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Dolphin abuse on Gulf Coast increasing, feds say
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration at least 11 dolphins were discovered mutilated along the Texas Gulf Coast over the last eight years, the Houston Chronicle reported on Saturday.
One of those cases saw a dolphin shot and its head cut off, while an additional 31 were injured or killed by boats and fishing gear.
"We are very concerned that people are injuring and killing and hurting these dolphins," Erin Fougeres, stranding program coordinator for NOAA's southeast region, told the Chronicle.
Fougeres said evidence that human harm to dolphins is increasing is anecdotal. But she also believes there are more cases because of increased dolphin interaction with people, and she indicated that dolphins have been found stranded on Gulf beaches by marine mammal stranding networks.
Some were discovered with parts of their bodies lopped off or slashed with knives, Fougeres said.
Fougeres said cases have been recorded all along the Gulf Coast, from Florida to Texas. But Texas' most recent incident came on March 12 when a dolphin was discovered on Crystal Beach with a long cut down its abdomen that allowed its organs to spill out.
Another dolphin was found Feb. 8 on North Padre Island with its head severed.
In Mississippi last month, a dolphin was found after being shot, the third in that state this year. In Louisiana, meanwhile, two dolphins slain by gunfire were discovered this year and last.
The newspaper said no dolphins killed by gunshots have been recorded in Texas since June 2007, when a dead dolphin was found floating in Corpus Christi Bay with a bullet wound. Its head had been sliced off, according to records reviewed by the Chronicle.
In Alabama, a dolphin was found this summer with a screwdriver stuck in its head. Another was found with its tail cut off.
Fougeres said dolphins are sometimes mutilated after death. A passerby may find a dead dolphin and cut off a piece for a souvenir. And, bullet wounds could come from someone using a dead dolphin that washed up on the beach for target practice.
Fougeres said commercial anglers sometimes cut up dolphins that have become entangled in their nets, but that many will cut their gear instead. Fishermen sometimes shoot at dolphins to keep them from disturbing their bait.
Officials reported 31 cases of dolphin injuries involving boats and fishing, including eight who died after being involved in a boat collision, and 23 dolphins how were stranded alive or deceased due to fishing gear or other gear entanglement, Fougeres said.
An NOAA spokeswoman said more than 60 human interactions with dolphins were recorded in 2010, the latest data available, although not all of those interactions resulted in harm to the animals.
Fougeres said even those who interact with dolphins in a friendly way can harm them, such as by feeding the animals and teaching them to approach boats that can later have dire consequences.
Fougeres said it is illegal to feed or touch dolphins and illegal to remove dolphin parts. Harming dolphins or removing their parts are punishable by a fine of up to $100,000 and a year in jail for each violation.


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2 killed in truck rollover on expressway
An accident on Florida's Sawgrass Expressway left two people dead after a truck rollover on April 16. An investigation into why the accident happened was still underway as of April 17.
The truck accident happened in Sunrise near the exit for Pat Salermo Drive around 10:30 a.m. when the truck, heading north on the expressway, hit the rear of a car. According to a Florida Highway Patrol representative, the driver of the semi-trailer was unable to control his vehicle, and the truck rolled onto the car. The semi-trailer caught fire. Rescue personnel were unable to get to the vehicle trapped under the truck due to the blaze. A crane lifted the truck off the motor vehicle, and authorities said firefighters were able to get to the car after several hours and reported that two individuals were found in the burned vehicle.
The truck driver was taken to a Broward medical center. According to reports, the driver suffered serious injuries. Individuals in the car were badly burned, and a FHP representative said that dental records as well as registration tags would be used to identify the occupants.
Traffic heading north on Sawgrass Expressway was led off the highway, and a detour onto Sunrise Boulevard was set up. The highway reopened at around 3:30 p.m. As of April 17, the cause of accident is unknown.
When a motorist is killed in a crash, the family may suffer financial loss. This may result from funeral bills and the loss of the individual's contribution to household expenses. The family may wish to speak to an attorney who might review accident data to determine if negligence occurred. If it did, the attorney may file a personal injury lawsuit against the driver and possibly his or her employer.
Source: WSVN, "2 dead after tractor-trailer accident on Sawgrass Expressway," April 16, 2015
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Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation headquartered in San Ramon, California, United States and active in more than 180 countries. It is engaged in every aspect of the oil, gas, and geothermal energy industries, including exploration and production; refining, marketing and transport; chemicals manufacturing and sales; and power generation. Chevron is one of the world's six "supermajor" oil companies. For the past five years, Chevron has been continuously ranked as one of America's five largest corporations by Fortune 500 and it is currently ranked 4th after Apple Inc., ExxonMobil and Walmart. In 2011 it was named the 16th largest public company in the world by Forbes Global 2000. Full marks to Chevron for using solar panels on the roof of this building.
The company is jointly owned by Chevron Corporation and Phillips and was formed in 2000 by merging the chemicals operations of both companies. It is a major producer of petrochemicals, polyolefins, and specialty chemicals. Chevron Phillips has approximately 5,000 employees working in 33 production facilities located in the United States, Singapore, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Belgium. The company generated about $13 billion in sales in 2014.
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One day we may be able to refuel our electric cars at service stations like these. This will depend upon progressive energy companies like Chevron cooperating with motor manufacturers and other energy companies.
Oil derivates are being dumped out at sea. Not only is this a wasted resource and a recycling failure, but also a danger to marine life and ultimately to humans from eating fish that is toxic. The companies listed below operate responsible policies that will hopefully be developed to create a circular economy where ocean plastic pollution is negligible. At that point we will have reached a sustainable society to secure the future of our children.
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Senator Ron Johnson will be at Super Steel on Friday, October 3rd to help kick-off Super Steel's third annual Manufacturing Day celebration. The celebration, which will include a presentation and tour, begins promptly at 10:00am and is open to the Milwaukee area and surrounding communities.
Manufacturing Day is a growing grassroots movement of manufacturers dedicated to overcoming the shared challenges facing manufacturers today. This day provides manufacturers with an opportunity to connect directly with job seekers and students to begin to address the skilled labor shortage they face. Manufacturing Day events are meant for anyone who is curious about manufacturing and who would like to know more about what happens in modern-day manufacturing facilities.
This is the third year Super Steel has hosted an event for Manufacturing Day. "We are very excited to open our doors to the community for an insider's look at Super Steel," said Heather Krugler, Corporate Communications Specialist at Super Steel. "Manufacturing Day activities help to create awareness about the value of the manufacturing industry to our community. It provides students a first-hand chance to learn about real career opportunities that are available and we're hoping to inspire a new generation of manufacturers.
The media, civic leaders, parents and educators are also invited to learn more about manufacturing. All attendees must pre-register at http://www.mfgday.com/events/2014/super-steel-2. Refreshments will be served.


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Canadian Red Cross launches holiday giving campaign to benefit families in need in Canada
December 02, 2013 - The Canadian Red Cross is announcing the launch of its annual holiday fundraising campaign to support families impacted by disaster.
Funding Approved, Construction To Start For Canadian Red Cross Building
November 22, 2013 - Prince Edward Island will soon have a new provincial headquarters for Canadian Red Cross disaster operations and programs and services in the province, thanks in part to support from the federal and provincial governments.
Canadian Red Cross receives a record $3.1 million donation from annual Walmart Canada campaign
September 25, 2013 - Walmart Canada is pleased to announce that its annual fundraising campaign for the Canadian Red Cross raised $3.1 million for disaster preparedness and response activities in communities across the country. This is the largest domestic fundraising total in the 10-year partnership between the Canadian Red Cross and Walmart Canada
The Red Cross and Desjardins announce a new partnership to help those affected by disasters
September 12, 2013 - The Quebec Zone of the Canadian Red Cross and Desjardins Insurance announce the creation of a joint program. This program will allow them to pool their resources to help meet the essential needs of as many affected families as possible following a disaster.
Red Cross warns public of fake canvassers
September 05, 2013 - The Canadian Red Cross is urging the public to be on the lookout for individuals who are approaching people on the street asking for donations on behalf of the society.
Walmart Canada and the Canadian Red Cross launch annual campaign to raise urgently needed funds to support Canadian communities
August 01, 2013 - Walmart Canada announced today its stores across the country are raising funds to support Canadian Red Cross domestic disaster preparedness and response. The annual campaign, which runs from August 1 to August 25 in Walmart stores from coast-to-coast, is expected to raise millions of dollars.
Red Cross Announces Humanitarian Award Recipients
July 31, 2013 - The Canadian Red Cross in Manitoba is announcing the recipients of two prestigious awards to recognize and celebrate the contributions of Manitoba humanitarians, and inspire others to pursue humanitarian goals.
The gala event is a tremendous success: $900,000 raised for emergency operations in our communities
The Red Cross is proud and grateful to announce that its 2013 gala event raised a total of $900,000, which will go towards emergency assistance for the people of Quebec. The result was announced yesterday by Ms. Michèle Dionne, Honorary Chair of the gala event and Red Cross volunteer, before a gathering of guests made up of senior officers and representatives from the business community.
Roughriders partner with the Red Cross to tackle bullying
The Canadian Red Cross and the Saskatchewan Roughrider Football Club are teaming up for a fight against bullying. Through an agreement signed this week, the Roughriders formally join the Red Cross in working to create safe and respectful school environments in Saskatchewan.
Canadian Red Cross mourns the loss of Music World Limited founder and long-time supporter Kroum Pindoff
Today the Canadian Red Cross mourns the loss of Kroum Pindoff, founder of Music World Limited and Pindoff Record Sales Limited; a compassionate humanitarian and long-time supporter of the work of the Canadian Red Cross around the world. Mr. Pindoff died peacefully at home in his sleep on January 16 at the age of 97.


