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Everything we do is informed by a careful and holistic examination of how our actions impact the environment around us, both locally and around the world.
The e-van charges up at the solar electric car charging station on the north end of campus.Students, staff, and faculty are involved in developing the policies and plans that govern the college. Below are examples of how we put human ecological and sustainability principles into practice on campus.
Break Free From Plastic Campus Pledge
College of the Atlantic's All College Meeting (ACM) voted to endorse the P.L.A.N. #BreakFreeFromPlastic Pledge on April 10, 2019. President Darron Collins signed the pledge in May 2019, making COA the first college in the US to commit to the Break Free From Plastic Pledge.
Establishing a purchasing policy which, by 2025, eliminates campus and campus food vendor procurement of all non-essential, non-compostable, single-use disposable plastics. This includes restrictions on:
Single-use plastic utensils
Single-use plastic straws* & stirrers
Single-use plastic food serviceware (cups, plates, bowls, trays, sauce dishes, lids, etc)
Single-use plastic clamshells & to-go containers
All polystyrene (Styrofoam™ and similar) food service products
Single-use plastic-lined cups and bowls (coffee cups, soup bowls, snack boats, etc)
Single-use plastic-wrapped condiments, sauces, and seasonings (butter, jelly, peanut butter, creamers, sugars, salt, pepper, etc)
Individually-packaged items with bulk alternatives (napkins, oyster crackers, individually wrapped fresh baked goods, mints, toothpicks, etc)
Single-use hot beverage packets unnecessarily packaged in plastic (K-Cups, plastic-wrapped tea bags, etc)
Note: The following "solutions" are not acceptable under this pledge:
Incineration ("waste-to-energy") as a "recycling" option
Food-contaminated, "recyclable" single-use plastics (Plastic that has come into contact with food is typically no longer recyclable, regardless of the original plastic material, e.g. plastic clamshells)
"Biodegradable" plastic options that are not certified compostable**
* Accessibility should be at the forefront of food-service vendors' efforts when working towards restricting single-use disposable plastic. Implemented policies should restrict disposable products while accommodating all users of the system, including people who have different abilities, dietary restrictions, financial limitations, or other needs. A variety of voices should be included at the decision-making table to consider diverse needs and limitations. In no situation should a "ban" on a plastic item, such as plastic straws, supercede the needs of individuals.
** "All compostable products should be certified as conforming to ASTM or other international standards in order to prevent greenwashing, and to ensure that the products do not create problems for composters or the environment. Meeting the ASTM standards (D6400 or D6868) requires individual ingredients to be tested for biodegradability (consumed by microorganism), and the finished product to disintegrate (physically break down during composting), as well as be tested for plant toxicity and heavy metals. Certification in the U.S. is provided by BPI, The Biodegradable Products Institute." https://compostingcouncil.org/compostable-products-task-force/2.
Due to the present lack of viable alternatives, and other barriers to removal, the following single-use plastic items are presently excluded from the above restrictions. However, College of the Atlantic commits to keeping an eye towards plastic-free alternatives in future procurement decisions and policies regarding these items:
Pre-packaged plastic-wrapped retail items (chip bags, granola bar wrappers, candy bar wrappers, water/soda bottles, toiletries, etc)***
Plastic trash and recycling bags
Plastic wrap for use during food prep (this does not refer to individually wrapped food items, as noted above)
Plastic and polystyrene (Styrofoam™) packaging from incoming orders
Single-use plastics used in academic settings (e.g. lab equipment)
Single-use plastics necessary for health or safety purposes (e.g. medical plastics)
*** Accessibility should be at the forefront of food-service vendors efforts when working towards restricting pre-packaged plastic-wrapped retail items. In locations where fresh, local, and/or unpackaged food or water is unavailable, food security and accessibility are paramount. While these items are a major source of plastic waste on campus, we recognize that infrastructure shifts will need to occur to ensure that food options are still available and accessible to all before pre-packaged plastic-wrapped retail items are restricted and/or removed.
Investment in education, resources, and infrastructure to assist in the Plastic-Free Campus transition. This includes:
Education on plastics and College of the Atlantic's commitment to plastic-free alternatives for all incoming and current students, staff, faculty, and, if possible, on-campus contractors and community members.
Expanding resources and infrastructure for compost collection, institutional reuse, repair and sharing opportunities, and general waste reduction practices. Possible examples include: water bottle refill stations, bulk laundry detergent, bulk and package free snack options, reusable menstrual product options, and reusable to-go container programs.
Adjusting procurement guidelines to encourage investment in durable and useful products across campus departments. This also applies to promotional and giveaway items.
