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The World Is Burning, But It's Not Front-Page News
Climate change looks to be nature's slo-mo version of nuclear war.
Tom Engelhardt ,
Smoke rises to the sky as a wood chip mill burns in Eden in Australia's New South Wales state on January 6, 2020.
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Let me betray my age for a moment. Some of you, I know, will be shocked, but I still read an actual newspaper. Words on real paper every day. I'm talking about the New York Times, and something stuck with me from the January 9th edition of that "paper" paper. Of course, in the world of the Internet, that's already ancient history — medieval times — but (as a reminder) it came only a few days after Donald Trump's drone assassination of Iranian Major General Qassem Suleimani.
So you won't be surprised to learn that its front page was essentially all Iran and The Donald. Atop it, there was a large photo of the president heading for a podium with his generals and officials lined up on either side of him. Its caption read: "'The United States is ready to embrace peace with all who seek it,' President Trump said Wednesday at the White House." Beside it, the lead story was headlined "U.S. and Iranians Lower Tensions, at Least for Now." Below were three more Iran-related pieces, taking up much of the rest of the page. ("A President's Mixed Messages Unsettle More Than Reassure," etc.)
At the bottom left, there was a fifth Iran-related article. Inside that 24-page section of the paper, there were seven more full pages of coverage on the subject. Only one other piece of hot news could be squeezed (with photo) onto the bottom right of the front page. And whether you still read actual papers or now live only in the world of the Internet, I doubt you'll be shocked to learn that it focused on Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, already involved in a crisis among the British Royals. The headline: "In Stunning Step, Duke and Duchess Seek New Title: Part-Timers."
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Had you then followed the "continued on page A5" below that piece, you would have found the rest of the story about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (including a second photo of them and an ad for Bloomingdales, the department store) taking up almost all of that inside page. If, however, you had been in a particularly attentive mood, you might also have noticed, squeezed in at the very bottom left of page 5, an 11-paragraph story by Henry Fountain. It had been granted so little space that the year 2019 had to be abbreviated as '19 in its headline, which read in full: "'19 Was the 2nd-Hottest Year, And July Hottest Month Yet."
Of course, that literally qualified as the hottest story of the day, but you never would have known it. It began this way:
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"The evidence mounted all year. Temperature records were broken in France, Germany and elsewhere; the Greenland ice sheet experienced exceptional melting; and, as 2019 came to a close, broiling temperatures contributed to devastating wildfires that continue in Australia. Now European scientists have confirmed what had been suspected: 2019 was a very hot year, with global average temperatures the second highest on record. Only 2016 was hotter, and not by much — less than one-tenth of a degree Fahrenheit."
As Fountain pointed out, however briefly, among the records broken in 2019, "The past five years have been the five warmest on record" (as had the last decade).
In another world, either that line or the actual headline should reasonably have been atop that Times front page in blazing letters. After all, that's the news that someday could do us all in, whatever happens in Iran or to the British royal family. In my own dreamscape, that piece, headlined atop the front page, would have been continued on the obituary page. After all, the climate crisis could someday deliver an obituary for humanity and so many other living things on this planet, or at least for the way of life we humans have known throughout our history.
If you live online and were looking hard, you could have stumbled on the same news, thanks, say, to a similar CNN report on the subject, but it wasn't the equivalent of headlines there either. Just another hot year… bleh. Who's going to pay real attention when war with Iran lurks just beneath the surface and Harry and Meghan are heading for Canada?
To give credit where it's due, however, a week later when that climate news was confirmed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, as well as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, it did finally hit the front page of the January 16th edition of the paper Times. Of course, I wouldn't be writing this if it had been the day's blazing headline, but that honor went to impeachment proceedings and a photo of the solemn walk of the seven House impeachment managers, as well as the clerk and sergeant-at-arms, delivering those articles to the Senate.
That photo and two stories about impeachment dominated the top of the page. Trump's "phase 1" trade deal with China got the mid-page area and various other stories ("Warren Confronts the Skeptics Who Fear Her Plans Go Too Far") were at page bottom. Stuck between the impeachment headliners and the Warren story was, however, a little insert. You might think of it as the news equivalent of a footnote. It had a tiny chart of global temperatures, 1880 to 2019, a micro-headline ("Warmer and Warmer"), and a note that read: "In the latest sign of global warming's grip on the planet, the past decade was the hottest on record, researchers said. Page A8." And, indeed, on that page was Henry Fountain's latest story on the subject.
As it happened, between the 9th and 16th of January, yet more news about our heating planet had come out that, in a sense, was even grimmer. A new analysis found that the oceans, sinkholes for the heat trapped by greenhouse gas emissions, had also experienced their hottest five years on record (ditto for the last decade). In their case, however, 2019 was the very hottest, not the second hottest, year so far. And that, too, was a Times story, but only online.
Two Kinds of Time
Now, I don't want you to misunderstand me here. The New York Times is anything but a climate change-denying newspaper. It has some superb environmental and global-warming coverage (including of Australia recently) by top-of-the-line journalists like Somini Sengupta. It's in no way like Fox News or the rest of Rupert Murdoch's fervently climate-denying media organization that happens to control more than 70% of newspaper circulation in burning Australia.
The situation I've been describing is, I suspect, far more basic and human than that and — my guess — it has to do with time. The time all of us are generally plunged into is, naturally enough, human time, which has a certain obvious immediacy for us — the immediacy, you might say, of everyday life. In human time, for instance, an autocratic-minded showman like Donald Trump can rise to the presidency, be impeached, and fall, or be impeached, stay in office, and pass on his "legacy" to his children until something new comes along to make its mark, fail or end in its own fashion, and go the way of… well, of all of us. That's human history, again and again.
And then there's the time-scape of global warming, which exists on a scale hard for us mortals to truly take in. After all, whatever Donald Trump might do won't last long, not really — with two possible exceptions: the use of nuclear weapons in an apocalyptic fashion or the help he's offering fossil-fuel companies in putting yet more greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, while working to limit the development of alternative energy, both of which will only make the climate crisis to come yet more severe.
Otherwise, his time is all too human. With our normally far less than century-long life spans, we are, in the end, such immediate creatures. Climate change, even though human-caused, works on another scale entirely. Once its effects are locked in, we're not just talking about 2100 or 2150, dates hard enough for us to get our brains (no less our policy-making) around, but hundreds of years, even millennia. Though we've known about climate change for many decades now, we're dealing with a time scale that our brains simply aren't prepared to fully take in.
When weighing an Iranian drone assassination or a presidential impeachment or the latest development in election 2020 against news of the long-term transformation of this planet, no matter how disastrous, the immediate tends to win out, whether you're a New York Times editor or just about anyone else.
It shouldn't be surprising, then, that it's been so difficult to truly grasp the import of the warming of this planet, because its effects have, until now, generally been relatively subtle or challenging to grasp. When The Donald is in the White House or Harry and Meghan cause a stir or an Iranian major general is assassinated, that's riveting, graspable, headlines. Those heating waters, those warming temperatures, the bleaching of coral reefs, the melting of ice shields in Greenland, the Arctic, and the Antarctic leading to rising sea levels that could one day drown coastal cities, maybe not so much, not deep down, not where it truly counts.
The Burning
The real question is: When will climate change truly enter human time — when, that is, will the two time scales intersect in a way that clicks? Perhaps (but just perhaps) we're finally seeing the beginning of an answer to that question for which you would, I suspect, have to thank two phenomena: Greta Thunberg and Australia's fires.
In August 2018, all alone, the 15-year-old Thunberg began a Friday school strike in front of the Swedish parliament in Stockholm to make a point: that however all-encompassing the present human moment might seem, she understood in a way that mattered how her future and that of her peers was being stolen by the adults in charge of this planet and the climate crisis they were continuing to feed. The movement of the young she sparked, one that's still sparking, was a living, breathing version of those two times intersecting. In other words, she somehow grasped and transmitted in a compelling way how a future crisis of staggering proportions was being nailed in place in human time, right at that very moment.
And then, of course, there was — there is — Australia. But one more thing before I get to the devastation of that country. I began writing this piece in New York City on a weekend in January when the temperature hit a record-breaking 65-69 degrees, depending on where in the metropolitan area you were measuring. (A couple of hundred miles north in Boston, it hit 74 degrees!) It was glorious, spring-like, idyllic, everything a human being in "winter" could want — if, that is, you hadn't made it past Meghan and Harry or Suleimani and Trump, and so didn't have a sense of what such records might mean on a planet threatening to heat to the boiling point in the coming century. We're talking, of course, about a world in which Donald Trump and crew were responding to climate change by attempting to open the taps on every kind of fossil fuel and the greenhouse gas emissions that go with their burning. Meanwhile, despite the news that, by 2100, parts of the North China plain with its hundreds of millions of inhabitants could be too hot for habitation, China's leaders were still pushing a global Belt and Road Initiative that involves the building of at least 63 new coal-fired power plants in 23 countries. Huzzah! And remember that China and the United States are already the top two emitters of greenhouses gases.
Of course, tell that to the Australians whose country, by the way, is the world's third largest exporter of fossil fuels. For the last month or more, it's also been a climate-change disaster area of a previously unimaginable sort. Even if you haven't taken in the acreage that fire has already destroyed (estimated to be the size of South Korea or the state of Virginia) — fire that, by the way, is making its own weather — you've certainly seen the coverage of the dead or hurt koalas and roos, right? Maybe you've even seen the estimate by one scientist — no way to confirm it yet — that a billion creatures (yes, 1,000,000,000) might already have died in those fires and it's still not the height of the Australian summer or fire season.
In some fashion, as a climate-change disaster, Australia seems to have broken through. (It probably doesn't hurt that it has all those cute, endangered animals.) Looking back, we earthlings may someday conclude that, with Greta and with Australia burning, the climate crisis finally began breaking into human time. Yes, there was that less than Edenic November of 2018 in Paradise, California, and there have been other weather disasters, including hurricanes Maria and Dorian, that undoubtedly were heightened by climate-change, but Australia may be the first time that the climate-change time-scape and human history have intersected in a way that truly mattered.
And although, in the midst of winter, this country isn't burning, we do have something else in common with those Australians: a nation being run by arsonists, by genuine pyromaniacs. After all, earlier in his coal-fired career, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison brought a literal lump of coal into that country's parliament, soothingly reassuring the other members that "this is coal. Don't be afraid. Don't be scared."
In the election he won in 2019 (against a Labor Party promoting action on climate change), he was in big coal's back pocket. And like our president, his government has been messing with international attempts to deal with the climate crisis ever since. Again like our president, he's also been an open denier of the very reality of climate change and so one of a crew of right-wing global leaders seemingly intent on setting this planet afire.
Climate-Change Previews?
Years ago, in my apartment building, someone dozed off while smoking in bed, starting a fire a couple of floors below me. I noticed only when the smoke began filtering under my door. Opening it, I found the hall filled with smoke. Heading downstairs wasn't an option. In fact, a couple who had tried to do so were trapped on my floor and I quickly took them in. I barely had time to panic, however, before I heard the sirens of the first fire engines. Not long after, the doorbell rang and two firemen were there, instructing me to open all the windows and stuff towels at the bottom of the door to keep the smoke out. I'm sure I've never been so happy to greet someone at my door.
That fire was, in the end, contained inside the apartment where it started and I was in no danger, but peering into that smoke-filled hallway I would never have known it. The memory of that long-lost afternoon came back to me in the context of burning Australia, a country where fire fighters had been desperately at work for weeks without being able to douse the hundreds of blazes across that drought-stricken land, which has also recently experienced record high temperatures. It's been the definition of a living nightmare.
And here's what I began to wonder on this newest version of planet Earth: Are we all in some sense Australians, whether we know it or not? I don't mean that as an empathetic statement of solidarity with the suffering people of that land (though I do feel for them). I mean it as a statement of grim fact. Admittedly, it won't be fire for all of us. For some, it will be rising sea levels, flooding of a never-before-experienced sort, storms or heat waves of a previously unimagined ferocity, and so on.
Unless we get rid of the arsonists who are running too many countries and figure out a way to come together in human time, we're likely to enter a world where there will be no fire fighters to save us (or our children and grandchildren). Climate change, after all, looks to be nature's slo-mo version of nuclear war.
In movie terms, think of Australia as the previews. For most of us, the main feature is still to come. The problem is that the schedule for that feature may not be found in your local paper.
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Q: vi/vim: how to scroll by a third of window height As I understand it, ctrl-d and ctrl-u scroll the window by the number of lines that is set in the scroll option, which defaults to half of the height of the window. Can it be changed to scroll by a third of the window height?