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Are You and Your Partner Sleep Compatible?
Sleep disorders and incompatible nighttime habits can drive couples apart at night. But solutions do exist.
By Elizabeth Heubeck
Medically Reviewed by Matthew Hoffman, MD on June 29, 2008
Are you and your partner compatible in bed -- when it's time to sleep, we mean? You like to turn in early, snuggled under a pile of blankets in the pitch dark. He's a night owl, watching TV or reading into the wee hours of the night. When he finally does doze off -- oftentimes with the light still glaring -- he hardly falls into a restful slumber. Tossing and turning, he balls up the sheets and sometimes kicks them off the bed entirely. Then comes the chain-saw like snoring and sputtering, interspersed with sudden jerky leg movements. As daylight creeps through the blinds, you're cursing it -- and your partner. Sounds like maybe there's a little sleep incompatibility in your house.
Sleep Incompatibility: Scores of Couples Suffer
If the restless sleep described above sounds familiar, you're not alone. The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) says that three out of every four adults wake frequently during the night, or they snore. In an NSF survey of women ages 18 to 64, more than half said they sleep poorly more than a few nights a week. And restless sleepers feel it the next day. Forty three percent of those less-than-stellar sleepers blamed poor sleep for interfering with their next day's activities.
The culprit? In many cases it's a snoring or otherwise incompatible sleeping partner.
Sleep experts agree that snoring, which can indicate the serious health problem sleep apnea, presents the biggest conflict for couples at bedtime. But a host of other compatibility hurdles exist. They range from the physiological -- like differences in body temperature -- to plain old differences in personal preferences. Personal preferences, which include everything from how firm a mattress should be to preferred bedtimes to whether the windows should be open or closed, can be just as damaging to a good night's sleep as snoring. That's especially true once couples get past the initial starry-eyed stages of courtship.
Sleep Incompatibility: It Increases With Age
"If you're young and madly in love, it's a little easier to put up with things," says Helene A. Emsellem, MD. Emsellem is director of the Center for Sleep & Wake Disorders in Washington, D.C.
According to Paul Rosenblatt, PhD, a professor of family social studies at the University of Minnesota, sleep incompatibility naturally increases with age. "With older couples, sex is often in the past, snoring is a problem, plus they're going to the bathroom multiple times a night," he says. Lots of older couples end up not wanting to share a bed."
Other experts agree. "We get more complicated as we get older," Emsellem tells WebMD. "For example, there's the development of hot flashes in women, and snoring."
Sleep Incompatibility: Insomnia
Even in the absence of sleep disorders, getting a good night's rest remains elusive for many couples. "We often take sleep for granted," says Kevin Martinolich, MD, of the East Tennessee Center for Sleep Medicine. Martinolich says it's not uncommon to see patients who have suffered from insomnia for several years before seeking treatment.
If you suffer from insomnia, you may need to look no further than the pillow next to yours to discover what's keeping you awake. "You have to take a step back and ask yourself, 'Is it marital problems that begot sleep problems, or vice versa?'" Martinolich says.
Not sure? The answer may lie in what you and your partner are willing to do to overcome sleep incompatibility. "It poses the questions: 'How strong is the relationship? How flexible are the players?'" Emsellem says.
Strategies for a Better Night's Sleep: Sleeping Apart
An increasing number of couples, old and young, resolve sleep incompatibility by parting ways at night. A recent NSF survey reported that an estimated 23% of American couples sleep apart. British couples report similar habits. A survey by Britain's Sleep Council found one out of every four couples surveyed regularly sleep separately. The trend has become so firmly entrenched that architects now regularly design new homes with two master bedrooms. The National Association of Home Builders predicts that by 2015, more than half of all custom houses will have dual master bedrooms.
But many couples remain committed to cuddling at night. Rosenblatt, who interviewed 42 bed-sharing couples for his book Two in a Bed: The Social System of Couple Bed Sharing, reported that, snoring and other annoyances aside, the desire for intimacy and sheer closeness persuaded many couples to stay under the same set of sheets.
Strategies for a Better Night's Sleep: Conquering Sleep Apnea
Snoring may seem like a superficial annoyance. But oftentimes it's linked to the potentially serious disorder called sleep apnea. Sleep apnea causes the sufferer to stop breathing momentarily, sometimes several times a night. Over time, sleep apnea can increase one's risk for high blood pressure, stroke, and heart attack.
Overcoming sleep apnea doesn't happen overnight. "Most doctors just put patients on a CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure device]," says Rosalind Cartwright, PhD, founder of the Sleep Disorders Center at Rush University Medical Center. "But follow-up is so important."
Just getting apnea sufferers to wear the CPAP contraption can be a feat in itself. The unsightly device worn at night includes mask, tubes, and fan. Though it may resemble an elaborate Halloween mask, it starts the process of getting a sounder slumber. The fans apply air pressure, pushing the wearer's tongue forward and opening the throat to allow adequate air passage. That, in turn, reduces snoring and apnea disturbances. "It's ugly and unromantic," Cartwright tells WebMD. "So compliance drops down to 50% after one year."
That's where spousal support becomes important. Cartwright says, "Getting the spouse to hang in there and stay in bed with the partner so he keeps wearing it is key." In a pilot study that explored the effects of bed sharing on adherence to CPAP treatment, Cartwright found that men prescribed CPAP therapy were far more likely to maintain it when their wives stayed in bed with them. Study results were published in a 2008 issue of The Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine.
Most severe cases of sleep apnea require spousal support outside the bedroom, too. Weight loss, a huge component to eliminating sleep apnea, comes much easier when your spouse plays an active role. "You have to cook differently, take a walk with him," Cartwright suggests.
Even a 20-pound weight loss can mean a big difference. This slight weight reduction can change full-blown sleep apnea to positional apnea, whereby the problem exists only when the person sleeps on his or her back. "You have less respiratory distress on your side," Cartwright says. "Your mouth automatically opens." To train back sleepers to switch to their sides, Cartwright gives patients T-shirts with a pocket in the back that holds three tennis balls. If they attempt to roll over, they're quickly reminded not to.
"The whole procedure may take a year or two," Cartwright tells WebMD. "If they can get into better physical shape, patients don't need to wear anything."
Helene A. Emsellem, MD, director, Center for Sleep & Wake Disorders, Washington, D.C.
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Tiamat's Terrain: Asking the Big Questions
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This month at Tiamat's Terrain the cluster of SFF features frame big questions: Both Israeli writer Tidhar and Cypriot director Kyriacou want to know "What's a superhero anyhow?" Palestinian-American Abdelrazaq and Lebanese-Canadian El-Mohtar think through the ever-present questions of displacement and coping in times of war. Noura Al Noman explores what Arabic fantasy literature and world building look like, while Franscesco Verso has started a publishing house for speculative fiction in translation, wanting to open doors into how other cultures and languages write about tomorrow. And finally, last year's IPAF winner has an English publication date.
Stories of Displacement and Belonging
Amal El-Mohtar recently published a poignant short story in the well-established Strange Horizons entitled "The Truth About Owls"—originally published in Kaleidoscope. In this story an unusual meeting takes place between Welsh myth and Lebanon's July War, all mediated by a sagacity of owls. El-Mohtar strikes the balance just right in her young protagonist, Anisa, who lives in the UK with her mother, having left Lebanon and her father behind in a horror of bombings. Anisa visits an owl shelter where she meets the owl Blodeuwudd and its keeper, Izzy. There she learns about the myth of Blodeuwudd, a woman made of flowers who turns into an owl and begins an exploration of Welsh language and culture, pulling away from her own Arabic heritage. El-Mohtar beautifully handles the tensions of languages and cultures, the childhood ache of missing a parent to the unknown, and the mixed fears of war and of never belonging.
