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COUNTIES STEP UP AS NEW GROUNDWATER LAWS TACKLE A CLASSIC TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS
"Picture a pasture open to all," where each herdsman strives to keep as many cattle as possible on the commons, an economist wrote almost 50 years ago. The rational choice for each individual is to add more animals to his herd without regard for the welfare of neighbors, and they all do that as they march inexorably toward mutual destruction – the "Tragedy of the Commons" as described by Garrett Hardin.
"Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit – in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all," Hardin wrote in Science Magazine in 1968.
Groundwater infiltrates subterranean rock, creating ancient reservoirs
credit: mercola.com
Groundwater Commons
By far, the largest, most important commons in California is the water beneath our feet, and it is well on its way toward ruin. Large basins beneath the valley floors contain up to ten times the capacity of all the state's reservoirs put together (42 million acre feet). They are uncharted and boundless, subterranean streams of water flowing among the rocks in mysterious, unexpected ways from one region to another. And they are shrinking.
In these years of drought, a giant sucking sound could be heard throughout the Central Valley as farmers pumped ever more water from the rocks beneath the earth. The deeper the drill, the more ancient the layers. As they pumped, the land sank, along with the water table. In some areas of the San Joaquin Valley, only the biggest, wealthiest farmers could go deep enough to reach the water, and they did, leaving their neighbors literally in the dust with dry wells. Surface land in portions of the San Joaquin Valley sank by up to ten inches in just six months of this year, from May to October.
California has 515 groundwater basins (dark grey) in
ten hydrologic regions (outlined)
100 years of Exploitation
Californians have been exploiting this commons for 100 years with precious few restrictions. There has been no statute governing its use. The only law that even affects groundwater pumping has come through case law when a property owner sued another for infringing on his rights. In these rare instances, judges have ruled that a property owner's right to pump water from the ground is not unlimited. Neighbors have rights as well – called correlative rights – and any one property owner can only take his fair share of the safe yield. But aside from this case law – of which the particulars are hard to determine (what is "safe yield" from an uncharted basin?) – the state has never imposed any limits on groundwater pumping.
That is now changing.
First Statute to Govern Commons
Next month, in January, the first written law governing this commons will go into effect, a statute requiring local groups to create sustainability agencies that will be charged with bringing depleted groundwater reservoirs into balance. If locals don't do it within the next few years, the state's water board has been empowered to come in and correct the balance. This is the first time in California's history that state authorities (other than courts) have given themselves the power to stop a property owner from taking water from beneath his land. But it will be a while before such power comes into play.
The first opportunity to restrict pumping will be January of 2020, the deadline for passage of a local sustainability plan, said David Orth, manager of the Kings River Conservation District in the San Joaquin Valley and member of the powerful California Water Commission which will be making decisions on surface and groundwater storage with new state bond money approved by voters this year.
King's County's Dave Orth surveying a
recharge pond
"A lot of things can happen in five years and that concerns me.... but this problem doesn't lend itself to a quick fix,"said Orth. "Any attempt tomorrow to restrict groundwater use, or even to set fees is likely to lead to a legal challenge. We have to be patient and recognize that it took 100 years to get here. It will take at least 20 to get out of it."
Counties Stepping Up
Meanwhile, county supervisors in the San Joaquin Valley are stepping into the breach to find various ways to halt the overdraft in their local groundwater basins. It's an urgent issue in counties like Merced, Stanislaus, Madera and Kern where lands are sinking and wells are running dry. Farmers are split, some opposing any restrictions; others calling for a moratorium on extraction.
"Before, farmers were united against doing anything," said Sarge Green, a program director from the California Water Institute at Fresno State, who is helping counties write groundwater ordinances. "Now they are being damaged by each other, and it has created a powerful incentive to do something. You have farmers saying, 'I don't want my neighbor to export water to another county or build a giant well that dries up mine'."
The issues are so contentious that a groundwater lawsuit in San Luis Obispo County had to be moved to Santa Clara County last month because no one was neutral in the county of origin. San Luis Obispo supervisors had passed a moratorium last year on new well drilling from the Paso Robles groundwater basin and the county is now being sued by 35 plaintiffs. They argue that no official can restrict their right to pump whatever they need.
Land subsidence from May to October, 2014, from Merced to Corcoran
shows deepest subsidence (red) near El Nido and Corcoran
Local Variability
Elsewhere, Madera and Kern counties both considered a moratorium on pumping and rejected the idea. On the other side of the issue, Stanislaus County passed an ordinance restricting people from certain unincorporated areas from extracting water without a permit, while Merced County is considering a similar ordinance that would also restrict export of water from the county.
Merced supervisor Diedre Kelsey said she became aware of the need for county action when she discovered that two individuals from her district were trying to pump local groundwater and sell it to buyers in another county. "We may need an immediate moratorium," she said.
The issues are complicated.
Agony and Creativity in Reaching for Sustainability
In Kings county, Orth and others are striving to create a sustainability plan, bringing farmers together to expand land devoted to recharge basins – areas where water can sit for several weeks to soak into the aquifer below. They have even tried flooding grape fields with 18 inches of water for two months during the dormant season. In that case, they came out ahead of the game with a bumper harvest. They're now looking at how long they can leave water standing in an orchard, anything to build the recharge capacity of an area where agriculture is outrunning available water.
Orth estimates that the Kings area is farming about five percent more land than can be sustained with current water supplies. "Our strategy is to make every bit of that up with flood water (recharge) and voluntary water conservation to avoid land retirement," he said, adding that the state as a whole is over-farming by a significant amount and will have to retire some agricultural land, if it cannot replenish the underground aquifers.
Merced County Supervisor Diedre Kelsey: "We may need
a moratorium." Credit: Patricia McBroom
Land retirement.
"That's the word that everyone is trying to avoid," said Juliet Christian-Smith, climate scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists. "Everybody is bending over backwards to not have that conversation (about land retirement) right now," said Christian-Smith. Instead they are talking about moratoriums and ordinances, data and analysis:
" 'How much groundwater are we using? How much is being replenished naturally? What do we need to do to reach the level of sustainable yield? What does proportional reduction look like? Should we buy out landowners?' They have to figure out what has gone on so far." said Christian-Smith.
Can Californians learn to cooperate in this commons and not take more than their "fair share" of a "safe yield"? It's a good question. Some people may cooperate voluntarily; others will no doubt need the police powers of the state and counties before they stop taking their lion's share of precious water.
Meanwhile, the cavalry is coming over the hill.
Posted by Patricia McBroom at 12:07 AM 3 comments
DELTA OUTFLOW HOVERS AROUND ZERO, MAKES WATER TRANSFERS RISKY; INCREASES LEVELS OF SALT IN ESTUARY
There is no fresh water flowing out of the Delta on this early July day in summer and hasn't been since May, new data is showing. The only water surging in and out are the salty tides, which continually threaten fish and fresh water pumps serving people throughout the state.
USGS acoustic Doppler devices near Rio Vista bridge
keep track of fresh water outflow from Delta channels
This is the apparent condition of the Delta, according to state-of-the-art flow monitors operated by the USGS in four locations near Rio Vista and Brannon State Park (among others), where fresh water meets salty and becomes brackish.
Official estimates of outflow, however, calculate that about 4,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) of fresh water is flowing into the Bay – admittedly low, but not zero, which would have important implications for managing water in this drought. State-generated outflow estimates are not based on the above USGS monitors, though it has been obvious for at least a year that there is a significant difference in dry years between the two methods of calculating flow.
Small Differences Matter During Drought
In wetter years, a small disparity such as 3,000-4,000 cfs would not amount to much. This year is different. Drought is taking a huge toll in both northern and southern parts of the state. In the usually wet north, streams and rivers are near dry. The meager snowpack in the northern Sierras hit its runoff peak in April, not July, as usual. Ground water tables are sinking, not just in the San Joaquin Valley, but in some northern counties as well. Farmers throughout the state with junior rights have been ordered to stop diverting water for their thirsty crops.
Under these conditions, sales of water from north to south – normal at this time of year –become problematic, even when the sellers are willing. And the condition of the Delta, through which the transfer waters must flow, is critical.
Suits Aims to Stop Transfers
Biostatistician Thomas Cannon challenges State outflow
estimates in environmental suit. Credit: Patricia McBroom
