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The HomeGround Audio Archive: 1978
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I Wanna Be Kate CD
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Kate Bush Fan Podcast – New Episode! A very KT party!
By Seán
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In this episode, Seán is joined by Thomas Dunning as they travel from Dublin to London to attend the HomeGround party in the RVT. We talk Kate at the airport, meet up with the Homeground gang, talk to DJ Paul Thomas and photographer Guido Harari and hear some terrific Kate Bush music played live. And we remembered to record much of it!
You can subscribe to the Kate Bush Fan Podcast on iTunes or on any podcast app you happen to use, such as Stitcher or Tunein or listen below on Soundcloud.
Kate Bush Fan Podcast – New minisode – The Sensual World (song)
Rare photo of Kate performing with KT Bush Band in 1977 surfaces online!
Hi, it truly was a great party. My first time at one of those gatherings. Would it be possible to publish the playlist of the acts here, please? I feel I experienced it all in a haze
Seán,
Looking forward to every episode. Loved the last "full" episode with Tristan from France. As a gay man myself, Kate was the first artist to make me feel like I was OK just being me, and the episode with Tristan reminded me of how much Kate's music made me feel complete. I hope you continue with the podcast as it is a great addition to the forum and website.
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It was great to meet some of you 27 years later. My last HG "convention" was in 1990.
Cool to see new faces as well. What can I say? It was a great night, with fantastic performers, the beer was good (really !), the DJs were great, even if I am not deaf. See you next year !
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Author Ira M. Resnick started his impressive collection of vintage movie posters while studying at New York University Film School. A professional photographer through the 1970s, he founded the Motion Picture Arts Gallery, the first gallery devoted exclusively to the art of the movies. Resnick is a trustee of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and served as chairman of the board from 1999 to 2005. Ira is also a trustee of City Center and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. He resides in New York City with his wife and two children.
As a boy growing up in New Rochelle, New York in the 1950's, Ira Resnick swapped and bartered his way to a complete set of Topps baseball trading cards. Who would have known that years later, he would become one of the world's premiere collectors of vintage movie posters and cinematic art from Hollywood's golden years?
For Ira, collecting movie art is much more than simply amassing cinematic memorabilia. It's about making a close personal connection with the great films, directors, actors and actresses of the past, and helping preserve an important piece of American history.
A lifelong film and photography lover, Ira bought his first three pieces of cinematic art 40 years ago. He paid $50 for a title lobby card from Stage Door, and $35 each for one-sheets promoting Love Before Breakfast and The Awful Truth. He still has all three pieces – but they're now part of what is one of the best and most comprehensive private collections of posters, movie artwork and stills.
Ira's passion for cinema led him to attend the New York University Film School, where he was taught by Martin Scorsese, among others. After graduating in 1971, he landed several jobs in the film industry, including production assistant for Badlands, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. He also served as associate producer for a Broadway run of "Lysistrata," with Melina Mercouri, which closed after a mere eight performances.
Seeking a more personal form of self-expression, Ira decided to turn his attention to another of his passions, photography. So emulating his heroes Edward Weston and Robert Frank, he loaded up his car with cameras and trekked on a soul-searching cross-Canada trip, chronicling his adventure with hundreds of color and black and white photos of people and places along the way.
The photographic journal he created traveling through New Brunswick, Quebec, Calgary, Alberta, Saskatchewan and points west encompasses everything from ice-covered Victorian architecture and stark Canadian landscapes to costumed street performers, farmers, factories and school kids.
Along the way he learned something about himself as well, that photography was more than just his passion, he could also make it his profession.
When he reached the Pacific, Ira turned south, eventually settling in Mill Valley in the San Francisco Bay area, where he discovered a city full of the kinds of art houses and movie cinema collectible stores he loves. There he met Jose Carpio, who ran a café and poster gallery called Cinemonde on Polk Street, which would become a major source of inspiration for when Ira would later open his own gallery.
Throughout the '70s Ira continued to collect vintage movie art wherever he could find it. He haunted flea markets, cinema memorabilia shops and even Sotheby's and Christie's along with many smaller auction houses as well. In the process he created a vast collection including thousands of posters and stills spanning the years 1912 to 1962. In addition to his extensive catalog of official film memorabilia, Ira has thousands of photographs from his days as a professional photographer in California and New York City, many of which have never been published.
By the early '80s, Ira had become one of the world's largest private collectors of vintage movie art. He was strongly motivated to share his collection with others, and to continue expanding it as well. He decided the best way to accomplish both these goals would be to open his own gallery. So on December 7, 1982, he opened the Motion Picture Arts Gallery in New York City, the first gallery devoted exclusively to the art of the movies.
Ira's book from Abbeville Press, Starstruck: Vintage Movie Posters from Classic Hollywood, is a way for him to share his collection and his passion with everyone who loves movies worldwide.
In the book, he guides readers through his favorite posters and stills, providing a personal tour of cinematic history from the silent era through 1961's Breakfast at Tiffany's. In addition to chapters about his own background and the development of his collection, Ira devotes two chapters to "The Golden Age of the Talkies" separately discussing the male and female stars that defined the era from 1927 to 1941.
He also includes a chapter on silent films and stars, explores many of Hollywood's legendary directors and classic films, and devotes another chapter to critiquing fantastic graphic art from little-known films.
One of New York's most enthusiastic and involved film aficionados, Ira served as chairman of the board of the Film Society of Lincoln Center from 1999 to 2005 and remains a trustee. Some of the projects he worked on at the Film Society include the launch of the "Golden Silents" film series in which orchestras perform to screenings of classic silent films, as well as a major film restoration projects and the establishment of a new film center, scheduled to open in 2011.
Ira is on the board of City Center and The San Francisco International Silent Film Festival. Through the Ira M. Resnick foundation, which he founded in 1994, he provides help to a wide range of performing arts organizations, services for the elderly, Jewish organizations, environmental initiatives and other worthy causes. He resides in New York City with his wife and two children.


What about tenants working from home?
Tenants working from home – the number of people working from home has increased to almost one-in-seven over the past decade, with the self-employed running home businesses and employees spending more time being home based, it's inevitable that many of these people are tenants.
According to an analysis of the Office for National Statistics Labour Force Survey, the total number of people in employment has increased over the past 10 years, but this has been outstripped by the growth in people working from home, which now represents around 14% of the workforce.
The trend has long been a concern of landlords and agents letting residential property, as those in the know are well aware that English tenancy laws mean that a business tenant, as opposed to a residential tenant, can claim long-term security of tenure under the Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 Part 2 (Business Tenancy) rules.
When a landlord draws up an agreement, whether it be a lodger licence, an Assured Shorthold Tenancy (AST) or a business lease, in tenancy law the title on the agreement means nothing: it's the situation that matters.
However, the matter has been to some extent resolved recently by the Government reacting to landlords' concerns and acknowledging the size of a potential problem by passing Section 35 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 – see link below.
What the Act does is create a new type of tenancy which is not a business tenancy per se, but a "Home Business Tenancy".
This is a tenancy where the tenant occupies the property as a residential tenant but is permitted to run a home business from the property. The home business is defined as "any business which can reasonably be run from home". However the Act does specifically exclude any business for the sale or supply of alcohol.
So, where a tenancy can be shown to be a "Home Business Tenancy" it will be excluded from the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 and will still count as an Assured Shorthold Tenancy (AST) of a single dwelling under the Housing Act 1988.
The Housing Act 1988 already had some provisions for home working, so long as the tenancy was "substantially for the purpose of providing the tenant with a home". However, as a result of the new legislation, all other forms of home working will now be permissible with an AST under the Housing Act 1988.
Also, the changes do not apply to existing tenancies which could still be caught under the Landlord & Tenant Act 1954 provisions should a tenant attempt to enforce.


