A cook book from 1688 that contains 'wacky' home remedies to tackle serious diseases such as tuberculosis and the plague with 'infused horse dung' and 'snail water' may also contain the oldest curry recipe in Britain.
This book, which has belonged to the same unnamed family since it was written, was added to until around 1755, with the curry recipe one of the last entries.
The earliest known UK recipe for curry was written in a 1747 cookbook by London-based chef Hannah Glasse.
Experts believe this family's method was most likely written in the 1750s based on a handwriting analysis and dates on other recipes, with four people thought to have contributed to the book over the decades.
Another reason the recipe was likely written after 1747 is the mention of soy, which was not commonly used in western Europe until the 1770s, although it would have been available to wealthy families earlier.
The book was started in 1688 by Mrs Sarah Jackson, who worked as a cook for the household and has access to many of the ingredients mentioned.
The more peculiar tonics include snail water, which is made by grinding garden snails in a pot with herbs and fennel before boiling them in milk and then adding mint and sweetening with sugar to taste. The concoction would then be given to those suffering from tuberculosis, a disease of the lungs that caused sufferers to cough up blood and usually killed half of those who had it through weight loss and fever until the mid 1900s when vaccines were created.
The recipe manuscript is now being sold for the first time at London-based Forum Auctions with an estimate of £6,000.
Among the unusual recipes is ingredients for 'plague-water' - mixing herbs and plants such as sage, celandine, rosemary, mugwort and cardamom seed in a 'gallon of brandy'.
Plague-water was a well-known remedy in the 17th century intended to prevent or cure the illness and Samuel Pepys referenced it in his diary in 1665 saying he was given a bottle of plague-water to take home.
Animal waste was commonly used in medicine in this time period for all sorts of ailments and treatments, including for poultices for burns during the Great Fire of London.
There is an incomplete recipe for infusing horse dung that does not make it clear what it would be used for.
There is also a powder for 'the bite of a mad dog' and a red powder 'good against plague, smallpox, measels, ague at ye first pain in ye bones and worms in children'.
Max Hasler, from Forum Auctions, said: 'This is a receipt book, it was a sort of cross between medical and cookery recipes.
'The lady of the house would have access to the herbs so as well as doing the cooking and planning how the kitchen worked, she would also be the one making tonics and medicines for the household.
'The book was started by a Mrs Sarah Jackson - she would have been senior staff in the household - but is written in different handwriting so it was clearly passed down the generations and covers a period of just under 100 years.
'It gives us a really good snapshot of life in those times, what herbs and spices they had access to, what they were using daily, what people thought about illnesses then.
'The book has come from within a family it has been with for years and has never been sold before.
'It is in very good condition, probably one of the best ones we have had.
'It's in a very pretty binding - normally they are falling apart because they are so used in the kitchen.
The recipe book will be sold in London tomorrow.
Born Hannah Allgood in March 1708 in St Andrews, Holborn in London, Hannah went on to marry an Irish soldier called John Glasse in August 1724. After holding positions in the household of the 4th Earl of Donegall at Broomfield in Essex, it seems they lived in London and are thought to have had 11 children.
The historian Madeline Hope Dodds discovered Hannah Glasse as the author of one of the most popular 18th century cookery books, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, in 1938. The book did not reveal its author and the cover used a vague statement that read 'By a Lady'.
In 1747, the same year that Hannah's husband John died, the book was published and she went on to partner with her eldest daughter Margaret to become a dressmaker in Tavistock Street in Covent Garden, London.
A few years later, she became bankrupt and she was forced to auction the copyright for The Art of Cookery. The London Gazette revealed that she would be discharged from bankruptcy and later, she and her brother Lancelot repaid £500 that they had borrowed from a Sir Henry Bedingfield.
Hannah died on September 1, 1770 at the age of 62.


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The first ever physical release of musical segments from the popular podcast Live From High Fidelity, which finds vinyl obsessives Tom DeSavia and Eric Gorfain talking about recent finds and wish lists. The translucent green vinyl features some of the best of the musical guests who have been recorded Live From High Fidelity.
SIDE ONE: "Wonderful To Be In A Record Store"--Van Dyke Parks, "See America"--Grant-Lee Phillips, "Broken Circle"--Rhett Miller, "Thirteen"--Jon Auer, "Kinks Shirt"--Matt Nathanson, "One Kind Favor"--Paul F. Tompkins, "Side A & Side B"--Van Dyke Parks SIDE TWO: "Way Ahead of the Curve"--Van Dyke Parks, "Untitled #1"--Josh Hayden and Matt Mayhall of Spain, "Six Feet Under"--Jon Auer, "Question"--Rhett Miller, "Can't See Straight"--Sam Phillips, "Juicebox"--The Section Quartet, "I Knew It Would End Like This"--Van Dyke Parks
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Taibah International School is a mixed day and boarding secondary school located  from Kampala in Uganda, established in 2000 by Mariam Luyombo.

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Q: Is there an easy way to convert docker-compose.yml to heroku.yml to run my Dockerfiles on seperate dynos for Heroku? I am struggling to work out what I need to do to get this up an running on Heroku.  I normally have a Procfile that has information for Heroku for the Gunicorn app for my Python build.  But as this Dockerfile has 4 containers I am guessing it would need 4 dynos.  How would I edit my Procfile or do I need a heroku.yml?
My docker-compose.yml file is:
version: '3'

services:
  frontend:
    image: frontend:0.21
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: './Docker/Dockerfile.frontend'
    ports:
      - "5000:5000"
  notification:
    image: notification:0.21
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: './Docker/Dockerfile.notification'
    ports:
      - "5002:5002"
  user:
    image: user:0.21
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: './Docker/Dockerfile.user'
    ports:
      - "5003:5003"
  stripe:
    image: stripe:0.21
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: './Docker/Dockerfile.stripe'
    ports:
      - "5004:5004"

A: The heroku.yml is an option if you have one single Web dyno (accepting HTTP requests) and multiple workers (background processes). Here is an example.
In case you want multiple Web dynos you need to create an Heroku app for each one. There is no support for docker-compose.yml so the alternative is to build/push each Dockerfile.
It might sound cumbersome but this can easily be done in CI/CD, check out this repository on Github.

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Василь Вікторович Лучик (, Михайлівка, Кельменецький район, Чернівецька область — 11 серпня 2019) — український мовознавець, етимолог, доктор філологічних наук, професор, заслужений діяч науки та техніки України, завідувач кафедри загального і слов'янського мовознавства Національного університету «Києво-Могилянська академія», провідний науковий співробітник Інституту мовознавства ім. О. О. Потебні НАН України.

Освіта
 У 1980 році закінчив філологічний факультет Чернівецького державного університету.
 З 1992 по 1995 — навчався у докторантурі при кафедрі української мови Національного педагогічного університету ім. М. Драгоманова.
 У 1995 році захистив докторську дисертацію на тему «Гідронімія Середнього Дніпро-Бузького межиріччя» зі спеціальності «Українська мова».

