To me none of those questions seem as daunting as "where do we find $2 billion for the red line extension given the transit preferences of the present administration?" The gray line will cost money and require political wrangling (and rationalization of south side bus lines), but no estimate puts the total cost at anything approaching $2 billion, and Metra loses money on this line anyway and should be amenable to the CTA taking it off their hands.
Payne's proposal calls for the maintenance of commuter rail rolling stock on the gray line, but I personally don't see the point of this. Just turn the whole thing into a rapid transit line, running standard subway cars. Build a (non-revenue) connection to the green line somewhere around Roosevelt or McCormick Place with the $2 billion we're saving. Freight trains don't run on the Electric District anyway, so there's no need to maintain its current freight-friendly classification. This might cause trouble for the South Shore Line, which wouldn't be able to continue downtown, but passengers can simply transfer to the gray line at 115th or wherever in the same way yellow line and purple line passengers transfer to the red line at Howard.
The city needs to extend the L south of 95th. There are two possible ways of doing this: spend $2 billion on a red line extension to 130th, or spend significantly less to convert the MED into an L line. The logistical challenges posed by the gray line are nothing compared to the logistical challenges of convincing the Trump administration to give Chicago a billion dollars and change in transit funding.
To put this to a close, I don't know if @mahatta is a sock puppet for the personn who no longer is the advocate for the dead Gray Line, but it is as dead as, say, bringing back the 5 Cottage Grove South Chicago streetcar. CTA never had any incentive to send revenues to Metra, and the last restructuring of the ME schedule shows that Metra has no interest in serving the very few passengers in the city. The only reasons I originally cited the statistics here were that they were in the Red Line documentation and they showed that there were miniscule boardings on the ME in the study area.
Since, as @artthouwill pointed out, the reason for the extension is to move the bus to L transfer points south of 95th, the burden is on you to demonstrate not only that those riding buses between 103rd and 119th would rather ride the ME than the Red Line, but that bus riders from 95th to 63rd would give up the Red Line for the ME. Nobody has demonstrated that so far, and until that is, neither agency has any incentive to pay for transfer privileges or any additional capital or operating costs.
Does my posting style resemble that of whoever it is you're talking about or something? I doubt it.
There's no need for Metra to receive revenues from the CTA for the gray line (or gold line, or whatever) to work. The CTA and Metra are both controlled by the state, and if the state wants to reassign the Electric District from Metra to the CTA it has that power. The question is: should it? If there's any sort of argument that it shouldn't I'm all ears. Metra's desires aren't really relevant.
The reason for the extension is to move the bus to L transfer points south of 95th. The gray line would provide L transfer points south of 95th. There is no reason any commuter would insist on traveling to the 95th red line stop instead of a closer gray line stop. People don't care what color the line is so long as it goes where they want to go (in this case: downtown). Current red line riders from 95th to 63rd aren't going to switch to the gray line (nor is there any reason to want them to), but there are plenty of residents of the lake shore (including, notably, in Hyde Park) who would be well served by the gray line for whom the red line is irrelevant and the red line extension even more so.
We're currently discussing a $2 billion red line extension, the lion's share of the costs of which the city and the state will have to shoulder in the absence of a partner at the federal level. Seems to me that everyone involved has a very strong incentive to accomplish the goal of L extension south of 95th for a fraction of the cost and in a fraction of the time via reassignment of the Metra Electric to the CTA.
It sounds at least as uninformed about government operations, and certainly economics, as his.
There's no need for Metra to receive revenues from the CTA for the gray line (or gold line, or whatever) to work. The CTA and Metra are both controlled by the state, and if the state wants to reassign the Electric District from Metra to the CTA it has that power.
I'll preface this by saying that I once supported abolishing the service boards. The legislature raised the sales tax but ignored all reform proposals. That was before the General Assembly became totally dysfunctional. At least now the service boards are willing to coordinate, but only to reduce overall costs.
I don't think that the state is in the mood to impose an unfunded mandate on Metra to accept CTA transfers, especially since the state is broke, cut back aid to transit, and now is taking a 2% cut out of sales taxes.
If there's any sort of argument that it shouldn't I'm all ears.
Obviously, you aren't. I said before that it is up to the propents to demonstrate that there is sufficient CTA passenger demand to transfer from CTA buses for 25 cents to the ME. You didn't. That is the core economic issue. You said those north of 95th don't need to, but you haven't said why the destinations of passengers originating south of 95th are any different.
Finally, this had been stewed from about 2000 through 2015. I don't know if you are too young to be aware of any of this or how a case for something is justified in a business sense, but if you aren't, you are just engaged in rehash.
Taking the Electric District line out of the hands of Metra isn't imposing an unfunded mandate on Metra. It's taking an unfunded mandate out of Metra's hands, if anything, since Metra loses money on the MED. It's imposing a mandate on the CTA to run that service instead. But we're already considering imposing a mandate on the CTA, the state, and the city in the form of the $2 billion budget for the red line extension, which could be accomplished for cheaper by renovating the MED into an L line. The state is broke, which is all the more reason that the gray line makes more sense than the red line extension.
The passenger demand to justify the extension of the L below 95th street is the entire rationale for the red line extension. No additional rationale is needed to justify why turning the MED into an L line, with rapid transit headways and rapid transit prices, would serve to meet that demand just as effectively as extending the red line. Why wouldn't it?
The red line extension has been stewed over for a lot longer than this, as I'm sure you're aware. And there've been plenty of indications that people are taking the gray line more seriously than they have in the recent past - and my guess is we're going to see a lot more people taking it seriously when it becomes apparent that the Trump administration has no intention of funding the red line extension that Rahm just promised south side voters.
This is my final post concerning the Gray Line, which by the has its own thread (also under Gold Line). As stated before, CTA has no desire to run Highliners nor a suburban commuter service to University Park. CTA has no incentive to compete with itself on the mainline nor South Chicago branches. Assuming that the ME could be converted to accommodate current CTA rolling stock and service (which it can't), that would require an entire rebuild of the ME which would cost way more than $2 billion dollars. And that doesn't include money for fleet expansion. It's dead. Let it stay dead.
And, so do you have the money for CTA to run it? Neither the CTA nor the state has. Again, you show total ignorance of economics.
But we're already considering imposing a mandate on the CTA, the state, and the city in the form of the $2 billion budget for the red line extension, which could be accomplished for cheaper by renovating the MED into an L line.
No. CTA is applying for a grant. I don't know if it will get one, but nobody is mandating that it make the application.
If there are any, post verifiable links to it. 2 indications that there are not are that Hyde Park, which was somewhat behind it, now says it is satisfied with the scheduling restructuring and when the Red Line was completely down, nobody demanded free transfers and few took advantage of the combo 10 ride ticket and 5 day CTA pass.
Finally, as @artthouwill pointed out, there is another topic for that.THIS IS NOT IT. If you want to keep beating this dead horse, do it there.
Assuming we convert the entire 31-mile MED, that's about $800 million. If we ballpark daily ridership to be around 30-35k, comparable to the pink line, that means the line will be using about 50 cars. Let's say they're all-new 7000s (even though there's no need for them to be, since the CTA will have plenty of older cars floating around once the 7000s start getting delivered) - that's what, $100 million? Probably less, given the contract options. I'm just not seeing how this winds up costing "way more than $2 billion."
So best estimates put converting the entire MED into an L line at under half the price of adding a couple miles of new track to the red line.
It'll be easier to find <$1 billion for MED conversion than >$2 billion for red line extension. If you're going to make an argument on cost, that's an argument for the gray line, not an argument against it.
Let's say they're all-new 7000s (even though there's no need for them to be, since the CTA will have plenty of older cars floating around once the 7000s start getting delivered) - that's what, $100 million?
To demonstrate that you are totally in fantasy land, the proponent of the Gray Line had some railroad experience and recognized that only FRA compliant cars, not tin cans, are allowed on railroad trackage. FRA compliant cars cost something like $4 million each.
Also, I really doubt one would be allowed to run third rail down the middle of 71st St.
This whole thing is preposterous.
I've already addressed this point: keeping the MED in FRA compliance makes no sense to me, since freight trains don't actually use it. I differ from Payne in this respect.
