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London property market would be the most affected by the reform
By Alex Stevenson Monday, 20 August 2012 9:21 AM Follow alex__stevenson
Selling off the most expensive fifth of social housing could help cut the waiting list for council homes by as much as 600,000 in five years, a thinktank has claimed.
Policy Exchange, which has close links with the Conservative party, is arguing in a report out today that £4.5 billion could be raised by putting social housing properties worth more than the regional average on the market.
That money could be spent on building up to 170,000 new homes a year, it suggests, creating up to 340,000 jobs in the economy and raising tenants' standards of living.
Such a move would also drastically extend the 'cleansing' of Britain's most expensive areas of poorer people already warned about by organisations like the National Housing Federation.
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Concerns have already been triggered by the introduction of a £26,000 cap on housing benefit, but a sell-off of this kind would go much further.
"Expensive social housing is costly, unpopular and unfair. That is why almost everybody rejects it," report author Alex Morton argued.
"Social housing tenants deserve a roof over their heads, but not one better than most people can afford, particularly as expensive social housing means less social housing and so longer waiting lists for most people in need."
The radical proposal could prove popular with right-wingers opposed to people living in expensive areas. Thirty per cent of social housing stock in London would be included in the sell-off, compared to 14.8% in the north-east.
David Orr, the NHF's chief executive, said Policy Exchange's idea was "fundamentally flawed".
"It could effectively cleanse many towns of hard working people who simply can't afford the high prices of buying or renting privately," he warned.
"The report also ignores the fact that there is not the mortgage availability or market for people to buy these homes."
Orr said that housing associations needed more flexibility on how to use their properties, but being forced to sell their assets did not fit well with their status as independent businesses.
"The answer is building more homes and the flexibility to take an imaginative approach," he proposed.
"This might sometimes mean selling some of their higher cost properties, or it might involve taking advantage of the value of those properties to innovatively raise finance."
Housing minister Grant Shapps has indicated broad approval for the approach, but said the government was already doing a lot to improve the situation.
"I've been determined that we get Britain building and help the thousands of families who for years have been left languishing on social housing waiting lists," he said.
The coalition's affordable housing programme is set to build 170,000 new homes a year.
Shapps has also allowed councils to offer fixed-term tenancies and already permits councils looking to sell vacant council housing to keep the receipts to invest in affordable housing, regeneration or paying down housing debt.
Policy Exchange argued in its report that all would benefit from the change, including those forced to move out of properties. Living costs in expensive areas is up to 15% more than in areas where property prices are cheaper, the report said.
It also suggested in its report that local referenda could be used to ensure the newly built estates are not unattractive.
But the report sparked an intense partisan reaction, which drove the hashtag 'LOLicyExchange' to prominence on Twitter.
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Of the freight vehicles, 84.3% (3,193,651) were light commercial vehicles, 13.1% (495,039) were rigid trucks and 2.6% (99,705) were articulated trucks.
New South Wales motorists drove the furthest, travelling 74,566 million kilometres. Victorian motorists were next and drove a total of 68,030 million kilometres.
Northern Territory drivers travelled the least distance, at a total of 2,185 million kilometres.
Distance travelled by state and territory aligns closely with the proportion of registered vehicles. New South Wales had the highest proportion of the national fleet (29%) and the largest share of total kilometres travelled (29%). In contrast the Northern Territory reported the smallest proportion of kilometres travelled (1%) and the smallest proportion of registered vehicles (1%).
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Both the Victorian and Queensland estimates were above the national average (13.4 thousand kilometres).
Vehicles registered in Tasmania reported the lowest average kilometres (12.1 thousand kilometres).
Passenger vehicles travelled 179,761 million kilometres, more than any other vehicle type, accounting for 70.5% of total kilometres travelled.
Passenger vehicles were mostly driven for personal and other use (54%) followed by travel to and from work (25%) and travel for business purposes (21%).
On average passenger vehicles travelled 12.6 thousand kilometres. In comparison, articulated trucks travelled 79.4 thousand kilometres on average, more than any other vehicle type.
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light commercial vehicles moved 6.2 thousand tonne-kilometres per vehicle.
Victoria had the highest road freight estimate, transporting 55,450 million tonne-kilometres, followed by Queensland (49,038 million tonne-kilometres), New South Wales (48,709 million tonne-kilometres) and Western Australia (35,953 million tonne-kilometres).
Petrol remains the predominate type of fuel consumed by the fleet.
In total 34,170 megalitres of fuel were consumed, 51.4% petrol and 45.8% diesel.
Passenger vehicles consumed 19,486 megalitres of fuel, more than any other vehicle type, of which 80.2% (15,635 megalitres) was petrol.
Light commercial vehicles used a total of 6,537 megalitres of fuel. Diesel accounted for 71.4% (4,669 megalitres) and petrol accounted for 26.4% (1,728 megalitres).
Of the 7,308 megalitres of fuel consumed by rigid and articulated trucks, diesel accounted for 59.8%.
On average, articulated trucks had the highest rate of fuel consumption per vehicle at 55.2 litres per 100 kilometres. In contrast, the average rate of fuel consumption per passenger vehicle was 10.8 litres per 100 kilometres.


