Taraba State government bans any form of protest in the state.
The announcement was made by the Deputy Chief Press Secretary, Mr Illiya Bekyu on behalf of the governor.
But, the Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Taraba Chapter, Peter Gambo has swiftly responded by describing the governor's directive as a mere threat.
Gambo said workers in the state would not be intimidated by the governor's statement.
He said because workers have the right to protest, the governor's directive would not be obeyed by the union members.
"To avert any form of protest in the state, the government must endeavour to settle all salary arrears meant for public servants.
"This is the only way the organised labour can desist from embarking on peaceful demonstrations," he said.
Governor Ishaku said any group or individuals that wanted to protest must seek government approval before embarking on such exercise.
The ban comes four days after primary school teachers in the state protested the non-payment of their salaries, now running into eight months.
The teachers were joined in the protest by their pupils.
"I want to state here that individuals or groups wanting to embark on any form of demonstration in the state without government approval are warned to desist forthwith or face the full wrath of the law," he said.
He warned parents and guardians against allowing their children to take to the streets for protest on behalf of their teachers.
"The state government is particularly warning parents and some individuals who want to use little children as shield during demonstrations in pressing for whatever demands to refrain from such act or be prosecuted," he noted.
He warned that any attempt by individuals or groups to undermine the credibility of the government would not be tolerated and anyone caught in such act would be treated as a saboteur.


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Elbow Park was annexed to the City of Calgary in 1907 and developed after 1910, when it was established as a neighbourhood. It is represented in the Calgary City Council by Ward 8 and 11 Aldermen John Mar and Brian Pincott. River Park and Stanley Park, developed in the Elbow River valley, border the community. You can read more about the Social History of Elbow Park here.


Jazzy was a contributor to many committees of OC Branch and YMF for Fiscal Year 2016-2017. Jazzy was the OC YMF Secretary and pushed the responsibilities of the position by improving how the meeting minutes for Board meetings were done, starting a database of resources, and looking for ways to make meetings more entertaining. Jazzy has actively recruited members to join YMF as general members and as Board Members. Jazzy was a major contributor for the 2017 Speaker Series and 2017 Panel committees. She served as co-chair for the restarted OC YMF PE Review Course. Jazzy is currently the OC YMF Treasurer in her 4th year as a member of OC YMF. Jazzy serves as OC Branch Social Committee chair and assists with the OC Branch Programs Committee.
Jazzy is a Project Engineer in the Transportation Group for the Irvine Jacobs office. Her principal work is on the California high speed rail project and she writes the supplemental project reports submitted to Caltrans. She is a B&I Americas Executive Intern at Jacobs. Jazzy was selected out of 24 applicants for the western region. The B&I Americas Executive Internship is a business development oriented position that works under the west area general manager for Jacobs. Jazzy also is the Jacobs Futures Network President and the Jacobs Women's Network Champion in Irvine.
While at University of California, Irvine, she served as Phi Sigma Rho president which is the national science and engineering sorority.
Jazzy is also an active member of the Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS) where she is a participant in their mentorship program and she also serves in a committee.
Jazzy has been involved in the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America program for 1.5 years.
Gyssela (Jazzy) Quinabo, E.I.T., is a civil engineer for Jacobs in Irvine. Jazzy is one of the most involved and dedicated members of ASCE OC. She holds multiple Board and Committee positions for the OC Younger Member Forum and the OC Branch. Jazzy is in her 4th year as a member of the Orange County Younger Member Forum (OC YMF). She has been a force in ASCE Orange County since she first got involved by being a member of the very successful Women in Engineering Panel in 2015. Her involvement and influence in ASCE OC has only grown exponentially ever since. She has served in other OC YMF Speaker Series and OC YMF Panel committees. The 2016-2017 Fiscal Year was her most successful and influential year for OC YMF where she served as Secretary as well as continued her involvement on the 2017 Speaker Series and 2017 Panel committees. Jazzy also was the Co-Chair for resurrected OC YMF PE Review Course. Her involvement with ASCE OC extends to the OC Branch where she serves as the Social Committee Chair and a member of the Programs Committee. Jazzy Quinabo is a model and example of what a YMF Officer can be.


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Q: read xml attributes i'm confused... nothing is on my mind anymore... i need to read each attribute from this kind of xmldocument
<party_list>
   <party currency="BAM" id="330-159210014235851" />
   <party currency="EUR" id="330-153990008540078" />
</party_list>

i have this... but unhelpful
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(@"e:\input\partylist.xml");
XElement root1 = doc.Element("party_list");
foreach (XElement element in root1.Elements())
{
   MessageBox.Show(element.Element("party").Value);
}

A: Replace
MessageBox.Show(element.Element("party").Value);

with
MessageBox.Show((string)element.Attribute["currency"]);

because your element is already party element.

Full code:
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(@"e:\input\partylist.xml");
foreach (var party in doc.Descendants("party"))
   foreach (var attr in party.Attributes())
        MessageBox.Show(attr.ToString());

This code uses overridden ToString() method of XAttribute which returns attribute name with its value like this:
currency="BAM"

You can use only value, if you need: MessageBox.Show(attr.Value);

A: XmlNodeList elemList = doc.GetElementsByTagName(...);
    for (int i = 0; i < elemList.Count; i++)
    {
        string attrVal = elemList[i].Attributes["id"].Value;
    }

Try above code.

A: Do you can try this ?
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(@"e:\input\partylist.xml");
foreach (var partyList in doc.Descendants("party"))
{
   string currency= partyList .Attribute("currency").Value;
   string id= partyList .Attribute("id").Value;
}

A: input xml file
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-16'?>
<party_list>
  <party currency='BAM' id='330-159210014235851' />
  <party currency='EUR' id='330-153990008540078' />
</party_list>

C# code to get attributre value
        XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(@"e:\input\partylist.xml");
        var eles = doc.Element("party_list").Elements("party");

        foreach (XElement ele in eles)
        {
            Console.WriteLine (ele.Attribute("currency").Value);
            Console.WriteLine(ele.Attribute("id").Value);

        }
        Console.ReadLine();

A: string body = @"<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-16'?><party_list>
                    <party currency='BAM' id='330-159210014235851' />
                    <party currency='EUR' id='330-153990008540078' />
                </party_list>";
XmlDocument bodyDoc = new XmlDocument();
bodyDoc.LoadXml(body);
XmlNodeList xnList = bodyDoc.SelectNodes("/party_list/party");
foreach (XmlNode item in xnList)
{
    var id =  item.Attributes["id"].Value;
    var currency = item.Attributes["currency"].Value;
}

A: Another option:
XElement xml =
  XElement.Parse (@"<party_list>
                      <party currency='BAM' id='330-159210014235851' />
                      <party currency='EUR' id='330-153990008540078' />
                    </party_list>");

xml.Elements()
     .SelectMany(element => element.Attributes().Select(attrib => attrib.Value))
       .ToList()
         .ForEach(text => MessageBox.Show(text));

A: try this
XDocument doc = XDpcument.Load("your xml location");

var parties = from p in doc.Descendants("party")
              select new
              {
                      currency = p.Attribute("currency").Value;
                      Id =       p. Attribute("id").Value;
              }

