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For Blacks Facing Parole in New York State, Signs of a Broken System
Michael Winerip, Michael Schwirtz and Robert Gebeloff, For Blacks Facing Parole in New York State, Signs of a Broken System. Part 2. The New York Times, 4 December 2016. "An analysis by The New York Times of thousands of parole decisions from the past several years found that fewer than one in six black or Hispanic men was released at his first hearing, compared with one in four white men. It is a disparity that is particularly striking not for the most violent criminals, like rapists and murderers, but for small-time offenders who commit property crimes like stealing a television from a house or shoplifting from Duane Reade — precisely the people many states are now working to keep out of prison in the first place."
Update: Michael Schwirtz, Michael Winerip and Robert Gebeloff, Governor Cuomo Orders Investigation of Racial Bias in N.Y. State Prisons. The New York Times, 5 December 2016. "Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York announced on Monday that he was ordering an investigation into racial bias in the state prison system after an investigation by The New York Times found that black inmates were punished at significantly higher rates than whites, sent to solitary confinement more often and held there longer. "I am directing the state inspector general to investigate the allegations of racial disparities in discipline in state prisons and to recommend appropriate reforms for immediate implementation," Governor Cuomo said in a statement issued on Monday, calling the report "disturbing.""
December 4, 2016 Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Prisons/Jails, Racism Tagged With: correctional association of new york, determinate sentences, new york state board of parole, patronage gifts, racial disparity in parole decisions
The Scourge of Racial Bias in New York State's Prisons
Michael Schwirtz, Michael Winerip and Robert Gebeloff, The Scourge of Racial Bias in New York State's Prisons. Part 1. The New York Times, 3 December 2016. "The racism can be felt from the moment black inmates enter New York's upstate prisons. They describe being called porch monkeys, spear chuckers and worse. There are cases of guards ripping out dreadlocks. One inmate, John Richard, reported that he was jumped at Clinton Correctional Facility by a guard who threatened to "serve up some black mashed potatoes with tomato sauce.""
December 3, 2016 Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Prisons/Jails, Racism Tagged With: attica correctional facility, correctional association, fortune society, new york civil liberties union, new york state correctional officers & police benevolent association, new york state department of corrections and community supervision, osborne association, preet bharara (united states attorney for the southern district of new york), prisoners' legal services of new york, prisoners' rights project of the legal aid society, sing sing correctional facility (ossining new york)
Busted: How a $2 Roadside Drug Test Sends Innocent People to Jail
Ryan Gabrielson and Topher Sanders, How a $2 Roadside Drug Test Sends Innocent People to Jail. ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, 7 July 2016. "This story was co-published with The New York Times Magazine…. Tens of thousands of people every year are sent to jail based on the results of a $2 roadside drug test. Widespread evidence shows that these tests routinely produce false positives. Why are police departments and prosecutors still using them?"
Update, August 2016: Sidney Awards, Ryan Gabrielson and Topher Sanders Win August Sidney for Exposing Faulty Roadside Drug Tests that Send Innocent People to Jail.
"Ryan Gabrielson and Topher Sanders of ProPublica win the August Sidney for "Busted: How $2 Roadside Drug Tests Send Innocent People to Jail."
"The story, co-published with the New York Times Magazine, found that faulty roadside drug tests send thousands of people to jail every year. These tests are so unreliable that they are inadmissible in court, yet motorists plead guilty based on tests that can be tripped false positive by dozens of common, legal chemicals, including household cleaners.
A false positive test for crack cocaine turned Amy Albritton's life upside down. The 43-year-old property manager had no criminal record until a particle on the floor of her car falsely tested positive for crack cocaine. Follow-up tests pegged the substance as food debris, possibly a breadcrumb.
There's no way to know how many wrongful convictions arise from false roadside results, but as Gabrielson noted in an interview with the Backstory, "even the smallest of false positive rates would produce hundreds annually.""
July 7, 2016 Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Drugs, Law, Racism Tagged With: amy albritton, barry scheck (founder of the innocence project), brady v. maryland (1963 supreme court opinion), cobalt thiocyanate, conviction-integrity units, false positive results, gas chromatography-mass spectometry (gcms), harris county (texas), houston police department, lynn peavey company, national archive of criminal justice data, national forensic science technology center, national registery of exonerations, plea bargains, sirchie, texas court of criminal appeals, the safariland group, u.s. department of justice
Chicago After Laquan McDonald
Ben Austen, Chicago After Laquan McDonald. The New York Times Magazine, 20 April 2016. "In the wake of a shocking video that showed a black teenager shot 16 times by a police officer, the city is rocked by revelations of police brutality and misconduct–and by activists determined to upend the political order."
April 20, 2016 Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Ethics, Police Brutality, Racism Tagged With: 'eliminate the threat', anita alvarez, better government association, brandon smith, chicago police department (c.p.d.), chicago police superintendent garry mccarthy, craig futterman, dante sevin, fraternal order of police, independent police review authority (ipra), invisible institute, jamie kalven, jason van dyke, jeff neslund, jon burge, laquan mcdonald, matt topic, mayor rahm emanuel, mayor-appointed chicago police board, michael robbins, police brutality, police code of silence, rekia boyd, tina hunter, william calloway
The Year in Hate and Extremism–2015
Mark Potok, The Year in Hate and Extremism. Southern Poverty Law Center, 17 February 2016. "The number of hate and antigovernment 'Patriot' groups grew last year, and terrorist attacks and radical plots proliferated. Charleston. Chattanooga. Colorado Springs. In these towns and dozens of other communities around the nation, 2015 was a year marked by extraordinary violence from domestic extremists — a year of living dangerously. Antigovernment militiamen, white supremacists, abortion foes, domestic Islamist radicals, neo-Nazis and lovers of the Confederate battle flag targeted police, government officials, black churchgoers, Muslims, Jews, schoolchildren, Marines, abortion providers, members of the Black Lives Matter protest movement, and even drug dealers."
February 17, 2016 Filed Under: Immigration, LGBTQ, Racism, Religion Tagged With: black lives matter movement, domestic extremists, donald trump, hate groups, southern poverty law center
Missing and Murdered: The Trafficked (in Canada)
Tavia Grant, Missing and Murdered: The Trafficked. The Globe and Mail, 10 February 2016. "Indigenous women and girls are being exploited by gangs and other predators with little being done to stop it. Missing and Murdered: The Trafficked: The story behind our investigation into the exploitation of indigenous women and girls, by Tavia Grant, 10 February 2016: "The Trafficked project sprang from an ongoing Globe and Mail investigation into missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada. In the course of that reporting, the issue of human trafficking surfaced as a factor that puts some aboriginal women at even greater risk of disappearing or being killed. The Globe and Mail spent three months investigating the subject, dedicating one reporter full-time to delve into who the victims are, how the crime is committed, what the long-term impact is and how the federal government has responded."
