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A Different Angle
There we were at Torpedo Wharf in the Presidio, which is right by the Warming Hut bookstore and cafe. There are great views of the Golden Gate Bridge to the west and the city to the east.
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We weren't there long because, alas, the parking lot is not free and we had no cash. We just wanted to see if there were any whales cavorting around the bridge.
As we left the car a Jeep full of tourists sent an envoy toward to confirm the parking lot required payment. "Sorry, yes," I said. "Just about everywhere in the Presidio now." Your tax dollars mean nothing here.
And then as soon as we got to the foot of the pier, a couple of charming ladies asked us to take their photo with the bridge in the background. So we obliged, although we inadvertently took a video of them before we set the smartphone's camera app to still mode.
The monochrome version emphasizes the skyline while the color version alone can depict the charm of the sky and bay.
Time was running out on us. But not our luck.
We composed a few shots with the D300 and the 18-200mm zoom fitted with a circular polarizer. Some of the bridge, some of the city. Then we dashed back to the car and drove away before anyone could tag us.
This cityscape charmed us even though it isn't sharp and doesn't display well as a Web thumbnail (which is all we ever publish here). So we thought we'd have some fun with it.
One of the charms of the image is the blue of the sky in contrast to the green of the bay. Another is the changing skyline.
We present it to you here in two versions. The monochrome version emphasizes the skyline while the color version alone can depict the charm of the sky and bay.
And from where we were standing, the the naked eye could discern very little detail in the distance skyline. We zoomed in a little to 75mm to capture more than the eye can see.
That includes the Bay Bridge on the far left and Coit Tower. And you can see the Transamerica Pyramid as well as the dark Bank of America building. And right next to that (get used to it) is the new Salesforce tower. You can't miss the Palace of Fine Arts near the shoreline either.
But why make you squint?
We cropped the height of the full resolution image severely and resized it to 300 pixels so we could present a larger view:
Ersatz Panorama. Use the scroll bar to see the whole city.
We made a few other edits to this image in addition to our usual tonal corrections.
There was a dark bird and a light small plane in the sky that we erased because, as we said, they weren't sharp to begin with and at these sizes they just seemed like blemishes. We did the same to some objects in the water.
We did a lot of Smart Sharpening as we reduced the size of the image.
And we decided to make a color shift to compensate for the polarizer. We went a little cooler. It's a cool city, after all.
One day we'll have to pay for parking, set up a tripod and make a sharper image of this view of the city. It tells the city's story from a different view point, one we find quite approachable.
The color image is nice and the "ersatz pano" is fun but for me the black and white doesn't work at all -- very unusually for your work. It looks heavily overcooked, with all the detail washed out of the illuminated buildings, whereas in the color version they have a touch of color which saves them.
-- Ken Cameron
That's an interesting observation, Ken. That blush of color adds something. Perhaps the illusion of detail more than any detail itself (looking at the building left of the Pyramid).
The monochrome image was an afterthought. But we grew to like it enough to make it the primary image in the story. But when it came to the pano, we decided to keep the color information.
It might be fun to provide hue sliders to play with the monochrome conversion. we'll have to look into that. Interactive editing.
-- Mike
Yes, I think it is the illusion of detail or maybe something which avoids the manifest absence of detail.
Sliders to play with the conversion would indeed be fun.
I do enjoy the San Francisco views. I haven't been there for 20 years and probably never will again but it will always have a place in my heart and memory.

