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"We need to do something different" to deliver on time and budget, says HS2 director
Ryan Tute
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As preparations accelerate towards delivering a high-speed rail network for the UK, the man heading up HS2's Building Information Modelling (BIM) division has revealed how the technology is allowing bosses to deliver vital financial savings.
Speaking at the second European CIO conference, Jon Kerbey, director of BIM for HS2, discussed how crucial the technology was going to be going forward in ensuring the network was delivered efficiently.
Opening up his talk, Kerbey talked about the issues of shifting towards digital in a rail industry which is traditionally "incredibly risk averse" and how changing the way people work was an ongoing challenge.
HS2 has a target to deliver savings through BIM of £0.5bn, so the BIM director stated how vital it was that teams communicated effectively to its supply chain in order to reach such saving targets so the data collected was of use and allowed planners to make informed decisions.
Kerbey talked about how BIM is so much more to HS2 than a 3D model, where it can cover stakeholder interactions, design data and asset information.
Speaking at the conference in London, Kerbey said: "BIM allows us to see how every stakeholder contributes to the digital journey we are embarking on. Ultimately it provides us with the ability to understand the railway better - both in a virtual environment and then in a physical environment. It allows us to create a virtual railway and test assets so we can get things right or wrong virtually before we go on site resulting in real save costings."
The delegates heard how the implementation of BIM within design preparations of the high-speed rail network was allowing planners to gain a "greater understanding" which led to "greater certainty" proving vital when it came to delivering the projected £55bn project on time and on budget.
But Kerbey spoke about how, looking into the future, it was important the company couldn't "afford to back ourselves into a corner" and a focus on data models would allow technology to move across that. While he was unsure on what technology would be used in years to come, he reiterated the need to do things differently to the traditional rail practices and as long as the collection of data was correct then he hoped technology would follow.
On the issue of combining data and looking externally for best practice then Kerbey said the organisation "fully intended to" when possible. He mentioned looking at HS1 and good connections to European high-speed lines. The BIM director also said HS2 could be looking at people from Formula 1 and within manufacturing to ensure those behind design and construction gained a well-rounded understanding of all the good practices in setting up a digital strategy.
Regarding encouraging innovation, the digital chief said he was "absolutely open" when it came to supply chain involvement within the process. "I want to be challenged on everything," Kerbey added. "We are absolutely open to innovation as the experts are in the supply chain. HS2 tried to write the contracts to enable innovation and we are seeing innovation in pockets but it's now about how we can begin to see these pockets become more widespread."
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Thinking about Culture, Society and Religion
To Hell or to Connacht
On May 23, 2013 May 23, 2013 By Michael KirkeIn Culture Matters
Day by day it seems to be getting more and more difficult to be Catholic. Catholic, that is, in the sense that we ask the question, "Is the Pope Catholic?", in other words a full shilling Catholic. It is probably time that the Catholic Church introduced something like a trade descriptions Act. It would clear up a great deal of confusion. If for no other reason we should encourage it do this in the interests of peace. Otherwise all we are going to have is a shouting match across the room – or even fisticuffs like they had recently in the Venezuelan parliament.
Just now it seems anyone can call themselves Catholic – ranging from the most rigourous adherent to all sorts of principles which the magisterium of the Church tells Catholics are matters of personal preference and opinion, to people for whom religion is entirely a matter of "whatever you're having yourself and call it Catholic if you like it that way". Between these extremes you find any number of positions, all ready to define themselves as Catholic, most of them missing the point that being Catholic is not a matter of self-definition but a matter of communion with One Word, One Body and One Bread. The trouble is that the brand identification has now become completely muddled and it would seem that we need a good judge to clear up the mess and say definitively who has a right to the registered trade mark, Catholic. OK, it is much more complex than this, but bear with the clumsy metaphor to help us be more focused.
But if we do get things in focus – and I think that the culture wars are forcing us to do so more and more – then it is not going to make things easier for straight-down-the-line Catholics. These are the Catholics who are not prepared to leave their consciences at the gate when they enter the public square populated by a majority – or a vociferous and hijacking-minority – who are looking for support for actions which offend a straight-down-the-line conscience.
They are also the Catholics who have to find a way of resolving dilemmas within their own families when a brother or sister, cousin, or whatever, with whom there are strong ties of affection, decides to follow a life-style contrary to the laws of God and the laws of Nature – which in the last analysis are the same thing. Social institutions like marriage, Christian and Catholic in their origin as we know them in the West, are now in the hands of institutions of the State and are being used to legitimise unions of men and women – not to mention other unions – totally at variance with the terms and conditions of true Christian marriage. How do Catholics for whom this institution is a sacred sacrament reconcile their commitment to this sacred thing with their love and affection for those who – as they might see it – wilfully abandons this commitment and essentially make it a sham from a religious point of view? It is not easy but some choices, although difficult, have to be faced up to. You can't always have it both ways – and blurring the map is a foolish option for anyone on an important journey.
While this choice might be difficult and a source of great disappointment, pain and suffering, it is not a matter – in Western society in any case – which will involve loss of human rights, freedom, or in extreme cases a matter of life and death. But "straight-down-the-line Catholics" as we are calling them, magisterium-loyal Catholics, are now increasingly facing the loss of all these things in Western democracies. These democracies are now in the near-tyrannical grip of a movement which was the object of derision when it first began to manifest itself in the public square 20 or 30 years ago. This is the so-called "political correctness movement" and it is imposing rules and regulations on societies, the like of which have not been seen since the imposition of the Penal Laws on Catholics in the British Isles in the 18th century and since the French revoked the Edict of Nantes for its Protestant population in the last decades of the 17th century.
A prime example of this is states redefinition of marriage to give respectability and social status to same-sex attraction and explicitly to the sexual self-indulgence which it generates. This is now trampling on the consciences of those for whom these actions are an offence to man's true nature and an offence to the God who went to the trouble to provide a Church to teach the truth underlying all our human relationships, sexual or not. "Cooperate with us in facilitating these things or get out to the margins of society", Christians are now being told. "If you do chose to go to the margins of society – which is where you belong if you don't agree with us – be careful not to express your views on all this in public or we will have to silence you forcibly", the powers-that-be add ominously.
Then there is the current battle in the United States where the Obama Machine has imposed obligations on Catholic institutions to fund the provision of contraceptive services. This includes abortifacient medications masquerading as contraceptives. The Catholic Church is resisting but the power of this Machine is so mighty that Catholics would not need to be holding their breath for a vindication of their rights of freedom of conscience on this one.
In Ireland the current Government is riding roughshod over the consciences of Catholics in its steamrolling action to provide legislation for abortion – a legislation which only the disingenuous are maintaining will not eventually lead to abortion on demand. Under the proposed legislation there will be no provision for conscientious objections by either hospitals or hospital staff to refuse to carry out the procedures which the law will then sanction. Furthermore, when the Bill comes to a vote, Catholic members of parliament who are serious about their consciences will be given the choice of voting for the legislation in line with party policy or leaving the parliamentary party to which they belong. Once again, it a matter of "come with us or get to the margins". Oliver Cromwell is notorious in Ireland for having offered the Irish Catholics of his time the option of going "to hell or to Connacht" – a wild and beautiful place but in the 17th century not exactly a place for human flourishing. The sentiment of the Irish Government today is not too different towards those who are trying to stop it in its tracks on this issue.
But this is good. Did anyone ever think it should be otherwise? Search the original documents of this Faith and will you find in them a promise that in the World its followers would ever reach a point where all would be sweetness and light? No. The promises there are for something else – something as strong as hatred. All this makes the clarification of the terms and conditions of being Christian and Catholic more urgent. It should not be that difficult either. They are all there in the handbook, The Catechism of the Catholic Church – with multiple cross references to the original documents of this Faith, the books of Sacred Scripture, the teaching of the Fathers of the Church and the entire magisterium down through history. No excuse. Just Do It.
And Catholics should not be discouraged by any of this. Christ asked his followers to pray to their Father, "Thy kingdom Come." But that was not for a heaven on earth. He said clearly, "the kingdom of heaven is within you." That was then and this is still in the terms and conditions today. The battle of all time is the battle for personal conversion, not for the conversion of kingdoms and empires, democratic or otherwise. It is in this battle that victory is assured, no matter what forces lie in wait on the other side of the gates to the public square. Victory will be in the measure of the faithful adherence to the terms and conditions – which in this case are not in the small print but are writ clear and large in the teaching of the Catholic Church.
Someone said recently that the history of the Church shows that after a period of slippage – and there have been many before this – there comes a period where the truth is firmly reasserted in a clear an uncompromising way. Then comes a period in which many abandon their half-held beliefs and drift away, leaving reduced numbers behind. But then comes a period of new evangelisation when the faithful go out again into the highways and the byways and a new Pentecost dawns. Don't take my word for it. Check up the history. It is all there.
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I think it is time that the Catholic Church taught what is the truth and stop trying to hold on to people just for the sake of numbers. The problem is that some (quite a few) priests think they can teach whatever they like and in doing so they water down the Gospel and the Word of God. The opportunity for bringing the truth to so many people is lost when priests especially don't preach the truth about such things as the teachings of Christ on marriage, honesty and truth etc. Also attending Mass and the Sacraments is no longer preached about either. Most Catholics haven't a clue and think that the Church is some kind of democratic organisation that should change with the times and this is perpetuated by the media and others who would like to see an end to the Catholic Church.#
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Jameela Jamil on anti-abortion sentiments: 'Women have always been and still are dehumanised by the state'
The LA-based actress and activist, 35, took to Instagram and said that those who opt for a termination have "nothing to be ashamed of".
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Jameela Jamil has slammed anti-abortion sentiments, particularly in the US.
The LA-based actress and activist, 35, took to Instagram and said that those who opt for a termination have "nothing to be ashamed of". "It is healthcare. It is your right," she wrote in her post.
She further wrote, "Nobody is allowed to use the organs of another person to save a life without their consent even if they are DEAD. So why does a live uterus belong to the state and get to be used to save the life of another, regardless of the significant risk to their own health/life, especially given the fucked healthcare system in the USA and horrifying mortality rates for childbirth, especially Black women – most of the areas abortion is being restricted are in areas densely populated with Black people."
The She-Hulk star continued, "Don't get distracted. Don't get fatigued. We are on the precipice of the end of civilization. Dead bodies can't have more bodily rights and dignity than women. I only say women here rather than ppl with uteruses because this is ONLY happening because it has been seen as a women's issue. Women have always been and still are dehumanized by the state."
Jamil also reshared a video of her appearance on the US chat show The View in September 2022, where she openly talked about abortion rights and opened up about her own termination in the process. "Most people do not use abortion as a form of birth control. When I had my abortion, it was because I used a condom and it broke. And then I took the morning after pill within six hours, which is way before the end of when you're supposed to take it," she said.
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Q: Java Chain Inheritance with Lombok and Guice Injections EDIT: This question really should be around Lombok and Guice instead of vanilla java inheritance.
I'm trying to implement a Java inheritance chain with Lombok and Guice injections, it works something like this:
Class 1
public abstract class Animal {
    @NonNull protected String attr1;
    protected abstract void method1();

