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Good looking, clean site. My only complaint is that the first few letters are not visible on each sentence on my iPhone.


With quality as our first aim we sign out through very much professional expertise, experience and a fair price.
looks for suppliers for beef cattle, beef cows and bulls. We mainly transport slaughter cattle on Wednesdays and on Thursdays. Of course on other days this is also possible but then please call us before. We fax or mail the carcass weights as fast as possible to you.


Reuters is reporting this afternoon that Samsung has approached BlackBerry and made an offer for a takeover valued at around $7.5 billion.
Executives from both companies met last week to discuss a potential deal, a source said. Talks continue to remain private which explains why neither company has made official comment about it.
Update 5:37pm EST: BlackBerry has posted a press release denying any talks between Samsung and their executives about a takeover bid. Check out our report here for more.


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The Making of "Our Planet": Conservation Behind the Camera
Date: 4th December 2019
Venue: Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR
Tickets: £25.00
Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR (Exhibition Rd entrance)
6:00pm Doors open for drinks reception
7:00pm The Making of 'Our Planet', talk hosted by Alastair Fothergill & Jayson Ibañez
8:15pm Post-event reception
Please note early arrivals will not be able to gain admittance to the RGS before 6pm.
Please bring a printed or digital copy of your ticket to gain entry to the event. If you are coming on a young person's ticket, please be sure to bring photo ID.
A complimentary gin and tonic generously sponsored by Wicked Wolf Gin and Fever Tree will be available prior to the talk for all 18+ attendees. There will also be a paid bar service available before and after the talk.
This event will be photographed and images may be used in WFN's publicity materials.
Follow us on social media @WhitleyAwards and share your content from the evening using the hashtag #ConservingOurPlanet.
Silent Auction now open!
We're excited to announce that this week we will be auctioning a copy of the Our Planet book, signed by Sir David Attenborough and Series Producer Alastair Fothergill.
Funds raised go directly to WFN, enabling us to support outstanding conservation leaders around the world. To place your bid on this one-of-a-kind item, please email [email protected] with your name, contact information, and bid. Silent auction open now until Friday 6th December at 2pm
WFN Trustee Sir David Attenborough's Netflix documentary series, Our Planet, showcased Earth's stunning wildlife and brought conservation to the forefront of natural history film-making like never before.
Join WFN and Series Producer Alastair Fothergill in a lavishly illustrated and entertaining talk, as Alastair tells the story behind the making of this landmark original series. Accompanying Alastair on stage will be 2015 Whitley Award winner Jayson Ibañez whose work to protect the magnificent Philippine Eagle was featured in Our Planet. Jayson will provide a unique insight into the conservation work taking place behind the camera as one of the many conservationists supported by WFN who helped bring this series to life, and whose efforts are critical to preserving our natural world.
Aligning wildlife documentary film-making and conservation, this talk will reveal hidden secrets and behind-the-scenes footage from Our Planet while delving deeper into the work of a conservationist fighting to bring wildlife back from the brink.
Tickets are now SOLD OUT. Thank you to everyone who has purchased tickets! We look forward to seeing you at the event.
Image Credit: Klaus Nigge (Philippine eagle), Silverback Films

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In aluminum sector, to become a designated consumer the threshold limit is 7500 toe and in PAT cycle-I 10 designated consumers from Odisha, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh has been notified and their targets have already been notified.
In addition from these technologies, behavior changes were also observed. The plants opted for better operational practices like switching off cooling tower fans as per need, stoppage of driers in service air system, Interconnection of pump's, installation of efficient pumping system, modification of compressed air system, CPP's R&M, optimization, Bokela modification etc.