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Forget Ferraris And Koenigseggs – The Lunar Roving Vehicle Was The Most Expensive Car Ever
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That "car" is the Lunar Roving Vehicle, which was used for the final three Apollo missions to the Moon (15, 16, and 17) in 1971 and 1972. The LRV was extremely limited, with only four examples produced. This "moon buggy" was definitely made for functionality and not for speed. The Lunar Roving Vehicle had a stop speed of about 8 miles per hour, although astronaut Eugene Cernan was able to get it up to about 11 mph, which set the unofficial lunar land speed record.
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The LRV contained front and rear facing cameras and utilized satellite communication technology. The car did not have a steering wheel, just a hand controller, or joystick. The Rover was very light – it weighed just 450 pounds without a driver. Boeing assisted with the design and helped make the LRV out of the most lightweight materials available at the time. The Lunar Roving Vehicle spent 17 months in the design and development phase, and needed to be able to handle the physical stresses of driving on the rough and rocky surfaces of the moon. The LRV was necessary, because it could travel further than astronauts could as they "bounce around" on the moon's surface.
Only three of these bad boys were actually used on lunar missions, the fourth was strictly used for spare parts. Each wheel of the LRV had its own electric motor and the vehicle featured two non-rechargeable 36-volt batteries, which enabled it to travel up to 56 miles. The LRV was strong enough to carry more than twice its weight and came equipped with a navigation gyroscope, a hand-brake, and a television camera that was remotely operated by Mission Control. Astronauts described the Lunar Roving Vehicle as driving relatively well for a bouncy ride.
The Lunar Roving Vehicle is the most expensive car in the universe and cost NASA $38 million to develop, which is equal to about $225 million today. The next time you want to impress someone with your super expensive luxury cars, like the Bugatti Veyron, Lykan HyperSport, or LaFerrari, you might want to find out what happened to these vehicles and see if you can get your hands on one.
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4. It enables the drill-down feature which allows the final user of the report to drill down further within a report to view more specific details.
5. It can do complex queries and allows a user to incorporate SQL statements in a flexible manner.
6. A user can create sub-reports, group selections and easily format various sections of the report in order to achieve different requirements.
7. It allows format parameters to be used easily and flexibly e.g. one item on the report can be bolded and displayed in italics due to specified parameters.
1. For a new user, it might be challenging to create new reports and one might not fully utilize most of the features.
2. Graphical features such as charts are not as enhanced as in other reporting tools.
4. When you export a report created with crystal reports to excel, there is a lot of distortion depending on the excel format. It will take a lot of trial and error and eventually, the data on the report is hard to edit on excel.
5. It might crash often after a software update.
Learning Crystal Reports is only part of the educational process for learning Business Intelligence Reporting. You need to have the fundamental ability to become familiar with how a business operates, how it uses information. You need to be able to translate a company's requirements for managing and and acting on information to the technical organization and structure of its data systems. To be a successful report developer you need to be able to speak both languages. There are some great resources out there for Crystal Reports professionals, such my own Crystal Reports group on LinkedIn, where developers meet and share ideas as well as where employers and recruiters come to find them. There is also the Crystal Reports Users Group Crystal Users group, both hosted by Yahoo Groups, which have been serving and supporting Crystal Reports professionals for over a decade. Plus many web sites, online tutorials, video tutorials, skills training and more. Just don't forget that there are two sides to Business Intelligence Reporting - and Crystal Reports is only one of them.
Crystal Reports is a highly featured and flexible business intelligence tool that has been around for over 2 decades. It is database independent, meaning you can develop reports against just about any database or structured file format, from Microsoft SQL and Oracle, to flat file to text file to spreadsheets to anything for which you can access via ODBC, DAO, XML, OLE DB, JDBC and many more protocols. Crystal Reports integrates seamlessly into SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise products as well as other SAP data management products. Reports can link tables internally within the design template, or developers can build their own external SQL Queries, views, stored procedures or universes and build their reports off those data sources. Crystal also allows developers to script their custom own SQL-based query in the Database Editor. And if your data source changes, Crystal provides tools for mapping your existing report over to the new similarly structured data source. Record selection formulas can help filter out unwanted data to improve the efficiency of report performance.
Crystal Reports has a highly flexible report design editor that features multi-pass linear data processing, allowing analysis to be performed while reading records as while printing records. Data may be grouped or sorted based on raw data or on formulas that can analyze and manipulate record data for customized processing. Crystal Reports allows developers to create virtually any kind of data-based report, from tabular column listings to data-driven letters to charts, cross-tabs, free-form and (pre-printed) form-fitting solutions. Extensive summary functions, running totals, and a rich formula programming language (Crystal also supports Basic syntax) provide unlimited opportunity to manage and manipulate raw data for analysis and presentation to the customer, be it a management report, operations report or customer-facing report. With sub-reports, it is possible to link together tangentially Connected Data sources, expanding the opportunities of publishing relevant information onto a single page or report. Individually formattable multi-section detail, page and group headers and footer sections allow the developer to play with suppression, paging and other formatting options and formulas.
Crystal Reports is a WSIWYG design tool, allowing you to see what you are doing as you do it. Whether you use the the grid or guidelines with the Design Tool, or the size and alignment tools with the Preview Tool, Crystal lets you create the report as you want to see it. You can integrate external images, files, or even BI products, such as Crystal Dashboards (Xelcius). Through the use of parameters, reports can be designed to include user input in the record selection, formatting and operation of the report. Reports can be generated for printing, export to Adobe Acrobat, to Microsoft Excel or many other formats. Crystal can also be easily linked into 3rd party applications through XML, Java, Visual Studio or other APIs. Crystal Reports can also be easily delivered through the Crystal Reports Server or the Business Objects Enterprise Server, providing a hosting platform for both scheduled automation and on-demand report generation.
For someone experienced in business intelligence, databases or programming, Crystal Reports is relatively intuitive, though it will take time and experience to learn how to fully leverage every feature. There are included tutorials that teach the basics, but real world situations often defy the simplicity of the provided solutions. There are plenty of third-party resources from Yahoo and LinkedIn groups to user support web sites and video, instructional and printed training materials. Crystal is not something that the home user can jump into. The license is relatively expensive and does not include a database server, database or other data source. Licensing for enterprise environments can get pricey quickly. While many employers hire report developers directly, there is a large community of professional report developers who work contracts, either independently or through contract employment agencies. In most cases, the employer provides the licensed Crystal Reports tool, but if a company has only infrequent report development needs, they may expect the consultant to provide their own copy of the software. SAP is really not set up for supporting the individual, however, preferring to engage the company in business-licensed products.
Crystal Reports has incredible flexibility but their are limitations, mostly in formatting. Working with lines and boxes is not as flexible as, say, Microsoft Word. Charts and graphs have many features and options but they can be difficult to try and force your data to conform to the usage requirements. Graphics cannot be edited in-template, and some image formats are not supported (though you can easily convert an image to a supported format). The design tool can have issues with orphaned text at the bottom or the top of a page. While you can include comments in formulas, there is no ability to provide comments to the actual data, static, calculated value or other objects within the report design. Rules applied to the selection and manipulation of data can have unexpected results, leading to manual troubleshooting of report design and database queries. Like any piece of template design software, there are bound to be situations where you want to do something a certain way that is not supported by Crystal Reports, which can lead to frustration. But there are usually ways to think outside of the box to accomplish what you want.
Crystal Reports is getting a little long in the tooth. While still one of the worlds' most popular reporting tools, It hasn't received a major update in many years, while Microsoft's SQL Server Reporting Services as well as open-source and other business intelligence competition products have grown in popularity, and it shows. The user interface and feature set hasn't significantly changed in quite a while. Of course, it was already pretty rich and complete, but it lacks the feel and finish of many current generation software products. There is also no version available for the Apple Mac, which means no support for iOS devices. Some feel that SAP doesn't see the Crystal product line as the best place for its R&D investments, pushing more data analytic based products such as Web Intelligence. I think there is room and demand for both and wish SAP would wow me with an upgrade that would transform Crystal Reports into a new generation of business intelligence reporting that sets the bar for everyone else.
The most difficult problem to overcome is the necessity to be logged into the database in order to run a report.
Our industry based software comes with a limited scope of canned reports and Crystal has proven to be a great supplemental reporting program. When our software falls shorts, Crystal offers many solutions. Upper level management, executives, and owning partners love how they can drill down into the finite details the Crystal reports can be built to display. And our data analysts use very detailed reports with minimal formatting exported as excel documents to create a plethora of pivot tables and other analytics including profit margin information and auditing information. I also like that the formulas are more similar to excel then other reporting syntax I have used.
Anyone who has built a Crystal report from scratch can tell you it can be difficult to link tables and other data source issues can cause major problems with the information. Some of this difficulty comes the complexity associated with the software tables linked to the crystal report data source of course... but I do not think the average user can pick up the syntax very easily. And I have found that advanced formatting and cascading parameters can be a major headache.
We use this for some of the reports where user is looking for a particular report but not for data extract. Well, most of the reporting is done on Universe and WebI, based on the need we also use Crystal reporting. We have multiple options for defining the formula, including mathematical and logical functions. We can use advanced data analytics and visualization in the new version but not yet explored by me.
The security implementation is not good. Since query is done without any middle layer like BO universe, report can bring lot of data, no control on data level security etc. Also, the interface is not as good as Web Intelligence or other reporting components. Look and feel while developing is also not very friendly. Lot of adjustment to be made to make a template. Of late there are no much improvements made and it is costly for a customer to get the report created via a development project.
I love how I can take data from our database and present it in a pleasing way for our users. I have been using Crystal Reports for almost 20 years and find it very powerful. I can build a report very quickly and a few simple format changes and make it look professional. I developed a program to run a series of reports with parameters passed from the program. I can do our month end process in minutes instead of running 100 reports one at a time. So it is great for creating a report and easy to add to a .NET program to be run automagically. Pretty cool!
It can be time consuming to build a complex report with lots of formulas. Not a fault of the software. Just the process is long at times when you have over 100 formulas. It would be nice if there was a feature where you could easily clone a formula and then change it quickly for each situation. Although, maybe in a newer version of CR this might be possible.
Marsha from eGov Jamaica Ltd.
I like that crystal report is able to customize the different reports we generate daily and multiple users can view them. Also, I like that it allows for multiple users to feed and draw data from these reports. I like that its all centralized in one place with the flexibility of expanding or changing if need be. I am impresses with how data can be formatted with the various options and once you are trained it actually easy to use.
This tool takes time to become acquainted with, fortunate for us some of our guys were already familiar with the tool and was willing to train the other team members. The upside to this tool is once you are trained it is a good tool to use.
A bit of a learning curve, but a life saver!
My job involves working with similar data that is housed in different databases, both internal and external. Before Crystal Reports, I would pull several reports out of several databases, bring the data into Excel and run pivot tables, vlookups, etc... to be able to see the relations in the data. With Crystal Reports, as long as I have a common data field, (such as a part number) I can combine data from several different sources and run reports based on the related data. This is a much easier method. For example, I am now able to run a single report that shows our current orders, the current inventory available to fill those orders and based on that, make a single order to our vendor for re-stocking. This used to take at least 2 hours out of my day... now it is quick enough that I run the report twice a day and very rarely have stock outtages.
The learning curve is a bit steep, but once you set up a report, it can be re-run easily any time and as often as you need, quickly and cleanly.
A wonderful tool for the generation of reports.
I use SAP Crystal Reports to generate different statistics about the problems and requests in the technological area of the company, allowing to customize each report based on the characteristics and hierarchy of the end users.
allows end users to access and interact with reports through different means such as Web portals, mobile devices and Microsoft Office documents. In general, it is an incredible tool for the generation of different types of reports, providing the option to widely customize each of them.
Given the amount of tools and options that it offers, its handling is sometimes a bit complex, especially for users with little technical knowledge.
Knowledge on reporting systems and different point of view on several platforms.
Excellent reporting system, highly functional especially when combined with the use of SAP Universities (which are in practice a kind of DWH).
I particularly like for his different conception of reporting with the areas subdivided into sections as "groups" that comes out a bit from the concept of a paged sheet but different reasons must be made keeping in mind how the group behaves. Surely one of the best reporting systems. Excellent pixel perfect.
Just its peculiarity of having the sections divided and divisible by "groups", makes the drafting of the report a little more complicated, but it is something that is understood and you can easily manage it by working day after day. For the rest I think he has no particular points to the detriment of his duty and does it well.
This is the traditional reporting tool that is used in many financial organizations. I have used SAP Crystal Reports 12 in my organization. We can design highly formatted reports using this tool. It can connect to multiple data sources such as ODBC, OLE DB etc. We can create reports with different formats such as pdf, csv, txt, xls, etc. We can also create html, xml reports. The price of this tool is also cheap. We can create detailed graphics, instrument panels.
There are some written exercises based on SAP Crystal Report that facilitate learning.
the integration with the different IDE of development are optimized.
The designer of Crystal is fantastic, drag and drop add-ons to create your report.
I had a lot of problems and spent a lot of time trying to adjust the space between the rows. I hope that in the future, SAP Crytal Report will make it easier.
should block the sizes of pre-established and blocked sheets to avoid leaving the margins.


