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Камфорика () једногодишња је или двогодишња зељаста биљка која расте на заслањеном земљишту и типичан је представник слатинских заједница. У Србији расте само у Војводини. Иако се налази на Директиви о стаништима (-{Annex I}-) у Србији, ипак, није заштићена.

Опис биљке
Камфорика је једногодишња или двогодишња биљка, гола или обрасла длакама које луче лако испарљиве материје мириса камфора. Из вретенастог корена избија обично више зељастих, до 30 центиметара дугих, полеглих, уздигнутих или усправних, од основе гранатих, касније црвених изданака.

Листови меснати, линеарно шиљати, полуваљкасти или уско кончасти, проширене основе и хрскавичавог руба; доњи прицветни дуги колико цветови.

Класови су мање више издужени, састављени од пазушних гломерула, од по 1—5 трепљастих, као кост белих, рскавичавих двополних 3—4 милиметра дугих цветова; женски цветови мањи и обично смештени на бочним гранама. Семе дуго до 2 милиметра. Биљка цвета од јуна до септембра.

Распрострањеност
Врста претежно насељава југоисточну Европу. У Србији је доста честа на влажним солончацима Бачке и Баната.

Станиште
Камфорика је облигатно халофитна врста изразито равничарског карактера (облигат=обвезност, навика; биљка чији раст повећана концентрација соли радије поспешује него спречава). Расте на слатинама типа солончак и солоњец у природним микрофрагментима, образујући заједнице типа -{Camphorosetum annuae}-. Понтско-панонског је порекла.

Камфорика је пионирска врста у сукцесији вегетације степских станишта. Слатине су мозаична станишта богата живим светом, специфичне и осетљиве еколошке заједнице у којима високо адаптиране биљке – као и камфорика – успешно одолевају већој концентрацији соли образујући готово монотипску вегатацију. Камфорика је строго везана за слано тло, што у пракси значи да испод одређене заслањености није у стању ни да проклија. Облигатне халофите добро трпе чак и периодичну поплављеност сланом водом која би уништила већину других биљака и веома су важне за одржавање ових екосистема.

Конкурентне коровске и инвазивне врсте лако изгурају мање изражене халотипе (тзв. факултативне халофите) са мање заслањених, а посебно орањем нарушених станишта.
Камфорика је у целој Европи директно угрожена државно промовисаним и субвенционисаним пројектима тзв. "рекултивације" земљишта (-{reclamation of the land" Natura2000 Technical Report 2008 03/24 pp. 8}-) којима се тежи повећати површина под културама.

Статус заштите
Налази се на Хабитат Директиви ЕУ (-{Annex I}-, као едификатор станишта типа 1530). Зачуђујуће, у Србији није ни под каквом заштитом, иако се наводи у многим студијама заштите као важна угрожена врста.

Референце

Литература
 Јосифовић М. (1964–1980): Флора СР Србије -{III}-. САНУ, Београд.

Спољашње везе
 -{Taxon: Species Camphorosma annua - Taxonomicon}-
 Биорас портал о биолошкој разноврсности --{Camphorosma annua}-

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El Partit de Renovació Democràtica (PRD) fou un partit polític de Cap Verd d'ideologia centrista.

Història
El PRD fou establert en 2000 per Jacinto Santos, un antic membre del Moviment per la Democràcia, qui va servir com a alcalde de Praia. El partit va rebre el 3,4% dels vots a les eleccions legislatives de Cap Verd de 2001 però no va aconseguir cap escó a l'Assemblea Nacional. El seu vot va caure al 0,7% a les eleccions legislatives de Cap Verd de 2006.

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CLG Academy replaces Griffin with Keel ahead of LCQ
by Warren Younger
CLG Academy announced this morning they will take their roster in a different direction ahead of their last chance qualifier, which kicks off Monday. For the last tournament of the spring season, Ryan Keel will start as the team's jungler instead of CLG mainstay Raymond Griffin.
CLG's poor tournament performance demanded roster change
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The change comes off the heels of disappointing performances in back-to-back tournaments for the CLG b-team. At the Unified Grand Prix, Zoos Gaming upset CLG.A in the first round, and then the eventual tournament winners No Org knocked them out of the losers bracket. With only the top four teams qualifying for Proving Grounds, CLG.A failed to claim an invite. The next opportunity to qualify again was at the Giant Slayer Gauntlet.
The Giant Slayer Gauntlet featured the same woes for CLG.A. After winning a close set with Wildcard Gaming in the upper bracket, CLG.A lost a three game series to Evil Geniuses Academy and immediately fell to Golden Guardians Academy in the losers bracket. Just as with the Unified Grand Prix, only another four teams qualified for the Proving Grounds tournament, meaning CLG.A missed out once again. CLG.A is currently the only academy team to not have a qualifying spot.
Griffin chosen as scapegoat for poor performance
Griffin, who was once a top three finisher in LCS MVP voting, had a rough start to the 2021 LCS season. He tried to fill the jungler gap on CLG's main roster while Mads "Broxah" Brock-Pedersen was stuck in Europe with visa issues. After a 1-4 start to the season, Broxah finally joined CLG and relegated Griffin back to the academy team.
After Griffin's woes continued with poor Academy team performance, CLG decided their best chance at winning would not involve him. Keel, who is replacing Griffin, joined CLG.A in January after a four month stint with Columbia College in the back half of 2020. Keel made nine starts for CLG.A, all of them before Griffin was demoted. CLG.A went 3-6 in that time.
Nerd Street Power Play, The last chance qualifier for next week's Proving Grounds Spring tournament, is CLG.A's last shot. The eight team LCQ, which runs from March 22-25, will determine which final three teams will qualify for the 16 team spring invitational. Keel and CLG.A will immediately be tested against Cloud9 Amateur in their first round of competition.
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Albert loves a bit of sport, and so he's super stoked to be showing all the Six Nations Rugby matches throughout February and March supporting our national teams. Plus whenever there's an England or Wales match on he'll be shelling out on hotdogs at half-time.
Ireland are still on top of their game, their last outing saw the team beat New Zealand's All Blacks. That said, their next match is against Scotland who is unpredictable, albeit a mighty mountain to move if they are firing on all cylinders. The biggest test will come at the end of the tournament where they will face up against Wales in Cardiff after a seven-day turnaround following an ultra-physical game against France.
The Welsh team are a formidable force, but their toughest game comes at the start of the six nations tournament where they play France. Manager Warren Gatland suggests the door is open for Wales to win the tournament as long as they can get off to a flying start. However, the team is quite large this year due to the number of named players with injuries.


The Pacific Supply building is located on 12th Avenue between East Union and East Pike St., part of Seattle's original "auto row" neighborhood from the early 1900s. The building is a classic example of the tall three-bay design typical of many automotive buildings of its era. The walls are board-formed concrete, the interior columns and beams are virgin Douglas fir of up to three feet in girth and the main floor ceilings are 20 feet high. There is also a 14-foot-high daylight basement that has been fully renovated.
Our 2004 renovation improved the building's seismic performance, removed the 60s era drop ceiling and lighting, reopened the original roof skylights and restored the transom windows on the street façade. The exterior has been repainted in historical colors and new signage installed.
Design work was performed by Graham Baba Architects with engineering work by Swenson Say Faget. Our general contractor on the project was Goudy Construction.
Building tenants include Pacific Supply Company on the street level and Foundation Crossfit on the lower level.


