around 6,000 pounds of cargo to the ISS. In addition to delivering genetically identical mice, super-caffeinated coffee, and other supplies, the CRS-15 Dragon capsule contains CIMON, the first interactive flight companion to take part in an ISS mission.
Once aboard, CIMON—short for Crew Interactive MObile companioN—will assist the crew with its many activities. The point of this pilot project is to see if an artificially intelligent bot can improve crew efficiency and morale during longer missions, including a possible mission to Mars. What's more, activities and tasks performed by ISS crew members are starting to get more complicated, so an AI could help. CIMON doesn't have any arms or legs, so it can't assist with any physical tasks, but it features a language user interface, allowing crew members to verbally communicate with it. The bot can display repair instructions on its screen, and even search for objects in the ISS. With a reduced workload, astronauts will hopefully experience less stress and have more time to relax.
CIMON with its development team prior to launch.
CIMON was built by Airbus under a contract awarded by the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It has 12 internal fans, which allows the bot to move in all directions as it floats in microgravity. CIMON can move freely, and perform rotational movements such as shaking its head back-and-forth in disapproval. CIMON's AI language and comprehension system is derived from IBM's Watson Technology, and it responds to commands in English. CIMON cost less than $6 million to build, and less than two years to develop.
The pilot project will be led by DLR astronaut Alexander Gerst, who arrived on the ISS about a month ago. CIMON is already familiar with Gerst's face and voice, so the bot will work best with him, at least initially. The German astronaut will use CIMON to see if the bot will increase his efficiency and effectiveness as he works on various experiments.
Indeed, with CIMON floating nearby, the ISS astronauts could easily call upon the bot for assistance, which they can do by calling out its name. They can request that CIMON display documents and media in their field of view, or record and playback experiments with its onboard camera. In general, the bot should speed up tasks on the ISS that require hands-on work.
The round robot features no sharp edges, so it poses no threat to equipment or crew. Should it start to go squirrely and use it's best HAL-9000 imitation to say something like, "I'm sorry, Alexander, I'm afraid I can't do that," the bot is equipped with a kill switch. But hopefully it won't come to that; unlike HAL, CIMON has been programmed with an ISTJ personality, meaning "introverted, sensing, thinking, and judging." Its developers chose a face to make it more personable and relatable, and it can even sense the tone of the crew's conversation. CIMON smiles when the mood is upbeat, and frowns or cries when things are sad. It supposedly behaves like R2D2, and can even quote famous sci-fi movies like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
Conceptual image of what CIMON's interface might look like in a few years.
Image: 2001: A Space Odyssey
CIMON has an open invitation to stay aboard the ISS, and it will likely improve over the duration of its stay, receiving software updates via IBM's Cloud.
Hmmm, good thing it's got that kill switch.
[NASA, DLR, AP]
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Marsh Haven Farm is a "work in progress". The property has been used for various commercial horse endeavors since the mid 1970's. However, the property suffered from overuse and successive bad planning decisions.
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Daniel v. Commissioner of Social Security
ORDER signed by Magistrate Judge Carolyn K. Delaney on 5/11/2017 GRANTING 2 Motion to Proceed IFP. The Clerk is directed to serve scheduling order in social security cases. Within fourteen days, plaintiff shall submit service documents to the United States Marshal and file a statement with the court that said documents have been submitted to the United States Marshal. The United States Marshal is directed to serve all process without prepayment of costs not later than sixty days from the date of this order. (Zignago, K.)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 MICHAEL DANIEL, 12 Plaintiff, 13 14 15 No. 2:17-cv-0980 CKD v. ORDER NANCY A. BERRYHILL, Acting Commissioner of Social Security, Defendant. 16 17 Plaintiff has requested authority under 28 U.S.C. § 1915 to proceed in forma pauperis. 18 19 Plaintiff has submitted the affidavit required by § 1915(a) showing that plaintiff is unable to 20 prepay fees and costs or give security for them. Accordingly, the request to proceed in forma 21 pauperis will be granted. 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a). 22 In accordance with the above, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: 23 1. Plaintiff's request to proceed in forma pauperis (ECF No. 2) is granted. 24 2. The Clerk of the Court is directed to serve the undersigned's scheduling order in social 25 security cases. 3. The Clerk of the Court is further directed to serve a copy of this order on the United 26 27 States Marshal. 28 ///// 1 1 4. Within fourteen days from the date of this order, plaintiff shall submit to the United 2 States Marshal a completed summons and copies of the complaint and to file a statement with the 3 court that said documents have been submitted to the United States Marshal. 4 5. The United States Marshal is directed to serve all process without prepayment of costs 5 not later than sixty days from the date of this order. Service of process shall be completed by 6 delivering a copy of the summons and complaint to the United States Attorney for the Eastern 7 District of California, and by sending a copy of the summons and complaint by registered or 8 certified mail to the Attorney General of the United States at Washington, D.C. See Fed. R. Civ. 9 P. 4(i)(1)(A) & (B). The Marshal shall also send a copy of the summons and complaint by 10 registered or certified mail to the Commissioner of Social Security, c/o Office of the General 11 Counsel, Region IX, 160 Spear Street, Suite 800, San Francisco, CA 94105-1545. See Fed. R. 12 Civ. P. 4(i)(2). 13 Dated: May 11, 2017 _____________________________________ CAROLYN K. DELANEY UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE 14 15 16 4 daniel0980.ss.ifp 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 2


