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What Massive Land Rehabilitation Project Teaches Us About Ecological Health, Poverty and Our Prospects for the Future
The Chinese Loess Plateau regeneration project proves that in a mere decade, a community can transform a desert landscape into a lush, thriving landscape capable of producing abundant amounts of food
Floods, mudslides, droughts and famines are not inevitable. They're the result of improper land management. Poverty is also closely connected to land degradation, and is therefore not an inevitable fate either
Modern agriculture drives destruction of ecological systems, polluting soils, air and water, and uses so much water it threatens to deplete ancient aquifers that cannot be replenished
What Massive Land Rehabilitation Project Teaches Us About Ecological Health, Poverty and Our Prospects for the Future essons of the Loess Plateau" by John D. Liu reveals the pitfalls of agriculture. Yet it gives hope for the future — if we take the correct route. Man has done great damage to the environment with our short-sighted vision for food security andYet projects such as the regeneration of the Loess Plateau in China show that when we make the right corrections, we can reestablish a thriving environment once more,he Loess Plateau was until recently one of the poorest regions of China where centuries of agriculture had taken its toll. Erosion turned once fertile soils in this mountainous region into a desert-like landscape, unable to support plant growth. Similar situations exist all over the world.
In fact, according to Maria-Helena Semedo, Ph.D., of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), if the current rate of land degradation continues, all of the topsoil around the world will be gone in 60 years.1 There is hope though — provided we DON'T continue the way we're currently going.
Soil scientist Liu of the Environmental Education Media Project (EEMP) has followed the Loess Plateau regeneration project for the past 15 years, and today, the once barren landscape is again filled with thriving forests, and farmers are again able to produce abundant amounts of food.
The film documents this truly historic project, and how lessons learned at the Loess Plateau might help restore fertility to barren lands around the globe.
Poverty and Land Degeneration Go Hand in Hand
The regeneration of the degraded Loess Plateau began in 1995, when locals joined forces to construct a new landscape on a truly vast scale. As noted by Liu, many of the tragedies witnessed around the world on a regular basis are actually rooted in improper land management.
Floods, mudslides, droughts and famines are not inevitable, he says. Moreover, all over the world you find that poverty is closely connected to land degradation, so poverty is not an inevitable fate either.
The good news is that the destruction can be reversed. We have the ability to dramatically improve the condition of the land, thereby reducing these kinds of threats to our health and wellbeing.
So how did the locals on the Loess Plateau do it? First, they ceased farming in certain areas to allow trees and shrubs to regrow. This was by no means easy, as poverty-stricken farmers had to be persuaded to let their land rest and turn into forest.
Ultimately, what got everyone onboard was the promise that they would have tenure of the land and that they would directly benefit from these efforts.
Next, the tops of the hills were replanted with trees, and terraces were constructed for the planting of crops. At the bottom of the barren ravines, dams were constructed to provide water.
Hills and gullies were designated as protected ecological zones. Farmers were financially compensated for not farming in these zones, and for keeping their livestock in pens rather than roaming free to graze the hills bare.
Lessons Learned at the Loess Plateau
Thirty-four minutes into the film, you'll see before and after footage of this mountainous area. It's a truly breathtaking transformation from tan sandy slopes to lush green terraced hills, which now produce very high yields of a wide variety of food crops.
This superior yield is the result of the supporting natural vegetation, Liu says. When it rains, rather than eroding the sloped fields the water now stays put, trapped by the vegetation on and surrounding the fields.
Moreover, as water is trapped in the soil higher up on the mountain, it continues to feed the terraces below with water over weeks and months as it slowly trickles downward.
An area spanning 35,000 square kilometers (more than 21 square U.S. miles) has now been restored. And it only took 10 years for this transformation to occur. It has also transformed the lives of the people, with incomes rising threefold since the project began.
Rehabilitation projects such as this also have global benefits, as plants remove carbon from the air via photosynthesis, countering rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere that contribute to climate change.
Modern Agriculture Drives Water Crisis
Drinking pure water every day is a key component of optimal health, yet more than 1 billion people on Earth do not have access to safe, clean drinking water, and this problem is by no means restricted to impoverished nations. The U.S. is also struggling with increasingly scarce and toxic water supplies.
Agriculture again plays a crucial role. Two of the primary water polluters are large-scale monocrop farms and concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), states with high concentrations of CAFOs report 20 to 30 serious water quality problems each year.2These operations also deplete aquifers of valuable drinking water.
In fact, agriculture uses up to 70 percent of the world's fresh water. Regenerative agriculture could cut that by a significant margin, as healthy soil is an excellent water conservator. Rich soil holds and retains water well, and since it's not running off, you don't have to water nearly as much.
Many American Aquifers at Risk of Depletion
As previously noted by National Geographic:3
"Aquifers provide us freshwater that makes up for surface water lost from drought-depleted lakes, rivers, and reservoirs.
We are drawing down these hidden, mostly nonrenewable groundwater supplies at unsustainable rates in the western United States and in several dry regions globally, threatening our future.
We are at our best when we can see a threat or challenge ahead … we see the looming crisis and respond. We are not as adept when threats — or threatened resources — are invisible."
Disappearing groundwater is one such invisible threat that most people rarely, if ever, think about, let alone actively address. The problem is that while shallower aquifers can be replenished (provided you're not pumping out more than is seeping back in), deeper aquifers usually cannot.
Once they're drained of their ancient water supplies, they will remain empty for eons to come. Once that happens, it will likely have a dramatic impact on our way of life.
A number of aquifers across America are now at risk of depletion, including California's Central Valley, the Colorado River Basin, the Southern Great Plains, and the Ogallala Aquifer below the High Plains. (Researchers predict that if farmers in Kansas keep irrigating their fields at present rates, nearly 70 percent of the Ogallala aquifer will be gone in less than 50 years.4)
The Water Crisis in Mexico
Mexico is also facing serious water shortages. Large-scale farms use so much water that villages are left "high and dry." In the state of Guanajuato, 82 percent of the total water use goes to large farms that don't even have to pay for it.
"As far back as the 1980s, even before the free trade agreement, the government imposed a ban on most new wells in Guanajuato. But water extraction increased exponentially. What allowed that to happen is 'a pretty well-known system of bribes and corruption,' Mr. Terrell [executive director of CATIS-Mexico] said.
Every year, farms bore farther into the aquifer, and scientists warn that as they go deeper they are reaching tainted water deposited between 10,000 and 35,000 years ago.
'Here is the challenge for the authorities,' said Marcos Adrián Ortega Guerrero, a hydrogeologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. 'It is to administer water that is thousands of years old, water that is contaminated with arsenic and fluoride which is causing great harm and that they have never wanted to acknowledge,' The New York Times writes.5
CATIS-Mexico
The TED Talk above features Dylan Terrell, executive director of CATIS-Mexico,6 a non-profit organization based in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato State, in central Mexico.
CATIS-Mexico works in partnership with economically limited communities to provide them with resources and training to help them access safe and clean drinking water. One of their major projects and successes has been the development of ceramic filters that can provide clean water for drinking, free of bacterial contamination.
The filters used by CATIS-Mexico are made in a simple hand mold using locally available clay and burn-out material (such as waste sawdust). They are fired in a kiln and then treated with a colloidal silver solution to kill pathogens. One CATIS filter produces about 24 liters of water a day, requires little maintenance and lasts two to three years. It can reduce the cost of potable water from $0.10 a liter to $0.001 a liter.
I partnered with CATIS-Mexico last year, after I visited the organization to see their work first-hand. The ceramic filters are making a great impact on the safety of drinking water in these local communities in central Mexico. However, they're not able to remove fluoride or arsenic from the water, so CATIS is also working on other technologies that can be coupled with these filters to also remove these toxic contaminants as well.
Researchers at Northern Illinois University (NIU) in DeKalb, Illinois are collaborating with CATIS-Mexico to develop a system using bone char and biochar — a charcoal that absorbs heavy metals. It too can be created locally and may help remove pathogens along with dangerous components in the water like arsenic and fluoride. If you would like to support the water-filtration efforts in rural Mexico, please donate directly to CATIS-Mexico.
Agriculture Responsible for Water Pollution as Well