February 10, 2016 Filed Under: Children, Criminal Justice, Drugs, Education, Income inequality/Class exploitation, Law, Poverty, Racism, Rape, Sexual Abuse/Assault/Harassment, Women's Rights/Domestic Abuse Tagged With: british columbia office to combat trafficking in persons, canadian human rights tribunal, canadian women's foundation, dawn lavell-harvard, edmonton's centre to end all sexual exploitation (cease), human trafficking, indigenous women in canada, national action plan to combat human trafficking, native women's association of canada (nwac), polaris project, public safety canada, rcmp (royal canadian mounted police), rcmp's federal co-ordination centre in ottawa, sex trafficking, sexual exploitation, stephen harper, surrey memorial hospital (british columbia), toronto-based covenant house, u.s. state department
Baby Doe: Why Can't We Stop Child Abuse?
Jill Lepore, Baby Doe: Why Can't We Stop Child Abuse? The New Yorker, 1 February 2016. "Last June [2015], a woman walking her dog on Deer Island, in Boston Harbor, came across a black plastic garbage bag on the beach. Inside was a very little girl, dead. The woman called for help and collapsed in tears. Police searched the island; divers searched the water; a medical examiner collected the body. The little girl had dark eyes and pale skin and long brown hair. She weighed thirty pounds. She was wearing white-and-black polka-dot pants. She was wrapped in a zebra-striped fleece blanket. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said that no child matching her description had been reported missing. "Someone has to know who this child is," an official there said. But for a very long time no one did."
February 1, 2016 Filed Under: Children, Criminal Justice, Income inequality/Class exploitation, Politics, Poverty, Racism Tagged With: "the battered child syndrome" by c. henry kempe, 1974 child abuse prevention and treatment act, 2008 act protecting children in the care of the commonwealth, adverse childhood experiences (ace), centers for disease control, charles dickens's "oliver twist", citizens for juvenile justice, jill lepore, journal of the american medical association, kaiser permanente, massachusetts department of children and families (d.c.f.), massachusetts office of the child advocate (o.c.a.), minding the baby (program run jointly by the yale child study center and yale's school of nursing, new england center for investigative reporting (n.e.c.i.r.), walter mondale
How Did the Flint Water Crisis Happen?
Cynthia Gordy, How Did the Flint Water Crisis Happen? ProPublica, 25 January 2016. "The water crisis in Flint, Michigan – in which the city's drinking water became contaminated with lead, bacteria and other pollutants – has come to national attention in recent weeks. President Obama declared a federal emergency in Flint, freeing up $5 million in federal aid, but Flint's water problems have been unfolding for almost two years. Ron Fonger, reporter for The Flint Journal and MLive, has been writing about the water contamination since 2014, when the city began using the Flint River as its water source. From covering city council meetings and town hall forums, where almost immediately residents complained about discolored, tainted water, he has had a front-row seat to the crisis. On this week's podcast, Fonger speaks with ProPublica editor-in-chief Stephen Engelberg about what caused the problem, who dropped the ball, and what happens next."
Anna Clark, How an investigative journalist helped prove a city was being poisoned with its own water. Columbia Journalism Review, 3 November 2015. "It was not a typical evening of reporting. In early September [2015], Curt Guyette was knocking on unfamiliar doors in Flint, Michigan—not to ask for interviews, but to ask residents to test their water for lead. Local activists were doing the same thing on sidewalks nearby, and in other parts of town. The task: Muster tests from as many ZIP Codes as possible to give a complete picture of what, exactly, was flowing out of the taps in Flint."
January 25, 2016 Filed Under: Children, Environment, Ethics, Income inequality/Class exploitation, Politics, Poverty, Racism, Science Tagged With: aclu's michigan democracy watch project, amy davidson, curt guyette, dr. mona hanna-attisha, environmental protection agency (e.p.a.), evan osnos, flint (michigan) water crisis, marc edwards (virginia tech researcher), michigan governor rick snyder, paul krugman, propublica, stephen rodrick
The Counted: the number of people killed by police in the U.S. in 2015
Jon Swaine, Oliver Laughland, Jamiles Lartey, Ciara McCarthy, The Counted. The Guardian US, 31 December 2015. From the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy: " The Guardian documented the number of people killed by police in the U.S., telling the stories of who they were, and establishing the hidden trends in how they died, through a database, special reports, and multimedia. The investigation's final tally for 2015 of 1,134 deaths was two and a half times greater than the last annual total recorded by the FBI. After the publication of "The Counted," the FBI announced at the end of 2015 that it would overhaul its system of counting killings by police. The Department of Justice also began testing a new program for recording arrest-related deaths, drawing on Guardian data."
December 31, 2015 Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Ethics, Income inequality/Class exploitation, Police Brutality, Poverty, Prisons/Jails, Racism Tagged With: killings by police in the us, police killings of african american males, the guardian us
Investigation: [Fatal] Police Shootings in the US in 2015
The Washington Post, Investigation: [Fatal] Police Shootings [in 2015 in the US] The database is updated regularly. 2015. About this story: "How The Washington Post is examining police shootings in the U.S." 30 June 2015. "The Washington Post is compiling a database of every fatal shooting in the United States by a police officer in the line of duty in 2015."
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December 18, 2015 Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Police Brutality, Racism Tagged With: fatal police shootings in 2015 in the united states, the washington post
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On Friday, Dec. 1, the Advanced Placement Environmental class at Varina High School visited the VCU Rice Center to learn about macroinvertebrate sampling. Anne Wright, the coordinator of VCU Life Sciences Outreach Education programs, led 21 students and their teacher through several exercises. The class sampled Herring Creek as well as Kimages Creek at the northern end of Lake Charles where water had receded due to the breach of the dam. The students learned the importance of vernal pools and studied the animals that use them.


I can't remember a year when I didn't have an advent calendar.
For most of my life, these tangible countdowns to Christmas were simple affairs: a pretty, seasonal picture (sometimes religious, sometimes not) with perforated doors, one for each day. You wuld fold open the flap, and inside would be another picture, an inset of the greater image, perhaps, or an enhancement. One of my favorite calendars had an image of a Christmas tree in a Victorian bay window, and every door added an ornament.
