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Posted by Ian Stephen 1582wc on August 08, 2014 · Flag
Mount Polley Tailings Spill
A Disaster Close to Home
I was glad to be working at the WaterWealth office when I first heard the news of the Mount Polley tailings disaster. My dad would approve of my being at work on a holiday, and I felt somewhat better to be working for water rather than relaxing somewhere when I heard the news. It was strange to see that news with the knowledge of the personal connection Dad and I shared to what may prove to be the worst industrial disaster in BC history. A disaster involving a mine, that mine, and water.
Dad grew up on a farm in Petersfield Manitoba during the Great Depression and the Second World War. The farm gave him the toughness to work in any conditions and a slightly crooked forearm from being thrown from a Clydesdale. He didn't much like farming.
His passion from a very early age was rocks and at the first opportunity he went to work in a mine, overstating his age to get a job underground at Central Patricia Gold Mines from 1947 to 1949.
Dad worked at several mines through the 1950s. Mom joined him, tolerating mining camp life and even living in tents a couple of Manitoba winters.
In 1960 they moved to BC where Dad had been offered a job prospecting, and in 1964 Dad and his friend Sam McBeath found the copper-gold deposit at Mount Polley.
Dad and I shared a love of wild places and the creatures who inhabit them. We approached that love from quite different perspectives though. Dad came from a generation that I don't think could accept that human activity could have global impacts. To him the wilderness was vast. He knew that first hand, having travelled a lot of it by canoe, raft, dog sled and snowshoe. A mine site was a tiny spot on a huge map to his eye. He never could quite accept anthropogenic climate change, though he wavered when he saw figures on the total carbon put into the atmosphere by human activities in a year.
I grew up under the shadow of the cold war. For my generation there was no question that human activities could have global impacts. We knew nuclear war could happen any time and were familiar with ideas like how radioactive fallout could be spread by prevailing winds, the threat of nuclear winter, the reality of ozone depletion and acid rain.
"If you go into the bush with an attitude the bears will get you."
From our different perspectives Dad and I worked together through the summers of my teen years, prospecting in the Yukon. Dad taught me how to go into the bush, "If you go into the bush with an attitude the bears will get you. If you go into the bush with respect you'll be ok.", he'd say. He was fascinated with the rocks. I was fascinated with the wildlife. Grateful for opportunities to watch the squirrels play, to look into the eyes of marmot, porcupine and caribou, to hear the howls of wolves against the sunset.
Dad passed away of cancer in September 2008, at home with his kids at his side. The Mount Polley find was important to him. So important that the family chose Mount Polley as the site for his ashes to be placed. It would be six years before the family got together again to carry out his wishes.
By the time dad was diagnosed with cancer I was a self-employed electrician. Good work, but my heart was more concerned with other things. Climate change weighed heavily on my mind. Job site conversations tended toward issues; energy policy, climate impacts, species diversity and loss, ocean acidification, urban design, transportation infrastructure. I wrote letters to the editor and to politicians. Climate conferences came and went. Canada removed itself from the Kyoto Protocol and carbon emissions continued to rise. I began casting about for a way to do more.
Our Wealth is in Our Water - Let's Protect It!
At the beginning of 2013 the WaterWealth Project was forming and was looking for community organizers. I knew little about water issues and less about community organizing, but they were offering a five day orientation training. An opportunity to learn! I applied, then talked my way out of the job saying in the interview that I would do my best if they were stuck but I'm an electrician, not a community organizer, and I really hoped they would find people better qualified than I. They did.
As luck would have it though, they offered the training to a couple of us as volunteers. The reward I was after without the job I was unsure of! That initial training session was inspiring. The people involved were fascinating and concepts like theory of change and collaborative approaches to localizing water governance very new to a guy with a background in the resource industry and construction. WaterWealth's program ran alongside a three day event that brought people from all over the province who were involved in water issues in one capacity or another. By the time it was done I was pretty much hooked.
Returning to Chilliwack, I volunteered at WaterWealth until the Director, Sheila Muxlow, decided they had to pay me something. Working with a start-up community organization does not replace the income or security of construction work, but getting paid something was excuse enough to let me stay. And stay I did, taking every opportunity to learn more about water issues and history and governance, doggedly working for a vision through which we might better look after those things we value and improve rather than diminish the waters and the communities we pass on to our children and their children. The issues around water are many, varied and complex.
With the help of WaterWealth supporters we are playing a role in modernization of BC water law, tackling regional and local planning issues, responding to specific incidents and threats and all the while experimenting with and developing methods and technologies of community engagement to bring more people and perspectives to conversations about long-term protection of the wealth that is in our shared home waters.
Diving in the deep end
It is challenging and interesting work, and it feels like the right work. As 2013 ticked over into 2014 I really dove in, letting my electrical business go. In June of 2014 Sheila went on maternity leave with her first baby and I stepped, for the interim, into her role at WaterWealth.
So it was that the son of one of the prospectors who found the mineral deposit at Mount Polley came to be watching online news of the tailings dam breach as Interim Director of an organization devoted to protection of freshwater. The scene was made all the more surreal by the fact that we had finally placed Dad's ashes on that site only a week before.
It was a warm sunny day as we stood on Mount Polley, toasting Dad with scotch. We had spent the previous day driving up from the Lower Mainland and enjoying what the area had to offer. There were fish and people fishing where Quesnel Lake spilled into Quesnel River. A family of ducks strolled on the lake shore, babies almost as big as mom but still following her around. A family of foxes looked at us with curiosity near the confluence of the Quesnel and Cariboo rivers. A bear ran away into the bush. Looking at that tailings 'pond' in the distance, I wondered at it's size. Five kilometers to a side we had been told, though news reports now say four. All that toxic water and muck restrained by only an earthen dam. It made me uncomfortable to look at. In hindsight one can't help but wonder about that feeling.
Dad and I would have somewhat different perspectives on the disaster that followed. He would curse those responsible for their failure; the management, the engineers, the government regulators. My thoughts go first to the loss of life, to the fish I watched from the Likely Bridge, to the salmon runs coming up the rivers as billions of litres of contaminated water are coming down, and to the bioaccumulation of contaminants present in mine tailings. Where our thoughts would converge is that this cannot be allowed to happen.
And yet it is allowed, over and over again. The 2006 Big Bar salmon kill by a gravel mining operation on the Fraser, proliferation of open-net salmon farms despite the recommendations of provincial and federal inquiries, Teck Resources dumping into the Columbia River for years, the revolving door of short term water permits by the fracking industry to avoid the regulatory requirements of actual water licences, fracking waste being illegally dumped into Dawson Creek's sewer system and the city at risk of being held liable for it, contamination of ground and surface waters through poor agricultural practices, elevated levels of cadmium in fish from Buttle Lake, mining waste contamination of the Tsolum River, cyanide contamination of groundwater near Grand Forks, oil pipeline spills near Merrit, Coquihalla Summit, Abbotsford and Burnaby. The list goes on. And on.
'not only a failure of a tailings dam, but of regulation and planning'
For years now governments at the provincial and federal levels have been getting out of the regulation of industry, cutting budgets and staff and leaving industry to self-regulate in an environment that has been designed since confederation to enable resource extraction. The result is predictable.
In the case of the Mount Polley disaster, we witness not only a failure of a tailings dam, but of regulation and planning. Water has been a problem at the Mount Polley Mine for years. An environmental consultant was hired in 2009 by the Xatsull First Nation, Williams Lake First Nation and Imperial Metals to review the company's plans to release water from the tailings containment. The environmental consultant asked for a structural assessment of the dam. That assessment was never done. The company received a permit to release 1.4 billion litres of water per year from the tailings, but it was not sufficient and the company recently applied to more than double the amount of water it was allowed to release to 3 billion litres per year. That application was still under review at the time of the tailings dam failure. Could capping production have kept tailings levels from getting too high?
Record Snowfall, Record Rain...
Mill throughput at the mine is measured in tonnes per day. Average throughput in 2012 was a record 22,191 tonnes per day. 2013's average was a bit less at 21,799. The first quarter of 2014 was down to 18,791 due to mechanical trouble and record snowfall but throughput recovered to a high in April of 23,930 tonnes per day. By May the tailings were over their authorized level and they remained over limit until June 30. A former foreman at the dam, Gerald MacBurney, said that the dam was breached in May and that the breach weakened the whole system.
On July 22, Environment Canada issued a special weather statement for the entire South Central Interior of B.C., warning of 25 to 50 millimetres of rain. When the rains rolled through on July 23, 25 millimetres fell on Kamloops in about as many minutes. The same storm passed over Mount Polley Mine. If as much rain fell there that would be upward of 50-million litres of water* dropped into the tailings, not to mention runoff from uphill of the tailings, or the effect of heavy rains on an earthen structure. Did that rain contribute to the failure? Was the failure a surprise? Not, apparently, to Gerald MacBurney who said regarding the part of the dam weakened in May "And that's where it popped, right where it was breached. … I knew it was going to burst."
