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Q: Master - Detail project not working as expected Using the default project from xcode for a master-detail application, if i place a print debug statement in the collapse delegate, it never seems to get triggered when i rotate the device (in fact i can't get it too trigger ever).
The bit of code i've edited is in AppDelegate.swift and looks like this
func splitViewController(_ splitViewController: UISplitViewController, collapseSecondary secondaryViewController:UIViewController, onto primaryViewController:UIViewController) -> Bool {

    print("XXXXXXX")

    guard let secondaryAsNavController = secondaryViewController as? UINavigationController else { return false }
    guard let topAsDetailController = secondaryAsNavController.topViewController as? DetailViewController else { return false }
    if topAsDetailController.detailItem == nil {
        // Return true to indicate that we have handled the collapse by doing nothing; the secondary controller will be discarded.
        return true
    }
    return false
}

and as you can see the delegate is set correctly as per the default project:
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
    // Override point for customization after application launch.
    let splitViewController = self.window!.rootViewController as! UISplitViewController
    let navigationController = splitViewController.viewControllers[splitViewController.viewControllers.count-1] as! UINavigationController
    navigationController.topViewController!.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = splitViewController.displayModeButtonItem
    splitViewController.delegate = self
    return true
}

The only thing changed from the default project is that print("XXXXXXX") line i've added.
It's my understanding that when it collapses the split view (i.e. due to rotation from landscape to portrait) it should call this delegate method to work out which detail view to use... However it never calls that delegate method.
Am i just not getting how this works or is the default project itself broken?
My end goal is too make it so the master view (on the left) becomes the primary view when it collapses if the detail view has a certain variable set to nil. Getting this (and other delegate methods) to trigger I guess is the first stage of achieving this.

A: The delegate methods concerning collapsing/expanding/separating are called during size class changes that happen during split screen multitasking on iPad or when using a split view controller on iPhone.
Hiding/showing the master view controller is a result of the split view controller's displayMode changing which you can react to in the splitViewController:willChangeToDisplayMode: delegate method.