San Francisco is diverse in art, religious beliefs, gender, cuisine and political beliefs. This diversity permeates throughout campus and within the programs and events offered to students, which allows them to discuss the differences in individuals.
According to College Factual, SF State has an overall high score when it comes to having a diverse campus and has an ethnic rating of 93 percent, compared to the 46 percent national average.
SF State is popular among exchange students, and College Factual ranks SF State as 123rd out of 1,300 colleges and universities by popularity. Some popular degrees with international students are business administration and management, basic developmental and remedial education.
SF State's center for global engagement stated it educates approximately 1,800 international students each year from more than 100 countries.
International Students Inc. hosts an event every Thursday until the semester ends where international students can meet new people. The event helps build friendships, and local church members join in to talk to international students.
"San Francisco is a vibrant city that draws in people from around the world. While that is an allure for international students as well," said Janelle Waldrep, study abroad advisor.
According to College Factual, it suggests that 7.6 percent of international students at SF State placed 158th in the best value for exchange students. China, India and Japan are the largest on-campus communities, with India being the most significant contributor to campus growth. Over the past five years, the number of accepted international students has increased by 2.4 percent since 2011.
The question for the international students is if they are AWARE of their impacts locally on housing, transit, traffic, parking and costs for other students faculty staff and working families that are displaced by the growth impacts of the SFSU-CSU Masterplan 2035? International exchange is great so is a diverse staff, but the U.Corp has only one thing in mind and that is increased housing and tuition fees from international students vs. local provisions for affordable housing where SFSU has already had drastic impact on local housing stock, unaccounted for and education fees that have crept up steadily to increase fees for masterplanning efforts. Speak up now its only till the Dec 5th deadline for the SFSU-CSU Masterplan impact to write and speak up regarding the concerns that are co-impacts of an increased and open FTE enrollment process when housing, transit and impacts are not addressed in the long range planning besides expansionism that pushes out everyone else… Work within your existing boundaries, fix the transit that is unlinked to daly city bart, and build housing that is on the existing campus, and retain UPS for families and faculty housing. Don't let them build up and spend more.
Congrats to SF State because being an international student away from home is difficult, compounded by our complex culture and language problems. Welcoming and assimilation assistance must come from numerous sources, including the White House, to aid these young people embarking on life's journey. Most struggle in their efforts and need guidance from schools' international departments, immigration protection, host families, concerned neighbors and fellow students, and even informative books to extend a cultural helping hand.
Good luck to all at SFS or wherever you study or wherever you come from, because that is the TRUE spirit of the American PEOPLE, not a few in government who shout the loudest! Supporters of int'l students must shout louder.


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Governor Steve Sisolak appointed Jhone Ebert as the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the Nevada Department of Education in March 2019. Ebert is a life-long educator with executive-level expertise in state and district education administration. She has demonstrated a commitment to working collaboratively with teachers, school and community leaders, and other stakeholders to create policies that are consistent and feasible while providing flexibility for adaptation to diverse students, geographies, and educational delivery models.
From 2015-19, she served as the senior deputy commissioner for P-20 education policy at the New York State Education Department. In that role, Superintendent Ebert was the senior education policy advisor to the state commissioner and Board of Regents, leading policymaking and programs affecting teaching and learning from early childhood through postsecondary education, or P-20. During her tenure, graduation rates in New York increased and achievement gaps narrowed.
Previously, Ebert served in the Clark County School District (CCSD) for 25 years, most recently as chief innovation and productivity officer and chief technology officer. Ebert served in a variety of leadership roles within CCSD and began her education career as a mathematics teacher in Las Vegas.
Superintendent Ebert's career in education is rooted in the belief that the agenda is unfinished until every single child is thriving and has a clear pathway to success in school and life. If not for the opportunities that school afforded her, her own educational and career journey would have been much different. At a time when classrooms are growing more diverse, it is critically important that students have access to adults who not just look like them but whose personal histories exemplify the power of schools to change lives.
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Cecile Richards Campaigns for Clinton, "I've Now Been to 20 States for Hillary"
National | Micaiah Bilger | Sep 13, 2016 | 5:26PM | Washington, DC
Planned Parenthood is working around the clock to campaign for pro-abortion Democrat Hillary Clinton.
The abortion chain threw its support behind Clinton months ago when it endorsed her in the Democratic primary – an unprecedented move. Since then, Planned Parenthood's political arm has been actively involved in the election, buying ads trashing Republican candidate Donald Trump, attacking his pro-life running mate Mike Pence online, and organizing events to target young, pro-abortion voters.
This week, Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards was campaigning for Clinton in her home state of Texas. Daily Texas Online reports Richards participated in an organizing and phone banking event on Friday in Austin with the group Hillary for Texas.
"I've now been in more than 20 states for Hillary, and the excitement and the enthusiasm is amazing, but there's nothing better than being in your hometown," Richards said. "Many people I've talked to here have been a supporter of her for years. For them, this is huge. It's a day they never knew would come."
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Texans usually votes Republican and pro-life in elections, but Richards hopes to change minds. Her mother, Ann Richards, was the last Democratic governor of Texas in the 1990s.
"I remember a day when my mother was elected governor of the state of Texas," Richards said. "We just have to get more people engaged and registered and out to vote. There's a lot of work to do, but it tells me there are voters here to change the direction of this state."
Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion chain in America, is working hard because it knows how much is at stake in the upcoming presidential election. The next president could have the chance to nominate up to four U.S. Supreme Court justices to the high court and influence abortion law for decades. And Clinton promised to appoint pro-abortion judges to the high court who would uphold Roe v. Wade and abortion on demand through all nine months of pregnancy.
If elected, Clinton potentially would be the most pro-abortion president in U.S. history. Clinton's abortion stance is radical and out of touch with most Americans. She promised Planned Parenthood that she would try to overturn the Hyde Amendment and force taxpayers to fund abortions, which would funnel even more tax dollars to the abortion industry.
In February, she defended the gruesome partial-birth abortion procedure. Then, during an interview on The View in April, Clinton said an unborn child just hours before delivery should have no Constitutional rights. At a presidential forum at Drake University, Clinton called ending the life of another human being in an abortion a "fundamental human right."
The Trump-Pence team would present a stark contrast on abortion to Clinton. Trump has promised to appoint pro-life judges who will protect the right to life for unborn babies.
"We are going to appoint great Supreme Court justices… These will be justices of great intellect… And they will be pro-life," Trump told pro-life leaders in June.
Trump also released a well-received list of 11 potential Supreme Court nominees — a list pro-life groups hailed for having strong supporters of the Constitution.
Pence is a pro-life champion who has signed multiple pieces of pro-life legislation into law and led the fight in Congress to de-fund Planned Parenthood. Earlier this year, Pence signed a law to protect unborn babies with disabilities like Down syndrome from being aborted.
Earlier this year, Planned Parenthood called Trump "dangerous" because he would "ban abortions." In June, the abortion chain also attacked Trump as "hateful" in a series of online ads aimed at young voters.


