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LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
DYNAMIC ECONOMIC IMPACT STATEMENT
83RD LEGISLATIVE REGULAR SESSION
Honorable Jim Pitts, Chair, House Committee on Appropriations
Ursula Parks, Director, Legislative Budget Board
SB1 by Williams (General Appropriations Bill.), As Engrossed
SB 1, As Engrossed (SB 1) would appropriate $195,468.3 million from All Funds sources during the 2014-15 biennium. This represents an increase of $5,580.2 million, or 2.9 percent, from the 2012-13 All Funds estimated/budgeted level. As required under House Rule 4, Section 34 (a-1), the Legislative Budget Board has analyzed the dynamic economic impact of the bill. The effects on employment, personal income, GSP, and other economic variables, assuming appropriation levels under SB 1, were analyzed using the REMI Policy Insight Model, a dynamic forecasting and policy analysis tool that applies a combination of econometric, input-output, and computable general equilibrium methodologies. The forecasted changes in several economic indicators for the state of Texas, as a result of SB 1 spending relative to a baseline scenario, are displayed in Table 1. The All-Funds appropriation levels analyzed in the model are adjusted to include Patient Income that is no longer appropriated to the health-related institutions. This $6.1 billion of income and 16,068 FTEs remains available to the institutions.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
The analysis reflects the predicted effects on the number of state employees and the impact on private sector employment as a result of the adjusted appropriation levels in SB 1 relative to a baseline scenario where 2014-15 appropriations were held constant at the 2012-13 levels. It is important to note that the numbers in the analysis are not all new jobs, rather they are changes in employment levels relative to a scenario where government spending remained constant from the 2012-13 to the 2014-15 biennium, a scenario in which the reduced employment levels would have been achieved through some combination of attrition, cancellation of intended hiring, and layoffs. The employment concept used in the table is non-farm payroll employment calculated by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics from the Current Employment Survey and differs from state FTE levels used in the General Appropriations Act. For instance, two halftime workers would be counted as 1 FTE in the GAA, but two jobs in the CES. SB 1 limits state FTEs to 218,391 in FY14 and 218,394 in FY15. Once adjusted for the patient income issue discussed above, state FTEs are increased by 1,667 when comparing 2013 to 2015, which will effectively constrain the growth in state employees relative to the figures stated below.
The increased state expenditures over the previous biennium are expected to avoid employment reductions and increase private sector employment levels by 78,400 in 2014 and 85,300 in 2015 over the no spending growth scenario, while simultaneously avoiding employment reductions and increasing state employment by 101,500 in 2014 and 102,400 in 2015 over the no spending growth scenario, subject to the caveats identified above. In addition, Table 1 displays the corresponding effect on Gross State Product, Personal Income, and inflation.
Dynamic Economic Impact, SB 1, As Engrossed
State of Texas, Calendar Year 2014-15
Level Changes
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Polo Fields, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Thacker, Gerry and Peacock, Rebecca Polo Fields, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. [Client Report] (Submitted)
OAMAPO17.pdf
During late March and early April 2017 Oxford Archaeology undertook a trial
trench evaluation on land west of Evenlode Road, Moreton-in-Marsh,
Gloucestershire, centred on SP 21442 31979. The trenches were targeted on
the results of a geophysical survey, which indicated a dense array of enclosures
and related features in the northern and western parts of the site, where the
ground was slightly higher. Trenches targeted on these anomalies revealed a
series of ditches and pits that proved to be of middle to late Iron Age date.
Although pottery was fairly sparse, fragments of fired clay may derive from
ovens or hearths and could indicate that the site was used for settlement.
Environmental samples contained the occasional charred remains of cereals
and other grains. Large geophysical anomalies proved to represent a later
phase of gravel extraction, likely to be of post-medieval date. A scattering of
other undated linear features may be the remains of a system of plough
furrows or drainage ditches.
Client Report
Oxford Archaeology South > Fieldwork
http://eprints.oxfordarchaeology.com/id/eprint/3431


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Памятник Рихарду Зорге () — памятник советскому разведчику времён Второй мировой войны, Герою Советского Союза Рихарду Зорге, расположенный в столице Азербайджана, в городе Баку, близ которого, в посёлке Сабунчи, родился разведчик. Установлен в 1981 году. Скульптор — Владимир Цигаль, архитекторы — Расим Алиев, Леонид Павлов, Ю. Дубов.

Памятник был открыт в мае 1981 года, в канун Дня Победы, в одной из аллей города (ныне — парк имени Рихарда Зорге). Сделан памятник из бронзы и гранита. Обрамляют его сосны, платаны и тутовые деревья, а рядом, в привезённую из Японии землю, было посажено вишнёвое дерево.

Сам скульптор, Владимир Цигаль говорил:

Памятник Рихарду Зорге выполнен в виде продолговатой, выгнутой формы бронзовой доски, напоминающей радарную установку, в центре которой дано рельефное изображение средней части лица Зорге с прорезанными насквозь глазами. Его сосредоточенный и изучающий взгляд словно пронизывает человека. В этом обобщённо-условном образе скульптор пытался создать символ советского разведчика.

Фотография памятника иллюстрировала статью о Цигале в Азербайджанской советской энциклопедии.

Примечания

Зорге
Здания и сооружения, построенные в 1981 году в СССР
Баку
Появились в 1981 году в Азербайджане

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I started the gardens with my family too! This is our first home and our first "real" garden so it was really nice!
Thanks for sharing the RT Goodness!
I sat on the front porch in shorts and read for a few hrs Sunday afternoon. Spring is in the air. Love it!
I baked some muffins and a banana cake last week for my family.
Well, my life doesn't have much excitement in it, lol... Last week we had to drive 2 hours to take my son to see a specialist. Afterward, we went out to lunch and took the kids to Toys R Us for being so good during the drive. Since my husband drove, I was able to get some reading in and to me - there is nothing more exciting than reading!
Welcome back, I hope you had a great time here. I know the weather wasn't the greatest, a little cooler then we are use to!
Welcome back Tracy, so glad you had a wonderful time. Last week was our firstfull week of sunshine, and I just couldn't pass up the chance to fill up my flower boxes in the backyard. Loaded them up with pansey's, petunians and cyclamen, and love that splash of color.
I made homemade soft pretzels! They cost an arm and a leg at work and I knew I could make them cheaper AND better at home!
I went to the RT Book fair, and to the Book Camp Unconference, and I got to meet you and local librarian Shayera, and both of you and me and Katie hanging out in your room talking books and authors (good and bad!).
I hate to admit I didnt do much besides rest, spent the week getting over whatever bug is going around. Looks like everyone had a great time at RT though.
Yay! So cool to see what everyone's been up to. Donna, sorry about the bug :( and elaing8, sorry about the cleaning. I so need to do that myself.
Lynda, it was great to meet you! I really enjoyed talking books with you, Katie and Shayera.
Tracey D-- I love soft pretzels. You should send me the recipe!!!!!!
Cathy, love sunshine! I'm trying to talk hub by into planting flowers in my front yard.
Blanche :( I so missed seeing you!
Paranormal Opinion, any time reading is quality time to me, too. Hope your son is doing well.
Paranormal and RS Review-- I love banana cake. My friend used to make the best, and mine just never turns out quite as good.
tetewa, we have a new grill my honey is dying to find the time to fully set up. I can't wait!
runner10: I'm so jealous. I want a front porch swing!
Yzhabella's bookshelf-- I'm planting an herb garden in the back. So much fun!
Did our first long motorcycle ride of the season.
I played in a competitive mixed-doubles badminton tournament, and we won the "B" event. That isn't bad, considering that I'm almost 52 and my partner is almost 50, and we beat out a bunch of skinny/fit players in their twenties!
I worked all weekend and missed the wonderful weather though heard about it from many customers.
Just discovered your blog! Great! :) We had fabulous spring weather here, so I was digging around in the garden (planting some new strawberries and flowers) and enjoying the sun with my family.
Lisa, I love motorcycles. So jealous!
Diane, Sorry :( If it's any consolation, I'm working for the next five weekends-- speaking engagements and tour dates until the end of May!
Dyromance-- I wish. My honey picked me up at the airport and then left an hour later for his business trip. We're ships passing in the night these days.
ClaudiGC-- Welcome! I'm glad you're here :) How fun-- I'm not much of a gardener, but I love to get outside with my boys. Usually we play football or baseball or soccer-- anything that gives them a chance to cripple or maim me for life makes them happy, LOL!
I helped my 15 year old study for his drivers test. If he passes I will need everyone's prayers. He my speed demon.
Didd't do anything fun last week, just rested up from the week before when we spent the whole week in New Orleans, so much fun.
I had a dinner with my big family :) including my mom, dad, dh, boys, my sister and her family, my aunts, uncles..many !
Tracy sounds like you had a much more exciting week than mine. My week consisted of doctor appts., picking up my presciption support hosery for my knees & ankles and checking up updates on when they are having a 50th grand opening of our Sunken Gardens, and across the street our Lincoln Children's Zoo.


