Donating a conservation easement is a noble gift for the community and the future. Each conservation easement is unique in its contribution to a healthy, economically vibrant, Virginia landscape. Once a landowner has decided to explore donating an easement, it just takes a call to Land Trust of Virginia to get started.
Be sure to check out this general summary of the steps involved as a landowner!
The Land Trust of Virginia has criteria for accepting land conservation easements based upon federal, state and local guidelines which require that easement property have "significant" conservation values of forests, wetlands, waterways, endangered species habitat, historic sites, battlefields, important farmland and scenic areas.
At the invitation of a landowner, LTV will evaluate a property to determine whether it meets these criteria. We work with landowners to tailor the easement to meet future needs while protecting. For example, an easement may cover portions of a property, an entire parcel, or allow an additional residence or agricultural building(s).
After initiating the process with LTV, landowners should seek advice from their own tax and legal advisors regarding the financial and estate benefits of a conservation easement as well as engaging the services of a qualified conservation land appraiser.
Check out this example of how some of the tax incentives could work for you!
Once the easement is finalized and recorded, LTV begins their stewardship of the land. This means once a year, forever, LTV staff will visit and connect with the landowners – who donated the easement and successor landowners – to ensure the land is being maintained according to the design of the easement.


Imagine a scenario where a highly motivated, trained, and well equipped enemy launched an invasion against the United States. Upon arriving at our shores, this enemy began grabbing anything of value—everything not literally fastened to the ground, and loaded these things onto a ship to take it back home. This scenario sounds far-fetched—but it's happening every hour of every day here in the United States. Who is this enemy? Anyone and everyone who would like to profit from the enormous amount of intellectual property developed, improved, and economized here in the United States and other modern western countries. The method of invasion: cyberspace.
Now to be fair, this isn't a Russia problem, a China problem, or a North Korea problem. This is an intellectual property problem. The innovative history of our post World War II society has yielded a treasure trove of life improvements which any nation would, of course, wish to have access to. Our science, technology, entertainment, and engineering prowess as a nation obviously make us a target for any actor who wishes to improve their lot in life. A recent PWC report cited an estimate from the Center for Strategic and International Studies of cyber crime's annual cost to the global economy between $375 billion to $575 billion, but the same report from PWC estimates the annual loss of trade secrets from $749 billion to $2.2 trillion — a staggering 1% - 3% of GDP! This is easily the greatest transfer of wealth the world has ever seen.
Why does this phenomenon continue, given how quantified the damages have been and how public U.S. officials have been regarding the issue, up to and including the extremely unusual step of indicting foreign military and government officials? It's no secret that we are engaged in an ongoing cyber war, and it's also becoming more obvious that our existing policy mechanisms and our technology approaches to cyber warfare aren't working.
First, we are spending too much time attempting attribution. Trying to figure out who the enemy is and what they are doing is a waste of cycles in today's complex web of actors and methods. What's ironic about this approach is that corporate America has, for about the last decade, embraced the notion of, "we don't care who it is; we must consider most of the outside world untrusted." Just look at the evolution of security technology—we have gone from a focus on preventative controls (anti-virus, IPS, etc.) to data-centric controls, whitelisting, and better understanding of "normal activity." From a public policy perspective, we need to take this approach—if we don't know who you are and what you're going to do with the information, you don't need it. This sounds easier in theory than it would be in practice—but today we are investing all of our energy in watching the "burglar" on video trying to figure out who he is versus locking the front door.
Second, we must have a clear and open policy on cyber warfare and intellectual property at the highest levels of our society. Even if our policy is to be ambiguous regarding our response, this ambiguity needs to be codified. For instance, the United States has a policy of deliberate ambiguity regarding its intent to retaliate to a chemical or biological attack with nuclear weapons. This policy was developed during the Persian Gulf War and remains, in essence, our policy. On the cyber battle space, not even a policy of deliberate ambiguity is in force. We are telling our enemies nothing—which is, in effect, "Come get us, we'll try to keep you out, and do nothing if you succeed." The definition of a proportionate response, an idea of an overwhelming response, and what constitutes an action which warrants a response are all areas which need the same clarity in cyberspace which exist in the physical space.
Third, it's time to start hitting back. Attribution is difficult and often not worthwhile—but during those instances where we clearly can identify the enemy, we should be leveraging every cyber capability at our disposal. Until our government can provide better clarity and policy, corporate America is left to absorb the impact of this mass transfer of intellectual property. The private sector has the ability to deal with the problem, but who wants to engage in cyber warfare when our own government's stance is uncertain? If we are unwilling to "take the gloves off," we should expect foreign countries profit off the last three generations of innovation without benefit to the U.S. It's hard to imagine a middle ground.
Finally, the cyber industry needs help from the media in educating the public on what's really happening here. Security professionals tend to not be able to deliver the message to the masses—and we shouldn't have to. Journalism exists for a reason—and we in the industry have been hesitant to leverage the media in fostering the right questions and policy debates around cyber security. The American public knows more about cyber security than it ever has, predominately due to the recent high-profile credit card breeches. We as an industry must continue to educate the public on just how serious the rampant theft of their innovation and productivity has become.
The threats to our intellectual property are real, they're constant, and we're asleep at the switch. Unless we are comfortable with, one generation from now, losing our edge in innovation, we must act. The time is now.


The emptying of our nest of 4 beautiful children has allowed us to reset our lives by living light for the sake of spreading the Light through Interim Pastoral Ministry. This blog is the musings and ministry of the Wolfgangs as we go wherever God leads. May we live light and in the Light, Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord.
v.32 - The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about Him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to seize Him.
Jesus has quietly came into the Feast of Booths and made His way into the temple to start preaching and teaching. What is ruffling the authorities feathers are the words that Jesus is using to explain the close relationship between Himself and His Father, Father God. The crowd is in a state of confusion to this man named Jesus who the authorities wanted killed but He is here speaking openly in the temple.
We have made it to Holy Week 2019. I find it helpful to lay out the days of this week to remember what Jesus was doing as He was heading to the cross and the resurrection from grave.
I have said this before but www.gotquestions.org is a great resource to gather information from the Bible. Just type your question in the search bar and away you go to Bible answers from the Bible. I assembled the summaries below from this online resource.
Sunday - yesterday - Palm Sunday - the 10th day of Nisan - the first day of the week - lamb selection day - Jesus enters Jerusalem on the foal of a donkey to fulfill the prophecy found in Zechariah 9:9 - He receives the praise of the people saying "Hosanna!"
Palm Sunday 2019 and also episode #98 of Down To The River.
Today I read for us the passage dealing with Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem and set us up for a holy week that includes the testing, the Passover, the betrayal, the trial, the cross, and the grave. Jesus will enter Jerusalem to the cheers of the people saying "Hosanna!" but he will exit to many chanting "Crucify Him!"
This is the message of faith that we proclaim: If you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Waiting, don't you hate it at times?
Waiting in the waiting room to see the doctor.Waiting in traffic (recent experience in Chicago).Waiting on the runway.Waiting in line (recent experience at a grocery store in downtown Chicago).Waiting for the other person to stop talking.Waiting for the results (a real experience for a cancer survivor after each CT scan).Waiting for the timer to ding.Waiting for the other shoe to drop.Waiting in line for the use of the bathroom.
Maybe you could add a few more to my list.
v.25-27 - So some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, "Is this not the man whom they were seeking to kill? Look, He is speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to Him. The rulers do not really know that this is the Christ, do they? However, we know where this man is from; but whenever the Christ may come, no one knows where He is from."
For the life of this one given the spiritual gift of pastoring to equip the saints especially in the area of pastoring/shepherding one another, sometimes I have early mornings when my sleep is done. My mind is full and I just need to succumb to rising and starting my day. This physical day greets me with an unseasonably warm morning after a glorious day with God's family assembled in Oglesby, Illinois.
"This church is independent, self-governing and is not affiliated with any denominational group."
I am delivering a sermon this morning that will probably be about 40 minutes long. How do I know? Because I have poured over this message many times and I was really curious how long I was passionately talking about the topic of church leadership. It is a sermon timely needed for our congregation but it is also a sermon that I needed to prepare for personally so I can carry it wherever I go.
The Bible gives us so much material on this topic. Why have we strayed from what is written and created structures that look like the world rather than the family of God? This is definitely the most intense look I have given to church leadership primarily because I came from a denomination that had it all figured out for you. Being a part of an independent church has helped me to look deep into the Scriptures and formulate from them why we do what we do.
"Our continuing effort to understand and implement Biblical standards."
A simple man serving a great God presently pastoring the Oglesby Union Church of Oglesby, IL. We are in our 33rd year of full time ministry.


