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Q: Using an NO switch to close to ground as an interrupt I'm designing a circuit that supplies power via USB to an Arudino.  The USB power runs through a 3v3/5v dual regulator.  I'd like to use a small tactile switch in front of the IN lead on the regulator as an interrupt/reset apparatus, but I'm finding it difficult to obtain a suitable NC switch, though I have a variety of suitable NO switches on hand.
How reasonable is it to close the switch to ground as a means of interrupting power to the rest of the circuit?  As an example:

My assumption is that the resistance of the regulator and everything past it will make the closed-to-ground path better and should interrupt the power.  But I've never used an NO switch in this fashion and wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything.

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FIGURE 1. Map of study area showing modern and historical geographic terminology along with geographic position of type section of Turtle Bluff Member, Bridger Formation (modified after Murphey ). The light purple shading represents areas on the lower slopes of the principal mountain landforms and the green shading represents areas above the base of the uppermost slopes for each landform (approximate elevations in feet are shown). Insert map shows location of study area in state of Wyoming.
FIGURE 2. Schematic stratigraphic column of type section of Turtle Bluff Member on southwest flank of Cedar Mountain, Bridger Formation, showing relative stratigraphic positions of SDSNH, DMNH and UCM localities (along with the locality names in parentheses) that yielded the fossils described in this paper (modified and corrected after Gunnell et al., ). Locality MPM 2970 occurs on southwest flank of Sage Creek Mountain and its approximate relative stratigraphic position is projected onto type section. Abbreviations are: Lithostr., lithostratigraphic; NALMA, North American Land Mammal age.
FIGURE 3. Microsyopidae from TBM. 1-4, Uintasorex parvulus: 1, RM1 or 2, SDSNH 110359; 2-3, Rdp4, SDSNH 110358; 4, Lm2, DMNH 75287. 5-7, Microsyops annectans: 5, Rm1, UCM 68541; 6-7, partial dentary with Rm2, UCM 70315. 1-2, 4-6, occlusal views. 3 and 7, labial views. Scale bars equal 1 mm for 1-6 and scale bar for 7 equals 5 mm.
FIGURE 5. Microparamys from TBM. 1-5, Microparamys minutus : 1, LdP4, UCM 66310; 2, LP4, UCM 95695; 3, LM1 or 2, UCM 95697; 4, Rp4, SDSNH 110374; 5, Lm1 or 2, DMNH 74140. 6-9, Microparamys sp.: 6, LdP4, SDSNH 110395; 7, Lp4, SDSNH 110360; 8, Lm1, SDSNH 110361; 9, Lm2, SDSNH 110362. All occlusal views. Scale bar equals 1 mm.
FIGURE 6. Thisbemys and Rodentia, family undetermined from TBM. 1, Thisbemys corrugatus, Rm1, UCM 70671. 2-3, Rodentia, family undetermined, Rm1 or 2, UCM 95700. 1-2, occlusal views. 3, oblique labial view. Scale bar equals 1 mm.
FIGURE 7. Larger Sciuravidae from TBM. 1, Sciuravus nitidus, RP4, UCM 68430. 2-4, Taxymys lucaris: 2, RM1 or 2, UCM 68307; 3, LM1 or 2, UCM 95762; 4, LM3, DMNH 75336. 5-7, Tillomys senex: 5, Lm1 or 2, DMNH 75328; 6, Rm1 or 2, DMNH 75279; 7, Rm1 or 2, SDSNH 110363. 8-9, Tillomys ? parvidens: 8, Rm1 or 2, SDSNH 110379; 9, Lm3, DMNH 75288. All occlusal views. Scale bar equals 1 mm.
FIGURE 8. Smaller Sciuravidae from TBM. 1, Pauromys sp., cf. P. perditus , Lm1, SDSNH 110414. 2, sciuravid sp. B, RM1 or 2, SDSNH 110412. 3-4, sciuravid sp. C: 3, RM1 or 2, SDSNH 110443; 4, Lm3, SDSNH 110441. 5-7, sciuravid premolars: 5, LP4, SDSNH 110462; 6, partial Rp4, SDSNH 110454; 7, partial Rp4, SDSNH 140176. All occlusal views. Scale bar equals 1 mm.
FIGURE 9. Sciuravid sp. A from TBM: 1, RM1 or 2, UCM 709102; 2, RM1 or 2, UCM 68903; 3, LM1 or 2, UCM 71413; 4, LM1 or 2, UCM 95763; 5, Rm1, UCM 95694; 6, Lm1 or 2, UCM 95757; 7, Rm1 or 2, SDSNH 110459; 8, Rm1 or 2, UCM 95699; 9, Lm3, UCM 95756. All occlusal views. Scale bar equals 1 mm.
FIGURE 10. cf. Pareumys sp. from TBM: 1, RP4, UCM 95760; 2-3, RM1 or 2, SDSNH 110396; 4, RM1 or 2, SDSNH 110397; 5, RM1 or 2, DMNH 75334; 6, LM1 or 2, UCM 95758; 7, LM3, UCM 67987; 8, Rm1, UCM 69974; 9, Lm2, SDSNH 110366; 10, Rm3, SDSNH 110367; 11-12, Rm3, SDSNH 110434. 1-2, 4-11 occlusal views. 3, anterior view. 12, labial view. Scale bar equals 1 mm.
FIGURE 11. Metanoiamys sp. from TBM: 1, LdP4, DMNH 74135; 2, LP4, DMNH 75331; 3, LM1 or 2, DMNH 74136; 4, LM1 or 2, DMNH 75251; 5, RM1 or 2, SDSNH 110442; 6, LM3, UCM 98813; 7, Rdp4, SDSNH 110369; 8, Lp4, DMNH 74143; 9, Lm1 or 2, DMNH 75252; 10, Lm1 or 2, DMNH 75250; 11, Lm1 or 2, DMNH 75254; 12, Lm3, DMNH 74144. All occlusal views. Scale bar equals 1 mm.
FIGURE 12. Elymys ? emryi new species from TBM, macrophotographs with corresponding line drawings of specimens: 1 and 9, LM1, SDSNH 110463; 2 and 10, RM1, SDSNH 110465; 3 and 11, RM1 (holotype), SDSNH 110466; 4 and 12, RM2, SDSNH 110444; 5 and 13, LM3, SDSNH 110448; 6 and 14, Rm1, SDSNH 110456; 7 and 15, Lm2, SDSNH 110457; 8 and 16, Lm3, SDSNH 110461. All occlusal views. Scale bar equals 1 mm.


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Q: Shall I add bypass capacitors on Clock inputs? I am designing my first high-frequency (7-9 MHz) circuit for my undergrad thesis.
I am aware of the use and importance of bypass capacitors on the power inputs of my ICs and how (specially for HF) they will help.
However, one thing is not too clear on the datasheets of the components I will use is if I should add bypass capacitors on the clock inputs for my digital ICs.
I did add a .1uF bypass capacitor between the VCC input and GND on the oscillator itself, but one of my circuit boards will be using the same clock signal (I need it to be synced with the board where the oscillator is placed) and I am afraid that there will possibly be too much inductance through the cable carrying the clock signal? We are talking about a 166MHz clock.
Also, is running a clock signal through a 33ft long cable a bad idea? Is there a better way to synchronise two boards that are far apart?


After-School All-Stars Tampa Bay (ASAS) in partnership with Pinellas County Schools, University of South Florida - College of Education, and the Pinellas County Sherriff's Office - Police Athletic League, proposes to have 30 1-year half time AmeriCorps members that will provide in-school and out-of-school tutoring and mentoring services to low-performing and at-risk youth at six (6) Pinellas County public middle schools and six (6) after-school program sites. At the end of the 1st program year, the AmeriCorps members will be responsible for providing services to 750 students, and 75% of program completers will improve academic performance in Language Arts and STEM. This program will focus on the CNCS focus area of Education. In addition, the AmeriCorps members will leverage an additional 25 volunteers who will be engaged in the program and assist in multiple ASAS and USF led service projects throughout the year. These volunteers will provide an estimated 300 additional volunteer service hours during the year. The CNCS investment of $207,371 will be matched with $86,693 ($71,466 cash / $15,227 in-kind) from ASAS in private funding (29% match and MSY of $13,825).