It wasn't until I was in college that I learned about advent calendars with 'stuff' in them. Now, usually this 'stuff' consists of cheap, waxy milk chocolate, but apparently there are some that come with toys, as well. When I learned about them, I spent five minutes feeling gypped, and then I realized I liked the old-school version where the only treasure hidden behind the open door was my own imagination, sparked by the ever-dwindling number of days until the Big Event.
Of course, we count days throughout the year, not just during advent, not just in December.
We make red Sharpie x's across the calendar squares that march us toward the next deadline, the next paycheck, the next special occasion, the next vacation.
We open our own doors and windows, and we find whatever life offers, and some days it's as precious as a baby in a bed of straw, and other days it's the manure from the ox in the corner, but we keep on counting.
Counting up: I'm five, ten, sixteen, twenty-one, thirty, forty-five.
Counting down: Christmas, the new year, Valentine's Day, tax day, another birthday.
I read about my friends who have advent calendars with pockets that hold treats for their children, and I'm wistful for the days when I was innocent enough to believe marking a day on a calendar, picking a toy out of a pocket, burning the candle down to the next mark, held some kind of special magic.
And maybe, just maybe, they did.
And maybe, just maybe, recent years have led me toward virtual Advent calendars like #musicadvent, or Holidailies, or even the collection of poetry my friend Jancis is doing on his tumblr account because that's the grown-up way of opening a door and finding a prize to help you count the days.


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As an overall pattern over the decades, spending in the US health care has been rising, both on a per person basis and as a share of GDP, and a number of health outcomes have improved. Are the benefits worth the costs?
Jeffrey Selberg, Bradley Sawyer, Cynthia Cox, Marco Ramirez, Gary Claxton and Larry Levitt tackle the question "A generation of healthcare in the United States: Has value improved in the last 25 years?" in a short essay published by the Peterson Center on Healthcare and the Kaiser Family Foundation (December 6, 2018).
In terms of health care costs: "In 1991, the GDP attributable to healthcare was 12.8% or $788 billion. In 2016, healthcare consumed 17.9% of GDP or $3.3 Trillion."
In terms of health care status: "Between 1991 and 2016, life expectancy increased by 3.1 years to 78.6, representing a 4% improvement. In the same time, disease burden (as measured by the total number of disability-adjusted life years, or DALYs) improved by 12%.
Disease burden is comprised of two factors: years of life lost to premature death, which improved by 22%, and years living with a disability, which worsened by 2%. The improvement in overall years of life lost was driven by a remarkable 36% reduction in years lost due to premature death from diseases of the circulatory system. At the same time, the worsening of years living in disability was led largely by an increase in substance use disorders. Moreover, substance use is one of the primary contributors to the slight decline in life expectancy in 2015 and 2016, the first time life expectancy has dropped two years in a row in several decades. Another critical outlier where outcomes have worsened in the U.S. (and not other comparable countries) is maternal mortality, which has gone up significantly from 14 deaths per 100,000 live births in 1991 to nearly 31 in 2016."
Again, are the benefits worth the costs of health care spending? There are at least three ways to tackle this question, none of them fully satisfactory.


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Imagine Your Life in when living in Denver, Colorado!
Imagine Life in Denver, Colorado!
What comes to mind when you think of Denver, Colorado? Do you think of blue skies and distant views of the Rockies? Can you imagine what life would be like living in a modern Western city?
Lower Than Average Unemployment = JOBS!
Denver boasts a lower unemployment rate than the national average for comparably-sized cities. In early 2016 — which is when U.S. News and World Reports did their research — Denver's unemployment rate was 3.1%, which was well below the national average of 4.9% at the time. Since then, it's dropped even lower, and as of September of 2017, Denver boasted an unemployment rate of just 2.2%!
But the best part is that not only are there jobs aplenty in Denver, but they tend to be high-paying jobs as well — averaging around $5,000 higher than the national average of $47,230. That's thanks in part to the growing cannibis industry, but there are also high-paying opportunities in fields like aerospace, biotech, healthcare and hospitality, to name a few.
Looking for Just the Right Spot to Live? You've Found it in Stapleton!
If big city access — rather than living — is your thing, you definitely need to give nearby Stapleton a close look. Diversely populated by people who work in Denver-proper, Stapleton offers a variety of distinct neighborhoods with names like Bluff Lake, Wicker Park and Eastbridge, to name a few, you'll find an eclectic mix of growing families, young professionals, empty nesters and community minded people everywhere you look.
The city also abounds in great schools, rating above average, with Denver 1 school district rating a perfect 10 and Denver County 1 school district rating a near-perfect score of 9, according to research by Zillow. There are also several colleges in Denver, including the University of Denver and the University of Colorado at Denver, both of which appear on U.S. News and World Reports' ranking of the best colleges in the country.
Yes, Denver has snowy winters, but it also has a pretty high percentage of blue-skied sunny days — nearly 70%, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA)!
Whether you like laid-back barbecue, trendy Asian cuisine, or just love a good all-American steak, you'll find restaurants galore in Denver, Colorado. Summers are teeming with music festivals, and you can picnic, run and play in beautiful Washington park.
Love to gamble and feast on buffets? Just hit I-70W for about 30 miles, and you'll find towns like Blackhawk and Central City, where gambling is legal and buffets abound!
Do you live for sports? Don't forget that Denver's the home of the Denver Broncos and the Denver Nuggets!
Looking for a Great Spot to Live Near Downtown Denver?
Just 15 minutes east of the downtown, you'll find Stapleton, a diversely populated development of great neighborhoods and shops that about 25,000 "Denverites" call home! With 1,100 acres of open space, you'll get the best of both worlds — close proximity to the city and all it has to offer plus lots of natural beauty, too! Choose from single-family homes, condos or apartments, and enjoy good schools, lots of green space, and the privilege of living close to Bluff Lake Nature Center, one of the country's largest urban wildlife refuges!
Here's another neat fact about Stapleton: It gained national recognition in 2011 when it became the site of HGTV's "Dream Home" for that year! As you can imagine, HGTV is pretty particular about the sites they choose, insisting on plenty of beautiful scenery and a great sense of community. They called Stapleton a young, visionary community, and you couldn't ask for a better compliment!
You may not be in the market for anything as grand as an HGTV Dream Home, but the pros at Dyllan Real Estate can help you find the home in Stapleton near Denver, Colorado that's perfect for you and your family!