A: The default value of scroll is dynamic — could be 12 in one window and 21 in another one — but the proportion, 50%, is hardcoded. AFAIK, that proportion used to calculate scroll dynamically can't be modified.
You can change the value of scroll pretty easily with something like this:
execute "set scroll=" . winheight('.') / 3

Now you must find how, when and where to use that snippet. An autocmd seems to be a good choice choice but what event shall we use? WinEnter/WinLeave? CursorMove? Something else?
Maybe a simple mapping that overrides the default? Something like:
nnoremap <C-d> :execute "normal! " . winheight('.') / 3 . "^D"<CR>
" type <C-v> then <C-d> to produce ^D

A: Use following ex command. It uses the variable lines that show how many lines are shown in a window and calculates the third.
:execute "set scroll=" .&lines / 3

EDIT: When window is resized the scroll value won't change, so add following autocommand to your vimrc to fix it:
:au VimResized * execute "set scroll=" . &lines / 3

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 Jeremiah 22:28 Interlinear: A grief -- a despised broken thing -- is this man Coniah? A vessel in which there is no pleasure? Wherefore have they been cast up and down, He and his seed, Yea, they were cast on to a land that they knew not?
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Q: What is the need for forms in Django? I am a noob in Python/Django and want to know what additional benefits Django forms offer compared to html forms? From what I have seen in a few tutorials, Django forms are mostly used for front-end validation only, which can also be done by html/JavaScript, so why should I use Django forms?

