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Facts About Marine Life in the Gulf of Mexico
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Jennifer Kennedy
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M.S., Resource Administration and Management, University of New Hampshire
B.S., Natural Resources, Cornell University
Jennifer Kennedy, M.S., is an environmental educator specializing in marine life. She serves as the executive director of the Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation.
Gulf of Mexico Facts
The Gulf of Mexico covers about 600,000 square miles, making it the 9th largest body of water in the world. It is bordered by the U.S. states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, the Mexican coast to Cancun, and Cuba.
Human Uses of the Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico is an important area for commercial and recreational fishing and wildlife watching. It is also the location of offshore drilling, supporting about 4,000 oil and natural gas platforms.
The Gulf of Mexico has been in the news recently because of the explosion of the oil rig Deepwater Horizon. This has affected commercial fishing, recreation and the overall economy of the area, as well as threatening marine life.
Types of Habitat
The Gulf of Mexico is thought to have formed by subsidence, a slow sinking of the seafloor, about 300 million years ago. The Gulf has a variety of habitats, from shallow coastal areas and coral reefs to deep underwater areas. The Gulf's deepest area is Sigsbee Deep, which is estimated to be about 13,000 feet deep.
According to the EPA, about 40% of the Gulf of Mexico are shallow intertidal areas. About 20% are areas over 9,000 feet deep, allowing the Gulf to support deep-diving animals such as sperm and beaked whales.
Waters on the continental shelf and continental slope, between 600-9,000 feet deep, comprise about 60% of the Gulf of Mexico.
Offshore Platforms as Habitat
Although their presence is controversial, offshore oil and natural gas platforms provide habitats in themselves, attracting species as an artificial reef would. Fish, invertebrates and even sea turtles sometimes congregate on and around the platforms, and they provide a stopping point for birds (see this poster from the U.S. Minerals Management Service for more).
Marine Life in the Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico supports a wide variety of marine life, including wide-ranging whales and dolphins, coastal-dwelling manatees, fish including tarpon and snapper, and invertebrates such as shellfish, corals, and worms.
Reptiles such as sea turtles (Kemp's ridley, leatherback, loggerhead, green and hawksbill) and alligators also thrive here. The Gulf of Mexico also provides important habitat for both native and migrating birds.
Threats to the Gulf of Mexico
Although the number of large oil spills relative to the huge number of drilling rigs is small, spills can be disastrous when they occur, as evidenced by the impact of the BP/Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010 on marine habitat, marine life, fishermen and the overall economy of the Gulf Coast states.
Other threats include overfishing, coastal development, discharge of fertilizers and other chemicals into the Gulf (forming a "Dead Zone," an area lacking oxygen).
Gulf of Mexico Foundation. Gulf of Mexico: Facts and Threats (Online) Accessed May 21, 2010.
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. Hypoxia In the Gulf of Mexico (Online) Accessed May 21, 2010.
Minerals Management Service Gulf of Mexico Region Environmental Information (Online) Accessed May 21, 2010.
US EPA. General Facts About the Gulf of Mexico. (Online) Accessed May 21, 2010.
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SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - February 10, 2015) - Today, Energous Corporation, ("Energous" or "the Company") (NASDAQ: WATT), developer of WattUp™, a wire-free charging technology that provides power to mobile devices from a distance of up to 15 feet, announced the appointment of John Gaulding, a 20-year technology veteran with over a decade of mobile communications experience, as chairman of the company's board of directors, effective immediately.
"At Energous, we value world-class innovation, strong relationships with our investors and partners, and a best-in-practice approach to corporate governance," said Stephen R. Rizzone, CEO of Energous. "Consistent with these core values, I am very pleased to announce Gaulding's appointment to Chairman of the Board. We are fortunate to have a proven leader like John assume this position as we move through the next steps in the development and commercialization of WattUp solutions and company growth."
Over the past two decades, Gaulding has served as a private investor, business consultant and board member for a variety of companies, including many top organizations such as Ortel and Pacific Telesis Group, as well as Monster Worldwide, Inc., Yellow Media, Inc., National Insurance Group, Inc. and ADP Claims Solutions Group, among others. In his current position, he is co-founder and director emeritus of Sage Partners, as well as chairman emeritus of Dominican University of California, where he has served for 7 years as chairman and 16 years as a trustee. Gaulding has been an Energous board member since March 2014. He holds a BS in Engineering from UCLA, an MBA with honors from the University of Southern California, and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Dominican University of California.
"There has been tremendous momentum in the development of WattUp over the past year, and I am fortunate to have the opportunity to now lead a talented and honorable group of professionals as we head into this next stage of growth," said John Gaulding, chairman of the board, Energous. "We will continue to build on these merits in our quest to revolutionize the mobile devices industry."
To learn more about Energous, and its patent and trademark pending WattUp technology, please visit www.energous.com or follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/energous.