Hoping to stop water transfers of 175,000 acre feet, approved by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation this spring, two environmental organizations have filed suit in federal court. They requested an expedited hearing to halt the transfers that are scheduled to begin this month. Plaintiffs charge that the Bureau did not do a proper environmental analysis before approving the transfers, and the flow monitors maintained by the USGS in the Delta are poised to play a staring role in the case.
"Their totals (measuring delta outflow) have been near zero since May," said Thomas Cannon, a biostatistician whose work is cited in the lawsuit by the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance and AquAlliance. I've never seen it this salty up here," said Cannon on a recent day in the Delta, waving his arm toward the docks at Brannon State Park. Based on his analysis, the suit charges that the dayflow method used by State and Federal water officials "grossly overestimates actual Delta outflow" during dry years.
USGS technician repairs an outflow monitor
at Three-Mile Slough in June.
Credit: Patricia McBroom
If the outflow is truly as low as the USGS monitors indicate, it means that salt water is constantly threatening to move up the estuary and that a number of fish species, including the iconic longfin and delta smelt, are at risk of being carried into the export pumps which carry water to the south of the State.
Accuracy of USGS Monitors Challenged
Difference, however, does not establish worth. The man in charge of water operations for the State Water Project in California's Department of Water Resources, John Lehigh, challenges the idea that USGS monitors are more accurate than state estimates. "I have seen no evidence that would lead me to conclude that this estimate of outflow (using USGS monitors) is more accurate than the one used now." said Lehigh. He added that if someone thinks he has a better way to measure outflow, that person should bring the issue to the attention of the State Water Board. So far, no one has done that, he said.
Lehigh also questioned whether the monitors located in the lower Delta, closer to the Bay, can truly detect outflow in the presence of tidal flux. Outflow in drought conditions (3,000 cfs, for example) is miniscule compared to the huge tides (150,000 cfs or more) that daily wash in and out of the lower delta.
Science panel Validates New Outflow Estimates
Apparently, USGS scientists have been able to account for the tides, because a report to the Delta Science Program in February demonstrated that last year's salinity levels in the Delta matched the USGS outflow meters. Not so the estimates used by the state (called NDOI for Net Delta Outflow Index), which judged outflow to be more than twice as high as the USGS monitors in the fall of 2013.
"The NDOI estimates appeared to be clearly incorrect," said the science program's final report (page 15) released in May. The report went on to say that Delta outflow did not meet minimum standards last year and questioned why the better outflow measures are not being used now.
For this blog, a member of the expert outflow science panel, retired USGS engineer Pete Smith, calculated the difference between the two measurements for May and June this year (see graph).
By official estimates, fresh water outflow from the Delta is about 4,000 cfs; USGS monitors show that outflow to the
Bay vacillated between minus 6,000 cfs and plus 6,000 but the average for May and June was close to zero.
Graph by Pete Smith
The same disparity that was evident in 2013 showed up again this year. NDOI estimates were way higher than outflow as measured by USGS monitors. Whereas California officials believe outflow in the Delta is around 4,000 cfs this summer, the actual figure measured where the Delta meets the Bay is about zero. In light of these findings, the State Water Board will be looking at "possible changes in determining outflow," said SWRCB engineer Rick Satkowski.
Delta Smelt Not in Normal Habitat
So what does this complicated science all mean?
One possibility is that famous Delta fish species – the delta smelt and longfin smelt– could go extinct this year. Smelt follow a salt line called the X2 because they prefer brackish water. Normally the smelt are in Suisun Bay by the end of June, but this year they seem to be still swimming around in the central Delta, near Brannon. In addition to using possibly inaccurate measures of outflow (thus not releasing sufficient water from the reservoirs), the State has also relaxed its salinity standards this summer, bringing the X2 boundary further upstream. This means the precious few smelt that are left after years of decline are now directly in line of the pumps that take water south.
"This year, the only delta smelt anyone's been able to find are in the Delta," said Michael Jackson, an environmental lawyer who has filed public trust suits against the State in past years, but is not involved in this one.
Four USGS stations monitor outflow where Delta water enters the Bay;
official outflow monitors are located further upstream toward Sacramento
and where rivers enter the Delta.
"Because there is no outflow, the only flow will be toward the pumps. Since transport goes right through the area where the last smelt are, it seems like we have put a tremendous amount of money and pain into preserving the fish, only to end up exterminating the species this year." Jackson said there is nothing in the Bureau of Reclamation's environmental report on water transfers that recognizes the threat to delta smelt.
Northern Communities also at Risk
Nor is there anything that recognizes the danger to communities, farms or ecology in California's north, said Barbara Vlamis of AquAlliance, one of the plaintiffs. She said that the Bureau has simply asserted that no environmental harm will be done to northern areas selling the water, calling the assessment a "cheap and shoddy version of NEPA" (National Environmental Policy Act).
"Why are we selling water out of the north when the area will be rationing this summer? By percentage of normal precipitation, the north has been hit harder this year than the south," said Vlamis.
(Bureau officials have been making "temporary" one-time transfer decisions for years, thereby obviating the need for a full-scale environmental analysis on any one of them. The environmental suit is challenging this practice.)
Salt Levels Due to Affect Pumps
Another thing zero flow means is that salt contamination of pumps that bring water to people in Contra Costa County, as well as southern parts of the State, will climb throughout the dry summer months. When salt rises too high, however, the Contra Costa Water District can dilute it with fresh water from Los Vaqueros Reservoir, so there is no imminent threat to urban areas. Too much salty water in the southern Delta could, however, stop the water transfers regardless of the outcome of the pending legal case.
Who gets the water – if it goes through – is unknown. Buyers and sellers are anonymous until contracts are written. But if history and rumor are any guides, most of the water is destined to reach Westlands, the wealthy corporate farmers in Kern County, known far and wide for their political muscle in bending state and Federal policies to their private needs. And that's a shame. It is bad enough that these toxic lands, which release selenium into the waterways, get watered in wet years. It's a travesty when they get to use water during a drought like this – water that is critically needed to save the ecosystem and hold the salt at bay for the rest of us.
Posted by Patricia McBroom at 5:07 PM 4 comments
CALIFORNIA'S WATER STORAGE CRISIS: THE BATTLE AT TEMPERANCE FLAT
Down the spine of California's Sierra Nevada mountains south of Yosemite, huge granite peaks stand shoulder to shoulder more than 13,000 feet high, with no passage through them. Only hikers can cross the rugged range for more than 200 miles.
Banner Peak and Thousand Island Lakes mark the headwaters of the San Joaquin
River in the Ansel Adams Wilderness. Photo by Alex Breitler
These tall mountains – the Southern Sierras – extending from the San Joaquin River watershed east of Fresno to the southern edge of Sequoia National Forest, epitomize California's erratic water supply. In wet years, so much water pours down the mountains that its volume would scare the daylights out of any creature without wings. In drought years, meager streams cannot fill the reservoirs.
A Year Like No Other
"This year, no one has water" said Mario Santoyo, assistant general manager of Friant Water Authority near Fresno, a unit of the Federal Central Valley Project that provides irrigation for 15,000 farmers in eastern San Joaquin Valley. "The public has no idea how bad this is going to be....there will be nothing," said Santoyo glumly. Friant Dam distributes water to more than a million acres of fertile fields that lie mostly east of highway 99, from Madera to Kern County. The area produces more crops per volume than any other in the nation.
Behind the dam, Millerton reservoir was dangerously low as of Feb. 7, and Friant's managers were scouring the state to find more water. We were on a boat on Millerton, touring the site of a proposed new dam, Temperance Flat, that could rise at the back end of the lake, more than doubling storage in the reservoir. (Because of its position in low hills, Friant Dam cannot be raised).
A Dam You Love or Hate
The proposed dam at Temperance Flat (red) would hold 1.2 million acre
feet of water, extending another 16 miles up the river behind the current
Friant dam (in gray and pictured at top) Credit: Patricia McBroom
Temperance Flat is one of the most controversial storage projects in California. Farmers want it; environmentalists oppose it; Federal officials have left it on the shelf for years. But this year, in the wake of California's epic drought year, the project is alive and well. Like nothing else, these months with no precipitation have driven home the awareness that California does not have enough water in storage to get through really bad dry periods.
Friant farmers are particularly vulnerable this year, which helps explain why President Obama is coming to Fresno on Friday, along with Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, who introduced drought-fighting legislation in Congress this week. The Senate bill counters a bill passed in the House by Republicans last week that would roll back the historic San Joaquin River restoration project, among other ill-considered features.
A bit of background is needed to understand the stakes involved here and in the state at large. Nowhere do the competing forces of agriculture and ecology seem more tightly balanced than on the San Joaquin River at Friant.
Bright Dream; Original Sin