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The Toledo Zoo & Aquarium, located in Toledo, Ohio, is a member of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA), and is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), through the year 2022. The Toledo Zoo & Aquarium houses over 10,000 individual animals that cover 720 species. With a large focus on conservation efforts, the Toledo Zoo & Aquarium currently participates in over 80 species survival programs. The Toledo Zoo & Aquarium has over 57,000 members and hosts over 1 million visitors a year.

History

1900–1920: Beginnings

The Toledo city board believed a zoo was required to make the city a tourist destination. The Toledo Zoo began in 1900, when a woodchuck was donated by Carl Hillebrand to Peter Mettler and the Walbridge Park. By the end of the first year, the Toledo Zoo had a collection of 39 animals, which were mostly donated. The park was unprepared for these donations and was forced to use temporary housing such as ravines and boxes for exhibits. In November 1901, the Toledo Zoo nearly lost their entire collection when the winter housing for the animals caught fire. As a result, in 1907 the Toledo Zoo built their first brick building for housing animals, known as the Lion House. During the early years at the Toledo Zoo, most animals were acquired through donations and circuses, and, due to a lack of proper housing, animal escapes were common. In June 1913, the Toledo Zoological Society (TZS) was founded to spur development, with William H. Roemer serving as the first president. By 1916, the Toledo Zoo had grown to a population of 471 animals. In 1922, there was a change to the organizational structure of the zoo when Percy Jones, the TZS president, officially created the role of the zoo director, also known as the curator of the Toledo Zoo & Aquarium. Frank Skeldon was the first curator for the zoo. Jones and Skeldon created a plan and pushed the zoo towards national recognition.

1920–1929: Before the Great Depression

By the 1920s, the Toledo Zoo created its first master plan, which called for new buildings. This plan was based on in-depth study of the eight most successful zoos around the world. The architectural style used in their plan was inspired by the Spanish architecture from the city's namesake, Toledo, Spain. By 1924, they had completed the first building of their master plan, the Elephant House.  In order to maintain funding for the zoo, Jones had brokered a deal with the City of Toledo so that it could be managed similar to the Bronx Zoo. The Toledo Zoo became a public/private venture in 1926, allowing financial support from the city while leaving operations in the hands of the TZS. This change led to the formation of the Board of Managers, which was five city officials and four TZS members. In 1928, they completed their second building, the Herbivora (Giraffe House). On Christmas Day 1927, the Carnivora Building was opened to the public, after ground breaking was done by Kermit Roosevelt. In 1929, the Toledo Zoo completed its last building prior to the WPA Era, the Primate House.

1930–1940: The WPA era

During the Great Depression the Toledo Zoo was able to take advantage of government programs to provide labor.  With the remainder of their master plan in need of finishing, Skeldon, Jones, and Colonel John S. Shelter brokered a deal with the federal government to use depression-era relief efforts to create jobs and continue the master plan. In 1934, construction began on the first Works Progress Administration (WPA) building in the zoo, the Reptile House. Federal funding would only cover labor costs, so the Toledo Zoo had to salvage parts from unused structures. Skeldon created multiple agreements which allowed the Toledo Zoo the right to salvage as long as they cleared the land. In the end, the Toledo Zoo was able to salvage all the stonework, lumber, radiators needed to begin construction of the Reptilia (Reptile House). The Reptile House was officially opened in September 1934, to house over 485 reptiles and amphibians. The same day, groundbreaking took place for the next two relief effort buildings, the Museum of Science and the attached Amphitheater. In July 1936, the outdoor Amphitheater was completed, followed closely behind by the indoor theater in October 1936, and the Museum of Science in May 1938.  As the depression continued, more buildings were added to the zoo. The Aves (Aviary) started construction in 1935, and was officially opened to the public in May 1937. Like other WPA buildings, it was also built from salvaged material, but was the first building in the nation to use glass block for walls.  The final WPA project to open was the Aquarium. An example of creative architecture, the aquarium was built in a curved manner to be the rear wall of the Amphitheater, increasing acoustic viability.  Started in 1935, the building was not opened for use until June 1939 and upon its opening it held many honors.  It was the first public aquarium in the state of Ohio, the largest fresh water aquarium in the world, and the 30,000th completed WPA project in the state.  All of these structures remain in use at the Toledo Zoo & Aquarium today, and it may be the largest collection of these Depression Era relief buildings still in place today.  Additional WPA projects at the zoo included new entrances, the Anthony Wayne Subway, and a wall dividing the Amphitheater from the zoo.

1940–1980: Post-war era

At the end of the WPA era, with the passing of Percy Jones and Frank Skeldon in the 1940s, the Toledo Zoo was ushered into a new post-war era. In 1946, the Toledo Zoo had begun to invest in amusement with a ridable miniature railway. In honor of the 50th anniversary in 1949–1950, the Toledo Zoo launched their current publication, Safari Magazine.  Since 1948, the Toledo Zoo had lacked a permanent director.  It was not until 1953 that Philip C. Skeldon, Frank Skeldon's son, was appointed as the new director of the Toledo Zoo. Under his guidance with the board, the Toledo Zoo set off to launch a new master plan, which included new attractions including Wonder Valley (a petting zoo), more open air "bar-less" exhibits, and entertainment rides such as a merry-go-round and a helicopter amusement ride. In 1953, the Toledo Zoo housed 3,537 animals. By the end of the 1950s, the Toledo Zoo had created new pens, a gibbon run, and new exhibits along the northern edge of the zoo. A highlight was the indoor trout run, thought to be the only one in America, opened in 1959. In 1963, they continued to expand with the development of interconnecting water pools for water fowl and a pond for flamingos. During the 1960s the Toledo Zoo created educational Talking Storybook Kiosks that would play with the use of a plastic key. The 1960s also sent the Toledo Zoo on safari to South America to help celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Toledo Blade. It was during that safari that the staff of the Toledo Zoo were able to capture 75 new species for display. In the 1970s, the Toledo Zoo, in conjunction with the Toledo Board of Education, created a Natural Resources and Horticulture class as well as a class in animal care. Other additions in the 1970s included Cheetah Valley, Monkey Mountain, concession buildings, and the animal care center.  The final part of the master plan was completed with the multi-level sea lion enclosure that allowed for underwater viewing and four new bear grottoes.