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Spain-based Elebia has launched its NEO50 lifting hook, which offers a 50t capacity and is particularly suitable for oversized lifting points up to 130mm in diameter.
As with Elebia's other lifting products, the NEO50 features the capability to engage and release a load remotely, enhancing safety and efficiency.
The new development also offers a safety factor of 4:1, and is fitted with a load cell, fully integrated into the lifting hook. A four-colour coded LED indicator displays the hook's battery status at all times, to ensure power is not lost during use.
Oscar Fillol, founder and CEO at Elebia, says: "There are still many lifting operations in all industries where hooks without a safety latch are used. The NEO50 simplifies this procedure and avoids the need of any human intervention necessary in securing a hook to the load. To aid lifting and manoeuvrability, the geometry of NEO50's design avoids lifting any load on the tip of the hook, or tip loading. It also eliminates the human factor with no need to manually intervene during the procedure and minimises the risks associated with the lifting process.
"A laser pointer serves as a guide to perfectly place and set the NEO50 lifting hook in the correct position when approaching the lifting point. This is particularly useful in lifting operations where distance can cause the sense of depth to be misjudged."


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Things happen differently on Vashon Island near Seattle Washington. On this one island in Puget Sound there exists the foundations of a coffee empire, the first factory of a sporting goods conglomerate, and multiple wineries. This industriousness is amazing given that the only way to access the island is by ferry and there are only small roads leading down its length. Out of this history and quirky infrastructure emerges the Seattle Distilling Company, a craft distillery that is the reflection of its home.
It becomes apparent upon visiting the Distillery that nothing brought onto Vashon Island leaves, it gets repurposed. Whiskey barrels are aged in a used shipping container. The founders of the Distillery picked up the shipping container because its prior owner had no more use for it and didn't wish to incur the expense of having it shipped off the island. The barrels were once used by the island's wineries because, again, it is far better to hand them off to a neighbor than pay the ferry to ship them away. The barrels are re-coopered and charred on-site so that they are ready to flavor the next generation of alcohol. The local sharing economy continues with the still, which was welded by a local artist and is a sight to behold for no other reason than the beautiful quality of its seams.
The products made by the distillers at the Seattle Distilling Company also reflect the founders and their community. The coffee liqueur is made from coffee beans roasted next door (what else would you expect from Seattle?). The brandy is distilled from Vashon wines and the same winery makes a port from the Distillery's spirits. The Distillery's grains are sourced from central Washington, only two hours away, and are put to use in whiskeys, vodkas, and gin. In fact, it is fair to say that every bottle produced by the Seattle Distilling Company represents the Northwest, as only gin botanicals are sourced outside of Washington with the farthest ingredient traveling 250 miles from Northern California. Someday soon, they hope to have their malting house on-site to control not just the ingredients, but also the quality of each flavor as it enters the still and goes into the bottle.
According to co-founder Ishan Dillon, the Seattle Distilling Company is his passion because of its connection to his community and also because it allows him to put his scientific training to good use. Ishan was not born into a distilling family. Instead, he has a bio-chemistry background and worked in real estate and architecture. Ultimately, that work wasn't fulfilling to him. He missed science and started home-brewing to satiate that part of his interests. His brewing hobby became his professional escape and that is what drew him to build his own still and start his own distillery. Now, every day he gets to conduct R&D on new products, new production techniques, and new flavors.
To Ishan, being a distiller means finally connecting his love of chemistry with his admiration for his surroundings. His most exhilarating experience is when he gets to present his spirit to a new customer and see their response. Knowing how his entire community had a role to play in each drop of his spirits, each bottle is so much more than just a fermented mash and aged ethanol. It is the product of an entire island.
The Seattle Distilling Company is quintessentially local and decidedly Seattle. Drinking its spirits is experiencing the work of wineries, chemists, and craftsmen. It is a trip around the block, on an island, in the Sound.