Seventy years ago, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation built this dam as the centerpiece of a hydraulic revolution in the San Joaquin Valley. By capturing the unpredictable waters of the San Joaquin watershed, Friant dam and its associated canals gave rise to an agricultural cornucopia, the pride of California and a major source of the nation's produce. Unfortunately, it also brought about one of the most painful chapters in California's water history, a history already full of painful chapters. The story is told in a moving account, The San Joaquin: A River Betrayed, by former McClatchy reporter Gene Rose.
The Federal Central Valley Project in Fresno created two separate rivers.
In laying the concrete for this farming miracle, engineers completely reversed the flow of the San Joaquin River. They sent its waters moving south to Kern County instead of north to the Delta. The river that inspired John Muir disappeared within months. Salmon runs abruptly ended. Landowners along the course of the northern-bound river lost their water, among other deleterious effects.
Today, the historic San Joaquin River disappears about 40 miles down from the dam, leaving a 60 mile stretch of nothing but dry sand. What ends up in the Delta, although called the "San Joaquin River", is recreated every year out of mostly agricultural runoff that rotates repeatedly through the state water system. Its water comes with a bad mix of pesticides and tons of salt, including dangerous levels of selenium. Because it salts up the land, the recreated San Joaquin River threatens the survival of the agricultural marvel Friant Dam helped to inspire.
An Historic Win for the Ecology
A stretch of the once magnificent San Joaquin River, has
been dry for 70 years. With restoration releases, it shows
a meager stream of new water. Bureau of Reclamation
In one of the longest running legal cases of its kind, the Natural Resources Defense Council won a settlement seven years ago that forces the Friant Authority to release enough water into the old channel to restore the river and restart the salmon run. Environmentalists don't want any more water – not even flood waters – to be held behind any dam on the San Joaquin River. Besides, they claim, farmers already take up to 95 percent of the watershed's precipitation. Do they have to have the last .05 percent? Can't they let even one drop reach the ocean?
Ronald Stork, policy director at Friends of the River, which helped win the restoration case in 2007 calls Temperance Flat a "dead beat dam." He said there isn't enough yield from a new dam, over what is already taken, to justify its cost of about $3 billion. And, he added, that extra water will hardly make a dent in what farmers are currently pumping, leading to depletion of the aquifer, so its value in recharging ground water is limited.
The Case for Farmers
Santoyo strongly counters such arguments. Flipping charts to show that flooding dramatically increased in the second half of the 20th century, Santoyo illustrated how much water is lost to agriculture. In 16 out of 35 years, from 1978 to 2013, Friant released water it could not store because Millerton is too small. In each of eight of those 16 years, more than 1 million acre feet were released – enough to irrigate Friant lands for about a year. Most of the flood releases went downstream into the old San Joaquin riverbed and eventually reached the Delta. But sometimes the water went everywhere.
Friant's Mario Santoyo: "I couldn't
move the water."
In 1997 (the year that Yosemite Valley flooded), a rain-driven cascade of water came down the San Joaquin canyons that stunned Santoyo. It came so fast and in such volume (120,000 cubic feet per second) that no mere dam could hold it, certainly not Friant. It was like a football stadium full of water plunging into the reservoir every second, he said.
Reclamation officials urgently called Santoyo: 'Can you move the water!?' they asked. "I couldn't," he said. "There was no way I could move that much water through our canals." The water simply flowed over the dam and down into the valley. "We needed a (bigger) reservoir to hold it back," said Santoyo.
A Challenged Dam in an Era of Climate Change
Environmentalists argue that a flood like the one in '97 does not occur often, and that's true. But climate change science predicts increased flooding from rain in the Southern Sierras. And Friant is not built to handle incredibly fast, big floods that happen over a few days, as they do in a "pineapple express" or "atmospheric river," as these warm rains are called.
Chart shows higher peak flows in the San Joaquin during 20th century,
from 1905 to 2005. Photo from the Friant Water Authority
Unlike other reservoirs in the central/southern Sierras, like the two million acre feet Don Pedro Lake to the north, or the one million acre feet Pine Flat reservoir to the south, Millerton holds only 500,000. It works more like a diversion basin than a reservoir, in that it channels water immediately into the Friant-Kern and Madera canals. By this means, it sends most of the water –1.8 million acre feet – that comes down the mountains onto the fields.
Who Gets the High Water?
But if Friant clients use most of the San Joaquin River water now, why put themselves into big debt building another dam? At most, Temperance Flat would increase their yield by 150,000 to 250,000 acre feet per year – not overly impressive. (Formal predictions on actual yield have yet to be released in feasibility studies.) One answer is that farmers are eager to store flood waters for use during dry periods and Temperance Flat would give them that flexibility.
But the flood waters are exactly what environmentalists want to use in restoring the San Joaquin River downstream.
"We want to get back to a healthy river," said Kathryn Phillips, director of the Sierra Club California. She said the river needs more flow than the amounts contributed by the restoration agreement with Friant. "If you want groundwater recharge along the river, if you want a balanced ecosystem, then you have to let the river flow. Temperance Flat will not help that; it will harm it."
Will the Salmon Run?
Water policy officials like Randy Fiorini, chair of the Delta Stewardship Council, have reached the opposite conclusion. Charged with the responsibility of striking a balance between water deliveries to humans and protection of the ecosystem, Fiorini said he thinks the reservoir at Friant Dam is too small.
"I've always been one to believe that if the upper San Joaquin is to be successfully restored, the Fresno reservoir needs another million acre feet of storage." Only then, he said, can the state meet its co-equal goals on the east side: to provide both irrigation water in dry years and in-stream flows for fish.
Santoyo hopes other Californians will agree with that point of view and support a state bond in 2014 that he expects will allocate money for studies at Temperance Flat. Aside from a drought, the one thing that scares Friant people most is being hauled back into court, losing more water because the salmon don't run. And they won't run if the water isn't cold enough. Millerton is a small, often warm lake, said Santoyo.
"We just don't have the volume of cold water we need to restore the salmon. It's a high priority for us. We have to succeed in bringing back the salmon."
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About Blue Man Group
The Blue Man Group will be presenting their perfect anarchistic instruction manual on gaining popularity in the modern world of music and beyond. Needless to say, the three seemingly emotionless, bald, glistening blue, mute men have taken with them all their self-crafted ensembles, together with Blue Man favourites such as whirlpool drumming, marshmallow throwing and paint spitting. In arenas, the multimedia show is in its element, with innovative components from surreal theatre, slapstick, video, lightshow and stimulating rock music. With its splendid malapropism of rock stars and their attitudes, the Blue Man Group Megastar World Tour has already captivated more than two million people in the USA.
The Blue Man Group's energetic tour production, "How To Be A Megastar", lays emphasis on dynamics, rhythm and audience participation. The show is a shining response to modernity and the technological overkill of the internet era. The Blue Men, mimicking expert motionlessness, use their live stage as a playground for music and art - but seemingly forgoing all rules. The figures, wrapped in blue-coloured latex, spread amusement and curiosity with their virtuoso tube-playing act, without words but with eyes open wide. The main motivation of the performance lies in working with bizarre percussion instruments and obscure ensembles - with a maze of pipes, the tubes.
Hence the Drumbone, a cross between a trombone and a drum. Two performers place several tubes over each other and move them around, creating pitch variation. At the same time, the third member of the group plays the tubes with drumsticks. The PVC Instrument, with a six metre-wide network of pipes, can be played by all three at the same time, and is based on the principle of a bamboo instrument. The Big Drum, with its two-metre diameter, is reminiscent of a kettledrum. The Airpoles' artificial antennae are swung to produce a "swoosh" sound.
The Blue Man Group emerged from the New York underground art scene of the late '80s. In 1987, Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton und Chris Wink, while working for a catering company in Manhattan, started holding organised street-art events and performing in parks and clubs. At the legendary La Mamma Experimental Theatre Club, they produced their first show "Tubes". It was met with a rapturous response from both audiences and the media. The Blue Man Group moved to the Astor Place Theatre, where the show has been playing ever since.
With New York as their starting point, the Blue Man Group began their triumphal march around the globe - with their production "Rewired", the misfits were now the darlings of the audiences in Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas, Berlin, Toronto, London und Amsterdam. Worldwide, more than 16 million Blue Man fans saw the theatre version. At the same time, the three men in blue paved the way for an era of popular Off-Broadway shows such as "Stomp" and "De La Guarda".
Co-founder Chris Wink compares his Blue Man Group to "an Yves Klein painting, whose colour is now independent and enjoys its own autonomy. A moment of surreal comedy in the monotony of human existence". The New York Times describes the Blue Man Group as "a radical test of the boundaries of commercial entertainment". "The best light-hearted amusement you could expose yourself to", is the verdict of the American magazine Variety.
Despite their mass appeal, an aura of mystery always surrounds the Blue Man Group, which explains part of their attraction. With their combination of grotesque pantomime and wordlessness, stimulating percussion and groovy rock music, situation comedy and element of surprise, high tech features und vaudeville, the Blue Man Group creates unique, innovative entertainment.