1980–2000: Renaissance

At the beginning of the 1980s the Toledo Zoo faced a potential closure. With an agreement created by Jones, the zoo was financially tied to a city in a financial crisis.  Massive layoffs ensued and a staff of 70 was reduced to 24. With a passage of a zoo levy in November 1980, they were still left in the face of probable closure. The levy was for capital improvements only, so the money could not be used on animal care, staff members, or other items needed to run the zoo. As a result, the Museum of Science and the conservatory were closed.  To add to the problems, Skeldon was set to retire at the end of the year, and they had not yet found a replacement director. In January 1981, William "Bill" Dennler accepted the position and became the director of the Toledo Zoo. A proposal for payroll increase was denied and by the end of 1981, the Toledo Zoo only had 15 full-time employees.  With the support of the board members, staff, donors, and citizens, the zoo was able to raise enough money to keep their doors open. At the same time, a study by the Toledo Area Governmental Research Association reported that the zoo should become a private, non-profit organization.  Taking this advice on April 1, 1982, the Toledo Zoo was removed from the Board of Members that was created and handed exclusively to be operated and funded by the Toledo Zoological Society.  The TZS also worked with the Ohio Legislature which allowed them to work on the county level, and be able to add levies to the Lucas County Ballots to help finance the zoo's needs. With these changes taking place, the Toledo Zoo was starting a revival. By 1982, the Greenhouse/Conservatory had been renovated and reopened to the public and the Museum of Science was back in operation. The WPA buildings were carefully restored, and in 1983 a children's zoo was opened. The Aquarium had two major incidents occur during the 1980s. In 1982, the Aquarium caught fire, killing 104 fish as well as destroying much of the building. Later in 1987, a tank had cracked sending 20 tons of water rushing out. Toledo Zoo broke ground on their African Savanna exhibit, which included the first ever Hippoquarium in 1986, and the rest of the savanna opening from 1987 to 1989. Because of the success of the Hippoquarium exhibit and a hippo birth caught on tape, the Toledo Zoo was given an opportunity to exhibit two giant pandas on loan from the People's Republic of China. The panda pair arrived in May 1988 and were exhibited through October 1988. This was the first year that the zoo had over a million people attend in one year. The loan was challenged by the World Wildlife Fund, as well as the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, through a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service. Additional lawsuits followed, but the loan of the pandas remained intact and the lawsuits were settled. This outcry of debate dissolved the relationship with the People's Republic of China, and it was not until 1998 that they allowed another loan of pandas to the US, via the San Diego Zoo. In 1994 the zoo again exceed 1 million visitors with their exhibit DinoRoars!, and again in 1998 with the reopening of the Aviary as well as the introduction of the primate forest. During their regrowth they also created a children's park, a pavilion for events, a catering department, an Emmy Award-winning show called Zoo Today, and re-purposed many of the WPA era buildings. The Carnivora was relaunched as the Carnivore Cafe in 1993, they re-purposed the original Rare Mammal Building into the Kingdom of the Apes, altered the Elephant House to be an events center, and expanded their land across the Anthony Wayne Trail to their now Northern Campus.  In 1997, to connect the two parts of the zoo, the Toledo Zoo erected a pedestrian bridge. The Northern Campus which had previously been parking area opened the Arctic Encounter Exhibit in 2000.

2000–current

After celebrating the centennial anniversary of the Toledo Zoo, the zoo faced controversy after the death of a female sloth bear by dehydration in 2000. After investigation, the zoo was fined by the FDA and was required to put into effect an animal reporting system to better track any issues on animal concerns.  The Toledo Zoo opened the Africa! exhibit in 2001 and a wolf exhibit expected to be finished the following year. By 2003, the Toledo Zoo breeding programs took off, with the births of sloth bears, elephants, tigers, and other animals. The successful birth of the African elephant was historic as there had only been 12 births in the US since 1995.  In 2006 the zoo hired a new director, Anne Baker. By 2007, the Toledo Zoo unveiled another 10-year master plan of improvements for their grounds, which would include a butterfly house, a new children's area, adjusting the elephant enclosures, and renovating and redesigning the WPA built aquarium building, which was estimated to take seven years. In 2010, the Toledo Zoo made more environmental changes with the creation of a SolarWalk, which consisted of a 1400-foot walk way constructed with solar panels to help with the energy needs at the Toledo Zoo. In 2012, the zoo hired a new director, Jeff Sailer.  The year 2014 marked the opening of penguin beach, flamingo key, and other exhibits. It was also the last year it would be known as the Toledo Zoo. In 2015, the Toledo Zoo finished the Aquarium project, and officially changed their name to the Toledo Zoo & Aquarium. The projects at the zoo have continued with the redesigning of the Museum of Science from 2017 to 2019. Upon breaking ground, ProMedica donated $3.5 million to the project.  In 2018, the Toledo Zoo & Aquarium reopened their underground subway crossing during the Lights before Christmas.

Exhibits

Africa

Africa opened on May 1, 2004, and is  large. The main exhibit, the African plains, is  in size. It has artificial termite mounds for the free-roaming African animals, such as the Grant's zebra, greater kudu, helmeted guineafowl, addra gazelles, Masai giraffe, white-backed vulture, ostrich, watusi cattle, warthogs, and blue wildebeest. There is also a  section for cheetahs. The exhibit has an observation deck. The exhibit houses the Safari Railway, which circles Africa! The exhibit also has an African animal carousel. Africa! was built on the site of the original gravel parking lot that existed before the bridge was built. In March 2010, a male baby giraffe named Enzi was born whose father, Mowgli, is another famous giraffe at the zoo.  In 2016, the Houston Zoo needed the African wild dogs for a breeding recommendation so the zoo replaced them with three young, male cheetahs from the Columbus Zoo. In 2017, two female Masai giraffes were born at the zoo named Kipenzi and Binti. In 2017 the Malawi event center was added in between the indoor Giraffe Exhibit and the children's carousel. It is a rentable space seating 900+ people. It also contains a 14,000 US gallon (52,996 L) aquarium housing native African fish, mostly cichlids.

Aquarium

The Toledo Zoo & Aquarium has one of the most diverse collections of any zoo-aquarium in the United States. The aquarium closed in October 2012 for renovations and re-opened in March 2015. The updated aquarium contains 3000+ aquatic animals in  of water, including the largest tank with . The total water volume is nearly four times as much as the previous aquarium. Two new additions are a large touch tank containing various stingrays and small sharks and a smaller touch tank housing invertebrates, such as multiple species of starfish, a wide variety hermit crabs, horseshoe crabs and pencil sea urchins. The renovations took two and half years and preserved the exterior of the Works Progress Administration era structure. This area also includes goldfish, zebra sharks, an alligator snapping turtle, blacktip reef sharks, isopods, walleye, clownfish, electric eels, bichir, southern stingrays, channel catfish, epaulette sharks, cownose rays, a giant Pacific octopus, horn sharks, neon tetras, Australian lungfish, flashlight fish, arowanas, Japanese spider crabs, African lungfish, a shoal of red-bellied piranhas, gar, Atlantic stingrays, arapaima, a giant gourami, yellow-spotted rays, common carp, South American lungfish, discus, seahorses, a wolf eel, as well as jellyfish, leopard sharks, garden eels, and a green turtle named Tink.

