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College of Charleston professor explains supply chain crunch
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If you've been to just about any store recently, you've no doubt noticed that some items lacking from store shelves.
In grocery stores across the country, Gatorade was in short supply for a while.
At athletic apparel stores, certain brands of shoes have been hard to come by.
And at hardware stores, many items are simply not available or on back order.
According to statistics from Accenture, the consulting and IT services firm, 94% of Fortune 1,000 companies have experienced supply chain disruptions due to COVID-19. That's a lot.
But what's causing the bottleneck of supplies, food and merchandise getting to the stores?
Supply chain disruption risk management is precisely what College of Charleston professor Purushottam Meena studies.
He teaches in the Department of Supply Chain and Information Management in the School of Business and consults in this field as well. Meena recently answered some frequently asked questions about what's been happening – and why – and how things might get better.
Q What's at the root of the supply chain disruptions we're seeing this year?
A Obviously, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a big disruption, and many overlapping factors are at play.
You have to start with the fact that most of the supply chain these days is global, meaning that manufacturers and makers source components and materials from all over the world.
An Apple iPhone, for instance, is made up of parts that come from places in Africa, Asia and elsewhere. Similarly, a car requires around 30,00 parts ranging from semiconductors to steel to plastic and rubber.
These parts need to be shipped from different countries to an assembly plant. When a country or region shuts down and closes its borders because of the pandemic, the components sourced there become difficult to obtain.
Also, it's likely that this country or region's workforce is diminished as well, and that also impacts exports. Of course, supply chains are increasingly complex yet interdependent.
A minor disturbance at any stage of the supply chain will have ramifications for the whole supply chain worldwide. In part, that's what we've seen in recent months.
QAside from the pandemic, what other factors are at play in the current supply chain crisis?
AThere are always stressors in the supply chain world. In my research, I've discovered that supply chain disruptions have become more frequent over the past 15 years.
They're not always on the scale that we're seeing now, but they are occurring more frequently. In addition to the pandemic, several other factors are involved. They include:
Out-of-whack inventory-to-sales ratios (ITSR):
These ratios measure how many days a company can fulfill customers' demand from the existing inventory.
For example, giant clothing companies like Gap Inc., Victoria's Secret & Co., Abercrombie & Fitch Co., etc., are facing a significant drop in their inventories due to product delays and lack of supplies. Gap Inc. estimated a loss of approximately $550-$650 million in sales due to supply shortages.
Bottlenecks in the supply chain network:
Covid created bottlenecks in the containers market at seaports, in air cargo, trucking lines and railways.
Over the past summer and fall, these bottlenecks created historic delays and shortages of different types of products in U.S. markets.
Labor shortages:
Another factor weakening supply chains as customer demands surge is labor shortages. We witnessed an unprecedented number of individuals quitting their jobs in the U.S. this past summer.
With this ongoing labor crisis, moving products to consumers' doors becomes a daunting task for companies.
Shortage of drivers to move cargo:
According to the American Trucking Association, before the pandemic, there was a shortage of approximately 60,00 drivers in the U.S. The pandemic exacerbated that situation. Even after transport firms offered attractive incentives, there is still a shortage of 80,000 drivers. This leaves the entire supply chain system even more fragile.
Q Across the country, we've been seeing backlogs at major ports. Can you explain the dynamics of what's happening in these port cities regarding supply chain disruption?
A As the economy began to reopen post-pandemic, demand for goods and products surged and that meant more and more cargo ships arriving at U.S. ports.
Almost 40% of goods imported into the U.S. come through two West Coast ports — Long Beach and Los Angeles. That sudden shipping surge created a record backlog at major ports around the U.S. and a historic number of containers are still waiting to be unloaded in Log Angeles alone.
In late October, President Joe Biden announced that the Port of Los Angeles would operate 24/7 to ease that bottleneck. Despite this remedy, there is still high congestion of containers because although ships have continued to arrive, there's a shortage of truck drivers needed to move the containers.
Exacerbating the situation is the fact that many transport companies don't allow their drivers to work at night or on weekends, so that makes this a protracted problem. And, apart from the high number of containers waiting to be unloaded at nearly every port, the number of empty containers waiting to be exported back to China and elsewhere has gone up by 47%. All of this has increased the price of container shipments.
Luckily, the situation at Charleston's port is not as severe. According to the South Carolina Ports Authority, Charleston's port terminals have witnessed a 19% increase in average container volume (60,000) compared to the previous year (40,000). And containers here, which are usually moved off site in four days, are now taking eight days to reach that status.
Q Your specialty is supply chain disruption risk management. Given that, how might company leaders have prevented this supply chain crisis from happening, or at least minimized the impact?
A It's imperative that companies plan for disruption. The first solution is to diversify your supply chain. We remember the shortage of PPE (masks, gloves, etc.) in the healthcare industry in the U.S. last year, right? It's important to ask why that happened. It happened because that equipment was not sourced locally.
Hospitals and clinics were getting their PPE from other countries. This is why it's very important for companies to analyze their supply chains beyond just cost-cutting opportunities.
In a global environment, it's very difficult to predict what is going to happen to one aspect of a supply chain. There are always geopolitical factors and occasionally major disasters, such as earthquakes or hurricanes, that can disrupt your supply chain. If you've planned for disruption then your company will have other suppliers at the ready.
Q Does this crisis offer opportunities or lessons for students who are interested in supply chain management?
A Both, I think. The pandemic has exposed the traditional cost-cutting and lean philosophy approaches that are being practiced in modern supply chains.
Students trained in the latest technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain and data analytics will have a key advantage in this field because there will be increasing demand for employees with such skillsets.
College of Charleston professor Purushottam Meena teaches in the Department of Supply Chain and Information Management in the School of Business.
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By: Andrew McGivern, curator of exhibitions on September 22nd, 2010
In previous blogs my colleagues discussed preparations for the opening of this year's Birds in Art exhibition. I thought it important to examine one of the more serious associated events. It involves artists and the highly competitive sport of croquet.
The tradition of Birds in Art artists playing croquet began innocently many years ago. Artists travel north to Hazelhurst each year after Saturday morning Museum appearances. This annual retreat allows artists to spend time with one another in a relaxed atmosphere. Activities include boat rides, swimming, nature walks, and a few sporting events, all available to help break the ice and encourage relaxation.
Pickup games of shuffleboard, volleyball, and croquet are common activities. It's become the norm to hear cheering, laughter, and occasional playful taunting. Croquet competition kicked up a notch this year with the introduction of a traveling trophy dubbed the "Purple Mallet." Rumor has it that the trophy was fabricated from plywood, paint, plastic, and includes a green furry hedgehog that draws its croquet reference from "Alice in Wonderland." (The rumor comes from a reliable source: me. I made it.)
Artist competitors in this year's tourney included printmaker Andrea Rich, wood sculptor Larry Barth, and painters Wes Hyde and Allen Blagden. Competition was fierce; terms like "poison" and "you're going down" were bandied about.
Following a long and hard-fought game, the dust finally settled. Larry Barth claimed bragging rights as winner of the coveted Purple Mallet. I was honored to present the award to Mr. Barth in an elaborate ceremony on the steps of the Porta Lisa (an upscale porta potty).
Congratulations Larry on your auspicious win, and good luck defending your title in 2011.
Special thanks to Jennifer Kasbohm for prodding me to make the trophy and to Jennifer and Cindy House for monitoring the competition to see that game rules were loosely followed.
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Location: East Coast- Little Rhody
Anyone see the commercial yet?
Everytime it comes on I think its my cell ringtone
,I keep reaching for my phone then I feel like a fool Sharon must need money again if she has him in a vid game now
"Do You Live In The Light? Or In The Dead Of The Night Sanctimonious Promises Broken"
volheel
Post subject: Re: Ozzy in worlds of warcraft
Yeah I saw it. I wonder if he actually plays though. Yeah it's probably just Sharon wanting more $$$
You've got to believe in yourself, cause no one will believe in you.
My Randy Rhoads Tribute video, with pictures of his PDV and pictures of the Civic Coliseum taken 27 years later
meandmypinkguitar
yeah i saw it too...may i ask something tho...whiy is everyone hating on sharon? i mean it im just curious...did something go down that i dont know about?
OffTheScales
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meandmypinkguitar wrote:
She is evil! She took away Black Sabbath's name and made it Heaven and Hell.
She remastered the original tracks on every Randy CD and made it with Rudy Sarzo and Tommy Aldridge. Not The original players, Bob Daisley, and Lee Kerslake. She is a mean person, doesn't give a ratt's ass except for herself. I thought she was awesome but all she cares about is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!!!!!!!!
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Alex wrote:
OffTheScales wrote:
She is evil! She took away Black Sabbath's name and made it Heaven and Hell
Man wtf is your problem? I just answered a question. I mean how could you screw Sabbath over like that after all they did for Ozzy's image and career!
lets all play nice please
Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:31 pm
I know wonder wtf Alex's problem is.
dunno scales......alex must need a hug...*hug*
Blaz
Location: E.U.
... back to topic. Ozzy never dissapoints, he appears in fields of pop culture where other ˝metal prophets˝ don't dare. I guess his (or managers) fame and money needs are huge. Imagine Rob Halford in a big-brother show...
I wasn't trying to bash Sharon sorry if it seems that way.But have you seen Ozzy over that past year the guy can hardly stand up anymore.The poor guy looks like a marionette on stage makes you think someone is standing in the rigging moving him around on stage .It Looks to me like he would like to stop but Hey as The Ozz man himself would say "I Don't Know"
If I have offended anyone I do apologize.
none taken MM i was just curious
Semi Poster
Tony owns the Black Sabbath name, and it was his decision to change the name to Heaven and Hell. Believe it or not, not everything happens because of Sharon Osbourne. While she is responsible for redoing the BOO and DOAM albums does that make her evil? The KKK is evil. Hitler is evil. Sharon Osbourne? Not really the same.
Sure, she can be terribly unpleasant, but she is responsible for good things, like keeping Ozzy alive all these years.
Back on topic: I personally like the Samsung commercial much better.
And the last time I saw Ozzy, he was probably more animated than ever. I don't really think his stage movements have changed much since the 80s. They've always been a bit bumbly and awkward.
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Nikki wrote:
Tony owns the Black Sabbath name
I'm not 100% sure on that as far as him owning the name (since Geezer came up with using the name from the old movie) but I do know there were several reasons why they used "Heaven And Hell'. One was with Sabbath's Hall of Fame thing (which included Ozzy & Bill) they didn't want to confuse anybody with the "other Black Sabbath" coments.
Another thing was with the name change they cut out any interference from Sharon as all their Dio-era material written and performed have no links to Sharon or Ozzy so there could be no lawsuits/bickering about money owed for songs, names, trademarks, etc from the Ozzy days. Smart move.
In the end I could care less as I know they are the second successful era of a legendary band and it's just Sabbath Mach II to me. Heaven & Hell works for me.
Here's a little article adressing it from 2007.
Rockin' Reunions: Sabbath name dispute stretches from Heaven to Hell
How do you promote a Black Sabbath tour when you're only allowed to mention the legendary Black Sabbath name in the fine print?
Don't ask Ronnie James Dio, the singer for the current Sabbath tour. He's a bit foggy about the politics of the name game.
When the latest incarnation of the pioneering heavy metal band touches down in Calgary next Wednesday, it does so under the banner Heaven & Hell, which is actually the title of Sabbath's 10th album, released in 1980. That was the first Sabbath record in which Dio appeared as the lead singer, in place of the band's original vocalist, one Ozzy Osbourne.
So why is the recently reunited Dio-led lineup touring now under the Heaven & Hell moniker?
Many fans have speculated that Ozzy's wife, manager and reputed control freak, Sharon Osbourne, is to blame. Ozzy's version of Black Sabbath has headlined his summer Ozzfest tours since 1997, and because of that the Osbournes may be laying claim to the name.
"As far as Sharon being the perpetrator of that, I would certainly not like to think so," says Dio. "I don't like to think that my life is predicated on somebody else's whims who has nothing to do with me."
Who, then, might control the Sabbath name?
"I have no idea," says the five-foot-four singer with the colossal voice. "That seems to have been a point of contention for a long time. Who owns the name? Is it Sharon? Is it Ozzy?"
"Is it Tony Iommi (guitarist for both Black Sabbath and Heaven & Hell)? I would think if Tony owned the name we would be calling ourselves Black Sabbath, so maybe he doesn't."
Given the recent Ozzfest tours, and the fact Sabbath with Ozzy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year, Iommi and the band's bassist, Geezer Butler, felt like they wanted to make the new tour distinct from the other incarnation of Sabbath. "They wanted to carry on with something fresh and new," Dio says. "When they proposed (the band name Heaven & Hell), my initial reaction was, and still is, 'Well, they're gonna call us f.....' Black Sabbath anyway, aren't they? You can call us the Boys in The Shed if you want to. It doesn't matter to me.' "
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I thought Tony Iommi has always had control of the Sabbath name since the day Ozzy got the boot and the recording contract at the time was satisfied. I could be wrong but I thought I heard that in a Westwood 1 radio interview.
I also heard it was out of respect for the original line up of Black Sabbath being inducted around the same time as the Dio/Sabbath reunion getting started that Tony decided it would be better to change the name to Heaven & Hell.
He Could Play Like a Fly on Water for Fairies, Then He was The Beast.
"Ozzy Osbourne"
Hmm, I heard in another thread Jeep was giving hugs with a little manlove
na no more man love for jeepy anymore...now that ginas back he diched us all no more hugs for pinky ....*snif*
no worries there pinky, Scratch me behind my ears and this dog will give you all the love you want
awwww.....do you weely weely mean it?.....ive got warm fuzzies all over now!
Sarab
Location: Metairie, LA
Metal Maniac wrote:
I'm kinda liking the Samsung commercial better.
root beer floats with me...and Jeep driving and Frank riding shotgun on the way to hijack threads...
Jeepman
Location: Chicago/South Side
dogman wrote:
would you two get a room already.......geez
"I got hands to touch,I got eyes to see,I got way too much,I got all I need"
The Samsung one is great.
yaaaayyyyyy!!!!! ....ok ok yup im luvin the samsung one to
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 5:28 am
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Location: In your internets
Alex owned you. I dont think Ozzy had much of an image after he left BS. Wasnt he living in a hotel getting drunk and doing coke (among other things probably)? Sharon may like money, but shes a good business woman regardless of what you or anyone thinks about her. As for the WoW, there are using famous people for there commercials (my fav is the Mr. T one). Quit pissing and moaning about Sharon did this and did that and move on and like Alex said 'grow up'
/Alex, you're the man
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Патриархи Мелькитской католической церкви — список патриархов Антиохии Мелькитской католической церкви с годами правления.