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Seemingly assembled from the recycled limbs and organs of cult films from various genres, Troll Hunter is an endearing little Frankenstein's monster of a movie. Although writer/director André Øvredal uses the exhausted imaginative crutch that is the fake-documentary format, he does so with alternating strokes of whimsy and horror. Had his bearded, burly central character been less stoically Norwegian and more manically compelling, this quirky gem may have found its way into a few mental treasure boxes.
Writing a synopsis for Troll Hunter feels like giving an in-depth rationale for why eating rat poisoning is a negative when a simple "you'll die" will do. But here goes: Thomas (Glenn Erland Tosterud), Johanna (Johanna Mørck) and Kalle (Tomas Alf Larsen) are three student filmmakers who think they're tracking down a bear poacher when really they're hot on the heels of Hans (Otto Jespersen), a professional troll assassin.
Norway has an entire governmental division dedicated to the control of the troll population. Their plan is to use what appear to be power lines to pen in most of the big-nosed, goofy carnivores while Hans bags any strays who wander off the troll reservation. Hans has grown tired of the relentless secrecy and lies and no longer wishes to only consider his sweet, sweet beard as his only friend. So he permits the school gang to come along as he monitors a troll outbreak, which ranks among the wartiest and stankiest animal control problems of all time.
The bipolar nature of the film's tone could have been a strength, as there are both hilarious and terrifying thoughts that pass through one's mind when considering the reality of giant, multi-headed man-beasts who can smell the blood of Christians. Unfortunately, Øvredal can't quite congeal the horror and comedy together, leaving the scary parts feeling kind of funny and the funny parts feeling kind of scary.
And then there's the complete swing-and-a-miss take on Hans by Jespersen, who opted to cloak his character in muted indifference, which is perhaps the ugliest acting garment one can wear in a cult film. Had he been fueled by the intensity of an unhinged Gary Oldman in his prime or even imbued with the smarmy, off-kilter sensibility of a Bill Murray, there would have been a bit more going on here than just a modestly clever conceit.
Actually, it's for this reason among others that the recently announced American remake for once doesn't feel like just a money-grubbing way around subtitles. The general concept, that there be trolls in them there hills, can be easily relocated to the sparse landscapes of a Montana, while the whole cast can be peppered by actors with that pesky-but-necessary trait of actual personality.
This isn't to say that Troll Hunter isn't a good time in its original Norwegian flavor, as the largely decent and well-select special effect scenes highlight surprisingly pretty cinematography. Although the opening text and general tone of the film owe their origins to the now-derided Blair Witch Project, it is significantly better crafted and the sporadic scenes of running don't inspire quite the camera sea-sickness that was the Blair Witch barf-fest.
Troll Hunter is the sort of film that actually works better if you stumble onto it on your own…so, sorry about that. But if you go in expecting a sly little fractured fairy tale world filled with mild malice, you won't be disappointed. Oh, and the film's money shot isn't a giant beast stomping about but a cleverly edited real-life snippet of the actual Prime Minister of Norway seemingly admitting the nation is actually troll infested. Fake gotcha journalism at its finest.