Arctic Encounter

The Arctic Encounter includes grey wolves, gray and harbor seals, and polar bears. Two waterfalls and seven saltwater streams are featured in this exhibit.

The seals have  of land and  of salt water. The polar bear exhibit includes  of land and  of water. There is a freshwater stream filled with fish during regular times. A "kids' cave" shows children and adults what it is like to be a polar bear. On January 12, 2015, three more juvenile wolves were added to the zoo after the passing of two of the female wolves. The new male wolves are named Loki, Lobo, and Tundra. On December 1, 2022, it was announced that two cubs were born at the facility for the first time since 2012.

Aviary

Located in the first room of the Aviary are the demoiselle crane, blue-throated macaws, birds from the Amazon Rainforest, and rhinoceros hornbills. There is an Australian walkthrough exhibit where people feed either budgerigars or many of the other bird species in the room. This currently features birds from either Australia, Asia, or Africa, such as Victoria crowned pigeons, Gouldian finches, spur-winged plover, long-tailed finch, red-throated parrotfinch, Raggiana bird-of-paradise, blue-faced parrot finch, kagu, pheasant pigeons, Nicobar pigeon, scarlet-chested parrot, owl finch, star finch, pink-necked fruit dove, thick-billed ground pigeon, Luzon bleeding-heart dove, plum-headed finch, Pekin robin, crested wood partridge, great argus, bearded barbet, violet-backed starling, Madagascar buttonquail, emerald starling, golden-breasted starling, superb starling, and blue-bellied rollers. The children's area includes emperor tamarins, lowland pacas, southern three-banded armadillos, and Linnaeus's two-toed sloths.

The Rescue Roost

The bald eagle exhibit and rescue is located in the middle of the north side pedestrian ramp to the bridge.  The first inhabitants had an injured wing and a blind eye respectively.

Cassowary Crossing
Cassowary Crossing is located near the south-side ramp for the Anthony Wayne Trail Footbridge. The exhibit features the southern cassowary.

Ziems Conservatory
Ziems Conservatory is available year round for guests to view and learn about plant life.  It is also the winter home to the Galapagos tortoise.

Flamingo Key
An outdoor pond area consisting of flamingos, Dalmatian pelicans, scarlet ibises, roseate spoonbills, white-breasted cormorants, and other local native and exotic waterfowl including a mudhen.

Kingdom of the Apes

In 1993, the Kingdom of the Apes exhibit opened. It now holds Bornean orangutans and western lowland gorillas. The gorillas have Gorilla Meadow, which has an area of . The orangutan exhibit has a pool in the outdoor space and climbing structures.
Two chimpanzees, named Fifi and Harvey, used to be on exhibit at the Toledo Zoo. After the death of the chimps from old age in 2009 and 2011, the zoo chose not to continue the chimpanzee exhibit.

ProMedica Museum of Natural History
Opened in 1938 as the Museum of Science, this museum focuses on natural history. The Museum of Science closed in 2017 for a major renovation and reopened on May 31, 2019, as the ProMedica Museum of Natural History. A two-story tropical rain forest atrium that is surrounded by 30 foot trees, bushes and orchids was added as part of the renovation.

The main-level exhibits include Ohio: After the Ice, Rivers & Streams and Wetland & Lakes.

Ohio: After the Ice features dioramas of animals that roamed the land such as wooly mammoths, saber-tooth cat, stag moose, ground sloth, giant beaver and American lion. Oak Forest lets visitors see life from an ant's perspective and features creatures that are hidden such as an American toad, red-backed salamander, ring-necked snake. Rivers & Streams features salamanders, an Eastern hellbender, and a touch tank containing lake sturgeon. Wetland & Lakes features a rotunda of creatures who live in Lake Erie including the common watersnake, sunfishes, minnows, American bullfrog, and Blanding's turtle.

The upper-level focuses on venomous creatures and the exhibits on this floor includes Arthodpods, Hall of Venom, Venomous Snakes, and Komodo Dragon.

The Komodo Dragon exhibit features two enclosures for the zoo's Komodo dragons. Arthopods features tarantulas, velvet ants, black widow, walking sticks, beetles, and coconut crab. Hall of Venom features the Burmese vine snake, Gila monster, false water cobra, Paradise flying snake, ribbed newts, lionfish, stonefish and blue-banded sea krait. Venomous Snakes features such as the king cobra, black-tailed rattlesnake, Western diamondback rattlesnake, Arizona black rattlesnake, Russell's viper, variable bush viper, eastern massasauga, rhinoceros viper and Santa Catalina rattlesnake.

Nature's Neighborhood
Nature's Neighborhood is located next to the Museum of Science. It currently contains African pygmy goats, silkie chickens, honeybees, leafcutter ants, feathertail gliders, a tamandua, guinea pigs, crayfish, corn snakes, cockatiels, rats, macaws, an opossum as well as various cats and rabbits. The structure features are a Play Stream, Contact Yard, and a large playground. The area is designed with child safety in mind, featuring a "one-way in, one-way out" construction.

Penguin Beach
The Penguin Beach was built in 2014 and features African penguins and multiple species of duck including the long-tailed duck, Baer's pochard, spectacled eider and the harlequin duck. This is an outdoor exhibit with a little overhead bridge and an underwater viewing area.  This exhibit has produced multiple offspring since its opening.

Pheasantry
Located from the right of the Historic Carousel and north from the playground, this exhibit was built during the aquarium renovation to house kiwi but has also an outdoor viewing of many birds, especially gamebirds including the Elliot's pheasant, green junglefowl, Berlioz's silver pheasant, Mikado pheasant, Reeves's pheasant, Himalayan monal, Swinhoe's pheasant, and Edwards's pheasant. Non-gamebirds include the North Island brown kiwi, crested pigeon, white-rumped shama, tawny frogmouth, chestnut-breasted malkoha, spectacled owl, blue-faced honeyeater, Chinese hwamei, red-billed blue magpie, crested coua, mandarin duck, lesser bird-of-paradise, snowy owl, fawn-breasted bowerbird, laughing kookaburra, and the Australian magpie.

Primate Forest

Located in the Main Plaza, this exhibit holds ring-tailed lemurs, mongoose lemurs, black-and-white colobuses, Allen's swamp monkeys, François' langurs, red pandas, and white-cheeked gibbons. Located near the Primate Forest is the aviary breeding center, which is home to cinereous vultures, waldrapp ibises, scaly-sided mergansers, crested guineafowl, kori bustards, white storks, capercaillies, and saddle-billed storks.

Reptile House

The Reptile House currently holds 1000 species of snakes, lizards, and a saltwater crocodile. Behind it is a Native Ohio Species Area, featuring natural wetland structures and native turtles such as spiny softshell turtles and spotted turtles. Near it is a raptor barn and at the exit is an exhibit for red-footed tortoises and leopard tortoises. Former species include the Cuban crocodile, Burmese mountain tortoises, Chinese alligators, and tegus.