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Meet the Giftable, Affordable Cashmere Blanket of the Season
Wills is known for its cashmere sweaters at great prices, each turbocharged with heavenly softness. The various styles are exceptionally giftable in their own right but we like to think bigger and better when it comes to holiday gifts. Thus, their newly unleashed 100% cashmere blanket has our attention.
A perfect play for spoiling yourself or crossing a hard-to-shop-for off your list, the effortlessly cool blanket comes in at just $228 USD—a small fraction of the price you would expect. Ribbed edges, meanwhile, add a polished and clean finish. "We were born out of a desire to dispel the myth that cashmere isn't for everyone, that only folks with a summer house in the Hamptons have stuff like that," they note.
It's available in a pair of colorways right here.
Everlane Launches an Affordable Cashmere Throw Blanket in a Lounge-Friendly Size
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Do not be afraid of your past. The most painful lessons of the past can teach you how to survive in the present. Don't let life's challenges discourage you. Something's are just out of your control but you must keep trying, dwelling on the good but at the same time remembering the bad so you don't make the same mistakes again.


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An investigation on the performances of mode shift models in transit ridership forecasting
Ahmed Osman Idris
Khandker M. Nurul Habib
Amer Shalaby
ridership - behaviour, ridership - mode choice, ridership - forecasting, ridership - modelling, planning - service level, planning - travel demand management
Customer-focused transit, Habit formation, Latent variables, Mode switching, Public transit, Transit service planning
This paper aims at investigating the over-prediction of public transit ridership by traditional mode choice models estimated using revealed preference data. Five different types of models are estimated and analysed, namely a traditional Revealed Preference (RP) data-based mode choice model, a hybrid mode choice model with a latent variable, a Stated Preference (SP) data-based mode switching model, a joint RP/SP mode switching model, and a hybrid mode switching model with a latent variable. A comparison of the RP data-based mode choice model with the mode choice models including a latent variable showed that the inclusion of behavioural factors (especially habit formation) significantly improved the models. The SP data-based mode switching models elucidated the reasons why traditional models tend to over-predict transit ridership by revealing the role played by different transit level-of-service attributes and their relative importance to mode switching decisions. The results showed that traditional attributes (e.g. travel cost and time) are of lower importance to mode switching behaviour than behavioural factors (e.g. habit formation towards car driving) and other transit service design attributes (e.g. crowding level, number of transfers, and schedule delays). The findings of this study provide general guidelines for developing a variety of transit ridership forecasting models depending on the availability of data and the experience of the planner.
Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Elsevier, copyright remains with them.
Transportation Research Part A Home Page:
Idris, A.O., Nurul Habib, K.M., & Shalaby, A. (2015). An investigation on the performances of mode shift models in transit ridership forecasting. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Vol. 78, pp. 551–565.