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A Beginner's Guide To Composting
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How do you take a mountain of pollution and turn it into environmental benefit? How can you massively reduce your personal contribution to global warming and ecological damage? How can you do it in a way that is practical, effective, and yet lets you get on with your life?
In a word: compost.
Summer's here, gardens are flourishing and all over the country people are putting grass cuttings and hedge trimmings into bin liners to be taken away by bin wagons, when it could readily be put back into the earth it grew from. It's simple, easy, quick to organise your own composting system.
Up to half of household waste is compostable, but most of us put it in the dustbin and it disappears. It 'disappears' to become a massive unsustainable environmental hazard elsewhere.
Most household rubbish is dumped in landfill sites; valleys, ex-quarries and other large holes in the ground, where the mix of rubbish means that organic materials like food waste do not decompose properly. Instead they give off methane, which poisons the land and water it seeps through, and once it reaches the air it is a potent greenhouse gas.
And, of course, serious amounts of resources are used to collect and transport the waste to its dumping ground.
Yet these organic materials could simply and easily be broken down into a richly nutritious compost to be returned to the earth. It only takes a tiny patch of ground. Even if you live in a house without a garden, there will probably be a bin yard, allotment or friendly neighbour near you that would benefit from composting your household waste.
SETTING IT UP
All you need is a container with a volume of about a cubic metre, roughly the size of a dustbin. In fact, an old dustbin with the bottom cut off and some holes in the side is ideal. Or you could take advantage of another summer phenomenon and go and pull some wood from a skip outside a house being refurbished and hammer yourself a container together. This further reduces landfill waste, and it's free. You can buy purpose built green plastic bins but they're really no better than what you can do yourself, they cost money and they're made of indestructible and oil-derived plastic, none of which is sensible when there are alternatives at hand.
The container should be open to the ground, but the sides should be solid, except for a few small holes. A lid is good for keeping the heat of fermenting compost in and so speeding up the process, but it is certainly not essential. If you do want to make a lid, again reclaimed wood is good, or a piece of old carpet is just as efficient. If you do use a lid – even if you don't – be sure to water the compost pile. The easiest way is to simply run your kitchen compost container under the tap before you take it out.
WHAT TO PUT IN
Now the bin's in place somewhere on bare soil, the next thing is to put stuff in it. And that's anything that will rot, except cooked foods or animal products. Cooked food can encourage rats, but if your compost is well away from houses and/or is a dustbin with a tight lid then it's not much of a problem. Tea bags and coffee grinds are fine, though. Animal products – except eggshells – are a no-no as they do not readily break down and also attract rats.
Apart from that, put anything else in. Composts, like humans, are healthiest when given a varied diet. Put in all uncooked plant food waste (carrot tops, cauliflower stalks, apple cores, the manky bits from any veg, etc). Put in any soft garden waste (grass clippings, dead flowers, etc).
Tougher things like twigs, citrus peel and dried leaves take much longer to break down - up to 12 months as opposed to three or four months with 'normal' compost – so make a separate pile for that stuff.
Do put in paper as well. Magazines, newspaper and clean, flat office paper is good for recycling. However, paper cannot be recycled indefinitely. Paper fibres will last to about twelve recyclings, as their fibre breaks down each time. It starts as the strong office paper and ends as that eggbox stuff before it becomes useless as paper. Little scraps (bus tickets, till receipts), cardboards, toilet roll tubes and such like do not recycle well but are great for composting.
Much of your food waste will go to a slimy texture, and paper is excellent for releasing oxygen into the compost and ensuring a rich, earthy result. All papers are good, except for glossy stuff and anything with a covering of wax or plastic (such as milk cartons or tetrapak juice containers).
Paper, like all other ingredients, shouldn't be put into the compost in huge batches – vary the diet, remember. Mix the wet and dry ingredients of the compost. Scrunch it, tear it or shred it and mix it with the food and/or garden stuff.
It doesn't matter that it's printed. Modern inks don't contain the heavy metals used in earlier processes, and, as long as you don't put glossy paper in, you'll find it all readily and harmlessly breaks down.
MOST IMPORTANT: DO NOTHING
Then comes the most important stage: leaving it. The real beauty of composting is that leaving nature to take its course is the best thing you can do. Garden centres sell bags of starter and booster stuff, but like the special compost bins or bottled water, it's just a con to get your money when you can get the same thing done for free.
You'll find that slugs and red worms and ants will move in, and they are an essential part of the rotting process. If the heap is big then it can get very hot as it breaks down, too.
Once in a while give it a stir with a big stick, particularly if you've just added a lot of one ingredient (grass clippings, especially). Incidentally, human urine is a rich source of nitrogen, an essential nutrient for kickstarting compost, so feel free to have a wazz in the heap if your neighbours aren't looking.
After 3 months or so a fine, crumbly brown soil develops at the bottom. It has changed from a pile of smelly fermenting stuff into something wonderful, nutritious and not at all smelly any more. This is the finished compost, and is ready to be put into the soil. You can either make a hatch at the bottom of the container to access it, or else have two containers so one's on the go while the other's ready.
If the finished stuff is a bit wet, it will soon dry after a day or two out in the open. You might find one or two bits of plastic from coated paper products; these are entirely harmless and easily removed.
You don't have to have a lot of time or skill to do this. Get a dustbin sized container; put in all plant matter, wet it, stir it, cover it, leave it. It's barely more effort than putting stuff in the dustbin.
You don't have to be a keen gardener to have it be worthwhile; the reduction of the amount of rubbish you produce is a huge reward. Imagine if the whole country reduced its rubbish by 30-50%!
Composting is powerful and practical grassroots environmental direct action, and it is something that affirms your active environmental stance every day.