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The Adolf Reichwein Association provided funding for digitizing of the images in the Adolf Reichwein Archive, aiming to make the vast corpus digital available for pubications and exhibitions and for conservation reasons.
Researchers and the public have come to know Adolf Reichwein (1898–1944) from his work in a variety of areas and contexts: he was engaged in adult and worker education in Thuringia, he taught at the Pedagogical Academy in Halle, he successfully ran a country school project in Tiefensee near Berlin, worked in museum education at the State Museum for German Ethnology in Berlin and last but not least, Reichwein belonged to the resistance group "Kreisauer Kreis". The National Socialist (Volksgerichtshof) sentenced him to death and he was executed in Berlin-Plötzensee in 1944.
Adolf Reichwein Archive was handed to the BBF archive as a dispositum by the Adolf Reichwein Association (Adolf-Reichwein-Verein e.V.). It contains approximately 1,300 images, mostly photographs. These images relate to different contexts of Reichwein's personal and professional life, and they are now being digitized by the BBF. The photographs show Reichwein and other persons, family settings and impressions from his travels. Many of the group photographs were made during his time as a teacher in adult and worker education in Thuringia in the 1920s and during his time as a university teacher in Halle in the early 1930s as well as during his activity at the State Museum for German Ethnology in Berlin until 1944.
His resistance against the National Socialist regime is documented in photographs from the trial held at the Volksgerichtshof on October 20, 1944.
The professional photographs that were taken to document his practical school work in Tiefensee are particularly worth mentioning. They were taken for the publications "Schaffendes Schulvolk" and "Film in der Landschule". Both unpublished and published photographs give insight into daily school life at the "Landschule".
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The next 10 years, the power battery capacity will be in short supply it?
- Jan 13, 2017-
The most stupid thing we can do is to further aggravate the situation of overcapacity. "In February 2016, Daimler CEO Zetsche (Dieter Zetsche) has said that the electric car battery has already appeared in the situation of oversupply, it will not invest in production of batteries.
However, Zetsche this position after less than a year, the Volkswagen Group has begun to worry about another situation - the battery production capacity.
Volkswagen will soon be in its MEB electrification platform for mass production of electric vehicles, will have a great demand for batteries, the world's largest six car lithium battery suppliers to participate in the bidding. But in December 2016, Volkswagen Group strategy director Thomas Sedran (Thomas Sedran) has said that six battery suppliers do not have to meet the needs of the battery capacity of the group.
Volkswagen will soon be in its MEB electrification platform for mass production of electric vehicles, will have a great demand for batteries.
In the increasingly stringent emission regulations under pressure, car manufacturers are also accelerating the response to electric vehicles. Volkswagen, Daimler, BMW, General Motors and Ford are forecasting the future of automotive battery demand will be rapid growth, the public is expected to 2025 annual sales of 2 million to 3 million electric vehicles.
But the question is, the next 10 years, battery capacity can meet the demand for electric vehicles?
Volkswagen that Europe, China and North America, the demand for electric vehicles will increase significantly, of course, not only the idea of the public one. By 2020, Tesla hopes to sell 1 million electric vehicles around the world, Nissan is expected to sell 20% of its sales in Europe rely on electric vehicles to support Ford is that when the electric car sales will account for 15% of the Chinese market to 25% . By 2025, Mercedes-Benz is expected to sell 15% to 25% of its cars will be powered by batteries. BMW estimates the number of Mercedes-Benz consistent, but the plug-in hybrids are also included. Ford believes that by 2025, the global sales of cars in about 1/4 pure electric or plug-in hybrid.
Car manufacturers are not blindly optimistic. 2016, GM, Renault and LG Chemical to break the promotion of electric vehicles in the process of an important obstacle - life problems. GM announced that Chevrolet Bolt (European version of the Opel Ampera-e) a rechargeable battery life can be more than 310 miles. Renault second-generation Zoe equipped with LG's new lithium-ion battery, the upgraded battery capacity from 22 kWh to 41 kWh, life mileage of 250 miles. Analysts predict that 2019 mileage will appear leap-style growth.
In December, Volkswagen Group strategy director Thomas Sedran (Thomas Sedran) has said that six battery suppliers do not have to meet the needs of the battery capacity of the group.
In addition, another major obstacle to the promotion of electric vehicles - high battery prices with the battery energy density also decreased. BNP Paribas Financial analyst Exane BNP Paribas financial analysts released a report in September 2016, said the cost of electric vehicle batteries by 2020 from the current 400 US dollars per kilowatt-hour reduced to 215 US dollars per kilowatt-hour. By 2025, this figure will be further reduced to 140 US dollars.
Exane BNP Paribas estimates that by 2025, automakers will have higher profit margins on electric vehicles than internal combustion engine-powered vehicles, as battery production costs are expected to fall sharply. It also predicted that, according to the average battery capacity of 70 kilowatts to calculate, to meet the needs of 8.6 million vehicles, need 600 gigawatt hours of battery capacity.
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Concerns that the world's dominant linear economies are unsustainable have been growing for years. However, it took the shock of the Covid-19 pandemic to expose exactly how vulnerable the linear model really is. Among other concerns, the crisis has shown how linear economies can entrench equalities, accelerate climate change and quickly unravel under pressure.
On a more positive note, the crisis has presented us with an unprecedented opportunity to reset, rethink and rebuild our future by moving away from linear economies and embracing the circular model.
Defining Linear vs. Circular
Step one on this journey involves understanding the key differences between the linear and circular models.
Based on take-make-waste, the linear model has its roots in the 19th Century's Industrial Revolution. There is no doubt that this model has produced numerous innovations. At the same time, however, it has also created an on-demand lifestyle where the means of production are just a click away. Consequently, we are now consuming far more than we can recycle or reuse.
The key to disrupting this increasingly unsustainable model lies in keeping disposable products and materials in use so that we can continuously close the loop on waste by reusing it to the benefit of our planet, its people and their economies.
This, in essence, is the vision of the circular economy, often referred to as circularity.
Leading The Circularity Debate
As the shift away from the linear model gathers pace, a growing number of experts are adding their voices to the conversation around defining, designing, and measuring what it takes to be circular. At The HighCare Factor, we value their leadership and guidance as we work together as an industry to shape the next normal. Here, we introduce two of the most influential thought leaders in the current circularity debate.
Raising The PACE
Launched at the annual World Economic Forum meeting at Davos in 2018, the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy – or PACE – has emerged as an authoritative platform for private leaders and organizations that are committed to fast-tracking circular economy solutions. It currently comprises 80 public, private, international and civil society executive leaders and over 200 members driving 18 projects worldwide. It offers a great starting point for anyone who is interested in learning more about the transition to circularity across the entire economy.
A Strong Foundation
Another important voice in the circular economy debate is the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Under the theme Build Back Better, it places a strong emphasis on the importance of rethinking and redesigning our current economic model in response to the impact of the pandemic.
In June 2020, the foundation brought together 50 global leaders who signed a pledge to accelerate efforts to build the circular economy. Signatories included policy makers, philanthropists, academics and CEOs of the some of the world's biggest businesses. Their joint statement calls on businesses and government around the world to invest and commit towards achieving circular economy targets.
Measuring The Circularity Gap
Measuring circularity is emerging as a critical factor in understanding the global circularity gap as private and public sector organisations build the business case for shifting away from the linear economy.
The launch of the Circularity Gap Report at Davos in 2018 marked an important step towards equipping key players with the data and insights they need to fill the measurement gap and accelerate this shift. The report is produced by Circle Economy, an organization dedicated to advising cities and businesses on the practical and scalable implementation of the circular economy.
Circle Economy also launched the Global Data Alliance, an open-access data platform that is designed to improve and enrich the measurements and insights in its reporting and build a common understanding of what circular economies are, how they should perform, and how we should measure them. After all, you can't manage something until you can measure it.
In 2020, the Circularity Gap Report indicated that we are going backwards with 8.6% of the global economy defined as circular versus 9.1% two years ago.
More and more countries now recognize the importance of circularity to the well-being of their people and their economies. In recent years, a number of early adopters have completed the Circularity Gap Report to capture the insights they need to boost national circularity levels and inform policy makers and businesses.
To date, Austria and the Netherlands have completed the report, with Norway currently in progress. With a circularity score of 24.5%, the Netherlands has emerged as a clear front-runner in the global circularity race.
Focus On The Netherlands: Circularity In Action
A new collaboration between HAVI, McDonald's and Neste is a good example of why the Netherlands is recognized as a circularity leader. This initiative - known as From Fries To Miles –turns used cooking oil (UCO) into hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) to fuel HAVI's vehicle fleet, and exemplifies the spirit of partnership that lies at the heart of circularity.
Briefly, HAVI picks up the used cooking oil from McDonald's restaurants across the Netherlands and delivers it to the Neste refinery in Rotterdam, where it enters the production chain to be converted into renewable diesel. HAVI then buys back an equivalent amount of renewable diesel to fuel the trucks that deliver food products to McDonald's restaurants, where the cycle starts again.
Watch the video clip and read the full story behind this partnership here.
Contributing Authors: Gwendy Krijger, Massimo D'Alessandro


June 9, 2011 interviews, who's that girl?
Call her a surfer, model, stuntwomen, and of course a hottie–Erica Hosseini is all that and more. A California native, she's even been named one of the Sexiest People of Orange County by the OC Weekly. More than a pretty face seen in endorsements from G-Shock to Casio, Erica has already collected several surfing titles including winning the Volcom and U.S. Championships. From her goofy stance to traveling all over the world, Tam-Star had the good fortune to speak with Erica about her life as a surfer, doubling as a stuntwomen on ABC's 90210, meeting guys on the beach, auditioning for a role in X-Men First Class, her involvement with Jose Cuervo's new authentic light margarita and more.
Tam-Star: On your Facebook page you describe yourself as a 5/10″ blond hair, blue eye, goofy foot surfer from Newport Beach. What makes you goofy?
Erica: Actually it's funny you say that, it's not necessarily describing my personality, but I do find myself goofy. There's two different stances in surfing and one is called goofy and one is regular. And it merely means I surf with my right foot forward.
Tam-Star: What's the goofiest thing you've ever done?
Erica: I'm kind of notorious for doing lots of goofy things just on day-to-day life. Goofiest thing ever though… I sometimes travel with a blender to different countries because I'm obsessed with smoothies.
Tam-Star: There's nothing wrong with that. Sometimes you have to bring your own utensils. On to your surfing resume, which is pretty impressive. What's been your most treasured accomplishment as a surfer?
Erica: Probably the one that stands out the most was when I was 14. I broke the record at the time for becoming the youngest female or male surfer to make it to an ASP final, and that kinda' was a pretty big deal and put me on the map; and made basically the decision in my life that I wanted to pursue being a professional surfer. It was kind of that life changing moment.
Tam-Star: How did you get involved in surfing?
Erica: I was about 11. I grew up on a beach my entire life, a total tomboy from the age of 3. My parents had me on skis, mountain bike riding, very competitive with my older brother, and I think it was just inevitable before I picked up a surfboard growing up on a beach and pursuing the next sport on the list of things to accomplish. It just kinda stuck and all the other ones fizzled out.
Tam-Star: You were a tomboy then, but you're absolutely beautiful now. What's the best beach you've surfed in the world?
Erica: I recently went to an island off of Indonesia, off of Bali, it's called Nusa Lembongan- a spur of the moment trip in between different surf contests. It was amazing surf. It was just me and two of my friends, and we just scored the best surf — crystal clear blue water, you could see all the reef, all the fish, and it was just picturesque.
Tam-Star: A far cry from CA beaches.
Erica: Exactly, it was one of those surreal moments. I was like I can't even believe I'm surfing these kinds of conditions.
Tam-Star: Can you tell me what it's like when you open a magazine and you see yourself?
Erica: When it first started happening I was in high school and my friends would see magazines and show me pictures, and it was so weird and awkward. I didn't know what to say since it was such a new territory. But after I'd accumulated more sponsors and been advertised more in these magazines, and on TV, etc., I'm more used to it. But I don't think that's something you can ever get used to. You open up a national magazine and see a photo of yourself, and you're like is this real, is it really me, or is this just the issue that I got? Does everybody's issue look like this?