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cumene to cumene hydroperoxide
The uncondensed overhead product is removed from the top of accumulator 23 by means of a line 27, and it is then passed to a separating drum 29. 7. <> The first step in phenol production is oxidation of cumene to cumene-hydroperoxide (CHP) with 25-30% conversion. On the same hourly basis, this material contains 46 pounds of cumene and 34 pounds of water. At the temperatures employed generally for the separation, the steam employed is present in the separation zone as a vapor, hence, it is removed with the vaporous overhead product in the operation. In the stripping zone, the liquid material, e. g., containing at least 50% hydroperoxide, is contacted with additional quantities of steam in order to strip therefrom all or substantially all of the unreacted hydrocarbon. In order to obtain a high purity material containing hydroperoxide, a prohibitive quantity of stripping agent is necessary. While this technique is not as economical as using water which exists at an ambient temperature as the cooling medium, nevertheless, it is within the scope of the present invention. By this practice, it is to be noted that the quantity of steam which is present in the fractionation zone is enhanced by the quantity of steam which is added to the stripping zone for the purposes described above. In the separation of dialkylarylmethyl hydroperoxide from dialkylarylmethane by means of steam, it is necessary to employ a subatmospheric pressure when it is desired to produce a hydroperoxide product substantially free of water. MDL number MFCD00002129. The present invention is concerned with mixtures of hydroperoxide and unreacted hydrocarbon in WhlCh the hydroperoxide comprises about 10 to about 50% by weight of the total material. The cooled overhead product is passed from condenser 19 to a line 21, and thence, it flows to an accumulator 23. An object of this invention is to separate a dialkylarylmethyl hydroperoxide compound from a dialkylarylmethane compound. From a commercial standpoint, it is important to select the operating pressure of this separating zone so as to insure the subsequent condensation of steam and unreacted hydrocarbon at about the ambient temperature of Water, which can be used for indirect cooling of the overhead product from the separating zone. Cumene hydroperoxide technical grade, 80% Synonym: α,α-Dimethylbenzyl hydroperoxide CAS Number 80-15-9. 5. Further, the hydroperoxide is usually not stable at elevated temperatures, and so extreme care should be exercised in the selection of the conditions under which this material is recovered from the reaction product. On the same hourly basis, the remaining liquid product contains 9157 pounds of cumene and 100 pounds of cumene hydroperoxide.
Phenol and other related aromatic compounds can be prepared by the method involving the oxidation of a dialkylarylmethane type of compound in which a tertiary carbon atom is attached to the cyclic radical. Steam and liquid material from the stripping section B are combined and pass as a single stream into line 66 which leads to a heating element 68. Hence, on the basis of economics alone, such a technique is not desirable for commercial exploitation. In accordance with the present invention, a method for separating a dialklyarylmethyl hydroperoxide compound from a dialkylarylmethane compound is provided which comprises contacting a mixture of said compounds with steam in a subatmospheric separating zone under suitable conditions such that a substantial portion of the dialkylarylmethane compound is vaporized, and the remaining liquid contains a major amount of the dialkylarylmethyl hydroperoxide compound, and then the remain- 6o ing liquid is contacted with steam in a stripping zone in such quantities and under such conditions that substantially all of the dialkylarylmethane compound is removed therefrom, and a liquid containing substantially all of the dialkylarylmethyl hydroperoxide is produced. Conventional stripping is also not adequate for this purpose by reason that the product contains an undesired quantity of unreacted hydrocarbon and by-product materials. On the same hourly basis, this bottom liquid yield contains 2847 pounds of cumene hydroperoxide and 39 pounds of cumene. These by-product materials usually comprise not more than 2,706,708 Patented Apr. Hence, it is important from an operational standpoint to employ quantities of steam falling in the range mentioned above, otherwise, little or no benefit is derived from the use of the additional steam, or the operation is too expensive when considered from an economical standpoint alone. The decomposition of cumene hydroperoxide (CHP) was carried out in a batch reactor over supported solid acid catalysts, acid-activated montmorillonite K10 (Mont. 4. A process for separating dialkylarylmethane from dialkylarylmethyl hydroperoxide which comprises heating a mixture of said compounds containing about 10 to about 50% hydroperoxide to a temperature not greater than the decomposition temperature of said hydroperoxide, combining the heated mixture with steam in the amount of about 10 to 25%, passing the mixture in steam into a fractionation zone wherein the mixture is separated into an overhead vaporous fraction containing about 0.5 to about 5% of the hydroperoxide and the remainder is essentially all of the dialkylarylmethane which is fed to the fractionation zone and a liquid fraction containing about 55 to about 85% hydroperoxide and the remainder is essentially dialkylarylmethane, contacting the liquid fraction with additional steam in the amount of about 25 to about based on the feed to the fractionation zone in a stripping zone whereby the dialkylarylmethane is stripped from the hydroperoxide, passing a gaseous eflluent containing dialkylarylmethane from the stripping zone to the fractionation zone and yielding from the stripping zone a liquid fraction containing about 90 to about 95% of the hydroperoxide which is fed to the fractionation zone. The presence of byproduct materials tends to obscure the separation of the hydroperoxide from the unreacted hydrocarbon.
PASSING SAID MIXTURE AND STEAM INTO A SEPARATION ZONE WHEREIN THE MIXTURE IS SEPARATED INTO AN OVERHEAD VAPOROUS FRACTION CONTAINING SUBSTANTIALLY ALL DIALKYLARYLMETHANE AND A LIQUID FRACTION CONTAINING A MAJOR AMOUNT OF DIALKYLARLMETHYL HYDROPEROXIDE AND A MINOR AMOUNT OF DIALKYLARYLMETHANE, CONTACTING THE LIQUID FRACTIONS WITH ADDITIONAL STEAM IN A STRIPPING ZONE WHEREBY THE DIALKYLARYLMETHANE IS STRIPPING FROM THE DIALKYLARYLMETHYL HYDROPEROXIDE, PASSING THE STRIPPED DIALKYLARYLMETHANE MATERIAL FROM THE STRIPPED ZONE TO THE AFORESAID SEPARATION ZONE, AND YIELDING THE HYDROPEROXIDE SUBSTANTIALLY FREE OF DIALKYLARYLMETHANE FROM THE STRIPPING ZONE. In this mixture, on the same hourly basis, cumene comprises 9242 pounds and cumene hydroperoxide comprises 2947 pounds. US2706708A US390626A US39062653A US2706708A US 2706708 A US2706708 A US 2706708A US 390626 A US390626 A US 390626A US 39062653 A US39062653 A US 39062653A US 2706708 A US2706708 A US 2706708A Authority US United States Prior art keywords hydroperoxide steam dialkylarylmethane cumene zone Prior art date 1953-11-06 Legal status (The legal status is an … Hg absolute. Any liquid which is entrained in these vapors is discharged from the bottom of a separating drum by means of a line 31. Above the level of water (not shown) in accumulator 23, hydrocarbon is Withdrawn by means of a line 45, and it is transported by means of a pump 47 to a line 49. of mercury and at a temperature of F. By reason of the conditions existing in the fractionation section A, a vaporous overhead product is yielded from the top thereof by means of a line 17. %�쏢 For the purpose of maintaining steam in the separation zone in the uncondensed form, it is advisable to employ subatmospheric pressures in the range of about to about 200 mm. The liquid material being discharged from the bottom of fractionation section A enters stripping section B. Cumene hydroperoxide product is withdrawn from the bottom of stripping section B by means of a line 74 at the rate of 3266 pounds per hour. A process for separating dialkylarylmethane from dialkylarylmethyl hydroperoxide which comprises heating a mixture of said compounds containing about to about 50% of the hydroperoxide to a temperature not greater than the decomposition temperature of said hydroperoxide, combining the heated mixture with steam, passing the said mixture in steam into a fractionation zone wherein the mixture is separated into an overhead vaporous fraction containing about 0.5 to about 5% of hydroperoxide and the remainder is substantially all of the dialkylarylmethane which is fed to the fractionation zone and a liquid fraction containing about 55 to about 85% of the hydroperoxide and the remainder is essentially dialkylarylmethane, contacting the liquid fraction with additional steam in the stripping zone whereby the dialkylarylmethane is stripped from the dialkylarylmethyl hydroperoxide, passing a gaseous etfiuent containing dialkylarylmethane from thestripping zone to the fractionation zone, and yielding a liquid fraction from the stripping zone containing at least 90% hydroperoxide. of mercury. Linear Formula C 6 H 5 C(CH 3) 2 OOH . Cumene oxidation to cumene hydroperoxide Costa, C. a, Ribeiro, F. a, Lázaro, J. b a Instituto Superior Técnico b CEPSA Research Center Abstract This thesis of Master in Chemical Engineering is based on the study of cumene oxidation to CHP, the key reaction of a phenol production industrial process. 390,626. The dialkylarylmethane compound can be represented by the following structural formula: Rz Ar in which R1 and R2 represent alkyl groups and Ar represents aryl or alkaryl groups and H is hydrogen. By means of the additional quantity of steam which is fed to the stripping zone, the unreacted hydrocarbon is removed easily and efiectively from the liquid material, and it is thereby possible to produce a liquid product from the stripping zone which contains at least about 80% by weight of hydroperoxide or, more usually, at least by weight of hydroperoxide and up to about by weight thereof. It is typically used as an oxidizing agent. Products of decomposition of cumene hydroperoxide are methylstyrene, acetophenone, and cumyl alcohol. Specific examples of the unreacted hydrocarbon can be any one of the starting compounds from which the just enumerated hydroperoxides are derived. NACRES NA.22 For other homologues, a similar temperature difierential in the separation zone can be used, however, the actual values will differ, because the maximum permissible temperature varies with the specific material. Generally, the conditions of fractionation are selected on the basis of obtaining a liquid material containing at least about of the hydroperoxide which is introduced into the system, more usually, about to about of the hydroperoxide, on the same basis as a result of the initial contact of the feed with steam. The quantity of steam employed for this purpose varies from about to about by weight, based on the feed mixture. 5 0 obj
Phenol comes from cleavage of CHP, but in the … By means of a pump 35, the pressure is increased from 80 mm. 19, 1955 about 5% of the total mixture, and the remainder is unreacted hydrocarbon, and, generally, it comprises about 45 to about by weight.
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Q: The source of the Integral Wolfram alpha calculates the integral
$$\int\limits_0^\infty \frac{x^2\ln{x}}{e^x-1}dx=2\zeta^\prime(3)+3\zeta(3)-2\gamma\zeta(3).$$
However, I need to cite the source of this identity (the table of integrals, or the article where this integral was calculated). Could you indicate any?

