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April 2015 , Volume 30, Issue 4, pp 579–583 | Cite as
In memoriam: Paul G. Risser (1939–2014)
Louis R. Iverson
Scott Collins
Jack Dangermond
Richard Forman
Joan I. Nassauer
John Wiens
Erin Wolfe
Open image in new window We lost a great one in ecology, an important person in the development of landscape ecology in North America and a gem of person on July 10, 2014. Paul continued to work in his office as much as he could throughout his many treatments for the decades-long illness that finally killed him, and was in his office until the week before he died. He leaves behind his wife Les, his twin brother, four sons, two daughters, and 14 grandchildren.
Paul G. Risser was born September 14, 1939 in Blackwell, Oklahoma, attended Grinnell College in Iowa (where he was serving as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees at the time of his death), and earned M.S. (1965) and Ph.D. degrees (1967) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. From there, he joined the University of Oklahoma, Norman, faculty of Botany, where he served as Director of the Oklahoma Biological Survey for 7 years and Chairman of the Department for 5 (with a stint at NSF as Program Director of Ecosystem Studies). In 1981, he became Chief of the Illinois Natural History Survey, and in 1986 he joined the University of New Mexico as Vice President for Research, and eventually Provost and VP for Academic Affairs. Not to stop there, he became president of Miami University, Ohio from 1993–1995, then president of Oregon State University from 1996–2003, and then Chancellor of the entire Oklahoma System of Higher Education from 2003–2006. From 2006, he was Chair and Chief Operating Officer of the Research Cabinet at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, and Executive Director of Oklahoma's economic development organization, with a stint as Acting Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in 2007 (and was still on the Board of Trustees).
As Chair of the Research Cabinet, Paul was responsible for leading large-scale research initiatives on OU's three campuses. His skill of bringing people from disparate disciplines together to move forward toward a common goal led to many successful university-wide efforts to improve research, teaching, and learning. Additionally, his passion for the promotion of innovative teaching techniques was instrumental in the development of numerous active learning classrooms now in use throughout the system. His dedicated service to research and education was also apparent in his high-level service to professional societies: president of Southwestern Association of Naturalists (1978–1979), president of Ecological Society of America (1984–1985), and president of American Institute of Biological Sciences (1991–1992). He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
John Wiens recalls: Paul and I were graduate students together at Wisconsin, he in Botany, me in Zoology. We shared interests, took classes together, and spent time in the field, me watching birds, Paul watching plants. We spent a good deal of time talking about how to bring the disciplines (and departments) closer together. Later, our academic paths ran in parallel for some years. But I remember visiting him at OU when he was department chair. We talked about the future, and he admitted that his real interest was in administration—that was how he felt he could be most effective in advancing science. And he never looked back. But he also never lost his touch for science.
Paul's early career produced important plant ecophysiological papers—his first publication contributed to spruce tissue cultivation (published sole authored in Science, Risser 1964) followed by studies on environmental constraints on spring ephemerals (e.g., Risser and Cottam 1967), followed in turn by studies on allelopathic compounds on physiological traits of selected plants. In Oklahoma, he quickly established himself as an expert in plant diversity and community structure in forests and, especially, the tall grass prairie. He used a quantitative approach to assessing plant-soil relationships, which definitely looked like 'landscape ecology', especially when he used it to classify land, as a basis for selection of Biosphere Reserves (UNESCO Man and the Biosphere program, Risser and Cornelison 1979), and in systems analysis and simulations assessing the impact of management practices in grasslands (e.g., Parton and Risser 1980). He led a group that literally wrote the book on the 'True Prairie Ecosystem' (Risser et al. 1981), an experience that gave new meaning to the expression "herding cats", but Paul pulled it off. Paul and his students (e.g., Scott Collins, Jeff Klopatek, David Gibson) used landscape approaches to study bottomland forests, conduct energy analysis on forests and rangelands, and revegetation on mine spoils.
Collins recalls: Paul was a wonderful and forward thinking graduate mentor. In the late 1970s when most PhD programs were just about academics, he was training students to consider careers in federal agencies, NGOs, and environmental consulting firms. When I went to Oklahoma to work with him I was told I would need to be independent, self-motivated, and up on the literature. His office door was always open and he was always eager to discuss research ideas. In class he began each session by listing 2–3 references on the board relevant to the lecture topic with the expectation that we would track down these articles and be familiar with them. In those days that meant going to the library and photocopying those articles. He was open to a wide variety of research topics and ideas; the only restriction he placed on me was that my research must have something to do with plants! So I ended up working on the plant ecology of wood warblers during the breeding season in Minnesota and Maine. I was at Oklahoma during the late 1970s when he first started thinking about what he then called "regional" ecology. My grad student colleague, Dwight Adams, and I were supported on RAs to work on the regional ecology of Oklahoma. We used several databases available at the time (in print) to plot changes in various environmental parameters at the county scale. The maps we created were colorful, but I can't recall if they were really very meaningful. But this effort exposed me to larger-scale thinking about ecological concepts and human impacts on the environment, and I think this effort led to his more formal contributions to the development of Landscape Ecology.
His interest in landscape ecology emerged in full force in 1983. While at the Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS), Paul, Jim Karr and Richard Forman obtained NSF funding to bring 25 scholars from across the globe together to consider the potential of landscape ecology, then a European geography-ecology combination, as a promising frontier in North America.
Forman recalls from that time: After the first day when these leaders highlighted their separate disciplines and contributions, Paul fretted, "Could we have invited too diverse a group? Why weren't promising overlaps and synergies introduced? We can't lose this meeting. We MUST grab the moment!" Forman, who had interacted for two years with the European landscape ecologists, had it easy leading the second day, because the group, sensing Paul's concern, quickly began tentative but crucial steps in articulating interesting conceptual overlaps and promising tractable frontiers. Paul couldn't wait to lead the final morning session, when his gentle hand and mind led to a cascade of synergies and forward-thinking conclusions. Later, Forman often said that no-one topped Paul's ability to sense the most important ideas in a meeting, pinpoint areas of potential agreement, and articulate a forward-looking synthesis, which left many in awe and most ready to sign on right there.
This Allerton Workshop resulted in a seminal document "Landscape ecology-directions and approaches" (Risser et al. 1984) which initiated formal recognition of the science in North America and beyond, and increased the ecological contributions to the science. This keystone workshop marks the beginning of landscape ecology in North America, and has been revisited at several points since (Risser 1995a; Risser 1998; Risser and Iverson 2013; Wiens 2008; Wu 2013). The Allerton workshop crystallized landscape ecology with a conceptual base that has now become embedded in many disciplines and serves as a framework on which to bring together participants from disparate fields for which landscape heterogeneity or spatial and temporal scales are key to understanding and management. Each of the participants of the workshop (including a rookie named Iverson) went on to advance the science in their own ways since.
From 1986–1989 he served on the first executive team of the fledgling US-Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, along with the likes of Jerry Franklin, John Wiens, Joan Nassauer, William Romme, Monica Turner, and David Sharp. Paul gave the opening address "Landscape ecology: state of the art" at the first US-IALE symposium in 1986, when US-IALE was organized. These folks set the chapter on great footings where it quickly became the largest and most influential chapter of IALE. Paul also delivered a keynote "Should landscape ecology only change at the margin" in 1996, well after he was embroiled in university presidential 'stuff'. He was given the US-IALE Distinguished Landscape Ecologist award in 2000.
Nassauer recalls: The way in which Paul Risser, Jim Karr and Richard Forman articulated the foundations of landscape ecology in America in the 1984 Allerton report has been essential to subsequent socio-environmental approaches to science. The landscape ecology they described has been a foundation for my own work ever since the 1986 meeting where we formed the US-IALE Chapter. Not only did they spell out the importance of landscape pattern for understanding process, they insisted on the centrality of human agency in making landscapes. This was groundbreaking in American ecology. It opened the way for transdisciplinary work in landscapes around the world, anticipated our now familiar understanding that we live in a world dominated by humans, and invited social sciences, design, and planning into the science of landscape ecology.