    void method0() {
        // Some code that uses attr1
    }
}

Class 2
public abstract class Mammal extends Animal {
    @NonNull protected String attr2;
    protected abstract void method2();

    @Override
    void method1() {
        // some logic that uses attr2
        method2();
    }
}

Class 3
public class Wolf extends Mammal {
    @Inject @NonNull private String attr1;
    @Inject @NonNull private String attr2;
    @Inject @NonNull private String attr3;

    @Override
    void method2() {
        // some logic
    }
}

Out there in the main program I have code that calls wolf.method1(). The problem here is that only wolf has all the attributes needed (due to Guice injections), whereas all the fields in Animal are undefined. I suspect I can probably do it in Vanilla Java, but things are going to get super messy (I have 6 attributes in Animal class and 5 more in Mammal). Is there a way to mix-and-match lombok's annotations (@NoArgsConstructor, @AllArgsConstructor, etc) to make this work?
Thanks.

A: Your abstract classes cannot be directly instantiated even if you add public constructors, because they are declared abstract. If you prefer, you can make the constructors protected to indicate they are only available to subclasses.

right that abstract classes can't really be instantiated, but why didn't the Java compiler catch this and stop complaining about not having a constructor?

Any class you write without an explicit constructor has an implicit no-args constructor. Any implicit no-args constructor implicitly calls its superclass's no-args constructor, even if that superclass is abstract. So if some class up the chain doesn't have a no-args constructor (because you explicitly gave it another constructor), then you code won't compile.
In the code you gave in your question, there are no explicit constructors, so every class does have an implicit no-args constructor. In your actual code, presumably you have written a constructor somewhere, which is why the implicit no-args constructor has not been added.

A: I propose:

*

*use only interfaces for the entire hierarchy.

*decouple behaviors and encapsulate them in separate classes.

*use composition instead of inheritance, i.e. private SomeBehavior someBehavior; for every specific animal that needs it.

It will make your design better and solve the problem as well.
i.e.
public interface Mammals {
}

public interface Animal extends Mammals {
}

public interface Dog extends Animal {
}

and
public class TakeADump {
   public void dump() {
   }
}

public class TakeAPee {
   public void pee() {
   }
}

and then
public class Sheperd implements Dog {
    private TakeADump dumpService;

    private TakeApee peeService;
}

And now your dog can s... and p... :)
Also add
public class F... {
    public void f...(<Animal> animal) {
        // ... check it's an instance of the same or compatible animal or throw UnsupportedOperationException() if it's incompatible
    }
}

:D
Of course it will make sense to create an abstract Animal.
i.e.
public class AbstractAnimal {
        private TakeADump dumpService;

        private TakeApee peeService;

        private F... f...Service;
}

then
public abstract class AbstractDog extends AbstractAnimal implements Dog {
}

and
public class Sheperd extends AbstractDog {
    public void lookAfterSheep() {
        Sheep sheep = SheepLocator.findNearest();
        // pee on a sheep
        peeService.pee(sheep);
        // dump on a sheep
        dumpService.dump(sheep);
        // f... a sheep
        f...Service.mount(sheep);
    }
}

So your mistake is using too much abstract when you can use interfaces.

A: When you are implementing concept of inheritance with some argument constructor it is good practice to have one default (no argument) constructor defined there. Because while creating object of child class compiler internally will call constructor of parent class.
e.g
class ABC {

 }
 class XYZ implements ABC{

 }
 public class Test{
  XYZ obj= new XYZ() // this will internally call default constructor of XYZ and
  //in that first statement will super()--> this will call default constructor of class ABC
 }

if anyhow you have implemented argument constructor in parent class then compiler will  not implement default constructor implicitly we need to define it explicit to make call to super constructor from child constructor. Or do a explicit call to argument constructor from child constructor.

