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Urban Permaculture: Rooftop Gardening
These notes form a part of sanjeev_shankar's research, which is summarised in his research report
The first option for rooftop gardening is container gardening, a less formal, highly flexible, cheaper form of roof gardening which is commonly seen in cities worldwide. In container gardening, few to no modifications are made to the existing roof structure; containers – anything from plastic swimming pools to recycled-wood planters – are placed on a rooftop and filled with the desired soil type and plants. One of the problems here is the soil in rooftop containers might thaw on a warm winter day. Further roof container gardens dry out quickly and often require daily watering unless a mulch cover such as straw, wood chips or even a sub-soil layer of newspapers and compost is used to slow down evaporation. Also, in places with extreme climate, the container material must be carefully considered.
The second type of roof garden is green roofs in which the rooftop actually becomes the planting medium. In the early 1960's green roof technology was developed in Switzerland and enhanced in many countries, particularly Germany. In the 1970's, a significant amount of technical research was carried out on root repelling agents, waterproof membranes, drainage, and lightweight growing media and plants. By the year 1996, 10 million square meters of roofs in Germany had been covered with gardens. In European countries such as France, Germany and Austria, green roofs are viewed as an effective strategy for increasing green space in cities, reducing stormwater runoff and achieving other environmental benefits. A green roof involves more intensive investments(upto two times the cost of a normal roof), but comes with its own set of advantages, including greater storm-water retention, building insulation, and the formation of patchwork urban ecosystems, which work to reverse the fragmentation of ecosystems that follows urbanization by offering temporary habitats to fauna such as birds and butterflies during their long migrations. Green roofs are constructed using a special root and water-proof membrane for the base layer, then a root barrier, a retention/drainage layer, plus the soil layer, and finally the plants. Alpine plants or desert succulents are often used for green roofs, as they can withstand harsh rooftop conditions like wind, erosion, and extreme temperature. Native plants are also used for rooftop plantings, though all of them are not conducive for roof top conditions. Herbs are commonly grown too as they need minimal soil depth. With a modular green roof system, roof infrastructure access and maintanence has become much easier as parts of the roof can be moved independently.
see as well Green Roof Systems
Rooftop Hydroponics
The third rooftop garden possibility is rooftop hydroponics, in which plants are grown in a soilless medium(peat, sand, gravel, old rubber tires, rockwool, perlite or vermiculite) and fed a special nutrient solution. Rooftop hydroponics can be the lightest of the three options and may offer the possibility for faster plant growth(up to two to four times) and increased productivity. The purest form of hydroponics is water culture, in which a plant's crown is supported by a thin layer of substrate, while its roots are immersed in a nutrient solution. Hydroponic systems can be divided generally into two groups – passive and active systems. Passive systems are the most simple, and the cheapest, requiring only a container with drainage, a tray that holds liquid, and a growing medium. Plants are hand watered with the nutrient solution and soak up the solution via capillary action. Active systems include "ebb and flow" or "flood and drain," in which a pump regularly floods the plant tray with nutrient solution, which then drains back into a holding tank. Various other systems require different growing media and methods of irrigation, but all need to be monitored for pH and nutrient solution strength, since plants have different nutrient requirements during different stages of their growth. Commercial systems can cost from $100 to several thousand dollars. Hydroponics can be practiced anywhere, even indoors, with the help of artificial lighting, and no digging or weeding is generally required. Growing conditions are highly controlled, so plants can be provided with the best possible conditions, resulting in better quality, disease-resistant plants with higher yields – commercial tomato growers have reported yields up to 40 times higher per hectare than soil-grown plants. Almost any kind of plant can be grown hydroponically – tomatoes, peppers, rhubarb, cucumbers, squash, snow peas, beans, spinach, lettuce, strawberries, chard, and broccoli are just some examples.
Another technology spin off of hydroponics is aeroponics, where a hydroponic nutrient solution is sprayed onto plant roots dangling in light-proof boxes. It allows temperate-climate fresh vegetables to be produced economically in tropical and sub-tropical climates. Aquaponics, on the other hand is the combination of aquaculture and hydroponics. It is the symbiotic cultivation of plants and aquatic animals in a recirculating environment. Nutrient rich fish water is pumped from the fish tank into gravel beds, where plants growing in the gravel extract the nutrients from the water. The water then drains back into the fish tank cleaned of excess nutrients and freshly oxygenated. Aquaponic systems do not discharge or exchange water. The systems rely on the natural relationship between the aquatic animals and the plants to maintain the environment. Water is only added to replace water loss from absorption by the plants or evaporation into the air.1)
Rooftop gardens:
Cool and shade buildings reducing the 'heat island' effect of a city
Retain and utilize rainwater, provide wildlife habitat and enhance the roof membrane life
Have an aesthetic appeal creating a private haven
Remove heavy metals such as cadmium, copper, and lead from runoff.
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve the air quality by trapping and absorbing nitrous oxides, volatile organic compounds and airborne particulate matter
Overcome the problem of restrictive land prices and with other vertical sufaces of a building infact create more land.
Are better off with respect to pests, vandalism and theft as compared to community gardens on land.
Some interesting developments:
In Switzerland and parts of Germany, this kind of mental shift – resulting in imagining buildings as displacing and not destroying land surface – has become federal law: developers must either improve the biodiversity of existing land, or transfer the green space that they displace to their rooftop or other building surface.
Rooftop gardens are a billion dollar industry in Germany
One clause of the Russian law states that authorities are obliged to help gardening associations with roads construction and repair, as well as water drainage and supply.
Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, both used roof gardens extensively in their architecture
New York has established a green roof task force, which is exploring direct government support of green roofs, including tax credits and other incentives
The Earth Pledge Foundation in New York strives to address sustainability at the local level – its programs include the Green Roof Initiative, which encourages initiatives to green New York City's rooftops, and the Waste=Fuel program,which aims to facilitate an industrial infrastructure for turning food waste into fuel,enabling the city to generate electricity, heat, and steam.
Hydroponics is found to be way too complex and expensive in lot of eastern countries and some of african countries too. In these places, roof gardens build out of local materials are most suitable. They are repair and maintained by the communities themselves. This is seen in places like India, St. Petersburg and Senegal. Infact, in Senegal people have devised a local solution using bricks and wooden box beds. In India too, the use of locally available cheap materials to create roof gardens is most successful. The 'Doshi System' is offered as the most suitable method. It uses sugarcane stalks, collected from sugarcane juice vendors outside of his house, as biomass. This is lightweight, allows water drainage, and keeps soil in place.