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Reporter visits Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand to cover rise of malaria deaths in Southeast Asia Date: 06/28/19
Amy Maxmen
Amy Maxmen, a San-Francisco-based science reporter for Nature magazine, travels the world to cover global health topics. In 2018, her work took her to Cambodia, Myanmar and Thailand to cover the rising number of malaria deaths in Southeast Asia.
Her story "Malaria's Ticking Time Bomb," won first place in AHCJ's 2018 Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism for a public health story published in the small market category. Here she talks further about how she did her story.
Q: Why did you pursue this specific story?
Malaria kills hundreds of thousands of children every year, so it's an urgent problem – but also an old problem, i.e. not news. So I'm always looking for ways to make the issue a story.
I got a sense that there might be something big to write about in 2017, when the World Health Organization reported that for the first time in a decade, malaria deaths were rising. As worrying, the only drug that reliably cures malaria was failing in Southeast Asia. I called one researcher in Myanmar who said he'd found a way to eliminate malaria in the region — which would prevent resistance from spreading. Then I talked with a researcher in Cambodia who said his team was planning to launch a trial on a new combination of malaria drugs that he hoped would forestall drug resistance. And finally, researchers in the region were documenting the spread of drug resistance at an unprecedented level of molecular detail. With all of this research aimed at stopping drug resistance from spreading to Africa — where about 90% of malaria cases are — I felt that Southeast Asia was having a moment and I wanted to be there to see it.
Q. What were some challenges behind doing this story? How did you overcome them?
Originally, my editors and I were most interested in the genetics of drug resistance, but as I began reporting, I realized that the actual battle to stop drug resistance was to fight malaria in general. So, I tried to convince my editors that malaria elimination was the real story because that's what I would be witnessing in Southeast Asia. But they had been interested in the molecular biology, and didn't want to let it go. So my editor, Brendan Maher, helped me squeeze in both aspects. Our feature ended up focusing on the scientific, political and economic challenges of malaria elimination mainly, but also included an animated infographic that shows how drug resistant mutations had spread over time and place. I was worried that the infographic would slow down my narrative, but Brendan was right: It looks great.
The other challenge had to do with reporting. I planned to do the bulk of my reporting in Cambodia because that's where drug resistance began, where it's getting worse, and where researchers were launching a clinical trial. But just before my trip, the lead researchers on the study told me they wouldn't be around while I was there. I started emailing other malaria researchers in Cambodia, but it became clear that they were reluctant to speak with the press due to government pressure. The Cambodian national malaria control program didn't respond to me either. So I spent my days in northern Cambodia talking with people in villages hit hard by malaria about what it felt like to have the disease and why they felt the problem was growing. This gave me color I needed for a narrative. But I knew I'd need to find the science elsewhere.
Thankfully, I had called a researcher working in Myanmar just before I left for the trip. She was passionate about the work and had a fascinating history as a young political dissident in Myanmar. She had since become a top malaria researcher working with young Burmese scientists and the Burmese government. Although I had originally planned on spending just about a day meeting her in the capital city of Yangon, I changed my tickets to stay longer and travel with her to central Myanmar where her team was riding motorbikes into remote villages to see whether people who seemed healthy carried malaria parasites in their blood. And since we were joined by someone in the government's malaria control program, I was able to learn a lot about when primary research does — and doesn't — translate into nation-wide efforts that are essential to malaria elimination.
Q. What recommendations can you give others when travel reporting?
Make plans, but expect them to change. If the reporting is going badly, move on. If it's going well, stay longer. I try to carve out time at the end of the day to jot down the most memorable moments. And if I have time in the morning, I try to think about what holes I'm missing. If there are people who will be hard to reach once I leave the country, I prioritize asking them everything I can. I over report like mad.
I also try to travel within a country so that I hear different perspectives. For example, I reported a part of the malaria story from the Karen state of Myanmar that has a long separatist history from the rest of the country. Their point of view — even on matters of national malaria control — was different from what I heard in Yangon because of their fraught history with the Burmese government.
A final tip is something I've yet to master: Don't panic when your story seems to be bottoming out. It won't. And let your intuition guide you towards brilliant people — that's not too hard when you're covering health because it attracts dedicated individuals. An editor once told me that a story can be as simple as a compelling character overcoming a difficult obstacle.
Q. What's that chic must-have item?
If you're traveling somewhere without a good health system, bring a good first aid kit with something for deep wounds, burns and fractures (i.e. not just Band-Aids).