I knew Paul as an inventive and accomplished ecologist of generously open intellect. He shared this quality with the handful of other leading ecologists who prompted landscape ecology to be established as an influential scientific approach in America. I vividly remember a drive that Paul, Richard Forman, and I made to a US-IALE field trip site at the 1990 meeting in Ohio. I was very much the junior person, learning by listening. While it was a short journey, Paul and Richard had an animated conversation about the potential for NSF Long Term Ecological Research sites to incorporate humans in the ecosystems studied. Their lively sense of possibility reinforced my sense that I, a social scientist designer, could make a contribution to the field. My hope is that landscape ecology continues to embody the combination of rigor with intellectual openness that echoed through that conversation and characterized Paul's work.
It was also in the early 1980s that GIS and large database management were emerging as valuable tools in landscape ecological studies. Paul, as Chief of the Natural History Survey, successfully acquired funding for a large project called 'The Lands Unsuitable for Mining Program', affectionately called 'LUMP'. This project brought together several scientists from different disciplines, along with only the 12th installation of ESRI's ArcInfo software and the automation of many ecological and geological layers into 'integrated terrain unit' maps. Paul also promoted the automation and GIS-integration of large databases on all Illinois vertebrates (Illinois Fish and Wildlife Information System) and flora (Illinois Plant Information Network, www.nrs.fs.fed.us/ilpin, Iverson and Prasad 1998). These integrated databases became critical to landscape assessments such as a state-wide assessment of land use change related to landscape attributes (Iverson and Risser 1987; Iverson 1988) and many other natural resource issues (Risser and Iverson 1988, Iverson et al. 1989). Paul was a true visionary in recognizing the value of putting GIS in the hands of landscape scientists.
Dangermond recalls: Paul was one of the first to recognize the value of GIS in Ecology and Geoscience. He supported and was the executive sponsor of the State of Illinois vision for creating a Statewide GIS. This was in the early days of ESRI. His leadership in both the science and application worlds established a pattern for regional and statewide environmental planning. The enormous impact of this is now well documented.
Paul then contributed to wider societal issues concerning ecology, largely stemming from his leadership roles in scientific societies: the importance for ecologists to engage in advancing biological literacy (Risser 1986), an Ecological Society of America perspective on the release of genetically engineered organisms (Mooney and Risser 1989), the importance of long-term ecological research (Risser 1991), making ecological information practical for resource managers (Risser 1993), and the Sustainable Biosphere Initiative (Lubchenco et al. 1991). Simultaneously, he became a leader in the understanding and management of ecotones (e.g., Holland et al. 1991; Risser 1995b).
As university Vice President, president, or chancellor, Paul had immense influence on the directions of research and education. He always supported both, and pushed for teaching students to use information "that has the readily apparent potential for improving the quality of life" (Risser 1986). In one published 'welcoming' (Risser 2001) to an initial symposium on ecological and societal aspects of transgenic plantations, Paul stated "Among the most significant values of great universities is the ability to bring together the best minds from many disciplines, and to focus these intellectual abilities on complex topics of particular importance to society. This intellectual pursuit must be accompanied by great attention to the ethical dimensions of the issue, and must encompass multiple perspectives supported by careful and thoughtful analyses. Moreover, these deliberations must be tested by peers and communicated to interested and affected constituencies. Your challenge here will require rising to the standards and expectations of great universities. You must consider both the potential benefits and risks to our forests from this technology, you must do so in the context of a world that is growing hungrier for resources, and you must consider our shared responsibility for the health of our biosphere."
Not only was Paul an excellent scientist and administrator, he was a true joy to work with and to be around. He was always ahead of his time, and it was inspiring to be around someone so intellectually uninhibited. Even when health issues were raging, he maintained a positive and congenial attitude. He would make time for all sorts of people who sought him out for advice and consultation. He had an incredible ability to quietly take disparate and often disjointed comments from a host of committee members and synthesize them into an elegant and forward-moving plan. He enjoyed dancing and music and family and friends. His laugh was contagious.
Paul Risser touched and influenced many thousands of people, including those of us writing this memorial. Those thousands are carrying on with his ideas and ideals to the next generations. He had an enduring influence on the direction and impact of ecology, and especially landscape ecology. He did great things with humility, humor, grace, and a true drive to make the world a better place. You certainly did that Paul, and you will be missed!
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1.1 PROJECT OVERVIEW AND PROJECT NEED
Only half of Myanmar's population had access to electricity in 2019, presenting a significant challenge for economic development and hampering the country's economic growth. To face rising demand, the Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MoEE) developed the National Electrification Project, which plans to reach full electricity distribution across Myanmar by 2030. Supreme Trading Co., Ltd. in collaboration with its international partners is working with the Ministry to achieve this goal for the people of Myanmar.
The Myanmar government approved four gas-to-power projects with a combined capacity of 3,111 megawatts (MW). The Mee Lin Gyaing Integrated Liquefied Natural Gas to Power Project is the largest of its kind. It will generate 1,390 MW of power, provide significant advance to Myanmar's engineering sector, develop the country's infrastructure and economically uplift the community.
The Mee Lin Gyaing Integrated Liquefied Natural Gas to Power Project is located at Mee Lin Gyaing Village, 60-km northwest of Pathein and 40-km north of Chaung Tha Beach in Shwe Thaung Yan Township, Pathein District, Ayeyarwady Region. The project is an Independent Power Producer (IPP), and will be implemented through the Build, Operate, and Transfer (BOT) system. The Notice to Proceed (NTP) in development of the project was granted by the Ministry of Electricity and Energy on January 30th 2018.
The project developers include: Supreme Trading Co., Ltd., and Zhefu Holding Group, Yunnan Provincial Energy Investment Group, and Union Resources & Engineering. With project developers listed at 85 in China Top 500 Company in service enterprise categories and 70 in top 100 multinational enterprise and having "AAA" in Corporate Credit Rating and "BBB" in International Credit Rating, they have ensured the highest grade of technical expertise and international best practices have been implemented. Aiming to start producing electricity by September 2024, the project will generate 1390 MW to the country.
The generated electricity will be dispatched to the largest and major economic city of Yangon through a new 500 kV transmission line and the project's nearby area of Ayeyarwady region through 230 kV transmission line. As per the National Electricity Generation Plan, the project will meet the necessary electricity requirement by base load and firm power and is a key component towards executing the national energy policy for electricity generation. The project will be the largest electricity generation capacity plant in the Republic of Union of Myanmar and the fuel will be imported Liquified Natural Gas (LNG).
The project involves the construction and operation of:
1390MW combined cycle power plant,
Independent port with water breaker for LNG receiving facility,
On land-based Regasification Plant, and
500kV and 230kv transmission lines to Yangon and Ayeyarwady regions.
Bird's-eye View Model of Mee Lin Gyaing 1390 MW Integrated LNG to Power Project
In line with Myanmar's Development Plan and National Electrification Project.
Will meet the necessary electricity requirement by base load and firm power.
Encourages Foreign Development Investment (FDI) due to guarantees in sufficient and stable electric power supplies
Will deliver the lowest cost tariffs in comparison to other proposed LNG power plants.
While the overall generation cost and tariff is on par with coal power generation, LNG does not damage the environment in the way coal does.
According to the National Development Strategy, increasing electricity availability and usage will have a profound effect on the west coastal regions, resulting in development including new businesses and urban infrastructure.
Will create employment opportunities during construction and concession period and the knock-on effect of development in the area will lead to more jobs in various industries and business sectors.
Key requirements of the project including roads, bridges, a deep water sea port, storage units, and transmission lines will help to develop the infrastructure sector.
Construction of the jetty and breakwater – an essential part of the project design – will also act as an effective cyclone shelter for local communities during natural disasters.
1.2 PROJECT BACKGROUND
In March 2016, China Zhefu Holding Group Co., Ltd. and Supreme Trading Co., Ltd. signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MOEE) and officially launched the preliminary study of this project. In May 2017, the project consortium submitted the pre-feasibility report to MOEE. On 30th January 2018, the project consortium received a Notice to Proceed (NTP) from the Ministry of Electricity and Energy to start conducting the feasibility study, further engineering plans, and project permits.
Notice to Proceed Signing Ceremony January 30th 2018
Letter of Intent for Acceleration Signing Ceremony January 16th 2020
The LOI – Letter of Intent for Acceleration of Mee Lin Gyaing Integrated LNG to Power Project was signed between the Ministry of Electricity and Energy (MOEE) and the project consortium on 16th January 2020, during the state visit to Myanmar of President of People's Republic of China. This was signed for acceleration of the project by the project consortium; Zhefu Holding Group, Supreme Trading Company, Yunnan Provincial Energy Investment Group and Union Resources & Engineering Co., Ltd.

