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Q: How to record web/browser audio output (not microphone audio) Has anyone successfully been able to access the audio stream that is being outputted from the browser window (not from the microphone)?
We are currently building a sound studio app where the user can play an instrument and we want to be able to record and save that audio as it is being generated. We have real-time audio output being generated by locally saved mp3 files (i.e. on pressing piano keys), but have no way of capturing this audio stream sequence to save it.

A: I assume you're using the Web Audio API for this project.
First, you need to create a MediaStreamAudioDestinationNode.  This is a Web Audio node that you can connect the rest of your graph to, and have it output to a MediaStream which can be recorded.
const mediaStreamDestination = audioContext.createMediaStreamDestination();

yourSourceNode.connect(mediaStreamDestination);

Next, you need a MediaRecorder which will take the raw PCM audio as the MediaStream produces it, and encode it with the desired codec.
const mediaRecorder = new MediaRecorder(mediaStreamDestination.stream);

mediaRecorder.addEventListener('dataavailable', (e) => {
  // Recorded data is in `e.data`
});

mediaREcorder.start();

Note that this MediaRecorder example is the exact same, no matter whether your MediaStream is sourced from getUserMedia, or from your Web Audio API graph.
Full example here:  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaStreamAudioDestinationNode

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Boomers vs. millennials: Social media fueling generational war of words
Fueled by social media, generations are being pitted against each other in a way that's not so OK.
By Karen Heller Washington Post
This past year it became OK to be ageist. It became acceptable to digitally flick off your elders or young'uns on social media, to respond "OK boomer" or "OK millennial," when, in truth, the people being addressed were often far from OK.
While many people — though certainly not all — try to be more sensitive about race, orientation and heritage, ageist tropes ran rampant.
"Age-based prejudice is the last acceptable form of prejudice," says New York University's Michael North, who studies ageism in the workplace. "People are making age-based generalizations and stereotypes that you wouldn't be able to get away with about race or background. Insert some sort of racial or ethnic group, or 'OK woman,' and it wouldn't go over too well."
In 2019, the baby boom was blamed for almost everything: the fate of the planet, Congress, college debt, plastic straws, the ending of "Game of Thrones." An entire generation was perceived to be operating as a giant monolith, mind-melded in its intention to make young people miserable for the rest of their long lives. Never mind that old people were once young, struggling, loaded with debt, facing a lousy job market, expensive housing, inflation.
The sewer of mockery flowed both ways, upstream and down. It was funny, except when it wasn't. If young folk derided "the olds" for leaving an environmental and fiscal mess, the baby boom was happy to sling verbal mud in their direction.
After "OK boomer" erupted, AARP senior vice president and editorial director Myrna Blyth said in an interview with Axios, "OK, millennials, but we're the people that actually have the money."
Environmental activist Greta Thunberg, 16, was anointed Time's Person of the Year. "The Power of Youth" declares the cover. Thunberg, in her September United Nations climate summit address, squarely put responsibility on earlier generations: "You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal."
Generational conflict has been around since adolescents perfected the eye roll. But children were long instructed to respect age and refrain from talking back, no matter how ludicrous their elders' behavior. The practice held until the outsized, outspoken and oxygen-sucking baby boom reached adolescence and early adulthood.
More than half a century ago, young people sang of generational disdain ("I hope I die before I get old") and preached it ("Don't trust anyone over 30") until they stopped because the treacherous enemy had become them. In 1969, "ageism" literally became a thing, coined by psychiatrist and gerontologist Robert Butler, the first director of the National Institute on Aging.
A quipping contest
What distinguishes these latest ageist salvos are their intensity and frequency. It's an intergenerational quipping contest, fueled by the rapid, reductionist and unrestrictive nature of social media, which makes it far too easy to cast verbal stones. "Social media amplifies previously latent sentiment," North says.
"My generation grew up having the internet as a big part of our life," says Shannon O'Connor, 19, a student at Montclair State University in New Jersey, who was resourceful enough to transform "OK boomer" into an apparel line. "Newer generations aren't afraid to speak up about what is upsetting them. The internet is where you dump your frustrations."
Age groups tend to segregate on distinct platforms, creating echo chambers of consensus. Gen Z and millennials prefer Instagram, YouTube and TikTok (the latter is where "OK boomer" first gained momentum), while their parents and grandparents favor Facebook.
As with any bias, it became common to castigate an entire group for the behavior of an individual. Why target one person when you could blame millions? Consequently, the dire state of the planet was pinned on one generation, while another was chided for insolence and ignorance.
"These comments may be heartfelt, but there's very little substance. It obscures the complexity of generational difference," says Jay Sokolovsky, a cultural anthropologist at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. "We need to go beyond the simplistic. It's a form of blaming a generation for the problems we're having in society."
Not everyone agrees.
"I think 'OK boomer' is funny. Newer generations aren't afraid to speak up," says Malick Mercier, 20, a self-described "next-gen storyteller" and Ithaca College sophomore. "Older people tell us we're always on our phone. I feel like I'm on my voice, talking about things that matter to me."
And he says that generalizations can hold true.
"If boomers had actually listened to our generation," Mercier says, "instead of explaining everything to us, I'm not sure 'OK boomer' would have happened."
Badmouthing the future
An unprecedented six generations, as defined by the Pew Research Center, coexist at one time: silent (born 1928-1945), boomers (1946-1964), Gen X (1965-1980), millennials (1981-1996), Gen Z (1997-2012), and To Be Named Later (tykes born after 2012).
For centuries, geriatrician Louise Aronson says, civilization was divided into three stages as they related to family, not society: childhood, adulthood and what she deems elderhood, the title of her latest book.
"Human instinct is to categorize people. That part isn't new," Aronson says. "What's new is making it so generational."
The moment a group is identified and named, people want to assign it characteristics, whether they're shared or not. The names themselves are often folly. Is the silent generation, also dubbed "the greatest generation" by Tom Brokaw's 1998 book on the topic, universally silent or singularly great?
"It's not always clear where the names come from and who is making these definitions," North says.
Historically, a generation spanned 20 to 30 years. Counterintuitively, at a time when people are waiting longer to have children, they've contracted to 15.
"Age is the only universal social category. Unlike race, gender or socioeconomic status, age has this inevitability, assuming you live long enough," North says. "It's this paradox, given that we're all in this together, that I'm going to be there one day, and we're making these comments."
Any day now, boomers won't be blamed for everything.
According to Pew's analysis of census projections, this is the year that millennials are scheduled to surpass the baby boom in sheer size. By 2028, Gen X is also projected to be larger than the baby boom, so we'll probably start blaming them.
In the meantime, perhaps the generations need to be kinder to one another.
"Maybe you shouldn't be degrading us," says O'Connor, who has sold more than 6,000 pieces of "OK boomer" merch since October.
"It's a lighthearted joke," she says. "In the end, we're all human. We're all the same in the end. We can't really hold an entire generation to the behavior of a few."
Besides, the "OK boomer" sales help pay her tuition.
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Newtown Grant es un lugar designado por el censo ubicado en el condado de Bucks en el estado estadounidense de Pensilvania. En el año 2000 tenía una población de 3,887 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 1,954.6 personas por km².

Geografía
Newtown Grant se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas .

Demografía
Según la Oficina del Censo en 2000 los ingresos medios por hogar en la localidad eran de $74,435 y los ingresos medios por familia eran $83,500. Los hombres tenían unos ingresos medios de $65,078 frente a los $41,318 para las mujeres. La renta per cápita para la localidad era de $33,485. Alrededor del 2.2% de la población estaba por debajo del umbral de pobreza.

