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Serving South Carolina with more: the newsletter for South Carolina libraries
South Carolina State Library (South Carolina State Library, 2007-01)
This Winter 2007 newsletter from the South Carolina State Library, volume 39, issue 1, features news and updates for South Carolina libraries.
This Spring 2007 newsletter from the South Carolina State Library, volume 39, issue 2, features news and updates for South Carolina libraries.
This Fall 2007 newsletter from the South Carolina State Library, volume 39, issue 4, features news and updates for South Carolina libraries.
This Summer 2007 newsletter from the South Carolina State Library, volume 39, issue 3, features news and updates for South Carolina libraries.


Yes, the seasons have changed and it's time to welcome back Skye Zentz to Hunter At Sunrise. There is always something going on with Skye and it is always cool to catch up with her. Skye is a teacher, educator and performer who has deep roots in Norfolk. According to her website, she's "a versatile artist who spreads her music from concert halls to nursing homes and schools, from public libraries to coffeehouses and living rooms. Skye's music explores themes of infatuation, commitment, freedom and time, inspired by her own experiences and complemented by the insight found in mythology and traditional folk tales". Hope you will join us as Skye Zentz once again pays a visit to Hunter At Sunrise. For more about Skye Zentz, click HERE.


Click here for more ideas on how to de-clutter.
Decorating isn't really a hobby, nor is it merely an activity; it's a driving force of many people, to live in comfortable and pleasing surroundings, while they regenerate from a stressful world.
Yet, decorating by itself is not nearly as completely satisfying as having an organized home, that is rich in beautiful detail. Decorating and organizing go hand-in-hand, like a one-two punch of home completion. This area of home life is different from others in that it involves all the senses and to that degree it is successful, engendering varying emotions.
In an effort to motivate you to action, use these suggestions to help you on your way to an organized home.
If you're like my dear Mother and you still have newspapers from 1978 because you haven't read them all: Don't walk, RUN to the sanitation department, and rent an industrial sized dumpster to leave in your driveway for a week.
I'm giving you permission to touch your incoming mail and papers more than once – only if the second "touching" is on the way to the dumpster.
You could try to "limit" the number of toys they play with each month and cycle them to and from the garage so your little ones get variety.
That takes too much effort. I just threatened my boys if they left toys out on their floor at bedtime, they would be in the dumpster the next day (the toys, silly!). Do this twice, and you'll have this hot spot under control.


Miss Catherine Loewe and Miss Lucinda West both have their own art collections and both used to work in galleries. Now they have started organising exhibitions in their spare time to promote young artists. Their exhibition, Paintings for the Time Being, by a selection of young painters took place in The Studio in Chelsea, and not only sold out but produced a waiting list. One hundred and fifty friends, curators and collectors made up a vibrant mixture of people for the opening night and Catherine and Lucinda managed to persuade them that art-collecting was fun. What began as a hobby may now well become a career.