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6 Major battlefields are in close proximity and a visit to at least one of them is highly recommended. Louis, your host, is an historian and can assist you with a visit to enhance your experience that will provide for an unforgettable experience. We also have our own private museum on military history and other collectables. Phone us for an appointment.
Blood River Battlefield (1836 Boer-Zulu war) 50 km is a half day outing.
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Practicing Karate? This was back in the sixties, and it was a new word for me. But it wasn't long before I found the book he had been reading.
Super Karate Made Easy, by Moja Rone.
Never found out who Moja was, but it didn't matter, he had done his damage.
You see, while it sold millions, and was one of the first big books, probably the first mass produced book, on 'real' Karate, it was lacking in…shall we say Common Sense?
And my brother had been out punching telephone poles until his knuckles were bloody because that was supposed to toughen them up, give him a fist that bad guys would be scared of!
But it really gave him a fist that doctors would be scared of, and laid serious groundwork for hands that wouldn't work, arthritis, and other maladies that go along with abusing the human body.
Years later I would enter my first, real Karate class, and I punched air.
That's right, I practiced on that great villain…air.
But my hands didn't get bloody and swell up and become unworkable, and I learned how to focus my awareness. To snap the fist. To tighten upon impact. And when I did eventually start hitting things, the tightness of the hand and the object I was hitting protected me.
And what was I hitting?
That's right, we budding Karate students would do our techniques on each other, and that included striking the body.
And I learned how to go gentle, because I wanted others to go gentle on me.
And I learned to hit harder, because I wanted my technique to be effective.
And I learned what a body felt like, and the correct places to hit the body, and, somewhere in there, I stopped caring about hitting the human body.
Oh, a body is a great feedback device, but when I learned that I could hurt another human body…I didn't want my own body to be hurt.
Thus, real Karate is learning to be dangerous, learning how to fight back, but it is also learning how to be gentle.
Karate means empty hands, and that is hands without weapons, and, in the end, a hand that is not just a weapon, but it is also not a weapon.
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PASSENGERS SQUASHED UP AGAINST BATTERIES: EXPERT SAYS "SIMPLISTIC" E-BUS CONCEPT IS WRONG FOR HONG KONG
By James Ockenden on May 1, 2022 • ( 4 Comments )
Around five tonnes of batteries displace 22 passenger spaces on the new Wisdom bus, jointly developed by Bravo and Wisdom (Fujian)
The new electric double decker unveiled by Bravo Transport's mainland joint venture Friday has sacrificed up to 22 passenger spots to a gigantic 5-tonne 450kWh battery pack, a design which an international bus technology expert says is unnecessary and wasteful.
Paul Bromley, managing director of Phoenix Consulting, says large and heavy batteries are not the way forward for Hong Kong buses, taking up too much space and reducing range efficiency due to their weight.
According to Bromley's calculations, the batteries on the new Wisdom (Fujian) bus displace 11 seats and around 11 standing passenger spaces.
Photos obtained from inside the new bus show two huge battery blocks in place of the usual few rows of lower-deck back seats.
These brown-grey cubes are not visible in any of the press photos supplied or the brochure for the Wisdom bus.
"In a competitive market environment electric buses should be able to fulfil the same role as a fossil-fuelled bus," says Bromley.
Chief Executive Carrie Lam boards the bus with Bravo Transport Services chairman Cliff Zhang Kun. The Secretary for Transport and Housing, Frank Chan Fan, (left, boarding) and the Secretary for the Environment (centre, front of bus) joined the party.
He says the heavy duty cycles of Hong Kong buses, including air conditioning demands, mean "simplistic plug-in battery charging is not necessarily the right answer".
Bromley, who is a pioneer of electric buses and minibuses and led the movement to bring hybrid buses to Hong Kong in 2007, says the benefits of electric buses can only be achieved by adopting "prevailing technologies that are able to deliver as such."
He has advocated the "opportunity charging" concept, whereby smaller batteries are charged more frequently, instead of the tonnes of batteries seen in the passenger compartment of Hong Kong's first electric double-decker bus.
But developing "opportunity charging" infrastructure requires coordination between different departments and so-far has only been trialled on a handful of green minibuses, with pantograph charging being trialled at a Kwun Tong public transport interchange.
Bravo's new bus, developed jointly by Bravo and mainland firm Wisdom (Fujian), was unveiled on 29 April at a high-level closed-door ceremony with guests including Chief Executive Carrie Lam, Transport minister Frank Chan Fan and Environment minister Wong Kam-sing.
Brochure shots of the Wisdom bus don't show the enormous battery blocks occupying the passenger cabin at the back of the bus
The double-decker packs a 450kWh lithium iron phosphate battery, a 125kW motor and can fully charge in around three hours using a 150kW charger.
But Bravo's backer Templewater is not putting all its bets into the battery concept, with a plan to bring hydrogen-powered buses into Hong Kong "during the next quarter", it said Friday.
"We believe that hydrogen fuel-cell technology, alongside battery electric are both viable options for Hong Kong's operating environment," it said in a statement.
"With both battery electric and hydrogen fuel-cell double-decker buses being tested in parallel, we can partner with the government in formulating a comprehensive plan for our city's transition to carbon neutral transportation."
Meanwhile Bravo says it will press the new Wisdom bus into service later this year. The company would not reveal its plans for any specific route or service for the bus.
Categories: Electric Vehicles, Public Transport, Transit
Tagged as: battery, Bravo Bus, Carrie Lam, Cliff Zhang Kun, electric bus, Lithium Iron Phosphate, Wong Kam-sing
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barry wilson says:
All good news, however I believe this yet again demonstrates the government's lack of strategic and coordinated approaches across departments. The transition to EV is being left almost wholly to the market, despite the current urgency for an energy revolution, with various players applying ad-hoc to trial differing options and without sufficient integrated support to allow the best solutions to be adopted. Paul Bromley is absolutely correct, and the opportunities for pantograph charging for example, will be extremely limited without co-ordinated strategic goals from TD, EMSD, HyD, EPD and the onboarding of critical stakeholders like CLP, HKE, research bodies and public realm betterment advocates. Is that desire there from government to push for change? It will take something extraordinary to break departmental inertia in finding problems rather than solutions and falling back on reasons to delay.
There will be numerous iterations of charging infrastructure, no doubt ending with a mixed supply of both slow and fast charging options and eventually incorporating next-generation, wireless, 'inductive' options for opportunity charging. There are both slow and fast roadmaps to this end but they both need to be part of a forward thinking and holistic transport, energy and environment policy, which really cannot be seen to exist in the current policy forming environment.
hkfan says:
I'm just happy they are exploring different options, and wouldn't mind this one tbh! Getting rid of the huge clouds of diesel fumes is worth it imo.
James Ockenden says:
yes, good to see the effort being made and new tech will rarely be perfect — although the new e-double deckers coming to KMB from Europe have a better battery aesthetic, in my opinion!