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Zelenîțea (în ) este o comună în raionul Iemilciîne, regiunea Jîtomîr, Ucraina, formată din satele Duha, Huta-Zelenîțka, Viktorivka, Vilhivka și Zelenîțea (reședința).

Demografie

Conform recensământului din 2001, majoritatea populației comunei Zelenîțea era vorbitoare de ucraineană (%), existând în minoritate și vorbitori de rusă (%).

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Zeleniîtțea
Zeleniîtțea, Iemilciiîne
Zeleniîtțea, Iemilciiîne, Jiîtomiîr

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.. _closest:

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*closest*
###############

Similar to :doc:`../tools/intersect`, `closest` searches for overlapping features in A and B. In the event that
no feature in B overlaps the current feature in A, `closest` will report the nearest (that is, least
genomic distance from the start or end of A) feature in B. For example, one might want to find which
is the closest gene to a significant GWAS polymorphism. Note that `closest` will report an
overlapping feature as the closest---that is, it does not restrict to closest *non-overlapping* feature. The following iconic "cheatsheet" summarizes the functionality available through the various options provided by the `closest` tool.

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.. image:: ../images/tool-glyphs/closest-glyph.png

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.. note::

    ``bedtools closest`` requires that all input files are presorted data by chromosome and
    then by start position (e.g., ``sort -k1,1 -k2,2n in.bed > in.sorted.bed``
    for BED files).

.. note::

    Reports "none" for chrom and "-1" for all other fields when a feature
    is not found in B on the same chromosome as the feature in A.
    E.g. `none -1  -1`

.. important::

    As of version 2.22.0, the `closest` tool can accept multiple files for
    the `-b` option. This allows one to identify the closest intervals between a single
    query (`-a`) file and multiple database files (`-b`) at once! This functionality
    now requires that all input files be sorted by chromosome and start coordinate
    in an identical manner (e.g., `sort -k1,1 -k2,2n`).

===============================
Usage and option summary
===============================
**Usage**:
::

  bedtools closest [OPTIONS] -a <FILE> \
                             -b <FILE1, FILE2, ..., FILEN>

**(or)**:
::

  closestBed [OPTIONS] -a <FILE> \
                       -b <FILE1, FILE2, ..., FILEN>

===========================      ===============================================================================================================================================================================================================
Option                           Description
===========================      ===============================================================================================================================================================================================================
**-s**                           Require same strandedness.  That is, find the closest feature in B that overlaps A on the _same_ strand. By default, overlaps are reported without respect to strand.

**-S**                           Require opposite strandedness.  That is, find the closest feature in B that overlaps A on the _opposite_ strand. By default, overlaps are reported without respect to strand.

**-d**                           In addition to the closest feature in B, report its distance to A as an extra column. The reported distance for overlapping features will be 0.

**-D**                           | Like `-d`, report the closest feature in B, and its distance to A as an extra column. However unlike `-d`, use negative distances to report upstream features.
                                 | The options for defining which orientation is "upstream" are:
                                 | - `ref`   Report distance with respect to the reference genome.
                                 |           B features with a lower (start, stop) are upstream
                                 | - `a`     Report distance with respect to A.
                                 |           When A is on the - strand, "upstream" means B has a
                                 |           higher (start,stop).
                                 | - `b`     Report distance with respect to B.
                                 |           When B is on the - strand, "upstream" means A has a
                                 |           higher (start,stop).
**-io**                          Ignore features in B that overlap A. That is, we want close, yet not touching features only.

**-iu**                          Ignore features in B that are upstream of features in A. This option requires -D and follows its orientation rules for determining what is "upstream".

**-id**                          Ignore features in B that are downstream of features in A. This option requires -D and follows its orientation rules for determining what is "downstream".

**-fu**                          Choose first from features in B that are upstream of features in A.
                                 This option requires -D and follows its orientation rules for determining what is "upstream".

**-fd**                          Choose first from features in B that are downstream of features in A.
                                 This option requires -D and follows its orientation rules for determining what is "downstream".