A: Front-end "validation" helps wrt/ UI/UX but is in no way a replacement for backend validation and sanitization. Well unless you're ok to have your sites and possibly the whole server being hacked by just any script-kiddie. Remember that "front end validation" only works in (some) browsers (and can be deactived) and that you can post requests without a browser (from a commandline utility like curl, from a Python or Perl or whatever script etc).
So you do need backend validation / sanitization whatever, and doing it right is hard - which is why most hand-coded PHP sites are like open bar to hackers.
Django's forms validation go way further than just checking text field's length, it supports all the needed sanitization, conversions from raw text values (what you get from the HTTP request) to proper Python types (including models instances), custom field validation thru custom validators and clean_FIELD hooks, cross-fields validations etc, as well as a standardized way to report validation errors to the user (showing all validation errors at once - most hand-coded form "validation" I've seen stop on the very first error, which is a sure way to make sure your user will give up in dispair). They also provide a standardized way to do front-end rendering without DRY violation (all the code - the form's fields, help texts, labels, error messages etc are defined once in the Form class). To make a long story short, using Django's forms, you encapsulate all the form's logic in a single place and reduce your view's code and template code to the bare minimum instead of having code scattered everywhere and repeating the same basic validations in each and every view.
Also, Django has ModelForm that greatly simplify creating/editing models (database records). Most of the validations are then derived from the model's definition itself, and sanitization will protect you from SQL injections etc.
So it all boils down to deciding whether you prefer complicated, bloated, inconsistant, brittle and insecure code or clean, lean, simple, consistant and (by default) reasonably secure  code. Your choice...


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Officials: Brevard County bridge fix won't happen fast
By Mike Magnoli
FOX 35 Orlando
MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. - The bridge on Sea Ray Drive is a lot of things to a lot of different people: A way to get over the creek. A popular fishing spot. A key piece of water piping.
And people tell FOX 35 News the county needs to stop stalling and fix it.
The Brevard County Commission just voted to fix the Sykes Creek Bridge.
Commissioners estimate that it will cost $5 million in local tax dollars.
Officials: Brevard County bridge fix won't happen fast
The Brevard County Commission just voted to fix the Sykes Creek Bridge. Commissioners estimate that it will cost $5 million in local tax dollars. But residents who live nearby say they'll believe it when they see it.
But residents who live nearby say they'll believe it when they see it.
Bill and Mary-Ellen Jelen use the marina near the bridge.
Getting to the marina used to take them two minutes from their house, but for the past nearly three years, it's been 15 minutes. Why? The bridge is closed.
The reason for the closure is the subject of debate.
The county says Hurricane Irma damaged the bridge.
The Commission asked FEMA for the money to repair it.
FEMA said no, claiming the bridge was in poor condition before that storm, directing the county to use its own funds.
The county is now appealing that decision.
The Jelen's are tired of waiting.
"That's infrastructure and it shouldn't have been this long," Mary-Ellen Jelen said.
The owners of the Last Chance Bait and Tackle Shop agree.
The store was a lot busier when the bridge was open.
Some of the regular fishermen have found other fishing bridges.
The business says sales have suffered at least 20 percent because of the bridge.
The county says it will begin working on the bridge in the months ahead.
If the FEMA appeal pans out, get some reimbursement later.
The county says the work will take about two and a half years.

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namespace T4WebFormsInjection.Tests.WebServices
{
    using T4WebFormsInjection.Tests.Helper;

    using T4WFI.App.Code;
    using T4WFI.App.WebServices;

    using Xunit;

    public class WebService1Tests
    {
        [Fact]
        public void DependenciesCreated()
        {
            Target.CheckDependenciesAreConstructed<WebService1>(Dependency.Create<IDummyInterface>(), Dependency.Create<IDummyInterface2>());
        }
    }
}

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Q: create a shipment bigcommerce I am attempting to create a shipment to go along with an order, however the process fail upon creating the order, but returns no error, only crashes the program.
Here are a couple ways that I have tried:
$shipment = array(
    'tracking_number' => $TrackingNumber,
    'order_address_id' => $orderAddressId,
    'items' => $itemArray
);

Bigcommerce::createResource('/orders/'.$order->id.'/shipments', $shipment);

This block fails without error upon createResource
$shipment = new Bigcommerce\Api\Resources\Shipments();
$shipment->tracking_number = $TrackingNumber;
$shipment->order_address_id = $orderAddressId;
$shipment->items = $itemArray;
$shipment->create();

This block fails without error on the first line.
Is my syntax off somewhere, or am I just missing something?

A: You cannot create subresources like that. You need to extend the Resource model.
Look at this sample code from the Bigcommerce PHP lib -
https://github.com/bigcommerce/bigcommerce-api-php/blob/master/src/Bigcommerce/Api/Resources/OrderProduct.php
It defines orders/products. You need to do something similar for orders/shipments


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The #CarnivorrGoesForGold challenge continues with a recap of my visits to Officine Brera, Sun Nong Dan, Sapp Coffee Shop, Kogi BBQ, Here's Looking At You, Rosaliné, and Kobee Factory. Stay tuned as I eat at all of Jonathan Gold's Best 101 LA restaurants in 101 days!
Officine Brera is a sophisticated, yet cozy Italian restaurant in the DTLA Arts District. We loved all the hearty, rustic food showcasing dishes from the northern region of Italy, and really enjoyed getting to take a tour of the kitchen.
Watch my full review of Officine Brera here!
I didn't know much about Korean food before visiting Sun Nong Dan, but this spot quickly became one of my top five favorite restaurants from Jonathan's list. Well worth the long queue for their signature bubbling cauldron of spicy braised short ribs. Don't forget to add cheese.
Watch my full review of Sun Nong Dan here!
A cult-favorite Thai spot in LA, and rumor has it that J. Gold went here every Sunday. SAPP is super cheap, and super good.
Watch my full review of Sapp Coffee Shop here!
The first food truck I ever went to, back before I ever had a food blog! It was pretty special to revisit Roy Choi's iconic Kogi BBQ many years later.
Watch my full review of Kogi BBQ here!
Popular neighborhood spot in Koreatown. I was disappointed that the less-than-stellar service did not match the interesting food at Here's Looking At You .
Watch my full review of Here's Looking At You here!
Another one of my absolute favorites from the list is Chef Ricardo Zarate's Peruvian spot, Rosaliné, located in West Hollywood.
Watch my full review of Rosaliné here!
One of the coolest parts of this project was hearing grateful chefs and families talk about how much Jonathan Gold did for them by reviewing them, by putting them on his list. Chef Wafa and her son literally teared up describing how he changed their life by reviewing their Syrian restaurant, Kobee Factory.
Watch my full review of Kobee Factory here!
...73 DOWN, 28 TO GO!