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Royal Mint to Continue Queen's Beasts Coin Series
The Royal Mint announced a new series of bullion silver and gold coins in 2016, commemorating the ten Queen's Beasts statues created for Elizabeth II's coronation. Followed by a Proof version of the series launched in December 2016, these coins have become a worldwide hit with collectors and precious metal stackers around the globe!
Stunner from Down Under: The Australian Silver Kookaburra Coin Series
Articles | Author: Sean McConeghy
In 1990, the Perth Mint unveiled its inaugural silver bullion series, the Australian Kookaburra. Now celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2020, while the series has undergone many changes in its rich history, its allure remains constant.
Commemorate Brexit with this Innovative Break-It Brexit Collectible Coin
The Cape Mint has released a truly innovative Break-it Brexit coin that allows the owner to "break" the coin in two (should they choose) along a literal fault line, signifying the brexit event itself.
Key Issues and Factors that Shaped Precious Metals in 2019
2019 was a banner year for precious metals with the big standouts being gold and palladium. A variety of factors help shape the spot prices of precious metals such as supply and demand and other fundamentals of each metal. However, the most important ones today are the long-term interest rates set by the Federal Reserve and the yield on U.S. government Treasury bonds, as well as certain other key economic factors.
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Struck by private mints, some rounds are tailored to specific interests that are overlooked by government mints, while others provide affordable pieces with historic designs. Here are some rounds that our customers love. Each round was struck from 1 oz of .999 fine silver.
2019: The Year in Coins
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2019 was an exciting year for numismatics. The United States Mint introduced a number of "first-evers" including unprecedented collaborations with other renowned mints, a number of historic releases from the West Point Mint Branch, and the lowest mintage Silver Eagle to date! While Mints around the world commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing and the Lunar Year of the Pig with stunning coin releases.
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Hoboken, NJ 2008-10-01 Hardcover Revised, 10th Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 1044 p. Contains: Line drawings, black & white.
Sauces, Condiments, Herbs, and Spices.
The 102 Essential Recipes in This Book.
My Top 100 Fast Recipes.
My Top 100 Make-Ahead Recipes.
My Top 100 Vegetarian Recipes.
How to Cook Everything 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition) 3.4 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 104 reviews.
Real Popcorn - My mom used to make popcorn like this (on the stove) and I had forgotten it. It is a fast and easy way to make more flavorful popcorn.
Poached Pears in red wine - holy cow these were good! Very elegant, easy to do, and light and healthy for when you mght be maxed out on rich, heavy desserts. This is a recipe I will make over and over.
Cranberry Relish with Orange and Ginger - Fresher tasting then cooked cranberry sauce and I loved the addition of ginger. This was a big hit at Thanksgiving.
Braised Potatoes with Kielbasa, Cheddar, and Beer - very tasty, one pot meal. The beer gave the whole dish a nice flavor. This is perfect comfort food for a COlorado winter!
Peanut Brittle - my only loser so far from this collection. It was such a complete failure that I think being at high altitude was the problem.
Overall a very complete collection! There are still many recipes I would like to try and I know many of the illustrations will come in handy in the future (how to clean squid, roll sushi, bone a chicken...). This cookbook would be a great gift for an avid cook.
I got this cookbook as a gift and it has become my go to reference book. This cookbook gives information on everything related to cooking - from must have kitchen tools to cooking techniques. In addition to thousands of recipes, the cookbook provides detailed information in each chapter on choosing and preparing herbs, vegetables and meats. I particularly like the how there are basic recipes with alternate ingredient suggestions. It's always easy to find something to cook because the recipes use basic ingredients that are usually in your pantry.
I enjoyed this book, but many of the good recipes from the original cookbook were missing. The "original" cookbook that they were now toting as the original was about 1/3 of this book. I no longer have the original cookbook so I was hoping this cookbook would have some of the recipes I no longer had, but it didn't -- like the bread. His cookbook, however, is very good and simple and the recipes are tasty. I would recommend it to anyone; I am 66 and my daughters are in their 30's and we all refer to the recipes in it and have for years.
Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything has been my "go to" book for some time now. It's especially good for inspiration for good weeknight dinners. He's the "Minimalist Cook", so his philosophy is to create the best taste with the least amount of fuss. I love to cook, but there are times when I don't want to make a big project of it. That's when I turn to this book. His recipes are so approachable; you read them and think, "I could do that!" And they are GOOD! My husband didn't think he liked hummus until I made Mark's flavorful version. It's so quick and easy with a food processor! Other recent favorites have been Arroz con Pollo (Chicken with Rice--good enough for company), Roast Chicken Parts, Lentil Soup, and Roasted Carrots with Cumin. (The carrots were actually amazing, and so simple to do!) This week I tried his Shrimp Scampi; it was the easiest, and the tastiest, version I have ever made. If you like to eat well, but don't want complicated recipes, I think you will enjoy this cookbook.
I read this book cover to cover and loved that it introduces the variations to the recipes. If it can teach my old roommate to cook for a dinner party of ten, it can help anyone. Even without photos, it is very informative and goes through the basics that starter home chefs need to know and gives old dogs some new tricks.
Many of these recipes have appeared in the New York Times food section, or on the author's "Bitten" blog on nytimes.com. There are a lot of decent recipes in here (cooking various grains, meats, vegetables, etc.), but the book overall suffers from the way the pages are laid out. Frequently, recipes will be partially printed on both sides of a page, which makes using the tome as a cook book interesting at times. Chapters are ordered in a strange manner, too (apple pie will be at the start of the chapter, but the pie crust at the end of the chapter). Be prepared to flip around a lot. There are a few illustrations here and there in this massive (it's 1000+ pages all together), but no photos. Sometimes, more illustrations/photos would have been nice, especially with the less-familiar cooking methods/ingredients. If you live outside of a very large city, some of the ingredients called for will be tricky to find unless you buy online. This is particularly true of most of the Asian cuisine and specialty vegetables. This book is a good general cookbook, but for specific things (like say, breads and baking), you might be better off with specialty books. I'm not sure the audience for this book--many of the recipes are written to imply advanced cooking techniques and equipment, but Bittman seems to be aiming for a populist audience. It's a good reference and source of information.
Grew up with a mother who NEVER cooked. Needless to say, I never learned family recipes or how to cook from my mother; I learned in my adulthood. This cookbook -- HOW TO COOK EVERYTHING -- has been a godsend with the overall description of anything and everything you would need to know in order to cook anything in your kitchen. My suggestion; BUY IT!! Easy to understand recipes and basics throughout. EVERYTHING I have EVER attempted to cook or bake from this cookbook has turned out exact.
I'm kind of mad at Mark Bittman. This is the cookbook I wanted to write. Now I guess I don't have to.
I am a person who gives books as presents. It's fortunate that my son loves reading as much as everyone else in my family because he's gotten many books as presents over the years. When he was here to see me this summer he expressed an interest in some cookbooks. He's living in a dorm that is set up like an apartment so cooking is a new necessity. I gave me the copy of The Joy of Cooking that my father gave me (this was probably the second or third copy - for awhile there I tended to walk away from various kinds of things, books included). For his birthday, I got him a copy of How to Cook Everything - 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food by Mark Bittman. I got myself a copy, too, since I'd heard a lot about it, but hadn't had it. Other than Joy of Cooking my family's idea of basic cookbooks was La Gastronomique and The Art of French Cooking - both wonderful and basic in their own ways, but not basic in their recipe writing.This is a really cool cookbook. I've been working my way through it while watching junk television this Thanksgiving weekend and I'm really impressed with how it puts everything together because, honestly, if you know the cooking techniques and you know the basics of sauces, you can make anything. Cooking is full of endless variations and I really like how he explicates this.
With 2,000 recipes packed onto over 1,000 pages this is a very dense and serious cookbook. No color photographs or pictures of the author to catch your eye and the recipes are packed in one after the other. Initially I had a hard time reading this cookbook and processing so much information. Then I found the lists in the back: "My Top 100 Fast Recipes" was my favorite. These lists provide a nice way to take the book in bite-sized chunks. The recipies I've tried:Real Popcorn - My mom used to make popcorn like this (on the stove) and I had forgotten it. It is a fast and easy way to make more flavorful popcorn.Poached Pears in red wine - holy cow these were good! Very elegant, easy to do, and light and healthy for when you mght be maxed out on rich, heavy desserts. This is a recipe I will make over and over.Cranberry Relish with Orange and Ginger - Fresher tasting then cooked cranberry sauce and I loved the addition of ginger. This was a big hit at Thanksgiving.Braised Potatoes with Kielbasa, Cheddar, and Beer - very tasty, one pot meal. The beer gave the whole dish a nice flavor. This is perfect comfort food for a COlorado winter!Peanut Brittle - my only loser so far from this collection. It was such a complete failure that I think being at high altitude was the problem.Overall a very complete collection! There are still many recipes I would like to try and I know many of the illustrations will come in handy in the future (how to clean squid, roll sushi, bone a chicken...). This cookbook would be a great gift for an avid cook.
I enjoyed quickly reading through this library book, but I didn't try any of the recipes. I was comparing this to a library copy of Joy of Cooking (75th anniversary edition). How to Cook Everything seems to have much fewer recipes but endless ways to do each one. The recipes do look very simple, but it also seems a little boring to me. Quite a few people on other websites complained about a lot of bad recipes and some errors. I found some errors myself despite my cursory review of the book. For example, on the section called "My Top 100 Fast recipes," it listed the wrong page number for a recipe I was interested in. I also found a wrong page number in the index, so I lost confidence in the book.I finally made my decision, and that is to buy two copies of the Joy of Cooking, one for myself and one for my daughter-in-law, a newlywed. The recipes just look a lot more interesting/tasty, and people on the many review postings only had good things to say about the recipes.
Yay, happy birthday to me! What I love about Mark Bittman is his approach to food and cooking, which is simple and straightforward.
If you can have only one cookbook, this should be it. Simple, straight-forward recipes which don't (usually) require odd ingredients or special equipment. Part of what I love about this cookbook are the asides and explanations from substitute leaveners to different ways to serve steamed clams to which herb is good for what.
Bittman's new edition only gets a half star addition because I don't give out five stars, so consider this a 4.5+ rating. The re-organization makes it easier to use, the new recipes wonderful (including the famous no-knead bread), the expanded recipes welcome, the deleted ones not missed. Buy it, use it, love it.
Well, I have a small quibble about the title. How to Cook Everything is a pretty broad statement, and did I indeed find recipes on how to cook EVERYTHING? No. But what I did find was a cookbook that teaches you basic principles of cooking so that you can figure out how to cook almost anything.I'm not quite done reading it, but already I have found myself wanting to host a party while reading the appetizers, craving more soup during the soup recipes, and itching to bake while reading the bread recipes. I have tried one recipe so far, Kale and Potato Soup, which I enjoyed. It wasn't the most fabulous thing ever, and would have been, as the author said himself, improved with homemade stock. I used store bought. But it was still very tasty on a winter day. I have added this one to my wish list and recommend it as an excellent first cookbook for a beginner, or a handy reference for an experienced cook. I'm making his Easy Tomato Sauce for pasta tomorrow, Chicken Adobo with rice on Wednesday, and the Bitter Chocolate Sorbet as soon as possible.
I use this cookbook several times a week. It is truly a "desert island cookbook," and if I had to choose only one cooking reference to use for the rest of my life (this includes the Internet), this book would be it.I admire Bittman's emphasis on simple cooking and his encouragement to make as much of your own food as possible. (It's healthier, gives you more control over what you are eating, tastes MUCH better, and does not take all that much more time to do.) Since buying this book I've slowly began cooking more and more of my recipes from scratch, and have been amazed at how easy it is. Not to mention how much better everything tastes! I have a harder time eating processed foods with enjoyment after using these recipes.The best part about the cookbook is the set-up. Very basic recipes are provided; you can build upon with suggested variations/additions that follow the basic recipe. (So for instance, the recipe for pancakes is followed by a chart with instructions on how to substitute or add a dozen variations, including buttermilk/yogurt/sour cream in place of milk, the addition of bananas or blueberries, using cottage cheese...). In short, it teaches the kind of improvisation that professional cooks have internalized, and is a great way to learn how to master the basics of any recipe. I can't recommend this cookbook highly enough.
This book has so much wrong with it I don't know where to start. Many recipes are just wrong! Try the free sample before you buy! Or borrow from your local library first! This guy has no clue.
Firstly the title is true! I have had this book since it was first published 15 or so years ago. It is still my favorite and few meals go by without consulting it. Yes, it is filled with all kinds of recipes, but somehow Bittman is able to show how to take whatever ingredients you have and always end up with a great dish. The emphasis in the title is HOW TO COOK-believe it! I have given this book to several brides, knowing they will have a book they can rely on basically forever.
This is a good starting point if you don't know much about cooking or need to relearn the basics. I find that after all these years I have started to the same dishes all the time. This is helping learn new techniques and ideas for menus.
If I had to limit myself to one cookbook, this would be it. Bittman really does have excellent recipes for almost everything one will actually cook, including variations of dishes that change flavor but not technique. His Best Food in the World is my second favorite.


