Last week, we had another fun filled day of coloring and cardmaking at The Queen's Ink for their monthly Art du Jour. I had two cards available which were really simple to color and put together. Details are below. Mark your calendars now for the next Art du Jour on May 8th!
Check my teaching schedule for upcoming classes and events. I'll be at Photo Scraps on Saturday, April 21st for Demo Day and on Sunday, April 22nd for another Copic card class featuring stamps and papers from Dare 2B Artzy. Hope to see you there!
This is the last of the three cards from the class I taught at The Queen's Ink. I loved the juxtaposition of this batty girl with the sentiment. Here's a young lady definitely willing to be herself!
Just finished up a new project in celebration of Make It Crafty sponsor week over at the Passionate Paper Creations and Friends Facebook group. This card features the digital image Mermaid Shellina by Make It Crafty. I'm not usually a mermaid person, but something about this image was just captivating and I had to give it a try. I didn't want the image background to remain white, but wasn't quite sure what to do with it. So after some experimentation, I decided to use a light color combination to achieve a glow around the central characters.
In my stash, I had a sheet of cardstock from American Crafts – Aqua Wave – that was perfect for the card background, giving the impression of both bubbles and waves. I added a chipboard sentiment, also from Make It Crafty, that I colored with Copic markers in an ombre pattern to coordinate with the colors of my mermaid. After coloring the chipboard, I covered the letters with Nuvo Crystal Drops in Morning Dew to add some gloss. You can achieve the same effect with Ranger's Glossy Accents.
Hope you enjoyed today's post. Be sure to leave me a comment and let me know what you think!
Here's another card using some of the newly released dies from Creative Basics by Rhea. This one features the Fancy Rectangles Build-A-Card and Double Stitched Circles Die Sets. You can use the Fancy Rectangles Build-A-Card dies to create a shaped card which you see here. I also used one of the dies to create a frame on the front of my card. These dies are also great for shaker cards. This card also features Roberto's Rascals Butterfly Twila available from C. C. Designs.
Creative Basics by Rhea Week!
This week the Passionate Paper Creations & Friends Design Team is celebrating the release of the new dies from Creative Basics by Rhea. I was inspired by this video from Jennifer McGuire Ink and the new Dotted Daisies Die Set were perfect for the project.
I cut out several daisies from white card stock using the smallest of the daisy dies. I colored each one with a Copic marker (in this case R29) and then glue three daisies together to create a layered die cut. I applied clear Wink of Stella to make them glittery and then a coat of clear Nuvo Drops to make them glossy. While the Nuvo Drops were still wet, I added gold Mini Prills to the center of each flower. I mounted the flower using a foam square. The end result was an embellishment that was almost like a button that I could use to add color and dimension to a simple card.