Still thinking about Lebanon and belonging, Leila Abdelrazaq's graphic novel Baddawi tells "the story of a young boy named Ahmad struggling to find his place in the world. Raised in a refugee camp called Baddawi in northern Lebanon, Ahmad is just one of the thousands of Palestinians who fled their homeland after the war in 1948 established the state of Israel. In this visually arresting graphic novel, Leila Abdelrazaq explores her father's childhood in the 1960s and '70s from a boy's eye view as he witnesses the world crumbling around him and attempts to carry on, forging his own path in the midst of terrible uncertainty."
An Epic Search for Truth
Lavie Tidhar, author of the award-winning 2012 novel Osama, and more recently of A Man Lies Dreaming, has a couple of exciting announcements. The first is that his book, Violent Century has finally been published in America by Thomas Dunne Books. And the second is that he and Rebecca Levene are co-editors of two exciting e-book anthologies: Jews versus Zombies and Jews versus Aliens.
Violent Century has been around for a while in the UK and has had rave reviews. The British Fantasy Society's Glen Mehn writes:
"[t]he book is framed in an epic search for truth, the eponymous Old Man of the Bureau trying to clear up his records of an event, somewhere, in the War, and it weaves together heroes, lovers, friends, and enemies, asking complex questions without hesitations about what it means to be any of those, what it means to be human, what it means to be a hero, to live with the consequences of life in this violent century… [Tidhar's] level of awe-inspiring craft places him firmly within the highest tier of writers working today, no longer an emerging writer, but a master."
In his Tor.com review, Niall Alexander has high praise of his own, saying,
"Lavie Tidhar's latest is at once a love story, a tragedy, a spy novel, a memoir of a friendship, an exposé of the horrors of war, and a very serious study of the superhero: the origins of the concept as well as its relative relevance. The Violent Century is a difficult text, yes, but one that gives as good as it gets."
This American edition contains an exclusive Author Q&A, and a brand new short story, "Aftermaths," set some time after the end of the novel.
Meanwhile, the two Jews versus… anthologies "irreverently explore the links between speculative fiction and Judaism. Authors featured include Orange Prize winner Naomi Alderman; The Big Bang Theory's writer/co-executive producer Eric Kaplan; BSFA Award winning science fiction writer Adam Roberts; Israel's Sapir Prize winner Shimon Adaf; Nebula Award winner author Rachel Swirsky; and cult fantasy author Daniel Polansky, among others. The stories run the gamut from the light-hearted to the profound, in turns surreal and enchanting."
SFF in Translation
Meanwhile, Future Fiction, an ambitious boutique publishing company based in Rome has caught my eye. Francesco Verso, its editor, writes that Future Fiction "is a multicultural project aimed at scouting the best Speculative and SF literature from English and non-English speaking countries. As there are many nations, there are many futures. We believe in every one of them and want to depict them all."
The result is that Future Fiction is opening up non-English SF into English and other languages too. So far they've translated and published (among others): Michalis Manolios's "Aethra / The Quantum Mommy" (Greece), Francesco Verso's "Two Worlds" (Italy), Cristian Teodorescu's "Big Bang Larissa / Case 74" (Romania), and Efe Tobunko "Proposition 23" (Nigeria). In 2015 they'll be publishing a host of other novels from Latvia, to China, to Sri Lanka, to France. They also collaborate with contemporary theatre and installation artists, bringing SF onto the stage and into new media.
Catching up on some old news, I'm thrilled that Frankenstein in Baghdad (discussed in an earlier edition of this column) by Ahmed Saadawi, last year's winner of the International Prize for Arab Fiction, has set a date for its English edition! The novel has secured English publication with Oneworld in the UK and Penguin Books in the US. It is set to be published in Autumn 2016, translated into English by Jonathan Wright.
Meanwhile the IPAF 2015 shortlist has been announced, and the winner will be announced on May 6th.
After almost 18 months of doing the festival rounds, Andreas Kyriacou, a Cypriot film director, has finally put up his short, Whispers, onto vimeo for all to watch. Whispers tells the story of young man working at a comic book shop in Nicosia during the country's worst economic crisis. He just wants to be a superhero. But the moral of the story here might be to be careful what you wish for.
Noura Al Noman is the author of two Arabic SF novels for young adults that have yet to be translated into English. In an old interview with The World SF blog she talks about how to write SF in Arabic and in a culture unused to readings SF YA books. Over at Arabic Literature, M. Lynx Qualey features Al Noman's recent piece on finding a new Arabic fantasy series by Islam Idris, published by the Kuwaiti publisher Platinum Books.
Alex Mangles lives in the Levant and is confident that she'll discover the lost city of Atlantis any day now. She tweets from @alexantra.
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For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat:
I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink:
I was a stranger, and ye took me in
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Welcome to Christ Gospel Missions: Our Light Revealed!
This is the official blog of Christ Gospel Churches International, Inc. Rev. B. R. Hicks, founder of Christ Gospel Church, always had a profound commitment to helping others around the world. She did a tremendous amount of missionary work for much of her early ministry, and today, our church has approximately 1,500 affiliated churches around the world. As Christians, we believe that we must do our utmost to meet the needs of those around the world – both naturally and spiritually. This blog features updates of our worldwide relief efforts where we provide humanitarian aid as well as engage in a spiritual ministry. We have provided funds for schools, orphans' homes, and feeding programs in Mexico, India, Africa, and Haiti, among others. We hope that you will be inspired by our endeavors. If you wish to learn more about Christ Gospel Church, click here, or if you'd like to support our efforts, visit our Donations page.
Christ Gospel Church Provides Humanitarian Relief in the Wake of Tropical Storm Washi
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January 5, 2012 – Christ Gospel Church delivered humanitarian aid to people whose lives were devastated by Tropical Storm Washi in the Philippines, which hit the country in December 2011. More than 1,200 people were killed in that tropical storm, and sadly, these types of natural disasters are common in the part of the world.
Christ Gospel Church has eleven doctrinally affiliated churches in the Philippines with around 500 members in total. The director in that country is Rev. George Semblante, who can be seen in the photograph delivering humanitarian aid.
Rev. Semblante described that many of their members had lost their homes or had other extensive damage to their homes and property. Christ Gospel Church sent aid in the form of blankets and clothing.
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Working with connected thermostats in 22,000 homes in Nevada, startup EcoFactor was able to reduce those homes' air conditioning usage by 11 percent — one of the highest rates among its competitors — and also saved those customers about $100 per year last year. That means the energy reduction per home, and the energy savings from air conditioning, in its program were more than Nest achieved in comparable projects and produced far more savings than Opower's behavioral techniques, EcoFactor said.
That data is coming from the utilities commission and filed by utility NV Energy, and EcoFactor released on Tuesday. NV Energy uses EcoFactor's software for its "mPowered" program, which seeks to lower the energy consumption of its customers during hot summer months in a cost effective way and with minimal impact on the customer.
EcoFactor was founded in 2006 and launched in late 2009. It uses software to pull in data about things like weather, demographics, and home owner behavior. EcoFactor uses all this data to tweak a home's connected thermostat settings ever so slightly to shave energy consumption, but also to maintain a comfortable temperature in the home. The thermostats can also be used for lowering energy consumption when utilities expect a spike in AC or heating usage during a specific time of day.
EcoFactor's software is like Nest's learning thermostat, but without the hardware. EcoFactor can work with any connected thermostat and it runs in the cloud. Customers can also manually override the EcoFactor settings at any time, and according to the results of the study, the program had an 86 percent customer satisfaction rating.
With temperatures across the globe getting ever hotter, expect utilities to start to implement more and more of these types of programs. EcoFactor is backed by NRG Energy, Claremont Creek Ventures, RockPort Capital Partners, and Aster Capital.
Good to see data analytics is being used to save money for customers..How does one sign up for the service?
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Trading Jordan Matthews makes sense for the Eagles