Saute' garlic and onions in olive oil.
Add chicken broth and heat through.
Add kale, beans, stewed tomatoes and seasonings.
Toss broccoli cole slaw, sunflower seeds, and almonds together in bowl.
Make dressing by mixing salad oil, sugar, white vinegar, and seasoning from oriental noodles.
Add dressing to broccoli slaw mixture and chill.
Immediately before serving, mix in crushed ramen noodles.
Blend avocados, cocoa powder, brown sugar, coconut milk, vanilla extract, and cinnamon in a blender until smooth.
Refrigerate pudding until chilled, about 30 minutes.
This recipe is so rich that you may want to set aside a portion to freeze for later.
Sauté onion, celery, garlic, green beans, and zucchini in soup pot for 5 minutes or until onions begin to turn translucent.
Add vegetable broth, drained tomatoes, beans, carrots, hot water, and spices to pot.
Bring soup to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes.
Add spinach leaves and pasta and cook for an additional 20 minutes.
Put 1/2 cup oatmeal into 1 cup almond milk to soak for a bit.
Mix whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt together in a large bowl.
In another bowl, mix maple syrup, applesauce and vanilla together. Add in the oats soaked in almond milk.
Add liquid ingredients to the flour mixture until just blended. Do not overstir. Fold into blueberries.
Spoon batter into a nonstick muffin pan or into paper muffin tins.
Bake for 25 minutes, or until top are brown.
Allow muffins to cool down before peeling from the paper.
A zesty marinade served over fresh vegetables (cooked or uncooked) is the perfect complement to any entree'!
Prep marinade by mixing vinegar, vegetable oil, garlic, salt, sugar, oregano, basil, and pepper in a bowl. Pour over vegetables and stir to coat. Veggies may chill for 2 hours in marinade prior to serving.
If you prefer lightly cooked veggies prep as above but sauté in a large skillet OR wrap in foil and place on grill. Heat should be medium. Grill 15 to 20 minutes. "Flip" foil pouch every five minutes to ensure the vegetables don't brown too much on one side.
Mix all ingredients (I use a small wire whip).
Place in dispenser of your choice.
Mix together rolled oats, nuts, cereal and wheat germ.
Drizzle over dry ingredients, blending well.
Spread granola over two cookie sheets.
Stir in dried fruits and raisins.
Cinnamon and brown sugar combined with the tang of green apples and raspberries makes this breakfast not only healthy but delicious!
Lightly grease an 8" cooking dish.
Mix wet and dry ingredients separately, then together.
Add fruit to mixture and fold.
In a large bowl, combine the olive oil, cloves, parsley, salt and pepper.
Add cubed squash and toss to coat.
Place in a lightly greased, shallow baking dish.
Bake uncovered at 400 degrees for approximately 50 minutes or until squash is tender.
Stir in Parmesan cheese just before serving.
Combine and beat ingredients until fluffy.
Flavor with minced chives, garlic salt, salt and pepper to taste.
Place in 2 quart greased casserole dish and dot with butter.
Cover with foil and bake at 350 for 50 minutes.
This recipe is the bomb with bacon or as a perfect side with soup. Top with butter and honey...delish!
In a separate bowl melt butter than add egg and milk, whip until well blended.
Fold liquid mixture into dry ingredients.
Pour into lightly greased 9X9 inch pan.
Bake for 20 minutes at 425 degrees.
This gluten-free version of lasagna is simple and delicious. It's a great way to cut the carbs and increase veggie intake!
1 1/2 tsps. Salt Divided.
While the squash is in the oven saute onions and garlic in the olive oil. Add ground beef and 1 tsp of salt. Once the beef is browned add the tomatoes. Simmer on low until the squash is ready.
Remove the squash. Shred the inside of the squash with a fork until there is approximately a one inch depth of squash remaining in the shell. Take the squash that has been removed and add it to the sauce. Empty clean the roaster and place the "squash bowls" face up inside.
In a separate bowl mix the cream cheese, parsley remaining salt. Spread half of the cheese mixture evenly over the bottom of each shell. Layer with the meat sauce and then again with the cream cheese.
Remove and sprinkle with mozzarella and bake for an additional 15 minutes.
Boil and cool 7 cups water and 2 cups sugar.
Boil 2 cups water and steep 4 green tea bags and cool.
Add lemonade and orange juice.
Add gin or vodka (the alcohol keeps the liquids from freezing completely…it makes for a nice "slushy" consistency).
Combine all ingredients and freeze at least 24 hours.
Fill a glass half full of frozen mix and top with Sprite or 7up.
A healthy, homemade mix to season up your Mexican dishes!
Combine all ingredients in a small bowl. Keep in a small air-tight container, seal tightly and store in a cool, dry place.
This is a great recipe to double or even triple.
Brew your coffee and then pour in a mixer, add butter, oil, and milk and blend thoroughly.
This traditional blend of apples, oatmeal and a bit of cinnamon and sugar stands the test of time! We use organic ingredients so despite the sugar content we consider it a relatively "healthy" dessert!
Mix flour, brown sugar and oatmeal in a bowl. Melt butter and combine.
In a small bowl mix water, sugar and cinnamon. Fold mixture into apples.
Place apples in a lightly greased 9 X 11 inch pan.
"Crumble" the topping evenly over the apples.
Bake at 350 for 35-40 minutes or until apples are tender with a fork.


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Cory's ColumnLookout Tiger, Durant Making Early Charge
March 6, 2001 12:00 am by Cory Habicht Views: 6
As the nation's sports fans keep one eye on the closing of the year's basketball season and begin to go "mad" with March heat, they begin to turn over to the new baseball season with opening day fast approaching. What many fans tend to overlook, however, is the year-long, fan-unfriendly marathon golf season.
Especially as college students, we tend not to be interested in a game of fat old men. What most are missing, though, is perhaps the story of the young 2001 year in sports. This past week, 36-year-old Joe Durant completed a full-circle career change with his second straight win and is sitting on top of the PGA tour's money list with superstar Tiger Woods well out of striking distance.
It was less than ten years ago, after finishing the 1991 season disappointingly on a semi-pro golf tour, that he decided to hang up his cleats for some penny loafers. Yes, he received his license to sell insurance and was ready to settle down and support his family, giving up his life-long dream.
He soon found himself discontent in the white-collar world, however, and moved back a little closer to the game that owned his heart. He began to work at a golf equipment retail house, showing he still had immense enthusiasm for the game.
Then his wife Tracy finally got fed up with seeing her husband wander aimlessly in his career. She, a college golfer herself, gave him a long lecture, urging him to pursue his dream at all costs and to regain confidence in himself.
The desire had always been there, but now young Joe had the confidence and mindset needed to make it on the big tour. He returned to semi-pro golf and found steady improvement, constantly working on his game, and building his confidence. After a brief, unsuccessful stint on the PGA tour in 1993, he arrived in 1997 for good.
That year, he would have his best year as a professional to that point, earning three top tens and closing the year making 14 out of 15 cuts. He finally broke through to the winning circle in 1998 at the Motorola Western Open with a win over 2000 Masters champion Vijay Singh.
After seven years of hard work and paying his dues, Durant had finally made a name for himself. He was not out of the woods yet, however, as the next year would test his will power once again.
The 1999 season would see Durant fracture a rib, which critically inhibits a golfer's swing. He was out for a full two months and was less than 100 percent the entire year. Once again, fate had decided to see how much Joe Durant really loved his sport.
As resilient as ever, he again emerged in the 2000 season, earning four top tens and placing in the top ten in both driving accuracy and greens in regulation. He was still not able to become a dominant player on the tour, however, and was overshadowed by the emerging careers of young stars like Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia, among others.
So, with so much young athletic talent in today's game, was there any room for a 36-year-old licensed insurance salesman who loved the game?
Durant promptly answered this question in 2001, dusting everyone after the year's first two months. So far this season, he has earned just under $1.5 million after competing in only six events. This feat has been highlighted by wins at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic and this past week's Genuity Classic.
So, what can we learn from this middle-aged family man? He is the proof that sports are not always as predictable as we think, and that there is no statistic that can measure heart and determination.
I realize that similar stories happen in sports, but we always hear about those ones. Today's sports fans just dismiss golf as a sport that Tiger will own for the next twenty years, losing every once in a while to stars like Davis Love III, David Duval, and Phil Mickelson.
In a sport such as golf, however, where physical attributes are not always as valuable as what's inside an athlete's head and heart, rest assured that people like Joe Durant will always come along with little else but their determination and respect for the game of golf.


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Clara Louise Tunison (22 Sep 1872 – 21 May 1899) was an American composer and organist, who is best known for composing songs which she published under the name Louise Tunison.

Tunison was born in New Jersey to Edward and Emily A. Tunison. Little is known about her education. Her song "Memories" was sung on Broadway by Dorothy Morton in the 1899 production of An Arabian Girl and 40 Thieves  at the Herald Square Theatre. The same year, the music and lyrics to "Forget Me Not," "Memories," and "'Twas But a Dream" were published in the New York Journal newspaper. "'Twas But a Dream" was performed in vaudeville shows. "Dying Rose" and "Song of a Heart" were produced on piano rolls by the Aeolian Company, and "Song of a Heart" was recorded on Victor 31692.