В начале XVIII века в Антиохийской православной церкви возникло движение, выступавшее за унию с Римом. Центром сторонников унии стал Дамаск, а противников — Алеппо. В 1724 году умер патриарх Афанасий III (IV) (Даббас), назначивший преемником монаха Сильвестра, сторонника алеппской партии и противника унии. Однако дамаскцы не согласились с кандидатурой Сильвестра и избрали патриархом своего сторонника — Кирилла. После вмешательства Константинопольского патриарха и турецкого правительства, поддержавших Сильвестра, Кирилл вынужден был бежать из Сирии в Ливан. Пятью годами позже папа Бенедикт XIII признал Кирилла патриархом Антиохии, что зафиксировало раскол и создание Мелькитской грекокатолической церкви.

13 января 1838 года Папа Григорий XVI даровал мелькитским патриархам титулы патриарха Александрийского и Иерусалимского.

 Патриархи Антиохии и всего Востока
  (24 сентября 1724 — 19 июля 1759)
  (19 июля 1759 — 1 августа 1760)
  (1 августа 1760 — 15 ноября 1761)
  (26 декабря 1761 — 30 марта 1788)
 Афанасий IV Джаухар (февраль 1765—1768), вторично, как антипатриарх
 Афанасий IV Джаухар (5 мая 1788 — 2 декабря 1794), в третий раз
  (11 декабря 1794 — 6 августа 1796)
  (11 сентября 1796 — 2 февраля 1812)
  (15 февраля 1812 — 16 ноября 1812)
 место вакантно (1812—1813)
  (14 августа 1813 — 20 ноября 1813)
  (10 декабря 1813 — 15 декабря 1815)
 место вакантно (1815—1816)
  (10 июля 1816 — 13 марта 1833)
  (24 марта 1833 — 12 января 1838)

 Патриархи Антиохии и всего Востока, Александрии и Иерусалима
 Максим III Мазлум (13 января 1838 — 11 или 23 августа 1855)
 место вакантно (1855—1856)
  (1 апреля 1856 — 24 сентября 1864)
 Григорий II Юсеф (29 сентября 1864 — 13 июля 1897)
 место вакантно (1897—1898)
  (24 февраля 1898 — 24 апреля 1902)
  (29 июня 1902 — 11 января 1916)
 место вакантно (1916—1919)
  (29 марта 1919 — 25 октября 1925)
  (8 декабря 1925 — 8 сентября 1947)
 Максим IV Сайех (30 октября 1947 — 5 ноября 1967)
 Максим V Хаким (22 ноября 1967 — 22 ноября 2000)
  (6 июня 2000 — 29 ноября 2000), местоблюститель
 Григорий III Лахам (29 ноября 2000 — 6 мая 2017)
  (6 мая 2017 — 21 июня 2017), местоблюститель
 Иосиф I Абси (21 июня 2017 — по настоящее время)

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Can You Detect What Retro Games Are Hiding in this Puzzle?
In Lifestyle, Parenting
Reckon you're a gaming geek? Then try getting your joystick around this.
This puzzle features 22 cryptic clues to the name of games dating back to the 1970s, so grey-haired gamers crack on.
But millennials need not fear.
There are also a string of more current games to find.
So take a screen break, and feast your eyes on this. If you find them all, you can confidently call yourself a gaming guru.
If not, then you will have to find a way to console yourself.
The puzzle was created to celebrate the UK's biggest gaming festival, Insomnia, which returns to Birmingham's NEC arena this weekend between the 25th-28th August.
Insomnia's spokesman said: "Video games are one of the biggest draws in entertainment these days, with eSports and gaming tournaments drawing millions of fans.
"And we thought it would be a great idea to create a mashup of some of the biggest games in history – and some of the biggest upcoming releases – in one tricky puzzle."
Insomnia will be playing host to some of the biggest names on YouTube and British gaming, including Syndicate, Dan TDM, Yammy XOX and iBallistic Squid.
Gamers will have the chance to be the first in the UK to play top titles FIFA 18, Farcry 5 and the Crew 2.
THE LIST OF GAMES
COD WWII
Uncharted Lost Legacy
Pokken Tournament DX
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Retail Sites Are Becoming Some of the Most Valuable Real Estate in Digital Advertising
Article by Blake Droesch | Jul 16, 2019
Retail media has turned Amazon into an advertising behemoth, allowing the ecommerce giant to become a significant player in the US digital ad market.
While not all of Amazon's ad business is retail-related—the company also sell ads on properties like IMDb TV and Twitch—the majority of ad revenues come from sponsored product and search ads on its retail channels. Amazon's US ad revenues will grow 53% this year, reaching $11.33 billion, or 8.8% of total digital ad spending in the US.
Amazon isn't the only one making use of its valuable real estate. In May 2019, Target said it was remodeling its ad business to resemble something reminiscent of Amazon. Earlier this year, Walmart announced it would bring its digital ad business in-house—just as eBay did in 2017—in order to take advantage of first-party shopper data. While the biggest players in ecommerce are in-housing these efforts, ad tech companies have facilitated partnerships that link brands with networks of smaller retailers across the web.
As part of eMarketer's Global Ecommerce 2019 PRO View report collection, we spoke with Geoffroy Martin, general manager and executive vice president of retail media at ad-tech platform Criteo, about the unique aspects of retail media.
How do you define retail media?
In its simplest form, retail media is the placement of brand-funded ads on retail or ecommerce sites. But it's a very broad spectrum; it's a huge field. We estimate the current retail media market to be between $15 billion to $25 billion worldwide.
Any retailer that sells goods from third-party brands has some sort of retail media revenue stream already.
Why are retailers investing in retail media offerings?
There is a very strong migration of eyeballs from traditional media and TV toward online. If you look at time spent on retail websites these days, this makes retailers some of the biggest media out there. So naturally there are ways to leverage the eyeballs that are engaged with the retailers and brand.
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The Man is keeping one of our authors on the straight and narrow. But the rest of us are doing our best to keep mp3s comin' your way.
Yeah – just buy the goddang album.
The line is "I don't know karate, but I know ka-RAZOR" not "crazy." JB's deep southern accent is what makes it sound like "crazy." Drives me crazy that Owen Wilson popularized the wrong version of this line.
Yes! Why do people insist that he was saying "crazy". It's definitely Ka-Razor! How would knowing crazy be any benefit against someone who knew Karate! Drives me bat-poop too!
I'm pretty sure it's "crazy." It means you don't know a traditional form of fighting with rules and ethics, but you do know how to fight like a daggone lunatic – throwing garbage cans and swinging staplers and isht. Got it?
These guys knows Ka-racy for sure!
No one wants to fight someone that's crazy… karazor is a made up word.
Not even his Georgian drawl could be misunderstood when he uttered that line. He wasn't the first to use the term 'KaRazor'. It was Richard Pryor a few years earlier in one of his standup routines about growing up in Peoria, IL as a scrawny little kid who couldn't fight.
It's "ka-razor." The line preceding ends in "favor." Listen to it. It's pretty clear.
A guy who fights crazy is undisciplined and doesn't know how to fight. He is a punk who can be easily defeated. A man who's good with a straight razor, however, fights with precision. He's dangerous. You know karate? I know ka-razor muthafuka!!! Let's dance!!!
Karate being a form of self defense has a moral code of conduct, certain attacks being frowned upon as dishonorable. A crazy attacker such as a person backed into a corner facing a choice of life or death is a dangerous opponent, they have no morality, no code of conduct, and are unpredictable. Often they do not register pain or bodily harm, the drive to survive subjugating the minds natural responses in an attempt to live. And ka-razor is a made up word in reference to crazy so it would rhyme with razor.
It's kai razor, people used to hide them in thier mouths some people still do..
So you're telling me that James Brown wrote a song about getting revenge with the razors hidden in his mouth?
No. It's about using a straight razor.
Prostitutes put razors in their mouths.
No. It's spelled with a K.
Maceo Parker solved the controversy. It is indeed, ka-razor,. Straight razors were a very common weapon in the south at the time James Brown was raised.
He also used to do a dance routine with his backing singers where they would mime slashing someone with a razor when they came to that line.
Oh, shut up! There's no such southern accent which would cause JB to pronounce razor as crazy. Even if someone had wrote the word k-razor in an early draft of the lyrics, so the hell what. JB clearly pronounces the word crazy as ka-razy in every rercording he's ever made of the song.
You guys are stupid. It's Ka-razor. And yes, it's a made up word. JB is bragging about his prowess with a straight razor as a weapon. JB was a boxer. Boxers know how difficult it is to defend against someone skilled in the use of a straight razor, and yes, it was a weapon of choice among Black men in the south at the time that JB grew up. Particularly pimps.
Glenn Miller, your hearing is faulty. It's Ka-razor.
Ka-razee a hybrid of karate and razor? – meaning you might know karate but i know the art of fighting with a razor. I think this explains this issue.
Not hardly. See my comment above.