Schools now checking campus visitors through databases.
"School safety is foremost on our minds. We think about it every day," said Taft Union High School Superintendent Blanca Cavazos.
Cavazos Taft College Superintendent-President Deb Daniels and Taft City School District Superintendent Julie Graves joined Taft Chief of Police Damon McMinn to discuss safety in Taft's schools and the community at the annual State of the City luncheon.
The schools are going to great lengths to keep kids safe.
A little over six years ago, Taft Union was the site of a school shooting that critically injured one student and sent his assailant to prison.
School officials have learned from that incidents and school shootings -- "as horrible as they are"- to make Taft Union a safer school.
One was working with students to foster an atmosphere where they care about each other and will be more likely to report information before violence occurs.
"If they feel good about each other they help each other," Cavazos said.
Taft Union's Human Element Class was formed to "change the school culture and make it better," she said.
In most school shootings, Blanca said, someone knew about it before hand. The school has ways for students to report potential problems anonymously.
Many other steps are being taken, including the use of a school resource officer to work on truancy and enforce both the California penal Code and education Code.
Computers and new software programs also help take TUHS safer.
The Raptor Visitor Management software screens visitors to the school to make sure they are safe, and a system called Share 911 enables staff to communicate with each other and law enforcement in case of emergencies.
For the Taft City School District, school safety is an integral part of the state-mandated Local Control and Accountability Plan, Graves said.
Like TUHSD, the TCSD has a school resource officer and is taking other steps for student safety, including secure entries ways to all schools where visitors must be buzzed in through safety indoors to access the campus.
The District is also returning to having one principal at all school sites and has added an extra school nurse.
The TCSD is also going to use Raptor technology, which runs a scan of a person's driver's license to check them against law enforcement databases.
Taft College is working to protect the students with a full-time campus security officer and four part-time security officers working nights and weekends.
It is also working hard on internet security.
Hacking attacks are a very real threat, Daniels said. Recently, East Los Angeles College was hacked and had its information held locked until a "ransom" was paid.
"It's not if your going to get hacked, its when and how good are they? How sophisticated are they?" Daniels said.
The college spent $100,000 on security software.
Taft School's are operating in a community that is actually a little safer.
McMinn said crime to date is down 18 percent in Taft, and he credits some hard work and proactive policing by his officers.
"Much of Taft's crime is caused by a small group of people," he said.
"Ten to 15 people are causing all of our problems," the chief said. "We know who they are and we know when they get out of jail."