Everything you need to know about wedding stationery. Stationery items – i.e., paper goods and anything related – show up at a lot of different places in your wedding, from your first foray into Save the Dates, to your actual Wedding Invitations, to Day-of Details, and finally for your Thank You notes. Here's an overview of the most common stationery you'll need for your wedding, from start to finish!
Geometric wedding invitations are having such a moment right now! Triangles and diamonds and bold geometric shapes are all over. Super fresh and modern, they'll add an unforgettable touch to your wedding stationery. And as a math major (yes really!), I'm particularly partial to the elegance of lines and angles. That's why I've collected my favorite geometry-inspired wedding invites from all over the internet to share with you!
Who doesn't love Ireland? It's a green land cloaked in mist, mystery and magic, with a rich cultural heritage of art, poetry and music. In honor of this very special month of March and St. Patty's day, today I want to give a breakdown of all the different ways you can incorporate your Irish heritage into your wedding invitations.
The Claddagh ring is a classic in Irish wedding symbolism. Tradition has it that a bride, on getting engaged, will wear the Claddagh ring with the heart pointing outwards, to indicate that her heart is still restless and seeking love. On getting married, she turns the ring around with the heart pointing inwards, to indicate that her heart has found love and is at home. The Claddagh ring has additional symbolism in its component pieces: hands holding a heart represent friendship, the heart itself represents love, and the crown crowning the heart represents loyalty – all very important elements of a successful marriage. The rich symbolism of the Claddagh ring, especially in its use as an engagement ring, makes it perfect for use in Irish inspired wedding invitations.
Classic, elegant Claddagh wedding invitation design in pretty Irish green, from Minted.


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Food Habits of the Endemic Ashy-Faced Owl (Tyto glaucops) and Recently Arrived Barn Owl (T. alba) in Hispaniola
James W. Wiley
44(2), 87-100, (1 June 2010)https://doi.org/10.3356/JRR-08-100.1
KEYWORDS: ashy-faced owl, Tyto glaucops, barn owl, Tyto alba, diet, Dominican Republic, Hispaniola, niche overlap, prey diversity
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The Ashy-faced Owl (Tyto glaucops) is endemic to Hispaniola, where the Barn Owl (T. alba) became established after ca. 1950. I examined 8322 vertebrate prey of the two species, using regurgitated pellets and prey remains from 12 localities in five habitats in the Dominican Republic to determine diets and feeding-niche characteristics of the owls. Owl diets differed among prey classes in frequency and biomass. Mammals, mainly introduced rodents, predominated in the diets of Ashy-faced Owls (52.0% frequency, 73.9% biomass) and Barn Owls (76.7% frequency, 90.7% biomass), with bats forming a substantial proportion for both species (Ashy-faced Owl: 11.1% frequency, 2.6% mass; Barn Owl: 12.2% frequency, 2.2% mass). Birds made up a greater proportion of Ashy-faced Owl prey (28.8% frequency, 14.8% mass) than of Barn Owl prey (12.3% frequency, 5.1% mass). Reptiles and amphibians were unequally represented in Ashy-faced (19.2% frequency, 11.3% mass) and Barn (11.1% frequency, 4.3% mass) owl diets. Niche overlap was moderate overall (α = 0.60). Ashy-faced Owl prey materials contained 125 vertebrate species, whereas Barn Owl materials included 114 species, with 92 species in common between the two owls. The Ashy-faced Owl had a more diverse prey base (H′ = 3.04, D = 6.32, J = 0.610) than did the Barn Owl (H′ = 2.21, D = 2.93, J = 0.444). I could not determine whether niche overlap resulted in competition between the two owl species.
Seasonal Differences in Migration Counts of Raptors: Utility of Spring Counts for Population Monitoring
Christopher J. Farmer, Jeff P. Smith
44(2), 101-112, (1 June 2010)https://doi.org/10.3356/JRR-09-31.1
KEYWORDS: migration counts, monitoring techniques, North America, population, raptors, seasonal dynamics, trend
Long-term monitoring is important for ensuring effective conservation of raptor populations. Raptors also can serve as indicators of biodiversity and ecosystem condition. Therefore, effective monitoring of raptor populations yields the added benefit of helping to evaluate the status of ecosystems. Spring counts of migrating raptors at concentration points may contribute to these goals, particularly by providing insight into the vital demographic rates underlying population trends. Although much is known about the monitoring value of autumn migration counts in North America, little research has addressed the value of spring counts. We compared counts at seven spring watchsites to those at seven autumn watchsites matched by region (Southwest, Great Lakes, and Northeast) to assess the value of spring counts for population monitoring. Our analyses suggested that population indexes derived from spring migration counts provided estimates of population change that differed overall from autumn migration counts in the same region. The concordance of spring and autumn trends was higher in the Southwest and Northeast than in the Great Lakes region, suggesting greater variation in the seasonal representation of populations in the latter region. The average precision of spring trend estimates was better than for autumn estimates in the same region in two of three regions, and the estimated rates of change often were lower in spring. Spring counts enhanced the ability to estimate population trends for species that are less common in autumn counts, including the Rough-legged Hawk (Buteo lagopus) and Red-shouldered Hawk (B. lineatus). To realize fully the value of spring counts, we recommend the establishment of additional spring watchsites in areas that concentrate migrants in autumn, but do so to a lesser extent in spring, as well as additional research to define the populations sampled by autumn and spring counts.
The Adrenocortical Stress Response in Three North American Accipiters During Fall Migration
Heather M. Rogers, Marc J. Bechard, Gregory S. Kaltenecker, Alfred M. Dufty Jr.
KEYWORDS: Sharp-shinned Hawk, Accipiter striatus, Cooper's Hawk, Accipiter cooperii, northern goshawk, Accipiter gentilis, adrenocortical stress response, Corticosterone, migration
The associations among corticosterone levels, energy stores, and stress are highly relevant to bird migration physiology. Many birds maintain elevated baseline corticosterone levels during migration, yet they frequently modulate additional glucocorticoid secretion, probably to protect their flight muscles from catabolism. We report on the adrenocortical response to capture and handling stress in three Accipiter species, the Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus), the Cooper's Hawk (A. cooperii), and the Northern Goshawk (A. gentilis) during fall migration. We found mean baseline corticosterone levels to be similar in Sharp-shinned Hawks and Northern Goshawks, but significantly higher in Cooper's Hawks. Likewise, mean baseline levels of corticosterone did not differ in hatch-year and after-hatch-year male and female Sharp-shinned Hawks and Northern Goshawks, but they were higher in adult male Cooper's Hawks than adult females. Mean corticosterone levels did not increase significantly after 30 min of capture and handling stress in any of the three species, indicating that they modulated their adrenocortical stress responses. Fat scores were not correlated with baseline corticosterone levels, except in Sharp-shinned Hawks, in which elevated baseline corticosterone levels were associated with low fat scores.