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Delphix pays off – City Index increase IT app output by 20%
November 11, 2014 November 11, 2014 technuter	0 Comments Delphix, Delphix Virtual Data Platform, Iain Chidgey, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Toby Young
London, UK, November 11, 2014: Delphix, a leader in virtual data management, has announced that City Index, one of the world leaders in spread betting (UK) and contracts for difference (CFD) has implemented the Delphix Virtual Data Platform, reducing development cycle times by 75% and increasing the number of releases to the business by 20%.
Systems Integrator Verianco began discussions with City Index on how Delphix could solve a problem that was preventing their development process from realizing true agility. The City Index technology team had invested in agile practices such as continuous integration, automated testing, and fast spin up and tear down, however the sheer volume of data within the organisation was causing bottlenecks. Application development and testing worked on up to eight projects at any one time, but restoring production database copies for a single project was taking up to four hours. Multiply that out into eight projects with regular refreshes and resets and it was clear that data had become a huge problem.
"Where up-to-date data was required, development cycles were very long and demanded careful coordination between teams, not great when trying to design out dependencies", explained Toby Young, CTO of City Index. "We found ourselves having to sacrifice new innovative projects in order to prevent delivery rates from slipping."
City Index turned to Delphix for a solution. The Delphix Virtual Data Platform for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 virtualizes data in enterprise applications, governs and stores data across the application lifecycle, and delivers data on demand.
The project commenced with a three-month proof of concept (POC), which demonstrated immediate results. City Index then deployed Delphix for the entire IT team and full implementation was completed in only one month.
City Index is now cashing in on their investment. The time taken to create database copies has been reduced from four hours to just three minutes, and over thirty developers now access data via self-service, without any involvement from database or storage administrators. Project times have also been dramatically reduced. In one example a complex archiving process was rolled out in six weeks, which would have previously taken six months.
Not only did Delphix deliver in development cycles, it enabled City Index to reduce some of their infrastructure and simplify the underlying processes.
"With the speed at which data can be provisioned with Delphix and the virtual environments that we are now able to support, we could remove the shared QA environment", Young explained. "We turned to Agile to increase ITs value to the business and make it more effective. Delphix has unlocked that potential helping us increase our output to the business by 20%. The result is we can now spend much more time on innovation, which in turn drives business growth."
"Virtual data deployment is a sure bet as part of any Agile environment", said Iain Chidgey, EMEA General Manager at Delphix. "We are delighted that City Index has joined the growing number of companies using Delphix to accelerate application delivery, increase innovation and drive growth."
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Cycling groups ask for urgent clarification over 'stay local' guidance during lockdown
The government guidance on exercise has led to confusion as cyclists are unsure how far they are allowed to ride
Alex Ballinger January 14, 2021 4:48 pm
(Dan Gould)
Cycling groups have written to the government for urgent clarification over the 'stay local' guidance for exercise during the coronavirus lockdown.
The government's restrictions on daily activity have led to confusion, as many cyclists are unsure about how far they can ride while staying 'local'.
Cycling Weekly asked its riders how the government guidance had impacted their riding, with some riders saying they were anxious about riding their bikes as they were concerned about breaching the rules.
In response to the confusion, which started when Prime Minister Boris Johnson was criticised for riding his bike seven miles away from home, British Cycling and British Triathlon along with charity Cycling UK have written to the government to ask for clarification.
The letter, sent to the secretary of state for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Oliver Dowden, says: "From the correspondence we are receiving it is clear that the current confusion is largely stemming from the definition of 'local' given elsewhere in guidance on the Gov.uk website (when referring to travel), which is given as an individual's 'village, town or part of city'. When taken literally this is quite a restrictive definition, particularly for those who live in small localities or who typically undertake their exercise in quieter or greener spaces in neighbouring areas."
The letter continues: "While we acknowledge that all guidance relies on an element of common sense, our concern is that the discussion on this matter over recent days and the move by some police forces to issue fines to people undertaking daily exercise is impacting the willingness and confidence of our members and many others to get outside – at a time of year when we already know that this is more difficult for many."
The current government guidance for exercise in England says people should minimise the time spent outside of their home, but that you can leave home for exercise.
You can exercise outside by yourself, with the people you live with, with your support bubble, or with one person from another household.
But the guidance also says your exercise should be limited to once per day and you should not travel outside of your local area.
Cycling Weekly contacted the Department for Culture, Media and Sport for further guidance, but a spokesperson directed us back to the guidance published online.
The rules for Scotland say you can exercise up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area and you must start and finish in the same place.
Wales has no limits on distance, but guidance says the nearer you stay to your home, the better.
In Northern Ireland, people are advised not to go more than 10 miles from home during exercise.
The government website says: "You must not leave, or be outside of your home except where necessary. You may leave the home to: exercise with your household (or support bubble) or one other person, this should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area."
Cycling UK and British Cycling have both issued helpful guidance for cyclists throughout the pandemic, offering regular updates on the rules and advice on how to ride in a safe manner.
But the two organisations both say they have received queries from their members asking for further detail on what is allowed.
>>> 'The new rules make me anxious, expecting to be pulled over by police': Cycling Weekly readers react to government's 'stay local' advice for riding
Head of campaigns at Cycling UK, Duncan Dollimore, said: "Among the guidance is a recommendation that exercise should be limited to once per day, and that you should stay within your local area. Neither of these is a legal requirement, and nor is there any definition of 'local area' within the regulations. Therefore trying to give specific advice is impossible without applying our own interpretation to unclear guidelines."
He added: "Cycling UK is constantly being contacted by members, cyclists and groups, all keen to know how they can make sure they can obey the rules and keep others, not just themselves safe.
"The current guidance is confusing at best, with even Britain's most senior police officer, Dame Cressida Dick saying clearer guidance would be helpful. There are concerns being expressed by other senior officers about the potential for discrepancy from one force to the other.
"This is why Cycling UK is seeking clarification from the government, as ultimately this isn't just about allowing people to go cycling, but to make sure we all do our utmost to contain the virus."
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English (Übersetze diesen text in Deutsch): This dive requires special permission to be dived. Access is via bumboat or speed boat from mainland Singapore.
This dive requires special permission to be dived. Access is via bumboat or speed boat from mainland Singapore.
English (Übersetze diesen text in Deutsch): Located towards the southernmost edge of Singapore's territorial waters, Raffles Lighthouse offers clearer and deeper waters compared to other Singapore dive sites. The marine life is fairly similar to other sites, with a good range of macro subjects, butterflyfish, filefish, etc.
Located towards the southernmost edge of Singapore's territorial waters, Raffles Lighthouse offers clearer and deeper waters compared to other Singapore dive sites. The marine life is fairly similar to other sites, with a good range of macro subjects, butterflyfish, filefish, etc.
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Q: How can I set template variables from my middleware or session variable? I'm curious as to how I would set a template variable from a piece of middleware I have, this is my middleware:
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Basically how can I access a session variable inside my template?