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The Upshot|Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Parents
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Silicon Valley: Perks for Some Workers, Struggles for Parents
By Claire Cain Miller
Tech companies shower their employees with perks like dry cleaning, massages and haircuts. But there is one group for whom working at a tech company can be much more difficult than working elsewhere: parents.
Facebook hosts all-night hackathons. Google has weekend laser tag retreats. Many start-ups have no parental leave policy at all, so the first employee to have a baby has to ask the company to create one.
Then there are the subtler messages. Yahoo's chief executive, Marissa Mayer, was vocal about returning to work two weeks after she gave birth. Later, Yahoo told employees they could no longer work from home. Workers with children say they are often the only such employees on teams of 20-somethings.
The strains around these issues have burst into public view in recent weeks. In a gender discrimination trial against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a top venture capital firm, two former partners were declined board seats because they were pregnant or going on maternity leave, according to testimony. In a lawsuit against Facebook, a former technology partner said her boss admonished her for volunteering at her child's school one day a month, which she said was allowed by company policy. Microsoft mandated sick leave among its contractors after complaints that some were not given such benefits.
"The culture is not necessarily friendly to families, and I think that's not really realized," said Bret Taylor, former chief technology officer at Facebook and co-founder of a start-up called Quip.
That Silicon Valley — known for being on the forefront not just of technology but also of workplace policy — creates so many difficulties for working parents highlights a vexing problem for the American economy. The United States is arguably struggling to adjust to the realities of modern family life more than any other affluent country.
The American workplace has always prized people who prioritize work over family, and European countries have long had more generous policies for working parents. But in the last two decades, that gap has widened significantly. Other developed countries have expanded benefits like paid parental leave and child care, while the United States has not.
The absence of such policies here creates obvious advantages for companies, reducing costs and increasing production. But for workers — most of whom have children, aging parents or both, and many of whom are single parents — the downsides can be enormous, whether they work in high finance or hourly labor. Many workers today — blue-collar and white-collar alike — believe they must choose between career and family.
Bret Taylor, former chief technology officer at Facebook and a founder of Quip, with his son Sam and daughter Jasmine. He leaves work at 5:30 p.m. so that his employees will not feel obligated to stay.CreditJason Henry for The New York Times
The share of women in their 30s and 40s who work, which was once higher in the United States than in Canada, Australia, Japan and much of Europe, has fallen behind. The widening gap in policies is a major reason for the change, said Francine Blau, a Cornell economist, and other researchers. And it is not a challenge just for women: 37 percent of nonworking men 25 to 54 say family responsibilities are a reason they are not working, according to a New York Times/CBS News/Kaiser Family Foundation poll.
More broadly, some economists say, the lack of family-focused policies reflects the power imbalance between companies and workers in the American economy today. The share of economic output flowing to corporate profits has surged, while employee compensation has stagnated.
The technology industry is a striking example because it attracts some of the country's smartest people, many of whom have far more bargaining power than most workers. Silicon Valley also has outsize cultural significance, as the face of American ingenuity and a magnet for global talent.
But it is also a place that often expects total commitment to work. That grows from the notion that in tech, unlike in other industries, companies become overnight successes, and believe their work is changing the world.
"People who give you millions of dollars for nothing but an idea at the very least expect your complete commitment to that idea," said Glenn Kelman, chief executive of Redfin, the online real estate brokerage. "That is why nobody, not even the most committed parent, talks about a family-friendly workplace in, say, an investor pitch deck."
Start-ups are unlikely to have parental policies because they are more focused on growing as quickly as possible. Many big tech companies try to ease the way for new parents, at least officially — but that does not necessarily filter down to company culture.
They have some of the most generous policies in corporate America for the period after a child is born, like four months of paid leave and a $4,000 baby stipend at Facebook. There are high-profile examples of women with children who have climbed the corporate ladder in tech. Ms. Mayer was pregnant when she became chief executive of Yahoo, and Susan Wojcicki, chief executive of YouTube, recently had her fifth child.
But these examples exaggerate how family-friendly tech companies are, especially after the newborn phase. The executives have privileges not available to typical workers (Ms. Mayer built a nursery next to her office.) Some benefits, like free meals and on-site laundry, have a flip side of discouraging people from leaving. And many parents say that office culture — which can, for example, reward people based on how many lines of code they can write per week — does not support parents.
"I've seen some of what I would call hero culture, where people are doing 20 hours a day to get this or that done at all costs," said Max Schireson, the former chief executive of a database software company called MongoDB. He became the talk of Silicon Valley last summer when he wrote a blog post saying he was stepping down to spend more time with his three children. He had been flying 300,000 miles a year and was gone when his son had emergency surgery.
Max Schireson, standing, the former chief executive of MongoDB, became the talk of Silicon Valley when he wrote a blog post saying he was stepping down to spend more time with his children. On the sofa are his son Jacob, 14, the baby sitter Anna Kruckova, his daughter Olivia, 10, and his wife, Deirdre Lyell.CreditNoah Berger for The New York Times
"Frankly what I've seen is just forgetting the human aspect of it," he said.
Though it's off limits for interviewers to ask candidates whether they have children, tech companies use euphemisms to indicate that parents or older employees are not welcome, said a tech executive who would speak only anonymously. They say people are not a good "culture fit" and cannot "align on priorities" or make it in a "rapidly moving company." The translation, he said: "People who are not exactly like us."
"When people have kids, they have other priorities — and start-ups can be pretty brutal about not having other priorities," the executive said.
"Young people just have simpler lives," Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's co-founder and chief executive, said in a talk to would-be entrepreneurs in 2007, when he was 23. "We may not own a car. We may not have family. Simplicity in life allows you to focus on what's important."
That laser focus served Facebook well. In tech, as in many jobs, long hours, commitment and ambition are essential. But technical jobs are also more easily done on flexible hours, economists say. And there are business downsides to taking work to an extreme.
"I've seen the people who are doing that sprint sometimes collapse before making it to the finish line," Mr. Schireson said. "Building a significant company takes time."
As Silicon Valley ages, and 20-something entrepreneurs become 30-something parents, the culture is beginning to change. Offering a family-friendly workplace has become a recruiting strategy.
The Happy Home Company, a home repair start-up, specifically recruits parents. "Some of the most qualified, talented and passionate people in the valley are often overlooked by start-ups for not being a 'cultural fit,' which is often code for 'too old, too much of a parent, too female, too different,' " said Doug Ludlow, its co-founder.
At Mr. Taylor's company, Quip, which makes workplace collaboration software, the founders tell interviewees that they have children and leave at 5:30 p.m. If he wants to work later, Mr. Taylor said, he goes home so other employees don't feel obligated to stay.
"It's not like we're visionary — we're just older," he said. "It really helps us recruit people who were concerned about the culture at other companies."
In some ways, an aging Silicon Valley is beginning to look more like the rest of corporate America, where most workers have families. The challenge is retaining the youthful optimism that they can do the impossible — while also showing their employees that working and having families is realistic.
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Overflows from the combined system or even from separate systems, excess water that occurs during a rainfall episode will discharge significant quantities of pollution into the natural environment and, when a water treatment plant deals normally with dry weather water, this excess water can become a major contributor of pollution to the natural environment. This can be seen from tables 32 and 33 that provide examples from the Paris (France) region.
or store the water and send it at reduced flows to the purification plants.
It should be noted that run-off water mainly contains suspended solids (leached from impermeabilised soils) and it can be said that approximately 85% of COD and BOD, 70% of nitrogen (NK), 90% of hydrocarbons and over 95% of metals (Pb, Zn, Cu) will be present as particulates.
Similarly, run-off water usually contains more metals, especially Pb, Zn, Cd cause by rusting roofs, downpipes, tyre wear, hydrocarbon combustion residues… These residues also contribute to microbial pollution (leaching of animal manure in particular) and, during the first hours of a rain storm, separate systems reveal concentrations that are close to those found in wastewater in dry weather for instance. 108 total coliforms·100 mL–1.


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by Ed Kilgore, June 14th, 2005 7:23 PM EST
Last month SurveyUSA created a big political buzz by releasing a 50-state batch of polls with the approval/disapproval ratings of America's Governors. Democrats did better than Republicans, and red-state Democrats did sensationally well. This week SurveyUSA released a similar batch of polls rating U.S. Senators, at a time when Congress as an institution, and Republican Congressmen in particular, are getting pounded in most public opinion surveys. Lo and behold, all 100 Senators have positive approval/disapproval ratings, in sharp contrast to Governors. Now, part of this result reflects the enduring reality that Governors, as chief executives of their states, are held responsible for general public attitudes about state government, while Senators can pretend they are bravely bringing home the bacon for the home folks while evading responsibility for general attitudes towards Congress, or even their party in Congress. Executives feel the heat for public unhappiness, while legislators deflect it elsewhere, anywhere. Still, the SurveyUSA ratings on Senators are interesting. Barack Obama is America's most popular Senator in his own state, with a 72/21 approval/disapproval ratio. The least popular Senator is John Cornyn from Bush's home state of Texas, who registers at 40/36. Notable 2006 target Rick Santorum actually has the highest disapproval rate of any Senator, with a 45/44 ratio. Ohio's Mike DeWine continues to beg for a strong opponent in 2006, coming in at 44/43. Conrad Burns of MT is at a marginal 50/42 ratio. Supposedly vulnerable Democrat Ben Nelson is at a robust 64/26, while the other Nelson, Bill of Florida, is doing relatively well at 47/29. Among the bottom-feeders in the survey are, unfortunately, a bunch of GOPers who aren't up in '06, including the aforementioned Cornyn, Richard Burr of NC (42/36), Tom Coburn of OK (43/40), his colleague Jim Inhofe (44/42), and Mel Martinez of FL (43/39). In general, Senate Republicans are suffering somewhat from the plunging approval ratings of their party, but not as much as they should. And that's something Democrats should accept as a party-wide challenge.