Tunison was only 26 years old when she died of heart disease in New York City. Her songs were published by T. B. Harms & Co. They include:

"Dying Rose"
"Forget Me Not"
"Good Night"
"Memories"
"Next Summer"
"Song of a Heart"
"'Twas But a Dream"

External links

 Hear the Victor 31692 recording of "Song of a Heart"

References

American women composers
1872 births
1899 deaths
American songwriters
19th-century American women musicians

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How many times have you told yourself what you "should" do?
I should be more confident.
I should earn more money.
I should have a more passionate relationship.
People have an endless list of things they believe they should do or should follow through on. And these "shoulds" carry about the same weight as a New Year's resolution — that is, if it happens, then that's exciting. But if not, it won't be too disappointing because you kind of knew it wasn't really going to happen anyway.
But what happens when you decide something is an absolute "must?" What happens when you cut off any other possibility than you succeeding — when you decide that you are either going to find a way to make something happen or you'll create the way yourself?
When you raise your standards and turn "should" into "must," you are making an inner shift to take control over the quality of your life. Any area you are not getting what you want is because you haven't raised your standards.
Take your relationship, for example. This is a direct reflection of your standards. Some people are in a relationship right now but they aren't happy because their standard is that they must be in a relationship, not that they must have passion and excitement and pure joy and love. Others may not be in a relationship because their standard is that they must not be hurt.
If you want real change, you have to be willing to do your part. And it starts with asking yourself, honestly, who you are.
Are you a winner? Or are you always a step behind? Are you the life of the party? Or are you more reserved?
Answering this question and discovering what your true beliefs are about yourself is critical. Because this is your identity. And the fact is we are hard-wired to follow through on who we believe we are.
Consider someone who is trying to quit smoking. He may say to himself, "I'm going to do my best to stop smoking, but I've always been a smoker." It doesn't matter how hard he tries, if his identity is that he is a smoker, it's futile. And the days until he is back smoking again are numbered. Because we act consistently with and ultimately become who we believe we are.
Most people, if they look at how they are living their lives today, will find that their identify is based on a set of standards and a set of beliefs they created 10, 20, 30 or more years ago. In fact, many of us made decisions when we were kids about what to believe, what we are capable, and who we are as a person, and that became the glass ceiling that controls us. But are you the same person you were back then? Are you the same person you were even a year ago?
Eventually, most people simply stop trying to break through that glass ceiling. They chock it up to "that's just the way it is in my life," or tell themselves "that's just who I am." But ironically, when you do this, you are actually denying who you really are. You are living under a false identity that is based off of false beliefs you adopted some time in the past.
So how do you define yourself? And when did you start to believe that? How many years ago did you decide what you could and could not do in your life? Don't you think it's time to raise your standards, turn your "shoulds" into "musts" and give yourself a new identity?
The strongest force in the human personality is the need to stay consistent with how we define ourselves. And you may just find that by making these changes, you can make lasting change in your quality of life.


Confessional Review: "The Changeling" (1980) — Get On My Damn Level!!
Thank you, Mom. Sincerely. I don't think I would have appreciated The Changeling nearly as much when I was a kid (or even a 20 year-old stoner, for that matter). As is often the case, the best old-school flicks age like fine wine and are enjoyed by a palate that has been refined through years of variety.
Composer John Russell (George C. Scott; Patton) loses his wife and daughter in a tragic auto accident. Pouring himself into his work, he moves to an old mansion outside Seattle. His friend in the local historical society, Claire (Trish Van Devere; The Last Run) thought of him because of the house's breathtaking music room. Isolated and grieving, he quickly discovers that the he's not alone in the house. Music that he's just composed plays on a music box found in a child's hidden attic room (complete with ancient wheelchair). The house bangs loudly at exactly the same time every day. The old record keeper at the historical society tells him that "people were not meant to live in that house". Digging deeper into the past, John finds an awful secret with connections to powerful people. And there's that damn bouncing ball…….
I try to avoid overused clichés, but I have to say it: they just don't make 'em like this anymore. The Changeling is a technical marvel if for no other reason than a complete lack of special effects doesn't hamper the film's ability to be extremely tense and atmospheric with palpable scare value. The wide angle shots are effectively spaced and smartly used. There's a pair of shots from above and below (you'll know what I'm talking about when you see them) that will burn onto your retinas. The house is flat-out gorgeous, a character unto itself as it should be in a quality haunted house movie.
Here comes another cliché: the hair on my arms literally stood up on more than one occasion. The séance scene cannot be topped. Period. It's subtle enough to avoid campiness and escalatingly wild enough to be thoroughly believable. The scene with the bouncy ball that belonged to John's dead daughter is one of the most memorable in Hollywood history for a reason- perfectly shot, perfectly acted, perfectly scored. It lowers your body temperature. If those two scenes alone don't affect you, then I would say that your taste needs to mature a little more like that aforementioned fine wine.
If I had one small gripe, it would be with George C. Scott. I know, that's blasphemy, but bear with me. He's one of the all-time greats, but I have to believe that his stoicism throughout the film was a conscious performance decision to show the depth of John Russell's grief. You'd think there'd be a bit more of a freak-out (if not full-on histrionics) in this kind of situation. Maybe that's just a Pavlovian reaction; I don't know. Maybe it's just that we really can't see the badass George C. Scott as ever being in real danger! Either way, he's still in top form. His chemistry with frequent on-screen partner Trish Van Devere is fun to watch and gives the movie its hint of brightness.
That ending? Beautiful, classy, and everything a haunting should be.
The Changeling is a genuine Hollywood treat, one that I encourage those of you reading this to broaden your horizons and expand your personal palate with. You need this in your life. I understand now why it's so revered. Thank you, Shudder. This is why your streaming service is the best value out there.


(Unique Building And Structures Around The World) Today our world is full of buildings, roads, industries, and all that architects could build on land by blending different old as well as new materials. While most of them stand for good reason and purpose, there is some whose motive for being built may not be enlightening at a single glance. Most of these strange or Unique building's were one of the most creative inventions of their times. They require a proper insight and some 'out of the box' thinking in order to clearly understand them. But, at the same time there also some buildings which don't really have any justification for existing in the way they do.
Krzywy Domek which is the Polish name for 'Crooked House' is a unique building located in a shopping center in Sopot, Poland. Influenced by the drawings of Jan Marcin Szancer (a Polish professor), Szotynscy and Zaleski built this weird structure in 2004. Also, this crooked house is a very famous tourist site in Poland.
This visibly crazy house has been attached upside down at the roof of the popular museum named Museum Moderner Kunst, in Vienna, Austria. Designed by artist Erwin Wurm, who is known for making such boggling buildings, is the first thing that will catch your eye while visiting the museum. Though this house may seem senseless, the interior of Museum Moderner Kunst is worth watching with classic and stunning works of architecture.
As the name suggests, this structure consists of a large piano and a huge transparent Violin made of glass. Built in 2007 by the Heifi University of Technology, the unique building, Piano House has become a popular tourist destination in China. The violin basically serves as an entrance to the piano, which actually houses upcoming architectural ideas for newly developing areas.
Located in Rotterdam and Helmond, in Netherlands, the Cube Houses are a symbol of pure excellent architecture and intelligent design. It has been built by the famous architect Piet Blom on the theme of optimizing small spaces and rests on columns placed in the shape of a Hexagon. Upon viewing from a distance, each house looks like a tree. Hence, all of them together give an idea of a forest.
Situated in Montreal, Canada, Habitat 67 is a housing complex with a unique design of carefully placed concrete structures. The idea was first projected as a thesis by Canadian architect Moshe Safdie, way back in 1967. This eerie building gives the feeling of a moving puzzle that is shifting into some different shape. Also, it is considered one of the most innovative works of architecture in Canada.
This unique building is built in the shape of a shell by Mexican architect Javier Senosian, in Mexico. It's unusual shape, colorful tainted glass and blends of art and modern design, all make this house one of its kind. It is based on the principle of 'Bio-architecture', utilizing organic forms, and thus creating an eco-friendly environment inside the structure. All in all, the Nautilus House presents a perfect lifestyle of living in harmony with nature.


Pair of regency Side Chairs with New Upholstery. c1800.
A pair of Regency Side Chairs with new upholstery, the chairs have typical wear to the arms where the paint is worn down with use and have plenty of other signs of age with dints and wear to the painted pattern. The chairs have been restored structually and are completely sound.


In this tutorial, the author exposes employee data to UI, the classic MVC pattern using Spring Boot.
I am sure that you have enjoyed the part1 where in just the blink of an eye we set up an in-memory database, created a Repository class using Spring Data JPA, and inserted data using initDataloader by Spring boot.
In this tutorial, we will expose those employee data to UI, The Classic MVC pattern using Spring boot.
In my previous article, I created an EmployeeRepository interface, and Spring Boot provided its implementation at runtime. Now, I want this data to be guided to the Service Layer. To achieve that, I need to inject that Repository to Service layer and define the CRUD methods, which are doing nothing but calls the Repositories CRUD methods. Now, you may be wondering, the EmployeeRepository interface is empty and it extends CRUDRepository where you can only find the declaration of CRUD methods. The question is, where are the implementations?
Again, the answer is Spring Boot on the runtime. It creates an implementation class that has all the CRUD method implementations. Interesting, isn't it? We just declare an interface and a container creates all the stuff for us, and we save lots of our precious time, get rid of silly mistakes, etc. Really an IOC (Inversion of Control).
Let's see what the service part looks like, and please note for simplicity that I print the messages in the console using Sysout. But in the real project, don't ever do this. Use Logger always.
Our service Layer is ready and now I need a controller part that will act as a delegator and takes data from UI to send it to Service and Vice versa. I personally recommend using Controller as a thin layer, which just porting data from UI to service and service to UI and maybe doing some data format conversion stuff and nothing more than that.
Before showing you the code of the controller, let me remind you I have not used a proper Spring controller, which forwards the response to a view. Rather, I use a RestController, which directly delivers the response payload in JSON/XML format based on the Produces property. By default, it is JSON.
In Controller, we map the URL pattern to a controller method bind any data coming from a form into a Model the "M" part of MVC.
If you look at the Controller class, you can see that I autowired the service class and then wrote CRUD methods (also map them with Url pattern) as a wrapper, which internally calls the Service Wrapper method and that calls the Spring Boot's Repository Implementation class.
...I can see the following response in the browser in JSON format.