The South Chicago branch of the MED is peripheral to the discussion, and it wouldn't cost anywhere near $1 billion to grade separate some track on 71st.
It's plainly not preposterous at all: serious transit analysts have been saying it's the most promising L expansion project available for years. What's preposterous is spending $2 billion on a couple miles of new track that's adjacent to track that Metra is squatting on and underutilizing.
've already addressed this point: keeping the MED in FRA compliance makes no sense to me, since freight trains don't actually use it. I differ from Payne in this respect.
Which means (since you are in no position to waive federal requirements), STRIKE THREE, YOU'RE OUT.
Even if it isn't freight trains, it crosses freight lines and uses the same tracks as Metra trains.
The entire point of the proposal is that the MED wouldn't be a Metra line anymore, and so would not use the same tracks as Metra trains. Elevating those sections of track that cross freight lines is not a significant barrier to the proposal.
What exactly is the source of your opposition to a project that every independent transit analyst thinks is a no-brainer?
So, your harebrained proposal is to double level the MED right of way, sort of what is proposed for the extension, but 20 miles instead of 4? Or are you going to lay third rail on ME right of way?
If you had read what I posted above you would know.
that every independent transit analyst thinks is a no-brainer?
One, that's your assertion, and second, something that you say would cost $1 billion, but probably $4 billion, and HAS NO SOURCE OF FUNDING for capital, and certainly none for operating, which you totally ignore.
If you say that the independent transit authorities back this, post verifiable studies from them that back up the cost and revenue estimates and provide a source of funding. You can't, and I won't take your word for this assertion.
There is no need to double level MED right of way except where necessary to avoid freight trackage. Laying third rail would seem the optimal proposal to me, since using L cars instead of commuter rail rolling stock would drastically reduce operating costs.
People have been talking about this for years. It's a good idea. The problem is getting Metra to surrender the line to the CTA, which is going to require action at the level of the state government. In the past that's seemed like an insurmountable obstacle, but it's not any more insurmountable than getting the Trump administration to fork over $1 billion for a few red line stops. The problem with the proposal is not that it's too expensive or too difficult to engineer, since it's neither of those things - certainly not compared to the red line extension, which is the alternative.
At least you posted something, but something I saw about 5 years ago, and which has 12 year old ridership figures, and which no one has moved on. That process got "derailed" on designing new stations and stuff.
Also, it doesn't support your cost estimates, because page 32 says it studied "Gray Line (all MED service);" Only things it studies that were different were on the South Chicago branch, which you disclaimed. The only thing I would consider feasible is converting the South Chicago branch to LRT, but that report says "Given the current financial condition of CTA, this seems highly unlikely. In addition, it is expected that a share of the ridership would come from existing CTA services that might not be able to be substantially reduced or terminated.": In short, not a no brainer. You think your project is any easier?
At a minimum, in 2018 (not 2006) someone would have to study what the effect of the recent service changes were, which gave Hyde Park 20 minute offpeak service.
Yes, I understand that, which is why I said "which would cover about half of the MED track length." So double the figure. Add a couple hundred million to it for good measure. It's still a lot cheaper than the red line extension.
I never disclaimed the South Chicago branch, I simply said it was peripheral to the proposal, which it is.
Giving Hyde Park more frequent offpeak service is a nice perk, but the main draw of the gray line is that it lets the L reach south of 95th for a fraction of the cost of the red line extension. Benefits north of 95th are just gravy, they're not the point of the proposal.
Right now the city has decided it needs to extend the L south of 95th. It estimates the red line extension will cost $2 billion. Converting the MED to rapid transit service would cost much less, be a lot quicker, and have benefits further up the track. So long as we're talking about extending the L past 95th, the gray line is indeed a no-brainer.
but the main draw of the gray line is that it lets the L reach south of 95th for a fraction of the cost of the red line extension. Benefits north of 95th are just gravy, they're not the point of the proposal.
That's not what its proponent claimed. He claimed it was to bring economic development to Chatham, which is 79th St. If your only concern is south of 95th, the cheapest way to do that is to convert 108 to BRT, something which was originally proposed for this project, and might be a subject of the S. Halsted Coordination Project. Certainly much less expensive than your convoluted proposal.
You repeating "no brainer" only reflects on yourself.
I'm not Payne, I can't speak to why he chose to hinge his argument on economic development in Chatham.
The cheapest way to do anything is BRT. The city has decided BRT isn't sufficient, and that the far south side needs an L line. Maybe that's the wrong decision on the merits, but scaling back the red line extension to BRT isn't going to fly politically. The choice is to either expand the red line, or to convert the MED into an L line. The latter is much cheaper and quicker to implement.
Do you have any actual arguments as to why the red line extension is better, on the merits of the policy, than turning the MED into an L line? Nothing you've said so far makes sense as a criticism of the gray line proposal as opposed to the red line extension. You're perfectly within your rights to oppose both the gray line and the red line extension, but if you want to argue that the red line extension is better public policy you're going to have to give actual reasons.
The latter is much cheaper and quicker to implement.
Not the way you designed it, with the need to build overpasses and wait for 2600 series cars to come off the Blue Line, or 7000s after the Blue, Orange and Brown Lines are reequipped. So, your project can't be completed until 2026, either.
You're perfectly within your rights to oppose both the gray line and the red line extension, but if you want to argue that the red line extension is better public policy you're going to have to give actual reasons.
Now, you are certainly dealing in strawmen. Why don't you ask Emanuel about that???????? As I said, it is up to the proponents of anything to justify them. You are the proponent of this mess; the burden is on you, not me.
You have not given any source for the additional operating costs CTA would have to assume, and why it would want to assume them or why the legislature should stick that burden on CTA.
Last I checked, the 7000s were supposed to start arriving in 2020, not 2026.
How many overpasses can you build for a billion dollars? Hundreds? How many are needed? Three or four? This doesn't seem like a serious complaint.
The green line is barely 1000 feet from the MED south of the Loop. Connecting the two would cost in the tens of millions of dollars, assuming a cost of about $250 million per mile of elevated track. Non-issue.
The proposal relieves bus congestion at 95th because everyone who lives closer to an MED stop than to 95th will simply get on the gray line, or a bus to the closest gray line stop, instead of a bus to 95th. It may not alleviate bus congestion to the same extent as extending the red line, but the 95th station is adding capacity as we speak.
The legislature should stick the burden of the additional operating costs on the CTA because it's a more efficient way of providing L service south of 95th than extending the red line would be. Adding lines of service always adds additional operating costs. If the ridership is high enough, the operating costs become worth it. The gray line will be guaranteed to have more ridership than the pink line (the MED, with its lackadaisical headways, already matches the pink line), and could rival the orange line - are you suggesting the CTA eliminate those lines to save on their operating costs? Don't be preposterous.
The advantages of the gray line are numerous: it's cheaper to build than the red line extension, it's quicker to build, it's less reliant on the largess of the Trump administration, it'll serve neighborhoods north of 95th that the red line extension won't touch. The disadvantages, as far as I can tell, start and end with the notion that operating costs would be higher than they would be on the newly-expanded red line. Yeah, they would be. Who cares? If the CTA thinks the pink line is worth its operating costs, which it clearly does, why are the operating costs of the gray line a dealbreaker? And the gray line, unlike the red line extension, allows for the complete elimination of various redundant bus routes along Lake Shore Drive.
Start, not finish. So people riding the Blue Line are supposed to be screwed pending your fiasco?
The proposal relieves bus congestion at 95th because everyone who lives closer to an MED stop than to 95th will simply get on the gray line, or a bus to the closest gray line stop, instead of a bus to 95th.
An assumption you made without any verifiable customer research (you are assuming that those passengers are not going to destinations other than Hyde Park or Michigan Ave., and hence don't want Red Line service), and therefore rejected.
The legislature should stick the burden of the additional operating costs on the CTA because it's a more efficient way of providing L service south of 95th than extending the red line would be.
Not unless THERE IS A SOURCE OF THE MONEY OR A SUFFICIENT OFFSET FROM CURRENT OPERATING COSTS TO PAY FOR IT. No more pop tax justification of "we need more revenue."
In that it is "more efficient" isn't correct either. How is operating a 15 mile extension to serve people south of 95th more efficient than operating a 4 mile one?