A: I don't have a published source for this integral, but if need be you could refer to the following derivation:
$$\int_0^\infty \frac{x^2\ln{x}}{e^x-1}\,dx=\int_0^\infty x^2 e^{-x}\ln x\sum_{k=0}^\infty e^{-kx}$$
$$=\sum_{k=0}^\infty\frac{3-2\gamma-2 \ln (k+1)}{(k+1)^3}$$
$$=(3-2\gamma)\zeta(3)+2\zeta^\prime(3).$$
The integral over $x^2 e^{-(k+1)x}\ln x$ follows upon partial integration and in the final equation I used the identity $$\sum_{k=1}^\infty k^{-p}\ln k=-\zeta'(p).$$

A: One way to get the claimed value of the given integral, $J$ in notation below, is by starting from the standard relation
$$
\begin{aligned}
\zeta(s)
&= \frac 1{\Gamma(s)}\int_0^\infty \frac {x^{s-1}}{e^x-1}\; dx\ ,\qquad
\text{ so }\\
\zeta'(s)
&=
\frac\partial{\partial s}
\left(\
\frac 1{\Gamma(s)}\int_0^\infty \frac {x^{s-1}}{e^x-1}\; dx
\ \right)
\\
&=
\frac 1{\Gamma(s)}\int_0^\infty \frac {x^{s-1}\; \ln x}{e^x-1}\; dx
-
\underbrace{\frac{\Gamma'(s)}{\Gamma(s)}}_{=\psi(s)}\zeta(s)\ ,\qquad\text{leading to }
\\
\zeta'(3)&=\frac 1{\Gamma(3)}\underbrace{\int_0^\infty \frac {x^2\; \ln x}{e^x-1}\; dx}_{\text{our integral }J}
-
\psi(3)\zeta(3)\ .
\\[2mm]
&\qquad\text{Extracting $J$ from above,}\\[2mm]
J &=\Gamma(3)\; \zeta'(3) \ +\ \Gamma(3)\; \psi(3)\; \zeta(3)
\\
&=2\zeta'(3)+(3-2\gamma)\zeta(3)\ ,
\end{aligned}
$$
where we have used the relations $\displaystyle\psi(x+1)=\frac 1x+\psi(x)$ and $\psi(1)=-\gamma$, e.g. from here. Explicitly, this gives the value for $\displaystyle\psi(3)=\frac 12+\psi(2)=\frac 12+1+\psi(1)=\frac 12(3-2\gamma)$.
$\square$

The above shows how to get similar relations when there is an other power of $x$ instead of $x^2$ in the numerator of then integrand, and gives an interpretation of the involved coefficients.


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Theodore Sturgeon (ur. 26 lutego 1918, zm. 8 maja 1985) – amerykański pisarz, autor fantastyki i jej krytyk oraz wydawca. Urodził się jako Edward Hamilton Waldo w Nowym Jorku; w 1929, po rozwodzie, jego matka poślubiła Williama Sturgeona i przy okazji Edward zmienił imię na Theodore, żeby lepiej oddawało jego pseudonim, "Ted".

Praca
Swoje pierwsze opowiadanie sprzedał w roku 1938 dla gazety McClure's Syndicate, która kupiła większość z jego wczesnych (nie-fantastycznych) prac. Jego pierwsze pojawienie się w fantastyce to opowiadanie "Ether Breather" w Astounding Science Fiction rok później. Na początku pisywał głównie krótkie opowiadania, przede wszystkim do magazynów branżowych, takich jak Astounding czy Unknown, ale również dla nie-fantastycznych, jak Argosy Magazine. Podpisywał się pseudonimem "E. Waldo Hunter", tylko mała część jego wczesnych opowiadań było podpisanych "Theodore H. Sturgeon".

Wiele prac Sturgona ma cechy poezji i elegii. Używał techniki znanej jako "rytmiczna proza", w której tekst wpasowywał się w standardowe metrum. Kreowało to szczególny nastrój przy czytaniu, zazwyczaj bez świadomego zauważenia przyczyny przez czytelnika.

Jego najbardziej znana powieść, "Więcej niż człowiek" (More Than Human, 1953) zdobyła uznanie i głównie w Europie, gdzie uznano ją za literaturę najwyższej próby.

Sturgeon pisał scenariusze do serialu Star Trek: Seria oryginalna (epizody: Shore Leave z 1966 i Amok Time z 1967, później opublikowane w formie książkowej w 1978) – Amok Time jest znany z wprowadzenia pon farr, wolkańskiego rytuału kopulacyjnego). Napisał również kilka epizodów które nigdy nie zostały wyprodukowane. Miał udział również w pisaniu odcinków do innych seriali i filmów telewizyjnych.

Jakkolwiek Sturgeon jest dobrze znany czytelnikom klasycznych antologii science-fiction (u szczytu popularności w latach 50. był autorem najczęściej umieszczanym w antologiach) i poważanym przez krytyków, nie jest zbyt dobrze znany szerszej publice i zdobył relatywnie mało nagród (chociaż jego najlepsze dzieła powstały przed ustanowieniem najważniejszych nagród: Hugo i Nebula). Uważany jest za mającego największy wpływ na późniejszych i bardziej popularnych autorów, takich jak Ray Bradbury czy Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (ten ostatni stwierdził, że jego bohater Kilgore Trout oparty był właśnie na Sturgeonie).

Publikacje

Powieści
 The Dreaming Jewels (1950), publikowane również jako The Synthetic Man
 Więcej niż człowiek (More Than Human, 1953) – powieść utworzona z trzech połączonych opowiadań, zdobywca International Fantasy Award
 The King and Four Queens (1956)
 I, Libertine (1956, jako "Frederick R. Ewing")
 To Marry Medusa (1958), publikowane również jako The Cosmic Rape
 Venus Plus X (1960)
 Some of Your Blood (1961)
 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (adaptacja filmu pod tym samym tytułem, oparta na wczesnej wersji scenariusza) (1961)
 The Rare Breed (1966, Western) (adaptacja filmu pod tym samym tytułem)
 Godbody (1986)

Opowiadania i nowele
Sturgeon jest najbardziej znany z krótkiej formy. Najważniejsze tytuły to:
 Ether Breather (wrzesień, 1939, jego pierwsze opublikowane opowiadanie science-fiction)
 Derm Fool (marzec, 1940)
 It (sierpień, 1940)
 Microcosmic God (kwiecień, 1941)
 Wczoraj był poniedziałek (Yesterday Was Monday, 1941)
 Killdozer! (listopad, 1944)
 Bianca's Hands (maj, 1947)
 Gromy i róże (Thunder and Roses, listopad, 1947)
 The Perfect Host (listopad, 1948)
 Minority Report (czerwiec 1949, bez związku z filmem z 2002 roku, opartym na opowiadaniu o tym samym tytule Philipa Dicka)
 One Foot and the Grave (wrzesień, 1949)
 The World Well Lost (czerwiec, 1953)
 Mr. Costello, Hero (grudzień, 1953)
 Xanadu (The Skills of Xanadu, lipiec, 1956)
 The Other Man (wrzesień, 1956)
 Need (1960)
 How to Forget Baseball (w Sports Illustrated grudzień 1964)
 The Nail and the Oracle (w u październik 1964)
 Powolna rzeźba (Slow Sculpture w Galaxy magazine luty 1970, wyd. polskie Rakietowe szlaki 1978) – zdobywca nagród Hugo i Nebula
 Skalpel Occama (Occam's Scalpel, sierpień, 1971, wyd. polskie Rakietowe szlaki 2011)
 Vengeance "Is" (1980, w antologii Dark Forces Kirby'ego McCauleya)

Wydawnictwo North Atlantic Books regularnie od 1995 roku wydaje chronologicznie ułożone The Complete Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon; tom 10, z opowiadaniami z lat 1957-1960, wydany był w 2005.