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Audit Office shines a light on procurement
The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has released a major report on procurement in the Federal Government.
It is an information report that says it is "not an audit nor an assurance review" and that no conclusions or opinions are represented. But it does present a useful overview of government procurement.
The report is based on a comprehensive analysis of contract data from all Australia Government Departments and agencies over the last five years. It does say that "contract notices may be amended or updated, which would impact on the analysis. In addition, contract notifications may not reflect actual expenditure in each instance."
Nevertheless, the data makes interesting reading. Some key points:
Total Australian Government procurement in 2016-17 was $47.4 billion, from 64,092 separate contracts.
By far the largest agency, in terms of both number and value of contracts, is the Department of Defence (including the Defence Materiel Organisation). In the five years to 30 June 2017, that total value of its procurement exceeded $112 billion. The Department of Immigration and Border Protection was a distant second, on $15.3 billion.
The largest item across all agencies was 'commercial and military and private vehicles and their accessories and components', at $42 billion. Defence was responsible for most of this.
Contracts for consultancy rose from just under $400 million in 2012-13 to nearly $700 million in 2016-17.
Contracts with the 'Big Four' consultancy firms (Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PwC) reached nearly $2 billion over the five years, with 2014-15 and 2015-16 the biggest years.
July is by far the most common month for contracts to start.
The report breaks down contracts by type of tender, by location, all across various agencies. It looks at the usage of panels, the size of organisations awarded contracts, confidentiality provisions (and the reasons for them), the frequency of contract amendments, and much more.
It is a goldmine of information, if you're interested in that sort of thing. The report is available here.
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Goa Journal, January 2009
Savoring the Drift
It's been nearly two months since we were in this haven of mental comfort. Daytime temperatures are in the 30s Celsius (80s Fahrenheit); at night the mercury drops into the teens Celsius (60s Fahrenheit); the weather is perfect. In the interim, we've been part of a hectic social life in Delhi, confronting a grim business scenario and watching the politicians and bureaucrats respond ineptly to the Bombay terror attacks and to the global economic crisis.
Even worse, the major opposition party has betrayed its nationalist platform, choosing to berate rather support the government in its handling of the Bombay crisis; it doesn't know enough to challenge the government's response to the economic meltdown. Under the circumstances, even though the government came under fire for its inept response in Bombay, the opposition party was shown up to be an opportunist, seeking to milk any and all situations in the hope of narrow political gain.
Leaving all that behind, we are here with our long-loved friends: talking about books and films, architecture and agriculture, business and finance; now sitting in a beach shack, next swimming in the sea, or having dinner at home, listening to music that stirs the soul under a sky embroidered with a zillion stars. One afternoon, we exhilarated in the film, Slumdog Millionaire, an uplifting and entertaining account of the experiences of minorities in a rapidly changing India. Before that, we sat in picturesque café near Panjim's Miramar Beach, anticipating the richly awarded film.
The four-year old multiplex, which screened the film, is the best I have seen: a slick glass and chrome building in a shady plaza across from the Mandovi River promenade in downtown Panjim; surrounded by gems of Portuguese colonial architecture including the Maquinez Palace. What struck me as we arrived at the plaza was the presence of a television crew. "Might they be doing a feature on the excellent architecture and the blend of the modern and traditional aspect of Goa?" I wondered. Moments later a bunch of dyspeptic-looking middle-aged and young men, ignorance writ large on their faces, arrived at the spot and unfurled protest banners identifying themselves as members of a Hindu revivalist group.
Not just me but a whole bunch of others including foreigners asked them what they were protesting. Their spokesman, not looking at me, addressed the white man: "The movie is an insult to our god Rama." How? Clearly, they had not seen the film; after all, it was just the second commercial screening that day; the Hindi version debuted at 1.30 pm; we had tickets for the first show in English at 4 pm. Anyway, the Hindu revivalists had been told to protest so dutifully, they showed up. "Even if the film offends you and you have the right to protest," I asked their leader, "do you know the Indian Constitution guarantees the freedom of expression?" He'd never heard of the Constitution. So I gave up on him and walked into the theater.
The film has been nominated for 10 Oscars and that is awesome. It is wrong to crow that this is the first Indian movie to be so hugely recognized. It is not Indian, only its theme is. It is an absorbing film that should at the very least win the Best Editing award. While we were in the auditorium, the lackadaisical Hindu group had been supplanted by more militant Shiv Sena storm troopers, who set about destroying posters and threatening violence unless the screening was stopped. Mercifully, the police showed up to drag them away and all went well that ended well.
Such fringe, Taliban-style attacks are erupting all over the place, most recently in Mangalore where Hindu fundamentalist thugs assaulted men and women enjoying music and dancing at a pub. Such people are encouraged in states where the government is perceived as weak or as a promoter of Hindu fundamentalism. That such lumpen groups feel free to disrupt, destroy and terrorize innocent citizens is further evidence of the utter failure of governance. When governments all across the country acquiesced in the renaming of major cities and urban landmarks under pressure from such groups, we shouldn't be surprised if such events occur and multiply.
So much for our dose of grim reality! After that experience at the movies, we spent a laidback evening with friends talking about vegetable dyes and fabrics and plants and trees, with a great meal thrown in. By the time we bade farewell to our friends, we had virtually forgotten about the incident. Many thoughtful commentators in Goa and elsewhere have lamented the rise of gated communities that separate the new India from its old timeless regime of poverty and numbing tradition. That's true; more worrisome is the huge mindset gap. There is much to criticize about the divides of class, caste and religion. We should wake up to the biggest rift of all: the awareness chasm, which divides illiberal and liberal opinion.
Even so, Goa claimed us with its sensuous charms. We spent the next day languorously, sitting on armchairs, reading books and watching television, especially an episode of the BBC's wondrous series on Mathematics. Somehow in Goa, since the senses are sated, we look to stimulate the mind. Dinner was at a shack on the beach, talking about Obama and the amazing ability of the American political system to throw up leaders with a forward vision and a plan to change things.
And so the days pass in Goa: the mind is rejuvenated and the body sheds accumulated stresses. You sleep soundly and wake up refreshed, looking forward to a breakfast of poi, the wonderful pita-style bread that's delivered fresh each morning, and fresh fruit like figs. You can almost feel the toxins draining out of the system and the mind refreshed. Every now and then, you spend an afternoon on the beach, communing with the sun and sand, bathing in the gentle swells of the sea. The food is fresh; your taste buds are more alive and you can drift off on a sun bed while reading a pulp novel.
Soon it will be time to return to the storm-tossed world of urban India. But you feel better-equipped to handle it, especially knowing that soon you can come again and be part of the timelessness of this haven.
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Done deal as Mikel Arteta completed Arsenal first summer signing of Brazilian winger, announcement soon
Arsenal have completed the signing of Sao Paulo winger Marquinhos, it has been reported.
The club's struck a deal hitting around the £3 million mark for the Brazilian teenager, who has signed a deal until June 2027.
It was previously reported that Wolves would make the deal harder to complete as they had reportedly signed a pre-agreement with the player, however these obstacles appear to have subsided and Arsenal have now completed the deal.
Fabrizio Romano, respected football journalist, reported the news this morning.
It's yet to be seen if Marquinhos will provide competition for the likes of Bukayo Saka, Emile Smith Rowe and Gabriel Martinelli out wide for Arsenal or if he will be sent back out on loan.
The 19 year old adds to Arsenal's growing Brazilian influence at the club, with Martinelli, Gabriel already at the club and the reported incoming of Gabriel Jesus.
