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Viticulture in Paraná is an agricultural economic activity that aims at the production of grapes and their destination for the manufacture of wines and beverages in the state of Paraná, Brazil.

Paraná ranks fourth in national grape production followed by Bahia and Santa Catarina, behind only Rio Grande do Sul, São Paulo, and Pernambuco. The state produces mainly varieties of fine grapes, commercial grapes, and, to a lesser extent, rustic grapes. The cultivation of European Vitis vinifera varieties for the production of fine wines is also expanding.

Introduction

The average productivity of Paraná is 17.5 tons of grapes per hectare, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística - IBGE). In 2010, Paraná had 5.9 thousand hectares, harvesting approximately 100 thousand tons per year. Present in almost the entire state, the regions that stand out in grape production are the northwest and north, especially the city of Marialva, 18 kilometers from Maringá, responsible for just over 22% of state production in 2021.

The west and southwest have great importance, however, in an activity focused more on wine production. The Greater Curitiba (Região Metropolitana de Curitiba - RMC) also has a good production, especially Colombo, Campo Largo, and São José dos Pinhais. Except for the coast, in all the other regions there is viticulture. Among the grapes with greater presence in the state are the varieties Itália, Rubi, Benitaka and Brasil. Among the rustic grapes, the most produced are pink and white Niagara and Tercy (Ives Noir).

History

Early times
Viticulture in the state of Paraná dates back to early colonisation periods, starting in 1557 with the foundation of Ciudad Real del Guayrá by the Spanish Jesuits, with grapes coming from Buenos Aires. This phase ended with the destruction of the missions by the bandeirantes.

19th Century

In 1852 with the creation of the Colony of Superagui, the settlers coming mainly from Switzerland (Vevey) and France (Alsace), but also Germans and Italians, brought grapes and obtained a certain success supplying wine to Curitiba and Santos, being compared at that time, in terms of quality, to the European wine. By the end of the 1870s the Colony had 6 cantinas. In the letters transcribed by Marjolaine Guisan and Françoise Lambert, historians of the historical museum of Vevey, they report about one of its most illustrious residents, the painter William Michaud:

"...taking special care with grape culture, which gave him good harvests on the slopes of Barbados hill, which made him together with his neighbor Alsatian Sigwalt, dedicate himself to viniculture, arriving to have 1,000 vines, producing the wine called 'petit Bordeaux', comparable to the Swiss, as stated in the official report to the Assembly, March 31, 1877: 'the wine that is produced in the colony (of Superagui) has had good acceptance in this capital.'"

From the middle of the 19th century on, new immigrants begin to arrive in Paraná. In Colombo, in the second year in their new homeland, the settlers, by means of a petition, asked the government to provide vineyards for cultivation, because the land was suitable. The request was granted, and the settlers received five crates of vine shoots. In a short time all the Italian settlers in the municipality had their vineyards and were producing wine for their own consumption and traditional festivals. There was also a large and well ventilated cantina built next to the settlers' house, where at the time of wine production they used to process the grapes.

"In compliance with the order that you verbally gave me regarding the five boxes containing vine shoots, which were sent by the Ministry of Agriculture to the settlers established in the vicinity of this Capital, I distributed to the settlers of Novo Tirol, D. Pedro, Antônio Rebouças, Órleans, Alfredo Chaves, Colônia Dantas, Abranches, Lamenha, Santo Ignácio, Santa Cândida, such shoots of different qualities and I know that all the said colonies will vegetate perfectly....." (Official Correspondence of the Province, L. 596, fl. 220)

A great attempt to grow grapes in Paraná took place between the years 1868 and 1869, by French settlers, to the outskirts of Curitiba, but the attempt was not successful, because they tried to make French-like viticulture. This phase of implementation had its apogee at the end of this century in Curitiba, when European grapes were produced in a protected environment - glass greenhouses - with emphasis on the cultivars Alphonse Lavallé, Ugni Blanc and Hamburg Muscat.

20th Century

Fist half
In 1903, in his passage through Curitiba, the Republic Senator Tobias de Macedo describes:

"Lately, the state government instituted prizes for farmers producing the best wheat, alfalfa and wine. They say that alfalfa is easy to grow and of excellent quality. The vine is difficult to care for, requiring continuous work, experiments and adaptations, to acclimate the country to the most suitable species for wine making. On the outskirts of the city, an intelligent farmer, who came from France as a teenager, has obtained very encouraging results. He has devoted thirteen years to his work and is still studying more than two hundred varieties. His field measures one hundred thousand square meters, where fifteen to twenty thousand vines flourish, which have given him forty barrels of wine and could produce up to one hundred.

After touring the vineyards and tasting the grapes, I sat down with my companions in the shade of the trees, around a table. The picturesque location, the cool climate, the suggestive talk made me break my customary abstinence. I am not in the habit of drinking wine, but I presume I can judge its purity. As a good Frenchman and a good winegrower, Mr. Poplade threatened us with three qualities: Saint-Emilion, Bergerac and Chaussy-Gris. I had the courage to taste all of them, and one more than I expected, and I didn't regret my audacity. The wine was new but very pure, with a pleasant aroma and taste."

The expansion phase of vine culture in the state took place in the mid-nineteenth century with varieties of rustic grapes (American) brought from the state of São Paulo, and fixed in the surroundings of Curitiba, being predominant the cultivars Bordeaux or Terci, the Goethe, Concord, Isabel among others.

However, the great insertion and fixation of the culture occurred with the cultivars Isabel and Terci (or Bordeaux, Ives) by Italian settlers, in the surroundings of Curitiba and in the border municipalities with the state of Santa Catarina. More recently, around 1940, an important new area of highly technological viticulture was established in the northern region of Paraná.

The introduction of grape growing in the Norte Pioneiro region came through the hands of Japanese farmers who had settled in the region to grow coffee. The prosperity came from the pioneering of Toshikatsu Wakita who, in the 60's, brought the fine grape to the region, the current base of the economy. Despite the good results obtained by the first settlers, the culture initially had its cultivation almost restricted to the members of the Japanese colony. In 1975, with the advent of the great frost that decimated the coffee plantations in the region, viticulture proved to be a viable option for small producers in the municipality, who expanded its cultivation in the region.

With the occupation of the Southwest region by Italian and German descendants coming from other regions of Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul, there was a great expansion and development of viticulture in the region. Today it has a well organized and structured sector in several cities.

Second half

Until the 1960s, viticulture was considered an activity of great economic importance throughout the state, also strongly associated with socio-cultural traditions. Besides the cantinas for self consumption, already at the beginning of the century, large wineries were established, such as Vinhos Paraná, Colombo, Guarise, Vinícola Campo Largo, Vinhos Durigan, Santa Felicidade... This market would remain advantageous until the mid-1960s, when the grape and wine crisis emerges.

The early 1960s were marked by the decline of viticulture. Several factors contributed to the decline of production:

 The valorization of the real estate market in the metropolitan region of Curitiba made land too expensive for viticulture;
 The closing of research institutes such as the Campo Largo Oenology Sub-Station leaving the sector lacking in technology and vulnerable to diseases such as "pérola" (Rizococus brasiliensis);
 Fall in productivity due to this disease when not the total loss of many vineyards;
 The fall in the price of wine, associated with the loss of competitiveness for wine from Rio Grande do Sul;
 The decrease in wine consumption due to the competitiveness of other beverages such as beer;
 The growth in demand for vegetables showing prospects for higher yields, especially with the replacement of grapevines by chayote planting, which allowed the use of existing support structures, and organizational problems in the local cooperative of grape and wine producers.

Together, these factors led to the reduction in grape-growing areas by a large amount. In many cases, this meant the option to specialize in vegetable production. In others it meant a crisis situation.

Native varieties

Rubi, Benitaka, Brasil. These three varieties of grapes are already known throughout the country and even abroad, thanks to the watchful eye and patience of two farmers from northern Paraná. In 1973, the fruit grower Kotaro Okuyama, rural owner in the city of Santa Mariana, during an operation to remove spoiled berries, discovered a cluster with 10 to 12 reddish berries. Mr. Hashima, an agricultural engineer, soon verified that it was a somatic mutation. At the same time, Okuyama observed almost daily what was happening to the cluster. After four years of observation, he took care of multiplication, leaving the original branch, but taking advantage of the branch that kept the same characteristics. Today the ruby grape is planted in almost all the producing regions of the country and even abroad. There are cultivations in Europe and Japan.