text:
package core

import (
	"math/big"

	"github.com/gophercloud/gophercloud"
	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
	"github.com/sapcc/go-api-declarations/limes"
	limesrates "github.com/sapcc/go-api-declarations/limes/rates"
	limesresources "github.com/sapcc/go-api-declarations/limes/resources"
	"github.com/sapcc/go-bits/pluggable"

	"github.com/sapcc/limes/pkg/db"
)

// KeystoneDomain describes the basic attributes of a Keystone domain.
type KeystoneDomain struct {
	UUID string `json:"id"`
	Name string `json:"name"`
}

// KeystoneDomainFromDB converts a db.Domain into a KeystoneDomain.
func KeystoneDomainFromDB(dbDomain db.Domain) KeystoneDomain {
	return KeystoneDomain{
		UUID: dbDomain.UUID,
		Name: dbDomain.Name,
	}
}

// KeystoneProject describes the basic attributes of a Keystone project.
type KeystoneProject struct {
	UUID       string         `json:"id"`
	Name       string         `json:"name"`
	ParentUUID string         `json:"parent_id,omitempty"`
	Domain     KeystoneDomain `json:"domain"`
}

// KeystoneProjectFromDB converts a db.Project into a KeystoneProject.
func KeystoneProjectFromDB(dbProject db.Project, domain KeystoneDomain) KeystoneProject {
	return KeystoneProject{
		UUID:       dbProject.UUID,
		Name:       dbProject.Name,
		ParentUUID: dbProject.ParentUUID,
		Domain:     domain,
	}
}

// DiscoveryPlugin is the interface that the collector uses to discover Keystone
// projects and domains in a cluster.
type DiscoveryPlugin interface {
	pluggable.Plugin
	//Init is called before any other interface methods, and allows the plugin to
	//perform first-time initialization.
	//
	//Before Init is called, the `discovery.params` provided in the configuration
	//file will be yaml.Unmarshal()ed into the plugin object itself.
	Init(client *gophercloud.ProviderClient, eo gophercloud.EndpointOpts) error
	//ListDomains returns all Keystone domains in the cluster.
	ListDomains(client *gophercloud.ProviderClient, eo gophercloud.EndpointOpts) ([]KeystoneDomain, error)
	//ListProjects returns all Keystone projects in the given domain.
	ListProjects(client *gophercloud.ProviderClient, eo gophercloud.EndpointOpts, domain KeystoneDomain) ([]KeystoneProject, error)
}

// ResourceData contains quota and usage data for a single resource.
//
// The Subresources field may optionally be populated with subresources, if the
// quota plugin providing this ResourceData instance has been instructed to (and
// is able to) scrape subresources for this resource.
type ResourceData struct {
	Quota         int64 //negative values indicate infinite quota
	Usage         uint64
	PhysicalUsage *uint64 //only supported by some plugins
	Subresources  []interface{}
}

// QuotaPlugin is the interface that the quota/usage collector plugins for all
// backend services must implement. There can only be one QuotaPlugin for each
// backend service.
type QuotaPlugin interface {
	pluggable.Plugin
	//Init is guaranteed to be called before all other methods exposed by the
	//interface. Implementations can use it f.i. to discover the available
	//Resources(). For plugins that support subresource scraping, the final
	//argument indicates which resources to scrape (the keys are resource names).
	//
	//Before Init is called, the `services[].params` provided in the config
	//file will be yaml.Unmarshal()ed into the plugin object itself.
	Init(client *gophercloud.ProviderClient, eo gophercloud.EndpointOpts, scrapeSubresources map[string]bool) error
	//ServiceInfo returns metadata for this service.
	ServiceInfo() limes.ServiceInfo
	//Resources returns metadata for all the resources that this plugin scrapes
	//from the backend service.
	Resources() []limesresources.ResourceInfo
	//Scrape queries the backend service for the quota and usage data of all
	//known resources for the given project in the given domain. The string keys
	//in the result map must be identical to the resource names
	//from Resources().
	//
	//The serializedMetrics return value is persisted in the Limes DB and
	//supplied to all subsequent RenderMetrics calls.
	Scrape(client *gophercloud.ProviderClient, eo gophercloud.EndpointOpts, project KeystoneProject) (result map[string]ResourceData, serializedMetrics string, error error)
	//IsQuotaAcceptableForProject checks if the given quota value is acceptable
	//for the given project, and returns nil if the quota is acceptable, or a
	//human-readable error otherwise. This should only be used when the
	//acceptability of a specific quota value is tied to the project identity.
	IsQuotaAcceptableForProject(client *gophercloud.ProviderClient, eo gophercloud.EndpointOpts, project KeystoneProject, quotas map[string]uint64) error
	//SetQuota updates the backend service's quotas for the given project in the
	//given domain to the values specified here. The map is guaranteed to contain
	//values for all resources defined by Resources().
	SetQuota(client *gophercloud.ProviderClient, eo gophercloud.EndpointOpts, project KeystoneProject, quotas map[string]uint64) error
	//Rates returns metadata for all the rates that this plugin scrapes
	//from the backend service.
	Rates() []limesrates.RateInfo
	//ScrapeRates queries the backend service for the usage data of all the rates
	//enumerated by Rates() for the given project in the given domain. The string
	//keys in the result map must be identical to the rate names from Rates().
	//
	//The serializedState return value is persisted in the Limes DB and returned
	//back to the next ScrapeRates() call for the same project in the
	//prevSerializedState argument. Besides that, this field is not interpreted
	//by the core application in any way. The plugin implementation can use this
	//field to carry state between ScrapeRates() calls, esp. to detect and handle
	//counter resets in the backend.
	ScrapeRates(client *gophercloud.ProviderClient, eo gophercloud.EndpointOpts, project KeystoneProject, prevSerializedState string) (result map[string]*big.Int, serializedState string, err error)

	//DescribeMetrics is called when Prometheus is scraping metrics from
	//limes-collect, to provide an opportunity to the plugin to emit its own
	//metrics.
	//
	//Together with CollectMetrics, this interface is roughly analogous to the
	//prometheus.Collector interface; cf. documentation over there.
	DescribeMetrics(ch chan<- *prometheus.Desc)
	//CollectMetrics is called when Prometheus is scraping metrics from
	//limes-collect, to provide an opportunity to the plugin to emit its own
	//metrics. The serializedMetrics argument contains the respective value
	//returned from the last Scrape call on the same project.
	//
	//The clusterID should be given as a label to all emitted metrics.
	//
	//Some plugins also emit metrics directly within Scrape. This newer interface
	//should be preferred since metrics emitted here won't be lost between
	//restarts of limes-collect.
	CollectMetrics(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric, clusterID string, project KeystoneProject, serializedMetrics string) error
}

// CapacityData contains the total and per-availability-zone capacity data for a
// single resource.
//
// The Subcapacities field may optionally be populated with subcapacities, if the
// capacity plugin providing this CapacityData instance has been instructed to (and
// is able to) scrape subcapacities for this resource.
type CapacityData struct {
	Capacity      uint64
	CapacityPerAZ map[string]*CapacityDataForAZ
	Subcapacities []interface{}
}

// CapacityDataForAZ is the capacity data for a single resource in a single AZ.
type CapacityDataForAZ struct {
	Capacity uint64
	Usage    uint64
}

