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30 Amazing Vintage Photographs of New York City From Between the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
February 17, 2018 Vintage Everyday 1800s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, life & culture, New York, street 0
The earliest forms of mass transit in the City were the horse-cars, which were trolleys pulled by horses. Then came street railways, which in Manhattan were elevated. These would have been the main means of mass transit before the subway began operating around the turn of the 20th century. Horse drawn cabs were ubiquitous until they were replaced by motor powered ones.
Most people in the late 1800s did not travel around cities/metros as we do today. They lived closer to where they worked and mostly walked to their jobs or to their do their errands/keep appointments. Here, below is a collection of 30 amazing vintage photographs that capture street scenes of New York City from between the late 19th and early 20th century.
Central Park, near the Sixth Avenue and 59th Street entrance, 1864
Wall Street, around 1872
Brooklyn Bridge, 1873
Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 1880
Mott Street, about 1890
Jacob Riis Park, Rockaway Beach, 1897
Wall Street and Nassau Street (statue of George Washington), 1900
Broad Street (on the left is the JPMorgan Office), 1900
Broadway and West 34th Street, 1901
The Williamsburg Bridge under construction, 1903
Central Park, showing the pond at 110th Street and the Botanical Gardens, 1906
Marble Hill Avenue and West 227th Street, 1906
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, 1910
Nassau Street and Wall Street (showing the under-construction Bankers Trust Building and the Hanover National Bank Building), 1911
West 88th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues, 1911
Oriental Boulevard (showing the Manhattan Beach Hotel), 1911
Maiden Lane and Pearl Street, 1914
William Street and Maiden Lane, 1915
Queensboro Bridge Connection, 1917
White Plains Road and Burke Ave, around 1917
62nd Street between Second and Third Avenues, 1917
Park Avenue and 51st Street, 1917
The Victory Arch on Fifth Avenue and 25th Street, 1918
48th Street and First Avenue, 1918
Eighth Avenue and 130th Street, 1920
West 111th Street between Fifth and Lenox Avenues, 1920
Broadway and 34th Street, 1921
150th Street, 1922
38th Avenue between Main and Union Streets, 1922
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New Decade, New Faces, Renewed Commitment
January 2020 Vol 11, No 1
Letters from Lillie
Editor-in-Chief, JONS; Co-Founder, AONN+; University Distinguished Service Professor of Breast Cancer, Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Co-Developer, Work Stride-Managing Cancer at Work, Johns Hopkins Healthcare Solutions
Dear Navigators, Social Workers, Administrators, and Clinical Staff,
We are incredibly enthusiastic about our growing community of navigators and the new heights we will reach together in 2020!
In response to the growing needs of our increasing membership of the Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient Navigators (AONN+) we continue to foster growth as an organization. As part of that growth, we are proud to announce that our own Sharon S. Gentry, RN, MSN, AOCN, CBCN, HON-ONN-CG, will take the helm as the Program Director of AONN+. Sharon has worked tirelessly for the Academy as an integral part of the Leadership Council and the Oncology Nurse Navigator–Certified Generalist (ONN-CG) Certification Committee. It is my honor to pass the torch to Sharon with every confidence that she will continue the important work of AONN+ in championing the cause of navigation to positively impact the lives of patients. No! I am not stepping away from AONN+ by any means! As co-founder, I will spend more time looking to our future and envisioning where we need to strategically expand our efforts on your behalf and on behalf of navigators taking care of patients across the country and around the world.
I am also excited to share that AONN+ has created 2 new positions to further support the Academy's work. Emily Gentry, RN, BSN, OCN, joins us as the Senior Director of Education & Program Development and Co-Director of Certification. Ms Gentry previously served as the Navigation Director, Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute at Medical City Healthcare in Dallas/Fort Worth, TX. Monica Dean joins us as Director of Patient Navigation Program Development and Co-Director of Certification. Ms Dean previously served as Director of Patient Navigation for the American Cancer Society. We welcome Emily and Monica and look forward to their contributions in their respective new roles.
Yes, there are several new faces here at the Academy, and with them come a wealth of experience, fresh ideas, and anticipation for their unique contributions to our organization. This newly assembled team will work closely with our Chief Nursing Officer, Danelle Johnston, MSN, RN, HON-ONN-CG, OCN, to lead the strategic imperatives for the Academy. With this new decade, and our new growth, I hope your commitment to your profession, your patients, and to AONN+ is renewed as well. Happy New Year to you.
Editor-in-Chief, JONS
University Distinguished Service Professor of Breast Cancer; Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Co-Developer of Work Stride: Managing Cancer at Work, Johns Hopkins Healthcare Solutions; Co-Founder of AONN+.
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The majority of the global population is now able to afford a mobile device. By 2012, almost six billion people had mobile phone subscriptions worldwide, with eighty percent of the newest subscribers in developing nations. In 2006, there were 200 million devices owned by Africans; today there are 735 million. Tablets sales are set to outpace PC sales by 2016. Statistics, anecdotes and experiences are all pointing to the reality that Information Communication Technology [ICT] is and will continue to dramatically alter life for billions of people.
In today's economy, knowledge has become as important to economic growth as traditional factors such as capital, labor, or natural resources. Economies of the OECD are more dependent than ever on the production and distribution of services, rather than goods, created by processing the huge amounts of information produced by the global economy – a capability made possible by the development and deployment of high-powered ICT. The flow of goods, services, investment, and human capital work to connect the knowledge-based economy even as the spread of high-tech (and expensive) ICT has made surviving in the knowledge economy more capital-intensive.
A consequence of this economic transition is the aggressive rise of "m-" everything. The rapid rate of global mobile penetration challenges traditional models of economic development, and necessitates a new policy approach in order to allow a fast-changing high-tech sector to thrive. From small start-ups to big-business, mobile development continues to drive development and empowerment around the world, even as it rejects precedent.
One such example of game-changing, runaway success is M-PESA , an eponym for mobile money transfers. SafariComm, the creator of M-PESA and one of the larger African telecomm companies, generates 16 percentof its revenue from the service, and has pioneered the spread of this technology across the world. The social benefits of this are clear: 25 percent of Kenya's Gross National Product now goes through M-PESA. Afghanistan's leading telecomm company, Roshan, has mimicked M-PESA with M-Paisa – an example of rural communities gaining access to institutions that were once reserved for urban elites. 97 percent of Afghanistan's population wouldn't have access to a bank account were it not for M-Paisa.
The catch? This kind of successful m-banking deployment is scattered and anecdotal. Safaricom controls half of the world's mobile-money transactions, and few other countries have caught up simply because the company has a huge head start in terms of subscribers and customers – and they are notoriously stingy with their data. Moreover, there are jurisdictional questions, regulatory issues, oligopolistic ties that don't allow for innovation in certain countries, and security hazards.
These m-commerce platforms are unique because they are addressing the specific issues of developing nations. For example, only 10 percent of remittance recipients in Latin America have a bank account, subjecting families to surcharges and long journeys to a nearby Western Union – imposing significant economic costs. However, mobile money transactions are increasingly beginning to address this. SMART, an operator in the Philippines, claims $50 million of remittances are being sent over mobile phones every month. This innovation is a game changer, considering that some national economies rely more on remittances than foreign direct investment and foreign aid combined for capital flows. Much like the Safaricom story, this innovation is made possible by preexisting, established organizations with the extra capital needed to create new revenue streams such as mobile payment platforms.
These innovations have been successful largely because they typically begin in-country, addressing the issues of local groups rather than replicating market solutions that were successful in other environments. People with few resources, sporadic incomes, and little chance to create savings have never been attractive to traditional banks, cutting this portion of the population off from the flows of credit needed to stimulate economic growth. Changing this equation can lead a subsistence farmer to become a micro-business owner and self-investor, with a season's-worth of crops no longer being invested in livestock or other unreliable assets, but into a savings account for future needs.
Mobile innovations like these are encouraging GDP growth in developing countries at twice the rate of developed countries, yielding a .6 percent increase in GDP for every additional 10 mobile phones per 100 people. Adoption of mobile technology is what the Gates Foundation has called the most powerful tool to end global poverty, noting that GDP growth happens earlier and faster for mobile penetration than it does the Internet.
As companies plan around the financial needs of developing nations, these disruptive market forces are at risk as they often rely on regulatory and governmental support. Competition specifically increases the chances of mobile penetration, going from 8 percent in a single operator market to 21 percent in markets with more than 3 operators. To harness these benefits, governments, transnational authorities, and private organizations must invest in highly skilled research & development, improving opportunities for global innovation in this sector, and avoid limiting access to the market for potential competitors. This new-found financial power is translating into political and social capital, yielding a second generation of m-growth, and boundless opportunities for sustainable market solutions.