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Immagine. Note di Storia del Cinema è una rivista italiana, giunta alla quarta serie. È l'organo ufficiale dell'Associazione italiana per le ricerche di storia del cinema (AIRSC).

Storia
Nasce nel 1981 sulla spinta di alcuni studiosi e storici del cinema appartenenti a vari Atenei italiani o ricercatori indipendenti mossi unicamente dalla passione della riscoperta di un mondo che andava via via perdendosi.

L'AIRSC si propose con questo periodico di riscoprire e recuperare innanzitutto la memoria del cinema muto e in particolare il cinema muto italiano.

Gli argomenti abbracciano tematiche diverse e complementari dalle tecniche cinematografiche, alla Storia del cinema, a interviste a protagonisti dell'epoca. Il tutto teso a raccogliere testimonianze importanti per le generazioni future di storici del cinema:
La prima serie (1981-1985, numeri 1-11) vide, tra gli altri, collaboratori quali Aldo Bernardini, Vittorio Martinelli, Mario Verdone, Davide Turconi, Gian Piero Brunetta.
La seconda serie (1986-2002, numeri 1-53, "nuova serie") presentò nuovi collaboratori che affiancarono i fondatori, pescandoli dalle nuove discipline di storia del cinema, attivate nel frattempo nelle Università italiane.
La terza serie (2003-2007, numeri 1-13, "terza serie") cambia veste grafica e apre agli studi sul cinema sonoro e internazionale.

La quarta e ultima serie (dal 2010, numeri 1-2, "quarta serie") si presenta in una nuova edizione in volume, ricca di interventi di taglio storico dedicata principalmente al cinema muto italiano, i primi due numeri sono curati da Michele Canosa e Silvio Alovisio (). Anche la sede della redazione è spostata da Roma a Venezia, il nuovo direttore è Michele Canosa, il direttore responsabile Carlo Montanaro , la pubblicazione è curata da Persiani Editore.

Direttori
Prima serie: Direttore responsabile Aldo Bernardini (nn. 1-4); Redattore capo Riccardo Redi (direttore de facto: nn. 5-11).
Seconda serie: Direttore responsabile Davide Turconi; Redattore capo Riccardo Redi.
Terza serie: Direttore responsabile Davide Turconi; Redattore capo Riccardo Redi.
Quarta serie: Direttore responsabile Luca Mazzei; Direttore Michele Canosa.

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Riviste cinematografiche italiane

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DVD Release: October 9, 2012
In this unique retelling of Charles Dickens' beloved A Christmas Carol, Henry Winkler is Benedict Slade, a heartless finance company president in Depression era New England. He shatters the Christmas hopes of his debtors by mercilessly repossessing their most prized goods—and then fires his faithful assistant, Thatcher, on Christmas Eve.
Alone in his apartment, the selfish Slade is visited by three ghosts—Christmas Past, Present and Future—who take him on a late-night journey and reveal the bitter truths of his life to teach him the true meaning of Christmas.
This wonderful tale of a 20th-Century Scrooge is a moving and heartfelt adaptation that brings new life to a treasured holiday classic.
Henry Winkler makes an awesome Scrooge or, as he is called in this movie, "Benedict Slade." The story is set during the Great Depression in New England but the tale follows Dickens' classic story, "A Christmas Carol", very closely.
Slade's dependable assistant, Thatcher (Chris Wiggins), has a soft heart. When he travels in an old truck with Scrooge on Christmas Eve to re-possess such items as a stove, radio and rocking chair from a family, the pain of the experience is evident on his face. He is fired by Slade that very evening after he asks Slade to consider re-opening a business so as to help local unemployed workers have jobs again. Soon afterward Slade is visited by three ghosts, The Spirit of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future. The intent is to teach him the true meaning of Christmas.
This film features a fine cast, a gripping story and captures the spirit of Dickens' novel perfectly. We are more than pleased to award the movie five Doves, our best rating. Watch it soon with your family and enjoy the timeless message.
Integrity: None
Sex: Kissing by a couple.
Language: D-1; H (as a place)-1; Imbecile-1; Dumb-1; Man says let his eternal soul be damned if he is not telling the truth.
Drugs: A man gets a bottle of wine but is not seen drinking it; man with cigar.
Nudity: None
Other: A man heartlessly rips covers off old and rare books for the value of the covers; a spirit reminds a man he once lied to get a bargain from a minister; Hell is mentioned as a place not of fire but worse, a place where one is confronted with what one did or didn't do; an old woman handles a boy roughly in orphanage; a fire and a man's loss of his business; a death and grief.
Company: Shout! Factory
Writer: Charles Dickens Screenplay: Jerome Coopersmith
Director: Eric Till
Producer: Jon Slan, Stanley Chase
Genre: Christmas
Starring: Henry Winkler, David Wayne, Chris Wiggins, R.H. Thomson, Kenneth Pogue, Susan Hogan, Dorian Harwood, Gerard Parkes


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El Cinco Naciones M21 de 1998 fue la séptima edición del torneo de rugby para menores de 21 años.