Temporal Changes in Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni) Diet During the Breeding Season in Southern Spain
Carlos Rodríguez, Luis Tapia, Florian Kieny, Javier Bustamante
KEYWORDS: Lesser Kestrel, Falco naumanni, diet, pellet analysis, phenology
We examined changes in diet composition during the breeding period for the endangered Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni). Pellets were collected weekly from the last week of March until the first week of July in a colony located in southwestern Spain. Diet composition was evaluated in terms of frequency of occurrence of different prey, mean prey weight, and prey richness of each pellet. Generalized additive models were used to analyze the predictive ability of calendar week (as an index to prey availability), reproductive week (as an index to breeding demands), and nest identity (as a proxy for individual preferences/abilities) on the above dietary metrics. Primary prey species were the mole cricket (Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa) during courtship, the saddle-backed bush cricket (Ephippiger ephippiger) during incubation, and the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria) and the white-faced bush-cricket (Decticus albifrons) during the nestling phase. Small mammals were only important during some particular weeks at the beginning of the nestling period. Mean prey weight increased as the breeding season advanced, while species richness tended to decline. This was mainly due to the decreasing contribution of small prey items such as beetles to the diet and the greater incidence of large prey species. Calendar week and reproductive week had similar abilities to predict diet composition, and were better predictors than nest identity. Models fitted to particular prey species had greater explanatory power than models fitted to prey groups. Likewise, models fitted to those prey species that we considered "preferred" fitted better than those considered "refuge" prey.
Decline of Raptors over a Three-Year Period in Laikipia, Central Kenya
Darcy L. Ogada, Felicia Keesing
KEYWORDS: Africa, decline, Furadan, livestock, poisoning, raptors, vulture
Raptors were monitored monthly over a three-year period in a protected area in central Kenya. The number of raptors declined more than 40% per year. Scavenging birds accounted for most of the decline; sightings decreased by 70% during our surveys, although these declines were not statistically significant. During the time of the study, the overall populations of large wild herbivores showed little change, whereas domestic herbivores, particularly sheep and goats, increased markedly, suggesting that food limitation was not the cause of the vulture declines at the study site. Possible causes of raptor decline include the consumption of poisoned baits, which are placed by pastoralists to kill large predators that attack livestock. Scavenging birds provide one of the most important yet underappreciated ecosystem services of any avian group. The rapid decline of scavenging birds, especially vultures, in central Kenya warrants additional population monitoring to understand whether declines are local or regional, and to elucidate causes of population decreases.
Western Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus) Migration Through the Mediterranean Sea: A Review
Nicolantonio Agostini, Michele Panuccio
KEYWORDS: Western Marsh Harrier, Circus aeruginosus, Mediterranean, migration, orientation, water-crossing
The Western Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus) is a summer visitor in northern, eastern, and central Europe. Some birds, mostly juveniles and adult females, winter in the Mediterranean region, while others cross the Sahara to winter in tropical Africa. Unlike other Accipitridae, which use primarily soaring flight over land during migration, Western Marsh Harriers tend to move on a broad front, with long, powered flights over water. In the last two decades, several researchers have investigated the migration of this species through the Mediterranean basin using direct observations, radar, band recovery data, and satellite telemetry. We here present a short review of these investigations and results.
Short Communications
Relationship of Temporary Settling Areas to First Nesting Sites in Cooper's Hawks
R. William Mannan
KEYWORDS: Cooper's Hawk, Accipiter cooperii, floater, home range, natal dispersal, nesting
Reports of Cooper's Hawks (Accipiter cooperii), Swainson's Hawks (Buteo swainsoni), and Short-tailed Hawks (Buteo brachyurus) in Cuba
Freddy Rodríguez-Santana
KEYWORDS: Cooper's Hawk, Accipiter cooperii, Swainson's hawk, Buteo swainsoni, Short-tailed Hawk, Buteo brachyurus, Cuba, migration, raptor counts
Cheaper by the Dozen: Bald Eagles Capture Many Fingerlings with Each Attempt at Fish Boils in Coastal British Columbia
David H. Ellis, R. Wayne Nelson
KEYWORDS: Bald Eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, diet, foraging, predation, sand lance
Twig Used as a Tool by the Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus)
Yva Stoyanova, Nikolai Stefanov, Josef K. Schmutz
KEYWORDS: Egyptian Vulture, Neophron percnopterus, Bulgaria, tool use
Is Simultaneous Hunting in Winter by Merlins Cooperative?
Joseph B. Buchanan
KEYWORDS: Merlin, Falco columbarius, Dunlin, Calidris alpina, COOPERATION, hunting behavior
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) Use of Rhizoliths in Nest Building
Felipe Siverio, Pedro López, Domingo Trujillo
KEYWORDS: osprey, Pandion haliaetus, nest material, rhizoliths
Broods of Five Fledglings in the Eurasian Eagle-Owl (Bubo bubo)
Juan Manuel Pérez-García, José Antonio Donázar, Fernando Hiraldo, José Manuel Sayago
KEYWORDS: Eurasian Eagle-Owl, Bubo bubo, brood size, reproductive rate
44(2), 164, (1 June 2010)https://doi.org/10.3356/0892-1016-44.2.164

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A common approach for enterprises is to have scripts (in form of migrations) that will run and create the tables. If that is the case, you have to provide your own scripts to create it.
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If you have a pet dog in your house? We treat them as part of the household; we are obliged to give proper care and attention for them to make them look good and healthy, just like what we are doing to other family members.
There are different pet parlors where you can bring your pet dogs to have them groomed properly. Pet parlor owners also give some basic home pet grooming tips and advices for pet owners to follow so that they can personally attend to their pets' grooming needs.
Proper hygiene practices that are similar to human beings are one of the basics in dog grooming. It is important that you give your dog the best bath.
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As part of their normal business practices, commercial contractors are required to attend weekly status meetings, contract reviews, change orders, etc., but with the advent of COVID-19, an increasing number are now going to the airwaves, so to speak, to communicate with their colleagues and employees.
What aspects of this video meeting process can be carried forward into the future, after the pandemic is over? In what ways are contracting and industry executives currently using video conferencing and online connection services such as Zoom, BombBomb, GoToMeeting, Google and Microsoft 365 Teams, and what are their thoughts on utilizing these services moving forward?