CAD/CAM Program Development Study Project Report. Program Management Associates, Springfield, IL. 1983.. 1 microfiche : negative, ill.
The Cadet Project: Computer Assisted Distance Education Telecommunication for Post Secondary Education in Alberta. Report #1, June 15, 1983, and Report #2, June 18, 1984. Kirman, Joseph M.; Goldberg, Jack 1984-Jun-18. 1 microfiche : negative, ill.
Calculators & Computers in the Classroom. East, Philip; Moursund, David 1979. 1 microfiche : negative, ill.
Calculators and Computers in the Classroom: Select Summaries of Current Education Topics. Know-Pak No. 17. Moursund, David; East, Phillip 1979. 1 microfiche: negative.
Calculus: A Computer Oriented Presentation, Part 1 [and] Part 2. Stenberg, Warren; Walker, Robert J. 1970. 13 microfiches : negative, ill.
Can Implementation of Computers Be Justified on Cost-Effectiveness Grounds. Shavelson, Richard J.; Winkler, John D. 1982-Jun. 1 microfiche : negative.
Careers in Linguistics: New Horizons. Proceedings of a Conference Held in Conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (56th, New York, NY, December 1981). Niebuhr, Mary M., Ed. 1982. 1 microfiche : negative, ill.
Chartrand: Congress More Computer Literate. Government Computer News Interview. Government Computer News: The Newspaper Serving Computer Users throughout the Federal Government 1985.. 1 microfiche : negative, ill.
Chippy's Computer Words. Willing, Kathlene R.; Girard, Suzanne 1984. 1 microfiche: negative, ill.
Chronicle of Academic and Artistic Precocity, Vol. 1, No. 2, March/April 1982. Chronicle of Academic and Artistic Precocity 1982. 1 microfiche : negative.
The Class of 1990: The Impact of Technological and Social Change on Schools. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Townsville Regional Group (5th, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, August 26-27, 1983). Armstrong, J. D., Ed. 1983-Aug. 1 microfiche : negative, ill.
Collaboration in a High School Computers and Writing Class: An Ethnographic Study. Herrmann, Andrea W. 1985-Mar. 1 microfiche : negative, ill.
The Combined Use of Computers and Audio Tape Recorders in Storing, Managing, and Using Qualitative Verbal Ethnographic Data. [Revised]. Dow, James 1984-Nov-21. 1 microfiche: negative.
Common Core Units in Business Education: Data Processing and the (W)5. Muscat, Eugene 1977. 1 microfiche: negative, ill.
Communication and Participation: Freedoms and Constraints of the Audio-Visual. Proceedings of the Colloquy (Charleroi, Belgium, March 1981). Council for Cultural Cooperation, Strasbourg (France). 1981. 1 microfiche : negative, ill.
Communication, Control, and Computer Access for Disabled and Elderly Individuals. ResourceBook 1: Communication Aids. Rehab/Education Technology ResourceBook Series. Brandenburg, Sara A., Ed.; Vanderheiden, Gregg C., Ed. 1987. 3 microfiches : negative, ill.
Communication, Control, and Computer Access for Disabled and Elderly Individuals. ResourceBook 2: Switches and Environmental Controls. Rehab/Education Technology ResourceBook Series. Brandenburg, Sara A., Ed.; Vanderheiden, Gregg C., Ed. 1987. 3 microfiches : negative, ill.
Communication, Control, and Computer Access for Disabled and Elderly Individuals. ResourceBook 3: Software and Hardware. Rehab/Education Technology ResourceBook Series. Brandenburg, Sara A., Ed.; Vanderheiden, Gregg C., Ed. 1987. 6 microfiches : negative, ill.
Communications and Conferencing Software for Anthropology. Dow, James 1983. 1 microfiche: negative.
Communications Technology and Telelibrary Services. Morgan, Walter L. 1980. 1 microfiche: negative, ill.
Community Information Centers and the Computer. Carroll, John M.; Tague, Jean M. 1975. 1 microfiche : negative.
Compatibility Issues Affecting Information Systems and Services. Lancaster, F. Wilfrid; Smith, Linda C. 1983-Sep. 3 microfiches : negative, ill.
Competitive Argumentation in Computational Theories of Cognition. Cognitive and Instructional Science Series. CIS-14. VanLehn, Kurt; And Others 1982-Dec. 1 microfiche : negative, ill.
Computer Aided Drafting Workshop. Workshop Booklet. Goetsch, David L. 1981. 1 microfiche: negative, ill.
Computer and Software Abuse Policies. Microcomputing Working Paper Series A 84-7. Smith, Shirley C. 1984-Nov. 1 microfiche : negative.
Computer Anxiety and Instruction. Baumgarte, Roger 1984. 1 microfiche: negative.
Computer Anxiety: Definition, Measurement, and Correlates. Cambre, Marjorie A.; Cook, Desmond L. 1984-Apr-24. 1 microfiche: negative.
Computer Anxiety: Relationship to Math Anxiety and Holland Types. Bellando, Jayne; Winer, Jane L. 1985-Apr-18. 1 microfiche : negative, ill.
The Computer as a Medium for Art: Aesthetics and the Processes of Mind. Woodard, William Bryan 1985. 2 microfiches : negative,ill.
The Computer as Educator: Lessons from Television Research. Salomon, Gavriel; Gardner, Howard 1983. 1 microfiche: negative.
Computer Assisted Instruction. A Report to the Board. Reports - Evaluative 1985-May. 1 microfiche: negative, ill.
Computer Assisted Instruction: A Review of the Reviews. Research Report 85-01. Stennett, R. G. 1985.. 1 microfiche : negative, ill.
Computer Awareness 4-6. Draft Pilot Guide. Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. 1983-Jun. 3 microfiches : negative, ill.
Computer Awareness 7-9. Draft Pilot Guide. Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. 1983-Jun. 2 microfiches : negative, ill.
Computer Awareness Activities and Computer Curriculum K-5. Meyers, Judith K. 1984-Jan. 3 microfiches : negative, ill.
Computer Conferencing and Electronic Messaging. Conference Proceedings (Guelph, Ontario, Canada, January 22-23, 1985). Guelph Univ. (Ontario). 1985-Jan. 3 microfiches : negative, ill.
Computer Conferencing: Its Use as a Pedagogical Tool. Heydinger, Richard B. Heydinger, Richard B. 1978. 1 microfiche : negative.
Computer Connections for Gifted Children and Youth. Nazzaro, Jean N., Ed. 1981. 1 microfiche: negative, ill.
Computer Courses for Adults (Anxious Human Meets Computer). A Resource Book for Instructors. Allen, Anthony James 1984-Jun. 2 microfiches : negative, ill.
Computer Databases: Applications for the Social Studies. ERIC Digest No. 25. Parisi, Lynn. 1985.. 1 microfiche : negative, ill.
Computer Education for Colleges of Education. TOPICS. Rogers, Jean B., Ed. 1983-Jan. 2 microfiches : negative, ill.
Computer Education. DS Manual 2350.1. N/A 1978. 1 microfiche: negative, ill.
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986. Hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session on S.2281, a Bill To Amend Title 18, United States Code, To Provide Additional Penalties for Fraud and Related Activities in Connection with Access Devices and Computers, and for Other Purposes. Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. 1986.. 1 microfiche : negative, ill.
The Computer in Education and Training. Report of the Main Committee of the HSRC Education Research Programme. Part 1. Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria (South Africa). 1983. 1 microfiche : negative, ill.
A Computer in the Classroom. Lincoln Unified School District, Stockton, CA. 1983.. 1 microfiche : negative, ill.
The Computer in the General Curriculum. Term 1. Shires, David, Ed. 1984-Apr. 1 microfiche : negative, ill.
The Computer Industry. High Technology Industries: Profiles and Outlooks. International Trade Administration (DOC), Washington, DC. 1983-Apr. 1 microfiche: negative.