Again where is your verifiable ridership numbers?
As noted above, it isn't.
Even if one believes that Trump is going to last that long, it still will need to go through the same funding process, including documentation of costs and projected ridership and benefits. Do you think anyone is going to hand out a grant without documentation?
As for the Pink Line, it got a grant about 20 years ago, so unless you can prove that the feds would accept a similar application today, that's up to you. The choice then was either fix it or close it. This doesn't offer the same dilemma. So, again you have posed another strawman not worth answering.
it'll serve neighborhoods north of 95th that the red line extension won't touch.
I thought you disclaimed that purpose. YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. Besides, they already have Red Line service.
Yeah, they would be. Who cares?
The bleeping TAXPAYERS care. You want the RTA tax increased a couple of more points?
And the gray line, unlike the red line extension, allows for the complete elimination of various redundant bus routes along Lake Shore Drive.
Again, that's not your justification. I had said way back that CTA would have to eliminate the 14 bus and construct a transfer station at 71st to get any savings. The residents of South Shore, and the report to which you linked, indicated that they didn't want that.
First tranche of 7000s delivered October 2020, 10 cars per month delivered thereafter. Assuming the gray line will require 50 cars (same as the pink line), the CTA would have enough to commence full operations February 2021. That's still not 2026.
The rest of your complaints seem to evince a worldview that's fundamentally opposed to the very concept of expanding rapid transit. The red line extension will cost more up front than turning the MED into an L line. This has been credibly demonstrated. If your concern is upfront cost, the gray line is a better solution.
If your concern is exclusively the CTA's operating budget, then yes, it makes more sense to spend $1 billion more upfront to build the red line extension. But there's no reason to focus myopically on operating budget. The gray line costs less up front, takes less time, and serves more of the city. In any event, Cambridge Systematics estimated the gold line would cost $60 million per year to operate. So maybe in ten to fifteen years the gray line will have cost more money to operate than it would have cost to extend the red line (after taking into account additional revenue from converts from Metra to the CTA, money saved eliminating bus lines, and the red line extension's own operating costs), but by that logic the CTA should have never built the orange line either. Maybe you would actually agree that the CTA shouldn't have built the orange line, but that's a pretty eccentric stance and well outside of the mainstream of Chicago politics. Expanding a transit network adds to that network's operating costs. That's normal and fine.
I can have it both ways, easily. The gray line's primary purpose is to extend the L past 95th, which is a goal the city has already committed itself too. It does this more efficiently than the red line extension. Unlike the red line extension, however, it has additional benefits for people who live north of 95th.
Yes, I want all state and local taxes increased (and a proportional income tax implemented). The state is undertaxed, which is why it's broke. But if your concern is the taxpayers' dollars, there's no reason for you to be supporting the more expensive red line extension over the less expensive gray line conversion. Even if Illinois and Chicagoland don't raise taxes a penny, the gray line still makes more financial sense than the red line extension.
Edit: Even assuming no revenue connection to the red/green/orange lines and the Loop elevated at Roosevelt (which, again, would be trivial to construct), how long does it take to access the red line from Millennium Station via the pedway? Four minutes? This is another non-issue.
The state is undertaxed, which is why it's broke. But if your concern is the taxpayers' dollars, there's no reason for you to be supporting the more expensive red line extension over the less expensive gray line conversion.
Illinois isn't undertaxed & the state isn't broke because of taxes. Illinois taxes are far too high now, especially when you take into account the obscene local real estate taxes we have to pay & the even worse, corruption tax we pay, because Illinois is without a doubt the most corrupt state in the country! Illinois is broke because of that insane pension clause which prevents government pensions from being adjusted when the state's finances are bad, due to either downturns in the economy, people & companies leaving the state for greener pastures, but in this case, having to pay defined benefit pensions at a mandatory 3% COLA increase every year, even when Social Security has a COLA of zero!
We also have too damned many government employees. If you don't believe that, go to any of the large Secretary of State offices for driver's licenses & car registrations, where there are dozens just pushing paper. Then we have 7,000 units of government, more than California & Texas combined, which have about four times the population than Illinois.
The other states with pension problems don't have this clause. And it was the four Democrats on the state supreme court which has ruled every attempt to modify the pensions unconstitutional. The fact that they have an inherent conflict of interest in the case, due to the fact that they too will get state pensions, apparently doesn't bother them.
No, my world view is that someone (including @mahatta)who has only assumptions ("Assuming....") thinks he can convince anyone by not having a plan, but arguing all over the place. Where the bleep did you get your 50 car "assuming"?
Here's essentially what I told Mike Payne: If business people really support it: HAVE THEM TEACH YOU HOW TO WRITE A BUSINESS PLAN FOR IT. And for you: HAVE SOMEONE TEACH YOU HOW TO WRITE A BUSINESS PLAN FOR IT. Here's even a link. You'll need to do market research for it, too.


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Album Review – Mustasch / A Final Warning – Chapter One EP (2021)
Posted on May 10, 2021 by Gustavo Scuderi
Celebrating 20 years since their first record was released, these Swedish rockers are inviting us all to hit the dance floor to the sound of their new EP.
With their straightforward and uncompromising attitude, Gothenburg, Sweden-based Heavy Metal/Hard Rock squad Mustasch is ready to celebrate 20 years since their first record was released now in 2021 with two new EP's, the first being A Final Warning – Chapter One, followed by A Final Warning – Chapter Two (to be released in October). Comprised of Ralf Gyllenhammar on vocals and guitar, David Johannesson on lead guitar, Stam Johansson on bass and Robban Bäck on drums, Mustasch started way back in 1998 and have quickly become one of the most important Hard Rock bands of the Swedish scene, provoking many and having their music loved by many more, leading the band to win two Swedish Grammys so far in their career. In A Final Warning – Chapter One, the band sounds more incendiary and melodic than ever, offering fans 20 minutes of pure Mustasch and, therefore, leaving us all eager for the second part of their celebrations later this year.
Without further ado, it's time to ignite your rockin' engines to the sound of the sharp riffs by Ralf and David and the rumbling bass by Stam in A Final Warning, blending the heaviness of classic Hard Rock with modern nuances and epic background effects, whereas going back to the golden years of pure Heavy Metal the quartet fires the metallic extravaganza Contagious, where Robban kicks some ass on drums while Ralf declaims the song's lyrics with tons of energy and aggressiveness. Then investing in a more modern version of Hard Rock and Rock N' Roll we have Albert Einstein, again showcasing classic, in-your-face guitar riffs while Ralf delivers a mix of System Of a Down and The Cult through his enraged vocals. Stam's bass brings the groove to the dancing and sexy You Are Killing Me, and you better get ready to bang your heads nonstop together with the quartet as Ralf steals the spotlight on vocals accompanied by Robban's crushing beats; followed by Searching for Long Range Communication, sounding as if it was taken from a 70's action movie. In other words, it's sheer Rock N' Roll with Stam and Robban jamming like there's no tomorrow until the melancholic and smooth outro To Be Continued puts an end to the EP.
You can hit the dance floor by listening to the full EP on Spotify, but of course in order to show your support to the guys from Mustasch you should purchase your copy of the EP from the Sound Pollution webstore, from Napalm Records, from Season of Mist, from Apple Music or from Amazon. In addition, don't forget to follow those unstoppable Swedish rockers on Facebook and on Instagram, getting to know more about the band and warming up your senses for their upcoming EP. Will Mustach outdo themselves in the next chapter of A Final Warning? Stay tuned for the wild conclusion this October, my friends!
Best moments of the album: Contagious and You Are Killing Me.
Worst moments of the album: None.
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1. A Final Warning 5:03
2. Contagious 3:01
3. Albert Einstein 3:25
4. You Are Killing Me 3:52
5. Searching for Long Range Communication 3:49
6. To Be Continued 1:28
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David Johannesson – lead guitar
Stam Johansson – bass
Robban Bäck – drums
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A golden replacement
(Nanowerk News) The appearance of metals, such as their shiny surface or their electrical conductivity, is determined by the ensemble of atoms that comprise the metal. The situation differs on the molecular scale, and KAUST researchers have shown that replacing a single atom in a cluster of 25 silver atoms with one gold atom fundamentally changes its properties (Angewandte Chemie International Edition, "Templated Atom-Precise Galvanic Synthesis and Structure Elucidation of a [Ag25(SR)18]- Nanocluster").