The cafes of Paris inspired furniture executive and entrepreneur Bill Bongaerts to create a business dedicated to supplying the hospitality industry. Upon seeing the hand-woven bistro chairs that dotted every corner establishment Bongaerts had a feeling they would sell well in the U.S. And he was right. Beaufurn began in 1998 and its first product those French hand-woven bistro chairs proved wildly successful, and sustained the company through its first years of business.
Once firmly established, product lines grew to include tables, lounge furniture and umbrellas for both indoor and outdoor environments. And the company's market segments expanded into contract, education and entertainment. Commercial furnishings may translate as ordinary to some, but Beaufurns products are anything but. Significant Italian, French and Belgian influence is evident clean lines novel shapes and pops of color dominate the design palate.
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"My first real job was as a customer service representative for a Furniture manufacturer in 1992 and I've pretty much worked my entire life in the industry."
Stephanie has a Bachelor of Science degree in Interior Design from Appalachian State University and is an Allied ASID Member. She worked in the design field prior to joining the Beaufurn team in 2012. Currently, she strives to make sure every customer has a pleasant experience.
"I enjoy finding adventure with family and friends from the mountains to the beach, and everywhere in between."
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Cindy holds a B.F.A. in Interior Design from Virginia Commonwealth University. She oversees the providing of finishes and swatches of Beaufurn Product for Specifications Her background includes working for fabric marketing companies that specialize in marketing to Architects and Interior Design Firms for Commercial Projects.
"I like gardening and food…growin', pickin' and eatin' it!"
Accounting is Wendy's passion. She has been an accountant and human resource director for over twenty years and truly loves her work. She joined the Beaufurn team in September, 2018. According to Wendy, she has the most incredible and loving husband in the world, the perfect daughter and eight precious babies.
"I love riding my Harley, NASCAR an taking care of animals in need"
Pam Dell'Aquila is a graduate of Appalachian State University and holds a degree in Business Administration. She joined the Beaufurn team in November 2018, after working in education for the past eleven years.
"I enjoy spending time with my family and traveling"
"I lived in Heidelberg, Germany for over a year. I enjoy working with those less fortunate and spending time with family."
"I enjoy spending as much time as possible with family and friends."
Haleigh has been in the customer service field for over four years and joined the Beaufurn team in October 2018. She works primarily with our Arizona, Minnesota and Texas sales reps. Haleigh enjoys playing a role in the world of design.
Samantha has over ten years of customer service and accounting experience, primarily in the construction industry. She joined the Beaufurn team in December, 2018. Samantha has a degree in accounting and is certified in Early Childhood Education.
"I like to drive fast, I'm addicted to Target and I love to annoy my husband!"
"I'm an avid photographer and enjoy working with Animal Rescue Groups."


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What is the difference between the "Big Shot" and the "Big Kick"?
The primary distinctions between a Big Shot and a Big Kick are the colors and handles. Take a look at the new turquoise Big Shot and the black-and-pink Big Shot. Sizzix originally advertised the Large Kick to big box craft stores such as Michael's, Hobby Lobby, and Joann's, and the Big Shot to smaller, independent merchants. However, with the advent of mass-produced DIY projects, these differences are becoming less significant.
Also, while all Sizzix Big Shots use the same basic design, they do vary in size. The largest version, the Stretch Big Shot, has an opening measuring 11 inches by 17 inches; other sizes have openings ranging from 9 inches by 13 inches to 8 inches by 12 inches.
Finally, some Sizzix Big Shots have optional accessories that can be purchased separately. These include foam stamps for stamping images into fabric or leather, cutting wheels for cutting out shapes from paper, plastic, or foil, and ink pads for applying color to your project.
In conclusion, although there are similarities between the Big Shot and the Big Kick, they are two separate products that serve different purposes. The Big Shot is large and sturdy enough to tackle most any crafting project, while the Smaller Kick is small and convenient for on-the-go creativity.
What is the most powerful part of the kick in swimming?
Which is better, blaze kick or flamethrower?
Is it better to punch or kick?
The ideal amplitude (range of motion) for an efficient kick is probably not as large as you believe. More ankle and hip flexibility allows for more successful kicking. Also, having stronger muscles helps too.
The power generated by a muscle depends on its length. Power increases with muscle length up to about 1/2 maximum contraction strength, after which it decreases due to increased tension within the muscle fiber. So, the most powerful phase of the kick is when the leg is straight out in front of you and close to your body, just before it starts bending back toward your chest. At this point, the gastrocnemius muscle is almost completely extended and generating maximum force. The next most powerful phase is right at the end of the kick, when the calf muscle is being pulled tight.
Generally speaking, the lower body contributes more power than the upper body, because more mass is involved. However, since muscle fibers type I are used during aerobic exercise like swimming, their strength is less than type II fibers which are used during anaerobic exercise like sprinting. Type I fibers have a much higher percentage of slow-twitch muscle fibers, while type II fibers contain more fast-twitch muscle fibers. Therefore, since swimming is mainly an aerobic activity, the upper body contributes more power than the lower body.
Blaze Kick has lower PPP, power, and accuracy. It's Blaziken's signature attack, and it may be a game changer. The flamethrower has increased pp, power, and accuracy. It may burn like Blaze Kick, but it does not have a high critical hit rate. Flamethrowers are used to break through physical attacks or other objects.
Punching with your bare hands is faster and more accurate. Punches, on the other hand, do not throw you off balance. Kicks are far more forceful, but considerably slower and have a far larger probability of throwing you off balance, in my opinion. When you're on one foot, you're more vulnerable to a takedown. When you're on two feet, you have the advantage.
Punches can break bones, while kicks only connect with flesh and bone if you hook up with the right spot. Even then, you're likely to only displace the tissue instead of breaking it completely. Neither punch nor kick is particularly dangerous by itself, but together they offer a way to deal with an opponent that goes beyond what either one alone can do.
There are many ways to punch and kick safely. You can learn various techniques from martial arts classes or books. Here are just three things to keep in mind: the hip is the key to effective punching, the knee is the key to effective kicking, and the head is the key to effective punching or kicking anything else besides your opponent's body.
What happens if you put R134a in an R22 system?
Author: Ruth Cruz
Can you excavate with a dingo?
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What happens when you replace the O-ring on a pool filter?
Does a bigger TV make a difference?
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Circa 1936-1942: Part of the original Fiesta line introduced at the end of 1935, the vintage fiesta bud vase remains one of the nicest accessories available. The holloware piece was slip cast and the mold seams would have been smoothed by hand. Standinig just under 6 1/2" the base is adorned with cascading art-deco elements. Only made in the first six original colors, the bud vase is a charming addition to the dinnerware collection.