Equipos participantes

 Selección juvenil de rugby de Escocia (Escocia M21)
 Selección juvenil de rugby de Francia (Francia M21)
 Selección juvenil de rugby de Gales (Gales M21)
 Selección juvenil de rugby de Inglaterra (Inglaterra M21)
 Selección juvenil de rugby de Irlanda (Irlanda M21)

Posiciones

Nota: Se otorgan 2 puntos al equipo que gane un partido, 1 al que empate y 0 al que pierda

Resultados

Desarrollo

Véase también

 Torneo de las Cinco Naciones 1999
 Cinco Naciones Femenino 1999

Referencias

Rugby en 1999


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John H. HOUSE
The family sadly announces the passing of John H. House of Qualicum Beach at Nanaimo Regional General
Hospital on November 26, 2015 following a severe stroke.
John will be greatly missed by his immediate family: wife Serena, sons Andrew (Sharon) and Robert (Jerry), stepchildren Karen, Ken, and Steve and all 9 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren as well as the extended families of both the House and Fawcett branches. He was predeceased by first wife Dorothy [Clarke], youngest son, Scott, parents Ronald and Margaret and two middle brothers Desmond and Mick.
John was born in Kilkenny, Ireland on February 4, 1922 and grew up in London, England. At the outbreak of war in 1939 he enlisted in the Royal Air Force; his wartime service included tours of duty with fighter squadrons in North Africa and Murmansk, Russia, and North Atlantic convoy sailings. Finding his vocation in sales after the war, John emigrated to Canada in 1953, followed by his wife and sons in 1954. Near the end of his working career John met and married Serena before moving to Qualicum Beach. A devoted and diligent volunteer at SOS over the years, John was also a founding member of Parksville's Probus club, an enthusiastic early supporter of the Parksville-Qualicum Community Foundation, and a fully involved and committed member of St. Mark's Anglican Church. Blessed with robust good health all his life John never tired of meeting new people and making new friends until the very end of his long life.
He will be missed by so many, many people.
We are particularly grateful to the staff of NRGH's Emergency department, the nurses of the fourth floor, especially Emily and Sonya, and the Palliative Care wing and cannot thank them enough for their care of John in his last few days.
A Celebration of Life will be held at St. Marks Anglican Church, Qualicum Beach, the Rev. Dale Huston presiding, at 1:30 pm on Saturday, December 12, 2015. In lieu of
flowers donations to SOS in Parksville will be appreciated.


defunding for the entire ITU, as outlined in this petition, is a huge mistake.
> b &so we can stop paying for both sides of this idiotic fight.  Note that if the U.S. pulls its funding from the ITU, that's 10%, and if all of the countries that stood with us at the WCIT do so, that would be 74% of the ITU's member revenue.  Those of us who support the Internet are paying for three-quarters of the fight against the Internet.  As Smokey the Bear would say, only WE can prevent stupidity.  As Pogo Possum said, "We have met the enemy, and the enemy is us!"  Time to correct that.  Redirect $11M/year from the ITU to Internet governance organizations like the IETF.


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For the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood, the lintel and five-sided doorposts. So he made two doors of olive wood, and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees. So also he made for the entrance of the nave four-sided doorposts of olive woodread more. Christian Art and Gifts
"Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch. "This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. "You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.
The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your craftsmen, the craftsmen of my lord, David your father. Bible Scripture Wall Art
Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life. "Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return." Christian Art and Gifts
A good piece of biblical art can help us see the truth of a passage as well as give us "fresh eyes" for familiar passages. The artist becomes our companion who points out details of a passage that we might have passed over in haste. Biblical art from other cultures or time periods can be especially help us gain a fuller understanding of a passage that we are used to seeing through our own "cultural lenses." Scripture engagement through art assists in our spiritual development by letting us share in the wealth of insights God has already given to others.
He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat; one cherub at the one end and one cherub at the other end; he made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at the two ends. The cherubim had their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward each other; the faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat. Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ... Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
He made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat; one cherub at the one end and one cherub at the other end; he made the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat at the two ends. The cherubim had their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward each other; the faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat. Christian Art and Gifts
Solomon the son of David established himself in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him and made him exceedingly great. Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, to the judges, and to all the leaders in all Israel, the heads of fathers' houses. And Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon, for the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of the Lord had made in the wilderness, was there. (But David had brought up the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place that David had prepared for it, for he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.) Moreover, the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord. And Solomon and the assembly sought it out. ... Bible Scripture Wall Art
He made 300 shields of beaten gold, using three hundred shekels of gold on each shield, and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold. There were six steps to the throne and a footstool in gold attached to the throne, and arms on each side of the seat, and two lions standing beside the arms. Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps on the one side and on the other; nothing like it was made for any other kingdom. All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; silver was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon. Christian Canvas Art
Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports were part of the stand itself. On the top of the stand there was a circular form half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and its borders were part of it. He engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around.read more. Bible Scripture Wall Art
He measured the length of the building along the front of the separate area behind it, with a gallery on each side, a hundred cubits; he also measured the inner nave and the porches of the court. The thresholds, the latticed windows and the galleries round about their three stories, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all around, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered), over the entrance, and to the inner house, and on the outside, and on all the wall all around inside and outside, by measurement.read more. Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
Scripture Wall Art also has the freshest and most sought-after designs out there. Many companies try to illegally copy our designs. We always catch them and require them to stop. Sometimes they even say they are selling our products. Simply stated, they lie. We are that only company that sells our products. We do not wholesale to anyone and we have not licensed our designs to anybody. This ensures you the best product that will never look like what everyone else sells. Yes, we could design our wall arts to be faster to make by using boring fonts. Yes we could make them smaller to save money. Yes we could use cheaper materials. NO NO and NO is what we say. We design our products to be beautiful as the primary goal. We make them all in the size that years of customer feedback has told us is the most preferred size for our customers. And we use the best materials because we think you are worth it. Christian Art and Gifts
Now King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. He was a widow's son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill for doing any work in bronze So he came to King Solomon and performed all his work. He fashioned the two pillars of bronze; eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of both. read more. Christian Art and Gifts
He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital. So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital. The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits. There were capitals on the two pillars, even above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network; and the pomegranates numbered two hundred in rows around both capitals. Thus he set up the pillars at the porch of the nave; and he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz. On the top of the pillars was lily design. So the work of the pillars was finished. Christian Art and Gifts
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King Solomon was king over all Israel, and these were his high officials: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest; Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha were secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder; Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was in command of the army; Zadok and Abiathar were priests; Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; Zabud the son of Nathan was priest and king's friend; ... Christian Canvas Art
He made 300 shields of beaten gold, using three minas of gold on each shield, and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with refined gold. There were six steps to the throne and a round top to the throne at its rear, and arms on each side of the seat, and two lions standing beside the arms. Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps on the one side and on the other; nothing like it was made for any other kingdom. All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None was of silver; it was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon. Share Your Faith Products Canvas Art
Remember that biblical art, as a visual representation of the Bible, is not always rated "G." The Bible is not a children's story, so some biblical art contains nudity or bloody depictions of violence. Not all things in the Bible are beautiful and calming; many times biblical stories are full of distortion and dissonance. As such, biblical artwork will tell the full Story of God that includes creation, fall, and redemption, with each of its harsh realities. As in all of life, the believer is called to be discerning.
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure. Bible Scripture Wall Art


Just when you thought your property taxes couldn't get any higher, the Democrats in the County Legislature identified a new way take your hard-earned money.
On Monday, Democrat County Executive Steve Bellone and Democrats in the County Legislature proposed a new tax on... our drinking water!
This crippling tax, which will cost the average home almost $200 per year, is being marketed as a plan to reduce nitrogen levels in Suffolk County's drinking water. But in reality, the Democrats' proposal causes a 300% increase in costs to homeowners to perform a task that the County should be handling within the County's already bloated $2 billion annual budget.
Standing up for homeowners, in this week's Republican State of the County response, Legislator Kevin McCaffrey took Democrat Steve Bellone to task for using the water tax as just another way to feed the Democrat's insatiable spending appetite and to provide cover for their godawful mismanagement of funds.
The Democrats in the County Legislature have tried this before. They imposed previous taxes on water, only to use the funds to try to balance their debt, which has doubled to $1.2 billion since they took over the majority ten years ago.
What will they try next, tax the air that we breathe? Is it not enough that Democrats, who have controlled the Legislature for more than a decade, have put Suffolk County in the worst 1% in the nation for highest taxes?