Ciekawostki
Biologiczny ojciec Sturgeona (jego matka poślubiła ponownie Williama Sturgeona w 1929 roku ) nosił nazwisko Waldo.Waldo to również tytuł znanego opowiadania, długoletniego przyjaciela i współpracownika Sturgeona – Robert Heinleina .

"Waldo" było to urządzenie do manipulowania obiektami na odległość, przy pomocy mechanicznych rąk. Wielu innych autorów oddało hołd autorowi, używając tego terminu w wielu swoich opowiadaniach z czasów "Złotej Ery" fantastyki.
"Przed pojawieniem się w filmach i telewizji, waldami nazywano mechaniczne ręce, urządzenia telemetryczne i inne antropomorficzne gadżety używane na pokładach statków NASA"

Linki zewnętrzne
 The Theodore Sturgeon Page  – strona fanowska
  at Free Speculative Fiction Online
 , Millipede Press 2006

Amerykańscy autorzy fantastyki naukowej
Amerykańscy autorzy horrorów
Amerykańscy krytycy fantastyki
Amerykańscy prozaicy XX wieku
Amerykańscy redaktorzy fantastyki
Laureaci Nebuli
Ludzie urodzeni w Nowym Jorku
Prozaicy anglojęzyczni
Urodzeni w 1918
Zmarli w 1985

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This guide is going to cover every puzzle you can do in Nero. Following this guide will snag you the trophy Completion Serenity.
This is the very first puzzle you come across. It's super easy, all you need to do is interact with the podiums until all three notches are lined up together at the top.
You will eventually come to a fork in the road forcing you to go left or right. If you go to the left, you'll see a large statue of a crying woman. Follow the path that leads up the hill towards the statue and step on the pad at the top. A stone pillar will rise and you will need to aim your magic at the correct spot in order to finish the puzzle.
Number 3 is found down the right path of the fork. In the middle of the room is a large stone pillar. Along the walls you'll find 3 smaller pillars, all of which need to be hit with your magic in order to complete the puzzle.
This puzzle is the second one you are required to solve in order to proceed forward with the game. A large door with the 'see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil' monkeys stands between you and the exit. In the middle of the room is a fountain with lights coming out of it. Interact with the podium to make a pillar pop out of the water. Hit it with your magic and turn it blue. Do this two more times and the door will open.
You come up to this door after meeting up with your second character. Set him to stand on one button while you stand on the other to open the door.
You pass up this room after meeting up with your second character. Position him on one of the three circles and then stand on the square button where the character is in the picture above. The circles will rise except for the one that the bigger guy is standing on. Repeat this with the other circles until the puzzle is finished.
This is the second to last puzzle of the game. With these, you need to turn the yellow dots blue. Hitting one with your magic turns all of the dots in the same row as the one that was hit blue. This first dot puzzle is super easy.
(far left) – Hit the dot in the very middle of the X.
(middle right) – Hit the middle dot on the symbol (I think that's enough to turn it all blue, if not hit whatever dot is still yellow).
(far right) – Hit top left dot and bottom right dot.
With this final puzzle, you must line up the three dots within the two yellow lines at the top of the circle. Each dot is controlled by one of the three objects you see in the picture above. There isn't really anything I can say to make this any easier since it's all about timing.
This 'puzzle' is to the left of the first fork when you enter the Forest. Up the hill is a tire swing glowing with yellow lights. Aim your magic to hit the tire as it swings passed to solve the puzzle.
This is the first mandatory puzzle you hit in the Forest section. You must make all of the lights in the trunk of this giant tree blue. To do so, go up to the podiums that are sitting in front of the yellow lines and interact with them. Once they're all blue, a pillar will pop out in the middle of the trunk. Hit it with your magic to finish the puzzle.
After getting through the last puzzle, you'll walk through an abandoned town. If you stay to the right, you'll see this next puzzle sitting on the waters edge. You must line up all of the yellow lines with each other by standing on the squares. This can be a bit time consuming since it's a timing thing, but an easy way to keep track is to remember that all of the squares need to be lined up at a slight angle for the puzzle to be solved.
Super easy mandatory puzzle is next. Set your second character to stand on the square while you aim your magic at the pillar that pops up to open the gate.
These tall pillars are meant to represent the face of a clock. If you look around the area, you'll find random clocks set to 10 o'clock, giving you a hint to what we need to do here. Go into the middle of the circle and count six pillars away from 12. Hit it with your magic, and then do the same for ten.
Straight passed the clock puzzle and all the way down the path way is a pond. Stand on the button sitting right before the water to trigger this puzzle. The goal is to turn all of the buttons blue. Walk along the circle stepping on every button you pass. If you step on an already blue button and turn it yellow, simply back up a bit and step on it again to make it blue once more. Do this for the entire circle until the puzzle is finished.
If you go up from the last puzzle and to the left, and then stay right, you'll come upon this stone. This puzzle is very easy, each podium controls one of the four circles in the picture. Turn the circles until the picture looks right to solve it.
Keep going from the last puzzle and further to the right so that you're in the forest. You should find a path that leads down into a little closed off area with another one of these dot puzzles. Use the podiums to line up both faces that have six dots on each. Hit the top left dot with your magic and the bottom right dot to solve it.
This is the final puzzle of this level. Simply walk in a circle, making sure to step on every button while you do so.
The first puzzle of the Hospital section is to the right at the first fork you come across when entering the hospital itself. Using the 3 podiums, you must line up the 3 holes in the book shelves and then shoot your magic through them and at the pillar on the other side.
This is yet another dot puzzle. Make sure the jellyfish picture in the background is correct and start hitting dots. This one is a bit more complicated, so you'll need to really concentrate if this kind of puzzle isn't your thing.
This puzzle is located in one of the corners of the first floor. This is similar to the last puzzle of the Forest because all you need to do is walk in a circle while making sure to step on every button along the way.
This puzzle is all about timing. In the restaurant you'll find 3 lights hanging over one of the tables. Aim and shoot your magic so that it goes through all 3 hoops in a row. This may get a bit tricky since the last light is swinging.
The fountain is in the very middle of the first floor. Once again, all you need to do it walk around the fountain while making sure to step on each button as you walk by.
This first electricity puzzle is found in a corner on the second floor. Set your other character to stand on the button to the right. A burst of electricity will come out of the button and run along the length of wire that leads to the wall. When the burst is about halfway to the wall, interact with the podium to send out a second spark. They should meet at the wall simultaneously, solving the puzzle.
This extremely frustrating puzzle is within the women's ward on the second floor. Have your other character stand on the button to the far left. Have your magic ready to throw and position yourself to the right next to the large round button. You have to be very quick; walk sideways so you can see the pillar that pops up as you step on the large button and walk over to the middle button. Aim and throw the magic before the timer runs out and the pillar goes back into the floor.
This one is a little different than all of the previous puzzles we've encountered so far. In another corner of the second floor is a staircase blocked by a gate. To the left is a podium too high up to reach. Walk up a little ramp and position your other character on the button to the left. You will rise up, so walk over to the podium. Now set the other character to walk just passed the gate and interact with the podium when he gets there. Once he's walked by, set him to stand on another nearby button to finish the puzzle.
We've reached the final puzzle for this level! Position yourself passed the 3 buttons and facing the pillar. Aim and throw your magic which will release a spark. Make sure you've hit the right spot before moving. As soon as you see the spark leave the pillar, walk across all 3 buttons to set off 3 more sparks. They should all meet up at the wall and complete the puzzle.
Our final puzzle of the game is a mandatory dot one. Start by spinning the middle section of the cube so that 3 dots are positioned under a single dot on the side that is facing you from the podium (on the left). Hit the far right middle dot on that same face with your magic. Move left two faces and hit the very bottom right dot with magic. Go back to the podium and interact with it once. Go to the original face we started at and hit the far right dot in the middle section with magic to complete the puzzle.
You should get the trophy as soon as the narrator finishes talking!