Творчий шлях
 1980 — 1984 — асистент кафедри російської мови Полтавського державного педагогічного інституту ім. В. Г. Короленка.
 1984 — 1992 — старший викладач, доцент кафедри філологічних дисциплін Кіровоградського державного педагогічного інституту.
 1995 — 2004 — доцент, професор, завідувач кафедри української мови Кіровоградського державного педагогічного університету імені Володимира Винниченка.
 з 2004 — професор кафедри української мови Національного університету «Києво-Могилянська академія».
 з 2008 (одночасно) — старший науковий співробітник Інституту мовознавства ім. О. О. Потебні НАН України.

Професійна активність
 1996–2002 роки. Член топонімічної комісії при Кіровоградській міській раді народних депутатів.
 1999–2004 роки. Відповідальний редактор «Наукових записок. Серія: Філологічні науки (мовознавство)» Кіровоградського державного педагогічного інституту.
 з 1999 року — член спеціалізованої вченої ради при Центральноукраїнському педуніверситеті.
 з 2001 року — член редакційної колегії науково-теоретичного журналу Інституту української мови НАН України «Українська мова».
 з 2002 року — член редакційної колегії збірника наукових праць Одеського національного університету «Записки з ономастики».
 з 2003 року — член Загальнослов'янської ономастичної комісії.
 з 2004 року — член спеціалізованої вченої ради при Харківському національному університеті ім. В. Н. Каразіна.

Публікації
 Лучик В. В. Автохтонні гідроніми Середнього Дніпро-Бузького межиріччя / Кіровоградський держ. педагогічний ін-т ім. В. К. Винниченка. — Кіровоград, 1996. — 235 с.
 Лучик В. В. Іншомовні гідроніми Середнього Дніпро-Бузького межиріччя / Кіровоградський держ. педагогічний ун-т ім. Володимира Винниченка. — Кіровоград, 1999. — 104 с.
 Лучик В. В. Вступ до слов'янської філології. Видавництво — Академія, Рік видання — 2008. Обсяг — 344 с.
 Громко Т. В., Лучик В. В., Поляруш Т. І. Словник народних географічних термінів Кіровоградщини. — Київ-Кіровоград, 1999. — 224 с.
 Лучик В. В. Етимологічний словник топонімів України / В. В. Лучик; відп. ред. В. Г. Скляренко. — К. : ВЦ «Академія», 2014. — 544 с. — ISBN 978-966-580-454-3.

Нагороди
 Заслужений діяч науки і техніки України (2015)
 Відмінник освіти України

Примітки

Джерела
 Києво-Могилянська академія
 Національна бібліотека України імені В. І. Вернадського. Відомості про авторів
 Сторінка В. В. Лучика на сайті Інституту мовознавства ім. О. О. Потебні НАН України

Українські мовознавці
Випускники Чернівецького університету
Науковці Національного університету «Києво-Могилянська академія»
Відмінники освіти України
Заслужені діячі науки і техніки України
Доктори філологічних наук України
Народились 20 жовтня
Народились 1954
Уродженці Михайлівки (Кельменецький район)
Персоналії:Кельменецький район
Українські лексикографи
Етимологи
Дослідники української мови
Науковці Інституту мовознавства ім. О. О. Потебні


Blackberries are rich in vitamin C and fiber as well as phytochemicals and flavonoids known to fight aging, cancer, and other diseases. This Super Food is low on the Glycemic Index, low calorie, and delicious!
Blackberry bushes are easy to grow. Just choose an appropriate site with plenty of sun and well-drained, moist soil. Fertilize with a balanced, slow release fertilizer in spring for best results. Prune you Blackberry plants after fruiting has stopped for optimal growth.
The Thornless Natchez Blackberry is a variety that produces loads of plump, delicious berries. The taste is the perfect blend of sweet and tart. You will love watching your children pick berries right out of your backyard. The Natchez Blackberry is pest and disease resistant as well as drought tolerant. This low maintenance blackberry is perfect for the novice gardener!


Ben Lang is the pastor here at Temple. He has a God-given burden for teenagers and a desire to teach them the Word of God.
If you are grades 6-12, join us on Thursday nights at 6:30 for our youth group meeting! It is a fun time of teaching, preaching, fun games, and snacks.
Often, Temple Baptist has a youth activity for our teenagers. If you are in grades 6-12, you are welcome to join us! A few examples of our activities are bonfires, laser tag, church takeovers, sledding, etc.


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HD36881 — подвійна зоря.
Ця подвійна система має видиму зоряну величину в смузі V приблизно 5,6.
Вона розташована на відстані близько 1462,6 світлових років від Сонця.

Подвійна зоря

Головна зоря цієї системи належить до хімічно пекулярних зір й має спектральний клас B8.
В той же час спектральний клас іншої компоненти залишається  ще не визначеним.

Пекулярний хімічний вміст

HD36881 належить до ртутно-манганових зір й її зоряна атмосфера має підвищений вміст Hg та Mn.

Див. також

 Перелік HgMn-зір
 Ртутно-манганова зоря
 Перелік хімічно пекулярних зір (4h-6h)
 Хімічно пекулярна зоря
 Перелік хімічно пекулярних зір з пониженим вмістом гелію
 Хімічно пекулярна зоря з пониженим вмістом гелію
 Перелік Am-зір
 Am-зоря

Джерела

Хімічно пекулярні зорі
Зорі головної послідовності спектрального класу B8
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It goes without saying, that there are already too many apps out there for our devices. Why would you need one to help you manage your money? That's what financial advisors are for, right? Well, for some investors, and I'm mainly referring to the younger generations, i.e. millennials, there are a myriad of slick and high tech apps available. I would disclose, however, I don't see these replacing a sound financial plan and/or successful working relationship with your current financial advisor. Perhaps these make for a complimentary or supplemental addition to your current plan. For the purpose of this discussion, we'll focus on understanding what these apps are and what they aren't?
This app allows for automated investing service via your mobile phone or tablet and gives you features available on the it's website with access to your accounts, such as your IRA.
This new type of savings app allows you to deposit small amounts of money into your savings account each time you purchase something. Usually, these amounts are the small slivers of change rounded up in the total purchase.
This is also an app that allows for small deposits of rounded up change each time you make a purchase into an account that provides an investment vehicle such as an exchange traded fund.
This app allows investors to purchase stock free of commissions or fees and for any amount.
Here is an app that allows for you to keep tabs on your personal financial situation as it links to all of your bank and financial accounts including loans and credit cards.
This is an automated investing service that allows for a hands off approach to managing your money.
This app syncs up with your bank accounts and credit cards to help you keep track and understand your money situation.
Similar to Acorn, this app stashes small amounts of spare change as you make purchases into a portfolio that you designate.
This is an online bank to help you manage your budget, transactions and live within your means.