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In some cases, the debtor feels guilty or unable to provide for his or her family. This can leave the individual unwilling to report the illegal harassment and in a position where he or she will continue to be victimized by creditors who violate federal law. Our firm has defended many clients against unlawful creditor harassment and has recovered damages where it was possible. Creditors do not have the right to harass you simply because you owe them money. You have rights and should be treated fairly. If you believe you are being harassed by a creditor, speaking with a Glendale bankruptcy attorney is your best course of action.
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"Superabundance" Review
August 31, 2022 September 7, 2022 Jeremy Horpedahl6 Comments
Are resources becoming scarcer as world population increases and per capita consumption increases? Are basic goods becoming more expensive relative to wages in the face of potential resource shortages? These are some of the main questions that are addressed in the just released book Superabundance by Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley. The authors were kind enough to provide me with an advance copy, which is why I'm already able to review this book on its release date (I'm not really that fast of a reader).
The author take a very optimistic view of the issues surrounding those opening questions. Properly measured (one of the key tasks of their work), resources are becoming more abundant, not more scarce. And properly measured, almost all consumer goods are becoming cheaper relative to wages.
The authors use the approach of "time prices" throughout the book. They are not the first to use this approach. Julian Simon (their inspiration for this project) used it in various places in his work. William Nordhaus famously used it is in paper on the history of the price of lighting. And Michael Cox and Richard Alm have used the time-price approach in many of their writings, from the 1997 Dallas Fed annual report, to a full-length book a few years later, as well as updates to the original 1997 report. And if you follow me on Twitter, I like to use this approach too.
In short, "time prices" tell us how many hours of work it takes to purchase a given good or service at different points in time. How many hours would you have to work to buy a pound of ground beef? A square foot of housing? An hour of college tuition? It's the superior method when you are looking at the price of a particular good or service over time, compared with a naïve inflation adjustment, which only tells you if the price of that good/service rose faster or slower than goods or services in general, not if it's become more affordable. Inflation adjustments are really only useful when you are trying to compare income or wages to all prices, to see if and how much incomes have increased over time. Of course, which wage series you choose is important (and you need to have a consistent series over time, or at least the end points), but as the authors point out (which they learned from me!), if you looking at wages after 1973, the wage series you use doesn't matter much. Median wages, average wages, wages of the "unskilled" — these all give you the same trend since 1973. We don't have all of these back earlier (especially median wages), but there's not much reason to believe they've diverged that much. And the authors also present their data using multiple wage series in many of the charts and tables.
What do the authors find?
UncategorizedEconomic Growth, prices, resources
August 9, 2022 August 8, 2022 Scott Buchanan3 Comments
The Transition to a Market Economy: Did Former Soviet Republics Fail?
March 16, 2022 Jeremy Horpedahl1 Comment
This semester I am participating in a reading group with undergraduate students that focuses on the history and prospects for capitalism and socialism. Lately we have been reading Joseph Stiglitz, who has long argued that China's transition to a market economy has gone much better than the former Soviet Union. Gradual transition is superior to "shock therapy," according to Stiglitz.
There's an extent to which this is true. If we just look at economic growth rates since, say, 1995, China has clearly outpaced Russia.
Source: Our World in Data
It's hard to know exactly what year to start, since GDP figures for former planned economies immediately after transition aren't reliable, but the start date is mostly irrelevant for everything I'll say here (please play around with the start year in the charts to see if I'm cherry-picking years). 1995 seems a reasonable enough year to start for reliable post-transition starting point.
As we see above, while Russia has had a rough doubling of GDP per capita since 1995 (respectable, and yes, it's all adjusted for inflation!), China has soared almost 600%. Wow! But this is something of a cheat. Despite all that growth, average income in China is still lower than Russia: only about 60% of Russia in 2020. China started from a much lower level, meaning that faster growth, while not guaranteed, is at least easier to achieve. In fact, if we go back to 1978, when China's first reforms began, GDP per capita in the Former USSR was about 6 times as high as China (that's according to the latest Maddison Project estimates, which will always be speculative for non-market economies, but are the best we have).
Furthermore, Russia hasn't really transitioned to a democracy either. China clearly hasn't, but no one doubts that. But despite having the outward symbols of democracy (elections, a legislature, etc.), Russia still scores low on most indexes of democracy and civil liberties. For example, Freedom House scores them at 19/100, a little better than China (9/100), but nothing like Western Europe.
So, did the quick transition to market economies fail? Not so fast. While it did fail in Russia, in most of Eastern Europe and the eastern part of the former USSR it seems to have been a major success. Take a look at this chart, which shows the former Soviet Republics in and near Europe (I exclude Central Asian FSRs).
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Economics, Economic Freedom and the Olympics
February 6, 2022 Vincent GelosoLeave a comment
The Olympics have begun. Is there anything economists can say about what determines a country's medal count? You might not think so, but the answer is a clear yes! In fact, I am going to say that both the average economist and the average political economist (in the sense of studying political economy) have something of value to say.
Why could they not? After all, investing efforts and resources in winning medals is a production decision just like using labor and capital to produce cars, computers or baby diapers. Indeed, many sports cost thousand of dollars in equipment alone each year – a cost to which we must add the training time, foregone wages, and coaching. Athletes also gain something from these efforts – higher incomes in after-career, prestige, monetary rewards per medal offered by the government. As such, we can set up a production function of a Cobb-Douglas shape
Where N is population, Y is total income (i.e., GDP), A is institutional quality and T is the number of medals being won. The subscript i and t depict the medals won at any country at any Olympic-event. This specification above is a twist (because I change the term A's meaning as we will see below) on a paper in the Review of Economics and Statistics published in 2004 by Andrew Bernard and Meghan Busse.
The intuition is simple. First, we can assume that Olympic-level performance abilities requires a certain innate skill (e.g. height, leg length). The level required is an absolute level. To see this, think of a normal distribution for these innate skills and draw a line near the far-right tail of the distribution. Now, a country's size is directly related to that right-tail. Indeed, a small country like Norway is unlikely to have many people who are above this absolute threshold. In contrast, a large country like Germany or the United States is more likely to have a great number of people competing. That is the logic for N being included.
What about Y? That's because innate skill is not all that determines Olympic performance. Indeed, innate skills have to be developed. In fact, if you think about it, athletes are less artists who spend years perfecting their art. The only difference is that this art is immensely physical. The problem is that many of the costs of training for many activities (not all) are pretty even across all income levels. Indeed, many of the goods used to train (e.g., skis, hockey sticks and pucks, golfing equipment) are traded internationally so that their prices converge across countries. This tends to give an edge to countries with higher income levels as they can more easily afford to spend resources to training. This is why Norway, in spite of being quite small, is able to be so competitive – its quite-high level of income per capita make it easier to invest in developing sporting abilities and innate talent.
Bernard and Busse confirm this intuition and show that, yes, population and development levels are strong determinants of medal counts. The table below, taken from their article, shows this.
What about A? Normally, A is a scalar we use in a Cobb-Douglas function to illustrate the effect of technological progress. However, it is also frequently used in the economic growth literature as the stand-in for the quality of institutions. And if you look at Bernard and Musse's article, you can see institutions. Do you notice the row for Soviet? Why would being a soviet country matter? The answer is that we know that the USSR and other communist countries invested considerable resources in winning medals as a propaganda tool for the regimes. The variable Soviet represents the role of institution.
And this is where the political economist has lots to say. Consider the decision to invest in developing your skills. It is an investment with a long maturity period. Athletes train for at least 5-10 years in order to even enter the Olympics. Some athletes have been training since they were young teenagers. Not only is it an investment with a long maturity period, but it pays little if you do not win a medal. I know a few former Olympic athletes from Canada who occupy positions whose prestige-level and income-level that are not statistically different from those of the average Canadian. It is only the athletes who won medals who get the advertising contracts, the sponsorships, the talking gigs, the conference tours, and the free gift bags (people tend to dismiss them, but they are often worth thousands of dollars). This long-maturity and high-variance in returns is a deterrent from investing in Olympics.
At the margin, insecurity in property rights heighten the deterrent effect. Indeed, why invest when your property rights are not secured? Why invest if a ruler can take the revenues of your investment or if he can tax it to level punitive enough to deter you? In a paper published in Journal of Institutional Economics with my friend Vadim Kufenko, I found that economic freedom was a strong determinant of medal count. Vadim and I argued that secure property rights – one of the components of economic freedom indexes – made it easier for athletes to secure the gains of their efforts (see table below).
Two other papers, one by Christian Pierdzioch and Eike Emrich and the other by Lindsay Campbell, Franklin Mixon Jr. and Charles Sawyer, also find that institutional quality has a large effect on medal counts won by countries. Another article, this time by Franklin Mixon and Richard Cebula in the Journal of Sports Economics, also argues that the effective property rights regime in place for athletes creates incentives that essentially increase the supply of investment in developing athletic skills. The overall conclusion is the same: Olympics medal counts depends in large part in the quality of institutions in an athlete's country of origin.
Phrased differently, the country that is most likely to win a ton of medals is the economically free, rich and populous one. That's it!
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THE DEATH OF A DYING STAR
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The album forms part of a bigger project codenamed: DYING STARS, which includes his first novels that should be finished soon, as well as some follow-up music projects later this year.
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Ten Questions with White Mystery
A favorite memory of past South By Southwest festivals was seeing White Mystery play outside at seminal Austin punk venue Beerland. The duo of Miss Alex White on guitar/vocals and Francis Scott Key White on drums belted out their usual ragged-edged garage punk startling passers-by on Red River Street. Before long, a mob formed that blocked traffic.
It was like seeing local heroes make good, as the Chicago siblings have made Omaha a regular tour stop on their many national sojourns, like the one they're currently on in support of their latest album, the blistering F.Y.M.S. that brings them to fabulous O'Leaver's March 4.
Check out what Alex had to say in the Ten Questions survey:
Miss Alex White: Who's Next by the Who
Taylor Swift "Shake It Off." Fight me!
The best part about being in a band is the open road ahead of you. It's a very free feeling of independence.
The worst part is the claustrophobia of being stuck in a vehicle all day, that sets in shortly thereafter.
My favorite substance is ice cream. My least favorite is mushrooms.
Omaha is an awesome city to play in the Midwest because everyone is very down-to-earth, loving, and yet wild-out rock'n'roll. I spun records after Farnham Fest and realized how much everyone appreciated the DJ set, which is a really good, validating feeling. Doing that again at O'Leavers this time around. Beyond that, White Mystery shows in New York are always sold out, bonkers affairs. I also love playing Stockholm, Sweden, because it feels so geographically far away, yet super familiar.
Angers, France, was one of the worst gigs ever, because of what happened afterwards — we stayed in an absolutely pest-infested apartment above the ancient venue. A carpet of tens of thousands of cockroaches dispersed when the door opened! It's hard to relax in that kind of environment.
Yes, White Mystery has been full-time for eight years. It required a lot of saving while reinvesting income into growth opportunities, like self-released albums and merchandise. The first four years, we did not buy any new clothes, shoes or recreational items. We have toured in the same hatchback this whole time, which is great on gas, but a sacrifice in comfort. The best way to get ahead is to do what is right for you, versus what you think people expect you to do. Take calculated risks to advance your career.
One profession I would like to attempt is cartoon animator! I would be a terrible veterinarian though, because I'm extremely allergic to most animals.
Legends about our pals in Digital Leather, The Faint, Solid Dave Goldberg, and the Box Elders circulate worldwide. Love you all!
White Mystery plays with Those Far Out Arrows and FiFI NoNo Sunday, March 4, at O'Leaver's, 1322 So. Saddle Creek Rd. $7, 5 p.m. For more information, go to liveatoleavers.com


Four locations frame The New Berlin: the Topography of Terror, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the Jewish Museum, and Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial and Museum. Through field notes, interviews, archival texts, personal narratives, public art, maps, images, and other sources, Karen Till describes how these places and spaces exemplify the contradictions and tensions of social memory and national identity.
The New Berlin is an insightful and articulate study on the remaking of Berlin as a microcosm of debates about memory at this moment in history.
The New Berlin reveals a city haunted by ghosts from difficult pasts and "remembered futures," a place where past, present, and future collide in unexpected ways as individuals and groups search for what it means to be German. Karen Till skillfully moves through the spaces and times of a city marked by voids, ruins, and construction cranes to search through material and affective landscapes of intentional forgetting and painful remembering. In doing so, she deepens our understanding of the practice and politics of place making—and of how particular places embody and narrate distinct national pasts and futures, stories of belonging, and the absences and presences of social memory-work.
Four locations frame The New Berlin: the Topography of Terror, the much-debated Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the Jewish Museum, and the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial and Museum. Through these and other sites, we encounter people unexpectedly colliding with and evoking ghosts from multiple Berlins as they dig through social and material landscapes, claim public spaces, market the city, go on tours, or debate what national past should be remembered, for whom, where, and in what form. Through a complex interweaving of field notes, interviews, archival texts, personal narratives, public art, maps, images, and other sources, Till deftly describes how these places and spaces uniquely exemplify the contradictions and tensions of social memory and national identity in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Highlighting an interdisciplinary "geo-ethnographic" and nonlinear temporal approach to place making and memory in postunification Germany, The New Berlin introduces readers to people confronting loss and past injustices amid the construction sites and ghosts of the contemporary city.
Karen E. Till is senior lecturer of geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, and co-director of the Space and Place Research Collective at the Institute of Global Studies, University of Minnesota.
The New Berlin is a notable contribution to human geography and to the interdisciplinary literature on social memory and place making. Till's methods and scholarship have provided the conceptual groundwork for the exploration and development of place making, social memory, and spatial haunting through the particular practices and politics of the new Berlin. Her readable style is marked by a narrative economy in which every word and sentence serves the larger purposes of the book. I recommend this book to anyone—student, scholar, or practitioner—who is interested in the social dynamics of memory formation and place making.
This book is a well-written 'first-hand' account, though it also thoroughly covers academic literature, contemporary news accounts, and archival records.
Karen E. Till's The New Berlin describes the modern metropolis and the ghosts of the past that it has to deal with.
Well illustrated and copiously footnoted, this is a cutting-edge study of the power of identity-construction/analysis. Highly recommended.
Unwilling Germans? The Goldhagen Debate A comprehensive overview of the controversy surrounding Hitler's Willing Executioners.