The second U.S. - North Korea summit will take place in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, later this month, President Donald Trump announced via Twitter on Saturday (Vietnam time).
Vietnam was revealed as the place for the next meeting between the U.S president and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, scheduled for February 27 and 28, during the State of the Union speech Trump delivered to Congress on Tuesday night.
While the U.S. leader did not mention a precise venue then, he gave more details about the summit in a Tweet on Saturday.
"My representatives have just left North Korea after a very productive meeting and an agreed upon time and date for the second Summit with Kim Jong Un," he wrote.
"He may surprise some but he won't surprise me, because I have gotten to know him & fully understand how capable he is," the tweet reads.
The spokesperson of the Vietnamese foreign ministry has said Hanoi welcomes the second U.S. - North Korea summit planned to take place in the country.
The New York Times has reported that the U.S. had been studied the possibility of organizing the summit in the central city of Da Nang, the host city of the 2017 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings, but the North Korean side was more in favor of choosing Hanoi.
President Trump and his aides believe Vietnam, with its 1986 reform movement, can be a good example of the potential for economic development North Korea can take reference from.


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How reKiosk.com is Revolutionizing the Do-It-Yourself Model
by Craig Manning
The idea of the online marketplace has been a popular one for years, ever since Amazon and eBay came into their own and became the go-to sources for new books and rare merchandise. Since then, digital entertainment outlets like iTunes and Netflix have taken similar ideas and used them to revolutionize their respective industries. Similarly, Amazon's move to eBook technology brought about a major shift in the way people buy, read and experience books, but even with these growing outlets, there was always a middle man.
It may have been getting easier for a customer to rent a movie, find a song or pick up a highly in-demand book with minimal hassle, but ultimately, the transaction was not much different than someone walking into a big box store and handing over their hard earned cash. Even the authors who publish themselves on the Kindle marketplace are sharing a fair chunk of their earnings with the site.
Enter reKiosk, an online marketplace (in the truest sense of the word) that allows authors and musicians to sell eBooks and digital albums directly to their fans. But while eliminating the middle man is a big step towards a do-it-yourself revolution, where reKiosk truly distinguishes itself from the rest of the pack is in allowing fans to turn around and sell an artist's work to others, earning money in the process.
"reKiosk is the first platform of its kind to provide an easy, free and shareable way to sell all digital files online—whether it's your own original work or someone else's," said Aziz Isham, the founder and CEO of the site. "It's great for publishers and it's great for bloggers, critics and other curators who want to open a digital store where they can recommend eBooks and music and get paid to do so."
It's that spirit of digital curation that lies at the heart of the reKiosk model and makes it unique. The middle man is eliminated in direct transactions between artists and their fans, but that's only half of the appeal. The other half lies in making the fan the middle man, giving them the option of taking part in the distribution role and capitalizing on their passion for the art at hand by allowing them to recommend and sell it to like-minded listeners or readers. Either way, the original poster makes at least 70% of every sale, with reKiosk only taking 5% and the remaining quarter going to whoever made the final trade. In the case of direct transactions, that 25% goes right back to the artist; but if a curator recommends and sells the item themselves, they are compensated for that sale with a 25% commission. Call it a finder's fee for a purchase that otherwise would not have occurred. In both situations, all parties win.
"The internet is all about disintermediation, but it's our belief that the act of curation is an essential part of the consumer experience," Isham said. "So while reKiosk allows anyone to sell digital goods for free, it also allows anyone else to promote them: to build their own kiosk, to market and to collect a considerable commission from each sale. That what makes us different: we're a marketplace, but we're also a social media site—an ecosystem of inter-connected buyers, bloggers, publishers and tastemakers."
So how did the idea come about? According to Isham, the reKiosk model was built from the ground up with independent users in mind. A veteran of digital publishing in his own right, Isham noticed a trend in complaints from his peers, and designed reKiosk with the goal of rectifying those shared grievances.
"We kept hearing the same complaints from our fellow publishers," Isham explained. "A lack of viable online alternatives to the big box stores, the high costs of creating a secure eCommerce site from scratch, the difficulty marketing independent and mid-list titles. reKisok was built with this community in mind, and we built it for the simple reason that no one else would."
In both function and form, reKiosk defines the phrase "user-friendly." From its sleek, attractive and easy to use interface to a sign-up process that only takes a few minutes, the site reflects a no-nonsense, do-it-yourself aesthetic that is very appealing in this day and age. According to Isham, the simplicity of the design mirrors the speed with which the entire project came together.
"We had our first meeting about reKiosk back in February, and launched the site in late August," he said. "Since then, it's all been a blur."
Blur or not, reKiosk is one of the most interesting retail sites on the internet right now and represents what could be the next major shift in do-it-yourself marketing. Interested in getting in on the ground floor? Visit www.rekiosk.com.
Craig Manning is currently studying English and Music at Western Michigan University. In edition to writing for Independent Publisher, he maintains a pair of entertainment blogs, interns at the Traverse City Business News, and writes for Rockfreaks.net and his college newspaper. He welcomes comments or questions concerning his articles via email, at manningcr953@gmail.com.


Spring is just around the corner at the annual Glen Burnie High School Spring Craft Fair sponsored by the GBHS Music Department. Join us as over 140 crafters display their unique arts and crafts. Shop for one of a kind wood crafts, home goods, jewelry, glassware, spring decorations, baked goods and many more handmade items. Stop by the cafe for some popcorn, a sandwich or a drink as you shop. Admission and parking are free. We hope to see you there!


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Q: Setting fallback font for SVG In a web application I need to display an SVG (with the help of <img src="..."> tag), with text in it. The text uses a totally non-standard font, though:
<tspan font-family="'WTFHeadlineOT-Black'">Example text</tspan>

Browsers fall back to Times New Roman on this, but the customer's wish is that it be Arial. How to force Arial for this particular family?
Note that I'd like to avoid supplying a web font, as it needs to support the whole Unicode scope. I'd like to fall back to the built-in Arial, that in modern OSes covers most writing systems of the world.

A: If you want Arial then simply use that in the font-family attribute. Like squamish ossifrage suggested for example, font-family="'WTFHeadlineOT-Black',Arial,sans-serif".
There's no 100% guarantee that it'll be Arial in the end anyway, as not all systems have it installed, even if most do. For some good fallbacks see e.g http://www.cssfontstack.com/Arial.
Another possibility is converting the text to paths instead, if the look is very important.