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Kinsabba, Kinsaba o Kansaba () es un poblado en el noroeste de Siria, localizado en la mintaqah de Al-Haffah, al noreste de la gobernación de Latakia. En el censo de 2004, registró una población de 514 habitantes, todos cristianos Con otros 35 poblados y aldeas, conforma el una nahiya de 17.000 habitantes, de la cual es cabecera.

Geografía humana
Kinsabba de población cristiana, se encuentra en medio de una gran diversidad religiosa y étnica, en una región montañosa de la ciudad alauita de Slinfah, al sur; cerca del poblado sunita de Salma (pueblo sunita); la ciudad de Al-Haffah, la principal, con más del 40% de los residentes sunitas, otro tanto alauita, y el 10% son cristianos; al suroeste están Balloran y Umm al-Tuyour donde la mayoría de los habitantes son turcomanos; al oeste está Qastal Ma'af, mayoritariamente alauita; al noroeste al-Najiyah; al noreste Qarqur; y al sureste Sirmaniyah.

Durante la guerra civil, la población ha sido escenario de grandes combates entre el frente Al-Nusra y el ejército de Siria.

Referencias

Localidades de Siria
Gobernación de Latakia

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TÜV SÜD and ASTM International partner to accelerate adoption of additive manufacturing
Tia Vialva November 20th 2019 - 6:29pm 0 0
TÜV SÜD, a leading technical service corporation, and global standards developer ASTM International have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at Formnext to develop programs accelerating the adoption of additive manufacturing technologies.
Dr. Mohsen Seifi, director of global additive manufacturing programs at ASTM International, explained, "To unleash the full potential of AM, we need a smart global ecosystem of research, standardization, education, testing, and certification."
"We are pleased to sign this MOU, which aligns two globally-recognized organizations' complementary strengths and will help create a robust technical foundation for AM innovation across many industries."
From left: Gregor Reischle, Head of Additive Manufacturing at TÜV SÜD, Holger Lindner, CEO, Product Service at TÜV SÜD, Patricia Lacina, Consul General at the U.S. Consulate in Frankfurt, Leonard F. Morrissey, Director of Global Business Development and Strategy at ASTM International, Dr. Mohsen Seifi, Director of Global Additive Manufacturing Programs at ASTM International. Photo via TÜV SÜD.
TÜV SÜD and ASTM International
As a certification and qualification specialist, TÜV SÜD has recently developed a new certification program that allows metal-powder manufacturers to prove the quality of its processes. Last month, it also signed an MoU with thyssenkrupp Innovations, the additive manufacturing arm of multinational conglomerate engineering group thyssenkrupp, to further develop "additive-manufacturing-enabled solutions."
Conversely, earlier this year, ASTM International, partnered with Innovate UK, the British Standards Institution (BSI), and the UK Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) in Coventry, to develop technical standards for directed energy deposition (DED).
The new partnership between TÜV SÜD and ASTM International will seek to create educational, advisory, qualification, and certification services. This will focus on areas including land transportation and mobility, air transportation, industrial plants, consumer products, and healthcare.
3D printed metal components. Photo via TÜV SÜD.
Accelerating additive manufacturing adoption
Moreover, this partnership involves the ASTM International Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence, which previously announced a "Request For Ideas (RFI)" from its members who are in need of short-term R&D funding.
Following the signing of the MoU, Ken Walsh, Principal Commercial Officer of the U.S. Commercial Service at the U.S. Consulate in Düsseldorf, added, "[Additive manufacturing] is changing production globally and turning traditional business models upside down. It is therefore important that world-renowned AM organizations based both here and in the U.S., develop these new technologies in close cooperation."
The U.S. Commercial Service provided a space for the event, but the U.S. Government is not part of the MoU.
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Featured image shows Gregor Reischle, Head of Additive Manufacturing at TÜV SÜD, Holger Lindner, CEO, Product Service at TÜV SÜD, Patricia Lacina, Consul General at the U.S. Consulate in Frankfurt, Leonard F. Morrissey, Director of Global Business Development and Strategy at ASTM International, and Dr. Mohsen Seifi, Director of Global Additive Manufacturing Programs at ASTM International. Photo via TÜV SÜD.
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National Hurricane Center Forecast Verification
Updated 04 April 2017
Forecast verification procedures
Annual NHC verification reports
Official five-year mean errors and distributions
Official error trends
Model error trends
NHC official forecast error database
Performance measures and goals
4. Official five-year mean errors and distributions
Due to the natural volatility in tropical cyclone track characteristics, annual errors can vary significantly from year to year. For example, years dominated by tracks through the low latitude easterly trade winds typically have relatively small annual errors. Conversely, a relatively large number of forecasts in the mid-latitude westerlies (as can occur during El Ni�o years) can lead to larger errors. Consequently, representative or stable error characteristics must be obtained using a longer period of record.
NHC uses a 5-year sample to define its current forecast error characteristics. Average errors for the last 5 period are given below. These verifications follow the procedures given above in Section 2 (i.e., they include the subtropical and depression stages) and the sample is homogeneous with the operational CLIPER5 and Decay-SHIFOR5 models.
Mean official track and intensity forecast errors for the 5-year period 2014-2018 (.pdf)
The distributions of 5-year track and intensity errors are given graphically in the figures below.
Cumulative distribution of five-year official Atlantic basin tropical cyclone track forecast errors.
Diagram shows the percentage of official forecasts having an error less than the value along the y-axis. For example, to determine the fraction of 24 h forecasts having an error smaller than 100 n mi, find 100 n mi on the y-axis, and read across the diagram until this value intersects the red (24 h forecast) line. Then read down to obtain the percentage.
These track error distributions are used to set the size of the "forecast error cone" displayed on NHC track forecast web graphics. In these graphics, the cone represents the probable track of the center of a tropical cyclone, and is formed by enclosing the area swept out by a set of circles along the forecast track (at 12, 24, 36 hours, etc). The size of each circle is set so that two-thirds (67%) of historical official forecast errors over a 5-year sample fall within the circle. The circle radii defining the error cone in 2019 for the Atlantic basin are given in the figure above.
Cumulative distribution of five-year official Atlantic basin tropical cyclone intensity forecast errors.
Diagram shows the percentage of official forecasts having an error magnitude less than the value along the y-axis. For example, to determine the fraction of 24 h forecasts having an error smaller than 20 kt, find 20 kt on the y-axis, and read across the diagram until this value intersects the red (24 h forecast) line. Then read down to obtain the percentage.
Cumulative distribution of five-year official eastern North Pacific basin tropical cyclone track forecast errors.
Diagram shows the percentage of official forecasts having an error less than the value along the y-axis. For example, to determine the fraction of 24 h forecasts having an error smaller than 100 n mi, find 100 n mi on the y-axis, and read across the diagram until this value intersects the red (24 h forecast) line. Then read down to obtain the percentage. The size of the circles defining the forecast error cone in 2019 for the eastern North Pacific basin are given in the figure above.
Cumulative distribution of five-year official eastern North Pacific basin tropical cyclone intensity forecast errors.
Next: Official error trends


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LOCAL void pathPush(Path *path, const char *str);
LOCAL const char* pathGetLast(Path *path);
LOCAL void pathReplaceLast(Path *path, const char *str);
LOCAL void pathPop(Path *path);
LOCAL int pathEqual(const Path *p1, const Path *p2);