Late very last year, Melinda Gates unveiled an initiative by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to increase funding to assignments geared toward girls and women. Historically, offering especially to plans for gals and girls has lagged however, this is starting up to modify as females significantly use their economical electric power.
Much more and a lot more, females are shifting the face of philanthropy, including who a philanthropist is, what this particular person looks like, how she thinks and what she prefers to help.
The Women's Philanthropy Institute at the Middle of Philanthropy at Indiana University printed a report, which located there was a change in giving and amounts of giving among genders. Other scientific tests have also noted a distinction involving males and ladies as it associated to their charitable curiosity.
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Q: No such module 'GoogleSignIn' Xcode 9.3 and Swift 4.1 I am trying to login with Firebase Google Login. After installing the pods when i import header file
'GoogleSignIn' it gives me an error.
No such module 'GoogleSignIn'

Here is my pod file

I also tried different troubleshoot methods like

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*update pods

*Restarted Xcode

But none of methods did work for me. How i fix this issue

A: Maybe you can fix that by cleaning the build with cmd+shift+k and removing the derived data(xcode->preferences->location->derived_data_folder and remove the derived data folder).
If the above process didn't work then reinstall the pods.

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*pod deintegrate

*pod cache clean --all

*pod install

A: I think @muhammad-qais answer will work. If not try removing the text "pod 'GoogleSignIn', '~> 3.0' " in podfile.
Then pod install. It removes the existing google Sign in pod.
And then install google sign in Pod from cocoapods.org as usual.
Hope it works.

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Q: LHAPDF: undefined symbol when running in Python I'm trying to use the Python interface for LHAPDF, but I receive the following error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 2, in <module>
    import lhapdf
ImportError: /home/n17182559/LHAPDF/lib/python2.7/site-packages/lhapdf.so: undefined symbol: _ZN6LHAPDF6ConfigD1Ev

I'm running on Ubuntu 17.04, using Python 2.7, have Boost installed and have a working C++ compiler (g++). I believe I have successfully installed LHAPDF, as I followed the instructions on their website and got no error message (only warnings that auto_ptr is deprecated, but I don't think I have control over that). I did add the ~/LHAPDF/lib/python2.7/sitepackages/ directory to $PYTHONPATH and ~/LHAPDF/bin/ directory to $PATH. I am using LHAPDF 6.1.6 (latest version as of writing this).
I get this error message from a test.py file that merely contains
#!/usr/bin/python
import lhapdf

If it can help you help me, I have found someone with a similar problem, but the cause seems not to be the same thing (I don't have Anaconda installed). As they solved their problem by removing Anaconda from $PATH, here are my $PATH and $PYTHONPATH as they might be the source of the problem (although I don't see how):
$PATH
/home/n17182559/LHAPDF/bin:/opt/applications/geant4/geant4.10.02-install/bin:/home/n17182559/ROOT/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:

$PYTHONPATH
/home/n17182559/ROOT/lib:/home/n17182559/LHAPDF/lib/python2.7/site-packages:

Hope you guys can help!

A: I solved it (with external help), if anyone wants the solution. The problem was that the main LHAPDF lib directory was not linked to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This command line solved it:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/path/to/LHAPDF/lib/libLHAPDF.so

(which I added to my ~/.bashrc file).

A: I can't speak to your specific problem, but when I get this class of error, it stems from a version mismatch between packages: lhapdf depends on another package to define that arcane "semi-hidden" symbol, but the package on which it depends is of a version different from the one expected; the older/newer version doesn't provide that symbol.

A: It is a version mismatch (of Python), which is likely caused by upgrading Python after LHAPDF is installed.
Therefore you may have to reinstall LHAPDF, or you could install a second LHAPDF if you use two versions of Python (as of now I am not aware of a solution other than this).
Let us assume you use LHAPDF of version 6.2 or higher, which is much simpler. First you would like to set the path in your shell profile so that it points to the version of Python you want to install LHAPDF for. For bash, you could do
export PATH=path/to/python

then you would like to follow the instruction and do
tar xf LHAPDF-6.X.Y.tar.gz
cd LHAPDF-6.X.Y
./configure --prefix=/path/for/installation
make
make install

After the installation is done, you can add LHAPDF to the path by
export PYTHONPATH=path/to/lhapdf/lib/pythonx.y/site-packages/
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=path/to/lhapdf/lib
export PATH=path/to/lhapdf/bin/:$PATH
export LHAPDF_DATA_PATH=path/to/lhapdf/share/LHAPDF


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Q: Why deadlock exception in single transaction in SQL Server I have a table Table_1 in SQL Server 2014. It has two columns name, id.
I want to run the following script in two separate connections simultaneously:
while 1 = 1
begin
begin try
    SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL Serializable;
        begin tran

        declare @maxId int = 0
        select @maxId = MAX(Id) + 1 from [dbo].[Table_1]
        print(@maxId)

        set identity_insert [dbo].[Table_1] on
            INSERT INTO [dbo].[Table_1] (Id,[Name])
            VALUES (@maxId,'11')
        set identity_insert [dbo].[Table_1] off

commit tran
end try
begin catch

IF(@@TRANCOUNT > 0)
rollback tran

    print ( ERROR_MESSAGE())
    print ( ERROR_SEVERITY())
    print ( ERROR_STATE())

end catch

end

In this script, I inserted rows in my table inside the while loop. When two instances of this script run, I got the following error:

Transaction (Process ID 62) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction.

Why different transactions in different connections do not wait for each other and we got a deadlock error?
In reality, I don't use while.
I just simulate high request to database (in different process) to check consistency and also check concurrency problem.
The ambiguous part of the query is why deadlock?.
One process has two action:
select from Table_1

and
insert into Table_1

Both of them placed in single transaction and single process.
I'm anticipate timeout, but why deadlock.
What I know about deadlock is when we have two resource and two transaction, If Transaction1 locks resource1 and in the same time Transaction2 locks resource2 and they need to lock other resource(Transaction1 locks resource2 and Transaction2 locks resource1). But both of them, can't lock second resource.
In this scenario, database engine terminates one of the transaction with deadlock exception.


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L19 ou L-19 est un sigle qui peut faire référence à :
 Cessna L-19, un avion d'observation américain ;
 HMS Haldon (L19), un torpilleur de la Royal Navy ;
 HMS L19, un sous-marin de la Royal Navy.