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Q: Laravel fetch data by something else than id So I'm a total newbie in laravel and I don't know if it can be done but I saw that in the controller I can display data of a specific 'id' with this in my api.php:
Route::get('books/{id}', 'App\Http\Controllers\BooksController@getBookById');

And this in my BookController.php :
public function getBookByAuthor($id) {
    $book = Books::find($id);
    if (is_null($book)){
        return response()->json(['message' => 'Book Not Found.'], 404);
    }
    return response()->json($book::find($id), 200);
}

I'm using Angular for the front and I have a searchbar to search by 'title' of a book, so in my database I have a column 'title' and I want to fetch data by 'title' instead of 'id'.
Is it possible ? And if yes how ?

A: I'm thinking you're wanting to retrieve the book based on user input...? You can inject the request in your method. Also you don't need to explicitly handle 404 and response codes.
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\Book;

public function getBookByAuthor(Request $request): Response
{
$input = $request->validate([
        'title' => 'required|alpha_dash' // validate
    ]);
    return Book::where('title', 'like', "%{$input['title']}%")
        ->firstOrFail();
}

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Q: useAnimationOnDidUpdate react hook implementation So I want to use requestAnimationFrame to animate something using react hooks.
I want something small so react-spring/animated/react-motion is a bad choice for me.
I implemented useAnimationOnDidUpdate but it is working incorrectly, here is reproduction with details.
What's wrong here: on second click multiplier for animation starts with 1, but should always start with 0 (simple interpolation from 0 to 1).
So I'm trying to understand why the hook saved previous value though I started a new animation loop already.
Here is a full code listing for hook:
import { useState, useEffect, useRef } from 'react';

export function useAnimationOnDidUpdate(
  easingName = 'linear',
  duration = 500,
  delay = 0,
  deps = []
) {
  const elapsed = useAnimationTimerOnDidUpdate(duration, delay, deps);
  const n = Math.min(1, elapsed / duration);

  return easing[easingName](n);
}

// https://github.com/streamich/ts-easing/blob/master/src/index.ts
const easing = {
  linear: n => n,
  elastic: n =>
    n * (33 * n * n * n * n - 106 * n * n * n + 126 * n * n - 67 * n + 15),
  inExpo: n => Math.pow(2, 10 * (n - 1)),
  inOutCubic: (t) => t <.5 ? 4 * t * t * t : (t - 1) * (2 * t - 2) * (2 * t - 2) + 1,
};

export function useAnimationTimerOnDidUpdate(duration = 1000, delay = 0, deps = []) {
    const [elapsed, setTime] = useState(0);
    const mountedRef = useRef(false);

    useEffect(
        () => {
            let animationFrame, timerStop, start, timerDelay;

            function onFrame() {
                const newElapsed = Date.now() - start;

                setTime(newElapsed);
                if (newElapsed >= duration) {
                    console.log('>>>> end with time', newElapsed)
                    return;
                }
                loop();
            }

            function loop() {
                animationFrame = requestAnimationFrame(onFrame);
            }

            function onStart() {
                console.log('>>>> start with time', elapsed)
                start = Date.now();
                loop();
            }

            if (mountedRef.current) {
                timerDelay = delay > 0 ? setTimeout(onStart, delay) : onStart();
            } else {
                mountedRef.current = true;
            }

            return () => {
                clearTimeout(timerStop);
                clearTimeout(timerDelay);
                cancelAnimationFrame(animationFrame);
            };
        },
        [duration, delay, ...deps]
    );

    return elapsed;
}

A: This problem with this hook is that it doesn't clean up the elapsedTime upon completion.
You can resolve this by adding setTime(0) to you onFrame function when the animation is expected to stop.
Like this:
function onFrame() {
  const newElapsed = Date.now() - start;

  if (newElapsed >= duration) {
    console.log('>>>> end with time', newElapsed)
    setTime(0)
    return;
  }

  setTime(newElapsed);
  loop();
}

I know it may seem weird that it doesn't reset itself. But bear in mind that your animation is making use of the same hook instance for both easing in and out. Therefore that cleanup is necessary.
Note: I've also move the setTime(newElapsed) line so that it's after the if statement since this isn't necessary if the if statement is true.
UPDATE:
To further improve how this works, you could move the setTime(0) to the return cleanup.
This would mean that you're onFrame function changes to:
function onFrame() {
  const newElapsed = Date.now() - start;

  if (newElapsed >= duration) {
    console.log('>>>> end with time', newElapsed)
    setTime(0)
    return;
  }

  setTime(newElapsed);
  loop();
}

And then update your return cleanup for useAnimationTimerOnDidUpdate to:
return () => {
  clearTimeout(timerStop);
  clearTimeout(timerDelay);
  cancelAnimationFrame(animationFrame);
  setTime(0);
};

I'm assuming that the reason your animation "isn't working properly" was because the component would flash. As far as my testing goes, this update fixes that.


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Trumpeting the Start of the Semester
Mighty Sound of Maryland Marching Band Steps Up During Early Week
By Maya Pottiger '17, M.Jour. '20 Aug 21, 2019
Photo by Emma Howells
Drum Major Garrett Tatano '20 leads a drill yesterday for fellow members of the Mighty Sound of Maryland marching band.
Moving onto a nearly empty campus last weekend. Drum line auditions the next morning. Marching rehearsals at 9 a.m. daily: It's no mystery why the Mighty Sound of Maryland marching band calls this "Early Week."
The roughly 250-member ensemble is spending the long, hot last days of summer vacation on outdoor turf field, in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and behind the Reckord Armory this week to learn or refresh marching fundamentals and start memorizing the first football halftime show of the season.
The recreation field next to Xfinity Center and the outdoor football practice field have been new turf this week for the band, which worked with Maryland Athletics and University Recreation and Wellness to shift for a few days from its traditional practice site, Chapel Field. The turf fields more closely resemble the surface in Maryland Stadium.
"In terms of moving, you can feel the sliding of your feet on dirt versus a field of grass," said Drum Major Patrizia Pelingon '20. "It's not just great for us having a better texture to march on, it's better for maintaining the facilities around the school."
With the turf fields come stadium lights, allowing the Mighty Sound of Maryland (MSOM) to keep going after the sun has gone down—meaning practices that now can run until 10 p.m.
"Even though we went a little bit later than we normally do, I think people were responding to it a little bit better because they weren't as taxed by the sun during that last block," said Drum Major Garrett Tatano '20.
The long days also allow the members to get to know each other, whether through section rehearsals, shared meals or fun incentives. The color guard sings school songs while marching around campus, both to help the new members learn the songs and get familiar with their new surroundings. KAOS, the low brass section, yells as members run back onto the field after breaks.
Today is a Spirit Day, when MSOM members students traditionally wear their loudest Terp gear.
On the last night of Early Week, alumni and parents are invited for a performance.
"It shows the bonds of being in the organization, that there is a tie throughout the years," said Andrea E. Brown, director of athletic bands. "There are elements of what's happening out there that are familiar to them. There's that shared experience. Alumni are interested in remembering that and reliving that as they can."
Pelingon said this finale is rewarding for all the members, especially the newest ones.
"It's really motivating at the end of such a long week to see people who have been through what you have come out to see it again," she said.
Click through the gallery below for taste of Early Week practice.
College of Arts and Humanities Department of Intercollegiate Athletics
The Mighty Sound of Maryland will perform its first halftime show of the season at the Terps' home opener against Howard University on Aug. 31. The show will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Woodstock by featuring popular music from 1969.