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According to Shannon Huffstickler, social media community liaison, Schluter Systems, using video conferencing (VC) has currently become a key part of doing business. "I typically communicate with our customers in the online forums or private messages, but with everyone feeling a little isolated currently, I've been using VC to create a space where we can have an intimate, live interaction that allows for an even more connected feeling than usual."
Before the current situation, Huffstickler noted, virtual meetings were usually one-on-one. "I haven't had need to do much beyond a video call with a single customer in the past, although Schluter has always used VC for internal meetings where face-to-face is not efficient or practical."
The advantages, she noted, include the aforementioned intimate interaction, which is more productive because the conversation occurs efficiently in real time rather than awaiting return replies. "The disadvantages: not all customers understand or can use the technology easily," she said. "Also, many are uncomfortable being on camera and don't participate freely as a result."
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Christopher Walker, Vice President, Northeast Region, David Allen Co., and current NTCA President, has said his company has relied on Microsoft Teams as its go-to for intra-company meetings, "This service was always available to us but it has found a new and increased following," he said. "I'm conducting some phone interviews this week to eliminate exposure or people coming into our 'closed' environments. I've asked the potential candidates to download the Teams App on their devices."
Like Huffstickler, Walker did not rely heavily on these types of services in the past. "I would traditionally use conference calls or short person-to-person contact," he explained. "Now we have people from the same location conferencing from their office most significantly so that we can share screens and update/present information to the group without violating the social distancing standard."
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At Heritage Marble & Tile in Mill Valley, Calif., the company has adopted Google Duo to communicate as a company. Martin Brookes, founder and president, has been attending many webinars regarding the Paycheck Protection Program and felt that they have given, for the most part, "sufficient information to guide me through the process."
He noted he recently attended an NTCA webinar that had record attendance. "I see this continuing for the foreseeable future," he said. "This is good news in the uncertain times we are living in. Social distancing has its challenges and people are just looking for ways to keep social given that their regular channels have broken down. It's important for mental health to do this and feel connected to a community of some kind. I believe NTCA provided this. I posted a video in the NTCA Members Only Facebook group when the PPP was released and pointed members toward the paperwork to try to fill out as quickly as possible."
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"I've come to realize that I can be more productive on my office side of the business and fewer site visits are required when using services such as Google Duo, which is also a free service," he added. "The roll out of 5G will make these services much faster and will be a game changer, in my opinion. Once quantum computing becomes mainstream, I think we all will be conducting business differently than we have in the past. This COVID-19 situation has forced us into this way of doing business rather than it being a natural progression of technology."
Christi Williams, demand generation manager, Managed Solution, noted, "As a Microsoft partner, we have been using Teams at our organization for quite some time. The difference now is people are using video more than they used to. Teams has been great, especially for company-wide communication and information sharing. With email, it can get buried or overwhelming. Teams makes it easy for us to share updates, announcements, files, and more."
Moving forward, she noted, the company has employees at different sites, plus it works with many people outside of the organization, so video conferencing is a great way to stay connected. "Many were not using video on calls previously, but I think this isolation is pushing people a bit out of their comfort zone," she added. "I hope to continue seeing more people and companies utilize it, especially those that have multiple headquarters or employees partially remote."
Schluter's Huffstickler also sees a future that features increased video conferencing. "I fully expect that this format will continue to be the norm in the future," she concluded. "I presume that remote work – and even shared office meetings – will be conducted on a regular basis in this format."
Shannon Huffstickler, Schluter Systems, uses VC to stay connected with colleagues and contacts during social distancing restrictions.
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How Techno and Gabber Developed in Rotterdam
There's something positively Blade Runner-esque about Rotterdam. The Netherlands' second-largest city is unabashedly shaped by ultra-modern, futuristic architecture—an urban landscape of oblique angles and form-follows-function aesthetics. It's a utopian spirit of spatial experimentation impressively woven in and around decrepit port buildings, the Nieuwe Maas and various multiethnic neighborhoods. Previously known as the "City without a Heart" (after the Germans bombed it to smithereens during World War II), Rotterdam today boasts nothing less than a visionary artistic soul. In a multi-part series of interviews, we explore a day in the life of some of the people behind its creative center. First up is Serge Verschuur, the don of heavyweight label and distribution network Clone.
Serge Verschuur — Clone Records
"I grew up on an island off the southern coast of Holland called Schouwen-Duiveland, which is a hugely popular tourist destination here. It's kind of like the Dutch version of Rimini, where loads of Rotterdammers have their vacation homes. There was and is a pretty big party scene there, with the island's six clubs open, like, five months a year, pretty much every day…even though there are only around 2,000 permanent residents.
But before I could really go out, it was radio that got me hooked on electronic music. As you well know, in the pre-Internet era, it was easy for things to remain underground and obscure. And the only way to really hold onto what you heard on the radio was to tape it. Believe me, I taped almost everything. I mean, back then, you would often only hear a song once, and if you didn't hear the DJ say who it was by, it was gone forever. And if the song was good, that was a minor tragedy. I always, always felt drawn to the things on the radio I didn't hear very often.
During breaks in school, the teachers would allow us to play music over the school sound system, which was piped through the hallways of the entire campus. Fridays were the best because the night before I had recorded Ferry Maat's now legendary Soulshow, and he always spun the latest American imports—mostly a really exquisite mix of soul, hip-hop, R&B, and disco. This was stuff that wasn't even going to be released in Europe until, like, two months later, so it always had for me an air of importance. We're talking the early '80s, which is really when dance music started in Holland.
Initially it was all about Chicago house. But back then, there weren't all of these different sub-genres of electronic music. When you went out, you really heard everything. '91 is when we started hearing the first harder techno stuff coming out of Detroit with Jeff Mills, Underground Resistance and all that. And then immediately the Dutch variations on hard techno began, which is really how gabber first came about.
It was never really my thing, but I used to include it in my sets, because it was just so damn popular. I'd spin Robin S. on 45, mix it with some gabber, and then both the girls and guys would be happy. Eventually, it developed into a kind of rivalry between harder styles like gabber and more mellow stuff like straight-up house. Mellow versus hard. I never liked the genre split, so I always just played whatever I wanted—B12, Evolution, Planet E stuff, good obscure US house…I managed to get away with playing whatever sounded good, regardless of stylistic consistency.