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Clock Ticking for Cities to Commit to Greening
By Daniel McGlynn
Managing stormwater is a physics problem, and not a very glamorous one. In decades past, the main objective of managing stormwater was figuring out how fast it could be directed through the Bay Area's built landscape via storm drains, culverts, and channels, and into the Bay. In decades future, however, the object will be to slow down the runoff, and sink it into greener, spongier surfaces sprinkled throughout our cities and counties, or to run it through more meandering, more natural channels and drainages. Such measures fall under the classification of green stormwater infrastructure. And building more green infrastructure isn't just some kind of concept or vision. Instead, the region's water quality regulators want to see more of it from local municipalities – enough to make it a requirement of another five-year federally-mandated permit to discharge stormwater.
Green infrastructure can be linked to other nature-based infrastructure linking the watershed to the Bay. Image: SFEI Adaptation Atlas.
"The goal is to figure out how we can interrupt the conveyor belt of pollution caused by the grey- infrastructure storm drain system, in which pollutants in urban runoff are discharged to creeks and the Bay without treatment," says Keith Lichten, Watershed Management Division chief of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board. This September starts a new planning cycle for the board's municipal regional permit (see sidebar). During the upcoming cycle, local municipalities will have to show they are compliant with the stormwater permit by incorporating green infrastructure into their future plans.
Of course green infrastructure has been around for eons, it just hasn't been on the front burner for many urban planners. "This is an opportunity for cities to look at their new and redevelopment plans for the next 25-plus years and figure out ways to implement stormwater treatment controls by replacing grey infrastructure with green infrastructure," says Lichten.
Green infrastructure is a loosey-goosey kind of term. Part of the reason is that green infrastructure is more like a set of design principles — or design outcomes, really, than it is a strict discipline. Part of the utility of green infrastructure, particularly with regards to stormwater management — where the goal is to slow, spread, and sometimes even store runoff — is that the same principles are scalable across different size projects.
Matt Fabry manages the San Mateo County-wide Water Pollution Prevention Program and he explains the three different scales at which green infrastructure is being developed in the Bay Area, or what he calls an "evolving state of practice for managing stormwater."
The first is at the parcel or individual property level, particularly during any redevelopment. "The Water Board recognized that it is going to take time to change the urban fabric," Fabry says. Beginning in 2005, the board required that new development or redevelopment that added or replaced 10,000 square feet or more of impervious surfaces had to have some way of locally managing runoff. The requirements started with on-site mechanical filtration but have since moved to a more landscape-based approach that includes green infrastructure tactics. While the parcel level is the smallest scale, the funding is also the simplest because the construction costs become part of the project budget. "Cities are looking at more ways can get this done with private dollars," Fabry says.
Before and after rain garden's on San Jose's Chynoweth Avenue. Photos: City of San Jose
The second scale of green stormwater infrastructure development is happening at the street or neighborhood level. The definition of a comprehensive urban street continues to get more sophisticated. It began with a model called complete streets, which is more pedestrian and bike friendly. Then came the idea of green streets, which replaced hard impervious curbs and gutters with pockets of vegetation and deep wells around street trees that allows water to collect, and cuts in curbs to slow the flow of water. Those two concepts are now being married together into something called sustainable streets, which combines the goals of making streets more pedestrian and bike-friendly while layering the green infrastructure elements of slowing and spreading stormwater runoff. The sustainable streets model is currently being implemented in numerous cities around the Bay Area.
Elk Grove rain garden plaza conceptual plan.
The third level of scale according to Fabry is happening at the city or watershed level. He points to a project in the design phase in South San Francisco, where city officials are working with San Mateo County Flood Control District to re-engineer part of Colma Creek. The creek, with its headwaters on the flanks of the San Bruno Mountains, currently drains about 6,500 acres, and while running through the busy blocks between the 280 and 380 freeways is confined to a hardened concrete channel. On its way to an outlet in the Bay near the San Francisco International Airport, the creek passes by the popular Orange Memorial park. The wide-open baseball and softball fields there provide the perfect testing ground for a massive green stormwater infrastructure project, but maybe not in the way you think. After years of planning and public input, the city and its partners are scheduled to break ground by early next spring on a project that will put a massive reservoir underneath one of the ball fields. Before the water hits the subsurface cistern it will be filtered to remove trash and pollutants, like the heavy metals targeted by the Regional Water Board. Roughly half of the water will be used to irrigate landscaping around the park and along the adjacent stretch of Centennial Trail, and the remainder will be allowed to slowly feed back into the region's aquifers. Any of the filtered overflow will be diverted back to the concrete creek where it will eventually meet the Bay.
Site plan for Colma Creek stormwater diversion and treatment system.
"In addition to the usual challenges encountered by public infrastructure construction, this particular project has unique elements requiring several rounds of public outreach and feedback" says Bianca Liu, Associate Engineer for the City of South San Francisco and project manager for the Orange Memorial Park stormwater capture project. "The idea of a giant underground storage tank in the neighborhood is a new concept, and the project will require the temporary closure of a portion of a popular park."
If this mesh of projects all sounds a little ad-hoc, that's because so far, green infrastructure development largely occurs on a case-by-case basis. Until now the nature of trying to build infrastructure has been inherently opportunistic, and the new Regional Water Board permitting process aims to change that by requiring long-term municipal plans. In reality, building any green infrastructure that crosses the boundaries of a single parcel often requires the coordination of multiple public agencies and several layers of permitting requirements.
There's the additional wrinkle that green infrastructure can be complicated to fund, although both project planners and funding agencies are becoming more creative. "It's amazingly expensive to retrofit the existing built environment especially when you are doing it as a standalone project," says Josh Bradt, a watershed program manager for the San Francisco Estuary Partnership. "It only really pencils out when it is part of a bigger project."
UC Davis Green Instructure Club builds a rain garden. Photo: UC Davis
South San Francisco's regional scale green infrastructure project is actually being funded by $9.5 million from Caltrans. Caltrans has their own water quality guidelines to meet, and if they can't do enough on a specific project then they can find ways to offset impacts by funding a project elsewhere that will reduce runoff or pollution. "We need to be talking to the transportation community and natural resources community to see where these projects can be synced up. Right now, it's a real jigsaw puzzle to figure out the funding sources," Bradt says.
But relying on a connect-the-dots funding approach is changing. "As far as the funding goes, there are more bonds and grants out there for green infrastructure projects today than five to ten years ago, but maybe it's time green infrastructure becomes a budget line item," says Mitch Avalon, who formerly oversaw Contra Costa County's clean water program. Avalon has been advocating for new state legislation that would formally integrate stormwater management into any future regional transportation projects and funding opportunities, and also working with regional agencies such as the Bay Area's Metropolitan Transportation Commission on other avenues to achieve the same goals. He says the first step in that process is actually defining what integrating stormwater into transportation planning actually means on the ground. "If you are familiar with the Americans with Disabilities Act, you might remember that it was a big policy decision that required people to change the way things were built. At first, people thought that was crazy, but eventually compliance just became another line item in a construction budget," Avalon says. "As a policy and as a society, we decided it was important." The same thing is happening with green infrastructure funding.
How green infrastructure relates to living, nature based infrastructure opportunities as presented in the new Adaptation Atlas published By SFEI and SPUR in 2019.
Aiming for Multiple Benefits
Realistically, however, municipalities won't suddenly be rolling out green infrastructure projects on every street corner or along every urban creek come September, when the Regional Water Board's new planning requirements solidify.
Progress over the last decade has been much slower than some would have hoped. "It is frustrating to see conventional right of way projects continue to be undertaken without GI elements when the impacts of landscape hardening to watershed health are well known," says the San Francisco Estuary Partnership's Josh Bradt. "I am hopeful that the Water Board's requirement for watershed-based GI master plans will be a game-changer. At the very least it should encourage much better coordination."
Right now, cities fall along a spectrum of readiness, some report still being in the planning phase, while others are much farther along. "Oakland is prepared to meet the current regulations, says Kirstin Hathaway, acting Watershed and Stormwater Division Program manager for the City of Oakland. "We see green infrastructure as important for the city beyond the regulatory requirements."
One factor that helps build enthusiasm among planners is that while the board's permit requirements are focused on reducing urban runoff pollutants including PCBs, mercury, and trash from entering the Bay, there are many other compelling reasons for increasing the acreage of green infrastructure around the region.
Caption: Permeable pavers from Turner Court demonstration parking lot project and Alameda County Public Works green infrastructure program. Photo: ACPWA
As described earlier, sustainable streets could not only reduce pollution but also add buffers that might be useful in a changing climate, such as more vegetation to help with heat island effects or a place to capture surge events that will likely happen secondary to sea level rise. And the larger, regional projects like the one underway at Orange Memorial Park can be used to capture and store stormwater that today might be used to irrigate a ball field, but in the future could be used for other purposes. Not to mention that green infrastructure just generally makes the built environment more comfortable and livable — a factor not always accounted for or built into project cost analysis.
"It takes a little bit of time to get these things baked together," says Michael Germeraad, a resilience planner with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and Association of Bay Area Governments, referring to how people are starting to talk about the advantages of green infrastructure as a means to accomplish multiple objectives. "As municipalities adopt plans in the next two years, I think we will see increased pressure to start including green infrastructure and planning so that one plus one equals three."
And for some communities thinking about how to insulate against the impacts of climate change and sea level rise isn't really about planning for the future — because the forecasted scenario of increased flooding has already arrived.
"We've actually had people kayaking in our streets," says Elizabeth Patterson, the Mayor of Benicia where a citizen group called Sustainable Solano is leading the charge and training residents about resilience. "This is not just a reaction to regulations, not just because the state was saying you have to do this, a lot of municipalities are asking for help for this."
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Oakland green infrastructure vision. Photo: Kevin Robert Perry
Ruling Over Runoff
During wet weather events, stormwater comes pouring down from Bay Area hillsides and collects in the lowlands. This makes sense because historically the fringes of the Bay were perfect catch basins for heavy flows. But starting more than a century ago those low-lying basin-like areas have been filled in with homes and buildings and with roads and parking lots. As the Bay Area became built and developed hard surfaces, greater quantities of runoff raced over the landscape.
Then, following the passage of the Clean Water Act of 1972, came the awakening that stormwater was more than just a flooding issue. The flows, it was acknowledged, could be laced with concentrations of toxins rivaling that of the end-of-pipe sources that the Clean Water Act was written to control. By the late 1980s, and after the passage of more federal water quality legislation, states were put in charge of making sure that municipalities were meeting stormwater requirements outlined by the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), the regulatory teeth of the Clean Water Act.
In California, the State Water Resources Control Board and Regional Water Quality Control Boards are tasked with making sure that local agencies are operating in compliance with NPDES. Beginning in the 1990s, the San Francisco Bay board began issuing NPDES permits for municipal stormwater discharges, which eventually grew into the Municipal Regional Permit, also known as the MRP, as of 2009. The MRP requires Bay Area municipalities to clean up urban runoff pollution and, over time, to improve the way the urban environment is built to reduce the amounts of pollutants it discharges. And because the Bay Area has legacy contaminants from previous industrial and urban activities — particularly mercury and PCBs (both of which accumulate in food chains, especially fish, and pose health risk to the people that eat eventually eat the fish) — that get stirred up and carried to the Bay during storm events, the MRP targets those pollutants specifically, along with reducing the amount of trash that enters creeks and the Bay during storms.
Daniel McGlynn
Daniel McGlynn worked as an itinerant naturalist, trip leader, and wilderness guide before serving as an environmental educator with the Peace Corps in rural Nicaragua. Realizing that storytelling is a great educational tool, and productive way to inspire understanding and change, he then turned his attention to science and environmental writing. He is an alum of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and his work has appeared in a handful of national publications. He frequently writes about infrastructure projects and restoration work for Estuary News. Connect with him at danielmcglynn.com.
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Rare Live Recordings On 180g Double LP!
First Time On Vinyl! Includes 2 Bonus Remixes Of "Love For Sale"!
Love for Sale, recorded live at Montreal's Rising Sun Celebrity Club in 1978, provides an unexpurgated glimpse into the musical reality of Chet Baker's last years; a life on the move from club to club across North America and Europe.
Rare 1967 Recording On 180g Vinyl Mono LP! Remastered & First Time On Vinyl!
Available for the first time on vinyl, "Live At The New Penelope Café", recorded in Montreal in 1967, showcases the famous blues duo in unusually lively form.
Remastered - First Time On Vinyl!
On June 23, 1977, Sam 'Lightnin' Hopkins walked onto a small stage in a smoke & whisky filled club in Montreal and proceeded to lay down arguably his last great performance before his death 5 years later.