In Jordan Matthews' first three seasons playing for the Philadelphia Eagles, he has racked up 225 catches for 2673 yards and 19 touchdowns. Here's where he ranks in NFL history in those three categories for players in their first three seasons in the NFL:
225 catches 2673 yards 19 touchdowns
11th in NFL history 59th in NFL history T-76th in NFL history
Here's where those numbers rank in Eagles history for players in their first three seasons in the NFL:
1st in Eagles history 3rd in Eagles history T-3rd in Eagles history
During those three seasons, Matthews has more than double the number of catches, yards and touchdowns of any receiver who has played for the Eagles during that span.
Yet, according to Charles Robinson of Yahoo, the Eagles would be listening if another team liked Matthews and wanted to trade for him.
If someone makes a solid offer to #Eagles for backup QB Chase Daniel, I believe they're open to dealing him. Same for WR Jordan Matthews.
— Charles Robinson (@CharlesRobinson) March 6, 2017
Wait, what? Why in the hell would the Eagles trade their only productive receiver?
We'll break it down:
1) Matthews catches a lot of passes, but they often aren't high impact plays
Looking forward, Matthews is likely going to carve out a long NFL career making a whole lot of catches from his slot receiver position. He's a high-quality person and teammate who works his ass off and loves the game. There are plenty of reasons to like Jordan Matthews.
However, he still struggles with drops, and is not a consistent big play threat. For example, in 2016, Matthews had just one reception of 40+ yards. 67 players had at least two, 42 had at least three, 26 had at least four, and 10 had at least five. Questions also remain whether Matthews can only be effective in the NFL as a slot receiver, as opposed to a receiver who can also be a threat on the outside.
2) Matthews is in the final year of his deal, and highly unlikely to receive a contract extension this offseason
A few days after the end of the Eagles' 2016 season, we came to the conclusion that Matthews was likely not going to receive a lucrative contract extension this offseason.
There are now two different coaching staffs who have determined that Matthews is just a slot receiver, and those guys don't get paid like outside receivers.
Matthews' camp will point to the production. For example, players like Alshon Jeffery, DeSean Jackson, Kenny Stills, and Terrelle Pryor have all been mentioned as potentially cracking the $10 million per year barrier this offseason, with some players reportedly seeking as much as $15 million per season. Here's a comparison of those four players vs. Matthews over the last three years:
Player Rec Yards YPC TD
Alshon Jeffery 191 2761 14.5 16
DeSean Jackson 142 2702 19 14
Jordan Matthews 225 2673 11.9 19
Kenny Stills 132 2097 15.9 15
Terrelle Pryor 78 1049 13.4 4
As you can see, Matthews is first (by a wide margin) in receptions, first in touchdowns, and third (although less than 100 yards from the leader) in yards. Matthews' agent would be crazy not to ask for money similar to what those players are demanding, and the Eagles would be even crazier to give it to him.
As a result. There's a pretty good chance that Matthews will play out the final year of his deal in 2017 and hit the open market in 2018. Which brings us to the next point...
3) Matthews was not picked by this coaching regime
Yes, Howie Roseman had not yet been ejected from the Football Guy Wing of the NovaCare Complex when the Eagles selected Jordan Matthews in the second round of the 2014 NFL Draft, but make no mistake that Chip Kelly loved him and was the driving force behind that selection.
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Prior to the 2014 NFL Draft, Dorial Green-Beckham was a player that Doug Pederson's former team, the Kansas City Chiefs, liked quite a bit. Obviously, we saw that the Eagles traded for him prior to the 2016 season. They were not as high on Matthews. While Doug Pederson may very well like Matthews as an NFL player more than his former team did as a prospect, he's not a player the Chiefs likely would have drafted in the second round, like the Eagles did.
Matthews himself was disappointed that he did not get to show the new coaching regime how he had come along as a player in 2016.
"I don't feel like, obviously, the team got to see everything that I truly got better at, at a consistent level moving from my second to my third year," he said. "I think that's one thing that obviously I was upset about."
All the new regime has seen of Matthews was the 2016 season, which was arguably the worst of his career so far. It was his worst season, number-wise, and he often was unable to capitalize on big play opportunities that could have been made.
To date, there has been no indication whatsoever that the Eagles have tried to get a contract extension done with Matthews. By comparison, this time last year, they had already handed out contract extensions to Zach Ertz, Lane Johnson, Vinny Curry, Sam Bradford, and Malcolm Jenkins.
4) Obviously, the Eagles are going to sign (or trade for) a wide receiver. Or two. Or three.
The Eagles have been the subject of trade rumors for the Saints' Brandin Cooks, and have been linked to almost every prominent receiver that is about to become a free agent. They are going to add a receiver, or two, or three this offseason.
In other words, it's not like if the Eagles traded Matthews, they'd be saying, "OK, it's time to step up, Nelson Agholor." No. There would obviously have to be a sound plan in place to add receiving upgrades.
So what could the Eagles get in return for Matthews?
Yes, Jordan Matthews has good numbers over the first three seasons of his career, but in a way, his numbers almost kind of work against the possibility of him staying an Eagle past 2017. So if you can get something for him now, like, say, a third round pick, it might be wise to take it before you lose him for nothing this time next year.
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Public Release: 25-Jul-2017
NASA spots a waning Tropical Depression Kulap
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
IMAGE: NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured this visible light image of a small Tropical Depression Kulap in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean on July 25 at 0324 UTC (July 24 at 11:24... view more
Credit: Credits: NOAA/NASA Goddard Rapid Response
Kulap is now a tropical depression moving through the Northwestern Pacific Ocean, and NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured a visible light image of the diminishing storm.
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite showed the storm had become elongated as it weakened. Kulap is being affected by dry air and northerly vertical wind shear which is pushing its clouds south of the center.
At 11 a.m. EDT (1500 UTC) on July 25, Kulap's maximum sustained winds were near 34.5 mph (30 knots/55.5 kph). It was centered near 32.3 degrees north latitude and 153.1 degrees east longitude. That's about 492 nautical miles north of Minami Tori Shima. It was moving to the west-southwest at 12.6 mph (11 knots/20.5 kph). Kulap is located north of powerful Typhoon Noru.
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center's forecast calls for the storm to dissipate late on July 26.
Rob Gutro
robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov
@NASAGoddard
http://www.nasa.gov/goddard
WEATHER/STORMS
Suomi NPP Image of Kulap (IMAGE)
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/kulap-northwest-pacific
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Aiko Jenkins is a broken teenage girl, hoping to find love from someone. Michael is a player, ruining girls' heart left and right. What happens when these two meet at LaVergne High?
Read Trust Me to find out.
Categories: Thriller: 1982-1983, Off The Wall: 1975-1981, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, Trigger Warning!
Trials and tribulation strikes Humanitarian and Pop Phenomenon MIchael Jackson igniting personal conflict, shifting affection, and testing the bond between family.
Based on actual event, however, some characters and situations are entirely fictional.
Studio 54 was well known as a place where people went to indulge in whatever their hearts desired including the rich and famous. Michael Jackson was 19 when he moved to New York to film The Wiz. It was his first time away from the rigidity of his upbringing. After the grueling hours of filming, the cast decided to go to the famous club to let loose. What happens when Michael steps out of his sheltered life and steps into the adult world where temptation surrounds him?
This story is purely fictional.
"...You are every bit as responsible as the man who did this to my father! Don't you dare come near me! I hate you!"
"...Ciara please don't do this!"
"...No! No! You might as well had injected him with that needle yourself!"
Fanci is going through a rough time in her life so when the Jacksons come along, it's like a breath of fresh air. Problem is, she hates one and clicks with another.
Michael stumbles across a beautiful young woman new to the music industry. It's like she has arrived just in time....again?.
Each of these women harbor exactly what he wants. Problem is...which one will he choose.
Note: Michael is not famous in this alternate universe.
Categories: Off The Wall: 1975-1981, Adult, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, Slash, Suspense, Trigger Warning!