When he was sentenced to serve 100 years in prison in 2009, Michael Pace offered no apology for his actions two years earlier, when the then 16-year-old stepped onto a CTA bus loaded with high school students, and opened fire with a handgun.
On Wednesday, for the first time, Pace, now 27, offered up the apology he claims he intended to give after he pleaded guilty to murder charges in the death of honor student Blair Holt.
Pace, who learned to read in prison after being sentenced for the murder of his former Julian High School classmate, read from handwritten notes, his baritone voice choked with emotion and tumbling over college-level vocabulary.
His face streaked with tears, he closed by looking toward Holt's parents in the courtroom gallery and offered a few unscripted remarks.
An appeals court two years ago ordered a new sentencing hearing for Pace, based on allegations of bias shown in the lengthy monologue Judge Nicholas Ford gave before handing down the 100-year sentence in 2009. Now in front of Judge Matthew Coghlan, Pace's lawyer argued that Pace could be sentenced to as few as 32 years.
It remains to be seen if Coghlan will be swayed to reduce Pace's sentence at a hearing set for Jan. 9, but Pace's emotional mea culpa fell on deaf ears as far as Holt's parents are concerned.
A defense expert testified that Pace had suffered sexual and physical abuse as a child, and had been raised by a mother who cared for seven other children. His father was in prison, and in the years immediately before the shooting, Pace's family had moved from the Robert Taylor Homes to a series of Section 8 apartments in violent neighborhoods. Testing showed Pace had an IQ of 77.
On Wednesday, Assistant State's Attorney Pat McGuire played surveillance video of Pace waiting for the CTA bus to arrive at a stop near the intersection of 103rd Street and South Halsted, waiting for a rival gang member, who was on the bus. Cameras inside the bus showed Pace stepping inside the doors and opening fire from beside the fare box as riders ducked for cover. Holt, who laid over one of his classmates to protect her from the gunfire, was struck in the abdomen and two other riders also were wounded.
McGuire noted that Pace has racked up violations while serving in prison, including a charge for hiding contraband that could be used as a makeshift knife.


The infamous International Surrealist Exhibition of 1936 attracted over a thousand visitors per day and is widely viewed as the dawn of British Surrealism - a movement that continues to influence and inspire British artists to this day.
This exhibition is drawn from the collection of Southampton City Art Gallery and shows how a range of artists have responded to Surrealist ideas on dreams and the unconscious.
Included will be works by Eileen Agar, Cecil Collins, Ithel Colquhoun, Tristram Hillier, Humphrey Jennings, Desmond Morris, Paul Nash, Roland Penrose, Ceri Richards, Edith Rimmington and John Tunnard.
Agar, Eileen (1899-1991): Untitled, signed, inscribed 18/75, lithograph, 75.5 x 57 cms. Presented by Tremayne Applied Arts, St Ives.


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"The unusual thing about the environmental health profession is that we have access to such a broad network of expertise."
Steve Miller. September 2009.
Scientific & Technical Advice Cell
The Association of London Environmental Health Managers intervention resulted in the development of effective and workable arrangements to provide emergency services with scientific and technical advice during major incidents or emergencies.
The scheme is a clear example of how ALEHM is helping to protect the health and wellbeing of Londoners.
Single source of advice
The effective provision of scientific advice during major incidents.
The provision of local knowledge, data and easier access to records needed during a major incident.
Consensus on remediation
Pool available information to reach a common view on options for, and the merits of of, different remedial actions.
Vigilance for London
The Buncefield oil depot fire in 2005 drew attention to the need for a stronger network of technical support in an emergency. Recognising that most emergency incidents impact on the environment and on health, the London Fire Brigade, approached the Association of London Environmental Health Managers for help.
After considerable work between ALEHM and LFB, arrangements were agreed to better support the emergency Science and Technical Advice Cells (STAC) that are activated during major incidents. This was further reinforced by the provision of training of Environmental Health Practitioners that have investigative skills; experience of communication with a wide audience; project management skills; and familiarity with risk assessment in a variety of scenarios.
The Association of London Environmental Health Managers helped the LFB to better navigate with different stakeholders to explore potential mechanisms to support emergency services during emergencies and major incidents. We helped to determine that the role potentially required:
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High Commissioner leads Sri Lanka delegation to the First Ministerial Meeting of RIMES
High Commissioner Prasad Kariyawasam led the Sri Lanka delegation to the First Ministerial Conference of the Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia (RIMES) in New Delhi on 21 June 2012. RIMES is a collective response of Asian and African nations arising out of the unprecedented trauma of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and consists of member and collaborative countries. Representatives of Afghanistan, Armenia, Bangladesh, Bhutan Cambodia, Comoros, India, Kenya, Laos, Maldives, Mauritius, Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uzbekistan, attended the Conference.India as the present Chair of the RIMES Council convened the First Ministerial Meeting with a view to building RIMES institutional and core operational activities.
Minister of Earth Sciences India Vilas Rao Deshmukh Chaired the Ministerial Meeting while Minister of State for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences of India Dr. Ashwani Kumar, Ministers from Bangladesh and Maldives were among the Ministers who participated and Mr. S H Kariyawasam, Director General of the Department of Meteorology of Sri Lanka also attended the meeting.
Speaking at the Meeting, High Commissioner Kariyawasam stated that following the 2004 Tsunami, Sri Lanka has worked closely with its neighbours, the international community to build capacities and to manage such disasters and mitigate their consequences. As a result of the commitment of the government and support of Sri Lanka's partner countries and institutions, in Sri Lanka there is now capacity with government and awareness among vulnerable communities as to how to respond to such Tsunami situations.
Referring to other geologic and hydro-meteorological hazards that are more frequent and create havoc in civilian life in Sri Lanka such as floods, droughts, lightening and storm surges, High Commissioner Kariyawasam said that Sri Lanka is encouraged that the RIMES activities would encompass such disasters as well enabling member countries to prepare and to respond adequately for saving life and property.
The full text of the High Commissioner's statement:
Statement by High Commissioner Prasad Kariyawasam, Leader of Sri Lanka delegation at the First Ministers' Conference of the Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia (RIMES)
Mr Chairman,
Sri Lanka is happy to participate at the First Ministerial Conference of the Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia (RIMES). We wish to thank the Government of India for hosting this important meeting and for the excellent arrangements made in this connection.
The Cabinet Minister In-charge of Disaster Management of Sri Lanka, Hon Mahinda Amaraweera could not attend this meeting since he is at present attending the Rio+20 Conference in Brazil. He sends his greetings and support for this meeting.
Sri Lanka attaches great importance to the objectives of this Conference, which is indeed a collective response arising out of the unprecedented trauma of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. As one of the countries worst affected by this natural calamity, Sri Lanka has worked closely with our neighbours, the international community and the UN agencies to build capacities and to manage such disasters and mitigate their consequences. As a result of the commitment of the government and support of our partner countries and institution, in Sri Lanka there is now capacity with the government and awareness among vulnerable communities as to how to respond to such Tsunami situations.
Sri Lanka believes that international cooperation is the only way forward for receiving early warnings on natural disasters and mitigating their effects. It is a matter of satisfaction that RIMES has brought together Africa and Asia, two regions that appear more vulnerable to natural disasters. By working closely, our two regions would be able to save lives and property and ensure sustainable development of our regions.
It is in this light that Sri Lanka signed the RIMES International Cooperation Agreement recently. Sri Lanka remains committed to contribute to the RIMES and work closely with RIMES member countries to achieve the objectives of the Master Plan under the RIMES Agreement. We are encouraged by the spirit of support for each other embodied in RIMES regime.
While massive disasters of the nature of Tsunami 2004 are very infrequent in South Asian region, other geologic and hydro-meteorological disasters are more frequent. Therefore, we are encouraged that the RIMES regime will encompass all such disasters as well to assist Member countries to prepare and respond adequately with a view to saving life and property and for rehabilitation. In Sri Lanka, for instance, floods, droughts and lightening and even high winds and storm surges create havoc in civilian life more frequently. Floods remain as the most frequent and last year North Eastern parts of the country experienced high intensity flooding. Almost every year some part of our country is affected by floods and landslides which consume most of our relief service funds. Moreover, lightening causes high number of deaths in Sri Lanka every year in addition to damage it causes to valuable equipments and infrastructure. Drought and high winds that cause damage to property is a major concern as well. In this context, Sri Lanka needs to improve its capacity in numerical weather forecasting and location specified forecasting as well. Seasonal climate change forecasting and scenario development is yet another need. We need to improve our capacity in lightening detection and allied protection activities as well. It is our expectation that the RIMES regime will be able to assist in these issues as well in time to come to enhance our technical and resource capacities.
In this context, among other initiatives we look forward to RIMES continued support for the Disaster Early Warning System in Sri Lanka. And, Sri Lanka looks forward to become project beneficiary of the Master Plan of RIMES.
In conclusion, we thank Hon Ministers of India and Mr Sailesh Nayak, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences for their presence and encouragement for the work of RIMES. In fact in our view, leadership, resource and expertise mobilization by India and other major donor institutions and countries will be singularly important for the success of RIMES regime.