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Last year up to one in five youngsters in some parts of the country missed out on their parents' top choice of school, although efforts by local authorities to provide more places averted a serious overall shortage, as funds were diverted from repair programmes to create extra classroom space.
Now, however, as official projections show demand rising over the next four years, local authorities are warning that funding pressures, coupled with policies that will prevent them building new schools or forcing existing ones to expand, will take the crisis to new levels.
With concerns mounting among Tory MPs over the direction of education policy, the Conservative-led Local Government Association is expected to directly challenge ministers to explain how local authorities can be expected to meet the increased demand when government plans to force all schools to become academies will strip them of any power to build new schools or force existing ones to expand.
The latest data reveals that the councils facing shortfalls in places by 2019-20 are Bolton, Manchester, Oldham, Leeds, Leicester, Birmingham, Walsall, Bexley, Greenwich, Richmond upon Thames, Sutton and Slough.
Lucinda Yeadon, executive board member for children and families at Leeds city council, said that while there would be places for all children this year, following huge efforts to provide more classrooms by converting non-classroom areas, the plan to make all schools into academies would put the council in an impossible position.
"It is totally illogical. We will have to provide yet more places because we are under a legal obligation to do so, but at the same time we will be stripped of the power to do so. We will have both hands tied behind our back," she said.
The LGA has calculated that 336,000 more places will be needed by 2024, on top of the 300,00 extra ones since 2010.
Department for Education officials said that while the estimate of a 10,000 shortfall was accurate, the deficit by 2019-20 would be made up by a rapid expansion in the number of free schools, which can be set up by parents and others. Critics of the free school programme insist, however, that many of the 400-plus already set up are not in areas of the greatest need.
Labour claimed that the Tories were trying to cover up the extent of the crisis in school places and suggested the real shortfall by 2019-20 could be as high as 85,000 and would affect almost half of all councils.
Schools minister Nick Gibb rejected Labour's claims. He said: "After the last Labour government cut 200,000 primary school places, we've been clearing up the mess they left behind. We've created 600,000 new places since 2010 – with 100,000 more in the last year alone.
Many Tory MPs joined Labour last week in expressing serious concerns about the government's plan to force all schools to become academies. Several wanted to know why the many primary schools that were already judged good or outstanding by Ofsted were being forced to undertake costly structural change when they already performed so well.
DfE officials were unable to say whether legislation on the plan to turn all schools into academies would be included in the Queen's speech next month but insisted the government was still fully committed to it.
In an interview with the Guardian on Saturday, Sir Daniel Moynihan, chief executive of the Harris Federation, which manages 37 academies in London, said teacher shortages represent a bigger problem than turning every school in England into an academy.
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Mets keep Terry Collins, plan to contend in 2014
New York Mets manager Terry Collins speaks to the media during a news conference at Citi Field on Monday.John Minchillo — The Associated Press
NEW YORK >> The entire season for the New York Mets boiled down to two dates on the calendar: "Super Tuesday" and panic Monday.
Terry Collins is coming back confident better days lie ahead.
"Maybe we can finish what we started," he said.
The manager received a two-year contract extension Monday with a club option for 2016, a move the Mets announced one day after finishing 74-88 for the second consecutive season. Collins' previous deal was about to expire, but it became increasingly clear down the stretch that he likely would return.
"In many ways, Terry had an outstanding year," general manager Sandy Alderson said. "The team never quit, continued to play hard, continued to play with the resources it had at hand and finished as well as we could have expected."
Fielding an inexperienced lineup ravaged by injuries and trades, the 64-year-old Collins kept New York competitive all summer without many of his top players — including team captain David Wright, All-Star ace Matt Harvey and closer Bobby Parnell.
Still, the rebuilding Mets were unable to overcome a 25-40 start and limped to their fifth straight losing record since moving into Citi Field. They edged Philadelphia for third place in the NL East after coming in fourth the previous four years.
"We saw some bright things that happened this year with some of our young players. Obviously, we've got some outstanding young pitching coming," Collins said. "We're going into spring training with very, very high expectations. It's time to put some wins on the board."
New York did just that during an encouraging stretch that began June 18, the day touted pitcher Zack Wheeler was called up from the minors and leadoff hitter Eric Young Jr. was obtained from Colorado.
In a doubleheader dubbed "Super Tuesday" by a city tabloid, Harvey and Wheeler pitched the Mets to a sweep at NL East champion Atlanta. From there they went 33-26 through Aug. 20, while Young's much-needed speed sparked a stagnant offense on his way to the National League stolen base crown.
But the following Monday, Aug. 26, Harvey was shut down with a partially torn ligament in his right elbow that left his status for next season uncertain. He hopes to avoid Tommy John surgery with a strengthening and throwing program, though the Mets don't sound too optimistic.
"Certainly losing Matt was a shock to the system, and I think emotionally we've all had to recover from that a little bit," Alderson said. "Even if Matt doesn't have the surgery, it's going to affect our plan."
The plan all along was to compete for a playoff spot in 2014.
With about $40 million in player salaries coming off the payroll, the Mets expect to be active in free agency. Desperate for productive bats and a steady shortstop, New York could eye outfielders Shin-Soo Choo and Nelson Cruz.
"I'm really excited about what we might be able to do this offseason," Alderson said. "Certainly we'll have more payroll flexibility than we've had since I've been here."
Alderson, Collins and chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon are part of the brain trust headed to Florida to begin organizational meetings Tuesday. Alderson said next year's budget will be set early on.
The Mets own the 10th selection in the June draft, which means they wouldn't have to forfeit it to sign a top-tier free agent who receives a qualifying offer from his previous club. The top 10 picks are protected, eliminating a significant concern.
Eager to upgrade in many areas, the Mets nevertheless will keep in mind the bloated contracts they gave to injury-prone Johan Santana and Jason Bay.
"Those are cautionary examples of what can happen," Alderson said. "It's great to say, well, we have financial flexibility and then blow it on players' deals that don't work out and put yourself right back in the same situation we were in before. At the same time, at some point you've got to go for it. So, having flexibility is great. But at some point you've got to put yourself on the line. And I think what we're going to try to do is balance the level of our commitments with the desire to continue to maintain some flexibility going forward. Not just next year, but years after that."
Trading some of their ballyhooed minor league pitching might be one way for the Mets to add offense. But that route can be risky.
"I find it tough sometimes to trade young guys. And I think that fans identify with the young guys," Alderson said. "Having said that, we're at a point now where we are in a position to make a deal for an established player (by) giving up some resources. But we have to be careful that we don't turn a strength into a weakness. And with Matt out, it makes it a little more difficult to give up the two or three guys that we know are right on the cusp."
Alderson was encouraged by New York's .500 record over the final 100 games and acknowledged that was a significant factor in the decision to keep Collins, who is 225-261 in three seasons as Mets manager. His entire coaching staff also was retained.
"We've got the base. Now we've just got to make sure guys play up to their potential," Collins said. "We have the players to do it. They've got to buy into it."
The team went 41-40 on the road this year, but both men were dismayed by a 33-48 mark at home that left the Mets a dubious 103-140 at Citi Field over the past three seasons.
"I think part of it is the player mix," Alderson said. "Part of it has got to be something to do with the home environment here, whether that's here at the ballpark, whether it's in the clubhouse, whether it's on 45th and Sixth Avenue. I don't know. There are a variety of factors that we're going to have to look at hard, because we can't allow this to continue."