A memo released Wednesday by Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair lists 40 separate briefings beginning in September 2002 in which leading members of Congress were briefed by the CIA on the agency's use of "enhanced interrogation techniques"—in plain words, torture.
Before the revelations about the employment of such methods as waterboarding appeared in the media, none of these legislators, including leading Democrats, objected to or publicly protested against what amounted to war crimes.
Much of the media attention has focused on the role of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Democrat, California), who as the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee was, together with Republican Representative Porter Goss, who went on to become director of the CIA, one of the first members of Congress to be briefed on the CIA's torture tactics.
Zubaydah, captured by the CIA in Pakistan in March 2002, was one of the first "high-value" detainees subjected to waterboarding and other forms of torture. While the Bush administration grossly inflated Zubaydah's importance, the torture methods served to extract from him a false statement that Iraq was training Al Qaeda terrorists in the use of chemical weapons. The Bush administration had ordered the torture in large part to obtain such a phony confession in order to bolster its key pretext for launching its war of aggression against Iraq.
This claim is hardly credible. Why would the CIA brief two leading members of Congress on methods of torture in the abstract? And if they had done so, why didn't Pelosi ask them whether these "techniques" were in fact being used on detainees captured on the "global war on terrorism"?
The patent aim of the congressional Republicans in requesting the public release of the record of these briefings is to intimidate Democrats into dropping the issue of torture, by threatening to focus public attention on Democratic complicity in the implementation of the criminal methods introduced under the Bush administration.
The issue has divided Washington since President Barack Obama last month released Justice Department memos authorizing the use of these illegal methods, while simultaneously announcing a blanket amnesty for those in the CIA who carried them out.
Obama has since informed Democratic leaders in Congress that he is opposed to any independent investigation of the torture carried out under the Bush administration, while publicly stating that the matter is in the hands of his Attorney General Eric Holder. The administration and the majority of the Democratic leadership in Congress have also deferred to an inquiry being conducted by the Senate intelligence committee, which will not be completed until the end of the year. The probe will be conducted behind closed doors, and it is uncertain how much of its findings will be made public.
In an appearance on Capitol Hill Thursday, Attorney General Holder dealt with the issue of the torture memos. His testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee came just a day after the New York Times reported that a draft report issued by the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility had concluded that the government attorneys who wrote memos declaring specific methods of torture to be legal were guilty only of poor judgment and should not be criminally prosecuted. Holder, however, claimed not to have read the document.
Republican Senators Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Richard Shelby of Alabama pointedly questioned Holder about the implications for the Democrats themselves of any serious investigation into the question of torture.
"What about members of Congress who were informed of them or knew about them or approved them or encouraged them, wouldn't they also be appropriate parts of such an investigation?" asked Alexander.
Shelby turned to the CIA's rendition program, in which suspects are kidnapped off the street and transported to secret prisons abroad for interrogation and torture.
"Didn't that happen during the Clinton administration?" he asked. Holder acknowledged that rendition had been employed under the former Democratic president.
"How many did you approve?" he continued, referring to Holder's role at the Clinton Justice Department. Holder responded that he would have to consult his records.
The Obama administration has specifically defended rendition as a practice that the CIA will continue using, effectively "disappearing" those who it deems a threat to the US government, transporting them to foreign prisons to be held indefinitely, denied the right to either be charged with a crime and placed on trial or be released.
The Republican campaign is based on the well-founded charge that the Democrats were complicit in the introduction of torture as a policy of the US government and therefore are in no position to hold former officials of the Bush administration accountable.
The Democrats' complicity in the systematic use of torture by the US government does not make the practice any less criminal. It is merely shows that the entire political establishment—Congress, both major parties, the mass media and the corporate and financial elite—is implicated in the crimes of aggressive war and torture and the attacks on democratic rights that developed under the Bush administration.
No doubt the Democrats' complicity in torture and other crimes is a major factor in the reluctance of the Obama administration and the congressional leadership to pursue any serious investigation, much less prosecution, of those responsible.
However, this is not merely a matter of what Pelosi and others did and didn't do in briefings held over the last seven years. The Obama administration is itself dependent upon a national security apparatus that has changed little in terms of its personnel since the Bush administration. The Democrats fear any confrontation with these elements, and their cowardice in relation to the CIA and the military has strengthened the Republican right, which has launched a political offensive in the name of national security.
Moreover, just as the Obama administration is continuing the aggressive wars launched by the Bush administration—and escalating the one in Afghanistan—it has no intention of relinquishing the extraordinary powers that the Bush administration arrogated to itself under the pretext of fighting terrorism. Thus, it has gone into court repeatedly to quash legal challenges to policies ranging from domestic spying to extraordinary rendition and torture.
The further exposure of the Democrats' complicity in torture and other crimes of the Bush administration make it clear that they and the Obama administration have no intention of carrying out a serious attempt to hold those responsible for these crimes accountable, and that any investigation they do initiate will be a whitewash.


You should be familiar with basic computer usage. No prior knowledge of programming is assumed.
This path will familiarize you with the Python language so you can learn how to express concepts in fewer lines of code than in other languages. Take a look at the fundamentals of Python and dive into the language itself, looking at the concepts behind the syntax. Become familiar with key words associated with Python and find out the most important tools to have as a Python 3 developer. Find out how to use Python both interactively at the command line and in a source code editor. Learn about Function Objects, Lambda expressions, Generators, and Closures as well as Class Inheritance and Data Hiding among many more features.


Based on surveys of consumers and hotels, the views of hotel booking sites were mainly positive. The consumers had differing opinions on how clearly the booking sites displayed the prices and presented the contract terms. They were also often in disagreement over the online payment security of the booking sites and the accuracy of attractive offers. Almost one third of the respondents had had different problems either in the booking stage or when they had reached the hotel.
Four-fifths of the hotels or hotel chains that responded to the survey considered booking sites either very important or important. Almost all respondents believed that booking sites increased the visibility of their hotel. On the other hand, the majority of them was of the opinion that the booking sites limited the freedom of operation of their hotels. Furthermore, they did not consider the provision being paid to booking sites to correspond with the benefits they gained from the site.
In responses given by both consumers and hotels, it came up that it was often unclear who was the responsible party in problem situations. The consumers did not know when they should seek compensation from the booking site and when from the hotel.


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Q: No login screen after changing ram I installed 4GB RAM before, and today I installed 8GB of RAM from another company. With these two together, everything works fine but the Ubuntu login screen is not showing. I must use only one of them for it to show. Is there any way to fix this issue, even by changing BIOS settings?
I am currently using this motherboard: [ECS] DURATHON2 A320AM4-M3

A: Check your RAM specs, and BIOS version...
Check your RAM specs...

Check your BIOS version...
In terminal do sudo dmidecode -s bios-version to see what version BIOS you have now. Compare it to this...