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Q: Firebase hosting changes an element's opacity to 1% whenever it has CSS opacity I'm developing a website with Vue.js and Firebase. Locally, everything works correctly and a button I intend to have low opacity works fine. Whenever I deploy to Firebase Hosting, that button changes its opacity to 1% and so becomes invisible. I have to remove any opacity CSS for it to work, as anything will automatically lower to 1%. As I said, only happens in the hosting whereas locally it works as intended. Any ideas what could be happening?
I have built and deployed several times to solve any build errors that could have been happening.

A: This sounds like a common problem people run across when using Sass.

Percentages in Sass work just like every other unit. They are not
interchangeable with decimals, because in CSS decimals and percentages
mean different things. For example, 50% is a number with % as its
unit, and Sass considers it different than the number 0.5.

Instead of using percentages in your CSS, change them to the equivalent decimal representation.
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using ESRI.ArcGIS.Framework;
using Schematic = ESRI.ArcGIS.Schematic;
using ESRI.ArcGIS.Geodatabase;

namespace CustomRulesPageCS
{
    public partial class FrmNodeReductionRule : Form
    {
        private bool m_isDirty = false;
        private IComPropertyPageSite m_pageSite;
        private Schematic.ISchematicDiagramClass m_diagramClass;

        public FrmNodeReductionRule()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        ~FrmNodeReductionRule()
        {
            m_diagramClass = null;
            m_pageSite = null;
        }

        // For managing the IsDirty flag that specifies whether
        // or not controls in the custom form have been modified
        public bool IsDirty
        {
            get
            {
                return m_isDirty;
            }
            set
            {
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        public IComPropertyPageSite PageSite
        {
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        private void Changed(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
        {
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            // enable the apply button on the page site via the PageChanged method
            m_isDirty = true;

            if (m_pageSite != null)
            {
                m_pageSite.PageChanged();
            }
        }

        public Schematic.ISchematicDiagramClass DiagramClass
        {
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            {
                m_diagramClass = value;
            }
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        private Schematic.ISchematicElementClass GetElementClass(Schematic.IEnumSchematicElementClass enumElementClass, string linkCClassName)
        {

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            while (elementClass != null)
            {
                if (elementClass.Name == linkCClassName)
                    return elementClass;

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            }

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        {
            ITable table = (ITable)elementClass;

            if (table == null)
                return false;

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            if (index < 0) return false;
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                return true;

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        {

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            m_isDirty = true;
            if (m_pageSite != null)
            {
                m_pageSite.PageChanged();
            }

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            if (cmbTargetSuperspanClass.SelectedItem != null)
                 linkClassName = this.cmbTargetSuperspanClass.SelectedItem.ToString();

            if (linkClassName == "" || m_diagramClass == null)
            {
                cmbAttributeName.Items.Clear();
                return;
            }

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            Schematic.IEnumSchematicElementClass enumElementClass;
            enumElementClass = m_diagramClass.AssociatedSchematicElementClasses;

            elementClass = GetElementClass(enumElementClass, linkClassName);
            if (elementClass == null) return;
            Schematic.ISchematicAttributeContainer attCont = (Schematic.ISchematicAttributeContainer)elementClass;

            if (attCont == null) return;

            Schematic.IEnumSchematicAttribute enumAtt = attCont.SchematicAttributes;

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            Schematic.ISchematicAttribute att = enumAtt.Next();

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                    if (attField != null)
                    {
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                        if (IsFieldNumeriqueAndEditable(fieldName, elementClass))
                            cmbAttributeName.Items.Add(fieldName);
                    }
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                att = enumAtt.Next();
            }
        }

        private void chkLinkAttribute_CheckedChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            // report to the propertysheet that the page is dirty
            m_isDirty = true;
            if (m_pageSite != null)
            {
                m_pageSite.PageChanged();
            }

            if (!chkLinkAttribute.Checked)
                txtLinkAttribute.Text = "";
        }
    }
}


The Charlevoix Public Library's rain garden is an example of a stormwater best management practice (BMPs) and is designed to treat runoff before it enters the local stormwater systems or surface waters.
Runoff enters from all sides of the garden, but concentrated flow enters off the end of the new city parking lot. Much of the runoff will be absorbed into the soils immediately, however some will continue through the garden to the lowest point. Any ponding should be temporary (up to several hours). The storm drain found at the center of the garden will act as a safety valve and will prevent any flooding of the garden and adjoining areas.
Many organizations and individuals contributed to this project and include the Charlevoix Public Library, Friends of the Library, Harbor Industries employees, Pat Elliot, Mr. Scholten's ninth-grade Spanish class at Charlevoix High School, and Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council.
The garden was first excavated to the proper depth, backfilled with a porous planting medium, and planted with a diverse array of approximately 1,000 native Michigan shrubs, grasses, sedges, and forbs. The plants will encourage stormwater infiltration and filter pollutants including sediments and nutrients.
Know of other native plant gardens?
If you know of a native plant demonstration garden that you would like to have added to this page please contact the Otsego Conservation District by calling (989) 732-4021 or emailing acherwinski@otsegocountymi.gov.


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Monday – New Member Orientation Meeting begins at 6:00 pm. Monthly Membership Meeting begins at 7:00pm. Meetings are held the 4th Monday of every month.
Wednesday – Board of Directors Meeting begins at 7:00 PM. Meetings are held the 2nd Wednesday of every month.
Trap range - open Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. Check the calendar for official hours of operation.
Orange County Trappers hold their monthly membership and board meetings on the 1st Wednesday of each month at the Clubhouse beginning 7:30PM.
5/5, 2019 - BOY SCOUTS FISHING DERBY - May 5, 2019, all day event. they will stock with trout.
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7/13-14, 2019 - NSSA SHOOT - July 13-14, 2019 at club pistol & rifle range. Visitors welcomed. All day event both days.