Hello and welcome to my first Animal Crossing post here at PB&tB! I dunno how much I can really say about it to be honest but I thought a cute photo dump would be enjoyable. Depending on how I feel after doing this one I might branch out and just talk about whatever other games I'm playing at the time~ I hope you all enjoy this as much as I'm sure I will. 💖 Please be sure to let me know how you feel about it!
Welcome to Stardrop! This is where I, Kalu, go wild with power and control everything I possibly can. I tend to use an editor to make things exactly how I like them, so don't be surprised if things look out of place or anything!
I completely forgot to take photos of the inside of my cute little castle, but it's really barren and ugly so I guess it's not a big deal. I do have uploaded QR codes for the dress I'm wearing, though! That was really fun to make and I hope I can make more in the future.
I'm very good at getting multiple badges in one night apparently. These are all the first ones in their categories so I've got a long, long way to go. Is it just me or is Phineas trying to be like a Santa figure with all that "If you're good, the badge man will bring you more badges!" crap… Listen, scout master, just be real with me. Tell me I'm awesome and the best instead of patronizing me. Gosh.
It's impossible to avoid mosquito bites. All I wanna do is fish and have a good time and these gross, rude bugs gotta get all in my face and ruin my time. I mean, at least I don't pass out and wind up in front of my house like with some bugs… I totally screwed up catching a tarantula because I got too scared so it ran into the river like a doink. Can't believe it. Part of me wants one in my house for the witchy room but… yuck.
Brewster and I are pals! We hang out and work together a lot and it's a nice, fun time. I can't wait until I get the special gyroids from here so I have have little Brewster buddies hanging out at Club LOL to make things more entertaining.
Speaking of pals… Stitches totally got my hopes up and then crushed them entirely the other day. There I was hoping he wanted to be friends and tell me a secret but instead he just wanted my fruit pickin' hands. This will haunt me for months.
Katrina is always fun to visit. She says my absolute favourite line in the game. I remember being younger and just getting so mad at her cos it felt so obvious and outrageous to need to say. Now that I'm older, it's always nice to remember that they're just bad times and they eventually pass. Somedays I'm just gonna run around and fall flat on my face and maybe lose a balloon or two but that's just one day.
I was able to update my town with new trees, bushes, and flowers! I switched from the night owl ordinance to the beautiful town ordinance to be sure the flowers I can't reach won't wilt and die off on accident. I hope that doesn't make playing before bed difficult, though.
First rainbow sighting since I started playing again and the very first time I've ran into a double rainbow! I've had this game for years now and can't believe I didn't see one sooner. I love how much colour my town can have sometimes. It feels so lively and welcoming. Can't wait to get my own garden going (next year hopefully!) so I have even half the amount of colour here.
Check out my first completed room! This is the top floor of my mayor's castle. I found some beautiful artwork the other night and wanted to both recreate it and add some other things to it. I'm pretty happy with it. The holiday candle adds such a cozy warm lighting to the room that I don't really need to use the other lamps for a light source. The only thing this room really needs is some colour alterations to a few furniture items to make it blend a bit more. I love this room.
The extra large town tree is so nice to have. I can't believe it takes a total of 500 days to pass from your first day as mayor as well as over 500 hours of play time to make it this big! Sure, sure, good things come to those who wait but I really wanted a pretty town.
Anyway… I figured I'd wrap this up with my dream address number so anyone can check out town progress as I save it from time to time. I hope you all enjoyed this little post! I had a lot of fun with this and it was nice to focus on such a calming activity for the last few days. See you in the next update!


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The Volkswagen Group More Than Tripled Its Electric Vehicle Sales In 2020, Still Fell Short Of Tesla
Image: Volkswagen
2020 as a whole was not a kind year to many. Volkswagen, in particular, saw a global sales decline of 15.2 percent. Things looked particularly dire in the first half of the year, but the VW Group saw a significant recovery in the fourth quarter. One bright spot for VAG was found in its electric vehicles, which saw a significant increase in sales across 2020 as compared to 2019. Part of that was due to increased availability of popular models, and introduction of new models.
In 2019 the world's largest automaker by sales volume saw sales of its electric models explode from 73,700 units in 2019 to 231,600 units in 2020, a 214 percent jump. While that doesn't really hold a candle to Tesla's global 499,550 units shifted, it's the kind of growth that could see Volkswagen overtake Tesla in 2021 as further models roll out.
Volkswagen led the charge with the new ID.3 compact hatch selling some 56,500 units. The electric pioneer for the group, Audi's E-Tron SUV was second most popular with 47,300 units sold. And in third was Porsche's high-end electric Taycan sedan with 20,000 examples delivered. Considering those three units only account for about half of VW's EV sales, there were still significant numbers of other models, like the eUP! and the e-Golf.
Consider that in 2021 VW will launch the ID.4 electric SUV and the Audi E-Tron GT sports sedan, among many other electric models, and isn't impossible to believe that the brand could increase its EV sales tri-fold again this year. I predict the ID.4 will significantly outsell the ID.3, assuming VW can keep up with production. And Porsche could easily sell a lot more Taycans this year if it can keep that factory pumping them out.
That 231,600 electric vehicle number is just a small drop in the bucket compared to VAG's global sales of 9.3 million vehicles. I'd wager that VW doesn't particularly care that Tesla beat it on electric units sold, as it still managed to outsell Toyota on a global scale. Volkswagen is just getting started taking the EV game seriously, and it doesn't usually do things in half-measures, no matter how long it takes.
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Like last year, I'm helping to raise funds for the Clarion West 2015 Write-a-thon.
If you're so inclined, please sponsor me and add to the $50 I've chucked into the pot.
As a speculative fiction writer aspiring to paid publication, I love that a world-renowned organization like this is right in my backyard and how they are supporting literature. I attended one of their one-day workshops earlier this year and found it immensely helpful in learning how to critique my own and others' work and look forward to attending more in the future.
This year I also applied for and was not accepted to this year's six-week program. My writing ego bruised by rejection, I resolved to complete a new short story and submit it for publication this year as a way to work through the disappointment and as a goal for my Write-a-thon participation.
I'm happy to report that I have finished the story, that it landed at novelette length (around 9,900 words, down from 13,509 [yay, editing,]) and have completed my first-ever submission for paid publication! Now I wait for the inevitable rejection/re-submission process until someone decides to buy it and will be switching off tapping away at my novel and completing two other unfinished, shorter works.
My blog has been fairly quiet the past several months because I've been directing my creative energies elsewhere. As I mentioned on Twitter, I just did a thing, and that thing was applying to the Clarion West 2015 summer six-week workshop.
This was one of two huge things that I have planned for 2015 and it feels really good to check it off my list!
For those not familiar with Clarion West, it's a six-week, instructor-led residential program. I've had my eye on this particular workshop for a couple of years now and have been using my blog as a forcing function to write short stories to build my portfolio for submission.
The past two months have found me editing like mad, (I'm sorry for all the printouts trees,) and grinding away on the personal essay, (six different takes; four drafts of the final!) that was part of the application.
In my journey as a writer, I've been plugging away at short stories and have tried my hand at self-publishing. The next peak to scale is my first novel. I'm just over 38,000 words so far, and I'm hoping to land it at around 43,000+.
I've been eyeing the annual Clarion West summer workshop for a couple of years now as a way to help take my writing to a new level, but I've had way too much going on in my life to justify applying to attend.
I have found a way to participate vicariously, and that's through their concurrent write-a-thon. I've signed up this year as a way to motivate myself towards applying for next year and to help them raise some funds for future workshops and scholarships.
My goals are twofold: help them raise a few dollars and prod myself to finish my novel so I can bring in the draft for my second novel next year.
If you've enjoyed reading my short stories and poetry here, I'd appreciate it if you'd sponsor me. I'd really appreciate it.
I'll be posting updates under the writeathon tag, so you can follow along.
Writing again…finally. 425 words over the past two days.