Nordic highlights from June 2018.
June 2018 in the Nordics marks the same slower investment pace as the average of the first five months of the year.
- We recorded 83 investments for the month of June, 10 less than the 93 deal number from our database in the same month of the previous year. As expected, Sweden was in the front seat, with 41 deals.
- All in all, the first half of 2018 had a 20% decrease in the number of investments, 438 compared to 546 from the first half of 2017.
- The absolute value however was higher in 2018, due to the increased dealflow of the later stages investment deals - 1.88bn vs 1.55bn. Even more, first half of 2018 saw almost double the number of $20M+ investments versus previous year (18 vs 10) with a delta of almost $300M.
- Interestingly enough, going even deeper in the past years, the number of deals in Q1+Q2 2018 was even lower than the activity in the first half of 2016, even though the money spent for investments is $1bn higher this year. Some of the investments from previous years started to mature and need scale money.
- getting back to the month of June 2018, half of the dealflow, 44 transactions, was between 500k and 5M, 28 of which were in the 1-5M bracket. 15 investments had undisclosed amounts.
- top of the table: Kry ($66M), Gelato Group ($20M), On Robot ($15.6M), Goodbye Kansas ($12M), Azelio ($11.4M), Bynk ($11.2M).
- most active investors: Creandum, Collector Ventures, Luminar, Icebreaker, E14 Invest and a foreigner - Index Ventures (Kry - $66M and Rebtel - $8M). Each with announced 2 announced investments.
- there was no angel with more than one investment announced for the June 2018.
As always, we have plenty of interesting data points, tables and graphs available here.


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Gravestones, Swastikas, Memorial Day and Hypocrisy
As we approach Memorial Day, dedicated to honoring those that have fallen in service to our nation, we should not only honor their heroism and mourn their loss, but also consider how we should think about our past enemies. Such a discussion is playing out now as a member of Congress, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), and others appeal to the Veterans' Administration to replace or remove swastika-inscribed headstones from the graves of former World War II German POWs that passed away on American soil and are now buried in taxpayer-supported, national VA cemeteries, alongside American service members who fought fascism and the toxic, racist, genocidal Nazi ideology and war machine.
Many have written to us expressing the argument that the Nazi swastikas should stand, for solely historical reasons or to "honor" these soldiers, with one of the more civil responses being along the lines of: "These soldiers served their country whether willingly or not, they may have felt that what they were doing was right, just as we have felt that many of our choices were right, even when they turned out to be wrong."
Another said that "Those headstones were placed to honor those 3 men."
I don't see it that way – at least not on American soil.
First, we have no obligation to "honor" deceased members of the enemy – only to respect them in a humane manner (i.e., to not dishonor them or desecrate their remains). While I understand that they (in some way) served and died for the Nazi symbol depicted on their tombstone (and the textual homages to Hitler, the Third Reich, and the supporting German people it represented during the war), that still doesn't mean that we should somehow perpetuate that hateful symbol – a symbol now banned in these own soldiers' homeland.
To follow the argument of those who would honor the symbols of our enemies, let's consider an example. Should we then have assembled the remains (if possible) of one or more of the 9/11 terrorists (or any other Al Qaeda terrorist deceased on American soil) and placed them in a VA cemetery with an Al Qaeda (or ISIS) emblem or banner on their headstone because that's what they fought and died for? Next to the graves of real American heroes who fought against them? Then what about the body of Osama bin Laden himself (since we had his body)? No. We chose to dispose of his body into the ocean. As far as I know it wasn't desecrated, but it also wasn't placed among those we honor on Memorial Day. Should the body of a terrorist (treated as a POW or enemy combatant) who might die awaiting trial at Guantanamo Bay be buried in one of our VA cemeteries? Again, the answer is clear.
I concede that in any war, many or even most simple soldiers may be forced to the front lines without fully embracing the ideology for which their leaders send them into battle. However, be they foot soldiers or senior officers, if they were fighting under the Nazi Swastika, they were effectively enemy racists responsible for the most hideous genocide and destruction of the century, millennium, or all of history. To "honor" their service by putting that hateful symbol and accompanying text among the graves of our heroes (especially our heroes of Jewish descent!) is simply wrong and disgraceful.
This treatment also raises other ugly questions about our own racist past when we consider the treatment of these German POWs. Our domestic WWII history is littered with examples of hundreds of German POW camps in the US in which these same prisoners were allowed to attend civilian churches in ethnic-German communities while German officers were hosted for "teas" with the local ladies and prison staff.
I'm not advocating any undue harshness or cruelty for POWs from any nation. But, we should also consider that while we were "honoring" the service of these German POWs to their Swastika-symbolized racist state, and ultimately burying those that passed away with swastika-emblazoned headstones among our own soldiers, we were IMPRISONING fully-fledged American citizens in camps on the West Coast because of their (non-European) ethnic heritage–certainly one of the darkest and most painful scars on our nation's history. I wonder if all of our fellow American citizens of Japanese ancestry who died in our concentration camps were granted the same manicured cemetery and noble marble headstone afforded our enemy? Weren't they more deserving, in the end?
So, what should we do? Frankly, we should exhume the bodies and send the caskets and remains back to Germany to let them handle the issue. If that can't happen, then we should simply replace the headstones with ones that contain simple statements of name, rank, date, and a generic "German Soldier" or "German Prisoner" or similar statement. If that's not acceptable to the German government, then they can retrieve and repatriate the remains at their cost. None of these actions would dishonor these soldiers. Any of these actions would restore our own hallowed ground to a place where those who have fallen gallantly, and their families and fellow Americans who honor them, can reflect in peace upon that terrible conflict, consoled in knowing that they defeated Nazism–both militarily and symbolically.
Martin France
Brigadier General, USAF (Retired)
MRFF Advisory Board Member
Brig Gen (Retired) France is Professor Emeritus of Astronautics at the US Air Force Academy. He retired from the Air Force in 2018 after more than 37 years of distinguished active duty service that included assignments on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the US Air Force and Space Command Headquarters. He is a 1981 graduate of the US Air Force Academy with graduate degrees from Stanford (MS, Aeronautics & Astronautics), Virginia Tech (PhD, Engineering Science and Mechanics) and the National War College (Distinguished Graduate, MS, National Security Studies). He has served as an unofficial and official advisor to the MRFF since its original advocacy began in 2004.
Joe Cortina
Posted May 25, 2020 at 2:54 PM
Gen – people like you are disgrace to this country to God and all human decency. You are EITHER moron red-neck fundy stupid – OR just plain EVIL! Scum like you are a a disgrace to the uniform i worse WITH HONOR! Your evil irrational hatred makes you either a Christ hating jew or a jew loving Zionist. Either way – you are not fit to breathe the same air as DECENT MEN.
You tirade of hated for brave German warriors just trying to defend their OWN COUNTRY against Christ killing jews and their criminal useful toadies like the British and sadly my own misinformed CRIMINALLY ignorant imbeciles. I was traing young American sons how to defend THEIR SOIL – not demonic israHELL – before you were potty trained!
I commanded a Special Forces A team when you were still in grade school! I too have raveled extensively and was also an aerospace scientist – and am multilingual. I have also published five books concerning valuable TRUTHS about subjects VITAL to our freedoms that you are obviously totally ignorant of.
Even REAL men like Patton eventually realized that "WE FOUGHT THE WRONG PEOPLE" as he wrote his wife before he was murdered by the Godless jews who murdered him – lest he reveal the TRUTH of their evil ambitions to the world.
While with the CIA in Palestine and observed the daily murder of helpless orphans by the demonic jew scum IDF- I took an oath to God to try my best to expose EVIL wherever and wherever i Encountered it. ! After reading your diatribe of unfounded hatred for the most brave and selfless GENUINE CHRISTIAN people of Hitlers Germany- I was deeply offended by you cowardly attack on the only people in recent history that could have put an end jew-created communism and spared HUNDREDS of millions of innocent murders.
Had we sided with the brave Germans and defeated the REAL EVIL EMPIRE there would have been no VIETNAM WAR- no KOREAN WAR no 50 years of 'Cold-War' and our nation would today most probably free prosperous and more Godly and moral – being free from the endless evil fluence of the jews. There is Incostentable overwhelming evidence to support this.
ALL than any TRUE Christian needs to remember about the dangers of the universal enemy of ALL freedom loving men of good will is contained in the 44 words of JOHN-8-44. It is scum like you that are a threat to world peace. You have a sick depraved twisted elitist antiChrist hateful mind.
The Brave German people were our only hope. Hitler never wanted war with us and wanted to save Christian Europe. The only BASTARDS that WANTED DEATH AND DESTRUCTION were Godless scum like Churchill – FDR and Stalin. It would behove you to read David LLoyd George's take of Hitler and the German people in the Post Dept 23 1936.
You will come this way but once – Gen – so if you have even a spark of wisdom and goodness left in your black sould – you should consider doing GOOD- not evil and spreading TRUTH not worn out endless lies of the jews.
"and the lusts of your father ( Satan) ye WILL do".
Stop spreading LIES and HATED to mock the Lord and exuault the Satanic jews.
Joe Cortina – former Vice consul to Costa Rica – former Cmndr inf trng co. E-5 -2 – former cmdr Op Det A-32 20th SP Gp Abn – 1st SF GP – former Honeywell aerospace scientist – PADI Instructor – comm pilot – father grandfather author and giver of TRUTH