SPI_execute_with_args executes a command that might include references to externally supplied parameters. The command text refers to a parameter as $n, and the call specifies data types and values for each such symbol. read_only and count have the same interpretation as in SPI_execute.
The main advantage of this routine compared to SPI_execute is that data values can be inserted into the command without tedious quoting/escaping, and thus with much less risk of SQL-injection attacks.
Similar results can be achieved with SPI_prepare followed by SPI_execute_plan; however, when using this function the query plan is always customized to the specific parameter values provided. For one-time query execution, this function should be preferred. If the same command is to be executed with many different parameters, either method might be faster, depending on the cost of re-planning versus the benefit of custom plans.
If nulls is NULL then SPI_execute_with_args assumes that no parameters are null. Otherwise, each entry of the nulls array should be ' ' if the corresponding parameter value is non-null, or 'n' if the corresponding parameter value is null. (In the latter case, the actual value in the corresponding values entry doesn't matter.) Note that nulls is not a text string, just an array: it does not need a '\0' terminator.
The return value is the same as for SPI_execute.


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Volga-Dnepr in helicopter shipments - Airfreight
Volga-Dnepr in helicopter shipments
Volga-Dnepr Airlines, on behalf of Swiss freight forwarder Panalpina, has delivered two helicopters from the UK to Melbourne, Australia for Babcock International.
In addition to the delivery of two AgustaWestland AW139 helicopters to Melbourne, Volga-Dnepr transported two Sikorsky S-92 helicopters from Darwin to Aberdeen in Scotland.
For the project, the helicopters were loaded on board an AN-124-100 aircraft, which, according to Volga-Dnepr, is capable of transporting up to 12 helicopters in its cargo hold depending on their size and weight.
Glasgow Prestwick Airport was chosen as the UK point of departure for the AW139 helicopters, as well as for the arrival of the S-92's.
In the first stage of the project, the two 5.5-ton (5-tonne), 16.7 m-long AW139 helicopters were delivered by road from Aberdeen to Prestwick. The rotors were removed and the helicopter body was wrapped for transit. They were then loaded onto the aircraft using the AN-124's ramp.
After unloading in Melbourne the AN-124 departed to Darwin, where the two 7-ton (6.4-tonne) S-92 helicopters were ready for loading ahead of their journey to Aberdeen. All dismounted parts were delivered together with the helicopters.
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ACS delivers in Niger
July 12 - Air Charter Service (ACS) has arranged four Antonov AN-124 flights to transport nearly 400 tonnes of time sensitive components for a power plant in Niger.
Emirates SkyCargo names managers
July 11 - Emirates SkyCargo has appointed Alyazeya Saeed and Fatma Ahli as cargo managers in Oman and Kuwait, respectively.
Cargolux increases calls to Xiamen
July 9 - Cargolux has increased the frequency of its calls to Xiamen, China to three flights per week using one of its Boeing 747 freighters.


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Chronologie de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Mai 1943 -  - Juillet 1943

Événements

 3 juin :
 Un Comité français de la Libération nationale (CFLN) est formé à Alger, sous la double présidence de Giraud et de Gaulle.

 4 et 5 juin :
 Entretiens Churchill-de Gaulle-Giraud à Alger.

 9 juin :
 arrestation du général Delestraint, chef de l'Armée secrète.

 13 juin :
 Arrestation par la Gestapo du général Aubert Frère l'un des fondateurs de l'Organisation de résistance de l'Armée (ORA).

 20 juin :
 Bombardements aériens alliés du Creusot (France).

 21 juin :
 Arrestation par la Gestapo de Jean Moulin, Raymond Aubrac, et d'autres résistants à Caluire-et-Cuire, près de Lyon. René Hardy s'échappe.

 23 juin :
 Départ du  de déportation des Juifs de France, du camp de Drancy vers Auschwitz : ,  en 1945.

 24 juin :
 Discours à Rome de Giovanni Gentile, appelant l'ensemble des Italiens à un sursaut national contre les Alliés, alors engagés en Sicile.

 25 juin :
 Klaus Barbie sait qu'il détient « Max », c'est-à-dire Jean Moulin.
 Révolte armée des Juifs du ghetto de Częstochowa.