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import * as React from "react";
import JSONPretty = require("react-json-pretty");

export class Test extends React.Component {
    render() {
        const json = {
            foo: "bar"
        };

        return (
            <div>
                <JSONPretty json={ json } />
                <JSONPretty json={ JSON.stringify(json) } />
            </div>
        );
    }
}

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For the 105th episode I sat down with David B of the band Pet Clinic and talked about the 24/7 hustle of being in a DIY band and why it's even worth the effort in the first place. We also dive into his personal background and discuss some of the things that helped make David the David he is today. Sit back, relax and lets START THE BEAT!


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"""
Tests for L{twisted.python.win32}.
"""

from twisted.trial import unittest
from twisted.python.runtime import platform
from twisted.python import win32

class CommandLineQuotingTests(unittest.TestCase):
    """
    Tests for L{cmdLineQuote}.
    """

    def test_argWithoutSpaces(self):
        """
        Calling C{cmdLineQuote} with an argument with no spaces should
        return the argument unchanged.
        """
        self.assertEqual(win32.cmdLineQuote('an_argument'), 'an_argument')

    def test_argWithSpaces(self):
        """
        Calling C{cmdLineQuote} with an argument containing spaces should
        return the argument surrounded by quotes.
        """
        self.assertEqual(win32.cmdLineQuote('An Argument'), '"An Argument"')

    def test_emptyStringArg(self):
        """
        Calling C{cmdLineQuote} with an empty string should return a
        quoted empty string.
        """
        self.assertEqual(win32.cmdLineQuote(''), '""')

class ProgramPathsTests(unittest.TestCase):
    """
    Tests for L{getProgramsMenuPath} and L{getProgramFilesPath}.
    """

    def test_getProgramsMenuPath(self):
        """
        L{getProgramsMenuPath} guesses the programs menu path on non-win32
        platforms. On non-win32 it will try to figure out the path by
        examining the registry.
        """
        if not platform.isWindows():
            self.assertEqual(win32.getProgramsMenuPath(),
                "C:\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs")
        else:
            self.assertIsInstance(win32.getProgramsMenuPath(), str)

    def test_getProgramFilesPath(self):
        """
        L{getProgramFilesPath} returns the "program files" path on win32.
        """
        self.assertIsInstance(win32.getProgramFilesPath(), str)

    if not platform.isWindows():
        test_getProgramFilesPath.skip = (
            "Cannot figure out the program files path on non-win32 platform")