**-t**                           | Specify how ties for closest feature should be handled.  This occurs when two features in B have exactly the same "closeness" with A. By default, all such features in B are reported.
                                 | Here are all the options:
                                 | - `all`    Report all ties (default).
                                 | - `first`  Report the first tie that occurred in the B file.
                                 | - `last`   Report the last tie that occurred in the B file.

**-mdb**                         | Specify how multiple databases should be resolved.
                                 | - `each`  Report closest records for each database (default).
                                 | - `all`   Report closest records among all databases.

**-k**                           Report the k closest hits. Default is 1. If tieMode = "all", all ties will still be reported.

**-names**                       When using *multiple databases* (`-b`), provide an alias for each that will appear instead of a fileId when also printing the DB record.

**-filenames**                   When using *multiple databases* (`-b`), show each complete filename instead of a fileId when also printing the DB record.

**-N**                           Require that the query and the closest hit have different names. For BED, the 4th column is compared.

**-header**                      Print the header from the A file prior to results.
===========================      ===============================================================================================================================================================================================================

==========================================================================
Default behavior
==========================================================================
The `closest` tool first searches for features in B that overlap a feature in A. If overlaps are found, each feature in B that overlaps A is reported. If no overlaps are found, `closestBed` looks for
the feature in B that is *closest* (that is, least genomic distance to the start or end of A) to A. For example,

For example, consider the case where one of the intervals in B overlaps the interval in B, yet another does not:

.. code-block:: bash

  $ cat a.bed
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 -

  $ cat b.bed
  chr1  7   8   b1  1 -
  chr1  15  25  b2  2 +

  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b.bed
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - chr1  15  25  b2  2 +

Now compare what happens when neither interval in B overlaps the record in A, yet one is closer than the other.

.. code-block:: bash

  $ cat a.bed
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 -

  $ cat b.bed
  chr1  7   8   b1  1 -
  chr1  30  40  b2  2 +

  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b.bed
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - chr1  7 8 b1  1

But what if each interval in B is equally close to the interval in A? In this case, the default behavior is to report all intervals in B that are tied for proximity. Check out the `-t` option to adjust this behaviour.

.. code-block:: bash

  $ cat a.bed
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 -

  $ cat b.bed
  chr1  7   8   b1  1 -
  chr1  22  23  b2  2 +

  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b.bed
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - chr1  7   8   b1  1 -
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - chr1  22  23  b2  2 +

==========================================================================
Using multiple `-b` files.
==========================================================================
As of version, 2.22.0, the `closest` tool allows one to find the closest
intervals in multiple `-b` files. Consider the following examples.

.. note::

   When using multiple `-b` files, an additional column describing the file number from which the closest B interval came will be added between the columns representing the full A interval and the columns representing the full A interval. This file number will refer to the order in which the files were provided on the command line.

.. code-block:: bash

  $ cat a.bed
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 -

  $ cat b1.bed
  chr1  5   6   b1.1  1 -
  chr1  30  40  b1.2  2 +

  $ cat b2.bed
  chr1  0   1   b2.1  1 -
  chr1  21  22  b2.2  2 +

  # In this example, the 7th column reflects the file number from
  # which the closest interval came.

  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b1.bed b2.bed
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - 1 chr1  5   6   b1.1  1 -
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - 2 chr1  21  22  b2.2  2 +

Instead of using file numbers, you can also provide more informative labels via the `-names` option.

.. code-block:: bash

  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b1.bed b2.bed -names b1 b2
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - b1  chr1  5   6   b1.1  1 -
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - b2  chr1  21  22  b2.2  2 +

Or, you can use the full original filename via the `-filenames` option.

.. code-block:: bash

  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b1.bed b2.bed -filenames
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - b1.bed  chr1  5   6   b1.1  1 -
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - b2.bed  chr1  21  22  b2.2  2 +

=========================================================================================
``-mdb`` Find the closest interval in **each* or among **all** `-b` files.
=========================================================================================
By default, the closest interval from **each** file is reported when using multiple `-b` files.

.. code-block:: bash

  $ cat a.bed
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 -

  $ cat b1.bed
  chr1  5   6   b1.1  1 -
  chr1  30  40  b1.2  2 +

  $ cat b2.bed
  chr1  0   1   b2.1  1 -
  chr1  21  22  b2.2  2 +

  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b1.bed b2.bed -d
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - 1 chr1  5   6   b1.1  1 - 5
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - 2 chr1  21  22  b2.2  2 + 2

  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b1.bed b2.bed -mdb each -d
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - 1 chr1  5   6   b1.1  1 - 5
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - 2 chr1  21  22  b2.2  2 + 2

However, one can optionally choose to report only the closest interval(s) observed among **all** of the `-b` files. In this example, the second interval from b2.bed is only 2 base pairs away from the interval in A, whereas the first interval in b1.bed is 5 base pairs away. Therefore, when using `mdb all`, the the second interval from b2.bed wins.

.. code-block:: bash

  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b1.bed b2.bed -mdb all -d
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - 2 chr1  21  22  b2.2  2 + 2

==========================================================================
``-io`` Ignoring overlapping intervals
==========================================================================
This option prevents intervals in B that overlap the interval in A from being reported as "closest".

Without `-ip` the second record in B will be reported as closest.

.. code-block:: bash

  $ cat a.bed
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 -

  $ cat b.bed
  chr1  7   8   b1  1 -
  chr1  15  25  b2  2 +

  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b.bed
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - chr1  15  25  b2  2 +

Yet with `-io`, the overlapping interval is ignored in favor of the closest, non-overlapping interval.

.. code-block:: bash

  $ cat a.bed
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 -

  $ cat b.bed
  chr1  7   8   b1  1 -
  chr1  15  25  b2  2 +

  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b.bed -io
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - chr1  7 8 b1  1 -

==========================================================================
``-s`` Requiring closest intervals to have the *same* strand
==========================================================================
The `-s` option finds the closest interval that is also on the same strand as the interval in A.

.. code-block:: bash

  $ cat a.bed
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 -

  $ cat b.bed
  chr1  2   3   b1  1 -
  chr1  21  22  b2  2 +

  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b.bed -s
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - chr1  2 3 b1  1 -

==========================================================================
``-S`` Requiring closest intervals to have the *opposite* strand
==========================================================================
The `-s` option finds the closest interval that is also on the same strand as the interval in A.