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I-Site – Enneagram Studies, Life Coaching, NLP, Multiple-I's
Enneagram Studies
Multiple-I's
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Written by Colin Blundell February 10, 2022 February 11, 2022
Contrasts & Juxtapositions in Richard Jefferies' Writing
Having recently determined to read & re-read Jefferies' work from beginning to end in order of writing, I've become conscious of the way he seems to thrive on contrast & juxtaposition, both small chunk and large chunk. It seems to me that his cognitive processes frequently go like this to good effect.
As an example of what I'm talking about, here's a very small chunk contrast from Hodge & His Masters. Jefferies is talking about going to the local small-time bank:-
…after you have gone through the preliminary ceremony of waiting, which is an institution of the place, the treatment quite changes. Your business is accomplished with practised ease, any information you may require is forthcoming on the instant, and deft fingers pass you the coin. In brief, the whole machinery of banking is here as complete as in Lombard Street. The complicated ramifications of commercial transactions are as well understood and as closely studied as in the 'City'. No matter what your wishes, provided, of course, that your credentials are unimpeachable, they will be conducted for you satisfactorily and without delay.
Our attention is switched abruptly…
Yet the green meadows are within an arrow shot, and standing on the threshold and looking down a cross street you can see the elms of the hedgerows closing in the prospect. It is really wonderful that such conveniences should be found in so apparently insignificant a place.
On the other hand, there's a 'large chunk' contrast in Jefferies' all too short life which I find distinctly noteworthy: perhaps it influenced him to adopt such a cognitive pattern in general. In June 1883 he tells Longman that he had finished writing The Story of my Heart which he had been 'meditating' for seventeen years. Seventeen years! Just think about it: his dates are 6th November 1848-14th August 1887 which means that he was 22 when he started the meditation and had probably been storing up his visionary thinking a few years before that. Looker says from the age of 18!
Indeed, in the first draft version of The Story of My Heart Jefferies points out that even before leaving Coate (1875) he experienced Sun Life moments.
I have no ritual, no ceremonial, or genuflexion [to achieve moments of soul-life]. If the earth itself dissolved it would make no difference. I recognise my own soul in itself. It will always desire soul-life. If it does not exist after death, during its existence it has so desired.
I used to, at home at Coate, have daily pilgrimages to think these ideas. One to a little fir plantation beside the road, some two miles or more, just to hear the sound of the wind in the firs, and to look Southward – Light-wards – along the road, merely to think it. One at a gate about two or three hundred yards, under an elm, a beautiful view of the hills there. One to a great oak at the top of the field at night – the stars so beautiful and the whole Southward Heaven ablaze with them in early Spring. In a town (Swindon) I could not find any [places for a pilgrimage]. Once I went out by train to Uffington and walked the whole way home by the Ridgeway, then I could feel it and pray.
Meanwhile, during all that short time he was also writing dozens of pieces which, though they sometimes hinted at the ideas that appear in his most profound work, are mostly related to detailed natural observation like these two examples:-
The first from Round About a Great Estate, Chapter VI.
The winding paths traced by a hare in spring as he roams over an arable held show that he must cover a mile within a furlong. From a gateway one morning I watched a hare busy in this way, restlessly passing to and fro over the lands. Every motion was visible, because, although the green wheat was rising in an adjacent field, no crop had yet appeared here. Now the hare came direct towards me, running down a furrow; then he turned short and followed a course like the letter V; next he crossed the angle of the field and came back along the shore of the ditch, under the hedge. Then away to the centre of the field, where he stayed some time exploring up one furrow and down another, his ears and the hump of his back only seen above the clods.
But suddenly he caught a scent of something that alarmed him, and away he went full speed: when on the open ground the peculiar way in which the hind limbs are thrown forward right under the body, thus giving an immense 'stride', was clearly displayed…
The second example comes from Amateur Poacher, Chapter XII.
On the verge of the wood which occupies the sloping ground there stands a great oak tree, and down one side of its trunk is a narrow white streak of snow. Leaning against the oak and looking upwards, every branch and twig is visible, lit up by the moon. Overhead the stars are dimmed, but they shine more brightly yonder above the hills. Such leaves as have not yet fallen hang motionless : those that are lying on the ground are covered by the snow, and thus held fast from rustling even were the wind to blow. But there is not the least breath – a great frost is always quiet, profoundly quiet – and the silence is undisturbed even by the fall of a leaf. The frost that kills them holds the leaves till it melts, and then they drop.
Jefferies writes as though such time-bound small chunk events are worthy of the same record as might be devoted to matters of great historical importance; each moment of deliberate observation is treated as though it were of the same significance as, say, William the Conqueror setting foot on the beach at Pevensey in 1066, maybe likely to be remembered thus. A justification might be Jefferies' assertion that 'there is nothing that is not wonderful' – even a grain of sand. Blake's to 'see a world in a grain of sand' goes the other way – big chunk to exceeding small chunk…
All this while he was meditating the production of The Story of My Heart, earlier referred to as Sun Life. He also spent much time not just recording what he grasped on his walks but also detailed descriptions of human activity both agricultural and commercial of which he no doubt had very useful experience during his days as a reporter. Though he asserts that he has nothing to do with politics he also devotes space to what amounts to 'political' analysis.
I find it extraordinary that, for the sake of sheer physical survival, writing essays for monetary gain, one part of Jefferies' mind was, scrutinising things going on around him and above him in the sky, while another part was 'out of this world', so to speak, intent on meditating other possibilities for human life, soul-life, a way out of the limitations of everyday existence. It's arguable that this major split in his being amounted to what could be called Whole-Life-contrast, soul-life & materiality, a state that he learned to live with and made good use of to create his ultimate masterpiece.
In any case, in Chapter 12 of The Story of My Heart he seems to address the Whole-Life-contrast at last:-
I will not permit myself to be taken captive by observing physical phenomena, as many evidently are… the intense concentration of the mind on mechanical effects appears often to render it incapable of perceiving anything that is not mechanical… The restriction of thought to purely mechanical grooves blocks progress in the same way as the restrictions of mediaeval superstition. Let the mind think, dream, imagine: let it have perfect freedom. To shut out the soul is to put us back more than twelve thousand years.
Much is made of Jefferies' development as a gradual linear progression – from reporter and writer of novels (dismissed by early commentators as worthless) towards a 'mystical maturity'. It makes it seem as though it was a discrete one step at a time process; but it's worth pondering the idea that it all took place in less than 20 years, no time at all really. While contemporaneously reading, and struggling to make sense of, 'these philosophies of old times and the science of the mind…', such as he found probably in Diogenes Laertius, to support his meditations on the thoughts eventually contained in The Story of My Heart, Jefferies was also writing about what might seem to be the relative triviality of hare movements, the growth of grass, the fall of leaves, the effect of frost and so on. It will surely have been a unified process – writing about the everyday and contemplating 'soul-work' both at the same time; the Whole-Life-contrast seems likely to have resulted in a mental pattern that served as a driver for him.
How could one prove that? Perhaps by focussing carefully on Jefferies' habitual categorising of apparently trivial, everyday, events to see how they often lead to 'higher' things.
There's a straightforward example at the end of the Chapter XX of Hodge and His Masters (called Hodge's Fields) when Jefferies describes a sudden great downpour of rain.
Fortunately, so fierce a fury cannot last; presently the billows of wind that strike the wood come at longer intervals and with less vigour; then the rain increases, and yet a little while and the storm has swept on. The very fury – the utter abandon – of its rage is its charm; the spirit rises to meet it, and revels in the roar and buffeting.
By-and-by they who have faced it have their reward. The wind sinks, the rain ceases, a pale blue sky shows above, and then yonder appears a majesty of cloud – a Himalaya of vapour. Crag on crag rises the vast pile – such jagged and pointed rocks as never man found on earth, or, if he found, could climb – topped with a peak that towers to the heavens, and leans – visibly leans – and threatens to fall and overwhelm the weak world at its feet. A gleam as of snow glitters on the upper rocks, the passes are gloomy and dark, the faces of the precipices are lit up with a golden gleam from the rapidly- sinking sun. So the magic structure stands and sees the great round disk go down. The night gathers around those giant mounts and dark space receives them.
What was just a sudden downpour of rain takes us up to the heavens and threatens to overwhelm us, physically and cognitively as we read and get into the process; when the sun comes the clouds are described as something magic. The more or less ordinary everyday event becomes capable of dealing us a 'magic structure' which stands. Rain & wind, small chunk; sky-landscape & cloud crags, big chunk.
In general, 'the philosophies of old times', Buddhism, perhaps, for example, might describe the mental process which results in the thinking that produces such rapturous 'reward' by 'facing up to' what happened thus:-
It's a system: the mind that runs it goes beyond the ordinary by recognising that pure sense experience is itself transformed by the awareness of what it is to go beyond time & space even for a split second.
I found a haiku in the following chapter where the original prose does the same kind of thing:-
the milker's battered hat
punched into the cow's side –
stars still visible
One of the ways in which a haiku works effectively is by contrasting near and far; the haiku poet Shiki even suggests that to write a decent haiku one should, as one kind of formula method, look at the violet at one's feet and then view the distant mountain and make a record. Jefferies often functions thus in his prose. DTSuzuki points out that Western writers frequently unwittingly cast ideas with a haikuic structure: near & far, small & large in juxtaposition.
Jefferies' 'cataloguing' is a bold attempt to capture as much as he possibly can of the All, everything there is…
In Hodge's Fields he catalogues as much of the observational knowledge as is necessary to his drift:-
The winds of March differ, indeed, in a remarkable manner from the gales of the early year, which, even when they blow from a mild quarter, compel one to keep in constant movement because of the aqueous vapour they carry. But the true March wind though too boisterous to be exactly genial, causes a joyous sense of freshness, as if the very blood in the veins were refined and quickened upon inhaling it. There is a difference in its roar – the note is distinct from the harsh sound of the chilly winter blast. On the lonely highway at night, when other noises are silent, the March breeze rushes through the tall elms in a wild cadence. The white clouds hasten over illuminated from behind by a moon approaching the full; every now and then a break shows a clear sky and a star shining. Now a loud roar resounds along the hedgerow like the deafening boom of the surge; it moderates, dies away, then an elm close by bends and sounds as the blast comes again. In another moment the note is caught up and repeated by a distant tree, and so one after another joins the song till the chorus reaches its highest pitch. Then it sinks again, and so continues with pauses and deep inspirations, for March is like a strong man drawing his breath full and long as he starts to run a race.
From a small chunk cataloguing of the Many, we are transported to a big chunk perspective… The near and the far.
The sky, too, like the earth, whose hedges, trees, and meadows are acquiring fresher colours, has now a more lovely aspect. At noon-day, if the clouds be absent, it is a rich azure; after sunset a ruddy glow appears almost all round the horizon, while the thrushes sing in the wood till twilight declines.
At night, when the moon does not rise till late, the heavens are brilliant with stars. In the east Arcturus is up; the Great Bear, the Lesser Bear, and Cassiopeia are ranged about the Pole. Procyon goes before the Dog; the noble constellation of Orion stretches broad across the sky; almost overhead lucent Capella looks down. Aries droops towards the west; the Bull follows with the red Aldebaran and the Pleiades. Behind these, Castor and Pollux, and next the cloud-like, nebulous Cancer. Largest of all, great Sirius is flaming in the south, quivering with the ebb and flow of his light, sometimes with an emerald scintillation like a dewdrop on which a sunbeam glances.
It's worth noticing how, after this Big Chunk experience we've been treated to, we are panned down into the burning couch grass and stubble.
But in the calm of autumn there is time again to look round. Then white columns of smoke rise up slowly into the tranquil atmosphere, till they overtop the tallest elms, and the odour of the burning couch is carried across the meadows from the lately-ploughed stubble, where the weeds have been collected in heaps and fired.
This is but one example of the way Jefferies slips easily from observational knowledge to something beyond time & space and then back again. The swing of his thinking.
This is how I visualise a similar process over a stretch of time:-
I argue that Jefferies' Whole-Life-contrast depicted here perhaps presented him with a mental patterning which resulted in the way he regularly indulged in contrastive thinking: now & before, new & old, this place & somewhere else, near & far, present & future, serious & comic, the ordinary & the visionary, tick-tock time & no-time at all.
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Food waste is a global issue. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, roughly one third of all food produced in the world for human consumption is wasted every year, amounting to a staggering 1.3 billion tonnes.
So much wastage makes very little sense. It squanders precious resources such as soil and water, is a drain on capital and labour, and does nothing to alleviate world hunger and malnutrition. Consequently, it is recognised in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12.3 which aims to halve global food waste at the retail and consumer levels by 2030, as well as reduce food losses along production and supply chains. (See also Engaging businesses in Sustainable Development Goals).
Champions 12.3 is a coalition of executives from across the food industry and related institutions dedicated to solving SDG12.3. In a series of reports looking at the business case for reducing food waste they suggested two reasons why the issue wasn't taken more seriously. First, the cost of food waste was frequently well-hidden, often in operational costs, meaning that business leaders didn't have visibility of its impact on the bottom line. Second, many believed that the cost of investment was too high.
To counter this, the suite of reports looked at businesses that had implemented food waste programmes to see what return on investment could be achieved. In its 2018 report dedicated to the food service and catering industry, The Business Case for Reducing Food Loss and Waste: Catering, the research found that the average business cost-benefit ratio was more than 6:1 over a three-year timeframe, with the median cost-benefit ratio of 14:1 — ie for every £1 invested in food loss and waste reduction, companies saw a £14 return. The benefits were mostly realised through lower waste disposal costs, but also due to reductions in the amount of food bought.
Alongside global efforts, the UK is also taking steps to achieve SDG12.3. Usefully, this means that for businesses looking to tackle food waste there is already a lot of support available. The most recent initiative is the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap . Developed by IDG and WRAP, this ambitious plan outlines how the UK food industry can meet its targets under SDG12.3. As part of the roadmap, organisations are encouraged to take three steps to target, measure and act.
To implement these steps a toolkit has also been developed which includes measuring tools, such as waste calculators to track food waste, as well as guidance and advice. On top of this, the toolkit builds on WRAP's pre-existing suite of resources including help as part of its "Your Business is Food; don't throw it away" campaign, as well as resources designed to meet other commitments within the industry, such as the Courtauld 2025 food waste target and the 2015 Hospitality and Food Service Agreement (HaFSA).
project boundaries (ie reporting by site or category).
In the UK, the reduction of food waste is certainly starting to become more mainstream. Partly driven by an increase in kerbside food waste collections, as well as campaigns such as WRAP's Love Food Hate Waste initiative, attitudes of consumers are changing. This, in turn, is being reflected in the expectations of staff who want to see their employers — and the contractors used — adopt good, sustainable and non-wasteful practices.
Driven by these changes, as well as other factors such as cost and improving brand recognition, the food service sector has already identified waste as one of its key issues. Indeed, in the UK Hospitality's Food Service 2018 Management Report leaders placed waste reduction as the second most important sustainability issue, behind nutrition and healthy eating. As such, most contractors should be on board with reducing waste and willing to work with you.
Here are five steps to consider when looking to work more closely with your food service provider.
Setting KPIs — Setting KPIs, or key performance indicators, is one way to monitor food waste within contracts. Consider setting targets after a full audit and review of operations to identify the causes of food waste and to ensure that the targets are ambitious but reasonable. A trial or pilot period is also useful if new processes or methods are to be adopted and adapted. Following the FLW standard, any KPI or trial should have clear boundaries, agreed definitions of the food waste that is to be included, and timeframes.
Review waste collection contracts — A review of how waste is managed should be done with the food service provider to identify what the current waste collection offering is, as well as what other options are available. For example, there should be a food waste recycling stream but, if this is not possible, alternative options should be explored such as using on-site "rocket composters".
Collaborative initiatives — Speak with the contractor about any other initiatives or inter-organisation collaborations that could be fruitful. One example of such an initiative is the "Wasteful to Tasteful" project launched by catering services company Sodexo to use Grade B fruit and vegetables in dishes such as soups or stews. There are also charitable organisations which may be able to redistribute edible but unsellable food.
New contractors —When engaging with a new contractor ask questions about how it manages food waste. For example, are menus designed with food waste in mind? Are catering staff trained to minimise food waste? How does the contractor manage its stock and food ordering? Does the organisation use monitoring technology to measure waste, or to anticipate demand?
Determining customer expectations and changing behaviours — Understanding what staff want can be a crucial tool in reducing food waste. For example, do side dishes often go to waste, or would staff prefer smaller portions? Similarly, identifying ways of educating staff on how food waste is managed can help them make better decisions on what food they purchase and how they dispose of it. For example, encourage people to ask for smaller portions if they don't want a full plate, or provide doggy bags for leftovers.
Tackling food waste is not only an ethical issue, it also benefits the bottom line. Reducing wastage should be seen as a joint effort, involving everyone from on-site staff to the waste contractor.
Any targets set should be agreed with the catering contractor, and potentially set following an audit and review to ensure that they are ambitious but achievable.
Waste contracts should be reviewed to make sure they are fit-for-purpose and are in line with best practice for managing food waste. If not, consider alternatives, such as on-site composting.
Research whether there are any local initiatives that could help reduce wastage.
When choosing a new contractor, ask how it deals with food waste.
Work with staff to determine what they want from the caterer to better predict demand, as well as to help change consumer behaviours.