Singapore Government's objective is to displace around 20% of the annual consumption of 380,000 tonnes of fresh vegetables consumed each year with local production (currently at only 5% pa of the total), this is significant justification for more serious analysis of rooftop production of fresh vegetables across the whole of Singapore. The Asian city-state is also closely lookingn at new equipment from Australia that is being developed for sub-tropical and tropical hydroponics, aquaculture, aquaponics and vermiculture.2)
An interesting case study to solve the problem of soil load in roof gardens is midorie - a new environment greening project which delivers soil-less roof and wall garden system.3) In an effort to help keep Tokyo and other cities green and ease the so-called 'heat-island' problem of rising temperatures in crowded metropolitans, Japanese brewer Suntory Ltd. has created an alternative to soil. The motivation behind the fake soil is that Tokyo has very strict load requirements due to its earthquake-prone location, hence real dirt is hard to come by. The synthetic dirt substitute, 'Pafcal', weighs less than half as much as real soil and is made of urethane. When used as a roof garden, it can reduce the internal temperature of a building up to 10 degrees Celsius (18 degrees Fahrenheit)
The most significant challenges facing roof top gardens in all its forms are issues of access and roof load capacity. These barriers are especially problematic in liability-obsessed countries like the United States, although concerns for safety and building protection are certainly valid. Lack of knowledge or incentives, funding, water supply, safety, and the harshness of rooftop environments are also major barriers. Still, rooftop agriculture is slowly becoming more common, particularly in the developing world, where rooftop food production may have a significant impact on food security and income, solutions are creative and site-specific, and roofs are often built of different materials than those in the developed world. There is still a need for the rapidly-advancing green roof industry that has been nurtured in Europe, and now brought to North America, to look at Asia and Oceania for new directions. It will make for an interesting blend of collaborative projects and information exchanges between two diverse regions on the planet.
For more details and case studies about rooftop gardens around the world, please click on the documents below:
roofgarden_thesis.pdf(This is a senior honors thesis from Cornell University)
rooftop_and_vertical_gardens_as_adaption_strategy_for_urban_areas.pdf(National Research council & Institute for Research in construction)
roof_top_permaculture.pdf
http://www.greenroofs.com
http://www.hydrogarden.com
http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/
http://www.greenroofs.com/archives/gf_nov-dec05.htm
http://www.suntory.com/about/news/2008/10033.html
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REJECTION - I wish I knew a lot less about this topic matter, but alas, I am a writer, therefore I am besties with the concept of rejection.
I've rocked in many a corner, after the high of submitting something I thought had promise, then the low of the 'no' shooting straight to the heart. It's often difficult to differentiate between your writing being rejected and you being rejected.
But after ten years of this game, I've realised that receiving the rejections doesn't get any easier, there's naturally disappointment when a story idea or article pitch doesn't get accepted, but there are some coping strategies that can help.
I must admit, the bigger the project, the bigger the fall, too. I had a novel manuscript rejected by Penguin Random House and that definitely kneecapped me. Whereas article pitches are part of daily life for most freelance writers, so we need to learn ways to accept, learn and move on from a rejection. I wrote about it over on Rachel's List. Check it out here.


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Conform recensământului din 2001, majoritatea populației satului Velîmce era vorbitoare de ucraineană (%), existând în minoritate și vorbitori de alte limbi.

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Elliott Smith – Heaven Adores You: The Soundtrack
Posted on July 27, 2016 by Nick Soulsby in Reviews // 0 Comments
Knowledge is cumulative; it's impossible to unlearn once absorbed. I didn't hear a song by Elliott Smith until sometime after he left the planet in October 2003 and I will never hear his music unshaded by death's shadow. I will never encounter his music coloured by the hopefulness that surrounded his early success and celebration, or feel how welcome his brighter, gentler vibe was in the post-grunge context. There's no way to recover from exposure to information. If I try to imagine Smith's works without the shroud wrapped around them then I'm keenly aware that it's a pretence of innocence; that I'm only pretending not to hear that pall. Intellectually I know the emotion, the mood, would be so different hearing these songs on a summer's day in 1996, or catching Smith's TV performance for the Oscars in 1998.
In truth, music is always adulterated, impure. The double vinyl soundtrack to the documentary Heaven Adores You sits next to the DVD film on my shelves – but it was only this week, one year on from its release, that I watched the film. What scared me was knowing that seeing it would indelibly stain each note with the images or words they accompany. The lightness of 'Say Yes', always a tune of appealing warmth, is now bound to his ex-girlfriend saying she wished it had been written under better circumstances; they had broken up – while I hadn't even noticed it was a song about recovering after a relationship. On the flip side, I had heard 'Christian Brothers' – recorded with his band Heatmeister – as a work Elliott moved on from, but now I'm aware I simply missed the chance to hear Heatmeister as one of Portland's bright young hopes.
Of course nothing is ever just about the music. Recordings made in the life of an artist are suffused with wider visions, desires, movements, waves far beyond the sonic dimension that arrives on wax. Posthumous recordings double down on this compromise between information and sound. What is lost is 'hope': the knowledge that – no matter how good or bad a record is – there's something new, something different, still to come whether an evolution of a successful formula or a complete overthrow of expectations. Posthumous releases strip music of that emotional core, replacing one of the fundamental features of music as a lived communion between artist and listener with a hollow void. Grief is the primary response to that absence, emerging as the fury and frustration fans often vent toward any archive project.
In the case of Heaven Adores You, it would be a piteously harsh soul who doubted the good intentions behind this tribute to Elliott Smith which was initiated by fans of his work, has had its music curated by old friends, features interviews with the core people who shared his life, and even involves a percentage of profit going to the Outside In charity for the homeless and disadvantaged in Portland. The film itself is saturated in Smith's music – far more than the extensive selection featured in the soundtrack – indicating the strong work conducted to ensure the estate/copyright holders were willing to cooperate with the project and permit its use. The film, in general, is an effective mixture of documentary tropes – lingering shots of significant locations, talking head context and archival review.