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JOHN HAGGAS MOORHOUSE
(1835-?)
John Haggas Moorhouse was first son of Thomas Moorhouse (1809-1845) and Martha and was born on 14th May 1835, when the family were renting Hesliker Farm from The Tempest Estate. The middle name of Haggas was after his Uncle James who married Ann Moorhouse in 1825.
Helsliker Farm is now called Heslaker on modern maps. To see locations of farms in the Skipton Area go to Places/Skipton Area Map.
After John's father Thomas died in 1845, the family moved to The Bull Inn at Broughton (which they rented from The Tempest Estate). Please see Places/Tempest Estate and Businesses/Bull Inn for further details.
John attended Sedgley Park School in Wolverhampton as a border. The Catholic school was founded in 1763 for the education of boys whose parents were in "more confined circumstances". His brother James also attended this school.
By 1851 John was living in Bradford with Ambrose Scully and working as an Iron Monger apprentice for him. John continues to work for Mr Scully until 1856 when he got a job in Birmingham for Mr McKinzie at a Hardware Store. He worked there until February 1958 when he was sent by Mr McKinzie to Leeds to take the management of a business of General & Furnishings Ironmongers run by Heaps & Co.
By August 1858 John appears to have had a falling out with Mr. Heaps who accuses him of stealing a lamp and also that some money has gone missing. John vigorously denies stealing the lamp and says he has paid for it and that no money is missing.
He appears to have got himself in such a state that he decides to leave Leeds, leaving behind his belongs which are returned to his Mother Martha at The Bull at Broughton.
In a letter he states he is just going away for a few days. He goes to Birmingham and stays at two different addresses and in letters send to Martha the landladies comment on what a distressed state he is in and that he may go abroad.
The family never heard about or from John again.
There are several letters from his friends to Martha saying that John would not have done anything wrong intentionally and that they did not have a good impression of his employer Mr Heaps.
Note: I have quite a few letters from this time period, which are very difficult to read. The letters were passed on from James (John's brothers) to his nephew Joseph and then to his brother Ted (my Grandfather). Ted has transcribed some of the letters and I intend to do more in due course.
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James Rebanks gives a full-blooded defense of a way of life that won't be chivvied into the sometimes pointless pressures and empty efficiencies of mass modernity. He also reveals richness and cultural depth in an older, slower and smaller scale approach; alongside his farming he is an advisor to UNESCO as it seems someone has noticed that the wholesale industrialization of agriculture may lose us more than quaintness and inefficiency.
Rebanks spent much of his school life skiving, sneaking off to work with his father and grandfather in raising Herdwick sheep. By the time he leaves school he can barely write, but then discovers reading in his spare time and takes himself through evening classes to Oxford University. When a professor asks what he thinks of the other students, he comments that 'they struggled to have different opinions because they'd never failed at anything and been nobodies, and they thought they would always win' (96-97). He is also lyrical in describing the pride, authenticity and hardships of his way of life and the profound knowledge woven into it.
This is about raising sheep, a rare and particularly hardy breed, and about cultural memory.
He also expresses doubts about the quality of much modern life, doubts which aren't silenced with more goodies or gadgets.
Rebanks seems to be striking a chord – he has 30,000 Twitter followers and his book, which takes you through a year in the life of a Herdwick breeder, is a Sunday Times bestseller.
The sheep have personalities – one 'has a sense of her own importance at all times', and some are posers, expecting to be admired like carpet-strutting celebrities at Cannes. Given a good mother, the lambs are almost indestructible in facing a northern winter. You want them and this way of life to prove indestructible, to resist forces ranged against it like blasting snow-storms. The care that goes into maintaining the farm and landscape might not qualify as 'efficient', but this doesn't undermine its value if you take a broader view of value.
Rebanks wonders whether people 'see the wall my grandfather built, or care that it stands, or wonder who built it'. If it's any help, I do look at walls, care that they stand, and wonder who built them, and I doubt I'm alone. It is done because it should be done.
'Winter is my swollen pig-like fingers throbbing under the hot tap, thawing out, as I howl unheard blasphemies at the stinging pain. It is my bloodshot eyes in the mirror as I finger out hayseeds. It is snowflakes or hailstones hitting my face as I drive the quad bike into the wind, snow or rain becoming perfect warp speed lines like those scenes in Star Wars when they flick the throttle and the stars transcend. Winter is my father's neck in front of me, streaming with rain as we catch an old ewe that is unwell. Ewes grabbing desperately at hay in a storm before the wind robs them of their rations. Lambs lying dead, defeated before they have even started. Winter is hayracks and trees blown over, torn and smashed.
A lovely quirky way to illustrate how far a prized tup has divided opinions. A tup is a ram, Marmite a strange-tasting dark brown spread that Brits (and others) love or loathe.
Anyone who has yomped in the north of England, or Scotland, will warm (or chill) to this image.
Looking onto a snow-speckled garden as I create this post.
A ewe who lambs for the first time.