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The Osage Casino Hotel in Skiatook welcomes everyone for gaming, food, drink, shelter and fun. A three story hotel is located on-site, as well as a large convenience store and fueling station. The casino features 300 state-of-the-art slot machines, so stop in and get your game on. Slot tournaments are available on Mondays.
Make your trip complete and stay in one of the 33 comfortable hotel rooms or a suite. The hotel has a breakfast area, exercise facility, heated pool, hot tub, restaurant and bar, which features direct access to the 78,000 square foot casino floor. Have everything you need in one convenient location at the Osage Casino Hotel in Skiatook, located within 15 minutes of Skiatook Lake and only 14 miles north of Tulsa.
The Fiery Grille opens daily at 11am for lunch.
From Tulsa, take Hwy 75 north approximately 15 miles to the Collinsville/Skiatook exit, turn left onto E 146th St. N/OK-20 W, follow for approximately 8 miles.


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The good economic news for Saskatchewan just keeps rolling in. A new report from BMO Economics indicates our province's economy will grow by 2.9 per cent this year, second only to Alberta. The report goes on to state: "Saskatchewan's economy remains among the top performers in Canada, boosted by a strong resource sector." Our abundant natural resources – potash, oil, uranium – have played a significant role in our province's transformation from "have not" to "have" status. That transformation is part of the Saskatchewan Advantage. As your government, we will not stand idly by when external forces, such as federal NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, take positions that threaten that advantage.
That statement provides a great deal of clarity and understanding in regards to the Saskatchewan NDP's inability to grow our province's economy during their 16 years in power. They had no plan, because they expected the federal government to drive economic development. Now they seem to be willing to put your future into the hands of people like Thomas Mulcair, who think our strong resource sector is a "disease" that can only be cured by slowing down our potash, mining and oil sectors, killing thousands of jobs.
This type of language puts much at risk. Not only is Saskatchewan expected to be one of the growth leaders in Canada this year, with the fastest growing GDP in almost 15 years, a record-high population, record-low unemployment and some of the highest average weekly earnings in Canada, we are also unique in that we have the only balanced provincial budget country. One of the reasons that budget is balanced is due to the strength of our resource sector. Comments such as Mr. Mulcair's threaten that strength, which in turn threatens the sustainable spending our government has been able to commit to on programs and services important to you and your family: scholarships for high school students, tax breaks for first time homebuyers, lowering surgical wait times, increased access to cancer treatment and more support for seniors and people with disabilities.
We don't need this type of economic prescription for Saskatchewan and Canada from the federal NDP leader – and we don't need that sort of abdication of responsibility from the provincial NDP. A strong resource sector is good for the entire country. It's good for the Saskatchewan Advantage.
We will continue to take action to protect the advantages that make our province the best place in Canada to live, work and raise a family.
If you have a question about this Legislative Report or any other matter, just Contact Jim.
All contents are ©2019 Jim Reiter, MLA Rosetown - Elrose Constituency Minster of Health, Room # 204, Legislative Drive, Regina, Sk S4S 0B3.


An easy to wear and chic style, this cross front dipped hem shirt is perfect for any occasion. Cut in a flattering wrap shape, it is made from a gorgeous printed fabric that shimmers as it catches the light.
How to style: It looks most elegant styled with some fitted leather leggings or tailored white trousers and strappy heels for an effortless alternative to your usual party dress.


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The Rat Pack, James Cavanaugh, Irving Taylor, Ken Lane, Larry Stock, Russ Morgan, Sammy Cahn, James Van Heusen
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Rock and Pop music and Jazz music
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the end of the deliberations, withdrew in a huff. Duranc, his future successor, left with him, and both were formally censured. He had probably already received an invitation from Bologna, for in the same year he went thither to fill a well-endowed chair at the medical school. He nominated Duranc as his locum tenens at Montpellier, and, though the faculty declared the professorship vacant, the bishop of Montpellier, Fenouillet, maintained that Scharpe, having had leave of absence from the king, intended to return to his post. The dispute was referred to the Toulouse parliament; but before it pronounced judgment against Scharpe, he died at Bologna in 1638. His son Claude, who thereupon went back to Montpellier to complete his studies, became a lecturer on logic and philosophy, and published his father's lectures, under the title of 'Institutiones Medicæ.' Gui Patin, though not acquainted with Scharpe, considered him a very learned man and an able logician; but was informed by Gabriel Naudé and other trustworthy authorities that he was addicted to intemperance, and died of its effects.
SCHAUB, Sir LUKE (d. 1758), diplomatist, was born at Basle in Switzerland. He was secretary to Richard, lord Cobham, who was English ambassador at Vienna in 1715, and on the departure of his chief for England he remained in charge of the embassy. In 1716 he was attached to the English mission at Copenhagen, and during parts of 1718 and 1719 he was again at Vienna. In January 1717 James Stanhope (afterwards the first Earl Stanhope) applied for a pension of 200l. per annum for him in recognition of the services which he had rendered to the state. He then became, on account of his skill in foreign languages, Stanhope's confidental secretary, and was 'principally employed in penning his foreign despatches.' In August 1718 he accompanied Stanhope to Madrid, and for a year he remained there as English agent. Afterwards he was sent to Hanover to maintain friendly terms between the two courts. He was acceptable to George I, to whom he is said to have been secretary at one time, and, according to Peter Cunningham, he was a 'kind of Will. Chiffinch' to that monarch.
On Stanhope's death Schaub became the close friend of Lord Carteret, and was considered by his new employer as the best person, through his intimate friendship with Cardinal Dubois, to represent English interests at Paris. He was accordingly knighted (8 Oct. 1720) and sent thither as ambassador in March 1721, carrying with him official assurances that Stanhope's death would make no change in the policy of England towards France. As the nominee of Carteret he was obnoxious to Townshend and Walpole, and they determined upon effecting his removal from his post. Horace Walpole, the brother of Sir Robert Walpole, was sent by them in October 1723 to Paris to intrigue in secret against Schaub, and so to diminish the influence of his patron. The ambassador's position was weakened by the death of Dubois, and by the failure to obtain a dukedom for the father of the French nobleman who was to marry the niece of Lady Darlington. He was also represented to George I 'as a foreigner, and without distinction either from birth or connections.' These representations at last succeeded. He was recalled in May 1724. He claimed for salary and expenses the sum of 12,120l. 1s. 11d.
After his recall from Paris he often dabbled in diplomatic affairs. In June 1736 Walpole expressed to Lord Waldegrave great suspicion as to the motives of a visit which Schaub was about to make to Paris, and he projected in August 1744 a quadruple alliance of England, Maria Theresa, the king of Poland, and the States-General. He was a favourite companion of George II, and had much influence with Queen Caroline (cf. King, Anecdotes, pp. 48–50). Lord Chesterfield, when in retirement at Blackheath, was one of his friends. He lived in Bond Street, and had around him an admirable collection of pictures. He died on 27 Feb. 1758. His smallness in stature is frequently commented upon.
Schaub married a French widow from Nismes, a protestant, who is said to have been 'very gallant' (Prior, Life of Malone, p. 371). She had apartments for many years in Hampton Court Palace, and died there on 25 Aug. 1793. The 'Long Story' of Gray was written in August 1750 to commemorate an afternoon call paid to him by Lady Schaub and another lady, when he was not at home. One of Schaub's daughters, Frederica Augusta, married, in 1767, William Lock, who, with his wife, long dispensed a generous hospitality at his residence, Norbury Park, Mickleham, Surrey.
When in Spain, Schaub bought cheap 'some good old copies' of famous pictures, 'some fine small ones and a parcel of Flemish, good in their way' (Walpole, Letters, ed.