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If you're hoping to introduce a low-cost product to the marketplace, you're in for quite a challenge. You may have already discovered that regular sales channels are especially hard to break into-products that sell at very low prices just don't generate enough profit to cover all the costs retailers face when adding a single-line product to the mix. Although the experience frustrates many inventors, there is another option you may not have considered: selling through fund-raising.
It's a channel that worked out quite well for Ken Joyner. Back in the early days of his business, Joyner was convinced he had a fabulous idea-he just needed a way to make it succeed.
After noticing customers struggling to carry awkward plastic grocery bags, he decided to develop an inexpensive device that made it easy for people to carry several bags in each hand. What he invented was the Bag Grabber, a plastic holder that can hold up to five bags at once. But while Joyner was ready for the market, the market wasn't ready for him. Says Joyner, 38, "I had very limited success and was only able to get the product into a few 99-cent stores in California."
Joyner wasn't sure what to do next when someone who saw his product contacted him to see if she could sell it as a fund-raiser for the PTA. "The contact told me about a regional PTA show in San Diego, where fund-raising product suppliers set up tables with product displays," he remembers. "I was able to pick up a few groups [that] agreed to sell the Bag Grabber. More importantly, I learned about the Web sites [that] fund-raising groups [use]."
Joyner found success with two sites in particular: www.fundraisingbazaar.com and www.fundraising-ideas.com. "These sites are really directories where all types of groups come to look for products to sell," he explains. "We [received] orders from all over the country." Typically, groups looking for products to use in fund-raising include sports teams, churches, PTAs and scouting organizations.
Joyner found the fund-raising route a successful one for his business. This year, his Long Beach, California, company, FundraisingWithInventions.com, expects to sell more than 100,000 Bag Grabbers at $1 apiece as well as more than 50,000 Bag Holders, stand-up frames that convert plastic grocery bags into garbage bags. And Joyner expects business to get even better in the future. "[Up until now,] I've been limited by only having a single-cavity mold, [which only produces one product at a time]," he says. "With my success, I've been able to switch to a six-cavity mold, so I'll have six times as many products to sell."
Moms frequently come up with one idea after another to make life with kids easier. But those same moms are usually far too busy to learn how to get their product to market. Now enterprising moms can find the tips and assistance they need to launch their products by logging on to www.parentwise.com. Created by Dana Lowey Luttway, the site offers business advice and a variety of low-cost services. Lowey Luttway is also the inventor of two successful products: the ParentSmock, a slip-over smock to keep parents' shirts clean no matter how much food kids pelt their way, and the StrollerStand, an anti-tipping device that prevents strollers from capsizing when bags are hanging on them.
Fund-raising groups take two different approaches. The first is to buy upfront, where the group purchases a quantity of products and then goes out and sells them. The second is what Joyner calls "order takers"-groups that take orders first, place orders for products and then deliver them. "You need to be prepared to sell both ways, as groups typically only buy one way or the other," Joyner says. "For the order takers, you need to have an easy-to-use sales flier with an order form on the back." That order form should have room for 15 to 20 orders.
When pricing your product, there are two main considerations. Typically, fund-raisers will want to triple your price. But at the same time, while people are willing to pay a fund-raising group more than the product is worth, there is a limit to how much more. Usually, 50 percent more is about the limit. That means you have to balance your price to the groups so that tripling the price doesn't make your retail price too high.
The product's price point also affects which groups you will attract. According to Joyner, "PTAs, sporting [groups] and scout groups prefer a cheaper product, typically less than five dollars, so most people will buy them. Charitable groups that don't have the benefit of a youth sales force prefer more expensive items to justify the effort to sell each item."
What kinds of benefits can one expect from selling through fund-raising groups? "The biggest advantage is that you have lots of people selling only your product," Joyner explains. That is a big advantage over having your product sit on a store shelf and hoping someone will see it. But this sales channel offers other significant benefits as well. Joyner works from his home, because he generates almost all his sales over the Internet. Plus, according to Joyner, "You don't need as sophisticated packaging as you do in a store, and you don't need to worry about bar codes or in-store displays."
One last important benefit worth mentioning is that Joyner offers his product for $1 apiece, so he doesn't have to worry about working with a tough purchasing agent over difficult terms, discounts, advertising allowances or other demands. People either like your product or they don't-and if they like it, they buy. And even better, fund-raising sales are not seasonal, as Joyner initially thought. "Groups that do fund-raising pretty much do it all year long," Joyner says. "There really isn't a slow season."
It's needed frequently by most people. In other words, virtually everyone has to be a potential buyer.
It's easily understood. Kids selling products may not be able to explain your product well, so its benefits and uses must be obvious.
It's extremely inexpensive. Because the people organizing the fund-raiser will raise your price threefold or more, you need a low manufacturing cost to make a profit.
It's lightweight. Fund-raisers look for products that will provide as few hassles as possible for the fund-raising committee.
Fund-raising has worked so well for Joyner that he's even turned his business into one that sells other products-maybe even yours-to fund-raising groups. "Groups need different items to sell all the time, and I want to offer the groups more options," he says. If you have a product you'd like him to consider, log on to his Web site at www.fundraisingwithinventions.com. The site also offers practical information for inventors who want to pursue the market on their own, including a how-to booklet Joyner sells for $13.99.
If you're being stymied by traditional channels, check out the possibility of selling through fund-raising. An army of kids may be the best sales force you could have.
Online marketplaces for intellectual property transfer have become popular because inventors have a difficult time locating companies that are actually looking for new products. Online listings also make it easier for the parties to connect. One trading forum, NewIdeaTrade.com, offers inventors and other creators of new ideas the ability to list ideas that have either a patent or a copyright for sale. A listing costs just $9.99 to $19.99, with all follow-up and subsequent negotiations handled by the inventor. The site only lists a general description of the product, and the inventor must obtain a signed confidentiality and nonuse agreement before sharing proprietary information with the potential licensor. Other sites with listing services worth checking out include: www.inventorsdigest.com, www.inventionregister.com, www.inventnet.com and www.zpatents.com.


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They tell me it didn't rain in the North of Italy for sixty days. Until I arrived. It has been raining almost constantly since. Italian farmers, you are welcome. Aside from the damp, all is going well so far. I'm feeling well rested, well fed, well treated and inspired. Italy is every bit as beautiful as I imagined it would be.
I took a train yesterday from Verona to Padova, 1 hour and twenty minutes and less than 8 euro on the regional train. Snow capped mountains, farmland, industry, farmland, towns, suburb, city. At the train station. In Padova two young African immigrants with bikes held the tour to the lift and helped me in. I noticed one of them was wearing sandals. I was cold in my boots. We chatted briefly when I apologized for not speaking Italian they introduced themselves as being from Niger and Ivory Coast. They were all smiles and helpful. I couldn't help but wonder if they'd taken the treacherous overland and overseas route from Africa to Italy.
Andrea's friend Alessandro met me at the train station and became my tour guide for the next several hours around Padova. I saw a part of the old university, one of the oldest in the world, students have been coming there from all over Europe since the first century. Alessandro pointed out, "Imagine, you are student in Poland, first you have to know this University exists, then you have to get there, then you have to study in Latin." I saw Galileo's desk. I saw young Italian students racing past Galileo's desk to get to today's class. I saw a fully operational 15th century clock, complete with today's date and lunar calendar. I saw multiple magnificent town squares. I had a spritz and tramezzini. I saw a lot ham and cheese. I definitely considered being an international cheese and ham smuggler.
All of this for beauty. Indeed.
Later Alessandro brought me back to meet his family where we ate the finest pizza I've ever eaten.
Later, later he dropped me to my lodgings. Andrea had told me I was staying in a hostel. Hotel la Corte is definitely not a hostel. The place was beautiful. I had a private room en suite ( with three beds) in a 16th century building. I asked Alessandro what the inscription outside the door meant : "Magazzeno Legna Da Fuoco", he told me it is like Warehouse for the firewood. It was much cosier than a hostel. And much cosier than any warehouse or firewood shed I've been in before.
Before hitting the hay, I had a pint with Alessandro at the improbably named Cockney London Pub down the road. Andrea had told me to call in as I would probably play there the next time. Indeed after a brief chat with the gregarious owner, Amerigo, insisted that I play there on my next Italian tour.