In 1989, 200 km from Santa Mariana, in the city of Floraí, a similar case occurred with the producer Mr. Sadao. The new variety was baptized with the name Benitaka, which in Japanese means strong red. Even before Benitaka spread to the four corners of the country, the vines of the new variety gave Mr. Sadao another surprise. Three years after the Benitaka, a new genetic mutation appeared on the property, which gave rise to a very dark colored grape that he named Brasil grape.

Main producing regions

Paraná is a state marked by the pulverized production of grapes and wine. In the northwest and north of the state, the municipalities of Marialva (responsible for a little over 22% of the state production of fine grapes), and also Rolandia, Maringá, and Londrina stand out. The main varieties grown in this region are Italia, Rubi, Benitaka and Brasil. Further south in this region the town of Rosário do Ivaí stands out, capital of Paraná of the Niagara grape, with about 150 ha of grapes.

In the First Plateau of Paraná, or "Curitiba's Fields" as it is better known, it is traditional for the production of table wines, especially wines based on Terci (Bordeaux) grapes. These wines are commercialized in wineries located in good structures and well frequented, thanks to the existence of tourist routes, such as the Italian Rural Tourism Circuit (Circuito Italiano de Turismo Rural) and the Wine Paths (Caminhos do Vinho), in the cities of Colombo and São José dos Pinhais. In Curitiba, in the neighborhood of Santa Felicidade, and in Campo Largo, some of the largest wineries in the country are concentrated. At the same latitude, west of Curitiba, the Campos Gerais municipalities stand out, such as Ponta Grossa, Palmeira, Antônio Olinto, Rebouças, and currently, Guarapuava. Besides these, the southwestern and western regions stand out, especially Toledo, and the Norte Pioneiro region. Further south, the grapevine cultivation occurs in mosaics in the cities of Rio Negro, Mallet, União da Vitória, Bituruna, and General Carneiro.

The state's differential is certainly the altitude and cold climate associated with well drained soils: limestony and sandy in the RMC, and basaltic in the interior of the state, which are the factors that most influence the time from maturation to harvest. Rainfall is on average lower than in the Serra Gaucha, for example, and the altitude is higher. Regarding temperatures, the cold intensifies from the north to the south of the state, with frequent occurrences of frost in winter and, in some regions, also in spring, producing sufficient cold hours for the plant to have a good rest and accumulate energy in winter. Temperatures down to -10 ºC degrees are common in the interior of the state, and occasionally snow also occurs.

Current times and future perspectives

Recently the state has had a prosperous phase mainly with the improvement of rootstocks resistant to "pérola-da-terra", Eurhizococcus brasiliensis  (Hempel) soil cochineal, and the development of new varieties by Paraná Rural Development Institute (Instituto de Desenvolvimento Rural do Paraná - IAPAR) that have improved the resistance of the grapevine. The exemption of the Tax on Goods and Services Circulation (Imposto sobre Circulação de Mercadorias e Serviços - ICMS) in 2007 in the state encouraged companies, producers, government entities, research, and municipalities to reorganize. One of the most important steps was also the creation of the Grape and Wine School (Escola da Uva e do Vinho) together with Embrapa Florestas in Colombo, giving technical training for wine, juice and other grape derivatives such as vinegar and grappa productions. In 2020, Paraná produced 60,000 tons of grapes, which represented 3.6% of the national production and 1% of the wine made in Brazil. The state has 28 major wineries.

See also

 Brazilian wine
 Embrapa
 Viticulture
 IBGE

References

Bibliography

 Botton, Marcos et al. (2011). Pérola-da-terra - Eurhizococcus brasiliensis (Hempel) (Hemiptera: Margarodidae) na cultura da videira  (in Portuguese). Embrapa.
 Carvalho, S.L.C. et al. (2007) Viticultura tropical: o sistema de produção no Paraná (in Portuguese) Londrina: IAPAR.
 Hidalgo Fernández, Luis (2002). Tratado de viticultura general (in Spanish). Barcelona: Mundi Prensa.
 Scherer, Emílio; Michaud (1979). O pintor de Superaguí (in Portuguese). Fundação Cultural de Curitiba.
 Monteiro, Senador Tobias de (1903). Do Rio ao Paraná (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro.

External links

 IDR Paraná website
 Italian Rural Tourism Circuit, Colombo

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Viticulture
Wine
Agriculture in Brazil
Brazilian alcoholic drinks
Brazilian wine


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Officers ready to welcome thousands for Manchester mega-music weekend
Officers and partners across the region are preparing to welcome over 400,000 music fans this weekend as Manchester becomes home to three huge concerts and the annual return of Parklife festival.
Fans are expected to descend to Manchester when Ed Sheeran starts his four-night stint at the Etihad Stadium tonight and commuters and those not attending are advised to re-route their journey and avoid Great Ancoats Street, Mancunian Way or any travel before 3pm. The long-awaited Parklife festival returns to Heaton Park on Saturday and Sunday where over half of those attending are expected to get public transport, and The Killers and Alicia Keys will play the Emirates Old Trafford and AO Arena respectively on Saturday night.
Officers will be there to support partners and ensure the safety of thousands at all of the events, alongside keeping everyone else across Greater Manchester safe in all other emergencies in what is expected to be a busy weekend for all partners, and emergency services.
Superintendent Andy Sidebotham, GMP's gold commander for this weekend's events, said: "This weekend will see thousands of people visiting and staying in the centre for what will be a busy weekend that has been months in the planning.
"We want everyone to have a safe and enjoyable weekend and music-goers should expect to see police officers on the ground in and around the events and will be on hand to help anyone who needs it. Those attending are advised to be vigilant and keep their belongings safe and report anything suspicious to us. We've been working alongside partners for these events for some time and our main aim is as always, to keep everyone safe.
"We're very experienced in dealing with high profile events like this and welcoming thousands to Greater Manchester and officers will be at all of the events and anyone needing any assistance or help is more than welcome to speak to our officers."
Those planning to use public transport over the weekend are urged to be patient and prepare for much busier journeys. Other routes available and updates can be found at www.tfgm.com.
Superintendent Sidebotham added: "Those planning to visit or live nearby are asked to be patient when travelling to and from the events as there will no doubt be an increased amount of traffic. Public transport is expected to be very busy and we would ask that people follow the messages and advice from our colleagues at Transport for Greater Manchester, and that those attending plan their journeys accordingly and take care.
"As always, we're thrilled to welcome thousands back to the city centre and hope that everyone attending the concerts and Parklife festival this weekend have a safe and good weekend."
Stephen Rhodes, Customer Director at TfGM, added: "With extremely high and potentially record numbers of people expected to be travelling on the network this week, I'm appealing to all our passengers to take extra care when using the network and to look out for your friends and other people around you.
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St Austell is only 6 miles away offering a cinema, leisure centre, golf course and the famous St Austell Brewery. The beaches at Porthpean and Gorran Haven on the South coast are both within 5 miles. The Lost Gardens of Heligan can be reached by footpath or a few minutes by car and the Eden project is a 20 minute drive.
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The world's largest lithium ion battery, to be built in South Australia in a joint project by US billionaire Elon Musk's company Tesla, will unlock more investment in renewable energy in the state, Premier Jay Weatherill says.
South Australia has derived an average of 53 per cent of its power from sun and wind after coal-fired power plants closed at Port Augusta in the state's north and Hazelwood in Victoria.
As the Weatherill government spruiked its "world-first" battery in Adelaide's The Sunday Mail newspaper, Mr Weatherill told journalists to expect to see "lots of pictures of me and Elon Musk" as he rolls out a $550 million energy plan to combat blackouts this summer.
Touring Hornsdale Wind Farm at Jamestown, 215km north of Adelaide where the 100-megawatt battery is to be built with French firm Neoen, Mr Weatherill yesterday said the project would become a tourist attraction and create investment in wind and farm projects. "What batteries do is provide the option of new solar projects, new wind farms, because we can now store the excess energy in a way which doesn't create disturbances and instabilities for our networks," he said.
The Telsa-Neoen project, to cost about $50m, will include batteries connected to Neoen's wind farm to store excess wind power and feed it back into the grid. About 70 per cent of stored energy will be for SA and 30 per cent for sale on the market.
Despite Mr Musk's assurance that the battery would be built in 100 days of contracts being signed, the state would still need to ship in a fleet of temporary diesel generators to prevent blackouts, at a cost of $100m.