Toxic blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) also plague many areas. In Minnesota, at least 18 dogs have died from blue-green algae poisoning in the past decade after playing in contaminated lakes.7 Chemical runoff from farms is again the primary culprit. Cyanobacteria feed on phosphorous and nitrogen, and while dead plants, leaves and fish produce these chemicals naturally, fertilizer runoff gives them a turbo-boost, as the amounts are that much greater than normal.
Minnesota now has cyanobacteria growing in thousands of its lakes. As noted by MPR News:8 "Those lakes can be rescued, but it's a massive undertaking that requires farmers, firms and homeowners to change the way they do business."
Similar situations exist just about everywhere there are major farming operations. To address the problem, we need land-use management practices that address fertilizer runoff. The most ideal long-term solution is to alter our farming practices altogether to root out toxic chemicals and soil additives, and to grow crops in such a way that the farm actually contributes to the overall health and balance of the environment rather than polluting it and creating a dysfunctional ecosystem.
Fertilizer Industry Shouldn't Be Allowed to Rule Climate Policy
Crazy enough, 60 percent of the private sector members of the Global Alliance for Climate-Smart Agriculture, launched at the 2014 United Nations (UN) Summit on Climate Change in New York, belong to the fertilizer industry. The notion that the fertilizer industry would actually be helpful in devising long-term sustainable solutions to improve agriculture and combat climate change is laughable on several accounts.
For starters, fertilizer companies don't want regenerative agriculture since such a system involves eliminating as many agricultural chemicals as possible. Secondly, the fertilizer industry is a major supporter of fracking — hardly an environmentally sound practice that helps combat greenhouse gas emissions. As reported by In These Times:9
"One possible explanation for the fertilizer industry's successful policy coup is that its role in climate change is poorly understood and severely underestimated … [It] is Yara and other fertilizer companies that suck up most of the natural gas produced by the fracking boom in the United States.
Fertilizers, especially nitrogen fertilizers, require an enormous amount of energy to produce. Estimates are that fertilizer production accounts for 1 to 2 percent of total global energy consumption and produces about the same share of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This production gets bigger every year.
Supplies of nitrogen fertilizer, which is produced almost entirely from natural gas, are expected to grow nearly 4 percent per year over the next decade. And this production will increasingly rely on natural gas from fracked wells, which leak 40 to 60 percent more methane than conventional natural gas wells. (Methane is 25 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas.)"
Agricultural Fertilizer Use Creates as Much Greenhouse Gas as All Gas-Powered Vehicles Combined
While fertilizer production produces its share of greenhouse gases, most of the emissions occur upon application. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 1 out of every 100 kilos of nitrogen fertilizer applied to farmland ends up in the atmosphere as nitrous oxide (N2O), a potent greenhouse gas (300 times more potent than CO2) known to deplete the ozone.
In 2014, the amount of N2O created by nitrogen fertilizer spread on American farmland was equal to one-third of the N2O released by all cars and trucks in the U.S. More recent research suggests the real number is three to five times higher than that, and that nitrogen fertilizer use in 2016 will generate more greenhouse gas emissions than all the vehicles in the U.S.
"The fertilizer industry has long known that their chemicals are cooking the planet and a growing body of evidence shows that their products are not needed to feed the world," the featured article states.10 "Farmers can stop using chemical fertilizers without reducing yields by adopting agroecological practices.
This was the conclusion supported by the 2008 International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD)11 — a three-year intergovernmental process involving over 400 scientists that was sponsored by the World Bank and all of the relevant UN agencies.
Faced with this dilemma, the fertilizer companies have moved aggressively to control the international debate on agriculture and climate change, and to position themselves as a necessary part of the solution."
Forests Destroyed by Toxic FertilizerAccording to a recent report by the Royal Botanic Gardens in the U.K., one-fifth of all plants worldwide are now threatened with extinction, primarily through the expansion of agriculture.12 Forests are also being destroyed through the reckless practice of disposing municipal sewage sludge in wooded areas.
According to Environmental Health News,13 about 120,000 tons of sewage sludge is disposed in King County, Washington each year. From there, rainfall distributes the toxins into streams and wetlands, and on into the Snoqualmie River and the Puget Sound. As explained in the article:
"This sludge, known euphemistically as 'biosolids,' consists of semi-liquid waste obtained from the processing of municipal sewage. The goal of this process is to obtain clean water to release into the environment, and thus, the cleaner the water, the more toxins and contaminants are retained in the sludge.
This sludge used to be dumped into the ocean, but because of its toxicity this process is banned. Instead we now spread it in our forests and on our agricultural lands."
The 'Organic' Dirt You Buy at the Hardware Store Is a 'Biosolid' Fraud
Last year, I interviewed David Lewis, PH.D., a microbiologist and former EPA scientist. He actually got fired for blowing the whistle on the corruption and conflict of interest at the EPA that caused industrial waste and toxins to be stealthily inserted into the fertilizer applied to our farmlands, and sold to us in potting soil with biosolids.
Many well-intentioned gardeners actually purchase biosolids that are legally sold as "organic," and they have no idea that they're loaded with highly toxic materials.
Beneficial use of sewage — human waste — could be a great system for recycling nitrogen and phosphorus back into the soil by using it as fertilizer. The problem is, the sludge approved for use in fertilizer also contains industrial waste, which is loaded with heavy metals and toxins, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and brominated flame retardants like polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs).
According to the featured article, still unpublished analyses reveal high concentrations of PBDEs in soil and water samples taken from forests where sludge has been applied.
How did the EPA end up allowing this, you might ask? In 1970, after the Cuyahoga River caught on fire and the EPA was created, various industries were dumping bioproducts and pollutants straight into the river through a pipe. The EPA began to regulate this waste, and it became very expensive for factories to comply with the Clean Water Act — and this applied to virtually all industries, not just pharmaceutical and chemical companies.
Today, city sewer lines run right to the factories, allowing them to dump their waste into the city's sewage treatment plants. This is now a standard part of our infrastructure, and it saves industries of all kinds a ton of money — billions of dollars — because once a regulated chemical or waste enters the sewer line, they're suddenly exempt from EPA regulation!
So the EPA basically created a system in which chemicals we know to be problematic in part-per-billion or part-per-trillion levels in water and in air, are concentrated millions of times higher in sewage sludge, and then applied to farmland, and other areas where we live and work.
Trees Play an Important Role in Regenerative Agriculture
We certainly make an awful lot of mistakes. Several problematic areas have been discussed in this article. The good news is there are also plenty of really good solutions. Speaking of trees, they do more than contribute to clean breathable air. They also play an integral role in regenerative agriculture.
Last year I interviewed Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, an innovator in the field of regenerative agriculture who has developed an ingenious system that has the potential to transform the way food is grown. In his poultry-centered system, trees perform the protection function of hen houses. Trees also help optimize soil temperature and moisture content, extracting excess nutrients that the chickens deposit, bringing up valuable minerals from below the soil surface.
Trees were also a critical part of the solution when McDonald's U.K. tasked Benchmark Holdings with improving their egg supply chain. As noted by Benchmark:14
"[W]e started our process by understanding the chicken. What we found was that our ordinary chicken's ancestor was a South East Asian jungle fowl. It lived and flourished under the canopy of trees.
This varied environment allowed the chicken to have and do what it wanted — some shade and protection from predators, elevation and opportunities to perch, the covered ground to scratch and peck for food and dust bathe to keep its feathers clean …
We found that simply planting trees outside hen houses improved the welfare and production of the flocks. When laying hens in free range systems are provided with trees, they range more. We found that being out more and venturing further afield means that the laying hens don't peck at each other as much, which in turn improves the welfare of the flock.
For the first time, we also showed that this improves the productivity of the flock … [T]he provision of trees on the range reduces the mortality in the flock. We also found that planting trees on a minimum of 5 percent of the range lowered the numbers of 'egg seconds' — which due to their lower eggshell quality are worth 30 percent less than grade A eggs —subsequently boosting the farmers income."
In closing, it's worth reiterating that regenerative farming methods are the answer to every single issue brought forth in this article, from the rehabilitation of land turned to desert and improving water management and quality, to eliminating the need for toxic fertilizers and other agricultural chemicals and reducing greenhouse gas emissions like carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide.