The Minister of Energy and Mines said the day after the breach that "the flow may have continued into Quesnel Lake." One has to wonder whether the Minster had looked at any of the news coverage. The picture to the right is of the formerly 1.2m wide Hazeltine Creek where it drains into Quesnel Lake. Now about 50m wide even before it fans out into the lake, it seems pretty clear that the flow continued into the lake.
The Minister went on to say "This is a serious incident that should not have happened." and "we are determined to prevent an incident like this from happening again." Clearly. So how do we prevent an incident like this from happening again? Not with the same system that issued repeated warnings to the company but required no action. Not with the same system that disables itself through budget and staff cuts and that has allowed incidents like this time and time again in the past, feigning surprise and outrage every time.
What we need is new models of governance where expert recommendations don't simply gather dust on a shelf. Where the concerns of local people are not ignored by decision makers in distant cities. Where concerns of experienced front-line people like Gerald MacBurney are addressed and incidents like this prevented rather than responded to. We need planning that would, for example, put in place capacity to manage tailings before allowing the tailings to be produced, and that would project for the likelihood of greater frequency and severity of extreme weather events and engineer to cope. It's not a vision that says we will do away with copper mines. Rather it is one that says we will have copper mines and drinkable water, edible fish, swimmable lakes.
'We're on our way there'
We're on our way there. The old BC Water Act, written in 1909, was drafted to ensure that industry would not be hindered for want of water. The new BC Water Sustainability Act holds the potential to ensure that industry gets the water it needs, but within the limits of natural systems. It has new provisions for environmental flows and for forms of governance that are responsive to local knowledge, local needs and local conditions. WaterWealth, having been one of the leading groups in the push for this new legislation, is now working to build capacity in our region to implement those new provisions.
The new governance enabled under the Water Sustainability Act is as yet undefined. While there are existing bodies in the province and elsewhere that can be examined to inform what watershed governance might look like in BC, we are breaking new ground. We hope you are with us. At less than two years old we are still a young organization and the future is by no means certain. We need every volunteer, every donor, every letter of support, every like, share or retweet on our social media feeds, every passed-along news story and alert of breaking local issues. We need all hands on deck to make positive change that brings our collective actions in line with our collective awareness that water is life.
From his vantage point over the now empty tailings 'pond' on Mount Polley, I'm sure Dad would be on board.
Our Wealth is in Our Water
Let's Protect It
* This post originally stated regarding the heavy rain of July 23 that the volume of water added to the pond might be "4km x 4km x 25mm, or 400 million litres of water". It turned out that I had misunderstood the information I had heard and read about the size of the tailings pond and that the pond is about 5km around, not 4 or 5 km per side. Thanks Stephan Krueger for the correction! (Though Provincial updates include "The tailings pond at Mount Polley Mine is four kilometres by four kilometres.", measuring on Google satellite view shows that it is less.)
Terrace Daily commented 2014-08-21 18:05:25 -0700 · Flag
Yes, I do not have or claim to know the precise figures, but I do know I was incorrect in my calculations. there was no need to divide by 9 as was pointed out to me. (I was doing my cubic ft to cubic yard childhood recollection I guess). So then the real calculation, given all the other given dimensions here and from others the totals is about 480 million cubic meters. If we use the 5km diameter of the waste pit we get almost 600 million cubic meters.
Using the rough 2 kilometer diameter as you suggest Ian we would get the 10 million at just over 3 meters deep. So even at that smaller diameter the government and industry have under estimated by a factor of ten. And – if the tailings Lake was actually 5 kilometers in diameter the under-estimation is by a factor of 100.
Why is this not non-stop front page headline news?
Ian Stephen commented 2014-08-21 12:08:43 -0700 · Flag
Hi Merv. The 4km x 4km figure (reported in some BC governenment news releases even) was not correct. If you look at a satellite view of the tailings containment is it somewhere around 1.3km x 1.4km (it's not square). Using the measuring tool on Google Maps I get an area of 1.8 square km.
The latest figure I've seen says the walls of the tailings dam were 35 metres tall. The depth of the tailings, as can be seen in satellite views, varies with the slope up toward the mine and the slope of the tailings walls themselves. We don't have a depth figure from which to try to figure our the volume within the tailings containment. Nor do we know how much of what was contained there may have been heavy enough not to have flowed out.
The company said that 10 million cubic metres of water and 4.5 million cubic metres of sand (total of 14.5 billion litres) was released. Using that figure with 1.8 square km area would give an average depth of 8 metres. Looking at the satellite view, does that seem reasonable? Hard to say, but I think it might be.
I believe you are correct that this is the largest tailings spill ever. I haven't found any larger online.
I am curious and would like some feedback on the volume of material and water spilled. Taking the average height of the tailings pond at 30 metres as discussed here and using the 4km x 4km size of the lake (pond) 4000 × 4000 × 30 divided by 9 (to get a cubic meter) is about 53 million cubic meters. If we use the 5km diameter we get about 65 million cubic meters.
So why is it the number 10 million cubic meters (up from the originally claimed 5 million), is repeatedly claimed when it is such an easy calculation to get over 50 million?
Am I missing something here? Another calculation, if we were to apply this number in the same way many use to describe an oil spill, in litres, we need to multiply this by 1000.
This means 50,000,000,000 – (50 billion) liters of toxic sludge and waste was released.
The other issue I am curious to get feedback on is how, through my investigations, this was the largest spill from a tailings pond anywhere across the globe, ever in history. I read reports comparing the size of the spill to others in recent history, yet the news should be "The largest ever in human history."
Merv Ritchie
Mike Goold commented 2014-08-11 23:42:11 -0700 · Flag
Well said Ian. The WaterWealth Project is lucky to have you and we are all, including the squirrels, marmots, porcupines, caribou, et al, the better for it. Thank you for your words and your efforts
Stephan Krueger commented 2014-08-11 13:18:43 -0700 · Flag
I forgot…I wanted to post this URL to a great topographical view of the tailings pond with a scale to compare distances.
https://twitter.com/TrueNorth_geo/status/497171742683459584/photo/1
Ian, thanks for the laugh :) I don't think that a 4km x 4km tailiings pond would have been manageable anyway. I'm not sure what the maximum feasible area would be for such ponds, although my own instincts tell me that the tailings pond at Mount Polley was already too large, especially in height. It appears to already have a 30 metre high embankment, in the higher sections, and is made entirely of earth (glacial till, some rock fill and maybe more rock as a toe buttress), built up with the centreline method.
Based on my calculations of the total area (2.25 sq km) and the maximum capacity of 70 million dry tonnes that was reported by an environmental consultant in 2004, I came up with a minimum average height of 30 metres for the enclosure, which is what I already assumed from the photos.
It was clearly a big mistake to allow the water to accumulate to such high levels (5 times what the pond was designed for, according to one former employee). So, if the water had been only 2-3 million cubic metres in total, that might have been just barely manageable under the current height of the dam. 10 million cubic metres of water (supernatant) on top of the wet tailings was really pushing it, IMHO.
Thanks for the correction Stephan! I'm laughing now at how many times I shook my head over that 400 million litre figure. "SO much water! Can that really be?" Re-checked the math, yep, 400 million! Never occurred to me the problem might be the inputs, not the math. :-p
This is a great read, Ian! It is certainly a coincidence that your father helped discover the Mount Polley deposit, and that you have a close tie to that location. My condolences to the loss of your father. He obviously passed on to you a sense of purpose (albeit with a different twist) and an appreciation for the great outdoors.
I have one small correction to make, as to the actual size of the tailings pond at Mount Polley Mine. I have seen in the media descriptions of 4 km long, 4 km squared, 4 sq km, etc. What they really meant is that the total length of the three embankment sides of the enclosure is a little over 4 km, from my calculation using Google Map. I have seen one article correctly state that the total area of the pond is roughly 2 sq km, although my calculation puts it at 2.25 sq km.
The shape of the enclosing walls does not make a perfect square as the walls have several changes in direction over the entire span. All 3 sides that compose the earthen dam are different lengths, with the longest one being the north-east perimeter embankment, where the breach occurred (the 4th side is actually part of the mountain slope).
My calculation of the total amount of water added by that rainfall in July is closer to 56,000 cubic metres of water added to the pond, by a 25mm rainfall. That's 1/200th of the total that escaped in the breach (10 million cubic metres). Still, that's a significant amount, especially if the dam was already near the breaking point of its capacity.
Diana Ellis commented 2014-08-09 19:48:43 -0700 · Flag
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Henryk Dziwak, niem. Heinrich der Wunderliche (ur. 1267 r., zm. 7 września 1322 r.) – wspólnie z braćmi książę Brunszwiku od 1279 r., po podziale w 1286 r. samodzielny książę na Grubenhagen, z dynastii Welfów.