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The faces behind our favourite voices:
Back in 1906, radio pioneer Reginald Fessenden broadcast the first ever music and voice program over the airwaves – making him the first registered voice artist.
Since then, the speech and voice industry has continuously grown, and is now expected to reach $26.8 billion by 2025. There are so many voices we grew up with on TV, film and radio. Some fill you with excitement, others with anticipation, and some are so familiar they feel like family. Yet despite their skill and lucrative work, many of us have never seen their faces. It's rare that we get chance to meet the creatives inspiring us from behind the scenes – so we're showcasing three of the most famous voice actors of all time.
The voice of God:
The first needs no introduction, only three words: 'in a world'. This phrase alone is powerful enough to transport many of us back to the red velvet seats of the cinema, and it was the hallmark of the late Don LaFontaine.
It all started as a stroke of luck for LaFontaine in 1965, when a no-show for western film 'Gunfight at Casa Grande' allowed him to step in and try his hand at voice acting. Since that day, he's recorded over 5,000 film trailers and hundreds of thousands more TV ads, earning his reputation as the 'unseen star of Hollywood'. The secret behind LaFontaine's enduring success is down to the baritone tales he so often told. His distinctive deep voice and understanding of how to create suspense meant he could raise hairs whether he was reading a script or supermarket receipt – and it's for this reason he remains an icon among voiceovers and cinema-lovers to this day.
Mr Movie Trailer Man:
Of the many men that LaFontaine inspired, Redd Pepper is one of the UK's most successful. He began work as a train-driver on the London Underground, and in an unusual turn of events, caught the attention of a TV exec on-board while making his regular morning announcements. After exchanging details that day, Redd Pepper set his sights on the big-screen – and ever since, he's been busy voicing more than 100 movie trailers.
While you'd be forgiven for walking by him on the street, Pepper's voice is arguably one of the most recognisable in film and TV today. Showcasing the same deep, dynamic tones that made LaFontaine an overnight success, his talent has brought suspense and excitement to a wide range of projects –from Disney promos to Jurassic Park – which is why he now goes by the name of 'Mr Movie Trailer Man'.
A nation's favourite:
Our last name is proof that you don't have to be in the Hollywood game to make an impact. Peter Dickson was voted one of the top three most iconic voices of the decade in a national poll, and once you hear about his past work, you'll know why. Dickson was making a big impression on TV from the age of 17, when he became the BBC's youngest ever news presenter, and has since featured on over 60 channels and 100 shows worldwide. Alongside bringing fun ad campaigns like MoneySupermarket to life, his booming voice has been fundamental to adding a touch of excitement to the nation's favourite entertainment shows over the past 40 years – and today, you'll catch the 'king of voice talent' using his beloved vocals to introduce both The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent.
Each of these voice actors has been strategically selected to make TV and radio more engaging and memorable, and the same can be applied when it comes to strengthening a brand. Choosing a speaker that reflects your character, and using that voice consistently, can have a huge impact on how successfully consumers respond to and recall your business. At PHMG, we work with the world's top voice artists – so we can help you build a sound as recognisable as the legends themselves.