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Dan April 26, 2017 Industry News Release
$38.8 million approved for wetland conservation projects; $7.8 million to conserve 2,629 acres on national wildlife refuges and open thousands of additional acres to public hunting
The Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, chaired by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, approved $17.8 million in grants for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its partners to conserve or restore more than 108,000 acres of wetland and associated upland habitats for waterfowl, shorebirds and other birds in 14 states throughout the United States. Representing Secretary Zinke at the meeting was Acting Deputy Secretary of the Interior James Cason.
The grants, made through the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA), will be matched by nearly $40 million in partner funds. NAWCA grants ensure waterfowl and other birds are protected throughout their lifecycles.
"Hunting and fishing are the cornerstones of Americans' sportsmen heritage, and today, sportsmen and women are leading efforts in wildlife conservation," said Secretary Zinke. "The projects approved today by the commission will benefit hundreds of wetland and coastal bird species, other wildlife and their habitats, ensuring we have the ability to pass our shared heritage down to our kids and grandkids."
Wetlands provide many ecological, economic and social benefits such as habitat for fish, wildlife and a variety of plants. NAWCA grants conserve bird populations and wetland habitat, while supporting local economies and American traditions such as hunting, fishing, birdwatching, family farming, and cattle ranching. This year's projects include:
North Dakota Great Plains Project IX: $1 million to conserve 27,524 acres of wetlands and associated uplands for waterfowl breeding grounds and migration habitat. Wildlife that will benefit include northern pintail and long-billed curlew.
Bay Denesse Delta Management: $999,989 to restore 3,060 acres of coastal habitats in two key basins in Louisiana. Seventy-five percent of project lands will provide opportunities for public hunting, fishing and other outdoor recreation.
Horicon Coastal Connection: $1 million to protect, restore and enhance 6,154 acres of priority breeding and stopover habitat in southeastern Wisconsin. Species that will benefit include mallard, green-winged teal and northern pintail.
Since many of America's birds spend part of their time in other countries, NAWCA provides grants to Canada and Mexico as well, to ensure waterfowl and other birds are protected throughout their lifecycles. The commission approved more than $21 million for 17 projects in those countries.
NAWCA is the only federal grant program dedicated to the conservation of wetland habitats for migratory birds. Since 1989, funding has advanced the conservation of wetland habitats and their wildlife in all 50 U.S. states, Canada and Mexico, while engaging more than 5,700 partners in over 2,700 projects. More information about the grant projects is available here.
The commission also approved more than $7.8 million from the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund to conserve 2,629 acres for four national wildlife refuges. The approvals will improve refuge management capability and enable the Service to open thousands of additional acres to public waterfowl hunting for the first time. These funds were raised largely through the sale of Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamps, commonly known as "Duck Stamps."
"I grew up with a fly rod in one hand and a rifle in the other, hunting and fishing on our public lands and waters. Programs like the Duck Stamp are important tools we use to guarantee the future of hunting and fishing conservation efforts," said Secretary Zinke. "That Duck Stamp puts hunting revenues back into public lands to improve access and enhance opportunities for millions of sportsmen and women, outdoor recreationists and nature enthusiasts."
For every dollar spent on Federal Duck Stamps, 98 cents goes toward the acquisition or lease of habitat for the National Wildlife Refuge System. Duck Stamps – while required by waterfowl hunters as an annual license – are also voluntarily purchased by birders, outdoor enthusiasts and fans of national wildlife refuges who understand the value of preserving some of the most diverse and important wildlife habitats in our nation.
The following national wildlife refuges are approved for funding:
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Maryland: $415,900
Dale Bumpers White River National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas: $186,000
Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas: $101,000
Upper Klamath National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon: $7,144,000
Since 1934, the Federal Duck Stamp Program and Migratory Bird Conservation Fund have provided more than $800 million for habitat conservation in the Refuge System.
The FWS is responsible for managing more than 850 million acres of lands and waters in the National Wildlife Refuge System, including five marine national monuments plus two national monuments, 566 national wildlife refuges and 38 wetland management districts. Refuges offer world-class public recreation, from fishing, hunting and wildlife observation to photography and environmental education. Every state and U.S. territory has at least one national wildlife refuge.
The Migratory Bird Conservation Commission is chaired by the Secretary of the Interior. Its members include U.S. Senators Thad Cochran of Mississippi and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico; Representatives Robert J. Wittman of Virginia and Mike Thompson of California; Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture; and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. The commission has helped in conserving much of this Nation's most important waterfowl habitat and in establishing or enhancing many of our Nation's most popular destinations for waterfowl hunting.
Additional information about North American wetlands and waterfowl conservation can be found at https://www.fws.gov/birds/, which offers waterfowl enthusiasts, biologists and agency administrators with the most up-to-date waterfowl habitat and waterfowl population information.
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Cross‐campus Collaboration: A Scientometric and Network Case Study of Publication Activity Across Two Campuses of a Single Institution
Jeremy Birnholtz, Cornell University
Shion Guha, Marquette UniversityFollow
Y. Connie Yuan, Cornell University
Geri Gay, Cornell University
Caren Heller, Weill Cornell Medical College
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Team science and collaboration have become crucial to addressing key research questions confronting society. Institutions that are spread across multiple geographic locations face additional challenges. To better understand the nature of cross‐campus collaboration within a single institution and the effects of institutional efforts to spark collaboration, we conducted a case study of collaboration at Cornell University using scientometric and network analyses. Results suggest that cross‐campus collaboration is increasingly common, but is accounted for primarily by a relatively small number of departments and individual researchers. Specific researchers involved in many collaborative projects are identified, and their unique characteristics are described. Institutional efforts, such as seed grants and topical retreats, have some effect for researchers who are central in the collaboration network, but were less clearly effective for others.
Accepted version. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 64, No. 1 (January 2013): 162-172. DOI. © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Used with permission.
Shion Guha was affiliated with Cornell University at the time of publication.
Birnholtz, Jeremy; Guha, Shion; Yuan, Y. Connie; Gay, Geri; and Heller, Caren, "Cross‐campus Collaboration: A Scientometric and Network Case Study of Publication Activity Across Two Campuses of a Single Institution" (2013). Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Faculty Research and Publications. 625.
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Nakano-san had a recreation trip in town's community, so I thought I go back Fukui at the same time.
I asked Nakano-san where he goes to recreation trip, he said making of sausage.
What's that!! Sounds so fun!!! Can't I join it!?
Generally speaking, just same town's people can join, but fortunately there are still seats, I could join it in 2000yen(about 25USD).
Well then, I got on the bus with town's people.
They gave us snack and beer, very good time on the bus already.
The guide explained scenery on the way to destination.
In 1 hour, we arrived at Moku-Moku hand making farm in Kouga-shi, Shiga.
We can see pigs walking around here freely, can horse riding, can do strawberry picking and can join making of bread.
We town's people join making of sausage class.
There are already stuffs for sausage making.
We separated 10 people at a each table, then the sausage making class is started!!
At first, the stuff explain how to do.
Mix red and white meat by hand, then mix with small ice blocks by hand, add spice.
It was soooo cold as mixed with ice blocks!! So we turned next person and person.
Well, I didn't know it need mix meat with ice blocks for making sausage!!
move the trigger, the meat is pushed to intestines.
then twist the 1/2 or 1/3 point of it again, this time put the part into the hole that it made first, for not twist back.
We got 10 piece of sausage a each. Yeah!!
Whoa~, this was how to make sausage~, so interesting!!!
Well then, we moved to inside the farm, the babe show is started!
Cute babes was coming slowly, they jumped and slide on the slope and broke the show ball.
We drunk 3 kind of local beer, what a yummy~~~~~!!!
The pork were soooo goooood!!!!
After lunch, we walked around the farm.
Like this, I enjoyed all day here!!
They gave me orange juice on the bus on the way back to Kyoto, I really say thank to town's people!!
I bought the cheese too that imported from USA(LOL), as I can't buy it in my place (country side).
To tell you the truth, I have eating cheese and drinking wine every day after I came back from Europe trip!!
Then this is the small table that Nakano-san made it for me.
It was good I went to Kyoto!