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Henryk był najstarszym spośród synów księcia Brunszwiku Albrechta I Wielkiego i Alessiny, córki margrabiego Montferratu Bonifacego II. Wraz z dwoma innymi braćmi, którzy przeżyli ojca, Albrechtem II Tłustym i Wilhelmem (kolejny, Luther został poświęcony karierze duchownej i później został wielkim mistrzem zakonu krzyżackiego) został następcą ojca po jego śmierci w 1279 r. Ponieważ jednak wszyscy bracia byli niepełnoletni, początkowo opiekuńcze rządy sprawowała matka wraz ze stryjem Konradem, biskupem Verden. Wkrótce opiekę nad braćmi przejął Henryk.

Uznanie braci za pełnoletnich doprowadziło do podziału księstwa brunszwickiego w 1286 r. – każdy z nich objął samodzielne rządy w jednej z jego części. Henrykowi przypadła część księstwa z siedzibą na zamku Grubenhagen (obejmowała m.in. część Harzu z kopalniami srebra). Zgodnie z układem z 1286 r. bracia niektóre decyzje mieli podejmować wspólnie, jednak między Henrykiem i młodszym Albrechtem często dochodziło do sporów i kłótni, a nawet wojen (w 1288 r. i 1291 r. przeciwko Henrykowi wystąpili obaj bracia).

Gdy w 1292 r. zmarł nie pozostawiający synów Wilhelm, powstał spór między Henrykiem i Albrechtem o jego dziedzictwo, w szczególności o główne miasto księstwa, Brunszwik. Doszło do walk w samym mieście, działały dwie konkurencyjne rady miejskie. Początkowo przewagę w sporze osiągnął Henryk, ale Albrecht zdołał dostać się do miasta i pokonać zwolenników Henryka, a jego samego wyprzeć z Brunszwiku. Ostatecznie bracia zdołali porozumieć się co do podziału dziedzictwa po Wilhelmie, przy czym to Albrecht objął władzę w samym Brunszwiku, do którego się przeniósł.

Ponadto Henryk toczył także liczne spory z innymi ościennymi władcami, w szczególności biskupami Moguncji, Magdeburga i Hildesheimu czy książętami Lüneburga. Próbował opanować także palatynat saski, szczególnie po wymarciu brandenburskiej linii dynastii askańskiej.

Choć Henryk miał wojowniczy charakter i podczas swych rządów skupiał się na waśniach z sąsiadami, a nie dobrobycie swego państwa, był też księciem bardzo pobożnym, czynił liczne nadania Kościołowi.

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Henryk zapoczątkował linię książąt brunszwickich na Grubenhagen, która wygasła dopiero w 1596 r. Był żonaty z Agnieszką, córką landgrafa Turyngii, margrabiego Miśni i palatyna saskiego Albrechta II Wyrodnego z dynastii askańskiej. Ze związku tego pochodziło szesnaścioro dzieci:
 Allessina (1282?-1312?), żona Fryderyka, hrabiego Beichlingen-Rotenburg,
 Otto (1283?-1305/1309),
 Albrecht (1284?-1341), komtur w zakonie krzyżackim,
 Adelajda (1285-1320), żona Henryka Karynckiego, księcia Karyntii i hrabiego Tyrolu (wcześniejszego króla Czech),
 Bonifacja (1286-po 1309/1312)
 Agnieszka (ok. 1287-1332?), zakonnica,
 Henryk II (1289-1351), książę Brunszwiku-Duderstadt,
 Fryderyk (ok. 1291-1320/1323),
 Adelajda-Irena (ok. 1293-1324), żona Andronika III Paleologa, późniejszego cesarza Bizancjum,
 Konrad (ok. 1294-1320?)
 Mechtylda (ok. 1295-1344?), żona Jana II, hrabiego Werle,
 Ernest I (ok. 1297/ok. 1305-1361), książę Brunszwiku-Salzderhelden,
 Wilhelm (ok. 1298-1360), książę Brunszwiku-Herzberg-Lauenburg,
 Ryszarda (ok. 1300-1332), zakonnica,
 Małgorzata (?-1312),
 Jan (po 1300-1367), ksiądz.