Composing a silver nanocrystal: the center silver atom (a) surrounded by a cage of 12 other silver atoms (b) embedded by further atoms (c) and stabilized by further ligands (d). (© Wiley)
Metal atom nanoclusters are made from a core of a few metal atoms surrounded by a protective shell of stabilizing ligands. Nanoclusters come in different sizes, but each stable variation of nanoclusters has exactly the same number of metal atoms. This leads to very controllable properties, noted Osman Bakr, KAUST associate professor of material science and engineering and leader of the research team.
"Nanoclusters have unique arrangements of atoms and size-dependent absorption, fluorescence, electronic and catalytic properties," he said.
A popular metal nanocluster is [Ag25(SR)18]-, which consists of of 25 silver atoms. This nanocluster is unique as it corresponds to a gold nanocluster that has exactly the same number of atoms. Both clusters have different properties due to the different metal used. To understand how exactly the atomic composition affects these properties, the researchers replaced a single silver atom with gold.
Replacing a single atom in a nanocluster is a difficult task. Direct chemical methods can be used, but these give little control over how many atoms are replaced, making it difficult to ascribe particular properties to the nanocluster structure.
Instead, the researchers used a galvanic replacement process that relies on difference in the electrochemical potential between the incoming and outgoing atoms to induce atomic replacements. To their surprise, the process produced a reliable and precise atomic exchange in which only the center silver atom is replaced by gold.
The replacement yielded dramatic changes in the nanocluster. A solution of the silver nanoclusters appears orange, whereas after the replacement of the central atom the color turns dark green.
This indicates more fundamental changes in properties, Bakr said. "The ambient stability and fluorescence of the nanocluster were enhanced by a factor of 25 as a result of this single atom replacement. Furthermore, we are now able to demonstrate the importance of a single atom impurity on nanoparticles and modulate the properties at the single atom level," he noted.
The reliable replacement of only a single gold atom opens the door to a more systematic investigation of metal nanoclusters, which can help to uncover the mechanisms of the chemical and physical changes arising from the replacement.
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Writ Petition (Art. 227) No. 5068 of 2008. Case: The Himalaya Drugs Company Trademark/Registered Trade Mark-M.M.I. Corporation Licence Users and Ors. Vs Shalaj Nathaniel. Chhattisgarh High Court
Case Number Writ Petition (Art. 227) No. 5068 of 2008
Counsel For Appellant: Parag Kotecha, Advocate and For Respondents: Harsh Wardhan, Advocate
Judges Sanjay K. Agrawal, J.
Issue Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC) - Order XIV Rules 14, 2, 5; Constitution of India - Articles 136, 226, 227; Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 - Section 10
Court Chhattisgarh High Court
Sanjay K. Agrawal, J.
Invoking the jurisdiction of this Court under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, the petitioners herein who are a pharmaceutical industry and its officers have questioned the order dated 4-3-2008 passed by the Labour Court, Bilaspur by which the Labour Court has declined to adjudicate the preliminary objection and directed it to be adjudicated at the time of final hearing and further, questioned the order dated 14-7-2008 by which the application under Order 14 Rule 5 of the CPC for framing additional issue, has been rejected finding no merit.
Mr. Parag Kotecha, learned counsel for the petitioners, would submit that the orders passed by the Labour Court rejecting the application for preliminary objection as well as rejecting the application for framing additional issue, are unjustified, as the respondent is not Medical Representative and is not workman, as such duly covered by the decision rendered by the Supreme Court in the matter of H.R. Adyanthaya etc. etc. v. Sandoz (India) Ltd. etc. etc. AIR 1994 SC 2608. Therefore, the impugned orders be set aside and the matter be remitted to the trial Court for framing issue and deciding that issue as preliminary issue.
Mr. Harsh Wardhan, learned counsel for the respondent, however, would support the impugned orders.
I have heard learned counsel for the parties and considered their rival submissions and also gone through the documents available on record with utmost circumspection.
The appropriate Government finding the industrial dispute between the workman and the employer, by its order dated 9-1-2007 directed the dispute to be adjudicated by the Labour Court and referred the question as to whether it is legal and appropriate to suspend the services of respondent workman Shalaj Nathaniel without giving compensation and prior notice and if not, then what help the individual must liable to get and what direction should be given to the employer in this respect.
The petitioner employer filed statement of claim and thereafter, during the pendency of said dispute made an amendment incorporating para 8(a) in its statement of claim that the petitioner is a pharmaceutical industry and the respondent was employed as sales promotion employee and in that case, the Sales Promotion Employees (Conditions of Service) Act, 1976 is applicable and therefore, the case is not maintainable and deserves to be dismissed. Immediately thereafter, the petitioner Company also filed a preliminary objection on 10-12-2007 that the objection is not maintainable and therefore suspending the preliminary objection the case be closed and also filed an application under Order 14 Rule 5 of the CPC for faming the issue as to whether the respondent is a workman under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 and whether the application is barred by law.
The Labour Court by its impugned orders rejected both the applications finding no merit holding that in the schedule referred by the appropriate Government the question is already covered by the dispute referred by the appropriate Government and there is no need to frame additional issue against which this writ petition has been preferred.
At this stage, it would be appropriate to notice the object of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 for which it is enacted as highlighted by Their Lordships of the Supreme Court in the matter of S.K. Verma v. Mahesh Chandra and another (1983) 4 SCC 214 as follows:-
"5. It is trite to say that Industrial Disputes Act is a legislation intended to bring about peace and harmony between labour and management in all industry and for that purpose, it makes provision for the investigation and settlement of industrial disputes. It is, therefore, necessary to interpret the definitions of 'industry', 'workman', 'industrial dispute', etc. so as not to whittle down, but to advance the object of the Act. Disputes between the forces of labour and management are not to be excluded from the operation of the Act by giving narrow and restricted meanings to expressions...


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**Fine Art: "Art that is primarily concerned with the creation of beautiful objects, most often for the purpose of adorning the walls of homes, offices, and museums."
Acid: Acid can cause damage to artwork over time such as discoloration and yellowing. Always acquire artwork which has used acid-free mediums. More Info
Aesthetic: Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.
Alchemic Knowledge: Artists with alchemic knowledge have the ability to infuse any of the 7 metals into their work to create metallic finishes rich in color and symbolism coherent with the mind, spirit, and soul. More Info
Ambiguity: The quality of being open to more than one interpretation.
Ambivalence: The state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.
Analogy: A thing which is comparable to something else in significant respects.
Arcane: Secretive, understood by few.
Art: A diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artworks, expressing the author's imaginative, conceptual ideas, or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.
Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher. "The World As Will & Representation" 1818.
Audacious: Taking bold risks.
Augmented Reality: A technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user's view of the real world, thus providing a composite view.
Balance: A state of equalized tension and equilibrium, which may not always be calm.
-Symmetry
–Asymmetrical balance produces an informal balance that is attention attracting and dynamic.
-Radial balance is arranged around a central element. The elements placed in a radial balance seem to 'radiate' out from a central point in a circular fashion.
-Overall is a mosaic form of balance which normally arises from too many elements being put on a page. Due to the lack of hierarchy and contrast, this form of balance can look noisy but sometimes quiet.
Brazen: Bold and without shame. Made of brass.
Ceramics: Pots and other articles made from clay hardened by heat.
Carl Linnaeus: Organized all living organisms into kingdoms.
Charles Baudelaire: Poet "Correspondences".
Color: The element of art that is produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye
Composition: A work of music, literature, or art. The placement or arrangement of visual elements or 'ingredients' in a work of art, as distinct from the subject. It can also be thought of as the organization of the elements of art according to the principles of art.
Continuation: The sense of having a line or pattern extend.
David Brewster: Memoirs of Newton 1860.
Disparate: Essentially different in kind; not allowing comparison.
Dominance: Contrasting size, positioning, color, style, or shape.The focal point should dominate the design with scale and contrast without sacrificing the unity of the whole.
Druidry: Spiritual or religious movement that generally promotes harmony, connection & reverence for the natural world.