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Germany, Algeria plan North Africa's first solar power tower plant
The German Aerospace Center has announced that the first solar power tower concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in North Africa will be built in Boughezoul, Algeria, though a collaboration between Algeria and Germany.
The hybrid plant will incorporate both CSP and natural gas generation, including 7 MW of solar power, and will be able to function on solar power alone. DLR will supply technology that it has developed for the project, which will serve primarily as a pilot and research facility.
"We are delighted to be able to further develop relations between Algeria and Germany in respect of environmental technologies and renewable energies through this project," stated the German ambassador to Algeria, Götz Lingenthal.
Ambassador Lingenthal signed a declaration of intent to promote and support the project at the EnviroAlgérie trade fair in Oran, Algeria.
The power plant will be constructed in Boughezoul, on the northern edge of the Sahara desert, and will serve primarily as a pilot and research facility. It will be able to operate using just solar energy or as a hybrid power plant fuelled by a combination of solar power and gas.
This combination enables this country, one that holds exceptionally large gas reserves, to manage a relatively smooth and inexpensive transition from fossil fuel to solar power generation with an assured continuity of supply.
"We are delighted to be able to further develop relations between Algeria and Germany in respect of environmental technologies and renewable energies through this project," stated the German ambassador to Algeria, Götz Lingenthal, who signed a declaration of intent to promote and support this venture at the EnviroAlgérie trade fair in Oran. Algeria wishes to contribute the necessary funding to implement this project. The BMU intends to contribute up to seven million euro towards the construction of the power plant and a renewables test centre.
The German Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and the Algerian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research will collaborate on the project. BMU will contribute up to EUR 7 million (USD 9 million) towards the construction of the plant and a renewable energy test center.
The project will use a high-temperature receiver which can operate at temperatures up to 700 degrees Centigrade, designed and tested by DLR. The receiver is currently in use at the Jülich CSP plant in Jülich, Germany, which is owned by DLR.
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Bayern retained at RB Leipzig as the Bundesliga returns with cold comfort
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A second-half equalizing goal from RB Leipzig defender Marcel Halstenberg helped RB Leipzig lead Bayern Munich to a 1-1 draw at home on Friday in the first Bundesliga game since the winter break.
Bayern looked set for their seventh consecutive Bundesliga win after striker Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting scored in the 37th minute, but Halstenberg equalized in the 52nd minute.
Veteran Bayern striker Thomas Mueller had a chance to win the game in stoppage time with a point-blank shot, but his effort narrowly missed.
Bayern manager Julian Nagelsmann regretted his side's conceding of a "totally unnecessary goal" but said a point was "worth a bit more" for his team than for Leipzig, considering the teams' relative positions in the table. table.
"Leipzig played a strong game and both teams played a bit wildly, but at the end of the day we can live with the draw."
A combination of rusting after a ten-week break and sub-zero temperatures meant both sides struggled to find a rhythm from the start.
Central defender Josko Gvardiol, one of the rising stars of the World Cup, nearly scored an own goal on seven minutes when his attempt to stifle Serge Gnabry's cross hit the post.
Bayern midfielder Leon Goretzka headed the ball into the back of the net after 31 minutes, but the goal was disallowed due to a narrow offside against Munich centre-back Matthijs de Ligt in build-up.
The reigning champions entered the board soon after through Cameroonian striker Choupo-Moting, who with Gnabry's cross past the outstretched arm of Leipzig goalkeeper Janis Blaswich to score his 11th goal in ten games in all competitions.
Leipzig shook off the cobwebs to regain parity shortly after halftime when Halstenberg sidekicked a Dominik Szoboszlai header to score his first goal of the season.
The goal sparked the most dominant period of the game for Leipzig, with the home team frequently threatening Bayern on the counter as the visitors pressed to regain the lead.
Bayern were lucky not to be reduced to ten men in the 66th minute when French defender Dayot Upamecano brought down a runaway Szoboszlai who went on target with only goalkeeper Yann Sommer to beat.
Upamecano, one of four former Leipzig players in Bayern's squad along with manager Julian Nagelsmann, received a yellow card.
Leipzig manager Marco Rose, who received a yellow card for protesting to the referee late in the game, said he could live with the decision.
"At first I saw it differently: I thought he (Szoboszlai) was done," Rose said.
"(But) I spoke to the referee and I can see his point: a yellow card is totally fine."
Halstenberg said that "it was an exchange of blows and it could have gone either way, it's a shame, but we can start (the season) with a point."
Red Bull-owned Leipzig have now only managed to beat the Bavarians once in 16 competitive appearances since their promotion to the Bundesliga for the 2016-17 season.
With less than half of the season's games played, Leipzig find themselves six points behind Bayern in third place.
Bayern will still finish the round as outright top of the table regardless of other results, although second-placed Freiburg have a chance to cut the gap at the top to two points when they travel to Wolfsburg on Saturday.
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The intent of this text is to provide general information to assist in understanding oil water emulsions commonly found in industrial wastewater and the use of organoclays compared to traditional methods to remove oil from wastewater.
Free Oil: Free oil is oil in a wastewater stream that will rise to the surface as a free oil layer. Free oil separates by gravity and can removed by a conventional gravity oil water separator. Typical oil droplet size is 150 microns.
Gravity Oil Water Separator: A chambered tank with over and under weirs to trap free oil in a chamber where it can be removed by a skimmer device, such as a wire, belt or rope type skimmer.
Emulsified Oils: Emulsified oils are small oil droplets in the wastewater ranging in size from 10 to 150 microns. Emulsified oils will not rise to the surface by gravity alone. Emulsified oils are either Mechanically emulsified or Chemically emulsified.
Mechanically Emulsified Oils: The oil droplets range in size from 20 to150 mircorns. Mechanically emulsified oils are mixed with water by high shear forces as in a centrifugal pump. The high shear forces physically shearthe oil droplets into smaller droplets. Mechanically emulsified oils will eventually separate by gravity.
Chemically Emulsified Oils: These are oils that have been emulsified by the action of soaps, detergents and degreasers. Cutting lubricants are formulated as oil water emulsions to both cool the cutting tool and to provide lubrication for the cutting tool. Cutting lubricants are more difficult to treat as the emulsifier was selected for its strength in holding the oil in an emulsified state. pH will also chemically emulsified oil. If the pH is greater than 8.5 (>8.5 pH) the oil is chemically emulsified and will not separate by gravity.
Dissolved Oils: Dissolved oils are organic chemicals such as gasoline, the BETX compounds; Benzene, Toluene, Ethyl benzene and Xylene that can be dissolved in the wastewater.
Oily wet solids: These are particles of dirt or other solid particles that are coated with oil.
Organoclays are chemically altered bentonite clays. The clay is treated with a quarternary amine. Quaternary amines are surfactants that bond to the clay particle by ion exchange. The quaternary amine has two ends, a water loving end (hydrophilic) and an oil loving end (lipophilic). It is the water loving end that binds to the clay particle leaving the oil loving end ready to remove oil from your wastewater.
Organoclays can remove 30 % to 50 % of their weight in oil, grease, diesel, other hydrocarbons and chlorinated hydrocarbons. For example: If a filter vessel contains 100 pounds of organclay, it should be able to absorb 30 + pounds of oil or about 4 gallons of oil. If your wastewater contains 200 mg/l (typical concentration after a gravity oil water separator) you should be able to treat approximately 19,000,000 gallons of water before the filter is spent.
Organoclays are generally mixed with another filter media such as anthracite coal. The typical blend is 70% anthracite coal and 30% organoclay. As the organoclay adsorbs oil and hydrocarbons from the wastewater it begins to swell. This is why it is mixed with anthracite coal, to prevent early swelling and blinding of the filter vessel. The swelling effect can also split open the filter housing if used at higher percentages.
Organoclay Compared to Granular Activated Carbon : Organoclay can absorb up to 7 times more oil than GAC. Since oil can foul a GAC filter, organoclay filters are unused in front of GAC filters to prevent oil fouling and prolong the life of the GAC filter.
Beneficial Use of Spent Orgnoclay: If you are burning the absorbed oil, the anthracite coal will add to the BTU value.
Oil Water Separators: Oil water separators work by gravity and can remove free oil, and some emulsified oils depending on the oil type and the droplet size. Generally, a gravity oil water separator, treating a non-emulsified oily wastewater stream, will lower the oil concentration to a range of 10 to 200 mg/l. Many oil water separators are equipped with a coalescing grid. The grid is made of an oliophilic plastic material, usually HDPE, High Density Poly Ethylene. The coalescing grid forces the wastewater to repeatedly change direction as it works its way through the separator. The theory is the oil droplets will collide with the oiliophilic surface of the grid and stick to and begin to accumulate. As the oil layer increases in size the oil will makes its way to the top where it is skimmed off. Read more about Oil Water Separation.
Heat: Heating is sometimes used to break oil water emulsions. The wastewater stream is heated to 170 to 220 degrees Fahrenheit where the oil will separate and begin to float.
pH adjustment: pH adjustment is sometimes needed to lower the pH form an elevated level to around 6 to 6.8. pH adjustment is generally used in conjunction with a gravity oil water separator.
Coagulants: Coagulants such as ferric chloride and Aluminum Sulfate can break the oil water emulsion. These require a polymer to floc the coagulated oils and achieve separation.
Industrial Wastewater Permits: All industrial discharges to a public sewer system are subject to general and specific prohibitions identified in the Code of Federal Regulations identified in 40 (CFR) 403.6 which prohibits the discharge of any pollutant that may impair worker or public health and safety, or that might upset or pass through the wastewater treatment plant untreated.
Always check with your local sewage treatment authority for permit requirements.


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SA and QV team up to Showcase Women's Empowerment Documentary at Tull Theater
Sunday, March 17, 2019 | 10:53 PM
Sewickley Academy and Quaker Valley's Girl Up clubs have teamed up to show "Girl Rising" at a space rented at The Tull Family Theater in Sewickley on April 15th at 6:00. All of the money from ticket sales will be donated to Girl Up, an international organization founded by the UN that is dedicated to securing equal opportunities for girls and empowering girls to rise up in their own communities. Girl Up believes that if girls are, "educated, healthy, safe, and counted, they transform their communities". Girl Up has been a long-running club at SA; co-presidents Katie Hughes and Zoe Luther were proud to be elected to these leadership positions this year. The Girl Up branch at QV is new and was started by current president, Olivia Lehman, vice president Kaelyn Morrow, and project manager Isabella Steinley. This is the first event where both schools have worked in conjunction to sponsor a fundraiser of this magnitude. Lehman says, "It's an incredible opportunity to raise money and awareness to support girls internationally, but it is also important to be able to share this experience with our local community". The Sewickley Girl Up team is excited to be showing "Girl Rising", which showcases the "stories of nine girls from developing countries overcoming great obstacles to obtain an education and change their fates". Hughes says, "We are so proud of what we have accomplished for this event and we hope the community will come to support it and hopefully be inspired by the film!" If you cannot attend, we also are accepting donations. You can buy tickets and donate at http://bit.ly/girlrisingsewickley. Come to The Family Tull Theater on April 16th at 6:30! All are welcome!


An individual can lose a lot when they fall to professional malpractices. It can be their natural physical appearance. It can be their sense of confidence and self-esteem. It can also be their savings or future earnings. With so much at stake, it is promoted that professionals get a professional liability insurance.
Professional liability insurance is a type of malpractice liability insurance, Florida attorneys explain. It can be called different names, depending on profession. In the medical field, it is called malpractice insurance.
A malpractice insurance covers financial costs in two ways. First, during filing of a case against negligence. Second, for coverage of damages incurred as declared by law.
Typical liability insurance covers damages as a result of bodily injury and property damage. Some legal claims may arise without causing the injuries covered by said insurance. These include negligence, violation of good faith, and misrepresentation (product) or incorrect advice (services), to name a few.
Practicing doctors in Florida must have $100,000 in malpractice insurance and a minimum of $250,000 to have hospital staff privileges. Pre-arranged secured assets are an alternative. But these options are seldom used. And while doctors without this insurance can practice their profession, they have to post a disclaimer at their office. It would be a double loss for a patient to be filing for such a case and not know that the doctor is uninsured.
Doctors that care enough for patients know how to protect them. One way to do that is through having malpractice insurance. It provides patients with proper compensation for an error.