Go to http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Product/Product_DOWNLOAD/EN/Motherboard/A320AM4-M3%20-LL-V1-DO-0A-RR-/Socket%20AM4/DCID/BIOS to download the latest BIOS.
Update #1:
Re-seating the RAM fixed the problem. System is working now. Amount of RAM showing to Ubuntu is only 10G, as 2G is assigned to internal video card. This value can be adjusted in the BIOS.

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I raved about his first two forays as Bond ("Best Bond in a long, long time") and ("No sophomore jinx") and I am about to do the same in this one. Definitely, third time's the charm.
For many of my generation and older, Bond was always Sean Connery. The others who followed in quick succession (Roger Moore, George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan) were simply fillers until the producers could somehow find someone who could duplicate Connery's unique take on Ian Fleming's "blunt instrument" "on her Majesty's secret service" with a "license to kill" or find someone that Ian Fleming had in mind when he wrote Bond.
"Skyfall", the third chapter of the prequels to "Dr. No", the first Sean Connery Bond outing, is the best of the three--see "Casino Royale" and "Quantum of Solace"--and would rank as possibly the best Bond, ever--to date, with the possible exception of 1963's "From Russia with Love" (Connery) and 1965's "Thunderball" (Connery). I will not give away spoilers but suffice it to say that there are quite a number of pleasant surprises.
The story is reminiscent of 1995's "Goldeneye" (Brosnan) and 1999's "The world is not enough" (Brosnan) only in that it involves a villain who is a former MI6 agent and the subject of the plot is revenge against M("Judi Dench"). The similarities stop there. The plot for "Skyfall" is a bit more substantive than the paper thin plots of "Goldeneye" and "The world is not enough"and Bond watchers are in for a treat as director Sam Mendes and the writers gleefully weave in many familiar items that, aptly for a prequel, usher in the basis for the Bond introduced by Connery and all the others who followed him.
A Bond staple, the over-the-top villain, is again on hand in "Skyfall" but Javier Bardem's very nuanced, multi-layered take on Silva, the disgruntled former agent with an axe to grind against M, trumps all the previous non-Connery Bond villains and ranks up there with Ernst Stavro Blofeld, for sheer campiness as well as menace.
But the two things that make "Skyfall"the best of the last three Bonds are: (a) Craig, and (b) Craig and Dench together.
It is to Craig's credit that, even for a long-time Bond watcher, he makes one forget Connery. His Bond is perfectly human--not super human. He gets stumped, forgets things, bleeds, gets dirty, laughs, cries and gets hurt--physically and otherwise. In "Casino Royale" and "Quantum...", Craig's Bond is a brooding, tense, often indecisive and conflicted character; he struggles to hide the evident loyalty and, certainly, affection for M--particularly in "Quantum..." and fails. In "Skyfall", it is that relationship with M that is the fulcrum on which the entire film turns and what a magnificent fulcrum it is.
The relationship between Dench's M and Bond is fully fleshed out in "Skyfall." It is, in the language of social media, "complicated." At the same time that M is Bond's superior with the authority and certainly the inclination to send him into harm's way, she is also, as revealed, much, much more than that. "Skyfall" turns on the magnificent chemistry between the characters M and Bond and the actors Dench and Craig. It is that chemistry between M and Bond that allows for the hatred and malevolence of the villain, Silva, to take on perspective and paves the way for the denouement which, for a Bond watcher, becomes obvious midway into the film but remains a delightful revelation not tainted by anti-climax.
The chemistry between Dench and Craig is amazing. Dench does more here than in any of her other previous forays as M, even to the extent of doing some action scenes; but it is really the way that Dench uses her voice and her eyes that reveal her depth and range. For an "action star", Craig's range is wide; his face is a blank slate until he decides to use it to full advantage. His main advantage over the other Bonds, Connery included, is that he doesn't mind getting "ugly" and that makes all the difference in the way that he is able to convey the whole range of emotions a "blunt instrument" ought not to have. Like most of the Bonds (with the exception of the dour Lazenby and the extremely dour Dalton), Craig brings a dash of humor to his Bond but his is an extremely subtle "listen-or-you-won't-get-it" brand of laughs, not unlike Connery's sarcastic "nudge-nudge-wink-wink" quips and thankfully unlike Moore's and Brosnan's unsubtle and often flat ripostes. Craig's Bond is funny and capable of having fun; the interrogation scene between Silva and Bond is a great example with the funniest line being "what makes you think it's my first time?" but delivered with the thinnest trace of a smile and certainly no hint of it being humorous, considering the circumstances under which it was delivered.
"Skyfall" also dives headlong into Bond's past, which it uses strategically to reveal the actual extent of Bond's relationship with Dench's M; but, in the same way, it also ushers in, logically, the future. Indeed, "Skyfall" weaves in elements of the past Bond films (M's history with Bond, for instance) but with enough of the future thrown in. It is Mendes's greatest achievement that he is able to make the transition so seamless that it is not only believable but also greatly compelling.
There are delightful performances by Ralph Fiennes ("Mallory"), Ben Wishaw (Q), Naomie Harris ("Eve"), Albert Finney (Kincaid) and certainly Javier Bardem ("Silva"); one performance, however, also stands out and it is the singer Adele, who belts out "Skyfall", with the soul, range and emotion of a Shirley Bassey, whose smokey vocals lent great texture to many a Bond theme. Bond watchers will also find great pleasure in two cameos that are made by objects--the Walther PPK that Bond prefers and the "old school" Aston Martin--which have strategic roles in the plot.
It is difficult to write much more without revealing much more. I will just say this one other thing: George Lucas, this is the way to do a prequel, especially if you intend to do it in three chapters. Next to Abrams' Star Trek reboot and Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy, this is the best reboot of an existing icon that I have ever seen. I think that Ian Fleming would have given this "two thumbs way up!"