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Q: postgres query to retrieve attributes from json array type column how to get the values for inputs -->r1 --> work3 atributes like a, b from following json array from postgres query
[
  {
    "calculation": "Not_Applicable",
    "inputs": {
      "r1": [
        {
          "work1": [
            {
              "oid": "WEEKLY_OT_1",
              "clientFactor": 1.5,
              "threshold": "PT40H0M"
            }
          ],
          "work2": "premiumWeeklyOT",
          "work3": [
            {
              "a": "0001",
              "b": "Bi-Weekly"
            },
            {
              "a": "0002",
              "b": "Monthly"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "policy1": [
        "8639587_1"
      ],
      "policy2": [
        "8639587_1"
      ]
    }
  }
]

expected output would be
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a     b
100   hundred
200   two hundred

A: By repeatedly cross joining the results from jsonb_array_elements, you can access the values of work3:
select v2 -> 'a', v2 -> 'b' from test t
cross join jsonb_array_elements(t.js) v
cross join jsonb_array_elements(v -> 'inputs' -> 'r1') v1
cross join jsonb_array_elements(v1 -> 'work3') v2

See fiddle.


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Changes are in store for Theater J as the prominent Washington, DC theater company enters its 25th year. After a rocky end to the tenure of its previous artistic director, Ari Roth, Theater J has a new leader: Adam Immerwahr. "I think Adam's going to bring us a whole new host of playwrights, actors on our stage and a fresh perspective, and that's really exciting," said Rebecca Ende, managing director at Theater J.
Immerwahr has been involved in theater from a very young age. His mother was a modern dancer and creator of theatrical pieces, and he spent many days watching her work. "I was one of those kids who grew up inhaling the stage dust, as they say," he said. Throughout high school and college, Immerwahr was passionate about directing. Immerwahr joins Theater J after an extensive career as producer at McCarter Theater in Princeton, New Jersey, noting that both it and Theater J are "deeply wedded to important missions that are there to serve their communities and hopefully the larger theatrical community as well," he said.
Immerwahr's producing and directing has taken him all over the world, including to Harare, Zimbabwe to direct the African premiere of Danai Gurira's play, The Convert, with Almasi Collaborative Arts in 2013. (Gurira is best known for her role as Michonne on AMC'S television show The Walking Dead.) Immerwahr's role was to help interpret work about Zimbabwean culture and bring it to life. "It was a great learning experience and actually a life-changing opportunity," he said.
For the upcoming season, Immerwahr can't reveal what he has in store, but promises to not disappoint. "It's going to be full of plays that are delightful, that are hard, that engage audiences in every way, that celebrate Jewish culture as well as other cultures and challenge us to be better people, to live richer lives and to enjoy ourselves more fully," he said.


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Freta C. Hill, 80
Thursday, October 19, 2006 - 8:00pm
Freta C. Hill, age 80, of Ocean View, passed away peacefully at home on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2006. She was born in Montrose, W.Va., daughter of the late Omer and Mary Flanagan. Hill was a retired clerk for the Social Security Administration in Baltimore, Md.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, John A. Hill, in 2004; her son, Ercel Brent Flanagan; three brothers, George "Brent" Blaisdell, Omer Trenton Flanagan Jr. and Cortias Lee Flanagan; five sisters, Ilah Joseph, Elna Shimp, Edith Lovelace, Juanita Horne and Helen Strahin.
She is survived by two daughters, Mary Joanne Wagner of Ocean View, Del., and Ruthie Bonta of Virginia; a son, Walter Hill of Maryland; six grandchildren, Misty D. Bryant of Delaware, Ashley Hill of Maryland, Zack Hill of Maryland, Victoria Hill of Maryland, and Mikey Bosche of Virginia and Jennifer Bonta of Virginia; a sister Cora Orlando of Kearneysville, W.Va.; two great-grandchildren, Britani Wagner of Delaware and Codi Bryant of Delaware.
A memorial service was scheduled for Friday, Oct. 13, at the Ocean View chapel of Melson Funeral Services, 38040 Muddy Neck Rd., Ocean View. Interment was to be private.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to Millville U.M. Church, Millville, DE 19970, or Delaware Hospice/Southern Division, 20167 Office Circle, Georgetown, DE 19947.


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Intel announces 6-core 12-thread i9 laptop CPU; possibility for 2018 MacBook Pro
- Apr. 3rd 2018 4:16 am PT
Longstanding rumors of Apple making an eventual switch from Intel to its own Mac CPUs may have been given fresh impetus by yesterday's Bloomberg report, but Macs will be using Intel chips for some time yet.
Intel has today announced a new high-end laptop CPU that could be an interesting candidate for this year's MacBook Pro …
The Core i9-8950HK is a mobile version of Intel's high-end desktop processor, offering six cores and twelve threads. The current 15-inch MacBook Pro tops out at a quad-core i7, with the 13-inch limited to dual-core processors. The Core i9 also offers a maximum turbo frequency of 5.6GHz, compared to 4.1GHz for the maxed out current MacBook Pro.
Intel says that the new chip is aimed at games and content creation, which includes significantly faster 4K video editing.
Intel unveiled the first ever Intel Core i9 processor for laptops. Part of the new lineup of high-performance mobile products unveiled, the powerful 8th Gen Intel Core i9 processor is the highest-performance laptop processor Intel has ever built to deliver the best gaming and content creation experience on the go […]
The new 8th Gen Intel Core i9, i7 and i5 processors for laptops are based on the Coffee Lake platform and leverage the 14nm++ process technology enabling them to deliver up to 41 percent more frames per second in gameplay or edit 4K video up to 59 percent faster than the previous generation with same discrete graphics.
The Core i9 would also address one common complaint of MacBook Pro owners: that RAM is limited to 16GB. This is because current-generation processors are limited to LPDDR3 RAM, and using desktop RAM instead would draw too much power. The new chip supports 32GB of mobile RAM.
Intel's announcement suggests that the chip is aimed at high-end laptops with dual graphics cards, making this year's top-end MacBook Pro among the likely targets for the company. Whether Apple will take the bait is, of course, a different question.
Apple's premium laptop comes in 13- and 15-inch screen sizes. Each model includes 2-4 USB-C ports for charging, accessories, and data transfer. Higher end models also include the Touch Bar.