A: The thing I did for my personal website was to add a Session helper available in my templates, and in this helper retrieve the session of the current request then check and return the requested key.
Something like that:
func render(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, name string, data interface{}) {
    t, err := template.New(name).Funcs(template.FuncMap{
        "Session": func(name string) interface{} {
            return sessions.GetSession(r).Get(name)
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    }).ParseFiles(...)
}

You can see the full version here: app/render.go

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Artists-in-Residence - Mammalian Diving Reflex
Mammalian Diving Reflex is a Toronto-based research-art atelier, lead by artistic and research director Darren O'Donnell. Social engagement is at the core of the group's practice with their focus in recent years expanding to concentrate on collaborations with local youth. Mammalian's art facilitates encounters between groups and people who would not ordinarily interact, a practice they refer to as "social acupuncture."
Since 2005 Mammalian Diving Reflex has partnered with a group of approximately 15 Parkdale-based youth. Known as the Torontonians, this group of young people have grown up collaborating with Mammalian Diving Reflex. O'Donnell and the rest of the team have used their years of experience collaborating with the Torontonians to develop the Mammalian Protocol for Collaborating with Children. This set of guidelines for collaborations between youth and institutions recognizes children as rights-holders. In 2012 the Mammalian Protocol received the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of the Child Award.
Mammalian Diving Reflex's work for the AGO is entitled The AGO Youth Receptiveness Assessment Initiative. This project assessed the Gallery based on youth-engagement principles designed by Mammalian. The initiative's aim was to examine "the openness of the AGO to unusual and innovative ways of including and engaging youth." Mammalian intended this project to foster friendships between local youth and AGO staff, transcending the bureaucratic structure that often divides these two groups. Mammalian Diving Reflex worked in collaboration with the Torontonians, and the AGO Youth Council. This team developed a series of research questions and designed a series of research moments in advance of the residency, which they used to conduct interviews with AGO staff and local community members. Mammalian Diving Reflex then presented their findings in a report presented to the AGO and the public.
Energy Dispersion for the Attraction of Good Spirits (2014) began Mammalian Diving Reflex's process of engaging the local community for their residency work. Undertaken in advance of their residency, Young Mammals Director, Annie Wong, coordinated this Tai Chi performance held throughout the AGO galleries. Planned to coincide with Toronto's Fourteenth Annual Chinatown Festival – July 19 and 20, 2014 – one goal of the project was for the collective to strengthen ties with AGO's neighbourhood. Over 30 performers from four local Tai Chi groups performed. The four groups practiced simultaneously in various galleries, allowing visitors to encounter multiple Tai Chi performance styles. The project was intended to invite good spirits into the AGO in order to integrate the energies of the neighbourhood with the building's energy.
In the McEwen Gallery from Wednesday, December 3, 2014 to February 8, 2015, Mammalian Diving Reflex presented a selection of recent video works including High School Health (2014), and Sleeping with Family (2014). Other public programs presented by Mammalian Diving Reflex included: Dare Night, Security Guards Just Want to Give You a High Five, What a drag, Counting Chickens, and A Very Basic Introduction to QCA.
Several Mammalians turned 19 during the residency. Celebrations abounded in January!
Chozin Drinks a Beer!
6:30 – 8:30pm
Galleria Italia, Art Gallery of Ontario
Tenzin Chozin started working with Mammalian Diving Reflex in the summer of 2010, at the age of 14, and is one of the first Torontonians, a group of Parkdale youths Mammalian Diving Reflex works with to create performance, video and other cultural products, devise mentorship programs and build a network of artists, arts organizations and young people across the city. He has collaborated with Mammalian on over 20 projects, including Nightwalks with Teenagers (2011-2012), Producers of Parkdale (2012), How to Hook Up (2012-2013), AWKS (2013-2014) and many others. January 7 marks his 19th birthday. He's been waiting 19 years for this, so we celebrated his first legal sip of alcohol and retired his fake ID.
Sanjay and Kathy Get Their Drink On!
One day in the summer of 2010, Sanjay and Kathy, then 14 years old, met Darren, then 45 years old, at a local Burger King to collaborate on a video about being an artist. From then on the Torontonians were born, Mammalian Diving Reflex's youth cohort and main artistic collaborators. Kathy and Sanjay have been working with Mammalian since and has collaborated on over 20 projects, including Nightwalks with Teenagers (2011-2012), Producers of Parkdale (2012), How to Hook Up (2012-2013), AWKS (2013-2014) and many others. On January 26 and January 27 they turn 19. They've been waiting 19 years for this so we celebrated their first legal sip of alcohol.
The core team of Mammalian Diving Reflex consists of Director, Creative Productions, Eva Verity; Managing Director, Jenna Winter; Young Mammals Director, Annie Wong; Young Mammals and Artistic and Research Director, Darren O'Donnell. Previous works by Mammalian, such as Haircuts by Children, The Children's Choice Awards, and All the Sex I've Ever Had, tour internationally. Mammalian Diving Reflex has also received numerous awards for its community and youth engagement projects. Most recently they received the inaugural Neighbourhood Arts Network TD Arts Diversity Award (2013) and the Toronto Community Foundation's Vital Toronto Award.
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Q: Overlapped, multiple images in a responsive container I have a responsive container and one image within it. It works good. The container and the image are resizing when the window-size changes. But, I need not only one, but more images which exactly overlap each other (all of them have the same size). How can I achieve this with HTML and CSS?

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Bacta refills are transparent capsules, made of durasteel and transparisteel, filled with the "miracle healing fluid" bacta. Each refill container is constructed to house bacta for transport in order to supply medical entities and facilities throughout the galaxy.
The bacta that fills each refill is composed of gelatinous red alazhi bacteria, harvested from xoorzi fungi, and synthetic fluids known as ambori and kavam. Ambori is a viscous translucent fluid designed to mimic the vital fluids of countless species. While kavam is a non-reactive, manufactured chemical additive that acts as a buffer and helps maintain the pH levels of the overall solution. Unlike the ambori, kavam is added to protect the delicate alazhi bacteria, rather than to interact with sentient biology. Together, the viscous mixture of ambori and kavam suspend the alazhi bacteria particles.
Bacta shipments have been known to be the target of many smuggling rings throughout the galaxy. As such, many operations have developed counterfeit canisters of similar designs to the refiill, in order to store and transport the drug, ryll. To this end, manufacturers of the bacta capsule have begun arming the containers with various anti-counterfeiting measures, to maintain the purity of the bacta held within. The secrets of these measures are known only to the most privileged corporate employees and designers.


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Na niebie i na ziemi – polski film psychologiczny z 1973 roku na podstawie powieści Jerzego Korczaka Jak na niebie, tak i na ziemi oraz opowiadania Bogdana Madeja Miecz i kądziel.

Film zrealizowano przy współpracy jednostek lotniczych, a szczególnie 1 pułku lotnictwa myśliwskiego z Mińska Mazowieckiego.