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Evangelical Alliance
Evangelical Alliance is the name of an association of Christians belonging to the denominations collectively called Evangelical, and having for its object to represent the unity of these churches in all the more important articles of faith, notwithstanding their separation by external organization. The Alliance originated in Great Britain, and the rupture in the Presbyterian Church of Scotland seems to have greatly contributed to its establishment. On August 5, 1845, a number of persons belonging to different denominations drew up a, proposal of closer union. The advantages promised by such a movement were at once appreciated in England, and an assembly was convoked at Liverpool October 1, 1845, which was in session three days, and at which were present 216 persons, representing 20 different religious societies. The first General Assembly of the Evangelical Alliance was held in Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen Street, London, and lasted from August 19 to September 2, 1846; 921 Christians from all parts of the world took part in its 26 sessions; among them were 47 from the European continent, and 87 from America and other parts. Among them we find the names of Dr. Barth, of Calvin. Wiirtemberg Dr. Baird, of New York; Reverend Dr. Bonnet, of Frankfort on the Maine (editor of the letters of Calvin); Dr. Buchanan, of Glasgow; Dr. Cunningham, of Edinburgh; William Jones, president of the Tract Society; Dr. Marriott, of Basel; the missionary Mogling, of Mangalur; the missionary inspector (subsequently superintendent general), Dr. Hoffmann; Reverend Adolphe Tonod (then in Montauban); Reverend Dr. Oneken, of Hamburg; Reverend Dr. Panchaud of Brussels; Reverend Baptist Noel, of London; and Dr. Tholuck, of Halle. Some fifty different denominations were represented, some of which, however as the reformed churches of France and Geneva, and the Lutheran churches of North America and Witrtemberg, differed only on local points. Some colored preachers also took part in the proceedings. Sir Culling Eardley (q.v.) was chosen as chairman, and remained the head of the Alliance until his death. The platform was clearly and unanimously defined: the Evangelical Alliance is not to be a union of the different denominations, neither is it its aim to bring about such as its result; its object is only to promote Christian feelings, loving, friendly intercourse between the different denominations, and an effective cooperation in the efforts to repulse the common enemies and dangers. As the means of effecting this purpose, it advocates, not a sort of official or semi-official representative assembly of the different denominations, but rather the union of individuals. It is to be a Christian union, not a Church union; one in which a number of earnest, faithful Christians of the different denominations may join. Being a union of Christians, not of churches, the doors of the Evangelical Alliance are open to all who admit the fundamental principles of Christianity, without inquiring into the minutiae of their particular confessions. It only asks its members to accept (whether because or in spite of their particular confession does not matter) the fundamental principles and doctrines of the Gospel. This naturally led to a definition of these fundamental principles, the admission of which should be considered the basis of the Alliance. On the motion being made by Dr. Edward Bickersteth, the following nine articles' were, after mature deliberation, received as the fundamental principles of the Evangelical Alliance:
"The parties composing the Alliance shall be such parties only as hold and maintain what are usually understood to be evangelical views in regard to the matter of doctrines understated, namely:
1. The divine inspiration, authority, and sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures.
2. The right and duty of private judgment in the interpretation of the Holy Scriptures.
3. The unity of the Godhead, and the trinity of persons therein.
4. The utter depravity of human. nature in consequence of the Fall.
5. The incarnation of the Son of God, his work of atonement for sinners and mankind, and his mediatorial intercession and reign.
6. The justification of the sinners by faith alone.
7. The work of the Holy Spirit. in the conversion and sanctification of the sinner.
8. The immortality of the soul, the resurrection of the body, the judgment of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, with the eternal blessedness of the righteous, and the eternal punishment of the wicked.
9. The divine institution of the Christian ministry, and the obligation and perpetuity of the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper." These principles were embodied in a document entitled Societatis Evangelicae constitutionis et statutorum expositio brevis. The members bind themselves to pray zealously for the Holy Spirit to descend upon all believers, and to employ jointly the morning of the first weekday as a season of prayer, as also the first week of each year; as also to use Christian circumspection in their speech and writings when touching, on points of difference. The Alliance was organized on the 2d of September. They organized a series of seven branch associations: 1. Great Britain and Ireland; 2. United States of North America; 3. France, Belgium, and the French portion of Switzerland; 4. Northern Germany; 5. South Germany, and the German portion of Switzerland; 6. British North America; 7.West Indies. These branch associations Went into actual operation afterwards. The Alliance spread in France, Switzerland, and Belgium, without agreement with its definition of the evangelical treed being insisted on. It met with much opposition in Germany from the Lutherans, who did not find the creed sufficiently explicit on certain points, and from the disciples of Scbleiermacher, who disapproved of some of the articles. A second assembly was held in Paris in 1855 on the occasion of the World's Exhibition. The third meeting was held in Berlin in 1857. The ("Confessional") Lutherans became more determined in their opposition, while the evangelical party of Germany, though approving of the general scope of the Alliance, deemed it inexpedient to insist on the acceptance of the nine principles as a condition of membership. This meeting was largely attended, delegates from Macao, Africa, and Australia being present, and brought the Alliance more prominently before the churches of Continental Europe. The fourth meeting was held at Geneva in 1860. It was successful, notwithstanding the declension of the Genevan National Church to sympathize with its objects. Dr. Guthrie, of Scotland; Dr. Baird, of the United States; Monod, Pressense, and Gasparin, of France; Krummacher and Dorner, of Germany; Groen van Prinsterer, of Holland; and Merle d'Aubigne, of Switzerland, were among the most prominent and active members. The fifth meeting was to have been held at Amsterdam in 1866, but was postponed on account of the prevalence of the cholera at, the appointed time till 1867. The fifth General Conference actually took place at Amsterdam on August 18, 1867, and was largely attended. There were delegates from France, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Great Britain, the United States, the British American provinces, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and Eastern countries. Baron Van Wassenaar Catwijk presided. Among the more prominent delegates were Dr. Krummacher, Prof. Herzog, Dr. Tholuck, and Prof. Lange, of Germany; Pasteur Bersiea, Dr. de Pressense, and Prof. St. Hilaire, of France; Dr. Guthrie, of Scotland; John Pye Smith, archdeacon Philpot, and S. Gurney, M.P., of England; Merle d'Aubigne, of Switzerland; the Reverend Dr. Prime, of the United States, and many others. The opening sermon was preached by Prof. Van Oosterzee. Among the subjects discussed were the religious condition of the Church of England, the Scottish churches, the connection of missions with civilization, Christianity, and literature; and art and science; the methods of operating missions; the religious condition of Germany, France, Holland, Belgiuma, and Italy; evangelical nonconformity; Christianity and the nationalities; and various subjects of theology and philosophy. Interesting reports were received of the progress of religious liberty in Turkey, and of the thraldorn of opinion in Spain. The observance of the Sabbath received especial consideration, resulting in the adoption of a resolution calling upon the members of the Alliance to use in their several places of abode and spheres of influence earnest endeavors to secure from states, municipalities, and masters of establishments, from every one, the weekly day of rest from labor, "in order that all may freely and fully participate in the temporal And spiritual benefits of the Lord's day." A letter of affection and sympathy was adopted to Christians scattered abroad, particularly to those who are laboring against the hostile influences of heathenism or of superstition, and whose rights. of public worship are restrained or abridged. A protest against war was adopted. Special meetings were held on Sunday-schools And systematic benevolence. A series of meetings for the poor were held in one of the mission-rooms of the city with wholesome effect, and two temperance meetings. The. assembly adjourned on Tuesday, August 27.
The Evangelical Alliance of the United States was organized in New York city on January 30, 1867. Eminent divines and laymen of the Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian, Protestant Episcopal, German Reformed Reformed, and Baptist churches, and from various parts of the country, signified their approval of the movement either by attendance in person or by letter. A letter of cooperation was read from the secretary of the British branch of the Alliance. The Hon. William E Dodge was elected president of the American branch. At a meeting held in New York November 12,1868, it was resolved to convene a new General Conference of the. Evangelical Alliance in the city of New York in the autumn of 1869. The British branch only of the national branches has been in the practice of holding annual meetings.
"Among the results already attained by the Alliance as incidental and secondary to its great object may be mentioned, The supply of an obvious want, namely, the existence of an organized body with and. by whom correspondence and cooperation may be easily and effectually carried on between Christians in different parts of the world, and which may greatly aid in uniting Christians in this country separated by ecclesiastical differences and other causes; the holding of conferences of Christians from all parts of the world, for devotion and mutual consultation, in London, Paris, Berlin, and other cities; aiding in the revival of religion both at home and abroad; the convening of very many meetings for united prayer forthe outpouring of the Spirit, and in reference to passing events of importance; the communication of much information as to the religious condition of Christendom; the encouragement of Christians exposed to trials and difficulties by the expression of sympathy, and in several instances by eliciting pecuniary aid; sucessful interference on behalf of Christians and others when persecuted in Roman Catholic and Mohammedan countries; the mitigation or removal of the persecution of Protestants by their fellow- Protestants in Germany and elsewhere; the presentation of memorials to the sovereigns of Europe, including the sultan himself; on behalf of liberty of conscience for Mussulmen;the encouragement and assistance of the friends of pure evangelical doctrine in all Protestant countries in their struggle with Rationalism or infidelity; the uniting of evangelical Christians in different countries for fraternal intercourse and for mutual protection; opposition, in common with other bodies, to the progress of popery; the resistance of projects which would: tend to the desecration of the Lord's- day; the origination and extensive circulation of prize essays on the Sabbath, and on Popery and infidelity; and the origination of societies established on the principle of united action among evangelical Christians, such as, the Turkish Missions Aid Society, the Continental Committee for Religious Liberty, Christian Vernacular Education Society for India, and German Aid Society. Although these practical results are thus referred to, yet it is to be understood that, even if no. such secondary objects had been accomplished or attempted, the great value of the Alliance would still! remain in its adaptation to promote and manifest union! among Christians. The preceding is from an authoritative statement made by the Alliance" (Eadie, Ecclesiastical Encyclopedia, s.v.). — Herzog, Real-Encyklopadie, page 270; Schem, American Ecclesiastical Almanac for 1868; the full reports of the General Assemblies of the Alliance; Dr. Massie, The Evangelical AIliance, its Origin and Development (Lond. John Snow 1847); L. Bonnet, L'unite de l'esprit par le lieu de la paix; Lettres sur l'alliance evangelique (Paris, Delay, 1847); Ans. and For. Ch. Union, September 1856, page 269; December 1856, page 367; Princeton Rev. October 1846. (A.J.S.)
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Big Books in Times of Big Data
Inge Van de Ven
Leiden University Press, 2019
Library of Congress PN3504.V46 2019
This book explores the aesthetics, medial affordances, and cultural economics of monumental literary works of the digital age and offers a comparative and cross-cultural perspective on a wide range of contemporary writers. Using an international archive of hefty tomes by authors such as Mark Z. Danielewski, Roberto Bolaño, Elena Ferrante, Karl Ove Knausgård, George R.R. Martin, Jonathan Franzen, and William T. Vollmann, van de Ven investigates multiple strands of bigness that speak to the tenuous position of print literature in the present but also to the robust stature of literary discourse within our age of proliferating digital media. Her study makes a case for the cultural agency of the big book—as a material object and a discursive phenomenon, entangled in complex ways with questions of canonicity, materiality, gender, and power. Van de Ven takes us into a contested terrain beyond the 1,000-page mark, where issues of scale and reader comprehension clash with authorial aggrandizement and the pleasures of binge reading and serial consumption.
Data as Infrastructure for Smart Cities
Larissa Suzuki
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2019
This book describes how smart cities can be designed with data at their heart, moving from a broad vision to a consistent city-wide collaborative configuration of activities. The authors present a comprehensive framework of techniques to help decision makers in cities analyse their business strategies, design data infrastructures to support these activities, understand stakeholders' expectations, and translate this analysis into a competitive strategy for creating a smart city data infrastructure. Readers can take advantage of unprecedented insights into how cities and infrastructures function and be ready to overcome complex challenges. The framework presented in this book has guided the design of several urban platforms in the European Union and the design of the City Data Strategy of the Mayor of London, UK.
Data from the Decade of the Sixties: A Novel
Thanassis Valtinos
Northwestern University Press, 2000
Library of Congress PA5633.A4S7613 2000 | Dewey Decimal 889.334
Winner of Greece's National Book Award for Best Novel in 1990 and short-listed for the Aristeion European Literature Prize in 1991, Data from the Decade of the Sixties is a masterpiece by Greek author Thanassis Valtinos.
Just as Greece today struggles to adapt to a shifting political landscape, so Greece in the 1960s was convulsed by the collision of tradition and cultural transformation. In Data from the Decade of the Sixties, Valtinos assembles voices, stories, and news clips that capture the transformation of Greece, the monarchy giving way to a republic via dictatorship, the industrialization of its agricultural society, and the replacement of arranged marriages with love matches.
The many voices in this tour de force coalesce in a bricolage of documents: personal letters between friends and family, news reports, advertisements, and other written ephemera. As governments fall, sexologists, fortune-tellers, garage owners, and lonely matrons advertise their specialties and fantasies in want ads, while the young and lonely find escape within the cheap novels, movies, and gossip columns that enliven their barren existence.
Together these testimonies illuminate the tumult of 1960s Greece, where generations and values clash and Greek society struggles to adapt. Valtinos captures the pulse of a decade, portraying the spirit of the century in Greece and throughout the world.
Data on the Abnormal Hemoglobins and Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency in Human Populations, 1967–1973
Frank B. Livingstone
In this work, author Frank B. Livingstone has collected and interpreted data on abnormal hemoglobins and G6PD deficiency in humans around the globe. He reports on blood abnormalities by continent and ethnicity and relates these findings to the historic and prehistoric movements of populations.
Enumerations: Data and Literary Study
Andrew Piper
University of Chicago Press, 2018
Library of Congress PN98.E4P56 2018 | Dewey Decimal 801.95