We had been planning this for weeks. Austen was so excited he was going to propose on the rooftop of Londonhouse in Chicago. As soon as I got into the city the sky open up and just poured on us. It was not a pretty site. Of course I kinda got lost on the way so I drove along Lakeshore for a bit and you couldn't see which was lake and which was sky. I felt so bad.
But London House had a backup for the proposal. They were going to set up this private room and then if it my some miracle stopped raining we could do a few photos on the rooftop. The rain stopped about 30 minutes before Rinu came which was disappointing since we still couldn't use the rooftop for the proposal but at least we were able to hang out up there afterwards! And it was beautiful. Honestly, this was such a great location. Even their private room was gorgeous with the lighting and esthetic.
After working out the location details, the next rough part was getting Rinu to London House. We had done a fashion shoot with Rinu's cousin Jason the night before and he told us he was telling Rinu there was a GQ event there. He does a lot of work with GQ so it wasn't unusual if he came home from New York for one of their events. To Rinu's surprise, there was no event and Austen was waiting there to ask her one of the biggest questions ever. She said yes :) That part wasn't a surprise.


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The EU REDD Facility, Climate Policy Initiative and Climate Focus studied ways to shift investment in agriculture, forestry and other land uses towards practices to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
The study identified financing opportunities and developed tools to support public sector financing for mitigation and adaptation strategies to lower emissions.
The objective of the study was to develop an understanding of financing flows in agriculture, forestry and other land uses. Such an understanding helps identify ways to redirect public and private investment from business-as-usual towards practices to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The study examined land-use mitigation and adaptation interventions, and opportunities for governments to scale-up investment in mitigation and adaptation strategies. The study presents opportunities for governments, international donors, private investors and businesses to finance mitigation and adaptation in agriculture, forestry and other land uses and to coordinate their efforts.
Agriculture, forestry and other land uses account for around a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions. In many countries, the proportion of emissions from land use is far higher. At the same time, these sectors are very vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. There are opportunities to redirect the hundreds of billions spent annually on land-use activities around the world towards low emissions without sacrificing either productivity or economic development. Low and middle-income countries and their development partners, businesses and investors urgently need to identify the changes in public support that can help to scale-up private sector investment in land-use mitigation and adaptation.
The amount invested each year in land-use mitigation and adaptation is a fraction of total investment in agriculture, forestry and other land uses. Estimates of investment in land-use mitigation and adaptation range widely, from USD1.3 billion to USD51.8 billion. Total investment in agriculture and forestry in developing countries alone amounts to hundreds of billions of dollars. Most investments do not mitigate climate change or help adapt to its effects. In some cases, investments may increase emissions or exacerbate climate vulnerability. Much of the investment in land use, spurred by significant public subsidies and incentives, is by domestic private investors.
Limited understanding of the drivers and nature of investment in land-use inhibits efficient, effective public interventions. In many cases, we know little about how much investors channel to the land-use sector, how they deliver funds, what funds pay for and who spends funds. Nor do we understand the share of investment in low emissions compared to business-as-usual land-use activities or the opportunities that may exist to address barriers, or create incentives to shift land-use activities towards low emissions. The study developed three tools to address these issues.
Much of the investment in land use, spurred by significant public subsidies and incentives, is by domestic private investors.
A tool to describe the landscape of land-use finance. This tool enables countries and development partners to capture a snapshot of public and private land-use finance flowing to low-emissions and business-as-usual activities. The snapshot provides an understanding of the amount and types of financial flows, and the key actors and activities. The tool helps identify channels, gaps and blocks in financial flows.
A tool to analyse financial viability gaps. This tool explores the financial viability of climate-change mitigation and adaptation activities. With this tool, users can analyse potential barriers to low-emissions activities (risk, information, capacity, financial gaps) and identify entry points for public and private investment. The tool provides information for designing public incentives to unlock investment in mitigation and adaptation.
A tool to map public investment. This tool provides a framework for tracking public financial instruments for climate-change mitigation and adaptation in a given country, jurisdiction or sector. The framework identifies instruments that target business-as-usual or low-emissions land-use activities. The tool enables governments to assess the coherence and consistency of financial policies and instruments, including those supported by development partners, and the extent to which they support low-emissions land use.
These tools will be tested in a few countries in the next coming months.


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Carlos Pacheco (* 14. November 1961 in San Roque, Cádiz; † 9. November 2022 in La Línea de la Concepción) war ein spanischer Comiczeichner und -autor. Ein Großteil seines Werkes besteht aus Arbeit für Marvel Comics.

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Pacheco, der aus der spanischen Provinz Cádiz stammt, begann in den 1980er Jahren als hauptberuflicher Comiczeichner zu arbeiten. Seine ersten Engagements erhielt er von dem europäischen Verlag Planeta-DeAgostini Comics, für den er als Auftragszeichner überwiegend mit der Gestaltung von Titelbildern und Pin-Ups betraut wurde.

Gemeinsam mit dem Autor Rafael schuf Pacheco, dessen Zeichenstil vor allem durch seine saubere und dynamische Linienführung gekennzeichnet ist, die Konzepte für die Miniserien Iberia Inc und Triada Vértice. Obwohl er die visuellen Entwürfe für beide Serien schuf und sie als Rafaels Co-Autor mitplottete musste Pacheco die eigentlichen Zeichnungen für die am Ende publizierten Hefte von Iberia Inc und Triada Vértice aus Termingründen seinem Kollegen Rafa Fonteriz (Iberia Inc) und Jesus Merino (Triada Vértice) überlassen. Der auch als Tuschezeichner tätige Merino wurde mit dieser Zusammenarbeit zu Pachecos wichtigsten künstlerischen Partner.

Auf dem amerikanischen Markt konnte Pacheco Fuß fassen, nachdem der amerikanische Großverlag Marvel Comics aufgrund seiner Arbeit an der, bei Marvels britischem Ableger Marvel UK erschienenen, Serie Dark Guard auf ihn aufmerksam wurde und ihn 1994 als Zeichner für die vierteilige Miniserie Bishop anheuerte. Gemeinsam mit Autor John Ostrander und Tuscher Cam Smith erzählte er dort eine düstere Mär um den Titelcharakter, einen mutantischen Antihelden aus der Zukunft. Für Marvels Konkurrenten DC-Comics übernahm Pacheco zu dieser Zeit einige Ausgaben der, damals von Mark Waid geschriebenen, traditionsreichen Sci-Fi-Abenteuer The Flash (#93, 94 und 99). Als Inker wurde ihm José Marzán Jr. zur Seite gestellt.