Voir aussi
 Sigles d'une lettre suivie de deux chiffres

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No matter their industry, all businesses can benefit from digital marketing — from business-to-business software companies to online clothing stores, and from mega corporations that are household names to mom-and-pop stores, whether they're online only or brick-and-mortar stores.
But the world of digital marketing is constantly changing. While this field may rapidly be evolving, many of its core principles remain the same. This Cheat Sheet examines and explains many of these digital marketing tenets.
For ice-cold prospects (people who have never heard of your brand before or are unaware of the products or services that you sell) to become customers, they need to travel through the stages of awareness, evaluation, and conversion, and you need to create content that facilitates their movement through each stage.
Awareness: Prospects first need to realize that they have a problem and that you offer the solution. If people don't know that they have a problem, they don't seek a solution. To create awareness, clearly define what problem your products or services solves and then create content, such as blog posts and YouTube videos, to make people aware of the problem and the solution you provide. This content moves your prospects to the next stage.
Evaluation: In this stage, people evaluate the various choices available to them, which can include making a purchase with you, buying your competitor's solutions, or doing nothing to solve the problem at this time, if ever. To move people through this stage, create content that helps them make decisions, such as product demos that show your product in action and product comparisons that compare the benefits of your product to that of your competitor's.
Conversion: Prospects are now at the moment of truth: purchase. For this stage, design content that overcomes any hesitancy people may have about buying from you. For instance, create content that clearly defines your return policy, make product detail pages that convey the schematics of your product or service, and include customer testimonials that speak to the success and the quality of your product.
Social media marketing is made up of four equally important parts, and each of these activities meets very different business goals, as shown in the table that follows.
Social listening: Monitoring and responding to customer service and reputation management issues on the social web.
Social influencing: Establishing authority on the social web, often through the distribution and sharing of valuable content.
Social networking: Finding and associating with authoritative and influential individuals and brands on the social web.
Social selling: Generating leads and sales from existing customers and prospects on the social web.
To get results from social media marketing, first determine the goals you want to achieve. Then focus time, money, and effort on the corresponding social media activity. For example, if the company goals are to manage reputation and reduce churn, the focus should be on developing a strong social listening program.
When running paid traffic campaigns on advertising platforms like Facebook, Google, Twitter, or LinkedIn, you'll have no shortage of data at your disposal. And thanks to its nature, digital advertising is infinitely more measurable than its counterpart in the offline world.
Cost per acquisition of customer (CPA): The amount of advertising spend divided by the number of customers generated. Drill down on this metric by calculating CPA by traffic campaign, traffic source, and more.
Cost per lead (CPL): The amount of advertising spend divided by the number of leads generated. Drill down on this metric by calculating CPL by traffic campaign, traffic source, and more.
Click-through rate (CTR): The number of clicks divided by the number of impressions on an ad and any other call to action. The higher the click-through rate, the more prospects you will be moving from stage to stage in the customer journey.
Cost per click (CPC): The amount of advertising spending divided by the number of clicks on the ad, ad set, or ad campaign.
Although the click-through rate (CTR) and cost per click (CPC) are important metrics to monitor, they are not as important as your cost per acquisition (CPA) and cost per lead (CPL). After all, if your lead, customer acquisition, or both costs are within the range of profitability, a low click-through rate or high cost per click becomes less important.


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` The Successors, Ep 3: Getting involved with a board, finding your place, and enjoying a good family dinner – RealAgriculture
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The Successors is a RealAgriculture podcast series hosted by Kara Oosterhuis focusing on agriculture from the perspective of the up-and-coming generation.
What does it take to successfully farm with your family? How do you tackle multiple roles on the farm, and involvement with commodity groups? Why do we need to celebrate the successes in years that can sometimes feel like they have no success at all?
Hannah Konschuh, operator of Generation Land & Grain Co. Ltd. at Cluny, Alta., tackles these questions (and more) in the latest episode of The Successors.
When it comes to potentially sitting on a commodity board, farmers can have many questions, including: Am I too young? When can I join? How on earth do I make that first step?.
Konschuh says a good place to start is getting acquainted with any of the communications that comes out from the boards.
"Figure out all the ways to get engaged and sign up for all the information coming out of all the commissions from whatever your province is," she says. "A thing that happens on the commissions is there is a lot of work to do and not always enough bodies to do that work. So if someone was interested in getting involved, I would say the next thing you should do is find your regional meeting that happens in the fall time. It's a great time to come out and learn what the commissions have been up to and meet the people."
The physical act of being home on the family farm isn't something Konschuh originally had in her sights. Achieving a B.Sc. in Agriculture and M.Sc. in Soil Science, working in industry, then coming to a bit of a crossroads, opportunity eventually led her back. The youngest of three sisters, Konschuh says that although her parents had hoped for some sort of a successor, she never felt pressure to come back.
"They always said 'go out, do your thing, and get your education.' So I think once they realized that I was at a sort of transitional phase, I think they sort of saw that as a window of if there is any potential for [me] to join the farm, it's going to be now. So there was definitely no pressure, and a lot of discussion of what that would look like, and what the potential was like for us as a farm — for myself as an individual, and then with my husband, for us as a couple to join the farm," she says.
In the early stages of succession with her parents, and as a self-described planner, Konschuh says having conversations early on with your family is important, and having them early. Utilizing the resources around you (for both parties involved) can be just as important.
"Its pretty daunting to think 'alright, now I'm going to farm,' or 'alright, now I'm going to retire,' so finding some resources to get you started would be really important. And then of course if you need it — access a third party expert as well. Whether that's a facilitator or your accountant. Starting off with your accountant, they may be able to provide help or start you off on a path of finding some resources. So those are all things that we did that really helped us," Konschuh states.
Listen on for a conversation with Hannah Konschuh and host Kara Oosterhuis on finding what you love to do in the operation, separating business and family meetings, understanding you don't have to love every day of what you do, and so much more:


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I ran Kitkat 4.4.2 on my MotoG 2013,in last year June. Micromax has gone back by a year.
MT6592m for 11 thousand INR??? That too launching in 2015-Q2 ?? Has Micromax gone retarded?? Or do they think their brand value is as good as apple and samsung, so people will buy it??
Looks a bargain from where im standing !
These are overpriced. Indians always prefers branded products rather than this subbrand products. Cheaper hardware and unpolished software.