 30 juin :
 À Varsovie, le général Stefan Grot-Rowecki, chef de l'Armée intérieure AK, est arrêté par les Allemands et envoyé au camp de Sachsenhausen, sur ordre de Himmler, via le siège de la Gestapo de Berlin, où il a refusé la coopération des Polonais avec les Allemands contre l'Armée rouge.

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What is an IEEE 32-bit Float?
IEEE 32 bit float numbers are used in the CAN communications between input modules and VBOX units.
This format is also used for the representation of channel data from input modules in the VBOX serial data stream.
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Entropic Technorati Profile Communications a leading provider of silicon solutions to enable connected home entertainment, announced that its next-generation Channel Stacking Switch (CSS) technology has been tapped by several OEMs for the large free-to-air (FTA) European satellite market. Entropic's RF5218 and RF5219 CSS chips are the industry leading and de facto standard for single cable solutions that fundamentally change and dramatically simplify direct broadcast satellite (DBS) delivery to the home.
The global increase in HD content and the wide adoption of digital video recorders (DVRs) is driving the need to easily and cost-effectively support multiple tuners in the home. Entropic's CSS technology can support up to 12 tuners over a single cable and significantly reduces both the cost and the cabling complexity of single family and MDU satellite installations. Unlike traditional satellite installations, which require a unique cable run from the satellite dish to the set-top box (STB) for each tuner in the home, Entropic's CSS chipsets enable multiple video streams from individual or multiple satellites into the home over a single cable.
New consumer premise equipment featuring Entropic's CSS technology is being launched by top tier OEMS -- Axing, Jultec, Unitron and Wisi -- for retail, catalog and system integrator customers. These DBS products have been specifically designed to support the European FTA market and many of these products will be launched into the German FTA market. Germany boasts Europe's largest DBS FTA market with over 15 million households currently receiving DBS service.
"We are pleased to collaborate with Entropic on next generation DBS products," said Klaus Muller, CEO at Jultec. "Entropic's Channel Stacking Switch technology allows full design flexibility in meeting the needs of the German FTA and service provider markets."
The simplified cabling architecture enabled by CSS allows for the deployment of STBs with multiple tuner capabilities, in multiple rooms without the need for expensive installation or retrofitting. Additionally, CSS lets consumers and system integrators reuse existing coax cabling to quickly and cost efficiently set up a DBS system.
"A single cable solution provides a compelling value to both consumers and installers," said Axel Bechler, managing director of Axing AG. "Entropic's CSS single cable products lower end user costs in free-to-air single cable installations."
Entropic's second generation CSS chipsets, the RF5218 and RF5219, are low power consuming ICs specifically designed for both operators and FTA installers and retailers in the direct-to-home (DTH) outdoor unit (ODU) market. The new CSS chipsets, embedded in a Low Noise Block (LNB) or multi-switch, consume up to 40% less power than the previous generation and can support up to 12 tuners using a single coaxial cable enabling connection to multiple DVRs and STBs. By reducing the amount of cabling required to support DBS installations, customers can reduce costs and provide a more efficient, greener solution for the FTA market. In addition, CSS technology solutions enable consumer plug and play STB upgrades that lower costly truck rolls and reduce carbon emissions.
"Entropic's energy efficient CSS products are a perfect fit in our product line," said Willy Lamaire, general manager at Unitron. "We now have a robust, single cable solution to round out our full complement of FTA DBS solutions."