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Q/A -- Building the Tunnel, Part 2: At Home Inside a 20,000 Horsepower Tunneling Machine
Aerial view looking east along San Joaquin River in the foreground is Mandeville Tip County Park, part of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in San Joaquin County, California.
The Delta Conveyance Deep Dive video series continues with "Building the Tunnel Part Two". In Part One we heard about the state of the art technology behind tunnel boring machines. In the second episode, Delta Conveyance Design and Construction Authority (DCA)Executive Director Graham Bradner and the project's chief engineer, Steve Minassian, discuss tunneling in the specific context of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and describe what to expect if the project moves forward.
Graham Bradner has worked as an engineering geologist on major resources projects in Northern California for over 20 years. He was an integral part of the team that developed the conceptual designs for Delta Conveyance and became executive director earlier this year.
Steve Minassian has over 30 years of national and international experience with mega infrastructure projects, including the Lake Mead Tunnel in Nevada and the Port of Miami Tunnel.
DWR's Pat Clark hosted the interview.
PAT CLARK: In the first episode we learned that for a project of this size, there would be multiple contractors involved. How many tunnel boring machines (TBMs) would you expect to be operating at the same time in the Delta, and what's the estimated length of each section, or "reach", of tunnel?
STEVE MINASSIAN: The minimum number of TBMs we would have on the project will be four. That will be for the Bethany alternative [corridor]. The maximum we would have would be six, which will be for the eastern or central corridors and using a 7,500 cubic feet per second (cfs) flow rate tunnel. More than likely we'll have four or five because we will more likely have the 6,000 cfs rate tunnel. Each TBM will be launched at a different launch site and will be launched at different times. So, depending on the length of the reach(for example, some of the reaches are 12 miles, some of them are 14 miles) these are on the critical path. We would launch these first to make sure we don't delay the project. Then the other TBM reaches, which are eight miles, will be launched later.
So, there will be simultaneous excavation of these TBMs, but at the same time they will be completely independent projects and most likely different contractors. It's all planned out, as Graham mentioned earlier, according to how to handle the reusable tunnel material, the length of the reaches, and the related logistics. Graham, anything else you'd like to add?
GRAHAM BRADNER: Well, I think it's worth emphasizing, we've talked about the construction activity that would be taking place at these launch sites and it's significant; so much so that we've looked at the various combinations that Steve was describing, and we've determined that it's definitely beneficial to have as few launch sites as possible and have some of these longer tunnel reaches.
SM: You know, one thing I want to mention; something like this is not unprecedented. For example, years ago I worked in the Middle East, and we were working on the Doha Metro in Doha, Qatar. They had a very aggressive schedule to build the metro and at one point in time, I think, we had approximately eight or nine tunnel boring machines excavating at the same time. So, having four, five, or six is not unusual. What is unusual here is the size of these machines because these would be more like 40-foot diameter tunnels versus a typical metro tunnel which is closer to 22 or 23 feet in diameter.
PC: Steve, since you do have so much personal experience working with TBMs, I wanted to ask you what's it like inside one of these machines? And how are they kept watertight?
SM: That's a very good question, Pat. I've spent a lot of time in my 35-plus year career in the tunnels, and when I go in the tunnel, near the machine, I actually feel like I'm at home. More at home than I am at home. When you get to the heading, which is where the work is ongoing, where the tunnel boring machine is, it's very exciting. There's a lot of activity. On one hand, the machine is excavating the material. You see, you feel the machine. You hear it underground and these machines are very powerful. Something this size is probably close to 20,000 horsepower. So, you get a lot of power and it's doing the physical work of excavating the material. You see the material coming out of the conveyors, then once the machine push makes its stroke, which is usually five or six feet, then it stops. Then you build the next ring, which is what the precast concrete segments are.
The machine itself is watertight against the ground and the soil, and as you're installing the segments, right behind the tail shield you have three and sometimes four sets of tail seal brushes, and in these brushes there is a biodegradable material pumped in so the water and the [soil] fines don't come into the tunnel. There's usually seven or eight pieces of the ring for something this size. They have bolted, gasketed segments and the gaskets are designed to keep the water and the fines out. So, the tunnel that's behind us is dry. You don't see any water coming in. You may see occasional seeps or maybe just a drip here and there, but for the most part, 99.9 percent of it is dry. We've done things like this under large bodies of water, underneath the oceans, rivers, and lakes. For example, Lake Mead and the Port of Miami tunnels were constructed under very similar conditions where we cross levees and so forth. It's not a problem. It's not an issue at all.
PAT: Well, I'd like to thank you both very much for taking time out of your busy schedules today to talk to us about what construction of the Delta Conveyance Project would look like. It's been such an interesting discussion.
Watch the full interview.
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Biography: Dr. Pinfold's background includes experience delivering advanced computing platforms from small embedded technologies to large data centers and combining them into Cyber Physical Systems. In a 23-year career at Intel he built experience in engineering, research, strategy, business planning, account management, and marketing. He has held academic positions in schools of engineering and business in both the US and UK.
He is a qualified Naval Architect and Structural Engineer , the Portland Mayor's representative on the Technology Oversight Committee (TOC), a respected and highly sought-after spokesperson and contributor to the in the Smart City community.