Aida Santos, 28, was arrested Sunday morning, Sept. 9, 2018, and is facing charges of assault, bodily injury/family violence.
A part-time detention deputy in the Bexar County Sheriff's Office was arrested by San Antonio police early Sunday morning and charged with assault, according to the BCSO.
Following news of the arrest, Sheriff Javier Salazar went to the magistrate's office and had Aida Santos, 28, pulled from her cell to "personally terminate her and advise her that paperwork would be forthcoming," according to Sgt. Elizabeth Gonzalez, BCSO spokeswoman.
The incident occurred in the 8500 block of Texas 151 at 1:46 a.m. No other details were given but according to the release the deputy is facing a charge of assault, bodily injury/family violence.
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Conservation on an international basis
Conservation on
an International Basis
Howard H. Michaud
Department of Forestry
Conservation and Economic Prosperity
The United Nations Scientific Conference on the Conservation and
Utilization of Resources held at Lake Success last August was the
first world conservation conference of its kind. In the introduction to
the program of the conference, Mr. Trygve Lie, United Nations Sec¬
retariat, commented as follows:
It will be the first step by the United Nations toward mobiliz¬
ing the science of the whole world to promote higher standards of
living.
Modern science has developed a wide range of new techniques
for wresting more wealth from the earth's resources. Their effec¬
tive application is basic to achieving a world of abundance,—a
world where the spectres of hunger and wastelands will be a thing
of the past.
In particular, the under-developed areas of the world can reap
the benefits of learning new methods to use the untapped resources
and to build up their economies.
I hope all the invited scientists will help make the program of
conserving and utilizing resources a major foundation of world
peace and prosperity.
Here is presented the primary concern about the conservation of
natural resources on an international basis. Conservation, which means
the effective management and use of natural resources, is the economic
foundation for sustained prosperity and better standards of living for
all nations. Therefore, the United Nations has an immediate concern
for an exchange of technical discussion among scientists that will im¬
prove living on a world-wide scale. The relation of satisfactory living
standards to world peace is obvious.
The countries most devastated by war need to know how to bring
back their ravaged farmlands and factories to full productivity.
Title Conservation on an international basis
Author Michaud, Howard H.
Transcript Conservation on
an International Basis Howard H. Michaud
Department of Forestry Purdue University Lafayette, Indiana Conservation and Economic Prosperity The United Nations Scientific Conference on the Conservation and
Utilization of Resources held at Lake Success last August was the
first world conservation conference of its kind. In the introduction to
the program of the conference, Mr. Trygve Lie, United Nations Sec¬
retariat, commented as follows: It will be the first step by the United Nations toward mobiliz¬
ing the science of the whole world to promote higher standards of
living. Modern science has developed a wide range of new techniques
for wresting more wealth from the earth's resources. Their effec¬
tive application is basic to achieving a world of abundance,—a
world where the spectres of hunger and wastelands will be a thing
of the past. In particular, the under-developed areas of the world can reap
the benefits of learning new methods to use the untapped resources
and to build up their economies. I hope all the invited scientists will help make the program of
conserving and utilizing resources a major foundation of world
peace and prosperity. Here is presented the primary concern about the conservation of
natural resources on an international basis. Conservation, which means
the effective management and use of natural resources, is the economic
foundation for sustained prosperity and better standards of living for
all nations. Therefore, the United Nations has an immediate concern
for an exchange of technical discussion among scientists that will im¬
prove living on a world-wide scale. The relation of satisfactory living
standards to world peace is obvious. The countries most devastated by war need to know how to bring
back their ravaged farmlands and factories to full productivity. 261


The Official Standard for a breed is a document which describes the ideal Vizsla Breed Standard and appearance of that breed. AKC official breed standards are written by the parent breed clubs as guides for breeders to select outstanding specimens of their particular breed in order to improve breeding stock and/or performance. New owners can also benefit from knowledge of the breed standard in evaluating their selection of a dog. AKC judges rely on breed standards in the judging process and seek to find specimens that most closely conform to the standard. The standards are published by the AKC and are the basis for breed education at all levels, novice to expert.
That of a medium-sized, short-coated, hunting dog of distinguished appearance and bearing. Robust but rather lightly built, the coat is an attractive shaded golden rust. Originating in Hungary, the Vizsla was bred to work in field, forest and water. Agile and energetic, this is a versatile dog of power, drive and endurance in the field yet a tractable and affectionate companion in the home. It is strongly emphasized that field conditioned coats, as well as brawny or sinewy muscular condition and honorable scars indicating a working and hunting dog are never to be penalized in this dog. The requisite instincts and abilities to maintain a "dual dog" are always to be fostered and appreciated, never deprecated.
Lean and muscular. Skull moderately wide between the ears with a median line down the forehead. Stop between skull and foreface is moderate. Foreface or muzzle is of equal length or slightly shorter than skull when viewed in profile, should taper gradually from stop to tip of nose. Muzzle square and deep. It should not turn up as in a "dish" face nor should it turn down. Whiskers serve a functional purpose; their removal is permitted but not preferred. Nostrils slightly open. Nose self-colored. Any other color is faulty. A partially or completely black nose is a disqualification. Freckles due to aging or sun exposure are not to be faulted. Ears, thin, silky and proportionately long, with rounded-leather ends, set fairly low and hanging close to cheeks. Jaws are strong with well developed white teeth meeting in a scissors bite. Eyes medium in size and depth of setting, their surrounding tissue covering the whites. Color of the iris should blend with the color of the coat. Yellow or any other color is faulty. Prominent pop eyes are faulty. Lower eyelids should neither turn in nor out since both conditions allow seeds and dust to irritate the eye. Lips cover the jaws completely but are neither loose nor pendulous.
Golden rust in varying shades. Lighter shadings over the sides of the neck and shoulders giving the appearance of a "saddle" are common. Solid dark mahogany and pale yellow are faulty. White on the forechest, preferably as small as possible, and white on the toes are permissible. Solid white extending above the toes or white anywhere else on the dog except the forechest is a disqualification. When viewing the dog from the front, white markings on the forechest must be confined to an area from the top of the sternum to a point between the elbows when the dog is standing naturally. White extending on the shoulders or neck is a disqualification. White due to aging or scarring must not be faulted. The Vizsla is self-colored, with the color of the eyes, eye-rims, lips, nose, toenails and pads of feet blending with the color of the coat.
The ideal male is 22 to 24 inches at the highest point over the shoulder blades. The ideal female is 21 to 23 inches. Because the Vizsla is meant to be a medium-sized hunter, any dog measuring more than 1 1/2 inches over or under these limits must be disqualified.
Partially or completely black nose. Solid white extending above the toes or white anywhere else on the dog except the forechest. White extending on the shoulders or neck. A distinctly long coat. Any male over 25 ½ inches, or under 20 ½ inches and any female over 24 ½ inches or under 19 ½ inches at the highest point over the shoulder blades.


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Scott Carter Stewart (born November 2, 1999) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Early career
Stewart attended and graduated from Eau Gallie High School in Eau Gallie, Florida. As a junior in 2017, he went 11–2 with a 0.81 earned run average (ERA) and 104 strikeouts. During the summer of 2017, he played in the Perfect Game All-American Classic at Petco Park. As a senior in 2018, he was named the Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year for Florida after going 6–2 with a 0.91 ERA and 128 strikeouts. He committed to play college baseball at Mississippi State University.

Stewart was considered one of the top prospects for the 2018 Major League Baseball draft, and was drafted by the Atlanta Braves with the eighth overall pick. Due to a wrist injury, Atlanta offered a signing bonus below the full value of the draft slot, and Stewart did not sign with the Braves.

Stewart enrolled at Eastern Florida State College (EFSC) for the 2018–19 academic year in order to be eligible for selection in the 2019 Major League Baseball draft. With the EFSC Titans, who compete in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), Stewart made 13 starts, compiling a 2–2 record with 1.70 ERA and 108 strikeouts.

Professional career

Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
On May 21, 2019, sports website The Athletic reported that Stewart agreed to contract terms with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). On May 30, the Hawks officially announced that Stewart had agreed and been signed to a six-year contract that guarantees him as much as $7 million.

In 2019-2020 season, Stewart pitched in the Western League of NPB's minor leagues and  pitched in informal matches against Shikoku Island League Plus's teams.

On April 17, 2021, Stewart made his NPB debut in the ninth inning of a game against the Saitama Seibu Lions. He struck out two batters, walked one, and his fastball was measured at 94 miles per hour.

In 2022 season, he didn't get a chance to pitch in the Pacific League and played in the Western League.