The Carnegie Center for Art and History in New Albany, Indiana is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit, Earthworks: Art Quilts by Pat DaRif, Joanne Weis, & Valerie White, on display October 30 through December 30, 2009. The exhibit focuses on nature and the relationship of human beings to the earth. Each of the artists, Pat DaRif, Joanne Weis, and Valerie White—all members of the River City Fiber Artists—have recently touched on this theme in their individual art quilts. In planning for this group exhibition, the earth became a theme around which they discussed and created artworks. Each artist's works relate to different aspects of the earth. The Earthworks exhibit, opening reception, and related programs are generously sponsored by the Carnegie Center, Inc.
There will be an opening reception for Earthworks on Friday October 30 from 6 to 8 pm. Visitors can enjoy refreshments, live music by the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Quartet, and the opportunity to meet the artists featured in the exhibit. The opening reception is free and open to the public.
There are a number of free programs scheduled in conjunction with Earthworks, including two gallery talks with the artists and lectures on sustainability and other environmental topics. Please note those programs that require pre-registration (812-944-7336). Full program details are available at www.carnegiecenter.org.


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Nova è un comune dell'Ungheria di 861 abitanti (dati 2001). È situato nella provincia di Zala.

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Strive Training is launching its vocational Level 2 Warehousing and Storage course in Tottenham, following the course's success in Croydon.
Tottenham's course is backed by Orridge, a multinational stocktaking company working across UK. The company will host a group assessment for participating learners, who will also benefit from a half-day experience where learners will have a chance to practically learn about the company's processes and culture, while gaining essential practise using their warehousing equipment.
Orridge have a number of Stock Counter vacancies available. Suitable learners from the cohort will be interviewed, with successful applicants even having their first shift organised before the completion of the two-week, NCFE-accredited course.
The course runs Monday August 28th to Friday 7th September, 9.30am – 4.30pm.


This is a simple post. It is intended to cause a good-natured argument amongst professionals.
I'm more interested in how things are achieved, by whom, than perhaps by the end result. Take workplace transformation as an example. I'm not an architect or interior designer. Pictures of cool new spaces don't especially interest me. I gave up sitting in ball pools when my children grew out of them. Like my good friend Mark Eltringham, I agree that "the reality is that for the majority of people, the office of the future will be a sober and nuanced evolution of the office of the present". People like to feel that they are being treated well, their comfort and happiness is somewhat important to their employer, and they see money being spent on their new environment. But trends, fads, gimmicks and aesthetics are very personal – one will never please everyone, so I take little interest.
What really interests me (and many of my colleagues in the OJL network) is how organisations cascade their strategic aims to the various "workplace" professionals in their team. And how that team organizes itself to deliver spaces and services which are aligned and support the organization's goals.
In the past (vague, I know… lets say, 10-15 years ago +), we all talked about the Finance Director (or CFO), and what she wanted to achieve. Buildings, and fleets of buildings (real estate portfolios) were, and still are of course, a significant expense to most organizations. Cost reduction was king, and therefore the CFO was the focus. Corporate Real Estate (CRE) grew out of the 1980's onwards, and became the lead function in managing real estate. Facilities Management (FM) was operational, and mostly reported into CRE.
Of course, the CFO's office is still involved, especially in large capital programmes. But the fat on the bone of real estate portfolios has largely been well trimmed in many (most?) organizations. CRE leaders have realized that tinkering with FM costs is the proverbial water in the wind. The larger cost savings come via portfolio rationalization (as do energy savings, by default). Much of that has been done too. What's left is 'fine tuning' of buildings, to operate as closely to the ideal of the efficient factory (sweating the assets) or the efficiency of the airport, with people coming and going, checking in and checking out, throughout every day. Hot desking – or at least, fairly warm!
In the present, the focus has shifted to the Human Resources function (CHRO, if you must). Especially now that the economy in many regions has slowly dragged itself out of the deep financial malaise we all felt since 2008/9. Organizations are moving from survival mode, back to competing. And competing for 'talent' is once again a hot topic. As is getting the most out of people and resources (productivity) once an organization has successfully recruited people.
HR has grown in strength and influence (imho), and in many cases has become more strategic and future-oriented than it was in the past. Tools such as 'employee engagement metrics' provide hard data (there is literature supporting, and criticizing, most employee engagement efforts – but there is no denying it is everywhere). People are expensive, and if we know what makes them 'tick' then HR can drive transformations in many areas of the organization. Workplace is one area. It is believed (at long last) to make a difference to how people work.
…and CRE is greater than FM.
FM is still operational. This twitter discussion this afternoon convinced me of that. Once again. I don't see much change from the picture Jim Ware and I painted in the RICS-sponsored "Raising The Bar" (RTB) reports we delivered in 2012 and 2014.
We are starting work now on the third RTB study, thanks to RICS continued support. So if you violently disagree with what I have written above, do please comment below. Or email me, or Jim. We would love to hear from you.


Include a page listing the board, committee chairs, and other high-level leaders of the congregation. Include information about what each officer and committee does and how to contact them. Show a group photo of one of these groups.
Information about nearby public transportation: names of bus routes, train stops, etc.
Where to park. Consider specifying where overflow parking is located for large events (for example, high-profile memorial services).
See this sample location page on our demo site.
Include information and photographs showing how your congregation is accessible to people with a variety of abilities and disabilities. See UUA Example 1 and UUA Example 2 to build your own page about accessibility.
See the section on accessibility and disabilities for how to make your congregation more accessible.
Include pictures of spaces for rent and information about how to reserve space.
Have links to weddings, child dedications, and funerals here because some people will look for that information under Rentals.
If you have floor plans, include them too.
Be sure to include instructions so visitors know how to get more information or to arrange for a rental.
Include a photo of governance in action, such as a photo of an annual meeting. Include information about what members vote on and what committees, ministers, and staff are empowered to do. Offer links to important foundational documents like the bylaws. Because members vote, provide links to your Become a Member page.


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Free Picks » NHL Picks » Dallas Stars vs Colorado Avalanche Prediction, 11/26/2022 NHL Picks, Best Bets & Odds
Dallas Stars vs Colorado Avalanche Prediction, 11/26/2022 NHL Picks, Best Bets & Odds
by Josh Schonwald - 11/25/2022
Game: Dallas Stars vs Colorado Avalanche
Date: Saturday, November 26, 2022
TV: Altitude Sports
Odds/Point Spread: Stars (+106) Avalanche (-128)
The Dallas Stars (12-5-3) are headed to Ball Arena on Saturday where they will try to defeat the Colorado Avalanche (11-6-1). The odds on this game have the Stars at +106 and the Avalanche are coming in at -128. The over/under is set at 6.
The Dallas Stars had a good night with a 6-4 win over the Blackhawks in their last outing. Dallas recorded 9 penalty minutes for this matchup. The Stars had a good offensive outing in this win. Additionally, they had 2 opportunities with more players on the ice and were able to notch 1 goal. In the game, they were able to notch a goal on 6 out of the 39 shots they tried.
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In regard to scoring goals, the Dallas Stars have earned 79 goals (2nd in the league) for the season and have allowed 55. For the current campaign, they have recorded 27 points and their points % is .675. Dallas has accumulated 56 power play opportunities and they have tallied 17 goals during those advantages, garnering them a rate of 30.36%. At even strength, the Stars have conceded 41 goals while having 62 on offense. Dallas has attempted 613 shots and holds a shooting percentage of 12.9%. The Stars so far have had 637 shots taken against them and have earned a save percentage of .914. Dallas Stars opponents have 83 power play tries (1st in pro hockey) and have scored 14 goals in those chances.
The player protecting the goal in this game is Scott Wedgewood. Opponents have tallied 247 goals versus Wedgewood in his NHL career and his goals against rate is 3.12. Wedgewood has been involved in 85 games throughout his NHL career. His save percentage is .906 during his 4,757 minutes on the ice. He has compiled an overall mark of 27-36-15 and he was named the starter in 75 games. For his career, Wedgewood has 34 quality starts and his rate for quality starts is .453. Wedgewood has had 2,618 shots taken against him and has recorded 2,371 total saves.
When they were on the ice last, Colorado went up against the Canucks in a game where the Avalanche went home in defeat by a score of 4-3. They had 6 chances on the power play in this one and notched 2 out of those chances. The Avalanche scored 3 goals of the 36 shots on goal they took.
Colorado has put up 587 shots (24th in pro hockey) and has earned a shot percentage of 10.56%, while allowing the other team 596 shots. They have a penalty kill percentage of 77.42% on the other teams 62 power play opportunities, and their save percentage comes in at 92.3%. They have earned 64 power play opportunities and they have earned a power play percentage of 34.38%. The Avalanche have earned 40 goals at even strength and 22 goals (2nd in professional hockey) while on the power play. They have permitted 46 goals to be scored by of a combination of 32 goals at even strength and 14 goals while they were shorthanded. On the year, the Colorado Avalanche have accumulated 62 goals, 23 points, in addition to a points percentage of .639.
For the opposition you are expected to see Pavel Francouz protecting the goal. He has racked up 1,679 stops out of 1,825 shots taken, giving him a save percentage of .920. Francouz has earned a career record of 38-18-5 and has been in goal for 63 games. He has started in 54 contests and has played 3,531 mins. Francouz's quality start rate comes in at 50.0% and he has 27 quality starting assignments in his pro hockey career. His opponents are averaging 2.48 goals per contest and he has yielded 146 goals altogether.
Who will win tonight's NHL game against the spread or moneyline?
Josh's Pick: Take Dallas (+106)
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Janikowo – gmina miejsko-wiejska w Polsce położona w województwie kujawsko-pomorskim, w powiecie inowrocławskim. W latach 1975–1998 gmina administracyjnie należała do województwa bydgoskiego.