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Wed, Jun 22, 2016 - Page 3 News List
Ten universities among top 100
LEAPS AND BOUNDS:National Taiwan University of Science and Technology climbed 34 positions after the magazine changed its weighting system to make it 'fairer'
By Sean Lin / Staff reporter
The number of Taiwanese universities in Asia's top 100 fell to 10 from last year's 11, according to the Asia University Rankings released on Monday by Times Higher Education magazine.
Overall, 24 Taiwanese universities made the annual rankings, tying the nation with South Korea in the number of facilities on the list.
The performance of the universities was measured using 13 indicators in five main categories — teaching, research, citations, international outlook and industry income, which refers to a university's ability to reinforce industry with innovation.
The 10 Taiwanese universities in the top 100 list are National Taiwan University (15th), National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (28th), National Chiao Tung University (31st), National Tsing Hua University (35th), National Cheng Kung University (41st), China Medical University (46th), National Taiwan Normal University (68th), National Yang Ming University (70th), National Sun Yat-sen University (73rd) and National Central University (94th).
Ranking between 100th and 200th were Chang Gung University (101-110), Taipei Medical University (111-120), Yuan Ze University (121-130), Asia University, Taiwan (131-140), Feng Chia University (131-140), Kaohsiung Medical University (131-140), National Chung Hsing University (131-140), National Ocean University (131-140), Chung Yuan Christian University (141-150), National Chung Cheng University (141-150), National Chung Cheng University (141-150), National Taipei University of Technology (141-150), Fu Jen Catholic University (181-190), National Chengchi University (181-190) and I-shou University (191-200).
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) made the biggest jump in the list, climbing 34 positions.
China tied with Japan with 39 schools from each nation, while Singapore secured two spots in the top-three with the National University of Singapore (first) and Nanyang Technological University (second).
Nations that invest heavily and carefully to foster world-class universities are more likely to have better performance and gain recognition, said Simon Marginson, a professor at Global University's Institute of Education in London, in an analysis he wrote for the magazine, citing Taiwan as an example.
Magazine editor Phil Baty said that Taiwan has implemented "powerful" policies designed to promote world-class universities, backed by "serious" funding.
NTUST vice president Lee Duu-jong (李篤中) attributed the school's leap in part to changes in the weightings of items used to rank universities.
Lee said that the magazine used to focus heavily on research published in English-language journals, but since last year it has started taking into account research published in Japanese journals, which he said published many papers submitted by the school, resulting in the big leap in this year's ranking.
Another reason was that the magazine significantly reduced the weighting of Asian universities' reputations to have a "fairer" grading system, as most Asian schools are younger than their Western counterparts, he said.
Lee said the reduced weighting was balanced by schools' industrial income, which gave the facility an advantage.
2020 Presidential Election: Envoys, foreign legislators congratulate Tsai


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Truck hits auto-rickshaw, father and daughter die
Published: December 10, 2021 18:53:50 | Updated: December 20, 2021 12:49:39
A man and his daughter were killed and another one injured when a truck hit an auto-rickshaw in front of Dak Bungalow of Chasara in Narayanganj on Friday.
The deceased were identified as Altaf Hossain, 45, and his daughter Beli 15, hailing from the Samvupura union of Sonargaon upazila, reports UNB.
Beli, an immigrant in the US, arrived home 20 days ago to meet family and relatives.
The accident happened when a brick-laden truck hit the victims' auto-rickshaw when they were going to Sonargaon from Chashara this noon.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Narayanganj Sadar Model Police Station Mohammad Shah Jamal said they seized the truck and arrested its driver.
The bodies were sent to Narayanganj General Hospital for autopsies, the OC said.
Legal action will be taken in this regard, the OC added.