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The best and worst of GitHub: Repos wiped without notice, quickly restored - but why?
Game designer Jason Rohrer has had a bad week, discovering that his 23 code repositories representing 15 years of development and community contributions were wiped from GitHub.
"I can't believe how easy it apparently is to have someone's life work taken down from Github," he said on his forum, fortunately hosted elsewhere. "And GitHub never emailed me about this. Not a whisper. Just poof, account gone. When I logged in, I could see my account, and see that it had been 'flagged', with no other explanation given."
Rohrer turned to the last and sometimes sole refuge of tech giant victims - social media. "If you're thinking about using @github for your life's work, FYI, they may remove it without any warning or notice," he protested. 373 retweets and a few hours later, and everything was restored.
GitHub CEO Nat Friedman noted that support restored the account even before he noticed the incident on Twitter, and apologised personally to Rohrer.
The incident raises questions for developers about the safety of their GitHub code. It is not quite as bad as it sounds, since the way it works means that developers have a copy of the repository on their own machine. But it is still pretty bad. "GitHub is the beating heart of my operation. I'm running 30 linodes as game servers, download servers and other types of servers, and they all update automatically using git pull," said Rohrer.
Another problem is that discussions and bug tracking on GitHub are not locally downloaded so real work can be lost in this type of incident.
Why did it happen? Friedman notes that GitHub is "investigating", and the company refused to give The Reg any comment on the matter. Rohrer thought at first that an ill-wisher had reported his account for something like inappropriate content. Then he speculated that by posting a series of issues with links to his forum, an algorithm had identified his repo as a source of spam.
Any free service on the internet (GitHub has both free and paid accounts) attracts plenty of malicious or undesirable registrations, and coping with these is a major headache. Such accounts are often created by bots and putting in place human approval systems does not scale, which means that companies rely on algorithms and AI to automate account flagging and clean-up.
But you'd think that such algorithms would be able to distinguish between accounts that operate actively and without incident for many years, and those created on the fly with obvious bad intent.
Account hijacking is another issue, but where this is suspected, deleting years of work without notice does not seem the right approach.
Just as well we have Twitter, eh?®


Home The Browning Letters 22 April 1884. Browning, Robert to Baillie, Lady Frances.
22 April 1884. Browning, Robert to Baillie, Lady Frances.
I beg to say I shall be delighted to witness the very interesting ceremony, according to your kind invitation, and afterwards to wait on you.
Title 22 April 1884. Browning, Robert to Baillie, Lady Frances.
Letter Text 19, Warwick Crescent, W. Apr. 22. '84, Dear Lady Frances, I beg to say I shall be delighted to witness the very interesting ceremony, according to your kind invitation, and afterwards to wait on you. Pray believe me, Dear Lady Frances, Yours most truly Robert Browning.


"I was walking home from Grandma's house, through the deep dark woods, when I spied a strangle little beast. He was stuck up in a tree, and whining sadly... so I decided to rescue him."
"I was hanging from my favorite tree, singing happily to the birds, when... I was ambushed by a terrible beast!"
If you've ever walked in on two little kids arguing, or watched the news, or gone on social media, or - well, you get the picture - you know that most stories have two (or more) sides to them. Fiona Roberton's A Tale of Two Beasts illustrates this concept beautifully by showing the same scenario from two perspectives.
In Part 1, a little girl describes "rescuing" an animal from the woods and taking care of him at her house. From her perspective, she is doing a great thing for this little guy... but he runs away as soon as she opens a window. In Part 2, the little animal describes being abducted by the girl and being trapped inside (which, of course, is why he runs away at his first opportunity). In the end, they both realize there are benefits to each other's company, even though they have different needs.
This picture book is a great conversation starter. It opens the door to talking about different viewpoints and why it's important to consider what someone else might be thinking - a tool that doesn't come naturally to young children! But, because of the subject of the story, it's also a great way to talk with kids about why we shouldn't try to adopt animals from the wild or feed them... it's a simple way to introduce the "leave no trace" concept when you're in the outdoors.
It's that book that reminds us to look at a story or situation from all perspectives.