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U.S. Light Vehicle Sales Slip in December and for all of 2019
The Autodata Corporation reported that December sales of light vehicles fell 1.9% from November (-3.3% y/y) to 16.87 million units (SAAR). Earlier figures were revised. For the full year 2019 sales of 17.00 million units compared to 17.27 million during all of 2018 and have been fairly flat for the last five years. During the last three months, sales averaged 16.90 million units, the weakest three-month reading since April.
Sales of light trucks declined 3.8% (-0.7% y/y) to 12.14 million units, the lowest level since April. Purchases of domestically-made light trucks fell 3.7% (-1.0% y/y) to 9.58 million units after November's 3.4% rise. Sales of imported light trucks were off 4.1% (+0.8% y/y) to 2.56 million units. Despite the decline, imported light truck sales have roughly doubled in the past five years.
Trucks' share of the U.S. light vehicle market eased from the record in November to 72.0%, but remained up from a low of 48.8% during all of 2012.
Auto sales rose 3.3% (-9.4% y/y) to 4.73 million, the highest level since July. Sales compared to a peak level of 7.71 million unit sales during all of 2014. Purchases of domestically-produced cars increased 6.9% (-10.3% y/y) to 3.57 million units, the highest level in nine months. Sales of imported cars weakened 6.5% both m/m and y/y to 1.16 million units, the fifth decline in six months.
Imports' share of the U.S. vehicle market fell to 22.1%. Imports' share of the passenger car market fell sharply to 24.5%. Imports share of the light truck market held steady at 21.1% and remained up from the 12.0% low in January 2015.
U.S. vehicle sales figures can be found in Haver's USECON database. Additional detail by manufacturer is in the INDUSTRY database.
Light Weight Vehicle Sales (SAAR, Million Units)
Dec Y/Y %
Total 16.87 17.20 16.58 -3.3 17.00 17.27 17.23
Autos 4.73 4.58 4.38 -9.4 4.80 5.36 6.16
Domestic 3.57 3.34 3.11 -10.3 3.52 4.00 4.58
Imported 1.16 1.24 1.27 -6.5 1.28 1.36 1.59
Light Trucks 12.14 12.62 12.20 -0.7 12.18 11.92 11.07
Domestic 9.58 9.95 9.62 -1.0 9.65 9.44 9.00
Imported 2.56 2.67 2.59 0.8 2.53 2.48 2.07