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Q: Introduction to combinatorics Are there lecture notes on the internet (or even books) with an introduction to combinatorics using the modern language as in the book Analytic Combinatorics by  Philippe Flajolet and Robert Sedgewick or the introduction to combinatorics in the handbook of enumeration by ardila?

A: Two online courses from Coursera, both taught by Robert Sedgewick:
Analysis of Algorithms based on the textbook An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms by Sedgwick and Flajolet
Analytic Combinatorics based on the book by the same title
"Analysis of Algorithms" should be viewed as a prerequisite to "Analytic Combinatorics".  I've taken both courses, and my sole criticism is that there is so much to read in "Analytic Combinatorics" that's it's almost impossible to do the readings and assigned exercises and keep on schedule.  But so what, no one is looking over your shoulder.  Highly recommended.


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Introduction / Issue 13: After Post-Colonialism?
Issue 13: After Post-Colonialism? (Spring 2009) Maia Dauner and Cynthia Foo This issue of Invisible Culture addresses an enormous topic with a mix of trepidation and humility: what role do post-colonial theorizations of identity and politics play in contemporary visual culture? How are the methodologies of thinkers such as Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, Edward Said, and Dipesh Chakrabarty (amongst many others) articulated today? What possibilities and limitations do various forms of theorization (post-colonial, neo-colonial, post-post-colonialism, or Cosmopolitanism) offer to a consideration of visual and cultural practice concerned with identity and place? As guest editors, we chose this topic because it is one that we find ourselves grappling with in our own research. Maia Dauner's doctoral dissertation work addresses the tactics of artists who creatively stage racial identities in order to highlight the very unstable ground upon which these identities rest. She wonders, how is race deployed in these practices and how does it continue to be performed? Cynthia Foo's work also explores similar territory, seeking to consider the role of chaotic, amateurish, audience-involved …
Contributors / Issue 13: After Post-Colonialism?
Issue 13: After Post-Colonialism? (Spring 2009) Issue Contributors Maia Dauner is a Ph.D. candidate in the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. She is writing her dissertation entitled "Playing Dead: Corporeal Confusion and Performance Art." Her research interests include contemporary art, performance, post-colonial theory, and institutionalized multiculturalism. Cynthia Foo is a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies through the University of Rochester. She currently teaches at Parsons, the New School for Design and resides in New York City and Toronto. Her research interests include concepts of race and globalization as expressed in various visual media, including contemporary dance and performance. She has been published in FUSE magazine (2007, 2004), and Revue d'art Canadienne/Canadian Art Review (2006). She has presented papers and posters in Canada and the UK, was an invited guest lecturer at York University, Toronto (2007), and an invited guest speaker at Valentine Willie art gallery, Malaysia (2007). Cynthia has worked in a variety of cultural institutions, ranging from the National Archives of Canada to …
Interview with Benedict Anderson
Issue 13: After Post-Colonialism? (Spring 2009) Cynthia Foo On October 1, 2008, Benedict Anderson presented a talk at Columbia University in which he discussed his upcoming book, a biography of the Chinese-Indonesian journalist Kwee Thiam Tjing. Having found a book of Kwee's writings in a second-hand bookshop in Indonesia in 1962, Anderson describes his surprise that no one could identify the pseudonymous author, who wrote what Anderson considers to be "the greatest piece of prose written in the first half of the 20th century by anybody in Indonesia." For years after Kwee's death, Anderson explains, details of the journalist's life and work were forgotten. It was only recently that Anderson was himself able to write about the author, in the process considering the role of cosmopolitanism in the life of the colonial subject. Kwee wrote mainly during the period between the failed local Communist uprisings of 1926-'27 and the end of Dutch colonial rule in Indonesia. Anderson explains that Kwee's writings detail and often parody the complicated relationships among the Dutch, Indonesian, and Chinese populations. The complex …
"I'm Black an' I'm Proud": Ruth Negga, Breakfast on Pluto, and Invisible Irelands
Issue 13: After Post-Colonialism? (Spring 2009) Charlotte McIvor Roddy Doyle famously posited a relationship between the Irish and African-Americans thus in his 1987 novel The Committments: –The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads. They nearly gasped: it was so true. –An' Dubliners are the niggers of Ireland. The culchies have fuckin' everythin'. An' the northside Dubliners are the niggers o' Dublin. —–Say it loud, I'm black an' I'm proud. He grinned. He'd impressed himself again. He'd won them. They couldn't say anything.1 Jimmy Rabitte, band manager, uses this turn of phrase to convince his motley crowd of Dublin Irish musicians to form a soul band, although the phrase was later reimagined in the film as, "The Irish are the blacks of Europe" [emphasis mine]. In 1987, in the midst of the continuing Troubles in the North, long posited by some as an anti-colonial war, and ongoing poverty in the Republic, Rabbitte's statement had a particular resonance. It captured the confused ethnic identity of the Irish throughout the 19th and 20th centuries as well as …
Post-Orientalist Aesthetics:
Experimental Film and Video in Lebanon
Issue 13: After Post-Colonialism? (Spring 2009) Mark R. Westmoreland In Mona Hatoum's experimental video, Measures of Distance (1981), she densely layers fragmented clips of audio recording, written correspondence, and intimate images in a way that accentuates the distance of exile. Nude photos of Hatoum's mother appear in close-up, rendering them initially undecipherable. A second visual layer of hand-written letters from Hatoum's mother further obscures the images on screen, the letters themselves only revealing fragmented Arabic script that prevents the viewer from reading more than a few discontinuous phrases. Meanwhile, we hear a conversation in Arabic between two women that competes with the louder voice-over translations in English. While these communiqués between Hatoum in London and her mother in Beirut are themselves markers of separation, the way the layers compete and obscure each other speaks directly to the infrastructural ruptures of phone lines and postal services during the Lebanese civil wars. Furthermore, the way the narrative reveals familial tension offers another dimension of distance inflected but not caused by Hatoum's exile. While ostensibly about family relations …