For well over a century, academic disciplines have studied human behavior using quantitative information. Until recently, however, the humanities have remained largely immune to the use of data—or vigorously resisted it. Thanks to new developments in computer science and natural language processing, literary scholars have embraced the quantitative study of literary works and have helped make Digital Humanities a rapidly growing field. But these developments raise a fundamental, and as yet unanswered question: what is the meaning of literary quantity?
In Enumerations, Andrew Piper answers that question across a variety of domains fundamental to the study of literature. He focuses on the elementary particles of literature, from the role of punctuation in poetry, the matter of plot in novels, the study of topoi, and the behavior of characters, to the nature of fictional language and the shape of a poet's career. How does quantity affect our understanding of these categories? What happens when we look at 3,388,230 punctuation marks, 1.4 billion words, or 650,000 fictional characters? Does this change how we think about poetry, the novel, fictionality, character, the commonplace, or the writer's career? In the course of answering such questions, Piper introduces readers to the analytical building blocks of computational text analysis and brings them to bear on fundamental concerns of literary scholarship. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in Digital Humanities and the future of literary study.
From Data to Quanta: Niels Bohr's Vision of Physics
Slobodan Perovic
Library of Congress QC16.B63P39 2021 | Dewey Decimal 530.12
The first comprehensive philosophical and historical account of the experimental foundations of Niels Bohr's practice of physics.
Niels Bohr was a central figure in quantum physics, well known for his work on atomic structure and his contributions to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. In this book, philosopher of science Slobodan Perović explores the way Bohr practiced and understood physics, and analyzes its implications for our understanding of modern science. Perović develops a novel approach to Bohr's understanding of physics and his method of inquiry, presenting an exploratory symbiosis of historical and philosophical analysis that uncovers the key aspects of Bohr's philosophical vision of physics within a given historical context.
To better understand the methods that produced Bohr's breakthrough results in quantum phenomena, Perović clarifies the nature of Bohr's engagement with the experimental side of physics and lays out the basic distinctions and concepts that characterize his approach. Rich and insightful, Perović's take on the early history of quantum mechanics and its methodological ramifications sheds vital new light on one of the key figures of modern physics.
Interactive Journalism: Hackers, Data, and Code
Nikki Usher
University of Illinois Press, 2016
Library of Congress PN4784.O62U64 2016 | Dewey Decimal 070.4
Interactive journalism has transformed the newsroom. Emerging out of changes in technology, culture, and economics, this new specialty uses a visual presentation of storytelling that allows users to interact with the reporting of information. Today it stands at a nexus: part of the traditional newsroom, yet still novel enough to contribute innovative practices and thinking to the industry.
Nikki Usher brings together a comprehensive portrait of nothing less than a new journalistic identity. Usher provides a history of the impact of digital technology on reporting, photojournalism, graphics, and other disciplines that define interactive journalism. Her eyewitness study of the field's evolution and accomplishments ranges from the interactive creation of Al Jazeera English to the celebrated data desk at the Guardian to the New York Times' Pulitzer-endowed efforts in the new field. What emerges is an illuminating, richly reported profile of the people coding a revolution that may reverse the decline and fall of traditional journalism.
The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781–1844
J. Paul Getty Trust, The
Library of Congress CD1864 | Dewey Decimal 946.054
The story of Seville's Archive of the Indies reveals how current views of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are based on radical historical revisionism in Spain in the late 1700s.
The Invention of the Colonial Americas is an architectural history and media-archaeological study of changing theories and practices of government archives in Enlightenment Spain. It centers on an archive created in Seville for storing Spain's pre-1760 documents about the New World. To fill this new archive, older archives elsewhere in Spain—spaces in which records about American history were stored together with records about European history—were dismembered. The Archive of the Indies thus constructed a scholarly apparatus that made it easier to imagine the history of the Americas as independent from the history of Europe, and vice versa.
In this meticulously researched book, Byron Ellsworth Hamann explores how building layouts, systems of storage, and the arrangement of documents were designed to foster the creation of new knowledge. He draws on a rich collection of eighteenth-century architectural plans, descriptions, models, document catalogs, and surviving buildings to present a literal, materially precise account of archives as assemblages of spaces, humans, and data—assemblages that were understood circa 1800 as capable of actively generating scholarly innovation.
Listening in the Afterlife of Data: Aesthetics, Pragmatics, and Incommunication
David Cecchetto
Duke University Press, 2022
Library of Congress P96.T42C433 2022
In Listening in the Afterlife of Data, David Cecchetto theorizes sound, communication, and data by analyzing them in the contexts of the practical workings of specific technologies, situations, and artworks. In a time he calls the afterlife of data—the cultural context in which data's hegemony persists even in the absence of any belief in its validity—Cecchetto shows how data is repositioned as the latest in a long line of concepts that are at once constitutive of communication and suggestive of its limits. Cecchetto points to the failures and excesses of communication by focusing on the power of listening—whether through wearable technology, internet-based artwork, or the ways in which computers process sound—to pragmatically comprehend the representational excesses that data produces. Writing at a cultural moment in which data has never been more ubiquitous or less convincing, Cecchetto elucidates the paradoxes that are constitutive of computation and communication more broadly, demonstrating that data is never quite what it seems.
Natures of Data: A Discussion between Biologists, Artists and Science Scholars
Philipp Fischer, Gabriele Gramelsberger, Christoph Hoffmann, Hans Hofmann, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, and Hannes Rickli
Diaphanes, 2020
Library of Congress Q180.55.I45F57 2020
Computer-based technologies for the production and analysis of data have been an integral part of biological research since the 1990s at the latest. This not only applies to genomics and its offshoots but also to less conspicuous subsections such as ecology. But little consideration has been given to how this new technology has changed research practically. How and when do data become questionable? To what extent does necessary infrastructure influence the research process? What status is given to software and algorithms in the production and analysis of data? These questions are discussed by the biologists Philipp Fischer and Hans Hofmann, the philosopher Gabriele Gramelsberger, the historian of science and biology Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, the science theorist Christoph Hoffmann, and the artist Hannes Rickli. The conditions of experimentation in the digital sphere are examined in four chapters—"Data," "Software," "Infrastructure," and "in silico"—in which the different perspectives of the discussion partners complement one another. Rather than confirming any particular point of view, Natures of Data deepens understanding of the contemporary basis of biological research.
Numbers and Nerves: Information, Emotion, and Meaning in a World of Data
Scott Slovic
Oregon State University Press, 2015
Library of Congress HM851.N868 2015 | Dewey Decimal 005.7
We live in the age of Big Data, awash in a sea of ever-expanding information—a constant deluge of facts, statistics, models, and projections. The human mind is quickly desensitized by information presented in the form of numbers, and yet many important social and environmental phenomena, ranging from genocide to global climate change, require quantitative description.
The essays and interviews in Numbers and Nerves explore the quandary of our cognitive responses to quantitative information, while also offering compelling strategies for overcoming insensitivity to the meaning of such information. With contributions by journalists, literary critics, psychologists, naturalists, activists, and others, this book represents a unique convergence of psychological research, discourse analysis, and visual and narrative communication.
At a time of unprecedented access to information, our society is frequently stymied in its efforts to react to the world's massive problems. Many of these problems are systemic, deeply rooted in seemingly intransigent cultural patterns and lifestyles. In order to sense the significance of these issues and begin to confront them, we must first understand the psychological tendencies that enable and restrict our processing of numerical information.
Numbers and Nerves explores a wide range of psychological phenomena and communication strategies—fast and slow thinking, psychic numbing, pseudoinefficacy, the prominence effect, the asymmetry of trust, contextualized anecdotes, multifaceted mosaics of prose, and experimental digital compositions, among others—and places these in real-world contexts. In the past two decades, cognitive science has increasingly come to understand that we, as a species, think best when we allow numbers and nerves, abstract information and experiential discourse, to work together. This book provides a roadmap to guide that collaboration. It will be invaluable to scholars, educators, professional communicators, and anyone who struggles to grasp the meaning behind the numbers.
The Physico-Chemical Properties of Plant Saps in Relation to Phytogeography: Data on Native Vegetation in its Natural Environment
J. Harris
University of Minnesota Press, 1934
The Physico-Chemical Properties of Plant Saps in Relation to Phytogeography was first published in 1934. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.This book includes data on native vegitation gathered by the noted botanist J. Arthur Harris in the eastern and western United States, the Hawaiian islands, and Jamaica over a period of 18 years. Included more than 12,000 series of determinations of freezing-point depression, specific electrical conductivity, chloride and sulphate content in grams per liter of sap, and occasional determinations of hydrogen ion concentration. A separate index to the data is included for use by those wishing to make ecological studies of plants in particular communities.
The Power of Data: An Introduction to Using Local, State, and National Data to Support School Library Programs
Sandra D. Andrews
American Library Association, 2012
Say It with Data: A Concise Guide to Making Your Case and Getting Results
Priscille Dando
Library of Congress Z678.D17 2014 | Dewey Decimal 025.1
Sociolinguistic Variation: Data, Theory, and Analysis
Edited by Jennifer Arnold, Renee Blake, and Brad Davidson
CSLI, 1996
Library of Congress P120.V37C665 1994 | Dewey Decimal 306.44
This volume collects selected papers from the twenty-third New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV23) conference held at Stanford University. It is a collection of innovative papers on the newest developments in research on variation. The range of topics covered in this collection include: phonological variation, morphosyntactic variation, register and style, discourse, codeswitching, and language change. A foreword by John Rickford ties the collection together. This volume will be of interest to sociolinguists, sociologists, and any scholar interested in comparative linguistics.
Theater as Data: Computational Journeys into Theater Research
Miguel Escobar Varela
Library of Congress PN2075 | Dewey Decimal 792.0727
In Theater as Data, Miguel Escobar Varela explores the use of computational methods and digital data in theater research. He considers the implications of these new approaches, and explains the roles that statistics and visualizations play. Reflecting on recent debates in the humanities, the author suggests that there are two ways of using data, both of which have a place in theater research. Data-driven methods are closer to the pursuit of verifiable results common in the sciences; and data-assisted methods are closer to the interpretive traditions of the humanities. The book surveys four major areas within theater scholarship: texts (not only playscripts but also theater reviews and program booklets); relationships (both the links between fictional characters and the collaborative networks of artists and producers); motion (the movement of performers and objects on stage); and locations (the coordinates of performance events, venues, and touring circuits). Theater as Data examines important contributions to theater studies from similar computational research, including in classical French drama, collaboration networks in Australian theater, contemporary Portuguese choreography, and global productions of Ibsen. This overview is complemented by short descriptions of the author's own work in the computational analysis of theater practices in Singapore and Indonesia. The author ends by considering the future of computational theater research, underlining the importance of open data and digital sustainability practices, and encouraging readers to consider the benefits of learning to code. A web companion offers illustrative data, programming tutorials, and videos.
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The university awarded nearly 2,700 degrees at today's commencement ceremony.
100 of these degrees will be awarded to international students.
Triad native, Olympian Joey Cheek gave the commencement address. A Greensboro native, Cheek won gold and silver medals at the Olympic Games in Torino, Italy, in 2006. He won his first ever international medal at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, a bronze in the 1,000 meters, and has accumulated more than 25 World Cup and World Championship medals throughout the course of his career.
Cheek was named to TIME's 100 Most Influential People, the U.S. Speed Skating Hall of Fame and the International Sports Humanitarians Hall of Fame. He even got to be on the Wheaties box. Later, the gold medalist in speed skating took home an award of his own!
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First and foremost, when using coupons you must be organized. How you organize your coupons should be what you are most comfortable with. If you are uncomfortable with the system or it isn't something you can work with easily you won't be succesful with your couponing.
I use a three ring binder with baseball card holders and dividers. I have my coupons seperated into different sections such as beverages, frozen food, cereal, condiments, etc. I use a three ring binder because it easily allows me to carry all of my coupons with me to the store this allows me to have them all on hand if I find an unadvertised sale or an item on clearance. The pockets at the front and back of the binder allow me to have all of my lists and flyers easily accessible but out of the way. While shopping the last thing you want is to have a large number of papers that you are playing with. I also found this system to work best for me because I can see all of the coupons without having to pull them out of an envelope.
Another method is a plastic tote with a cover. The coupons are still seperated by dividers usually pieces of cardboard that stick up. Each section is then seperated into subsections with envelopes or some other method. An example of this is Makeup would be one divider and it would have subsections like lipstick, foundation, and eye makeup. With this method a container with a cover is a must, if it got knocked over without a cover you would have to start organizing all over again.
A third popular method is using an accordian folder. You can label the sections and simply set your coupons in the different sections without needing subsections. I started out with this method and found it a great way to start. If I had decided that I was going to continue using coupons on an infrequent basis or for small savings only this method would have been fine. However, I soon found that my little accordian folder couldn't hold all of my coupons.
There are as many ways to store your coupons as there are people who use coupons. I've touched on the main three that I am aware of, if these methods don't seem like they would work for you, then change them so they will, look online to find a method that works for you or come up with your own method. For me the first method of using a binder works best, for you it may be the worst. I encourage you to find the system that works best for you.