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COVID-19 and Dunn Landfill
by Tom Ellis
RENSSELAER, NY: The Covid-19 pandemic highlights a major problem with government in the USA, NYS, and locally.
Executive agencies employ vastly more people than legislatures despite the complaint that legislatures are bloated. Elected executives (presidents, governors, county executives) appoint commissioners and other top staff, often subject to approval by a legislative body, to lead executive agencies.
These appointed officials are thus directly answerable to the executive, who can fire them at any time. Lower ranking employees have civil service and labor union contract protections.
Civil servants unfortunately do not make policy decisions; they recommend them. It is often unclear if appointed officials decide policy on major issues. One example is the Dunn landfill in Rensselaer.
Does the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) allow the dump to continue operating or does DEC pretend that it does, when maybe it is the governor who is making the decision? Maybe DEC's top staff read the governor's mind and determine he wants the dump to continue operating, so it does with DEC's seal of approval.
Allowing a dump to operate right next to a school is insane but nobody at DEC dares say so out loud due to the severe punishment that might or would occur; loss of job if an appointed official, or being ostracized if a civil servant.
What we get is an a agency of several thousand employees, many of them fine human beings, some of whom would love to immediately close the dump if they could, but who risk their careers if they try to advance that goal. Meanwhile the dump remains open.
Does the DEC commissioner have the power to close the dump or is he a pawn of the governor?
The state Health Department (DOH) is no different. During 2018, 2019, and 2020, as the Dunn dump was becoming increasingly notorious for poisoning Rensselaer and East Greenbush residents and Rensselaer public school students and staff, DOH had nothing to say. DOH was not the slightest bit proactive on this issue. It was like DOH lived on another planet or was unable to comprehend the English language. DOH seemed to not notice all the negative attention dump operations were receiving in the local news media.
Until February 27, 2020 when DEC and DOH held an "availability session" at the Rensselaer public school to hear from residents about the dump, DOH had said nothing about the dump. At the Feb. 27 meeting, DOH and DEC handed out a two-page information sheet to attendees in which DOH endorsed DEC's talking points about the dump. DOH refused to provide any meaningful response to me when I followed up with three letters asking DOH to provide "medical and science-based evidence" in support of DEC and DOH's assertion that "Exposure [to hydrogen sulfide odors] at the levels detected is highly unlikely to result in long-term health effects." DOH would not respond at all to my question: "Are there any physicians employed in the state health department who are willing to back such an assertion?"
As for the governor, he says absolutely nothing about the Dunn dump, despite it being only a mile or two from the Governor's Mansion and his state Capitol Building office. Meanwhile the governor pontificates daily on public health and the Covid-19, usually from his Capitol office. On May 2, he said, "I disagree with people who say put the economy ahead of public health…I am not going to put dollar signs over human lives. You do not have the right to jeopardize my health."
Left unanswered of course is the question of why the state government allows the Dunn dump to damage the health or Rensselaer and East Greenbush residents.
It is my view that state government needs to be reconfigured in a manner that assures the governor does not have total control over state agencies, and so as to make the agencies accountable to the public, supportive of their missions, transparent in their decision-making processes and operations, and where employees can safely and publicly express their professional views even when they disagree with established policy.
President Trump is widely criticized for muzzling science and scientists employed by the federal government but we have a similar problem here in New York State.
It should be a no-brainer that siting and operating a large landfill literally right next to a school is unacceptable. No one employed in DEC or DOH has the ability to say so in public. State government lacks a mechanism for state agency employees to make their views public without fear. Dump owners hope to keep the dump operating well past the year 2030.
Governor Cuomo gets lots of good state, national, and even international press for his Covid-19 initiatives while he continues to ignore the other public health emergency in his own neighborhood.
Published in May/June 2020
Save the Pine Bush Newsletter


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"Power, Money and Political Will"
"Solving climate change is about power, money, and political will."
That's how Simon Lewis, professor of global change science at University College London, imagines we might sort out climate change before it morphs into runaway climate change. It's just a matter of marshaling scads of power, money and political will.
...we face the same three choices in response to climate change as we did before this scorching summer: reduce greenhouse gas emissions (mitigation), make changes to reduce the adverse impacts of the new conditions we create (adaptation), or suffer the consequences of what we fail to mitigate or adapt to. It is useful to come back to these three options, and settle on the formula that serious mitigation and wise adaptation means little suffering.
Despite this basic advice being decades old, we are heading for some mitigation, very little adaptation, and a lot of suffering. Why is this happening? This is because while the diagnosis of climate change being a problem is a scientific issue, the response to it is not. Leaving fossil fuels in the ground is, for example, a question of regulation, while investing in renewable energy is a policy choice, and modernising our housing stock to make it energy efficient is about overcoming the lobbying power of the building industry.
...The world, after 30 years of warnings, has barely got to grips with reducing carbon dioxide emissions. They need to rapidly decline to zero, but after decades of increases, are, at best, flatlining, with investments in extracting new fossil fuels continuing, including last month's scandalous announcement that fracking will be allowed in the UK. Temperatures have increased just 1C above preindustrial levels, and we are on course for another 2C or 3C on top of that. Could civilisation weather this level of warming?
The honest answer is nobody knows. Dystopia is easy to envisage: for example, Europe is not coping well with even modest numbers of migrants, and future flows look likely to increase substantially as migration itself is an adaptation to rapid climate change. How will the cooler, richer parts of the world react to tens of millions of people escaping the hotter, poorer parts? Throw into the mix long-term stagnating incomes for most people across the west and climate-induced crop failures causing massive food price spikes and we have a recipe for widespread unrest that could overload political institutions.
Professor Lewis is right, of course. We could do it. We can do it. We can sort out, at least somewhat, all of the perils arising out of mankind's refusal to live within the very finite ecological limits of planet Earth.
Our species can resolve our overpopulation problem, get our numbers back down to something in the range of two billion. The thorny question is how. There are a few ways we can do that, some significantly less palatable than others.
We can massively curb our rapacious over-consumption of the Earth's resources which we're currently exceeding by a factor of 1.7. That would mean cutting our consumption by - face it, a lot. And the burden of those cuts would have to fall on the major consumers - the developed nations, us. The "have nots" need a good deal more so the "haves" would have to give up half, perhaps more, of their resource consumption. Besides, if we found a way to shrink our overall numbers by two-thirds, some of that sacrifice would be eased.
That leaves climate change. We can do that. We can leave fossil resources such as coal and bitumen in the ground. We can electrify most of our economies and can even produce transport fuels from the surface carbon cycle, displacing fossil energy. We can do these things. Only we still see fossil carbon as wealth. It is said there are proven reserves valued at $27 trillion already subscribed on the stock markets and bourses of our world. Blowing that up is a prospect that sends shivers up the spines of what passes for political leadership today.
Professor Lewis nails it when he says that the answer lies in "cooperative internationalism."
...without cooperative internationalism serious carbon dioxide mitigation will not happen, meaning the underling drivers of the problems will exacerbate, leading to a lock-in of a deteriorating, isolationist, fascist future.
The problem is that the nations of the world are not on the same page. We don't experience this three-headed monster the same way which means that each nation brings an agenda shaped by its own situation. And, given that the solutions to this existential triad are based in equitable approaches, a levening, the most advantaged and powerful nations see these ideas as global Marxism - the old "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" business. That's a tough sell in this age of corporate democracy. There may be a few apple carts to tip before we get there.
Jay Farquharson said...
We are already in run away Climate Change.
Owen Gray said...
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Today's show? I am noticing that my confidence is growing the more I share with you.
nam is a word of invocation, derived phonetically from Sanskrit. It is a two-way conversation – when chanting, we return to the unchanging eternal truth and then use that power in our daily lives.
means mystic law. It signifies that the eternal unchanging truth and all phenomena are one. It also signifies life and death, seen and unseen, manifest and latent. These aspects of life are the two phases of the universal law.
means lotus flower, and refers to the simultaneity of cause and effect.
means sutra, or teaching, and also sound. A Buddha's enlightenment is expressed through the voice – through chanting we become enlightened to this truth.
Matt informed me that the opening sequence to the Gilligan's Island TV show was filmed right at the channel leading out from Ala Wai Yacht harbor, seen in today's show. Read all about Gilligan's Island.
Mahalo nui loa to guest director, Matt Olson.
Loved the conch call! And your visit to Magic Island inspired my Videoblogging Week entry for today!
Great show, you two. Am really liking the different locations and different perspectives of the guest directors/camera people while I'm far away from my home. Loved the conch call and the woman sharing the bench with you.