Siedzibą gminy jest Janikowo.

Według danych z 31 grudnia 2008, gminę zamieszkiwało 13 745 osób. Natomiast według danych z 31 grudnia 2017 roku gminę zamieszkiwało 13 270 osób.

Według danych z 31 grudnia 2019 roku gminę zamieszkiwało 13 067 osób.

Struktura powierzchni
Według danych z roku 2002 gmina Janikowo ma obszar 92,3 km², w tym:
 użytki rolne: 79%
 użytki leśne: 2%

Gmina stanowi 7,54% powierzchni powiatu.

Demografia
Dane z 31 grudnia 2008:

 Piramida wieku mieszkańców gminy Janikowo w 2014 roku.

Zabytki
Wykaz zarejestrowanych zabytków nieruchomych na terenie gminy:
 zespół pałacowy w Broniewicach, obejmujący: pałac z 1880; park, nr 194/A z 15.01.1986 roku
 zespół pałacowy z drugiej połowy XIX w. w miejscowości Głogówiec, obejmujący: pałac z 1924; park; folwark, nr 135/A z 15.06.1985 roku
 kościół parafii pod wezwaniem św. Jana Chrzciciela z 1460 roku w Janikowie, nr 123/31 AK z 11.03.1931 roku
 zespół dworski z końca XIX w. w Kołodziejewie, obejmujący: dwór; park, nr 186/A z 15.01.1986 roku
 zespół pałacowy z połowy XIX w. w Kołudzie Małej, obejmujący: pałac; park; ogrodzenie z bramą, nr A/458/1-3 z 20.10.1995 roku
 zespół dworski w Kołudzie Wielkiej, obejmujący: dwór z 1880; park z połowy XIX w., nr 120/A z 30.09.1985 roku
 zespół kościelny parafii pod wezwaniem św. Mikołaja w Ludziskach, obejmujący: kościół z 1865 roku; cmentarz przykościelny; ogrodzenie, nr A/506/1-3 z 06.05.1998 roku
 kościół parafii pod wezwaniem św. Piotra i Pawła z przełomu XV/XVI w. w Trlągu, nr A/839 z 09.03.1933 roku.

Miejscowości
Wsie sołeckie: Broniewice, Dębowo, Dobieszewice, Głogówiec, Góry, Kołodziejewo, Kołuda Mała, Kołuda Wielka, Ludzisko, Sielec, Trląg, Wierzejewice

Pozostałe: Balice, Dębina, Dobieszewiczki, Jetanowo, Korytkowo, Nowe Osiedle, Ołdrzychowo, Pałuczyna, Sahara, Skalmierowice, Sosnówiec

Sąsiednie gminy
Dąbrowa, Inowrocław, Mogilno, Pakość, Strzelno

Przypisy


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by Jennifer Wilson
"Where's all this going to go when none of us are here to make it available or share it with people?" is a question that Chris Wilde asked himself years ago when he realized that many queer zines were ending up in people's private collections. "Instead of work being passively collected, why not preserve the work and make it accessible?" This seed of an idea has grown into the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP), brainchild of Wilde and his partner, Milo Miller. I spoke with the enthusiastic, punk-haired pair at QZAP headquarters, also the living room of their Riverwest flat. While we talked, a volunteer quietly scanned zines, turning print into code. These electronic copies of printed publications will be systematically entered into a free, searchable, web-based archive of work that is either authored by queer-identified zinesters (people who create zines) or have queer-related topics and issues as their primary content. While there isn't a simple, agreed-upon answer to the question, "What is a zine?", for the purposes of QZAP, Wilde and Miller characterize zines as printed works that are independently self-published in small print runs on a low budget. They range from multi-page booklets to single page flyers. "Queer" is also difficult to define. "If someone identifies themselves as queer, that's good enough for me. We will err on the side of inclusiveness, not exclusivity," Miller says emphatically. Their partnership began in 2000 when they met at a radical queer conference in San Francisco. They discovered they shared a passion for zines and a commitment to expanding people's access to publications that they believe are culturally important contributions to the queer community. According to www.qzap.org, the project's mission is to establish a "living history" archive of past and present queer zines and to encourage current and emerging zine publishers to continue to create. Zines provide a forum for controversial and dissonant voices and can "provide an alternative viewpoint for people who are in the process of coming out or exploring issues about sexuality. They can see what people outside of the mainstream have written about in terms of their experiences or notions about the queer experience," Wilde says. Miller adds, "This is about us not dropping the ball" in terms of continuing the legacy of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender activists. "There's a whole history that has been written and printed, and it's just a question of finding it and making it available." They use Owl OpenSource software to index the archives. Volunteer programmer Quinn Madson notes that the server is generously provided by Node Coffee Shop, 1504 E. North Ave. Miller and Wilde are proud that QZAP is based in Riverwest and are always thinking of ways to share their expertise and resources with the community. Their dream is to someday have a physical space for a reading room filled with zines from the archive, operate a resource center for zine publishers, and provide free web and computer access for people who would otherwise fall into the "digital divide." There are plenty of opportunities for anyone wishing to support QZAP. "We're always looking for help!" Wilde says. Volunteers can assist with scanning zines or reading and summarizing zine content in order to facilitate the archiving process. Donations are also welcome, particularly duplicating and web-hosting services. You can browse the archive at www.qzap.org. To contact Miller and Wilde, please e-mail
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> WP138 Mystic Topaz and Silver Pendant.
WP138 Mystic Topaz and Silver Pendant.
The almost rainbow effect of the colours in this mystic topaz pendant will catch everyones eye. This beautiful stone (12mmx10mm) is set into a sterling silver pendan which comes complete with an 18" silver box chain. A very pretty pendant.


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Michel-Joseph Melchior (Auvelais, 3 april 1857 - 16 augustus 1935) was een Belgisch senator en burgemeester.

Levensloop
Melchior was een van de zes kinderen van Antoine Melchior (1829-1892) en van Florence Gérard (1826-1899). Hij trouwde in 1891 in Auvelais, met Ludivine Gobert (1864-1955) en ze hadden drie kinderen.

Beroepshalve handelaar in ijzerwaren, sloot hij zich aan bij de socialisten en werd in 1887 verkozen tot gemeenteraadslid in Auvelais. Hij werd er schepen (1900-1904 en 1908-1921) en burgemeester (vanaf 1921). Hij zorgde in 1925 voor de bouw van een nieuw gemeentehuis, nadat het vorige in 1919 in volle dag volledig in de vlammen was opgegaan.