.. code-block:: bash

  $ cat a.bed
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 -

  $ cat b.bed
  chr1  15  16   b1  1 -
  chr1  21  22  b2  2 +

  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b.bed -S
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - chr1  21  22  b2  2 +

==========================================================================
``-t`` Controlling how ties for "closest" are broken
==========================================================================
When there are two or more features in B are tied for proximity to the interval in A, `closest` will, by default, report all such intervals in B.
As shown in the examples below, this behavior can be changed via the `-t` option:

.. code-block:: bash

  $ cat a.bed
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 -

  $ cat b.bed
  chr1  30  40   b1  1 -
  chr1  30  40   b2  2 +

  # default
  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b.bed
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - chr1  30  40  b1  1 -
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - chr1  30  40  b2  2 +

  # -t all (default)
  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b.bed -t all
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - chr1  30  40  b1  1 -
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - chr1  30  40  b2  2 +

  # -t first
  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b.bed -t first
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - chr1  30  40  b1  1 -

  # -t last
  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b.bed -t last
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - chr1  30  40  b2  1 +

==========================================================================
``-d`` Reporting the distance to the closest feature in base pairs
==========================================================================
One often wants to also know the distance in base pairs between the interval in A and the closest interval(s) in B. `closest` will optionally report the distance to the closest feature in the B file using the `-d` option. The distance (in base pairs) will be reported as the last column in the output.

.. note::

When a feature in B overlaps a feature in A, a distance of 0 is reported.

.. code-block:: bash

  $ cat a.bed
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 -

  $ cat b.bed
  chr1  7   8   b1  1 -
  chr1  22  23  b2  2 +

  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b.bed
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - chr1  7   8   b1  1 - 3
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - chr1  22  23  b2  2 + 3

==========================================================================
``-D`` Reporting **signed** distances to the closest feature in base pairs
==========================================================================
Whereas the `-d` option always reports distances as positive integers, the
`-D` option will use negative integers to report distances to "upstream" features. There are three options for dictating how "upstream" should be defined.

1. `-D ref`: Report distance with respect to the reference genome. That is, B features with lower start/stop coordinates are considered to be upstream.

2. `-D a`: Report distance with respect to the orientation of the interval in A. That is, when A is on the - strand, "upstream" means B has higher start/stop coordinates. When A is on the + strand, "upstream" means B has lower start/stop coordinates.

3. `-D b`: Report distance with respect to the orientation of the interval in B. That is, when B is on the - strand, "upstream" means A has higher start/stop coordinates. When B is on the + strand, "upstream" means A has lower start/stop coordinates.

This is best demonstrated through multiple examples.

.. code-block:: bash

  $ cat a.bed
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 +

  $ cat b.bed
  chr1  7   8   b1  1 +
  chr1  22  23  b2  2 -

  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b.bed -D ref
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 + chr1  7   8   b1  1 + -3
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 + chr1  22  23  b2  2 - 3

Since the A record is on the "+" strand in this example, `-D ref` and `-D a` have the same effect.

.. code-block:: bash

  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b.bed -D a
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 + chr1  7   8   b1  1 + -3
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 + chr1  22  23  b2  2 - 3

However, the signs of the distances change if the A interval is on the "-" strand.

.. code-block:: bash

  $ cat a.bed
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 -

  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b.bed -D a
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - chr1  7   8   b1  1 + 3
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 - chr1  22  23  b2  2 - -3

Let's switch the A interval back to the "+" strand and now report distances with respect to the orientation of the closest B records.

.. code-block:: bash

  $ cat a.bed
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 +

  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b.bed -D b
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 + chr1  7   8   b1  1 + 3
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 + chr1  22  23  b2  2 - 3

Let's flip the stand of the two B records and compare.

.. code-block:: bash

  $ cat b.bed
  chr1  7   8   b1  1 -
  chr1  22  23  b2  2 +

  $ bedtools closest -a a.bed -b b.bed -D b
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 + chr1  7   8   b1  1 - -3
  chr1  10  20  a1  1 + chr1  22  23  b2  2 + -3

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Home About Us News & Events Averett announces addition of competitive dance team, names Harris as head coach
Averett announces addition of competitive dance team, names Harris as head coach
Posted on March 11th, 2019 by Cassie Jones
Averett University Director of Athletics Meg Stevens announced the addition of a competitive dance team, which the university will launch for the 2019-20 academic year.
Stevens also announced the hiring of Alexis Harris as the program's first head coach.
"We have done a lot of research about what new programs to add and what would be a good fit at Averett," Stevens said. "Competitive dance is a natural fit for us. Not only will a competitive dance team attract new prospective students, it will also add to our game day atmosphere."
Averett's competitive dance team is the fifth new program that Averett has added under the Department of Athletics in the past three years, joining esports, men's and women's lacrosse and men's wrestling.
"We are thrilled to add competitive dance to our co-curricular offerings at Averett, and believe Alexis will help us propel this program forward," Averett University President Dr. Tiffany M. Franks said. "We know there is a large local and regional dance community with many potential students who could continue dancing through their college years right here at their Hometown University, joining other prospective and current students from around the country."
As the program's first head coach, Harris comes to Averett with a background in dance. She was a four-year member of Limestone College's dance team from 2013-17, including serving as the team captain for two seasons. While at Limestone, she helped the Saints win the 2016 and 2017 Cheer LTD National Championship in hip-hop, as well the 2016 championship in open variety.
"Alexis is a great addition to our department," Stevens said. "She has the knowledge and enthusiasm to successfully launch a first-year program."
In addition to attending the ProAction Dance Convention twice, Harris remained involved in dance since graduating. In 2018, she was the choreographer for Limestone's game day dances. She also served as the assistant dance coach at Spartanburg Preparatory School in 2018.
"I am very excited to be a part of the Averett University family and honored to be the first dance head coach," Harris said. "I'm ready to get started and do as much as possible to build a great program."
To see this story on the Athletics website, click here.