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Manchester United's Daniel James will be 'force to be reckoned with in any league', ex-Swans player Adrian Forbes
Wednesday, September 11th, 2019 3:54pm
'He had the mad Swansea fans off their seats.'
Manchester United's Daniel James will be a force to be reckoned with in any league in the world, according to former Swansea player Adrian Forbes.
Forbes spoke to Love Sport Radio about the Welsh wing sensation, who has already scored three times for United this season, and thinks he'll be even more effective in the Premier league than he was in the Championship.
The 40-year-old said: "If you've got a team like Manchester United prepared to pay that amount of money for a young talent, then they've obviously seen something in Daniel James.
"They feel he is only going to get better in the future and I have to agree.
"I've seen him play for Swansea and he was the one who, when he got the ball, the mad Swans fans were off their seats expecting something exciting to happen, and nine out of ten times it did.
"When you have a player that young with the pace he has, he's always going to be a threat and the performances he's put in for Man Utd and Wales speak volumes about where this player can go.
"The speed with which he moves at is difficult for defenders to defend against.
"You'll have managers saying 'show him onto his left', but defenders know he's able to use that left foot!
"If you've got a player who's playing wide and chipping in with goals that's definitely a force to be reckoned with in any league.
"Playing in the Premier League with the players around him and the style of play around him, some would say it's a touch slower but more clinical, he'll have quality players around him who can pick him out and find his runs.
"That's a recipe for success and he'll have a big impact on Man United's season as well."
Tune in to Love Sport radio for the latest hard hitting sports news and opinion.