Tembo Trail

Tembo Trail is located on the south side of zoo and is one of the largest areas within the zoo. Tembo Trail currently features African elephants, hippos, North American river otters, grizzly bears, Tasmanian devils, meerkats, Bactrian camels, yaks, naked mole rats, and a Kodiak bear named Dodge. In the recent past, Tembo Trail has also featured slender-snouted crocodiles, spotted-necked otters, southern white rhinos, dromedaries, and white lions on loan from Siegfried and Roy. Tembo Trail exhibits an Indian rhino named Aashish who was acquired from The Wilds in early 2018.

One of the most famous exhibits within Tembo Trail is the Hippoquarium. The Hippoquarium houses the zoo's two hippos which can be viewed underwater. The Toledo Zoo was the first to have such viewing of hippos and was also the first to film the underwater birth of a hippo.

Tiger Terrace

Located near the entrance is an Andean bear named Nieve who at 29 years old is the oldest recorded female Andean bear on the planet. It also includes Amur tigers, Patagonian maras, and North American cougars. It also holds maned wolves and dingoes that are located near the ramp for the Anthony Wayne Trail Footbridge. Former species have included white-naped cranes and sloth bears.

Snow Leopards

The exhibit features two connected mesh/chain link enclosures. The zoo's breeding pair have produced multiple cubs. A female cub, named Dariga, was born in October 2017. Another female cub, named Babochka, was born in May 2019.

Events and attractions

Aerial Adventure Course
Guests of the zoo can participate in various above ground adventures in Africa! The Aerial Adventure course includes zip lining, a sky bridge, a quick jump, a flight line, and a challenge course.

African Carousel
Located in Africa!, this merry-go-round is filled with hand crafted African animals.

Aquarium
Since the reopening and restructuring of the Aquarium, guests can participate in various interactive experiences including live dive feeding demonstrations, a touch tank and ocean lab.

Aquarium Adventure Trail

The Aquarium Adventure Trail is a newly installed attraction for kids to cool off during the summer months.  It includes a splash pad as well as various other activities for children.

Feast with the Beasts
An evening of dining and animal encounters, the fundraiser also includes an auction and the opportunity to learn more about enrichment and training for the animals. In 2017 this event hosted 137 guests and raised $66,000 for the TZS.

Garden Tours
The Toledo Zoo & Aquarium does tours with their horticulture staff to discuss everything gardening.  They even include various workshops throughout the year.

The Lights Before Christmas

The Lights Before Christmas is an annual event held by the Toledo Zoo & Aquarium which began in 1986, with only 70,000 bulbs, and hosting just as many guests to the zoo. Most summer attractions are closed, but all the buildings and trees are decorated with Christmas lights.  It features over one million Christmas lights, a winter village including an ice slide and ice bumper cars, the Arctic Blast game, a new light show projected on the carnivore cafe, model trains from the Swanton Area Railroad, and Santa Claus. The "Big Tree", an  Norway spruce tree, contains over 35,000 LED lights, and has been honored as being ranked in the top 10 Christmas trees to see. The main show, Dancing Lights, is near Cheetah Valley. It is repeated several times every night. It uses LED wide-angle mini lights that flash along with Christmas music. All this is done using nearly  of extension cords.

Little Boo at the Zoo/Pumpkin Path
This event is held in October yearly for a family friendly Halloween celebration.  There is trick or treating, special demonstrations, and the zoo is transformed into a Halloween wonderland.  You can also see the animals enjoy the left over pumpkins as part of their animal enrichment programs.

Luminous Nights

Started in 2017, this fall event lights up the zoo with over 500 hand-made Chinese lanterns.  It also includes cultural activities led by international students from the local universities.

Medical Mutual Dart Frog Dash
This yearly run helps with fundraising for the Toledo Zoo & Aquarium as well as conservation efforts.  It is a 5K race and a 5K fun run/walk, that takes place through zoo grounds and the surrounding areas. The 2017 Dart Frog Dash had 2,100 participants and raised $62,000 for conservation.

Music Under the Stars
Started in 1936, this summer program features various musical stylings performed by the Toledo Symphony Orchestra.  It has had performers such as conductor Charles W. Roth, Jules Blair, Fred Seymour, Conductor Samuel P. Szor (who in 2000 celebrated his 48th year of Music Under the Stars), conductor Leopold Stokowski and more.

Nature's Neighborhood

Nature's Neighborhood is a hands-on children's exhibit featuring both indoor and outdoor activities.  They offer live animal shows, a petting zoo, climbing equipment and various other items to teach conservation and animal care to children.

Once Upon a Vine
This yearly fundraising event is usually held in March at the Toledo Zoo, and includes dinner and a live auction to raise funds for the Toledo Zoo & Aquarium. In 2017, the event had 135 guests and raised $63,000 for the Toledo Zoo & Aquarium.

Safari Railway
Since moving the train from the south campus to the north, the Safari Railway allows guests an informational ride around the plains of the Africa! exhibit.

Summer Concert Series
Together with Live Nation, the Toledo Zoo hosts a summer series of concerts where well known acts take over the historic Amphitheater. In 2017, over 18,000 people attended these concerts.

Tower Ridge
Located in Africa!, Tower Ridge allows guests of the zoo, to hand feed the herd of giraffes.

Wild about Art
This summer event is an annual art show available to all zoo guests featuring local and regional artists. The preview to this even featured 115 guests in 2015 and the fundraiser brought $15,000 for the Toledo Zoo & Aquarium.

Wine Tasting
Held in the spring, the annual wine tasting event allows guests to enjoy various wine samples along with live music.

Zoo Brew
Zoo Brew is an adults only event, held in the fall, that highlights samples from local Toledo breweries.

ZootoDo
ZootoDo, is one of the most anticipated events held at the Toledo Zoo & Aquarium.  It is a black tie with tennis shoes affair offering live entertainment, house specialties, and more.  It is a fundraising event used for conservation during the summer months. In 2017, the event had 1800 guests and raised $240,000 towards animal conservation.

Conservation efforts

The zoo has several projects around the world working with wildlife and habitats.  Zoo employees run the majority of their research abroad, and often participate in expeditions. Some of the most prominent conservation programs are the Aruba island rattlesnake program, West Indian boa conservation, the Kihansi spray toad program (which served to restore a wild population that was declared extinct).

The zoo has a department called Wild Toledo, which focuses on local conservation efforts and scientific research. This conservation department works to re-introduce hellbenders to their native habitat in southeastern Ohio, release thousands of monarch butterflies for fall migration, rear the federally endangered Mitchell's satyr butterfly, restore native prairie habitat in urban Toledo, conduct research on the spatial ecology and population dynamic of several species of threatened turtles, conduct health assessments and vaccinations of local mesopredators, research the movement and presence/absence of native Ohio wildlife with trail cameras, conduct vegetation analysis on ecosystems around the region and work to support and restore native pollinators.  Wild Toledo runs three summer field camps aimed at 10-13 year olds interested in field research and conservation. Wild Toledo also has several partnerships with educational facilities within northwest Ohio where native prairies are installed and interpreted for students.