Mit Autor Terry Kavanagh und Tuschezeichner Cam Smith übernahm Pacheco 1995 die Zeichnerpflichten für zwei Miniserien aus Marvels X-Men-Label. Ebenfalls mit Smith und mit dem Autor Warren Ellis legte Pacheco eine Miniserie über die Weltraumabenteurer Starjammers vor. Danach erhielt Pacheco Zeichenaufträge für die von Marvel Comics herausgegebenen Serien Excalibur (1996), Fantastic Four (1997; #415–416) und X-Men (1997–1998; #62–75), dem Flaggschifftitel im Verlagsprogramm von Marvel, der zu dieser Zeit von Scott Lobdell und Joe Kelly verfasst wurde. Als Tuschezeichner standen ihm dabei Tom DeFalco (Fantastic Four) und Art Thibert (X-Men) zur Seite.

Die zwölfteilige Maxiserie Avengers Forever von 1998 markierte Pachecos erste Zusammenarbeit mit Kurt Busiek, der seither ein häufiger künstlerischer Partner Pachecos  ist. Als Tuscher agierte wiederum Jesus Merino.

2000 übernahm Pacheco erneut die Zeichnungen für den Science-Fiction-Klassiker Fantastic Four (Volume 3, #35–50). Außerdem wirkte er für die Serie als Co-Autor des Hauptautors, ein Job den nacheinander Rafael Marin und Jeph Loeb erledigten. Parallel dazu schrieb Pacheco gemeinsam mit seinem alten Freund Rafael Marin eine vierteilige Miniserie unter dem Titel Inhumans, die von José Ladrönn und Jorge Lucase visuell umgesetzt wurde.

Es folgten der von David S. Goyer und Geoff Johns verfasste Comicroman JLA/JSA: Virtue and Vice und die Serie Arrowsmith (2003), eine von Kurt Busiek verfasste und sich in dessen privatem Besitz befindliche Fantasy-Serie die von dem Verlag WildStorm herausgegeben wurde.

2004 zeichnete Pacheco zunächst fünf Ausgaben der Serie Superman/Batman (#14–18), für die er erneut mit Autor Jeph Loeb gepaart wurde, und wurde schließlich Ende des Jahres, gemeinsam mit Ethan Van Sciver, Autor Geoff Johns als Zeichner für die neugestartete Serie um den Superhelden Green Lantern zugeteilt. 2006 erhielt Pacheco den Job des Stammzeichners für einen Jahrgang von Superman, die gleichnamige Hauptserie um den Science-Fiction-Helden vom Planeten Krypton. Sein Partner bei diesem Projekt war erneut Kurt Busiek.

Carlos Pacheco starb im November 2022 kurz vor seinem 61. Geburtstag an Amyotropher Lateralsklerose.

Einzelnachweise

Comic-Zeichner (Spanien)
Comic-Szenarist
Spanier
Geboren 1961
Gestorben 2022
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The cabin was cute and small, but with all we needed. Plus, a lovely touch of homemade bread and fresh butter from the local farm. The view from the main window behind the bed was simply majestic. Green hills, fresh air more green hills. We were so lucky the weather was good! On our first day we just walked around the cabin and had a well-deserved pint after so many hours in the car. We also shopped for lunch and dinner for al the week and some snacks.
Tuesday was our most ambitious day of the week. We saw the sun and said: "We're doing Pen Y Fan today". Pen Y Fan is the highest peak in South Wales with 886 metres (2,907 ft) above sea-level. I just saw nice pics of it that bf had showed me some days ago but I didn't really know what I had just signed up to :'D I'm not proud to say this, but I don't go to the gym or exercise, okay? Yes, shame on me, I tried but I can't be consistent *cries*. So the obvious happened, after 7 minutes of walking up the mountain I was already tired. And after 10 minutes, exhausted and complaining. And the latter state continued until I reached the top, lol… my poor boyfriend. Anyway, once we got to the top I couldn't believe how beautiful the view was in real life. A sea of green with curves, texture and magic was laying under my eyes. And above, only cotton clouds sprinkled in blue sky and the sun shining. Oh yeah, it was one of those moments. I finally shut my mouth and just observed the breathtaking beauty in front of me. We took the mandatory pictures after an achievement and sat down for a while. The mission of the day was completed.
On Wednesday we were both still a bit tired and sore, so we just drove to a lake, had a small picnic on a boat and then drove again to Brecons to walk the town. Oh! and then headed back to the cabin to watch England in the semi finals. Thursday was our last full day there so we decided to walk to the ruins of Longtown Castle, from the 12th century. Bf decided for us to go through a kinda creepy route where we encounter a cementery, small paths surrounded by trees, absolute silence and no humans for miles, and sheeps, many sheeps. When we finally got to the Castle we took these pics and enjoyed the history behind the place.


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O Distrito peruano de Ticapampa é um dos treze distritos que forman a Província de Recuay, situada em Ancash, pertenecente a Região de Ancash.

Transporte
O distrito de Ticapampa é servido pela seguinte rodovia:
 PE-3N, que liga o distrito de La Oroya (Região de Junín) à Puerto Vado Grande (Fronteira Equador-Peru) no distrito de Ayabaca (Região de Piura)
 AN-110, que liga a cidade de Catac ao distrito de Huantar

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Ancash
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Distritos da província de Recuay