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NSA Statements On 'About' Collection Shutdown Contradict PCLOB's Findings
Say That Again
from the nothing-is-real-and-nothing-to-get-hung-about dept
Mon, May 1st 2017 1:26pm — Tim Cushing
The impact the dropping of the "about" collection will have on the NSA's upstream harvesting will either be massive or minimal, depending on who you ask.
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board's report on the "about" collection noted a few things, one of them being the supposed impossibility of preventing inadvertent collection.
All of these types of "about" communications can provide intelligence value, helping the government learn more about terrorist networks and their plans or obtain other foreign intelligence. While "about" collection is valued by the government for its unique intelligence benefits, it is, to a large degree, an inevitable byproduct of the way the NSA conducts much of its upstream collection. As discussed earlier in this Report, because of the technical manner in which this collection is performed, the NSA cannot entirely stop acquiring "about" communications without also missing a significant portion of "to/from" communications. Nor does the agency have the capability to selectively acquire certain types of "about" communications but not others.
At least some forms of "about" collection present novel and difficult issues regarding the balance between privacy and national security. But current technological limits make any debate about the proper balance somewhat academic, because it is largely unfeasible to limit "about" collection without also eliminating a substantial portion of upstream's "to/from" collection, which would more drastically hinder the government's counterterrorism efforts.
According to the PCLOB's interpretation, the "about" collection -- despite its many civil liberties issues -- could not be dropped without causing a significant loss of intel. In fact, the report goes so far as to claim the "about" collection itself is an "inevitable byproduct" of upstream surveillance -- rather than the way it actually appears to be: the inadvertent collection of US persons' communications is an inevitable byproduct of the "about" collection.
The NSA's statements on the ending of this program don't seem to cohere with the PCLOB's assertions, something pointed out by Jake Laperruque on Twitter.
Two statements were released by the NSA. The first seems more aligned with the PCLOB report's assertions about tech impossibilities and intel loss.
Even though NSA does not have the ability at this time to stop collecting "about" information without losing some other important data, the Agency will stop the practice to reduce the chance that it would acquire communications of U.S. persons or others who are not in direct contact with a foreign intelligence target.
The second statement, however, hints that the intel loss will not be nearly as significant as it's being portrayed... and that the "about" part was never a necessary part of intercepting "to/from" communications.
After considerable evaluation of the program and available technology, NSA has decided that its Section 702 foreign intelligence surveillance activities will no longer include any upstream internet communications that are solely "about" a foreign intelligence target. Instead, this surveillance will now be limited to only those communications that are directly "to" or "from" a foreign intelligence target. These changes are designed to retain the upstream collection that provides the greatest value to national security while reducing the likelihood that NSA will acquire communications of U.S. persons or others who are not in direct contact with one of the Agency's foreign intelligence targets.
The PCLOB's assertion that the "about" collection was an "inevitable byproduct" of upstream surveillance is nowhere to be found. The NSA itself states it can still perform upstream interception without nearly as much inadvertent collection simply by eliminating the "about" variable. If this is true, the NSA always had the capability to reduce the amount of inadvertently-collected communications. It just chose not to.
In any event, the upstream collection lives on, albeit in a slightly more constitutional form. The technical problem the NSA claimed prevented it from inadvertently collecting US persons' communications turns out to be something else: a minimal-impact search variable the agency could have eliminated years ago, bringing back some semblance of targeting to its surveillance work.
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The Email Collection The NSA Shut Down Has Been Abused For Years
from the and-it's-only-part-of-a-larger-collection dept
Fri, Apr 28th 2017 7:39pm — Tim Cushing
As was noted here earlier, the NSA surprised many people by shutting down its email collection. This collection was authorized by the FISA Amendments Act, which is due for renewal at the end of this year. Since the point the collection began, it was clear the NSA was also harvesting (inadvertently, it said) US persons' communications.
Ron Wyden, along with a few other lawmakers, has been asking the NSA for years to turn over information on this program -- specifically, how many US persons had been swept up "incidentally" in the bulk collection. For years, the NSA has refused to do so, claiming it would be impossible to compile this information and, somewhat hilariously, claiming it would violate the privacy of those swept up in the collection to query the database for incidental collections.
This decision to shut down the program may result in that answer never being given to Wyden. The ODNI (Office of the Director of National Intelligence) may decide the shutdown renders this particular query moot. It shouldn't. Now that the email program has been shut down EXPLICITLY because it sweeps up too many US persons' in the dragnet, the answer is more important than ever. And the ODNI has recently (and very belatedly) promised to deliver this number and should keep that promise even though the program has been shut down. Not only that, but this shutdown only affects the collection of email. It doesn't prevent the NSA from collecting other internet-based communications. With fewer people using email as their primary communication method, the NSA will still have plenty of communications to harvest.
There's another good reason for turning over that number: the Section 702 collection has been plagued with problems pretty much since its inception. The FISA court determined in 2011 that the program -- as operated by the NSA -- was unconstitutional. Apparently some fixes were made as the program was allowed to continue. But as Marcy Wheeler pointed out a year ago, the program has never not been violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
In his November 6, 2015 opinion reauthorizing Section 702, presiding judge Thomas Hogan described two more definite violations of 50 U.S.C. §1809(a)(2), and one potential one, bringing the list of times the FISC caught NSA illegally surveilling Americans to four, and potentially five, times.
Fall 2009 confession/July 2010 opinion: Collection of categories of data under the bulk PRTT program not permitted by the FISC (Bates' opinion describes a category violation reported to FISC in the very first PRTT docket, along with NSA's assurances it would never happen again)
June 2010 confession/December 10 2010, May 13, 2011 opinions: Retention of overcollected data from a traditional FISA warrant in mission management systems ultimately not deemed necessary for collection avoidance
May 2011 confession/October 3, 2011 opinion: Collection of entirely domestic communications on upstream surveillance MCTs
July 13, 2015 confession/November 6, 2015 opinion: Retention of 702 communications that had been otherwise purged in mission management systems, even though FISC had ruled against such retention in 2011
[Potential] July 13, 2015 confession/November 6, 2015 opinion: Retention of data that should have been purged or aged off in compliance databases
This is the authority the NSA wants approved at the end of the year. This shutdown might be an attempt to finally make the program legal -- or at least legal enough to survive a closer examination as the issue heads towards a vote.
This shutdown -- along with the NSA's long history of abuse -- also explains why there were no Section 702 approvals from the FISA court. As Wheeler suggested when the information was first released, the lack of approvals in 2016 indicated the program had "serious issues." Her post from last year shows the program has always had "serious issues." The number of requests the government made in 2016 was redacted from the report, but the footnote attached to it suggests it was more than one.
Perhaps the court no longer found the program Constitutional, at least not the way the NSA routinely operated it. While incidental collection is always a problem with bulk surveillance, the internal controls, which NSA talking points claim prevent abuse, apparently aren't controlling much or preventing much. It appears the NSA can't find a way to operate this part of the Section 702 program without collecting (and querying) US persons' communications, so it has decided to shut it down, rather than spend any more time and effort trying to talk the FISA court into approving its ritualistic abuse.
Despite having years to improve its practices and improve its segregation of collected data, the agency apparently did very little to rein this program in. A 2014 DOJ/ODNI report quoted by Wheeler shows misuse of collected data continued to increase even as the NSA sought orders to collect even more.
The joint oversight team, however, is concerned about the increase in incidents involving improper queries using United States person identifiers, including incidents involving NSA's querying of Section 702-acquired data in upstream data using United States Person identifiers. Specifically, although section 3(b)(5) of NSA's Section 702 minimization procedures permits the scanning of media using United States person identifiers, this same section prohibits using United States person identifiers to query Internet communications acquired through NSA's upstream collection techniques. NSA [redacted] incidents of non-compliance with this subsection of its minimization procedures, many of which involved analysts inadvertently searching upstream collection. For example, [redacted], the NSA analyst conducted approved querying with United States persons identifiers ([long redaction]), but inadvertently forgot to exclude Section 702-acquired upstream data from his query.
This continued abuse and misuse is highly problematic, although the ODNI has been the last entity to officially recognize this. The "upstream" collection not only results in vast amounts of intercepted communications, but is one the FBI's favorite sources for intel. The ODNI denies to this day the FBI's searches of the NSA's collections are "backdoor searches," but it's information and communications the FBI certainly can't collect itself under its legal authorities. The supposedly foreign-facing collection is routinely used by a domestic law enforcement agency to obtain US persons' communications without a warrant. That's a "backdoor" search, no matter how the ODNI portrays it.
No matter what else comes of it, this shutdown is huge. Even though it's a smaller part of a larger internet communications collection program, it's still a significant closure. And once again, this is a result of Snowden's leaks. Wyden's persistent pestering about incidental collection likely played a small part as well. But without documents clearly showing how much the program collected and how it was being used, the NSA would most likely still be trying to find a way to push these requests past the FISA court. And without this additional scrutiny, the court itself might have found itself more easily persuaded.
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Campaign to repeal death penalty in Wyoming launches on April 30
Janna Farley, jfarley@aclu.org
Dozens of Wyoming residents, civic and faith leaders and good government advocates will gather outside the State Supreme Court building in Cheyenne at noon on Tuesday, April 30, to launch the Wyoming Campaign to End the Death Penalty in 2020.
Repealing the death penalty in Wyoming will help eliminate racial and jurisdictional bias, reduce unnecessary waste of tax dollars and eliminate the risk of executing innocent people. The Campaign to End the Death Penalty in 2020 is supported by the ACLU of Wyoming, the Catholic Diocese of Cheyenne, the League of Women Voters of Wyoming, Holy Apostles Orthodox Christian Church of Cheyenne, and the Wyoming NAACP.
Speakers will include Rep. Jared Olsen, Father Christopher Xanthos from the Holy Apostles Orthodox Christian Church and Sabrina King from the ACLU of Wyoming. Marguerite Herman with the League of Women Voters and Bethany Baldes with Young Americans for Liberty will be the campaign launch emcees.
"Capital punishment is an intolerable denial of civil liberties and is inconsistent with the fundamental values of our democratic system," said Sabrina King, director of campaigns for the ACLU of Wyoming. "We know innocent people are sent to death row, we know the toll on victims' families from the death penalty is immense, and we know having it in law does not serve as a deterrent to violent crime. It's time to end the death penalty in Wyoming."
Ending the death penalty is not a partisan issue. The death penalty's history of deep injustices, skyrocketing costs and entrenched discrimination defies party lines.
In the 2019 Wyoming legislative session, a bill to repeal the death penalty drew far more support from state lawmakers than ever before. The bill had 13 co-sponsors in the House and five in the Senate, and had the support of leadership in both chambers. Ultimately, the bill passed in the House but failed with an 18-12 vote in the Senate.
WHAT: Campaign to End the Death Penalty in 2020 Campaign Launch
WHEN: 12 p.m. April 30
WHERE: Steps of the Wyoming State Supreme Court, 2301 Capital Ave., Cheyenne
FOR INFORMATION: https://www.facebook.com/WyoEndDP/
In case of inclement weather on April 30, an advisory will be sent Tuesday morning with an updated location.
About the ACLU of Wyoming
The American Civil Liberties Union of Wyoming is a non-partisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of civil liberties and civil rights. The ACLU of Wyoming is part of a three-state chapter that also includes North Dakota and South Dakota. The team in Wyoming is supported by staff in those states.
The ACLU believes freedoms of press, speech, assembly, and religion, and the rights to due process, equal protection and privacy, are fundamental to a free people. In addition, the ACLU seeks to advance constitutional protections for groups traditionally denied their rights, including people of color, women, and the LGBT communities. The ACLU of Wyoming carries out its work through selective litigation, lobbying at the state and local level, and through public education and awareness of what the Bill of Rights means for the people of Wyoming.


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The largest locality in the area is Cercedilla, with a population of 6,747 persons, at a distance of 11.480 kilometers	from the center of the map.
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"Leaders and workers of Grand Alliance should maintain restraint while making any statement," Tejashwi said. Tejaswhi, the younger son of RJD president Prasad, also asserted that "the Grand Alliance is rock solid like the Himalaya."
"So far, no offensive statement has been made by JD(U) against RJD national president Lalu Prasad," he said. Tejashwi's statement comes in the backdrop of statements and counter statements being made by RJD and JD(U) leaders in the wake of the two parties deciding to back different candidates in the presidential poll.
JD(U) has expressed its support for NDA presidential nominee Ramnath Kovind, former Bihar governor, while RJD and Congress are backing opposition candidate Meira Kumar, former Lok Sabha speaker.
RJD sources said that Prasad has also asked his party spokesmen to dispel 'confusion' being run in media about the two coalition partners taking different paths on this issue.
Senior RJD leader Raghuvansh Prasad Singh said that Nitish Kumar's decision to support Kovind has come as a setback to the efforts to put up a nationwide 'mahagathbandhan' (grand alliance) as an alternative to BJP.
"We are tolerating them (JDU) and we will continue to tolerate them just to contain BJP," Singh said. JD(U)'s state unit president Bashishtha Narayan Singh expressed displeasure over such a statement terming it as a clear violation of alliance's dignity.
"I will request Lalu Prasad ji to control such leaders," state JD(U) chief spokesman Sanjay Singh said.
The war of words started on 22 June after Prasad stated that he would appeal to Nitish Kumar not to commit "a historical blunder" by supporting Kovind. Prasad had made the comment after attending the opposition's meeting that picked Meira Kumar as its candidate for President's poll.