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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Sunday signed an executive order that orders state agencies to divest themselves of companies and organizations that support the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against the State of Israel.
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Mike Golic Jr. focused on his Career and no time for Relationship or Dating; See his Affairs, Wiki, Career, and Net Worth
The sports world can be crucial at the time and many of you have seen a lot of player's career going down the drain due to some problems. Mike Golic Jr. was only 26 when he announced his retirement from the game.
It's hard to fathom as it is that this giant brute doesn't play Football anymore but he is also not interested in dating anyone as well. Maybe that explains his nature of not divulging in relationships.
Today in this section, let's see if the retired player is really single or if he is hiding a secret relationship?
Mike Golic Jr-Hiding a Secret Relationship
It's been often said, When a person is passionate about something then he/she will not see anything but their goals. It looks like Mike is following the exact saying for better.
Mike used to play as the offensive Lineback during his time playing Football, Source: GulfLive
Upon reading the above sentence, a big question is swirling around your head, isn't it? Like he is only 27-years-old right now, an age where a big sports star is getting himself with many things, then why did he choose this way?
Well, to answer this question, you should first ask yourself this, Will you spare any time for recreational activities when you're too busy making a name in a particular field?
The majority of you will answer the question with 'No,' though there will always be some exceptions. So you got what are we trying to say here, right?
The former football player retired from the game in 2016, He is currently not dating anyone, Source: Who Dat Dish
Yup, Mike is too busy on his career that he doesn't have any time to spare for dating or making girlfriends. Though, he has time to become his brother's Best Man in his wedding.
His brother tied the knot with his girlfriend earlier this year, where Mike served as the best man.
Retired from the Game in 2016
He quickly became a prodigy in the game and due to his huge frame, fans were thinking he can become the next big thing. No one saw it coming when he announced his retirement so early.
Mike currently works as an ESPN commentator, Source: ESPN
There can be a lot of reasons for it, maybe it was his decision or maybe due to injury or maybe some other factors. Now according to many websites, he retired due to lack of play time.
He played for some of the best clubs in the country but the lack of play time took its toll in his mind which eventually lead to his decision of hanging up his boots.
He currently hosts ESPN talk show, just like his father Mike Golic Sr.
Quick facts about Mike Golic Jr.
Born on September 28, 1989 (age 27), in Voorhees, New Jersey.
He is the son of Mike Golic Jr.
He has one brother Jake Golic.
He attended Northwest Catholic High School in West Hartford, Connecticut.
He used to play the position of standout lineman during his high school days.
He joined Pittsburgh Steelers in 2013.
Then in 2014, he moved to New Orleans Saints.
He played for Arizona Rattlers and then decided to quit the sports.
His net worth is 1.5 million dollars.
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November 29, 2021 • Robert Fischer, WiACES
On Monday, November 15, Biden signed the $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), delivering a historic investment in rebuilding U.S. infrastructure. And here is the kicker: the Senate aims to pass the $1.8 Trillion Build Back Better Act, a social and climate bill, before Christmas.
So how does the federal government divvy up and spend trillions of dollars?
Well, that work is now beginning, particularly for the folks at the U.S. Department of Transportation. Whether you are a transportation official, a consultant, or a weekend transportation policy wonk (they exist), here are a few things to consider.
State-by-State Breakdowns
Everybody is asking the same question: how is this bill going to affect me, my community, and my state?
The White House has already been releasing fact sheets with state-by-state summaries of funding. Here is an example that was last updated in April. They will be updating these sheets in the coming days and weeks.
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) also has a helpful breakdown here, but it too needs to be reworked.
If you are itching for these breakdowns, but don't necessarily have the research staff on hand, just give it time. The White House, and frankly every journalist and think tank in the field, are in the trenches creating these updated state-by-state fact sheets.
U.S. DOT Funding Mechanisms 101
Next, it's important to revisit the four main ways the U.S. DOT funds investments in transportation and infrastructure.
There are discretionary grant programs, like the popular Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) grants. Each program office solicits applications and selects projects based on program eligibility, evaluation criteria, and departmental or program priorities. The USDOT just awarded Alabama two RAISE grants, which total $18,453,139, for instance. There is a lot more where that came from.
There are also formula grant programs that allocate funding to recipients based on formulas set by congress, like the Annual Federal-Aid Highway Funding Programs appropriated to states. According to Jeff Davis, a senior fellow at the Eno Center for Transportation, now that POTUS has signed the infrastructure bill into law, states should be receiving their 30 percent highway formula funding increase via formal apportionment from Federal Highway Administration within 2-3 weeks — over $13.5 billion more than last year.
And finally, there are a host of loan financing programs and Public-Private Partnerships (P3s). Loan financing programs are credit assistance programs that leverage federal funds to attract private and other non-federal investments in transportation. P3s involve collaboration between one or more government agencies and private sector companies to leverage public and private resources to develop and execute a project. Both of these programs get a boost from IIJA.
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs at the U.S. DOT
The largest investment in roads, bridges and highways made by the federal government since the creation of the U.S. interstate highway system is going to require a larger federal workforce to make it happen.
According to Freight Waves, the DOT will grow more than 50% to help stand up new programs included in the bill.
"We will go from being … around a $90 billion-a-year agency to one that will be closer to $140 billion," Deputy Secretary Polly Trottenberg said at a media briefing.
"Not all of that money will be needed to run the department, but obviously we're an agency that's going to grow. We will need new members of the team, and we're in the process of moving forward in some of those new hiring needs."
So if you are looking for work, re-polish that resume.
Updating State Priorities
With all this money in the pipe, states are scrambling to update their plans and priorities.
Take Colorado for example. Colorado is due to receive well over $5 billion from the bill over the next five years for highways, bridges, public transportation, expansion of broadband internet service, water infrastructure improvements, airport projects, and more.
Surface transportation is where the state likely will see the greatest impact — with the federal money supercharging an 11-year, $5.4 billion state transportation bill passed by the legislature earlier this year.
So in the coming months, state transportation leaders will decide how to apply the highway money to CDOT's 10-year priority plan, which is being updated. Remember, they wrote this plan before they knew they would be getting all this cash. So naturally, the plan is going to change. Projects that were deemed too expensive or low priority can move up on the list, for instance.
Updating these documents isn't just a good mental exercise. It is also a requirement. Here is a link that explains the process.
Buttigieg The Power Broker
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will control $126 billion in new spending over the next five years, according to a Reuters tally — more than one-fifth of the new spending authorized by the law.
"We've never had a (transportation) secretary who's had that much authority before," said Jeff Davis, an analyst at the Eno Center for Transportation, a Washington-based think tank.
At a White House briefing on Monday, Buttigieg said the Transportation Department would favor projects that reduce greenhouse gases, increase safety, boost job creation or advance racial equity.
"What you're going to see … is an emphasis on projects that, taken together, give us extra value in the priorities of this administration," he said.
So, you can expect to see Buttigieg running victory laps on national television to bolster democrats and the Biden administration. IIJA is no doubt good policy. But at the end of the day, it's also good politics. And there are elections around the corner.
Robert Fischer is a WiACES board member, President of GTiMA, a Technology and Policy Advisor to Mandli Communications, and an Associate Editor of the SAE International Journal of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles.
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The Life Raft Group is committed to empowering the advocacy efforts of patients, caregivers and their families. The LRG was founded on the principle that people working together could make a difference in the lives of those with GIST and very possibly, all those fighting cancer. That fight is fought on many fronts. Whether the issues are medical, financial, legal or governmental, and whether they are global, national or local issues, there are many ways to get involved and to help bring about change.
Advocacy is at the core of our mission. We continually strive to have a voice for our community. Working together with other advocacy groups we fight the fight on both local and federal levels. Keeping informed on the passage of bills, petitioning legislators and meeting with key policy makers has helped to get our message across.
The LRG A3 Insurance Committee is a group of passionate and dedicated members of the GIST community who are making a difference. This committee's mission is to provide GIST patients and caregivers with access to resources and information regarding affordable medication and to promote advocacy efforts on their behalf.
In the summer of 2013, the LRG launched its Rare 13 campaign, highlighting the diverse faces of GIST by drawing attention to the fact that 13 people are diagnosed with GIST every day (and that's just within the United States!). The Rare 13 campaign was so successful that the next year we decided it was time for GIST to step into the spotlight and have its own global day of recognition GIST Awareness Day.
On July 13, 2014, the world celebrated the first-ever GIST Awareness Day in an effort to bring widespread attention and education to this cancer. Our philosophy is that although GIST is rare, knowing about it doesn't having to be. As part of GIST Awareness Day, we published our "13 Promises," a national advocacy effort to bring the needs of GIST patients directly to top Washington, D.C. policymakers. The 13 Promises provide a rallying point for those impacted with GIST, sarcoma or any type of cancer to stand together in support and solidarity and raise awareness about GIST.
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To encourage collaboration and coordination with the physician community.
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I've said it before, and I say again. Editing video is most frustrating and rewarding at the same time.
Rewarding because it gives us another way to express our songs. To put them in yet another frame, this time moving images, adding an extra layer of expression. And I'm not saying we are very good at it, but it's fun to do.
Frustrating because everything takes such a long time and that you have to wait a lot. With music you play, try something new and then listen. Not with video, no no. Change something, wait for it to render (which can take hours), and then you can see. Often just to realise you need further adjustment. That needs rendering. Just to realise…. Well you get it.
Today I got some time to work on the video for The Big One. And I think that it's starting to come together nicely. I put up a preview of the first minute. What do you think?