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package com.mortennobel.imagescaling;

/**
 * A box filter (also known as nearest neighbor).
 */
final class BoxFilter implements ResampleFilter
{
	public float getSamplingRadius() {
		return 0.5f;
	}

	public final float apply(float value)
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Bullying is when a person or a group of people pick on someone who feel is weaker or in some way different. Bullying can take the form of name calling, teasing, mocking, threatening someone, taking money or property, physical abuse, sexual or racial harassment. Bullying may make someone feel unhappy, isolated, hurt, angry, frightened or unsafe. If it carries on for a longtime, it can be very depressing and even fatal. Al-Hudaa's Anti-Bullying Policy ensures that it has a responsibility to respond promptly and effectively to the issues of bullying.
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Traffic light at the corner of Alabang-Zapote Road and Daanghari coming soon?
by AlabangBulletin · July 18, 2018
This will certainly be one of the most welcome traffic moves the area will ever experience, don't you think?
The Buhos System definitely isn't on the list. Okay, the opening of the Friendship Route could be.
Anyway, according to Las Pinas City Hall, we may well be seeing a stoplight at the corner of the always-busy (and sometimes dangerous but mostly annoying) Alabang Zapote Road/Daanghari soon.
The time a bus inexplicably went head on with a truck and caused hellish traffic in the area and backing up traffic on both Alabang-Zapote Road and Daanghari for several minutes. Genius.
In a conversation with city Media Office chief Jimmy Castillano this week, he confirmed that the putting up of a traffic light to aid the traffic in the mentioned intersection has been considered for a long time now and they are just awaiting for the go signal from the MMDA (get it? go signal?)
"I talked to our traffic management office and they revealed that there are definitely plans of putting a stoplight in the corner of Alabang-Zapote Road and Daanghari," he confirmed.
He added that they have requested for the traffic light from the MMDA and are just awaiting for it to be delivered and installed.
"Don't worry, we are doing our best to speed this up," he assured Alabang Bulletin (and the many motorists always trapped in gridlocks in the said area).
In an online survey we recently held in our social media accounts, majority of the replies revealed that they agree with the idea of having traffic lights in the said intersection.
With a resounding "YES", several motorists expressed the NEED for the traffic lights, especially when traffic enforcers are on break or are not present.
"Las Pinas needs traffic lights," said Zaydee Crenn.
"Lights and camera, please," mentioned Thornstein Delos Santos.
Many mentioned that the area is known for motorists not giving way to each other.
In turn, those not in favor said what the area really needs are disciplined drivers.
"Alabang Zapote road needs disciplined drivers. Kahit may stoplight dyan pero di naman susundin ng mga pasaway na driver wala din," expressed Adrian Aguilar.
Others also suggested that the lights be synchronized with the other traffic lights in the area like the one by Alabang-Zapote Road and Acacia Ave.
Some even suggested rerouting schemes that traffic authorities can explore like "No Left Turn to Alabang-Zapote from Daanghari" or "No Left Turn to Daanghari from Alabang-Zapote" just to decongest the area and distribute traffic inside to Acacia and Commerce avenues.
Of course there were those who suggested far out ideas like building a Skyway on Alabang-Zapote Road which if you've lived in Las Pinas your whole life and endured the horrendous traffic along its main road, the idea doesn't seem so sketchy at all.
Castillano failed to give an exact date on when the traffic lights will be installed but said that they are pushing hard for this to be ASAP.
It can be recalled that the MMDA sat down with Las Pinas officials some months back to discuss possible solutions to the city's traffic problems.
At least the confusion of whether the area belongs to Las Pinas or Muntinlupa has somewhat been determined.
Regular motorists who pass by the area will now just have to wait until there is a go signal (still don't get it?) for the stoplight in the area.
For now, let us all be the disciplined drivers that we all should be and extend road courtesy to drivers who woke up earlier than us and got to that area before us.
Drive safely, everyone, and we will update you once we get more details about the stoplight installation.
Las Pinas City Hall now has a Twitter and Facebook account!
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« Notes on the Nuclear Option -- Part XVII | Main | Nuclear Option: The Knights Who'll Say 'Nay' »
Head Counting the Nuclear Option Vote
by DemFromCT
This one's just for fun. Yesterday, an AP article suggested the seven R non-committeds were:
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., Sen. John Sununu, R-N.H., Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., Sen. John Warner, R-Va., Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio.
Meanwhile, Josh Marshall adds a tidbit on Pat Roberts not being so solid from the KC Star:
With a showdown over judicial nominees looming, Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas could be one of several pivotal Republicans to oppose stripping the Senate of its traditional power to filibuster.
Roberts expressed doubt about the "nuclear option," which would end a long-running Democratic threat — to filibuster seven of President Bush's nominees for the federal bench — by changing long-standing Senate rules.
"What goes around comes around," Roberts said in an interview last week, worried that the rule change could someday come back to haunt his party.
The region's other Republican senators, Kit Bond and Jim Talent of Missouri, and Sam Brownback of Kansas all said they would back Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.
And Steve Clemons adds a piece from the Providence Journal about the price Chafee will pay for being a court toady on Bolton (he'll try to balance this with a vote to sustain the filibuster):
It remains uncertain whether John Bolton, George Bush's embattled nominee as United Nations ambassador, will be confirmed by the full Senate, and who knows how he'd actually do in office, or how many Rhode Islanders will care about any of this next year, or cared even last week. But the topic certainly was in the news, and on Thursday morning, the day Chafee's Senate Foreign Relations Committee took up the nomination, your local newspaper published this front-page headline:
Chafee will defer to Bush, vote for Bolton for U.N. post
The headline captured the story fairly, and the story captured the situation fairly.
And that's Chafee's potential problem.
In proceeding to join his fellow Republicans in a 10-to-8 party-line vote to send the unpopular nomination to the full Senate, Chafee played directly into the hands of Democratic opponents who charge he'd rather knuckle under to a right-wing GOP president than use his brain and represent the interests of Rhode Islanders.
So, on the one hand we've got some Republican Senators already on the record (including Chafee and McCain, along with the expected Snowe) against the rules changes, and others where their vote is in doubt.
The President, the shadow president (Cheney), and Frist all expect to have 50 votes by the time the trigger is pulled. If they have the votes, they'll vote. Every day they don't vote is a day they're still scrambling. Keeping in mind that all politics is local, whicj Senators will break which way?
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska: possible nay (siding with Dems) but still undecided
Conservative groups such as Progress for America and Focus on the Family have spent millions of dollars on ads since mid-April in Alaska and elsewhere trying to persuade undecided Republican senators to support Frist.
Murkowski said those efforts have backfired with her.
"I was very offended at the tone," Murkowski said. "But they've continued, and it's been kind of interesting. I've probably gotten more positive feedback for my position, which Alaskans consider to be very thoughtful, very deliberate, about what is happening here in the Senate."
In addition to the above quote from the AP article, Murkowski voted yea on Bolton, which is either a sign of her final vote on all things R, or, like Chafee, a yea so she's freer to vote nay.
Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. : probable aye (supporting Frist)
Hagel has his eye on the Presidency in 2008. Even running as a moderate, and a maverick, he needs to get past a R primary to have any traction. His vote on Bolton and the filibuster, whatever doubts he privately has, seems assured.
Sen. John Sununu, R-N.H. : probable aye
Sununu, like his father, is as reliable as any R when it comes to wing-nuttery. He just likes to pretend he's deliberative to preserve his 'influence'. It's all bullshit, just like in the SFRC with Bolton.
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. : possible nay
At 75, after being raked over the coals by Toomey in a primary, and with a diagnosis of a lymph cancer requiring chemo for the next six months, Specter may be freer than most chairs to vote his conscience.
In an interview, the Pennsylvania Republican warned that liberal and conservative activists did not want a compromise that would avert the use of the so-called nuclear option to end filibusters against judges. Reports have suggested that Frist may act next week.
"People on the far left are 'filibuster forever.' People on the far right are 'pull the trigger,' " Specter said.
Acknowledging the pressure to "go nuclear" by religious conservatives on Frist, widely viewed as a 2008 presidential candidate, Specter said he did not think Frist "would subvert his job as majority leader for long-term ambition."
"A show of independence by Frist - along with all the rest of us - could enhance his stature," the chairman said.
As expected, the Judiciary Committee once again voted yesterday along party lines to approve the nomination of former Alabama Attorney General William Pryor, who had already been filibustered once. Specter said the imminent confrontation might mark the most important vote in his 25 years in the Senate, and perhaps - war votes withstanding - for much longer than that.
Sen. John Warner, R-Va. : possible nay
Warner is the last of the powerful GOP "old bulls" in the Senate not to say he will join with Frist. Warner has said repeatedly that he worries that ending the judicial filibuster will weaken the Senate.
"I tend to be a traditionalist, and the right of unlimited debate has been a hallmark of the Senate since its inception," Warner said. "Without question, though, I am strongly opposed to the use of the filibuster to block judicial nominations."
Liberals and conservatives are focusing on Warner and other undecided Republicans through telephone calls, Internet campaigns and television advertisements.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine : possible nay
Her heart says no. The Portsmouth naval base being on the closure list says yes. She has less backbone than Snowe, but Maine does not love Junior the way it does Poppy.
"Maine is a cheap state," he said. "If you have a million dollars you can come in and buy a lot of television. For interest groups who have tens of millions, this looks like a good buy."
Sandy Maisel, director of the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement at Colby College, said both sides in the ad wars have deep pockets.
"They have money they don't know what to do with," Maisel said, and when one side puts on a series of spots, the other side often feels that it has no choice but to respond.
Neither senator believes that the ads are money well spent.
"I don't have a lot of interest in what an outside group that is not based in Maine thinks about a particular issue," Collins said.
Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio. : probable aye
DeWine sees power in not having committed to either side.
"I've decided. I just haven't announced it yet because I think that it's a good chance that we can get it worked out," DeWine said. "I'm hopeful that by not announcing it, I can help keep these negotiations going."
If we have to depend on DeWine, we've already lost.
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas : probable aye
See above story. Intriguing that he's even on the list, no?
The CW is that we get Warner and Collins, and maybe Specter. That's gives 51 votes against a rules change, preserving the filibuster. But as Ron Brownstein has written, counting on R moderates is dangerous territory for Dems. Even if that's where things stand at the moment, things could change by next week. Base closing promises (think Collins) and other sweeteners are how business is done in DC, and why the President usually wins these debates. Washington is still the land of the Golden Rule, Those that have the gold make the rules.
May 15, 2005 at 09:44 in Congress, Contributor--DemFromCT, Republicans | Permalink
Interestingly, broder on Meet the Tim says the "old bulls" (Warner, Specter, maybe Roberts are my choices) will vote against Frist and the new senatorial kids from the House who think the Senate should run like the house does.
Incidentally, who ARE the liberals who are hell-bent for a showdown?
I heard about them on NPR early this morning ... and I heard about them again on Meet The Press ... but I don't know of any, and it's hard to imagine any such liberals exist.
It's easier to imagine some new talking points have gone into heavy rotation on the Mighty Wurlitzer. Other sightings?
So what is our response if Frist wins this?
Posted by: Mimiru | May 15, 2005 at 13:30
No 'unanimous consent' on anything, ever again.
Then make them change that rule.
At some point the farce the senate has in fact become, and the sheeple's mental imagoe of what the senate is, will begin to merge.
Then you'll get either a 1974-style repudiation of an entire party, or the death of the Republic. (If it wasn't killed on 12.12.200, for which position a good argument can be made.
In twenty years there will either be no America, or a very different America, as we currently understand the term.
Interesting times, no?
Posted by: Davis X. Machina | May 15, 2005 at 13:37
Mimiru,
Here's a previous post about the Democratic view of a post-nuclear Senate.
It's actually kind of an exciting prospect, although I doubt anything really constructive will come out of it.
Posted by: Kagro X | May 15, 2005 at 17:56
Not that I think either of these are likely nays but it was interesting to me to hear Lamar Alexander on PBS's NOW on Friday say that pulling the nuclear option would "not be good for the Senate or for the country." Seems to me the basis of some really good advertising against him if he votes AYE.
And this morning, on Late Edition, Sen. Lugar expressed grave doubts also to Wolf Blitzer. Enough so that Wolf said, "So you'll vote no?" To which Lugar replied, "Not necessarily."
For one of the few times lately, the floor debate might just really matter.
As for who the rabid liberals are who want this, I haven't seen them either.