The Toledo Zoo & Aquarium also currently works with the Association of Zoos & Aquariums as part of their Species Survival Plans, in which they breed animals and trade animals with other zoos around the world in order to reestablish the population of at risk animals.  The purpose of the trading and only breeding certain animals is to maintain clean genetics as well as be able to control the population.

Current conservation projects at the zoo include the Species Survival Program, Wild Toledo, as well as working in the Arctic with polar bears and the Steller's eider, working with Wyoming on a Wyoming toad effort, Reintroducing the Mitchell's satyr butterflies to Indiana and Michigan, working with Ohio and Mexico on the monarch butterfly, a Cuban boa project in Cuba, the Aruba Island rattlesnake program in Aruba, assisting Michigan with the piping plover, the Karner blue butterfly program in Michigan and Ohio, multiple projects in Ohio including hellbenders, native prairies, lake sturgeon, turtles, and the Kirtland's snake.  Internationally outside of North America, the Toledo Zoo & Aquarium is working on projects involving the Kihansi spray toad in Tanzania, snow leopard in Kyrgyzstan, the scaly-sided merganser in China, the Tasmanian devil in Tasmania, kiwis in New Zealand, and Pacific Island birds.

Accolades and awards

1999
The renovations of the Aviary received an exhibit of the year award from the AZA.

2010–2020
Nature's Neighborhood received an exhibit of the year award from the AZA in 2011.

The Knot.com named the catering and sales department in their Best of Weddings as Brides' Choice in 2012 and 2013.

In 2014 the Toledo Zoo was named the Best Zoo in America by USA Today.  It was also ranked the #2 zoo in America by Family Fun Magazine, and also the 8th most family friendly attractions. Other areas of the zoo also received special recognition in 2014.  The Knot.com named the catering and sales department in their Best of Weddings as Brides' Choice (3rd consecutive year).  In addition, the conservation staff was recognized by Solar Builder magazine, as Project of the Year, as a result of the solar panel array located on the north side of the zoo.  The Ohio State House of Representatives also honored the Toledo Zoo as the #1 zoo in the state of Ohio.

2015 was another active year for the Toledo Zoo & Aquarium.  Their Lights Before Christmas display was voted #2 best Zoo Lights Display in USA Today, as well as being named in the top 5 Most Beautiful Christmas Trees, for the decoration of their "Big Tree".  The conservation team was awarded with the Public Agency Native Landscape Award, and was named a standout in Ohio Tourism from Ohiotraveler.com  The renovations on the Aquarium also received the 2015 Build Ohio Award

The Lights Before Christmas was named the #1 Zoo Lights Display in America by USA Today in 2016 and 2017.

The zoo received an award from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife with the 2017 Wildlife Diversity Conservation Award.

In 2018 The Toledo Zoo & Aquarium was named 7th on Ravereviews.com for having "weird animals" among 50 zoos in the US.  The Aviary and staff were awarded the Avian Scientific Advisory Group Plume Award.  The Lights Before Christmas "Big Tree" also was named one of the top ten travel worthy Christmas trees to see.  The Toledo Zoo & Aquarium has also received the highest rating possible from Charity Navigator.

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Is $38,000 a lot for a single bottle of whiskey?
That is just stupid. No wonder wall to wall coverage of Paris Hilton is on every channel. There is no alcohol worth that is worth that much money, but the public is fascinated by it. The man who bought it should be smacked. The more I think I about it, the angrier I get. Not only I am I mad that someone paid that much, but the fact that some store actually put a price tag on a bottle for that much money. What were they thinking???? "Well, it's really good stuff, let's charge $38,000. Sounds about right..."
I'm counting Bobby as one who believes that $38,000.00 is too much for a bottle of whiskey.
Hey, Bobby, calm down, brother. Here, have a shot.
Getting drunk costs $5. A $35,000 bottle of whiskey had better get me permanently trashed.
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Fire Fauci? What a disaster that would be for Trump and the US
by Michael D'Antonio
With the novel coronavirus killing Americans from coast to coast, President Donald Trump is hearing complaints from some of his supporters about Dr. Anthony Fauci, America's leading authority on infectious disease. If the pressure prompts Trump to fire Fauci, this would be very bad news.
On Sunday, Trump retweeted a conservative who concluded her tweet with the hashtag #fireFauci. And though the part Trump called attention to in his retweet did not directly reference the hashtag, it was enough to raise alarm bells for those nervous about the doctor's standing on the White House task force.
On Monday, Steve Bannon, former Trump adviser, spent the majority of the first hour of his "War Room: Pandemic" show questioning Fauci's credibility and mockingly calling him "Yoda." Still, Hogan Gidley, White House deputy press secretary, denied Trump had any intention of firing Fauci.
It's important to remember Fauci is one of the leading medical experts on the President's pandemic response team and has been the nation's main source of trustworthy information -- though in the early days of the virus, he, too, may not have known or realized the full severity of the threat.
Nonetheless, in the days and weeks since, Fauci has become a strong advocate for following the facts and the science -- even as Trump's slowness to take federal action likely contributed to a rising number of cases and deaths. (Trump's spokesman Judd Deere disputes this, arguing that Trump "took bold action to protect Americans and unleash the full power of the federal government to curb the spread of the virus" and Fauci has even acknowledged that the decision of when and how to act is "complicated.")
That Trump would even consider sharing the #fireFauci tweet with over 75 million followers tells us that even after 20,000 deaths, he doesn't understand the first thing about the current crisis. This reckless act comes even as he debates relaxing the restrictions that have slowed the spread of the coronavirus thus far.
Every human relationship -- personal, economic, political -- depends on one thing: trust. Having misled the American people for weeks on the severity of the crisis, Trump, like so many leaders struggling to battle the virus, wants to bring our pandemic-stricken country back to normal. And many Americans share his sentiment. But the question is why should we trust him to make that call now?
The President began to talk openly about sounding the all-clear signal on March 24, when he said that Easter, then three weeks away, would be "a beautiful time" to return to normal. This musing came just days after he had ceased a two-month campaign of foolishly downplaying the threat -- with memorable one liners like, "We have it totally under control" -- based not on data but on his own feelings. Nonetheless, Trump heeded his medical experts and kept the restrictions in place through the end of April.
In January and February, as Trump repeatedly told us everything was fine, he was really saying "trust me" and borrowing the credibility of his office to win us over. To be fair, every man who ever occupied the Oval Office has relied on the extra perception of virtue imbued by the presidency, especially in times of crisis.
Even some of those who find much lacking in former President George W. Bush could rally around his leadership in the initial days and weeks after 9/11. And Americans of every sort relied on former President Barack Obama to lead us out of the Great Recession in 2009.
Given Trump's troubled business career, the 16,000-and-counting falsehoods he has uttered as President, according to the Washington Post, and the behavior revealed by his impeachment, Trump seems the least trustworthy commander-in-chief in living memory.
In considering the President's potential action to end the stay-at-home practices that stemmed the rise of illness and death, the more troubling factors reside, not in his record, but in his leadership style.
As former and current White House officials have revealed, the Trump administration is an often-chaotic place where the tone is set by a President who has declared he likes having "acting" and not permanent officials in place so he can move people around more readily. This practice created problems in many of the agencies that were supposed to respond to the pandemic. At the key Department of Homeland Security, according to the Washington Post tracker, just 35% of the top jobs are filled.
Trump also has a bad habit of shirking responsibility and blaming his failures on others.
When he says things like "I don't take responsibility at all," when asked about the lack of coronavirus testing, he reveals his problematic management style. Is it any wonder that several weeks after the coronavirus appeared in the US, no one in the White House had taken responsibility for creating a system to obtain the medical equipment that would be needed?
It's no surprise, then, that Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, took matters into his hands and sent a plane to China to buy 1.2 million N95 masks.
In other words, the administration's response -- or lack thereof in the early days -- to the pandemic added to the scope of the American crisis, a fact made clear by Fauci on Sunday. Speaking with CNN's Jake Tapper, Fauci agreed that a faster response "could have saved lives." Fauci, who has said he worries about a second wave of the virus hitting sometime in the near future, has also advocated for a "rolling" approach to returning America to normal, with activities resuming gradually as testing provides more epidemiological data.
A rolling approach to restarting life in America is unlikely to create the dramatic economic boom that Trump has talked about lately. He believes that pent-up demand will spur a fast recovery if only enough people can get back to work. The way he sees it, the economy will take off "like a rocket ship."
And with the general election only months away, Trump could use a rocketing recovery. Low unemployment, rock bottom interest rates and a high stock market were his big first-term trophies -- but the pandemic took them away. It's no wonder that he plans to announce his reopening task force on Tuesday -- an announcement Trump made at his White House press conference on Friday.
The President has promised to stock the new advisory group with top medical and economic experts, but he will make the final call. "It's the biggest decision I'll ever make," he reiterated on Friday.
But this is simply not true. Trump faced much bigger decisions, decisions that brought us to the point we have reached now, when he chose to deny, or perhaps ignore, the truth as the pandemic bore down on America. A significant share of the responsibility for the subsequent illness and death belongs to him, and he has yet to express remorse for the choices he made in the early days of the virus.
Coldly dismissive as this crisis began, the President wants us to trust him now to tell us when this national nightmare is over. He could win that trust by dealing honestly with the record thus far, demonstrating interest in the facts and the science, appointing true experts to the task force and heeding their consensus.
And this approach would actually aid his reelection bid by demonstrating a sense of honesty and seriousness that merits the trust of the American people.
But I won't hold my breath.
Editor's note: Michael D'Antonio is the author of the book "Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success" and co-author with Peter Eisner of "The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence." The opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author.
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Q: Is inverse of Dirichlet convolution unique ? We know that the Dirichlet inverse of the constant function 1 is the Möbius function.
I just want to confirm that Möbius function is the only function which is the inverse of constant function for Dirichlet convolution.
Can anyone confirm this ?
Thank you.