Obsada aktorska
 Piotr Fronczewski − major Zygmunt Grela
 Andrzej Chrzanowski − major Janusz Horycki
 Monika Niemczyk − Krystyna Grela, żona Zygmunta
 Gustaw Lutkiewicz − major Marcin Kosowicz, starszy lekarz pułku
 Kazimierz Meres − pułkownik Jerzy Blicharski, dowódca pułku
 Andrzej Grąziewicz − major Czerny, kierownik lotów
 Arkadiusz Bazak − dowódca w retrospekcji
 Jerzy Braszka

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Filmowe adaptacje utworów Bogdana Madeja
Filmy w reżyserii Juliana Dziedziny
Polskie filmy z 1973 roku
Polskie filmy psychologiczne
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Polskie filmy o tematyce lotniczej


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(Podcast) 2016 CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game: Sea Dogs' Green travels long distance for national spotlight
By Glen Erickson
Photo: Saint John Sea Dogs defenseman and 2016 prospect Luke Green was the first overall selection at the 2014 QMJHL Entry Draft (courtesy of Kevin Light Photography)
If there is anyone participating at the 2016 BMO CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game in Vancouver who can relate to the feelings associated with highlights on Draft Day, it might very well be Luke Green of the Saint John Sea Dogs.
Back in 2014, Green was selected first overall by the Sea Dogs at the QMJHL Entry Draft. He has experienced the pomp and circumstance, along with the exhilaration and expectations that come with being that top pick.
Green responded with a productive rookie campaign in the QMJHL, scoring six times and adding 30 assists in 60 games. He has continued his consistent play this season, potting eight goals and adding 19 assists in 42 games. He trails only Thomas Chabot (OTT) in scoring among Saint John defensemen. Of note this season for Green is a hat trick he scored in December, the first-ever by a Sea Dogs defender.
Saint John sits in the upper echelon of the QMJHL, standing sixth overall among 18 teams with a 29-13-4 record through 46 games. They trail the Moncton Wildcats by five points in the Maritimes Division standings. The Sea Dogs are not a veteran team this season, though they are enjoying success. Green, a number one draft pick, has been joined by Joseph Veleno, who was granted "exceptional status" by the QMJHL and is now playing for the Sea Dogs. Indeed, the future looks bright in Saint John.
Green, a native of Bedford, Nova Scotia, grew up with a number of sporting interests. While hockey is prototypically a team sport, Green excelled at individual sports such as motocross and golf. He and his brother Matt, who are teammates in Saint John, have some history on the links. As a 14 year old golfer, Luke won a provincial championship in his age class. Depending upon his future hockey successes, which seem inevitable, he has expressed interest in a career in the golf industry.
Now 18 years of age, Green checks in at 6'1" and 189 pounds. He describes himself as a hard-working and skilled defenseman. He is on the Hockey Canada radar, having participated in the 2014 World U17 Hockey Challenge.
Green, Pierre Luc-Dubois of the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles, and Otto Somppi of the Halifax Mooseheads are the three players at this CHL Top Prospects Game from locales in the Atlantic Provinces. That means their minds and bodies are dealing with a four-hour time change this week while in Vancouver. And for Green, he is coming off a tough weekend in the QMJHL, where the Sea Dogs played three games in three nights prior to his departure for Canada's West Coast.
Green is ranked 37th by NHL Central Scouting in its midterm rankings. CSS describes him as a "highly effective skating, puck moving defenseman. He's a strong and mobile skater who is capable to lead a rush and who excels at jumping into the attack. He advances the puck effectively with first pass plays and distributes puck well on the power play. He shoots with authority and can find the shooting lanes from point."
Green spoke with Hockey's Future on Wednesday, with his comments being captured in this HF podcast.
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Current Greenhouse Gas Emissions News and Events, Greenhouse Gas Emissions News Articles.
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Nature might be better than tech at reducing air pollution
Adding plants and trees to the landscapes near factories and other pollution sources could reduce air pollution by an average of 27 percent, new research suggests. The study shows that plants -- not technologies -- may also be cheaper options for cleaning the air near a number of industrial sites, roadways, power plants, commercial boilers and oil and gas drilling sites. (2019-11-06)
Carbon dioxide capture and use could become big business
Capturing carbon dioxide and turning it into commercial products, such as fuels or construction materials, could become a new global industry, according to a study by researchers from UCLA, the University of Oxford and five other institutions. (2019-11-06)
HKU astronomy research team unveils one origin of globular clusters around giant galaxies
A study led by Dr Jeremy Lim and his Research Assistant, Miss Emily Wong, at the Department of Physics of The University of Hong Kong (HKU), utilizing data from the Hubble Space Telescope, has provided surprising answers to the origin of some globular clusters around giant galaxies at the centers of galaxy clusters. (2019-11-05)
China meets ultra-low emissions in advance of the 2020 goal
Scientists from the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science (AMSS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), along with other collaborators, recently revealed that China's coal-fired power plants met ultra-low emission (ULE) standards ahead of schedule and also achieved substantial emission reductions between 2014 and 2017. (2019-11-05)
Scientists declare climate emergency, establish global indicators for effective action
A global coalition of scientists says 'untold human suffering' is unavoidable without deep and lasting shifts in human activities that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and other factors related to climate change. (2019-11-05)
Declaration of a climate emergency and next steps for action
Scientific consensus concerning climate change is well established, but action has been slow to follow. Writing in BioScience, a worldwide coalition of scientists led by William J. Ripple and Christopher Wolf, both with Oregon State University, describe graphical indicators related to climate change and six areas they highlight as requiring prompt action. (2019-11-05)
World scientists declare climate emergency
A global coalition of scientist from more than 153 countries has declared a global climate emergency and outlined six clear steps to reduce the impact of climate change. (2019-11-05)
Satellite tracking shows how ships affect clouds and climate
By matching the movement of ships to the changes in clouds caused by their emissions, researchers have shown how strongly the two are connected. (2019-11-05)
Palm oil: Less fertilizer and no herbicide but same yield?
Environmentally friendlier palm oil production could be achieved with less fertilizer and no herbicide, while maintaining profits. These are the encouraging preliminary results of the first two years of a large-scale oil palm management experiment by an international team of researchers led by the University of Göttingen. The research was published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. (2019-11-05)
On the road to Paris: The shifting landscape of carbon dioxide reduction
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have found that current forecasts call for the US electric power sector to meet the 2020 and 2025 CO2 reduction requirements in the Paris Agreement--even though the US has announced its withdrawal--and also meet the 2030 CO2 reduction requirements contemplated by the Clean Power Plan--even though it has been repealed. (2019-11-05)
The truth behind the Paris Agreement climate pledges
The Truth Behind the Climate Pledges, a report by world-class scientists including former IPCC chair Sir Robert Watson, says almost three-fourths of 184 voluntary pledges made under the 2016 Paris agreement are inadequate to slow climate change. Only 36 of the commitments aim to reduce emissions by 40% or more by 2030. (2019-11-05)
Thousands of new globular clusters have formed over the last billion years
A discovery made by prestigious researchers including Thomas Broadhurst, the professor at the UPV/EHU's Department of Theoretical Physics and History of Science, has been recently published by the journal Nature Astronomy. Globular clusters, which have been forming over the last billion years, have been found to exist around the giant galaxy at the centre of the Perseus cluster. (2019-11-04)
Scientists create 'artificial leaf' that turns carbon into fuel
Scientists have created an 'artificial leaf' to fight climate change by inexpensively converting harmful carbon dioxide (CO2) into a useful alternative fuel. (2019-11-04)
Lost trees hugely overrated as environmental threat, study finds
Cutting down trees inevitably leads to more carbon in the environment, but deforestation's contributions to climate change are vastly overestimated, according to a new study. (2019-11-04)
Invasive species short-circuiting benefits from mercury reduction in the Great Lakes
According to a new study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 40 years of reduced mercury use, emissions, and loading in the Great Lakes region have largely not produced equivalent declines in the amount of mercury accumulating in large game fish. (2019-11-04)