// CapacityPlugin is the interface that all capacity collector plugins must
// implement.
//
// While there can only be one QuotaPlugin for each backend service, there may
// be different CapacityPlugin instances for each backend service, and a single
// CapacityPlugin can even report capacities for multiple service types. The
// reason is that quotas are handled in the concrete backend service, thus their
// handling is independent from the underlying infrastructure. Capacity
// calculations, however, may be highly dependent on the infrastructure. For
// example, for the Compute service, there could be different capacity plugins
// for each type of hypervisor (KVM, VMware, etc.) which use the concrete APIs
// of these hypervisors instead of the OpenStack Compute API.
type CapacityPlugin interface {
	pluggable.Plugin
	//Init is guaranteed to be called before all other methods exposed by the
	//interface.
	//
	//Before Init is called, the `capacitors[].params` provided in the config
	//file will be yaml.Unmarshal()ed into the plugin object itself.
	Init(client *gophercloud.ProviderClient, eo gophercloud.EndpointOpts, scrapeSubcapacities map[string]map[string]bool) error
	//Scrape queries the backend service(s) for the capacities of the resources
	//that this plugin is concerned with. The result is a two-dimensional map,
	//with the first key being the service type, and the second key being the
	//resource name. The capacity collector will ignore service types for which
	//there is no QuotaPlugin, and resources which are not advertised by that
	//QuotaPlugin.
	//
	//The serializedMetrics return value is persisted in the Limes DB and
	//supplied to all subsequent RenderMetrics calls.
	Scrape(client *gophercloud.ProviderClient, eo gophercloud.EndpointOpts) (result map[string]map[string]CapacityData, serializedMetrics string, err error)

	//DescribeMetrics is called when Prometheus is scraping metrics from
	//limes-collect, to provide an opportunity to the plugin to emit its own
	//metrics.
	//
	//Together with CollectMetrics, this interface is roughly analogous to the
	//prometheus.Collector interface; cf. documentation over there.
	DescribeMetrics(ch chan<- *prometheus.Desc)
	//CollectMetrics is called when Prometheus is scraping metrics from
	//limes-collect, to provide an opportunity to the plugin to emit its own
	//metrics. The serializedMetrics argument contains the respective value
	//returned from the last Scrape call on the same project.
	//
	//The clusterID should be given as a label to all emitted metrics.
	//
	//Some plugins also emit metrics directly within Scrape. This newer interface
	//should be preferred since metrics emitted here won't be lost between
	//restarts of limes-collect.
	CollectMetrics(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric, clusterID, serializedMetrics string) error
}

var (
	// DiscoveryPluginRegistry is a pluggable.Registry for DiscoveryPlugin implementations.
	DiscoveryPluginRegistry pluggable.Registry[DiscoveryPlugin]
	// QuotaPluginRegistry is a pluggable.Registry for QuotaPlugin implementations.
	QuotaPluginRegistry pluggable.Registry[QuotaPlugin]
	// CapacityPluginRegistry is a pluggable.Registry for CapacityPlugin implementations.
	CapacityPluginRegistry pluggable.Registry[CapacityPlugin]
)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Guru Gobind Singh Foundation was set up in 1978 by the prominent and illustrious Punjabi residents of Nasik with the primary objective of providing quality education to the students irrespective of their caste, creed, religion or nationality so as to promote morality, patriotism, self-respect and self-confidence.

Courses
GGSP offers diploma engineering studies in five disciplines:
 Civil Engineering
 Mechanical Engineering (Shift 1 & 2)
 Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
 Computer Engineering
 Electrical Engineering
 Mechatronics Engineering

Campus
The campus is nestled in an spacious 12 acres education complex, with Ultra-modern Laboratories, Workshops, Classrooms, vast Playgrounds Gymnasium and Cafeteria.

Admission
Admission to the diploma courses is through the CAP rounds conducted by DTE, Maharashtra (Based on SSC scores).

References
https://web.archive.org/web/20100817235056/http://www.dte.org.in/institutes/Public/RegionCourseInfo.aspx?PK_UserID=5240
https://web.archive.org/web/20120331102056/http://msbte.com/website/pdfdocs/News2011/State%20Level%20Technical%20Project%20Exhibition%20(Techno%20Feat-2011)%20.pdf
http://www.ggsf.edu.in
http://www.msbte.org/

External links

Universities and colleges in Maharashtra
Education in Nashik
Engineering colleges in Maharashtra
Educational institutions established in 1978
1978 establishments in Maharashtra
Memorials to Guru Gobind Singh

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Orto Ortwein's self-published Bookmobiles in America is a labor of love and represents one man's passionate interest in a unique and disappearing service of public libraries. Many Americans over a certain age have memories of the local library's bookmobile pulling up to their school, carrying an entire world of stories, adventures, and knowledge. Sadly, most smaller libraries have had to bid farewell to their roving buses of books, though many urban and metro libraries still have them. According to the book, bookmobiles peaked around 1965 when there were over 2,000 in the United States. Now there are fewer than 700. Bookmobiles in America traces the long and interesting history of these unusual vehicles and their role in twentieth-century American life.
Interestingly, Ortwein never visited (or more accurately, was never visited by) a bookmobile as a child. He explains in his introduction he lived within walking distance of a library and never had a need for one. He saw his first bookmobile as an adult and became fascinated with them. Personal curiosity soon became a professional research project. The book is extensively researched and provides a wonderful resource for anyone with an interest in public libraries or anyone who, like me, finds the ideas of a traveling library on wheels terribly romantic. My wife and I periodically daydream about buying our own someday, traveling from town to town peddling free books in exchange for a good song, a drink or taste of something local, a story, a hand-drawn picture.
While Bookmobiles is pretty obviously self-published–the print quality, font size, and stripped-down design all give it away–it is nonetheless well-organized and easy to read, avoiding most of the editing errors that often plague such volumes. Ortwein has done a good job providing a logical flow and quantity of information.
One of Greenville Public Library's old book chariots.
Among the things I found most interesting in Bookmobiles were the significant roles Indiana and Ohio libraries played in the emergence of bookmobiles in America (Fourth & Sycamore is run from a public library in west central Ohio). Five of the first nine bookmobiles in the U.S. were in Indiana, including the second American bookmobile in Plainfield, Indiana. Dayton, Ohio, was the first large city to have a bookmobile, with Dayton-Montgomery County Library spending $687 for a Ford One truck to turn into a bookmobile in 1923. The first bookmobile ever based out of a trailer was owned by Warder Public Library in Springfield, Ohio, just north of Dayton. Back then, as is sometimes still true now, there was not a lot to do in these parts, and books staved off the boredom.
Ortwein spends time highlighting many of the unusual forms mobile libraries have taken over the years, including horseback librarians in Kentucky, boxcar libraries in the logging camps of the Pacific Northwest, military libraries in Army trucks during World War II, and many more. One librarian in a remote area of New Mexico in the 1960s flew a small plane to a larger nearby town once every three months to bring back enough books to satisfy his patrons. Ortwein also looks at the changing roles of bookmobiles for modern libraries, such as providing mobile internet access for low-income neighborhoods.
Bookmobiles in America is a lot of fun to look through and very interesting to read. I would like to have seen better print quality for the numerous images, but otherwise, I have no significant complaints. If you love libraries and bookmobiles, check this book out.
Bookmobiles in America is available now at GPL.