Demographic change is affecting families living together and taking on family roles. The decline in family caring capacity leads to a gap between the identifiable problems in day-to-day care situations and what is considered necessary and desirable. For many people, quality of life depends on the design of the direct living environment in the neighborhood, including appropriate service offerings and involvement in the local community. Local conditions therefore play a decisive role both for young families and for life in old age. These include social networks as well as welfare structures, service offerings and civic engagement. Here, it is necessary to develop networks that are more geared to real needs by adapting the living environment, the infrastructure and the availability of shopping and other services.
The objective of the LivingSmart project is to optimize the processes surrounding an intelligent residential district, to identify needs, to develop individualized service offerings and to promote appropriate qualifications on the part of service providers and recipients. For this purpose, a service strategy for residential areas is developed. In this context, services (for example, travel services / group travel, care services, consulting, training offers) should be made available in a more coordinated manner through a virtual, inter-generational case management as a service bundle.
The technological basis of the project is a hybrid service platform close to home that ensures the quality of the offers as well as the processing of the service and identifies needs of the customers. OFFIS is exploring how this service platform can deliver meaningful recommendations for personalized services, extrapolate the development of individual and neighborhood service needs, and optimize services through better integration, based on machine learning techniques.


In Madagascar, they called him a "courant d'air" (a breath of fresh air). That was in 1991 when Andreas Schriber was working for the WWF in Anantanarivo training local editors of VINTSY – a magazine on ecology and forest conservation. Both then and now, Schriber's nickname matches his personality.
The inquisitive young man from the Zurich suburbs completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter and then trained as a journalist. This allowed him to combine both his talents – design and writing. After several years collecting experience, travelling and working as an editor and photographer in Zurich and Montreux, Schriber's career took a decisive turn in 1984: He joined WWF Switzerland in Zurich, producing their publications. The heated debates on forest dieback, atomic power and genetic engineering honed his flair for communication and politics. At that time, he also discovered his love of Africa.
After years of commitment to conservation, he fulfilled a personal dream and sailed on an old two-master from the Caribbean to the South Pacific and French Polynesia. Later he married, fathered a son and moved back to Swiss Television as a science editor on the programme "Menschen Technik Wissenschaft". Whilst there he made a film about Hans Rudolf Herren, the first Swiss recipient of the World Food Prize. It was a meeting of two visionaries who got on well and shared similar ideals. Together they developed the idea of an organisation committed to improving people's lives and at the same time protecting the environment. In 1998, they together with two other kindred spirits founded Biovision.
In 2003, Schriber became the CEO of the young organisation and so it was that an energetic, inspired and far-sighted pioneer became the head of the Foundation for Ecological Development. True to his motto, "Action not words", he has been at the helm of Biovision since then working tirelessly, unerringly and displaying a finely tuned feel for innovation. "Biovision fills important gaps at the interface of environment protection and cooperation and development; we break new ground and create added value for all those involved," he says.
Schriber has the gift of anticipating important developments and selecting the right course of action early. If he is convinced that an idea is right, he focusses his attention on that goal with great efficiency and is unstoppable. With him at the helm, he has developed the Foundation into a respected organization.
Today, Biovision is on a firm footing thanks to great support from donors and strong partners; an ideal time for the captain to check the wind and adjust the sails. So, in 2020 Andi Schriber will re-focus his activities to further develop the Biovision Africa Trust, our sister organisation in East Africa where he now serves as member of the Board. In so doing he will make space for the next generation to move into the management team of Biovision in Zurich. "I am changing ship but staying with the fleet," he says with a smile.