Eclectic: Deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources.
Edifying: Providing moral or intellectual instruction.
Effulgence: Great brightness, radiance, shining forth.
Elements of Art: Line, Shape, Form, Color, Space, Texture, Value
Ellipse: A regular oval shape, traced by a point moving in a plane so that the sum of its distances from two other points (the foci) is constant, or resulting when a cone is cut by an oblique plane which does not intersect the base.
Elusive: Difficult to catch, achieve, remember or recall.
Eminent: (of a person) famous and respected within a particular sphere or profession.
Emphasis: Contrasting size, positioning, color, style, or shape. The focal point should dominate the design with scale and contrast without sacrificing the unity of the whole.
Femida: Goddess of Justice.
Form: Its volume or perceived volume, it can achieve the illusion of form with the use of perspective and/or shading or modelling techniques.
Geological: Relating to the study of the earth's physical structure and substance.
Harmony: When all elements are in agreement and no particular part is viewed as more important than the whole design.
Hierarchy: A good design contains elements that lead the reader through each element in order of its significance. The type and images should be expressed starting from most important to the least important.
Imbue: Inspire or permeate with a feeling or quality.
Imperceptible: Impossible to perceive.
Iteration: Repetition of a process.
Johannes Keper: Discovered that the orbits of all planets revolving around the sun (Earth included) were elliptical. See Still Life With Mandolin By Vladimir Kush.
Joseph Brodsky: Poet.
Kolner Dome: (Cologne Cathedral) Roman Catholic Cathedral in Cologne, Germany. 1248-1473.
Lignin: A natural plant polymer. Ideally artwork should be produced with lignin free mediums. More Info
Line: As an element of visual art, line is the use of various marks, outlines, and implied lines during artwork and design. A line has a width, direction, and length. A line's width is most times called its "thickness".
Maquette: A sculptor's small preliminary model or sketch.
Mark Twain: Born in 1835, year of the comet and died 76 years later in year of the comet. See Vladimir Kush's Comet Halley.
Movement: The path the viewer's eye takes through the artwork, often to focal areas. Such movement can be directed along lines edges, shape and colors within the artwork.
Negative Space: The space around and between the subject(s) of an image.
Objective: Not dependent on the mind for existence; actual.
Oceanian Art: Creative works from polynesian and Australian cultures. More Info
Omnipotent: Having unlimited power / abilities to do anything (as in God).
Ouevre: the works of a painter, composer, or author regarded collectively.
Oneiric: Relating to dreams or dreaming.
Pagan: A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions.
Paradigm: Typical example of pattern of something, a model.
Paradoxical: Seemingly absurd or self-contradictory.
Pathos: A quality that evokes pity or sadness.
Permeate: Spread throughout.
Perspective: Sense of distance between objects.
Polymer: Polymer is a structural formation of subunits that can be organic or synthetic. More Info
Principles of Design: Principles applied to the elements of design that bring them together into one design. Unity/Harmony, Balance, Hierarchy, Scale/Proportion, Dominance/Emphasis, Similarity & Contrast
Procrustean: Enforcing uniformity or conformity without regard to natural variation or individuality.
Progenitor / Progenitress : A person or thing from which a person, animal or plant is descended or originates.
Proportion: The relative size of elements against each to attract attention to a focal point. When elements are designed larger than life, the scale is being used to show drama.
Pseudo: Not genuine; spurious or sham.
Pseudo-Synesthetic: A perception that involves at the same time several possible senses.
Raisonné: comprehensive, annotated listing of all the known artworks by an artist either in a particular medium or all media.
Repetition: Elements being copied or mimicked numerous times.
Reverence: Deep respect for someone or something.
Rhythm: Achieved when recurring position, size, color, and use of a graphic element has a focal point interruption.
Rudyard Kipling: Poet of "If".
Scale: The relative size of elements against each to attract attention to a focal point. When elements are designed larger than life, the scale is being used to show drama.
Shape: Shape refers to a 2-dimensional, enclosed area. Shapes could be geometric, such as squares, circles, triangles etc. or organic and curvaceous.
Similarity: Ability to seem repeatable with other elements.
There are several ways to develop a similar environment:
Build a unique internal organization structure.
Manipulate shapes of images and text to correlate together.
Express continuity.
Sir Isaac Newton: Theory of gravity. "Sir Issac Newton lived to enjoy world fame, he realized however, that none of his work ever amounted to the final triumph of mind over the forces of nature, for the study of the world has no limits." – Vladimir, Oleg Kush.
Space: Any conducive area that an artist provides for a particular purpose.
Stimulus: A thing that rouses activity or energy in someone or something; a spur or incentive.
Sublimate: (in psychoanalytic theory) divert or modify (an instinctual impulse) into a culturally higher or socially more acceptable activity.
Sumptuous: Splendid & expensive looking.
Synesthesia: The production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body.
Tactile: Of or connected with the sense of touch.
Visual texture is strictly two-dimensional and is perceived by the eye that makes it seem like the texture.
Actual texture (tactile texture) is one not only visible but can be felt. It rises above the surface transitioning it from two-dimensional to three-dimensional.
Typography: An appealing arrangement of letters, symbols, etc. More Info
Unity: When all elements are in agreement and no particular part is viewed as more important than the whole design.
Value: The degree of lightness and darkness in a color.
Vantage: A place or position affording a good view of something.
Vessel: A hollow container, especially one used to hold liquid, such as a bowl or cask.
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Hilliard Davidson Roundup: Gymnasts prep for league, district meets
FRANK DIRENNA THISWEEKSPORTS.COM @ThisWeekFrank
Feb 4, 2020 at 3:35 PM Feb 4, 2020 at 3:55 PM
Hilliard Davidson gymnastics coach Carol Eskay is hoping her team's steady progress over the course of the season will lead to strong performances in the OCC-Central Division meet as well as the postseason.
Eskay has been impressed with her gymnasts' abilities to improve their scores in individual events as well as in the all-around.
"They're really trying to clean things up," Eskay said. "They're getting stronger and more consistent with their scores. They're starting to make connections on (uneven) bars, starting to clean up floor (exercise), so I'm pretty happy with it."
The Wildcats went 3-4 in the OCC-Central dual meets, losing to both Marysville and Upper Arlington as part of a six-team meet Jan. 29. Davidson scored a 121.85 to place fifth behind Bradley (130.6), Darby (130.15), host Marysville (128.35) and UA (127.9) and ahead of Fairbanks (18.05).
UA went 7-0 in the league dual meets.
Hope Tageson led the Wildcats on Jan. 29 by finishing seventh in the all-around (32.1). She tied teammate Megan McCabe for first on vault (8.15), tied for fifth on bars (7.9) and tied for 11th on balance beam (8.25).
McCabe tied for 10th in the all-around (30.9) and was 11th on floor (8.15).
Davidson will compete in the eight-team OCC-Central meet Wednesday, Feb. 12, at Marysville before preparing for the district meet Feb. 22 at Worthington Kilbourne.
"I like the league meet," Eskay said. "It's a culmination of the regular season, so it's a good time."
At district, the top three teams advance to the state team meet Feb. 28 at Bradley and the top eight finishers in each event and the all-around advance to the state individual meet Feb. 29, also at Bradley.
"It's anybody's game when it comes to (the district meet)," Eskay said. "Sometimes the most consistent people you think that are going, they don't have their best day. I always tell the girls just to do their best and see where the cards fall."
Girls team looks to place second in OCC
The girls basketball team will look to lock up sole possession of second place in the OCC-Central when it plays host to Westland on Friday, Feb. 7, in its regular-season finale.
The Wildcats, who defeated the Cougars 69-33 on Jan. 16, are second in the league at 6-3, behind Dublin Coffman (9-0) and ahead of Marysville and UA (both 5-4). The Shamrocks have clinched the outright league title.
Brianna O'Connor had 15 points and Kierstyn Liming scored 14 to lead Davidson to a 61-22 league win at Central Crossing on Jan. 31.
The Wildcats, who were 10-10 overall before playing Olentangy on Feb. 4, also beat visiting Dublin Scioto 42-39 on Jan. 28 behind 18 points from Liming and 13 from O'Connor. Sydney Petersen's 3-pointer with 17 seconds remaining broke a 39-all tie.