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The Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport, the second busiest airport in the country can be an intimidating place to get caught in for a layover. With a wide range of outlets, eateries and other services to keep you engaged, yet not being too far from the fabulous city of Mumbai, the airport presents too many options if you are seeking to make the most of your layover. We bring you a comprehensive guide to making the best use your layover here, whatever the length of your stay. From facilities in the airport to must-visit historic landmarks, century old eateries and hip bars in the city, we've got you covered.
You should stay in the airport to avoid getting stuck in the city's maddening traffic. But that doesn't mean you can't have a good time. If your layover is in the international terminal, T2, you have plenty of options to keep yourself engaged and even indulge a little bit. The terminal has free Wi-Fi, but you will need to provide a cell phone number to access it. There are also plenty of computer stations, charging outlets, comfortable loungers, prayer rooms etc. in addition to the basic smoking rooms, ATMs, pharmacies and currency exchange services at the terminal. Moreover the airports walls are covered in paintings and surrounded by carefully curated décor.
There's no better way to spend a short layover than to sit down with a good book and indulge in a delicious meal or a soothing drink. One of the country's favorite restrobars – Olive Bistro – has an outlet at T2. Indulge in one of their rich pastas, wood-oven baked pizzas or just dig into one of their luscious desserts surrounded by comforting décor and friendly staff. If you are more likely to find solace in a good drink – be it caffeinated or alcoholic – head to The Beer Café, India's largest beer chain! The café is stocked with everything from breakfast food to hard liquor and fancy cocktails. You will not be disappointed.
T2 has about 21,000 square meters of space dedicated to retail outlets. So you will never run out of options. FabIndia rarely disappoints, with its variety of garments, accessories, décor items, beauty products etc. – all handmade from rural India. Kama Ayurveda's range of skin, hair and body care products made with pure, natural and organic ingredients will make your layover the highlight of your day, if not week. If you would like to pick up a good book or magazine, head to Crossword, one of India's largest book, tech and gift chains.
With the airport's on-site Heaven on Earth spa you can bid farewell to those neck and shoulder cramps you picked up on the flight over. From foot, neck and shoulder, and back massages to pedicures, there are plenty of options for you to treat yourself.
With more than 5 hours to spend in Mumbai, you can definitely leave the airport and explore the hip and dynamic surrounding neighborhoods of Bandra, Juhu, and Khar, amongst others. Your most convenient and efficient option would be to hire a cab from the airport. You can leave your bags at the luggage/baggage storage service at T2 to make the best of your layover in Mumbai.
This six-kilometer long beach by the Arabian Sea is one of India's most popular beaches. Catch some sun, people-watch and eat ice cream at this Mumbai gem.
You can catch a play at the iconic theater if you have the time. A theater-lover's paradise, Prithvi regularly features some of the country's finest talent. If theater isn't your thing, head to its famous open-air garden café for chai and pav-bhaji. With hanging lanterns, colorful décor and plenty of plants, this artsy café will eliminate all your travel blues.
One of the city's finest seafood restaurant chains, Mahesh Lunch Home, has an outlet in Juhu –just a short walk from the beach. Try the Mangalorean crab or the fried Bombay duck to find out why this restaurant is rarely empty. If you would rather head to a quiet place with warm lights, cozy décor and a great collection of wines, Silver Beach Café will satisfy your cravings.
Bandra's famous Linking Road should be your go-to destination to get a sense of the city's street-side shopping offerings. From artificial traditional jewelry to eccentric souvenirs, there are plenty of gorgeous things to stare at if not purchase here.
With more than 12 hours to spend, you can head south to the heart of the city. South Mumbai – particularly historic Fort, trendy Colaba and other adjacent neighborhoods – are worth checking out. With plenty of historical landmarks and museums, a wide range of eating options and the famous Colaba Causeway, this part of town is equipped to guarantee that your time in the city is well-spent.
Soak up Mumbai's cosmopolitan history and old-world charm at one of the city's Iranian café houses. Kyani & Co in Marine Lines is over a hundred years old and still packed with loyal patrons seeking to indulge in some bun maska (butter) and Irani chai. Their raspberry soda and cherry custard are particularly worth trying. Britannia & Co in Ballard Estate, another famous Parsi café a couple or so decades younger than Kyani, is located in historic Ballard Estate. Their Berry Pulav is famous all over the country.
Get a sense of yesteryear's Bombay at the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum in Byculla, the oldest museum in Mumbai. With a rich collection of decorative arts, artifacts and dioramas, the museum traces the city's history and showcases daily life here during the 19th and 20th centuries. If you aren't a fan of museums, head further south to visit the historic Gateway of India, one of Mumbai's most prominent monuments built in the early 20th century. With its rich historical connotation, striking architecture and opening up to the charming Arabian Sea, this landmark is incapable of disappointing. Right next to the Gateway is another Mumbai landmark, the Taj Mahal Palace – one of the country's most luxurious and iconic hotels.
Mumbai's most famous commercial street, Colaba Causeway has everything from antiques to trendy jewelry. Even if you aren't looking to buy anything, this stretch with vibrant and colorful street-side stalls and beckoning vendors is an entertaining sight.
Indulge in a meal at The Table, one of the country's best restaurants. Combining a range of cuisines including Japanese, French, Thai, Italian and Indian and using fresh produce from their own chemical-free farm in Alibag, The Table is the food connoisseurs' paradise. Their choice of wines will leave you completely satisfied.
If you aren't in the mood to splurge, head to the famous Café Mondegar. With decently priced beer and a range of cuisine, this tourist hot-spot with walls adorned by iconic cartoons of Mario Miranda is a Colaba experience you shouldn't miss out on.


Apartments are popping up in the Columbus area like mushrooms after a spring rain. In my previous article, I told you about a 504-unit project NP Limited and Trivium plan to develop in Westerville. And the Columbus apartment construction boom continues with two new projects that will deliver over 400 units.
Huntington Banks surpasses halfway point in $100 million commitment to Ohio affordable housing; Largo Group arranges a $27 million first mortgage for N.Y. apartments; and NorthMarq closes $16.75 million first mortgage financing on Calif. apartments.
The stability of apartment assets prompts these institutional investors to develop new strategies as they travel cautiously up the yield curve.


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The Tonda languages form a branch of the Yam language family of southern New Guinea. There are over 10 languages.

Tonda languages share some areal features are shared with the Kolopom languages.

Languages
The Tonda languages are:

Tonda / West Morehead River
Arammba
Central Morehead River: Anta, Kómnzo, Wára, Wérè, Kémä, Kánchá
Warta Thuntai
Bensbach River
Upper Bensbach River
Mblafe–Ránmo
Ngarna–Rema
Nggarna (Sota)
Rema
Kanum
Ngkolmpu: Ngkâlmpw/Ngkontar, Bädi
South Kanum: Bârkâli-Smärki, Tämer

Notes (see Evans 2018: 681):
Each terminal bullet point lists a different dialect chain.
Ránmo is linguistically a dialect of Mblafe, but Ránmo speakers consider their language to be a separate, distinct language.
Wérè is linguistically a dialect of Wára, but Wèré speakers consider their language to be a separate, distinct language.

Numeral typology

Tonda languages are unique for their base-6 numeral systems, which likely originated from counting yams (rather than fingers or body parts as with most other languages).

References

External links
 Timothy Usher, New Guinea World, Proto–West Morehead River (under construction 2020)

Further reading
Grummitt, John and Janell Masters. 2012. A Survey of the Tonda Sub-Group of Languages. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2012-018.