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Mosquito Fogging set for Maricopa and San Tan Valley
FLORENCE – Pinal County Environmental Health Services announced today that adult mosquito fogging will be conducted in Maricopa and San Tan Valley beginning Tuesday, August 2 through Thursday, August 4. Mosquitoes trapped during routine surveillance for West Nile virus tested positive, resulting in the need to fog the area to prevent transmission of the disease to humans.
So far this year, there has not been a reported human case of West Nile virus in Pinal County.
08/02/2011 – 08/03/2011 in SAN TAN VALLEY – Area encompasses Bella Vista to the north, Union Pacific Railroad Tracks to the east, Omega Drive to the south and Gantzel Road to the west between the hours of 11:00 pm to Midnight.
08/03/2011 – 08/04/2011 in the CITY OF MARICOPA – Area encompasses: John Wayne Parkway to the east, Sage Brush Drive to the south, Green Road to the west and McDavid Road to the north between the hours of 1:00 am to 5:00 am.
The pesticide that will be used during fogging is called Anvil. It is a pre-mixed, ready-to-use product that contains two active ingredients: Sumithrin (2%) and piperonyl butoxide (2%). Sumithrin is a man-made version of a natural pesticide found in chrysanthemum flowers. Piperonyl butoxide enhances the ability of Sumithrin to kill mosquitoes. Anvil is registered with the US Environmental Protection Agency and is effective against the mosquitoes that carry West Nile virus.
There are several things that residents can do to reduce exposure during fogging:
Close all windows and doors. Air conditioners can still be operated, but if they have vents to bring in outside air, they should be closed. Turn off evaporative coolers.
Stay inside your home.
If possible, bring pets inside.
Thirty minutes after the end of the scheduled fogging each night, you may resume normal activities.
West Nile virus is transmitted to humans and animals through the bite of an infected mosquito. West Nile virus can cause severe illness in people and horses, although not everyone who is infected will develop symptoms. People of all ages can be affected however, the elderly may be more prone to serious illness. County health officials urge all county residents to "Fight the Bite" and follow these simple personal precautions to avoid mosquitoes and the diseases they may carry:
Avoid outside activity between dusk and dawn, when mosquitoes are most active.
If you must be outdoors when mosquitoes are active, wear lightweight clothing that covers your arms and legs and use an insect repellent containing an EPA registered active ingredient such as DEET, Picaridin or oil of lemon eucalyptus. Always follow the directions on the label.
Make sure doors and windows have tight-tighting screens and remain closed. Repair or replace screens that have tears or holes in them.
Eliminate mosquito-breeding sites around the home by removing standing water in potted plants, tires, bird baths and other containers where water may collect.
Ensure that swimming pools and decorative water features are properly maintained.
Change water in flowerpots, birdbaths and pet watering bowls located outdoors at least twice per week.
What Are the Symptoms of West Nile?
No Symptoms in Most People. Approximately, 80 percent of people (about 4 out of 5) who are infected with West Nile will not show any symptoms at all.
Milder Symptoms in Some People. Up to 20 percent of the people who become infected have symptoms such as fever, headache, and body aches, nausea, vomiting and sometimes swollen lymph glands or a skin rash on the chest, stomach and back. Symptoms can last for as short as a few days, though even healthy people have become sick for several weeks.
Serious Symptoms in a Few People. About one in 150 people infected with West Nile will develop severe illness. The severe symptoms can include high fever, headache, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, vision loss, numbness and paralysis. These symptoms may last several weeks, and neurological effects may be permanent.
The County has a mosquito hotline and a webpage. If you would like information on mosquito prevention and control, please call: 866-287-0209, ext. 6200, or visit the West Nile virus webpage at: http://www.pinalcountyaz.gov/Departments/EnvironmentalHealth/Pages/Home.aspx.
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May Gurney has been awarded a new framework contract to maintain redundant structures across the rail network in northern England and Scotland.
The contract has been awarded by BRB Residuary, which is government owned and falls under the jurisdiction of the Department for Transport.
The framework is for a three-year period commencing 1 April 2012, and is likely to be worth in the region of £3m per annum. It covers all works north of a line drawn between the Humber and the Mersey including Scotland, and will be administered from May Gurney's York office.
At the end of the initial three-year period BRB Residuary will be disbanded and the framework is likely to pass to the Highways Agency.
Matt Kuzemko, acting managing director May Gurney Rail Services, said: "This success is particularly pleasing as it delivers a core income stream for our own labour force, including our in-house mechanical and electrical capabilities as well our highly regarded project teams. We look forward to helping BRB protect our railway heritage."
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The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (B1)
John T. Unger was born to a family, which was well-known in Hades, a small town on the Mississippi River. His father was the best player in golf, and his mother was good at politics. John could dance really well at the age of 16. He was going to leave his hometown soon, because his parents wanted him to go to St. Midas' School. They were sure that their beloved son deserved much more than education in Hades.
John's mother was helping him to pack his suitcases, while his father was giving him a wallet stuffed with money.
"Remember that we are always glad to see you here," Mr. Unger said.
"I know," John replied.
"Don't forget where you come from," his father said proudly. "You're an Unger from Hades."
They shook hands and John walked away with tears in his eyes. He was already homesick.
St. Midas' is the most expensive and prestigious school for boys in the world. Nobody knew how far it was from Hades, except for John. It took him about half an hour to get there in Rolls-Pierce.
He spent the first two years with pleasure. As all the fathers were rich enough, John visited fashionable resorts during his holidays. He easily dealt with the boys, but he didn't like their fathers. When John mentioned his hometown, all of them asked him the same question, "Is it hot enough there?" He tried to be polite, but this joke made him really angry.
It was the second year at school when a newcomer appeared in the class. His name was Percy Washington. He was quiet and handsome, but he didn't make friends with other boys. He was a kind of outsider. The only person he talked to was John T. Unger. They became friends, but Percy had many secrets. When Percy invited him to spend holidays at his home "In the West", John was happy to agree. He was curious to learn more about Percy's family.
When they were on the train, they talked a lot. One day they were having lunch when Percy mentioned his father.
"My father is the richest man in the world," he said.
"Oh… That's great. I like rich people. The richer a man is the better," John said. "I visited the Schnlitzer-Murphys last Easter. They had large rubies and sapphires," he added.
"I love jewels," Percy replied. "I've got my own collection at home, but it's a secret!"
"They also had a diamond. Can you imagine that?" John asked.
"Sure, but I don't think it's as big as my father's," he answered. "My father has a diamond bigger than Ritz-Carlton-Hotel."
The train stopped in the village of Fish at two past seven. There were twelve men who were looking at Percy and John getting off the train. It was unusual for citizens because it rarely happened. The negro, who was driving the buggy, met the boys. They drove away from the station and John saw a large car on the road. It was the first time he saw such an amazing car. Two well-dressed negros were waiting for them near that car.
"Get in," Percy said to his friend, showing at the limousine. "Sorry, we brought you here in that buggy."
"What a car!" John was surprised.
"This one?" Percy laughed. "It's so old, so we use it instead of a wagon."
It took them half an hour to get to Percy's. The road was very difficult. John could see mountains and he also could feel some rocks on the road. After that he saw a beautiful lake. Finally, they saw a luxurious castle. John thought that he was in a fairy tale, because everything seemed to be so magical. He saw lights from the towers and he could hear beautiful music.
"Mother, this is my friend John Unger from Hades," Percy said.
John was really impressed as he saw the room made of gold. Later John found himself in a room where the floor, the ceiling and the walls were covered with diamonds of different shape and size.
The boys went to the dining room where John was also shocked. Their plates were also made of diamonds. John took a glass of port and drank it. He got so relaxed and dizzy, as so many expensive and magnificent things were around him. He whispered something to himself and then laughed.
He woke up in a big room where he saw Percy standing near his bed.
"You fell asleep at dinner," Percy said. "It was so comfortable and relaxing, so I was sleepy, too. Servants undressed you and bathed you while you were sleeping. You even didn't open your eyes."
"Before you go, I want to apologise," John said.
"For what?" his friend asked.
"I didn't believe you," John replied.
"I know that it's difficult to believe. The diamond is the mountain," Percy said and smiled.
"What mountain?" John asked.
"The mountain on which the castle stands. It's the diamond. Are you listening?" Percy asked.
But John fell asleep again.
He woke up early in the morning when the sun was shining brightly outside. When he opened his eyes saw a negro standing near his bed.
"Good evening," he said.
"Good morning, sir. My name is Gygsum. Are you ready to take a bath?" the negro asked. "Don't get up, I'll bring you there if you don't mind. But first you should unbutton your pyjamas."
The boy thought that he would be lifted like a child, but he was wrong. His bed became like a slide and he rolled down into a bath, which was in another room. He looked around and realized that the bath was made deep in the floor. His head was just above the level of the floor. The whole bathroom the walls of the bathrooms were made of aquariums so John could see different fish swimming.
"I suppose, sir, that we can start with hot rosewater and finish with cold salt water," the negro said.
"Yes, sure," the boy said and smiled.
He was happy to take such an unusual bath. The negro pressed the button and a warm rain started falling and John could feel hot water. Some seconds later all his body was in foam consisted of different colorful bubbles.
"Shall I play some films for you, sir? Comedies or something serious?" the servant asked.
"No, thank you," John answered politely.
He was sure that he had enough entertainment this morning. However, in a moment he was listening to the sound of flutes. The morning was amazing and John enjoyed every second of it.
When he finished taking a bath, he had a massage with different pleasant oils. After that he put on a warm robe. Also he was shaved and had his hair cut.
"Mr. Percy is waiting for you in the living room," Gygsum said, when all the operations were finished.
John entered the room and saw Percy sitting in a chair and smoking.
Percy decided to tell John about his family. His grandfather, whose name was Fitz-Norman Culpepper Washington, became a colonel at the age of 25 when it was the end of the Civil War. He got some plantation and about a thousand dollars in gold. He decided to give all his plantations to his younger brother and go West. He chose about 25 negroes, who were trustworthy, because he wanted to buy some land there. Unfortunately his plans were ruined.
One day he went to the mountains and got lost. He got very hungry and tried to find food. He saw a squirrel and started chasing it. Later Fitz-Norman noticed that the squirrel was carrying something in its mouth. Before it ran into its hole it dropped that thing on the ground. Ten seconds later Fitz-Norman wasn't hungry anymore as he found one hundred thousand dollars.
Fitz-Norman showed the negroes the place and they dug very hard. He told them that they could find many fake diamonds and the negroes believed him because they had never seen real diamonds before. Later Fitz-Norman discovered that the whole mountain was a huge diamond. He managed to sell some small stones in St. Paul. When he tried to sell a bigger stone he was arrested, but he managed to escape. He moved to New York where he also sold some diamonds and got much money.
On the one hand, Fitz-Norman understood that he could become the richest person in the world, but on the other hand it was impossible to sell such a big diamond. There wasn't enough gold in the whole world to buy even a small part of it.
He had no choice but to send for his younger brother and ask him to look after the black slaves. Fitz-Norman was lucky as the negros didn't know that slavery was abolished.
He travelled a lot with two trunks full of beautiful diamonds. He visited the capitals of twenty-two countries, including Russia. He communicated with five emperors, eleven kings, three princes, a shah, a khan, and a sultan. By that time he had about one billion dollars. From 1870 until his death in 1900 his life was like a poem. He married a Virginia woman, who gave birth to their son. Fitz-Norman's brother drank a lot and their lives were at stake because of that, so Fitz-Norman had to kill him.
After his death his son, Braddock Tarleton Washington, decided to stop digging in those mines. He was sure that they had enough money for many generations. The only thing he had to do was to keep a secret about that mountain.
That was the story which John heard from his friend.
After breakfast John decided to go outside and have a walk. He was amazed by what he could see. There were wonderful lawns, lakes and parks. Also he could see some reindeer running somewhere far from him. He enjoyed looking at everything and wandering through some trees and bushes.
Then he saw a girl coming up to him. She seemed to be the most beautiful girl in the world. She was wearing a white short dress and no shoes. She looked a bit younger than John.
"Hello. I'm Kismine," she said.
John was looking right into her eyes.
"We haven't met before," she explained. "You met my sister, Jasmine, last night. I was sick," she added.
"You are really sweet and beautiful. I can see that," he replied. "I hope you feel better today," he added.
They walked along the path. After that they sat upon the moss. He always noticed something that he didn't like in girls, but Kismine was perfect.