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Charmane Higgins '91 will celebrate Thanksgiving this year at her home in Brockton, Mass. Among her guests will be her mother, uncle, brother, and sister-in-law—plus Eva Venema '22, of Palmer, Alaska, and Isabel Ortiz '22, of Garden Grove, Calif.
Since 2008, the Wellesley College Alumnae Association and the Slater International Center have collaborated on the Thanksgiving Match Program, which pairs international students and U.S. students who are far from home with local members of the Wellesley community for the holiday. The program survives on the generosity and sense of community expressed by the Wellesley alumnae who welcome students into their homes. This year, 19 hosts will share dinner with 28 students.
The hosts offer more than the traditional Thanksgiving turkey, potatoes, gravy, stuffing, and pie. Jocylyn Bailin '89, who has hosted students for the past 12 years in her Needham, Mass., home and will do so again this Thanksgiving, prepares a meal that suits many different tastes.
Photo: Wellesley friends celebrated Thanksgiving in 2017 at the Brookline, Mass., home of Elyse Cherry '75 (who is not visible in the photo). Jane Abernathy '18 is at left, in the red sweater.


The most important difficult part of any home makeover—big or small—is to strike the right balance between your budget and your dream project. It is important to keep realistic goals and a specific plan to reach these goals. When doing a home makeover, it is easy to get carried away with spending unnecessary money on furniture and services, so determine the budget and stick to it are important tasks, as well. You can do a home makeover by yourself, and can save some money by independently doing the work and making smart purchases, but you will also face the risk to make mistakes and overspend.
Gently used furniture can add a unique touch to any space. Vintage stores offer great antiques and one-of-a-kind items. An upholstered chair or refurbished end table can add character to any room. Shopping at thrift stores provide thrills and the ultimate capture of great second-hand items at cheap prices. Whether you love the vintage style or are on a tight budget, these stores offer items that can transform a room.
Shelving can add both storage space and décor. Shelving is great to display photographs, collectibles, and books while adding character to a space. Smaller rooms that do not offer quite enough room to display your personality through furniture can benefit from shelving. Floor to ceiling shelves as bookcases or floating shelves will provide you with a significant amount of space and provide you with décor to express your creative side.
Reupholster and old chair or paint its legs. This way you can use that can of old paint that has been sitting in your basement and repurpose a chair that lost its place in your home. Try painting an end table a bold color or give it a distressed look. Turn an old dresser into a television stand by removing its drawers to add open storage and repainting it. A smooth sanding and fresh coat of paint can transform any piece of furniture.
Redecorate the entrance way of your house. Paint a bold accent wall or hang artwork. An appealing entryway will set the tone for the rest of your home. Attach hooks to the wall to hang jackets and bags instead of cluttering floors or furniture with them. Replace old flooring with new laminate or wood flooring and a stylish rug. Horizontal floor boards make a narrow room seem wider, and vertical floor boards make a room appear to be much longer.
A simple gesture such as selecting a new comforter and sheet set will refresh your bedroom. Keep in mind that thread count does count. Sheets with a higher thread count are more durable and comfortable. Add an accent pillow to have a pop of color. Enhance your bed with decals or electric tape to make a headboard.
You can highly personalize your home with very simple tasks and spending on few items. However if you do not have the right set of skills, home makeover services such as painting, cleaning, and other household projects are offered to you through serviis.com. You have the opportunity to hire a local professional team who can help make your home makeover dreams become reality.


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- The 'SYSTEMATISCHES VERZEICHNIS' was the first biennial catalogue to appear in Switzerland. It is based on the Dewey decimal classification system, and contains all Swiss publications, all writings by Swiss authors published abroad and writings by foreign authors on Swiss matters. Besides the writings obtainable through normal channels, there are doctors' theses, publications of societies and clubs, as well as government publications. Each volume is accompanied by a detailed index of persons and places. Contents are in German and French.


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Rob Milton Recruits Brik.Liam & Bri Hightower To Spread More Gratitude With 'Thank You Too'
January 29, 2018 | 4:00 pm
Rob Milton has been on one as of late. We thoroughly enjoyed his happy-go-lucky single "Thank You," which celebrated haters and lovers alike for being the inspiration to keep pushing on. A little over a month after dropping the single, he's linked up with singers Brik.Liam and Bri Hightower to hit us with the remix, which he's cleverly re-titled "Thank You Too."
Upon pressing play, you'll immediately notice that he's gone for a different feel on the remix. The funky, old-school soul feel is replaced by a sound more in line with the "trap-soul" stylings of Bryson Tiller, with 808s bumping and hi-hats skittering over atmospheric synth. The sound switch-up gives the song a more introspective quality that fits with the reflective lyrics. Rob rides the beat fairly well here, incorporating and interpolating elements of Missy Elliott's "I'm Better" and Sly & The Family Stone's "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" to great effect. As far as the new additions to the track, Brik.Liam offers a velvety smooth bridge that includes a clever reference to Stevie Wonder and even segues into an impromptu acceptance speech. Bri Hightower, meanwhile, provides ad-libs and backing vocals throughout, getting her Migos on in the process.
This one is definitely a different sound than we've heard from him, but one that fits him quite nicely. See if you agree when you check out Rob Milton's "Thank You Too" below.
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World-leading HPC centers partner to form accelerated computing institute
Credit: ORNL
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 10, 2016–Leaders in hybrid accelerated high-performance computing (HPC) in the United States (U.S.), Japan, and Switzerland have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) establishing an international institute dedicated to common goals, the sharing of HPC expertise, and forward-thinking evaluation of computing architecture.
The MOU authorizes the creation of the Accelerated Data Analytics and Computing (ADAC) institute to support collaborative projects and programs that bridge the respective HPC missions of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH Zurich). All three organizations manage HPC centers that run large, GPU-accelerated supercomputers and provide key HPC capabilities to academia, government, and industry to solve many of the world's most complex and pressing scientific problems.
"Forecasting the future of leadership-class computing and managing the risk of architectural change is a shared interest among ORNL, Tokyo Tech, and ETH Zurich," said Jeff Nichols, associate laboratory director of computing and computational sciences at ORNL. "What unites our three organizations is a willingness to embrace change, actively partner with HPC vendors, and devise solutions that advance the work of our scientific users. ADAC provides a framework for member organizations to pursue mutual interests such as accelerated node architectures as computing moves toward the exascale era and beyond."
ADAC will focus on multiple objectives spanning performance, hardware, and applications, including:
Adapting important scientific and engineering applications to hybrid accelerated architectures.
Partnering with HPC vendors to evaluate architecture diversity.
Enabling collaborative scientific efforts in hybrid accelerated data and compute.
Ensuring sustainability and portability of critical applications.
Sharing best practices regarding the operation, management, and procurement of HPC resources.
The institute lays the groundwork for more focused collaboration centered around three inaugural technical areas–applications, performance, and resource management. Designated representatives from each member institution serve as the leads in these areas.
"ADAC is unique in that while all of these research centers compete on some level, the challenges we face are very similar. From application development to fully utilizing novel architectures, we can better evolve toward the exascale by sharing our problems and solutions," said Satoshi Matsuoka of the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center at Tokyo Tech, adding that the initial three-member collaboration could grow to include other institutions in the future.
Thomas Schulthess, of the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS) at ETH Zurich, echoed Nichols' and Satoshi's sentiment: "ADAC is an acknowledgement that, despite the myriad accomplishments in accelerated computing, significant challenges remain. These challenges require collaboration across the HPC spectrum in order for our users to continue to push the frontiers of science, and, by extension, computing."
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Caption: ADAC members from ORNL, ETH Zurich and Tokyo Tech gathered in Lugano, Switzerland for a workshop earlier this year.
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We are evaluating the potential of geochemical prospecting techniques that have shown promise in other covered terranes for mineral exploration in the northern midcontinent of the U.S. Novel components will be added to these methods with the objective of method advancement and improving our understanding of processes controlling the transmission of unique geochemical signatures from buried mineral deposits to groundwater, soils, and the overlying near-surface environment in glaciated areas.
Though compelling, application of approaches (1) and (2) have been limited, and specific processes controlling the physical, electrochemical, advective, and diffusive dispersion of chemical species upward through overlying cover are only partially understood. Research has focused mainly on sites in Canada, Australia, northern Europe, and South America, with few published studies from the U.S.
Our primary objective is to evaluate the potential of geochemical prospecting techniques that have shown promise in other covered terranes for mineral exploration in the northern midcontinent of the U.S. Novel components will be added to these methods with the objective of method advancement and improving our understanding of processes controlling the transmission of unique geochemical signatures from buried mineral deposits to groundwater, soils, and the overlying near-surface environment in glaciated areas.
USGS scientists collecting peat and clay samples. Cores were used to install groundwater wells for sampling.
Regional Geochemical Dataset Aanalysis: Regional geochemical mapping has proven useful for exploration in covered terranes in Canada, Austalia, and northern Europe. Previous regional geochemical surveys have show high correlation between soil chemistry and bedrock geology, even in highly developed areas. Previous regional water geochemical surveys have focused on surface water. Groundwater chemistry data could be useful in the northern midcontinent where sedimentary cover can be deep and wells are plentiful. Abundandant geochemical data are also available for the northern midcontinent, largely collected by USGS, but these have not been interpreted on a regional scale.
We will assemble existing environmental geochemical data for the northern midcontinent from the U.S. Soil Geochemical Database, National Geochemical Database (NGDB), National Uranium Resource Evaluation database (NURE), and National Water Information System (NWIS). We will integrate this data with existing geologic maps, USGS geophysical data, and data available from other state and federal agencies, and will evaluate data coverages for characteristics associated with known deposits and districts. This preliminary analysis will help guide study site selection. Data coverages will be evaluated for anomalies and correlations in areas outside of known districts/deposits that could be associated with unknown areas of mineralization, incorporating new knowledge gained from field sampling.
Solid Media, Soil Gas, and Groundwater — Sampling and Analysis: Research aimed at identifying effective geochemical exploration methods in areas of thick cover has expanded considerably in the past 15 years. Three approaches that show promise include (1) identification of soil and soil gas anomalies associated with a "reduced column", (2) identification of anomalies in groundwater chemistry, and (3) identification of high metals in wetland peats. Though promising, application of these methods has been limited, published research on sites in the northern midcontinent is limited, and specific processes controlling the dispersion of chemical species upward through overlying cover are only partially understood.
Objectives are to collect soil, wetland peat, soil gas, and groundwater samples in the vicinity of known, characterized buried deposits and analyze them to test for the presence of unique geochemical signatures relative to adjacent background areas. The Duluth Complex Ni-Cu-PGE deposit area in northeastern Minnesota has been selected as a study site. Improved understanding of the processes controlling the transmission of unique geochemical signatures from buried deposits to groundwater and the overlying near-surface environment will assist in the evaluation of potential geochemical prospecting techniques in the northern midcontinent region.