The computer maker's 55 percent revenue jump boosts its share price.
Breaking new records, Dell Computer (DELL) stock gained nearly 10 points today after the company surprised Wall Street with stronger-than-expected profits and announced a stock split yesterday.
The stock continued to leap over its all-time highs this morning, reaching as high as 124-7/8 before ending the day at 122-3/4, up more than 8 percent over yesterday's close of 113-3/16. About 22.1 million shares traded hands, more than twice average daily trading.
The company's strong quarterly results caught the attention of analysts.
Bear Stearns analyst Andrew Neff upped his rating on shares of Dell to "buy" from "attractive," and raised his fiscal 1999 earnings estimate to $3.60 per share, from $3.35 per share, and established a fiscal 2000 estimate of $4.75 per share.
BT Alex. Brown analyst Philip Rueppel upped his fiscal 1999 earnings estimate on the company to $3.70 per share, up from $3.45. He said in a research report that Dell's outlook is strong, but noted its revenue growth has slowed.
Dell yesterday beat analysts' expectations and reported a 55 percent jump in fourth-quarter revenues, with strong international sales and a thriving consumer business contributing to the bottom line.
Dell's board also declared a two-for-one stock split, a move that comes as the company has seen its share price grow 35 percent since January. Dell shares gained 1-7/8 today on the news, ending at 113-3/16, up from yesterday's close of 111-5/16.
The PC manufacturer reported that its revenues increased 55 percent, to more than $3.7 billion, in the fourth quarter ended February 1, up from $2.4 billion in revenues reported for the same quarter a year earlier.
Net income grew to $285 million, or 81 cents a share, compared with profits of $188 million, or 50 cents a share, reported for the same period a year ago. Analyst had expected profits of 76 cents a share, according to First Call.
Dell attributed its continued growth to strong demand for products in Europe and Asia, despite Asia's economic turmoil. Direct sales from the company's Web site also was a major factor, generating about $4 million per day by the end of last year.
"We see a healthy industry in the year ahead," Michael Dell, the company's chief executive, said in a statement. "Major demand drivers, including processor transitions and component cost reductions, remain solid...The move to the Intel Pentium II processor to run modern business and consumer applications and the latest Microsoft (MSFT) operating systems, including Windows NT and Windows 98, is already well underway."
He noted that the Pentium II represented nearly 90 percent of Dell Dimension desktop revenues, and 70 percent of OptiPlex desktop revenues, at the end of the fiscal year.
Revenues in Europe were nearly $1 billion in the fourth quarter, up 61 percent year-over-year. Revenues advanced in Germany, with 64-percent year-over-year growth, as well as in France, with a 70-percent increase.
Dell managed to achieve profitability in the fourth-quarter in the Asia-Pacific region, which includes Japan. Revenues for that area exceeded $240 million, a 79-percent increase over the year-ago quarter.
In the Americas, fourth-quarter revenues were $2.5 billion, a 51-percent increase over the same quarter a year ago. Dell said its consumer business nearly doubled year-over-year, but the company did not break out the actual revenue from this segment. Dell previously had been focused on supplying computers to businesses, only recently expanding its efforts to focus on the consumer market as well.
Growth in notebook sales and enterprise systems sales also drove Dell's strong earnings. Notebook revenues grew nearly 74 percent, to $2.2 billion, and the company's enterprise systems business, which is made up of server and workstation product sales, also grew. Dell did not break out fourth-quarter results, but said revenues increased more than 250 percent on a year-over-year basis, exceeding $1 billion for the year.
The company's gross margins grew to 22.1 percent in the quarter, from 21.7 percent a year ago, and its inventory turns averaged the equivalent of 52 turns during the year, compared with 28 turns a year earlier.
Dell's stock split, the company's fifth during the last six years, will be paid in the form of a dividend to be issued on March 6, to shareholders of record as of February 27.
Revenues for full-year fiscal 1998 increased 59 percent, to $12.3 billion, while earnings per share for the year were $2.56. Net profits were $944 million for the year, up from $518 million the previous year.


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Home International Robertson on a roll as WMRT turns to Russia
Robertson on a roll as WMRT turns to Russia
Current Match Racing World Champion Phil Robertson and his CHINAone NINGBO team are in a dominant position and on supreme form as they head to the fourth round of the World Match Racing Tour Championship season – the WMRT Match Cup Russia hosted by the St. Petersburg Yacht Club, supported by Gazprom, August 1-6.
Can the unique challenges of the Neva River in St Petersburg finally unsettle the New Zealander? It may take more than that, because though this is the first Championship level WMRT event in Russia, it is not the first time for Robertson.
"I've sailed in Russia about four times now," Robertson said. "It can be really beautiful – it's quite a stunning location to sail – but it comes with its challenges, which is being a river it's got probably a couple of knots of current, and is very shifty and puffy at the same time being in the middle of the city. So, it's a challenging place, but nonetheless very beautiful and a cool place to sail. You've got some beautiful buildings right on the edge of the race course, when the sun shines, it's a hard spot to beat."
These are not words to encourage the chasing pack – who given Robertson's record this year need all the encouragement they can get. Robertson won stage one, Match Cup Australia and has been generally unbeatable in July. He followed a crushing victory in the GKSS Match Cup Sweden at the beginning of the month, by winning the inaugural M32 World Championship in Marstrand, Sweden, and last weekend won the Extreme Sailing Series event in Barcelona. On the fourth week he rested.
"We've had a pretty good run, can't really complain," he said. "I'm just resting this week."
What does he put his form over the past two seasons (after victory at the WMRT Match Racing World Championship in 2016) down to? "There's nothing special to be honest, it's just years of hard work starting to pay off and we've found a nice little balance in the team and it seems to be working well. I'm improving a lot and still have a lot to improve on, so it's a nice spot to be in."
Robertson will never be able to take it easy with the likes of Ian Williams, the six-time world champion, in the wings. One Wild Card to watch is Victor Serezhkin, skipper of Gazprom Team Russia, who knows these waters and surprised everyone with his performances coming from behind on day 2 of the M32 World Championships a fortnight ago. He confirmed Robertson's view of what will face the teams.
"St Petersburg as a sailing venue is definitely one of the most interesting and beautiful in the world – just imagine that you're racing with the backdrop of all these amazing sites that you can almost reach out touch," Serezhkin said. "But from the sailor's point of view, this is one of the toughest racing venues. It's river, not a sea, so there's lots of current and the winds are shifty and puffy (going from) 5-15 knots in just seconds.
"St Petersburg events are always surprising. Yes, local knowledge plus some luck is half of the success. But (it's also about) smart sailing – the feature that the fleet has in abundance."
Racing will take place in the heart of St. Petersburg at the foot of the walls of the Peter-and-Paul Fortress, with the Winter Palace and Hermitage Museum to the south, Vasilievsky Island to the west, and the sailing so close to shore that spectators will not miss a beat. Fans will have unparalleled access to the event, the sailors, and the machines they race on as the event village will be situated on the beach in front of the Peter-and-Paul Fortress with the M32 catamarans landing there after racing each day.
Racing at WMRT Match Cup Russia begins Tuesday 1st August with the finals scheduled for Sunday. All action will be covered via wmrt.com
CONFIRMED ENTRIES
PHIL ROBERTSON (NZL) – CHINAONE NINGBO
IAN WILLIAMS (GBR) – GAC PINDAR
SAM GILMOUR (AUS) – NEPTUNE RACING
MATT JERWOOD (AUS) – REDLINE RACING
NICKLAS DACKHAMMAR (SWE) – ESSIQ RACING
JONAS WARRER (DEN) – WARRER RACING
SALLY BARKOW (USA) – TEAM MAGENTA 32
YANN GUICHARD (FRA) – SPINDRIFT RACING
VICTOR SEREZHKIN (RUS) – GAZPROM TEAM RUSSIA
MÅNS HOLMBERG (SWE) – GOTHENBURG RACING
STEVE THOMAS (AUS) – RPM RACING
NICO DELLE KARTH (AUT) – CHILLI RACING
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Professor Baran is particularly interested in interface engineering for organic/hybrid solar cells, transparent solar cells for building integrated photovoltaics and stability/degradation studies for long lifetime organic solar cells. She has led projects on i) conjugated polymers for electrochromic devices; ii) non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells; iii) multi-component and multi-layered solar cell devices; and iv) understanding the correlation between recombination and nano-morphology in solution processed solar cells.
Professor Baran aims to expand the applications of solution processable organic/hybrid semiconductors and to explore their limits in organic/hybrid thermoelectric devices and bio-electronics in the future.


The newspaper says that the salary being offered to the Manchester United midfielder may leave some PSG players' noses out of joint.
Having failed to agree a new contract at Manchester United, all the indications are that Ander Herrera will leave Old Trafford on a free transfer at the end of the season, with Paris Saint-Germain the midfielder's likely destination.
However, although PSG are in need of summer reinforcements in the engine room, particularly given Adrien Rabiot's first-team banishment and imminent departure, a report in the French media suggests that Herrera's arrival at the Parc des Princes could cause a rift in the dressing room.
According to Le Parisien, the 12m-euro annual wage that PSG are thought to be offering Herrera may not go down well at all with other long-serving, experienced members of the squad who earn less than that, such as Marquinhos and Marco Verratti, not least because the Spaniard is not expected to be a starter.
Ligue 1 leaders PSG face second-placed Lille on Sunday, needing just a point to secure their sixth French championship in the last seven years.