"Are you from the East?" she asked.
"No. I'm from Hades," John answered.
Probably she had never heard of Hades, that's why she changed the subject.
"I'm going to school in the East this autumn," she said. "Do you think I'll like it?" Kismine asked. "My father says that there are very strict teachers," she added.
"He wants you to be proud," John said.
"We are," she replied. "My mum was surprised when she heard where you were from, you know," she added.
"Do you spend much time here?" John asked, trying to show that her last words didn't hurt him.
"We visit our parents every summer," she answered.
"You know, I think that you are much more modern than I thought when I first saw you," the boy said.
"No, I'm not! I think that modern girls are vulgar. If you think so I'm going to cry," she said.
"I didn't mean it. I just wanted to tease you," John replied.
"Actually I'm an innocent girl. I don't smoke or drink. I read nothing except for poetry. I dress very simply. I believe that girls should be intelligent and enjoy their youth," she explained.
"I agree with you," the boy replied.
The girl was cheerful again.
"I like you," she said and smiled at him. "Will you spend some time with me while you are here? Nobody has fallen in love with me before. It was even forbidden for me to see boys," she said.
John bowed as he was taught at dancing lessons.
"I think it's high time to go," Kismine said. "You didn't ask me to kiss you. I thought that all boys did it," she added.
"Some of them do, but not me. Girls don't do such a thing in Hades," he replied.
They went back to the house.
Mr. Braddock Washington and Percy showed John around. The elder man was about 40 and his eyes were intelligent and proud. He smelt of horses every morning — best horses.
"The slaves live here," Braddock Washington said. "I made a silly mistake when I gave them baths," he added.
"I suppose they kept coal in them," John said.
"No, they didn't," Mr. Washington answered. "I ordered the slaves to take a bath every day, but some of them caught cold and died," he said.
John felt stupid because his idea was wrong.
"The negroes are the descendants of the ones my father brought with him. Now there are about two hundred and fifty of them. They almost forgot their native language as they had lived far away from their home," Mr. Washington said. "We decided to teach my secretary and two or three house servants English," he added.
"Are there many men in the cage, father?" Percy asked.
His father's face changed.
"One less than there should be," he answered.
"Mother told me about that Italian teacher," Percy replied.
"I hope that we'll catch him. Probably he's in the woods, dead or hiding. Anyway if he survives nobody will believe him," Braddock Washington said. "I've sent some people to find him," he added.
"Any results?" his son asked.
"They killed fourteen people with the same features. I think they did just because they wanted to get the reward," he replied.
They came to a large cavity in the ground. John came a bit closer and heard some noises.
"Hey, throw us a rope!"
"Have you got any doughnuts or sandwiches?"
"Hit that guy, you're with!"
It was dark there, but John could see that those people were Americans.
"These are people who found our castle," Mr. Washington explained.
There were about twenty-five people in the cavity. They looked well-fed and healthy.
"Well, how are you, boys?" Mr. Washington asked. "What are you going to do?"
"We're not going to stay here forever, so give us a rope!"
"I don't want you to be here! I didn't ask you to fly here. You're here because of your curiosity. If you have a solution which protects me and my interests I'll be glad to listen to you," Braddock Washington said.
"Let me ask you a few questions!" a man asked. "You pretend to be an honest man."
"Excuse me? How can I be honest toward you in this situation?" Mr. Washingtone asked.
"Even if you aren't honest, you are human. You can understand how cruel it is to keep us here," the man replied.
"I have no choice. I can guarantee you painless execution, but you don't want that. I can bring your wives and children here and feed all of you until you die. You don't support this idea either. If there was a chance to make you forget about everything, I would do that," he explained.
"How about to believe us?" the man asked.
"Are you serious?" Mr. Washington. "I let one of you teach my daughter Italian and he ran away," he added.
The prisoners got so excited and started dancing and even singing.
"I like when you are cheerful, I don't mean any harm to you," Washington said. "I didn't finish my story. That man was shot at in different places," he added.
The men didn't know that fourteen different people were killed, but smiles on their faces vanished.
"Anyway he tried to run away!" Mr. Washington shouted. "Do you really think that I can trust you?" he asked.
"Sure!" someone answered.
"I can teach your daughter Chinese!"
"Hey, I can also speak Italian!"
"I know some Irish songs!"
Nobody could hear them as Mr. Washington and the boys left.
Mr. Washington and the two young men went hunting and fishing in the deep forests every day. John noticed that Mr. Washington didn't care about anyone's opinion, except for his own. Mrs. Washington was indifferent towards her two daughters. She preferred spending all her free time with Percy and she enjoyed practising Spanish with him. Jasmine, the elder daughter looked like Kismine, but she had an absolutely different temperament. She was fond of reading books about poor girls and widowed fathers.
"Who planned all your wonderful rooms and halls?" John asked once.
"Well, I kidnapped a landscape gardener, an architect and a designer," Mr. Washington answered. "Unfortunately they couldn't reach an agreement when they discussed where a fountain had to be. It drove all of them crazy, so now they are in an insane asylum," he added. "One good man helped us," he said.
It was almost the end of August and John got really upset as they had to come back to school. Kismine and he decided to run away together next June.
"It would be better to get married here, but I think I will never get my father's permission," the young girl said sadly.
"You're right. We have to leave anyway," John replied. "Sometimes I think that we'll never get married, because you are too wealthy. Probably I should marry a girl whose father is a merchant," he added.
"I knew one girl whose father was a merchant," Kismine replied. "She visited us," she added.
"Erm, did you also have other guests?" John asked.
"Oh yes, a few," she answered.
"What about your father? Wasn't he afraid? They could reveal your secret," he said.
"Maybe, I don't know," she replied. "Let's talk about something more pleasant," the girl said.
"Something more pleasant? What's unpleasant about them? Weren't they nice people?" he fired her questions.
To his great surprise, the girl burst into tears.
"No, my sister and I liked them a lot," she answered.
"Do you mean that they didn't keep a secret and they were killed?" John asked.
"Even worse. Jasmine kept inviting them and they had such a great time here," she replied. "I shouldn't have told you that," she cried even louder.
"Do you mean that your father had killed them before they left?" he asked.
"Usually in August or September, because we wanted to enjoy spending time with them first," she answered.
"You killed them!" John said.
"It was painless for people. They were drugged while they were asleep," she explained.
"I can't understand. Why did you invite them?" he asked.
"I didn't! Jasmine did. Probably I should also invite some guests. We are humans and we want to enjoy our lives, " she replied.
"You told me you loved me and you kissed me, wanted to get married knowing that I wouldn't get out alive?" John was furious and shocked.
"I did at first, but then I fell in love with you. I'm really sorry. Anyway you'd better be killed than kiss another girl!" she said.
"Better?" he shouted at her.
"I heard that it was more interesting to love a man who you could never get married to. I shouldn't have told you. We were having a great time when you didn't know. Now you are depressed," Kismine said.
"Depressed?" he asked angrily. "That's enough! You must be silly to fall in love with a corpse!" he added.
"Do you want to tell me I kissed a corpse?" she asked.
"I didn't mean it," he answered.
They were ready to argue forever, but they had to be silent as somebody was coming up to them.
"Who kissed a corpse?" Mr. Washington asked.
"Nobody," Kismine said quickly. "We were joking," she added.
"What are you doing here together? Kismine, go to play golf with your sister! This is what you must do now," he demanded.
After these words he left.
"Do you see? He won't let me see you anymore! You can be poisoned if he finds everything out about us," she said.
"I'm leaving. Now." John said.
"I'm with you," she replied.
"Are you crazy?" he asked.
"I'm going with you without question," she said.
"Okay, we'll go together," John agreed.
His love for Kasmine came back to his heart. He loved her very much and he was glad she would go with him. He hugged and kissed her.
They were walking back to the house and discussing their plan. They decided to go away next night. At dinner John was very nervous and his lips were dry, when he was eating and drinking.
John was sleeping when he heard some noise behind his door. He couldn't say what it was: a footstep or a whisper. He got really nervous when he saw a figure standing by the door. He got scared so he decided to press the button. After that he found himself in a bath and cold water helped him to wake up.
He went out of the bathroom and went to the corridor. In that very moment three negroes appeared out of nowhere. Then John saw Braddock Washington on the other side of the corridor.
All the negroes rushed to John. He thought that probably they were professional executioners. The man in the lift ordered the negroes to come up to him. The door of the lift was closed and all of them vanished. John was alone in the corridor. He was standing still.
He got puzzled because he didn't understand what was happening to him. John decided to meet Kismine. His clothes were wet, that's why the boy was very cold. He came back to his room and got dressed.
John entered her room.
"Oh, it's you," she said. "Did you hear some noise?" she asked.
"I heard your father's slaves in my room," he answered.
"No, I mean aeroplanes," the girl said.
"Probably this noise woke me up," he replied.
"There are many of them," the girl said.
"Why are they here?" John asked.
"It's that Italian who ran away," Kismine replied.
Suddenly all the lights went off, probably there was a problem with electricity.
"Come on!" she said.
The darkness made it difficult for them to find the lift, but they managed to do it. A minute later they were standing on the platform. John hugged her tightly and kissed. Kismine clapped her hands as she could see some flashes of fire in the valley. However her smile disappeared when bombs started falling and the whole valley was in fire.
"Kismine, you should be happy. I woke up because of these sounds. I could possibly be killed tonight," the boy said.
"I can't hear you," she replied.
"I'm saying that we must go before they destroy the castle," he said.
"So many slaves can die. They are very expensive by the way!" she said.
"Kismine, go! They can kill us, too!" the boy said louder.
"We must take my sister, Jasmine," the girl said. "We'll be poor like people in books, right? I'll be free. Free and poor. It'll be fun," she added.
"It's not fun, so take your jewelry box with you," he replied.
Ten minutes later they met Jasmine and went to the first floor. When they were outside they found a path they needed. Kismine knew it well. She wanted to see what was happening in the valley and then went away.
It was three o'clock in the morning when they reached their destination. Jasmine fell asleep very soon. John and Kismine were looking at the valley in fire. They realized that everything was over for the Washingtons.
Kismine also fell asleep when it got quiet in the valley. It was about five o'clock in the morning when he heard some footsteps. The boy was interested to know who the people were, that's why he followed them.
Soon John saw Braddock Washington, who was standing still. There were some negroes with him, they were carrying a really huge diamond. Mr. Washington raised his hands and his head.
"Hey, you, there!" He shouted to someone in the sky.
His speech was rather long, John could hardly hear his words. It was difficult to understand what he was saying, but John tried to listen to him very attentively. Finally, John got it. Braddock Washington wanted to bribe God. Mr. Washington wanted to give that huge diamond to God and promised to bring even more.
He wanted to return everything back. He asked God to make everything like it was yesterday. Braddock waited for some sign from the sky. Then the sky got dark, birds stopped twittering and the wind stopped blowing. God refused to take the diamond.
John ran back to the girls. They had no time for conversations so they decided to leave the mountain. When they were far away they looked back and felt that something terrible was going to happen. They saw Mr. Washington and two big negroes on the mountain. Then Mrs. Washington and her son came up to the rest. All of them bent and opened the door, which led to the underground passage. After that they disappeared.
"What are they doing?" Kismine asked.
"There is something under the ground," John replied.
"Can't you see?" the girl asked. "They are going to blow up the mountain!" she added.
In a second they heard loud noise and they had to close their eyes. It was impossible for those people to survive.
John and two sisters went far away from the mountain and decided to eat. Jasmine gave sandwiches to everyone.
"They smell delicious, don't they?" she asked.
"Kismine, show the jewelry that you had taken. Probably we'll never need money," John asked.
The girl took off the stones and showed them.
"Not bad!" John replied. "They are not so big, but anyway…wait. They are not real!" he said.
"I'm so silly!" Kismine said.
"These ones are fake, just small stones for some decoration," the boy said.
"Perhaps I opened the wrong jewelry box. One girl who visited us gave them to me in exchange for real diamonds," the girl explained.
"Did you take anything else?" John asked.
"No, I'm afraid that's all," she replied.
"We'll have to live in Hades." John said and laughed.
"What's the matter with Hades?" Kismine asked.
"If I come home with a wife at my age my father will never give me money," John replied.
"I love washing," Jasmine said. "I can work in a laundry and help you both," she added. "Do they have washerwomen in Hades?" she asked.
"Of course," John answered.
"I thought it was too hot here so people didn't wear any clothes," Jasmine said.
All of them laughed.
In the evening they were going to sleep. Kismine was lying and looking at the stars.
"I have never noticed stars before," she said. "I thought they were someone's diamonds. Everything was like a dream for me," she added.
"It was. It really was," John replied.
Then they fell asleep.