Western Yam languages


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This Workplace Rule Could Have Blunted the Opioid Epidemic. Then Congress Killed It.
"Workers have no control, and they get hurt and their lives are ruined."
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This article was originally published by Public Health Watch, a nonprofit investigative news outlet.
In January 2001, relief was in sight for hundreds of thousands of American workers with pinched nerves, herniated discs, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other conditions so painful they couldn't do their jobs.
A federal rule addressing an explosion of workplace ergonomic injuries had taken effect. It required more than 6 million employers to identify jobs that subjected workers to "repetition, awkward posture, force, vibration and contact stress," and, if necessary, alter those jobs to eliminate or reduce the risk of injury.
The rule survived all of six weeks before Congress smothered it.
Twenty years later, while the overall number of reported cases has fallen, musculoskeletal disorders continue to torment workers in warehouses and health care facilities, and on construction sites. On top of that, a new public health scourge has taken root: the overuse of prescription opioids for chronic pain, often caused by injuries on the job.
The demise of the ergonomics rule didn't cause the opioid epidemic, which took nearly 70,000 lives in the United States last year. The blame for that lies mainly with drug manufacturers that peddled addictive painkillers and doctors who freely prescribed the pills.
But had the rule been allowed to stand, many workers would not have suffered injuries that make drugs like oxycodone so appealing, researchers and former government officials say. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in July that fatal unintentional overdoses in the workplace from alcohol and drugs, including opioids, increased 329 percent from 2011 to 2019, from 73 cases to 313. A survey commissioned by the National Safety Council in 2017 found that 70 percent of responding employers said they had been impacted by prescription drug misuse in the form of absenteeism, impaired job performance, injuries, or other workplace problems.
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Dr. Michael Silverstein, director of policy for the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the early 1990s and later head of Washington State's division of occupational safety and health, said Congress' dismantling of the 2001 rule is partly to blame. "There's little doubt that our failure to take preventive steps on ergonomic injuries has resulted in a secondary effect of opioid dependence and opioid-related deaths," he said.
"There's little doubt that our failure to take preventive steps on ergonomic injuries has resulted in a secondary effect of opioid dependence and opioid-related deaths."
Research supports Silverstein's position. A University of Utah study from 2013, for example, found that 57 percent of people who died from an opioid-related overdose had suffered at least one work injury; 13 percent of overdose deaths had been preceded by a work injury within the previous three years.
Legislation could help fix the problem but seems unlikely given the gridlock in Washington.
"When we were working on the rule (at OSHA), the question was, 'What's going to happen if we don't regulate?'" Silverstein said. "What we didn't anticipate is the way that a lot of companies have rushed in with opioids as a way to keep workers on the job. The consequences have been devastating and so unanticipated."
On November 14, 2000, as the nation fixated on a disputed presidential election, OSHA moved to address the nearly 600,000 musculoskeletal disorders a year that resulted in lost workdays.
At hearings earlier in the year, OSHA had taken testimony from workers like Alberto Turienzo, who had been fired by Goya Foods after complaining about practices in the company's Miami warehouse. "I know many colleagues, co-workers, who've been injured, especially in the arms, the back and the shoulders for carrying and pushing excessively heavy weights," including 110-pound sacks of rice, Turienzo said.
Labor unions had petitioned the agency to do something about such conditions in 1991, and now, in the waning days of the Clinton administration, it had. Although the number of musculoskeletal disorders reported to the Bureau of Labor Statistics had fallen by 20 percent since 1992, OSHA said in the preamble to the rule, "These disorders have been the largest single job-related injury and illness problem in the United States for the last decade, consistently accounting for 34% of all reported injuries and illnesses."
The ergonomics standard was highly prescriptive, setting an "action trigger" that would determine whether an employer had to establish an ergonomics program for a particular job. Such a program would have to include "hazard information and reporting, management leadership and employee participation, job hazard analysis and control, training, [musculoskeletal disorder] management, and program evaluation."
This did not go over well with industry groups. A vice president with the US Chamber of Commerce called the standard "unconstitutionally vague" and said there was "no scientific basis" for it. There were predictions of economic doom precipitated by government meddling in work processes. OSHA estimated businesses would have to spend a collective $4.5 billion to comply with the rule but ultimately would save twice that amount in costs related to disabling injuries.
The US Supreme Court ended a recount of the presidential vote in Florida on December 12, 2000, handing the White House to George W. Bush. The ergonomics standard took effect as scheduled on January 16, 2001. Not quite two months later, it was rescinded under the Congressional Review Act, which gives lawmakers the ability to nullify rules within 60 legislative working days of their transmittal to Congress.
The vote was largely along party lines. Republicans opposed the regulation, calling it "intrusive" and "job-killing," and Bush signed the repeal into law on March 20. It was a crushing defeat for worker advocates and OSHA, which was barred by the act from issuing a "substantially similar" rule at a later time.
As ergonomic injuries were sidelining workers in the late 1990s, another phenomenon—escalating abuse of pain-blocking opioids—was coming into focus. In 1999, there were fewer than 10,000 deaths in the U.S. from opioid overdoses. Two decades later, there were 50,000. The COVID-19 pandemic, which in many cases led to extreme isolation and limited access to treatment, only made things worse.
Workers were especially susceptible to the painkillers during the pandemic, as they faced stressors such as "job uncertainty, fear of job loss and reduction in income," the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health noted in a recent blog post. In another post, NIOSH reported that a third of construction workers have at least one musculoskeletal disorder and prescription opioid use is three times higher for this group than it is for workers who are unhurt.
"It's just an outrage that it's not being addressed," said Jonathan Rosen, an industrial hygiene consultant to the National Clearinghouse for Worker Safety and Health Training. "When a worker gets injured and there's pain, they're given prescriptions. Insurance won't cover alternative treatments but will cover opioids."
"When a worker gets injured and there's pain, they're given prescriptions. Insurance won't cover alternative treatments but will cover opioids."
In a recent journal article, Rosen and Aurora B. Le of the University of Michigan School of Public Health argued that zero-tolerance drug policies in U.S. workplaces had created a "culture of underreporting" of opioid misuse. "Worksite programs that are punitive and stigmatizing do not foster a culture where workers are comfortable coming forward for help or care," they wrote.
Dino Carbone, a crane operator from Milford, Connecticut, didn't get hurt on the job but did become addicted to opioids, an affliction that affected his ability to work and nearly destroyed him personally. Carbone was prescribed Roxicodone for his aching shoulders—damaged by competitive powerlifting—in 2003. At first, he said, "I seemed to be managing it well, taking my prescribed dose. After a while, the prescribed dose doesn't work because your body builds up a tolerance to it."
Carbone kept taking more pills and by 2013 "was not able to hold down my job correctly. I would be out of meds and feel like garbage when I came to work, or would be late for work." He'd doze off in the cab of his crane and, when confronted by a boss, blame sleep apnea. He had no serious accidents but couldn't hold a job.
Dino Carbone
Carbone was saved by a member-assistance program begun in 2010 by the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 478, to which he belonged. The local's health and safety director, Kyle Zimmer, had helped start the program after an explosion at a power plant under construction in Middletown, Connecticut, killed five union workers and a manager, and injured 60.
Some Local 478 members developed post-traumatic stress disorder after the blast, Zimmer said. "They were trying to access help through our benefits system and were getting nowhere, or were getting the wrong kind of help," he said. The local hired two counselors and began holding weekly "peer recovery" meetings—to which members, their families and non-union construction workers were invited. The program claims an 80-percent success rate.
Zimmer convinced Carbone his career would be over if he didn't get additional help. Carbone agreed to enter a rehabilitation center in Pennsylvania, where he spent 33 days, slept only a few hours a night, and endured the agony of withdrawal. He felt terrible for six months after he was discharged. "It took a long time for that crap to get out of my system," he said. But eventually, he started sleeping, lost weight, and regained his self-esteem.
"I was able to get better jobs," Carbone said. "Now I'm dependable. I show up an hour early every day as opposed to an hour late."
In the absence of a federal ergonomics standard, some states have acted on their own. On Sept. 22, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill targeting Amazon and other warehousing companies that use algorithms to measure productivity. The law forbids employers from penalizing workers for complying with health and safety rules, including those requiring restroom breaks.
Washington State has its own occupational health and safety program and, like federal OSHA, had an ergonomics rule repealed, in this case by voters. Nonetheless, it made headway against opioids by establishing dosing guidelines.
"Prescribing has gone down," said Dr. Gary Franklin, medical director of the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries. "We've really cut down on deaths in the workers' comp system, cut down on the number of workers getting opioids."
Legislators in New York changed the state's insurance law to reduce delays and costs for people needing immediate treatment. Employers are offered tax credits of up to $2,000 if they hire and retain for at least 500 hours "eligible individuals in recovery from a substance use disorder in part-time and full-time positions."
Nationally, the number of lost-time ergonomic injuries reported to the government has been falling. There were 266,530 in 2019, the most recent year for which data is available, down from 311,840 in 2011. The injury rate dropped as well.
Some companies have tackled the problem without waiting for the government to tell them what to do. But Silverstein cautioned that ergonomic injuries are routinely underreported. A 2001 OSHA requirement instructing employers to record musculoskeletal disorders in a specific column on illness and injury logs never fully took effect before it was abandoned by the Bush administration. Data from these logs goes into the Bureau of Labor Statistics' annual survey of occupational injuries and illnesses. The elimination of the requirement gave employers a variety of ways to mischaracterize such disorders on the logs and escape BLS counting, Silverstein said.
A 2008 report by the Democratic staff of the House Education and Labor Committee cited research estimating that up to 69 percent of injuries and illnesses didn't make it into the BLS survey. Employers have "strong incentives to underreport," the staff found. "Businesses with fewer injuries and illnesses are less likely to be inspected by OSHA; they have lower workers' compensation insurance premiums, and they have a better chance of winning government contracts and bonuses."
In 2014, after surveying workers at a Maryland poultry-processing plant plagued by ergonomic injuries, NIOSH identified 20 injuries or illnesses that should have been recorded on OSHA logs. Only one was.
OSHA's ability to float another ergonomics rule appears to be stymied by the Congressional Review Act. Legislation authorizing a new rule would seem to be the only option, and the prospect of that seems dim given expected opposition from Republicans and businesses.
Asked what OSHA could do about musculoskeletal injuries, an agency spokeswoman wrote in an email that employers are obliged, under the general duty clause of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, "to keep their workplaces free from recognized serious hazards. In the workplace, the number and severity of musculoskeletal disorders resulting from physical overexertion, and their associated costs, can be substantially reduced by applying ergonomic principles."
Eric Frumin, health and safety director for the Strategic Organizing Center, a coalition of four unions, said that "reliance on the general duty clause to prevent back pain and other (musculoskeletal) injuries has been a failure – with only a handful of violations issued in the last two decades." Executives at companies such as Amazon know this, he said, and "have designed workplaces with ever-greater risks to workers." Amazon representatives did not respond to requests for comment.
Frumin said corporate opposition to the OSHA ergonomics standard was never primarily about cost. "It's about control and power," he said.
The rule would have given tens of millions of non-union workers a way to push back against abusive bosses, Frumin said.
"Workers have no control," he said, "and they get hurt and their lives are ruined."
Jim Morris is executive director and editor-in-chief of Public Health Watch, a nonprofit investigative news organization.
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Film Technician
Humanities Division
The two-year, 30 credit-hour certificate in Film Technician offers specialized training in film industry pre-production, production, and post-production for students to gain experience and knowledge of the film industry. The certificate is designed to develop hands-on skills by using and experimenting with equipment covering all aspects of filmmaking, better preparing students for employment on film and television sets as production assistants and other film crew positions. This certificate is fully transferrable to the Bachelor of Art/Fine Art in Film & Digital Arts at the UNM Albuquerque Campus.
Total credit hours: 30
Career and Educational Advancement Opportunities
Film and television productions that often shoot in the area need reliable, trained crew members. Film technician graduates will be prepared for entry-level crew positions in the area of film and television production.
Contact and Advising Information
Information about the Film Technician certificate is available from Advisement and Counseling at 505.925.8560 or vcadvise@unm.edu, or the Humanities Division at 505.925.8600.
Courses: ENGL 100 and FYEX 1110 or equivalent – or place into ENGL 1110 (ACCUPLACER/ACT minimum score of 263+/19+)
Certificate in Film Technician (30 credits)
FDMA 1210 (Digital Video Production) 3
FDMA 2520 (Introduction to Cinematography) 3
FDMA 2525 (Video Production II) 3
FDMA 1520 (Introduction to Film & Digital Media) 3
FDMA 2110 (Introduction to Film Studies) 3
FDMA 2610 (Directing I) 3
FDMA 2286 (Activating Digital Space) 3
FDMA 1996 (T: Post Production Editing) 3
FDMA 2280 (T: Film Crew Internship) 3
FDMA 2280 (T: Capstone: Creating a Portfolio) 3
FDMA 1996 Topics (optional - encouraged but not required) 3
Total required (30)