In the fall of 1875, the Boston Athenæum's Fine Arts Committee became interested in purchasing the "very valuable collection of works of art made by the famous Italian collector & connoisseur Alessandro Castellani." The funds for the acquisition were to come from money recovered on the insurance of the Lawrence Collection of Arms and Armor (see entry 109) that had burned in Boston's Great Fire of 1872. When the purchase was finalized the following June, the Athenæum placed the collection immediately in the new building of the Museum of Fine Arts in Copley Square, in time for its opening on July 3, 1876. The purchase included nineteen articles of sculptured wood, thirty Italian Renaissance bronzes, and thirty-one pieces of Italian silk textiles, hanging, and embroideries. Of diverse quality, this assortment was typical of several purchases that the Athenæum made in the 1870s expressly for the new Museum, whose early collection was as eclectic in scope as it was didactic in purpose.
The name of Alessandro Castellani had been familiar to the Athenæum for some time. Since 1872, the new Museum of Fine Arts exhibitions—held at the Athenæum in 1873, 1874, and 1875—had included Bostonian Thomas Gold Appleton's collection of over forty Greco-Italian painted ceramic vases that had been discovered, reportedly, "by Alessandro Castellani in Etruscan and Campanian Tombs." By the summer of 1875 Castellani was in communication with the Athenæum as he contemplated his exhibition at the Philadelphia Centennial the following year, and the Athenæum made arrangements with the Italian marchand-collectionneur to have the crates sent directly to Boston on their way to Philadelphia, with the Athenæum retaining the right of refusal upon inspection of their contents. The shipment came to the freshly completed building of the new Museum in Copley Square about one month before its public opening, followed by the Signor Castellani himself, who arrived in Boston on June 23 and promptly arranged the contents of the crates for inspection. The Trustees liked the collection, Mrs. Lawrence was delighted with it, and the Athenæum's Fine Arts Committee soon voted to purchase the collection for the new Museum for $8,000. Once purchased by the Athenæum, the Castellani Collection became a part of the newLawrence Collection at the Museum that the older institution was enthusiastically augmenting. Throughout the 1870s the Athenæum was eager to make visible its contribution to the younger institution; it also wished to acknowledge Mrs. Lawrence, an extremely generous donor, in a highly public manner. Following his successful sale in Boston, Castellani went on to exhibit a large number of "Italian antiquities"—marbles, bronzes, personal ornaments, majolica, etc.—at the Centennial in Philadelphia in the fall. Apparently the Athenæum was quite taken with Castellani: it purchased more articles from him in Philadelphia, and the Italian dealer presented to the Athenæum an inscribed copy of the catalogue of his exhibition.
Castellani had easy access to a steady stream of objects coming out of the vast holdings of Roman aristocrats and churches, and the Athenæum's purchases were largely objects of this variety. Discarded, abandoned, or at least willingly sold off in their native land, these objects found a readymarket in America. The Italian textiles included many ecclesiastical vestments—chasubles and copes—as well as altar frontals and chalice veils, all with elaborate decorations; some of them show heavy wear that suggests years of use. The chalice veil illustrated here, embroidered with gold in high relief on violet silk woven with strips of gold, must have come from a splendid set of ceremonial vestments, made in Italy in the eighteenth century for an unknown church. The embroidered letter pouch is thought to date from the seventeenth century.
They are a part of the past; and, though in no sense art, the beauty of the material, the richness of the embroidery, and their splendid color, make them grateful to the eye of the artist as well to that of the antiquarian.
Most of what the Athenæum purchased for the Museum in the 1870s was relegated to storage in the early twentieth century. The Museum's focus shifted from the didacticism of its early years to the display of the rare and the original. Some of its early holdings were proven to be outright modern reproductions, but more often they were articles of the past that were skillfully crafted but without the aesthetic uniqueness required by the new standards of exhibition. Most of the Castellani textiles were of this latter category.
After several decades in storage at the Museum, some of the Castellani carved wooden pieces returned quietly to the Athenæum in 1953, and most of the Italian bronzes and vases from the collection were sold at auction in 1977. The Castellani textiles have continued to lie in storage at the Museum, preserving the beautiful condition of some of them. Arrested in time for over a century, they attest to the humble aspirations that guided the Athenæum and the Museum in the 1870s, as the collections of both these institutions grew.
Hina Hirayama, from, Stanley Ellis Cushing and David B. Dearinger, eds., Acquired Tastes: 200 Years of Collecting for the Boston Athenæum (2006): 342. Copyright © The Boston Athenæum.
 Henry Bromfield Rogers to Edward Newton Perkins, May 12, 1876; the decision to purchase the Castellani collection is recorded in Fine Arts Committee Records, October 18, 1875.
 For the Castellani family and their work, see Susan Weber Soros and Stefanie Walker, eds., Castellani and Italian Archaeological Jewelry(New Haven and London: Yale University Press for Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, New York, 2004); and Geoffrey C. Munn, Castellani and Giuliano: Revivalist Jewellers of the 19th Century(New York: Rizzoli, 1984).
 Michael Tyskiewicz, Memories of An Old Collector(London: Longmans, Green, 1898), 71, and Margherita Barnabei nd Filippo Delpino, eds., Le "Memorie di un archeologo" di Felice Barnabei(Rome: De Luca Edizioni d'Arte, 1991), 119; quoted in Soros and Walker, 63-64.
 Catalogue of the Collection of Ancient and Modern Works of Art Given or Loaned to the Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts, at Boston(Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1872), 32.
 Fine Arts Committee Records, October 13, 1875, refers to a letter from Martin Brimmer to Castellani, July 24, 1875, and another from Castellani to Brimmer, n.d., which probably initiated the negotiation, but the letters are not in the Athenæum archives.
 Fine Arts Committee Records, June 23 and July 3, 1876.
 Only some of the Castellani purchases were installed in the Lawrence Room and the rest were exhibited in the Loan Room, according to MFA catalogues.
 Edward Newton Perkins, chairman of the Athenæum's Fine Arts Committee, purchased objects at the fair on behalf of the Athenæum, some of them from Castellani. Fine Arts Committee Records, November 1, 1876. The inscribed copy is Special Catalogue of the Collection of Antiquities, Exhibited by Alessandro Castellani, of Rome, in Rooms U, V, W, Memorial Hall (Philadelphia: Press of Edward Stern & Co., 1876).
 In the preface by Charles Callahan Perkins, Catalogue of the Collection…the Museum of Fine Arts, at Boston (1872), 3.
 Walter Muir Whitehill, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: A Centennial History(Cambridge: The Balknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970), 9-10.
 Thomas Gold Appleton, Boston Museum of the Fine Arts. A Companion to the Catalogue(Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1877), 73. Walter Muir Whitehill, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: A Centennial History(Cambridge: The Balknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970), 9-10.