References

External links

ESFC Titans bio
Career statistics - NPB.jp
2 Carter Stewart, Jr. PLAYERS2022 - Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Official site

1999 births
Living people
People from Melbourne, Florida
Baseball players from Florida
Eastern Florida State College people
American expatriate baseball players in Japan
Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks players


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Home » Sugar Substitution SOLUTIONS
Sugar Substitution SOLUTIONS
Sugar, and many of its related sweetening, caloric carbohydrates, is being shunned by consumers in efforts to pursue a health-and-wellness lifestyle. According to the 2007 IFIC Foundation Food and Health Survey, sponsored by the International Food Information Council (IFIC), Washington, DC, and conducted by Cogent Research, Cambridge, MA, more Americans in 2007 than in 2006 were concerned with the types of carbohydrates they consume (52% vs. 47%). Specifically, in 2007, 70% of Americans reported being "somewhat or extremely concerned" with the amount of sugar that they consume, compared with 63% in 2006.
Formulating some or all of the sugar out of baked products can be challenging because sugar assumes varying roles besides contributing sweetness. Other functions of sugar include providing bulk, enhancing other flavors and contributing a golden brown crust through the Maillard reaction. In high-heat applications sugar can also caramelize, and in some baked foods such as cookies and crackers, sugar contributes to crunch and crispness. Because of these many critical functions, bakers cannot simply replace sugar with a different sweetener.
SWEETENER INTENSITY. No- and low-calorie sugar replacements are typically characterized as either nonnutritive or nutritive alternative sweeteners, respectively, with the latter less challenging to work into formulations. Here's why.
Nonnutritive sweeteners, also referred to as high-intensity sweeteners, cover a broad range of sweetening strengths. However, as the name implies, even those on the lower end of the spectrum are still intensely sweet. For example, neotame is 8,000 times sweeter than sugar, while aspartame is about 180 times sweeter. Replacing sugar with either, or a combination of both, requires only a minuscule amount, which means a significant reduction in solids. Thus, when high-intensity sweeteners are used in baked food formulations, it is imperative that bulking agents be added for solids replacement.
Usage levels are so low that the high-intensity sweetener contributes no calories to the finished product. However, calories can come from the bulking agent, thus 100% sugar replacement is not always the most sensible solution.
Some bakers have found that replacing some of the sugar with a high-intensity sweetener is the best approach to lowering calories and reducing sugar content. For example, the same example formula can be modified to contain 25% less sugar by replacing 2.5 g sugar with 0.0002 g neotame. Such a reduction in solids is often invisible in the application or readily supplemented.
Keeping some sugar in the formulation also allows important reactions to take place. As mentioned, when sugar is heated to a sufficiently high temperature, it decomposes or caramelizes. Its color changes first to yellow then to brown, and it develops a distinctive and appealing flavor and aroma. Crust color is also produced in baking when sugars and proteins interact in what is known as the Maillard reaction.
In yeast-leavened products, it is important to keep some sugar in the formulation because the sugar acts as food for the yeast cells in the natural process of fermentation. When the yeast consumes the sugar, carbon dioxide gas is produced and makes the dough rise.
Other high-intensity sweeteners can be used in baked foods, alone or in some combination, with or without a bulking agent. For example, there's sucralose, which is 600 times sweeter than sugar; saccharin, which is 300 times sweeter than sugar; and acesulfame-potassium, which is about 200 sweeter than sugar.
BULK WITH CALORIES. Replacing sugar with nutritive alternative sweeteners alleviates some, or all, of the solids-reduction issues because their usage levels are similar to sugar, if not a direct replacement. Certain nutritive alternative sweeteners have additional benefits that make them attractive to different demographic segments. Although these sweeteners contribute calories and carbohydrates, they are not classified as sugars by the Food and Drug Administration.
For example, tagatose has a physical bulk similar to sugar and is almost as sweet but only contributes 1.5 Cal per g, compared with sugar's 4 Cal per g. Further, tagatose is metabolized differently, has a minimal effect on blood glucose and insulin levels and provides a prebiotic effect.
The processing and preparing of foods made with tagatose must accommodate certain temperature reactivities because tagatose-containing products brown and caramelize more readily than sugar-containing baked foods. In certain applications and under controlled conditions, this can be very desirable.
For example, added at up to 2% in muffins, tagatose contributes to nice crumb development and rich, toffee flavor. If added at a level of 0.5% to 1.0% in bread, toasting time is cut in half, and a nice, homogeneous color will develop in the toasted bread. Tagatose also has application in frostings and icings because it maintains sweetness but has only a minimal effect on blood glucose levels. This is desirable for products intended for diabetics.
Tagatose is made via a patented procedure from lactose (milk sugar) in a 2-step process. In the first step, lactose is hydrolyzed to glucose and galactose. In the second step, galactose is isomerized to D-tagatose by adding calcium hydroxide. D-tagatose is then further purified by means of demineralization and chromatography. The final product is a white crystalline substance that is greater than 99% pure.
Tagatose is attracting the attention of bakers because it creates unique opportunities to develop products for the burgeoning health-and-wellness marketplace. Only 15% to 20% of tagatose is absorbed in the small intestine. The major part of ingested tagatose is fermented in the colon by indigenous microflora. This prebiotic effect has been proven through clinical research, which has shown an increase of good bacteria in the large intestine and colon after consumption. Tagatose selectively promotes the production of butyrate and lactic acid bacteria, which are essential to maintain a healthy digestive system. Like dietary fibers, tagatose is broken down by the gut bacteria to short-chain fatty acids, which decrease acidity in the large intestine and are recognized as beneficial for a healthy epithelium in the large intestine. The unique combination of sweetness with the prebiotic effect enables creation of great-tasting, better-for-you baked foods.
Trehalose is another low-calorie, nutritive sweetener. It is found naturally in an array of products including honey, mushrooms, lobster, shrimp and foods produced using bakers and brewers yeast. The commercial product is made from starch by an enzymatic process. Trehalose is only 45% as sweet as sugar; thus, it is seldom used as a direct replacement for sugar. However, it can be added for flavor enhancement, sweetness optimization, texture development and crystallization inhibition.
The latter is key in high-moisture baked foods that are distributed frozen because trehalose protects and preserves cell structure. It may aid in the freezing and thawing process by assisting in the maintenance of the desired texture of the food. It is also heat stable.
Trehalose is fully caloric and after ingestion is broken down in the body to glucose, but with an even blood glucose response, making it ideally suited for products formulated to provide a natural, consistent source of energy.
POLYOLS. Isomalt is a sugar replacer consisting of disaccharide alcohols. Derived exclusively from sugar, isolmalt is manufactured in a 2-stage process in which sugar is first transformed into isomaltulose, followed by hydrogenation using a metal catalyst.
Isomalt has only half the calories of sugar because the human body can only use 50% of its energy. It has very low hygroscopicity and can directly replace all of the sugar in applications such as cookies, hard biscuits and creme-like wafers in a 1:1 ratio. Even if sugar is only partially replaced, biscuits and cookies made with isomalt will absorb only a negligible amount of water during storage, keeping them fresh and crisp. The sweetening effect of isomalt and its minimal hygroscopicity are a plus for baking mixes, allowing improved powder flow.
Isomalt belongs to the category of nutritive sweeteners known as sugar alcohols or polyols. Polyols are neither sugar nor alcohol. They are carbohydrates with a chemical structure that partially resembles a sugar and partially resembles an alcohol. These nutritive alternative sweeteners are incompletely absorbed and metabolized by the body and consequently contribute fewer calories than sugars. Because of their incomplete absorption, polyols produce a lower glycemic response than sugar or glucose and are often used in the formulation of products for diabetics.
There are a variety of polyols with baked food applications. In addition to isomalt, sorbitol provides sweetness as well as functions as a humectant and texturizing agent, thus preventing baked foods from drying. This helps maintain their initial freshness during storage.
Sorbitol is about 60% as sweet as sugar with one-third fewer calories. It is stable and chemically unreactive, thus it can withstand the high temperatures encountered in the oven. It also does not participate in the Maillard reaction and, thus, is often used in the production of cookies where a fresh color with no appearance of browning is desired.
The polyol gaining attention among many manufacturers is erythritol because it is considered all natural and, thus, is the only alternative sweetener accepted by the natural foods industry.
The news gets even better. At 0.2 Cal per g, erythritol is virtually noncaloric — something only highintensity sweeteners can claim. It is a white crystalline powder that flows easily because of its its nonhygroscopic character. With about 70% the sweetness of sugar, erythritol has a clean sweet taste that is similar to sugar. It has excellent heat stability and has been shown to improve baking stability and the shelf life by managing water activity.
Erythritol is rapidly absorbed in the small intestine and eliminated by the body within 24 hours; thus, the laxative side effects sometimes associated with excessive polyol consumption are unlikely when consuming erythritol-containing foods.