Just 15 years of post-Paris emissions to lock in 20 cm of sea level rise in 2300: study
Unless governments significantly scale up their emission reduction efforts, the 15 years' worth of emissions released under their current Paris Agreement pledges alone would cause 20 cm of sea-level rise over the longer term, according to new research published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by researchers at Climate Analytics and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). (2019-11-04)
Sea levels to continue rising after Paris agreement emission pledges expire in 2030
Sea levels will continue to rise around the world long after current carbon emissions pledges made through the Paris climate agreement are met and global temperatures stabilize, a new study indicates. (2019-11-04)
Satellites are key to monitoring ocean carbon
Satellites now play a key role in monitoring carbon levels in the oceans, but we are only just beginning to understand their full potential. (2019-11-03)
Science snapshots from Berkeley Lab
New at Berkeley Lab: Gamers can help speed up biomedical research by designing protein structures with a shape modeling game called Foldit, experiments show dramatic changes in the gut microbiome after switching between raw and cooked foods, and a new porous material can pull an industrial pollutant from the air. (2019-11-01)
How the Aztecs could improve modern urban farming
Highly intensive production systems with low resource demand are a strategic goal of urban agriculture developers. Research was conducted to determine the extent to which an ancient Aztec agricultural technique could benefit 21st century horticultural needs. (2019-11-01)
Oil and gas wastewater used for irrigation may suppress plant immune systems
A new Colorado State University study gives pause to the idea of using oil and gas wastewater for irrigation. The CSU team conducted a greenhouse study using produced water to irrigate common wheat crops. Their study, published in Environmental Science and Technology Letters, showed that these crops had weakened immune systems. (2019-10-31)
Harmful emissions from traffic, trucks, SUVs: New national air pollution report
Almost one third of Canadians live near a major road -- and this means they go about their everyday lives exposed to a complex mixture of vehicle air pollutants. A new national study led by University of Toronto Engineering researchers reveals that emissions from nearby traffic can greatly increase concentrations of key air pollutants, with highly polluting trucks making a major contribution. (2019-10-30)
Traffic exhaust at residential address increases the risk of stroke
High levels of traffic exhaust at one's residence increases the risk of stroke even in low-pollution environments, according to a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and other universities in Sweden. The study, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, suggests that it is mainly black carbon from traffic exhaust that increases the risk for stroke, and not particulate matter from other sources. (2019-10-30)
Simulations explain giant exoplanets with eccentric, close-in orbits
As planetary systems evolve, gravitational interactions between planets can fling some of them into eccentric elliptical orbits around the host star. Smaller planets should be more susceptible to this gravitational scattering, yet many gas giant exoplanets have been observed with eccentric orbits. In fact, the planets with the highest masses tend to be those with the most eccentric orbits. A new study explains these counter-intuitive observations. (2019-10-30)
Carbon bomb: Study says climate impact from loss of intact tropical forests grossly underreported
A new study in the journal Science Advances says that carbon impacts from the loss of intact tropical forests has been grossly underreported. (2019-10-30)
Intact forest loss 'six times worse' for climate
The impact of losing intact tropical forests is more devastating on the climate than previously thought, according to University of Queensland-led research. The international study has revealed between 2000 and 2013 the clearance of intact tropical forests resulted in a much higher level of carbon being emitted to the atmosphere than first believed -- resulting in a 626 per cent increase in the calculated impact on climate. (2019-10-30)
Two million-year-old ice provides snapshot of Earth's greenhouse gas history
Two million-year old ice from Antarctica recently uncovered by a team of researchers provides a clearer picture into the connections between greenhouse gases and climate in ancient times and will help scientists understand future climate change. (2019-10-30)
Astronomers catch wind rushing out of galaxy
Study's findings provide direct evidence for the first time of the role of galactic winds -- ejections of gas from galaxies -- in creating the circumgalactic medium (CGM). (2019-10-30)
Where to install renewable energy in US to achieve greatest benefits
A new Harvard study shows that to achieve the biggest improvements in public health and the greatest benefits from renewable energy, wind turbines should be installed in the Upper Midwest and solar power should be installed in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions. (2019-10-29)
Human activities boosted global soil erosion already 4,000 years ago
Soil erosion reduces the productivity of ecosystems, it changes nutrient cycles and it thus directly impacts climate and society. An international team of researchers, including Professor Pierre Francus at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), recorded temporal changes of soil erosion by analyzing sediment deposits in more than 600 lakes worldwide. They found that the accumulation of lake sediments increased significantly on a global scale around 4,000 years ago. (2019-10-29)
New AI deep learning model allows earlier, more accurate ozone warnings
Researchers from the University of Houston have developed an artificial intelligence-based ozone forecasting system, which would allow local areas to predict ozone levels 24 hours in advance. (2019-10-29)
The use of sugarcane straw for bioenergy is an opportunity, but there are pros and cons
Brazilian researchers calculated the amount of nutrients in sugarcane leaves, which are normally left on the ground after harvest, and the equivalent in fertilizer required to maintain crop yield if the straw is removed. (2019-10-29)
Climate engineering: International meeting reveals tensions
At this point, the greatest danger of climate engineering may be how little is known about where countries stand on these potentially planet-altering technologies. Who is moving forward? Who is funding research? And who is being left out of the conversation? (2019-10-28)
Mountain streams emit a surprising amount of CO2
For the first time, an EPFL-led team of scientists has measured the total amount of CO2 emissions from mountain streams worldwide. This research published in Nature Communications builds on findings issued in February 2019 and shows how important it is to include mountain streams in assessments of the global carbon cycle. (2019-10-25)
Model predicts relaxed energy policies plus climate change could worsen US air quality
The Trump administration rolled back the Clean Power Plan in June 2019. The policy aimed to limit power plants' carbon emissions. In addition to the potential impacts on climate change, researchers reporting Oct. 25, 2019, in the journal One Earth find that relaxing US energy regulations would lower air quality by increasing emissions of health-damaging ozone. (2019-10-25)
China's carbon emissions growth slows during new phase of economic development
Scientists from from the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, together with collaborators, recently revealed that China's annual carbon emissions growth declined significantly from 10% during the 2002-2012 period to 0.3% during the period from 2012-2017. (2019-10-25)
Energy regulation rollbacks threaten progress against harmful ozone
The fight against harmful ozone is under legal threat. Air quality and carbon emissions regulations are currently in limbo in courts and congress, from core legislation from the 1970s to rules from the last US administration. This study models the future losses in the fight to drive down respiratory-damaging ozone if the regulations go away. (2019-10-25)
MIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air
A new way of removing carbon dioxide from a stream of air could provide a significant tool in the battle against climate change. The new system can work on the gas at virtually any concentration level, even down to the roughly 400 parts per million currently found in the atmosphere. (2019-10-25)
Stanford study casts doubt on carbon capture
Current approaches to carbon capture can increase air pollution and are not efficient at reducing carbon in the atmosphere, according to research from Mark Z. Jacobson. (2019-10-25)
Finally, the answer to a 'burning' 40-year-old question
New research from Lehigh University describes the mechanism behind catalysis that neutralizes air-polluting NOx from power plant emissions. Israel Wachs, G. Whitney Snyder Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and collaborators used a High Field (HF) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer in conjunction with reaction studies to test three theories around titania-supported vanadium oxide. They found that tungsten oxide changes the structure of vanadium oxide from a less active form to a highly active form. (2019-10-24)