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Listed below are all those patents throughout the world which I have so far managed to discover relating to the Meccano system. Pdf copies of the actual patents can be downloaded for the vast majority of them by clicking on the links.
June 2017 - Copies of the early Canadian patents have now been added.
NOTE - The original Meccano patents for several countries are quoted in the 1914 Meccano manual and are as noted below. However I can find no record of several of these patents (or any other patents of a similar date for that matter) in the on-line patent databases. Either they have got lost over the years or the older patents have not been entered into the online databases.
Although the drawing shows the mobile crane, as used in other patents, the only claims relate to key fixing of wheels, etc. on axles. By the time the patent was granted, the described method was no longer used. My suspicion is that the original application claimed other features, similar to the UK patent. The US patent office rejected many of those claims, and the patent had to be revised and re-submitted. The resulting patent was essentially worthless. When Frank Hornby sued American Model Builder, the only patent he could then use was US 1079245 - and the court rejected the claims relating to part 52, leaving only the sector plate claims in effect. In 1917, AMB replaced their sector plate (a close copy of the Meccano part) with a pair of single flanged plates which could be bolted together to make a shape equivalent to the sector plate.
The following two patents are seen referenced in some American Meccano manuals. However they were not taken out by Meccano, but by the Structo Manufacturing Company.
The US Meccano Company bought the Structo line of construction toys in December of 1919. 1920-22 US Meccano outfits included some Structo parts, notably (and easily identified) their angle brackets. My supposition is that shipments from England were still erratic because of WW 1, and US Meccano were desperate for some common parts. Structo had been making compatible parts since about 1912; the purchase not only provided parts, but also eliminated a competitor.
Structo continued making auto construction outfits after the Meccano purchase; a few of the parts used were the same as the Meccano-like construction toys (fishplates and angle brackets, for example). Structo nuts and bolts were #8-32, not compatible with the #7-32 used by US Meccano at this time.