Davidson is seeded 23rd in the Division I district tournament and will play host to 27th-seeded Logan in the first round Feb. 15.
Wrestlers finish eighth at Rieman Invitational
The wrestling team finished eighth (102) in the 14-team Rieman Invitational on Feb. 1 at Delaware, behind champion Coffman (287.5).
Wyatt Moore (120 pounds) placed second and Dez Gartrell (152) was third.
The Wildcats slipped to 1-3 in the OCC-Central with a 52-21 loss at Marysville on Jan. 30.
Winning by pin were Ethan Riegel at 113 (37 seconds) and Gartrell at 152 (3:37).
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Below are the coming schedules for the Davidson boys basketball, girls basketball, gymnastics and swimming & diving teams:
*Feb. 7 -- At Westland. The Wildcats defeated the Cougars 39-28 on Jan. 3.
Feb. 8 -- Home vs. Bradley
Feb. 11 -- Home vs. Walnut Ridge
*Feb. 7 -- Home vs. Westland. The Wildcats defeated the Cougars 69-33 on Jan. 16.
Feb. 10 -- At Darby with Bradley and Washington Court House Miami Trace
Feb. 12 -- OCC-Central meet at Marysville
Feb. 8 -- Division I sectional at Thomas Worthington. Winner of each swimming event, along with 27 at-large qualifiers in each event based on times from the Central, East and Southeast sectional sites, advance to district Feb. 13 at Ohio State. There is no diving at sectional.
*League contest
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ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry has said that the legislature will before long dispatch a crackdown on the loathe mongers abusing web-based social media life.
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As of late some critical captures were made with respect to the online networking, said the clergyman including that the right to speak freely isn't boundless.
The legislature has concocted an exhaustive methodology to control the spread of contempt and radicalism on online networking, said Fawad.
'Implementing one's belief system on others is the underlying driver of numerous issues.' No one will be permitted to do this, he pushed.
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CHANEL – the event and the afterthoughts.
This past week the Art Law Society hosted an exciting lunch time speaker event that I thought would be worthy of a posting – Rachel Waranch, Associate Counsel at CHANEL, Inc. and a fellow Cardozo Alumnus, presented at Cardozo and gave a presentation about her career and related experiences. It was a great presentation overall, and there was something really inspiring about seeing a 2005 Cardozo grad – who interned at Chanel and who was so excited and inspired by her internship experience – be able to then carve her path in a way that made her internship turn into a post-law school job opportunity, about which she now only has the best things to say.
During the presentation Rachel described her experiences prior to joining Chanel – she described her time at Cardozo and her work with both AELJ (she was a staffer and then the Acquisitions Editor) and her involvement with the school newspaper (then the Cardozo Insider), and she talked about the various IP courses that she made sure to take (Trademark and Copyright among the most noteworthy and pertinent to her day-to-day). She also described her everyday experiences as the Intellectual Property attorney within Chanel's legal department, and the work that she does (average day and otherwise) to protect the brand. The description of her anti-counterfeiting effort was especially interesting and enlightening, because it highlighted the integrated and multifaceted role of the in-house counsel in an international fashion house like Chanel. Some of the key points of her efforts focus on making sure that the brand isn't misrepresented in any sort of video, print, or online media, and these ongoing monitoring and authorization efforts are an integrated effort between Chanel's legal, marketing and other internal departments – all working together to make sure that the integrity of the brand is kept in check as sufficiently as possible and at all times.
The discussion inspired some great questions about Rachel's experiences prior to Chanel and also about her day-to-day role, as well as some more general insights about the state of the law with respect to counterfeiting, brand protection and various theories of liability (the recent Tiffany v. eBay appeal, and other related cases). The presentation was great overall, and we couldn't have been more excited to take the first step toward exploring our fashion law interest and focus – we hope to have more exciting presentations in store for the Spring, so stay tuned for further updates!
If you would like to contact the speaker, please send an email to cardozoartlaw@gmail.com.


Sachal Energy (SEDPL) will commission and operate a 50 MW wind farm at Jhimpir, Sindh.The Group believes that alternate sources of energy are the way forward. SEDPL will contribute to national development by reducing dependence on imported fossil fuels and producing 136.5 GWh yearly of clean energy.
The Company has acquired generation license and tariff determination by NEPRA and has received a Letter of Support from the Alternate Energy Development Board (AEDB). Similarly, the Company has executed its EPA with NTDC and IA with AEDB. Furthermore, foreign and local financing facility agreements with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China were signed in February 2015 and May 2015 respectively. SEDPL is registered under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) registration within the framework of the Kyoto Protocol with UNFCCC and currently it is in the process of registration with the Gold Standard Foundation.
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The Cowboy Memoirist and the Kennebec Kid
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• Published on January 6, 2016 • Last modified on November 13, 2019
In the early 1950s, Bert L. Hall was making the rounds of West River ranch and farm country collecting tales of the old days for his Roundup Years: Old Muddy to Black Hills, a cowboy memoir of the halcyon days of fenceless prairie as wide open as the sky — a time as legendary as short-lived, that still exercises enormous power on the American imagination, and at the box office.
While Hall was out mining the memory banks of the first generation of West River pioneers, a young Jack Ashcraft was sharpening his skills as an artist, taking correspondence courses from the Minneapolis-based Art Instruction Schools, famous for their "Draw Me" ads in magazines and comic books — when he wasn't busy working on the family ranch.
"We lived out South of Kennebec," recalls Ashcraft. "But my dad liked the Black Hills and he subscribed to the Rapid City Journal. For some reason I always read the newspaper too. Maybe unusual for a young man, but I did. One article sparked some interest and I recall drawing a cartoon of some sort. I put it in an envelope and sent it out to the Journal, and they published it."
Soon after Jack's breakthrough, Hall's research brought him to Lyman County.
"I think everybody in the [West River] country knew Bert Hall," recalls Ashcraft. "He made it his business to go around and talk to the old pioneers because he wanted their input for his book."
Hall visited Jack's grandfather Herbert Ashcraft, who wrote a piece for the book about his homesteading experience in 1904.
Excerpts: "Our first night in Lyman Co. was spent at Tacoma, then the county seat. We asked where the court house was an were told that the county was too poor to have one."
"This was the period when there was controversy as to whether the fellow with the crop should fine or the party having the stock. Of course disputes and hard feelings resulted. The day of the free range was dying a painful death."
Apparently due to Jack's single cartoon in the Journal, Hall arrived with some awareness of his work as an artist. "We made an agreement on how many [drawings] he wanted," says Ashcraft, "and I took a bunch of notes on what he had in mind." Six to eight months later, "he had his art work and I had a little bit of money, which made me think that I had died and gone to heaven, cause I was actually getting paid for doing what I liked to do."
Teenage Jack's drawings document with a stark (if innocent) simplicity some of the rapid changes in West River country over the course of 100 or so years, from the dispossession of Native people to the cowboy's demise — and hints at the tension between cattle interests and "honyockers" — a pejorative term for homesteaders.
Jack was kind enough to do some hand-drawn enlargements of his original drawings, published here.
Though now semi-retired, Jack Ashcraft is still an artist. After a long stint in the Air Force, he started a foreign car dealership in San Luis Obispo. In the 70's, he studied automotive design at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, where he would go on to teach. In the late seventies he founded an ad agency in Medford, Oregon, where he lives today. A longtime Saab enthusiast, he also published the niche magazine, the Saab Journal, and he started a mail-order company selling vintage Saab parts. Though semi-retired now, he still reconditions some old parts while his son runs the business, and does some freelance art work. He and his wife are also avid ballroom dancers. Apparently that Lyman County mettle never left his system.
While Roundup Years never made The New York Times Best Sellers list, it is one of a handful of true cowboy memoirs, written and/or compiled by riders who could remember the days of the wide open range. Out of print now, it sell for upwards of $200 per copy — a vanishing memorial to a breed that was already galloping into history almost as soon as it got in the saddle. Decades from now, some Old West museum in Tokyo or somewhere will exhibit a copy, opened to a page with a stark black-and-white drawing signed by Jack Ashcraft.