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School starts in my neck of the woods next week. When I was a kid that would've meant my barefoot days were nearly over for the year. Growing up on the farm, we pretty much took our shoes off on the last day of school and didn't put them on again (except for church) until summer ended.
I ran through the yard without a thought for bees. Walked across the rocky driveway without flinching. Hopped from rock to rock in Laurel Fork without slipping. (Well, maybe once or twice.) The bottoms of my feet were like rawhide.
At night, Mom would sit my brothers and I one by one on the toilet lid and wash our feet with a warm washcloth. It wasn't always worth the trouble of taking a bath, but she would at least scrape the grime from the bottoms of our feet.
Once upon a time, people in Appalachia went barefoot to save their shoes. They didn't have 30+ pairs lost in the back of the closet. Even my dad, when he was a kid, had limited shoe resources. But when I was a young it was just a preference. I remember begging to go barefoot in the spring when Mom would decree it too cold. There was a joyous freedom in being shoeless.
Now I wear shoes to walk across the kitchen tile. I have to work up my nerve before darting out into the yard to fetch one of Thistle's toys. (I mean, there are bugs and stuff.) I wear "water shoes" to go in the creek and consider wearing flip-flops in any shower outside my own home.
And I find myself missing my feet of steel. Longing for the non-pressure of never needing to match my footwear to, well, anything. So here, in the midst of August, I pledge to go barefoot. To brave the grit I like to pretend isn't on my floors. To let the grass tickle my toes. To dip my feet in the creek. And to mourn the passing of summer–those glorious days without shoes.
Do you remember that you had to waer shoes to go to Pat and Bob's? Your cousins were not allowed much barefooting because their yard was heavily filled with clover and thus BEES.
As a child in the forties, I remembering my mom saying we could start going barefoot when we could cover 3 dandylions with our (smallish) foot and we had to wear shoes after Labor Day. The scourge of our barefooting was crossing the blacktopped street on 90 degree days!!
Hey, my feet are cute.
I forgot about wearing shoes at the cousins! Oh, blacktop is the bane of bare feet.
My children are constantly pulling their shoes off right now! I'm always searching for where they put them. 🙂 I'm a combination of bare feet and shoes. I don't mind letting my feet get dirty, but since my pregnancy with the twins (3 years ago) my feet haven't been the same and I need more support than I'd care to admit. Thankful for a few more weeks of bare feet around here before school starts!
I've heard pregnancy does funny things to your hair, skin, um, figure–but feet, too? Man. The things they don't tell you in advance.
I remember barefoot summers in Baltimore. We had gravel paths and terrace, and it took a while each summer to get our feet toughened up. Maybe a week or two? And yes, the asphalt was a killer, as were the hot sidewalks, but we didn't care! Those were, in fact, mostly carefree days.
Yeah, that first week sans shoes was tough, but by August you could have done that fire-walking thing without blinking.
I was lucky enough this summer to spend a month in Buckhannon, WV visiting my parents. I was amazed at how different my feet looked at the end of that month. I had dirt from the garden underneath my toenails and the bottoms of my feet were a light shade of green from the fresh cut grass I walked on all summer. Wow! What a great feeling. I am back in Florida where I am wearing flip flops again. The grass isn't so tender and there are many different critters lingering in the grass and our concrete (which is by the way much hotter than the concrete I was used to in WV) What a wonderful summer I was so lucky to have and what wonderful new memories we created while there. I love the memories your blog creates for me. I hope this will create new memories for you as well.
Oh, I'm jealous of your summer back home! Are your parents in the same house? I can picture that gorgeous backyard and you in it barefoot!
I used to love going barefoot, but my feet are incredibly wimpy now. And I can't wear cute shoes unless they're really supportive. I have 90 year old man feet.
But when I was in Greece, I stuck my feet in the Aegean and even took pictures of my toes being all glamorous. I walked in the pebble-sand and then I limped for a few days,but it was worth it.
Ahhhhh, barefoot in Greece. Now that sounds good!!
I used to play golf barefoot. It was wonderful, not having to try to find spiked shoes in my size! And it made my game better.
Well, until a fellow player stepped on my foot. Wearing spikes.
Now, in New Mexico, barefoot is not a very good option. Barbara wears sandals outside. I think she's nits – which she says she confirmed years ago, by marrying me. After THAT, exposing her feet to the spikiness of NM is child's play.
Yeah, New Mexico doesn't make me think of barefeet . . .
What a fun post, Sarah. I used to love LOVE going barefoot in summer. And I'm with you, 90 degree blacktop always burned. But putting my toes in the grass, the freedom of no shoes—my feet hated when school started back up again. I still do some barefooting, but it's mostly around our house and back yard. I clean my feet every night in summer. And, (whispering) I drive barefoot.
My kids love going shoeless too. I guess it's a trait passed down. Or, maybe just an inherent joy in being a child.
Gasp! Driving without shoes! My dad used to lecture me about that. Have I done it since? Um . . . could be . . .
Driving without shoes is the best because of absolute feedback between the feet and the pedals, and is not illegal. Tolerating blacktop is really just an exercise of progressively burning the feet–starting earlier in the day to start with and then getting later in the day towards afternoon peak heat–standing for as long as possible, walking for as long as possible… only looking for sidewalks or shade patches early on but at some point of heat training being able to walk always on the blacktop. Me, I got to be able to tolerate blacktop in the 100 degrees F heat index for over a half mile, and then sidewalks were effortless walked on for miles at a time.
Hello sarah, not sure of the lady who commented that you are brave to post your feet. They are barefeet, and yes your toes are cute.


We headed to Disneyland for the "One More Disney Day" 24-hour event. The highlight of the trip would be spending 24-consecutive hours in Disneyland, but a trip to The Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California was another highlight, as was seeing the ABC television series Modern Family film an episode inside Disneyland. The definite "lowlight" was Disneyland being closed one morning due to a bomb scare (it was actually just a geocache). As always, we ate plenty of food along the way and took thousands of photos.
Join us for this rollercoaster of excitement as we present our Spring Disneyland Trip Report!
"One More Disney Day" Part I – Disneyland Fans Are W$*%^ CRAZY!
"One More Disney Day" Part III – When The Sun Goes Down, The Crowds Come OUT!!!!!!!!!!
Disneyland Spring Trip Report Part I – Three Hours of Sleep, Then on to Disney California Adventure… Yep, We're Crazy!
Disneyland Spring Trip Report Part III – TERRORISM at Disneyland?!
Disneyland Spring Trip Report Part IV – See Ya Real Soon!
Want to visit the Disney Parks like we do? Check out our Disney Tips & Tricks page, which will give you a multitude of different trip planning tips for visiting Walt Disney World or Disneyland! For Disneyland trip planning tips and comprehensive advice, make sure to read our Disneyland Trip Planning Guide and related articles.
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I need to something to flip through on the plane to WDW in a few weeks. I think I'll check it out. BTW, that's one bright shirt!
I like it! Visibility is not a problem with that shirt!
That way Sarah can pick you out in a crowd if you get lost! Or avoid you if trying to get you lost!
No wonder she likes that shirt!
Yay another Bricker Trip Report! Is it sad that I kinda live for your updates? lol !