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THE DROOD CAPER
CALL ME DATCHERY. Others call me Dick, or sleuth, or shamus. I'm white-haired, whiskered, wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark blue clocks on them. I'm neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I don't care who knows it.
The Annotated Big Sleep, edited by Owen Hill, Pamela Jackson, and Anthony Rizzuto, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2018.
Some say I remind them of Sam Spade, except for the white hair and whiskers. But I'm everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. And I'm renting a room below John Jasper, the choirmaster of Cloisterham Cathedral, in Cloisterham, England.
Cloisterham's Orphans. I forget what brought me to Cloisterham, except it seemed to have a helluva lot of orphans.
There was Edwin Drood, Jasper's nephew. There was Rosa Bud, a phony moniker if I ever heard one, another orphan and Edwin's sorta fiancée. These two were no lovebirds; it was their fathers' idea. And what about Rosa's inheritance? Was it kissed off if they didn't marry?
Along come Neville and Helena Landless, twin orphans from Ceylon, though no one seems to know whether they're Ceylonese or not.
Geez, all you got to do is watch if they eat with their fingers or with forks, knives, and spoons like proper people named Landless.
A rare non-orphan is Rev. Septimus Crisparkle, a minor canon of Cloisterham Cathedral. He's Neville Landless's mentor, and one of the few people in town with a sensible handle.
A Romantic Quadrangle. Edwin and Rosa are only so-so about their coming nups, especially once she learns the pot of cash remains hers hitched or not.
Rosa and Helena both attend the Cloisterham Nuns' House boarding school. They become BGFs and, as is often the case, Helena's bro Neville gets the hots for his sister's best friend.
John Jasper isn't that much older than these others and, wouldn't you know, he has an unrequited throb for Rosa. What's more, he notices a mound of quicklime in the cathedral crypt.
More Herrings. Red? Or Not? On Christmas Eve, Neville buys himself a heavy walking stick. It's for hiking around the countryside. Yeah, sure.
Edwin tells the jeweler he has no more jewelry than his pocket watch, watch chain, and shirt pin. He neglects to mention Mrs. Bud's gold ring, entrusted to him to give to Rosa, which he still carries around even though the wedding is off.
Jasper buys himself a black scarf of strong silk, and I should mention he often visits a London opium den run by a haggard babe who goes by the name Princess Puffer.
Your guess what this moniker means.
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night. To a shamus like me, a dark and stormy night sounds trite, but weather reports are weather reports, and it is England, after all.
There's a dinner with Edwin, Rosa, the Landlesses, and Jasper. You might think it's when the sleuth reveals the culprit, but I have nothing to reveal because no crime has been committed.
Unless you count tedious English lifestyles.
The reconciliation dinner ends with Edwin and Neville leaving for a walk down by the river to look at the raging storm.
As any self-respecting sleuth would say, "I mean, really now…."
A Pocket Watch, Chain, and Shirt Pin. The next morning, Rev. Crisparkle goes down to the river weir and finds Edwin Drood's pocket watch, chain, and shirt pin.
High marks for the Rev. Even a non-shamus knows that river weirs always accumulate evidence. If not bodies.
Princess Puffer Puts the Finger on the Perp. A half-year later, Princess Puffer follows Jasper from the London hop joint back to Cloisterham, and I get involved. At a morning cloister service, I see Puffer shaking her fist at Jasper from behind a cathedral pillar.
What a great scene this'll be when they make the movie.
And What About That Gold Ring? From here on, I'm winging it (because Charles Dickens took the big sleep after episode six of twelve).
The Mystery of Edwin Drood, by Charles Dickens, serialized and in (incomplete) book form, 1870. Cover of serial No. 6, September 1870, the last installment.
My Ken. Remember that mound of quicklime in the cathedral crypt? Remember Jasper's scarf of strong silk? Remember how in The Thin Man, Nick Charles identified thin man Clyde Wynant's decomposed body by its piece of shrapnel?
The Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, directed by W.S. Van Dyke, MGM, 1934.
Gold doesn't dissolve in quicklime, and Jasper neglected to remove Mrs. Bud's ring from nephew Edwin before he deposited the strangled body in the cathedral crypt.
What about Neville Landless's heavy walking stick? It was just a blunt-instrument red herring. Sour racket. ds
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11 Outsourcing Resolutions You Should Make in 2011
11 Outsourcing Trends to Watch in 2011
Quick and Easy Productivity Wins for IT
Lies My Vendor Told Me: Tech Relationships Gone Wrong
Hero Syndrome: Why Internal IT and Outsourcing Cultures Clash
The "stay up all night, do anything for the user" hero culture of corporate IT may win friends in the business, say outsourcing consultants at TPI and Compass, but it won't yield real business-IT alignment. And it makes it almost impossible to succeed at outsourcing.
By Stephanie Overby
CIO |
Everybody loves a hero, particularly in IT—that talented professional willing to twist himself in knots to please his users and work overtime to get the job done. Most corporate IT organizations actively recruit, reward, and retain those willing to repeatedly save the technological day.
But internal IT organizations wind up paying a high price for that hero culture particularly when they decide to outsource to a third party, says consultants at outsourcing consultancies TPI and Compass Management Consulting (recently acquired by TPI's parent company). The internal culture inevitably clashes with that of the service provider, which values process discipline, predictability, and consistency. Higher costs and lower productivity often result.
Even those IT organizations that never outsource suffer under a superman regime, say Todd Dreger, partner in TPI's operational strategy practice and Bob Mathers, principal consultant with Compass.
CIO.com talked to Dreger and Mathers about the origins of the hero IT culture, the value of the rare provider that resists it, and what happens when cultures collide.
CIO.com: You say that most corporate IT organizations built around a "hero" culture—one that values responsiveness, commitment to quality service, and individual initiative to solve user problems? Does that culture serve internal IT well?
Todd Dreger, Partner, TPI's Operational Strategy Practice: Hero cultures usually develop unintentionally. IT organizations of many Fortune 500 companies seek to recruit the top talent. They look for people with ambition, drive and passion for customer service. These individuals tend to serve a very demanding business. This usually requires reacting quickly to issues or requests, staying up all night or working all weekend. Business and IT management often applaud this behavior and reward it with gifts or promotions.
When this approach is successful, the IT people become part of the business team. A negative consequence is that visibility into incidents and problems is often lost as the business contacts staff in IT directly to resolve issues or concerns, rather than working through a process. And guess who they call? The hero. Success and reward are the motivation. Others in IT pattern the behavior. The result is a culture based on heroics.
Managing business user expectations, adhering to process, and proactively managing problems is contradictory to this culture. While the relationships with business may be good from an IT perspective, we often find little alignment to the business. Projects routinely over-run their budgets and schedule, and the business often cites a lack of innovation provided by IT and inflated cost structure or chargebacks.
CIO.com: How does that hero culture clash with an IT outsourcer culture? How and when do those clashes tend to play out?
Dreger: The outsourcer culture is built around process discipline, consistency, and repeatability. It has to be that way in order for the outsourcer's business model to be profitable. Specifically, outsourcing works when you can bring in relatively inexperienced people to run things.
The way it usually plays out is that the client culture prevails, because you've got the dynamic, talented leaders in the client organization competing for cultural dominance with the relatively inexperienced staff of the outsourcer. This is especially true with some of the offshore providers, who have undergone significant growth in the last five years. They have a lot of young and inexperienced staff who often aren't equipped to push back on the client and say, 'We need to follow the process here.' Instead, they adapt to the reactive, hero approach.
Bob Mathers, Principal Consultant, Compass Management Consulting: This culture clash is fairly well-recognized, at least among companies that have been through outsourcing a few times. It's not so much the vendor's fault as it is a clash of organizational styles that should have been reconciled before switching services over to the vendor. What is still surprising is that even organizations that recognize the dangers ahead of time don't appear to be willing or able to do anything about it until it becomes a big issue well into the contract.
This clash is one of the biggest drivers of client dissatisfaction with outsourcing in general, because the vendor appears to be rigid and difficult to deal with and changes from that structure cost more money. Clients cite this structure and discipline as one of the reasons they wanted to outsource in the first place, they just don't always appreciate what that means for the organization.