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NFL roars; Globes, 'Big Bang' score
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UPDATED: The NFL reaffirmed its pull in prime time -- and scored even greater numbers with games that didn't start in prime time. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler amused millions at the Golden Globes. Old favorites "Big Bang Theory" and "NCIS" delivered. Newcomer "Empire" connected with young adults. (That drama's second episode airs at 9 p.m. Wednesday on Fox.)
Those were lessons from last week's ratings.
For sheer power, the NFL put up the biggest numbers with four divisional playoff games:
Sunday afternoon's game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers on Fox averaged 44.4 million viewers.
The Indianapolis Colts–Denver Broncos game on CBS drew 41.8 million viewers Sunday.
Saturday afternoon's game between the Baltimore Ravens and the New England Patriots on NBC delivered 34 million viewers.
The NFL was No. 1 in prime time, too. The nation's most-watched prime-time broadcasts for the week ending Sunday:
1. NFL playoff (Carolina-Seattle), Fox, 31 million
2. "NCIS," CBS, 19.8 million
3. Golden Globes, NBC, 19.3 million
4. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 18.1 million
5. "NCIS: New Orleans," CBS, 17.73 million
6. "60 Minutes," CBS, 17.7 million
7. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 12.9 million
8. "Scorpion," CBS, 12.32 million
9. "Mom," CBS, 12.3 million
10. "Madam Secretary," CBS, 12.1 million
In total viewers, the weekly averages were: CBS with 12.2 million; Fox with 10.4 million; NBC with 7.2 million; ABC with 5.2 million; and The CW with 1 million.
In the 18-to-49 age group, they finished in this order: Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC and The CW.
The Globes were a huge deal for NBC, which had its biggest audience for a prime-time entertainment show since the Globes last year, when the average audience was 20.9 million.
Favorite telecasts of the 18-to-49 age group reveal a good week for Fox:
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2. Golden Globes, NBC
3. "The Big Bang Theory," CBS
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5. "Empire," Fox
6. (tie) "American Idol" Wednesday, Fox
"Modern Family," ABC
8. "American Idol" Thursday, Fox
9. "NCIS," CBS
10. "Mom," CBS
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Thousands more tons of Long Island recyclables are ending up as trash compared to prior years because of plummeting prices caused by restrictions imposed this year by China, the world's largest importer of recycled cardboard and plastics, recycling operators said.
The restrictions have upended Long Island's already struggling recycling efforts, and could lead to changes in the way many Long Islanders dispose of paper and other material — particularly in towns that switched to once-heralded "single stream" recycling programs that allowed residents to combine paper, plastic, aluminum and glass in one container, officials said.
In some cases, towns that have made money in past years from selling recycled cardboard and paper have now had to pay to get rid of it because China will no longer buy it. China is seeking to stimulate its domestic recycling market and be more environmentally responsible.
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Haulers such as West Babylon-based Winters Bros. Waste Systems, a Green Stream co-owner and one of the Island's largest single-stream recyclers, say the declining recyclables market makes it nearly impossible for them to make a living.
Though fluctuating commodities prices are considered normal in the waste industry, Brookhaven and Green Stream previously had touted the town's single-stream program since it began in 2014.
In its first year using single stream, the town saw a 25 percent increase in the number of homes that recycled. Similar increases were reported by towns such as Smithtown, Huntington and Southold that agreed to transfer their recyclables to the Brookhaven plant.
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The additional material thrown away is on pace to be more than 7,000 tons by the end of the year — and doesn't include glass, which hasn't been recycled from curbside bins for years. Instead, glass is crushed up and used as cover and drainage at Brookhaven's landfill, town and company officials said.
The increased rate is one result of a recycling market roiled across the country since Jan. 1, when China implemented policies — known as "National Sword" — aimed at boosting the country's environment and stimulating its domestic recyclables market. Those policies banned the import of some recyclable materials and required higher quality for other items like cardboard, national and local experts say.
Recyclables spilled out of the Brookhaven facility this summer as space ran out inside and no one would buy the material. Eventually, the newspaper and cardboard left out in the rain was composted in Brookhaven with the permission of the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
Green Stream, saying it could not afford to operate the Brookhaven plant, pulled out of its deal with the town. Brookhaven officials have said Green Stream owes the town $1.7 million in unpaid fees and bills, which Flower said the company likely will not pay.
Huntington said Brookhaven officials announced they will discontinue an agreement to take Huntington's recyclables at the end of this year. Huntington had been making $8 per ton from shipping paper, plastics and other material to Brookhaven, but capacity shortages at the Brookhaven facility have forced Huntington to pay $10 per ton to take material to a private waste facility, Huntington Director of Environmental Waste Management John Clark said in an email.
Smithtown and Huntington are seeking new recycling vendors. Those towns and Southold and Oyster Bay towns all have said they are reconsidering their single-stream recycling programs.
Recommendations including doubling the bottle and can fee to 10 cents, adding a fee on liquor and wine bottles and removing glass from curbside collections, along with an aggressive public education campaign about how to recycle better, are among proposals from a Long Island recycling advisory committee to the state DEC in October.
China is by far the world's largest consumer of U.S. recyclables, dating to the early 1990s, when the nation's voracious appetite for cardboard and plastic coincided with efforts by American cities and towns to ramp up nascent recycling programs. Both countries benefited from a system in which discarded cardboard was shipped to China, then came back to the United States as recycled boxes containing consumer goods before going back to China to be recycled once again.
Before this year, China consumed as much as 40 percent of the United States' exported recyclables — more than the next 10 foreign nations combined, said Adina Renee Adler, senior director for government relations and international affairs at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, a Washington, D.C., trade group.
"Because China gave us very little time to transition, it gives the recyclers very little time to find other markets," Adler said.
Scrap exports to China have declined since the ban on several types of plastics and mixed paper took effect Jan. 1 and all but halted in May when China temporarily suspended pre-shipment inspections.
China is trying to stamp out "contamination" — the waste industry term for recyclables that contain residue such as moisture and glue from packing tape and labels. Locally, inspectors hired by a Chinese firm now prod bales of paper with moisture detectors and examine piles of cardboard for contaminants such as glass shards before they are loaded into containers destined for overseas markets, local operators said.
Costs have climbed as companies and municipalities have slowed down conveyor belts and added additional staff to better sort streams of recyclables. Islip Town, which runs its own dual-stream recycling facility, last month approved $100,000 in unbudgeted overtime for recycling sorting.
At the same time, prices for recycled material have plummeted. Baled cardboard that could once be sold for $180 a ton is now down to nearly $60 a ton, Flower said.
Winters Bros. says it will have to alter or change some contracts under language usually reserved for natural disasters.
The Town of Oyster Bay has already agreed not to extend their single stream contract with Winters Bros. past Dec. 31, citing litigation fears, and will rebid their recycling contract in the coming weeks.
"Anyone in the recycling business would describe this as a crisis," Flower said.
Not everyone agrees, pointing to the recycling industry's cyclical nature, including frequent price fluctuations.
"I would not characterize it as a crisis. I'd characterize it as challenging times due to changing trends and changing markets," said Martin Brand, deputy commissioner for the state DEC's office of remediation and materials management.
He said he was unaware of additional recyclable material heading to landfills or incinerators, and said no permission has been granted for recyclers to landfill or incinerate recyclables. Some municipalities had requested permission to landfill or incinerate recyclables at a statewide meeting on the recycling changes this summer, but DEC did not give them permission, he said.
The changes in the recycling stream have ignited a debate over the benefits of single-stream recycling and dual-stream, where residents put out paper products one week and then the rest of the recyclables the next week.
Single-stream recycling increases participation in municipal recycling programs, but mixing paper products with cans and bottles leaves cardboard spoiled by rainwater and carbonated soda, or torn by broken glass.
Some residents also deposit non-recyclables — everything from food and soccer balls to garden hoses — into recycling containers, a phenomenon that waste officials call "wish-cycling."
Some local operators said that single stream, by creating a contaminated stream, has forced China's crackdown on recycling.
As single-stream recycling grew, not just on Long Island but nationally, the product coming out of the United States became more contaminated, said Patricia DiMatteo, owner of Omni Recycling of Babylon, a dual-stream facility. People became less discerning about what they threw into their recycling bins, she said. While Omni Recycling has had to more carefully sort its recycling stream, the amount that it sends to landfills — yard waste, hoses, cheese-stained pizza boxes — has remained about the same, she said.
"In my opinion, it was the advent of single-stream recycling that destroyed the market," DiMatteo said.
When Brookhaven announced its single-stream program in 2014, town officials envisioned the plant becoming a regional processing center that would serve municipalities across Long Island. Green Stream had poured $7 million to upgrade the facility in Brookhaven hamlet.
In 2015, the plant expanded after the DEC imposed a $25,000 fine for violations including the disposing of recyclables as waste.
With Green Stream leaving the facility, Brookhaven officials have said the program's new operator will have the option of continuing with single stream — or switching to a dual-stream system.
Here are the number of tons of recycled and unrecycled waste reported by each Long Island town in 2016*, the latest year available.
* Islip failed to file a 2016 report, so we used its 2017 report; all other town and city data are from 2016, the most recent year available from all other municipalities.
Towns such as Islip and Southampton that stuck with dual-stream recycling said their operations have fared better than single-stream programs. The amount of material that ends up as garbage has not increased because separated recyclables are less contaminated and therefore more attractive to buyers, they said.
Jim Heil, Islip's former waste commissioner, said the town's decision not to convert to single stream a few years ago is paying off.
"We looked at it when it was all the rage. We stayed the course, decided to do what we were continuing to do," Heil, who co-chairs the recycling committee with Flower, said. "It's to our benefit now, with the blip in the market."
Robert Lange, executive director of North Hempstead's Solid Waste Management Authority, who ran New York City's recycling program for 20 years as the director before that, said residents have to be better educated on what to recycle, and be encouraged to recycle more.
But he warned that some of the concerns are overblown and he has seen contractors in the past try to use bad market conditions to renegotiate contracts.
"I think there's hype right now and whenever there's any kind of drama like that, someone's going to use it as an opportunity to readjust things in their favor," he said.
Some of recycling's issues existed long before China's new policy, even if they were rarely talked about outside industry circles.
In some cases, materials can't be sold at all. Certain kinds of thin plastic food containers, for example, are incinerated or landfilled, Flower said.
Glass, when crushed and colors are mixed, has rarely been sold on recycling markets. The industry has also struggled with plastic bags and hoses getting caught in recycling machinery.
"A good market hid a lot of sins," Flower said.
Peter Scully, former regional DEC director and former vice-chair of the New York State Solid Waste Management Board, said the towns should not have rushed into single-stream recycling.
"A better approach might have been to undertake single stream on a pilot basis to make sure it was sustainable over the long-term, and didn't generate excess amounts of reject material, as a result of cross-contamination of paper products with broken glass," he said.
Some environmentalists agreed that big changes to recycling are needed, including more education for residents on what to recycle and state incentives or investments to encourage local recycling markets.
"Recycling was never free, now we're faced with what the actual costs are going to be," said Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment.
"We were misled years ago that single stream would be helpful for recycling. In fact, it's been extremely harmful," she said. "It contaminates some material. And hasn't brought any benefit and has only brought contamination of the material. It's a disaster."
R. Lawrence Swanson, associate dean for Stony Brook University's School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, said contract squabbles between recyclers and municipalities, such as the one between Oyster Bay and Winters Bros., could become more common.
"Probably some of those agreements are going to be in disarray and there's going to be a need or an attempt to renegotiate," Swanson said.