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The Kokkalis Foundation sponsors the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance
The Kokkalis Foundation has sponsored New York's Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance's efforts to strengthen the next generation of Martha Graham dancers and the acclaimed work of Martha Graham School in the public schools. The Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance has the distinction of being the longest continuously operating school of dance in America. Martha Graham students and dancers represent a broad range of cultures and backgrounds, and they take this unique American art form around the world to teach and perform.
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Chameleon Arts Ensemble and First Church in Boston again made it obvious that both were made for each other. Saturday evening's curious and remarkable program lifted off well beyond the usual fare.
Long overdue, Ernest Bloch's Baal Shem, Three Pictures of Chassidic Life for violin & piano reappeared in Boston via who else but Chameleon. The composer wrote, "it is neither my purpose nor my desire to attempt a reconstruction of Jewish music, nor to base my work on more or less authentic melodies…I am not an archaeologist; for me the most important thing is to write good and sincere music." And that is exactly what we heard from violinist Alexi Kenney and pianist Vivian Chang-Freiheit, good and sincere music.
It was the closing movement Simchas Torah (Rejoicing of Torah) where the polished duo broke out in a jubilant celebration that rose and rose by way of astonishing contrasts, from heartfelt glow to rapturous afterglow.
Born in 1950 in Leningrad, Elena Firsova began composing at the age of eleven. She now resides in England, where she teaches. Her Meditation in a Japanese Garden for flute, viola & piano, a one-movement composition, dates from 1992. Her program note, as best I can make of it, ties together this combination of instruments, a Japanese concept of beauty, and a small Japanese garden in Dartington, which she enjoys. Experiencing this meditation was most puzzling with its wandering chromaticism and inexplicable shifts to structures of serialism. The sharp, sometimes colliding treble calls from flute and viola faintly alluded to Gagaku. Deborah Boldin, Scott Woolweaver and Chang-Freiheit together formulated an instrumental splendor that, in and of itself, made this enigmatic experience worthwhile.
Mary Mackenzie sang Olivier Messiaen's Chants de terre et de ciel for soprano & piano from memory with near-perfect success. Throughout the half-hour cycle reveling over the French composer's faith, his wife and son, focus really remained steadfast on Mackenzie and Chang-Freiheit. Both musicians shouldered the unmistakable language of Messiaen. Mackenzie produced an amazing array of color, something Messaien, who beholds the interval of the tritone as replicating all the colors of the spectrum, would surely have to admire.
All in all, it was less a spiritual voyage à la Messaien than a clear display of fascinating vocal timbres. When Mackenzie was in lower register or in lower volume anywhere in her vast range, she was most compelling and surprisingly alluring. Chang-Freiheit toned down to excellent effect the percussive nature of Messiaen's piano writing, bringing to it a gorgeousness and robustness. This duo had you listening all the time.
David Ludwig writes of his Haiku Catharsis for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion, "I liked the inherent conflict of the words…" The first cathartic haiku about waiting for someone featured a lingering fraternal twin type of linear play. The second, about dying in a dream, strings and winds turned unpredictably canonic, still in slow moving fashion. The third, about longing, opened with a snarling cello and eerie glissandos on the violin. This haiku seemed quite long before many of us realized that the fourth, about a temple bell, had already been played.
The Chameleon Arts Ensemble again came to the rescue executing the composition's sparse and graphic soundscape with supreme care, being as explicit as was possible while keeping a cool and poised deportment.
With rediscovery, curiosity and supersonic performing behind them, the players delivered the coup-de-grace with the Saint-Saëns Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 92. Alexi Kenney, Rafael Popper-Keizer and Elizabeth Schumann superbly enlivened every bit of it, dramatizing here, teasing there, forecasting, and recalling…all of this Saint-Saëns was musical storytelling that let you sit back and enjoy then pull you to the edge of your seat for pure thrills. And these three were every bit of an ensemble in the end sounding as one big wonderful one.