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We are witnessing the death of the high street – but here's why we don't need to be sad about it
Chris McCrudden
The Independent June 17, 2019
News that Philip Green's Arcadia empire is safe from bankruptcy, but not without big job losses at its head office, has set off another bout of handwringing about British retail. A few more losses, the cries go, and the country's high streets and shopping centres will resemble a scene from The Walking Dead: silent but for the feeding frenzy of the next closing down sale.
It's a stark contrast to another vision of retail: where food gets delivered to your door in sustainable packaging, direct from local suppliers, while the cute new sweaters you wanted for the kids are made by a local artisan knitter. Except this isn't an ad for modern day brands such as Farmdrop or Etsy – it's what life was like on a council estate in South Shields in the early 1960s.
My parents grew up on the Whiteleas estate in South Tyneside, which my dad recently reminded me had no shops when first moved onto it. Only later were they to be serviced by the local grocers, owned by Mr Meeks then Mr Singh, and Betty's, which opened on Christmas Day because poor Betty didn't get on with her husband.
But before that there was the milkman, the grocer's van, the fish van and a bloke from Rington's who'd sell you tea and coconut snowballs. Meanwhile children's knitwear could – if you didn't stretch to Polly Flinders' prices – be bought from various women who, if memory serves, thought of a knitting pattern as more of a rough guideline. My gran was the archetypal spoiled millennial: an enthusiastic participant in the on-demand economy who worked hard but could never afford to buy her own home.
This comparison might seem a little forced, but so is the prevailing view that British commercial life without a high street of familiar names may as well be a nuclear wasteland. There has always been more than one model for retailers to sell stuff. Some went door-to-door, others sold through the catalogues and press adverts. But between the 1960s and the early 2000s, retail became all about scale and efficiency meaning fewer, yet bigger shops.
The number of shops in the United Kingdom has been decreasing for at least a century. A study in the 1920s estimated that there were 950,000 shops in the so-called nation of shopkeepers; 583,000 in 1950 and just over 300,000 shops in the UK by 1997. By then these were highly efficient businesses. Self-service meant they needed fewer staff per shop, even if that meant they had to introduce measures like rigid plastic packaging to protect fragile goods.
They moved out of town because it was better for parking, stayed open longer and grew average shop takings from £5,000 per store in 1950 to £35,000 in 1997. At the same time the newspapers were full of think pieces lamenting the death of slower, service-led and home delivery businesses like the local milkman or the Grattan catalogue. The big shop's dominance over our wallets and our discourse occluded other ways of reaching the customer, so we forgot them.
That was 20 years ago and the role internet giants like Amazon have played in dismantling this model of retail is well known. There is, however, another factor that we think about far less when talking about the demise of the high street: the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT).
A financial instrument created in 1960, it allowed small investors to invest in commercial property via dedicated funds. It meant commercial property funds could pour billions into the shopping centres and out-of-town retail parks needed for big, efficient shopping. And it also meant they could extract billions more in rent from retailers.
Like all booms, the people involved convinced themselves it would go on forever, but of course it hasn't. In January this year, figures from the British Retail Consortium and Springboard reported 10 per cent of all retail spaces in the UK were vacant and as long as retailers like Arcadia Group keep faltering this isn't likely to improve.
Soon we might look back at the long property boom that turned shops into futuristic spaces in the same way that we do the opulent picture palaces of the 1920s and '30s. Their owners saw extravagance and scale as a way to make serious amounts of money, and then learned how expensive these spaces are to run when people start going elsewhere.
But where are they going? The internet, or maybe they're not shopping at all. Whether it's because of falling wages, fears over sustainability or people just feeling like they have too much stuff, the future of British retail looks smaller, more service-led and less reliant on shops.
We've come full circle on a trend that began in the 19th century, when shopping stopped being about the goods and started being about shops. Businesses like Hello Fresh or Farmdrop might feel like decadent nonsense to a generation used to doing a weekly shop in Asda, but another way of looking at them is a reversion to a time when shopping was what you bought not where you went. I'm sure my gran would have been scandalised by "recipe box" company Hello Fresh's prices, but she'd also have understood the principle.


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Q: DataTrigger linked to resourse. Xamarin.Forms Need to change Page Background. I have such class:
class DataClass:INotifyPropertyChanged
{
    private string currentTheme;

    public string CurrentTheme
    {
        get { return currentTheme; }
        set
        {
            currentTheme = value;
            OnPropertyChanged("CurrentTheme");
        }
    }

    public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;

    public void OnPropertyChanged(string property)
    {
        PropertyChanged?.Invoke(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(property));
    }
}

Have Data and Style in ResourseDictionary of my app:
<local:DataClass x:Key="Data" CurrentTheme="Default"/>

        <!-- Styles -->

        <Style x:Key="Page"
               TargetType="ContentPage">

            <Style.Triggers>

                <!-- Need to bind it to Data-->
                <DataTrigger >
                  <Setter Property="BackgroundColor"
                          Value="Aqua"/>
                </DataTrigger>

            </Style.Triggers>

        </Style>

Can't bind DataTrigger to Data.CurrentTheme. Tried BindingContext but mostly have errors. Pls, help

A: If you are trying to theme your application and needs to change the theme in between, then you will be better of using the new Xamarin.Forms Themes. You can either use the pre built light and dark theme via nuget or create your own local themes and use it through out your application.
Creating a Custom Theme walks you through all the steps in detail on how to create the theme and use it.
DataTriggers are very similar to PropertyTriggers, except that instead of specifying the Property, we specify the Binding for the trigger. This Binding generally refers to another VisualElement's property on the page or it could reference a property in a ViewModel.
Eg : To disable the button when the entry's Text.Length property is 0.
<StackLayout Spacing="20">
<Entry x:Name="emailAddress" Text="" Placeholder="email address"/>
<Button Text="Send">
  <Button.Triggers>
    <DataTrigger TargetType="Button"
         Binding="{Binding Source={x:Reference emailAddress},Path=Text.Length}" Value="0">
      <Setter Property="IsEnabled" Value="False" />
    </DataTrigger>
  </Button.Triggers>
</Button>
</StackLayout>

If you need more information then read Data Triggers and Triggers in Xamarin.Forms