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Reflecting the enormous changes that have taken place in our knowledge and understanding of developmental disorders, this groundbreaking international volume brings this vast and complex field together for the first time. The editors have collected together the world's leading academic scholars and clinicians, to explore how current research across a range of different disciplines can inform academic knowledge and clinical practice and help to improve the lives of individuals and their families.The SAGE Handbook of Developmental Disorders is a central reference in the field for all academics, researchers, clinicians and advanced students involved in the study of developmental disorders, including those in clinical psychology, child psychiatry, child mental health, child genetics and pediatrics, speech language pathology, and developmental disabilities and special education.
Chapter 12: Cornelia De Lange, Cri Du Chat, and Rubinstein-Taybi Syndromes
By: Chris Oliver, Kate Arron, Laurie Powis & Penny Tunnicliffe
In:The SAGE Handbook of Developmental Disorders
Subject:Early Childhood Literacy, Clinical Psychology (general)
Keywords:Cornelia de Lange Syndrome; cri-du-chat syndrome; intellectual disability; non verbal communication; self-injurious behavior; stereotyped behavior; syndromes
Cornelia De Lange, Cri Du Chat, and Rubinstein-Taybi Syndromes
ChrisOliver, KateArron, LauriePowis, PennyTunnicliffe
In this chapter we describe three comparatively rare genetic syndromes associated with intellectual disability. The rarity of genetic syndromes impacts significantly on the amount of information that is available, the likelihood that clinicians will have experience of a syndrome and the quality of advice and intervention that may be offered. This is perhaps unsurprising given the number of genetic syndromes associated with intellectual disability but is nevertheless of concern. This problem is mirrored in the volume of research on individual rare syndromes. In this respect many rare syndromes acquire the status of orphan diseases, with little or no information on cognitive and behavioural phenomenology and ...
Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome/22q11 Deletion Syndrome
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Oliver, C., Arron, K., Powis, L., & Tunnicliffe, P. (2011). Cornelia de lange, cri du chat, and rubinstein-taybi syndromes. In P. HowlinT. Charman, & M. Ghaziuddin The SAGE handbook of developmental disorders (pp. 239-260). SAGE Publications Ltd, https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781446201107.n13
Oliver, Chris, Kate Arron, Laurie Powis, and Penny Tunnicliffe. "Cornelia De Lange, Cri Du Chat, and Rubinstein-Taybi Syndromes." In The SAGE Handbook of Developmental Disorders, 239-60. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446201107.n13.
Oliver, C., Arron, K., Powis, L. and Tunnicliffe, P. 2011. Cornelia De Lange, Cri Du Chat, and Rubinstein-Taybi Syndromes. In: 2011. The SAGE Handbook of Developmental Disorders, London: SAGE Publications Ltd. pp. 239-260 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781446201107.n13> [Accessed 16 Jan 2021].
Oliver, Chris, et al. "Cornelia De Lange, Cri Du Chat, and Rubinstein-Taybi Syndromes." The SAGE Handbook of Developmental Disorders. Patricia HowlinTony Charman and Mohammad Ghaziuddin. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2011, pp. 239-60. SAGE Knowledge. 16 Jan 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781446201107.n13.
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Heininen, Paavo (*1938)
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Veljo Tormis
Veljo Tormis (7. August 1930 - 21. January 2017) was Estonia's most influental choral composer. He is recognized especially for his vocal and choral works. For him, music began with words; he did not have "purely musical" ideas. Tormis was a real master of large-scale choral composition. His music is often connected with ancient folk songs of Estonian and other Balto-Finnic peoples. The best known works in this genre are the Curse upon Iron (Raua needmine) and the song cycle Forgotten Peoples (Unustatud rahvad) - an extensive work which the composer worked on for nearly twenty years consisting of six cycles, each including a number of songs.
His acquaintance with the music of Bartók and Kodály during a visit to Hungary in 1962 was to have a great influence. Tormis has confessed that the choral compositions of Kodály were particularly close to him, and that one of his most popular cycles, Autumn Landscapes (1964), was written under their influence. Veljo Tormis finished his first great cycle, Estonian Calendar Songs in 1967, which was the starting point for "the Tormis' style", as we now know it, and several choral suites based on ancient folk songs of different peoples followed. No longer did Tormis use a folk tune as a melodic idea for further motivic development; instead, the old rustic songs sounded in his compositions in their original manner. Around them Tormis has built truly symphonic choral textures and dramatic musical structures. Other works include The Bishop and the Pagan from 1992, commissioned for the King's Singers and Kullervo's Message (1994), commissioned for the Hilliard Ensemble. Tormis has composed several works using the English and Latin translations of the Finnish epic the Kalevala.
Tormis studied composition at the Moscow Conservatory with Professor Vissarion Shebalin, graduating in 1956. He has taught at the Tallinn Music School and worked at the Estonian Composers' Union. Apart from choral works Tormis has composed stage works (e.g. the opera Swan Flight / Luigelend), solo songs, and few instrumental and orchestral pieces, among them the popular Overture No. 2 for symphony orchestra.
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Life Savers? I don't think so! Every year, for many, many years, my mom and dad have always given me a collector box of Life Savers. This year was no exception. Along with the usual "nice" gifts, comes this little square, wrapped package that you simply look at a know…yep, thats them! This year I made a personal appeal to move away from the traditional Collectors Edition Life Savers to something that I would actually eat: Dentyne Ice Peppermint Gum. I knew that it would mean doing away with an age old tradition but I just felt like this was the year to make my pitch. I'm not sure whether it landed or not so I decided to take last years unwrapped Life Savers back to this years celebration and hide them in the tree for mom to find when they put the tree away for the year. In the meantime, I boarded my flight home only to be stopped by the TSA and have my carryon sequestered for a private "cavity search". If that bag was a person it would have felt violated! As the agent unzipped the bag and started to "have her way" with it, she promptly pulled out…yes, you guessed it, this years Life Savers Collectors Box! She wiped it down, not sure what for, but it was serious. I said, what triggered you to search my bag? Was it the Life Savers? She said "yes, seeing the shape of these little cylinder candies, along with my iPad and New Balance running shoes, alerted them to go in deeper. After this invasive candy caper, she smiled, threw my items randomly back into the suitcase (not good for my OCD) and told me to have a nice day. There was no "Sweet Storybook" ending on this day:) So the next time you think about trying to fly home with a Life Savers Collectors Box, don't pack it next to your electronics and your running shoes. Running with Life Savers while checking email on your iPad is dangerous! And if you are thinking that I am unappreciative, let me apologize. "Mom and Dad, I am so grateful for the annual cylinder shaped hard candy collector box. I want to bless the grandkids and ask that you make a donation of my candy to them for the future. And if you still wish to make me smile, go ahead and add a little 60 count bag of peppermint goodness known as Dentyne Ice gum in my stocking. I love you so much!"


Dear President Obama, Thank you for coming to Cleveland to bring attention to environmental injustice in Northeast Ohio.
"Sadly, no one in government or community development sought a second opinion"
End of the road in bridge debate is blighted Cleveland getting more blighted, and ODOT and NEO saying "so what".
Steven Litt is slowing down ODOT's "Racing to design a new bridge for I-90". Hallelujah!
Submitted by Norm Roulet on Sat, 02/11/2006 - 12:48.
Linked in this book (see contents below) are articles on one of the most important public improvement (or disruption) projects of the next decade: the redesign of the I-90 bridge over the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland and the route of I-90 through the Cleveland "Inner-belt Trench".
This has been determined to be a very high traffic, high accident route and the I-90 bridge has been deemed inadequate and in disrepair by ODOT, so nearly $1 billion in local, state and federal money is being spent to repair and/or replace the bridge and streamline the flow of traffic through the trench. All of this has huge implications to the look, feel and flow of Cleveland, not to mention the local economy and the economy of the region.
As such, this is considered a "third rail" issue in Ohio, with a high level of political lobbying and dealmaking in the background, as is to be expect for a $1 billion federal project. Many NEO leaders are speaking up with very specific ideas they would like considered as alternatives to some of the plans currently on the table for the bridge and trench. As this is such a popular, populist issue, we are placing all related content in this special issue feature as articles listed below.
You may also find content on these issues by searching REALNEO for such keywords as ODOT and NEOBRIDGE, and you may look at listings in the NEO Signiture Bridge category found here. And, please note, there is a related site addressing these issues at http://neobridge.net/. The site is open for anyone to register and post content... you can even log in with your realneo account. To do so, log in there with your username as your realneo username followed by "@realneo.us" (e.g. Norm Roulet [at] realneo [dot] us) and use your usual REALNEO password. Please become involved in planning these major projects - participate here and at NEO Bridge.
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The Coca-Cola Foundation Supports Red Cross and Red Crescent Teams in 90-Plus Countries Impacted by COVID-19
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The Coca-Cola system and The Coca-Cola Foundation are pledging more than $100 million to support COVID-19 relief efforts around the world, channeling funds to organizations that are best positioned to mobilize quickly and provide aid to healthcare workers and vulnerable communities.
As the world's largest humanitarian network, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic in nearly 200 countries. That's why The Coca-Cola Foundation – the charitable giving arm of The Coca-Cola Company – has awarded nearly $14 million in grants, to date, to national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies in more than 60 countries, from Albania to Zimbabwe. Access a full list of Foundation grants (updated weekly).
Foundation funding is awarded at the country and regional level. Grants to Red Cross and Red Crescent societies are helping to provide hospitals with critical medical equipment and supplies, including ventilators, beds, tents and personal protective equipment (PPE) like gloves and face masks; to support community relief programs targeting the elderly, chronically ill, disabled and homeless; and to fund public education and awareness campaigns. Combined, these efforts are impacting an estimated 7.5 million people.
Coca-Cola business units and bottlers also are using high-profile marketing assets like billboards and social media channels to promote health and safety messaging from the Red Cross and Red Crescent.
The company and foundation continue to assess opportunities for grants, donations and other support around the world as the crisis evolves. Needs are being evaluated locally as markets make their way through the outbreak, recovery and back-to-normal phases of the pandemic.
Since 1917, Coca-Cola and the Red Cross have teamed up to support communities in need through blood drives, disaster relief and more. The Coca-Cola Company and The Coca-Cola Foundation – along with a network of local bottling partners across the world – support the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement through financial contributions, beverage donations, employee volunteerism, and by sharing marketing assets, expertise and more. Read more about the more than 100-year partnership.
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has been supporting people in need for more than 150 years. Composed of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and 192 national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies—of which the American Red Cross is one—teams are delivering lifesaving aid and public health messaging to help families stay safe during the coronavirus pandemic.