The red squares are ones that can be reached from the top or bottom by going only on filled squares. If one continuously increases the probability of filled squares, there suddenly comes a point where the cluster of red squares spans from top to bottom. This is the so-called "percolation threshold", at which, for example, fluid coming from the top of an idealized material with a certain density of pores would "percolate" through to the bottom. As the system gets larger, the percolation threshold becomes more and more sharply defined—a classic minimal example of a phase transition in statistical physics.
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Richard Florida Week 4 Follow-Up Cohort 2
The City and You: Find Your Best Place
Welcome to The City and You: Find Your Best Place. I'm excited to have you in the class and look forward to your contributions to the other learners in our community. This free course will provide the knowledge and the tools needed to understand what cities do, why they matter, the forces shaping the greatest wave of urbanization in history, and how to pick the right place for you. The course will also help you develop critical thinking skills. We'll accomplish this by providing evidence of the importance of cities, and why and how they matter to you. Then we'll ask you to apply what you've learned in an exercise which will help you assess your own community and find your best place. This course is accessible and open to anyone who is interested in learning more about cities and the ways they affect our lives. It is organized around five key modules: (1) Why Cities Matter, (2) A World of Cities, (3) The Creative City, (4) The Divided City and the New Urban Crisis, and (5) How to Find the Best Place for You. After completing the course, you will be able to: (1) Identify why cities are the drivers of economic prosperity; (2) Explain the drivers and implications of fast-growing urbanization worldwide; (3) Outline the key characteristics of a creative and innovative city; (4) Describe the social divides and challenges facing cities and the solutions cities are using to address them; and (5) Recognize the trade-offs of staying in your current city versus moving, and identify the best place for you and your family to live. Good luck as you get started, and I hope you enjoy the course!
Good to pay attention to this course: however, I expect more than what the course is giving. :)\n\nThank you Richard Florida....
The course helped me build a better understanding about which cities in general. There is a lot one can learn from this course.
The New Urban Crisis
This session will help you better understand the New Urban Crisis and the growing economic divides that challenge cities today. In the second half of the 20th century, society was divided between poorer cities and richer suburbs. But, over the past decade or so, affluent and educated people have flocked back to urban centers pushing poverty out to the suburbs. Today, middle-class neighborhoods are in decline and our societies are defined by small areas of concentrated advantaged surrounded by much larger areas of concentrated disadvantage spanning the city and its suburb alike.
The New Urban Crisis (Instructor Video)10:40
Gentrification and the Divided City (Instructor Video: includes discussion of the exercise for this module)4:29
Richard Florida Week 4 Follow-Up- Cohort 17:51
Richard Florida Week 4 Follow-Up Cohort 211:05
Richard Florida Week 4 Follow-Up Cohort 35:01
Richard Florida Week 4 Follow-up - U of T Alumni Edition8:04
University Professor and Director of Cities, University of Toronto
Hi, I'm Rich Florida here.
We're now in week four of the course which is about my most current
research interest, and maybe the most pressing problems facing cities today.
This new urban crisis we're experiencing of inequality,
of rising economic segregation, some might say gentrification.
Some might say some of our great cities are becoming so expensive,
they're unaffordable for low income people and poor people and the middle class and
for creative people.
I know in the past week or so the New York Times ran a story.
And I think that the headline of that story, or the lead of that story was
people in Silicon Valley waking up in the San Francisco Bay Area,
waking up at 2 AM to commute three hours away to their jobs.
So that's this week's topic.
We've covered why cities mattered.
We've covered why we're moving into a world of cities and
the rise of the global city across the world.
We've covered why cities are important centers for innovation and creativity and
for the same reason that they're important centers of innovation and creativity,
because people cluster together.
And knowledge-based economic activities cluster together.
And high-tech companies, and media companies, and entertainment companies,
and big companies cluster together.
That creates many of these divides.
And one way, I like to think about it, which is the simplest way to think
about it, is the same very forces that push us together and drive our economy
also make cities so expensive that they simultaneously drive us apart.
So this section of the course, really the penultimate section,
I think is one of the most interesting.
And it really forces you to deal not just the upside or the great things about
cities but the downside of the cities and the real challenges they face.
So, again, look forward to seeing what you contribute to the discussion boards.
Look forward to keeping the class discussions rolling.
I want to always encourage you every week and
all the time to keep building on one another's conversations.
And in that spirit we have two interesting comments from learners this week that I
want to take in turn.
The first one is from a learner who's from Silicon Valley.
And this person has lived in the Silicon Valley, in the San Francisco Bay area, for
30 years, so most of his adult life.
And this person says,
when I first moved there housing was of course more affordable than it is today.
Silicon Valley is one of the most expensive markets in the United States
maybe only second to Manhattan.
In fact, in my book I talked about the price of a house in SoHo and
how that house in SoHo, you could buy 50 houses in Detroit or
100 houses in Youngstown.
But I actually ran the numbers for Silicon Valley and they're quite comparable.
You could buy 50 houses in Detroit for the price of one in Silicon Valley, or
maybe 100 houses for the price of one in Youngstown, Ohio.
But it's heir first community, this person says.
It has a large number of Asian people, people from India, of course,
lots of Hispanic and Latino people.
And he says, now things are getting more expensive.
Now houses are over a million and half, and in fact, more than that.
The middle is missing, something I've written about.
And one of the things that drives this of course is people want access to
good schools.
And Silicon Valley has good schools.
And he talks about, and this is really important and
something I talk about in my book.
None of the law enforcement people, none of the police officials,
the fire officials, firemen, none of the emergency technicians,
maybe none of the school teachers, can afford to live there anymore.
And I think that gets to kind of the nub of the new urban crisis.
On the one hand, we do have this missing middle as we talk about in the course.
I think in 1970 about three quarters of Americans lived
in middle-class neighborhoods, now less than 40% of Americans.
And I'll bet,
when the updated statistics are out it's less than a third of Americans do.
Our society is dividing into areas of concentrated advantage and
concentrated disadvantage, both in the city and in the suburb.
It's not like all the rich people are in the suburbs and
all the rich poor people are in the city or vice versa.
It's that our whole landscape is being carved into areas of concentrated
advantage and concentrated disadvantage.
But one thing that's clearly happening in places like the Bay Area, places like
Manhattan, places like Washington, DC, Boston, Seattle is this missing middle.
And the people who are lifeblood of a city,
I guess the way I like to put it is how do run a city if the teachers, the policemen,
the fire people, the emergency technicians can't afford to live there.
And I think that's the dilemma that were in today.
One way that you can think about it which is kind of a silly word.
Cities innovate, they create, they produce, are involved in production.
But cities have to reproduce themselves.
They have to figure out this thing called reproduction.
And in many ways this inability of the service people who are the lifeblood of
the city makes it really hard to reproduce that city.
So in many ways, the new urban crisis is not just a city crisis of innovation,
a crisis of divide.
It's a crisis to the very reproduction of the city.
And it's not happening everywhere.
There are some cities and some places that are still affordable.
But increasingly in these superstar cities and in these tech hubs and
in these great global cities and in these innovative and creative cities the people
who the city depend on to make it a great place to live and
a good place and a reasonable place to live and
a fair place to live, they're increasingly priced out.
Today's second question comes from a learner who seems to be from Toronto.
And Toronto likes to think of itself as a very fair city.
There was even a motto, Toronto the Good.
And many people who've lived in Toronto think that,
of course it has a lower crime rate than most American cities.
It has good urban schools.
And it doesn't have quite the divides that you would find in a typical US city.
But, this person says, the divides in Toronto are becoming extreme.
And they're being exacerbated by developments in the downtown core,
big tower developments, that drive out poor people.
And this person adds the transit system.
Well, first we can even say that it's so hard to get into the core because traffic
is so terrible in Toronto like many superstar cities.
But the transit system is becoming more and more expensive for people to use.
It's really interesting in our countries, we subsidize.
We pay for roads that people drive on.
We don't charge them to drive on the roads.
We don't get our roads get priced.
If you have a car you can drive pretty much a lot of places for free.
But we make people, even poor people pay the price in transit.
So it's kind of unfair.
Even for the middle class this is true.
The cost just like the other learner, the cost of housing has become prohibitive.
The previous person mentioned the house in the Bay Area cost $1.5 million.
We know, and this person says,
the average price of a house in Toronto is over a million bucks.
So people who could have purchased this house ten years ago now can't.
And if they can buy a house,
they're going to have to borrow money from relatives.
I asked my students in my MBA course at the University of Toronto.
These are young people going and getting an MBA.
So they're going to get pretty good jobs when they get out of school.
I said, how many of you could afford to buy a house in Toronto when you graduate?
And I don't think a hand went up.
And then I asked well, how would you buy a house?
And they said well, that's easy.
The people who can buy a house in Toronto have the bank of mom and dad.
So I think this person's point of young people especially,
when they want to buy a house in an expensive city,
have to depend on their parents and on their family.
And again, what this causes are cities to become areas where the advantaged
can buy in and the disadvantaged can't.
What I think is really important about this, and
it really bears your thinking about,
through all of human history we've passed down advantages from parent to children.
I know this because I grew up in a working class household.
My dad had only a seventh grade education.
He worked in a factory.
My mom had to work at the newspaper taking ads to make ends meet.
So we didn't have a lot of advantages.
We weren't poor, we were working class.
But we didn't have a lot of advantages.
But people who grow up in affluent houses or
middle class households they get access to better schools.
They get access to private schools.
And in many ways, that created a kind of inter-generational advantage.
But it wasn't about where you live.
In the past anybody who worked hard could find a way.
My father with the seventh grade education could buy a house in the US suburbs close
to New York City.
But now to locate in these vibrant labor markets, in this super star cities,
to locate around all of these new opportunities for employment, and
not commute an hour, an hour and a half or two hours away, you need to have money.
So, one of the striking and I think very distressing and
troubling things about this new urban crisis is that the only way you can find.
It's not only that class and your parents' background gives you an advantage or not.
It's that the ability of mom and dad to help you buy a house or an apartment or
rent a condo in one of these neighborhoods gives you an additional advantage.
So I think it's something that you need to think about.
And one thing we do know is that across the board in Canada,
in Europe, in the United States and the advanced nations,
the prospects for economic mobility, which used to be much better, have declined.
And now it's much harder for people who grew up in less advantaged places to move
up the economic ladder like my father did in his day or like I did in my day.
So it's just something to think about.
And of course one of the great contradictions there is that at the same
time that all of that is happening, no matter how you slice it, no matter what
data you look at, guess which are the places that are best for low income
people, people who are visible minorities, people who don't have a lot of advantage.
Big, thriving cities and
metropolitan areas like the Bay area, like Toronto, like New York.
They tend to have a better shot, if you grew up there, of moving up the ladder,
even though it's harder than it was in the past.
Thanks for your questions.
They're terrific and keep sending them in.
And again, keep devoting yourself to the course.
Watch the videos, do the reading.
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You need to play the most underrated Mario game on Nintendo Switch ASAP
Nintendo is removing this classic from the eShop in a few weeks.
Giovanni Colantonio
Mario's deadline is almost here. The plumber's year-long birthday party ends on March 31, and Nintendo are serious about shutting down the festivities. Super Mario 35 will cease to exist entirely after that date, while Super Mario 3D All-Stars will be pulled from the eShop for some reason.
There's still time to buy the latter, which means there's time to weigh in on a debate that's spawned in its week. Upon playing through the three classics included in the bundle, there's a fierce split in the Mario fanbase over Super Mario Sunshine. The GameCube classic holds a lot of nostalgia for some players, while others see it as a weak link in the franchise.
For those who have never played and are considering grabbing the collection, don't be swayed by the bad buzz: Super Mario Sunshine is actually one of Mario's best games.
For the uninitiated, Super Mario Sunshine is a major departure for the franchise. While it still features your average running and jumping, it largely revolves around new mechanics. Mario gets a water pack which can be used to clean up gunk around a bright seaside town. New nozzles allow Mario to hover over gaps or shoot forward at high speeds.
The naysayers aren't entirely wrong. One common knock against the game is its somewhat obtuse controls. Players have to stop and switch to an over the shoulder view to shoot Mario's water cannon. That was already clunky in the GameCube era and it feels even worse now. The game also largely shies away from more traditional platforming, saving the pure experience for specific side levels.
Mario using the F.L.U.D.D. in Super Mario Sunshine. Nintendo
Those complaints are valid, but they wash over some of the game's unique strengths. The gameplay may be non-traditional, but that's what makes it stand out. Rather than dotting environments with little platforming sections, the mechanic allows for some clever level design that thinks outside the box. One level takes Mario to a hotel complete with its own casino. Another is set on a pier, letting Mario jet ski around on the back of a squid. The levels are open summertime playgrounds, making the game feel like a prototype for some of Super Mario Odyssey's levels.
The water powers themselves are a delight too. Nintendo is especially adept at taking one idea and finding several applications for it. That's exactly what happens with the F.L.U.D.D. here. It can be used to clean goo, fill a Piranha Plant's belly with water, spin slot machines, and more. The additional nozzles even rethink the limits of Mario's movement abilities, creating some of the series most enjoyable mobility techniques.
Mario looks down at Delfino Plaza in Super Mario Sunshine. Nintendo
One could wax poetic all day about how the water mechanics successfully mix things up, but the real star of the show is its vibes. Super Mario Sunshine is a pure vacation. Every level is drenched in warm light, sandy beaches, and calm water that still looks impressive today. On top of all that, there's the game's tropical score, which might be the best soundtrack in the series. Toss in a truly memorable story featuring a star turn for Bowser Jr and you've got a game that sticks with you for more than just its jumping.
With so many games centered around high-stakes battles and challenges, Sunshine is a literal breath of fresh air. The platforming challenges are still there for purists, but it's a game that encourages players to kick up their feet and soak in the scenery. Considering that we all missed the summer due to stay-at-home life, Super Mario Sunshine is a perfect way to catch some lost rays while you wait for the winter blues to clear up.
Just make sure you grab it before March 31. Who knows when Nintendo will decide to sell it to fans again.