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SALE OF FIREWORKS View Entire Chapter
SALE OF FIREWORKS
791.001 Application and enforcement.
791.012 Minimum fireworks safety standards.
791.013 Testing and approval of sparklers; penalties.
791.015 Registration of manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers of sparklers.
791.02 Sale of fireworks regulated; rules and regulations.
791.03 Bond of licensees.
791.04 Sale at wholesale, etc., exempted.
791.05 Seizure of illegal fireworks.
791.055 Restrictions upon storage of sparklers.
791.06 Penalties.
791.07 Agricultural and fish hatchery use.
791.08 Use during designated holidays; exemption.
791.001 Application and enforcement.—This chapter shall be applied uniformly throughout the state. Enforcement of this chapter shall remain with local law enforcement departments and officials charged with the enforcement of the laws of the state.
791.01 Definitions.—As used in this chapter, the term:
(1) "Distributor" means any person engaged in the business of selling sparklers to a wholesaler.
(2) "Division" means the Division of the State Fire Marshal of the Department of Financial Services.
(3) "Explosive compound" means any chemical compound, mixture, or device the primary or common purpose of which is to function by the substantially instantaneous release of gas and heat.
(4)(a) "Fireworks" means and includes any combustible or explosive composition or substance or combination of substances or, except as hereinafter provided, any article prepared for the purpose of producing a visible or audible effect by combustion, explosion, deflagration, or detonation. The term includes blank cartridges and toy cannons in which explosives are used, the type of balloons which require fire underneath to propel them, firecrackers, torpedoes, skyrockets, roman candles, dago bombs, and any fireworks containing any explosives or flammable compound or any tablets or other device containing any explosive substance.
(b) "Fireworks" does not include sparklers approved by the division pursuant to s. 791.013; toy pistols, toy canes, toy guns, or other devices in which paper caps containing twenty-five hundredths grains or less of explosive compound are used, providing they are so constructed that the hand cannot come in contact with the cap when in place for the explosion; and toy pistol paper caps which contain less than twenty hundredths grains of explosive mixture, the sale and use of which shall be permitted at all times.
(c) "Fireworks" also does not include the following novelties and trick noisemakers:
1. A snake or glow worm, which is a pressed pellet of not more than 10 grams of pyrotechnic composition that produces a large, snakelike ash which expands in length as the pellet burns and that does not contain mercuric thiocyanate.
2. A smoke device, which is a tube or sphere containing not more than 10 grams of pyrotechnic composition that, upon burning, produces white or colored smoke as the primary effect.
3. A trick noisemaker, which is a device that produces a small report intended to surprise the user and which includes:
a. A party popper, which is a small plastic or paper device containing not more than 16 milligrams of explosive composition that is friction sensitive, which is ignited by pulling a string protruding from the device, and which expels a paper streamer and produces a small report.
b. A booby trap, which is a small tube with a string protruding from both ends containing not more than 16 milligrams of explosive compound, which is ignited by pulling the ends of the string, and which produces a small report.
c. A snapper, which is a small, paper-wrapped device containing not more than four milligrams of explosive composition coated on small bits of sand, and which, when dropped, explodes, producing a small report. A snapper may not contain more than 250 milligrams of total sand and explosive composition.
d. A trick match, which is a kitchen or book match which is coated with not more than 16 milligrams of explosive or pyrotechnic composition and which, upon ignition, produces a small report or shower of sparks.
e. A cigarette load, which is a small wooden peg that has been coated with not more than 16 milligrams of explosive composition and which produces, upon ignition of a cigarette containing one of the pegs, a small report.
f. An auto burglar alarm, which is a tube which contains not more than 10 grams of pyrotechnic composition that produces a loud whistle or smoke when ignited and which is ignited by use of a squib. A small quantity of explosive, not exceeding 50 milligrams, may also be used to produce a small report.
The sale and use of items listed in this paragraph are permitted at all times.
(5) "Manufacturer" means any person engaged in the manufacture or construction of sparklers in this state.
(6) "Retailer" means any person who, at a fixed place of business, is engaged in selling sparklers to consumers at retail.
(7) "Seasonal retailer" means any person engaged in the business of selling sparklers at retail in this state from June 20 through July 5 and from December 10 through January 2 of each year.
(8) "Sparkler" means a device which emits showers of sparks upon burning, does not contain any explosive compounds, does not detonate or explode, is handheld or ground based, cannot propel itself through the air, and contains not more than 100 grams of the chemical compound which produces sparks upon burning. Any sparkler that is not approved by the division is classified as fireworks.
(9) "Wholesaler" means any person engaged in the business of selling sparklers to a retailer.
History.—s. 1, ch. 20445, 1941; s. 1, ch. 57-338; s. 1, ch. 84-201; s. 1, ch. 87-118; s. 36, ch. 89-233; s. 1906, ch. 2003-261.
791.012 Minimum fireworks safety standards.—The outdoor display of fireworks in this state shall be governed by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1123, Code for Fireworks Display, 1995 Edition, approved by the American National Standards Institute. Any state, county, or municipal law, rule, or ordinance may provide for more stringent regulations for the outdoor display of fireworks, but in no event may any such law, rule, or ordinance provide for less stringent regulations for the outdoor display of fireworks. The division shall promulgate rules to carry out the provisions of this section. The Code for Fireworks Display shall not govern the display of any fireworks on private, residential property and shall not govern the display of those items included under s. 791.01(4)(b) and (c) and authorized for sale thereunder.
(1) A person who wishes to sell sparklers must submit samples of his or her product to the division for testing to determine whether it is a sparkler as defined in s. 791.01. Such samples must be received by the division by September 1 to be considered for approval the following year. On February 1 of each year the division shall approve those products which it has tested and found to meet the requirements for sparklers. All approved sparkler products are legal for sale until January 31 of the following year. The list of approved sparkler products shall be published in the Florida Administrative Register and shall prominently state the dates between which the products may be sold. The division shall make copies of this list available to the public. A product must be tested and approved for sale in accordance with the rules adopted to implement this section. Beginning February 1, 1988, only those products approved by the division may be sold in the state. The State Fire Marshal shall adopt rules describing the testing, approval, and listing procedures.
(2) Any person who alters an approved sparkler product, so that it is no longer a sparkler as defined in s. 791.01, and subsequently sells the product as if it were approved is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. Any person who fraudulently represents a device as approved for sale as a sparkler product when it is not so approved is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
(3) For purposes of the testing requirement by this section, the division shall perform such tests as are necessary to determine compliance with the performance standards in the definition of sparklers, pursuant to s. 791.01. The State Fire Marshal shall adopt, by rule, procedures for testing products to determine compliance with this chapter. The Division of Investigative and Forensic Services shall dispose of any samples which remain after testing.
History.—s. 2, ch. 87-118; s. 21, ch. 93-276; s. 1222, ch. 97-102; s. 58, ch. 2013-14; s. 38, ch. 2016-165.
(1) REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS.—Any manufacturer, distributor, wholesaler, retailer, or seasonal retailer of sparklers who wishes to do business in this state or to otherwise sell, ship, or assign for sale its products in this state must register annually with the division on forms prescribed by the division. Any retailer who sells sparklers at more than one retail location may submit one registration form for all such locations but must provide the address of each location with the registration form; however, any retailer may submit multiple registration forms.
(2) REGISTRATION FORM.—The registration form filed with the division must be notarized and must include the following information: business name; address; telephone number; officers, if the business is a corporation; and an individual designated as a contact person.
(3) FEES.—
(a) Each manufacturer, distributor, or wholesaler must pay an annual registration fee to be set by the division not to exceed $1,000. Each seasonal retailer must pay an annual registration fee to be set by the division not to exceed $200. Each retailer shall pay an annual registration fee to be set by the division not to exceed $15 for each retail location registered. Each certificateholder wishing to have a duplicate certificate issued for one which is lost or to reflect a change of address shall request such duplicate in writing and shall pay a fee of $5.
(b) Revenue from registration fee payments shall be deposited in the Insurance Regulatory Trust Fund for the purposes of implementing the registration and testing provisions of this chapter.
(4) RULES.—The State Fire Marshal may adopt rules prescribing registration forms required by this section.
History.—s. 3, ch. 87-118; s. 37, ch. 89-233; s. 21, ch. 2000-370; s. 1907, ch. 2003-261.
(1) Except as hereinafter provided it is unlawful for any person, firm, copartnership, or corporation to offer for sale, expose for sale, sell at retail, or use or explode any fireworks; provided that the board of county commissioners shall have power to adopt reasonable rules and regulations for the granting of permits for supervised public display of fireworks by fair associations, amusement parks, and other organizations or groups of individuals when such public display is to take place outside of any municipality; provided, further, that the governing body of any municipality shall have power to adopt reasonable rules and regulations for the granting of permits for supervised public display of fireworks within the boundaries of any municipality. Every such display shall be handled by a competent operator to be approved by the chiefs of the police and fire departments of the municipality in which the display is to be held, and shall be of such a character, and so located, discharged, or fired as in the opinion of the chief of the fire department, after proper inspection, shall not be hazardous to property or endanger any person. Application for permits shall be made in writing at least 15 days in advance of the date of the display. After such privilege shall have been granted, sales, possession, use, and distribution of fireworks for such display shall be lawful for that purpose only. No permit granted hereunder shall be transferable.
(2) A sparkler or other product authorized for sale under this chapter may not be sold by a retailer or seasonal retailer unless the product was obtained from a manufacturer, distributor, or wholesaler registered with the division pursuant to s. 791.015. Each retailer and seasonal retailer shall keep, at every location where sparklers are sold, a copy of an invoice or other evidence of purchase from the manufacturer, distributor, or wholesaler, which states the registration certificate number for the particular manufacturer, distributor, or wholesaler and the specific items covered by the invoice. Each seasonal retailer shall, in addition, exhibit a copy of his or her registration certificate at each seasonal retail location.
History.—s. 2, ch. 20445, 1941; s. 1, ch. 61-312; s. 4, ch. 87-118; s. 1223, ch. 97-102.
791.03 Bond of licensees.—The board of county commissioners shall require a bond deemed adequate by the board of county commissioners from the licensee in a sum not less than $500 conditioned for the payment of all damages which may be caused either to a person or to property by reason of the licensee's display, and arising from any acts of the licensee, his or her agents, employees or subcontractors.
History.—s. 3, ch. 20445, 1941; s. 1, ch. 61-312; s. 1224, ch. 97-102.
791.04 Sale at wholesale, etc., exempted.—Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit any manufacturer, distributor, or wholesaler who has registered with the division pursuant to s. 791.015 to sell at wholesale such fireworks as are not herein prohibited; to prohibit the sale of any kind of fireworks at wholesale between manufacturers, distributors, and wholesalers who have registered with the division pursuant to s. 791.015; to prohibit the sale of any kind of fireworks provided the same are to be shipped directly out of state by such manufacturer, distributor, or wholesaler; to prohibit the sale of fireworks to be used by a person holding a permit from any board of county commissioners at the display covered by such permit; or to prohibit the use of fireworks by railroads or other transportation agencies for signal purposes or illumination or when used in quarrying or for blasting or other industrial use, or the sale or use of blank cartridges for a show or theater, or for signal or ceremonial purposes in athletics or sports, or for use by military organizations, or organizations composed of the Armed Forces of the United States; provided, nothing in this chapter shall be construed as barring the operations of manufacturers, duly licensed, from manufacturing, experimenting, exploding, and storing such fireworks in their compounds or proving grounds.
History.—s. 4, ch. 20445, 1941; s. 1, ch. 61-312; s. 5, ch. 87-118.
791.05 Seizure of illegal fireworks.—Each sheriff, or his or her appointee, or any other police officer, shall seize, take, remove or cause to be removed at the expense of the owner, all stocks of fireworks or combustibles offered or exposed for sale, stored, or held in violation of this chapter.
History.—s. 5, ch. 20445, 1941; s. 1225, ch. 97-102.
(1) Sparklers shall not be stored or kept for sale in any store:
(a) In which paints, oils, or varnishes are manufactured or kept for use or sale unless the paints, oils, or varnishes are in unbroken containers.
(b) In which resin, turpentine, gasoline, or flammable substances or substances which may generate vapors are used, stored, or offered for sale unless the resin, turpentine, gasoline, or substances are in unbroken containers.
(c) In which there is not at least one approved chemical fire extinguisher ready, available, and equipped for use in extinguishing fires.
(2) When sparklers are in storage to be offered for sale at retail, a sign shall be conspicuously displayed over the entrance to the room in which the sparklers are stored, which sign reads: "CAUTION SPARKLERS-NO SMOKING." No person shall be in such room while in possession of a lighted cigar, cigarette, or pipe.
791.06 Penalties.—Any firm, copartnership, or corporation violating the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.083 or, in the case of individuals, the members of a partnership and the responsible officers and agents of an association or corporation, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
History.—s. 6, ch. 20445, 1941; s. 756, ch. 71-136.
791.07 Agricultural and fish hatchery use.—Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit the importation, purchase, sale, or use of fireworks used or to be used solely and exclusively in frightening birds from agricultural works and fish hatcheries; and such use shall be governed entirely by the rules prescribed by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
History.—s. 1, ch. 29780, 1955; s. 1, ch. 57-336; ss. 14, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 1, ch. 82-109.
Note.—Section 10(5), ch. 2007-67, provides that "[p]ending completion of the Legislature's review of the task force's report and to ensure that fire prevention and safety standards are uniform, a new permanent retail sales facility engaged in sales otherwise permitted under s. 791.07, Florida Statutes, may not be opened in this state after March 8, 2007, unless the permanent retail sales facility has received site-plan approval and construction has begun on or before March 8, 2007; the number of permits for temporary retail sales facilities, such as tents, engaged in sales otherwise permitted by s. 791.07, Florida Statutes, which are issued after March 8, 2007, by a county, municipality, or other unit of local government may not exceed the number of permits that such governmental entity issued for such facilities during the previous calendar year; and a municipality, county, or other unit of local government may not adopt an ordinance, rule, regulation, or other law after March 8, 2007, which directly prohibits or directly interferes with the safety standards established by state law or the right to purchase, sell, use, or possess consumer fireworks in this state. However, if the Legislature enacts legislation to provide for the comprehensive regulation of fire prevention and safety standards for the use of consumer fireworks to replace this subsection on or before July 1, 2008, this subsection does not prohibit opening any such facility, permitting any such temporary facility, or adopting any such ordinance or other law after such legislation is enacted."
(1) As used in this section, the term "designated holiday" means:
(a) New Year's Day, January 1;
(b) Independence Day, July 4; or
(c) New Year's Eve, December 31.
(2) This chapter does not prohibit the use of fireworks solely and exclusively during a designated holiday. This section is not intended to provide for the comprehensive regulation of fireworks as described in s. 10(5), chapter 2007-67, Laws of Florida, or to supersede any local governmental regulation relating to the use of fireworks as provided in s. 10(5), chapter 2007-67, Laws of Florida.
(3) The Legislature does not intend for the application of this section to supersede any prohibition against the use of fireworks contained within a legally executed and properly recorded declaration of covenants or covenant running with the land of any homeowners' association pursuant to chapter 720. However, a homeowners' association, through a board of directors, may not promulgate rules that attempt to abrogate a homeowner's right to use fireworks during a designated holiday or under general law.
History.—s. 1, ch. 2020-11.