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Q: Neo4j: Usage of parameters of type list List parameters cannot be indexed in neo4j 4. Whenever you try to take an element from a parameter of type list, this error is thrown:
Neo.DatabaseError.General.UnknownError
Did not find any type information for expression ContainerIndex(Parameter(r,Any),SignedDecimalIntegerLiteral(0))

Neo4j Version: 4.0.3
Operating System: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
DB Mode: Causal Cluster
An example query to reproduce the issue is:
MATCH (user:User)
WHERE ($range[0] > user.id OR user.id > $range[1])
return user
limit 1

$range is the parameter in question with an example value [100, 200]
This error does not happen in the previous neo4j version 3.5, as we are currently migrating to neo4j 4. It happens in the neo4j browser, and through drivers. I currently use python driver 1.7.6

A: It seems that there is indeed a problem with neo4j 4, and I am glad to see that you have already submitted an issue for that.
I have found 2 workarounds (but hopefully the issue will be fixed soon):

*

*Explicitly convert the list values to the right type. For example, if the id values are integers:
MATCH (user:User)
WHERE TOINTEGER($range[0]) > user.id OR user.id > TOINTEGER($range[1])
RETURN user
LIMIT 1

*Assign the list values to variables and use the variables instead:
WITH $range[0] AS upper, $range[1] AS lower
MATCH (user:User)
WHERE upper > user.id OR user.id > lower
RETURN user
LIMIT 1

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Steven Soderbergh the Latest to Bail on "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."
It would appear that "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." is on life support, as it has now lost both a lead and a director.
Steven Soderbergh, who's been developing "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." for almost two years now, finally parted ways with the project last night, reported The Playlist. As is almost always the case, the issue appears to be money.
During a meeting with Warner Bros., Soderbergh was presented with $60 million budget, which he felt wasn't nearly enough to launch a possible franchise that's set in the '60s and takes place on multiple continents.
Adding to Soderbergh's frustration was likely the fact that after he had suggested both Michael Fassbender and Joel Kinnaman for the leads, the studio turned around and hired each actor for other films.
From director Lynne Ramsay ("Morvern Callar") comes "We Need to Talk About Kevin," starring Tilda Swinton as a mother trying to come to grips with the fact that her son is a sociopathic monster. Co-starring Ezra Miler and John C. Reilly.
George Clooney was once supposed to star in the film, and names like Johnny Depp, Matt Damon, Bradley Cooper, Joel Edgerton and and Channing Tatum have all been mentioned as well.
While we're obviously disappointed any time a talent like Soderbergh drops a project, we take solace in the fact that the last film he poured his heart into a film. only to walk away was "Moneyball," and that turned out OK.
Soderbergh released "Contagion" this summer to wide acclaim, and his next directorial effort, the spy thriller "Haywire opens Jan. 20. He also served as producer on the upcoming "We Need to Talk About Kevin," a brilliant film starring Tilda Swinton as the mother of a sociopath.