Book: Genesis (3), Numbers (1), Isaiah (2), Matthew (1), Mark (2), Luke (2), John (3).
Service: Morning Worship (7), Early Morning Worship (2), Communion (1).
Preached by Rev MaryAnn R. Rennie on March 18, 2018 (Morning Worship).
John 11:1-45 (Part of the Lent series).
Preached by Rev MaryAnn R. Rennie on April 2, 2017 (Morning Worship).
Preached by Rev MaryAnn R. Rennie on March 26, 2017 (Morning Worship).
Genesis 2:15-17 (Part of the Lent series).
Preached by Rev MaryAnn R. Rennie on March 5, 2017 (Morning Worship).
Preached by Rev MaryAnn R. Rennie on March 13, 2016 (Communion).


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Berbéria, Berberia, Barbária, Costa berberisca, Costa berbere ou Costa barbaresca é o termo que os europeus utilizaram desde o  até ao  para se referirem às regiões costeiras de Marrocos, Argélia, Tunísia e Líbia, ou seja, o atual Magrebe, à exceção do Egito. O nome deriva dos berberes, então chamados berberiscos. No Ocidente, o termo normalmente é usado para falar dos piratas da Barbária e dos comerciantes de escravos, que povoavam essas costas e baseavam nestas atividades a sua economia e que representavam uma ameaça constante para as embarcações comerciais e inclusivamente as cidades costeiras do Mediterrâneo.

"Berbéria" nem sempre foi uma entidade política unificada. A partir do  em diante, ele foi dividido em entidades políticas familiares da Regência de Argel, Túnis, e Tripolitânia (Trípoli). Grandes governantes durante a época dos estados berberes saqueados foram os Paxá ou Dei de Argel, o Bei de Túnis e do Bei de Trípoli, todos os assuntos, que estavam ansiosos para livrar-se do sultão otomano, mas que eram de fato governantes independentes.

Geografia da África
História do Norte da África
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Q: Adding an Option to a Select Element with javascript using the Prototype library I want a to add an option dynamically to a Select element using Prototype.
There seems to be a lot of different ways to do it out there, all to do with options.add etc... Not seen much in the way of cross-browser ways.
Want it to be as lightweight as possible.
This is what I have got so far. It's just the appending the options that I'm stuck on:
var oNewOption = new Element('option').value=vItem;
oNewOption.text=vItem;

Any ideas anyone?

A: No need for Prototype, it'll be just as easy with the following time-honoured method that works in every major desktop browser since the mid-1990s:
// Assuming a select element stored in a variable called 'select'
select.options[select.options.length] = new Option("Option text", "optionValue");

A: select.insert(new Element('option', {value: myValue}).update(myLabel));

insert appends to the content of the select object, update updates the content of the new option object.
Not really better than the classic way, though.


Root Apps for Rooted Android Phones – There are many reasons why people root their android device because its enhance your android experience and access to those new features of android that many people not heard yet. Rooting can also gives you the administrator privileges that you can remove stock apps and have full control over pre-installed apps. So Guys If your not root your smartphones yet, just do it and access the super access to your device. This post is specially dedicated to users who already root their android device. Below are some awesome Best Root Apps that you use with your rooted device.
It is one of the Best Root Apps that gives you all access to the admin privileges. In your android devices if any application trying to access system has to contact SuperSU to gain access permissions. It comes with lots of features like access and request logs, un-root option, option to auto-allow system apps, etc. SuperSU has been built from the ground up to counter a number of problems with other Superuser access management tools.
The name of the app is simply show its working and it is the Best Root Apps 2018. It is the another hit on android apps that can give you the super access to your devices and easily control all of the features of your smartphones like processor's frequency, screen colors, entropy level, input voltages and much more. By using this app you can also increase your system performance by disabling the non used app in smartphone. You can increase or improve various parameters and options to gain better performance.
Device specific features like Knock-On, vibration strength, screen color temperature, LCD power reduce.
CPU frequencies, governors, i/o schedulers.
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Every year when the Great Heat Wave happens I've turned to different remedies and oddly this year my invisible cold pack is full of iris and patchouli. I'm not sure why I decided that iris was a good remedy for heat, unless the sight of a lone Japanese iris in bloom set me off the other day.
The flower looked so cool and unruffled by the heat, versus self, who of course has frizzled hair and a permanent sheen of perspiration on her skin, and is constantly peeling herself off the study sofa. Patchouli by contrast is an old remedy for the summertime blues. You get right down to the soil level with patch, and that's where I spend half my time now, weeding and cutting into the leggy undergarments of rhododendrons. That is no place for dainty perfumes and obvious florals attract bees, so temporarily I'm off of roses and white florals.
Instead I've worn Zum's Goat Milk Soap in Patchouli. OK , definitely not a Guerlain! But for the price, which is 5.85, you get a nice patchouli zap that lasts a good half hour. Sometimes I just use it as hand soap and sometimes I slather in the shower, but after a hot day in the undergrowth,you could do a great deal worse. Besides, the Hub raises no objections to patchouli for himself either, so the Zum is a winner, and I generally buy mine at Whole Foods.
My other patchouli fix this summer came from a sample I was sent by Anya of Anya's Garden, a natural perfumer who has been producing scents for several years, and is one of the earliest natural perfumers in the States. I didn't know her work until this point, but she included a sample of Enticing in her package, which is a patchouli perfume with musk and butter ( I would never have guessed the butter) a mushroom note, also clary sage and tuberose. Because of the natural musk there is a distinctly animalic character to Enticing that is appealing at the hypothalamus level, and which soaks into hot skin in a very convincing way. You know, one of those perfumes that makes you smell as if your sweat were a great deal sexier than it actually is? There is something very carnal but casual in this perfume, and I find that Enticing is one of those uncommon fragrances that go just about everywhere with you.
Beginning on an herbal note, progressing through the patchouli, and ending in a sweeter, lighter mode with tuberose and musk, Enticing is quiet but rounded, and would be an excellent companion for men as well as women. I really liked this patchouli a lot, and if I have a beef here at all it's that I wished this attractive scent would last longer on me.
Then I had the problem of what to wear that was bearable in the humid evenings, and very often went the iris route. My choice usually was Penhaligon's Iris Prima. This is a perfume that also smells like the trail is musk, in fact it is listed as a floral woody musk, but the notes which include an inevitable pink peppercorn and bergamot intro, subsequently blossom into jasmine and iris. I find the heart of the Penhaligon extremely pretty. This is, by the way, the second time I have fallen for a Penhaligon, the first having been Lily and Spice, which was one of those rare lilies I could wear without feeling like a walking vase. Similarly, Iris Prima features a heavy oriental base with vanilla, sandalwood, and musk, which means you can wear this perfume rather than feeling the formula wearing you, a risk with florals.
I also returned to Papillon Artisan Perfumes' Angelique, but was disappointed for the second time. The perfume always begins so promisingly on me with a pretty airy iris note, but the prettiness devolves into such bitterness on my skin that I can seldom live with Angelique for more than half an hour.
Thanks for the great recommendations! I love using floral and fresh, earthy scents in the summer. I'd prefer jasmine and vanilla fragrances, but iris is not a bad choice at all. And maybe I'll try the Goat Milk Soap of Zum, cause your writing 'entices' me.
Glad the soap sounded good. I always think we need a few more affordable choices in the mix.
I can imagine why patchouli would be great in hot summers; it's very dry cool and earthy, counteracting the essence of humidity or overwhelming lushness. I feel like Iris Prima is actually quite a heated smell; to me it smells very warm and incense-y, like a sacred ritual in India.
Sorry to be late on this reply. Patchouli smells like burrowing to me, which is why it 's so good in heat, I guess.
As to why iris should strike me as cool…I have no idea. This must just be idiosyncrasy on my part. I've always smelled things like Hiris and Chanel No 19 as almost frigid, but there must be warm irises out there, Iris Taizo did seem warm to me actually, and now I'll go back and see if I smell a warm incense in Iris Prima.
Haha I know what you mean about the patchouli. I wouldn't disagree with you on the iris; since there are literally over a hundred varieties of iris flowers, I guess while some have the fresher, powdery scent that most of us are used to, there are other varieties with a more warm, sensual, oriental quality. So it's not surprising that different fragrance-makers might have very different versions of iris scents, but personally I feel that Iris Prima definitely falls into the latter category.
Have you tried Prada's Infusion d'Iris? It's fresher than Penhaligon's, but also has a lovely pepperiness to it. Like Penhaligon's Iris it is very classic, but more herby than incense-y.
I have tried the Infusion d'Iris and find it very clean and pretty to wear. I'd agree with you that it is more herbal than the Prima. Just about all the Pradas are good, I like the men's Infusion d'Homme as well.