Will you receive 100 calls this month or 1,000?
Is your busy season ahead or behind you?
These are questions business owners must ask themselves every month when subscribed to a prepaid call or message plan. Wrong calculations equal lost dollars.
Plans rarely, if ever, roll over and going over your plan's allotment will result in expensive overage fees and additional costs. Like the old all inclusive Flat Rate plans of the past, call centers and answering services steering you toward these plans are betting that you will guess your usage incorrectly and they'll win either way.
Answering service pricing is confusing because there is no standard way to bill for services. Below we briefly cover the most common pricing models.
Flat Rate Billing requires businesses to pre-purchase a packaged bundle of calls or minutes each billing cycle. For instance, you might have the option to choose 150 minutes for $199, 275 minutes for $329 or 500 minutes for $549. To choose the right plan, businesses need to know how many minutes they will use each billing cycle and to get the best value they will have to consistently use exactly that number of minutes. Using additional minutes over the pre-purchased allotment means you'll be hit with high overage fees and using less means you pay a higher per minute rate for the minutes you used.
Honestly, could not ask for more! They are the best answering service we have ever had and priced extremely fair!
AnswerFirst has been absolutely fantastic to work with! Professional, courteous, and very detail oriented. I'd highly recommend Aimee and her team!
We have been using AF for a few years now and we love working w/them. They customized our account to fit our special needs from day 1. They respond immediately to any issues and ALWAYS follow through to make sure we are happy w/our service. The staff is professional and we could not ask for better service.
As an event management company who is always on the go, it is important to ensure the phone lines are covered. Answer First handles all of our calls so that we never miss a clients call. Thank you for the great service!
We are very pleased with the service we have received. The entire team at Answer First has been delightful. We are a small business and do not have a full time weekend staff. This solution allows us to provide service to our clients and callers without the expense of having to staff the office on weekends.
Our client support specialist, Aimee, addresses our questions and concerns immediately. We've been impressed with the wonderful customer service offered by Answer First!
I had been with another answering service for twenty years prior to signing up with you. They don't even hold a candle to you. You are great.
One of the largest challenges in evaluating answering service and call center pricing is understanding how each provider defines calls, messages and minutes. Here's where it's really important to read "the fine print" and understand what you're actually being billed.
While most of the world defines a minute as 60 seconds, most of the answering service industry doesn't. Since call lengths are rarely equal to an exact number of minutes, answering services have several methods of accounting for partial minutes and most of them do not benefit the customer. Many services round up to the next minute, charge in 6 or 15 second increments, charge for ring and hold time, etc. Who wants to pay for an entire minute when a caller hangs up or a solicitor calls and takes 5-15 seconds of the operator's time?
Is it a complete message (caller's name, who he or she is asking for, how do you reach them back, what it is regarding), or is it as little as "caller hung up" or "caller did not leave a message." Most commonly, it's any of the above.
Pre-purchasing (committing) to a particular amount of calls or minutes can create a less than ideal relationship since the answering service or contact center has removed its financial interest and incentive for answering your calls, chats and emails as quickly as is possible and may actually reduce the amount of time a Customer Service Rep is allowed to assist your caller, thereby damaging the customer service experience and your brand.
Ensure that your service never places your callers on hold once they have been answered. Services commonly present artificially reduced "Average Time To Answer" statistics but behind these numbers are higher average hold times. At AnswerFirst we never place callers on hold to answer other calls. We focus on proper staffing (actually overstaffing) to ensure our performance statistics and your clients' experiences are significantly better than expected.
While call and message plans rarely, if ever, auto adjust each month, AnswerFirst's Pay-As-You-Go discounted rates do. Each billing cycle as your call, chat and email volume increases, your per-minute rate automatically decreases. No guessing and no pre-purchased rate plan changing. All the guess work has been removed.
Pay-As-You-Go billing is the easiest and most efficient way to spend your dollars with an answering service or contact center – it creates a true win-win relationship.
At AnswerFirst you pay a low monthly fee to gain access to all of our platforms and services 24/7/365. This includes 2 unique forwarding numbers, full use to of our secure web portal and ensures Customer Service Professionals and supervisors are standing by 24/7. However, with pay-as-you-go, you only pay more when our Customer Service Professionals are working on your behalf and providing exceptional customer care to your customers on your behalf.
The low base rate is your only financial commitment; after that, you pay-as-you-go and only for the work that is performed.
Our per-minute rate is billed in true one second increments (no rounding to the next minute). Since we bill usage in arrears, there is no need to try and determine how many calls or minutes you'll need to use each month and there is never any reason to worry about changing your rate plan or plan size. Our Pay-As-You-Go billing method also eliminates concerns about paying for unused calls or minutes and there can never be any unexpected "overage" fees.
Understanding billing methods and comparing different services are both important initial steps in choosing the right answering service or call center for your business, but one thing most businesses overlook is the importance of understanding call center metrics.
Download our free white paper, "Understanding Call Center Metrics – What To Look For In A Call Center Partner" for a simple walkthrough of contact center metrics and what you should look for when evaluating business communications partners.


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Eliminate unwanted noises and odorous emiss
New customised speciality lubricants for a more comfortable ride
Klüber Lubrication at IZB 2016 in hall 5, stand 5213
Whether in brakes, steering assemblies or drive components; in the gear shift, clutch or gearbox; in sunroofs and interior components: speciality lubricants play a major role for vehicle safety as well as driving comfort. Advanced speciality lubricants not only contribute to long component life equalling that of the car, but they also reduce vibrations and prevent the generation of noise - enabling a pleasant touch-feel when using car components in summer as well as in winter.
The scent encountered in a new car is a decisive factor for feeling comfortable inside it. It may even influence the customer's decision to buy - whether consciously or subconsciously. One thing is for sure: a smell of lubricant should not be the predominant sensation! It is especially for the automotive sector that Klüber Lubrication has developed the new Klüberplex RA 41-151, which emits only a minimum of smell. The new special grease is free of solid lubricants and reduces wear and friction on hard metal surfaces as well as in soft plastic friction points. A main field of application of the new Klüberplex RA 41-151 is the sunroof.
"Annoying squeaking noises are today no more acceptable to drivers and passengers of modern cars than stiff seat adjustment mechanisms or sunroofs getting stuck," explains Frank Werner, Head of Business Unit Automotive Industry at Klüber Lubrication. "The universal sliding fluids of the Klüberalfa MR 3 series not only reduce noise and optimise friction, but they also provide optimum lubricant supply to the friction points of seals, guideways and plastics over a long time."
There are hundreds of friction points in every car - a real challenge for R&D engineers and noise experts. Klüber Lubrication has compiled a "Noise Kit" containing 14 damping lubricants as well as instructions for application aimed at the elimination of undesirable noises. Acoustics experts and NVH specialists will find the right speciality lubricant for their problem among this range.
At the IZB 2016 held in Wolfsburg from 18 to 20 October, experts from Klüber Lubrication will be pleased to answer all questions regarding the lubrication of automotive components hall 5, stand 5213.
About Klüber Lubrication
Klüber Lubrication is one of the world's leading manufacturers of speciality lubricants, offering high-end tribological solutions to virtually all industries and markets worldwide. Most products are developed and made to specific customer requirements. During its more than 80 years of existence, Klüber Lubrication has provided high-quality lubricants, thorough consultation and extensive services, which has earned it an excellent reputation in the market. The company holds all common industrial certifications and operates a testing section hardly rivalled in the lubricants industry.
Klüber Lubrication, set up as a retail company for mineral oil products in Munich in 1929, is today part of Freudenberg Chemical Specialities SE & Co. KG, a Business Group of the Freudenberg Group, Weinheim. Klüber Lubrication has about 2,000 employees in more than 30 countries.
About Freudenberg Chemical Specialities
Freudenberg Chemical Specialities develops, manufactures and markets chemical specialities. In order to be as close as possible to customers, the company has a global market presence comprising five brands: Klüber Lubrication, Chem-Trend, OKS, SurTec and Capol. Freudenberg Chemical Specialities is one of the world's leading manufacturers of speciality lubricants, release agents, chemotechnical maintenance products as well as surface treatment and electroplating solutions. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, Freudenberg Chemical Specialities operates in about 40 countries via its own companies. In 2015, the Business Group employed a workforce of around 3,300 and generated a turnover of approx. Euro 960 million.
For further information, please click http://www.fcs-muenchen.de
Klüber Lubrication München SE & Co. KG
Andreas Hasslinger, Marketing Communications
Geisenhausenerstr. 7
Phone: +49 (0) 89 / 78 76-467
E-mail: andreas.hasslinger@klueber.com
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Phone: +49 (0) 30 / 28 44 95 95
E-mail: m.jurischka@mediaconnect-berlin.de


Vishwakarma has an experience of over 3 generations in the construction industry as engineers, developers and contractors. With a turnover under INR 100 million, we have delivered over 1 Million sq. ft. of residential and commercial spaces. We are one of the pioneers to have constructed and delivered GRADE – a commercial structure for IT companies in Chennai. Currently, we are in the process of developing 150,000 sq. ft GRADE – an I.T park/commercial building. Our land bank has acquired more than 250 acres on the growth corridors of Chennai and an additional 250 acres in the other parts of Tier II and Tier III cities of Tamil Nadu.


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