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Desludging Rates and Mechanisms for Domestic Wastewater Treatment System Sludges in Ireland
By editorJune 7, 2018
This study has produced a set of guidelines for owners of septic tanks and packaged treatment systems to help to address the lack of understanding among homeowners of how their domestic wastewater treatment systems operate and to encourage responsible operation and maintenance.
Identifying Pressures
The domestic wastewater of approximately one-third of the population in Ireland (489,069 dwellings) is treated on site by domestic wastewater treatment systems (DWWTSs), of which approximately 90% are septic tanks. The recent introduction of the National Inspection Plan (under the Water Services (Amendment) Act, 2012) means that records now need to be kept to prove that tanks have been desludged at the recommended frequency. This study has identified major gaps in capacity for both the transport of DWWTS sludge and treatment of sludge at wastewater treatment facilities. Current levels of collection and treatment are between 10% and 18% of the expected load if all DWWTS were to be desludged every 3 to 5 years.
This level of DWWTS sludge collection indicates that most septic tanks and packaged treatment systems in Ireland are rarely emptied and thus may pose both health and environmental risks. Particular areas of the country are likely to be under more pressure than others due to a current lack of facilities to receive and treat the sludge. These areas have been identified in western counties for the most part. Therefore, further analysis of wastewater treatment services in under-serviced areas is required.
Informing Policy
Field studies to measure the rate of sludge accumulation, as well as a comprehensive review of international research in sludge accumulation and desludging frequency, have identified that a desludging interval of 3 years is suitable for septic tank systems bigger than 3.5 m3. Annual desludging has been found to be too frequent and can negatively disrupt the biological processes that develop within septic tanks, resulting in less than optimal decomposition of solids. The maximum interval between desludging for any tank should not exceed 5 years to avoid possible contamination of effluent with solids.
Rates of accumulation should be monitored annually for all tanks under 3.5 m3 and for older systems, which may be in a poor state of repair or undersized for current use, to determine bespoke appropriate desludging frequencies for these systems. Packaged treatment systems must be desludged at least annually and more frequently where recommended by the manufacturer. Current figures for collection of DWWTS sludge indicate that septic tanks and packaged treatment systems are for the most part neglected and incentives are needed to mobilise homeowners to desludge systems on a regular basis, not just when problems arise.
Developing Solutions
There is an urgent need to address the lack of understanding among homeowners of how their DWWTSs operate. This study has produced a set of guidelines for owners of septic tanks and packaged treatment systems to help to address this knowledge gap and encourage responsible operation and maintenance of DWWTSs.
In addition, messaging in other key areas could help to motivate homeowners to change operation and maintenance habits. These include communicating
(1) their legal responsibilities not to pollute;
(2) the health and environmental benefits of correct operation and maintenance; and
(3) the economic benefits of carrying out regular desludging rather than expensive repair works.
In addition, local coordination of regular desludging through organisations such as the National Federation of Group Water Schemes could mobilise homeowners more effectively and result in more economic desludging costs. A pilot project is currently running with this organisation in this regard. In terms of the effects of increased sludge loads on existing infrastructure, engagement with private desludging contractors, private waste facilities with permits to handle DWWTS sludge, and Irish Water is essential to properly address the need for increased capacity in terms of both the transport and treatment of DWWTS sludge.
Source: Environmental Protection Agency
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Why La La Land deserves So Much Love And Appreciation?
Seems strange, doesn't it? A movie, which takes its protagonists on so many fantasy-inspired flights, could actually give us all so many life lessons, and none that would drown our desire to live a beautiful life.
I was wanting to watch this movie since its release, well actually before the release, because I loved the trailer. But, somehow my plans kept on getting postponed, majorly because after the initial reviews, I had decided to watch the movie with my brother, who along with me, is a dreamer and a lover of movies. He could not get time, and at last when we did get time, we reached a bit late and rushed to sit in the hall. I even fell down on the stairs of the hall and bruised my knee, but not my spirit! I was angry at my brother for getting me late and then on myself for not being careful enough, and sat on my seat with a sulking mind, but in a few moments, just like that, I forgot it all and got swayed away by the beauty of each frame that I was watching.
You start watching the movie and marvel at the moments being showcased, at the music being played and at the emotions being conveyed through the eyes, and when you are done, you sit there for a while, smiling at having understood not a movie, but life. That was La La Land for me, and I would like to believe for many, because today it stands with 7 Golden Globes and 14 Nominations at the Oscars.
The real world feels like a cynical fireplace, where everybody is out there to douse the fire of your passions, and in today's world, if a movie can make you believe in the power of dreams, then for me it the most beautiful thing. La La Land taught us all to never give up on our dreams, even if it seems impossible at times, even if you lose the courage to keep going on. I feel we do not choose our dreams, instead the dreams choose us. We may get lost for a while and feel that nothing is worth it, but there is some great amount of power in the game of fate, which makes you chase your dreams and when you get tired and are almost ready to give up, the dream starts chasing you, and you get what you have wanted since the beginning.
And that's OKAY! We all need to understand this one basic thing that people come in our life to serve a purpose, to take us to a point where only they could take us, for we give our everything to them for the love that binds us. But that doesn't mean that, that person would always stay in your life. Circumstances may part the ways which were supposed to be treaded together, but that doesn't reduce the value they add to your life.
For the sheer fact that they dreamt at the first place. They could only achieve what they wanted to, because they dreamed about it. There were changed routes and misguided ways in between, but eventually they did reach the destination which they had in their hearts. And that made Mia and Sebastian smile at each other at that last moment, even if they were not together, for they knew their dreams had come true, and because those dreams were shaped and coloured by each other in their lives, they had love and respect for each other as well.
For such great lessons to be learnt, we feel that things might need to get really serious, but La La Land gave us all of this by merrily singing and dancing into our hearts and that's what made people fall in love with the movie. Well, I did! What about you?