In december 1921 werd hij verkozen tot socialistisch provinciaal senator voor Namen, maar hij nam al in maart 1922 ontslag. Van 1925 tot 1935 was hij ook provincieraadslid.

Er is een Rue Michel Melchior in Auvelais.

Literatuur
 Paul VAN MOLLE, Het Belgisch Parlement, 1894-1972, Antwerpen, 1972.

Burgemeester van een voormalige Waalse gemeente
Belgisch senator
Naams schepen
BWP-politicus
Naams provincieraadslid


When former chef Adam Smith opened a small cafe in Britain's industrial north two years ago, serving up dishes with food destined for the scrap heap, he had big aspirations: To fight global food waste. "From day one I set out to feed the world and I intend to do that," the Yorkshireman ambitiously said, as he charted the growth of his ethical empire, the Real Junk Food Project (RJFP). From its humble roots in a community center in the deprived Armley district of Leeds in northern England, the project now has around 120 affiliated cafes around the world, including in Australia, France, South Korea, the U.S. and, most recently, Nigeria.


Altaba Inc. (NASDAQ:AABA) recently had a high trading volume day. The volume for the company on 19-Mar-19 was recorded to be 4877226 contracts. Over the past one week, the average daily trading volume came in at about 4219220 shares per day. The regular trading started at $73.78 but as the trading progresses, the stock escalated, ending the session with a gain of 0.23%. Its shares last exchanged hands at a price of $73.95 apiece.
According to 1 stock analysts, Altaba Inc., is being kept at an average Outperform, rating, with at least 6.34% of shares outstanding that are currently legally short sold. The shares of the corporation went up by 8.97% during the previous month. So far this year, the stock had gone up by 27.63%. With these types of results, analysts are more optimistic than before, leading 1 of analysts who cover Altaba Inc. (NASDAQ:AABA) to advise their clients to include it in their buy candidate list. However, on the Street, the shares for the company have been tagged a $76 price target, indicating that the shares will rally 2.77% from its current levels. At the moment, the stock is trading for about -10.31% less than its 52-week high.
Revenue for the most recent quarter grew by -18.64% from the last quarter, totaling $1.2 billion.
The shares of the company (AABA) staged the smart recovery and have roared back some 35.07% after stumbling to its new 52-weeks low. The share price volatility of the stock remained at 1.21% for the week and by increasing the timeframe to a month, the volatility stood at 1.71%. As for the share price, it has gone above the 20 days moving average and is now hovering within a distance of 0.99%. Currently the price is sitting at 7.82% higher than its 50 days moving average. Analyzing the last five market sessions, the stock was able to report 0.49% gains, thus going up by 8.7%, compared with its 200-day moving average of $64.94.
BRF S.A. (BRFS) was also brought into the spotlight with a $0.02 rise. As the regular session came to an end, the price changed by 0.33% to $6.14. The trading of the day started with the price of the stock at $6.13. However, at one point, in the middle of the day, the price touched a high of $6.24 before it finally returned some of the gains. Analyzing BRFS this week, analysts seem to be content with keeping to their neutral forecast call at 2.4. BRF S.A. analysts gave 1 buy-equivalent recommendations, 1 sells and 2 holds. This company shares tumbled -19.84% from their most recent record high of $7.66 and now hold $4.98 billion in market value of equity.
BRFS's mean recommendation on Reuter's scale has so far not been altered from 2.57 thirty days ago to 2.57 now. This is an indication of a hold consensus from the analysts' society. They expect that BRF S.A. (BRFS) price will be reaching a mean target of $6.99 a share. This implies that they believe the stock has what it takes to lift the price another 13.84%. The recent close goes a long way in suggesting that the stock price is being underpriced by a 33.88% compared to the most bullish target.


In the background of many of Hölderlin's poems there are hints of idealized landscapes; like those of J. M. W. Turner, an almost exact contemporary, they are barely discernible through washes of light and colour. Idealization was fashionable at the time, but these two men of genius made luminous use of it on a scale far removed from the norm.
Hölderlin's landscapes, especially the earlier ones, are peopled with the gods of Greece (to him, personifications of essential human values), rather than their real communities, and until the poems of 1801–02 are non-specific, classical Mediterranean and symbolic backdrops, rather than foregrounds, to the poems.
It is hard for us to imagine how inaccessible the knowledge of wider landscapes was to most people before the camera. In these two years of 1801 and 1802, at the time of writing 'The Rhine', Hölderlin was travelling frequently, often on foot, between Homburg, the Alps, his home town of Nürtingen, Stuttgart, the Auvergne and Bordeaux. He found that experiencing the natural world was restorative and began to think deeply about the beneficial effect of creating a national poetry that carried within it, as simply and immediately expressed as possible, these grand and beautiful nearer landscapes ('At the Source of the Danube' (Am Quell der Donau); 'The Journey' (Die Wanderung); 'The Ister'; 'The Rhine'). The final two lines of 'Patmos' directly state that German poetry is the interpretive bulwark of present-day literary and physical reality.
Landscapes he has actually walked through now appear in Hölderlin's poems. In 'The Rhine' they are as clear as paintings, or in fact as a film, since they stir and thrash with movement. No longer a backdrop, and in the action of the poems taking the place that the gods have formerly taken, landscapes are now players of spiritual power that interact with human beings to strengthen them in the struggles of their creative and everyday lives. The divine is manifested directly in the natural world, working locally through it to support and improve the communities of Hölderlin's own land. He had always placed mythological heroes in his classical landscapes as mediators between gods and men, that is, as examples of the highest values; his new interpreters are contemporary cultural figures moving in their personal landscapes.
In taking this new direction, a further development of his concept of unity linking all levels of life (stanza 13), Hölderlin does not wish to demolish the memories and influence of Greece but to extend them into an influence more closely relevant to building a national poetry. Until this time, and for some time afterwards also, there was no established tradition of German poetry except that modelled (often unimaginatively) on the Volkslied, or that which was as much philosophy as poetry. Even Eichendorff, for instance, eighteen years Hölderlin's junior, can write over-conventionally. Hölderlin, perhaps alone with Goethe, broke all moulds.
This is still too early in the nineteenth century for us to find close-up detail quite like Matthew Arnold's 'frail-leafed white anemone, | Dark bluebells drenched with dews of summer eves', but Hölderlin introduces us to the Rhine (stanza 2) at its source with a filmic description of the towering layers of mountain rock and vegetation above it, at once achieving his stated ambition of accurate natural depiction. Even the sound of the young river roars in our ears. Then we follow its still rebellious course in the open, between its restraining banks, and watch it gain discipline, calm and breadth enough to create landscapes in which productive energy can flourish (to stanza 6).
In stanzas 7–9, in parallel with the river, the poem broadens out into a meditation on subjects arising from the river's trajectory: the first importance to us of following the 'pure source', the distilled inner conviction of youth, with restraint and modesty so that we can live to work and create without the need for restrictive surroundings. Rousseau appeared to Hölderlin to exemplify the complete, creative, useful life, one that flowed powerfully with words that inspired others (stanza 10).
In the next two stanzas the poem follows Rousseau (representing the artist in need of rest) to Lake Biel in the Swiss Alps; in 1765 he had stayed on St Peter's Island in the lake and reported that he had never been happier. Hölderlin meditates on ecstatic relief, 'the burden of joy' (see 'Bread and Wine', stanza VIII, lines 10–12, where he laments the lack of minds strong enough to endure divine revelation) and on the supreme value of recreation in natural surroundings for obtaining rest and relief.
Stanzas 13 and 14 offer a scene of spiritual equilibrium, reconciliation and peace and the last addresses Hölderlin's close friend Sinclair, from whom in the following few years of swiftly increasing illness he would obtain invaluable practical help. Night, mentioned in these final stanzas, may mean what it does in 'Bread and Wine', a positive time of preparation for improvement.
Following the downward flow of the river there is a parallel flow from the hints of the old gods (stanzas 1 and 2) to the demi-god, the river, gradually maturing, to human heroes (stanza 10), to the figure of Rousseau as a modern hero, to Sinclair the good man and friend, whose mind is open to a divinity closer to the Christian God. This is a poem composed of movement, restrained in its banks by its metre yet free in length of line. Its pace, due to short lines, and its uninterrupted flow in the first stanzas (1, 2, 5), which are written as single sentences, innovatively increase its power. Here the influence on Rilke seems to send us to such poems as 'The Ball' (New Poems, Part II) and Sonnets to Orpheus 1.XXIII, which are both poems of flight and both written in one sentence. Rilke, who deeply admired Hölderlin, at times uses similar metres and extended sentences to enhance his meaning; one wonders whether he would have been the same poet without Hölderlin in his mind.
Pindar's 'Victory Odes', the only poems of his that have come down to us, are Hölderlin's model for the metres and verse forms of 'The Rhine' and later hymns. As do Hölderlin's, their stanzas and lines vary in length, to no apparent pattern. In 'The Rhine', Hölderlin writes in lines of 3 feet overwhelmingly, with 4 feet being much less frequent and 2 or 5 feet unusual. The lines of 5 feet tend to appear at or near the beginning or end of stanzas, as if to anchor them.
And the far-away coasts of Morea.
Drove him impatiently on towards Asia.
Of not knowing which is their direction.
That meets the new-born infant.
His voice is therefore jubilant.
Flee after him, and the hills, sinking about him.
In towns that he has founded.
But never will he forget.
And the distilled voice of his youth.
And made them into ropes?
And strove to become the equal of the gods.
Allow a distinction, poor dreamer.
At birth by God, for his life-course.
Bold river, now that he rests.
And justly: what do I call this stranger?
Anfängern gleich, bei Nachtigallen zu lernen.
With the effortlessness of serene fortune.
And the burden of joy.
To learn as beginners do, from nightingales.
Der Tagsgott zu unserer Erde sich neiget.
The god of day inclines to our earth.
And the brave their sweet sleep.
Sinks under and the night comes.
Das Unglück, aber schwerer das Glück.
Except that everyone has his measure.
Yet good fortune is harder to take.
To keep a clear head at the banquet.