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Home » The Canadian Press » New Restrictions in Force Today as Manitoba Tries to Bring COVID Back Under Control
New Restrictions in Force Today as Manitoba Tries to Bring COVID Back Under Control
November 2, 2020 7:02 AM | The Canadian Press
Dr. Brent Roussin, Manitoba chief public health officer, speaks during the province's latest COVID-19 update at the Manitoba legislature in Winnipeg, Friday, October 30, 2020. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods)
WINNIPEG — New restrictions that are part of Manitoba's attempt to get COVID-19 back under control take effect today, following a weekend of new daily case counts in the hundreds and 10 new reported deaths.
Bars and restaurants in the Winnipeg region will only be allowed to offer takeout and delivery, and most retail stores will be limited to 25 per cent capacity.
Movie theatres must close and sports and recreation programming will be suspended.
In the rest of the province, restaurants, bars and stores will be limited to half capacity.
Religious services will be capped at 15 per cent in the Winnipeg region and 20 per cent elsewhere.
Public gatherings across the province will be capped at five people — a restriction that was recently implemented in the Winnipeg region only.
"The chief provincial public health officer urges Manitobans to not socialize with people from outside their household, to cut down the number of close contacts and avoid closed-in or crowded spaces," the province's daily COVID-19 update read Sunday.
It added people should also focus on fundamentals such as hand-washing, mask-wearing and staying home when sick.
Chief public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin announced the tighter restrictions on Friday, when officials reported 480 new infections, although they said many of the cases were delayed data collection from earlier in the week.
"We have to get things back under control here," Roussin said Friday.
On Saturday, Manitoba reported it had 349 new positive tests, and had more than 300 new cases on Sunday, the majority of which were in the Winnipeg health region.
Five of the deaths announced over the weekend were tied to an outbreak at the Maples Long Term Care Home in the city.
The restrictions are to be in place for at least two weeks and will be reassessed at that time, Roussin said.
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Estadísticas de accidentes de coche en Illinois
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Updated: diciembre 29, 2022
Illinois has been ranked No. 8 when it comes to the state with the most fatal car crashes in 2017. According to the National Safety Council, the state witnessed an 11% increase in deaths by car crashes in the first quarter of 2020 compared to the first quarter of the previous year. Lets take a closer look at more Illinois car accident statistics.
This was despite the drastic decrease in traffic due to the COVID-19 restrictions.
Although the total number of traffic incidents decreased in the United States during the first three months of 2020, Illinois was one of 11 states where the National Safety Council reported a spike in fatalities. The agency believes that this was due to reckless driving on roads that became suddenly free of traffic congestion.
Car accidents involving pedestrians, motorbikes, cars, trucks, and other vehicles is one of the leading causes of preventable death in the state of Illinois. Although the death rate has decreased in the past two decades, it remains significantly higher than in other advanced countries, according to the CDC.
Every day, people suffer injury or die in dangerous car accidents in Illinois, particularly in big cities like Chicago. Let us take a look at the statistics surrounding car crashes in Illinois in 2018, the most recent year for which data is made available by the Illinois Department of Transportation:
In 2018, there were a total of 319,146 car crashes in Illinois. That means over 874 traffic incidents occurred each day in the state that year.
There were 94,164 injuries incurred due to car crashes. That means over 10 people were injured every hour due to car accidents.
Out of those, 11,345 were acute incapacitating injuries. That means 13.4% of all car injuries are incapacitating.
Auto accidents also resulted in 1,035 deaths from in Illinois. That means almost 3 people were killed every day due to a traffic crash.
Crash Statistics by Type of Collisions
Illinois Car Accident Statistics By County
Car Accident Injuries Are More Common Than Deaths in Illinois
Main Causes of Car Accidents in Illinois
Contact Chicago Car Accident Lawyer if You Have Been Injured In a Car Accident in Illinois
Types of collisions, which resulted in crashes include:
Overturned vehicle: There were a total of 3,401 incidents of car crashes that resulted in overturned vehicles. These resulted in 57 fatalities and 1,829 injuries including 528 incapacitating injuries.
Pedestrians: There were a total number of 4,779 pedestrians involved in car crashes in Illinois. Unfortunately, the accident proved fatal to 158 pedestrians while 4,518 pedestrians suffered from injuries, including 995 who suffered from incapacitating injuries. That means almost 21% of car crashes involving pedestrians resulted in injuries with long-term debilitating effects.
Cyclists: There were 2,493 accidents involving bicyclists in 2018, which resulted in 24 fatalities and 2,309 injuries, including 343 debilitating injuries.
Animals: Animals were involved in 16,511 car crashes. This resulted in 8 fatalities and 688 injuries, including 100 injuries that were incapacitating.
Fixed Objects: Property damage of fixed objects like light poles and traffic signals are involved in 32,940 car crashes. These resulted in 273 fatalities, 7,624 injuries, and 1,525 incapacitating injuries.
Rear-End: Rear-end accidents amounted to 91,936 car accidents. These resulted in 78 fatalities, 19,831 injuries, and 1,508 incapacitating injuries.
Head-On: There were 2,843 head-on crash incidents in Illinois in 2018. These resulted in 126 fatalities, 1,191 injuries, out of which 301 were incapacitating injuries.
Sideswipe: There were a total of 38502 crashes that resulted in the vehicle being side-swept in either the same or opposite direction. This resulted in 33 fatalities, 4,022 injuries, and 462 incapacitating injuries.
Turning: There were 49,985 crashes that occurred during a turning, resulting in 79 fatalities, 12,912 injuries, and 1,521 incapacitating injuries.
Rear-ends resulted in the largest number of accidents in Illinois and caused the most injuries. However, car crashes involving fixed objects resulted in the most fatalities (28.7% of all fatal crashes).
The state of Illinois has 102 counties which reported a total of 319,146 car accidents in 2018. These resulted in 951 deaths, 67,453 injuries, and 9,061 incapacitating injuries.
Cook County, which comprises of Chicago, the biggest city in Illinois, witnessed the most motor crashes at 162,527. It also suffered 248 fatalities, 31,404 injuries, and 3,481 incapacitating injuries, the most in the state.
DuPage County is the second-most populous county of Illinois. Unfortunately, though, it also has the second largest number of car crashes in the state. In 2018, the county saw 20,788 crashes, which resulted in 34 fatalities, 4,832 injuries, and 430 incapacitating injuries.
Illinois's fourth most populous county, Will County, witnessed 15,000 motor vehicle accidents in 2018, making it the county with the third-largest number of such incidents. Then crashes resulted in 52 deaths, 3,405 injuries, and 405 incapacitating injuries.
Lake County is the third most populous county of Illinois, after Cook County and DuPage County. Because of the large number of people in the county, traffic accidents, unfortunately, are very common. In 2018, there were 14,054 crash incidents in Lake County. These resulted in 38 deaths, 3,437 injuries, and 364 injuries that prevented the victim from performing their regular work or continuing their jobs.
With over half a million people, Kane County is the fifth most populous county of Illinois. The county witnessed 11,099 crashes in 2018 which resulted in 27 fatalities, 2,914 injuries, and 387 incapacitating injuries.
These five counties amount for over 70 percent of all crash accidents in Illinois, almost 42 percent of all fatalities in the state, over 68 percent of injuries, and almost 56 percent of incapacitating injuries that result in fractures, brain trauma, and amputations. The sad and surprising fact is that 43.1% of all fatal crashes happen during daylight hours.
Fatalities make about 0.3 percent of all car crashes in Illinois. Although this may seem small, the fact that it's almost one thousand deaths per year is a very sobering thought. On the other hand, over 21 percent of all car crashes result in injury out of which 13.4% are incapacitating injuries.
Of course, cars don't hurt people. Most of the time, it is the irresponsible behavior of drivers that lead to these unfortunate but preventable incidents.
According to the Illinois Department of Transportation, car crashes in Illinois happen due to a number of reasons, including:
Blood Alcohol Concentration: In 2018, 27 percent of 951 fatal crashes, which resulted in 650 deaths, were because of driving under the influence. Out of these drivers, 567 were tested and 36.5% of them has BAC greater than 0.01 or greater.
Seat Belt Not Used: In 2018, 1218 drivers were injured for not wearing seat belts. Additionally, the car crash became fatal for 189 drivers. On the other hand, 3,761 passengers were hurt and 34 died for not wearing a seat belt.
Speeding: The Illinois State Police say that an estimated 32 percent of all crashes leading to deaths are related to speed and reckless driving. Crashes because of speeding account for 33.7 percent of all car crashes, 38.2 percent of injuries, and 36.1percent of fatalities.
Distracted Driving: Distracted driving is one of the main reasons for injuries and deaths from car crashes in Illinois. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the use of hand-held communication devices, like smartphones, increases the risk of a car accident four times and texting while driving increases the risk 23 times.
Even though texting while driving is illegal in Illinois and talking on the phone while driving is illegal for drivers aged 18 and younger in Illinois and illegal for all drivers in Chicago, it still happens.
Young drivers have the highest likelihood of being involved in a distracted driving incident. About 11 percent of all drivers below the age of 20 were involved in fatal car crashes in 2010 were reported to be distracted when the accident took place.
Aside from these, there are many other reasons why people get into car crashes that are not compiled into statistics by government agencies. However, a lot of these incidents are due to driver error, usually based on reckless or negligent behavior.
Being in a car crash can put a person into a state of shock and they may be unable to process things correctly. At this time, you need to understand that hiring a car accident attorney is your best bet.
Proving negligence in a personal injury or wrongful death lawsuit is very complex. People who are named as defendants in a car accident lawsuit will do all they can to avoid liability and do not shy from pinning the blame on the victims, undermining their losses, and even pushing for a very low and unjust settlement.
A car crash victim is in need of quick finances and may bow down to the pressure of the defendants, making unwise decisions that can place further financial and emotional burdens on them.
However, Chicago Car Accident Lawyers are experienced in handling complicated car crash cases and they can offer you, good counsel, on your case. We provide you with a free consultation during which we will assess your case and discuss your options. If you or your loved one has been hurt in a car accident in Illinois, we can help give you justice. Call us today to schedule an appointment with us today.
Our team of lawyers handle car accident claims in Chicago and throughout Illinois, including:
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Sutton and Grafton - Depot Street Bridge over the Blackstone River
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Public Hearing Notice Sutton and Grafton - Depot Street Bridge over the Blackstone River
Wednesday, June 8, 2022 at 6:30 p.m.
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Overview of Sutton and Grafton - Depot Street Bridge over the Blackstone River
A Virtual Design Public Hearing will be published on the MassDOT website below to present the design for the proposed Depot Street Bridge over the Blackstone River project in Sutton and Grafton, MA.
The purpose of this hearing is to provide the public with the opportunity to become fully acquainted with the proposed Depot Street Bridge project. All views and comments submitted in response to the hearing will be reviewed and considered to the maximum extent possible.
The proposed project consists of the replacement of the Depot Street Bridge over the Blackstone River. The proposed bridge will be widened to include travel lanes, shoulders and raised sidewalks on both sides of the bridge. Currently there are no bicycle facilities within close proximity of the bridge and none are proposed. The existing concrete abutments will partially remain and a longer span bridge will be constructed supported on new concrete abutments behind the existing abutments. Improvements are also proposed to the roadway approaches, drainage structures, and protective guardrail on both ends of the bridge. Overhead wires and utility services carried by the bridge will be maintained during construction. Some tree clearing will be required and stone riprap will be placed in front of the concrete wingwalls to stabilize the slopes. The bridge will be closed to traffic and a full detour will be provided.
A secure right-of-way is necessary for this project. Acquisitions in fee and permanent or temporary easements may be required. The towns are responsible for acquiring all needed rights in private or public lands. MassDOT's policy concerning land acquisitions will be presented in the hearing.
Project inquiries, written statements and other exhibits regarding the proposed undertaking may be submitted to Carrie E. Lavallee, P.E., Acting Chief Engineer, via e-mail to dot.feedback.highway@state.ma.us or via US Mail to Suite 6340, 10 Park Plaza, Boston, MA 02116, Attention: Major Projects, Project File No. 608640. Statements and exhibits intended for inclusion in the public hearing transcript must be emailed or postmarked no later than ten (10) business days after the hearing is posted to the MassDOT website listed below.
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Call of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer details you might have missed — New game modes, ultimate customisation, soldier prestiges
Earlier we posted a boatload of juicy Call of Duty: Ghosts info that was detailed in an official press release….
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Earlier we posted a boatload of juicy Call of Duty: Ghosts info that was detailed in an official press release. Activision really didn't hold back, finally revealing the multiplayer component of one of the most hotly anticipated games ever.
Well, Activision didn't cover everything in their press release. Those with a keen eye may have noticed some of the new features I'm about to list:
Seven new game modes in totalAlong with "Squads" which was detailed in the press release, Call of Duty: Ghosts also boasts the new game modes "Cranked" and "Search & Rescue". Cranked is an anti-camper game type that promises to be explosive and fast-paced, as players kill to stay alive before their personal timer runs out and they detonate. Search & Rescue combines the intensity of Search & Destroy with the much-loved mechanics of Kill Confirmed. Players can revive their teammates by picking up their dropped dog tags.
Other new game types include: "Wargame", a 5 vs 5 mode; "Safeguard", 4-player co-op mode where you fight waves of enemies; and "Squad Assault", 6-player co-op.
Female soldiers are playableFinally women are coming to the Battlef- warzone! It has taken a while for this feature to be implemented, and finally the tenth Call of Duty includes women characters.
Freedom of perk choicePlayers will now be able to create their dream set-up with over 35 perks available for maximum customisation. A budget of eight points can be spent on whatever perks a player wants, with more powerful perks costing more points.
Field OrdersDuring a match players will be able to pick up a blue briefcase. This briefcase presents the holder with a challenge which, when completed, earns that team a care package and equipment refill.
Snow stages confirmedSnow maps are coming again to Call of Duty. In the past these have either been gruesomely terrible, or fan favourites. Let's hope they're the latter with this one.
Riley to feature in multiplayerThe German Shepherd featured in the single-player, will also feature in Call of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer.
Point streak system returnsCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 had a pretty successful "point streak" system, with players being rewarded not only for kills, but for making an effort towards playing the objective. These are making a return, along with the "Strike Packages" allowing for extensive point streak customisation.
New weapon classPlayers will now be able to play with a sniper/assault rifle hybrid. These weapons are reminiscent of the primaries seen in the earliest Call of Duty titles.
Twenty new killstreaksAllowing players to wreak more havoc than ever before, 20 new killstreaks have been added to the game. However, the number of air-based killstreaks available has been reduced.
New animationsThe ability to slide and mantle enhances the speed and fluidity of movement that Call of Duty is famous for. Players will also be able to lean without having to push a button. Leaving part of your body unexposed will allow you to check your corners more safely before making your move.
Deathstreaks are goneHated by most, deathstreaks rewarded players for dying. These have now finally been left out.
Ten soldiers, ten levels of prestige, ten prestige soldiersSquads play a huge part in Call of Duty: Ghosts, and to truly "complete" the multiplayer component of the game, you will have to level up separate soldiers, encouraging you to experience the game in different ways.
New audio systemCall of Duty: Ghosts will sound better than ever, as locational battlechatter precisely describes the locations of enemies, and the noise of gunfire changes depending on the shooter's whereabouts. Those out in the open will hear a completely different range of noises compared to those inside buildings.
Current-gen will benefit every feature from next-genXbox 360 and PlayStation 3 players will not miss out on any of these new features. Graphical fidelity will be the only difference, allowing all players the complete and total Call of Duty: Ghosts experience.
Eminem's "Survival" to be featured in-gameMaking it's debut during the multiplayer live stream, Eminem's new single "Survival" will feature in this title.
Split-screen supportedToo many games miss this out, but with Call of Duty: Ghosts you can still experience online multiplayer together with a friend locally.
New Call of Duty Endowment charity dog tagsAt $4.99, proceeds made from these dog tags will go to help veterans get good civilian jobs.