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If the elk moves at least 20 ft. straight toward a target and then hits it with a ram attack on the same turn, the target takes an extra 7 (2d6) damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 13 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.
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Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one prone creature. Hit: 8 (2d4 + 3) bludgeoning damage.


Ask a Japanese person to name the best sushi restaurant and he or she will never name one of the famous places but rather a place near home, where he or she and the chef have a relationship and the dining experience is predictable, delicious and comfortable. Our favorite is Isokan, located in Meidaimae, about 40 minutes by public transportation from the center of Tokyo. We were introduced to Isokan by friends who live in Tokyo and New York and who have been going there for 40 years. The master (pictured above) worked at the famous Kanpachi (hence the "kan" in his name) before setting out on his own in the 1960s. You can see that he is totally at ease and in command of his restaurant.
What makes Isokan special is the food - delicious and rare - and, as stated above, our relationship, which guarantees a relaxed and comfortable evening. All his products (tuna, fresh shrimp, squid, etc.) are of impeccable freshness, but there is more: this is the only place that I (or my more knowledgeable friends) know of where you can get octopus eggs, and his also hard-to-find ainameko (sperm of the ainame fish) resembles foie gras in texture, taste and appearance. The special baked oysters, which resemble Oysters Rockefeller, are exquisite. Sushi just doesn't get any better than this.
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Bobby-J-san; So sorry I missed a visit with you here in Numazu, hopefully next time, where I would be honored if you let me show you my favorite sushi dive--Kagura--chef was in Tokyo for years. Simple and superb. Of course, matched with a Shizuoka sake--Isojiman--topped off in a Nakamura Makoto Bizen guinomi.
I too am sorry to have missed you this trip. I am eager to try both the sushi and the sake!
Can you please share the address of this place? I am a long-time customer of his disciple here in California and will be in Tokyo on vacation at the end of this month.