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The pairing step associates each reference annotation with the best matching predicted annotation. The criterion for "best matching" is a similarity function Sp that, given a reference annotation and a predicted annotation, yields a real value between 0 and 1. The algorithm selects the pairing that maximizes the sum of Sp on all pairs, and so that no pair has a Sp equal to zero. Sp is specific to the task, refer to the description of the evaluation of each sub-task for the specification of Sp.
A pair where Sp equals to 1 is called a True Positive, or a Match.
A pair where Sp is below 1 is called a Partial Match, or a Substitution.
A reference annotation that has not been paired is called a False Negative, or a Deletion.
A predicted annotation that has not been paired is called a False Positive, or an Insertion.
The filtering step selects a subset of reference-predicted pairs, from which the scores will be computed. In all sub-tasks the main score is computed on all pairs without any filter applied. Filtering is used to compute alternate scores in order to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a prediction. One typical use of filtering is to distinguish the performance of different annotation types.
Measures are scores computed from the reference-predicted annotation pairs after filtering. They may count False Positives, False Negatives, Matches, Partial Matches, or an aggregate of these scores like Recall, Precision, F1, Slot Error Rate, etc.
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Q: Find the area of shade region in a triangle with several small triangles inside In the picture, the big triangle is equilateral an has area 9. The lines are parallel to the sides and divide the sides into three equal parts. What is the area of the shaded part?