A Texas state lawmaker has filed a bill that would require candidates for president or vice president to show their birth certificates to the secretary of state before being allowed on the ballot, and the measure could become effective as early as next year if adopted and signed into law.
The move by Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler, renews the threat to a second Oval Office term for Barack Obama that was posed last year when the state House in Arizona actually adopted the requirement, but the session ended before the Senate acted.
It includes an effective date of Sept. 1, 2011, in time for the expected presidential campaigning for 2012.
Berman told WND he's seen neither evidence nor indication that Obama actually qualifies under the Constitution's requirement that a president be a "natural-born citizen," a requirement not imposed on most other federal officers.
"If the federal government is not going to vet these people, like they vetted John McCain, we'll do it in our state," he said. He noted the Senate's investigation into McCain because of the Republican senator's birth in Panama to military parents.
Berman also said there will be pressure on any lawmaker who opposes the information plan, since voters would wonder why they wouldn't want such basic data about a president revealed. And he said even if one state adopts the requirement, there will be national implications, because other states would be alerted to a possible problem.
Berman said he's convinced there are problems with Obama's eligibility, or else his handlers would not be so persistent in keeping the information concealed.
A year ago, polls indicated that roughly half of American voters were even aware of a dispute over Obama's eligibility. Recent polls, however, by organizations including CNN, show that roughly six in 10 American voters hold serious doubts that Obama is, in fact, eligible under the Constitution's demands.
WND requests for comment to the office of the Texas House speaker, as well as Democratic leadership, did not generate responses.
The Texas House is expected to be dominated by the GOP, with a roughly 2-1 margin, but in the 31-member Senate, Democrats will have probably 12 seats and might be able to kill off legislation using the chamber's requirement that there is support from two-thirds of the membership before holding a floor vote.
WND reported during the last series of state legislatures that the issue was very near success in Arizona.
There, the state House of Representatives adopted a similar plan put forward by Rep. Judy Burges, but it died in the state Senate in the closing days of the session. Burgess has told WND she will work to bring the plan forward again.
Georgia has a plan by Rep. Mark Hatfield, House Bill 1516, introduced just as the last legislative session was closing. He told WND he expects to use it to create support for the plan when the legislature returns this winter.
Oklahoma had a proposal that would be a referendum for voters on the issue.
Several other states have discussed requirements for candidates but they did not specifically address the Article 2, Section 1 constitutional compliance so it's unclear whether they would have addressed Obama's situation.
Then there's Rep. Bill Posey's bill at the federal level.
The sponsors' goal is for the bill to become effective for the 2012 presidential election. The legislation now is pending in a House committee and has more than a dozen co-sponsors.
There have been dozens of lawsuits and challenges over the fact that Obama's eligibility never has been documented. The "Certification of Live Birth" his campaign posted online is a document that Hawaii is a document that has made available to those not born in the state.
The challenges to Obama's eligibility allege he does not qualify because he was not born in Hawaii in 1961 as he claims, or that he fails to qualify because he was a dual citizen of the U.S. and the United Kingdom when he was born and the framers of the Constitution specifically excluded dual citizens from eligibility.
A petition that has been launched by WND founder and CEO Joseph Farah asks that state lawmakers do their duty in making sure the next presidential election will feature candidates whose eligibility has been documented.
Tens of thousands already have signed on.
"What we need are hundreds of thousands of Americans endorsing this strategy on the petition – encouraging more action by state officials before the 2012 election. Imagine if just one or two states adopt such measures before 2012. Obama will be forced to comply with those state regulations or forgo any effort to get on the ballot for re-election. Can Obama run and win without getting on all 50 state ballots? I don't think so," he said.
An earlier petition had been directed at all controlling legal authorities at the federal level to address the concerns expressed by Americans, and it attracted moreo than half a million names.