Friday will make it four decades since the La Cañada Boosters Club originated in 1970. This detail was nearly overlooked by the club itself.
Steve Brown, a club director, was surprised when asked if there were any plans to celebrate the Oct. 15 anniversary. There has been little time for Boosters to reflect on their history, as they're putting the finishing touches on the club's Nov. 6 dinner and auction fundraiser.
"We really weren't aware of it," Brown said. "We've kind of been focused on getting the job done."
Since 1970, the organization's task has been to raise money for extracurricular activities at La Cañada High School. As a result, junior-high sports, school clubs and extracurricular activities have increased at the school, Brown said.
"It's really exciting and it's kind of humbling because so many people have gone before us," Brown said. "It's really amazing [Boosters] has gone on for so long."
All athletic uniforms have been paid for by Boosters since its inception. The group doesn't donate to just sports, though. In fact, 40% of the funds the group raises go to non-athletic programs.
"Most boosters are sports-only, but we recognize the fact that extracurricular activities of all sorts are important to the school and the students," Brown said. "Our goal is to give kids the most well-rounded high-school experience."
Boosters will strive toward meeting that goal again this year with their annual dinner auction. The event starts at 6:30 p.m. and is being held at the Oakmont Country Club. Funds raised will go toward updating La Cañada High's PE lockers. Jim Stratton, superintendent of La Cañada Unified School District, will be honored at the auction for his decades of leadership and dedication to the district.
Single tickets are $125, but for extra value, Booster memberships of $350 come with two or more tickets to the auction. Tickets can be purchased in advance online at http://www.spartanboosters.org or by e-mailing spartanboosters@gmail.com. For information call Jim Moore at (818) 790-8992.