Even at Parkzicht, which is where gabber was born here in Rotterdam, the DJs started out playing all Plus 8 acts, Richie Hawtin and lots and lots of Detroit stuff with aggressive 909s. That's really how the divisions began. It wasn't until the early '90s here when people started going to clubs to hear only gabber or only mellow. When gabber and hardcore techno started getting bigger, other electronic music automatically became more underground. I started Clone because I saw this huge gap in techno that needed to be filled. Stuff that was good but wasn't so obviously 'hard' or 'soft' didn't get released here, and that's where I came in and started putting stuff out like, say, Theo Parrish.
In my mind, there's also a natural connection between cities like Rotterdam and Detroit—as well as Berlin. These are cold, dark and harsh places, and to me, that's reflected in the techno these cities generate. Also, when I have artists visiting Rotterdam from Detroit, they always tell me they feel at home because there are so many people of color here. It's perfectly normal not to be white in Holland, and that's something most Dutch people feel proud of.
When I'm DJing abroad and I tell people I'm from Holland, they always tell me how much they dig Amsterdam. When I tell them I'm from Rotterdam they just kind of nod politely and continue talking about Amsterdam. I suppose that's understandable, because Amsterdam is a place where it's easy to feel comfortable wherever you are in the city; it's just so damn beautiful. Here, it's easy to end up in a neighborhood where you don't feel comfortable—that is, if you're wandering around without a clue. The city has an edge, and it has so many different faces.
After the port started expanding and shipping and transportation switched from unwieldy packages to containers, a lot of the warehouses and storage spaces were left abandoned, which created this eerie emptiness in the middle of the city. That's now starting to be filled with more residential areas and cultural institutions, which is, in my opinion, an excellent development. This isn't the kind of ugly gentrification people complain about in other cities. This is people being able to live comfortably in the city center instead of flocking to the suburbs."
This article originally appeared in the Winter 2011/2012 issue of Electronic Beats Magazine. Click here to read more from the magazine.
Published September 29, 2015.


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Collin Carr BSc CEng FICE
Chris Binns was the head of engineering for the £6.5 billion Thameslink programme for six years, one of Network Rail's biggest infrastructure challenges to date. However, in June 2015, he swapped the north to south London line project for the new east to west link now under construction known as Crossrail. Chris became the chief engineer of this £14 billion project which is, without doubt, Transport for London's (TfL) biggest infrastructure challenge to date.
Chris replaced Chris Dulake who, now that the tunnelling work and associated heavy civil engineering (his speciality) has been successfully completed, has moved on to an even bigger project, the £50 billion High Speed 2 line. Chris Binns now reports to Crossrail's technical director, Chris Sexton. Yes, another Chris!
Rail Engineer visited Chris Binns recently to find out how life in his new role is panning out for him now that he has completed his first six months. His immediate response was "responding to the sheer volume of technical challenges". He added that these challenges are not necessarily more complex than those he experienced at Thameslink, but the scale has increased significantly.
As readers will be aware, unlike the Thameslink project, which is being successfully built around a fully functioning urban railway, Crossrail includes a new central core consisting of 42km of newly bored tunnels. There are also 10 new Crossrail stations being built, some in very complex locations – Paddington, Bond Street and Liverpool Street to mention a few. In addition, there are complex redesigned track layouts both west and east of the capital, extending out to Reading in the west and Shenfield in the east.
The tunnels and the new stations all need fitting out, while new power supplies have to be installed alongside signalling and control systems. These are the challenges that now face Crossrail and this is the area of expertise that Chris is most suited to, hence his appointment to this post.
As with Thameslink, all the different technical heads report to Chris. However, Crossrail's expenditure is three times that of Thameslink and, because of the significant volume of work and diverse issues that they have to cover, Chris has a large team of 200 plus engineers which is not far off double the resource at Thameslink. He was keen to point out that the Thameslink team were of a high calibre, but one of the benefits of Crossrail is that it is considered to be probably the biggest railway project in Europe if not the world, and this again means he is working with another very high calibre team.
Key suppliers
Of course, none of the fitting out work of tunnels and stations can be carried out without the support of a competent and innovative supply chain and, in April 2013, Crossrail awarded the last major suite of contracts valued at £300 million, to a joint venture comprising Alstom Transport, French trackwork specialist Transport Sud Ouest (TSO), and Costain. The joint venture is normally referred to as ATC and it has the responsibility of ensuring that the tunnels are fitted out with the necessary equipment for an operational railway system. This work will be the focus of much of Chris's attention over the coming months and years, leading up to the 2018 opening.
He explained that, when the tunnels were completed, the construction included a mass concrete base ready to receive the various slab track designs. The base has a raised curb either side, designed to carry a specially built multi-purpose gantry, which at first sight looks like something out of Star Wars. This gantry has the capacity to carry and position 28 sleepers at a time before installing 108-metre lengths of rail.
The 70,000 sleepers required are being manufactured by Nottingham- based SBC Rail and then stock piled in bales at the railhead depots at Plumstead Logistics Centre in south east London and Westbourne temporary railhead in West London. Both locations are being used throughout the contract for providing engineering trains and for storing materials and equipment.
Also, given the recent concerns about the UK steel industry, it was pleasing to note that Tata Steel is supplying more than 57km of heat treated, wear-resistant rail and that the steel blooms are produced in their Scunthorpe plant. The slight surprise is that these blooms are then transported to Tata's Hayange mill in northern France to be rolled into the rail profile.
Neighbourly awareness
When Chris was at Thameslink he was especially pleased with the way the project team dealt with its neighbours, the sensitivities associated with a new viaduct built across Borough Market being a good example. Chris was eager to point out that this committed approach to the surrounding environment is clearly evident within the Crossrail project as well. One technical example is the creation of five different standards of track designed to cater for such sensitive locations as recording studios in Soho, the Barbican concert hall, and historical listed buildings, to name just a few.
For the majority of track constructed in the tunnels, standard track slab with fibre reinforced concrete is being used. However, in the Victorian Connaught Tunnel, a newly designed, direct fixed track system has been installed, using Australian Delkor two holed baseplates. The design of the baseplates includes a top plate and base frame which are vulcanised together by means of a natural rubber boot. This helps to significantly reduce the dynamic stresses on the base structure.
In addition, a high-attenuation sleeper track design, that is placing whole sleepers into a rubber boot before they are concreted into the formation, is being used in a number of selected areas where there is a particular need to reduce noise and vibration.
Light or heavy?
Where the noise and vibration have to be reduced, in more sensitive locations such as Soho, light floating track slab is used.
However, where noise and vibration has to be controlled in the most sensitive area such as the Barbican, heavy floating slab track is being installed. The concrete in this track is described as magna dense – double the density of normal concrete with a high iron ore content, hence the heavy!