While living artists have the luxury of letting a release evolve over time as a snapshot of where they are, what they're thinking, a posthumous project requires a hard choice to be made because all that can ever emerge is a cross-section sliced from a dwindling subject. In this case the soundtrack is tied quite tightly to the film's chronological narrative structure thus providing an overview of Smith's entire career ranging from early teenage demos, through various collaborations, onward across his solo phase. It can be seen as a more expansive and wide-ranging companion to the An Introduction To… compilation released on Kill Rock Stars in 2010, however, there's a significant trove of unheard versions or unreleased material here which elevates it a step beyond the latter's 'greatest hits with cursory extras' approach.
A further strength of Heaven Adores You lies in its diversity; the blend of studio recordings, demo recordings, solo and group pieces, keeps it interesting. Two songs are performed live and ordinarily the insertion of live renditions amid studio material simply serves to indicate the superiority of studio recording and fidelity – I was surprised here by 'Miss Misery (Live on Late Night with Conan O'Brien).' There's something horrendously incongruous about the host's bonhomie, which feels so many grey miles away from Smith's mood. Likewise I can barely comprehend the crowd whooping it up for this charmingly downhearted track – there's a fathomless disconnect here. It testifies to Smith's strength as an artist that stood in the artificial world of the talk-show his very presence makes everyone else seem phony.
That sense of division is, for me, the key that unlocks this release. Across the record whatever message or lesson one might take about who Elliott Smith was comes with a counter. There's a refusal to reduce him to a one line summary; there's a person here who resists easy categorisation. While 'Miss Misery' shows Smith alone in a crowd – who applaud him no more or less than they would the latest bright young thing – 'Say Yes (Live at Yo Yo Festival 1997)' finds him comfortably at home inviting requests and chatting back and forth with audibly engaged fans who discuss what to play with him before listening respectfully as he performs. This isn't a scared or tormented man mumbling while staring at his feet; as the fifteen seconds of applause end he's straight back to amicable chat as the song cuts off.
The curators of this soundtrack seem wholly in accord with Smith; at times they create the duality, at other times he needs no assistance. 'I Love My Room' is the soundtrack's goofy suckerpunch – an earnest, yet funny, ballad devoted to the pleasures of Smith's four walls and skilfully rendered with multiple parts and backing vocals. The song works on numerous levels, most obviously as the closing track contrasting with the seriousness of much else on this record, again as a reminder of Smith's virtuosity, then as a mark of his wilful flakiness ("Sometimes I'll smoke a cigarette but be careful so the ashes don't collect…") But then come the final two lines, the warmth of "See you in a little while my baby," spat back out with the simultaneous chill and innocence of "See you underneath the willow tree" spoken like an invitation to the grave.
Considering the soundtrack as a whole it's remarkable how something so diverse can be bound so tight. I felt no need to parse it down, to be selective, each time I've listened to it I gobble the album whole in single sittings. Instrumental tracks cluster together on the first half of the release and provide far more pleasures than just a chance to spot influences or appreciate Smith's mastery of his instrument. There's a range of emotion and approach here. 'Unknown Song (Instrumental)' feels like a surf-tinged castoff just waiting for lyrics to be applied; 'Untitled Melancholy Song' works just fine as a soaring rock instrumental; 'Untitled Soft Song in F' steps into warmer vibes while straying close to gypsy jazz territory. Even 'Untitled Guitar Finger Picking', recorded at age fourteen, testifies to a guy whose castoffs and practices maintain interest.
Other ghosts walk through these songs. The spirit of Nick Drake leaves footprints on something like 'The Last Hour (Early Version).' The film commented on comparisons to Simon & Garfunkel, something that hadn't occurred to me until then. The dimension to the film, missing from the soundtrack, is the sense of a man always on the cusp of moving on; Smith is constantly leaving places, people, bands, sounds behind – nothing is more than a frame or two away from a farewell. It is album highlight 'Everything Means Nothing to Me' that serves to purposefully reconnect film and soundtrack. The beauteous piano and multitracked vocals create something approximating a lost McCartney classic before the drums crash in, electronic strings sore and the chorus line loops over to leave a sense of the protagonist simply strolling away into the sound.
So, though there are few revelations herein – no noise experiments, no wild diversions or ten minute solos – Heaven Adores You achieves a notable complexity and intimacy. There's no attempt to palm the listener off with one particular vision of Smith – some unsophisticated and unreal singularity. Instead, honest friendship and kindness is revealed through never allowing any image of Smith to settle for too long. The man seen here is too complicated, too diverse; an ultimately human figure…And what more beautiful tangled epitaph can there be for anyone beyond declaring them human in all the magisterial, profane, joyful and bereft ways that may imply?
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Shushanik (Shushanika, Vardandukht) [, ; c. 440 – 475] was a Christian Armenian woman who was tortured to death by her husband Varsken in the town of Tsurtavi, Georgia. Since she died defending her right to profess Christianity, she is regarded as a martyr. Her martyrdom is described in her confessor Jacob's hagiographic work, the oldest extant work of Georgian language literature. The hagiography details Shushanik's extensive resistance to imprisonment, isolation, torture and cruelty.

Shushanik was a daughter of the Armenian military commander Vardan Mamikonian and married  the Mihranid ruler (pitiakhsh) Varsken, son of Arshusha II. Varsken was a defiant vassal of Vakhtang I Gorgasali, King of Kartli (Iberia), and took a pro-Persian position, renouncing Christianity and adopting Zoroastrianism. He killed his spouse after she refused to submit to his order to abandon her Christian faith. Varsken himself was put to death by King Vakhtang in 482.

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Attending the Annual Mass offered for the living and deceased members of the Sodality.
Praying the Rosary before the funeral Mass of deceased members of the Sodality and attending the Mass.
The Holy RosarySodality participates in and helps organize the Living Rosary and Coronation of our Blessed Mother each May. Again this year weather cooperated and we were able to gather outdoors in the Grotto between the church and the Rectory.
Thanks so much to the members of the First Communion class who helped lead us in prayer, to Bozena Dabek who help organize the event, to Father Doug for leading us in prayer!
The Holy Rosary Sodality funed the restoration and reframing of OLV's icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa.
Holy Rosary Sodality, which played a significant role in this renovation project and in today's dedication ceremony.
Today we are pleased to announce that the Black Madonna, known as Our Lady of Czestochowa is back and will be unveiled at this Mass! Welcome Home! We missed you!
The painting that we are unveiling today originates from the Sacred Heart parish and was blessed at the former Sacred Heart church in 1954 by Fr. Stanislaw Zdebel, former Sacred Heart Pastor. Fr. Zdebel brought the icon from Poland.