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I'm getting the answer of 6, but the answer given in answer sheet is 7.
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This is part 1 of my "Go-to Lures" series for bass fishing. Times get tough out on the lake. Getting skunked happens more times than most people will ever admit. Especially while fishing from shore. I'm going to cover 3 different lures in this article that have drastically reduced the amount of times I get skunked!
When I first realize it's going to be a rough day this is a lure I almost always turn to first. For some reason I get more hits on these worms over a normal worm with a bullet weight. I'm talking same color, size etc. With these I love to texas rig them without a weight and cast parallel to a steep drop off if you can find one. Try to hit the 10-15ft range with these and work them slowly back. Have weeds on the drop off? Even better! Start out with the 7" worm and go smaller if you're not getting hits after about 30 minutes of trying. I usually don't like going smaller than the 5" worm.
The reason I use this texas rigged more than wacky is because of the Senko. If I'm fishing wacky I'm putting a Senko on the end of my line. Don't let that deter you from using these worms wacky style though. Especially in deeper waters (10+ feet). This worm allows you to fish wacky in deeper waters without using a jig head. Also now with the Gamakatsu� Wicked Wacky Weedless Hook you can get these weighted worm down to deeper weeds with less snags and the fish love it!
The heavy weights not working for you? It might be time to go even more finesse! Strike King has an awesome worm specifically made for finesse fishing. Since the day is already going tough and our first try to fix it with the heavy weights didn't go so well we want to go even smaller and slower. These worms are thin, hand poured and ready to be rigged up on a shaky head jig. The tail on these worms float up amazingly and have great action with just the slightest of movement on the line. The type of jig you use depends on the structure you're going to be fishing. I like to use a wide gap shaky head jig so I can rig the worm weedless. When times are tough I usually don't like using anything bigger than the 5" worm.
Cast the worm out to the cover you think might be holding bass and let it sit. I forgot where I heard it but the saying goes "Don't move the worm until you're done with your smoke". Well I quit smoking so I can't use that trick anymore, but I can tell you it takes on average about 5 minutes to finish a smoke. After 5 minutes slowly and lightly twitch the rod so the worm wiggles a little bit and let it sit again. There isn't much movement needed in your line to give these worms action. After about 30 seconds rinse and repeat. If you're not getting any bites slowly reel it in while keeping contact with the bottom. When you feel the jig hit a piece of cover stop and work that piece of cover for a little bit just the same way you did previously.
This method takes a lot of patience and can be very rewarding. It can be hard to feel a bite using this technique so pay very close attention to your line. If you see it go slack, move a little to either side, or you feel ANYTHING weird or something you're unsure of on the end of the line set the hook! After a lot of practice you'll eventually get a feel for a bite. Though no matter how much you fish, you will always have times where you're surprised a fish is on the end of the line and it's not a snag!
Now things are really getting annoying. After the two previous methods we still can't get a fish. What the heck is going on? There must not be any fish left in the lake! Have no fear the 2-3/4" tube is here! Tubes are a fail safe on lakes around the country. Especially small tubes! Do not be afraid to fish small lures especially when times are tough. This tube kit is awesome. I just got a few of them on sale for $12! It has the colors you need to match just about any bait fish and they're salted which we all know fish love.
When times are tough I love to texas rig these on a 1/0 extra wide gap worm hook. The secret is taking a small "egg" weight as I call them and inserting them swivel side first to the top of the tube. Usually a 1/8 oz. or lighter weight depending on the depth I'm fishing. Next put the hook through the bait and the swivel part of the weight and texas rig as you normally would. You now have an awesome weedless tube bait that has a great falling action to it. I love tossing this around weed edges, rocks and docks. The bass can not resist this lure if they are around.
If worse comes to worse and none of these methods or lures work, get out the wacky hook and 5" Senko. None of these methods will work if you're not by fish. Always consider that the lures you're using may not be the problem. Location is usually a number 1 issue of not catching anything. If they are there and none of these methods work. It might just be time to chalk this one up as a loss. At least you got to get out and enjoy the great outdoors!