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An Easter to reflect on our fragile home
This Easter the Government has released its most powerful analysis yet of our impact on New Zealand's biosphere and the verdict is crystal clear: our destruction of our ecosystems continues apace, writes Rod Oram.
Easter is the perfect time for us to consider how well we're looking after our life support system. Many of us have a few days off in places urban, rural, seaside or wild to savour nature, the source of everything we need for our survival; and for those of us of the great faiths of the world, all founded in the northern hemisphere, this is our spiritual spring, a time of rebirth and renewal.
We think nature is boundlessly abundant. Yet, it is astonishingly scarce. The biosphere, home to all living things from our largest plants and animals to our tiniest microbes, is just a gossamer thin layer of air, water, soil and sea enveloping the planet.
The atmosphere is barely 100km deep, with virtually all the air we breathe in the bottom 10 km. If all the atmosphere was collected in one place at sea level pressure, it would be a bubble just 2,000km in diameter, less than the drive down our north and south islands. Yet into this bubble we humans pumped last year 37 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, compounding our climate catastrophe.
If all the water in the world – oceans, lakes, rivers, vapour in the atmosphere and aquifers as far as we can measure them – was collected in one place it would be a globule only 1,400km across, less than the drive from Cape Reinga to Christchurch. All the surface fresh water in the world would be a droplet 62km across, half the distance from Auckland to Hamilton.
Yet this biosphere, our one and only, supports teeming life forms, including 7.7 billion people. But we humans have tripled in number in the past 70 years, wreaking havoc on our very life support system.
As it happens, this Easter the Government has just released its most powerful analysis yet of our impact on New Zealand's biosphere. Environment Aotearoa 2019 is a big improvement on the previous, and first, such report in 2015.
Remarkably considering how much we say we value our nature, we were the last developed country in the world to embark on such work. We only began with the Environmental Reporting Act of 2015. It requires the government to produce reports on five domains – air, atmosphere and climate, fresh water, land, and marine – with a report on one domain every six months plus a synthesis report of all of them in a three-year cycle.
The latest verdict is crystal clear: our destruction of our ecosystems continues apace. Oh, yes, some rivers in some rural and urban places are better than they were. But overall, we continue to degrade them. Oh, yes, we are managing to increase by a few the populations of some highly endangered native birds. But if we stopped our conservation efforts, they would become extinct.
Quite simply, the way we live and the way we earn a living, in town and country, is increasingly damaging the things we value. These include nature itself, and our health, economy, identity, culture, recreation and ultimately social stability.
Given these are vastly complex and interdependent issues, we need help to understand their causes and cures.
With that goal in mind, the Ministry for the Environment used four criteria to select themes and issues for the report:
- Spatial extent and scale (how much of New Zealand is affected by the issue?)
- Magnitude of change (is the issue increasing in scale and/or distribution, or accelerating?)
- Irreversibility and lasting effects of change (how hard is it to fix?)
- Scale of effect on culture, recreation, health, and economy (how much does it affect the things we value?)
This analysis produced five themes and identified nine issues arising from them:
- Theme 1: Our ecosystems and biodiversity
- Issue 1: Our native plants, animals, and ecosystems are under threat
-Theme 2: How we use our land
- Issue 2: Changes to the vegetation on our land are degrading the soil and water
- Issue 3: Urban growth is reducing versatile land and native biodiversity
- Theme 3: Pollution from our activities
- Issue 4: Our waterways are polluted in farming areas
-Issue 5: Our environment is polluted in urban areas
- Theme 4: How we use our freshwater and marine resources
- Issue 6: Taking water changes flows which affects our freshwater ecosystems
- Issue 7: The way we fish is affecting the health of our ocean environment
- Theme 5: Our changing climate
- Issue 8: New Zealand has high greenhouse gas emissions per person
- Issue 9: Climate change is already affecting Aotearoa New Zealand
The report says the fifth is the most important because climate change is intensifying the effects of all the other issues.
For a dive into some of the crucial issues arising, please read these stories by three of my Newsroom colleagues: Biodiversity on the brink; Soils at risk of perfect storm as forestry and cities grow; Data gaps behind the environmental headlines.
The report itself is highly readable, with the summary even more so. They are available on the MfE website. I particularly recommend this graphic on page five of the summary:
We absolutely need the science and facts about our relationship with the biosphere to guide us in changing our ways. We have to ensure everything we do works with nature not against it. Then we will give our life support system half a chance to heal itself. But for many of us even the facts aren't enough to move us.
As Charles Eisenstein writes in his book Fear of a Living Planet:
"I don't know about you, but I didn't become an environmentalist because someone made a rational argument that convinced me that the planet was in danger. I became an environmentalist out of love and pain: love for the world and its beauty and the grief of seeing it destroyed.
"It was only because I was in touch with these feelings that I had the ears to listen to evidence and reason and the eyes to see what is happening to our world. I believe that this love and this grief are latent in every human being. When they awaken, that person becomes an environmentalist."
My journey on this has been long and slow. I grew up in the largest industrial city in England where nature, apart from manicured parks and gardens, was mostly obliterated by buildings and smog. So as a family we escaped often to the surrounding countryside, or further afield to seaside and mountains.
As for my spiritual connection with nature, all the Church of England offered me as a child were the dying days of human dominion over nature. Later my church talked of stewardship. These days it talks of our care of creation. But that makes no sense to me, since creation cares for us.
My real awakening began with my arrival in Aotearoa New Zealand 22 years ago. First it was the sheer beauty and variety of this place and the glorious, though tragically threatened, biodiversity of it that had its way with me; and in recent years my formative influence is Te ao Māori, the Māori world view. It guides me in my search for righting by relationship with nature so I can become more intrinsically part of it. (Ultimately I will reach my goal. When I die, I insist on being buried so I can compost completely.)
Yet, as the years of inaction roll by, and our damage to our life support system intensifies here and around the world, I increasingly believe we won't do enough until we care enough. And we won't care enough until we have a spiritual relationship with nature.
That can take countless, varied forms, personal and collective -- all the great faiths of the world have in common this quest for connection and meaning. Eleven of them, for example, founded the Alliance of Religions and Conservation in 1995. Its history is intriguing and its Ohito Declaration on religions, land and conservation inspiring.
As a business journalist interested in the levers of power and change, I also note ARC's calculation that its 11 faiths own 7 percent of the habitable surface of the planet; and if they invested together, they would be the world's third largest identifiable block of equity owners.
So, this long weekend, should you take a brief break from communing with nature to read about nature, please my I recommend an excellent companion piece to Environment Aotearoa 2019 – Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical Laudato Si', On Care for our Common Home.
In next week's column, I'll return to my three-part series on our responses to the climate crisis.


Robbers got away with cash, cigarettes and alcohol in a raid on a rural post office.
A spokesman for Lincolnshire police said three men entered the store and stole cash, alcohol and cigarettes before leaving the scene in a blue 4x4 with a silver skirt.
The member of staff in the shop was shocked but unhurt.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact Spalding CID on 101, quoting incident number 404 of 15th March.


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Thursday, Sept. 20 6 p.m. -- Midway opens for Bracelet Night. Twenty dollars will buy unlimited rides between the hours of 6 and 10 p.m. 6 p.m. -- Cattle, hogs, and equine judging in Arena A 8 p.m. -- Six Appeal (Acappella) will perform at the amphitheater...
Miss DHS (Local News ~ 09/20/12)
Candidates for Miss Dexter High School have been selected by a vote of the senior class. Miss Dexter 2012 and her court will be named at 6:20 p.m. Friday night before the start of Friday night's football game against the Kennett Indians. Vying for the title are, on the upper row, Whittney Twomey, Brooke Duckworth, Taylor Winstead, and Brooke Stoker. In front are Sydney Graves, Stephanie Gee, Jessica Norman, and Alexis Rauls...
Hundreds come to see fighter jet (Local News ~ 09/20/12)
When an Eastern European fighter jet, complete with replica missiles and foreign insignia, touched down at the Dexter Municipal Airport Sunday, word spread quickly throughout the community. Photos showed up on Facebook and people quickly showed up to take a rare look at an aircraft designed for combat...
Kemp named publisher at Daily Statesman (Local News ~ 09/20/12)
It was announced this week that Ron Kemp, currently a publisher serving over several Rust Communication owned newspapers in Arkansas, will be serving in the capacity of publisher of The Daily Statesman, Kemp replaces Bud Hunt, who has been promoted to the newly created position of vice president of revenue. In his new role, Hunt will oversee the creation of a sales training and evaluation program for the company. He will also assist in product development and launch of new corporate initiatives...
Dexter takes on Kennett in battle of winless teams (High School Sports ~ 09/20/12)
It's just Week 5 of the high school football season but Friday night's match up at Charles Bland Stadium in Dexter could be a make or break game for either the Bearcats or the Kennett Indians. Both teams enter the game winless and at or near the bottom of the SEMO Central Conference and Class 3, District 1 standings. A win could jump start a second half comeback for one of the teams while a loss will put one team in desperation mode...
J.C. Larsen (Obituary ~ 09/20/12)
J.C. Larsen, son of the late Everett Larsen and Geneva Coburn Larsen, was born on April 15, 1923, in Dexter, Mo., and died on Sept.18, 2012, at Missouri Southern Health-care in Dexter, Mo. Mr. Larsen was a retired farmer. He was a member of the Liberty Hill Church for 66 years, where he served as a deacon for 64 of those years...


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Q: Groups vs Data Extensions in Marketing Cloud - what's the difference? I have created a data extension and a group in marketing cloud but not sure what is the basic difference between them? Can we use group in journey builder as entry source?