The original miraculous painting of Our Lady of Czestochowa is one of the oldest paintings of the Blessed Virgin in the world. Legend and tradition reports that St. Luke, the Evangelist painted the holy icon in Jerusalem prior to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. It was while Luke was painting Mary that she told him about the events in the life of Jesus that he eventually used in his gospel. The painting travelled through various parts of the world and ultimately found its way to Poland under the care of the Pauline monks up to the current day in a place called Jasna Gora or Hill of Light in the southern Polish city of Czestochowa..
You may ask, and many have asked this question, Why is Mary so dark?
The shrine in which the painting resides was destroyed by fire, but the picture was not burned - however, the flames and smoke had darkened it and from that day it has been known as the "Black Madonna." It can be easily noticed that on the face of the painting there are two scars. These were made by enemy soldiers attacking the shrine. The Blessed Mother desires these stigmas to remain forever on her sacred image. This is apparent from the fact that an artist engaged in retouching the painting, resorted to every artistic means to remove the scars but to no avail, they always reappeared.
Various leaders in early Polish history placed all of their trust in Our Lady of Czestochowa in all of their struggles. At the Hill of Light where the original painting is, crutches and various gifts of thanks are hung up throughout the sanctuary as evidence of all the miracles that have and continue to take place.
As Our Lady of Czestochowa was named Queen of Poland by the kings and leaders of Poland, numerous crowns and dresses were made for her, a replica of which is on the copy of the painting we have in our church.
At the bottom of the painting we have here in church it says "Pod Twoja Obrone Uciekamy Sie" which means " Under your Protection". It is only because of Our Lady's' intercession and protection that evil was miraculously conquered throughout history, and we pray she continues to protect us.
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The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Builsa North, James Agalga has suggested that Minority Members of Parliament are ready to back the suit filed by a member of the party against the government over the defence cooperation agreement with the United States.
Speaking on Eyewitness News on Monday, the former deputy Interior Minister under the John Mahama administration said the suit against the agreement was justified because Parliament had acted unconstitutionally by ratifying the deal on Friday.
According to him the document that was laid before the House for ratification did not include the signatures of the parties involved in the deal, rendering the deal and Parliament's further actions null and void.
He added that in order for Parliament to have been able to ratify the document, it needed to have been assented to by the government.
"The agreements signed in 1998 and 2015 are fundamentally different from the 2018 agreement which was passed by Parliament unconstitutionally on Friday. If you look at the Constitution, Parliament can only pass executed international agreements, parliament does not, cannot and should not ever ratify draft agreements. But unfortunately that is what we did, we ratified an agreement that was yet to be executed," he said.
James Agalga stated that despite drawing the attention to the alleged illegalities, Minority MPs were ignored and the deal was eventually approved.
"We drew the attention of the House, the Minority Leader did that in very clear language, we did that at the level of the Committee and yet they just railroaded the entire process and got the agreement passed. Now we have been slapped with a suit," he added.
"A citizen felt aggrieved by the conduct of Parliament and decided to act as such. As citizens, we are enjoined to uphold the Constitution at all times so the person felt that we had violated Article 75 and decided to go to court and seek redress. it envisages that before international agreements, treaties or conventions are signed, they must first been executed by the President or his agent prior to being laid in Parliament for ratification. The agreement is not signed, the Americans did not sign it and we did not either. We didn't want to partake in any unconstitutional behaviour," he added.
The suit comes days after Parliament ratified the pact despite stiff opposition from the Minority.
The approval was done by only Majority members because the Minority members staged a walkout during the debate on the floor of Parliament.
With the agreement ratified, it means that the US troops will among other things be exempted from paying taxes on equipment that are brought to Ghana as well as use Ghana's radio spectrum for free.
The troops and their equipment will also have unhindered access to the US forces and their equipment.
The Government has consistently explained that it was only respecting the existing Status of Forces Agreement with the US signed since 1998 and reviewed in 2015, under the previous NDC administration.
But the NDC Minority has downplayed this argument saying the agreement as existed in the past, did not have the same clauses like the current one that gives the US unlimited access to Ghana's military facilities.
The US Embassy in Ghana has also explained that it is only planning joint security exercises with Ghana, which will require that US military personnel are allowed access to Ghana's military facilities and that they are not building a military base.
The deal has caused some discomfort among some sections of the public, with a group calling itself Ghana First, serving notice it will demonstrate on Wednesday, March 28, against its approval.
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The subject of this article or section is part of Noblegarden, a seasonal event that lasts one week. Once the event has run its course, this will no longer be available until next year, but there are no guarantees.
Goldshire Edit
These are locations where eggs can be found in Goldshire during the Noblegarden event.
On top of the lamp-post to the north of the Lion's Rest Inn.
Underneath the target behind the blacksmith's shop.
Underneath the caravan along the south of the main road.
In the box just east of the caravan.
In the box just south of the main blacksmith's shop entrance.
Above the middle window on the north side of the inn.
Hidden behind the mailbox.
Between the flower beds on the south side of the inn (three in total).
In the east corner along the south wall of the inn, before the insert.
Hidden in the flower bed in the insert along the southest corner of the inn.
Hidden in the flower beds to the east of the small pond behind the blacksmith's shop (one in each of the two).
At the corners of the chimney along the north wall of the inn (one on either side).
In the north corner of the east wall of the inn.
On top of the window on the south wall of the inn.
Just north of the rear entrance to the blacksmith's shop, behind the guard.
On top of the lamp-post east of the signpost to the south of the inn.
In the south corner of the eastern wall of the inn, before the insert.
Between the trees to the west of the caravan.
Behind the western bellows at the blacksmith's shop.
In the box south of the inn entrance.
In the south corner of the east wall of the inn.
On the windowsill on the east wall of the inn.
In the bush between the northern bellows and the tree.
On top of the lamp-post east of the inn.
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What does a hospital do when the Big One hits?
Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center Torrance is staging a full-scale, true-to-life emergency drill Thursday morning – the scenario is a 6.9 earthquake.
More than 100 students from El Camino Community College and Madrona Middle School will be rushed to the hospital with "injuries," made to look real thanks to theatrical make-up. They will undergo the full triage process, with Emergency Department physicians and nurses evaluating the nature of injuries and treating by priority.
The hospital is partnering with first responders and several other agencies with the goal of preparing for a real disaster. As part of the drill, Providence social media team will share the events of the day and offer usable tips for a real disaster. Follow the hashtag #CAQuakeDrill for resources on how to prepare for disaster and what to do when the ground stops shaking.