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There's Boiling Magma Beneath the Antarctic Ice, And It Could Burst Out at Any Time
Swarms of earthquakes beneath the Antarctic ice could be signs of an impending volcanic eruption
Colin Schultz
The tip of Antarctica's Mount Sidley, part of the Executive Committee Range. U.S. Navy / Wikimedia Commons
There's a whole world trapped deep beneath Antarctica's vast ice sheets. There are glaciers that reach nearly three miles high. There are rivers and lakes that are filled with life. There are mountain ranges. There are volcanoes.
And every once in a while, a massive volcanic eruption will punch through the ice. As far as we know, the volcanoes that dot Antarctica's ridiculously-named "Executive Committee Range" haven't seen an eruption in around 8,000 years. But according to new research the area is stirring: observations of a series of earthquake swarms suggest that the magma is moving.
In 2010 and 2011, a team of researchers, led by Washington University graduate student Amanda Lough, detected bursts of seismic activity—at least 1,370 earthquakes centered deep beneath Antarctica's Marie Byrd Land in the continent's West Antarctic Ice Sheet. "We interpret the swarm events as deep long-period earthquakes based on their unusual frequency content. Such earthquakes occur beneath active volcanoes, are caused by deep magmatic activity and, in some cases, precede eruptions," the scientists write in their study.
The sighting of the earthquake swarms isn't a guarantee of an impending eruption, they say. But swarms have been seen in advance of eruptions before, like in 1991′s Mount Pinatubo eruption. The earthquakes are caused by the changes in pressure exerted on the subsurface rock as magma moves around, deep within the Earth.
If volcanic activity were to start, says Lough and her team, it would take a wildly powerful eruption to cut all the way to the surface—the ice in the area is more than a half-mile thick. Even a small eruption, though, could be important, as it would likely melt a bunch of the western ice sheet, contributing to sea level rise or creating a layer of water along the bottom of glaciers, making it easier for ice to slide into the sea.
More from Smithsonian.com:
Here's What Antarctica Looks Like Under All The Ice
Ancient Climate Change Meant Antarctica Was Once Covered with Palm Trees
Antarctica Erupts!
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Colin Schultz is a freelance science writer and editor based in Toronto, Canada. He blogs for Smart News and contributes to the American Geophysical Union. He has a B.Sc. in physical science and philosophy, and a M.A. in journalism.
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BY CORINNA COOK
Dec. 2, 2020 — Fossil fuel industries in the United States have a large influence on the country, and the country depends heavily on them for energy production. They make trillions of dollars per year. And they spend millions on lobbying, aiming to influence politicians to act in their favor, every year. They contribute millions of dollars to state and national campaigns and receive billions in subsidies, which is government assistance in the form of grants, loans or tax reductions.
These financial ties make it difficult for clean energy companies to find their footing in the current system.
Back in 2016, news broke that ExxonMobil had been doing climate research since 1957. According to the Center for International Law, Exxon's predecessor Humble Oil had been conducting research on the impacts of rising carbon dioxide levels and what that might mean for the planet.
"If we'd done something about this 20 years ago, you could kind of have an incremental approach to it, but we've left it so late now we're at the kind of cliff edge," said Oliver Milman, an environmental reporter for the Guardian, in a video. "We need emergency measures to essentially transform our lives overnight."
Carbon dioxide is one of the most abundant greenhouse gases. These are gases in the atmosphere that hold onto heat, which warms the atmosphere and the oceans, causing changes to weather patterns. And as they get warmer, more gases are produced, creating a positive feedback loop that is difficult to stop. Other common greenhouse gases are methane and nitrous oxide.
The changing climate can lead to flooding, larger storms, heatwaves and other potentially deadly events.
Instead of using this information to come forward about potential dangers of climate change, the fossil fuel companies organized against regulations.
In the past, the United States depended on oil from the Middle East. But that became a national security issue. With that and the growth in fracking, things changed, and the U.S. now depends more on domestic oil and gas. In 2019, domestic oil accounted for 94% of our consumption and only 3% was from net imports. This is the lowest the U.S. imports have been since 1954.
And even now the fossil fuel industries have a large impact on policy and government decisions. Previous president Donald Trump appointed Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of ExxonMobil, as the secretary of state and Andrew Wheeler, previous lobbyist for coal producer Murray Energy, as the EPA administrator.
In a letter addressed to Majority Leaders Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer, signed by 13 members of Congress, the issue of these special interests' influence over politics was brought to light. Beyond lobbyists and people associated with fossil fuel companies, the letter discussed the same issue with people associated with major banks or financial firms.
"No administration, Democratic or Republican, can credibly tell the American people it intends to reduce the influence of corporate money in politics if it continues the outdated tradition of putting corporate lobbyists and officers in charge of federal decision-making," stated the concerned members of Congress.
According to Open Secrets, a nonprofit research group, gas, oil and coal companies all spend more money on lobbying in support of republican candidates. And while lobbying funds have declined in recent years, their influence remains strong.
Source: OpenSecrets
Overall, the total campaign contributions by energy companies have declined in recent years. In 2020, oil and gas industries spent $48.5 million on Republicans and only $9.6 million on Democrats. The top two recipients are Donald Trump and Joe Biden, respectively. During the 2016 election, the top two were Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, with Hillary Clinton third.
Coal companies contributed $2.7 million to Republicans and $102,100 to Democrats. The top recipients were Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell. And in 2016, the top two were Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
"The severe power imbalance in Washington that favors well- funded corporate interests has been well documented, as has the public's unhappiness with it," according to the letter.
Many of the fossil fuel giants have renewable energy projects. Exxon is working on carbon capture and storage systems and researching biofuels. According to Exxon's research highlights, they've spent $300 million on research into biofuels over the last decade, which is about $30 million per year. And according to their financial highlights, they had over $14 billion in net income in 2019. That's 0.20% of their annual income spent on researching renewable solutions in 2019.
Policies are in place that attempt to cap the amount of greenhouse gas emissions both locally and statewide. The most prevalent is called cap and trade. This system gives companies a limit to their greenhouse gas emissions, depending on the type of program implemented, it could target energy producers (the fossil fuel companies or the transporters) or the companies that burn them. If one does not reach its limit, they can sell it to another company that wants to produce more than the allowed amount.
There are other methods of changing how the fossil fuel industry operates to reduce carbon, like carbon capture, which is a method of taking carbon dioxide from emissions and storing it, which, according to MIT, generally meaning injecting it deep underground. Myles Allen, a climate scientist and an investigator for the project climatepredition.net, is an advocate for carbon capture.
"Global warming won't wait for the fossil fuel industry to die," said Allen during a TED Talk. "And just calling for it to die is letting it off the hook from solving its own problem."
During the TED Talk, Allen claims that the industry knows how to stop global warming, but they're waiting for someone else to pay for it.
During the 2020 presidential election, fracking in Pennsylvania was a huge topic of discussion. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence argued that Biden and Harris opposed it and have plans to ban it entirely. While Biden wants to ban new oil and gas permitting on public lands and waters, he has not directly opposed fracking in general.
"I do rule out banning fracking … What I will do with fracking over time is make sure that we can capture the emissions from the fracking," said Biden during the final presidential debate of 2020. "I will transition from the oil industry … because the oil industry pollutes significantly," he said. "I would stop giving them federal subsidies."
Fossil fuels can be pinpointed as a cause of many health issues across the country ranging from asthma to cancer. According to research conducted in Appalachia by Michael Hendryx, an expert in epidemiology and biostatistics, runoff from mountaintop removal for coal can cause respiratory issues and higher cancer rates. Pollution from burning the fuels are a few of the ways this poisoning can happen.
"We found that people who live where mountaintop removal takes place have significantly higher levels of cardiovascular disease, kidney disease and chronic lung disease," said Hendryx during a TEDMED Talk. "Death rates from cancer are significantly elevated, especially for lung cancer." Hendryx also mentioned higher risks of birth defects. Controlled for other risks, the difference in mortality equals about 1,200 deaths in areas with mountaintop removal.
On top of the human health issues, greenhouse gases can wreak havoc on the climate and natural world. According to USGS, Oklahoma now has fairly frequent induced earthquakes due to fracking. Other states across the U.S. are seeing an increase in induced earthquakes due to wastewater disposal from oil wells and fracking, on top of the dangers of leaks from oil pipelines and barges.
On a local scale, Western Washington has some drama surrounding the fossil fuel industry as well. The oil refinery at Cherry Point is one of the top issues. Since 2016, there has been a moratorium on crude oil shipments through Cherry Point. On August 13, 2020 the Whatcom County Planning Commission held a public hearing and voted on their final recommendations. Since then, the Whatcom County Council and Committee of the Whole have held 13 meetings to discuss proposed Cherry Point amendments with discussions of an interim moratorium which is slated for another public hearing on May 18, 2020.
This isn't to say that renewable energy is flawless. In fact, they do have problems. Dams block important salmon routes and keep sediment from flowing downriver, solar is only effective with certain levels of UV light. And some count nuclear as a form of clean energy, but the waste becomes an issue.
Dams are an important form of energy, especially in Washington. In 2018, 69% of the state's electricity generation came from hydroelectric, mostly from dams. These dams impede the sediment that flows downstream and negatively impacts the health of estuaries downstream. A few of the dams in Washington also block some of the most pristine salmon hatching grounds.
Solar power and wind can be intermittent. Wind turbines add to noise pollution and can injure wildlife, like birds and bats. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that turbines kill between 140,000 and 500,000 birds annually in the United States. Compared to the estimated 1-4 billion bird deaths by domestic cats, this number is relatively low.
Nuclear, while producing clean and reliable energy, does result in a waste that is difficult to dispose of safely. A permanent method of disposal does not exist yet. And the risk of meltdowns causes legitimate worries.
The U.S. Energy Information Association expects renewable energy consumption will continue to increase. And according to the United Nations there is only a decade left before climate change is irreversible.