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The food-delivery wars never end, and now Amazon has a new play against Postmates and UberEats.
The Whole Foods owner just partnered with Olo, a restaurant software system used by many popular fast-casual eateries. The partnership means that most restaurants using the Olo system will now be available for delivery on Amazon Restaurants.
For the most part, these are the kinds of places you can usually only order from on Postmates: fast-casual restaurants that don't offer their own delivery. Think Chipotle, Applebee's, Sweetgreen, Shake Shack, Chili's, Red Robin, Noodles & Company, and Jamba Juice.
"We're thrilled to work with Amazon to provide Olo's base of restaurant customers with a new delivery sales channel that drives increased visibility," Olo CEO Noah Glass said in a statement.
Amazon Restaurants is available to Amazon Prime members. Besides competing with all the other delivery players, Chipotle delivery also gives Amazon yet another edge in its continued quest for every human on the planet to sign up for Prime.
"We are excited to leverage Olo's digital ordering technology and continue rapidly growing our network of restaurants to give Amazon Prime members more options for fast delivery from their favorite brands," Amazon Restaurants General Manager Gus Lopez said in a statement.


Belmont's School of Humanities will be hosting its Sixth Annual Fall Humanities Symposium next week, featuring guest lectures and special events all built around the topic, "Transforming Travel: Rewriting the World as We Know It." Running Sun., Nov. 11 through Mon., Nov. 19, the symposium will focus on the ways in which travel literature and narratives transform our world.
The kick-off event takes Sunday evening, Nov. 11, with a reading of travel-related writing by members of the Belmont community. Other highlights include a reception Wednesday for the symposium speakers, a Humorous Travel Essay Competition and a Writing Workshop focused on freelance/travel-related writing.
For additional information and a complete listing of all events in this year's symposium, visit the online program at www.belmont.edu/english/humanities_symposium.


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IJsfontein vertrok de afgelopen maanden achtereenvolgens naar Korea, Singapore en India om te praten over spelend leren. Centrale vraag? Hoe kunnen we daar spelend en digitaal leren inzetten voorvoorlichting, het verbeteren van onderwijs en voor het opleiden van personeel.
IJsfontein sprak met ambassades, zakenmensen, gamedevelopers en docenten. Gaming is hun niet vreemd, serious gaming wel. Een klein lesje geschiedenis kon dus geen kwaad. Wie is die Homo Ludens, waar komt het begrip spelend leren vandaan en waarom zit het zo diep geworteld in de Nederlandse cultuur? We schreven het op.
The Netherlands – Europe's playground
door: Patricia Jacob
The Netherlands is a world leader when it comes to the development of 'serious games', i.e. digital games designed to teach players certain skills or know-how. It is no coincidence that the Netherlands should be so prominent in this field. It's a logical extension of Dutch culture.
Singapore's famous Orchard Road district will soon see the erection of the Scotts Tower, a newly-to-be-built structure which will seem to be balancing on stilts and will provide its inhabitants with roof terraces, swimming pools and gardens. The tower was designed by Dutch architect Ben van Berkel, who also co-designed Singapore University of Technology & Design (SUTD). Van Berkel's residential tower is simply begging for an interior featuring at least one example of Dutch design. A Viktor & Rolf dress with a bow, perhaps, or rather some Dutch design by Droog? Perhaps Marcel Wanders' knotted chair would be an option?
Our creative industry is world famous. It produces items which are light-hearted and amusing, making playfulness our trademark. One could even say that being playful is part of our national culture. The well-known visionary Desiderius Erasmus inculcated it in our national DNA.
Learning in a playful manner
Erasmus (circa 1467-1536) was a priest, theologian, philosopher, author and humanist. Erasmus' work focuses on man rather than on the church or the state. In his works, Erasmus dealt with all aspects of society. His most famous work, The Praise of Folly, is a merciless but funny takedown of the establishment. Among other institutions, Erasmus criticises the Catholic Church in the book. The Praise of Folly broke new ground; it paved the way for the Reformation, the sixteenth-century religious revolution which led to the establishment of the Protestant churches.
Useful components of society
Erasmus also wrote many pedagogic and educational works. In a book called On the Obligation to Raise Children At Once and with an Open Mind, he posited that 'man is not born but made man'. In Erasmus' opinion, children do not just grow into 'useful components of society'. They must be raised and taught from a young age. Erasmus was of the opinion that children should be treated honestly and respectfully. He also felt that it was better to encourage them than to punish them. He was convinced that a positive attitude helps children develop more quickly and also helps them gain a better understanding of right and wrong. Children learn best if they are intrinsically motivated. Therefore, according to Erasmus, teachers should teach their students in a way 'which does not leave the children feeling like they are working, but rather like they are playing games'.
Erasmus' ideas on education were revolutionary in his day. In the Middle Ages, education was generally marked by corporal punishment and extreme discipline. In our own day, Erasmus' principles – encourage children, do not push them too hard, allow them to learn in a playful manner – have found a fair degree of acceptance in many parts of the world.
The playing man
Erasmus was not the Netherlands' only key figure in the field of play. Following in his footsteps was another major player: Johan Huizinga. This historian, anthropologist and cultural historian (1872-1945) unfolded his theory on man, the player, in his book Homo Ludens ('The playing man'). Man thinks, creates and plays. However, according to Huizinga, man is first and foremost a player. Everyone loves a good game. As Huizinga saw it, playing is a voluntary activity played in accordance with well-known rules, which provides a source of excitement and fun. In order to be able to play, people need a space where they can feel safe. This can be any kind of space, ranging from an arena or stage to a gaming table, temple or magic circle.
Games are necessary for the creation of society
It's a good thing that people like to play games, because playing games allows us to build and develop a society. In Homo Ludens Huizinga convincingly shows that games – fun things – are necessary for the creation of society. By giving his readers a whirlwind tour of world history, he demonstrates that essential components of our culture – the administration of justice, the arts, sports – can be traced back to centuries-old games. He published his theory to much acclaim, both from the Netherlands and from abroad. He was even nominated for a Nobel Prize.
Huizinga and Erasmus in practice
What legacy have these two influential theorists left in the Netherlands? Learning in a playful manner means that people learn new things in relaxed and ever-changing ways. They encounter new challenges all the time and are allowed to make mistakes. Playing games is all about making mistakes. Games are all about excitement, challenges, mastery and victory. Such a combination of ingredients inspires children and adults alike to keep playing and developing. As Huizinga wrote back in the day, everyone loves a good game.
Play learning is part of Dutch Culture
The key to playful learning – being allowed to experiment and feeling free to make mistakes – is an integral part of Dutch culture. It starts with the parents, who are relatively un-authoritarian. Dutch children are generally allowed to speak their minds and to address their parents in an informal way – sometimes even by their first names. This informality is also a hallmark of Dutch schools and the Dutch business world. Everyone is considered equal in our country. Everyone is allowed to have an opinion, and everyone is allowed to make mistakes. It is this which makes the Netherlands Europe's playground, or maybe even the world's playground.
New types of education
It should therefore not come as a surprise that the Netherlands is busy experimenting with new types of education. Types of education befitting our times, which make optimum use of modern technology. Our creative industry is playing a significant part in this process. For instance, look at the many digital games the Netherlands is producing. A good many of these are serious games, i.e. digital games designed to teach players skills or know-how. Out of 330 companies in the Netherlands developing digital games, 57 per cent works on the development of serious games, while 44 per cent focus exclusively on the development of serious games. This percentage is significantly higher than other countries'.
Not surprisingly, the Netherlands is a world leader in the development of serious games and game-based learning. You will not be surprised to learn that the principles of learning in a playful manner, as invented and described by Huizinga and Erasmus, play a major part in this trend.