Overall my experience was excellent with Columbia Southern. I did get some useful feedback and the academic adviser was easy to work worth. I will say there was a large varying degree of instructors and the strictness in grading. One thing to pay attention to is the accreditation. CSU is a nationally accredited university and if you desire to attend a regionally accredited college there is a very good chance that the regionally accredited school will not accept your transfer request. If you start at a nationally accredited school then you will need to end at a nationally accredited school. You think it is the other way around but this is not true. I was lucky and found a regionally accredited school which accepted CSU's degree so I was able to start my Master's a few months after a graduated. The course work is definitely geared towards professionals and most of the professors were easy to work worth. I had one issue with one instructor and my adviser was very good at communicating with me. I believe CSU is always trying to improve their academic standards so hopefully they will we regionally accredited some day if not already.
My overall experience at CSU is absolutely amazing. The courses and work load is just right. The professors and student advisors a great, the LifePace Learning option (10 week flexible term) is perfect for my work schedule. The online student portal is easy to use. Nothing but the most positive things to say about CSU.
CSU is not a bad school but it does require you to educate yourself about accreditation. CSU is a nationally accredited university and if you desire to attend a regionally accredited college there is a very good chance that the regionally accredited school will not accept your transfer request. If you start at a nationally accredited school then you will need to end at a nationally accredited school. Now, with that said there are some rare exceptions as it is up to each individual regionally accredited school to decide for themselves if they will or will not accept your transfer credit. I have transferred my CSU credit to my local regionally accredited Community College (one declined, the other accepted) in which they accepted a full years worth of credit, and once I earned my BS Degree in Criminal Justice from CSU I was able to enroll in a masters program with a regionally accredited University (CSU's sister institution Waldorf University, but from what I have read it seems they will accept CSU Degrees but not individual courses). It is however up to you to know the difference in accreditation and then be willing to shop around to find a school that will accept your credit should you decide to change from Nationally to Regionally Accredited institutions. I do hope this information helps you to be more informed as you decide as to which institution of learning you wish to attend.
There are many, many choice of online education providers. Having said that, this institution may not be for you and here's why. Many of the professors have no idea about the course curriculum. I have called several professors during their office hours to discuss the unit topics. Not once did I receive anything in the way of direction, insight or even a glimmer of knowledge. I wasn't looking for an answer, just clarification. One Fire Science professor I called was intoxicated and couldn't even discuss the topic. He wanted to know about my life goals and offered loan forgiveness advice that wasn't applicable. Another Criminal Justice professor wanted to brag about being a court expert and published. Again, he offered his resume and not clarification on the subject at hand. The academic advisers are some of the worst available. They will offer classes that do not correspond to your degree action plan, return emails/calls in a few days and are generally not helpful. You actually need to take charge of your own degree program and tell the advisers that you will be taking certain classes and in the order of your choosing, otherwise they will enroll you in classes that will not count and you will have to pay for them. Overall experience, not impressive. I went on to earn my Master's from another institution.
I have enjoyed my time at CSU. I am actually going to work towards my Masters degree with them as well. Don't get me wrong, there were times where I just wanted to walk away from my studies due to a professor not doing, what I felt, was right. 98% of my professors were awesome! I would recommend CSU to anyone interested in furthering their education. There is lots of reading, writing, and research so just prepared to work. The staff has been nothing but helpful and I look forward to working with them. FYI, CSU is a little slow on the disbursement of funds; I did not depend on them. Whenever they came it was just like a small treat in my bank account. Again, I have nothing negative to say!
Columbia Southern University isn't a degree mill. I enjoyed my tour I learned an awful lot the instructors were just awesome. The instructors were there to make sure that we understood, what they were teaching us. Most of my instructors held Doctoral Degrees, and had taught in the field well over ten years. That was a plus to me because I needed to know that they'd worked in the field of what they were teaching me, and wasn't just reading to me out of their textbook. I was an adult learner so I really wanted them to be older than me, that way I was sure to know they would have knowledge. About 98% of my instructors were much older than I was. This is an excellent university!!! There were times when I needed extra help in several of my courses I would drive over to the university, and someone was always there willing and able to assist me. In several of my courses I had midterms also finals that needed a proctor, I would drive over to the university and be proctored I live about 45 minutes away from the university. So for those who are interested in attending Columbia Southern University just do it (smile). The books and materials are shipped to your home most times about two weeks before your course starts, all of your books and material are brand new. Oh the books are your to keep after your course is over. Your refunds are sent out in a timely manner. So please don't believe all of the lies that others write about this university.