Larry Jefferson, playing the role of Santa, smiles with Jack Kivel at the Mall of America, in Bloomington, Minn. The nation's largest mall hosted its first-ever black Santa Claus.
Santa can be black, and Amy Schumer can be Barbie, and we can all just take a deep breath about who's portraying our fictional(!) icons.
For the first time in its 24-year history, suburban Minnesota's Mall of America — the mall-est of all malls — hired an African-American man to play Santa.
"We want Santa to be for everyone, period," Landon Luther, co-owner of the Santa Experience, which runs the studio at the mall, told the Minneapolis StarTribune.
So he went to a Santa convention in Branson, Mo., and happened upon Larry Jefferson, a retired U.S. Army veteran from Irving, Texas, who has been playing Santa since 1999, according to the paper.
"I'm just a messenger to bring hope, love and peace to girls and boys," Jefferson told the Star Tribune.
He belongs to the Lone Star Santas, a nonprofit that delivers toys to children whose homes have been struck by natural disaster. He has a fluffy white beard, a bright red suit and a jolly grin.
But his skin is black, so naturally people lost their minds.
Santa can embody joy and goodwill and the spirit of giving regardless of whether his skin matches yours. Just ask the millions upon millions of little black and Latino and Asian children who've been lining up to meet him for decades. Are white children so sheltered and insensitive that they can't imagine goodness coming from a nonwhite being?
Are their parents? Obviously some of them are.
I don't understand what we choose to hold sacred.
Amy Schumer is set to star in an upcoming live-action Barbie movie, the Hollywood Reporter announced late last week, which has prompted the dress-size police to take up arms (toned, svelte arms, no doubt).
Never mind that no actual human fits the Barbie mold; the doll's measurements would make her 6 feet tall and 100 pounds with a 39-inch bust. Barbie's waist is so small, according to estimates, that she would have room only for half a liver.
But, by all means, let's defend that ideal. Better for women to aspire to an anatomical impossibility than get the idea they can go around having actual hips.
If we don't want our icons to look more like America, what does that say about America?
If a whiff of diversity and inclusion in our fictional characters sets people on edge, what hope do we have for creating a more openhearted, open-minded, equal-opportunity place for living, breathing, working, loving human beings?
You can write off the Santa/Schumer blowback as a handful of nuts on social media. But people similarly waved away the vitriol aimed at the new "Ghostbusters" — What's the big deal? Some guys on Twitter are upset. — and that escalated into an all-out campaign to take down co-star Leslie Jones.
I'm done pretending a little racism here, a little cruelty there is no big deal. I don't want to shrug off hostility and harassment. I don't want to place the same nonsense limitations on make-believe characters that we place on real people. It reveals an alarming lack of empathy and fairness and cheats us out of making real progress toward unity.
We can't let this stuff become par for the course, or the course is going to lead us backward.


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Spookomotive Train Ride Promises an October of Delightful Halloween Surprises
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Located in Old Sacramento State Historic Park, the Sacramento Southern Railroad's vintage cars serve as haunted rolling stock to the delight of the whole family. A century and a half of railway travel lends itself to plenty of ghost stories, and kids of all ages and their parents alike are enthralled by the enchanting tales.
This delightful, not frightful train is just the ticket for the whole family. For three special weekends, guests will enjoy exciting onboard entertainment and a tasty Halloween treat. The whimsically decorated and diesel-powered train ride is crawling with spiders, cobwebs and cornstalks, and staffed by a "skeleton crew." Train ride guests are encouraged to get in the spirit and dress up according to these fun weekly themes: Superheroes & Villains, Pirates & Princesses and Witches & Wizards. For guests desiring a VIP experience, ride in the First Class Mad Scientist Laboratory!
The Spookomotive Train Ride runs for only the last three weekends in October, starting on October 14. Imagine the excitement the kids feel when it comes time to share haunted tales in mid- to late October.
Unlike the quick trip through a stationary haunted house, the Spookomotive Train Ride lasts 45 minutes—plenty of time to get one's ghoul on. Each year, this novel excursion sells out, so don't wait to fill your pumpkin with tickets.
The Sacramento Southern Railroad has carried more than two million riders since 1984. In addition to the Spookomotive Train Rides, the all-volunteer, fully certified crew offers a variety of excursions every Tuesday in October.
Make room in your Halloween escapade for a visit to the California State Railroad Museum, the most popular train museum in North America and a Smithsonian Affiliate. The 225,000 square foot museum displays a combination of rotating and permanent exhibits. After touring the hands-on museum, visitors depart fully aware of the critical role the railroad played in the history of California and the West.
Like riding the rails, visiting the California State Railroad Museum is always full of new surprises. Exhibits range from the use of silent signals, "Without Words," to the future, "Fast Tracks: The World of High Speed Rail." The relationship between Sacramento and the railroad is always on display with innovative displays such as "Off the Clock: Sports Clubs of the Southern Pacific," illustrating some of western America's first blue-collar sports clubs. The permanent exhibit "Small Wonders: The Magic of Toy Trains" is a favorite with the kids. Featuring 1,000 vintage toy trains in six themed displays, there is plenty to keep the young ones entertained.
Get your Spookomotive Train tickets early as they sell out fast. Grab your costume and gather your little ghosts and goblins for a delightful, not frightful, good time!
Visit the California Railroad Museum's website here to purchase tickets for the Spookomotive Train and to plan your next visit to the Museum.
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Countries need to unite to fight terrorism
16 Dec 2013 18:10pm
WINDHOEK, 16 DEC (NAMPA) - The Director-General of the Namibia Central Intelligence Service (NCIS), Lieutenant General (retired) Lucas Petrus Hangula says countries need to coordinate and unite in the fight against terrorism.
Hangula, who opened a five-day workshop which is set to evaluate and review the implementation of Namibia's counter-terrorism strategy in the capital on Monday, said the world became smaller with the development of new, fast-moving technology.
He noted that Africa has historically remained largely unaffected by terrorism until the emergence of self-selected religion-based terrorism which now makes up the majority of terrorist threats.
"I am referring to the kind of terrorism that is perpetuated by international organisations such as Al Qaeda," he said.
He explained that there are inherent challenges that confront governments and the security and law enforcement agencies to track and forestall terrorism.
Terrorist groups, he noted, do not operate easily identifiable operating infrastructures, but through highly closed cells and lone radicalised individuals, making it difficult to detect terrorist capabilities and intentions, which in itself presents serious challenges to the effective implementation of counter terrorism strategies.
Hangula said looking at the pattern of terrorist attacks globally, terrorists are prepared to carry out attacks against their selected targets anywhere in the world and terrorist groups and inspired individuals will use any country to organise, plan, train, raise funds, and recruit people.
He said this places an enormous obligation on governments to assess possible vulnerabilities with a view toward closing any gaps that could allow terrorist groups opportunities to carry out attacks or undertake organising and logistic support activities.
"It is in this context that we in Namibia should welcome and commend the initiative by the Africa Centre for the Study and Research of Terrorism to evaluate Namibia's preparedness and effectiveness implementing the counter terrorism strategy," he said.
He added that the country, government, the intelligence and security agencies in particular need to evaluate and review the implementation of the counter terrorism strategy frequently and consistently.
Hangula said there is a need to strengthen the policy and legislative environment, the presence and responsiveness of the security measures around key areas and activities that require protection, the country's capabilities to respond and recover from the impact of terrorist incidences should these occur.
He noted that there is also a need to streamline cooperation and coordination at the national, continental and global levels in order to best exploit synergetic opportunities.
A delegation from the African Union (AU)'s Africa Centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism is in the country to evaluate and review the implementation of the Namibia Central Intelligence Service's counter-terrorism strategy during the workshop.
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The reply to that query is simple for most individuals. People with uncommon pets are simpler targets and are subjected to public scrutiny as a result of their alternative of species is in contrast to that of the bulk. Many canines are forcibly selectively bred" (and their puppies abducted) to have unnatural traits and suffer from well being problems , shortened life spans , and impaired psychological development.
Recognize your support and willingness to supply a lifetime of love to an animal in need. Collars and leashes are a necessity until a dog has its own area to run in. As with cats, ID tags are must-have items. • They know that animals too respect care, love, color, and trend.
For instance, reptiles and amphibians are carriers of salmonella an infection and each year thousand of people within the US contract this illness due to their pets. Pets make great companions for teenagers, helping them in occasions of emotional turmoil or hassle in addition to educating them about nature and non human beings.
Conscious of the significance of caring in your pet, we can not transport certain dog and cat breeds in the plane hold since they're extra vulnerable to warmth stroke and breathing issues when exposed to emphasize or high temperatures. As you might already know, these kinds of exotic animals have already been labeled as endangered species, which signifies that getting them from their native island is strictly prohibited by the government.
Rabbits are additionally not the perfect pet for teenagers, as they're prey animals and thus hate any forced interplay (which any child eager to pet them is likely to do). Also below-reported are much less severe bites that the homeowners and their acquaintances sustain as a result of they don't want to report their beloved pets.


Raydium 3D Game Engine • View topic - Collada support, current progress is..
Collada support, current progress is..
Post subject: Collada support, current progress is..
How is the current Collada 3D support in Raydium?
Being worked on, completed, being worked on and usable?
I am interesting as this may be a better way for animation in Raydium?
Will I be able to make animation's with keyframes in blender and export as Collada and import into raydium as animation?
Post subject: Re: Collada support, current progress is..
As far as I understand, the current work around Collada in the engine aims provide a "gateway" for 3D mesh, allowing to load directly Collada files without using the usual blender-import-export step, so animation support does not seems planned.
But on the other end, vicente is working on a great feature, the Cal3D support, a real animation system, with Blender support.
My bad! I thought Cal3D was short for Collada 3D.. of course it would be Col3D if it was..
How is the current Cal3D support in Raydium?