The first holiday season is almost always so difficult – as the natural pain you're having is compounded by the automatic reminders of the absence of someone who meant so much to you. And of course I imagine that your mother dying at such a young age has added a whole other emotional dimension for you.
As to "I am trying my hardest to put on a happy face for my family…" Respectfully, we'd recommend that rather than putting on a "happy face," you put on an "honest face." When you cover up how you really feel and pretend to be ok, you will really confuse your children. If they are very young, they won't understand why what they can sense off your body doesn't match with what you are putting forward. Even if they're not very little, they rely much more on non-verbal communication than on words or ideas.
Keep in mind that as a parent you've always taught your children to "tell the truth," and now you are lying about how you feel. Their ability to trust you will be negatively affected if your communications don't match.
If is perfectly healthy for them to see you—and hear you tell them—being sad. You can then tell them the truth, with tears and other emotions attached. You can say, "I'm so sad. I miss my mommy—your grandma—so much. My heart hurts and my eyes fill up with tears."
If you do this, you will teach them and show them open, honest, and human ways to deal with and express their feelings. That is what good teachers do. As parents we are always teachers.
One caution: We don't want either of your children to become your caretaker or therapist or surrogate parent or spouse. So even though you can be honest, you need to gently discourage them from taking care of you. Yes, it's a little subtle to do both, but you'll be able to know how to do that.
We encourage you to get copies of The Grief Recovery Handbook and When Children Grieve [both are available in most libraries and bookstores]. The Handbook will be very helpful for you, and the other will help you guide your children in their grief and it will remind you not to let them become your caretaker.


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Back to Dying Well
Green Death
Planning a funeral you can live with
By Timothy Gower
As she helped arrange her father's funeral earlier this year, Amy Bieber began thinking about her own death—specifically, what would she want her family to do with her body? Fit and 43, the married mother of a trio of small boys presumably has many years to make up her mind. But a bit of research challenged some of her long-held assumptions.
"I had always thought I wanted to be cremated," says Bieber, who lives in Murrieta, California. But she has had second thoughts since reading that cremation requires a great deal of fuel and emits greenhouse gases and heavy metals into the atmosphere. Likewise, Bieber learned that a traditional funeral, with a casket buried in a cemetery that requires frequent landscaping and watering, uses lots of natural resources, too. "There don't seem to be many good options," she says.
Yet, there are alternatives to traditional burial and cremation that appeal to people who are concerned about the effect their send-off to the great beyond will have on the environment. In fact, a 2017 survey by the National Funeral Directors Association found that 53.8% of Americans are interested in exploring so-called green or natural burial, an alternative to conventional means of "body disposition"—the preferred term in the funeral industry—that experts say probably has the least carbon impact.
A 2017 survey by the National Funeral Directors Association found that 53.8% of Americans are interested in exploring so-called green or natural burial.
"The term 'green burial' is just a 2018 phrase for what we used to call 'burial'," says Joshua Slocum, executive director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance, a nonprofit organization based in South Burlington, Vermont. "You simply have the body placed either in a shroud or an easily biodegradable container, then buried directly in the soil. That's it."
While there are infinite ways to personalize a green burial, they all share something in common: They omit several elements considered essential in the typical modern funeral. That includes:
– Embalming. Injecting formaldehyde into a dead body slows (but doesn't halt) decomposition, but embalming is not legally required and almost never necessary, says Slocum. (One exception would be if a body is being transported a long distance.) Embalming is rare outside the United States and Canada, he adds. While the formaldehyde usually used in embalming probably doesn't pose much threat to the environment, exposure to the chemical is risky for embalmers themselves, who have increased rates of certain cancers and respiratory diseases, as well as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (or Lou Gehrig's disease).
– A traditional casket. Each year, the hardwood and metal used to make the coffins commonly sold by funeral homes use the wood of 77,000 trees, as well as 17,000 tons of copper and bronze, according to the nonprofit Green Burial Council (GBC). Green burials use shrouds or coffins made of sustainably harvested woods, cardboard, wicker, or other biodegradable materials.
– A concrete vault for the casket or liner for the grave. Most cemetery operators require them, playing on loved ones' fears by implying or stating flat out that the concrete will help protect the body from water and soil, to say nothing of hungry microbes and worms. But their true purpose is to prevent the gravesite from caving in under the weight of lawn mowers and other landscaping equipment, says Jeff Jorgensen, proprietor of Elemental Cremation & Burial in Seattle, who formerly managed a cemetery. Besides, vaults and liners eventually crack, says Jorgensen. "When you put a body in the ground, or a mausoleum, ultimately it turns to bone, no matter what," he says. The GBC estimates that the concrete used to make vaults and liners each year in the United States could create a two-lane highway from San Francisco to Kansas City.
But arranging a green burial for yourself or a loved one can pose challenges. Many funeral homes require embalming if you plan to have a wake, for example, though others (like Jorgensen's facility) do not. If a client does not want embalming for a loved one, he'll place ice gel packs below the body to slow decomposition enough to allow for brief viewings prior to burial or cremation.
Moreover, you may struggle to find a cemetery nearby that will permit green burials. Some "hybrid" cemeteries set aside a portion of their land for that purpose, while others are devoted solely to natural burial. But only 100 or so of the roughly 10,500 cemeteries in the United States make such accommodations. (You can find a list on the Green Burial Council website, https://greenburialcouncil.org/.) Jorgensen performs green burials, but says they make up a tiny portion of the body dispositions he performs. The reason: The nearest "eco-cemetery" is 90 miles north of Seattle, which is a long drive for loved ones who would like to place flowers on a gravesite now and then.
If there's a small church or village cemetery near you, Slocum says it can't hurt to ask if the operators will permit a green burial, though they may have no clue what you're talking about. And if you own enough land, you may be able to create a private cemetery; ask your local zoning officials.
If green burial isn't for you, Jorgensen believes that the next-most environmentally friendly mode of body disposition is a newer method available in some parts of the United States that goes by various names, including flameless cremation and alkaline hydrolysis (AH). The body is placed in a large stainless-steel chamber filled with water and potassium hydroxide, which is heated. After a few hours, the soft tissue dissolves, leaving behind bone fragments and a sterile solution; the bones are pulverized into ash, as in conventional cremation, and the fluid goes down the drain. AH "has 90% less carbon impact than conventional cremation," says Jorgensen, who doesn't offer the procedure, which is currently only legal in about 15 states, not including Washington.
Availability may not be the only barrier to acceptance of AH—several friends gasped in horror when I described it. However, Slocum says it's catching on. "To some families, it seems gentler than traditional cremation," he says. "But to others, it makes them think of mobsters dissolving a dead body with lye in a bathtub." (The corpses of several unfortunate characters in the hit TV show Breaking Bad were disposed of through liquefaction.)
The perception that cremation is a greener choice than traditional burial also appears to have contributed to its rising popularity, though that's a debatable assumption.
And what about traditional cremation? In 1960, it was used in fewer than 4% of body dispositions in the United States; today, that figure exceeds 50% nationwide, and in some parts of the country it's much higher. One factor in that rise has likely been the Catholic church's loosening pf restrictions on the choice of cremation in 1963 (though the Vatican still frowns on scattering ashes). The perception that cremation is a greener choice than traditional burial also appears to have contributed to its rising popularity, though that's a debatable assumption. In a typical cremation, the body is placed in a chamber that is heated to 1800 degrees F, give or take, for two to four hours, releasing carbon dioxide, mercury, and other toxins into the atmosphere. The vast majority of Jorgensen's clients—98%—choose cremation, and he estimates that performing one has the environmental impact of driving an automobile from Seattle to Spokane, about 300 miles. To keep his company carbon neutral, Jorgensen purchases "offsets" from a nonprofit group that plants trees and performs other green-space restoration around the state.
Other green options will likely become available in the near future. Not far from Jorgensen's funeral home, a Seattle company called Recompose is developing technology that converts human remains into soil that can be used for planting gardens. And not long ago, Bieber saw a Facebook post about an alternative approach that appeals to her belief that while our bodies may have expiration dates, a person's being is eternal. Capsula Mundi, a project launched by a team in Italy, hopes to soon offer egg-shaped biodegradable pods, in which the remains of a loved one would be inserted in the fetal position and buried a few feet below the ground; a tree would then be planted over the pod. As the pod breaks down, nutrients from the decomposed body would, in theory, nourish the tree. Bieber knows that, one way or another, the disposition of her body will have some impact on the planet, but says "at least that harm would be counteracted by a tree that provides oxygen, and that is a life force." (Currently, Capsula Mundi only sells mini versions of its pods, which can be used for burying cremated ashes. To learn more about Capsula Mundi, read our interview with its co-creator, Raoul Bretzel)
If a traditional burial feels like the right choice for you, don't worry that you're contributing to a growing shortage of space in cemeteries; that's only a problem in certain graveyards, typically near large cities, notes Jorgensen, who says many cemeteries he knows of have several acres of space remaining. "Do you know how many bodies you can fit in one acre?" he asks. "A lot."
What matters most say Jorgensen, Slocum, and others who deal with death every day, is thinking about the kind of ceremony and disposition you want, and conveying those wishes to your family and friends.
"It will change you and everyone around you," says Jeanne Denney, a psychotherapist and "death educator" who is on the faculty of the Art of Dying Institute in New York City, which conducts training and conferences focused on the final passage. Engaging in the process, Denney believes, can help us overcome the instinct to repress thinking about death, which only makes it more terrifying. "Your life is filled with less anxiety and more meaning," says Denney. "You start to feel more alive."
Timothy Gower (Bucket Age: 27) lives on Cape Cod, a peninsula off Massachusetts, where he hopes one day his ashes will be scattered in the sea, though he's in no rush. His writing has appeared in over two dozen publications, including Prevention, Reader's Digest, Esquire, and the New York Times.
Having an environment-friendly burial or cremation is important to me.
"From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World To Find the Good Death," by Caitlin Doughty
Listening:
"Bury Me Beneath the Willow," by Roseanne Cash
Six Feet Under (2001)
Death in the Afternoon
Having the Last Word Planning a funeral with personality.
Burden or Blessing? The dilemma of genetic testing
Mourning Jewelry Mourning jewelry can keep loved ones close at hand, heart.
Destination Death A college student's journey of discovery and meaning
A good article! However, it does not mention "Home Funerals." See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_funeral