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and videos sent by family members, and reminds them of things like doctors' appointments and when to take medications. It will also spontaneously suggest activities like going for a walk or playing a trivia game to break up long periods of inactivity.
ElliQ doesn't look like a robot at all. Mounted on a console next to a tablet computer, which is included, it more closely resembles a deconstructed smart speaker, like Amazon's Echo. The two segments of its "body" tilt and swivel, but that's as much as it moves. Yves Béhar, who designed it, says the company decided early on against making a robot that would "follow someone around being creepy." Instead, says Béhar, the design mind behind products like the Jawbone fitness tracker and the SodaStream seltzermaker, the goal was to make something that fit into the decor. "We wanted it to look like a friendly home object," he says.
With no facial features, ElliQ inflects its speech through
a pared-down gestural vocabulary that evokes human body
language without reproducing it to give "a sense of emotion,"
says Béhar. His inspiration: the anthropomorphic desk lamp
that announces the beginning of
Pixar's films.
Despite its deliberately sim-
plified exterior, ElliQ's innards
are packed with artificial intelli-
gence algorithms whose purpose
is to help it anticipate an owner's
needs and understand his or
her wishes. For instance, ElliQ
adjusts its speech patterns over
time according to which verbal
styles elicit the best responses—
becoming more assertive or more ingratiating. "Instead of
our learning to talk to technology, technology should learn to
talk to us," says Dor Skuler, the founder and CEO of Intuition
Robotics, which has raised $22 million in venture capital.
After launching and selling a string of telecommunications and cloud-computing startups, Skuler—a veteran of Unit 8200, Israel's elite signals-intelligence force and de facto startup organization—wanted his next venture to be something with positive social impact. When he looked at tech for seniors, he saw a lot of products aimed at ameliorating the effects of disability or disease but few for healthy people wanting to live fuller lives. ElliQ users can opt into features like medication compliance and wellness monitoring, but those are secondary. The robot's primary selling point is that it allows older adults living on their own to feel connected to the greater world.
Intuition hopes to start selling ElliQ this year, with units priced "at the high end of consumer electronics," Skuler says.
To fine-tune the product for launch, the company is conducting beta tests with users in the San Francisco Bay Area and Celebration, Florida. One of the most common requests testers are making of their robots: getting the president's tweets read aloud to them. Grandkids, you're welcome.
"Instead of our learning to talk to technology, technology should learn to talk to us."
Care-o-Bot
Designed by researchers from several European countries and currently available in Europe, this "safe and handy human helper" moves around on its own power and can manipulate objects—though you can also replace one of its arms with a drink tray. Compared with its predecessors, the current, fourth iteration of Care-o-Bot is friendlier in its expressions and behaviors.
Robear
A demographic imbalance of too many retirees and not enough young workers has pushed Japan to explore robots as care providers. The ursine-faced Robear, created by the national research institute Riken, is a cybernetic nursing aide, a gentle giant strong enough to lift patients out of bed without injuring them.
Buddy and Yumii
Developed by France's Blue Frog Robotics, Buddy is similar to ElliQ, an interactive companion and communications assistant. Equipped with wheels, it can also patrol its owner's home and alert emergency personnel to falls or other events.
Another French-made robot, Yumii by Cutii, offers similar capabilities and is available by subscription.
Grandma's Little Helpers ElliQ isn't the only new robot promising to address the needs of the elderly. Here are some other offerings from around the world.
Care Bear
For Japan's aging population, robots such as Robear will become essential to providing care.
Robear can identify and lift a person weighing as much as 180 pounds. A telescopic wheel mechanism prevents the robot from toppling over when hoisting.