Because of its reduced sweetness, erythritol is often used in combination with high-intensity sweeteners. It has been shown to work synergistically with aspartame and acesulfame potassium, resulting in a sweetener combination that is sweeter than the sum of the components, with an improved taste profile and economic and stability advantages.
Regardless of the approach a baker takes to replace sugar, the process is complex and requires a great deal of trial and error. Oftentimes, the best approach is to replace sugar with multiple alternative sweeteners.
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Quarriors Quarmageddon - Expansion Review
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Quarriors Quarmageddon
Mike Elliott
Eric Lang
Have you been enjoying Quarriors half-a-week? I know I have! Mostly because I only had to write two reviews, and I got to play Quarriors a bunch of times. Pretty sweet deal, if you ask me.
To finish off Quarriors half-a-week (which, seriously, is just two reviews), I'm going to review Quarmageddon, because it's the only other expansion for Quarriors I haven't reviewed yet, and if I reviewed a different game, I would have chosen a really ridiculous name for my half-a-week celebration.
Quarriors is kind of a funny game. It's not like I fall asleep thinking about how much fun it is, or daydream at work about the next time I can play. It's got a few flaws that might have a Dominion fan turning up his nose, and the art is decent without being Asmodee good. And yet I play the damned thing more than nearly any other game I own. Actually, I can't think of one I play more. So strike that - I play Quarriors more than any other game I own.
The biggest thing that keeps me hauling Quarriors out to the game table is the replay factor (and the fact that my wife really likes it). Every time you play this game, you've got a different set of cards, which means a different set of strategies, which means you have to change your plan every time you set up a game. Of course, to keep that diversity flowing, you need to add new stuff to the game every now and then - which brings us to Quarmageddon.
Unlike Rise of the Demons, which brought out a brand new way to play, Quarmageddon doesn't try to fix what isn't broken (not that Rise of the Demons did, though the demon overlord did end up being handy when I needed a tire changed). The real purpose of Quarmageddon is to give you six new creatures and two new spells, so that your strategies can change a whole bunch more times. Add these new options to the already-existing elements that are in Quarriors so far, and you've got a whole hell of a lot more games before you start to see the same things pop up all the time. So at its most basic, Quarmageddon gives you exactly what you need out of an expansion - more reasons to play. That, and some place to dump a little of the extra money you have just sitting around your house like Scrooge McDuck.
If the new creatures and spells were the only additions you could find in Quarmageddon, that would be enough to justify buying it. But like that Sham-Wow guy getting bit on the tongue by a hooker, I want to tell you, 'OW! DAGGID! LEGGO!' And then, if I was that guy after he got his tongue back and made another innuendo-laced commercial for something you definitely do not need, I would say, 'But wait! There's more!' And then I would not hire hookers who wanted to French kiss.
See, Quarmageddon also includes something you didn't even know you were missing - a whole damned lot of space in the box. There's a magnificent plastic tray in the expanded box that will allow you to sort all the dice and hold them beautifully, and when you put everything away and flip the box over, everything will fly all over the kitchen and under the stove and you will be digging for it for hours. Then you will remember to put the lid on the box, you retard, because if you had, the dice would not have moved at all. The tray is even big enough to hold the next two or three expansions, which you can also lose under the stove if you're still too stupid to close the box before you start juggling it.
But wait! There's more!
Remember when I said the new expansion didn't try to reinvent the wheel (probably you don't remember that, because that's not what I said, I said it wasn't going to fix what wasn't broken)? Well, I wasn't being completely honest (or I would not have been, if that's what I actually said). The best thing in the whole box is something I'm about to give you for free - the optional rules. The first rule says you can buy two dice on your turn. The second rule says that you have to cull any creatures who score. These two rules together make Quarriors approximately 116 percent better. That's an estimate, of course. There is a 2.7 percent margin for error.
You don't have to play with those optional rules, but those two little optional rules make the game so much better that you would be stupid not to use them. Of course, you could have used them before, but now that they're in print, it's more like they're official. Now the game has far, far more depth. It takes longer than a cigarette break, and you have to be really careful about your purchases. No more just buying the most expensive thing because you probably won't be able to afford it later. Now there's a real incentive to buy the cheap guys, and more than ever before, the spell cards become a huge factor.
I liked Quarriors before Quarmageddon, which is good because I've played it a bunch. But now that I add in this big ol' expansion, this game is one of my favorites. You can win with wildly clever ideas and crazy risks. Luck is nowhere near as important as it was before - they key now is to make smart buys and difficult decisions. You now have more options than ever, and your decisions matter more than they did. Where the original is light and campy, now you've got yourself a smart game that I really enjoy playing, enough that it hits the table in my house about twice a week.
If you have to choose between Quarmageddon and Rise of the Demons, I have to wonder how wise it is to spend money on games at all, because you must be pretty broke. Rise of the Demons is cheaper than a medium pizza. But if you're dead-set on spending money you can't afford, Quarmageddon really is more fun. Honestly, if you like Quarriors, get 'em both. They'll give you more replay and make the game more fun. If you need more reasons than that, what the hell are you playing games for?
Still 2-4 players
Give you lots more reasons to play lots more times
Fantastic storage with room to grow
New optional rules add so much depth to the game, they should have been there from the beginning
Can't think of any
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American Catastrophe Report
Digital prints from hand-painted originals
August 2014 - June 2015
Katzen Center for the Arts, American University
American Catastrophe Report is an installation that acts as both homage and critique of the decorative frescoes in the United States Capitol Building, originally painted in the 19th c. by Italian-born artist Constantino Brumidi. The site-specific artwork by Adams is installed in American University's Katzen Arts Center, in both the upper and lower rotunda in the center of the building, less than six miles from where Brumidi's paintings are located. The prints forming American Catastrophe Report have the appearance of paintings due to the unique process Adams uses, where hand-painted originals are digitally scanned then printed for long-term public display. Adams updates Brumidi's Capitol ornamentation by directly addressing ecological disasters in America that have been caused by human activities.
Visitors to the Katzen Arts Center will see an installation that is a mix of appropriated and invented imagery. Adams adapts Brumidi's original frescoes in the U.S. Senate Wing that picture landscapes of the sparsely populated western states of the mid-19th century, as well as a variety of detailed images of birds. According to historians, Brumidi copied from lithographs in the Pacific Railroad Report and the Mexican Boundary Report, published in the 1850's. It is possible that Brumidi's incorporation of these landscapes were intended to not only celebrate scenic visions of America but also to promote a comprehensive identity of American geography and inevitable settlement. Further promoting specificity of place, the birds pictured in the Senate wing point to the importance of uniquely American subject matter in Brumidi's efforts. Assistant curator for the Office of Senate Curator, Amy Elizabeth Burton, writes about the time capsule nature of the paintings, stating in the catalogue (published in 2014) To Make Beautiful the Capitol: Rediscovering the Art of Constantino Brumidi, "Brumidi's birds reflect the 19-century surge in westward expansion and federal support for exploration and scientific discovery across the young and developing nation."
Extending and celebrating this act of copying, Lauren Frances Adams has updated Brumidi's masterful efforts with similar forms — landscapes and ornithological themes — but with a decidedly different artistic outcome. Reflecting a century and a half of human enterprise since Brumidi's time, a selection of landscapes in decorative cartouches offers up these situations: Fracking (in rural Pennsylvania), the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Mountaintop Removal Mining (in West Virginia), the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (in the Gulf of Mexico), and Climate Change (specified as glacial retreat in Alaska). Corresponding to each man-made ecological disaster, and pointing towards the totalizing effects of habitat destruction, pollution via chemicals and garbage, and changes in weather conditions, Adams has included several birds that represent the threats to fauna as environmental destruction advances: Scarlet Tanager, Bristle-Thighed Curlew, Cerulean Warbler, Brown Pelican, and the Tufted Puffin.
Other imagery present throughout the rotunda gives depth to the historical relationships between American citizens and our physical landscape. Acting as symbolic prescience, ornamental designs incorporate two birds distinctly absent from America today: the Carolina Parakeet and the Passenger Pigeon, both extinct. Decorative flora in the paintings incorporates kudzu, a non-native species that has caused widespread ecological damage in the United States. Lofted high above, two medallions face one another in the upper rotunda: a war-like eagle and a gentle lamb. Utilizing the neoclassical aesthetic employed by Constantino Brumidi (who was in turn inspired by ornamental Renaissance paintings in the Vatican), Adams incorporates uniquely American identifications, inviting visitors to the American University Katzen Arts Center to reflect upon the conundrum of the contemporary American condition visualized in American Catastrophe Report.