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Seydou Sy (Dakar, Senegal, 12 de diciembre de 1995) es un futbolista senegalés que juega como guardameta.

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Futbolistas de Senegal
Futbolistas de la Associazione Calcio Milan
Futbolistas de la Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club
Futbolistas del Clube Desportivo Nacional
Guardametas de fútbol


Mr. Fish has over 30 years of construction experience at every management level and was directly responsible for putting in place over $2 billion of building construction over that period. Included in that experience was the $50 million Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, the $80 million New Inpatient Facility at the Boston Medical Center, the $8 million John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, the $6 million Norman Rockwell Museum and the $18 million historic renovation of the McKim Wing of the Boston Public Library. In addition, Mr. Fish's portfolio included numerous retail stores such as Super Stop & Shop, Walgreens, Linens n' Things, and a Lowes Home Improvement Center.
Harvard Graduate Business School – Real Estate Finance/Investment Analysis.
As President, Ted Fish is responsible for the overall operations of Roundhill Construction and ultimately, the satisfaction of its clients. Mr. Fish has spent his entire career in the construction industry and has hands-on in the trenches experience from a union field laborer to superintendent to project manager to estimator to Chief Executive Officer. Under his direction, Roundhill has quickly established itself as an interior contractor that has a proven approach to providing exceptional service for clients on a turnkey or general contracting/construction management basis.


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Janie Harris | NCAA.com | January 16, 2019
How hard is it to pick a perfect bracket?
Bergen estimates someone guessing the perfect bracket's chances are one in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808.
This story was originally reported in 2016
With the NCAA tournament fast approaching, you may be thinking this is your year. This is the tournament where you do what no one has ever done before — pick a perfect bracket.
Yeah, don't get your hopes up.
Jeffrey Bergen, a professor of mathematics at DePaul University, has been crunching numbers on the topic for years. And they don't look good. Bergen says that the chances of someone filling out a perfect bracket is 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808. That's one in more than nine quintillion.
To put how large that number is into proper perspective, Bergen reports that if you were to begin filling out random brackets now and stacked each of the 9 quintillion pieces of paper on top of each other, the stack would reach all the way to the sun and back...over 3,000 times by the time you finished.
Impossible, you say? Well, yes, because even if every person on the planet joined in to help you, it would still take more than 2,500 years for seven billion people to fill out those 9 quintillion brackets.
Sure, you can shrink that number by factoring in your unparalleled knowledge of college basketball, or simply by playing the odds. Even with some of those elements in mind, though, Bergen estimates the chances of filling out a perfect bracket to be around 1 in 128 billion. (He gets that number picking the higher-seeded team to win.)
"There is a lot of assumption based in all of this," he said. "Of all the possible brackets out there, the most likely one is for the higher-seeded team to win. Now, keep in mind, it is still highly unlikely that every higher-seeded team will win."
Still, Bergen says, that's more likely to score you that perfect bracket than just random choice.
"It's still a lot harder than winning the lottery," he said.
Arash Khatibi, a graduate advisor at the University of Illinois, worked with professors Sheldon H. Jacobson and Douglas M. King crunching similar numbers to Bergan's. The difference? They developed the BracketOdds website to help basketball fans choose as wisely as possible, using computer algorithms and past performances to determine the best picks.
"So, actually the probability of generating the perfect bracket based on our model is something like two to the power of 53," Khatibi said.
That's 9,007,199,254,740,992 different brackets. And, that's using more basketball knowledge than just guessing.
Khatibi says that the toughest round to get through is the first. Selecting 32 winning teams is a lot more difficult than selecting two. In the past six years, the closest anyone got to filling out a perfect bracket was in 2017 when someone selected the first 39 games correctly. Still, they didn't make it to the Sweet 16.
RELATED: How do your past brackets stack up to the competition?
Khatibi and the professors working on the BracketOdds website's best advice? Fill out the bracket from top to bottom.
But, again, even with that advice, your chances are slim. How slim? Well, these are 9 things more likely to happen, according to Bergen, than filling out a perfect bracket:
1. An NBA player making 414 consecutive free throws. (The NBA record is 97).
2. An NFL quarterback completing 96 consecutive passes (The NFL record for most completed passes in a row is 25).
3. A Major League Baseball hitter smashing a homer in 17 straight at-bats (The MLB record is four straight homers).
4. A professional pitcher striking out 31 batters in a row (The current MLB record is 10 in a row).
6. A MLB team winning 97 regular-season games in a row (The current MLB record is 26 in a row).
7. A professional bowler rolling 85 consecutive strikes, the eqiuivalent of more than 12 straight perfect games (Pro bowlers roll strikes about 60 percent of the time).
8. A professional bowler converting a 7-10 split nine consecutive times (Pro bowlers convert one in about 1 in every 145 tries).
9. A professional golfer sinking a hole in one on five straight par 3s (Pro golfers hit ace a hole once every 2,500 attempts).
10. A professional golfer making 13 putts in a row from 50 feet (They make about 3 percent of those putts).
The point is, Bergen says, don't feel bad when your bracket eventually busts. You're not alone in that.
College basketball rankings: Even unranked teams find success in the NCAA tournament
Since the NCAA tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985 — its modern format — only four of 35 national champions were unranked to start the season. That's about one in every nine years.
Only .025 percent predicted the 2021 Final Four teams in the Bracket Challenge Game
UCLA's upset of No. 1 Michigan in the Elite Eight turned what could have been a record-high number of perfect picks into a tiny number that went 4-for-4.
A huge majority of NCAA brackets have a No. 1 seed winning the 2021 championship
Here is how many brackets predicted each seed to win the national championship, from Gonzaga and the No. 1 seeds through Drexel and the rest of the No. 16 seeds.
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The Associated Press reports that a man working on a water tower in Southeast Texas lost his life on Friday morning.
The accident happened in Porter, Texas when a man was working on the water tower and a metal panel shifted, falling on and fatally injuring him.
A spokesperson for the Porter Fire Department said, "One person was killed in the Friday morning accident during construction. Another worker was taken to the hospital with arm and chest injuries. Two other workers who were unhurt were rescued."
Fire crew officials believe the piece of metal that fell was being lifted and put into place during the time it fell. Porter is located about 30 miles northeast of Houston.