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As hamadríades (), na mitologia grega, são as oito filhas do casamento de Óxylos, filho de Óreas com Hamadryás, sua própria irmã, chamavam-se: Carya, Balanos, Crania, Morea, Aigeiros, Ptelea, Ampelos e Syce. Cada uma delas seria protetora de um espécie diferente de árvore, entre estas a vinha, a figueira e a aveleira.As hamadríades são ninfas que nascem com as árvores e com as quais partilham o destino, devendo protegê-las.

Calímaco conta no seu Hino a Delos que a disposição e temperamento destas deidades variava em conformidade com a das suas árvores protegidas, dispensando-se em prantos aquando da queda das folhas ou da estridente alegria à chegada das chuvas da primavera sobre a juventude das verdes folhagens.

E se em algumas lendas poderia viver durante "cerca de dez vidas de palmeiras" ou 9720 anos, em outras versões, a morte anunciava-se-lhes com as das suas árvores.

A hamadríade Carya certa vez teve um caso com Zeus, o que gerou Dirio, o deus das plantas venenosas.

Existem lendas que descrevem o poder vingativo de que estas ninfas eram capazes sobre aqueles que ameaçavam as suas árvores (Chrysopelia), outras histórias falam-nos dos castigos que caíam sobre aqueles que as cortassem ou desdenhassem das orações atribuídas as estas deidades (Erysichthon) consideradas como intermediárias entre mortais e imortais.

Ninfas
Mitologia grega

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Vijaypur, Feb 3: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that his government is committed to restore dignity of displaced Kashmiri Pandits.
"My government is committed to restore dignity and pride of displaced Kashmiri Pandits," said Mr Modi while addressing a huge 'Maharally' here in bordering district after laying foundation stones of AIIMS and other developmental projects worth Rs 35,000 crore.
"I understand their pain. We never forgot the situation they faced at the time of exodus," he added.
The Prime Minister said that many programmes have also been launched to rehabilitate the displaced community.
"Soon the 3000 posts announced for the Kashmiri Pandits will start filling," he added.
Modi however, also appreciated J&K Governor Satya Pal Malik headed administration for peaceful conduct of Panchayat Polls and Urban Local Bodies election in the state.
Before starting his address the Prime Minister impressed the gathering by greeting people with "Mata Vaishno Devi" and "Mata Bawe Wali" in "Dogri" language.
"Paino te prao. Dogrein di is dharti te maa vaishno devi, maa bawe ali gi mera pranam," (brothers and sisters. I greet to this land of Dogras and also Mata Vaishno Devi, Maa Bawe Wali).
He said that whenever he visits Jammu, the energy level by which people of Jammu are filled with, boosts him to work with double energy.
"We will make our best efforts for the development of Jammu and Kashmir," said the Prime Minister.
He hailed the interim budget 2019, calling it people friendly and said that it fulfilled the commitment of "sab ka sath, sab ka vikas".
He said that under PM Kissan Yojna, 75,000 crore will reach to farmers and small farmers will also get benefitted.
Modi said that his government stand by farmers and jawans of the country and blamed Congress government for always befooling them and never thinking about their welfare.


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Q: insertcell() with unique ID I am having trouble with the insertRow & insertcell(), i have been searching around for the past few hours, but unfortunately, i have not found the answer.
I have a code which adds a new row to my table with 5 cells.
function myCreateFunction() {

var table = document.getElementById("myTable");
var row = table.insertRow(-1);
var cell1 = row.insertCell(0);
var cell2 = row.insertCell(1);
var cell3 = row.insertCell(2);
var cell4 = row.insertCell(3);
var cell5 = row.insertCell(4);
cell1.innerHTML = "<input type=\"text\" id=\"des\" name=\"des\" placeholder=\"\" class=\"form-control input-sm\" value=\"\"/>";
cell2.innerHTML = "<input type=\"text\" id=\"qu\" name=\"qu\" placeholder=\"\" class=\"form-control input-sm\" value=\"\"/>";
cell3.innerHTML = "<input type=\"text\" id=\"pu\" name=\"pu\" placeholder=\"\" class=\"form-control input-sm\" value=\"\"/>";
cell4.innerHTML = "<input type=\"text\" id=\"rl\" name=\"rl\" placeholder=\"\" class=\"form-control input-sm\" value=\"\"/>";
cell5.innerHTML = "<input type=\"text\" id=\"tlht\" name=\"tlht\" placeholder=\"\" class=\"form-control input-sm\" value=\"\"/>";

return false;
}

function myDeleteFunction() {
document.getElementById("myTable").deleteRow(-1);

return false
}

Each time i hit the button,
onclick="return myCreateFunction()"

A new row is added, but the issue is, if i add 2 rows each 5 cells will have the same ID & NAME. Each cell1 will have same ID, each cell2 will have same ID.....
No need to say that this is used inside a form, where i will need to add a new row and add content, which will be saved in a database.
WHat i need ? i need to add a number next to the NAME and ID each time i create a new row.
Example of what i need:
if i hit the button it will create all 5 new cells BUT the ID & NAME changes. Here and now, the name and id of the first cell is "des" when button click i need des1, when i click again i new row is created but the cell name and id is des2.. des3... des4... the number should be applied to all id's and name's of all cells created on the OnClick.
Don't know if it's clear enough.
Thank you very much, help will be greatly appreciated.