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I'm not going to say I told you so, but I picked this gown as one of my favorites from the Valentino Couture SS13 collection back in October. The white on white brocade is so beautiful, but, I have to say - much like Jennifer Lawrence's ceremony dress, it's a little too bridal for me - for this. I can't say too much to disparage her though, because she looks stunning and classy and the whole thing from head-to-toe is really good.
agree with you about the look being too bridal but i also feel like alison can do no wrong!


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UNH, UMaine Climate Scientists: Trump Era Brings Challenges
Climate, Global Warming & Air Pollution, Maine Environmental News
Posted on February 26, 2017 by NRCM
By Deborah McDermott
Seacoast Online news story
This is a troubling time to be a climate scientist, say professors from the University of New Hampshire and the University of Maine. It is a time of unease and uncertainty, they say, as the Trump administration signals research, data collection and scientific inquiry could be under attack.
They point to what they see as any number of concerning signs: the confirmation of former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, which he sued more than a dozen times over its environmental regulations; efforts, subsequently rescinded, to require Department of Energy scientists to reveal the names of colleagues working on climate change research; a Jan. 24 administration order temporarily suspending the award of new EPA contracts or grants; and comments made by the president in the past that climate change is a "hoax."
An atmosphere of uncertainty over future research comes at a time when competitive federal funding is already stagnant, said Jacquelyn Gill, assistant professor of paleoecology and conservation biogeography at the University of Maine. Gill is emerging as a regional and potentially national voice of the science community as people around the country begin to band together to present a unified voice for climate science.
"We're already underfunding science in this country," said Gill, who is a faculty member of the UMaine Climate Change Institute. "There's much more demand than there is money. Labs are being shut down because scientists can't fund their research. Some scientists are going to other countries because there's more science funding. That's been true while we had an administration that was more friendly to science. Now, there's a concern across the board that what was already a tough time is about to become a dire situation."
The concern is much broader than one university's federal funds drying up, or one research project going away, said Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. These various signs point to a potential shift away from using empirical research when making policy decisions, he said.
"We were just getting to the point where the public was beginning to understand the impact on the planet from climate change," Mayewski said. "My biggest concern is not about whether we get federal funding in the future. My concern is the flow of data to the public from federal agencies. When I hear that policy decisions could be made on ideology rather than fact, I am very nervous."
Cameron Wake, UNH professor of climatology and glaciology, said there is broad concern about the apparent lack of interest in science as a basis for decision making in the new administration.
"Here's Scott Pruitt saying, 'We really don't know what is changing the climate system,'" Wake said. "The science we generate should be part of the discussion, but the administration doesn't appear to value the science and data and facts."
As universities adjust to potential changes under the new administration, the concern about loss of federal grant funding is real and pervasive — although it's still too early to tell what if any fallout there might be, said Jan Nisbet, senior vice provost for research at UNH.
"We don't know the impact, to be honest, but all the signs are not good," she said.
UNH annually receives $51 million in federal awards across all disciplines, but a significant portion of that is in the sciences. And for a reason, she said. UNH is one of the preeminent universities in the country in the environmental sciences, consistently in the top 10 nationwide.
"If that's going to be the target area (for the Trump administration), that could have a disproportionate affect on us," Nisbet said.
Gill at UMaine said many people don't know that any grant researchers receive is shared with the university — in UMaine's case nearly a 50/50 split. "As state funding has declined, universities are counting on those grant dollars just to keep the lights on, so to speak."
Nisbet said there are 64 research faculty whose salaries are based entirely on research funding. "There's no doubt there's anxiety among that group."
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Gill said she has a colleague at UMaine who is funded entirely by the EPA to test lakes throughout Maine for safe drinking water. "Think of what that could mean to the people of Maine if her position is no longer funded," she said.
That's just one example, said Mayewski, of the impact cuts to science.
"The EPA has done a remarkable job of monitoring changes in the air quality, water quality, changes in ecosystems," he said. "What's terrifying to me is the implication that EPA data that is directly related to our health — such as cancer, respiratory diseases, Lyme disease-carrying ticks in Maine due to warming temperatures — will not be made available. If we're starting to go toward a world where what someone believes overshadows scientific information, we're in a dangerous situation."
Scientists are not waiting to find out whether their data will be compromised. Even before the president took office, efforts by groups such as DataRefuge and the Environmental Data began to download data onto nonfederal databases. "Hackathons" have cropped up — including one this month at the University of California at Berkeley, where the group Governance Initiative worked to collect data from NASA's earth sciences programs and from the Department of Energy.
"In all, there's a lot of activity going on to ensure that government information on government servers does not get altered, deleted or lost during the transition between administrations," said Hannah Hamalainen, geospatial and earth sciences librarian at UNH. "These are all national efforts that don't address the elephant in the room: What's going to happen when that data are no longer being created? And the implications for democracy, data-based economic decision-making, etc.?"
So what is a scientist to do?
Gill has chosen to spend her efforts in the public arena, one of a growing number of scientists banding together to voice their concerns. She has already been to a climate march in Boston, and was among the first scientists in the nation to call for a national March for Science on April 22 in Washington, D.C. She has since been featured in The New York Times, Boston Globe and on National Public Radio.
She was also tapped to consider a run for elective office by 314 Action, a new organization formed to give scientists a greater voice in the public policy arena.
"We have to be outspoken," she said. "We need a seat at the table. The question for me is, What is the level at which I can make a difference? Can I be more useful standing up for research as an academic researcher or should I become more directly involved in the political process? Many of us have always had to be political. As women scientists or scientists of color, being political isn't new. But this moment is new. And it feels like it's really taking off."
Wake applauds the trend toward scientists' involvement in the political process. "Without scientists, people can get away with ignoring science."
But he said, "I am not frantic." Science has already made a huge contribution toward a clean-energy future, and he's convinced that market is not going to turn around now. He points to a January report from the U.S. Department of Energy that solar power employs twice as many people as coal, gas and oil generation combined.
"That's where the future is," he said of clean power. "The economy has already made the transition. The notion that a president or a congress can insist we burn coal again is ridiculous. The market has chosen natural gas as a bridge until we can transition completely to a renewable energy system. This administration can slow things down but it can't stop the trend."
Meanwhile, he is focusing his political energy at the local and state level, working with communities and the state of New Hampshire to address planning, adaptation and mitigation issues surrounding sea level rise. "At the local level, people understand the risk and the need to do something about it," he said, "and the federal politicians be damned."
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Trade: TTIP, Water
TTP. The Trans-Pacific Partnership was formally signed by negotiators February 4, 2016. Congress is expected to vote on TTP before the end of 2016.
US economists have reached opposite conclusions about TTP's likely effects in the US. One report, entitled "Trading Down: Unemployment, Inequality and Other Risks of TTP," projects that US incomes would decline slightly under TTP and that almost 450,000 US jobs would disappear. Another report used the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model to project slight US income and job gains as a result of reducing especially non-tariff barriers to trade.
US workers who lose their jobs because of TTP can receive Trade Adjustment Assistance benefits in the form of extended unemployment benefits and retraining. Created in 1975 to win support for free-trade agreements, TAA now has $450 million a year for manufacturing and service sector workers who lose their jobs because of increased outsourcing or importing to any country, regardless of whether it has a trade deal with the US.
Critics of TAA say that the 130 weeks of benefits for retraining gives workers a two-year paid vacation, and that most displaced workers would be better off finding new jobs immediately, even at lower wages. They advocate wage insurance, a program that fills some of the gap between old higher wages and new lower wages.
President Obama and leading Republicans in Congress expect TPP to be approved, but not until after November 2016 elections. Front-runners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump oppose TPP.
US manufacturing employment fell from a peak of 20 million in 1979 to 12 million today, even as nonfarm payroll employment rose from 90 million to 141 million. Manufacturing went from 20 percent of US employment to eight percent in 35 years.
How much of the decline in manufacturing employment is due to automation and how much is due to freer trade? Most economists say that labor-saving automation is much more important than trade, but this assumption is changing in light of new studies that show that, after China entered the WTO in 2001, the loss of US manufacturing jobs was concentrated in sectors where tariff reductions were greatest, including apparel, leather goods, plastic plumbing fixtures and surgical and medical equipment. Economists now say that up to half of the loss in US manufacturing jobs may have been due to freer trade with China and other nations.