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Three thousand square miles of Alaska's Cook Inlet have been designated as critical habitat for the endangered Cook Inlet beluga whale, NOAA's Marine Fisheries Service announced today.
"Scientists estimate there are less than 350 Cook Inlet beluga whales left in the wild. This distinct population segment was listed as endangered in October 2008," the Fisheries Alaska Regional Office said in its announcement.
The critical habitat designation, required under the Endangered Species Act, only affects activities that involve a federal permit, license or funding and which may affect critical habitat, such as construction and operation of oil rigs, port construction, dredging, or Environmental Protection Agency-authorized discharges into Cook Inlet.
One designated area includes the upper portions of Cook Inlet, Turnagain Arm and Knik Arm where belugas concentrate in summer months. The other area includes areas where the population congregates in the winter, which includes the middle of Cook-inlet, foraging areas along the western shore of lower Cook Inlet, and Kachemak Bay along east of Cook Inlet near the town of Homer.
The Port of Anchorage has been excluded from the critical habitat because of its importance to national security, and the Eagle River Flats Range on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson because this area provides benefit to beluga whales under an existing Department of Defense Integrated Natural Resource Management Plan, NOAA added.
Alaska State House of Representatives Speaker Mike Chenault, R-Nikiski, released the following statement regarding the NOAA's Fisheries Service decision to designate 3,016 miles of Cook Inlet as critical Beluga habitat.
"This is another prime example of the federal government locking up our land and ignoring the calls for caution from the State of Alaska and the Legislature.
"We have continually struck back against the federal government's lack of consideration of the state's own data that shows the Beluga population is recovering.
"They are closing off the middle and lower Cook Inlet for federal permits next month. That means no construction, drilling or dredging. What good is exempting the Port of Anchorage if the federal government chokes Alaska's economy to the point that cargo vessels won't come calling? What about development of Port McKenzie? Sadly, we've feared this decision since they originally listed the Beluga in 2008.
"This rule sends a terribly mixed message. The President of the United States says he wants to lessen reliance on foreign oil — he's re-opened the permitting process for offshore oil and gas – but with this habitat designation, the feds are blocking just that sort of development. The State of Alaska approved helping to pay for a jack-up rig to hit the Inlet this summer. This federal overreach could jeopardize that work. It is especially troubling for the Kenai, following on the heels of the LNG plant's closure earlier this year. We were hoping to see the benefit of the state participation in drilling this summer. Now? It's out the window.
"I am, and will continue to be, indignant on this issue.
The Fisheries Service said in its statement it based its designation on the results of more than 20 years of research, and on an economic analysis on the critical habitat designation. "That analysis found that benefits of the designation to beluga whales exceeded the costs," NOAA said.
This rule will become effective 30 days after date of publication in the Federal Register. The final rule, maps, status reviews, and other materials supporting this final rule can be found here.
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Building Bridges: Casey Hudson Talks Mass Effect 2
By Matt Peckham
BioWare's Xbox 360 and Windows interactive space opera Mass Effect 2 is still half a year away, but for lead producer Casey Hudson it's happening right now. Busy as he is, I managed to grab him away from dotting i's and crossing t's as his team moves into the sequel's final feature beats to make its planned early 2010 debut.
In part one (part two, part three, part four) we cover Mass Effect 2's development cycle, lessons learned about narrative pacing, and what's tucked away in your original Mass Effect save game.
Game On: How would you describe the Mass Effect series to someone who's never played it?
Casey Hudson: To me, it's a huge science fiction universe in the style of the big science fiction properties like Star Trek and Star Wars, though more targeted at an adult experience. We're trying to create something that's an entire universe people can immerse themselves in, but also something for the mature demographic that wants an adult story. That's why we've take a Jack Bauer approach to Commander Shepard [the series protagonist]. We've tried to present you with agonizing choices as you navigate your way through the sequel and built that into a bigger, much darker story.
GO: Mass Effect hit for Xbox 360 and Windows in late 2007 and early 2008. How long has Mass Effect 2 been in development?
CH: We started at the end of working on Mass Effect, so slightly before Mass Effect hit shelves. When all's said and done, we'll have roughly two years invested in Mass Effect 2 total, so right now we're about a year and a half into it. We had a terrific starting point to build from, by which I mean all the work that went into Mass Effect's world building, and now after a year and a half of designing tons of new content and perfecting new features we have a pretty complete next game in the series.
GO: Did things ramp up faster as you turned to Mass Effect 2 given what you've been able to carry over in lessons learned and shared technology?
CH: Yeah, it did, though I think one thing people are going to be surprised about is that we didn't take the easy way out. We didn't just make a sequel where the same features and the same characters and environments move around differently to tell a different story. Mass Effect 2 is a game that's absolutely packed with new ideas and places. In fact I actually can't think of an aspect of the game that we haven't overhauled and made 100% better. I think it's going to surprise people how much we've improved things. In fact I think it'll be a game that gets talked about simply on the basis of how much we've gone in and touched, including things that already worked well in the first one.
GO: I'm currently replaying Mass Effect, and it's taken me almost 10 hours to get off the Citadel [the starter space station] and out exploring the universe. It feels slow, story-wise, in part because I'm rolling through all the optional stuff to avoid missing anything. Can you get out and about earlier in Mass Effect 2?
CH: I think it has more to do with tuning the pacing and how the rewards are structured throughout the game, because the inverse of what you're describing is also true. Some people find the main story so compelling that even though they want to wander off the beaten path, they end up clawing as fast as they can through the core story. Then they'll say the game was only 12 hours or 15 hours and that it was shorter than they wanted.
So it's kind of interesting, because in your case, your play style, you want to look around, you want to find everything, and the Citadel at the beginning feels too long. In the alternate case, they're trying to get through the story as fast as possible and so it feels too short. I think that actually highlights the way choice is supported in the first game. You can play around the periphery and try to see everything or you can play through the story quickly. It's all down to choice.
On the other hand, in your case, the reward and pacing in the Citadel probably shouldn't have made you feel like the real story hadn't gotten started yet, or that it hadn't opened up as much as you wanted. I think those kinds of things, like how fast do you get a ship that lets you travel where you want, or broader things like do you feel the story's offering you freedom and enticing rewards and that things are progressing fast enough...those are all things we're addressing significantly in Mass Effect 2.
GO: So I'm probably inadvertently paying the game a compliment?
CH: That's why I think it comes down to pacing. It's like in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, where even though Star Wars was an established universe, in our game we still had a patch of real estate inside that property that required a certain amount of explanation. Similarly with Mass Effect, we had a new universe to get people acclimated to before we blew the whole thing wide open.
Looking at those two games and the way people played them, it was a major component of what we did before we started working on Mass Effect 2. We looked at the way people play some of very things you're talking about. That, and we gauged whether people felt their choice to either play in a very detailed way or get through things quickly was being rewarded.
So we've done a lot to adjust the tuning, especially in the opening. Getting you into the action faster, getting you making decisions and really moving through the story faster, so that as the world opens up around you, you feel like you're still quickly advancing the high-level story.
GO: Just to be clear, you can either start from scratch with a brand new character in Mass Effect 2, or import your character from your Mass Effect save game, right?
CH: Yeah, absolutely. I mean firstly, Mass Effect 2 is just a much better game than Mass Effect in virtually every way. We've made a lot of improvements, such that I think it'll have a broader audience and broader appeal. The combat plays better, the graphics are better, it has a better tutorial, all the things that make a game like this more accessible.
To support that, obviously we needed to make sure it's a game people can jump into knowing nothing about the Mass Effect universe, or even that there was a first game. At the same time, one of the really big things we're trying to do that I think has never been done in this way before is tie together a trilogy of huge games where the entire story is one thread that's told by the player. All of your decisions and choices really start to snowball over the course of the trilogy because it's picking up the entire record of how you've played, from the first moments of the first game all the way through to the ending of the third game. In that instance, we want to make sure we're really rewarding people who've played the first Mass Effect.
Likewise, if Mass Effect 2 is your entry point and you're really getting into the story, you can still back up, pop in Mass Effect, play through, get your end save game, and come back to the trilogy from that angle.
GO: How significant are the variables being indexed in the save games, and how threaded throughout the Mass Effect 2 experience are they?
CH: It's completely different from anything you've played before, because it's literally, potentially threaded into everything that happens. When you're playing the first game, everything that you do is setting a variable so that as the story progresses we know that you did a certain thing on a certain planet, and then internal to the game, we can reference those things. Your Mass Effect save game contains all of that information.
When you import it into Mass Effect 2, now we can continue mining all that information. And it's not just what your ending was, or a couple of the big choices, you know, where we could have stuck a conversation at the beginning and asked you what you did and moved on. This is literally hundreds of things.
Anytime we have a plot or a character or situation in Mass Effect 2, we think about what you did, potentially, in the first game that might affect said plot or character or situation in the second. We can look at each variable and dynamically change what happens in the moment. It ranges from small things like, by way of example, Conrad Verner was a fan of Commander Shepard's that you met in the first game, and it's like you meet this guy in an alley and you can be nice to him or you can be a jerk to him, and at the time you might have been thinking of it as just a trite role-playing convention, good-guy bad-guy, and that's that.
Jump forward two years. Now you're playing Mass Effect 2, and oh my god, who's this, it's Conrad Verner! And based on what you've done, you realize that while the moment in the first game maybe seemed throwaway, now Conrad's back and involved in another plot in a game you're playing two years later...and what you did two years ago is meaningfully affecting what's happening. That's a small example.
The larger examples are things like...take the way you navigate through the ending of Mass Effect, how you left the galaxy in a certain state with humans, whether they were in control of the Galactic Council or not, things like that. In Mass Effect 2, when you walk around, you'll see all the areas affected by your decisions, including large scale stuff like the Citadel. You'll see signs all over the place that either humans are in control or that they're working more with the aliens and the Citadel is more like it was in the first game.
It's also part of dialogues, part of signs that you see, even reflected in PA announcements that you'll hear. So it's woven through the entire experience, from beginning to end.
GO: You've had that level of continuous granularity planned from the beginning then?
CH: Yeah, it was always the plan to be able to import your character, therefore we included all those variables in the save game. We try and work the trilogy story from both the high level and the detail level. We've always known where the trilogy was going on the highest level, thematically speaking, through all three stories. But then as we get into developing each game, that's when we get down to the mid-level, like what are the actual workings of the plot and major characters and such.
The save game has every variable that you've set as a player, and as we delve into the detail levels of things like actual words that are spoken, art that appears in levels, sounds and music and subtle things as such...those can all be looked at, and how they comprise the world of each sequel can be affected by your choices in the prior ones.
Continued in Part Two. Check out twitter.com/game_on for even more game-related news and opinion.