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New Rules and Old Plants May Strain Summer Energy Supplies
August 12, 2011 by NewsMaker Leave a Comment
But that may not be the case in the future as stricter air quality rules are put in place. Eastern utilities satisfied demand that day — July 21 — with hefty output from dozens of 1950s and 1960s coal-burning power plants that dump prodigious amounts of acid gases, soot, mercury and arsenic into the air. Because of new Environmental Protection Agency rules, and some yet to be written, many of those plants are expected to close in coming years.
No one is sure yet how many or which ones will be shuttered or what the total lost output would be. And there is little agreement over how peak demand will be met in future summers.
The E.P.A. estimates that a rule on air toxins and mercury that it expects to complete in November will result in a loss of 10,000 megawatts — or almost 1 percent of the generating capacity in the United States. Electricity experts, however, say that rule, combined with forthcoming ones on coal ash and cooling water, will have a much greater effect — from 48,000 megawatts to 80,000 megawatts, or 3.5 to 7 percent.
The Southern Company, which like most coal-burning power companies opposes the new standards, said on Aug. 4 that it would retire 4,000 megawatts of coal-fired generation under the proposed rules. It warned that the closings would "significantly impact customers and the overall U.S. economy as a result of higher costs for electricity and reduced reliability."
American Electric Power, a multistate utility based in Columbus, Ohio, is saying it will retire 6,000 megawatts. Much of that was scheduled to retire anyway, but the rules have stepped up those retirement dates.
Robert W. Perciasepe, the deputy administrator of the E.P.A., said his agency had not estimated all the retirements that would be set off by rules it was still preparing. His agency, he said, was trying to move promptly through rulemaking and "provide the rational basis for utility planning, instead of this continually rolling ball of uncertainty, which allows people to speculate, and creates a situation where it's very difficult for competent utility planners to do the work they need to do."
He said the E.P.A. had been regulating power plant emissions for 40 years, and where necessary to keep the grid stable, had granted delays and exemptions.
The industry is concerned. PJM Interconnection, the regional unit that set the demand record on July 21, has suggested that the E.P.A. rules would put the grid's reliability at risk. "E.P.A.'s analysis of the impact of the proposed rule may understate the level of expected generation of plant retirements and does not provide sufficient flexibility or time to address potential localized reliability concerns," it wrote in a statement filed with the agency.
The most likely replacement for the coal plants is new natural gas-powered generators. But PJM and others are complaining that if the E.P.A. follows its intended schedule, utilities will not have much time to decide whether to close or upgrade their old plants, and no one will have time to build new ones.
Marc de Croisset, an analyst for the investment bank FBR, said the uncertainties arose from the scale of the plant closings. "It's a major transformation," he said — the biggest since the electric companies shifted away from oil in the 1970s, possibly larger.
On July 20, a record was also set farther to the west, reported by the Midwest Independent System Operator, a parallel organization that stretches from Michigan to Montana and Manitoba.
On Aug. 1 and 2, the Southwest Power Pool, which covers an area from Kansas to New Mexico, set a record. Texas, which is an electrical island in its grid operation, also set new records. And New York State, which forms its own electrical jurisdiction, has come within a whisker of doing so.
Most of the old records had been set in a heat wave at the end of July 2006. Peak electricity use in the intervening years has been stunted by the natural variability of weather and a recession.
The new peaks will shape the planning of the grid. In the eastern United States, electricity is mostly generated near where it is consumed, and if some producers disappear, someone will have to build new generation or new transmission to supply the area from a distant source.
"You always manage toward the peak, and have a reserve margin based on your latest peak," said Tom Williams, a spokesman for Duke Energy, which does business in areas that experienced a new peak.
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Pork Belly Futures Market Closes, but We'll Still Have Bacon
July 16, 2011 by NewsMaker Leave a Comment
CHICAGO, July 15 (Reuters) — Chicago's pork belly market has closed after 50 years of being the subject of jokes for movies and TV shows and satisfying Americans' hunger for bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange said it shut the frozen pork belly futures market at the end of business on Friday.
The closing had been expected. Trading in pork belly futures had dropped to zero in recent years after the meat industry became integrated and used fresh pork bellies instead of frozen ones to make bacon.
The contract started trading in 1961 and was the oldest existing Chicago Mercantile Exchange livestock futures contract.
Pork bellies, as the name indicates, are cuts of pork that come from the underside of the hog and are made into bacon. Demand for pork bellies and bacon increases in the summer, when tomatoes ripen and people make bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches.
Because pork production peaks in the autumn, the frozen pork belly contract was created as a way to give pork companies a means to cover the cost of storing, or freezing, pork bellies until the next summer, when they were thawed and processed into bacon, said a longtime Chicago trader, Bob Short.
"The name sounded attractive. Nobody knew it was bacon. It made people laugh," Mr. Short said.
"We primarily traded the pork belly market until about five to seven years ago, when there was then no one to trade with, so we quit," he said.
Pork bellies had their heyday in the late 1960s and 1970s, when they were the exchange's most popular agricultural contract.
"The glamour market was the pork bellies. There was a mystique about it. Maybe it was the name," said Harvey Paffenroth, who has been at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange since 1968.
"That was probably the biggest traded commodity at the floor of the C.M.E. They had potatoes, eggs, cattle and hogs. Cattle was a pretty good-sized contract, but it wasn't as big as the pork bellies," said Mr. Paffenroth.
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Economix: Estimating Medicare Taxes Versus Benefits
April 6, 2011 by NewsMaker Leave a Comment
My column this week describes some work by Stephanie Rennane and Eugene Steuerle examining the total amount of money people pay in Medicare taxes over the course of their lives, as well as the total benefits they receive. For every cohort of workers, going back to the founding of Medicare in the 1960s, the benefits exceed taxes.
If you are interested in more details, you can read this article by Mr. Steuerle. This chart has more estimates than we were able to print in the paper. This Q. and A. discusses their methodology.
To do the calculations, Ms. Rennane and Mr. Steuerle, who both work at the Urban Institute, assumed that money saved by the government would earn a 2 percent annual return, after inflation. They talk more about this in the Q. and A.
But even if they had assumed a higher rate of return — say, 3 percent — the basic finding would not change. Americans receive more in Medicare benefits than they pay into Medicare, even after including the share of the tax paid by employers and even after including Medicare premiums.
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Eminem Lawsuit May Raise Pay for Older Artists
March 28, 2011 by NewsMaker Leave a Comment
The artist at the center of the suit is Eminem, but some of the biggest beneficiaries of the case may be thousands of older artists who have not released an album in decades.
Four years ago, the producers who discovered Eminem sued his record label, the Universal Music Group, over the way royalties are computed for digital music, which boils down to whether an individual song sold online should be considered a license or a sale. The difference is far from academic because, as with most artists, Eminem's contract stipulates that he gets 50 percent of the royalties for a license but only 12 percent for a sale.
"As of now it's worth $17 million or $20 million, but on a future accounting basis, five or 10 years from now, it could easily be a $40 million to $50 million issue," said Joel Martin, the manager of F.B.T. Productions in Detroit, which first signed Eminem and continues to collect royalties on his music. (Marshall Mathers himself, who performs as Eminem, was not a party to the suit, although he stands to earn millions from it.)
The suit reached its apparent end last week when the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal, letting stand a lower court's decision that digital music should be treated as a license. Lawyers and music executives say that few younger artists are likely to be affected by the decision because since the early 2000s record companies have revised most of their contracts to include digital sales among an artist's record royalties. Eminem's first contract was signed in 1995.
Many older artists, however, whose contracts predate digital music and have not been renegotiated, stand to profit significantly from the decision.
"This is life-changing," said Joyce Moore, the wife of Sam Moore of Sam Dave, the duo that had hits in the 1960s like "Soul Man." "If we were being paid a nickel a download, as opposed to 35 cents — that's a huge amount of money for a guy that is on a fixed income or has to run up and down the road at 75 years old."
The lawsuit argued that record companies' arrangements with digital retailers resembled a license more than it did a sale of a CD or record because, among other reasons, the labels furnished the seller with a single master recording that it then duplicated for customers.
"Unlike physical sales, where the record company manufactures each disc and has incremental costs, when they license to iTunes, all they do is turn over one master," said Richard S. Busch, a lawyer for F.B.T. and Mr. Martin's company, Em2M. "It's only fair that the artist should receive 50 percent of the receipts."
A federal jury ruled in favor of Universal in 2009, but that decision was overturned on appeal last year. The label petitioned to the Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case.
Universal said the implications of the decision were limited.
"The case has always been about one agreement with very unique language," the company said in a statement. "As it has been made clear during this case, the ruling has no bearing on any other recording agreement and does not create any legal precedent."
Although current hits get more attention, older music still represents a huge portion of overall music sales, and over time durable hits can rack up significant sales. Last year there were 648.5 million downloads of "catalog" singles in the United States, meaning songs more than 18 months old, compared with 523 million for current tracks, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Fred Wilhelms, a lawyer in Nashville who specializes in collecting royalties for musicians, said that sales of older music had provided the labels with steady income at low cost.
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Fate is a city located in the center of Rockwall County, Texas.   The population in 2020 was 17,958 up from 6,357 in 2010, and 602 in 2000.

History
According to tradition, the city was named after Lafayette "Fate" Brown, a pioneer settler. However, the unique name of the town is derived from a nickname of one of two residents, either William Lafayette Brown or GW Lafayette Peyton. Which former resident named the City has been debated for years. According to a 1976 City document, "there is considerable agreement that the town was named for William Lafayette Brown." However, there are no absolute evident records for verification of the inception of the town's name. Therefore, it will never be known for sure. What Is known, is that there were two influential gentlemen nicknamed "Fate" who lived in the area during the 1860s. Three important aspects of life played a role in the naming of the City, land ownership, a post office, and the railroad. Since the town was small, it is likely that both the Brown and Peyton families were common relatives with Fate's first postmaster Harvey Peyton White and could have been named after either or both men.

Geography
Downtown Fate is 4.8 miles to the east of downtown Rockwall on Texas State Highway 66. FM 551 is the most northern road that is just north of I-30. Downtown Royse City is 4.5 miles to the northeast.

The city has a total area of roughly 12.4 mi2 (20.44 km2). of which  is covered by water.

Demographics

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 17,958 people, 4,552 households, and 3,895 families residing in the city. The age distribution was 33.6% under the age of 18 and 7.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The percentage of women was 52.1% across the city. Persons age 25 or older who graduated high school was 95.8%, with 44.6% of those adults holding a bachelor's degree or higher.

Education

Fate is served by the Rockwall Independent School District in the southern and western portions of the city and the Royse City Independent School District in the northern and eastern portions.  Royse City ISD provides three campuses in Fate; Miss May Vernon Elementary School, Harry H Herndon Elementary School and Bobby Summers Middle School.

The Rockwall ISD has two elementary campuses. Billie Stevenson Elementary School, which opened at the start of the 2013–2014 school year and is located in the city's Woodcreek subdivision. As well as, Lupe Garcia Elementary, which opened at the start of the 2021–2022 school year and is located in the Williamsburg subdivision.

Site of remarriage of Lee Harvey Oswald's widow
The town made national news in 1965 when Marina Oswald, the widow of accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, remarried a little more than 18 months after her husband's slaying.  Electronics worker Kenneth Porter and she worked at eluding reporters, who had learned of the engagement, and traveled to Fate to be wed by Carl Leonard Jr., a justice of the peace.