Water. Some industrial countries export scarce water from arid regions via exports of high-value commodities, such as nuts from California and wine from Australia, the driest inhabited continent. Precipitation in Australia averages 700 mm or 27.6 inches of rain a year, but there is wide variation.
Australia's Water Act 2007 allowed landholders to use the water on their property or sell it, giving Australia one of the world's most advanced water markets. There are frequent water sales?some 4,444 gigaliters worth $3 billion in 2009-10?but rising fears of foreign owners of Australian water rights. There are 15,100 gigaliters of water rights in New South Wales, followed by 6,700 in Victoria, 6,035 in Queensland, and 3,200 in Western Australia.
Agriculture uses over 60 percent of Australia's water, and a sixth of farm water rights are owned at least partially by foreign investors, raising questions about the fate of Australian farmers who are outbid for water by foreign-linked growers producing high-value crops.
GMOs. The US planted 181 million acres of biotech crops in 2014; 94 percent of US soybeans and 92 percent of US corn is fro GMO seeds that have been modified to include resistance to pests and herbicides. Brazil planted 104 million acres of biotech crops in 2014, followed by Argentina with 60 million acres, India and Canada with 29 million acres each, and China and Paraguay with 10 million acres each.


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Leading five Nickelback Songs to Make You Enjoy Them Even Much more
What can you say about Nickelback that hasn't been explained ahead of? What about the best Nickelback music? Do you love them? Even with the simple fact that there are a important variety of "haters" out there, they carry on to be 1 of the largest bands in the globe, and their song producing appears to be one thing that most men and women can identify with. In this post, I will sum up my five individual favorites from them, and explain to why I like people particular music, so that maybe you may consider their tracks in a various way.
Now I will be honest with you. I am a musician, and at 1 time I was a "hater" as properly. It truly should have been jealousy speaking or some thing since after a whilst, I joined a Nickelback Tribute band enjoying the character of "Chad" and did I at any time get a fast lesson as to how great these guys actually are. I individually experienced not only underestimated the vocal chops of Chad, but I also came to comprehend that his potential to sing and engage in guitar at the exact same time, in particular the pretty intricate elements he performs, was next to none. In quick, I finished up building a entire new respect for Chad and the relaxation of the men from Nickelback as a complete, and frankly, it failed to get me way too long to really start off liking their materials a lot.
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Some thing In Your Mouth – I actually arrived to enjoy this song since of the major guitar riff, and as I uncovered to sing and play it, I especially beloved the way the vocals have been overlaid on that riff, particularly the chunky eighth observe photographs.
Much Absent – Very merely, this is one particular of the prettiest music at any time created. I enjoy the melody of this song, alongside with the message. The orchestration in it is lovely as effectively and I know first- hand how challenging it is to sing, so Kudos to Chad for pulling it off.
Animals – Who isn't going to like this music? Most tunes that have anything at all to do with drinking and partying are likely to be liked by the masses and which is no exception for this music. But I have to be truthful, for me it's not the material of the lyrics that does it, but the dropped "D" tuning of the guitars and the completely stellar drumming of Daniel Adair in this track. music bot rocks every single tune actually but this music is what I really feel to be 1 of the very best illustrations of his really extraordinary drum chops, with no over-playing the tune.
How You Remind Me – This for me, like for most folks, was the 1st song by Nickelback that I arrived to know and enjoy. I performed in a band at the time and we lined this song. When we played it, it was a tune that you could really "come to feel" and audiences beloved it. Great effortless riff, but I specially like the instrument end at the finish of the music where Chad is singing the lyrics by himself. A quite great touch and everybody enjoys to sing these traces way too.
Savin' Me – Almost certainly my fave tune by Nickelback. I can remember learning it on guitar and despite the fact that it is not just tough to enjoy, it actually was not also easy to perform possibly, nevermind enjoy and sing at the very same time. But the actual beauty of this tune is that it has energy like almost no other song at any time. The orchestration in this tune can make this tune so potent and I absolutely adore the melody line and tale line of this music. For some explanation it helps make me believe of a super hero combating for his own happiness or something like that. This track is incredible even though.
In the extremely unlikely event that you have not listened to these songs, check them out and do so with the details above in mind. These music in my view are the prime Nickelback music. Nickelback is genuinely fairly an incredible band and despite the fact that it truly is distinct that they're commercially effective, I feel that they're usually under-rated at the same time. Their songs are catchy and well written, and they converse a language that most of can relate to.


Jack Swab sets up his poster during the reception on the second floor of Walker Building.
Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of the Department of Geography gathered on Friday, April 28, 2017 in Walker Building for the annual Recognition Reception. The purpose of the event was to recognize the accomplishments and contributions made throughout the year by Penn State geographers. This year, the event also celebrated lab renovations in the department.
Socializing and refreshments took place on the second floor as participants had the opportunity to examine research posters prepared by master's degree students and undergraduate students.
A formal dedication of the C. Gregory Knight Collaborative Learning Laboratory was held in room 229. The lab features worktables with multiple screens and keyboards to facilitate group projects.
Knight joined the Penn State faculty in 1971 and retired from the University as professor emeritus of geography in 2011. Knight's research interests were in climate change, water resources, resource management, global environmental change, and sustainable development. He authored books on ecology and change in Tanzania, climate change in Bulgaria, and methods for regional assessment of climate change impacts. African carvings from his private collection were donated to the department and are on display in the new lab space.
"He was an excellent teacher, so I think this collaborative space is well-named for Greg," Department Head Cynthia Brewer said. "We're really happy to have this new space for the undergrads and grads." The space also provides more connections between other department research labs, Brewer said.
Marieta Staneva, retired geography professor and Knight's widow, said, "I would like to thank the whole community. I would like to thank Cindy, Bill Easterling [former dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences], and the whole administration that took this wonderful step while Greg was still alive. Greg always wanted to bring people together to talk with each other." Brewer added that the college initiated the process of dedicating the renovated space for Knight several years ago.
At 4:00 p.m. everyone moved to 112 Walker Building for the awards presentation.
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Brewer served as the master of ceremonies, sharing the lectern with Donna Peuquet, undergraduate program officer, and Alexender Klippel, graduate program officer, to recognize students, faculty, and staff who won awards this year.
In her opening remarks, Brewer acknowledged all those who contributed to the creation of the new Knight Lab and thanked them for their work.
Fred and Marianne Gockley were in attendance to present The Jeff Gockley Memorial Award. The award was established in 2005 to honor the memory of their son Jeff Gockley ('97). It is awarded to top rising senior in the GIS option.
The 2017 award was presented to Yuying Ren (pictured left) who is pursuing a bachelor of science degree in the GIS option and minors in geosciences and economics.
Ren has worked as a research assistant in the Geoinformatics and Earth Observation Laboratory and conducted research through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Connection program.
Bruce Balmat presented the Balmat awards. The Balmat Family Scholarship is intended to help students who transfer from another major into the Department of Geography.
"My wife and I both graduated from Penn State in 1970 and we really did not have much connection with our majors. When our kids became college age, our son enrolled here in engineering and our daughter then enrolled in education. However within one year they saw the light and they both transferred into the Department of the Geography, and the friendships the connections they made, and the support from the staff really made a difference in their experience at Penn State. As parents, we were really impressed with how they took advantage of the opportunities a Penn State education can offer," he said.
"It makes my wife and I proud to see another generation coming out of Penn State, and the Department of Geography and making an impact," Balmat said.
He presented the Balmat Family Scholarship in Geography to Danielle Ruffe and Brittany Waltemate and the Balmat Family Fund for Honors Scholars to Sonia Kaufman and John Swab.
Andrew Brown, Colin Kelly, Connor Klassen, Christopher Mertz, Doran Tucker.
Ruiqi Guo, McQuillan Murphy, Grant Smith, John Swab.
Kathy Cappelli, McQuillan Murphy, Grant Smith.
Klippel presented the departmental graduate student awards.
Department of Geography Staff Outstanding Service Award: Denise Kloehr.
College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Wilson Awards Banquet winners were recognized at the annual college Wilson Awards Presentation Banquet.