Providence, with six hospitals across the Los Angeles Area, holds regular drills to ensure every detail is addressed in case of a natural or man-made emergency. And with a 99 percent chance of a major earthquake in the next 2½ years in our area, planning is crucial.
In Thursday's drill, which starts at 8 a.m., the hospital must prepare for 50 patients, some critical, in just 15 minutes, and continue through the day to treat many more. "15 Minutes until 50 Patients" is an award-winning concept created by Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center and shared by other hospitals to rapidly deploy staff, supplies and equipment.
Every department throughout the hospital will send a representative to the command center to report on issues and concerns – managing the safety of existing patients, assessing damage to the hospital, reuniting families and obtaining extra resources to remain open to serve the community, for example. Skill and creativity are tested with mock problems that require quick, creative and effective solutions to ensure operations continue.
Partnering in this exercise are the Torrance Police Department, Torrance Fire Department, Torrance Office of Emergency Services, American Red Cross, Medical Alert Center, El Camino College, Madrona Middle School, Constant & Associates, McCormick Westmed Ambulance Company, Liberty Ambulance Company and the Redondo Beach Fire Department.
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Shipping Demand Expected To Suffer Amidst Second Wave of European Lockdowns
Freight rates are about to face renewed downward pressure, on the back of a new wave of lockdowns around the world, including Germany, France, and England most notably in Europe.
In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Allied Shipbroking said:
"The winter season for the northern hemisphere has shown that the pandemic has far from dissipated, with one after another, major OECD economies entering into a second wave of lockdowns, as had been feared earlier in the year, in an effort to bring the spread of COVID-19 under control… Vitally important to trade commodities have not been able to escape the turmoil, with crude oil prices dropping once more to their lows of May, while others such as iron ore are still holding at fair levels though having seemingly lost now most of the momentum gained during the summer months."
Analysts predict that despite the anticipation of a a strong recovery in 2021, the coming months may prove to be the most difficult we have yet faced during the pandemic. A second round of lockdowns may cause considerably more damage on major economies around the world, given their fragile states.
With uncertainty coming in the months ahead, analysts continue to look to the bigger picture and the long game in terms of the re-stabilization of shipping rates and economic frameworks.
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Now, I'm all for being loved, cherished and protected! Don't get me wrong, I love romance just as much as every other woman out there, but I think that true romance is about more than the man doting on the woman or romantic gestures. I think the woman has a responsibility there, too–to be trustworthy. These quotes make it out that a woman's loyalty is only as strong as her man's romantic streak. In fact, it doesn't put any responsibility on the woman's shoulders at all. "Someone else will." Such a passive statement, as if she just got whisked away by a brisk wind. Oops! But a woman with moral muscle isn't swept away by whatever man would claim her. She isn't a handkerchief, or a house cat. And her morality is not based on someone else's attentiveness.
I am a woman, and I am not available to be scooped up by whatever man might be most attentive at the time. I made vows to my husband, and I stand by them, even when he's grumpy, tired, inattentive or generally unromantic. There is no threat that I'll leave him. I'm not a prize sitting on a shelf, waiting for someone to see value in me. I'm a woman, and I don't have a price tag, I have a choice. That choice is stronger than moods, gestures or even arguments. That choice–that vow–is iron-clad. It comes will the strength of my loyalty, my love and my morals.
A full grown woman is as active in that relationship as her man is. She has tough conversations. She doesn't back down. She puts herself in her man's path if she needs to, and she fights for what she values most. She isn't a waif, sitting around, waiting for some guy to please her. She makes the bed that she wants to lie in!
So by all means, treat her well. Dance with her. Cherish her. Adore her. But it isn't only up to the man. If she isn't woman enough to stand by her word, if she can be swept off by whatever guy sweet talks her, if she isn't strong enough to have tough conversations when necessary, to protect her vows to him just as strongly as he is expected to, then I dare say she isn't woman enough, period.
I am a woman, and side by side with my man, we face what life heaves in our direction. My love is not a prize, it is a fact. My husband can count on that–no matter what. No one gets to scoop me away from the man I CHOSE.
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A decade ago, Tom Wolfe created a small literary storm when he declared that recent novelists had failed to grapple with the convulsive reality of contemporary America and that they needed to ''head out into this wild, bizarre, unpredictable, Hog-stomping Baroque country of ours and reclaim it as literary property.'' He was wrong then, ignoring a myriad of novels by the likes of Robert Stone, John Updike, Don DeLillo, Russell Banks and a host of others. And he is even more wrong today, as Richard Price's gripping new novel ''Freedomland'' so eloquently attests.
Since his first novel, ''The Wanderers,'' appeared back in 1974, Mr. Price has been practicing his own tough, gritty brand of social realism, specializing in urban portraits that are as unsentimental as they are capacious. With ''Freedomland'' -- which is set in the same fictional New Jersey milieu as his last novel, ''Clockers'' -- he has given us a big, cinemascope thriller, a novel that captures the racial politics and media madness of the Age of O. J., a novel that transforms today's headlines into a forceful, harrowing drama.
''Freedomland'' has the social detail (though none of the lugubriousness) of a Zola novel, the jazzy, synesthetic rhythms of a Scorsese film, the slangy street moxie of a Mamet play and the dark, sardonic humor of Wilder's classic ''Ace in the Hole.'' Besides that, it's a terrific read.
The basic premise of ''Freedomland'' will immediately remind the reader of two high-profile news stories: Susan V. Smith's phony 1994 assertion that her two sons had been abducted by a black carjacker, and Charles Stuart's phony 1989 assertion that his pregnant wife had been killed by a black assailant.
In the case of ''Freedomland,'' a young white woman named Brenda Martin tells the police that she has been carjacked by a black man who drove off with her 4-year-old son, Cody, in the back seat. Her allegation immediately sets off a heated manhunt in a black housing project, which in turn sets off charges of racism and police brutality.
Both Jesse and Lorenzo, of course, are determined to chase down Brenda's story and find her son, dead or alive. But while their mutual quest for the truth makes them allies of sorts, they are motivated by very different ends: Jesse wants to beat out the competition, to get the scoop of her life; Lorenzo wants to keep a lid on the racial tinderbox that is threatening to explode around him. Both of them will also discover that the Brenda Martin case has an acutely personal meaning for them, that it will stir up emotions they thought they had long suppressed.