A: Make a global variable like count and use it to create the id.
NOTE: Check than you can use ' instead of \" inside a string to clarify:
cell1.innerHTML = "<input type='text' id='des" + count + "' name='des' placeholder='' class='form-control input-sm' value=''/>";

PS: at the end of adding a line remember to increase count and reset it if necessary
count = count + 1

A: Multiple options here:
keep a tracking list of every time the function is called
var index = 0;

function myCreateFunction() {
   ....your function.....
   cell.id = "des" + index;
   index++;
}

generate a unique id every time
function newGuid()
{
    //Generates a guid.
    var returnGuid = "";
    var hexChar = "abcdef1234567890";

    for (var i = 0 ; i < 32 ; i++)
    {
        returnGuid += hexChar.charAt(Math.random()*16);
        if(i == 7 || i == 11 || i == 15 || i == 19)
        {
            returnGuid += "-";
        }

    }
    return returnGuid.toString();
}

"... id=\"des\" " + newGuid()

A: This is the original code working while adding a new line, this is where the ID of the input line should be increased with a number each time i hit the button ADD LINE (or in french AJOUTER)

                                    Devis

                                        Description
                                        Quantité
                                        Prix U HT
                                        Remise %
                                        Total

                                        <input type="text" id="des" name="des" placeholder="" class="form-control input-sm" value="<? echo $_POST['des']; ?>"/>
                                        <input type="text" id="qu" name="qu" placeholder="" class="form-control input-sm" value="<? echo $_POST['qu']; ?>"/>
                                        <input type="text" id="pu" name="pu" placeholder="" class="form-control input-sm" value="<? echo $_POST['pu']; ?>"/>
                                        <input type="text" id="rl" name="rl" placeholder="" class="form-control input-sm" value="<? echo $_POST['rl']; ?>"/>
                                        <input type="text" id="tlht" name="tlht" placeholder="" class="form-control input-sm" value="<? echo $_POST['tlht']; ?>"/>

The JS code ading a line


I have a Verizon HTC 8x. I went to in stall Spartan Assault and got the hated "your phone has reached its storage space limit" even though I have 3.5GB free on the phone. I have tried shrink storage to no avail. In the past, I have seen that a workaround is to go to windowsphone.com and push an app to the device. Well, when I go to windowsphone.com - it tells me that "this app is not available for your phone" - wtf, does it not know I am on Verizon. Does anyone know if there is a way to let windowsphone.com know what carrier you are on?
you have the other storage problem. You will need to sacrifice a bunch of apps and games off your device to get the space you need.
Bell mobility and got it last night... Canada ftw!


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Volunteering with refugees
As many people know, I´m currently in Greece volunteering in a refugee camp. The camp is The Elpida Factory, ran by Together for Better Days (Facebook and website), and what they´re doing is nothing short of amazing there. They are a group working together to create a welcoming and dignified space for people who have fled a war zone looking for protection. The residents in Elpida have three meals a day, beds, activities. The women have a women´s room. They now have English classes. Kids are being provided with activities based around learning. And an education centre is being built for them.
But unfortunately, no other camp is like that. Next week, we go on to another camp in which there are almost 500 residents and currently only eight volunteers are permitted entrance a day.
I´m sure most people are aware, but just quickly: Greece was inundated with boats that despicable smugglers pushed off from Turkey towards Lesvos. None of these were really anything more than just dinghies, made of plastic or wood or rubber that was tied or glued together. Many came apart in the water. Many were only filled with enough fuel to get them out of Turkish waters and into Greek waters. Many, too many—one was too many—went under. Women have left their countries alone with six children, many with a newborn baby strapped to their chests. These people, who have bussed and walked through mountains with gunfire and bombs, who have been on a boat, often forced on board if they tried to refuse, have all fled to find something better.
Instead they have ended up in camps.
Educational material the kids are devouring.
Supplies for English class!
Our treatment of people who have come searching for a better life is going to be taught in fifty years as something appalling, this I can promise you. Just as we have learnt of the atrocities our ancestors carried out (and that we are still doing) to our indigenous peoples, of the atrocities of World Wars, of death camps: future generations will look back and ask, "How? How did they let this happen?"
Elpida is doing amazing things, but it is only one camp among thousands that just do not have enough resources, or have been taken out of NGO hands.
I was struggling to come up with a way to express the things I´ve heard, the things I´ve been told and the things I´ve seen. So I went for a list. Please consider helping however you can: share information, share links, donate, volunteer, fundraise: anything is always better than nothing. See Better Days (the organisation that has started the amazing Elpida Factory), Dirty Girls of Lesvos (an amazing organisation ran by a very inspiring woman that focuses on washing and redistributing blankets and clothes that were originally getting put in the bin–seriously awesome stuff) and our Go Fund Me are three places to have a look at :).
The things I´ve learnt and thought in my first ten days in a refugee camp:
There is always more to do.
There is always too much to do.
But what you do get to do matters.
You have to say no to tiny faces asking for one more.
People will want to kiss you for handing them a stick of deodorant.
This will make you want to give them everything you have.
But then what about the next person?
The people with nothing will offer you some of their tea, a piece of their ration, even their dinner…accept it, sometimes. They want you to have it.
A child with nothing but donated clothes on their back, with a special gift of a sweet will share it with you, eyes wide and hands sticky and their look sincere.
You will want to say no, because you want them to have the sweet; you want them to have the world.
Some families have not been together in years, separated by borders and seas and war.
Some families left people behind.
Parents have had to accept they will never see their children again.
Children are alone in a world too big for them.
Babies and children will play with anything.
Seriously, anything.
A thirteen year old girl can kick your ass at chess.
Something as simple as a plant in the corner of a room will bring a wistful look to a woman's face, nostalgia in her eye, and she may tell you she had one the same, but bigger, and she loved it…and now it's gone, "because my house is gone, down…bang."
This comment will leave you feeling hollow, then inadequate, then in awe when she shrugs away your empty condolences with the same wistful face because "It's okay, my family is good."
She is lucky that her family is good.
You will think the word "lucky" when someone has lost their entire house and walked across borders and taken a smuggled boat across a dangerous sea and lived in camps not fit for animals.
It's humbling.
A woman can have a caesarean and three days later be back in a camp in an open tent on a dirt floor in which the father won't sleep because he is worried the rats will get to the baby on the dirty tent floor.
This is not uncommon.
Refugees will kill two meter long snakes in the camp. Every day.
Scorpions and spiders are bed mates.
Children who are playing with delighted smiles will suddenly say comments such as, "like the bombs", "they're all dead" and "don't think about it, you don't have to."
These children will be too small to say such things.
Everyone is too small to have to say such things.
People will tell you the things they've seen that words can't even express.
I have never heard anyone speak with more hatred for ISIS than a refugee.
Because no one hates ISIS more than a refugee.
People will laugh, and smile, and tell bad jokes, and flirt, and giggle, and play, and live, always, because they are all just that: people.
Like you. Like me.
All of them will make you want to cry.
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Gloucester have confirmed that Tom Savage will leave Gloucester at the end of the season to move to Japan.
One of the club's longest serving players, Savage will embark upon a new playing challenge at the end of the current season when he joins Suntory Sungoliath.
Since he made his first team debut in 2011-12, 'Sav' has become one of the most popular players in the Gloucester Rugby squad, winning plaudits from team-mates, media and supporters for his never say die approach to his rugby.
The 29-year-old seized his opportunity when he joined Gloucester in 2011 after helping Hartpury win the National Three South West title and he has gone on to become a first team regular for the Cherry and Whites, making nearly 200 competitive appearances to date.
However, after eight seasons in Cherry and White, he is now set to embark upon a new chapter in his playing career, a prospect he admits is exciting after a tough decision to leave Kingsholm.
"I'm very excited to be joining Suntory Goliath after eight enjoyable years at Gloucester Rugby.
"I'll be giving my all as usual for the rest of the season and hope to finish my time at Gloucester on a real high. Thanks, Sav."
Gloucester director of rugby David Humphreys paid tribute to a terrific club servant.
He said: "Sav is the sort of player and personality that every club wants in their squad. His attitude and commitment to every aspect of his training, preparation and playing cannot be faulted.
They are one of the biggest club's in Japan and have been national champions on five occasions.
England head coach Eddie Jones spent three years in charge of Suntory and led them to the Top League title in the 2012 season before going on to take the reins of the Japan national side.
Jones brought in the likes of George Smith, Fourie du Preez and Danie Rossouw during his time at the club.
Other notable former players include Australian great George Gregan and South African Schalk Burger, while their current squad includes Wallabies Matt Giteau, who has won over caps for his country, and flanker Sean McMahon.
Suntory finished second in the Top League last season before being hammered 55-5 by Kobelco Steelers, Dan Carter's club, in the play-off final.