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Farmhouse Kitchen
Thai chef Kasem "Pop" Saengsawang owns several solid restaurants in San Francisco, including the breakfast-centric Sweet Maple and the Asian fusion spot Kitchen Story, but his newest project Farmhouse Kitchen is the one to miss at your peril.
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Sifting through Thee Oh Sees' rehearsal space
By J. Pace Wednesday, Apr 16 2008
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Thee Oh Sees ready their mustache rides.
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Thee Oh Sees perform on Thursday, April 17, at 9 p.m. Call 626-0880 or visit www.sfeagle.com for more info.
Title be damned, Thee Oh Sees' new album, The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In, finds the band bursting out of the boudoir. All but gone are the folky, lo-fi lullabies that defined past incarnations of this musical project.
The change was inevitable. Frontman John Dwyer's résumé of raucousness is a mile long, as he's projected enough sweat and noise in bands like Pink & Brown and the Coachwhips to last a lifetime. Art-damaged, trashy garage rock may just be his natural state, and a state in which the current Oh Sees lineup — Dwyer (guitar and vocals), Brigid Dawson (vocals), Petey Dammit (guitar), and Mike Shoun (drums) — increasingly finds itself.
But Thee Oh Sees' sound comprises more than that. Sandwiched between the blues-based garage rockers are songs like the Fall-inspired "Adult Acid," complete with contrapuntal vocal lines; the Pixies-reminiscent "Maria Stacks," all persistent eighth notes and irresistible melody; or the gorgeous "Graveyard Drug Party," with Dawson's breathy backing vocals and Mellotron from TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek, who recorded three tracks (the rest were captured by S.F.'s own Chris Woodhouse).
Thee Oh Sees are truly at the top of their game, and what better way to recognize that than by going through their shit? SF Weekly went to the band's room in SOMA's Moss Street Studios to dig for revealing detritus. We presented select items to Dwyer — a man with a sophisticated sense of smell and a love of trash that goes well beyond the murk of his music — for his response to our findings.
Reverb at ten
"Yeah, always on ten. It's weird: I think after time the reverb starts to die. I even try and twist it further than ten."
Burns Double Six
"I got that from Dave Sitek. It's actually scary to me; I used it on only a little bit of the recording at first. It's the only guitar I put back in the case in between songs when I'm not using it, because I'm just afraid it'll knock over and break. I love that thing so much. I'm trying not to write all the songs with it."
Stuffed gorilla
"That was a trash score. It was in a pile of garbage with a bunch of baby stuff. It smells like — did you have any baby brothers or sisters? The smell of when they have a plush toy that they suck on all the time, and then it dries? You're a kid watching TV, you pick it up, and it's like the worst smell ever. Sour-boob-milk smell."
DazzleJazz bike pad
"That was from a little girl's bike that I found on the street, and I used to rock it on my hi-hat when I first started playing with Sword and Sandals [another of Dwyer's many bands]. That also stinks, actually. I'm very big on sniffing shit, especially when I find it in the trash. I want to make sure that it doesn't have sputum or puke on it or something."
Tascam four-track recorder
"My stepdad gave me that. Recently, he gave me a flute, a ukulele, two clarinets, and a snare drum. He's a big fleamarket and yard sale guy — he will fully cut off five lanes of traffic if he sees something. He doesn't give a fuck. He's like the Jedi of bargaining and haggling. I can't wait to start using the flute [in Thee Oh Sees]."
Duct-tape "THANKS" on back of guitar
"That [idea] is from Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers and all those cats. They all had mother-of-pearl [inlays of "Thanks"]. You see a lot of photos with them — they'd just flip their guitar over when people were clapping and flip 'em back over and keep playing."
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September 20th Charity Event to Break World Reading Record
September 12, 2007, 11:00 , 11:00
Pearson Foundation Extends support for Jumpstart for Young Children with nationwide Book Donations to At-risk Preschoolers
Penguin Young Readers Group Publishes Special Custom Edition of Children's Classic The Story of Ferdinand to Benefit Reading Campaign
NEW YORK, NY - Each year, one third of America's children arrive at their first day of school developmentally behind their peers and without the skills necessary to succeed. The businesses and employees that make up Pearson, the international media company, are supporting Jumpstart's Read for the Record campaign to bring awareness to this national crisis. This campaign, which last year raised more than $1 million for Jumpstart's work with preschool students, culminates in a nationwide reading event on September 20th - a day when the Penguin Young Readers Group classic The Story of Ferdinand will take the spotlight as people of all ages read this children's favorite and break the world record for the most individuals reading the same book on a single day.
Custom Limited Edition of The Story of Ferdinand on Sale Today
Today, the Pearson Foundation and Jumpstart announced that a special, custom limited edition of The Story of Ferdinand is now on sale at Toys "R" Us, American Eagle Outfitters, Hanna Andersson, and Follett's college campus bookstores. This special edition is also available online at www.readfortherecord.org. With 100% underwriting by the Pearson Foundation, all proceeds from the sales price benefit Jumpstart and its work with preschoolers from low-income communities across the country. Additionally, Mark Nieker, president of the Pearson Foundation, said that for Jumpstart's Read for the Record 2007, Pearson has extended its support for Jumpstart by matching book donations made by the public at www.readfortherecord.org with a donation of an additional book to another child from a low-income community.
In the foreword to The Story of Ferdinand special custom limited edition, Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira of NBC's The TODAY Show note, "While overwhelming research shows that quality early learning experiences are a way out of poverty, a path toward a future full of opportunity and a known deterrent to crime and drug use, more than one-third of American's young children will still enter kindergarten this year without the reading or language skills necessary to succeed. When we learned about Jumpstart's efforts to address this problem, we decided to act." Lauer and Vieira will Read for the Record live on The TODAY Show September 20th, along with hundreds of children and celebrities who will gather on the Plaza at Rockefeller Center to bring awareness to the importance of reading to young children.
Pearson Businesses The Financial Times Group, The Penguin Group, and Pearson Education Host Read for the Record Events Across the U.S.
This effort will be supported by thousands of individual reading events taking place on September 20th across the country. As a kick-off to Jumpstart's Read for the Record, on September 17th, the Pearson Foundation is sponsoring a community "Reading Rally" hosted by Florida's Miami-Dade School District which is expected to engage more than 10,000 young people. Following this kick-off, Pearson people from The Financial Times Group, The Penguin Group and Pearson Education at more than 40 locations across the U.S., will participate in local reading events as part of Jumpstart's Read for the Record on September 20th. Together they will bring books, organize readings, and help young people make their own custom ABC books in a program based on the Pearson Foundation's Family Book Nights program. This year, for the first time, Pearson people across the globe will also Read for the Record, including local outreach to thousands of at-risk children across Latin America and in South Africa.
"Helping to spotlight the importance of preparing young people for a lifetime of reading is crucial to everyone at Pearson," explained Pearson Foundation president Mark Nieker. "We know that in middle income neighborhoods the ratio of books per child is 13 to 1, and in low-income neighborhoods, the ratio is one age-appropriate book for every 300 children. More than 80 percent of preschool and after-school programs serving children from low-income families have no age-appropriate books for their children." He added, "These statistics need to change. We hope this campaign will encourage others to help address this very solvable problem, and we hope it will also encourage people to donate books for the many children who have no books at home."
Thousands of Book Donations to At-Risk Preschoolers
Jumpstart president James Cleveland said, "Studies show that by first grade, the child from a low-income community will have one-fourth the vocabulary of their mid-income peer. This matters because we know a child's reading level in first grade is one of the best predictors of his/her subsequent performance in tenth grade." He added, "The Pearson Foundation's long-standing support of Jumpstart - and now its generous commitment to underwriting Jumpstart's Read for the Record - are playing an incredibly important role in assisting our work in solving the early-learning gap for our at-risk preschoolers. With the Pearson Foundation matching book donations from the public, we will be able to provide thousands of books to those youngsters who need them most. This is a tremendous addition to our campaign."
Register for the September 20th campaign now at www.readfortherecord.org. The Website also provides information about donating books to Jumpstart children, as well as hosting and joining shared reading events across the nation. A virtual version of The Story of Ferdinand, created and hosted by Pearson's Family Education Network, is available at www.readfortherecord.org/virtualevent.
One of the best things about reading is that it can take place anywhere and everywhere. Group reading events will be held in preschools, elementary schools, high-schools, and college campuses as well as libraries, stores, hotels, playgrounds, offices, and homes. Jumpstart's Read for the Record is not limited to large events. Any child and adult can participate just by sitting down to read - maybe even under a shady tree, just where Ferdinand would want to be. For more information about Pearson and Jumpstart, go to www.pearsonfoundation.org/readfortherecord
About the Pearson Foundation and Jumpstart
Jumpstart and the Pearson Foundation share a passion for education and inspiring people to reach their full potential. These shared goals and values led Jumpstart and the Pearson Foundation to create the Pearson Teacher Fellowship in 2001. Each year, the Pearson Teacher Fellowship provides the opportunity for a select group of achievement-oriented college graduates to enter the early education field by becoming preschool teachers in Head Start and other early learning centers serving at-risk children. The Fellowship provides these talented individuals a stipend, intensive training, assistance earning teaching certification, and additional support and resources during the first two years of their teaching careers. In 2006, Pearson and its businesses The Financial Times Group, The Penguin Group, and Pearson Education became a major sponsor of the inaugural campaign for Jumpstart's Read for the Record, which raised over $1 million for Jumpstart's work to help preschoolers from low-income communities with their language and literacy skills. For more information, go to www.pearsonfoundation.org.
About Jumpstart's Read for the Record
Jumpstart's Read for the Record is a national campaign to encourage hundreds of thousands of children and adults to read the same book, The Story of Ferdinand, on the same day, September 20, 2007. The expansive shared reading experience will raise public awareness about the early education gap that exists between income levels, as well as raise money to support Jumpstart's national early education programs, which benefit children from low-income communities across 20 states.
Jumpstart's longstanding relationships with its national multi-year partners are a key component of its ongoing efforts to help at-risk children develop their language, literacy, and social skills in preparation for kindergarten - support of the 2007 campaign by three of these partners, American Eagle Outfitters, Pearson, and Sodexho, is just one of many ways in which these corporations make Jumpstart's work possible. Jumpstart's Read for the Record is further supported by its campaign sponsors: Hanna Andersson, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts, NBC, Penguin Young Readers Group (publisher of the custom limited edition of The Story of Ferdinand), Toys "R" Us, and XM Satellite Radio.
kate.miller@pearson.com