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Q: Generate HTML table with Flying Saucer - ugly style I want to implement a HTML table with Flying Saucer (a project that uses iText 2.1.7 to create PDF). If I create the PDF file, the table is very ugly.
If I copy the generated code into another HTML Editor, for example: http://www.quackit.com/html/online-html-editor/ everything is fine
Everything is fine.
Here are the examples:
iText

in Online HTML Editor (note: in the screenhot is only one row available)

Below my generated code for the table:

Artikelnr

Beschreibung

Menge

		1.0

		1.0

Here my code for generating the PDF file:
>
// Clean up the HTML to be well formed
String str = HTML code......
HtmlCleaner cleaner = new
> HtmlCleaner();            CleanerProperties props = cleaner.getProperties();
>           TagNode node = cleaner.clean(str);          new
> PrettyXmlSerializer(props).writeToStream(node, out);
>
>
// Create the PDF
OutputStream os = out;          ITextRenderer
> renderer = new ITextRenderer();           renderer.setDocumentFromString(new
> String(out.toByteArray())); //            renderer.setDocumentFromString(str);
>           renderer.layout();          renderer.createPDF(out);            os.close();

Can anybody help me, please.
What´s wrong.
Is this a know issue?

A: I guess the issue you are getting is due a css property of the table. Flying saucer allows you to specify the padding between rows.
Try something like this

table {
    border-collapse: collapse;
    border-spacing: 0;
}

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I'm sorry I haven't written in a while. For once, I have a normal excuse: I've been hard at work getting the 2018 Winter Issue of Come and Go Literary together! It's been an amazing experience learning how to use InDesign and organizing everything into, what I think, is a good looking online journal.
I'm beyond thankful for every writer who submitted their work. I'm extremely excited to publish the first issue. I think you'll all really like it too. I hope more of you submit for the 2019 Spring Issue when submissions reopen. But anyway, I've been focusing on that lately, and all that's left to do is some final touch-ups.
I'm taking a quick break from that right now to post some kind of story before I leave this really amazing coffee place in Babylon. If you're a coffee lover on Long Island and you're on a mission to find the best coffee places like I am, go to Babylon Bean. Easily in my top 5.
I've been writing a ton of poetry lately, and I need to start getting back into fiction. I was hoping to participate in NaNoWriMo this year, but I've just been so busy with a million other things. Maybe I'll start soon when the journal is done and just bang out 50k words in the next two weeks? Don't hold me to it, For now, I'll start small and work my way up.
There's a line building with people growing more and more impatient the more they realize they're not going anywhere anytime soon. It's been about fifteen minutes. Everyone's aware of how long it's been, but they know nothing can be done; yet, they're all frustrated regardless. The girl behind the counter is the only one working, running back and forth, side to side, hoping she doesn't make a mistake that makes this day even more stressful. No one needs that. Experience tells her that even the smallest mistake will set not just her, but everyone else off. They're all counting on her.
A small part of her finds power in that; she uses it as motivation to keep pushing forward. In the forefront of her mind, she wonders what would happen if she quit on the spot, if she just walked out with everyone waiting in line. It's a pleasing thought, but she wasn't raised to be a quitter. However, everyone's testing her patience. No one is outright saying they're annoyed, but their faces give away how they really feel. One person walks out. Too bad, she thinks.
The drink orders keep coming, but she's in a rhythm now. They're simple orders. Smiles are returning. Drinks are flowing. The tip jar is filling. Some say sorry as they pay with a card. They've been in my shoes before. We've all had a crappy job at some point. Others leave, but again, that's their loss. The line's back to normal. The pressure's off. She has it under control. I can go back to my work. It's weird how invested we can get in other people's lives. I was never a barista, but I think as if I were. I breathe a sigh of relief as she does. She looks over mindlessly. I smile. She gets back to work. That's fine.
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The slumbering Campi Flegrei volcano under the Italian city of Naples shows signs of reawakening and may be nearing a critical pressure point, according to a new study. Italian and French scientists have for the first time identified a threshold beyond which rising magma under the Earth's surface could trigger the release of fluids and gases at a increased rate. This would cause the injection of steam into surrounding rocks, said Giovanni Chiodini, a researcher at Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Bologna.
"Hydrothermal rocks, if heated, can ultimately lose their mechanical resistance, causing an acceleration towards critical conditions," he told AFP by email. He said it was not possible to say when — or if — the volcano would erupt but "it would be very dangerous" if it did for about 500, 000 people living inside and near the caldera — the depression created after a volcano blows its top. Chiodini said there was an urgent need to obtain a better understanding of Campi Flegrei's behaviour because of the risk to such a dense urban population.
Since 2005, Campi Flegrei has been undergoing what scientists call uplift, causing Italian authorities to raise the alert level in 2012 from green to yellow, signalling the need for active scientific monitoring. The pace of ground deformation and seismic activity has recently increased. Two other active volcanoes — Rabaul in Papua New Guinea and Sierra Negra in the Galapagos — "both showed acceleration in ground deformation before eruption with a pattern similar to that observed at Campi Flegrei," Chiodini said.
The Campi Flegrei caldera was formed 39, 000 years ago in an explosion that threw hundreds of cubic kilometres of lava, rock and debris into the air in the largest eruption in Europe in the past 200, 000 years. Campi Flegrei last erupted in 1538, though on a much smaller scale. Nearby Mount Vesuvius, which had a massive eruption in AD79 that buried several Roman settlements including Pompeii, is also classified as an active volcano.
The study by Chiodini was published on Tuesday in the scientific journal Nature Communication..