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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel comes to high school in acclaimed author Katie Henry's coming-of-age YA contemporary about a girl who accidentally falls into the world of stand-up comedy. Perfect for fans of John Green and Becky Albertalli
Sixteen-year-old Izzy is used to keeping her thoughts to herself--in school, where her boyfriend does the talking for her, and at home, where it's impossible to compete with her older siblings and high-powered parents.
When she mistakenly walks into a stand-up comedy club and performs, the experience is surprisingly cathartic. After the show, she meets Mo, an aspiring comic who's everything Izzy's not: bold, confident, comfortable in her skin. Mo invites Izzy to join her group of friends and introduces her to the Chicago open mic scene.
The only problem? Her new friends are college students--and Izzy tells them she's one, too. Now Izzy, the dutiful daughter and model student, is sneaking out to perform stand-up with her comedy friends. Her controlling boyfriend is getting suspicious, and her former best friend knows there's something going on.
But Izzy loves comedy and this newfound freedom. As her two parallel lives collide--in the most hilarious of ways--Izzy must choose to either hide what she really wants and who she really is, or finally, truly stand up for herself.
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A new hormone kit developed by Marie-Claire Springham is designed to override nature. The Central Saint Martins product design graduate is prototyping the ability for fathers to lactate, chest-feed their babies and share the responsibility of young parents.
An ambitious project, without a doubt, the project requires couples to attend a pre-natal course during their pregnancy. The hormone kit itself comes with a breast pump and a compression pump. Of course, Marie-Claire Springham also includes the mandatory hormones to stimulate lactation in men.
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This week's Sketchy Saturday top 10. This week's Sketchy Saturday top 10 brings with it a rich diversity of styles as well as artists as we reveal works from everything from professionals with a wealth of experience to students just starting out on their journey in design. And of course at LAN we're so happy that we can join you on your journey no matter where you are. One thing that struck us about this week's selection is that each style has its own strength and influence, from the minimalist approach to the highly illustrated approach, each has the ability to convey different aspects of the subject, and there is certainly not one style that suits all situations. Working to your strengths will always beat working on your weaknesses. Enjoy this week's Sketchy Saturday top 10! 10. by Münire SAĞAT, landscape architect at Studio BEMS Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, in Turkey, Ankara
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"I made this sketch for the "Llosev Natural Living Center Competition". The area is a natural life village in Cankiri Cerkes. I drew it with promarker on a white sheet and produced an axonometric perspective". 9. by Mayra Alves Zanin, studying Architecture and Urbanism in Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) in Curitiba, Brazil
By Mayra Alves Zanin
"This sketch is a perspective from a landscape project for my college. The design was a revitalization of a very important central plaza located in Curitiba, Brazil. Our motivation concept was to rescue the sensibility in people's daily life, so they could live the urban space. The drawing was made on tracing paper and freehand with markers, black ink pen and colored pencil. If you're interested, this is the link to the design in my portfolio". 8. by Mohammed Zaki Hosni, a pre-junior student in the faculty of engineering – Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt., studying in the Landscape Architecture Department
Mohammed Zaki Hosni
"This is a small freehand sketch exercise done for a presentation course in college, drawn in pencil, inked and then colored using Alpha markers". 7. by Blake Andera Iowa State Student of Landscape Architecture, USA
By Blake Andera
"This is a class project for a school trip designed with minimal impact to the site. Illustrating the bridge connecting the two high points on the site. I used ink.The site is based in Maquoketa, IA". 6. by Benjamin Loh, Senior Landscape Architect, New Zealand
By Benjamin Loh
"The first inspiration came directly from my current employer who produces a lot of quick sketches for clients within 30min for each sketch. My second motivation comes from Linescape on Facebook who uses a pen (ink) for quick sketches.The ability to quickly record impressions and expression through sketching is what I am trying to achieve in 2015. The site is in Wakatipu Lake, Queenstown, New Zealand. Drawn using a 0.5 Pilot VBall". 5. by Manoj Joshi Architect, Interior Designer( Practicing ), Traveller, Sketcher. Also teacher at Local Architecture & Interior Design Colleges
By Manoj Joshi
"I am an Architect, fond of travelling and also sketching, I capture memories through a sketch. It helps me to walk around the places and in giving me the real experiences of the streets and cities I visit. The sketching helps me to understand the local architecture, elements, culture, flora, fauna around, street v/s building relations etc. It's basically a watercolour sketch, but I tried to sketch it like the sketches drawn with dry pastels. Also, a tinge of black ink pen adds to the fusion of different mediums and indirectly hinting at the cultural and other changes that particular cities or streets go through. A small detail like GA on a car's number plate indicates the state of India not completely showing the whole number of the car. The small plants and the rich colour palette of Goa were the focal agendas to be depicted in the sketch. The site is located at a h The site is located at a house converted in Art Boutique in a street in Campal Area ( A colony established around late 1800s during Portuguese Influence ) in the city of Panjim, Goa State, India. I used Pencil, Water Colour, Ink pen and Love to Sketch 😉 ". 4. by Dinu Marian Alexandru , student University of Architecture and Urbanism Ion Mincu Bucharest
By Dinu Marian Alexandru
"I was always fascinated, by the way, each staircase, either made of pale wood or classic metal, can change the atmosphere of a space. From smooth concrete curves and twisting corkscrews to structures built from reclaimed wood and rusty steel. Stairways have endless functions to a building, some of which are that they act as a a means of escape in cases of fire,they attach rooms to each other, and,what I think is more important,they provide space for movement.As an architectural element of the house, this modern concrete staircase is suitable for many applications.More and more manufacturers build a metal staircase due to its applicability in everyday use. This staircase, which rises in a straight line to the height of the sky, certainly requires careful planning. Important requirements for the stability and resilience of the scale are external substrate and infrastructure perfectly executed. The wild beauty of cement is often interspersed with steel balustrades and stainless steel, perfectly fitting the surroundings". 3. by Raluca-Mihaela Serdaru, Romania, Professional Landscape Designer & Urban Planner
By Raluca-Mihaela Serdaru
"The sketch is made for a contest of landscape design for a private garden from USA, California in 2014. The big slope from the garden was the one that motivated me to sketch a view to the existing house which was located on top of the slope. Through this sketch, I wanted to show better how the retaining walls are modeling the terrain and how the vegetation and alleys with stairs will look like. The methods used for the sketch is watercolor markers, watercolor with brush and pencil". 2. by Delia Bittner, Student studying Landscape Architecture at the Writtle College, Nationality German
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"When I was visiting the city of Reims in France I entered the famous Cathedral to have a look. I was overwhelmed by the tranquillity inside. I started sketching a part of the beautiful architecture and finished my drawing later from memory. I choose a fine pencil for my sketch because I not only wanted to catch the beauty but the peacefulness and the wonderful atmosphere as well". 1. by Rawan Waleed Al-Qabbani Free lancing Architect,Damascus,Syria