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Home News Grassy lunch with Frank Barenbrug, creative with seeds
Grassy lunch with Frank Barenbrug, creative with seeds
'SOS enables us to guarantee more playing time,' says Frank Barenbrug from the eponymous seed company. SOS? 'Yes, Super Over Seeding,' he explains. As if this solved the riddle. To demonstrate the effect of his latest invention, he takes us to the Feyenoord Stadium in Rotterdam. Waiting for us there is Remy de Milde, just 30 and already carrying the heavy responsibility of field manager of De Kuip. A man like him used to be known as a groundsman, often a grumpy old man, usually the only person on the club's payroll.
Remy, on the other hand, is young, enthusiastic and trained as head greenkeeper of a golf course. And if there is anyone who can handle grass and who knows all the secrets of grasses, it is a golf greenkeeper. 'So a football pitch like this is a piece of cake, really. Although you do have an entire stadium and the TV cameras looking down on it. The biggest problem is still how to repair the damage caused by sliding as quickly as possible and how to make sure that the turf is still more or less green and healthy after the winter weather. But that's where SOS comes in.' Remy de Milde is a huge fan of SOS. Thanks to Barenbrugs' SOS, we no longer have to lay new turf in the stadium after the winter.
Caption: Barenbrug director Frank Barenbrug (r) with his 'grass-mad' Jan van den Boom and Feyenoord's field manager Remy de Milde (l)
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All over the world people and animals walk, run, play and graze on grass fields sown with Barenbrug seed. From the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing, where the last Olympic Games opened, to Wimbledon. Barenbrug is already hard at work developing special grass seed for the football World Cup in South Africa. A good, healthy chunk of Dutch glory.
Nonetheless, Frank Barenbrug is modesty itself, as evidenced at the lunch in the Feyenoord restaurant. A grass appetiser, perhaps? 'No, edible grass - we don't have that yet.' At least not for people. But virtually every meadow is sown with one of his feeder grass varieties. Last year Frank and his brother Bastiaan took over the helm of Royal Barenbrug and its branches all over the world from their father Bert. Bert is the grandson of Josephus Theodorus Barenbrug, who founded the seed company in 1904. Bert has now started playing golf. Recently he played on the Old Course at St. Andrews. So he was able to see for himself how his own seed was doing there.
Son Frank is not such a great sportsman. At least not on grass. He does a bit of diving and shooting and plays a little tennis. 'And the crazy thing is that when I'm watching a match at the football stadium I'm looking at the grass more than the players. Yes, at home I do have a beautiful lawn around the house. A couple of hundred square metres. I mow it myself. With a manual mower. It gives the best result.'
Virtually every garden in the Netherlands has grass from Barenbrug. You can already buy seed in packets with brand names like Park, Pokon, Ecostyle, Intratuin, Gamma or Praxis. They are all supplied by Barenbrug. Artificial grass? 'You mean astro turf? No, that's on the way out, even in football. Although it's a different picture for hockey.'
Not only gardens, meadows and sports fields thrive on seed from Barenbrug. The company also makes a special seed for airports. For Schiphol, for example, where the runways are surrounded by huge grass fields. 'These are special mixes that produce blades that are rough and vertical, so they are less appealing to vermin and insects. So the grass attracts fewer birds.'
And what new grass seed is Barenbrug breeding now? Grass that does not need mowing? 'We already have that. Those are our low maintenance mixtures. One of our innovations.' Purple grass? Red grass? 'We are also experimenting with colours. But what I am still dreaming of is turning the Sahara completely green.'