On my first visit to Royal Dinette, I ate from the à la carte side of the menu and I expected a dramatic home run but the ball wasn't knocked out of the park.
I was surprised because the chef is one of my favourites, David Gunawan, who's behind the astonishing deliciousness at Farmer's Apprentice and Grapes and Soda in Kitsilano and South Granville neighbourhoods. On my second visit to try the tasting menu, I found the home run I was looking for. Bases loaded!
It's not that my first visit was a total disappointment but one dish created discord for me. The pappardelle with beef shank, bok choy and spiced broth had great elements (lovely pasta and beef) but its strong soy-forward aroma clashed with other largely non-Asian dishes, like tomato watermelon and Balsamic Bellaitano cheese salad. Jarring.
The dish is inspired by food from restaurant chef Jack Chen's Taiwanese childhood but I find chefs lose objectivity when it comes to childhood dishes. What it means to them and what it means to diners are not the same. In this case, it messed up the menu flow.
Sablefish with a hot and sour broth and oyster mushrooms, another Asian style dish, is served in a light broth with a Thai sweet-sour flavour. It's clarified and is glassy clear. "Sometimes the simplest looking dishes take a lot of work," Gunawan says. It wasn't as intrusive as the pappardelle.
A carrot dish with curried lentil, house-made labneh, and sliced pear trumpeted Gunawan's wonderful way with vegetables, à la Farmer's Apprentice. The carrots tasted fresh from the garden, bursting with flavour. Salt-baked celeriac (roasted whole, encased in salt) was sliced paper-thin and covered a plate; marinated mushrooms, salt cod and gribiche (an aioli-like sauce) are sprinkled and drizzled over. A nice collection of flavours but it's awkward to eat — the celeriac lifts up as a single sheet and isn't easy to cut.
For dessert, gala apple (poached and lightly bruleed) with olive oil cake and oatmeal ice cream had me at the apple and the ice cream but the olive oil cake turned out to be crispy little croutons, not worth the bother.
On a second visit, I had the $69 tasting menu and all was forgiven: it was a home run. It started with what I thought would be an acquired-taste dish: sea cucumber with tomato gazpacho, black olive and cucumber sorbet. Once I expunged the look of this weird, blobby, extraterrestrial looking creature from my mind, I was blown away by the dish — it was like a prawn and calamari had a baby. The tomato gazpacho had an acid component brightening everything up and the cucumber sorbet cleansed the palate for the next dish.
Beef bavette with salt baked celeriac, pickled walnuts and a watercress purée is up next. Beautiful meat but the purée is too bitter. Gunawan says the degree of bitterness does vary depending on where he gets his watercress.
And for dessert, a Coronation grape soda with crème fraîche ice cream. It's house-made soda using a tea with herbs and kola nut.
My gripes don't outweigh what's good about the food. I notice the hiccups more because of who the chef and the strong team behind him are. Service is smooth, staff are smart and friendly (as is the wine list).
The room, with its brasserie vibe, is bigger, more "downtown" than the intimate Farmer's Apprentice and Grapes and Soda in the South Granville neighbourhood and the noise does escalate as the place fills up. Thankfully, the noise tsunami from the Blackbird Pub upstairs (Donnelly Group property) stays upstairs.
Info: royaldinette.ca. Open: Lunch, Monday to Friday; dinner, Monday to Saturday.


The undersigned groups urge you to eliminate funding for seven unneeded F-22 Raptor fighter jets from the National Defense Authorization Act of 2010.
The addition of these F-22s demonstrates not only wasteful spending that serves parochial interests but irresponsible, smoke and mirrors budgeting. Just as our national security strategy is based upon anticipating probable threats, our defense budget must also rely upon realistic sources of future income.
We are particularly concerned by recent media reports indicating that funding for the F-22 will rely on anticipated savings from defense procurement reform, even though the Congressional Budget Office has said there is no basis for determining these savings. Other sources report that the money will also take hundreds of millions from operations and maintenance accounts, a common budgeting gimmick that directly impacts our soldiers in the field.
Additionally, we are dismayed by proposals to pay for F-22s by taking $146 million from the Joint Strike Fighter's management reserve fund. This fund, which has historically experienced shortfalls, is needed to address any unexpected issues in the program, and removing money may disrupt the Joint Strike Fighter's development. Both the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Air Force have stressed that the Joint Strike Fighter program is critical to our national security, and both support ending F-22 procurement at 187 planes.
In a June 24 Statement of Administration Policy, the President's advisers said they would be forced to recommend a veto if the National Defense Authorization Act includes advance procurement of the F-22 or spending that would seriously disrupt the Joint Strike Fighter program. Procurement of additional F-22s does not serve our national security needs and jeopardizes the Department of Defense's higher priorities. We ask you to take a stand against wasteful and irresponsible spending and support amendments that will delete this funding from the 2010 defense authorization bill.
1. John T. Bennett, "U.S. Senate Plan for More F-22s Relies on Unspent Money," Defense News, July 6, 2009.
2. Congressional Budget Office, "S. 454 Weapons Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009," May 6, 2009, p.1, http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/101xx/doc10119/s454.pdf; Congressional Budget Office, "H.R. 2101 Weapons Acquisition System Reform Through Enhancing Technical Knowledge and Oversight Act," May 11, 2009, p.1, http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/101xx/doc10124/hr2101.pdf.
3. John T. Bennett, "U.S. Senate Plan for More F-22s Relies on Unspent Money," Defense News, July 6, 2009.
4. Senate Armed Services Committee, "Senate Armed Services Committee Completes Markup of National Defense Authorization Bill for Fiscal Year 2010," June 26, 2009, p. 16, http://armed-services.senate.gov/press/10mark.pdf.
5. Government Accountability Office, "Joint Strike Fighter: Recent Decisions by DOD Add to Program Risks," March 2008, p. 3, http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08388.pdf.
7. Office of Management and Budget, "Statement of Administration Policy: H.R. 2647 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010," June 24, 2009, p. 1, http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/assets/sap_111/saphr2647h_20090624.pdf.


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package com.milleapplis.ovh.api.sms;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
import com.milleapplis.ovh.api.sms.enums.SMSSupportEnum;

public class AlertThreshold {
	@JsonProperty
	private SMSSupportEnum support;
	@JsonProperty
	private long alertThreshold;
	@JsonProperty
	private String alertEmail;
	@JsonProperty
	private String alertNumber;

	public String toString() {
		return String.format("[Suport : %s][Alert threshold : %s][Alert mail : %s][Alert number : %s]", support, alertThreshold, alertEmail, alertNumber);
	}

	public SMSSupportEnum getSuport() {
		return support;
	}

	public void setSuport(SMSSupportEnum suport) {
		this.support = suport;
	}

	public long getAlertThreshold() {
		return alertThreshold;
	}

	public void setAlertThreshold(long alertThreshold) {
		this.alertThreshold = alertThreshold;
	}

	public String getAlertEmail() {
		return alertEmail;
	}

	public void setAlertEmail(String alertEmail) {
		this.alertEmail = alertEmail;
	}

	public String getAlertNumber() {
		return alertNumber;
	}

	public void setAlertNumber(String alertNumber) {
		this.alertNumber = alertNumber;
	}

}

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Q: FB like chathead gone after app closed I was trying to show a floating window which will be top of any app even if my app is close.
I followed this link
Problem is that when I close my app by pressing home button and close all app then the floating window disappear.
But I want that even my app is close in whatever way I want to show the floating window. It will be close only when a close button is pressed which will be attached to that floating window.
How can I achieve that?


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BTS: How Apple Made Its 'Made on iPad Pro' Ads With the New iPad Pro
by Adam Ottke January 29, 2019 3 Comments
Video of iPad Pro — A new way to go behind the scenes — Apple
Apple's latest iPad Pro ads tout what you're able to do with the new tablet as it gets closer and closer to offering the full capabilities of your computer, camera, and editing suite. Today, however, Apple shared a look into how it made those ads with the iPad itself (from the shoot to the edit) as the iPad Pro became both subject and filmmaker.
One of Apple's more controversial ad campaigns wants you to think of the iPad as a computer. To some extent, this is true. What is a computer? It wasn't long ago that computers were literally humans we today give homage to through films like "Hidden Figures" (2016). Then, room-sized calculators. And quite a bit after that, lap-resting slates of metal. So why can't a computer be an iPad (or, by that logic, an iPad, a computer)?
True, the iPad has some limitations both with the lack of more productive input hardware (e.g., keyboards and mice) and with the limitations of its software. But the former is solved with post-purchase accessories while the former has its benefits, too. Some things can only be done on the iPad or with a touchscreen or with a particular app not built for any desktop platform. And there's something to be said for being able to use this computer as the main camera in a commercial shoot. The same could be said for the phone in your pocket. And it certainly is interesting to see how filming commercial-level content has changed in the past few years as it will be to see it continue to change going forward. But some things will stay the same.
This behind-the-scenes video opens with the narration, "When you're producing a commercial, you normally have a massive film camera, full editing suite, expensive animation software. But we wanted to replace all of that with just an iPad Pro." While it's true that the ad production did away with those items, specifically, you'll still notice a fair amount of gear being used. But when you think about it, all that gear is dedicated to two things: lighting and camera position. The fact that the rest is truly done with a single device is remarkably indicative of just how far technology has come.
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Last night we had 26 people show up for the first official meeting as we get ready to launch ExponentialChurch.tv in just a few short months. I shared my story and then the stories of both the founders of Microsoft and the forgotten (and poor) 3rd founder of Apple. Surely if these few individuals could change our world, certainly we the founders of Exponential, with the power of the Holy Spirit living in us, can change the world as well was my premises. The key is to rely on God and take some chances.
We have 6 blocks parties and 2 preview Experiences planned, as well as some other outreach opportunities, before our October 17th launch so Chad shared how people could get involved. We then practiced how to easily share the story of Exponential with others in the community and we each set goals for how many people we'll share the story with this up-coming week. All in all it was a great first meeting and people hung around for quite awhile afterward getting to know each other and strategizing with others in how to best accomplish their specific parts of the mission and vision.