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As COVID overwhelms health departments, some scale back on contact tracing
Side Effects Public Media | By Steph Whiteside
Some people say they've gotten little guidance after testing positive.
After Jamie White tested positive for COVID-19 on Dec. 28, she didn't receive any information on what to do for a full week.
"When I tried to reach the health department, I was told they're no longer doing contact tracing and was given a phone number to call," said White, who lives in southern Illinois' Williamson County. "But that number never picks up."
It's a stark contrast to the experience of her husband and oldest son, who tested positive just two days earlier, on Dec. 26. They were quickly connected with a contact tracer, who confirmed the positive result and sent paperwork spelling out the length of isolation and their release date.
Communities across the U.S. are reporting record numbers of new coronavirus cases as the highly transmissible omicron variant continues to spread.
While the highly transmissible variant appears to be more mild than previous strains, it's still overwhelming hospitals — and local health departments tasked with contact tracing to prevent the spread of the virus.
"At the level of cases we're seeing right now, contact tracing does become very difficult, if not impossible to do," said Bart Hagston, administrator with Jackson County Health Department in southern Illinois.
Throughout the pandemic, efforts to identify and quarantine close contacts have varied from state to state. By the summer of 2021, many states had begun winding down contact tracing programs they scrambled to grow the prior year, according to a survey of health departments conducted by NPR and Johns Hopkins.
"At the level of cases we're seeing right now, contact tracing does become very difficult, if not impossible to do."
Bart Hagston, public health administrator
More recently, several states, including Michigan, New York and Vermont, announced reductions in contact tracing efforts due to lack of resources and an overwhelming number of new daily cases. In Illinois, where more than 200,000 cases are being reported each week, the state is taking over contact tracing efforts and will prioritize high-risk cases involving people 65 and older. The move aims to relieve the burden on local health departments.
While that transition takes place, some residents say they aren't getting any guidance from anyone and that the work of contacting people that may have been exposed to COVID-19 is being left to those testing positive.
White said when she finally did get contacted by public health officials following her positive test, no one asked her who she'd been in contact with before she got sick. The link she was sent told her to notify close contacts herself.
"It was just, 'please inform anyone you have had contact with.' So, kind of the honor system, so to speak," she said.
White said she reached out to her close contacts — and her family played it safe, staying home for the full isolation period. But she worries not everyone will do the same.
"The more frustrating part is knowing that no one is receiving any guidance right now," White said. "It just seems like it isn't very helpful … like this is kind of a time when maybe it would be really good to have guidance because everyone is testing positive and nobody's really sure what to do."
Several factors are causing 'a pretty big mess'
Jeremy Rosene's son also got COVID over the Christmas holiday. Like White, he said the experience was very different from when he tested positive for the coronavirus in 2020.
"I was bombarded," Rosene said. "I remember getting multiple phone calls from the health department, different people contacting me, not realizing others had already done so … which is a stark contrast from what we've experienced recently, where I can't get a hold of anyone, even when I'm the one making the effort."
The recent change in isolation and quarantine guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also increased confusion.
Meagan Jarrett said when she and her kids tested positive in late December, all she got at first was an automated text message.
"This is kind of a time when maybe it would be really good to have guidance because everyone is testing positive and nobody's really sure what to do."
Jamie White, southern Illinois resident
"We just had a link to the website and then the phone number, that's the generic phone number to the state that they give out the website that said if you needed further guidance to contact your physician," said Jarrett, who lives in southern Illinois' Jackson County.
While the CDC has shortened isolation to five days, Jarrett said her children's school was still requiring a 10-day period of isolation. She said the Jackson County Health Department did contact her eventually — a week after her positive test.
Jarrett said she has also been unable to get documentation to prove that she was instructed by public health officials to isolate at home and miss work.
"I have to have documentation for work; the kids have to have documentation for school. You know, if I don't have documentation, I can lose a job," she said. "It's a terrifying, terrifying thought. I'm the sole breadwinner of the household."
The Jackson County Health Department announced on Facebook in December that it is no longer providing letters of documentation. And Jarrett and others said they have been unable to get that documentation they need from the state or their physicians.
"Some employers are not understanding, even when people are actually sick," she said. "What worries me is people could lose their livelihoods over this."
The Illinois Department of Public Health said in an email that the surge in cases has made it difficult to circle back and issue release papers. But the agency expects people to follow the CDC's latest isolation guidance.
Hagston, with the Jackson County Health Department, said right now, several recent developments are creating a perfect storm.
"The giant spike in cases of COVID, the state centralizing the contact tracing, the CDC changing the isolation and quarantine guidance, and testing, especially access to home tests, not being what it needs to be right now," Hagston said. "So you've got all these factors converging right now and making a pretty big mess, quite frankly."
The changing guidance and protocols are confusing, even for some who work in health care.
Hannah Howell said she struggled to make sense of the information posted on the Illinois Department of Public Health's website, despite being a registered nurse. Howell, who is studying for a master's degree in nursing, worries it will be a lot more difficult for people without medical training.
"I don't think that people are going to understand the instructions, but I also don't think a lot of people care," Howell said. "There's so much pressure to get back to work. [And] we live in a society right now where opinions and beliefs are more valid than actual facts and scientific fact."
This story comes from a reporting collaboration that includes WSIU and Side Effects Public Media — a public health news initiative based at WFYI. Follow Steph on Twitter: @stephgwhiteside.
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Valuable experience
Published 8:45 pm Thursday, July 22, 2010
By andrewgiermak
Eleven games in four days against travel softball squads from all over the nation certainly meant the Virginia Skyliners got their fill of excellent competition last week at the Cat Osterman Experience in Bellevue, Neb.
There was more to the trip than winning and losing though, even considering the Skyliners played very well and finished with a 6-3-2 record.
The Skyliners, a 16-and-under team made up of players from Suffolk, Franklin and Southampton County, got to play in the second youth tournament at the brand-new, Olympic-level complex that includes everything from the U.S. Girls Softball Hall of Fame to dorms or "team clubhouses" for all visiting teams, for this tournament there were 34 16-and-under teams, to stay in on site.
"We had the chance to interact with many of the other teams from all around the country," said Skyliner co-head coach Mike Matthews. "Hopefully the girls have made friends they'll keep in contact with through e-mail and text messages and all of that."
"It was well worth all the effort and fundraising it took to get there. It was such a great experience. I'd recommend it to any local teams thinking of going in the future," Matthews said.
On the field, the Skyliners started slowly, with two losses and a tie on the first day of the tournament. The Skyliners rebounded to go 3-0-1 on Wednesday and Thursday and nearly make it into the Gold, or championship, bracket.
The whole bracket phase of the tournament was played Friday and the Skyliners were nearly out of it right away. Playing the host team from Bellevue, a team the Skyliners defeated during pool play, the Skyliners rallied from a 5-0 deficit in the second inning to win 9-5.
The Skyliners kept going to make it three straight wins before falling in the championship game of the Silver bracket.
"It was pretty much a softball paradise once we started playing," Matthews said.
The Hall of Fame Fields at the Cat Osterman Experience is still a work in progress. Recent flooding along the nearby Missouri River pushed back some of the construction, said Matthews.
"But they did a tremendous job. There were some plan Bs in effect, but there were still more than enough activities off the field," Matthews said. "If it's possible, I intend to bring another team back in two or three years. They have plans to expand the facility to include more, more than even what they have on the Web site."
The amenities listed on the facility's site include "mist cooled dugouts", an outdoor movie theater and water slides.
With a non-stop schedule of practices and tournaments since March, then the week in Nebraska, the Skyliners are taking about a month before returning to action for the busy fall portion of the travel softball circuit.
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Lee Dong Gun In Talks To Return To Big Screen After 13 Years Away
Lee Dong Gun could soon be back on the big screen, for the first time in 13 years.
On May 28, Star News reported that Lee Dong Gun has been cast in the upcoming film "Come Back Home" (working title). The movie tells the story of a man who is searching for his kidnapped child. The character is described as someone who became the head of a household at a young age.
It was reported earlier this year by the same outlet that Kim Young Kwang had been cast in the role of the man who is searching for his child, although the report was not confirmed by his agency. The May 28 report from Star News states that Lee Dong Gun and Kim Young Kwang will be playing two characters that face off in the film.
Later that day, FNC Entertainment told MyDaily, "Lee Dong Gun has received an offer for the film 'Come Back Home' and he's in talks." They clarified, "It's not currently at a stage where we could say whether or not he'll be acting in the film."
If Lee Dong Gun does take the role, this will be his first film to hit theaters since the 2007 movie "Love Now." He filmed a Korean-Chinese movie titled "Encounter" in 2015 with T-ara's Jiyeon, but it was not released in theaters.
"Come Back Home" is directed by Kim Tae Yong, who has created films including "Set Me Free" and "Misbehavior." It's planned to begin filming this summer.
The news about Lee Dong Gun considering this role came on the same day as the announcement of his divorce after three years of marriage to Jo Yoon Hee.
Lee Dong Gun's recent dramas have included "Sketch," "Where Stars Land," "Angel's Last Mission: Love," and "Leverage."
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East Cleveland man becomes doctor after 25 years of owning his own auto repair business
By: Frank Wiley
After over two decades of fixing cars at the auto repairs business he owned, Carl Allamby traded his wrench for a stethoscope, and now he fixes people as a doctor.
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — After over two decades of fixing cars at the auto repairs business he owned, Carl Allamby traded his wrench for a stethoscope, and now he fixes people as a doctor.
"There wasn't much economic opportunity where I grew up," Allamby said. "Nothing's given — everything's earned."
Allamby owned his own business: a garage in East Cleveland that he said started as a one-man shop.
"I owned an auto repair business for the past 25 years; started it almost right out of high school," Allamby said.
To grow his business, he decided he needed a business degree. But it was a different type of required course that caught his attention.
"I figured, what do I need biology for? I'm a business major," he said.
The class changed his life.
"It was magnetic," Allamby said. "I think it was during the first hour of class I said, 'This is it! I need to go into medicine!"
Allamby ran the shop during the day and tended to his family. At night, he sat in classes.
"Thirteen years in total that I was in school," he said.
Allamby walked across Cleveland State's stage as a graduate back in May.
The day I closed my shop was one of the best days of my life," he said.
Now, Allamby specializes in emergency medicine at Akron General.
He's accomplished an amazing feat, not just through his transformative career change. A 2012 study found fewer than 4% of practicing physicians in this country are black.
This story is part of A Better Land , an ongoing series that investigates Northeast Ohio's deep-seated systemic problems. Additionally, it puts a spotlight on the community heroes fighting for positive change in Cleveland and throughout the region. If you have an idea for A Better Land story, tell us here .