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Trouble brewing in South Korea's plastic surgery paradise
Sun, Nov 02, 2014 - 9:17 AM
[SEOUL] Kim Bok-soon disliked her nose and fantasised about getting it fixed after learning of the Korean superstition that an upturned nose makes it harder to hold on to riches.
While waiting in a hair salon, she saw a magazine advertisement for a plastic surgery clinic and decided to go for it, despite her family's objections.
In South Korea, where physical perfection is seen as a way to improve the quality of life, including job and marriage prospects, plastic surgery procedures can seem as commonplace as haircuts.
Ms Kim's doctor said he could turn her into a celebrity lookalike, and Kim decided to take the plunge, taking loans and spending 30 million won (S$35940) for 15 surgeries on her face over the course of a day.
When the bandages came off and she looked in the mirror, she knew something had gone horribly wrong. Only later did Ms Kim find out her doctor was not a plastic surgery specialist.
SEE ALSO: Chinese woman undergoes plastic surgery to evade 25m yuan debt
Five years later, she struggles with an array of medical problems, and is unable to close her eyes or stop her nose from running. The 49-year-old divorcee said she was unemployed and suffers from depression. "It is so horrible that people can't look at my face," Ms Kim, crying, said in her tiny one-room Seoul flat filled with photographs from before and after the surgeries. "This is not a human face. It is more revolting than monsters or aliens."
A record from the Seoul central district court shows that Ms Kim's doctor faces a pending criminal case on charges of violating medical law. The case began in 2009 after several patients including Ms Kim reported him to the authorities. The doctor's lawyer turned down Reuters' request for an interview.
The boom in South Korea's US$5 billion plastic surgery industry - that's a quarter of the global market according to the country's antitrust watchdog - is facing a backlash, with formal complaints about botched procedures and dodgy doctors doubling in 2013 from a year earlier.
Some plastic surgeons say safety fears could stifle the country's nascent but fast-growing market for medical tourism, especially from China.
Complaints range from unqualified doctors to overly aggressive marketing to "ghost doctors", who stand in for more qualified doctors and perform surgeries on unwitting, anaesthetised patients.
Cha Sang-myun, chairman of the Korean Association of Plastic Surgeons, which represents 1,500 plastic surgeons, is worried about their reputation. Dr Cha and some lawmakers are among those calling for tighter supervision and stricter advertising rules. "We've got to clean ourselves up," he said at his clinic in Seoul's high-end Gangnam district, which is filled with plastic surgery clinics. "Now, patients from China are coming in the name of plastic surgery tourism but if things go on like this, I don't think they will come in the next few years," he said.
In a notorious case last December, a high school student ended up in a coma after surgeries to fix her nose and get a"double-eyelid", a procedure that makes the eyes look bigger.
Dr Cha's group looked into the incident and found the hospital that performed the surgery hired such ghost doctors, and referred the case to prosecutors. It is still under investigation by prosecutors and nobody has been indicted, an official at the association said.
Critics blame lax regulation, excessive advertising and society's obsession with appearance for fuelling an industry run amok.
South Korea is home to more than 4,000 plastic surgery clinics and has the world's highest rate of cosmetic procedures - 13 for every 1,000 people in a population of 49 million - according to government data.
The boom is gaining steam, fuelled by tourism, with the number of visiting Chinese patients tripling between 2011 and 2013, government data shows. "Advertising too much has made people think surgeries are a commodity. People now think plastic surgeries are like buying stuff somewhere," said Cha, who has performed plastic surgeries for more than two decades. "But plastic surgery is a surgery too, which can risk your life," he said.
A Miss Korea contestant in the 1980s underwent breast augmentation in 2008 in the hope that it would boost her chances of finding a husband.
Ms Park, 50, who is divorced and gave only her surname, ended up going to the same doctor as Ms Kim. Due to a series of post-surgical infections, her right breast ended up half the size of the left. "I regret it so much that I tried to kill myself twice," she said. "Plastic surgeries are like an addiction. If you do the eyes, you want to do the nose. And doctors don't say 'you are beautiful enough', but get people to do more."
South Korea and plastic surgery
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I noticed that they hadn't reviewed the routine 6 baby story for awhile so I choose this for them. At first they didn't remember this story. But after taking turns reading it their minds were quickly refreshed. They were able to answer all the 10 routine questions correctly with very little hesitation. They even came up with some creative answers to the question, which is open ended and sometimes calls for more support from the coach.
I wanted to challenge them with the intermediate Ability 2 item that each of them hadn't tried yet. So after introducing the invitations topic I presented the format questions used to invite someone to a place or event. They seemed to catch on quickly. After that they read and understood all of the yes and no answers used to accept or decline invitations. So we proceeded with the picture cards. I was pleased to see that they were able to ask and respond to each others invitations quite easily with very few grammar errors. By the end of the lesson they were cheerfully asking each other invitations from their imagination without the use of picture cards.
So with the last 5 minutes of the lesson left I introduced todays B38 one point I did this naturally by asking them what they were planning to eat for lunch at their office the next day. Each of them replied with a bento idea and a Japanese dish as an alternative. By the end of the lesson I was very happy to see their progress. They finished in a very cheerful mood which was very kindly shared by me. This kind of good feeling is one of the best benefits of being a Smiths School coach.