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Terrible Two's...
Interestingly I was only yesterday morning singing Matilda's praises to my Mother, how she wasn't a terribly difficult child, that she could happily play independently for ages, she doesn't tend to interfere with what isn't hers, is quite happy to share her toys when her little friends come over...then the tantrum struck at 5pm which lasted nearly til her father came home at 6.30pm.
She has had her fair share of strops as she is quite a spirited child with bags of energy and curiosity but this was like a demon has possessed her. Physically she even looked different, it was actually quite frightening to watch her as this inordinate amount of strength oozed out of every pore to the extent that I couldn't even pick her up to give her a reassuring cuddle. So I just left her to it watching from afar.
Advice on how to handle these temper tantrums varies enormously but to me it does make sense to just sit tight, be there in the background until their frustrations have poured out. It's all too tempting to try and entice them out of these by giving them something they like such as a biscuit or a bit of Cbeebies, but in all honesty I do believe they simply need to work through it in their own way. It's seems to work for us. Also whatever she was experiencing clearly frightened her too, because all she wanted afterwards was a huge comforting Mummy cuddle, and I for one could not argue with that.
Calm after the storm like butter wouldn't melt (but check out the crazy hair)!
I think that's a great way to get through the tantrums! Parents so often make the situation 10 times worse by giving in, or giving chocolate and treats as a bribe for them to calm down, but then they're faced with another tantrum an hour later because the child starts to think tantrums = treats!
CJ x