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Blue Ridge 2020: an Owner's Manual
University of North Carolina Press 1999
The mountain chain known as the Blue Ridge traces a 550-mile arc through Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia. Along the way, it encompasses Shenandoah National Park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Blue Ridge Parkway, seven national forests, numerous federal wilderness areas and state parks, and parts of the Appalachian Trail. It is the largest concentration of public lands east of the Mississippi and home to an astonishing diversity of plant and animal life. But as the most extensive natural area in the increasingly populous Southeast, the Blue Ridge ecosystem faces unique challenges in the next decades.
Drawing on scientific research in a variety of disciplines, journalist Steve Nash provides a clear and evenhanded introduction to some of the most hotly disputed environmental issues facing the Blue Ridge, including the invasion of exotic plants and insects, the explosive growth of suburban-style communities in natural areas, worsening air and water pollution, and the erratic management of national forests. Informative and highly readable, Blue Ridge 2020 takes a hard look at what is at risk in these mountains and what we?as the "owners" of the public lands?must do if we intend to preserve their future.
Nash (journalism, Univ. of Richmond) provides a fascinating account of the economic and ecological forces shaping the Blue Ridge, a segment of the Appalachian Mountains running from Pennsylvania to Georgia. Much of the region is protected in national parks and other wilderness areas, but Nash demonstrates the pervasive negative influence of human activity on plants and animals even in remote areas. Acid rain, pollution, alien species and pests, suburban development, logging, and road building all stress the environment. Nash shows how changes in the forest, such as the loss of chestnut and hemlock trees, have ripple effects that threaten other species like the minuscule moss spider. Nash does have reason to hope, including efforts to find disease-resistant trees to reforest damaged areas, policy initiatives to control growth and pollution, and efforts by local citizens to fight industries that damage the environment. Highly recommended for libraries in the region and for larger environmental collections elsewhere. Library Journal
The Blue Ridge Mountains run 500 miles from Pennsylvania to Georgia and take in some of the eastern United States' wildest country, including seven national parks and many state parks and wilderness areas. The mountain chain also embraces, environmental journalist Steve Nash writes, 29 species of snakes, 70 species of mammals, more than 200 species of birds, 70 species of fish, 1400 species of flowering plants, and more than 130 species of trees--almost as many as can be found in all of Europe. The richness is astonishing, but also, Nash writes, seemingly unappreciated, for the Blue Ridge is now under threat from industrial, commercial, and residential development, with acid rain and other hazards affecting its many ecosystems. Guiding his readers through many scenarios on how these environmental problems might best be lessened, Nash points out that conflicting scientific data lends an "illusion of precision" to the idea, on one hand, that nature will automatically right itself or, on the other hand, that catastrophic change is irreversible. Neither case, he suggests, is strictly true, and he invites his readers to participate in the business of developing a vision for the Blue Ridge's sustainable future. Residents of the region and students of regional planning alike will find Nash's book to be of much interest. --Gregory McNamee
A thorough and clear-eyed examination of this most precious and majestic resource. Greensboro News and Record


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Via Publishers Lunch: Amazon.com and Penguin Group will sponsor a second Breakthrough Novel Award in 2009. (Hewlett-Packard, a co-sponsor of the previous award, will not return.) Here's the announcement on the Penguin website.
Once again, the winner will be published by Penguin, with an advance of $25,000, as long as he or she is willing to sign a non-negotiable publishing contract within 7 days of receiving notification of his/her win. Finalists receive an expense-paid trip to Seattle for the awards ceremony, and semi-finalists receive a review from PW (all prizes are described here). As before, only Amazon customers will be allowed to post reviews of contestants' entries.
There are some procedural changes, presumably as a result of issues encountered during last year's contest. Up to 10,000 entries will be allowed (double last year's 5,000), with 2,000 of these selected by "expert reviewers from Amazon" based on their pitch statements (a 300-word summary of the book--kind of like a query letter on steroids). 500 will be chosen as quarter-finalists by "Amazon Editors and Amazon Vine Reviewers" based on a review of 3,000-5,000 word excerpts (last year, the contest went directly to semi-finals, with 1,000 semi-finalists chosen). The quarter-finalists' excerpts will be displayed on Amazon for review and comment, and reviewed by PW (half the number of reviews PW provided last year).
Penguin editors will then winnow the quarter-finalists down to 100 semi-finalists, of which 3 will be selected as finalists (last year, there were 10 finalists). Finalists will receive detailed reviews of their manuscripts from an expert panel of authors, editors, and agents. Popular vote will determine the winner. (For full info, see the contest FAQ, and also the official contest rules).
I blogged twice about the Award last October. My reservations about people's choice-style awards for literature remain unchanged, with the additional proviso that entrants can expect to be spammed by Amazon with come-ons for its CreateSpace self-publishing service (to enter, you must first register with CreateSpace). That said, this is a solid competition with a worthwhile prize--and possible fringe benefits, as Penguin offered contracts not just to last year's winner, but to four of the finalists. Also, unlike many contests, the Breakthrough Novel Award doesn't tie your manuscript up in exclusive submission for a huge amount of time.
In fact, those possible fringe benefits may be the main reason to enter the contest. Last year's winner, Bill Loehfelm, was announced in early April, and his book was rushed to market, coming out just four months later, in August. A rush to publication isn't such a great thing; as frustrated as writers sometimes get with the year or more that elapses between contract signing and publication, there are good reasons for that long lead time. For the four finalists, whose books are due in 2009 and 2010, Penguin allowed a more normal timeline, making possible not just a more leisurely editing process, but also the important pre-book marketing that plays such a vital role in books' success. In my opinion, they got the better deal.
Thanks for the essay on the long lead time between signing a contract and getting published. It makes sense now.
Thanks for the heads up, Victoria. I made it to the first round last year. Never one to sit back, I'll try again next year.