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Jordan to replace a deal with Rosatom for two full size PWRs with one with South Korea for its SMART SMR design
Jordan cites the financial burden of funding $10 billion for the two 1000 MW Rosatom VVERs
Jordan has made it official saying in an statement on June 26th from the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) that it will not proceed with plans, inked in 2015, to partner with Rosatom to build two 1000 MW VVER type nuclear reactors which came with a $10 billion price tag.
According to the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC), the reason for the decision is that Rosatom asked for 50% private equity funding for the project. The agency said the request was an "unfavorable" financial condition and, apparently, also a deal killer. Not mentioned in the announcement was the question of where the water for the steam system would come from in the desert kingdom.
There was no special financing or discount on price for the twin reactors which came in at an "overnight price" of $5,000/Kw which is in line with current global pricing for units of this size.
"The Russians requested obtaining loans from commercial banks, which would have increased the cost of the project and the prices of generated electricity. The Jordanian government rejected the proposal," the statement said.
Commercial loans would have made the prices of electricity generated by the proposed nuclear station uncompetitive, JAEC said.
The chairman of the JAEC, Dr. Khaled Toukan, told the news conference that the commission has abandoned the construction of a large plant and will proceed with plans to build small reactors. He added that small reactors need less funding and are more likely to bring international investors to the table than large stations.
Focus Shifts to South Korean SMART SMR
"Jordan is now focusing on small modular reactors because the large reactors place financial burden on the Kingdom and in light of the current fiscal conditions we believe it is best to focus on smaller reactors," Toukan told The Jordan Times.
JAEC Chairman Toukan said that Jordan is planning to focus on small modular nuclear reactors and indicated an interest on South Korea's 100 MW SMART reactor.
He said feasibility studies are being conducted jointly by the JAEC, the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy of Saudi Arabia and the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute to build two nuclear reactors in Jordan at a total capacity of 220 megawatts.
The two system-integrated modular advanced reactors (SMART) will cost around $800 million, Toukan noted, adding that the project will be financed by the three sides involved and that Jordan has received pledges of support for the reactors.
Other SMR Deals?
Jordan has also been in talks for the past year with at least three different vendors of LWR and advanced small modular reactors. The talks include UK Rolls Royce for a to be named LWR type SMR, US based X-Energy which has a new generation of South Africa's PBMR "pebble bed" high temperature gas cooled reactor (HTGR), and China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) which has has an HTGR design.
In November 2017, Rolls-Royce signed a memorandum of understanding with JAEC to carry out a technical feasibility study for the construction of a Rolls-Royce SMR in Jordan. A similar agreement was also signed in November 2017 with X-Energy for electricity, water desalination and other thermal applications.
Toukan noted that the Commission is currently negotiating with China to build the same reactor that China is currently constructing in Shandong province. He added that no contract will be signed with CNNC before the actual startup of the Chinese reactor and operating it in revenue service on the grid for at least two years.
The Jordan Times reported separately that work on selecting a site for an SMR was proceeding in the Qusayer region near Azraq about 60km east of Amman. The paper reports that studies were conducted on the site by Belgium's Tractebel, Korea Electric Power Corporation and Worley Parsons, with findings showing the suitability of the location for the facilities.
Russians Downshift as Well
The Russians, while obvious not happy with Jordan's decision, offered to shift gears and seek the business with an as yet unanounced SMR deisgn of their own.
Evgeny Pakermanov, president of JSC Rusatom Overseas said, "The SMR technologies will certainly become one of our top priorities on the way to develop the world energy market", he said in a statement emailed to the Jordan Times.
The cancellation of the project is the latest setback in Rosatom's export strategy. Earlier this year private investors pulled out of a project in Turkey to build four 1200 MW VVER. Rosatom has struggled for several years to attract investors, but Turkish construction firms, which would also build the plants, have backed out of taking an equity position in them. Their reason appears to be that the two parties were unable to agree on the rate electricity would be charged for to customers.
Last year Vietnam pulled out of a deal to acquire four 1000 MW VVER on the grounds that the cost was prohibitive due to Rosatom's terms for equity investments. Also, Vietnam may have had a second reason, and that it could not develop the capabilities to manage the regulatory role for safety and oversight of construction and operation of the reactors.
Fuel for Reactors?
On uranium reserves in Jordan, Toukan said the Kingdom's central region is home to 40,000 metric tonnes of uranium, which has enough yellow cake to supply Jordan's nuclear programme for more than 100 years. He added that "the volume is expected to increase as promising excavations are under way in several areas."
"We expect to start producing tens of kilos of yellow cake by the end of this year," said Toukan.
His claims may require some clarification. A few years ago both Rio Tinto and Areva conducted prospecting studies of the deposits and determined they were not economically feasible for bring into production. Jordan had at one time offered to swap uranium for the cost of new nuclear reactors. The record low global price of yellowcake makes that concept unrealistic for the time being.
In any case, where ever the uranium comes from, it will have to be enriched and fabricated into fuel elements by facilities in other countries that already have these capabilities.
UAE's First Nuclear Reactor Start-up Delayed Again
(Reuters) The start-up of the first nuclear reactor in the United Arab Emirates has been delayed and should start operations between the end of 2019 and early 2020, the plant's operator said in a statement to the wire service.
"The results of Nawah's review forecast that the loading of nuclear fuel assemblies required to commence nuclear operations at Barakah Unit 1 will occur between the end of 2019 and early 2020," it said in the statement.
Nawah Energy Company, the operator of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant in the Al-Dhafra Region of Abu Dhabi, said it "has completed a comprehensive operational readiness review" for an updated start-up schedule for the reactor.
The IAEA participated in the operational readiness reviews (ORR) which takes place prior to fuel loading. The agency said, it had issued a total of ten recommendations and seven suggestions, as well as identifying three key observations.
These findings included the need for ENEC and Nawah to reach operational readiness before the fuel load of the first unit. The IAEA also said the UAE needs to work towards its 2016 policy on the long-term management and disposal of spent nuclear and radioactive waste. The World Nuclear News posted a report on all of the areas covered in the ORR.
A reactor operator does not load fuel in a new reactor nor seek first criticality until all ORR issues are resolved to the satisfaction of safety agencies.
"The resulting projection for the start-up of Unit 1 operations reflects the time required for the plant's nuclear operators to complete operational readiness activities and to obtain necessary regulatory approvals," Nawah said.
Reuters reported last March that the start-up had been pushed back to 2019 due to training delays. These delays were caused in part due to a reactor in South Korea not being available to train new staff. The reactor had been taken out of service due to the discovery of counterfeit cables supplied by South Korean firms and installed at the power station. The cables had to be pulled out and replaced before the training program could take place.
The first of four reactors being built by Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) in the UAE is part of the Barakah power plant project that was originally scheduled to open last year. Barakah One is a joint venture between Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) and KEPCO.
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Los Angeles International Airport has become the poster child of a Republican congressman's drive to increase the use of privately employed airport screeners.
A study released Friday by Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Transportation Committee, asserts that government-employed screeners at LAX cost taxpayers nearly $39 million more per year than privately employed screeners working under federal supervision at San Francisco International Airport.
"TSA has become a bloated bureaucracy that is too focused on managing its personnel and protecting its turf," Mica said. He used the study prepared by his staff to advance his argument that increased use of privately employed screeners would save the government money in an era of high budget deficits.
But Colleen M. Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents thousands of TSA screeners, said Mica's report was "partisan."
"Independent reviews such as those done by the Government Accountability Office show TSA officers are more cost effective as well as provide better security and we agree,'' she said in a statement.
"I believe the American traveling public would be loathe to return to the days less than a decade ago when low-paid, ill-trained employees of private contractors handled air passenger screening duties."
Congress, in the weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, passed an aviation security bill that put federal workers in charge of screening passengers at airports, citing security lapses by private contractors. But Mica complained that the federal screening force has grown to nearly 50,000.
Some airports, including San Francisco's, have been allowed to use private screeners under federal supervision. According to Mica's report, San Francisco's private screeners processed 65% more passengers per screener than their federal counterparts at LAX.
One reason for the higher cost at LAX was its higher turnover of screeners, increasing recruiting and training costs. Mica's report did not compare the screeners' performances in spotting security risks.
Nicholas Kimball, a Transportation Security Administration spokesman, said other studies show that private screening contracts cost taxpayers more on average.
He added that TSA administrator John Pistole's primary consideration is security.
"It is critical that TSA retains its ability to operate as a flexible nationwide security network," he said. "TSA's capacity to push out intelligence information to our front-line workforce and quickly change procedures based on threat and intelligence is paramount to effective security.
"Further expansion of privatized screening will increase the complexity of this process."