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Hokkaido Obihiro Hakuyou High School (北海道帯広柏葉高等学校, Hokkaidō Obihiro Hakuyō Kōtō Gakkō) is a high school in Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan, founded in 1923. Hokkaido Kushiro High School is one of high schools administrated by Hokkaido.

The school is operated by the Hokkaido Prefectural Board of Education.

Notable alumni
Miyuki Nakajima (中島 みゆき) Singer-Songwriter and Radio Personality
Miwa Yoshida (吉田 美和) Musician, and The Lead Singer for The Band Dreams Come True
Kazuyoshi Kumakiri (熊切 和嘉) Film Director
Hiromu Arakawa (荒川 弘) Manga artist and writer, best known for the series Fullmetal Alchemist

Address
 Address: Higashi-5jyo-Minami-1choume-1banchi, Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan

External links
Official Website of Hokkaido Obihiro Hakuyou High School

High schools in Hokkaido
Educational institutions established in 1923
1923 establishments in Japan


The mandala is a schematic visual portrayal that is full of meaning and meant to represent various aspects of the physical universe.
Its beauty is outstanding as demonstrated by the asymmetric Bohemian mandala duvet cover that draws its inspiration from this infinite pool of graphical potential.
It is an impressive tribal pattern that makes a statement and has a personality that is able to bring together the various elements of your bedroom to make your bed unique and have a unified theme.
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The asymmetric design of this bedroom set stimulates lots of aesthetic interest with the point of balance being slightly skewed from the norm.
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Make use of its limitless appeal to bring about an instant upgrade to your bedroom space and enjoy the splendid results.


Even though the Apostle Paul regarded himself as the worst of sinners… and even though he knew how wrong he was for participating in the murder of Christians… there is no sign of him wallowing in self-loathing over it.
That's because he knew the grace of God had fully covered his transgressions… and that he was under no condemnation… and totally free to fulfill the mission God had for him.
Yes, you may feel unworthy of being used by God… and you may have shame and regret over things in the past… but God's grace is greater than these things.
And He's given you His grace so you would not only be forgiven, but have a heart set free to serve Him with your gifts.
So… for those who belong to God, there's no place for self-loathing… we're to use our time and energy serving Him in joy and gratitude.
Is the Bible overrated?Does your neighbor really have it better than you do?


A recital in a small setting with time to enjoy some tea and treats, socializing, meeting the artist, and to talk about opera. Salon Socials will be once per month on a Sunday afternoon or Thursday evening.
Come join our Community Opera Chorus! There's no experience necessary and no membership fee. We are building a chorus from the ground up! We will help you with group breathing and singing exercises, movement and score reading. It's like choir, but eventually you'll be in costume and acting as well as singing! If you love to sing and to be part of a group come join us! Saturdays 11am-12pm at the Oak Park Fieldhouse on Fremlin Street. To register email: operaopulenza@gmail.com with "Community Opera Chorus" in the subject line. We will be working on repertoire from "The Tales of Hoffmann", "Rigoletto", "Don Carlo", "Tosca", and "Carmen".


Now Supports 64bit Prepar3D v4 !
BlackBox - AIRBUS X'treme "Prologue" Aims to give you a taste of things to come.
The Airbus is a fly-by-wire marvel that is rightfully acknowledged as one of the most successful aircraft in civil aviation history. With a flight deck unlike that of any other airliner, reproducing this aircraft accurately presents a unique challenge to any add on developer.
We can now offer you the Prologue version 0.85.2 so you can see and feel what to expect from the Full AIRBUS X'TREME V1.00 release.
BlackBox Quality and attention to detail will be second to none, with every system modelled to the fullest possible levels. The smallest of items will be given our full attention and you wont find a switch, knob or button that doesn't do something.
In the Prologue Package you will still have a very useable Airbus simulation with Highly detailled MFD Screens and ECAMS. These are all switchable and have independant dimmer controls! Some systems and functionality may be limited initially but The MCDU Will allow you to program a FlightPlan from start to finish, including climbs, Sids, Stars, Speed and Altitude Constraints as well as holding patterns Airways and Alternate Airports. You'll see your performance figures with Vspeeds and Fuel predictions.
With our regular service updates The ECAM Screens will eventually show all your system status including Fuel, Electrical, Hydraulic, Pressure systems, Doors and Landing Gear as well as many warnings to help you get things in order.
The external model features The A318, A319, A320 and Now A321 with either CFM or IAE Engines. They have been recreated using advance 3dsMax techniques and each one contains in excess of 150 thousand Polygons, Hi definition 4096x4096 Texture and bump Mapping and a whole host of custom animations that include new Fanblade animation for smooth running New "no flicker" Wheel animations that rotate smoothly and behave correctly when you stand on the brakes.
There is also a niceley detalled cockpit and cabin visible through the reflective 3D modelled Windows. open the doors and you have more detal in the cargobays and galley areas, all illuminated at night.
The Virtual Cockpit is another 160K Polygons and almost every switch, knob, lever and dial is accurateley modelled and animated. Each panel has its own seperate integral lighting and both front and rear overheads are accurateley reproduced. There are dimmer controls for each MFD and you can swap them around via the correct pedestal switching. The Thrust levers have "built in" Detents operated by either Joystick, Numpad, F1-F4 Keys or Pageup/Dn you will easily find the one intuitive to you. Custom animations include the fold out tables, Arm rests and sunscreens on top of all the expected switches etc. The Side sticks operate correctly and lock properly when using the autopilot.
All the MCDU and FCU Programming can be done from either the 2D Panels or in the VC either directly or via the many Popup screens a click away.
The Airbus Flight model has been reproduced and tested by three independant Current Airbus Pilots and includes our Custom Fly By Wire system and Envelope protection Laws.
"Good to see high speed and low speed protections working correctly and A.FLOOR and TOGA LK working perfectly as they should!"
"For what you ve decided to include in the prologue version, I find the bird is faithfull to the real thing.
So ... Dont just take a "mere pilots" word !!
Experience for yourself the unique Airbus fly-by-wire concept and see whats in store later this year when we release AIRBUS X'TREME!
" These aircraft think one step ahead of the pilot - it's a flying experience like no other!"
MANY NEW LIVERIES ADDED IN V0.850 !!!
ALSO NOW INCLUDES AIRBUS A320-100 !
We ALSO SUPPLY NEW INDIVIDUAL Hi Definition PAINTKITS for ALL Aircraft !
I think the bird flies beautifully! The FBW is better, the responsiveness realistic, takeoff and landing is a joy! The external model is awesome! Texture and finish are like the real thing.
Excellent job on the new bus... its a real gem to fly..
Its awesome! and the sound effects also.
overall a solid product v0.6 which can only get better from here on.
BBS you are far above the Airbus competitors already I belive your Version 1.0 will be a new milestone for us Airbus lovers..
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"BBS I know I think I've told you this before but my god you have built an absolute beauty !"