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When I featured this dress in a Topshop Haul months ago all I could think about was how much it reminded me of dragons. The green criss cross pattern and the unique overlay cut out just screamed dragon to me. That idea seems to have stuck and this dress has been dubbed "The Dragon Dress" by anyone who's seem me wear it. I wasnt sure about it at first, it's not really my style as such. I dont really like wearing colour and I intitially felt the style was too "meet the parents" for my day to day wardrobe but Im glad I went with it and decided to keep the dress. Paired with my usual leather jacket and fedora combo it's a match made in heaven.
Very pretty, love the overlay!
Amazing look. Love the cute dress!
Kind of reminds me of Medusa and her snakes.
I love the overlay on it and the colour.
I love the green and fitted layers, such a nice design on you!
It looks great on you, I love the colour scheme of turquoise and black!
Loving the dress~ I like the colour of it and it is quite a unique design.
Haven't shopped in topshop in a while now so I think its worth going to check their new stuff out.
This looks so lovely on you Lily, that shade and pattern suits you so much (: plus 'dragon scales' = a step closer to being Daenerys so who's winning now eh? Hope you're well dear!
I would've said mermaid scales but dragon sounds more majestic and ferocious!
Totally know what you mean !
Definitely glad that you kept the dress, I really like it!
That's such a pretty dress and the green color looks really good on you!
The shape of the dress is super flattering Lily! Awesome pattern too, especially when paired with the jacket.
Anyways it is really pretty!
Very cool look! I love the jacket.
i've got this dress as well and it's such a beautiful pattern, similarly to you i pair it with my leather jacket and some boots!
love how you have styled this dress, lovely post!
Love the dress and your sequined clutch! I'm carrying a sequined clutch (and tee) as well in my latest post.
When I first saw this dress I almost bought it right away - now I'm regretting the decision not to!
Love that dress so much! Could be dressed amazing up or down, great pick!
I love overlay style dresses, it's such a lovely colour too.
That dress looks so lovely!
Love how you Lily-fied this dress. The sleeve length is my favourite and I'm starting to really love deeper greens in clothing!
I love that dress, the colour and the shape are amazing!
Love the colour and print of your dress, goes great with your leather jacket.
I love the overlay effect on day dresses, it adds a little somethin' somethin' to an otherwise simple look. Totally agree that the pattern screams dragon, its a gorgeous colour on you though - glad you kept it!
Dresses always look so amazing on you! You can definitely pull off this kind of edgy-girly look.
Love this dress and the look entirely !
I totally see the "dragon" vibe hahaha! Love the outfit!
love the dress suits you so much Lily and the way you styled it!
This dress is beyond stunning and is such a stand out piece!
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Love it paired with that sequin clutch!!
What a stunning dress. It does kinda remind me of a dragon or fish scales (in a good way!). Beautiful colour on you too.
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Harvesting Vegetables - 3 Keys To Get Peak Production From Your Garden!
So much work goes into garden planning and planting, that sometimes gardeners forget how important the process of harvesting vegetables is to the overall success of a garden.
But good harvesting techniques really do matter when it comes to the continued production levels of plants.
Here are 3 big keys to harvesting vegetables, and how to get the most from your summer garden!
With most vegetables, the more you pick, the more they keep producing.
For the majority of vegetable plants, the more you harvest, the more a plant will produce.
One of the biggest mistakes gardeners make is to not harvest on a regular basis. Allowing a plant's fruit to become overly ripe, or go to seed, sends a signal to the plant to stop producing new blooms.
It is called vegetable or fruit overload, and it can stop a plant from producing quickly.
When too much energy is used in the ripening of existing fruit, vegetable plants simply shut down the process of making new blooms.
Picking vegetables at the moment they ripen encourages a plant to keep on producing blooms. And more blooms means more vegetables.
This is true for peppers, peas, zucchini, cucumbers, squash and nearly all vegetable plants including indeterminate tomatoes. The one exception is determinate tomatoes. Determinate varieties are bred to create and bear all of their fruit at once.
Heirloom varieties on the other hand will keep bearing fruit until frost, and constant picking helps keep plants producing.
Good harvesting habits lead to a good harvest!
Much like a plant spends energy on the ripening process, it also spends it on repairing damage.
When a plant has damaged or broken stems or limbs, it uses excess energy to attempt to seal or repair the damage. Energy that should be used to create and ripen more vegetables. The same goes for damaged or rotting fruit on plants.
By removing damaged limbs and vegetables from the plant immediately, you keep the plant's energy focused on production.
Also be sure to remove any foliage that shows signs of disease. Black rot, blight and mildew disease can spread quickly if left unchecked.
#3 Pick Carefully And Watch Where You Walk!
Remember when harvesting to pick carefully. In addition to the ripened vegetables you are picking, there are tender new blooms on plants as well that create future harvests. These blooms are vulnerable, and can be easily knocked off during the picking process.
As you pick, be sure to keep from walking directly on top of the root zones of your vegetable plants. Stepping on the root zones will compress the soil and roots.
When roots become compacted in heavy soil, it becomes hard for nutrients, air or water to get to the plant. And that can spell instant trouble for any vegetable plant!
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Over 500 Groups Call on Congress to End Fossil Fuel Subsidies with Letter, Rally, Petitions in Week of Action
June 29, 2021By Collin ReesBlog Post, News, Press Releases, Stop Funding Fossils
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Over 500 Groups Call on Congress to Eliminate Fossil Fuel Subsidies with Letter, Rally, Petitions in Week of Action
WASHINGTON, DC — Over 500 organizations, including Oil Change International, Sierra Club, Oxfam America, Greenpeace USA, Friends of the Earth Action, Food & Water Watch, NRDC Action Fund, and a wide range of health, faith, environmental and other groups across the United States released a letter today calling on congressional leadership to eliminate the fossil fuel subsidies embedded in the U.S. tax code. They also staged an in-person rally on the National Mall urging Congress to ensure that fossil fuel subsidy removal is included in any major legislation advanced this year.
In a letter urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to support the "elimination of fossil fuel subsidies and other giveaways in any infrastructure, economic recovery and/or reconciliation legislative package," 513 groups wrote:
"It is past time to remove the burden of dirty energy support from the public and instead turn the efforts of the government to supporting clean energy and the jobs it generates. Action now will help us protect the climate, promote a more equitable, clean energy economy for America, and strengthen international leadership."
In addition to the joint letter to Congress, activists delivered nearly 150,000 petitions calling for an end to fossil fuel subsidies to senators and representatives as part of the End Fossil Fuel Subsidies Week of Action, which is ongoing.
"Deadly public subsidies to Big Oil, Gas, and Coal have been driving climate chaos and harming frontline communities for far too long," said Collin Rees, Senior Campaigner at Oil Change International. "The success of the clean energy transition will hinge on whether we're able to wind down the political power of the fossil fuel industry — eliminating subsidies to oil, gas, and coal companies is a key first step."
The groups cite Pelosi's and Schumer's own calls for eliminating subsidies, writing:
"In 2011, you rose [..] in support of eliminating a raft of fossil fuel subsidies. You highlighted the injustice and destructiveness of these giveaways to an industry responsible for the destruction of communities, nature, and climate. Fossil fuels are outdated energy sources that produce enormous levels of pollution that harm our communities, natural areas, and climate. These impacts fall hardest on historically marginalized communities, including Black and Indigenous communities."
In 2011, Speaker Pelosi said on the House floor, "It's long past time to turn off the spigot of public funds flowing to Big Oil…so I rise to ask my colleagues today: Should the American taxpayers continue to subsidize Big Oil's profits?"
Likewise, Senator Schumer said on the Senate floor, "You don't have to worry about [the fossil fuel industry's] desire to explore. They are looking every place they can. They don't have to have a subsidy to do it…so the time to repeal these giveaways is now."
Fossil fuel subsidies are not only a gross taxpayer abuse, but also help incentivize the development and operation of oil and gas wells that heavily impact the health of communities around the country, as new research from the Stockholm Environment Institute clearly shows. The Biden Administration's budget aims to cut $120 billion in fossil fuel subsidies over the next 10 years, and momentum is growing on Capitol Hill, with both the Clean Energy for America Act and the End Polluter Welfare Act gaining steam.
"Using taxpayer money and government resources to support the burning of fossil fuels is helping industry harm us," said Sujatha Bergen, senior advisor to the NRDC Action Fund. "It is well past time to end taxpayer support for these wasteful and outdated technologies that are so destructive to communities and nature."
Download the full letter and list of signers: http://priceofoil.org/2021/06/29/congress-letter-end-fossil-fuel-subsidies


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Marjoe
2010-2019 RIP
List of all people nominated for Oscar
Silent Generation Directors
OS DIRETORES
Academy Award-winning people
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Dawn of the Dead TV Commentator
Marjoe Director
Gizmo! Director
Reveille Person at AA Meeting
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1977 Gizmo! (Documentary)
1972 Marjoe (Documentary)
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2001 Reveille (Short)
Person at AA Meeting
1978 Dawn of the Dead
TV Commentator
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1977 Gizmo! (Documentary) (producer)
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1967 The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series)
Self - hippie writer editor
- George Hamilton, Aretha Franklin, Milt Kamen, Rip Taylor, Howard Smith, The Illegitimate Theater (1967) ... Self - hippie writer editor