By Rawan Waleed Al-Qabbani
"The main reason behind sketching the view was helping a friend of mine in presenting his graduation project. And though classical architecture was not my favorite pattern of a sketching object, I found myself enjoying every detail of the many elements composing the scene. Considering a style in which the sketch was made, there won't actually be much to be said: tools used are a pencil and lots of sketching multi-markers since the origin sketch on canvas was slightly colored". – That's this week's Sketchy Saturday Top 10, congratulations to all of you who featured, you have come out on top of a very talented bunch of people. Check out the Sketchy Saturday official Facebook album and see literally 1,000′s of incredible sketches! Follow all the winning entries on our dedicated Sketchy Saturday Pinterest page. If you want to take part send your entries to us at office@landarchs.com Recommended reading:
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GOT Issues: An Update
December 4, 2020 by Charlie Kingdollar
Earlier this year, I wrote an article for Carrier Management that looked at potentially emerging issues that may have not yet been captured on the risk monitors of underwriters or by the algorithms of property/casualty insurance actuaries. I started with some comments about issues that have already started to emerge—those related to GOT, or herbicide glyphosate, opioids and talc.
• Kingdollar Comments: Emerging Risk Issues Left Out of Algorithms;
• More Emerging Risks for 2020: Insurance Costs for Violence Unclear
All three have been in use for decades. Thousands of plaintiffs have filed lawsuits. In the case of opioids, cities, states and healthcare systems have also filed suits. Litigation has already begun for these issues and several multimillion-dollar verdicts have been handed down. Each of these emerging issues could result in billions of dollars in defense and indemnity costs.
There have been some recent developments related to the potential cost of GOT that are worth noting:
On Oct. 7, 2020, Bloomberg reported that Johnson & Johnson would pay over $100 million to settle 1,000 lawsuits alleging exposure to asbestos in talcum powder resulted in their cancers. The company still reportedly faces an additional 20,000 plaintiffs.
On the opioid front, toward the end of September, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court approval of a "negotiated class" of 33,000 towns, cities and counties that have filed suit against opioid defendants, according to Reuters. The negotiated class would have given the municipalities the opportunity to vote on whether to accept any settlement proposal. Other proposed opioid settlements worth $48 billion have been put forth outside of the rejected negotiated class proposal.
On Sept. 15, 2020, Reuters reported that Bayer had settled another 15,000 glyphosate exposure lawsuits as part of an $11 billion settlement proposal. (Reminder, glyphosate is the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup) The company claims to have reached settlement agreements with some 45,000 plaintiffs alleging their cancers were caused by glyphosate exposure. The company estimated it faces a total of some 125,000 filed and unfiled claims.
It seems doubtful that even a few years ago, let alone decades ago, underwriters providing coverage for the defendants involved would have priced for such potential claims activity.
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Like a Storm to Open for Alter Bridge in Auckland
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Press Release – NicNak Media
US-based, Kiwi-born hard rockers LIKE A STORM have been announced as the opening act for the legendary ALTER BRIDGE, playing in Auckland this March*.
MJR Presents is bringing both bands to New Zealand for a one-off show at thePowerstation on March 31*.
LIKE A STORM have fought hard to be heard. The three brothers from New Zealand went to the United States in 2009 knowing no one. After tirelessly touring to promote their debut album, THE END OF THE BEGINNING, they built a diehard and devoted fanbase and soon were opening for the likes of Creed, Alter Bridge and Shinedown in the States.
Now they're undoubtedly the biggest band to emerge out of New Zealand's active rock market on an international level. Ironically, despite touring the world with the likes ofTremonti, Shinedown, Steel Panther and Slash/Myles Kennedy, the LIKE A STORMboys have never played with a full band on home turf. It makes their return to Kiwi soil all the more special.
Singer Chris Brooks says the band is excited to finally be playing a gig at home: "We have fought for every little piece of ground that we have gained here in the US and in Europe. To come home now to play our FIRST show in New Zealand as LIKE A STORM, as well as Australia, AND to do it with ALTER BRIDGE, this is a dream come true."
LIKE A STORM started getting major attention when their single 'Love The Way You Hate Me' was added to Sirius XM's rock station and seized #1 on their nationwide "Big 'Uns" countdown for five weeks. The single eventually went Top 30 on the US Active Rock charts, a major achievement for a completely independent band, and making them the first New Zealand group to ever do so.
The band's second AWAKEN THE FIRE then went on to debut in the top 200 Billboard charts. They now have a new album on the way, featuring the single, 'Pure Evil', which is currently top 50 at Rock radio in the States. Listen to 'Pure Evil' here
LIKE A STORM are brothers Chris Brooks (lead vocals, guitar, didgeridoo, keys/programming), Matt Brooks (vocals, lead guitar, keys/programming), and Kent Brooks (bass, vocals, keys/programming), plus LA-based Drummer Zach Wood.
Myles Kennedy of ALTER BRIDGE is also enthusiastic about their return to New Zealand and Australia with LIKE A STORM in tow. "Every time we tour, I'm reminded of how great it is to have this passionate and loyal audience. We don't take it lightly," Myles says. "We consider it an honor that people let us into their lives that way – and we can't wait to see our loyal fans down under in April, with our tour buddies LIKE A STORM – it's going to be a load of fun."
Don't miss one of the most exciting live rock acts to come out of New Zealand, LIKE A STORM, when they open for the one and only ALTER BRIDGE on March 31 at the Powerstation.
Limited tickets still available from www.mjrpresents.com
** Due to logistical issues, the Alter Bridge show (originally scheduled for April 1) will now be moved to Friday March 31. Ticket holders that can't make the event simply need to contact their ticketing provider or info@mjrpresents.com for a refund.


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TITLE: Distribution-Free Detection of Structured Anomalies: Permutation and Rank-Based Scans
The scan statistic is by far the most popular method for anomaly detection, being popular in syndromic surveillance, signal and image processing, and target detection based on sensor networks, among other applications. The use of the scan statistics in such settings yields a hypothesis testing procedure, where the null hypothesis corresponds to the absence of anomalous behavior. If the null distribution is known, then calibration of a scan-based test is relatively easy, as it can be done by Monte Carlo simulation. When the null distribution is unknown, it is less straightforward.
We investigate two procedures. The first one is a calibration by permutation and the other is a rank-based scan test, which is distribution-free and less sensitive to outliers. Furthermore, the rank scan test requires only a one-time calibration for a given data size making it computationally much more appealing. In both cases, we quantify the performance loss with respect to an oracle scan test that knows the null distribution. We show that using one of these calibration procedures results in only a very small loss of power in the context of a natural exponential family. This includes the classical normal location model, popular in signal processing, and the Poisson model, popular in syndromic surveillance. We perform numerical experiments on simulated data further supporting our theory and also on a real dataset from genomics.
Joint work with Rui M. Castro(1), Ervin Tánczos(1), and Meng Wang(2)
(1) Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
(2) Stanford University
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.03002
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