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Grant Gochnauer: Awesome Humans - Issue #127
Grant Gochnauer: Awesome Humans
February 4 · Issue #127 · View online
Awesome Humans is about becoming the best you can be in a world of exponential change: Leadership, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Personal Growth, Health, Disruption, and the Future.
Awesome Human
Don't Just Network — Build Your 'Meaningful Network' to Maximize Your Impact
"The way many people do it is gross. They get in touch out of nowhere in order to work an angle or ask for something under the guise of friendship. Too many people visualize their "network" as a list of names they can utilize to achieve an end goal. This is a mistake. You can do it differently — and when you do, you'll have a powerful advantage.
If you want to build an effective network, you must focus on what you can do for other people, not what they can offer you. The way I think about it, everyone has four types of networks: Unfamiliar, Familiar, Intimate, and Meaningful. They're nested concentric circles:"
Fermented foods shown to protect against influenza
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With all of these troubling conditions, a little bit of positive news from Georgia State University: fermented foods appear to help protect against the influenza virus, and even prevent a secondary infection.
Memory and Brain Amyloid and Tau Effects of a Bioavailable Form of Curcumin
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Research findings on curcumin, a common spice: "Curcumin's anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-amyloid, and possible anti-tau properties may offer neuroprotective benefits. Epidemiological studies indicate a lower prevalence of Alzheimer disease in Indian people who consume curcumin in curry and a link between dietary curry consumption and better cognitive performance in older adults, supporting the hypothesis that curcumin consumption may provide neuroprotective benefits."
How to biohack your intelligence
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A pretty crazy read on one person's journey on biohacking his intelligence using a scientific methods. He used a number of tactics outside the realm of what I would consider normal/safe but there were a number of insights that are pretty easy to follow that had dramatic impacts.
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Davos: How technology is disrupting work and jobs
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If robots, AI, nanotechnology, machine learning, and 3D printing are going to be doing all the work, what the heck will human beings do nine to five?
"Harari points out that for the past two centuries, people have been predicting that machines were taking over. This time "it might be true," he says. "Like the guy who cried wolf, eventually the wolf really came." Meaning that the magnitude of adoption and the sophistication of machines today is such that a huge swath of jobs really is threatened. Indeed, McKinsey estimates that over the next decade or so, one third of all workers in Germany and the U.S. may need to find work in new occupations."
The Co-Founder Relationship
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If you were making a list of things that could go wrong on an seed, angel, or Series A investment, you would have to put the co-founder relationship right up there at the top of the list. Not every startup has co-founders. Some just have one founder. In some ways, that is a bit easier to "underwrite." At least it is clear who is in charge and why things are happening or not happening.
The Network Effects Manual: 13 Different Network Effects (and counting)
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An amazing comprehensive overview of 13 network effects & how they actually work. Great reference!
Future Humans
An updated Feynman experiment could lead to a Theory of Everything
Measuring quantum gravity has proven extremely challenging, stymying some of the greatest minds in physics for generations.
Neuroscientists have followed a thought as it moves through the brain
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A study using epilepsy patients undergoing surgery has given neuroscientists an opportunity to track in unprecedented detail the movement of a thought through the human brain, all the way from inspiration to response.
Beginner's guide series on cryptoassets
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Wine? Vegan? Confused? It's okay, there can be a lot to know about wine sometimes, we get it. One less thing you should have to worry about though is wine not being vegan. Unlike some wine brands, we don't use any animal products in the making of our wine. ever.


Below is an example of how to grab and graph cross section data from ENDF files using the Library class.
/home/romano/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyne-0.5.0_rc1-py2.7.egg/pyne/rxdata.py:5: QAWarning: pyne.rxdata is not yet QA compliant.
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/kernel/__main__.py:14: QAWarning: pyne.rxname is not yet QA compliant.
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/IPython/kernel/__main__.py:14: QAWarning: pyne.endf is not yet QA compliant.
The pyne.endf.Evaluation class provides a facility for parsing data in an ENDF file. Parsing of all data other than covariances (MF=30+) is supported has been tested against the ENDF/B-VII.1 neutron, photoatomic, electroatomic, atomic relaxation, and photonuclear sublibraries. In this example, we will use the Evaluation class to look at typical data in the ENDF/B-VII.1 evaluation of U-235.
By default, when an Evaluation is instantiated, only the descriptive data in MF=1, MT=451 is parsed. This allows us to get basic information about an evaluation without necessarily reading the whole thing. This useful data can be found in the info and target attributes.
To look at cross sections, secondary energy and angle distributions, and resonance data, we need to parse the rest of the data in the file, which can be done through the Evaluation.read(...) method.
Most of the data that is parsed resides in the reactions attribute, which is a dictionary that is keyed by the MT value.
We can also take a look at the angular distribution for elastic scattering.
Finally, let's take a look at resolved resonance data, which can be found in the resonances dictionary.


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Board of Directors of MISAD came together in Dinner.
Board of Directors of MISAD visited Mr. Bahçıvan, the Chairperson of ICI.
NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF MISAD WAS ELECTED!
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ALD dinner in Frankfort region.
Zülfü Yılmaz, esteemed father of Mr. Hasan Yılmaz from Termosan Heat Treatment which is one of our members deceased.
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Mr. Sedat Türkey from Encotherm company and Suat Karadayı from Fokus company were given their plaques.
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We participated at the graduation ceremony of Faculty of Engineering of Marmara University.
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MISAD-member Belgin Madeni Yağlar Tic. ve San. A.Ş. Came in 6th for its export performance!
We are at the 5th Heat Treatment Symposium which is one of the most important symposiums in our sector.
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Our Chairman attends at the opening ceremony of the 5th Heat Treatment Symposium.
We have completed our visits to leading companies of Germany in heat treatment sector.
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Family photo shooting after our 29th Occupational Committee Meeting!
As MISAD, we tell Istanbul Chamber of Industry our demands and expectations.
May god rest Mustafa V. Koç's soul, and We give give his family, beloved and our nation our condolences.
As MISAD, we organize meetings with General Manager of Revenue Administration of Ministry of Finance and his team about sectoral matters.
While we were explaining our problems in Ministry of Finance.
Meeting we held in Turkish Statistical Institute was so efficient.
MISAD held its monthly ordinary meeting and decided about various matters.
Thanks for close interest and hospitality.
While matters about heat treatment sector were being discussed in Istanbul Chamber of Industry.
Visit to Ministry of Economy.
We are at Karabük Iron-Steel symposium.
What were the topics handled in MISAD-ASO Negotiations?