In our collective imagination, we tend to perceive islands as sandy, palm-studded shores lapped by water moving to-and-fro. In truth, if you wander past the beach, you will stumble upon a nation steeped in history and culture, with innumerable haunts to discover, endemic fauna and flora, villages, cities, the homes of locals… Simply put, the soul of the island.
While some travelers have a hard time getting up from their chaise-longues and leaving the peace and quiet of their hotel, others love nothing more than unearthing new haunts, sampling a staggering diversity of foods, and learning about the culture and history of the islands of the Indian Ocean region. Meeting locals and getting first-hand insight is undoubtedly the best way to get to know a country.
Our tips on discovering the unknown through the eyes of a local: -	Live like a local: homestays and lodges are the perfect way to assimilate local customs and meet inhabitants. The human-scale size of these types of accommodation allows you to converse with your host and foster a friendship. Hosts usually know the ins and outs, dos and don'ts, and where-to-gos.
Restaurants are great places to strike a conversation. The classic is to ask your neighbour what they are eating or to ask for help deciphering the menu. Locals are always amused by confused or intrigued tourists, and more than willing to help.
There are countless apps and sites to help you plan your trip - from searching for the cheapest flight to finding a couch to crash on, from connecting with locals to scouting out the best coffee. Technology can help you skip the tourist traps and go straight for the real deal.
Learning a whole new language might be overly ambitious, but picking up on a handful of words in the local language goes a long way. Phrases like "hello", "how much is this?" and "I am a vegetarian" will grease the wheels of interacting with the locals and makes the difference between being greeted with a delighted smile and an apathetic shrug.
If you are traveling to a country where a different alphabet is used, you will have a hard time reading signs. Before leaving your hotel, ask Reception for a business card, which you may show to your cab driver.


In an effort to help you locate the information or service you need which may be complementary to the services offered by the city, this page brings together a listing of regional, state, and federal resources for you to explore.
9/13/2018 NOTE: If you are interested in posting a resource URL here, please be aware that the City is currently only accepting the addition of *.gov sites. Thank you.


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Q: Summarize Pandas dataframe when column is between two values In python, I have a Pandas dataframe (df) that can be replicated with the below.
import pandas as pd

data = [['2021-09-12', 'item1', 'IL', 5], ['2021-09-12', 'item2', 'CA', 7], ['2021-08-13', 'item2', 'CA', 8], ['2021-06-12', 'item3', 'NY', 10], ['2021-05-01', 'item1', 'IL', 11]]

df = pd.DataFrame(data, columns = ['date', 'product', 'state', 'sales'])

I also have two strings.
startdate = '2021-08-01'
enddate = '2021-09-12'

I am trying to group by product and state, and add a column df['sum_sales'] that sums up df['sales'] when df['date'] is between startdate and enddate.
I tried to do a df.groupby(['product', state']) but not sure how to add the condition above.

A: You can use loc and between and groupby.sum().

*

*between will return a Boolean if the condition is satisfied - your conditions are the dates here.

*loc will filter down the DataFrame using the Boolean returned

*groupby.sum() will give return the sum of sales.
startdate = '2021-08-01'
enddate = '2021-09-12'

>>> df.loc[df.date.between(startdate,enddate)].groupby(['product', 'state'])['sales'].sum()

product  state
item1    IL        5
item2    CA       15

Note that your date is of type object from the way you define your inputs.

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So Vespa Sprint embodies the heritage of a tradition of vitality and youthfulness. It was conceived as an evolution of the Vespa Primavera project and intended for young people of all ages, enhancing the sport style that its legendary name evokes. Vespa Sprint boasts a body that is small and lightweight, but also comfortable and protective, entirely made in steel and characterised by an extremely youthful line, marked by a gritty rectangular headlight and it stands out for the large 12" wheels with spectacular aluminium alloy rims.
Vespa Primavera can also be fitted with a top fairing - available in both transparent and tinted material - that elegantly completes the vehicle's design.
The accessory line also includes the internal top box bag, the convenient side stand - in black painted steel - which makes easier to park the Primavera, and the outdoor vehicle cover, the indoor one with "big logo" and both with convenient openings to accommodate any accessories and the rubber mat.
The range of accessories for the new Vespa Sprint is also original and plentiful. The 12" wheels that shod the Sprint (the largest ever used by a Vespa "small body") can be replaced with magnificent aluminium alloy wheel rims with black trim that further enhance the gritty and sporty nature of the new Vespa. In addition to the chromium plated perimeter guards and luggage racks, there are also versions in matt black that combine style and sportiness, in perfect harmony with the Vespa Sprint style. To enhance the image of your Vespa Sprint, the accessories range is completed by the black or matt grey steering cover, the single-seat saddle and the "Sport" graphics.


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New Orleans RTA announces phased return to normal public transportation schedules
The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority will reportedly begin a phased return to normal bus and streetcar operations beginning Sunday, June 20.
Updated: 6:06 PM CDT Jun 16, 2021
Gabbii King
The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority will reportedly begin a phased return to normal bus and streetcar operations beginning on Sunday, June 20. The initial phase will include the restoration of full service on all lines from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. as these are peak travel hours.According to a press release, the agency will also adjust frequency on the 12 – St. Charles streetcar route, the 88– St. Claude/ Jackson-Barracks, and the 91 – Jackson/Esplanade. Each route will have adjusted frequencies during peak travel times that include: 12 – St. Charles Streetcar Peak service reduces frequency from 9 minutes to 12 (Monday – Sunday, 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.) 88– St. Claude/ Jackson-Barracks Peak service increases frequency from 20 minutes to 15 minutes (6 a.m. – 6 p.m.) Off peak service increases frequency from 60 minutes to 30 minutes 91 – Jackson/EsplanadeWeekday peak service increases frequency from 30 minutes to 20 minutes (6 a.m. – 6 p.m.) Weekend peak services increases frequency from 60 minutes to 30 minutes (6 a.m. – 6 p.m.) Masks will still be required at all times on any public transportation.
The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority will reportedly begin a phased return to normal bus and streetcar operations beginning on Sunday, June 20.
The initial phase will include the restoration of full service on all lines from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. as these are peak travel hours.
According to a press release, the agency will also adjust frequency on the 12 – St. Charles streetcar route, the 88– St. Claude/ Jackson-Barracks, and the 91 – Jackson/Esplanade. Each route will have adjusted frequencies during peak travel times that include:
12 – St. Charles Streetcar
Peak service reduces frequency from 9 minutes to 12 (Monday – Sunday, 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.)
88– St. Claude/ Jackson-Barracks
Peak service increases frequency from 20 minutes to 15 minutes (6 a.m. – 6 p.m.)
Off peak service increases frequency from 60 minutes to 30 minutes
91 – Jackson/Esplanade
Weekday peak service increases frequency from 30 minutes to 20 minutes (6 a.m. – 6 p.m.)
Weekend peak services increases frequency from 60 minutes to 30 minutes (6 a.m. – 6 p.m.)
Masks will still be required at all times on any public transportation.