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Initial Consultation and Regulation 6 Notification
REGULATION 6 NOTIFICATION OF DETERMINATION THAT IMPROVEMENT WORKS ARE LIKELY TO HAVE SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT – THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (LAND DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENT WORKS) REGULATIONS 1999 (AS AMENDED)
This notice has been prepared by the Parrett Internal Drainage Board ('PIDB') in accordance with the requirements of The Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) Regulations 1999 (As Amended), referred to as 'the Regulations' in this notice.
The PIDB is proposing to carry out dredging and associated activities along 2.2km of the River Parrett between Stathe bridge and Burrowbridge, and have made a determination as required by Regulation 4, taking into account the criteria set out in Schedules 2 and 2A of the Regulations, that the proposed improvement works are likely to have significant effects on the environment due to their location (Schedule 2, 2. (c) (i) and (v)) and potential impact (Schedule 2, 3. (a), (f), (g), and (h)) in the absence of changes to the design and/or mitigation. This is summarised in Section 4 of the Screening and Scoping report.
The PIDB must make a determination of whether the proposed improvement works should proceed, and the PIDB intends to prepare an Environmental Statement to assess the significance of the likely effects on a series of environmental factors outlined in Section 5 of the Screening and Scoping report.
The Screening and Scoping report can be downloaded from the Somerset Drainage Boards Consortium Projects web page:
and is available for viewing at the Langport Library, Whatley, Langport, TA10 9RA between 29 May and 7 June 2019 during its normal opening times:
Monday, Tuesday, Friday 9.30am to 4.30pm
Thursday 9.30am to 5pm
Saturday 9.30am to 12.30pm
Comments or questions can be submitted to the Parrett Internal Drainage Board by post or email up until the 7 June 2019:
Post: Bradbury House, 33-34 Market Street, Highbridge, Somerset, TA9 3BW
Email: admin@somersetdbs.co.uk
Once the Environmental Statement has been prepared it will undergo a statutory consultation of 30 days in accordance with Regulation 10.
Public consultation begins on River Parrett dredging proposal
A public consultation about proposals to dredge the River Parrett between Stathe and Burrowbridge begins on Wednesday, 1 May and continues until Saturday, 1 June.
The scheme is being led for Somerset Rivers Authority (SRA) by the Parrett Internal Drainage Board (IDB), working closely with the Environment Agency and Natural England. The SRA is using Growth Deal funding from the Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership.
The aim of the proposed works is to help the SRA reduce flood risks across a large part of the Somerset Levels and Moors that were badly affected in winter 2013-14 and summer 2012.
This dredge is particularly important because it would supplement other dredges of the Parrett and Tone since 2014. It would also tie in with other projects, such as enhancing the River Sowy (also known as the Parrett Flood Relief Channel) and King's Sedgemoor Drain.
If it's approved, set-up works could start on-site in August, with dredging expected to begin in September. Further necessary works such as monitoring and ecological improvements would continue into 2020. (The photo at the top of this page shows part of the River Parrett – not far from Stathe Road – that's being considered in these proposed works.)
David Mitchell, SRA Senior Manager, said: "Around 16 months' hard work has gone into drawing up these plans for dredging between Stathe and Burrowbridge. We believe that the scheme we're now proposing is a good scheme that will help us to protect people and properties, and enhance the environment.
"This will be the biggest new dredge that we've done on the Parrett since the summer of 2016. To find out more please go to one of the consultation sessions we're running this May, or look at the information that's available online, and let us know your views."
Public drop-in sessions in Langport and Burrowbridge
Two drop-in consultation events are being held, to give people chance to look at display boards and other materials, ask questions and fill in feedback forms:
Tuesday, 14 May 2019 at Burrowbridge Coronation Hall, West Yeo Road, Burrowbridge, TA7 0RH between 12 noon and 7pm
Wednesday, 15 May 2019 at Great Bow Wharf, Bow Street, Langport, TA10 9PN between 12 noon and 7pm
Consultation materials
Copies of materials prepared for these consultation events are available online, and feedback forms can also be downloaded, here as PDFs:
River Parrett dredging proposal public consultation display boards May 2019
River Parrett dredging proposal Environmental Impact Assessment Screening and Scoping Report May 2019
River Parrett dredging proposal feedback form May 2019
Documents can also be found on the Somerset Rivers Authorty website: https://www.somersetriversauthority.org.uk/public-consultation-river-parrett-begins-dredging-proposal/
Completed feedback forms can be emailed to admin@somersetdbs.co.uk or posted to Somerset Drainage Boards Consortium, 33-34 Market Street, Highbridge, Somerset, TA9 3BW.
Alternatively, feedback forms can be filled in and submitted online at https://arcg.is/1PjGbT.
Consultation process summary
The process of statutory consultation required for improvement works such as dredging is set out in the Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) Regulations 1999 (as amended). This summer will see an Environmental Statement produced with an opportunity for formal consultation on the document and final scheme. Following this formal consultation period, a view will be taken with regard to the commencement of works.
The proposed dredging of the watercourse between Stathe and Burrowbridge is considered to be an instance of 'improvement works' as defined under Regulation 2 (1) of the Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) Regulations. These improvement works are in their turn considered to be a development activity that falls within the Environment Agency's permitted development rights under Class D of Part 13 (water and sewerage) of Schedule 2 to the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015.
The proposed works would be carried out for Somerset Rivers Authority by the Parrett Internal Drainage Board (IDB) under powers delegated by the Environment Agency through a Public Sector Cooperation Agreement (PSCA). Although the works are considered to be permitted development, the Parrett IDB also has to satisfy the formal process of examining the project in detail in accordance with the Environmental Impact Assessment (Land Drainage Improvement Works) Regulations 1999 (as amended).
Hence this summer's consultation process.
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is an impartial and systematic process that ensures that the environmental effects of a proposed development are fully considered and taken into account before it proceeds. It draws upon a detailed understanding of current environmental effects (known as the baseline), information gathered during consultation, and from a detailed understanding of potential effects from the development itself. The findings of an EIA are reported in a document called an Environmental Statement (ES) which has to meet certain legal standards, broadly incorporating main headings, topics to be considered, organisations that need to be consulted, stages of the project, timescales, and types of effects and mitigation that need to be taken into account.
The final design of the project, and the conclusions of the ES, will also be informed by a separate Water Framework Directive Compliance Assessment, an Appropriate Assessment (Stage 2 Habitats Regulations Assessment) as required by the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017, and governed by the requirements of the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010.
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Getting a quality education isn't a matter of chance . . .it's a matter of choice. Attending Delaware Tech opens your world to choices, possibilities and opportunities. Delaware Technical Community College is your statewide institution of higher education. The College is fully committed to serving every part of the state through its four conveniently located campuses: Dover, Georgetown, Stanton and Wilmington. Delaware Tech educates more than 40,000 students each year, 92% of whom are Delawareans. More than 25% of Delaware residents have taken courses on one of Delaware Tech's four campuses. Delaware Tech offers various distance education opportunities, including online, hybrid, video conferencing, and web conferencing courses.
The College and its campuses are accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, 3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. (267-284-5000). The Middle States Commission on Higher Education is an institutional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. In addition, several curricula have earned program-based accreditation by various professional organizations.
The Board of Trustees of Delaware Technical Community College is the governing body of the institution. All members are appointed by the Governor of the State of Delaware with the consent of a majority of the State Senate. Six members are appointed for three-year terms - one from the City of Wilmington, one from New Castle County outside of the City of Wilmington, one from Kent County and one from Sussex County, with the remaining two from anywhere in the State. The seventh member, the Chairperson, is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of, the Governor. No more than four members may be of the same political party. The Board of Trustees sets policy for the College and is responsible for ensuring that the institutional mission is carried out. Among its numerous responsibilities, the Board approves the College plan, is responsible for the management and control of the institution, has the power to appoint administrative and teaching staff, sets the tuition rate, and approves fees. The Board also reviews fiscal matters and approves budgets.
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Katlyn Swan 2021 Sterling Scholar Runner-up in FCS
Submitted by seth.spainhower on Fri, 03/19/2021 - 11:04
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Our very own Katlyn Swan--Family and Consumer Sterling Scholar was named runner-up at last night's virtual 2021 Sterling Scholar Awards Ceremony. Katlyn serves as president of the culinary team and is an integral member of the FCCLA club here at SFHS. To give back to her community Katlyn sews stuffed animals to give to children with cancer and makes and donates quilts for newborn babies.
You can watch the ceremony on the KSL News YouTube channel. (FCS Category at timestamp 9:39 to 11:41) here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ5YaUXAOf0&ab_channel=KSLNews
Congratulations Katlyn! We are so proud of you.
Shauna Whittekiend


This will require not only a comprehensive managerial framework, but also strong political will and focus to tackle a rapidly worsening situation and ensure long-term sustainability of the resource.
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict has significantly damaged the water/waste water infrastructure in Gaza and the West Bank. This in turn has had a significant negative impact on the Palestinian people in both areas. The lack of access to a consistent, sufficient, safe and affordable water supply and the absence of an effective wastewater sanitation system not only adds to their daily suffering but also poses a health and safety risk.
Occupation of land, control of water resources and the political nature of decision-making processes make water management in Palestine highly complex.