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Q: Databse utf8mb4_unicode_ci not save full emojies I use utf8mb4_unicode_ci for my tables
But this collection not save all emojies and replace with ????
For example  save correct but  replace with ????
Also I use utf8mb4_bin but not work

A: I find answer
I added SET NAMES 'utf8mb4' to mysqli and work fine


Looking instantly recognizable, the facelifted variant has a new front bumper and modestly revised headlights. The styling changes are less noticeable out back but include new air vents and modified taillights.
Despite the deja vu design, the 911 is expected to feature a new turbocharged 3.0-liter six-cylinder engine that develops 370 PS (272 kW) in the base model and 420 PS (309 kW) in the S variant.
The facelifted Porsche 911 lineup is expected to be unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show, so stay tuned for full details.


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Mattias Falck (né Mattias Karlsson le ) est un pongiste suédois.

Carrière
Il a participé aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 2016 dans l'équipe de Suède, et a remporté deux médailles aux championnat d'Europe de 2016, une médaille d'argent en double mixte, et une médaille de bronze en double messieurs.

Il remporte le championnat national de Suède avec son club de Halmstad BTK en 2018.

Il est vice-champion du monde en 2019, finaliste face à Ma Long, en ayant comme entraîneur l'ancien champion du monde Jörgen Persson.

Il fait ensuite partie de l'équipe de Suède médaillée de bronze aux Championnats d'Europe de tennis de table 2021 à Cluj.

Il évolue dans le championnat allemand dans le club de Wolfsburg.

Palmarès

Championnats du monde
 Championnats du monde 2021 à Houston,
  Médaille d'or en double messieurs
 Championnats du monde 2019 à Budapest,
  Médaille d'argent en simple messieurs
 Championnats du monde 2018 à Halmstad,
  Médaille de bronze par équipes

Championnats d'Europe
 Championnats d'Europe 2022 à Munich,
  Médaille d'or en double messieurs
 Championnats d'Europe 2011 à Gdańsk/Sopot,
  Médaille d'argent par équipes
 Championnats d'Europe 2012 à Herning,
  Médaille d'argent en double messieurs
 Championnats d'Europe 2016 à Budapest,
  Médaille d'argent en double mixtes
 Championnats d'Europe 2018 à Alicante,
  Médaille d'argent en double messieurs
 Championnats d'Europe 2015 à Iekaterinbourg,
  Médaille de bronze en double messieurs
 Championnats d'Europe 2016 à Budapest,
  Médaille de bronze en double messieurs
 Championnats d'Europe 2019 à Nantes,
  Médaille de bronze par équipes
 Championnats d'Europe 2020 à Varsovie,
  Médaille de bronze en simple messieurs
 Championnats d'Europe 2021 à Cluj-Napoca,
  Médaille de bronze par équipes
 Championnats d'Europe 2022 à Munich,
  Médaille de bronze en simple messieurs

Notes et références

Liens externes

Naissance en septembre 1991
Pongiste suédois
Pongiste (homme) aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 2016

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The K500 Cyclotron is capable of supplying a variety of ion beams to the experiments at the Cyclotron Institute. Starting from the ECR ion sources, ion beams of the very lightest elements to ion beams of the very heaviest of elements can be accelerated by the cyclotron to high energies. Beam energies for protons (ionized hydrogen) can range from 8 MeV to 70 MeV, while energies for uranium ions can range from 500 MeV (2 MeV per nucleon) to 3.5 GeV (15 MeV per nucleon).
At the heart of our cyclotron is a superconducting magnet whose intense magnetic field holds the ions in orbits between its poles. The 50 kilogauss magnetic field is generated by 800 amperes of electrical current carried by 5500 turns (25 miles) of niobium-titanium superconducting wire in a coil surrounded by 100 tons of steel. The acceleration of the ions is accomplished by intense, rapidly alternating electric fields generated by a 240-kilowatt radio-frequency system and impressed upon hollow copper structures called dees located between the poles of the magnet. The generation, injection, acceleration and delivery to target of the ions takes place in high vacuum, while the path and focus of the beam outside the cyclotron is controlled by high-field, electromagnets.


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Q: Import data to database and retrieve I have a raspberrypi giving data for every 5 minutes running in python. I need to store the data to a data base using wamp server and plot it in a graph (time vs data). I have no idea how to connect to wamp server to store and retrieve data.

A: Taken from https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL
import pymysql.cursors

# Connect to the database
connection = pymysql.connect(host='localhost',
                             user='user',
                             password='passwd',
                             db='db',
                             charset='utf8mb4',
                             cursorclass=pymysql.cursors.DictCursor)

try:
    with connection.cursor() as cursor:
        # Create a new record
        sql = "INSERT INTO `users` (`email`, `password`) VALUES (%s, %s)"
        cursor.execute(sql, ('webmaster@python.org', 'very-secret'))

    # connection is not autocommit by default. So you must commit to save
    # your changes.
    connection.commit()

    with connection.cursor() as cursor:
        # Read a single record
        sql = "SELECT `id`, `password` FROM `users` WHERE `email`=%s"
        cursor.execute(sql, ('webmaster@python.org',))
        result = cursor.fetchone()
        print(result)
finally:
        connection.close()