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Grand Theft Auto Online's latest update extends the Los Santos winter wonderland and introduces new in-game content such as a new vehicle and adversary mode.
Rockstar Games today has announced new information regarding Grand Theft Auto Online. The latest update, now available across all platforms features extended in-game snowfall and new content.
According to the press release, this week, aside from extended snowfall throughout Los Santos, Grand Theft Auto Online's newest update introduces the Overflod Autrarch, a slick new ride that is defined by the developer as something more than just a hypercar, sports prototype or a concept GT vehicle, but instead, something better. Gamers interested in purchasing the new automobile can buy it now at Legendary Motorsport.
Additionally, the new update introduces a disturbing new Adversary Mode titled Slashers. The concept of Slashers pits two teams who will duke it out to the death, here's the catch though, the entire match will be played in the dark. Players will be split into two teams – the Slashers, a group armed with Machetes and Shotguns and the Hunted who are equipped with Thermal Vision and Flashlights. The team roles are reversed after every minute has passed in the match until all the members of one team have been eliminated. On top of that, now until January 8th, gamers who partake in Slashers will receive Double GTA$ & RP.
In other Grand Theft Auto Online news, earlier this week, Rockstar Games released a new update that includes this annual Grand Theft Auto Online Festive Surprise and offers a slew of holiday-themed unlocks, which are available now until January 5. On top of that, last week the game's most extensive update, The Doomsday Heist was released.


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Is there really any need for baseload power?
March 17, 2010 by Tom Raftery
Photo credit wonderferret
The electricity grid may not need "baseload" generation sources like coal and nuclear to backup the variability of supply from renewables.
Jon Wellinghof is the Chairman of the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). FERC is an independent agency that amongst other things, regulates the interstate transmission of electricity, natural gas, and oil – for more on FERC's responsibilities see their About page. Chairman Wellinghoff has been involved in the energy industry for 30 years and appointed to the FERC as a commissioner by then president Bush in 2006.
Last year, shortly after being appointed as Chairman of the FERC, Mr Wellinghoff announced that:
No new nuclear or coal plants may ever be needed in the United States….
Wellinghoff said renewables like wind, solar and biomass will provide enough energy to meet baseload capacity and future energy demands. Nuclear and coal plants are too expensive, he added.
"I think baseload capacity is going to become an anachronism," he said. "Baseload capacity really used to only mean in an economic dispatch, which you dispatch first, what would be the cheapest thing to do. Well, ultimately wind's going to be the cheapest thing to do, so you'll dispatch that first."…
"What you have to do, is you have to be able to shape it," he added. "And if you can shape wind and you can effectively get capacity available for you for all your loads.
"So if you can shape your renewables, you don't need fossil fuel or nuclear plants to run all the time. And, in fact, most plants running all the time in your system are an impediment because they're very inflexible. You can't ramp up and ramp down a nuclear plant. And if you have instead the ability to ramp up and ramp down loads in ways that can shape the entire system, then the old concept of baseload becomes an anachronism."
This was quite an unusual contention at the time (and still is) and despite the Chairman's many years working in the sector it was, by and large, ignored – even by the administration who had appointed him to the Chairmanship. In fact, the Obama administration has since announced financial backing for new nuclear power plants.
However, a study published last week by the Maryland-based Institute for Energy and Environmental Research backs Chairman Wellinghoff's assertion. In a study of North Carolina's electricity needs it concluded backup generation requirements would be modest for a system based largely on solar and wind power, combined with efficiency, hydroelectric power, and other renewable sources like landfill gas:
"Even though the wind does not blow nor the sun shine all the time, careful management, readily available storage and other renewable sources, can produce nearly all the electricity North Carolinians consume," explained Dr. John Blackburn, the study's author. Dr. Blackburn is Professor Emeritus of Economics and former Chancellor at Duke University.
"Critics of renewable power point out that solar and wind sources are intermittent," Dr. Blackburn continued. "The truth is that solar and wind are complementary in North Carolina. Wind speeds are usually higher at night than in the daytime. They also blow faster in winter than summer. Solar generation, on the other hand, takes place in the daytime. Sunlight is only half as strong in winter as in summertime. Drawing wind power from different areas — the coast, mountains, the sounds or the ocean — reduces variations in generation. Using wind and solar in tandem is even more reliable. Together, they can generate three-fourths of the state's electricity. When hydroelectric and other renewable sources are added, the gap to be filled is surprisingly small. Only six percent of North Carolina's electricity would have to come from conventional power plants or from other systems."
With larger and more inter-connected electricity grids, the requirement for baseload falls even further because the greater the geographical spread of your grid, the greater the chances that the wind will be blowing or the sun shining in some parts of it.
So, is there really any need for baseload power any more, or is this now just a myth perpetuated by those with vested interests?
Filed Under: utilities Tagged With: baseload, coal, coal fired power, electricity generation, ferc, nuclear power, renewable energy, renewables, solar, wind power
indarki says
Be careful, because "enough energy" isn't the only thing that the grid needs. Also needs to guarantee the grid frecuency or provide enough reactive power. These two aspects are well resolved by base-load installations like nuclear or coal (also combined cycle and big hydro)
It can be done (big hydro, appropriate storage, …) but if you don't take it into account, the grid would be unstable too many times and a black-out could happen.
Tom Raftery says
@indarki – sure, but a decent demand response program would have no problem managing this
I think it's not only a matter of a demand response program, but also the type of generation technology.
For example, in case of grid fail (even if very punctual) many wind generators are program to be disconected because they aren't able to help the grid, only to "follow" it. So, the problem can be amplified. Something similar happens with PV generators. They can contribute to energy mix in a important way if everything is fine but hardly can contribute to grid stability in case of fail… not because of grid control but its type of generation technology. Because of things like this is why the interconexión between France and Spain is planed in DC instead of AC, for example.
If utilities doesn't take this into account, the grid can have a lot of problems. I think that this is one of the reasons why many distributed generation is rising so slowly.


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Marsha Crawford, who has been with Radar Hill for almost 5 years, came to us to discuss the redevelopment of her website to a mobile-friendly responsive website design. With the upgrade completed, Marsha is able to direct her clients to her website on their PDA's and tablets.
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Grove Announces Citizen Map Selected as Preliminary Congressional Plan, Invites Public Comment
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HARRISBURG – Rep. Seth Grove (R-York), chairman of the House State Government Committee, announced Wednesday that following the most open and transparent congressional redistricting process in Pennsylvania history, the committee has selected a citizen map as its preliminary congressional plan.
The preliminary plan, submitted through the committee's online mapping tool by Lehigh County resident Amanda Holt, is now posted for public comment.
"Over the last several months, advocates and every-day Pennsylvanians told us they didn't want the process of years' past," Grove said.
"The people of Pennsylvania asked for increased public involvement, a map that was drawn by people, not by politicians, and the opportunity to offer comment on a preliminary plan before a final vote was taken."
"Today, I am proud to announce that a citizen's map, not a map drawn by legislators, has been introduced for consideration by the General Assembly, and for the first time in Pennsylvania history is posted for public view and comment."
Holt's map was one of the 19 verified statewide maps submitted to the committee through https://app.mydistricting.com/legdistricting/pennsylvania/comment_links.
To view the preliminary map, residents should visit www.paredistricting.com and click on "Preliminary Map." There, users will be able to view the map and offer public comments.
"The introduction of this map is a starting point, and we look forward to hearing the thoughts of residents across Pennsylvania about how this map would impact their community and how they are represented in Washington, D.C.," Grove said.
Holt's map was introduced by Grove because it was drawn without political influence; complies with constitutionally mandated criteria; satisfies equal population requirements; limits splits of townships, municipalities and other local subdivisions; and is comprised of districts that are compact and contiguous, all of which were highlighted as priorities by the majority of testifiers and residents throughout the committee's extensive regional hearings and online public input process.
"This is a historic step forward in transparency and good government," Grove said.
Grove also announced the House State Government Committee would be holding two meetings in Harrisburg on the preliminary plan:
Informational meeting on Thursday, Dec. 9, at 5:30 p.m. in Room G50, Irvis Office Building.
Voting meeting on Monday, Dec. 13, at 8 a.m. in Room 523, Irvis Office Building.
The meetings will also be livestreamed at www.paredistricting.com.
"I look forward to kicking off the legislative process and getting a map before the people of Pennsylvania for feedback and consideration," Grove said.
In addition to the ability to comment on the preliminary citizen map, residents can also watch or read testimony from one of the 12 previously held hearings (www.paredistricting.com/hearingschedule) and view previously submitted statewide maps, communities of interest and public comments (www.paredistricting.com/input).
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