Earlier this week, U.S. News and World Report published their annual rankings and for the 25th consecutive year, Fairfield University has ranked in the top 5% for Masters degree granting regional universities in the Northeast according to a new poll done by U.S. News and World Report. Fairfield achieved the highest ranking of any regional college and university in Connecticut. Fairfield also ranked 3rd among regional institutions for Best Undergraduate Teaching, a strong testament to the caliber of education students receive.
The university was also highly rated for its high freshman retention rate (88%) and student to faculty ratios (11-1). Our peer assessment score — one of the elements in the rankings — remained consistent with previous years.
Additionally, out of nearly 1,400 colleges and universities in the country, Fairfield University has been ranked in the top 7% of all schools in the U.S. by USA Today, according to a list compiled by College Factual. Stags lacrosse ranked in the top 3% of all Division I programs and Fairfield University also improved to #7 from #9 for best Roman Catholic colleges in the country.
College Factual is a data-driven resource dedicated to assisting prospective college students, and was recently featured on USA Today's College web site. The schools were considered using College Factual's quality ranking system, which is highly focused on outcomes such as graduation rates and average salaries of graduates.
This is an exciting time at Fairfield University. With a strategic plan finalized, a capital campaign launching, and a number of exciting strategic initiatives underway, the University is well positioned for a strong future.
In the 2015 Safewise report, the town of Fairfield was ranked 41st in the "50 Safest College Towns in America.
Fairfield's Master of Science in Accounting program was included in the Top 5 AACSB accredited programs in New England by The Accounting Path, an information website for students interested in accounting careers.


Why is National competitive bidding relevant to your business?
Competitive Bid pricing will expand to all suppliers on January 1, 2016. This mandate is a directive of the 2015 End Stage Renal Disease and Prospective Payment System final rule posted on November 6, 2014.
If you supply respiratory equipment, enteral nutrition, mobility equipment (from walkers to power chairs), infusion equipment, TENS units, support surfaces, commodes, patient lifts, seat lifts, NPWT, or hospital beds you are affected by this rule, and now is the time to prepare for how these changes will impact your business.
Per the ruling, fee schedule amounts for items and services that are subject to competitive bidding will be adjusted on a regional level. The US will be broken down into a total of eight regions where this logic will be applied, including rural areas. Pricing will be adjusted based on how your area is classified within your respective region (rural or non-rural), but one thing is for certain, reimbursement is slated to decrease across the board.
In our recently aired webcast on January 13th, we partnered with HME News to deliver a better understanding of this complex ruling. We provided our attendees with an example of what pricing might look like after the expansion from this rule. Using the pricing adjustment logic explained in the final rule and current Single Payment Amount (SPA) data, we were able to determine what the new Regional SPA might look like for suppliers in a hypothetical location (Bartlesville, OK) post roll out. The results showed a 47% reduction in the reimbursement rate for oxygen concentrators in that area.
A realistic calculation is an essential tool to prepare your business for these future changes. Now is the time to examine your processes, re-negotiate contracts with your vendors, and/or reallocate staff resources to eliminate inefficiencies in your system. MiraVista can equip you with tools you need to progress through this process.
If you missed the event and would like to get the full details for how this ruling is to be implemented, the event is still available on-demand in digital format.
Additionally, we will be hosting the second part of this series on February 11th to discuss the bundled payment demonstration. The bundled payment provision will directly affect the way that CPAPs and Standard Power Wheelchairs are reimbursed in up to 12 demonstration areas and will set a precedent that will likely impact other products in the future.


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Home Opinions Columns T J S George
Hong Kong: The Civil Disobedience Movement Looks Like a College Kids' Game. But It's Real Serious
Published: 16th November 2014 06:00 AM | Last Updated: 18th November 2014 07:34 AM | A+A A-
By T J S George
The protest movement in Hong Kong is a modern-day political wonder. Reason one: To demand Western-style democracy in a part of China is plain mad; for lesser audacity vast numbers of people in Tibet and the Muslim area of Uighur have paid dearly. Reason two: Authorities in Beijing have avoided a Tiananmen model crackdown, apparently because a violent interdiction would have undermined business, Hong Kong's lifeblood, and rattled world opinion at a time when Beijing is working towards a world leadership role.
China won't yield an inch to the protestors. But that does not mean that the so-called Occupy movement, also called democracy movement, is a non-event. That it has lasted two months is an achievement in itself. More importantly, it has energised the youth and attracted large segments of the general public, holding up the message that Hong Kong has changed. For a century and a half it had remained a happily docile colony of Britain, firm in its belief that the freedom to make money was the only freedom that mattered. Democracy never bothered either the ruler or the ruled. China actually injected a tiny dose of democracy into this system. Earlier Britain merely nominated a governor and he ruled as the colony's lord and master. For the election of the next Chief Executive (as governor is now called) in 2017, China offered universal franchise for all citizens in Hong Kong, a first-ever "reform". The catch was that voters' choice was limited to a panel of two or three names nominated by a China-controlled 1,200-member committee. In other words, the right to vote was given to all, but the right to stand as candidate was given to none. It was against this little trick that students took to the streets.
They did so in a unique manner. Despite a skirmish or two, overall it was a disciplined and stylish movement. They did not look like agitators in the first place. They were dressed in city casuals reflecting—this being Hong Kong—up-to-date international fashion. They were polite with the public. They were meticulous about cleaning the streets they occupied, collecting their garbage in big plastic bags for disposal. They called their protest a civil disobedience movement but emphasised that civil disobedience was not defiance of the rule of law but acceptance of it. Some of the leaders were no older than 17 and 18. Many talked of parents pressurising them to get back to classes. One bright young man with a nattily shaped hair style told this writer that he was returning to his research at Hong Kong University, but that didn't mean he was withdrawing from the movement. The university campus was leafy, peaceful and busy as always.
The question is: Why has this new generation of Hong Kong citizens taken on China's mighty power structure when their elders were content to be apolitical until just two decades ago? Basically there are two issues, political and cultural. Politically, Hong Kongers fear that China is becoming more rigid under President Xi Jinping. He has been neutralising powerful leaders one by one using corruption charges as his weapon. At this rate, would he one day crush the freedoms that Hong Kong people have come to take for granted? This antipathy to Xi's China is intensified by the behaviour of visitors from the mainland. Hong Kong's people are for long used to the niceties and adjustments of international living. The mainlanders, as visitors from China are called locally, are crude by comparison, talking loudly in public spaces and behaving without any civic sense. The story of a mainlander mother letting her child do No. 1 in a crowded Metro train is the most discussed folk tale in Hong Kong these days.
The cultural divide goes really deep. Hong Kong's filmmakers say that mainland audiences are difficult and different. Hong Kong's universities, people say, are rated higher than China's, thanks to a tradition of intellectual freedom. The new generation in Hong Kong feels that its precious cultural edge would be lost if China takes full control of Hong Kong. They are not alone. The new generation in Taiwan is also embittered by an apparently hardening China. Within the mainland itself, the young often revolt but are firmly suppressed. The Chinese-language Apple Daily of Hong Kong, founded in 1995, has been anti-China to the extent of once calling on people to rise in revolt against Beijing. Last week, an academic survey revealed that only 8.9 per cent of Hong Kongers call themselves Chinese. This is a historical shift: not just Tibetans and Uighurs, but Chinese turning against communist China.