Liberal MP Ben Morton has spent his summer break rushing to confirm he is not a dual citizen, after he found out his grandfather was born in Ireland.
The discovery, made while going through old family records over Christmas, contradicts his declaration from 2017 that both maternal grandparents were born in the United Kingdom.
A letter from the Irish embassy received this week confirmed that Mr Morton is not an Irish citizen, and Mr Morton has said he has "never been an Irish or British citizen, only ever Australian".
However the new development highlights the uncertainty that still surrounds the Parliament and section 44 of the constitution, which disqualifies dual nationals from being MPs.
Mr Morton declared in 2017 that he had conducted his own "extensive investigations" about his qualifications prior to nominating and received a letter from the British Home Office confirming he was not a British citizen.
But he has now amended his entry on the citizenship register after the discovery of papers as his father was moving house.
"While sorting through these papers over the Christmas break we found a photocopy of a British passport belonging to my maternal grandfather," he wrote.
A letter from the Irish embassy, dated January 7, stated a search of the Irish foreign births register had been conducted and that Mr Morton was not registered.
Mr Morton wrote that his earlier declaration that his maternal grandfather was born in the UK was based on advice from his grandmother's relatives as his mother died in 2015 and his grandfather died in 1988.
The register was set up by Malcolm Turnbull following the citizenship crisis of 2017.
It requires MPs to amend the register within 21 days if they discover new information, but only requires MPs to make declarations to the best of their knowledge.
Tasmanian independent MP Andrew Wilkie is critical of the approach and has called for an independent audit.
"I've argued from the start that the only way to bring genuine clarity to the citizenship status of federal politicians is for an independent auditor to examine everyone's background," he said.
Anne Twomey, professor of constitutional law at the University of Sydney, said the new system had helped because MPs must now "apply their minds to the issues and to update the register when they find out that their position has changed".
But she said no system could remove all uncertainty about section 44.
"There will always be circumstances where the facts are unclear, the legal situation uncertain or the position has changed over time, for example when another country changes its law regarding citizenship and does so with retrospective effect," Professor Twomey said.
George Williams, a dean of law at the University of New South Wales, has called for a referendum to alter section 44.
Professor Twomey predicted any referendum would be unlikely to succeed, but said there would be merit in clarifying the more uncertain aspects of section 44.
Mr Wilkie believes more MPs have questions to answer.


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require "test_helper"

class EventTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
  context "construction" do
    should "parse a date given as a string" do
      e = Calendar::Event.new("date" => "2012-02-04")
      assert_equal Date.civil(2012, 2, 4), e.date
    end

    should "allow construction with dates as well as string dates" do
      e = Calendar::Event.new("date" => Date.civil(2012, 2, 4))
      assert_equal Date.civil(2012, 2, 4), e.date
    end
  end

  context "as_json in English" do
    should "return a hash representation" do
      I18n.locale = :en
      e = Calendar::Event.new(
        "title" => "bank_holidays.new_year",
        "date" => "02/01/2012",
        "notes" => "common.substitute_day",
        "bunting" => true,
      )

      expected = {
        "title" => "New Year's Day",
        "date" => Date.civil(2012, 1, 2),
        "notes" => "Substitute day",
        "bunting" => true,
      }

      assert_equal expected, e.as_json
    end
  end
end


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Secret Obama-Era Deal With Iran Derails Key Sanctions on Iran's Propaganda Network
US Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on April 22, 2016 / Getty Images
Iranian dissidents outraged over Trump admin decision to waive sanctions of Tehran's propaganda machine
The Trump administration waived key sanctions on Iran's main propaganda network last month, causing outrage among Iranian dissidents and administration insiders who tracked the effort to a little known Obama-era side deal with Iran that bars these sanctions from being implemented, according to multiple sources who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.
The Trump administration, in an unpublicized move, waived sanctions on Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, or IRIB, a satellite service that disseminates propaganda across Iran and routinely censors content. Iranian dissidents who took to the streets in a renewed wave of protests had called on the Trump administration to sanction the IRIB in a bid to prevent the Iranian regime from crushing the latest protests.
While the Trump administration had initially promised to issue new sanctions on the IRIB, the State Department blocked the effort due to a little-known agreement reached between the Obama administration and Iran during the sensitive negotiations that led to the landmark nuclear agreement.
The Free Beacon first reported on this secret agreement last month, when several lawmakers on Capitol Hill disclosed that they were working to unearth details about this agreement barring new sanctions on the IRIB, which has been working to censor content that Iran believes would fuel further dissatisfaction with the ruling regime.
The decision to waive the IRIB sanctions at a key juncture in Iranian society has roiled dissidents who believed the Trump administration would rush to support their protests against the ruling regime, which has squandered billions of dollars it received under the nuclear deal on foreign wars and military equipment, rather than the ailing Iranian economy.
Multiple sources who work on these issues expressed frustration at the Trump administration, which issued tough rhetoric supporting the protests in Iran, but failed to follow through with policy decisions such as new sanctions that could have boosted these protestors.
The Obama administration struck a deal in 2013 with Iran that waived existing sanctions on the IRIB as part of an agreement reached under the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, or ITSO.
Since that agreement, the United States has waived sanctions every 180 days on the IRIB, despite evidence it continues to censor content and jam broadcasts the hardline ruling regime finds unacceptable, sources said. The latest waiver was quietly issued in mid-January, when Iranian protestors were still swarming the streets to express opposition to the regime, according to a copy of that communication viewed by the Free Beacon.
The little-known ITSO agreement with Iran has received new scrutiny as lawmakers and others seek to discover how the Obama administration reached this deal and why many in Congress were never briefed on the matter.
"Everyone knows the Obama administration made secret goodwill concessions, going back many years before the deal, to boost Iran," said the source, who would only speak on background so as not to upset sensitive discussion. "But the public still doesn't know the full scope or nature of those concessions, because the Trump administration has been keeping many of the documents and side deals secret."
"Here, you have one dealing with Iran's propaganda infrastructure. And of course, more broadly, there are Trump officials working on 'fixing' the nuclear deal, so they can sell an 'agreement' to the president, without really doing that at all," the source said.
Amir Etemadi, an Iranian dissident who opposes the hardline regime, told the Free Beacon the Trump administration could have sent a strong message by reinstating sanctions on Iran's propaganda network.
"Revocation of a waiver suspending U.S. sanctions targeting IRIB—the Islamic Republic's principal tool for the creation and dissemination of propaganda and the repression of opposition voices—would have sent a powerful message to the people of Iran that President Trump and the United States are firmly on their side and committed to supporting them in their struggle against a brutally oppressive theocracy," Etemadi said. "During and after recent nationwide protests in Iran, Iranians explicitly asked President Trump to take this action. Unfortunately, he did not heed their call and thus missed a significant opportunity."
Full article: Secret Obama-Era Deal With Iran Derails Key Sanctions on Iran's Propaganda Network (Washington Free Beacon)
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Q: How mange DataBinding in layout included and multiple models? I have a layout that include another layout with 2 data model of which one in common. Have an Activity that make binding and sets the models. But there is something that escapes me because I just can't make it work.
I created an example, I publish it below:
The first layout is parent_layout.xml :
<layout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools">

    <data>

        <variable
            name="firstModel"
            type="com.example.databinding.model.FirstDataModel" />
    </data>

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical">

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/first_tv"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="@{firstModel.firstMsg}"
            tools:text="firstMsg"/>

        <include
            app:firstModel="@{firstModel}"
            android:id="@+id/container"
            layout="@layout/child_layout"/>

    </LinearLayout>
</layout>

The second layout included in first layout is child_layout.xml :
<layout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools">

    <data>

        <variable
            name="firstModel"
            type="com.example.databinding.model.FirstDataModel" />

        <variable
            name="secondModel"
            type="com.example.databinding.model.SecondDataModel" />
    </data>

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical">

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/second_tv"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="@{firstModel.secondMsg}"
            tools:text="secondMsg"/>

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/third_tv"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="@{secondModel.thirdMsg}"
            tools:text="thirdMsg"/>

    </LinearLayout>
</layout>

The Activity that use DataBinding is IncludeLayoutActivity.java:
package com.example.databinding;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;

import com.example.binding.R;
import com.example.binding.databinding.ChildLayoutBinding;
import com.example.binding.databinding.ParentLayoutBinding;
import com.example.databinding.model.FirstDataModel;
import com.example.databinding.model.SecondDataModel;

public class IncludeLayoutActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.parent_layout);

        ParentLayoutBinding parentBinding = ParentLayoutBinding.inflate(getLayoutInflater());
        ChildLayoutBinding childBinding = ChildLayoutBinding.inflate(getLayoutInflater());

        FirstDataModel firstDataModel = new FirstDataModel("Hello", "Android");
        SecondDataModel secondDataModel = new SecondDataModel("World");

        parentBinding.setFirstModel(firstDataModel);
        childBinding.setSecondModel(secondDataModel);
    }
}

And finally the models are FirstDataModel.java:
package com.example.databinding.model;

public class FirstDataModel {
    private String firstMsg;
    private String secondMsg;

    public FirstDataModel(String hello, String android) {
        firstMsg = hello;
        secondMsg = android;
    }

    public String getFirstMsg() {
        return firstMsg;
    }

    public String getSecondMsg() {
        return secondMsg;
    }

}

and SecondDataModel.java is:
package com.example.databinding.model;

public class SecondDataModel {
    private String thirdMsg;

    public SecondDataModel(String world) {
        thirdMsg = world;
    }

    public String getThirdMsg() {
        return thirdMsg;
    }
}

Why the TextView in layouts are not valorized after binding?
EDIT: I have modified layout and activity with Blackbelt suggestion.