Notable people

 Ralph Hall, former member of the US House of Representatives was born here
 Robert Smith III, Rear Admiral; Former Senior VP of Federal Reserve Bank and Rear (two-star) Admiral in the US Navy

Notes

References

External links
 City of Fate's website

Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
Cities in Texas
Cities in Rockwall County, Texas

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Eagles Vs Bears: Philly Falls To 3-5 After Another Mistake Filled Outing
By Jason Brewer Nov 8, 2011, 12:23am EST
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Remember when the Eagles started off the season poorly going 1-4 over their first five weeks? And then remember how they won two straight against the Redskins and Cowboys and we all started to wonder who the real Eagles were? The sloppy team with an awful defense from the first five games or the one with the dynamic offense and stifling D we saw the last two games? Well, tonight we got our answer.
Faced with a must win game to keep pace in the division and a chance to resurrect their playoff chances the Eagles reverted right back to the same team we saw at the start of year. The offense turns the ball over in the red zone. The defense can't stop the run or the pass... Dumb penalties, mental mistakes and guys getting paid a lot of money as well as guys looking for a lot of money really not looking like they are worth it.
Twice the Eagles had the Bears stopped on third down and twice they bailed them out with penalties. The first was a somewhat controversial roughing the passer call on Jason Babin where he was pushed into the QB. But that said, when you're going full bore after the passer well after he's thrown the ball, stuff like that happens. That call gets made every single time. The other was on Nnamdi Asomugha who just flat out lost Knox in one on one coverage and committed a pass interference penalty. It was somewhat similar to the back shoulder play to Dez Bryant last week, only this time around they actually threw the flag.
The three pro bowlers were all terrible. We already highlighted the Nnamdi play, but the other two were even worse. Domonique Rodgers-Cromartie put so little effort in tackling tonight, he made Asante Samuel look like Brian Urlacher. And speaking of Samuel, where was he on that TD to Earl Bennett? Do you know, because he certainly didn't know where he was. Just awful coverage that made for an easy TD when Cutler was under pressure.
Matt Forte was pretty awful with ball security tonight and his two fumbles led to 14 Eagles points, but when he did hold onto the ball he ran all over the Eagles D. He and Marion Barber combined for 164 yards on the ground. In both the run and the pass game, the Bears offensive line completely dominated the line of scrimmage.
And just to round up the dejavu recap... LeSean McCoy was easily the best Eagle on the field. He tied a franchise record with his 8th straight game with a TD. He did it in style too with this ridiculous 33 yard run.
And so you're going to hear a lot of people writing the Eagles obituary this week and with good reason. The problem isn't that you can't make the playoffs after a starting with a record of 3-5. The problem is that you can't make the playoffs when you play like this most of the time.
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Ranking the six longest unbeaten runs in Champions League history
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Bayern Munich secured Champions League success last season in record-breaking fashion, becoming the first team in history to lift the trophy after winning every single fixture in the competition.
The holders have made an ominous start to the current campaign and have now stretched their unbeaten record to 16 games, setting a new record of 15 consecutive victories in the competition before last night's 1-1 draw at Atletico Madrid.
Thomas Muller's penalty extended their run without defeat, but how does the current champion's sequence compare to the tournament's longest runs without defeat.
Here are the six longest unbeaten runs in Champions League history:
Bayern Munich – 16 games*
The current holders of the competition stretched their run to an impressive 16 games by securing a point in the Spanish capital last night, with only three teams in history having ever amassed a longer unbeaten run.
Bayern became the first team in history to win the Champions League by winning every single fixture last season, breezing through the group stage in flawless fashion before overcoming Chelsea 7-1 over two legs in the last 16.
The unprecedented hiatus of the campaign amid the coronavirus pandemic saw the latter stages reformatted into one-legged fixtures, though Bayern made no mistake in thrashing both Barcelona and Lyon to reach the final – the former defeated 8-2 in one of the most remarkable results in Champions League history.
Kingsley Coman scored the only goal of the game in the final to defeat former side Paris Saint-Germain and crown Bayern champions of Europe for a sixth time, with Hansi Flick's side currently 16 games without defeat after securing progress from a group containing Atletico, Red Bull Salzburg and Lokomotiv Moscow.
Manchester United – 16 games
Manchester United enjoyed two sequences of 16 games without defeat at arguably the height of Sir Alex Ferguson's glittering reign with the club, the Red Devils dominating the Premier League and emerging as perennial contenders for Europe's biggest prize in the late nineties and early 2000's.
United's first run began during the 1997/98 campaign after two draws with Monaco in the last eight, exiting the competition on away goals before returning stronger the following season to lift the trophy.
Ferguson's side were crowned as champions of Europe for the first time in over three decades as part of a historic treble-winning season, winning the Champions League in stunning style and remaining unbeaten throughout despite facing the likes of Barcelona, Juventus and Bayern Munich.
The club's run ended with a group stage defeat in Marseille during the 1999/2000 season, though they compiled another 16-game sequence just two years later.
United's second run remarkably lasted exactly a calendar year and started and ended with victories over Olympiakos, a shock 3-0 defeat to Maccabi Haifa ending their undefeated record.
Barcelona – 16 games
Barcelona's 2010/11 vintage are regarded by many as the greatest club side the game has seen, a phenomenally gifted outfit containing the talents of Lionel Messi, Xavi and Andres Iniesta.
It was during that triumphant campaign that Barcelona began their longest run in the Champions League without defeat, overturning a first-leg defeat to Arsenal in the last 16 before going on to lift the trophy.
The Spanish side defeated arch-rivals Real Madrid in the last four, before outclassing Manchester United in the Wembley final in a devastating display of tiki-taka.
Pep Guardiola's side breezed through the next season's group stages in unbeaten fashion before making light work of Bayer Leverkusen and Milan over two legs, the former memorably thrashed 7-1 at the Camp Nou with Messi scoring five times.
The Catalans run was ended with a first leg defeat to Chelsea in the last four as Didier Drogba scored the only goal of the game at Stamford Bridge, the west London side upsetting the odds to reach the final and become champions of Europe for the first time.
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Bayern Munich – 19 games
The current Bayern Munich side are just four games away from equalling the club's longest unbeaten run in the Champions League, a sequence of 19 games compiled between March 2001 and April 2002.
Bayern's run began following a 3-0 loss to Lyon in the now defunct second group stage and saw the German giants go on to win the tournament in 2001, beating Manchester United – conquerors in the final two years earlier – and Real Madrid in the knockout stages before a shoot-out success over Valencia in Milan.
The holders remained unbeaten throughout both group stages in 2001/02 before winning the first leg of their quarter-final meeting with Real Madrid, only for the Spanish giants to fight back in the return and progress as goals from Ivan Helguera and Guti ended Bayern's run at the Bernabeu.
Ajax – 19 games
Ajax's formidable side of the mid-nineties shares Bayern's record of 19 games without defeat, the joint-second longest unbeaten record in the history of the Champions League.
Louis van Gaal led an exciting side which featured emerging stars such as Clarence Seedorf, Marc Overmars and Patrick Kluivert, enjoying arguably the greatest season in Ajax's history and making a huge impression on the continent.
Ajax were crowned as champions of Europe for the first time since the club's golden era of the seventies, completing their Champions League campaign unbeaten with Kluivert becoming the youngest ever final goalscorer to decide the 1995 showpiece against Milan.
It was a stunning success for a side who also lifted the Eredivisie without losing a single fixture, stretching their Champions League record into the following campaign before a semi-final first leg loss to Panathinaikos.
Ajax overturned the clash against the Greeks in the second leg to reach a second successive final, though suffered final defeat to Juventus via a penalty shoot-out in Rome.
Manchester United hold the record for the longest ever Champions League run without defeat, a huge 25 games stretched over two seasons between September 2007 and May 2009.
After crashing out in the semi-finals the previous season, Sir Alex Ferguson's side enjoyed a superb 2007/08 campaign to win a Premier League and Champions League double, remaining unbeaten in Europe and defeating Chelsea on penalties in the first ever all-English final in Moscow.
Their run to success included victories over Lyon and Roma in the knockout stages, before Paul Scholes' stunning second leg winner proved the difference in a tight semi-final against Barcelona.
United – fired by an attacking line-up including Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney – progressed through to a second successive showpiece the following season to set a new record for games without defeat, overcoming the likes of Inter Milan and Arsenal to set up another meeting with Barcelona.
The Spanish giants prevailed in Rome as goals from Samuel Eto'o and Lionel Messi ended the Red Devils record-breaking run, a sequence which stretched almost two entire Champions League campaigns.
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