A: The general uniqueness of inverses (as far as they exist) in rings applies.

A: Suppose that $g_1$ and $g_2$ are two inverses of $f$. Then we have:
$$g_1 = g_1*e = g_1*(f*g_2) = (g_1*f)*g_2 = e*g_2 = g_2 $$
Using only the properties of the convolution product.

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NOME, Alaska (AP) – The police chief who led efforts to audit more than 460 old sexual assault cases in Nome is quitting after 13 months on the job.
Chief Bob Estes will end his contract within the next 90 days.
Estes said the department has made improvements but noted the loss of personnel in the last year "continues to be a challenge on the backlog of cases."
Nome officials didn't immediately respond to an email seeking the number of officers who have quit in the last year.
An AP investigation into complaints by Alaska Native women from Nome and surrounding villages showed their reports of sexual assault were not investigated aggressively by the city's police. From 2008 through 2017, data showed 8% of calls about sexual assaults against adults resulted in arrests with charges filed.


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By Megan Chase-Muller
Action Alert: Make Your Voice Heard!
Upstate Forever believes in public accountability when utility companies make decisions that affect communities and landscapes across the Upstate. We support any effort to build public trust in the utilities that heat and supply electricity to our homes.
New regulations proposed last year at the South Carolina Public Service Commission (PSC) would help increase transparency in the construction of natural gas pipelines and use of eminent domain by pipeline companies.
The PSC is accepting comments from the public until January 5th, 2023 on these proposed regulations, and they need to hear from residents and advocates like you to better understand your community's needs.
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Send your comments to contact@psc.sc.gov with Docket No. 2022-360-A in your subject line.
Eminent domain is the right of a government or its agent to take private property for public use, with compensation to the landowner. In South Carolina, state law allows certain natural gas utilities (i.e., Piedmont Natural Gas and Dominion Energy) to use eminent domain for new pipeline projects, even when those projects cannot be utilized by all members of the public.
The PSC essentially functions as a court for regulating utilities in the state, and after (not before) new pipelines are built, the Commissioners review proposals by utilities to raise customers' bills to pay for recently-completed pipeline projects. In short, every natural gas customer — also referred to as a "ratepayer" — is on the hook for paying for pipelines that might not directly benefit them, and may not be necessary.
When pipeline companies notify landowners of their intentions to build a pipeline through their property, there is a wide range in the level of detail they provide, and landowners are often left frustrated.
In meeting with landowners to help them understand the potential environmental impacts to their property, Upstate Forever has witnessed far too many incidents that demonstrate a breach of trust and lack of oversight in the pipeline construction process. We have spoken with landowners who were kept in the dark about the extent of the proposed pipeline, and some who were made to believe they had no option but to hand over their property rights.
Even when utilities attempt to provide information to the public and hear their concerns, a lack of codified methodology can lead to confusing messaging and unanswered questions. Changes to the PSC's pipeline regulations are needed to provide a baseline so that utilities can provide the information landowners deserve to hear in a uniform and transparent manner.
Regulatory solutions proposed at the PSC would address the issues outlined above, in addition to protecting property rights, ensuring community input, and protecting ratepayers from paying for unnecessary proposals. The regulations would also establish a "landowner bill of rights" published on the PSC's website and distributed to landowners along proposed pipeline routes.
Our hope for these regulations is that by clarifying the entire process and answering questions on the front end in public meetings and the other methods described in these proposed regulations, these changes could actually result in a reduction in the number of disputes between utilities, landowners, and ratepayers and build trust among our communities.
Currently, there is no extensive approval process for natural gas pipelines, and cost-recovery remains the only response afforded to the Commission. In the absence of Commission oversight for pipeline approval, our state needs some mechanism for public accountability.
PROPOSED REGULATIONS
Summary of Proposed Regulations for State-Regulated Gas Utilities, Article 4 – Gas Regulations, Subarticle 9.
The gas utility shall file with the Commission and make available to the public the following materials:
A map of the preferred and alternative routes for the proposed pipeline;
A list of the names and addresses of all property owners located on these routes;
Construction cost estimates, including the amount the utility would propose to recover from ratepayers as a result of the pipeline construction;
A description of whether electricity can provide the service that would be provided by the proposed natural gas pipeline;
A study of the direct and indirect environmental impacts from construction of the pipeline, including induced sprawl and methane emissions; impacts on properties protected for conservation value, wildlife habitat, or federally-listed endangered species are to be documented;
An environmental justice study that documents direct and indirect impacts on individuals and communities of color and ethnic minorities, low-income residents, heirs' properties, farmlands, cemeteries, schools, places of worship, and historic sites;
If a public comment forum is requested by a member of the public to the PSC and granted, the utility shall send each property owner and adjacent property owners the following materials by mail no later than 60 days before the forum:
A notice of the public comment forum, providing the date, time, and location; informing recipients of their right to attend and make oral and submit written comments before, at, and after the forum; and providing a postal and email address of the PSC for the submission of written comments;
The Summary of the Rights of Property Owners Under the Eminent Domain Laws of SC
Each of the items in Section 1
At least 30 days before the public comment forum, the utility shall publish a notice of the forum in a newspaper of general circulation in the area of the proposed pipeline.