A: I found a solution I want to share here, the problem was in the Activity as I suspected, this is the correct one:
package com.example.databinding;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;

import com.example.binding.R;
import com.example.binding.databinding.ChildLayoutBinding;
import com.example.binding.databinding.ParentLayoutBinding;
import com.example.databinding.model.FirstDataModel;
import com.example.databinding.model.SecondDataModel;

public class IncludeLayoutActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        ParentLayoutBinding parentBinding = DataBindingUtil.setContentView(this, R.layout.parent_layout);

        FirstDataModel firstDataModel = new FirstDataModel("Hello", "Android");
        SecondDataModel secondDataModel = new SecondDataModel("World");

        parentBinding.setFirstModel(firstDataModel);
        childBinding.setSecondModel(secondDataModel);
    }
}

This is the right way to have the correct binding for a layout with a content layout and multi model. Hope this can help someone other

A: for the include you have to use app:modelName. You will have to add xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" to your <layout> tag
E.g.
<include
        app:firstModel="@{firstModel}"
        android:id="@+id/container"
        layout="@layout/child_layout"/>

Where in
app:firstModel

firstModel is the name of the variable of the view model you want to use in the include and
 @{firstModel}

is of course the ViewModel you want to pass. You can easily pass multiple viewmodels in the same way.


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From zero, turned to hero, writing me, don't call me, blaow!


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Factors Associated with Electronic Personal Health Record Use among Registered Nurses for Their Own Health Management
Gartrell, Kyungsook (2014)
Background: Electronic personal health records (ePHRs) are consumer-centric tools that enable consumers to securely access, manage and share their health information with health care providers. Although the potential for ePHRs to improve healthcare is significant, there is no available evidence on health care professionals' use of ePHRs for their own health management. Nurses have a tremendous opportunity to assist and educate patients in ePHRs. Research has shown that ePHR adoption among patients were influenced by perceived usefulness and ease of use using the technology acceptance model (TAM). This study expanded the TAM adding perceived data privacy security protections and health promoting role models for the ePHR acceptance model. Purpose: This study examined (1) characteristics associated with ePHR use by nurses: health, technology experience, and attitudes about privacy of electronic health information, (2) psychometric properties of the measures in the research model, (3) association of ePHR acceptance constructs: perceived usefulness, ease of use, data privacy and security protections, and health promoting role model with ePHR use, and (4) moderating effects of nurses characteristics: age, chronic illness and/or medication use, providers use of electronic personal health record (EHR) on the relationships between ePHR acceptance constructs and ePHR use. Methods: Registered nurses working in hospitals and members of the nursing informatics community (NIC) completed an anonymous online survey in the Fall of 2013 (n=847). Differences between groups were examined using t-tests and χ² tests. The associations between nurses' characteristics and ePHR use were examined via multiple logistic regression models that also held constant possible confounding covariates and interaction terms. Results: Less than half (41%) of the hospital nurses were ePHR users. The odds of ePHR use was significantly greater among those with chronic medical conditions/medication use (OR=1.64, 95% CI=1.06-2.53) and those whose health care providers used EHRs (OR=3.62, 95% CI=2.45-5.36) controlling for age, marital status, current positions and specialty area. ePHR use was more common among NIC nurses (72%). The odds of ePHR use was also increased among NIC nurses with providers that used EHRs (OR=5.99, 95% CI=1.40-25.61), but users were 70% less concerned about privacy of health information online than nonusers (OR=0.32, 95% CI=0.14-0.70) controlling for ethnicity, race and practice regions. The majority of both ePHR users and nonusers would grant access to their primary care providers. However, fewer ePHR users in both nursing groups granted permission to designated family members or friends, other care providers who care for them, or pharmacists to view ePHRs than nonusers who answered hypothetically. Sufficient reliability for usefulness, ease of use, and privacy and security protections, and health promoting role model scales were found (all Cronbach alphas>0.70). Three constructs contributed significantly to ePHR use after adjusting nursing group, age, chronic illness and medication use, and health care providers use of EHR (usefulness, OR=0.87, 95% CI=0.85-0.89; data privacy and security protection, OR=1.04, 95% CI=1.01-1.07; and health promoting role model, OR=1.07, 95% CI=1.04-1.11). Significant interactions existed between perceived data privacy and security protections and providers EHR use, and between perceived health promoting role model and age on ePHR use (p<0.05). Conclusion: The study findings suggest practical insights for nurses. With the experience of using ePHRs, nurses can leverage use of ePHRs for patient education on chronic illness and medication management. Nurses in NIC can also play an important role in practical ePHR design to enhance functionality and security in ePHR with their specialties in nursing informatics.
Medications, Barcodes, and Apps - Oh My!! Implementing BCMA in a Pediatric Facility with a Hand-held Communication Device
Lenz-Norman, Stephanie (2017-07-13)
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How Krav Maga boosted my confidence in travelling.
I've always wanted to learn how to fight, even though I grew up in one of the safest cities in the world. Perhaps it was the influence of media, or the fact that my brother was enrolled in Taekwondo classes when I had to unwillingly learn the piano, but I know for a fact that my tiny physique had something to do with it. We found ourselves in so many squabbles and I almost always emerged as the victor by default, as I howled and cried over another fresh bruise.
I've always been small, which makes me a pretty easy target in general. Therefore, in retaliation to the petite frame I never asked for, I felt like I needed an edge over everyone else. That's when self-defence classes came into the picture.
I thought it would be a useful tool to have when I travel or live abroad. So a few months after moving to Cork, I looked for boxing gyms all around the city before venturing into my first Krav Maga class instead. It truly changed my life and led me into a year of empowerment.
Krav Maga is a form of straightforward and effective self-defence technique invented by the Israel Defense Forces. It makes for an intense and dynamic workout, which sprouts from its medley of fighting strikes, to train anyone in fighting against their attacker.
Self-defence has sharpened my travel goggles, in more ways than one. While there are many written articles fortifying the double standards of risks involved in solo female travel than male, I still believe self-defence is beneficial for all travellers alike.
I've never thought of myself as a naive person, but surprising enough, Krav Maga has neutralized that trait of mine.
Travelling makes us vulnerable and often, fragile to the quirks of unfamiliarity. To explore a new place requires one to plunge vicariously into the unknown and push personal boundaries. More often than not, we rely on articles, maps and word-of-mouth to acquaint ourselves with a place to develop a sense of security. We want to let our guards down to fully relax and enjoy a trip. But the sense of adventure would be futile, if not mixed with a tinge of safety and alertness.
Self-defence has sharpened my travel goggles, in more ways than one.
Before, as brave as I was, I had just as much fear and skepticism envelop me on every trip. I tried my hardest to avoid the horror stories that's plastered across the Internet, or the terror-gossip that runs through the hostel walls, but sometimes they overlap the jovial, silly narratives. The feeling of in-betweenness makes us vulnerable, so we rely on our gut feeling to tell us when something doesn't align well.
But the gut isn't an accurate indicator of safety, it can only take you so far. That was one of my most important take away.
Something I noticed while travelling was that those who didn't have a clue of proper defence tend to be as afraid of new people and adventures as they are excited. Or they end up on the opposite side of the spectrum—they're overly carefree. There was always a false sense of security at the back of their minds.
It is human nature to feel cynical when placed in anything remotely reckless or strange, but self-defence classes could teach us how to effectively read people and their intentions. Paul, my instructor, didn't teach his students to fight blindly. He taught us different techniques and scenarios of throwing our perpetrator off, along with verbal de-escalation skills that worked hand-in-hand with adrenaline, instead of fear or flight tendencies. The important thing to note is that if you look and feel confident, chances are you won't be targeted. They sniff out the weak ones, as it makes for an easy prey.
I used to be cautious of anything or nothing spectacular. I felt like I had to. Now, I've learned how to balance out my innocence so it wouldn't get me in trouble or hinder me from having a good time. I felt more confident in traveling and had my walls high enough to protect myself, but low enough to enjoy my time as a wanderer in a foreign land. I felt dauntless, knowing that if things go south, I would be able to defend myself and allow my muscle memory and agility usher me into safety.
This was a major point for myself. I've never been in any proper fights in my life, so to encounter one with almost anyone would be a scary ordeal. I am a petite 152cm (5 ft) girl, and it's easy to forget that my fiery nature is merely internal, not external. During Krav Maga lessons, I tend to partner up with the bigger men who went easy on me on the first few tries, before pushing me to my limits to understand what a real attacker would feel like, in weight and size completely hurled onto me. It was scary and painful. Most days I felt completely helpless and felt like tapping out, only to realise that a "tap out" isn't a valid move in an unfortunate situation. So I fought and learned the ways to catch them off-guard, ultimately working my petiteness to my advantage.
It was an empowering experience, and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who wants a go at self-defence lessons. I wouldn't go as far as saying that it's necessary for everyone, but there's no harm in including self-defence techniques to every trip packing list, along with your backpack and your passport.
Think of it as an extra defense gear, or a value add that keeps you safer than before.