A: To start at the basics, there are two types of data structures, which are data extensions and lists. And a group is a segment of a list.
As Journey Builder only works with data extensions, you cannot use a group as an entry source for a journey.
To better understand when to use which data structure, check out the documentation article "List versus Data Extension". Here are the most important facts:

List-Based Data Model
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*you prefer simplicity over performance

*you do not require fast import speed

*you plan to use a limited number of subscriber attributes

*you use the XML API

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*your lists are going to be greater than 500,000 subscribers

*you support multiple subscriber data sets, with separate definitions

*you send global messages

*you require fast import speeds

*you implement triggered sends

*you use the SOAP or REST APIs

*you prefer a flexible subscription model

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*Groups with Enhanced Subscriber Features in Marketing Cloud

*Data Extensions with Enhanced Subscriber Features in Marketing Cloud

*List versus Data Extension

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Considered one of essentially the most widespread electrical wiring thoughts is regarding how to wire a switch. Though applying switches at your home is sort of uncomplicated, wiring 1 may well not be that effortless for everybody. An ON-OFF switch is in fact quite simple to wire. You will find different types of switches, but for this instance, let us say you're putting in a single-pole toggle switch, an extremely typical swap (as well as easiest).
You will find 3 colors of wires in a regular single-pole toggle switch: black, white, and inexperienced. Splice the black wire in two and hook up them to the terminal screws - just one on top and the other around the base screw on the switch. The white wire serves to be a supply of uninterrupted electricity and it is commonly related to a mild coloured terminal screw (e.g., silver). Connect the inexperienced wire on the ground screw within your change.
These measures would normally be adequate to make a typical swap do the job with out a challenge. On the other hand, for those who usually are not self-confident you can achieve the task effectively and properly you better allow the pros do it instead. Immediately after all, there's a explanation why this process is among the most frequent electrical wiring issues questioned by plenty of people.
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Joey's Luck by John Escott
Everything happens at the beginning of the twentieth century. Joey arrives in London from Ireland in January. January is a cold and windy month in England. Still he does not even have a place to stay. Joey thinks it is not too important. After all, luck will help him. Thanks to his luck, he will find a cozy and inexpensive room where he will rest after the road. Soon he will become a rich man, thanks to his good luck. After all, the real rich men always get lucky. He goes for a walk around the city and after a while finds a room. It is small, but very cheap. The young man likes it. From the window there is a beautiful view of the Tower Bridge. The guy does not have much time to find a job and pay for the next week. But Joey is sure that luck will not fail this time.
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Joey Kerrigan arrived in London in January 1912. He did not have a place to stay.
'It doesn't matter,' he thought, smiling. 'Joey's luck is going to find me a room.'
Joey thought a lot about luck. 'One day I'm going to be rich,' he told everybody. 'Lucky people get rich, and I'm lucky.'
After a lot of walking, he found a room in a house. It was near Tower Bridge. The room wasn't very big but it was cheap. The landlord's name was Mr Webber. He looked Joey up and down.
'What's your name?' he said. 'Where are you from?'
'Joe. Joe… Smith,' Joe said. 'I'm from Ireland.'
'Well, you can have the room,' Webber said, 'but I want two weeks' money now.'
'I've only got one week's money,' Joey said.
'And tomorrow's Sunday,' Webber said. 'You can't find work on a Sunday. So when can you give me the second week's money?'
Joey smiled with his mouth but not his eyes. 'I can find work,' he said. 'I'm lucky. Good things happen to me. It's called Joey's luck.'
On Sunday, Joey stayed in bed all morning and in the afternoon, he went for a walk. After an hour, he took a bag from a woman in Fleet Street.
The woman shouted, 'Stop! Stop!'
But Joey was now fifty metres away, and there were no other people near.
Joey laughed and ran down a little street, then between two tall buildings down to the river.
He stopped and opened the bag. There was some money in it, but not very much. He took the money out, then put the bag into the river.
Later that day, he walked past a bookshop. There were lots of people there, looking at books, and Joey moved carefully between them. For a second he stood behind a fat man, then moved quietly away. The man did not feel Joey's hand in his back pocket, but the man's wallet was now inside Joey's shirt.
It was a big, fat wallet, and when he got back to the house, he gave the landlord the second week's money for the room.
'You found work on a Sunday?' Webber said. 'Where? Who with?'…
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So, what does Dunkirk have to do with the sinking of the Lancastria two weeks later?
Well, it turns out that not all soldiers were rescued at Dunkirk. Some 150,000 were still desperately making their way to the coasts in the hopes of rescue. Effectively told that it was now every man for himself,v soldiers walked for days in the oppressive June heat, often with little food and water to make their way to one of the French coastal ports.
Those who could, swam desperately through the thick oil towards other rescue vessels, but the German bombers returned, strafing survivors in the water.xiv Oil slicks caught on fire, burning men as they drowned. The sea was afloat with moments of heroism and madness.
And so, the story of the Lancastria slipped into oblivion, just as the ship sank beneath the sea.
It took 75 years for the British government to formally recognize the tragedy,xxii far too little too late for the 2,447 survivors,xxiii many of whom had already passed away.
So, this November 11th, as part of our Remembrance Day display, we'll read my grandfather's memoirs about his evacuation from St. Nazaire and the Lancastria sinking. We will remember.
Watch Who Do You Think You Are? as they reveal to British entertainer Amanda Holden how her grandfather survived the sinking of the Lancastria but was forever haunted by what he witnessed.
i Lancastria Archive & Mark Hirst, Lancastria Archive: We Will Remember Them (http://www.lancastria.org.uk : accessed 1 August 2017).
ii "Britain's worst sea disaster recalled," BBC News, 17 June 2005, HTML edition, archived (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4104996.stm : accessed 2 November 2018).
iii Chapman, James, "Sinking of the Lancastria is marked at last: Wartime loss of troop ship that cost 4,000 lives to be commemorated 75 years on," The Daily Mail, 17 June 2015, HTML edition, archived (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3128991/Sinking-Lancastria-marked-Wartime-loss-troop-ship-cost-4-000-lives-commemorated-75-years-on.html : accessed 2 November 2018).
iv "Operation Dynamo: Things You Need to Know About the Dunkirk Evacuation," English Heritage (https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/dover-castle/history-and-stories/operation-dynamo-things-you-need-to-know : accessed 1 November 2018), "History and Stories".
v Palmer, Marie, transcriber, "Molly & Frank: Letters, Photos, Journals, Memoirs & Family Histories, 2nd edition," p. 101; copy in possession of Marie Palmer, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], British Columbia, Canada, 2018. Ms. Palmer is the granddaughter of Frank Palmer.
vi Palmer, "Molly & Frank," 102.
vii "WW2 People's War," BBC (https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/56/a4103056.shtml : accessed 1 November 2018), "The Sinking of the Lancastria – 1940".
viii Palmer, "Molly & Frank," 104.
ix Lancastria Archive & Mark Hirst, Lancastria Archive: We Will Remember Them.
x Palmer, "Molly & Frank," 104.
xi "Forgotten Tragedy: The Loss of the HMT Lancastria," The National Archives (https://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/forgotten-tragedy-the-loss-of-hmt-lancastria/# : accessed 1 November 2018).
xii Clayton, Tim, "Historical Notes: News of 'Lancastria' Sinking Supressed," The Independent, 3 December 1999, HTML edition, archived (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/historical-notes-news-of-lancastria-sinking-suppressed-1126875.html : accessed 2 November 2018).
xiv "Lancastria: The Forgotten Tragedy of World War Two," BBC News, 13 June 2015, HTML edition, archived (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-33092351 : accessed 2 November 2018).
xv Lancastria Archive & Mark Hirst, Lancastria Archive: We Will Remember Them, "Survivor Accounts".
xvii Dancocks, Raye, "The Lancastria – a Secret Sacrifice in World War Two," BBC, 17 February 2011, HTML edition, archived (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/lancastria_01.shtml : accessed 3 November 2018).
xix "Lancastria: Britain's forgotten disaster," BBC, 2 July 2010, HTML edition, archived (http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8782000/8782971.stm : accessed 4 November 2018).
xxi Lancastria Archive & Mark Hirst, Lancastria Archive: We Will Remember Them.
xxii Corner, Natalie, "'The trauma was too much for him': Amanda Holden discovers the heartbreaking story behind her grandfather's suicide as she learns of his involvement in the worst maritime disaster in British history," Daily Mail, 22 November 2016, HTML edition, archived (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3957428/Amanda-Holden-discovers-heartbreaking-story-grandfather-s-suicide-learns-involvement-Lancastria-disaster.html : accessed 3 November 2018).
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Taylor English Duma is pleased to announce that Lisa E. Chang has joined the firm's Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. Prior to joining Taylor English, Chang served as County Attorney and Chief Legal Officer for DeKalb County, Ga., where she oversaw all the county's civil legal matters, including drafting ordinances, advising elected officials and department heads or representing the County in litigation. The civil litigation she supervised ranged from a $1.2 billion consent decree with the United States EPA and county-city disputes to multimillion-dollar construction disputes and employment matters. A former Jones Day lawyer, Chang has successfully defended against proposed class and collective employment actions. "Lisa brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and talent for our government and public entity clients, particularly in handling hotly litigated matters," said Todd E. Jones, Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group chair. "She has exactly the skill set and track record that our clients prize, and she boosts the firm's litigation capabilities in high-stakes, sensitive legal matters. Lisa's commitment to quality and effective legal work is consistent with our goals, and we are pleased to have her as part of our team." At Taylor English, Chang will serve individuals, government and public entities, and public and private companies in a full range of litigation, including employment disputes, commercial transactions, and state and federal constitutional challenges. Chang is involved in a number of professional and civic organizations. She is a past president of both the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) and the Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and a current board member of each of their foundations. She served for many years on the board of the Georgia Legal Services Program and the Georgia Supreme Court's Commission on Access and Fairness in the Courts. She is a past chair and current member of the Atlanta Bar Association's Labor & Employment Section. Chang earned her undergraduate degree from Amherst College and her law degree from Columbia University School of Law.
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Wells Fargo skidded after reporting a drop in earnings as fallout continued from its phony accounts scandal. Citigroup also fell after its revenue growth was weak. AT&T skidded after the Justice Department asked a court to overturn the company's purchase of Time Warner.
Investors expect another round of great profit growth this quarter, but they're not sure about what will come next: the U.S. and China are in a trade war without any signs of resolution, midterm Congressional elections are getting closer, and interest rates keep rising. Paul Christopher, head of global market strategy for the Wells Fargo Investment Institute, said investors will focus on corporate forecasts covering the rest of the year.
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Q: Conflicts between two stylesheets I am working on a project that uses Vue + Tailwind inside a WP plugin for a site that use a tailwind theme generates all the tailwind classes I need.
The issue I am running into is when I load the CSS for my plugin I'm getting some really strange conflicts which I have boiled down to having two tailwind style sheets loaded at the same time.
Unfortunately there are some npm packages I am using that have their own styles and so just omitting the style sheet all together isn't an option.
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Lake Restoration Methods
Last Updated on Sat, 10 Aug 2019 | Ecological Engineering
The most important methods are listed below and a brief description of their application, advantages, and disad vantages is given.
1. Diversion of wastewater has been extensively used, often to replace wastewater treatment. Discharge of efflu ents into an ecosystem which is less susceptible than the one used at present is, as such, a sound principle, which under all circumstances should be considered, but quan tification of all the consequences has often been omitted. Diversion might reduce the number of steps in the treat ment, but cannot replace wastewater treatment totally, as discharge of effluents, even to the sea, always should require at least mechanical treatment to eliminate sus pended matter. Diversion has often been used with a positive effect when eutrophication of a lake has been the dominant problem. Canalization, either to the sea or to the lake outlet, has been used as solution in many cases of eutrophication. However, effluents must be considered as a freshwater resource. If it is discharged into the sea, effluent cannot be recovered; if it is stored in a lake, after sufficient treatment of course, it is still a potential water resource. It is far cheaper to purify eutrophic lake water to an acceptable drinking water standard than to desalinate seawater.