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Adzopé es una ciudad situada al sur de la Costa de Marfil. La ciudad es la capital del departamento y de la sub-prefectura de Adzopé. Los pueblos indígenas Adzopé, Attié, se dividen en tres cantones: Anapa, y Ketín Tchoyi.

El actual alcalde del municipio de Adzope, León Emmanuel Monnet, es también ministro de Minas y Energía del régimen del expresidente Laurent Gbagbo.
El primer pueblo de los leprosos fue establecida Adzope por Raoul Follereau.

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Localidades de Costa de Marfil


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Democrats Push Back Against Janus; Move to Make Union Membership Cards State Law
By Marc E. Fitch January 30, 2019
Labor, Yankee News One Comment
Two House Democrats filed a bill to make restrictions in union membership cards state law, potentially opening Connecticut to a legal challenge based on the Supreme Court's Janus v. AFSCME decision.
Proposed Bill 6936 was filed by representatives Robyn Porter, D-New Haven, and Michael D'Agostino, D-Hamden, and is referred to the Labor and Public Employees Committee.
According to the bill, a public employee "may only revoke the [dues] authorization pursuant to the terms of the authorization he or she signed."
Those terms refer to language in union membership cards which limit an employee's ability to cease having dues collected from their paycheck. Although an employee may resign membership from the union, union cards dictate the employee can only apply to cease dues payment during a set window of time.
In the case of AFSCME members, those windows are a thirty-day period surrounding the employee's yearly membership anniversary.
The fine print on AFSCME's membership card says paying dues "shall be irrevocable, regardless of whether I am or remain a member of the union," if resignation language is not included in the collective bargaining agreement.
Membership windows have come under legal fire in other states, as attorneys representing public employees who have tried to resign membership say these windows are a violation of the Janus decision and, therefore, the employee's First Amendment rights.
But the language of the proposed bill does not address membership in a union, only the authorization to collect dues, essentially giving the appearance of state authority for unions to continue collecting dues from employees who have resigned membership.
Brian Kelsey, senior attorney of the Liberty Justice Center which represented Mark Janus in his suit against AFSCME, told Yankee Institute in November, "Government workers maintain constitutional rights throughout the year, not just during an arbitrary window set by government unions."
State or municipal employees who signed membership cards prior to the Janus decision had few options: they could be a dues paying member and be allowed to vote in union leadership elections, or pay an agency fee roughly equal to due and have no vote at all.
Following the Janus decision, however, the state stopped collecting agency fees.
In Connecticut, AFSCME Council 4 has wavered between allowing employees to resign and trying to enforce the windows outlined in membership cards.
Following the November 2018 elections, the union – which boasts 30,000 members – began issuing letters denying public-sector workers the right to resign based on their membership cards.
The proposed bill would protect the unions from having to deny resignation requests, while still enabling them to collect dues from employees who are no longer members — at least for a period of time.
If passed, the law may put the state of Connecticut in a legal bind, forcing the state to enforce authorization windows for union dues if a legal challenge arose.
It could also mean legal disputes regarding dues and union membership would no longer be a matter of a contract between an individual and the union but rather the individual and the state.
The proposed bill would also restrict who employees who wish to resign from informing their employer – either a state or municipality – of their decision.
According to the bill, employee requests to revoke or change dues authorizations would have to be directed to the union rather than the employer.
The union would also not have to provide the employer a copy of an employee's dues authorization "unless a dispute arises about the existence or terms of the authorization."
According to the Janus decision an employee must give affirmative consent to have union dues deducted from their pay, but the proposed bill essentially leaves the matter of dues deduction solely in the hands of the unions, who would not have to provide initial documentation to the state or municipality.
Since the Janus decision in June, unions say they have more members than ever and President of the Connecticut chapter of the American Federation of Teachers Jan Hochadel said the decision was "a blessing in disguise."
The increase in union membership was largely the result of union administrative mistakes; a number of employees were classified as agency fee payers even though they had never actually opted out of the union.
Despite the increase in membership, money flowing into union coffers decreased overall, according to figures provided by the State Comptroller's Office.
The membership card bill was one of four union bills proposed by Porter and D'Agostino, which would enhance unions' ability to retain and recruit members.
Proposed Bill 6935 would require the state or municipality to confer with the union before issuing any communication to its employees regarding their rights to either join or resign from a union.
Proposed Bill 6926 would require the state or municipality to provide worker information, including their home addresses every 120 days.
And Proposed Bill 6930 would require the state or municipality to allow unions access to new employee orientations so the union can make its membership pitch.
The bills – which are only in concept form at this point – will likely have a receptive audience in the Labor Committee.
Six lawmakers on the committee are either current or former union officials, and Porter serves as co-chairwoman along with Julie Kushner, D-Danbury, a former union organizer and co-chair of the Working Families Party.
Neither Rep. Porter or D'Agostino replied for comment.
Patti Gonzalez
I would like to testify against this illegal membership card Joe Aresimwicz is shoving down our throats. AFSCME has never represented it's members equally. This is why they love Arbitration to hide crimes against women and men. I would like to testify if it's not too late. My evidence is irrefutable and not hearsay by far.


Divorce can be Customized to Suit Your Needs | Loughmiller Higgins, P.C.
When divorce is on the horizon, many Texas spouses feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of decisions that must be made and matters that must be handled. Making matters worse, our society is rife with media-driven examples of acrimonious and dramatic divorce. This leads many to fear that the process will be lengthy, expensive and emotionally draining.
It is important to go into the divorce process with an understanding that there are a wide range of options available to couples who are dissolving their union. At one end of the scale lies a collaborative divorce, in which both parties work together to divide assets and disentangle their lives in a way that preserves as much wealth as possible for both sides, and is not emotionally damaging. This is an especially good choice for couple who share children.
Another option involves using mediation to resolve issues surrounding the divorce settlement. Mediation can be conducted face-to-face or with the parties in separate locations. Parties can hire their own attorneys, and can also work with a financial advisor to guide the process. This is a good option when there is some tension between the parties, but both want to lessen the financial impact of the split, avoid battling it out in court, and create a customized agreement.
For some Texas couples, a litigated divorce is the only option. This may be the case in a highly contentious divorce, or when one party is determined to use the divorce process to punish the other for perceived transgressions that took place during the course of the marriage. This option can be far more expensive and lengthy than other paths, but can bring about a positive solution for spouses who feel that their interest would not be adequately protected using another approach.


I'm putting a script together to sort a very large music collection. It's approx 22000 albums, a mixture of FLAC, WAV, AIFF, M4A (AAC & ALAC).
So far, I can sort by file type and get a total size of each type.
I'd like to edit this to get the number of files by file type as well as the total size.
Now, the M4A files could be either AAC or ALAC, and I'd like to know how many of each.
but I'm lost on how to get the total file count and size, instead of a list of file names, and combine it all into one script.
Depending on how well this works, I may consider using this to sort files into directories based on the output.
The resulting code will be clearer and more reusable.
Generate raw statistic files. An easy way is to append the file size and the file name in a temporary file named after the original file extension. So, if you have the file /path/to/foo.mp3 which is 3000000 large, it will append 3000000 /path/to/foo.mp3 at the end of a temporary file named mp3.
Handle specific cases. Here it will process the temporary file m4a and create the two other files m4a_aac and m4a_alac based on the test you gave in the question.
Sum up each size to get the total size of files of this type.
# This script takes the searched directory as first parameter.
# For Linux: stat -c "%s %n"
# For Mac: stat -f "%z %N"
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