So there is a fair array of options available, all required to be installed to a high specification and in accordance with the very tight tolerances imposed. It is down to Chris's team to ensure that this level of quality is maintained and, during site visits, the team has been able to verify the high expectations of the surveyors within the production team.
It is not always easy to tell the production team to stop a full-flowing process to make marginal adjustments of just one or two millimetres, but that is the standard that everyone is working to and it is this meticulous approach that Chris finds very reassuring.
Invaluable equipment
The ATC joint venture has acquired a Plasser and Theurer road-rail flash butt welding machine, designed to produce welds to a consistently high standard in a tunnel environment. This will undoubtedly prove to be an invaluable piece of kit as will another new machine – a new drilling rig.
As part of the tunnel fit-out, it has been estimated that more than 250,000 holes will need to be drilled to accommodate brackets for cabling, walkways and other equipment to support the operation of the railway. A state of the art drilling rig, owned by Crossrail and manufactured by Rowa Tunnelling Logistics in Switzerland, is now being used to drill the majority of the holes, thus minimising the need for manual drilling.
Once the slab track has been laid, the rig sits on the track and is designed to move through the tunnels drilling the holes in pre-determined locations. The machine has a dust suppression system in place, helping to produce a clean and accurately drilled hole every time. The rig is configured to work in conjunction with real-time 3D laser surveys of the tunnel to ensure accuracy, and it is proving to be an invaluable piece of equipment for all concerned.
Dry and wet
Crossrail has also invested in a refurbished concreting train that was brought to the UK from France via the Channel Tunnel in August 2015.
It is 465 metres long and is a mobile underground concrete batching factory using dry materials. Running and maintaining the concreting train is a 24-hour operation. Concrete pouring generally takes place during the night with restocking and maintenance carried out during the day.
The train is based at the Plumstead rail depot and is being used for the construction of standard track slab. At first, the production team was achieving about 74 metres per day, but this has now increased to around 150 metres per day, which is a considerable achievement. The train has piping running from the front of the train, like a giant insect proboscis, for about 300m. This means that the train does not have to run on freshly laid concrete the next day allowing the concrete adequate time to gain strength.
Also, a different, smaller concrete train known as the Shuttle, was brought into action in January 2016. Chris explained that the Shuttle is being used to construct the standard track slab in the tunnels from the Royal Oak Portal through to central London. The train was designed to accommodate the limited room available at its stabling point in Westbourne Park. However, because the train uses batches of ready-mixed fibre reinforced concrete, time becomes a critical factor.
The Crossrail route will be powered by a 25kV overhead line system using a rigid overhead conductor bar throughout the tunnels, a design that doesn't require weights and pulleys. As Chris pointed out, it is a similar system to the one used in the Thameslink Canal Tunnels that linked the East Coast main Line to St Pancras and beyond.
In the central section, 25kV traction power for the Crossrail trains will be provided by two new bulk supply points, connected to the National Grid 400kV supply, at Pudding Mill Lane in the east and Kensal Green to the west. Super grid transformers have been installed and are currently being 'dressed' (fitted with fans, coolants etc).
A 22kV high-voltage network will be installed in the central section from Royal Oak Portal in the west to Limmo Peninsula in the east with an 11kV high- voltage non-traction spur to be installed from Limmo through to Plumstead. This network will supply mains power to each Crossrail station, shaft and portal within the central section.
With regard to the signalling systems, Thameslink is using a novel combination of metro Automatic Train Operation, and the main-line European Train Control System (ETCS), with a recent trial run through the core section of the route going very well. Crossrail, on the other hand, is using a Communications-Based Train Control System (CBTC) for its core.
This system is popular with Metros throughout the world and is familiar to TfL. Therefore, development costs are more predictable and Siemens has just commissioned a similar system in Copenhagen in February 2016 so, lessons learnt will be transported into the project.
As Chris pointed out at the start, the scale and volume of this project is enormous with a myriad of Crossrail's communications and control systems.
When asked if he was enjoying it, he replied "thoroughly!" and then added that he had just finished his first induction session for new recruits into Crossrail so now he really feels that he is part of the team facing the challenges of building a railway that will stretch from Reading, across town to Shenfield, by 2018.
Collin Carr BSc CEng FICEhttp://therailengineer.com
Structures, track, environment, health and safety
Collin Carr studied civil engineering at Swansea University before joining British Rail Eastern Region as a graduate trainee in 1975.
Following various posts for the Area Civil Engineer in Leeds, Collin became Assistant Engineer for bridges, stations and other structures, then P Way engineer, to the Area Civil Engineer in Exeter. He then moved on to become the Area Civil Engineer Bristol.
Leading up to privatisation of BR, Collin was appointed the Infrastructure Director for InterCity Great Western with responsibility for creating engineering organisations that could be transferred into the private sector in a safe and efficient manner. During this process Collin was part of a management buyout team that eventually formed a JV with Amey. He was appointed Technical Director of Amey Rail in 1996 and retired ten years later as Technical Transition Director of Amey Infrastructure Services.
Now a self-employed Consultant, Collin has worked with a number of clients, including for RSSB managing an industry confidential safety reporting system known as CIRAS, an industry-wide supplier assurance process (RISAS) and mentoring and facilitating for a safety liaison group of railway infrastructure contractors, the Infrastructure Safety Leadership Group (ISLG).
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This thesis examines the evolution of chivalric values embodied in the Order of the Garter through historically conscious readings of the fourteenth-century romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Book I of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene. These texts each reference the Order of the Garter to prescribe an ideal of chivalric knighthood—Sir Gawain through the story of the green girdle (reminiscent of the garter symbol) and its acceptance by the court as a symbol of honor, and the Faerie Queene through the narrative of the Redcrosse Knight, who is in fact St. George, patron saint of the Order. Examining these texts through the lens of the Order illuminates the chivalric values of their times and illustrates the evolution of chivalry from the Edwardian to Elizabethan periods. Providing historical background on the Order of the Garter—England's first chivalric knightly Order founded in 1348 by Edward III—and close reading of the texts in light of this context, I argue that chivalry in the medieval period was in a period of transition, characterized by conflicts between the military, courtly, and religious ideals of the time. By the time of Elizabeth I, these diverse elements had been united to create a hegemonic chivalric ideology emphasizing the elevated status of the courtly lady. This ideology was used as a political tool to support Elizabeth's rule. The Order embodied the combination of chivalric elements, and provides one example of Elizabeth's manipulation of chivalry as a means of justification of female rule.
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