Mr. Price shows us the roiling anger in the black housing project of Armstrong, as white police officers sweep through its streets in search of Brenda's carjacker. He shows us Lorenzo's increasingly fevered efforts to contain the emotions of cops and agitators alike. He shows us the incendiary posturing of local politicians and militants as they try to exploit their constituents' anger for their own ends. And he shows us the increasingly frenzied efforts of Jesse and other members of the press to cover the accelerating story, and their own contributions to the ensuing mayhem.
By the end of this novel, the reader has not only been thoroughly immersed in the story of Brenda Martin's missing child and the fallout of her allegations, but initiated, as well, into the history of this fictional New Jersey community and its legacy of crime and grief and rage. Though there is a slight falling off at the end, a toying with sentimentality in the book's final pages, it's clear that with ''Freedomland,'' Mr. Price has written his most powerful novel yet, a novel that in wrestling with what Tom Wolfe calls the ''rude beast'' of millennial America, holds up a dark mirror to our times.


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Developer to build most sustainable logistics development ever
By Liza Helps	 24th May 2021 No Comments
Pan-European logistics building development company Baytree is to construct 'one of the most sustainable logistics developments ever built in the UK' in Milton Keynes.
The company has awarded a contract to Glencar Construction to deliver the new, state-of-the-art sustainable logistics scheme on a 10.4-acre site in Fenny Lock.
Jonathan Fenton Jones, Baytree Operations Director said: "The commitments made together in our partnering charter will facilitate us pushing further than ever before in facilitating energy savings, CO2 reduction, enhanced working environments and operational cost savings for our customers."
The scheme has been specified to be BREEAM "Excellent", and "WELL" ready and will feature a host of technology enabled sustainable design features which are beneficial to the health and wellbeing of building users such as the use of an extensive sensor suite which constantly monitors indoor air and water quality.
Amongst the many innovative features to be included in the design of the two-building scheme are the siting of separate ancillary office pods with roof garden terraces, and onsite water attenuation measures as a part of a sustainable drainage system which includes the harvesting of rainwater for re-use on site. The development will also provide outdoor gyms and training areas, edible vegetation and reclaimed timber seating.
It is expected that the development will take 8 months to build and be available for occupation by December this year.
Baytree recently let its ultra eco warehouse at Dunstable to UPS and is thought to have secured a pre-let to Amazon for a similar building on the adjacent site.


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Lately, I have been asked quite a bit about the mid-term elections and how the results will impact the stock markets. I've spent some time thinking and reading to provide as educated of an answer as I can. And the simple answer is – I have no idea and no one else does either!
Many polls are suggesting that the Republicans will lose control of the House and may break even or pick up a seat or two in the Senate. Historically, these results should be expected, as it's typical that the President's party loses seats in the first mid-term election after the Presidential election. Remember that the Democrats lost 63 seats in the House in 2010, the highest loss of a party in mid-term elections since 1938.
But let's also remember that these polls are the same ones that gave Hillary Clinton an 85% chance of being elected President in 2016. I suspect that these polls are struggling to find a reflective sample of voters now that many people have given up their land lines and rely solely on unlisted cell phones.
More important for most of us will be the impact of the election on the economy and the markets. Many analysts believe that the markets have "priced in" the Democrats taking the House, meaning that they are expecting it. The speculation is that this was part of the reason for the volatility of the last few weeks. I don't necessarily believe that is the entire reason for the volatility – I think rising interest rates factored in more.
There are plenty of things to worry about in the world, yet most of them are out of our control. Why should we spend so much time worrying about something we have no influence in?
This weekend I got to thinking about some friends I met in the spring of 2000. I owned a landscaping business in Clemson that was doing pretty well and was still bartending at The Esso Club on the weekends. One weekend, a group of guys from Charleston stopped in and we quickly struck up a conversation. They were in town for a guys' trip to see a Clemson Baseball series. I invited them to join my friends and I in right field at the Cajun Café for the next day's game.
Over the following year, I did some landscape work for one of the guys on Kiawah Island and became closer with a few of the others. We tailgated together for the 2000 football season and even traveled to the Gator Bowl together to watch Michael Vick and the Va. Tech Hokies run up and down the field on us.
A few of the guys partnered up on a construction development venture that was doing well. I was still doing some work for them and there was talk about me joining in. Prior to the 2001 football season, we even had a conversation about getting a luxury box in Death Valley together.
Then the technology bubble burst and September 11th happened. Their real estate venture went bust and they ended up suing each other. I lost touch with all of them. During that time, I got out of the landscaping business and started my financial career.
A few years ago, I found one of the guys on Facebook and we reconnected. He had started coaching his son in little league football and had really enjoyed it. He sold his business to become an assistant football coach. Over the next few years, he developed a reputation of being a great coach who the kids love to play for. Now he is a head football coach of a high school team who is the defending state champs and 10-1 looking to defend that championship.
When things fell apart for us in 2002, who would have imagined where we would be today. It seemed painful at the time, and it was. There were hurt feelings and a lot of questions about where we would all end up. But if that development business hadn't failed, I wouldn't have wound up in Sumter, met my wife, or had my two amazing kids. If that business had become wildly successful, Johnny may not have had the time to help coach his son's football team.
There is no way to know who will end up controlling the House until all of the votes are counted tonight, or tomorrow morning. But I want to encourage you not to get too worried either way. We will adjust. We will be okay. Let's instead focus on what is in our control. We can control the attitude we have toward others who may have a different political leaning than we do. We can control the risk in our investments.
While I have already voted and will be paying attention to the election results, I won't be worried by them. I will be focusing on the things within my control.


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Govt. to table legislation for new authority on October 2
NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Amid criticisms from the opposition that the new Ministry of Disaster Preparedness, Management and Reconstruction has increased red tape on the path to recovery on the islands decimated by Hurricane Dorian, Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis insisted the ministry's "flexible" authority to engage and contract resources as the need arises will significantly "exhilarate the process".
Iram Lewis was sworn in as the minister of state for the new ministry at Government House on Monday.
Responding to questions from reporters on the sidelines of the swearing in ceremony, Minnis said: "This is not a layer of bureaucracy. In fact, this exhilarates the process. That's the reason you have an authority. The authority is so that professional individuals — individuals who would know how to manage and make decisions — make the best decisions that are applicable for what is happening today. They would be able to contract and make those decisions very quickly as opposed to the government bureaucracy and red tape.