Discarded Resources and Material Management
College of the Atlantic (COA) recognizes human activities have altered Earth's systems and acknowledges that the effect of our resource consumption on the planet is greater than we can sustain. In 2015, the European Environmental Agency pointed out that humans' "use of material resources has increased ten-fold since 1900 and is set to double again by 2030" (European Environment Agency. (2015). Waste Prevention In Europe - The Status In 2014. Retrieved from http://bookshop.europa.eu/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/EU-Bookshop-Site/en_GB/-/EUR/ViewPublication-Start?PublicationKey=THAL15006) and that the "escalating demand may jeopardize access to some essential resources and cause environmental harm." The problem of overconsumption and uneven distribution of resources is fundamentally rooted in the increase of resource wastage and pollution. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 2012 report shows that 42% of our nation's greenhouse gas emissions are a result of our unsustainable production, consumption, and disposal of resources ("Sustainable Materials Management." (2012): n. pag. Sustainable Material Management: The Road Ahead. US EPA, 2009. Web. 2016.) and is therefore a core issue of the 21st century.
COA's educational philosophy is human ecology: a field that seeks to "understand and improve upon the complexities that connect human beings to their built, social, and natural environments" (https://www.coa.edu/about/administration/president/, accessed Jan 2017.) In this vein, COA has carried out sustainability policies and initiatives to reduce wastage and align the school's practices with its educational philosophy. These efforts have involved, but are not limited to, a zero waste graduation in 2005, a non-packaged water policy, and the Earth Charter. However, as of 2017, COA has a long way to go to become zero waste, as defined in the Principles and Definitions section of this policy.
COA recognizes its roles and responsibilities as a member of the local community, the state of Maine, and the world. Chief among those responsibilities is environmental and social stewardship. The College acknowledges the need to discard resources in order to function, but at the same time, recognizes that those materials should not be wasted, but recovered. The College will also take responsibility to reduce its overall resource consumption. This document sets out COA's vision and guiding principles in regard to Material Management; the end goal is minimizing discarded materials produced by the operations, maintenance, and daily activities of the College.
2. Aim of Policy
The aim of this policy is to support and improve College of the Atlantic's discarded resources and material management, which affects all campus operations and COA-sponsored events. It will address the College's resource consumption and disposal by guiding the community in improving its reduction and diversion rates of discarded resources.
COA is committed to sustainability and environmental stewardship, and will implement sound Material Management and Zero Waste practices through resource conservation, reduced resource consumption, environmentally and socially responsible purchasing, and discarded resource diversion practices and opportunities in accordance with a Zero Waste framework and the College's observed needs.
3. Principles and Definitions
Zero Waste is defined by the Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance (2011) as a goal for social, environmental, and economic justice.
A goal that is both pragmatic and visionary, to guide people to emulate sustainable natural cycles, where all discarded materials are resources for others to use. Zero Waste means designing and managing products and processes to reduce the volume and toxicity of waste and materials, conserve and recover all resources, and not burn or bury them. Implementing Zero Waste will eliminate all discharges to land, water, or air that may be a threat to planetary, human, animal or plant health. (ZW Business Principles." Zero Waste International Alliance. http://zwia.org/standards/zw-business-principles/, accessed May 19 2016)
COA's twelve Zero Waste principles are: reduce, reuse, repair, redesign, repurpose, replenish, research, reach-out, refuse, reconsider, remember, and recycle. (The 12Rs are inspired by the 9Rs developed by Chintan, Environmental Action and Research Group) The prefix "re-" implies involved and continued action, and emphasizes COA's position as a dynamic institution which has the power to engage with the world. These principles will guide the COA community in recognizing and reconsidering our consumption and disposal of resources as interactions with the world around us, and changing our actions accordingly.
"Waste" is a word that carries associations of loss, excess, disposability, and valuelessness. In this policy, waste is not used to describe the physical resources discarded on campus, but as a verb. This is similar to the Zero Waste Movement's use of the term "to waste": to unnecessarily discard a resource so that its value is not realized. All materials that are discarded on campus are defined as Discarded Resources–both divertible materials, such as redeemable bottles and apple cores, and currently non-divertible materials, such as petroleum-based dental floss.
For the purpose of this policy document, "Discarded Resource Management" and "Material Management" will refer to the procedures and practices designed to achieve a reduction in resource consumption and wastage, an increase in resource reuse, and a mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. Material Management (MM) is a term that attempts to capture the full lifecycle of materials–from raw resources to products, to end disposal. Discarded Resource Management (DRM) is a term specific for the management of disposed materials, and combines all forms of reduction, reuse, and diversion. Together, MM and DRM, establish a holistic approach to resource production, consumption, and disposal.
This policy applies to all College activities, infrastructure, and operations. This includes College-owned facilities and land, as well as College-sponsored activities. The College has limited control of what individuals bring onto campus or what faculty, staff, and students consume off-campus, but will inform and promote resource stewardship and Zero Waste principles.
Off-campus College activities will follow Zero Waste principles, but the College also acknowledges its interconnectedness to the global economy and local communities and recognizes the limits of local infrastructure and customs.