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Engaging Visitors Of Glenview Preserve With Interpretive Signage
Abstract: Glenview Preserve is a Lowland forest and Field property that boarders the Bloomingdale Bog. Implementing an educational system at the preserve would lead to more public interaction that would guarantee support for the Adirondack Land Trust's mission objectives. This approach would involve the development of an interpretive day-use site, interpretive programs and signs, and an outdoor education space. For my portion I will be investigating how the Adirondack Land Trust can construct interpretive signage that is weather resistant and provides valuable content. The quality of the content will be evaluated using the National Association of Interpretation principles of POETRY. These signs will promote ALT's mission objectives by encouraging people to make a difference after their visit through well-constructed and entertaining information. Visitors will donate money to ensure that having an educational system at the preserve is a leading concern of the Adirondack Land Trust's management plan for Glenview Preserve.
Major: Integrative Studies, Natural Resources Conservation and Management, Recreation, Adventure Education and Leisure Management, Parks and Conservation Management
File Attachments: How Can the Adirondack land trust use interpretive signs to conserve the treasures of Glenview Preserve
Authors: Tiffany Elizabeth Marie Clark
Student of Natural Resources and Conservation Management
Fall 2018 graduate of Paul Smith's College
Feasibility Study of an Outdoor Classroom Area in Glenview Preserve
Abstract: The Glenview Property is 238 acres with a lot of potential. One of those potentials could be to create a sustainable education area for the public. The Glenview Preserve is known for its scenic view of the mountains, its lowland boreal forest, and its productive farmland. The Adirondacks are known for its forestry, agriculture, and open space recreation. The Adirondack Land Trust owns and manages this area. The ideal main uses of this property are agricultural, educational, sustainable outreach programs, and a balance between natural and artificial scenery (Adirondack Land Trust, 2017). Within the Adirondacks, where the beauty is breathtaking, recreation is at world-class level, and the land is environmentally protected, experiences are held in order to promote environmental awareness. With local resources and the natural growing land space, a sustainable education area can be built. Additional projects within the area includes an amphitheater, a kiln, and raised garden spaces.
Major: Integrative Studies
File Attachments: CapFinal.docx
Authors: Quinn Jordan
Abstract: Chocolate is found everywhere but not usually thought about in savory dishes. Most people also do not think about what chocolate goes through to become a finished product. In my dinner, I showed how chocolate can be used in a four-course meal. My paper then goes through how cocoa is grown, the process, fair trade chocolate, health benefits, history, cocoa uses, and different kinds of chocolate.
File Attachments: All of Capstone.docx , Presentation Poster (1).pptx
Authors: Amber Noecker
"Pickling in Dessert Products"
Abstract: History of pickling and the different methods that can be used. The Pickling of fruits and vegetables in dessert products.
File Attachments: Capstone Paper Final.docx , poster_template capstone.ppt
Authors: Kayla King
The Application of Silvicultural Treatments to Establish and Maintain Early Successional Habitat in the Adirondack Forests of New York State
Abstract: Early successional habitat (ESH) in New York state can be described as young forests comprising trees, shrubs, grasses, and other herbaceous plants that form relatively open canopies with dense understories. ESH has decreased due to nearly ninety percent of the naturally occurring shrublands of North America having been destroyed. The destruction of this habitat is of top concern due to the threatened and endangered species whom rely on these sorts of habitats to thrive. Considering the future climate projections, population models, and theoretical species distribution, responsible stewardship is needed to manage in favor of ESH types. A meta-analysis of various journals and databases was performed to synthesize information into a general management plan for establishing ESH in the Adirondacks. Through combining methods and silvicultural management practices from past plans in the northeastern United States, as well as background knowledge of the area, this management plan has been tailored specifically for an Adirondack forest. These outlined silvicultural treatments may also be extended to a variety of other forest types in the eastern U.S.A. Re-establishing young forests throughout the region is the goal of this plan. In doing so, these practices will enhance the health, resiliency, and biodiversity of the Adirondack region, and New York State by creating critical ESH which the fauna and flora of this region depend upon.
Major: Integrative Studies, Natural Resources Management and Policy
File Attachments: Morin_Baker_Bice_capstone.docx
Authors: Nicole Morin, Ryan Baker, Ora Bice
Osgood Property: Recreation Plan
Abstract: The recreation plan being proposed is for Osgood Property. Once created it will benefit Paul Smiths College along with the surrounding community. This recreation area will attract more students to the college enhancing the economy of the community. The plan being proposed isn't just for economic value, it will also allow access to more green space benefiting all involved. The plan consists of the construction of new trails, a mountain bike track, campsites and more. Having it so close by will allow individuals who don't have cars to utilize recreation activities more easily.
Major: Parks, Recreation and Facilities Management
File Attachments: Capstone paper FINAL to Libaray.docx , PRK 490 Capstone poster, Osgood Property.pptx
Authors: Dan Morrison, Andrew Ronan, Anthony Catalano, Kyle Salway
Roots of Paul Smith's - Interpreting Our Past to Inspire Our Future : A conceptual design for an interpretive trail guide exhibit on Paul Smith's College campus
Abstract: It is a pivotal time for Paul Smith's College (PSC) where many of those directly involved with its inception are no long with us. PSC history was shaped by the Adirondack wilderness and together they influence how the college is run today. This project aimed to create the conceptual design for an interpretive trail exhibit on PSC campus. I worked with a professional exhibit designer to develop artistically inspired signage using archival photos to bring to life the heritage and natural history of the Paul Smith's. Extensive research, input from stakeholders, and professional design guidance were utilized to create the content for six interpretive signs, a conceptual design, two formative evaluations, an estimated budget, and two campus sustainability fund proposals. These signs are meant to engage and inspire the current and future members of the Paul Smith's College community, to build a deeper appreciation for the heritage that makes us unique.
File Attachments: Capstone Report Final Version.pdf
Authors: Leanne Ketner
Outward Bound semester: Skills to last a life time
Abstract: The focus of this study will examine the level at which an Outward Bound semester fosters personal growth, connection with nature, and hard skills. This particular Outward Bound semester course traveled from the Florida Keys then on to Costa Rica and Panama in Central America. The course focused on the water elements of sailing, surfing, whitewater rafting, scuba diving, and sea kayaking. Methods used include personal journal reflections, peer and instructors oral and written responses. The researcher was an active participant in the immersive experience and kept a journal of the entire experience trying to gather as much information about the course itself and reflecting on the research process throughout. This research indicated that this experience developed personal character and a connection with nature. These skills have an impact deeper than an isolated course with Outward Bound but can be transferred to daily life.
Major: Recreations, Adventure Travel and Ecotourism, Recreation, Adventure Education and Leisure Management, Parks, Recreation and Facilities Management
File Attachments: Outward Bound semester: Skills to last a life time
Authors: Sam Annable
Building Families Stronger
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to design a program that can be implemented in local camps to accommodate the needs of individuals in a family group affected by mental illness. The study will explain the importance of educating individuals about mental illness and integrating supportive behaviors. This program is designed to help families cope with the effects mental illness can have on the entire family dynamic. Families are often the strongest support system for dealing with mental illness and educating families is essential for success of the mentally ill. Team building games are used to enhance social behaviors and encourage group bonding, this program uses a recreational therapeutic approach to addressing issues in the lives of those affected by mental illness. To figure out how many people will be most likely be using the therapy program, a survey was created using a series of questions that went with the topic for respondents to answer. In fact the survey established that the majority of people agree on recreational approach to therapy as a means of coping with their illness in real life tasks. Other questions asked was what their favorite activities where, such as paddle sports and hiking. Another question was what disability was so as to get an idea what accommodations would be need and services for patients involved with the program.
Major: Fisheries and Wildlife Science, Natural Resources Environmental Science, Parks, Recreation and Facilities Management
File Attachments: Building Families Stronger.docx
Authors: Courtney Berg, Douglas Menge, Ashley Beldock
Downtown Saranac Lake Urban Forest Management Plan
Abstract: Trees and green spaces are important resources to any community. They are public spaces which provide havens of relaxation, play, and mental and physical stimulation. Trees and green spaces have been proven to have a positive impact on the mental and physical wellbeing of area residents. However, the care of these trees and green spaces is often overlooked or not planned for, leading to human/nature conflicts at a fine scale (local level). This is where arborists enter; arborists are individuals trained in the art of caring for trees, and are often involved in every stage of a tree's life cycle, from planting to removal. But arborists are also teachers, acting as the intermediary between urban trees and the public and providing education to the people. The village of Saranac Lake, New York, is no different. The results of the data collected on Saranac Lake's downtown street trees and parks were analyzed and compiled into a comprehensive urban tree management plan. A total of 236 trees and shrubs were inventoried and assessed for their health, overall condition, and pruning needs. Also included in the urban tree management plan are observations on the current state of the urban forest, recommendations for the mitigation and correction of any observable problems, and prevention and treatment courses of action for any future insect pests.
Major: Forestry, Parks, Recreation and Facilities Management
File Attachments: Downtown Saranac lake Urban Forest Management Plan.pdf
Authors: Michael O'Sullivan, Danielle Rageotte
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