Diversion is often the only possibility when a 'massive' discharge of effluents goes into a susceptible aquatic eco system. If it is considered that the canalization is often a significant part of the overall cost of handling wastewater, it might often turn out to be a both better and cheaper solution to have smaller treatment units with individual discharge points. Although diversion is not considered an ecotechnological method based on sound ecological prin ciples, a number of successful applications of diversion has been reported in the limnological literature. The most frequently quoted case is probably the restoration of Lake Washington resulting from diversion of wastewater.
2. Removal of superficial sediment can be used to support the recovery process of very eutrophic lakes and of areas contaminated by toxic substances (for instance, harbors). This method can only be applied with great care in small ecosystems due to the stirring up of suspended matter. Sediments have a high concentration of nutrients and many toxic substances, including trace metals. If a wastewater treatment scheme is initiated, the storage of nutrients and toxic substances in the sediment might prevent recovery of the ecosystem due to exchange pro cesses between sediment and water. Anaerobic conditions might even accelerate these exchange processes; this is often observed for phosphorus, as iron(III) phosphate reacts with sulfide and forms iron(II) sulfide by release of phosphate. The amount of pollutants stored in the sediment is often very significant, as it reflects the dis charge of untreated wastewater for the period prior to the introduction of a treatment scheme. Thus, even though the retention time of the water is moderate, it might still take a very long time for the ecosystem to recover.
The removal of sediment can be made mechanically or by use of pneumatic methods. The method is, however, costly to implement, and has therefore been limited in use to smaller systems. Maybe the best known case of removal of superficial sediment is Lake Trummen in Sweden -40 cm of the superficial sediment was removed. The transparency of the lake was improved considerably, but decreased again due to phosphorus in the overflows from storm water basins. Probably, treatment of the overflow after the removal of superficial sediment would have been needed.
3. Uprooting and removal of macrophytes have been widely used in streams and also to a certain extent in reservoirs, where macrophytes have caused problems in the turbines. The method can, in principle, be used wher ever macrophytes are a significant result of eutrophication. A mass balance should always be set up to evaluate the significance of the method compared with the total nutrient input. Collection of the plant fragments should be consid ered under all circumstances. A simultaneous removal of nutrients from effluents should also be considered.
4. Coverage of sediment by an inert material is an alternative to removal of superficial sediment. The idea is to prevent the exchange of nutrients (or maybe toxic substances) between sediment and water. Polyethylene, polypropylene, fiberglass screen, or clay are used to cover the sediment surface. The general applicability of the method is limited due to the high costs, even though it might be more moderate in cost than removal of super ficial sediment. It has only been used in a few cases and a more general evaluation of the method is still lacking.
5. Siphoning of hypolimnetic water is more moderate in cost than methods 2 and 4. It can be used over a longer period and thereby gives a pronounced overall effect. The effect is dependent on a significant difference between the nutrient concentrations in the epilimnion (the water above the thermocline) and the hypolimnion
(the water below the thermocline), which, however, is often the case if the lake or the reservoir has a pronounced thermocline. This implies, on the other hand, that the method will only have an effect during the period of the year when a thermocline is present (in many temperate lakes from May to October/November), but as the hypolimnetic water might have a concentration fivefold or higher than the epilimnetic water, it might have a significant influence on the nutrients budget to apply the method anyhow.
As the hypolimnetic water is colder and lower in oxygen, the thermocline will move downward and the possibility of anaerobic zones will be reduced. This might have an indir ect effect on the release of nutrient from the sediment.
If there are lakes or reservoirs downstream, the method cannot be used, as it only removes but does not solve the problem. A possibility in such cases would be to remove phosphorus from the hypolimnetic water before it is dis charged downstream. The low concentration of phosphorus in hypolimnetic water (maybe 0.5-1.0 mgl *) compared with wastewater makes it almost impossible to apply che mical precipitation. However, it will be feasible to use ion exchange, because the capacity of an ion exchanger is more dependent on the total amount of phosphorus removed and the flow than on the total volume of water treated. Figure 1 illustrates the use of siphoning for restoration of Lake Bled in Slovenia. Figure 2 shows the lake today after the restora tion has reduced the eutrophication considerably. Figure 3 shows a schematic drawing of siphoning hypolimnic water followed by removal of phosphate from the hypolimnic water by ion exchange/adsorption.
Several lakes have been restored by this method, mainly in Austria, Slovenia, and Switzerland with signifi cant decrease of the phosphorus concentration as result. Generally, the decline in the total phosphorus concentra tion in epilimnion is proportional to the amount of total phosphorus removed by siphoning and to the time the process has been used. The method has relatively low
Figure 1 Application of hypolimnic water in the Lake Bled, Slovenia.
Figure 2 Due to siphoning of hypolimnic water, Lake Bled, Slovenia, has recovered after eutrophication.
Figure 3 Application of siphoning and ion exchange of hypolimnetic water. The dotted line indicates the thermocline. The hypolimnetic water is treated by activated aluminum oxide to remove phosphorus.
costs and is relatively effective, but the phosphorus must of course be removed from hypolimnetic water before it is discharged, if there are other lakes downstream.
6. Flocculation of phosphorus in a lake or reservoir is another alternative. Either aluminum sulfate or iron(iii) chloride can be used. Calcium hydroxide cannot be used, even though it is an excellent precipitant for wastewater, as its effect is pH dependent and a pH of 9.5 or higher is required. The method is not generally recommended as (a) it is not certain that all flocs will settle and thereby incorporate the phosphorus in the sediment, and (b) the phosphorus might be released from the sediment again at a later stage.
7. Circulation of water can be used to break down the thermocline. This might prevent the formation of anae robic zones, and thereby the release of phosphorus from sediment.
8. Aeration of the lake sediment is a more direct method to prevent anaerobic conditions from occurring. Aeration of highly polluted rivers and streams has also been used to avoid anaerobic conditions. Pure oxygen has been used in the Danish Lake Hald and in Lake Fure close to Copenhagen, instead of air. The water quality of the lake has been permanently improved since the oxy genation started.
9. Regulation of hydrology has been extensively used to prevent floods. Lately, it has also been considered as a workable method to change the ecology of lakes, reser voirs, and wetlands. if the retention time in a lake or a reservoir is reduced with the same annual input of nutri ents, eutrophication will decrease due to decreased nutrient concentrations. Another possibility is to use a variable retention with the shortest retention time from shortly before to shortly after the spring and summer blooms. in most cases, the eutrophication can be reduced in the order of 20-35% by this method, but the result is case dependent. The role of the depth, which can be regulated by use of a dam, is more complex. increased depth has a positive effect on the reduction of eutrophica tion, but if the retention time is increased simultaneously, the overall effect cannot generally be quantified without the use of a model. The productivity of wetlands is highly dependent on the water level, which makes it highly feasible to control a wetland ecosystem by this method.
10. Application of wetlands or impoundments as nutri ent traps in front of a lake could be considered as an applicable method, wherever the non point sources are significant. it is known that wetlands effectively remove nitrogen by denitrification. Removal of phosphorus by adsorption is also a possibility. Both nitrogen and phos phorus can be removed more effectively if the wetland is harvested at the fall. Figure 4 shows a wetland, and Figure 5 presents the processes that are applied to trap the non point pollution.
11. Shading by use of trees at the shoreline is a cost effective method, which, however, only can give an acceptable result for small lakes due to their low area/ circumference ratio.
12. Biomanipulation can only be used in the phos phorus concentration range from about 50 mgl 1 to about 130 mgl 1, dependent on the lake. In this range, two ecological structures are possible. This is illustrated in Figure 6. When the phosphorus concentration initially is low and increases, zooplankton is able to maintain a relatively low phytoplankton concentration by grazing.
Figure 4 A wetland is a very effective trap for non-point pollutants.
Decomposition Uptake by plants of of Pe, OM Denitrification N Pe, HM, P, N
Pesticides (Pe)
Heavy metals (HM)
Phosphorus(P)
Organic matter (OM)
Nitrogen compounds (N)
Transport to limnetic zone -►
Transition zone (ecotone)
Figure 5 The processes that trap the non-point pollution are shown.
Range where biomanipulation can be applied about 50-130 |jg P l-1
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Faster recovery obtained by biomanipulation
P concentration
Figure 6 The hysteresis relation between nutrient level and eutrophication measured by the phytoplankton concentration is shown. The possible effect of biomanipulation is shown. An effect of biomanipulation can only be expected in the range of c. 50-150 mgPl 1. Biomanipulation can hardly be applied successfully above 150 mgl 1.
Carnivorous fish is also able to maintain a low concentra tion of planktivorous fish which implies relatively low predation on zooplankton. At a certain phosphorus concentration (about 120-150mgl *), zooplankton is not any longer able to control the phytoplankton concentra tion by grazing and as the carnivorous fish (for instance Nile perch or pike) is hunting by the sight, and the turbidity increases, the planktivorous fish become more abundant which involves more pronounced predation on zooplankton. In other words, the structure changed from control by zooplankton and carnivorous fish to control by phytoplankton and planktivorous fish. When the phosphorus concentration decreases from a high concentration, the ecological structure is initially domi nated by phytoplankton and planktivorous fish. This structure can, however, be maintained until the phos phorus concentration is reduced to about 50 mgl . There are therefore two possible ecological structures in the phosphorus range of c. 50-130 mgl \
Biomanipulation can be used in this range - and only in this range - to make a 'shortcut' by removal of planktivor ous fish and release carnivorous fish. If biomanipulation is used above 130 mgPl , some intermediate improvement of the water quality will usually be observed, but the lake will sooner or later get the ecological structure corre sponding to the high phosphorus concentration, that is, a structure controlled by phytoplankton and planktivorous fish. Notice that the value 130 mgPl may vary from case to case due to the influence of other factors such as climate, composition of species, etc. Biomanipulation is a relatively cheap and effective method provided that it is applied in the phosphorus range where two ecological structures are possible.
There are a number of cases where biomanipulation has been successful, but only if the phosphorus loading was reduced simultaneously and the total phosphorus concen tration is below 130mgl \ as mentioned above. Biomanipulation is denoted a top down approach, because a regulation of the top trophic level, the carnivorous fish, is assumed to have an effect on the first trophic level, the phytoplankton. This is in contrast to the bottom up approach, which is the regulation of the nutrient concen tration by the use of wastewater treatment. to reduce the discharge of nutrients. The two approaches, both bottom up and top down, have been applied simultaneously in most cases of practical environmental management. This statement is in most cases completely in accordance with the results presented in Figure 6. The results in this figure can be explained theoretically by use of eco exergy as goal function in a eutrophication model. Lake Annone, Italy, and Lake S0bygaard, Denmark, represent two cases, where clear improvements in algal biomass and total phosphorus were observed by use of biomanipulation. The zooplank ton concentration increased significantly in both cases, simultaneously with a decrease in the phytoplankton con centration. Both cases were modeled by a structurally dynamic model.
For shallow lakes, a corresponding hysteresis takes place between submerged vegetation and phytoplankton. The two structures are between about 0.1 and 0.25mgPl \ both a possible solution to the prevailing conditions, pro vided that phosphorus is the limiting element for plant growth. Submerged vegetation is preferable, because it provides what is denoted a clear water stage; see Figure 7. The selection of structure is dependent on the history. A eutrophied lake with phytoplankton blooms and a concentration between 0.1 and 0.25mgPl can therefore be recovered by planting submerged vegetation.
Figure 7 A shallow lake with dominance of submerged vegetation is named a clear water stage.
13. Biological control methods are also used. Water hyacinths and other macrophytes are a pest in many tropic lakes and reservoirs. Many methods have been tested to abate this pollution problem. The best method tested up to now seems to be the use of beetles, that is, a biological control method. The method has given at least partial success in Lake Victoria. Biological control has also been used as removal process for heavy metals. Freshwater mussels can be applied for cadmium clear ance. Lemna trisulca is able to accumulate as much as 3.8 mg Cd per g dry weight.
Previously, algicides were applied to reduce the eutro phication of lakes. It is not recommendable today due to the toxic effect of algicides. In this context, it should also be mentioned that addition of calcium hydroxide to lakes has been applied as restoration method for the adjustment of pH in acidified lakes.
Survive Global Water Shortages
Biotic Resistance Hypothesis
Environmental Impact Assessment and Application Part
Functions of Riparian Buffer Zones
State of the Practice - Ecological Engineering
Agroforestry in Practice - Ecological Engineering