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3 Signs Your Workout Is Too Easy
By Life by DailyBurn
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By Samantha Lefave for Life by DailyBurn
When we drag ourselves out of bed for a workout, there's one goal we all have in common: Get the most out of it. Unfortunately, research shows we're not great at judging how hard we're pushing ourselves during our sweat sessions. In fact, when left to our own devices, scientists discovered that we seriously underestimate just how hard we're working. (Apparently that puddle of sweat you left behind isn't always the best indicator!) So instead of continuing the guessing game, we went to the pros to get some surefire ways to determine if your workout is too easy. Follow their tricks so you'll know when it's time to step up your game.
3 Signs to Take Your Workout Up a Notch
Sign #1: Your heart rate isn't that high.
We hate to break it to you, but when you think you're exhausted and can't give any more, you might be able to dig deeper. When we rely on perceived effort, or how we feel during workouts, we're often overestimating how hard we're working. In one study, when participants were told to work out at a "vigorous" effort, they wound up only getting their heart rate up to about 70 percent of their maximum heart rate — when they should have been hitting 77 to 93 percent. (Not sure what levels you should be aiming for? Try this calculator.)
To push yourself harder, Chris and Heidi Powell, certified trainers and the husband-wife duo behind ABC's Extreme Weight Loss, suggest using a heart rate monitor during cardio workouts. "It's the most reliable indicator of your intensity and the zone in which you want to train in to achieve your goals," they say. If you don't have a monitor, no worries, you can measure it yourself, too. "Find your pulse, count the number of beats you get in six seconds, then add a zero," says Heidi. So if you get 15 beats in six seconds, that equals an approximate heart rate of 150 BPM.
Sign #2: You're easily lifting more than 10 reps on the reg.
When incorporating strength training into your routine, your heart rate isn't necessarily going to be an accurate indicator of the difficulty of your workout. In fact, it may only increase slightly, depending on what type of workout you're doing, the Powells say. "When it comes to strength training, it's better to gauge by muscle fatigue and rep range, as you may not experience a significant jump in heart rate but you're still working hard."
Try doing a reps test (like this one) once a month at the beginning of your workout. If you're still familiarizing yourself with strength training, a 10-rep max test (seeing how heavy you can lift while safely completing 10 reps with proper form) is a great way to gauge where you stand. Whatever your chosen exercise is — bicep curls, squats or overhead presses — go on and do those 10 reps.
"If you can complete them with ease, it's time to move up in weight," says Heidi. "Or if you can complete them with only a little struggle during 8 to 10 reps, you can consider moving up in weight to continue challenging your body." On the flip side, if you can't finish all 10 with proper form, or it's a serious struggle, continue working hard with that weight.
Another great test that intermediate and advanced lifters can use is the one-rep max, which analyzes your absolute strength — or how much you're able to lift just once. Adam Rosante, certified trainer and author of The 30-Second Body, suggests doing a deadlift, squat or bench press with a friend nearby, as going solo could lead to injury if your weight gets too heavy.
Start with a moderate amount of weight (not the heaviest you can handle) for your first lift. "Complete 6 reps, then rest for 3 to 5 minutes. Don't cut your recovery time short, even if you feel ready to go again," he says. Add more weight, perform 4 reps, and recover. Continue adding weight and lowering your reps — following a 6, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1 model — and "if you finish that last set and feel like you could go again with more weight, then you can go harder. Rest for 4 to 5 minutes, and then get after it."
Sign #3: You're not out of breath during fitness tests.
If you haven't done a fitness test since sixth grade, you're not alone. "Adding various tests and challenges to your workouts is a great way to prove that you're progressing and are ready to take things up a notch," says Rosante.
But what tests should you do? In The 30-Second Body, Rosante outlines six basic moves for your test: tuck jumps, push-ups, pencil squats, three-point planks, standing mountain climbers, and power thrusts. Perform each move for 60 seconds, trying to fit in as many reps as possible (again, make sure that form is on point throughout). Rest 30 seconds between each, and jot down the difference in your number of reps between weeks one and three. If it's the same (or even if your numbers increased), but you're not out of breath, then you didn't exactly push yourself to the limit. Try again and really go for it. Rosante suggests testing about every three weeks — you won't stagnate and will be able to more accurately measure if it's time for harder work.
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Nearly 100 Gather In Avon To Support Muslim Community
By KEN BYRON
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(Peter Casolino)
Attacks on Muslims this month led to a vigil on Tuesday that is the first event for a new interfaith group that that one organizer said has a simple but still challenging goal: creating hope.
The vigil was at a local Islamic community center and attracted nearly 100 people from a variety of faiths throughout the Farmington Valley. Organizers said they wanted to show support for Muslims but also spread a message of peace and unity for all people. The vigil was the inaugural effort by the Farmington Valley League of Light, a group that is in its formative stages but is planning more work this fall.
League organizers said it includes representatives of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths and is a response to what they see as the spread of hatred and intolerance in recent months. Several said starting the group was a reaction to rhetoric during the presidential election last year. Alan Maislen, an organizer, said it is important to tell area Muslims that people of other faiths support them.
"It is important to come together," said Mike Smoolca, a member of St. Mary's Church in Simsbury. "I was horrified at the turn in the climate this country has taken and wanted to say that we are all in this effort together."
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Tuesday's vigil was held at the Farmington Valley American Muslim Center in Avon.
"I am overwhelmed to feel the love and to feel like we are all coming together regardless of our religion," said Reem Nouh, a Simbury resident and a member of the FVAMC.
Two attacks this month have focused attention on hatred toward Muslims. In England on June 19 a man drove a van into a crowd of people as they left a mosque. One person died and nine were injured in the attack, which has been called an act of terrorism. On June 18 in Virginia, a 17-year old girl was kidnapped and killed as she and other teenagers left a mosque. Authorities are not treating the Virginia incident as a hate crime but local Muslim leaders have questioned that.
Neither attack was mentioned on Tuesday but organizers said the attention from both inspired them to hold the vigil and start spreading their group's message.
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"Human beings are powerless people," Khan said. "The only two powers we have are the power of prayer and the power of conscience. If we listen to our conscience there is peace in the world."
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