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West Ham United 2 Leeds United 3 - Graham Smyth's player ratings as Whites overcome injuries to edge Irons thriller
Leeds United transfer rumours: Leeds able to meet £20.8m asking price for Uruguayan international, Aston Villa on course to sign Sheffield United keeper
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Victor Orta's European dream at Leeds United no longer a laughing matter after memorable year
Leeds United have achieved a lot on and off the pitch in 2020.
By Joe Urquhart
Saturday, 14th November 2020, 6:00 am
Leeds United sporting director Victor Orta (R) with owner Andrea Radrizzani (L).
Eleven months can be a long time in the world of football – players come and go, managers swap dugouts and even ownership can change.
Is it, though, hard to imagine that Leeds United will ever endure a longer 11 months than the period which has just elapsed.
United entered 2020 bidding to end 16 years of hurt outside of the Premier League, with worries over Marcelo Bielsa's striking options for the promotion run-in the biggest concern.
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It is probably symptomatic then of what has unfolded inside the Elland Road bubble in recent times that Victor Orta's talk of Europe failed to make the same national headlines in November as it would have on New Year's Day.
Amidst the backdrop of a global pandemic there will be hope inside the four walls of LS11 that the Whites have provided a little comfort in the hardest of times for those of a United persuasion around the globe.
An emotional return to England's elite was finally secured after an elongated Championship promotion race.
Long-standing transfer records have been smashed and a new contract for Bielsa was eventually signed, sealed and delivered by the Argentine.
Sporting director Orta has become somewhat of a cult hero in West Yorkshire, mainly due to his recent dealings on the pitch and his endearing antics off it.
It has been somewhat of a turnaround for the Spaniard after he and owner Andrea Radrizzani freely admitted to their mistakes in the first season of the Italian's sole ownership.
Orta has helped turn the fortunes of the club around in his four seasons so far and was a key man in bringing head coach Bielsa to England over two years ago.
Lucrative job offers have been made in a bid to lure him away from Leeds, but the advances of Bundesliga side RB Leipzig and Serie A giants Roma were swiftly turned down without a second glance.
If there were still doubts about his commitment, and his directors' box displays still weren't enough to convince, then an outlining of his long-term ambitions – the same ones which would've been laughed off in January – will have eased any fears.
Orta has plans and big ones at that and after a strong start to the Premier League season, they don't seem as improbable as they would have when Eddie Nketiah returned to Arsenal in the winter window last term.
"We have ambition in the good sense, with the idea to build this step by step," Orta told the BBC recently.
"Perhaps not the first year, perhaps not the second year, perhaps not in the third year, but my ambition is for Leeds United to play European football again.
"When I talk to players to convince them to join Leeds United, I always say the same. We're not making anything new, I don't want to put where Leeds United was, it's nothing new for them to play in European competitions.
"This is my goal but with realism and ambition, step by step."
As Leeds supporters would attest, it feels typical of the club that a year of such achievement is yet to be properly celebrated by fans and players alike.
Orta, though, hopes that the locals, the ones who mean so much to the game, will be back enjoying United's recent on-field success in the stands as soon as safely possible.
"Football is the fans and football is for the people," Orta continued.
"Who creates this business, this relationship, is the fans. Who creates all these things, it's the fans' love of the game.
"This industry is created by the fans, it is the only reality. We have to put in the same level as the fans.
"Leeds needs Leeds United but Leeds United needs Leeds more than anything.
"We need to go back to society and what they give to us because they're the reason I stay in my job, I can only be grateful. I can only make the best for me with mistakes, with failure, with success.
"You work for me and my group but I work to try and bring this club to its real position and make a lot of people happy, that is the fans.
"Now is my fourth season, the second club that I have more years now in my life, this is my real pride, I can sew myself in the ideas on the pitch, in my ideas outside the pitch.
"Leeds United are my life. Not only in terms of professionally, but in terms of proper life."


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Cane Institute Hosts MATE ROV Regional Competition
By brittany sylvestri | 5/14/2019
Florida Atlantic University's Cane Institute for Advanced Technologies within A.D. Henderson University School and FAU High School in partnership with the College of Engineering and Computer Science and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science recently hosted the MATE ROV Regional Competition, the second largest underwater robotics competition in the world.
A.D. Henderson University School placed first and second place in the region for engineering presentations. "Team Noctis" consisted of Arman Alexis, Marcel Eugene and Aislyn Leach and placed third overall.
"It was incredible to see so many students competing at the FAU Cane Institute MATE ROV Tournament," said Sherry Bees, principal/director of A.D. Henderson and FAU High School. "Providing a space for this level of competition to flourish in Florida is one of the main goals of The Cane Institute. Watching our middle school team participate and be competitive against students from across the state shows their dedication and the Institute's passion for advancing STEM education in Florida and throughout the Nation."
The MATE ROV Competition, sponsored by Resolve Marine, required students to apply math, electronics, engineering and physics skills from the classroom toward solving problems based on real-world workplace scenarios.
More than 40 teams and 225 middle and high school students from all over the state of Florida participated in the competition.
The Cane Institute for Advanced Technologies within A.D. Henderson and FAU High was established last year after a $1 million gift from Daniel and Debra Cane.
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In the past generation, many students have gone to college as if they were on autopilot, naively assuming that they could redeem their diploma at the end for a well-paying career that would also serve as a never-ending fountain of self-fulfillment and allow them to either pay back or refinance their student loans.
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Evaluate your interests – what are you passionate about?
Going after a degree solely for the money is a huge mistake that ends in disaster for many students. If you enjoy sports, don't feel like you have to take an IT degree because you feel its the only path to riches.
Any graduate with any degree will succeed based on their motivation to pursue a specific career. If you detest what you are studying, your chances for financial prosperity after graduation will be lower than those that eat and breathe what they are learning.
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Great story – true story – should be easy to make this into a winner of a film.
Christopher Nolan managed to flub it up.
Nolan leaves you with tons of great clips and a cluster of confusion. Any one of the stories could have made for a great movie and they could have even worked intertwined chronologically, but at least five different storylines all out of order is too much for the moviegoer.
I read reviews with titles like "Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk is a Masterpiece!" and know without a doubt that is paid PR, not a real review. Yes, it is intense in places. Yes, it is visually impressive. In his attempt however, to tone down and simplify his storytelling unlike some of his excellent work (Interstellar, Memento, Batman Begins and Inception – all of which I rated 9 stars except Inception with 8) he really dropped the ball on this one.