The period for public comment begins when the utility files with the PSC the materials in Section 1 and ends no sooner than 30 days after the forum, as set by the PSC. Any person, organization, or entity may submit written comments to the Commission before or after the forum.
A transcript of all the utility's filed materials from Section 1, written comments and a record of the forum will be posted on the PSC website.
A Summary of the Rights of Property Owners Under the Eminent Domain Laws of SC shall be provided on the PSC's website, and whenever the utility contacts a property owner in person, electronically or through written materials with respect to the pipeline.
Remember: The PSC is accepting comments from the public until January 5th, 2023 on these proposed regulations, and they need to hear from residents and advocates like you to better understand your community's needs. Send your comments to contact@psc.sc.gov with Docket No. 2022-360-A in your subject line
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Costa Rica is a country located in the narrow Central America. It is well known all over the world for its natural resources, hospitality, democracy and lover of peace.
History has shown that, that due to its inhabitants way of being, the Province of Guanacaste which were part of the Nicaraguan territory, decided to join to Costa Rica and become "Ticos". From this party adventure, Costa Rica acquired a new huge territory, population, hand labor, folklore, new customs and traditions.
Many other immigrants were coming from Africa, and China, but recently, from Taiwan, and Colombia.
A. Costa Rica started to experience the affluence of Nicaraguans since 1972, when an earthquake destroyed a great part of the Capital of Nicaragua, and many people had to flu away from hunger, sickness and death.
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Q: Setting named ranges in a new workbook created from vba is making them local scope rather than global scope first time poster on here (and a novice coder!), so I hope I can explain myself well, as I've been struggling to find an answer to this when searching on the internet.
My company has a very simple timesheet system at the moment that uses Excel, with everyone sending a predefined workbook at the end of the week with a list of tasks that they have done, split by half days (so it could say Friday AM - Admin, Friday PM - analysis, for example). In order to make life simple for the person who has to use all this data for project costs, I have made a named range in the timesheets people use called DataRange that can then be called in VBA.
I've made a workbook that allows her to click a button and specify a directory for where all the timesheets she wants to import are, and after selecting all these, it loops through each one, finds the DataRange and pastes it into a new workbook, one after another, putting Timesheet_Name in the A column, and the date in the B column.
My next step is to allow for new tables to be created using this data. Within the loop a new named range is created that covers all the data pasted in from the timesheet workbook, and gives it the name of whatever is in the A column (so if the first timesheet in the loop was pasted in, the name would be Timesheet_JohnSmith, and the range would cover all of the data that came from the timesheet workbook.)
This all works great, however, I am having a problem in that when these new named ranges are created, they are set to a scope of the worksheet they're in, rather than the workbook as a whole. This means that if you want to use them in other worksheets (which is my future intention in order to create these into new tables), you have to refer to them as (for example, if they were on sheet 1 in the workbook) Sheet1!Timesheet_JohnSmith rather than just Timesheet_JohnSmith.
My code is below, it is the line that says: SummarySheet.Names.Add Name:=setUserName, RefersTo:=DestRange where the new named ranges are set. What I want to know is why it is setting it to the scope of just the worksheet it is in and if there is a simple way to change it to the scope of the whole workbook. Thank you!
Sub MergeSelectedWorkbooks()
Dim SummarySheet As Worksheet
Dim FolderPath As String
Dim SelectedFiles() As Variant
Dim NRow As Long
Dim FileName As String
Dim getUserFileName() As String
Dim setUserName As String
Dim NFile As Long
Dim WorkBk As Workbook
Dim SourceRange As Range
Dim DestRange As Range

' Create a new workbook and set a variable to the first sheet.
Set SummarySheet = Workbooks.Add(x1WBATWorksheet).Worksheets(1)
SummarySheet.SaveAs ("SummaryTest")
Workbooks("SummaryTest.xlsx").Activate
ActiveWorkbook.Sheets.Add

' Modify this folder path to point to the files you want to use.
FolderPath = Worksheets("Summary").Range("FilePath")

' Set the current directory to the the folder path.
ChDrive FolderPath
ChDir FolderPath

' Open the file dialog box and filter on Excel files, allowing multiple files
' to be selected.
SelectedFiles = Application.GetOpenFilename( _
    filefilter:="Excel Files (*.xl*), *.xl*", MultiSelect:=True)

' NRow keeps track of where to insert new rows in the destination workbook.
NRow = 1

' Loop through the list of returned file names
For NFile = LBound(SelectedFiles) To UBound(SelectedFiles)
    ' Set FileName to be the current workbook file name to open.
    FileName = SelectedFiles(NFile)

    ' Open the current workbook.
    Set WorkBk = Workbooks.Open(FileName)

    ' Get the file name to be used for column A, removing the path and file extension
    getUserFileName = Split(FileName, "\")
    setUserName = getUserFileName(UBound(getUserFileName))
    setUserName = Replace(setUserName, ".xlsx", "")

    ' Set the cell in column A to be the file name.
    SummarySheet.Range("A" & NRow).Value = setUserName
    SummarySheet.Range("B" & NRow).Value = Date

    ' Set the source range to be A9 through C9.
    ' Modify this range for your workbooks. It can span multiple rows.
    Set SourceRange = WorkBk.Worksheets(1).Range("DataRange")

    ' Set the destination range to start at column B and be the same size as the source range.
    Set DestRange = SummarySheet.Range("C" & NRow)
    Set DestRange = DestRange.Resize(SourceRange.Rows.Count, _
       SourceRange.Columns.Count)

    ' Copy over the values from the source to the destination.
    DestRange.Value = SourceRange.Value

    'Create the name range in the new workbook to be used for future calculations
    SummarySheet.Activate
    SummarySheet.Names.Add Name:=setUserName, RefersTo:=DestRange

    ' Increase NRow so that we know where to copy data next.
    NRow = NRow + DestRange.Rows.Count

    ' Close the source workbook without saving changes.
    WorkBk.Close savechanges:=False
Next NFile

' Call AutoFit on the destination sheet so that all data is readable.
SummarySheet.Columns.AutoFit

End Sub

A: It's doing what you told it to - which was to add the Name to the sheet, not the workbook. You can just use:
DestRange.Name = setUserName


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