Cansel Elcin's 2nd movie Man Who Carries The Angels (Melekleri Tasiyan Adam) has won the prize of "best foreign moview" from the 8th International Nashik Film Festival.
The Festival took place between March 17th and March 20th, 2016. The winners of the Festival were announced on March 20th, 2016. Cansel Elcin will go to India in April and get his prize as a director and senarist of Man Who Carries The Angels (Melekleri Tasiyan Adam).


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An employee hand-feeds a tank of adult yellowtails at the Kingfish Zeeland recirculating aquaculture system facility located in the town of Kats on the southwestern coast of the Netherlands. KINGFISH ZEELAND PHOTO
Jonesport fish farm will pump millions of gallons of seawater
July 28, 2020	by Stephen Rappaport on News, Waterfront
JONESPORT – Kingfish Maine, the company that wants to build a technologically advanced, land-based fish farm on the shore of Chandler Bay, held an appropriately technologically advanced public meeting in the Jonesport firehouse last Tuesday to begin the process of applying to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection for a Maine Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (MPDES) permit. That is the first of many permits the company will need before workers turn the first shovelful of earth to build the project.
Kingfish Maine, owned by the Netherlands-based Kingfish Company, plans to develop a state-of-the-art recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility on some 15-20 acres of a 94-acre waterfront parcel of land about 1 mile east of town at the corner of the Mason Bay Road and Dun Garvin Road. When completed, the estimated $110 million facility would produce some 6,000-8,000 metric tons (about 13.2-17.6 million pounds) annually of high-value yellowtail, also known as Hamachi. It would also, according to the company, produce about $46 million in "added value" to the Downeast economy and create some 70 permanent jobs in Jonesport.
About 25 people were on hand for last week's 6 p.m. meeting, held to introduce the public to the outlines of the company's planned discharge permit application, but not all of them were in the firehouse. According to company spokesman Dianna Fletcher, 13 members of the public were present in person while another dozen attended the meeting remotely via Zoom.
Five representatives of Kingfish, including operations managers Meghan and Tom Sorby, were also on hand in Jonesport. The company's CEO Ohad Maiman and Kees Kloet, the company's chief operating officer, joined the meeting from the Netherlands, where it was midnight, via Zoom.
The MPDES permit process reviews the company's plans for eliminating pollutants such as liquid and solid fish waste and unconsumed feed from the water the facility would discharge into Chandler Bay. Kingfish will also need several other permits including a submerged lands lease for its saltwater intake and discharge pipes, a Site Location and Development Act (SLOTA) permit and a Natural Resources Protection Act (NRPA) permit.
Among the issues of concern to the Jonesport community are how the proposed operation might affect water temperatures and water quality in Chandler Bay.
According to a diagram showing the project's planned water usage, the facility will pump some 28.7 million gallons of seawater through its system of pipes and filters. Of that, about 22.2 million gallons will never come into contact with growing fish but will be used instead to moderate the temperature of the water in the grow-out system using heat exchangers. Another 6.3 million gallons per day will be the "culture water" in which fish grow. That water will be extensively filtered both before it enters the fish tanks and before it is pumped back into Chandler Bay.
The Kingfish plan calls for installation of two 4-foot diameter intake pipes and two discharge pipes of the same size that would run from the facility beneath the intertidal beach at the water's edge, then along the sea floor. The pipes would be held in place by concrete "yokes."
The discharge pipes would extend some 2,600 feet offshore, towards Ballast Island. According to the company, water discharged from the facility will be a few degrees cooler than the water drawn into the plant from Chandler Bay through intake pipes about half as long as the discharge pipes.
Since the mouths of the intake pipes will be closer to shore than those of the discharge pipes, Maiman said, it will be critical for the facility to properly cleanse and filter its discharge into Chandler Bay.
"We will be using the same water," Maiman said.
All suspended solids, fish waste, excess feed and the like, will be collected in the facility and trucked offsite. In the Netherlands, Maiman said, the collected solids are sold for use as fertilizer or to produce biogas.
Once a route for the pipes is determined, Kingfish will conduct a detailed survey so the pipeline can be marked on nautical charts and on the water by buoys visible to fishermen.
"We hope to maintain as much fishing area as possible," Meghan Sorby told the meeting.
Several audience members, some at the fire station and some online, raised questions about the potential economic impact of the project. One questioner asked if the company planned to develop affordable housing for the 70 employees it anticipated hiring.
"We're hoping to attract more economic activity by our presence," Maiman said, but the numbers the company has introduced reflect "just production." As for additional housing, that is not in the company's current plans because, Maiman said, it was expected that most employees would already live in the Jonesport area.
Another questioner asked whether the company had considered a "zero-discharge" facility that emitted no waste.
While ideal, Chief Operating Officer Kees Kloet said, "as a commercial enterprise, zero-discharge systems don't exist yet."
Kingfish expects to file its MPDES permit application in August. Ideally, Maiman said, construction will begin sometime next year, but that is, to some extent, up to how long it takes to obtain all required permits from the state.
Stephen Rappaport
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See Ya Sucka!
The Ford Mustang is one of those cars that has a cult following. Just about every Mustang has its own unique history. Just think about it. Run the VIN. However, there are some Mustang models that are so very rare that clones of them are made. The Ford Mustang Cobra Jet is one of those cars. I'll give you a pop quiz, and then give you some history on the Mustang Cobra Jet, okay?
What's the most expensive Ford Mustang currently for sale today? The 2014 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500, at $54,650? Uh-uh. It's the 2014 Mustang Cobra Jet, which isn't street legal (it doesn't have a VIN, so don't try to tell the police officer that the previous owner shaved it off – that doesn't get pity, it's pithy though!). The 2014 Ford Mustang Cobra Jet will run you $97,990. And, that's before the registration fees for the NHRA and other costs set you back another $10,000.
In 1968, Bob Tasca, a senior engineer on the Ford Mustang Mach 1, wanted a faster Mustang – one that could win against a purpose-built dragster. Why? Well, he was mad that he'd lost to some "hoon in a 442 W30." He was mad. His Mustang Mach 1 wasn't fast enough for him. He went to his boss, told the story, and then asked his boss for $100,000 in development costs. He left with a check for $100,000, and five junior engineers. They immediately started work on a bone-stock Mach 1 Mustang. They took the stock cam off, put on two high-rise cams, went out, raced around the parking lot, and started work on the transmission. Thus, the story of the Ford Mustang Cobra Jet was born.
Anyways, they called up Muncie Transmissions, who promptly gave them five four-speed transmissions with overdrive. They had to fork out $5,000 for those trannies, but it was money well-spent. They put the transmission in, raced some kids in a Camaro, won, raced against the same "hoon in a 442 W30," won – three times, went to a bar, and celebrated. Good for them.
Then, it was a matter of tires. The tires kept going up in smoke when they floored it – at any speed! They went to a local tire shop, bought drag slicks, realized that the car would be much faster if it wasn't street-legal, went back to headquarters, and went into Lee Iacocca's office. Lee loved it. he told them to shave off the VIN, trailer it to a dragstrip, and do whatever it took. That's exactly what they did.
Within a year, the car was ready for production. It was expensive, but faster than anything south of an Indycar (according to Tasca, "this thing will whip the a*$ of any dummy who races this thing."). The dealers started clamoring for the car. It came, as well as buyers. Since the car wasn't street-legal, dealers would keep a car at a local dragstrip. Good plan.
Today, the Ford Mustang Cobra Jet is stripped-down, just like its older cousin. The bodyshell is stripped-down. Inside, the rollcage, Recaro seats, and unique suspension hardware and the computer bank take up the interior. Not bad. The engine is powered by a 2.9-liter Whipple supercharger, which is mounted atop the stock 5.0-liter V8 shared throughout much of the Ford line.
Even though the original car was offered with a stock 428 cubic-inch V8 that was naturally-aspirated, that didn't stop Ford Racing from supercharging the car. The 2014 Ford Mustang Cobra Jet has an all-new three-speed manual transmission, a parachute mount for those planning to drive over 150 mph, and two new colors. One is matte-black, and the other is Gotta-Have-It Green (that's the actual name!). As one might expect, the Mustang Cobra Jet is rare, and will stay that way, with only 50 examples being produced (all have been spoken for). Orders were on a first come, first serve basis, and buyers confirmed their orders with Ford Racing.
I'd take one, but money comes into play. I don't want financing, and it will take a long time to pay back Ford if my buyers only pledge $1.22 a day…
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hey…..don't upsell my pledge….it was $1.22…period….not $1.22 a day.
otherwise….a really great article….we hear you voice among all the numbers
keep honing your words…your style is great….
lastly, congratulations……your begging has been upgraded to qvetching
Well, I'm glad that I'm getting the attention that I deserve…
Ah, memories. I had a Mustang, black interior, red interior for my first car. Wasn't I the cool girl? 😉
Wait, you had a black AND red interior? Sweet!
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On June 4, 2012, more than 180,000 participants filled up Victoria Park, Hong Kong, in memory of the 1989 student massacre at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. (Sun Qing Tian/The Epoch Times)
First Killing of Tiananmen Square Massacre Recalled by Eyewitness
By Xie Yuxin
Xie Yuxin
June 4, 2013 Updated: June 4, 2013
VANCOUVER—In one instant, the hopes of the people of Beijing were shattered and the life of one brave man was ended.
Although martial law had been declared and troops were in the streets at the beginning of June 1989, Beijing residents still hoped to protect the students at Tiananmen Square from having their democracy movement stamped out.
Wang Jue is a Chinese scholar who now lives in Vancouver, Canada. At a local coffee shop in Vancouver, he recalled what he saw on the night of June 3, 1989.
Wang calls himself a living fossil. Once jailed in China as a "counterrevolutionary," he said he has always felt compelled to bear witness to what happened.
Martial law had been imposed and two or three military vehicles could be seen parked on many streets of Beijing. The soldiers were unarmed and didn't take any action because they were there to con the people, Wang said.
For three days in a row, the soldiers were surrounded by students and citizens who tried to reason with them. One day an officer was so touched that he told a crowd of people, "Citizens of Beijing and dear students, we don't kill students. Believe us. We do not have guns with us."
The night of June 3, Wang said he and his wife went to Tiananmen Square and left after 10 p.m., returning to their home near the gate tower of Yongdingmen, a seven to eight minute bike ride to Tiananmen Square. There was still a huge crowd in the square.
Yongdingmen was opposite a train station. The station was full of soldiers, but in the street only two military vehicles were parked. Wang said only having two vehicles there was done in order to cause the people at Yongdingmen to lower their guard.
He was worried, wondering if military vehicles would be making any advances, so he rode on his bike to a street near the gate tower of Yongdingmen. There was a small crowd of people there. Most of the others who had been at Yongdingmen had gone to other places to block off military vehicles from entering the square.
Suddenly, a middle-aged woman hurried over on her bike. She was so nervous that her hair was standing on end.
She stopped and said loudly, "Citizens of Beijing and students, hide quickly. They [the soldiers] are fully armed. You can't possibly stop them." Then she left quickly.
Some people got scared and went home, but about two dozen people stayed and waited nervously, Wang said.
Then a formation of fully armed soldiers appeared. "They wore helmets and carried rifles equipped with bayonets, and ran at a fast pace," Wang said.
"Then a Beijing citizen stepped forward. He was an intellectual about 37 or 38 years old, and at least 1.76 meters [5 feet 8 inches] tall. He was quite a handsome and dignified man. He looked like a professor or teacher to me," Wang said.
"While every one was panicked and at a loss about what to do at gunpoint, this hero immediately sensed that the fully armed soldiers might crack down on the students who were still in Tiananmen Square. His first reaction was to protect the students.
"He took off his shirt and bared his chest while walking toward the solders, waiving his shirt at the soldiers and yelling, 'You can't kill the students. You can't kill the students.'
"Nonetheless, a bullet was fired at his chest; then all the guns fired at once. The hero was stunned in disbelief, and uttered his last words: 'You really …' He fell to the ground, and then all the guns fired at the rest of the crowd," Wang said.
Wang threw himself flat on the ground but couldn't take his eyes off the man he calls a hero.
"I wanted to rush to him to rescue him so much, but I couldn't," Wang said. "Tears started to flow down my face. A man standing beside me was shot and fell to the ground, and his blood was all over the ground."
About half a dozen people fell where they stood. Wang could see that all the soldiers had opened fire, and, after the troops passed the crowd, the soldiers in the last row turned around and fired back at the crowd.
"No one could stop them. They shot their way [into Tiananmen Square]," Wang said.
Wang then ran over to the first victim. He cried as he spoke of him: "He was really a hero of June 4. But no one knew about it."
Then the troops started firing signal flares into the sky. "I looked at my watch, and it was 11:46 p.m. on June 3," he said.
After seven or eight signal flares were fired, flares then were also fired near the gate tower of Dongzhimen, and soon after throughout Beijing, Wang said.
"I have reason to believe that the first gunshot of June 4 was fired from here because that's the place where the first signal flares were fired," he said.