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Small Businesses Face Friday Deadline to Apply for State Grants
Above, the North Adams transfer station. The city may see benefits by joining the Northern Berkshire waste district.
North Adams to Take Up Waste Management Decision Next Month
By Jack GuerinoiBerkshires Staff
03:28AM / Monday, January 06, 2020 Print Story | Email Story
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The City Council is expected to be presented in February with the option of joining the Northern Berkshire Solid Waste Management District.
Waste management Program Director Linda Cernik told the district's commission at its most recent meeting that she is preparing to welcome North Adams into the fold early in the new year.
"I am looking forward to 2020 and hopefully it goes in the right direction," she said. "We all feel really confident."
Last year, city officials had reached out to the district and inquired about possibly rejoining after opting out of the program some years ago. The commissioners voted to begin exploring the request knowing that adding North Adams to the 13-member district would increase their size and buying power.
Williams College Environmental Studies students conduct an environmental planning project this past semester to analyze cost benefits should the city join the district.
"I think we did it the right way with the students and I learned a lot from them and I think they learned a lot from us," Cernik said. "I don't think people know the complexities of solid waste and recycling."
After three months of analyzing the pros and cons for the city and the district, the four students presented their findings to the City Council in early December.
Their recommendation was clear: Join the district.
"I felt really good about the presentation ... we all felt really confident and the students did a great job," Cernik said.
All in all, it is estimated to cost the city $20,000 to join the district, which is relatively cost-neutral to not joining.
If the city does not join, it will continue to be responsible for annual inspections and hazardous waste collections that cost it nearly $10,000 a year. Also, the city may need to look into hiring a part-time coordinator to organize community and educational outreach.
It was noted in the presentation that without educational outreach, contamination will continue to increase the cost of disposal. A regular load costs $557 but a contaminated load could cost between $1,000 and $1,200 to dispose of.
These educational and community outreach opportunities are provided by the district.
The city's transfer station would also become a "Center for Hard to Recycle Materials" (CHRM). On days when the transfer station is acting as a CHRM all district members could drop off bulky waste, construction/ demolition waste, e-waste, brush, mattresses, and tires among other objects.
This status also opens up the transfer station for more grant funding that would expand services in the city. The transfer station already received a $36,000 mattress collection grant but the city could apply for a universal-waste shed and a textile recovery program.
Cernik outlined final steps and said the item will go before the City Council in February. From there, councilors will likely vote to send it the Public Services Committee before it will be kicked back to the full council for a final vote.
She said the waste management commission will also have to take a final vote.
"The committee is in favor of it and we would have to draw up an agreement with DEP," she said. "They are already aware of what is going on...everyone is supportive and it makes sense."
Cernik said the district is really working against a single June deadline when new contract negotiations begin. With North Adams in the district, it will have more buying power when it comes to locking in district services.
She said they split the cost with North Adams and hired Kessler Consulting to help with these negotiations. The hope is to have everything wrapped up long before then so they can provide member communities with accurate membership fees.
Dalton has also shown interest in joining the district but Cernik said the conversation has not yet gone beyond an initial meeting.
The district is happy to increase its numbers as long as it makes sense, she said, and noted it may never happen but a countywide solid waste district makes sense in a region with a shrinking population and resources.
"I don't know if it would ever happen but I am up for the challenge," she said. "It would make sense and I think it is crazy to have all of these little districts. It makes more sense to pool them too try to get these contracts and bids."
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03:55PM / Tuesday, January 19, 2021
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Northern Berkshire Adult Education Program is currently enrolling students for the spring semester.
All classes and services are currently being conducted remotely. When possible, in person instruction will be offered.
The Northern Berkshire Adult Education Program offers classes to prepare for the Massachusetts High School Equivalency Credential. In addition to classes to prepare for the HISET or GED tests, they offer classes to help improve academic skills to enter postsecondary education, training programs, employment readiness and basic academic skills.
The Northern Berkshire Adult Education Program will offer a course in Digital Literacy starting in February, for those individuals needing to learn digital literacy for the first time or to improve your current knowledge base. North Star Digital Literacy Curriculum will be utilized. Students who participate in this program will be eligible to take a credentialing exam to demonstrate competency in digital literacy.
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Constitution and Government.
The colony of Natal, formerly an integral part of the Cape of Good Hope settlement, was erected in 1856 into a separate colony under the British Crown, represented first by a Lieutenant- Governor, and since 1882 by a Governor. A charter of consti- tution was granted in 1856, and modified in 1875 and 1879 ; the charter now in force was granted in 1893.
By the Constitution Act (Law No. 14, 1893), which came into force July 20, 1893, the legislative authority resides in the Queen, a Legislative Council, and a Legislative Assembly. Her Majesty is represented by the Governor, whose assent (revocable within two years, in manner prescribed) is required to all bills before they become law. The Governor appoints the ministers, and with their advice, the members of the Legislative Council.^ He issues writs for general election of members of the Legislative Assembly, fixes the place and time of the sessions of the legislative bodies, and may prorogue or dissolve tlie Assembly. He may also, by message, transmit the draft of any bill to be introduced in either house. The Legis- lative Council consists of eleven members, each of whom must be at least thirty years of age, must have resided ten years in the colony, and must be registered proprietor of real property of the net value of 500Z. Members hold their seats for ten years, provision being made for the withdrawal of five at the end of the first five years. The President is appointed by the Governor. The Legislative Assembly consists of thirty-seven members chosen by the electors. Each Legislative Assembly continues for four years, unlcs.s sooner dissolved. It meets annually or oftener, appoints its Speaker, and adopts (with the approval of the Governor) its own standing rules and orders. Money bills must originate in the Assembly, and the Legislative Council may accept or reject but not alter them. No money bill, however, for any purjiose not
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Buses for Beyoncé – 28 June at Stadium of Light
You don't have to be Crazy in Love or a Single Lady as everyone's welcome on our buses for Beyoncé's Stadium of Light concert on Tuesday 28 June.
Special Beyoncé M-Ticket DaySaver - only £6!
Unlimited travel on all of our buses on the day of the concert
Available to buy on the Go North East app from 14 June
X0 – your special Beyoncé service from Newcastle
Travelling to the Stadium of Light from Newcastle couldn't be easier with X0 – leaving from Bewick Street, opposite Newcastle Central Station and running non-stop to the Stadium of Light. Buses leave Newcastle at 15.00, 15.30, 16.00 and then every 20 minutes (at 00, 20 & 40 mins past the hour) until 18.40 to whisk you to the show. Our buses leave from the Wheatsheaf, close to the Stadium of Light for your journey home.
A single fare on X0 is £4, with a return costing only £5 or you can buy our Beyoncé DaySaver for £6 on the Go North East app and travel on any Go North East bus all day.
Go North East Buzzfare and Get Around tickets can be used on this service, but concessionary passes and Network One tickets won't be valid.
All our buses will run on their usual routes before the concert and will continue to stop on Kier Hardie Way or at the Wheatsheaf in Sunderland. Our 9, 20/20A, 35A and 56 all stop on Kier Hardie Way or at the Wheatsheaf, which are only a short walk from the entry areas to the Stadium of Light.
Our 2/2A, 38C, 39, 60, 61 and 78/78A all stop in Sunderland City Centre, where you can change onto a bus serving the Stadium of Light or walk across the Monkwearmouth Bridge.
View timetables
We'll be running extra buses after the concert to get you home in comfort and safety – here's your list of bus routes, times and where to catch your bus from.
Route Travelling to Where to get your bus
X0 Newcastle Central Station non-stop Buses will leave from the North Bridge Street stop (close to the Stadium of Light)
2 Grangetown, Hollycarrside, Tunstall Village & Silksworth Buses will leave from opposite Sunderland Winter Gardens at 10.44pm, 11.14pm & 11.44pm.
2 Hastings Hill, Penshaw, Shiney Row & Washington Extra buses will leave from the Wheatsheaf stop, close to the Stadium of Light.
9 East Boldon, Jarrow & North Shields Buses will leave from North Bridge Street (close to the Stadium of Light) at 10.25pm & 10.55pm for all stops to North Shields and 11.25pm for all stops to Jarrow.
20 East Herrington, Houghton-le-Spring, The Raintons & Durham Extra buses will leave from the Wheatsheaf stop, close to the Stadium of Light, with a bus also leaving Park Lane Interchange at 10.29pm for all stops to Durham
20 Cleadon, Harton Nook & South Shields Buses will leave from North Bridge Street (close to the Stadium of Light) at 10.12pm, 10.42pm & 11.12pm for all stops to South Shields.
35A Castletown, Boldon Asda & Heworth Buses will leave from North Bridge Street (close to the Stadium of Light) at 10.21pm & 10.51pm for all stops to Heworth & at 11.21pm for all stops to Boldon Cineworld.
35A Silksworth, Newbottle, Houghton-le-Spring, Hetton-le-Hole & Low Moorsley Buses will leave from the Wheatsheaf stop (close to the Stadium of Light) at 10.45pm for all stops to Low Moorsley and 11.15pm for all stops to Houghton-le-Spring.
39 Chester Road, The Broadway & Pennywell Shops Buses will leave from outside Sunderland Winter Gardens at 10.45pm & 11.15pm.
39 Ryhope, Tunstall Village, Doxford Park Shops & Moorside Buses will leave from opposite Sunderland Winter Gardens at 10.24pm, 10.54pm & 11.24pm.
56 North Hylton Road, Concord, Wrekenton, Gateshead & Newcastle Extra buses will leave from the North Bridge Street stop, close to the Stadium of Light.
60 Ryhope & Seaham Parkside Extra buses will leave from the Wheatsheaf stop, close to the Stadium of Light, with buses also leaving Park Lane Interchange at 10.27pm, 10.57pm & 11.27pm for all stops to Seaham Parkside.
61 Ryhope, New Seaham & Murton Buses will leave from Park Lane Interchange at 10.07pm & 11.10pm for all stops to Murton.
78/78A Shiney Row, Great Lumley, Chester-le-Street & Stanley Buses will leave Park Lane Interchange at 10.10pm for all stops to Consett and 11.10pm for all stops to Chester-le-Street.
The extra buses will depart from their stops at approximately 11pm, subject to the concert finish time.
Travelling on the bus is great value, with all day travel in Sunderland starting at just £3.60 and you can buy your ticket from your bus driver, or if you're travelling from further afield you can save with our Beyoncé M-Ticket - available on the Go North East app from 14 June.
Young people can save with Get Around – travel all day for only £3.75, plus if you're under 18 you will only pay 90p per journey on our buses.
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Changes to services from Sunday 22 May
There are a number of changes to services taking place from Sunday 22 May 2016, mostly to improve reliability.
May Day and Spring Bank Holiday Buses
Most buses will run a Sunday timetable on Monday 2 May and Monday 30 May, with the exception of the X66 and X88 which will run to special timetables.
Travel made easy for England v Sri Lanka at Chester-le-Street Riverside – 27-31 May
England take on Sri Lanka in a Test Match at Emirates Riverside in Chester-le-Street from 27 until 31 May and here's your travel guide.
Magic Weekend at St James' Park – 21 & 22 May
St. James' Park will host a full round of Super League fixtures on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 May and getting there couldn't be easier with us.
FREE Family Fun Day at Gateshead Riverside Depot – Sunday 22 May
Looking for something exciting to do with the kids? Look no further than our FREE Family Fun Day at our Gateshead Riverside Depot on Sunday 22 May.
Fun for all at Beamish, during Dementia Awareness Week
Why not join in Dementia Awareness Week activities at Beamish next week? There's something for everyone. And if you go on a Go North East bus you can get 25% off the admission fee.