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Gift at Munch Museum
Gift will be available to try at the Munch Museum until March 2020.
Our museum app Gift is now available to try at the Munch Museum in Oslo. Visitors to 'Everything We Own – the Art of Edvard Munch and More' will be able to select paintings and objects from the collection and send them as a digital playlist to someone they care about.
The exhibition itself was bequeathed as a gift by Edvard Munch to the people of Oslo in 1940, and comprises a collection of nearly 28,000 paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures.
The Gift app lets you use your phone to take photos of the collection and send them along with a recorded personal message. What you choose to include is totally up to you. You might find a picture that triggers a memory of a time you spent with someone, or just features their favourite colour.
Gift was set up to develop the role of virtual museums and galleries in establishing meaningful experiences – allowing for personal, complex and emotional encounters with art and cultural heritage. Find out more about the exhibition and the Gift project here.
Gift is made by Blast Theory in collaboration with the Mixed Reality Lab at the University of Nottingham and with the support of Royal Pavilion & Museums as part of an EU-funded research initiative bringing together artists, designers, museum professionals and computer scientists to explore new forms of museum experiences. Gift is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 727040. It is a collaboration with IT University Copenhagen, University of Nottingham, University of Uppsala, Blast Theory, Next Game, the Europeana Foundation and Culture24.
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Commercial PACE-financed projects climbed to nearly $60 million in 2013 with another $215 million in the pipeline, according to PACENow, a nonprofit that promotes PACE programs.
In terms of program structure, Texas wants the best of both worlds: a program that can be tailored by municipalities and counties but with the right protocols in place for stakeholders to roll out the programs quickly and effectively with a minimal role for local government.
Our goal at New Jersey PACE is of course similar, and many features of our program are identical. However, we see our main role as providing the "uniform, user-friendly, sustainable, and scalable turnkey program" to municipalities as a 501c3 nonprofit administrator, processing project applications, assisting contractors and property owners with low-cost private financing, and monitoring energy performance on an ongoing basis. The municipality's role can be as minimal as simply registering the assessments and providing a collection service — or it can be proactive in using the program for economic development, as a business attraction and retention tool, and as a carbon-reduction strategy.
"Not only will ICP help create consistency in PACE programs across Texas, it will also align Texas PACE with a growing number of private investors interested in investing in the state," Matt Golden, senior energy finance consultant with EDF, said in a statement. ICP also works with Connecticut's Green Bank and the LA Better Buildings Challenge.
"We are glad to have access to ICP's energy-efficiency protocols to help ensure consistency in energy-efficiency monitoring and valuation so that property owners and lenders have confidence in the savings projected in their PACE in a Box financing opportunities," said [Charlotte] Heydinger.
New Jersey PACE similarly subscribes to the ICP protocols.


These maps are not created by TEPCO but by the Japanese MSM based on the TEPCO's map, which may have more precise numbers and more locations (see the Kyodo article in my previous post).
But the masses don't need to know, say TPTB, so we are fed with half-a_s maps made by the MSM.
The focus on the scattered pieces of radioactive debris around the reactor site is misdirected.
While these radioactive lumps slow down the clean up process somewhat, they are irrelevant to the real problem, the radioactive lake, 400meters long, 25 meters wide and 7 meters deep, that sits inside the plant.
No remediation of the reactors can take place until this lake is drained. That will be by next year, if we are lucky. Meanwhile, the reactors and spent fuel pools continue to emanate radioactive vapors that pollute the countryside.
Better ideas are desperately needed.
Actual map was released on the 24th. Enjoy.
Robbie 001 here, well my Google account has been suspended for "unusual activity" I've been having intermittent problems logging on to my google account since a few days after the beginning of the disaster. Since I've only used my gaccount to post information related to the Fukushima disaster I guess someone might not be happy with me and they tried to hack my account.
What has me thinking is I have to give them a Ph# to verify my account but I didn't use a ph# to setup my account so I don't see how that is going to help verify that I am the person who set up the account. They should be asking for the email I used to setup up the account or better yet shouldn't they be sending a verification request there? I think this is a form of phishing so I guess I'll just have to sign my anonymous posts in the future.
I think the reason the public fallout map is so incomplete is because people like Arnie Gundersen could extrapolate useful information from a more detailed map. It is getting pretty obvious that the Jnuc/Jgov forces are working to control the release of useful info with a flurry of anemic fluff pieces.
It looks like the the local movers will be asking for an extended contamination map of the surrounding area. So far the movers are refusing to venture into the affected region but I think the government may try to force their hand. This is just another one of the many "who could have know" moments we've seen so far. The Hibakusha may be ignored by the Japanese but this phenomena of ostracism is well know. The Japanese nuclear industry has always ignored the possibility and consequences of vast segments of the population being shunned because of major accident.
@Robbie, Google does some strange things. Unusual activity? For daring to post on Fukushima accident?
You're right about the radiation map. Sankei Shinbun posted the actual map in such a low rez you can't see anything.
Thanks for the yomiuri article. I was going to write about it and lost the link.


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