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Ocean heat content
Indicator Assessment
Prod-ID: IND-350-en
Also known as: CLIM 044
Published 20 Nov 2012 Last modified 11 May 2021
Topics: Climate change adaptation Water and marine environment
This page was archived on 01 Aug 2014 with reason: Other (New version data-and-maps/indicators/ocean-heat-content/assessment-1 was published)
The warming of the World Ocean accounts for approximately 93 % of the warming of the Earth system during the last 6 decades.
An increasing trend in the heat content in the uppermost 700 m depth of the World Ocean is evident over the last 6 decades. Recent observations show substantial warming also of the deeper ocean (between 700 m and 2 000 m depth).
Further warming of the oceans is expected with projected climate change, but quantitative projections of ocean heat content are not available.
Ocean heat content calculated based on observations made in the upper 700 m of the water column
Note: Ocean heat content is defined as the integrated temperature change times the density of seawater, times specific heat capacity from the surface down to the deep ocean.
Data provenance info is missing.
Downloads and more info
Past trends
The warming of the World Ocean accounts for approximately 90 % of the warming of the Earth during the last 6 decades [i].
Figure 1 shows that the heat content of the World Ocean has increased since around 1970. The linear trend over the whole time series 1955–2010 of the uppermost 700 m and 2 000 m layer was 0.27 Wm-2 and 0.39 Wm-2 (per unit area of the World Ocean), respectively. Two thirds of the observed increase of global heat content has occurred in the upper 700 m of the ocean, with increases in the layers below 700 m depth accounting for the remaining one third [ii]. Heat content has increased in all major sea basins of the World Ocean, in particular in the Atlantic Ocean.
Several global ocean data assimilation products are available to compare observation-based estimates with independent reanalysis data. Global and basin-scale heat content warming trends in the upper 700 m of the ocean computed from a set of global ocean reanalyses fall within the range of the most recent observation-based estimates derived using different methods [iii].
Projections of OHC are very uncertain and are hence not included here.
[i] John A. Church et al., "Revisiting the Earth's sea-level and energy budgets from 1961 to 2008", Geophysical Research Letters 38, Nr. 18 (September 16, 2011), doi:10.1029/2011GL048794; J. Hansen et al., "Earth's energy imbalance and implications", Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 11, Nr. 24 (Dezember 22, 2011): 13421–13449, doi:10.5194/acp-11-13421-2011; S. Levitus et al., "World ocean heat content and thermosteric sea level change (0–2000 m), 1955–2010", Geophysical Research Letters 39, Nr. 10 (Mai 17, 2012), doi:10.1029/2012GL051106.
[ii] J.E. Dore et al., "Physical and biogeochemical modulation of ocean acidification in the central North Pacific", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (2009): 12235–12240., doi:10.1073/pnas.0906044106; S. Levitus u. a., "Global ocean heat content 1955–2008 in light of recently revealed instrumentation problems", Geophysical Research Letters 36, Nr. 7 (April 11, 2009), doi:10.1029/2008GL037155; Levitus et al., "World ocean heat content and thermosteric sea level change (0–2000 m), 1955–2010"; Sarah G. Purkey and Gregory C. Johnson, "Warming of global abyssal and deep southern ocean waters between the 1990s and 2000s: Contributions to global heat and sea level rise budgets", Journal of Climate 23, Nr. 23 (Dezember 2010): 6336–6351, doi:10.1175/2010JCLI3682.1.
[iii] John M. Lyman et al., "Robust warming of the global upper ocean", Nature 465, Nr. 7296 (Mai 2010): 334–337, doi:10.1038/nature09043; Simona Masina u. a., "Global ocean re-analyses for climate applications", Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans 52, Nr. 1–2 (September 2011): 341–366, doi:10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2011.03.006.
Indicator definition
Observed change in global ocean heat content
Ocean heat content (Joule)
Justification for indicator selection
The World Ocean is the dominant component of the Earth's heat balance. Oceans cover roughly 72 % of the planet's surface, and water has a heat uptake capacity that is around 20 times greater than that of the atmosphere. Most of the total warming caused by climate change is manifested in increased ocean heat content (OHC). Hence, a precise estimate of OHC is essential for understanding the role of oceans in past climate change, and for assessing future climate change. OHC is defined as the integrated temperature change times the density of sea water, times specific heat capacity from the surface down to the deep ocean. In other words, OHC is an anomaly calculated in comparison to a reference period. OHC is estimated based on temperature measurements or on reanalyses using a combination of models and observations.
Changes in heat content cause the ocean to expand or contract, thereby changing sea level regionally and globally. This thermosteric effect has contributed about one quarter to global sea-level rise since 1993.
IPCC, 2013. Climate Change: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change[Stocker, T.F., D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor, S.K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, 1535 pp.
Policy context and targets
Context description
In April 2013 the European Commission presented the EU Adaptation Strategy Package (http://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/adaptation/what/documentation_en.htm). This package consists of the EU Strategy on adaptation to climate change /* COM/2013/0216 final */ and a number of supporting documents. One of the objectives of the EU Adaptation Strategy is Better informed decision-making, which should occur through Bridging the knowledge gap and Further developing Climate-ADAPT as the 'one-stop shop' for adaptation information in Europe. Further objectives include Promoting action by Member States and Climate-proofing EU action: promoting adaptation in key vulnerable sectors. Many EU Member States have already taken action, such as by adopting national adaptation strategies, and several have also prepared action plans on climate change adaptation.
The European Commission and the European Environment Agency have developed the European Climate Adaptation Platform (Climate-ADAPT, http://climate-adapt.eea.europa.eu/) to share knowledge on observed and projected climate change and its impacts on environmental and social systems and on human health; on relevant research; on EU, national and subnational adaptation strategies and plans; and on adaptation case studies.
No targets have been specified.
Related policy documents
Climate-ADAPT: Adaptation in EU policy sectors
Overview of EU sector policies in which mainstreaming of adaptation to climate change is ongoing or explored
Climate-ADAPT: Country profiles
Overview of activities of EEA member countries in preparing, developing and implementing adaptation strategies
DG CLIMA: Adaptation to climate change
Adaptation means anticipating the adverse effects of climate change and taking appropriate action to prevent or minimise the damage they can cause, or taking advantage of opportunities that may arise. It has been shown that well planned, early adaptation action saves money and lives in the future. This web portal provides information on all adaptation activities of the European Commission.
EU Adaptation Strategy Package
In April 2013, the European Commission adopted an EU strategy on adaptation to climate change, which has been welcomed by the EU Member States. The strategy aims to make Europe more climate-resilient. By taking a coherent approach and providing for improved coordination, it enhances the preparedness and capacity of all governance levels to respond to the impacts of climate change.
Methodology for indicator calculation
Ocean heat content is defined as the integrated temperature change times the density of seawater, times specific heat capacity from the surface down to the deep ocean. It is calculated here base on observations from the upper 700 metres of ocean water.
The warming of the world ocean since 1955 is estimated using different kinds of observational data: historical data not previously available, additional modern data, correcting for instrumental biases of bathythermograph data, and correcting or excluding some Argo float data.
Methodology for gap filling
Methodology references
Levitus et al. 2012: World ocean heat content and thermosteric sea level change (0–2000 m), 1955–2010 S. Levitus, J. I. Antonov, T. P. Boyer, O. K. Baranova, H. E. Garcia, R. A. Locarnini, A. V. Mishonov, J. R. Reagan, D. Seidov, E. S. Yarosh and M. M. Zweng (2012): World ocean heat content and thermosteric sea level change (0–2000 m), 1955–2010. Geophysical Research Letters 39(10). doi:10.1029/2012GL051106
Methodology uncertainty
Data sets uncertainty
Ocean temperature data are sparse in the polar and subpolar regions of the world. In general, however, changes related to the physical and chemical marine environment are better documented than biological changes because links between cause and effect are better understood and often time series of observations are longer. For example, systematic observations of both sea-level and sea surface temperature were started around 1880 and are today complemented by observations from space that have high resolution in time and geographical coverage and by Argo floats that also automatically measure temperature and salinity below the ocean surface.
Further information on uncertainties is provided in Section 1.7 of the EEA report on Climate change, impacts, and vulnerability in Europe 2012 (http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/climate-impacts-and-vulnerability-2012/)
Rationale uncertainty
No uncertainty has been specified
Ocean heat content calculated based on observations made in the upper 700 m and 2000 m of the water column
provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
DPSIR: State
Typology: Descriptive indicator (Type A - What is happening to the environment and to humans?)
Indicator codes
CLIM 044
Frequency of updates
Updates are scheduled every 4 years
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Q: Is the set of fixed points in a non-Hausdorff space always closed? It is not hard to show that if $f: X \rightarrow X$ is a continuous map and $X$ is a Hausdorff space, then the set of fixed points is closed in $X$. We basically just look at the diagonal and consider the map $g: X \rightarrow X \times X$ defined by $g(x)=(x,f(x))$.
What happens if we drop the condition that $X$ is Hausdorff? I guess the set of fixed points is not closed anymore. What would be an example? I tried looking at the cofinite topology but didn't find an example.