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Q: Form validation library in react js I am new to react js.Is there any form validation library in react js like angular has reactive forms and template driven forms and its own set of validation rules like valid,dirty,pristine.

A: I recommend using Formik it's very easy and complete. It has 14k stars on github, pretty good!

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Q: What do ^$ and ^# mean? I don't understand BADIPS=$(egrep -v "^#|^$" $tDB). Can you explain it?
full code:
#!/bin/bash
# Purpose: Block all traffic from AFGHANISTAN (af) and CHINA (CN). Use ISO code. #
# See url for more info - http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/?p=3402
# Author: nixCraft <www.cyberciti.biz> under GPL v.2.0+
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ISO="af cn"

### Set PATH ###
IPT=/sbin/iptables
WGET=/usr/bin/wget
EGREP=/bin/egrep

### No editing below ###
SPAMLIST="countrydrop"
ZONEROOT="/root/iptables"
DLROOT="http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/data/countries"

cleanOldRules(){
$IPT -F
$IPT -X
$IPT -t nat -F
$IPT -t nat -X
$IPT -t mangle -F
$IPT -t mangle -X
$IPT -P INPUT ACCEPT
$IPT -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
$IPT -P FORWARD ACCEPT
}

# create a dir
[ ! -d $ZONEROOT ] && /bin/mkdir -p $ZONEROOT

# clean old rules
cleanOldRules

# create a new iptables list
$IPT -N $SPAMLIST

for c  in $ISO
do
    # local zone file
    tDB=$ZONEROOT/$c.zone

    # get fresh zone file
    $WGET -O $tDB $DLROOT/$c.zone

    # country specific log message
    SPAMDROPMSG="$c Country Drop"

    # get
    BADIPS=$(egrep -v "^#|^$" $tDB)
    for ipblock in $BADIPS
    do
       $IPT -A $SPAMLIST -s $ipblock -j LOG --log-prefix "$SPAMDROPMSG"
       $IPT -A $SPAMLIST -s $ipblock -j DROP
    done
done

# Drop everything
$IPT -I INPUT -j $SPAMLIST
$IPT -I OUTPUT -j $SPAMLIST
$IPT -I FORWARD -j $SPAMLIST

# call your other iptable script
# /path/to/other/iptables.sh

exit 0

A: ^ is the a regular expression special character used to mark the start of the line, and $ marks the end of the line. They're used to anchor the expression at these points. So ^# is any line starting with #, and ^$ is an empty line (since there's nothing between the start and the end).
-v in grep negates the match, so this command is looking for lines that aren't commented out (not starting with #), or empty.

A: egrep searches for files matching a pattern.
The -v  (or --invert-match) option of egrep inverts the sense of matching, to select non-matching lines.
"^#|^$" evaluates to either a blank line or a line that starts with a # which is a comment line, neither of which are executed by bash. Inverting the match evaluates to lines that are not either blank lines or comment lines.
$tDB is a variable which stores the value of the local zone file.
Putting it all together the bad IPs (IPs to be blocked) are stored in BADIPS which stores the values of bad IPs obtained from a list of local zone files.


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