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LG G4 Stylus which was announced by the company in the month of May seems to be all set to hit the Indian markets. According to Mahesh Telecom, the Mumbai based retailer, G4 Stylus is going to be priced Rs. 24,990 in India and will be made available very soon officially in India.
Mumbai: LG G4 Stylus sports 5.7 inch display and the resolution of it is 1280 x 720 pixels. It weighs 163 grams. The handset is powered by quad core Snapdragon 410 processor whose clock speed is 1.2 GHz. The processor is paired with 1 GB RAM and the internal storage is 8 GB. There is facility to expand memory via micro SD. The handset comes out of the box with Android 5.0 Lollipop operating system. Connectivity features of the handset include WiFi, 4G and Bluetooth. It comes equipped with 13 megapixel primary camera and there is 5 megapixel front facing camera also on board. Battery under the hood is 3000 mAh.
According to Mahesh Telecom, the4G LTE variant of LG G4 Stylus is going to be released in India. The buyers of this handset will get a free 16 GB micro SD card, Quick circle case and other launching offers, added the retailer.
This entry was posted in Launches, Tech on July 3, 2015 by Rakesh.


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Mom Catches Her Son Using Alexa To Cheat On His Math Homework
"Alexa, 8 multiplied by 4!"
A 9-year-old Scottish boy named Bryce Gormanley recently went viral online after he was caught by his mom using Alexa for his mathematics homework.
The mom caught the act on tape and netizens couldn't help but laugh at the boy's ingenuity.
Remember how we did our homework back in the days? We definitely had it tough. With no internet and smartphones, we mainly relied on books and some more books from the local library.
Things have changed a lot since as technology improved and now kids have it much, much easier. By doing a quick Google search, for example, they can easily find any needed information in seconds!
Take it from this young schoolboy who took advantage of modern tech so he can finish his math assignment quicker – and he went viral on social media because of it.
9-year-old Bryce Gormanley of Dalmellington, Ayrshire in Scotland was caught in the living room by his mom using Alexa to cheat on multiplication as he asked the device several questions.
"4 x 3 is 12," the automated voice told the boy, in one instance, and Leanne couldn't help but shake her head in the background while watching her son do his thing.
Bryce went on, "Alexa, 8 multiplied by 4?" and the voice gives him the correct answer once more.
Of course, mom had to step in and stop the boy by calling his attention. "What is going on here?" she asked and the surprised kid turned around, noticing the camera in his mom's hand. He defended his act by saying he is doing his homework but Leanne was quick to say that's not the way to do it right.
The grinning kid went on asking Alexa more math questions and mom just had to reminded him, "You do realize you'll be doing all this again yourself?"
Watch the funny video here and see for yourself:
The video went viral on social media and gained a lot of comments from netizens, with some pointing out that the kid "deserves a medal" for knowing how to utilize advanced technology for his benefit.
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Filipina Plane Passenger Wears Several Layers of Clothes to Avoid Paying Excess Baggage Fees
OMG! Someone finally did it!
Filipina woman Gel Rodriguez recently went viral because of a funny social media post.
The airline passenger shared a photo where she was seen wearing several layers of garments, all in an attempt to avoid paying extra baggage fees.
Funny Filipino Babysitter Entertains Infant With Her Hilarious Dance Moves
Not your typical nanny – and damn, she's giving it her all!
A nanny from the Philippines captured the attention of social media netizens because of her viral dance video.
In the footage, she can be seen with her crazy moves as she entertains a baby.
Teenager Gets 16 Dachshunds To Pose Perfectly Lined Up In Pairs
The pups were happy to pose for the picture because he had a secret weapon!
A teenager who owns 16 Dachshunds has proven that it's possible to get all of the rowdy pups to pose for a pretty picture.
The 19-year-old was challenged by a friend to take a photo of his dogs lined up on the stairs.
Amazingly, it only took him 10 minutes to get the picture because he had a secret weapon!
Boy Kicks Car of Driver Who Hit His Mom On The Street
Now You Can Get The Floor Clean With This BabyMop Onesie
Couple Finally Welcomes First Daughter – After Having 10 Sons!
Gross Moment Guy Washes His Dog's Butt In Water Fountain


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Policy blog: Day two at Conservative Party conf...
Policy blog: Day two at Conservative Party conference
Cameron Miller, Head of Policy & Public Affairs, reports from the 2018 Conservative Party annual conference
Tuesday at Conservative Party Conference was a chance to get around the exhibition and see what our friends in other organisations are up to.
The Alzheimer's Society had an incredible stand to highlight the cost of care for those affected by Alzheimer's and the NFU managed to get an entire tractor into the hall, which was quite a sight.
Lots of the fringe events at this stage of conference season are repeating topics that have already been covered so the focus was also on Secretary of State for Health and Social Care's, Matt Hancock, speech and what he has planned for the NHS.
Ahead of that, in the morning there were reports that there would be a new three week waiting target for cancer diagnosis.
We know that many brain tumour patients take significant periods of time to be diagnosed and multiple visits to their GP.
This means many will be referred for immediate tests at any possible sign of cancer. Though due to be piloted in breast, bowel, prostate and lung, we hope that this will have the knock on impact to improve brain tumour diagnoses'.
During the speech he mentioned a personal story of his sister who had a near fatal brain injury last year and whom was saved by the incredible service delivered by Southmead Hospital in Bristol.
He also stated that cancer rates are at a record high, which is true, but they are still lagging behind much of Europe and for those diagnosed with a less survivable cancer face a survival rate of 14% over five years.
This is one of the many reasons we have joined forces with five other charities that represent the other diseases, to ask for a survival target specifically for these disease areas which will encourage NHS England to make the positive changes that are needed to see this improve.
There was also a real push on new technology. Though he was keen to emphasise that this was not about IT and actually about the NHS being capable of embracing cutting edge opportunities.
This is something that is clearly a fantastic aim and we completely support, but we know from our creation of BRIAN, that the NHS and arms lengths bodies are not always set up to support opportunities when they present themselves. So it feels like a long way to go.
The Brain Tumour Charity at the Labour Party 2018 annual conference


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nearly separates E and W parts of Dolgoi I., in Pavlof Is., Aleutian Range. 5 miles long.
Probably a local name; shown on 1882 U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) chart. It is Russian for "long."
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