"So no, this is not a layer. This is speeding up and exhilarating the process."
He added: "They can resource, hire and contract whatever is needed, as opposed to going through the bureaucracy of government; delaying everything and decisions are made in an untimely fashion."
On Sunday, the prime minister said the new ministry will help focus and coordinate the national response for the recovery and reconstruction of Grand Bahama and Abaco – the two islands that bore the brunt of Dorian's destruction on September 1-3.
The main body of the ministry will function as an authority, similar to the Public Hospitals Authority and is expected to have an executive director and a board of directors.
Opposition Leader Philip Brave Davis has expressed concern with what he called a lack of leadership, asserting that a clear direction and vision through practical policy is needed now.
In response this afternoon, Minnis said: "This is the time for government to tap [into] all its best resources. You look for the best individuals to help you move through; help you manage such a disaster that we have never seen before.
"He (Lewis) is an architect, a project manager [and has] skills in planning.
"We are creating an authority with professionals, strictly professionals who would know about managing, building countries, making decisions and we have individuals from both islands who are affected."
Minnis foreshadowed the authority's board will comprise of architects, engineers, legal minds, members of the Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and local government.
The new ministry and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), which the prime minister said will be restructured, will both remain at the Office of the Prime Minister.
As it relates to NEMA, Minnis said the agency will be improved, taking into consideration the lessons learned from the record storm and the international agencies that responded in its wake.
"They were very impressed with our organization, but still you take it to another level because the storms we saw yesterday will not be the storms we see tomorrow," the prime minister noted.
"There were some critics who said we did not respond fast enough. We knew the storm was coming. We communicated with all the international agencies. The Americans had their helicopters and supplies sitting in Andros. They also had helicopters and supplies sitting in Exuma only waiting for the storm to move past Abaco, so they could be dispatched immediately. We were delayed in getting into Abaco because the storm unfortunately sat over Grand Bahama."
The government will table legislation for the ministry in Parliament on October 2.
Minnis said it will be debated on October 3.
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Lisa and I are off to Southeastern Massachusetts this weekend. I am attending a model railroad convention so we took the time to go to Cape Cod and then spend a day in Boston.
When we got to Cape Cod we were ready for something to eat. We could not find a place to eat as the "season" is over in October. Most of the dining establishments were closed for the winter season. It took us a fair while to find a local seafood spot.
We finally found a place in Sandwich, MA, Seafood Sam's. It was a really quaint little town with lots of New England flavor. Neither one of us had been to Cape Cod before so we really liked the scenery and the neat architecture found throughout.
The photo below is the information center (closed for the season) as we first arrived in Sandwich. Lisa thought it was so cute. It is a cute little building. My convention lasts 2 days so we plan to spend a day in Boston after the convention is over. See you when we get back.


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Q: Disabled roaming profiles but APPDATA still points to roaming profile location. How do I update APPDATA to use local location? I initially had roaming profiles implemented but it turned into a massive headache of constant issues and sync failures. Decided to remove roaming profiles and remove the roaming location from each user in AD, then setup a GP to force local profiles on the hosts. This works for new users and existing users show as "local/local" when looking at user profiles in System & Security --> System --> Advanced --> User Profiles. .
When I login and type "set" into a CMD window though, it shows APPDATA as still pointing to the NFS/SMB roaming location (even though the user profile reports as a local profile).
I have verified nothing is setup in AD (User properties --> Profile --> Profile Path) is empty.
I created a GPO at the top level where I set "Only allow local user profiles" and "Prevent Roaming Profile Changes from propagating to the server" to enabled.
Users are able to login and navigate to Control Panel --> System & Security --> System --> Advanced Settings --> User Profiles. The account I login with shows Type and status of "local".
I ran gpresult /H and searched through the policies for anything "Roaming" and the only things that showed up were "Only allow local user profiles" and "Prevent Roaming Profile Changes from propagating to the server" which I implemented above to disable these roaming profiles.
Creating a new user and logging in doesn't automatically setup the user with a roaming profile (ie APPDATA point to C:\Users\etc).
How do I get the profiles to point APPDATA back to local or what could be stopping the profiles from returning back to normal?

A: Only solution I was able to find was to delete the accounts and create new ones. This required removing the accounts, deleting the C:\Users\Username folder on the windows computer the users uses, fixing permissions on the old shared folder, then having the user login. Not ideal but it works.

A: Late to the party, but APPDATA can be redirected with the redirected folder settings. (romaing profile at on or off)
If someone erased that GPO and not desactivated the settings, it might be the cause of your headache, as in such case you need to make a new GPO and force the settings to be disabled, so it desactave the last time it was at On.

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Magrath holds forum on road improvement tax, future of library building
Posted on April 5, 2018 by Westwind Weekly
Westwind Weekly photos by Allison Billings Magrath Mayor Russ Barnett addressed members of the community at a public forum on the future of the old library building after it moves to Magrath Elementary School, as well as a potential tax to fund road improvements.
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The Town of Magrath held a public forum on March 28 to solicit community input on a potential $12 a month tax for road improvements and the library's future after it moves to the new school.
Mayor Russ Barnett began the meeting by talking about the library.
Town council wants to know what to do with the old building, he said.
"Different people have said, 'We don't have a place to meet in town.' And so we could re-purpose it as a rental facility that people could use for events," said the mayor.
Another option is to turn the building into a "business incubator," which gives community members a location where they can start a business.
It could also serve as the new town hall building or be sold to a private business.
Barnett said the town has had more than one business inquire into whether the building is for sale.
The assessed value of the old library is pegged at $645,870.
One attendee expressed concern that having the public library in the school could disrupt classes, with adults coming and going.
"If you look at the new library, it's completely self-contained," Barnett responded, adding that there are classrooms attached to it, but not in it.
"To say there's not enough space, that's not true."
Barnett previously told the Weswtind Weekly that the new library will likely have expanded hours of operation.
The road improvement tax would be applied to monthly utility bills, which would raise $108,000 per year.
"We have almost 50 blocks of gravel in the Town of Magrath," said Barnett.
"We know they're not spaced properly. We know how much time and energy and hours it takes to maintain those.
"They're not great. There's no question."
With the provincial government's funding model, it would take "years and years and years" to pay for the needed improvements.
"Everybody drives on all the roads," Barnett said, highlighting the importance of getting the upgrades done as soon as possible.