A: Here is a nice example. Let $X$ be a set with $|X|>2$, and give $X$ the trivial topology (so the only open sets are $\varnothing$ and $X$). Let $a,b\in X$ be distinct points. Then the map $f:X\to X$ with $f(a)=b$, $f(b)=a$, and $f(x)=x$ for any $x\neq a,b$ has as its set of fixed points $X\setminus\{a,b\}$, which is not closed because the only closed sets are $\varnothing$ and $X$.
It is easy to see that $X$ is not Hausdorff; because the only open sets available to us are $\varnothing$ and $X$, we can't separate distinct points with disjoint open sets.


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Whoever wins, forget the 'special relationship'
|By Rory Broomfield
The policy outlooks of both Presidential candidates mean that regardless of the outcome of today's vote, the special relationship between the US and UK is set for testing times ahead, says Rory Broomfield.
Does the UK still have a special relationship with the US? Maybe. But whoever is elected US President will pose real challenges for the UK and its relationship with the US over the next four years.
"Billary" or "the Donald" – America chooses its next President today. Whatever you think of them as personalities, their policy outlooks are worrying for anything that might resemble a special relationship between the US and the UK.
Let's take Clinton. I think it's obvious: she opposed Brexit and a trade deal between the UK and the US, her establishment / statist focus means she favours dealing with the EU and she had her officials all but say the UK should remain in the EU when she was Secretary of State. With the UK leaving the EU (hopefully soon), the US should be right up there on Liam Fox's "deal list". But it's almost certain that Clinton will wish to prioritise the EU, over the UK, much to Germany's joy and the UK's annoyance.
For Trump, there are also challenges. Rod Liddle thinks that he will be better for Britain. I'm unsure. He's supposedly a big fan of Brexit (or so I'm told) and wants to make America Great Again. Though, by tearing up NAFTA and putting the mutual defence clause in NATO at risk, he puts the UK on the backfoot.
The UK wants to leave the EU and chart a free trade future. This is the start of a great opportunity that the UK has to make deals which reach double the value of the EU's agreements. However, Trump's desire to "tear up NAFTA" might very well herald a new protectionist trend between the US and other nations – even its friendliest allies like Canada and, in time, the UK.
If this is transferred onto the world stage – affecting in a protectionist way trade between other states – capitalism is in trouble.
If a Trump presidency heralds this then in the first instance the post-NAFTA arrangements will be, to coin a phrase, "front of the queue" while the UK will have to wait its turn.
Further, let's face it: China, Mexico and Russia will also be higher on the list of priorities than the UK. Trump has made no secret of his "love" – or supposed deal making prowess – with China, he wants to "build a wall" on the border with Mexico and, given his policies concerning NATO, Russia will be a ongoing, growing and possibly even immediate priority.
But the second, and arguably the most worrying aspect of his policy agenda from the UK's perspective, is Trump's desire to undermine NATO.
NATO is the cornerstone of Western defence relations. It has helped to ensure peace in Europe since its creation. If the US doesn't respect it then it will go the way of the League of Nations – and the consequences for Europe – especially Eastern Europe – could be dire. It would make the UK's role in Europe more difficult; it would make the UK's negotiations with the EU even more problematic.
With all of that though, we need to remember that the UK's relationship with the US is strong – and that Brexit can make the relationship stronger (if done correctly).
I'm no supporter of either Trump or Clinton but we should remember that our two nations have common ground in so many areas that can be built on. Whether it be finance, defence, diplomatic links or the law, whoever becomes US President I hope our Prime Minister, Theresa May, keeps the door widely open for her administration, and subsequent ones, to build on what we have with the US.
Rory Broomfield
Rory Broomfield is Director of The Freedom Association and the Better Off Out campaign. He is an authority on the EU and has written a number of books including his latest, co-authored with Iain Murray, Cutting the Gordian Knot: A Roadmap for British Exit from the European Union. He has previously worked in the City of London and in Westminster for a number of Members of Parliament, including the current Prime Minister, Theresa May; the current Chairman of the 1922 Committee, Graham Brady; and Sir Richard Shepherd.