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Clay Bluffs
Lakeshore Cliff/Bluff Group
Clay bluffs is a forb-, graminoid-, and shrub-dominated and erosion-dependent community that occurs infrequently on steep to near-vertical clay slopes along the shorelines of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. Clay bluffs is less commonly found localized along eroding banks of rivers and streams that form ravines through clay soils and drain into these Great Lakes. Clay bluffs ranges from three to 30 meters (10 to 100 feet) tall. Clay bluffs is a dynamic system with active sloughing occurring following frost heave and spring thaw and vegetation varying from year to year. Clay bluffs occurs on alkaline clays that are locally exposed following these landslide events. Species composition and vegetative structure of clay bluffs is patterned by sloughing of clay slopes due to groundwater seepage. Clay bluffs is characterized by sparse forb, graminoid, and low shrub cover, dense patches of tall shrubs, and scattered and stunted overstory trees.
Photo by Nate Fuller, Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy
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Clay bluffs occurs infrequently along the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior shoreline and is less commonly found localized along banks of rivers and streams that form deep ravines through clay soils and drain into these Great Lakes (Albert 1995, Epstein et al. 2002, NatureServe 2012). Occurrences of clay bluffs have been documented along the Lake Michigan shoreline in southwestern and northwestern Lower Michigan and also along the Lake Superior shoreline in the far western Upper Peninsula in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park and in the east-central Upper Peninsula in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (Fuller 2009, Cohen 2010, Hop et al. 2010, Cohen and Penskar 2011). Several islands within Lake Michigan also support clay bluffs (e.g., South Fox Island, North Manitou Island, and South Manitou Island). Clay bluffs typically occurs along shorelines dominated by sand and gravel beach lakeward and mesic northern forest inland. Within the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore and along the Great Lakes islands and the northeastern shore of Lake Michigan, clay bluffs are nested within large perched dune complexes (Albert 2000, Hop et al. 2010). Within the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, the clay bluffs occur along a six-mile stretch of Lake Superior shoreline with an extensive block of old-growth mesic northern forest occurring inland from the clay bluffs and sand and gravel beach, sandstone cobble shore, and volcanic cobble shore occurring along the shoreline (Cohen 2010). Along the Lake Michigan shoreline in southwestern Lower Michigan, the adjacent mesic northern forest has been extremely fragmented by residential development (Cohen and Penskar 2011).
Clay bluffs occurs on alkaline clays that are locally exposed following sloughing events. Clays include red and gray clays and often are gravelly or sandy with wind-borne sands from the adjacent shoreline mixing with the clays. In addition, clays along the lower margin of seepage bluffs often ooze onto the upper margin of the adjacent sand and gravel beach.
Clay bluffs is an erosion-prone community that occurs along steep to nearly vertical slopes above Lake Superior and Lake Michigan and along the banks of rivers and streams that drain into these Great Lakes. Clay bluffs occurs as a narrow linear feature that is inherently rare and typically isolated from other occurrences (Fuller 2009). Clay bluffs ranges from three to 30 meters (10 to 100 feet) tall. Infrequent landslides result in scattered areas of exposed clays. Clay bluffs is also characterized by very active seepage, with a high portion of the slopes percolating groundwater, especially during the rapid spring discharge. Groundwater seepage is a destabilizing factor within these systems, causing bluff erosion and the sloughing or slumping of the clay slopes (Chase et al. 1999, Chase and Kehew 2000). Clay bluffs is a dynamic system with active sloughing typically occurring following frost heave, spring thaw, and winter storm events and vegetation varying from year to year. It is thought that periods of high groundwater movement are correlated with large erosion events along clay bluffs and that when water tables are low and groundwater movement is reduced, woody species encroachment occurs as the bluff faces become drier (Chase et al. 1999, Fuller 2009). In addition to groundwater, wind and waves also cause erosion, especially along low bluffs and the toe slopes of bluffs (Cowles 1901, Jibson et al. 1994, Chase et al. 1999, Brown et al. 2005, Swenson et al. 2006, Fuller 2009).
Dominant species and community structure vary regionally and from year to year depending on the extent of bluff erosion. The clay bluffs are characterized by areas of recently exposed clay following slumping or landslide with sparse vegetation and areas with dense shrub cover on more stabilized slopes. Due to the frequency of disturbance and the shifting exposure of clay substrate, ruderal species, both native and non-native, are common within clay bluffs (NatureServe 2012). Vegetation is typically absent where the clays have dried and hardened (Cowles 1901). Weeping bluffs (Epstein et al. 2002) or areas of active seepage tend to support species typically associated with alkaline wetlands and a higher diversity of species.
marram grass (Ammophila breviligulata)
golden-fruited sedge (Carex aurea)
rushes (Juncus brachycephalus, J. canadensis, J. tenuis, and J. torreyi)
green bulrush (Scirpus atrovirens)
fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium)
wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)
goldenrods (Solidago canadensis, S. nemoralis, S. rugosa, and S. uliginosa)
side-flowering aster (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum)
common horsetail (Equisetum arvense)
scouring rush (Equisetum hyemale)
pin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica)
staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina)
wild black currant (Ribes americanum)
willows (Salix myricoides and others)
soapberry (Shepherdia canadensis)
sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
white ash (Fraxinus americana)
green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)
tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera)
ironwood (Ostrya virginiana)
cottonwood (Populus deltoides)
mountain-ash (Sorbus decora)
basswood (Tilia americana)
Further research is needed to determine what animal species rely on this unique habitat.
None recorded to date.
The primary management recommendation for clay bluffs is to maintain a buffer of natural communities to reduce the risk of altering the hydrology and introducing non-native invasive species. Maintaining a mature, unfragmented forested buffer around clay bluffs may help limit the local seed source for invasive species distributed by wind or birds and reduce the potential for impacts to groundwater and surface water hydrology. Clay bluffs is characterized by areas of recently exposed clay following landslides. The frequent sloughing and exposure of mineral soils makes this system prone to invasion by weedy native and non-native species. The proximity of this system to the Great Lakes shoreline and along river banks makes it susceptible to excessive foot traffic, which can increase erosion and invasive species introduction. In addition, the inherent characteristic of clay bluffs as narrow and linear features with a high proportion of edge increases its vulnerability to invasive species (Fuller 2009).
Clay bluffs occur infrequently along the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior shoreline and are less commonly found localized along banks of rivers and streams that form ravines through clay soils and drain into these Great Lakes (Epstein et al. 2002). Clay bluffs have been documented along the Lake Michigan shoreline in southwestern and northwestern Lower Michigan and also along the Lake Superior shoreline in the far western Upper Peninsula in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park and in the eastern/central Upper Peninsula in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Several islands within Lake Michigan also support clay bluffs. Further research is needed to evaluate the regional variability of this system and characterize the shoreline versus inland clay bluffs.
Coastal fen, northern shrub thicket, open dunes.
Porcupine Mountains Clay Bluffs, Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, Gogebic Co.
North Manitou Island, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Leelanau Co.
Sleeping Bear Dunes, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Leelanau Co.
Wau-Ke-Na, William Erby Smith Preserve, Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy, Allegan Co.
Albert, D.A. 1995. Regional landscape ecosystems of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin: A working map and classification. USDA, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station, St. Paul, MN.
Brown, E.A., C.H. Wu, D.M. Mickelson, and T.B. Edil. 2005. Factors controlling rates of bluff recession at two sites on Lake Michigan. Journal of Great Lakes Research 31: 306-321.
Chase, R.B., A.E. Kehew, and W. William. 1999. The destabilizing influences of perched ground water in shoreline bluffs composed of heterogeneous glacial materials. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 31 (7).
Chase, R.B., and A.E. Kehew. 2000. Potential stabilization of Great Lakes shoreline bluffs by removal of ground water. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 32 (7).
Cohen, J.G. 2010. Ecological Community Field Survey Form: Clay Seepage Bluffs, Porcupine Mountains. Michigan Natural Features Inventory, Lansing, MI. 4 pp.
Cohen, J.G., and M.R. Penskar. 2011. Ecological Community Field Survey Form: Clay Seepage Bluffs, Wau-Ke-Na. Michigan Natural Features Inventory, Lansing, MI. 2 pp.
Cowles, H.C. 1901. The physiographic ecology of Chicago and vicinity; A study of the origin, development, and classification of plant societies. Botanical Gazette 31(3): 145-182.
Epstein, E.J., E.J. Judziewicz, and E.A. Spencer. 2002. Wisconsin Natural Community Abstracts. Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Endangered Resources, Madison, WI. 15 pp.
Fuller, N. 2009. Clay Seepage Bluffs: Conservation and Management of a Rare and Unusual Natural Community. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. 33 pp.
Hop, K., S. Menard, J. Drake, S. Lubinksi, and J. Dieck. 2010. National Park Service Vegetation Inventory Program: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan. Natural Resource Report NPS/GLKN/NRR-2010/201. National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO. 358 pp.
Jibson, R.W., J.K. Odum, and J.M. Staude. 1994. Rates and processes of bluff recession along the Lake Michigan Shoreline in Illinois. Journal of Great Lakes Research 20: 135-152.
Martinus, W. 2007. Natural Features Inventory, Wau-Ke-Na. Portage, MI: Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy.
NatureServe. 2012. NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [Web application]. Version 7.1. NatureServe, Arlington, VA. Available http://www.natureserve.org/explorer. (Accessed: May 22, 2012.)
Swenson, M.J., C.H. Chin, T.B. Edil, and D.M. Mickelson. 2006. Bluff recession rates and wave impact along the Wisconsin coast of Lake Superior. Journal of Great Lakes Research 32(3): 512-530.


AFTER a year on the shelf, the Country Wide Basketball League (CWBL) is set to get off the ground, with the opening set for October, said league founder Joe Lipa.
The CWBL was supposed to launch last year but got derailed after media partner ABS-CBN abruptly pulled the plug on their support of the league.
Now, with new partners in marketing and media coverage, the CWBL is poised to offer opportunities to players from various corners of the country.
According to Lipa, the Cebu Landmasters and M. Lhuillier have expressed their verbal commitment in joining the league. Six teams from the NCR/Luzon and Visayas-Mindanao regions are slated to kick off the inaugural season.
Teams will only be allowed to field in pure Filipino-bred players. Players will be required to present their Philippine passports duly issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Aside from giving players the exposure they need to possibly take their games to the next level, the CWBL will also be putting the spotlight on various cities and towns where the games will be held.
Basketball fans will be able to follow the league through television as well as live streaming services on social media sites such as Facebook and YouTube.
The CWBL plans to hold two regular conferences annually. After the regular conferences, the top four teams with best cumulative win-loss records will compete in the championship series to determine the overall champion for the season. This tournament structure will make teams play their best in every game.
There will be two games per play date that will be held on Saturdays and Sundays.


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