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Home > News > Data & Research > Survey Finds Time to 401(k) Eligibility Decreasing
Data & Research February 1, 2008
Survey Finds Time to 401(k) Eligibility Decreasing
More employers are allowing workers to joining their 401(k) plan earlier, a new Profit Sharing/401k Council of America` (PSCA) survey says.
PSCA said its latest eligibility survey from 2007 found the number of 401(k) plans allowing immediate eligibility more than doubled to 51% from 24% in 1998. Some 63.8% of plans with 1,000 or more employees now permit immediate 401(k) participation.
According to the PSCA, 70.5% of 401(k) plans permit workers to participate within three months of their hire date, up from 69.2% a year earlier. The survey covers 405 401(k) plans.
"Workers benefit from early eligibility," said PSCA president David Wray, in a news release. "They have a greater opportunity to save for retirement with fewer gaps in coverage and they are able to begin contributing without feeling the pinch that sometimes affects workers who enroll later on.'
PSCA found that for matching contributions there is a trend away from one-year eligibility requirements. In 2007 only 35.8% required one year of service or longer for matching contribution eligibility. By a slight majority (51.7%), most employers still require that employees work for the company one year or longer to be eligible for non-matching company contributions.
More information is at www.psca.org
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Fulani radio: NBC warns Radio, TV stations to be "sensitive"
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