"What if everyone paid $12 on their monthly bill to pay for road paving in the Town of Magrath?"
The funds would go into a Road and Improvement Fund that would be strictly for the purposes of the paving roads in need.
A community member asked what would happen if somebody doesn't want their road paved.
"I think most people want pavement in the town," Barnett said to applause.
"We think this is the best plan, the most informed plan that's ever been presented to the town to make that happen."


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Your CIO has recently received a great deal of negative feedback about one of the applications that nearly all of your internal customers use on a daily basis to complete their work. This application was developed internally and is highly customized for that business process and your organization. Most of this feedback focuses on the speed at which users can complete tasks and the age of the technology in question. Most stakeholders believe that a solution that uses newer technology that focuses on a touchscreen instead of keyboard entry would allow for faster throughput by users, resulting in a small labor savings and a large customer satisfaction increase.
Despite the dislike of the current system, its customizations and integrations with other corporate systems make it difficult to replace with a COTS (Commercial, Off The Shelf) product. Still, your CIO does not wish to develop another system internally when there are numerous COTS products that perform similar, if not exact, functions. You are instructed to initiate an RFQ (Request For Quote) process with the major vendors who have produce applications in this market.
You, being a person who keeps in touch with industry trends, know the major players in the market segment and start making phone calls with those vendors. Besides the standard information most vendors want to know, such as number of users, number of locations, operating systems used, etc, you also provide a list of functionality of your current system that you are looking to replace. You explain to the vendors that it is of critical importance that their systems replicate all functionality in your existing solution and that their product be able to interface to all your other internal systems.
As the vendor RFQs trickle in, you notice a disturbing trend... the cheapest of them is an order of magnitude greater in price than what it cost to develop and maintain the existing system since its implementation over a decade ago. While you know your legacy system is very specialized to your company, you are astounded as to the large number of development hours that will be needed for every one of the vendor systems to meet your needs.
Now you are in a dilema... your CIO expects your findings to be on her desk by the end of the week and you know she won't be happy with the price tags on the RFQs. What do you say in your report? Is there anything you can suggest to help lower the prices? What could you have done differently in the RFQ process?
Get the internal team to submit their own submission to either upgrade or enhance the existing app.
Given the deadline I'd just present the facts.
The vendors are experienced and know their business. Integration work can be complex, risky for a vendor and so costs can be large.
I'd also have a next step which is a short list of vendors and then work on whittling down the features and integration points. Hopefully there will be some play out of the 80/20 rule.
I am with Craig on this one - just present the facts. But I am wondering, what really is a dilemma here? Is it that you're trying to figure out whether to buy or build again? Or, is it deciding whether to present the vendor prices to your CIO or not. If it's the latter - I don't see that as a dilemma - prices are prices; they can be negotiated but you're still paying out the nose. If it's the former - well, that's the whole project and your CIO should deciding that along with you.
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Q: div video resize dynamic I have a div box on the right of my screen with a width of 40%
when I embed a youtube video in there it sticks out the side
I know you can manually change the dimensions of the video in pixel size, but is there not a way you can make it so that the video will resize automatically to fit in snugly?
thanks

A: You might want to have a look at FitVids, which is a jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds.


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Obama, Trump Tie For Most Admired Man In 2019 Gallup Poll Of U.S. Adults
President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama tied in the Gallup Poll for 2019′s most admired man, a title that Obama has now earned 12 times.
The two each were named by 18% in the survey of U.S. adults released on Monday. This was Trump's first time in the top spot.
The runners-up among males, in order of finish, were former President Jimmy Carter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Pope Francis, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the Dalai Lama and investor Warren Buffett.
In the women's category, former first lady Michelle Obama ― for the second year in a row ― snagged the title of the most admired woman, receiving 10% of votes. First lady Melania Trump came in second, named by 5%.
Sharing the third-place spot were former talk show host Oprah Winfrey, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg.
Other women receiving votes included Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.
The poll, which has been conducted each year since 1948, tallied open-ended answers from Dec. 2-15.
In the men's category, 11% of responders named as their most-admired choice while in the women's category, 16% named a relative or friend.
Responders generally stuck to their political party, with 41% of Democrats naming Obama while 45% of Republicans named Trump. Independent voters were evenly divided between both men.
The incumbent president is typically named America's most admired man, having taken the top spot in 58 of the previous 78 polls, according to Gallup.
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While aspects of the Czech science, technology and innovation system are catching up with the OECD standard, the system as a whole is still lagging behind, recently published OECD Science, Technology and Innovation Outlook 2016 says.
Gross domestic expenditure on R&D (GERD) increased from 1.3% in 2009 to 2% in 2014, compared with the OECD 2014 average of 2.38%. The annual GERD growth rate in 2009-2014 stood at 3.4% compared with OECD average of 2.5%. The National Research, Development and Innovation Policy update (2016-2020) confirms the set goal 2.7% in 2020.
The Czech Republic's business environment is in need of improvement, the report says. While the ease of entrepreneurship index has improved over the time, it is still below the OECD median and venture capital is scarce.
The public research system has improved, but challenges remain. Public R&D expenditure as a percentage of GDP is well above the OECD median, although the number of publications in top-quartile journals is still limited. The current performance-based research funding system will be replaced by an international process of peer review.
The indicators of innovation-related skills suggest a mixed picture: tertiary education expenditure is slightly below the OECD median and only 17% of the adult population possess a tertiary-level qualification, compared to 27% in the EU28. However, adults's technical problem-solving ability, the performance of 15-year-olds in science, and the share of doctoral graduates in Science and Engineering are at the OECD median, the report says. Look also at the OECD PISA 2015 report on pupils' performance that shows a negative three-year trend in mean scores achieved for science and mathematics. A summary. The country profile. A summary by the Czech School Inspection Authority (in Czech) is available here. More by the Czech Televsion.
According to the OECD report on science, technology and innovation trends, although salary increases among researchers in recent years have been higher than average salary growth, the Czech labour market does not attract enough foreign researchers. Appropriate incentives and skills-building measures are needed to enhance mobility and competitiveness in global markets.
In spite of efforts to move to a more knowledge-intensive economy, innovation performance is lagging.
Read more details in the country profile. The press release and the report is available here.
Read also a letter to Dr Andreas Schleicher, director of the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment, where academics from around the world express deep concern about the impact of Pisa tests and call for a halt to the next round of testing.