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Starting now the BETA version of the app is ready for testing in the Android community. If you are unfamiliar with the term Beta you should read this as "we think it's ready to test" - its for sure not perfect. If you like to tinker and test new things - this is for you. If you like things to always work perfectly - it may not be ready for you yet. Once the beta testing is complete the production version of the app will automatically update all of the current installs.
All new UI - User Interface. The new UI is intended to update the look and feel of the app to current design standards. You will notice an immediate difference with the look of this new build.
Fingerprint Authentication - When you launch the app you will be asked if you would like to use Fingerprint authentication (of course you can skip). This authentication method will work on phones which support fingerprint auth and have the feature enabled.
Enhanced Document Scanning - For those fleets with remote POD scanning enabled you will notice an all new design to that feature. The updated version is greatly enhanced to reduce the image size and increase the quality.
If you would like to help us test this app the process is simple.
Send a text message to 615-502-1548.
You will get an automated reply that delivers the link to the Beta version.
Follow the link and agree to become a tester.
Once you have agreed to test the app there will be a link at the bottom of the screen which says Download the FirstFleet Mobile app on Google Play. Tap that link to launch Google Play and update your installed version.
Remember - presently the beta version is for Android users only. iPhone users don't worry - we haven't forgotten about you - when we ship the production build you will get the latest version too.
It is possible that there will be some problem with this build that you just cannot live with. If that's the case please make sure you let us know so we can fix it, and remember you can always uninstall the app and reinstall the production version from the Google Play store.
Your feedback in this beta period is essential to correcting any bugs you may find. You can provide feedback at support@firstfleetinc.com or by tapping Get Help inside the settings page of the app.