I am a sophomore and I am on the Imagery team for Hackbots and I play soccer for our school. When I have free time, I enjoy to listen to music, read fantasy, write, draw, and spend time with my friends downtown. My favorite series is A Court of Thorns And Roses by Sarah J. Maas, and my favorite band is Nothing But Thieves. I would like to major in Law at Loyola University in Chicago. My favorite subject in school is chemistry. The stories that interest me are the ones of the psychology of criminals.


New phenotypes of the drought-tolerant cbp20 Arabidopsis thaliana mutant have changed epidermal morphology.
Scratching the surface: genetic regulation of cuticle assembly in fleshy fruit.
The genetic architecture of freezing tolerance varies across the range of Arabidopsis thaliana.
A morpho-physiological approach differentiates bread wheat cultivars of contrasting tolerance under cyclic water stress.
Down-regulation of CBP80 gene expression as a strategy to engineer a drought-tolerant potato.
The effect of exogenous abscisic acid on stomatal development, stomatal mechanics, and leaf gas exchange in Tradescantia virginiana.
Two cap-binding proteins CBP20 and CBP80 are involved in processing primary MicroRNAs.
Localization, ion channel regulation, and genetic interactions during abscisic acid signaling of the nuclear mRNA cap-binding protein, ABH1.
Guard cell photosynthesis and stomatal function.
The Arabidopsis CBP20 targets the cap-binding complex to the nucleus, and is stabilized by CBP80.
A genetic regulatory network in the development of trichomes and root hairs.


"Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles:they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn,a human being;somebody who said to those near him,when his fingers would not hold a brush 'tie it to my hand'--"
I am indebted to Judy Golden and to Professor William Warren "Bill" Bartley III who contributed material for this conversation.
Usually when I ask questions, it's to get their answers. However in asking the following ten questions, my intention is only secondarily to get their answers. Primarily it's to get their answer-er.
In an ordinary situation, to get their answerer, almost any questions will do. But in this extraordinary situation, my intention is to ask only questions which are worthy of the privilege of the occasion and the opportunity, and which honor and respect the conversation in which they're exchanged.
1) Just when I think you can't be any clearer, you are. Just when I think you can't speak transformation any more explicitly, you do. Just when I think you can't imbue your work with any more raw power than it already has, I look again and I see you have.
"Speaking as a 39 year veteran of your work, it's clear to me that over the years, you've made its presentation simpler (never easier) and more direct as it accesses greater power in less time with fewer words. How do you do that? What's your linguistic plumb line (if you will) for becoming ever terser?"
2) After you experienced transformation for the first time, you said you saw you had to do three things: a) share what had happened to you with others; b) take responsibility for your own ego, so that your transformation would not turn into just another ego trip; and c) confront and clean up the things you had done from an untransformed space. I wonder if at that time you also saw how enduring your work would be (soon we'll be marking its fifth decade).
"Your work today continues to demonstrate an ever-increasing momentum and shows no sign of slowing down any time soon, if ever. When you first got it on the Golden Gate Bridge in 1971, did you know then it would still be working as powerfully as it is for as long as it has, 46 years later?"
3) When I was younger and naïver than I am today, I assessed every leader of every one of your senior programs in which I participated, making certain they met my measures for leading your work. When I got clear every one of them did, I stopped assessing them. It had dawned on me if they weren't properly vetted by you, they wouldn't be leading your work in the first place.
"The people you train to lead your most senior programs have to meet many rigorous measures over many stages. What is that one particular final measure they must meet, by which they give you the total certainty they're qualified to lead ie to re-create you?"
4) 46 years ago there was no open listening for transformation worldwide. Earlier iterations of your work were confronting because (in my opinion) they had to break through not the language barrier but rather the listening barrier. As a result, there's now an accumulation of 46 years of open listening for transformation worldwide. So your work doesn't need to be as confrontational as it once did. In this space of open listening, something new is possible which earlier, wasn't.
"Is there anything fundamental which differentiates what your work additionally makes available today, from what it made available when you began 46 years ago, especially given the now 46 years of experience building up to today?"
5) Some people characterize themselves as "seekers" ie as "searching for the answer". But there is no "the answer" - as you've famously asserted. A powerful question isn't one which has the answer. A powerful question is one which has lots and lots and lots of answers. With all that said, it seems likely the answer to the question "What makes a difference?" must be "Language.".
"When I consider qualities which make a difference, intention and commitment etc come to mind. But can anything ever make any real, lasting difference if it's not spoken? So isn't language the paramount quality for making a difference?"
6) The heart wants what it wants (Emily Dickinson said that). When I love someone, I want to be around them. I want to be near them. I want to be close to them. Throughout my life I've indulged myself this way, even though it sets me up to lose when I can't be around them or near them or close to them. So I'm looking to see if I can recontextualize (I love that word) what's possible when I love someone, such that whether I'm around them or not, it's a win - for everyone.
"A coach of mine I trust explicitly suggests I create a new connection with you: by being with you 'out of time and space'. Please speak to this. While I'm intrigued by its possibility, isn't there a risk it would leave me simply imagining things?"
7) Everyone sends you their love. And what everyone wants to know is what you're up to these days. The boldest of your current public profiles (at least, the boldest I'm aware of) is the Leadership Course. Given my guess (and projection) about the way you work, whatever you're working on now will emerge later and break barriers to transformation, as the sequel to the Leadership Course. Please say in which area(s) this will occur.
"What projects are you working on now? What new work are you scheduled to develop in the future?"
8) The last time I asked you who you are for yourself, your answer was unchanged from the previous time I asked you the same question. On both occasions you said you are "a place where the truth can go to work". I could assume your answer will still be the same if I ask you the same question again for a third time. But it's also possible that in the interim (and especially given what you do) you've had a breakthrough and have re-generated who you are for yourself.
"Six years ago when I was in Marrakech Morocco, you answered my question 'Who are you generating yourself to be for the future?' by including 'Make of myself a place where the truth can go to work.'. Is this who you're still generating yourself to be for the future? Or are you something new now?"
9) Since each of my three children graduated, the conversation for transformation (in one form or another) has been ongoing with us. We re-create the distinctions whenever it's pragmatic and useful to do so. And if they don't bring them to our conversations, then I do. That said, where the rubber really meets the road is in the way I be with them. It's proved to make great things possible for us in our relationship. And the way I be with them is sourced by the way you be with me.
"I have interactions with my children in difficult times when I'm at a total loss to know how to be with them. So I drop back, punt ... and be with them the way you be with me. It always works - brilliantly. What is it exactly about being present and simply listening that's so healing?"
10) You introduced me to e e cummings' poetry (I'm deeply grateful). One of what for me are his most compelling quotes, is one you've cited from his introduction to his classic compilation titled New Poems. The second sentence of the fifth paragraph culminates in the stunning "... a human being;somebody who said to those near him,when his fingers would not hold a brush 'tie it to my hand'--".
"Have you accomplished what you set out to do? If not, what's left?"
Please answer as few or as many of these questions as you want to answer. In fact, cherry-pick the ones which call you, and ignore the rest. I intentionally asked many questions to offer you freedom of choice in the matter of which ones you want to answer.
Out of your work, I've invented the possibility of living my life being whole and full and complete and satisfied regardless of any outcome(s). So I'm promising you the conversations generated by the questions I'm asking in this, the second essay in the eleventh Questions For A Friend trilogy, are guaranteed to unfold in a context of being already whole and full and complete and satisfied. The state of play with us will always stay the same: it's OK the way it is (and the way it isn't) and I love you.
There's just one last thing I'd like to add here (repeat, actually) and it's this: being in this conversation with you is a privilege. I respect you, and I thank you.


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6 year old girl got her face painted at New Haven's annual Festival of Arts and Ideas.
Former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone at home in north London , UK.
TOCO TOUCAN (Ramphastos toco) in flight, Rupununi river, Guyana, South America.
Pair of Black-winged Stilts mating in shallow waters of the Salt Pans in Kolloni, Lesbos, Greece.
Angel of the North Gateshead, Newcastle, England.
Indian dancers dancing outside in Hereford City Centre, Herefordshire, UK. BHZ image. Janavak folk dance.
Graffiti head breathing chemical fumes sprayed on the remnant of an old wall, Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany BHZ.
West Haven, CT USA--Ice hangs from the goal posts Sunday morning at Ken Strong Stadium,.The CIAC Class LL football final between Southington and Fairfield Prep was scheduled to be played Sunday, but has been tentatively postponed.
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Victoria Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland. 13 November 2018. UK weather - a grey end to the day in Belfast Northern Ireland. Rain is on the way although the temperature will be mild. Yellow Harland & Wolff crane Belfast Harbour Estate. BHZ Credit: David Hunter/Alamy Live News.
BHZ Close up shot of a single large oriental lily bloom of Lilium Salmon Star.
An old mooring post and tyre fender with reflection in the River Thurne on the Norfolk Broads. BHZ.
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — With 3-year-old Jaden Jordan still on life support, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams unveiled a new educational campaign Friday.
"It is not merely ACS' responsibility, it is every citizen's responsibility to protect a child," he said.
They plan to bring the campaign to houses of worship, senior citizen centers, community meetings and more to explain how to spot signs of abuse or neglect and how to safely report them, 1010 WINS' Juliet Papa reported.
Rosemary Perkins, whose 6-year-old nephew Zymere Perkins died in an allegedly abusive home, was there to offer her support.
"Follow it up, do footwork, reach out," she said.