Dermolab Pharma is a contract-manufacturing laboratory for pharmaceutical products in Montreal dedicated to serving a demanding clientele.
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With our customers' interests always in mind, Dermolab Pharma does more than just manufacture products under very high quality standards and meet agreed deadlines. Dermolab Pharma commits itself to excellence at each stage of the pharmaceutical production line (which is never more than 8 weeks).
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Q: Show $1+z=2\cos \frac{1}{2} x(\cos \frac{1}{2}x +i \sin \frac{1}{2}x)$, where $z=\cos x+i \sin x$ Let $z=\cos x+i \sin x$. Show that

$$1+z=2\cos \frac{1}{2} x(\cos \frac{1}{2}x +i \sin \frac{1}{2}x)$$

A: Since
\begin{eqnarray}
\cos x&=&2\cos^2\frac{x}{2}-1\\
\sin x&=&2\sin\frac{x}{2}\cos\frac{x}{2},
\end{eqnarray}
we have
\begin{eqnarray}
1+z&=&1+\cos x+i\sin x\\
&=&1+\Big(2\cos^2\frac{x}{2}-1\Big)+i\Big(2\sin\frac{x}{2}\cos\frac{x}{2}\Big)\\
&=&2\cos^2\frac{x}{2}+2i\sin\frac{x}{2}\cos\frac{x}{2}\\
&=&2\cos\frac{x}{2}\Big(\cos\frac{x}{2}+i\sin\frac{x}{2}\Big)
\end{eqnarray}

A: That identity has a rather simple geometric interpretation. Consider the following diagram:

where $x$ is the red angle and
\begin{align}
z &= \cos x + i\cdot\sin x, \\
m &= \cos \frac{x}{2} + i\cdot\sin \frac{x}{2}, \\
n &= m \cdot \cos\frac{x}{2}.
\end{align}
In other words, $z$ is any point with $|z| = 1$, and $x$ is the angle it forms with line $01$. Point $m$ indicates the bisector of $x$ and $n$ is the orthogonal projection of $1$ onto line $0m$ (starting at $0$ we would need to go in the direction of $m$ for $\cos\frac{x}{2}$). That happens to be the orthogonal projection of $z$ onto $0m$ and thus also an intersection of segments $0m$ and $1z$.
We want to prove that $2\cdot n$ and $z+1$ represent the same point.
Observe, that because $|z|=1$, $\{0, 1, z, z+1\}$ constitute four corners of a rhombus in which bisectors are the diagonals, what implies that $0m$ actually passes through $z+1$.
Now we only need to prove that $|2\cdot n| = |z+1|$. But that is also true, because $n$ happens to be at the intersection of diagonals, which is also their midpoint.
I hope this helps $\ddot\smile$


A 40-year-old man found shot to death Friday night inside a car in the 1500 block of West 1st Street s been identified as Alton Laselle Armstrong, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
Armstrong's homicide was one of three that occurred over the weekend.
No identities have been released yet on a Sunday afternoon shooting in the 1500 block of West 36th Street, after officers responded to reports just before 5:30 p.m. to shots fired, police said. Arriving officers found one person dead on the sidewalk, and a second victim deceased in nearby Clanzel Brown Park after he died as he fled the shooting scene, police said.
Anyone with information on either case can contact the Sheriff's Office at (904) 630–0500 or email JSOCrimeTips@jaxsheriff.org. To remain anonymous and receive a possible reward, contact Crime Stoppers at 1–866–845–TIPS.