Poetry, the writer Don Paterson once said, is not like a beautiful piece of driftwood you find on the beach and bring home to decorate your mantelpiece.
You don't just carve and treat the wood. The poet must invent the material itself.
George Bilgere clearly disagrees with this idea. His project is to capture "the hugeness of the moment in all its beautiful ordinariness," as he writes in his sixth collection, "Imperial" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 72 pp., $15.95).
So here are a middle-aging professor's moments. He grades papers about Robert Frost, muses on his long-dead father, travels abroad and kvetches over getting his due.
Bilgere, who teaches at John Carroll University, is a companionable guide to what he calls, a little obviously, "the shared mystery / of being human." His lines possess the easy, colloquial rhythm of prose and the imagist glint of good poetry.
Bilgere was born in 1951 and has entered what the novelist Richard Ford has called the permanent period. All becoming has stopped, and the past is longer than the future, as with so many an empire.
Several poems in "Imperial" set this dilemma on a political stage. The poet travels to Mexico and finds he has barely left home; a drone operator leaves work and shops at a Piggly Wiggly.
These are fine poems, but they feel more like gestures to a theme. The best work in "Imperial" has a jagged intimacy as it investigates, dramatizes and makes beautiful the vertigo of being already past.
In "Norwood," a poem about how one learns to be a man, Bilgere describes watching his grandfather's African-American driver shadow-box in the mirror of the old man's Cadillac.
Yo-yos, sprinklers, ballgames, his father's scotch and cigarette: Poem by poem, Bilgere tours the yard sale of his memory, picking up and turning over items, wondering what to keep, what to throw away.
While his aesthetic leans toward Norman Rockwell, Bilgere's metaphysics are pure Edward Hopper – shadowed, sometimes morbid – a disjunctive gap that lends "Imperial" a haunted, after-image feel.
Even when he is not writing about the past, the instinct to stop time, or make it more elastic, as David Kirby so brilliantly does in his work, lends an aura of pastness to Bilgere's poems.
Many of his poems latch onto a scene, spin it out and then boomerang back to a conclusion by refracting a past experience. If the shape of things is predictable, it does bring Bilgere's work an inherent dramatic wedge. Are we seeing detritus, or is it something worth remembering?
In some poems, Bilgere races the conclusion. In his best poems, such as "Desire" and "Traverse City," one tumbles through the lines to an ending that is surprising, funny or breath-stopping, sometimes all at once.
This instinct to move the reader can become a kind of vanity, as with a charming man who seduces to win. When Bilgere's poems fall flat, it's because he has spent too much time flexing his kindness before the reader's mirror, as he does in "One Good Pork Chop," a poem about marriage.
When Bilgere writes with his observational intelligence, however, rather than his observational self, the results are startling and keen. In "Eighty Yards," the book's gem, the poet watches a young man sprint in a foot race.
The poem is one long, glorious sentence. Manipulating a reader's pace with punctuation, or lack thereof, Bilgere gives us the sense we're not just there -- we're him, watching. Time speeds up, accelerates, and then it's past. "Imperial" reminds us to look.
Freeman is writing a book on American poetry. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review.


In the past three-year and five-year periods, the scheme has given 18% and 15.4% returns, respectively.
In the past six months, the scheme's fund manager has invested in a few companies which fall under consumer discretionary theme.
ET Intelligence Group: Among large-cap schemes which have concentrated exposure to large-sized companies, Kotak 50 should serve as a good addition to retail investors' portfolio. The scheme, which invests close to 80% of its portfolio in top 100 stocks by market capitalisation, has delivered encouraging performance in the past five years.
In the past three-year and five-year periods, the scheme has given 18% and 15.4% returns, respectively, while its benchmark CNX Nifty 50 has given 12% and 11.4%, in the same periods, respectively. There are two factors that the scheme's fund manager Harish Krishnan kept in mind when he chose companies during downturn -between 2011 and 2014.
One, focussing on companies which invested in their assets. This means companies which expanded their capacities through various methods. Two, selecting the companies which were able to cut costs during the downturn. The marriage of these two factors should result in margin expansion and better return ratios. Given these factors, the scheme's fund manager invested in companies from sectors such as auto, auto ancillary, cement, capital goods and engineering, and private sector financing.
In the past six months, the scheme's fund manager has invested in a few companies which fall under consumer discretionary theme and which are expected to bounce back after negative impact of demonetisation fades away. A few prominent companies that follow this theme are Arvind, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise and Sun TV Network.


text:
Rachel Aviv
Chris Strathmann
Strangers to Ourselves
To be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Strangers to Ourselves explores the way psychiatry orients us toward the world, shaping the social roles we inhabit. The author draws on her own experience of being institutionalized for an eating disorder at the age of six and chronicles the stories of others whose diagnoses profoundly altered their identities, among them: an Indian woman, celebrated as a saint, who lived in healing temples in Kerala; an incarcerated mother seeking her children's forgiveness after a period of psychosis; and a man who spent decades plotting revenge against the country's most prominent psychoanalytic hospital, where he'd been treated for depression. The book examines mental illness not just as a disorder of the individual but as a reflection of the communities in which we live.
From Strangers to Ourselves:
In 2016, I went to Sweden to write a story about a condition known as resignation syndrome. Hundreds of children from former Soviet and Yugoslav states who had been denied asylum in Sweden had taken to their beds. They refused food. They stopped talking. Eventually they seemed to lose the ability to move. Many had to be fed through nasogastric tubes. Some eventually slipped into states resembling comas. One child told me that during his months in bed he had felt as if he were in a glass box with fragile walls, deep in the ocean. If he spoke or moved, it would create a vibration, which would cause the glass to shatter. "The water would pour in and kill me," he said.
Psychiatrists considered the condition a reaction to both the stress of the migration proceedings and the trauma the children had experienced in their home countries. But doctors couldn't understand why the illness occurred only in Sweden—not in any neighboring Nordic countries—and only among children fleeing former Soviet and Yugoslav states. As I interviewed families, I realized that many of the ill children had known someone else who suffered from the condition, too. There were allegations that the children were malingering—the illness itself became grounds for these families to be granted Swedish residency—but this seemed impossible; once the children were unconscious, they took weeks, sometimes months, to emerge from this state, even after their families had been told they could stay in Sweden. What began as a protest, or an expression of powerlessness, took on a logic of its own.
My conversations with families and doctors in Sweden made me reconsider the time when I was six years old and hospitalized with anorexia. Until then, I had not given it much thought. It had seemed to me a cliché of an illness, attracting a rather uninteresting segment of the population: ambitious, controlling, inhibited, and mostly privileged girls. But something about the mute, fasting children in Sweden felt familiar to me. I do not mean to equate domestic troubles with national and political displacement, but for an immature child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the forms that helplessness can take. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress may follow, altering not only our interpretation of mental events but the way we experience them. In Detroit, in the late 1980s, a controlling, angry, fasting child from a medically literate family found herself ushered down a path toward anorexia. In Sweden, in the mid-2000s, children of roughly the same age followed a different trajectory, which depended on their ethnicity. In both illnesses, the refusal of food—one of the few ways that a child can make conflicts about autonomy and dependence visible—is given a label that imbues the ailment with cultural and social significance, and, in some cases, an aura of martyrdom. We then make adjustments, conscious and unconscious, to the way we've been classified.
Rachel Aviv has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2013. She has written for the magazine about a range of subjects including medicine, legal ethics, and criminal justice. She was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Public Interest for a story about elderly people stripped of their legal rights. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and the Scripps Howard Award, for reporting about police violence. She was a 2019 national fellow at New America. She lives in Brooklyn.
The grant jury: This potent and timely exploration of how psychiatry, its diagnostics, and its pharmaceuticals have woven themselves deeply into our personal and cultural lives charts completely new territory. Aviv's startling connections, such as identifying psychiatry as a force for colonialism and globalism, or the relationship between racism and schizophrenia in America, are vital; her compassion, curiosity, and deep-seated humanism, irreplaceable. Aviv's writing is breathtakingly beautiful, but even more impressive and moving is her radical empathy.