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New Orleans government officials and Mardi Gras krewe leaders have apparently been discussing ways to improve parading practices in 2018. City Hall asserts that parades need to be shorter for a bunch of seemingly sensible financial, safety and traffic-flow reasons.
But part of the plan the city and krewes have come up with is to prune back on marching groups.
The number of bands and walking krewes will be capped in 2018.
Here's the problem with that: Those marching groups, such as the Pussyfooters, the Dictator's Dancin' Darlings, and the Amelia EarHawts are, as Julie Andrews might put it, a few of my favorite things.
Look, if we HAVE to shorten parades, as our civic leaders assert, there must be other features we can trim. Here are some suggestions off the top of my head.
At the start of some parades there's a title float that nobody reads. Cut it. I mean, we'll probably enjoy the parade just as much, even if we can't tell that the floats are based on the Baltic zodiac, or the half-sisters of Hercules, or extinct Antarctic bird species, or whatever.
With all due respect to old dudes in crowns and tights, and young gals in dyed ostrich feathers, I ask you, who would miss the royalty floats? Cut 'em. Except the ones with guest movie stars and rock stars that I like.
Put them out to pasture.
At the end of most parades, there's a sad float or two with three lonely, inebriated riders and lots of blank spots. They can be chopped (the floats, I mean).
Or how about this: Just leave a few floats back in the den and don't tell anybody. Heaven knows that after a couple of Andygators, I'm not going to notice that floats 9, 16, and 23 are missing in action. Would you?
Listen, if we REALLY need to save space and time, why not cut out the tractors? They're noisy, smelly, and they all look pretty much the same anyway.
OK, maybe the tractor idea is flawed. But I'm sure you'll agree that the rest were completely sound.
The Disco Amigos, Jailhouse Rockers, Bearded Oysters, Laissez Boys (I know, they don't march; they roll; languidly), the El Lucha Krewe, Krewe des Fleurs, etc., are the 21st century Mardi Gras trailblazers, the democratic dancers, the phalanxes of feminists, the promenading performance artists, and wandering weirdos that make the city what it is. They're what's happenin'.
A lively list of DIY troupes including the Pussyfooters, 610 Stompers, Amelia EarHawts, Sirens, Amazons, and on and on.
City Hall: Please don't mess with my nutty marching groups.
Note: Last year we made a list of 31 (mostly nutty) marching groups. Help us update the list. Drop info about your group in the comment stream or send it to dmaccash@nola.com.


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