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Q: Hydrogen music making software Is it possible to include hydrogen to this ubuntu distribution? because i want to make music and i cannot find that program from this distribution repositories.
-KK

A: hydrogen is in the repositories:
just open a terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) and insert sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y hydrogen, type your root-password (no characters will be displayed) and just wait till executed!

A: The hydrogen package is in the Ubuntu archive already.


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CEO claims the 'age of the office' is over and says most people will work remotely in the future
For Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, working at the office is now a relic of the past.
In an interview with Time magazine Sunday, Chesky said he believes the office is "an anachronistic form" that's "from a pre-digital age." His comments come after Airbnb announced earlier this week that it will let employees work remotely forever with no pay cut, citing the ability to widen its talent pool and noting the company had its most productive two-year period ever while working remotely.
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky
"I think that the office as we know it, is over," he told Time. "We can't try to hold on to 2019 any more than we can hold on to 1950. We have to move forward."
He continued: "If the office didn't exist, I like to ask, would we invent it? And if we invented it, what would it be invented for? Obviously, people are going to still go to hospitals and work, people are going to still go to coffee shops and work — those spaces make complete sense. But I think that for somebody whose job is on a laptop, the question is, well, what is an office meant to do?"
Shortly after announcing that Airbnb will go fully remote, Chesky said the company's careers page received more than 800,000 views.
In January, Chesky said he was "living on Airbnb," working from various cities across the US. In his TIME interview on Sunday, he acknowledged there will still be some need for offices, but concluded "the office has to do something a home can't do."
"People will still go to offices, but it'll be for different purposes, for collaboration spaces," he said.
Chesky told Time working 100% remotely can diversify hiring since employees can be based anywhere, but it can also make some employees feel isolated from their coworkers and company.
While he said a compromise is necessary, he believes there are flaws with the common hybrid work model of having employees work from the office three days a week, which companies like Google and Apple are using.
Airbnb's alternative to this model is to have employees meet up in person roughly one week per quarter.
"My prediction is three days a week becomes two days a week, and two days a week becomes one day a week, and pretty soon are you really in a hybrid world, or are you mostly a remote world?" he said. "People don't realize this two, three days a week thing is not super sustainable. People are going to realize, 'OK, let's be more intentional about when people gather. And let's gather for a week or two at a time.'"
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Q: Unable To Load Image in Flutter I am new to Flutter. When i tried to load assets, i faced with an issue.
I checked pubspec.yaml file for identiation but i couldn't find any problem.
I checked the given path.
I also tried another images, even extension(.png,.jpg)
This is the Exception:
The following assertion was thrown resolving an image codec:
Unable to load asset: assets/images/pink_flower.jpg

When the exception was thrown, this was the stack:
#0      PlatformAssetBundle.load (package:flutter/src/services/asset_bundle.dart:225:7)
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#1      AssetBundleImageProvider._loadAsync (package:flutter/src/painting/image_provider.dart:668:31)
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description: VFL Lisesi uygulaması flutter ile.

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version: 1.0.0+1

environment:
sdk: ">=2.7.0 <3.0.0"

dependencies:
flutter:
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A: Please make sure your indentation is like this:

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Home » Care Guide » Vampire Crab Care: How to House Them Properly
Vampire Crab Care: How to House Them Properly
Victoria Lamb May 16, 2022
Vampire crab is a name given to a large group of species from the Geosesarma genus. There are about 67 known species of which G. Dennerle is being recently recognized.
These crustaceans look pretty unique in large extended golden yellow eyes over brightly colored carapace with a small bat-shaped design in light yellow on the back. This ghostly appearance is probably the reason why they are called Vampire crabs.
With a miniature looks and deep shades embellishing its shell, the crab appears gorgeous, and their low-cost maintenance makes them popular at home aquariums.
The article below discusses the characteristics, preferences, breeding abilities, and tank requirements of this exclusive crab.
Species Overviews
Place of Origin and Environment
Maximum Size
How to Find the Gender
Food and Dietary habits
Characteristics and Habits
Necessary Tank Requirements
Ideal Tank Size
Setting up a Tank
Scientific Name GeosesarmaDennerle
Common Name BlaueVampirekrabbe, Geosesarma Vampire
Area of Habitat Indonesia
Family Sesarmidae
Compatibility Paludarium
Size 1.5 – 2 inches
The vampire crab species has a long history and has encountered a lot of debate regarding its place of origin. Many scientists have tried to locate their original habitat but could not suggest a particular region.
The Geosesarma species are usually located across the east of Indian sub-continent from Andamans, Thailand, Papua, Malaysia, and Philippines.
In 2006, a biologist from Singapore university, Peter Ng, was the first to witness them in an aquarium at a Singapore pet shop. But after a long research work, it was the German carcinologist Christian Lukhaup to infer the natural habitat of these crabs.
He challenged the old theories that claim their primary existence to be in Java, Borneo, New Guinea, Sumatra, Krakatoa, or Sulawesi.
Now the new findings prove the local habitat of these purple pet crabs to be the semi-terrestrial, low-land region on the Java Island of Indonesia.
Native homes of these vampire crabs comprise stone-covered crevices and tiny holes carved in the ground of a steep elevation, close to the shallow freshwater area.
Fact: They prefer typically humid spaces over a paludarium or a water surface flooded with lots of greenery so that they can bask over it.
Vampire crabs are pretty similar to other critters with ten limbs that include a pair of claws, but they look unique and fascinating with extruded eye structures and vibrant body colors.
The most prominent come in base colors of purple or orange with a mix of the same pattern of shades such as pink, yellow, or reddish. The eyes are mainly yellow.
The limbs are generally long and thin shades darker than the carapace and have tiny spikes or hairs over them. The shell is often smooth with some light-yellow nodules.
The claws, unlike other crabs, are small in size with little grasping power, but still, they can hunt other small animals.
As mentioned on www.nationalgeographic.com, these crabs are embellished with a primarily purple or orange exoskeleton with a blotch of beige or yellow on the back surface.
The sad side of the story is that these fantastic creatures have a very short lifespan.
If they get fruitful conditions, the vampire crabs in the wild may survive for a maximum of 24 months.
Their average life is about 12 – 15 months in the captive environment. As they get old, the body becomes vulnerable to unsuitable food or water conditions and catches fatal diseases.
These crabs are tiny and look like cute devils crawling on the sand. The total length of the vampire crabs, including the far stretched legs, is just 5 cm.
However, if you only talk about the central shell, it is less than one inch. Aquariums may not provide them with enough mobility or other favorable conditions to gain their maximum size, and thus, they only reach about 4 cm.
See also Glowlight Tetra: The Ultimate Guide to Care, Breeding & Tankmates
It isn't complicated to inspect the Vampire crabs to clarify the difference between the males & females. Although they look similar in appearance, some distinct features and attributes help establish gender specifications.
This crab species has a larger male counterpart than the female.
Females have round-shaped flaps on the abdomen, whereas males have smaller and pointed tip-like flaps.
The males usually possess light shades on the claws, while the claws look pretty dark in females.
These colorful crabs are abundantly available in the market to fulfill the regular demands.
If you already own a paludarium, adding these animals will be worth it.
Generally, the cost of vampire crabs depends on the color and the age of the crabs, while the seller may also ask for shipping charges. The average price ranges from $6 to $25.
Care Level Easy
Social Harmonious
Temperament Semi-Aggressive
Breeding Complicated
Such crabs eat everything that they may find throughout the wilderness. Violet vampire crabs are omnivore scrappers who hunt when the opportunity arises.
Feeding them can be relatively easier than other fishes or amphibians because these are scavengers and quickly find their food while crawling on the surface.
Providing calcium-rich vegetables is essential health-wise because they go through the process of producing exoskeleton. Dried food can be one of their primary diets living inside an aquarium.
Here is a list of suggestions about what do vampire crabs eat in a captive environment.
Bugs, dead plants, algae, or organic debris are the primary part of the diet in its native ecology.
Worms (Bloodworms, or Earthworms), shrimps, and insects larva or baby crickets in live & frozen form.
Pellets, flakes, and algae wafers as dried supplements.
Green vegetables like broccoli, spinach, lettuce, etc., will help enhance the calcium level in the diet.
Quick tips: These orange and purple crabs should be fed a high-quality dried food diet rich in organic vegetable matters.
There is very little information on the process of breeding Vampire crabs. It seems to be difficult as they like to breed at their leisure and do not have any specific mating season.
Though it is hard to force them to mate otherwise, they do not demand any specific conditions for breeding. Follow the below-given information if you wish to make the crabs breed in tanks.
Fact: These crabs are ready to reproduce as early as six months from hatching.
Arrange a pair of crabs aging more than six months and put them in an aquarium (preferably a paludarium). Maintain a clean environment, and when they are ready to reproduce, the males are seen hanging out with the female to fertilize the eggs.
Fact: The vampire crabs lay 1.2 – 1.8 mm in diameter eggs.
The females had to carry the eggs for about 25 – 30 days until they were ready to hatch. They can lay 20 – 80 eggs at a time, from which mini vampire crabs come out.
These are directly developed babies of 1 – 2 mm size and look exactly like adults. They quickly start making brisk movements from the moment they are born.
In the wild, these babies independently move away from the location. While in the tank, you should remove the parents at this stage as they might start hunting these juveniles. You also need to monitor the group of babies as they can attempt to predate the weaker ones among them.
See also Honey Gourami: Reference Guide (Care, Habits, Breeding)
These are night-walker species and usually stay idle in the daytime. Vampire crabs like to move between the land and water, but due to their nocturnal nature, they prefer hunting, feeding, or coming out of the caves and crevices of the paludarium in the dark.
These crabs are completely harmless creatures and make a good companionship with each other, though they do not behave well with different species, such as red devil crabs or sand fire vampire crabs.
They had to pass through the molting process, where the old exoskeleton upgrades to a newer and larger shell that helps in the growth and protection of the crab.
It is a normal process, more frequent at an early age and mainly after a month when they become adults. They feel susceptible because the new shell is soft, and thus they try being out of sight behind the vegetation or rocks for some time.
Note: It looks bizarre watching them resting like a statue at any specific position for the whole day, but it is their natural behavior.
Few diseases gravely affect a Vampire crab's living condition. Parasites and infections caused by bacteria are the primary causes of ill health in these crabs. Two such diseases are mentioned below:
A damaged shell is the effect of low calcium and sodium in the crab's diet. Adding minerals to the crab's diet or directly into the tank's water can benefit.
Poisoning from copper has generally been the leading cause of death in them. Avoid adding copper-rich minerals and salt into the water.
Pathogen induction is similar to the ich, a common disease in fishes. It often becomes an issue in crabs when fishes are introduced into the tank and can be easily cured by regularly cleaning the tank water.
Tank Setup Stats
Minimum Size 20 Liters
Water Temperature 72 – 82 F
Water Hardness 4 – 16
Lighting No
pH Level 7 – 8
Quick tips: Vivarium's are not for vampire crabs; tanks with 80 percent land and 20 percent water are suggested.
The vampire crab is small but loves to roam around the space, searching for food particles.
Thus, a suitable tank volume will be 10 Gallons to house six of them, preferably two males and four females.
Tip: A horizontally large tank is better than a vertical size since the crabs prefer shallow water with a large land area.
As a beginner, you may also start with a 5 Gallons tank, keeping three of these crabs together. But it will not benefit in the long term as the crabs won't get proper movement space and thus may not be able to finish their average life.
Because these crabs aren't picky regarding the flora around them, a range of green leafy plants will serve the purpose of this paludarium. Cryptocoryne, and anubias are suitable greens for these vampire crab tanks.
Plants that float on the surface will comfort the crabs to hide underneath. Living plants create a natural essence, and they sustain because the crabs only consume dead plant matter.
As these crabs are mainly nocturnal, they rarely come out during the day. A Moderate amount of lighting is more than enough.
A single LED strip can add to the rich aesthetic and would highlight the colorful crabs.
Substrates consisting of moss and sand can be beneficial. Once every month, crabs hide inside the sand burrows when it is time for molting.
A thick substrate is even essential during breeding, as when a pregnant crab is ready to lay eggs, it shelters in sand holes or moss for safety purposes.
You can also use floating perches or rocks if it is a community tank with fishes or other crustaceans as mates.
Oxygen and Filtration
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A good filter is necessary because an under-gravel system will not be adequate for crab keeping. Crabs need a humid temperature wherever they live, be it in the wild or inside a captive region.
Maintaining a humid climate with 75 percent humidity is best to keep the crabs calm, and you can reasonably achieve it through a humidifier.
Décor and Aesthetics
The vampire crabs will appreciate anything resembling the equatorial rainforest. Building small caves and burrows will help them survive and enjoy the ambiance of the tank. Leafy structures and a bit of driftwood are an excellent choice for these crabs.
Important Note: Expensive filters are not necessary, whereas a humidifier can come in handy because these crabs are from a tropical climate that is moist and humid.
These freshwater vampire crabs are semi-aquatic and spend quite a bit of time on the land. Hence, instead of a full-fledged water tank, they should be given a paludarium space with a ratio of water to land at 1:4.
Though the environment is less water and more land area, you must consider specific parameters while filling the tank to keep the crabs healthy.
The water should be clean and regularly monitored for any impurities from food and excretes, while you can also replace 40% of it on a weekly basis.
The water temperature in the tank should be around the range of 24 – 28 degrees Centigrade.
Fact: The vampire crabs behave actively when the temperature of the water is comparatively warm.
The water should be moderately hard between 8 – 12 with excess mineral contents, and alkalinity or pH ranging from 7.5 – 8.
These crabs prefer the company of peaceful&small creatures. They are rarely seen combating with the same species, except during the mating season, which is the reason for keeping one male with two females together.
Avoid crabs of other breeds as the vampire crabs might behave aggressively against them.
Regarding other tank mates, you must ensure they are friendly-natured and almost the same size. Such similar creatures in a tank will avoid attacking each- other.
The most compatible aquatics of vampire crabs are listed here.
Large Snails
Shrimps (Cherry)
Dither fish
Zebra Danios
Are vampire crabs aggressive?
They can occasionally behave aggressively towards other males or crabs of different species but generally show higher bonds and respect towards the tank mates. The same species of crabs can easily stay together.
Can a person be able to hold these crabs?
Yes, they are easy to carry. The crabs are entirely harmless to humans due to their tiny claws and pincers; handling them is pretty comfortable.
Can they breadth underwater?
Crabs use the gills to breadth underwater. They use the appendages placed on their lower side close to the claws, and when water passes through the gills, it extracts oxygen from it.
Can any fish live with vampire crabs in a tank?
Smaller fishes don't have a chance of co-existing with these crabs. But fishes bigger or similar in size to these crabs can live in the paludarium. Snails and other invertebrates are suggested as tankmates.
How long do they take to molt?
Molting is a normal process that after approx. one month as long as they live. Depending upon the species' origin, removing the shell to gain a new one takes about 15 – 180 minutes.
How Many times can you feed them?
The vampire crabs only eat when it is dark, and since they are typical scavengers, you must only schedule their feed once in 24 hours.
These colorful little crabs are worth spending your money on if you have prior knowledge of the setup of a paludarium for vampire crabs. With little to moderate care needed, they are very aesthetic as pets.
These are one of the best crustaceans for petting due to their peaceful nature, small size, with non-injurious claws.
They like to co-exist and can quickly adjust in community tanks, and being omnivorous in their diet makes it easier for crab owners to feed them.
Care Guide, Aquatic Pets
Victoria Lamb
Victoria is a freshwater aquatics specialist, fish keeper, and amphibian enthusiast. She has had more than 6 years of experience caring for aquariums and keeping several fish species, and her home boasts of 3 aquariums and a garden pond. Her goal is to educate fish owners on raising healthy and happy aquatic pets.
Bachelor of Science in Animal Behavior and Welfare
University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK (2014-2018)
Victoria has done ghostwriting for many aquarium and pet websites in the past. She has also worked for Canada's largest natural health magazine- ALIVE, with 300,000 monthly circulations as a freelancer. She had six published articles on animal behavior and welfare during her graduation for her thesis.
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