5. Goal
This policy sets a goal of 90% diversion of discarded materials by 2025 based on the weight of the College's discarded resources in 2015. The interim goal is 70% diversion by 2020, with additional efforts to reach 100% diversion beyond 2025 as further commitment, infrastructure, and knowledge advance.
College of the Atlantic commits to taking the following steps in pursuit of diverting 90% of campus-associated discarded materials from landfill and incineration by 2025:
Follow the Zero Waste business principles developed by the Zero Waste International Alliance. (ZW Business Principles." Zero Waste International Alliance. http://zwia.org/standards/zw-business-principles/)
Establish a Zero Waste culture on campus by integrating it into the curriculum and other activities on campus, so members of the campus community will leave as Zero Waste leaders.
6.1. Infrastructure
While needs vary among buildings and facilities, this policy shall be applied, at the minimum, in the following ways to new and existing buildings:
Development of infrastructure will be grounded in Material Management and Zero Waste principles.
COA's outdoor campus will remain a carry-in-carry-out landscape without any public "trash" receptacles. Access to discarded resource stations will at all times be available to guests.
All College-owned buildings must have recycling and composting receptacles, signage, and discarded resource information; no recycling and composting receptacles should be farther than the closest bathroom.
Within College-owned buildings, no single non-diverted "trash" receptacle may exist without accompanying composting and recycling receptacles, and signage of where to find other receptacles.
All kitchens must have composting and recycling receptacles.
The campus must dedicate a space for reuse, repair, and storage of discarded resources.
All individual offices and dormitory bedrooms are private spaces in which the policy infrastructure does not apply.
6.2. Management
Building a Zero Waste culture necessitates reduced consumption and disposal, sustainable purchasing, analyses of entire material lifecycles, encouragement of extended producer responsibility, material reuse, product repair, and disposal diversion. COA shall, at a minimum, continue at the 2016 level of discarded resource and material management efforts such as facilitating move-in and move-out support for each academic year and having compost available across campus for all community members. Each office and facility will take responsibility in developing its respective commitments to the above.
6.3. Planning
A framework for discarded resource and material management will be created by the Administrative Dean and Director of Buildings and Grounds in collaboration with staff, students, and faculty. The framework will guide the efforts of each office and facility, as well as the faculty and student body, toward implementing this policy and meeting its goals. COA's strategic planning efforts, both the campus plan and institutional plan, must comply with the Discarded Resource and Material Management Policy. Any new building space or renovation to existing spaces must follow the Sustainable Building Policy Zero Waste specifications. Specifically, building plans must align with reduction goals and diversion rates.
6.4. Assessment
COA will track its Material Management as well as progress on goals and actions laid out in this policy by:
Conducting a yearly audit and data collection of discarded materials, following standards of privacy and hygiene;
Making this policy and subsequent progress reports available to the public;
Revising this policy every three years.
6.5. Reporting
The reporting on this policy will be a collaborative effort among students, staff, and faculty, but will be under the ultimate responsibility of the College President. COA will collect and report on the weight of non-diverted and diverted discarded materials. There should be appropriate categorization of these discarded materials, such as: (1) hazardous materials, (2) building renovation debris, (3) recyclables, (4) donated materials, (5) organic materials, (6) discarded electronics, and (7) universal goods.
The Director of Buildings and Grounds will report data relating to COA's discarded resource and material management practices, policy, and data to the Association for the Advancement in Higher Education (AASHE) every year using the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Reporting System (STARS) or an equivalent standardized tracking tool. The Administrative Dean, Director of Buildings and Grounds, CPBC, Director of Energy Education and Management, and other staff working on sustainability issues, as appropriate, will report policy concerns and progress to CCS every year. In addition to the AASHE reporting, CCS will report every three years to ACM/Steering as part of the review of the policy, stating the progress toward Zero Waste and explaining any updates to this policy.
7. Responsible Parties
The president of the College is the ultimate responsible party of implementing and updating this policy with specific areas of responsibility toward staff and governance committees on campus:
The Administrative Dean is responsible for supervising the policy and reporting compliance to the COA community, as well as creating the Discarded Resource and Material Management Framework.
The Director of Buildings and Grounds is responsible for daily operations, discarded resource management at school events, and data collection. The Director is responsible for providing information on Zero Waste procedures to community members. The Director is also responsible for organizing a yearly Discarded Resources Orientation for students, staff, and faculty which will cover how the Material Management and Zero Waste systems work at COA.
Campus Committee for Sustainability (CCS) is responsible for reviewing policy and campus-wide education. In accordance with the Earth Day Policy, CCS is responsible for sponsoring an annual Earth Day information session to give an update on the status of community material management. This includes working with administrators on the development of policies related to sustainable material management, and advising, meeting with, and being a resource for individual community members and groups engaging in material management and discarded resource disposal.
Campus Planning and Building Committee (CPBC) is responsible for the planning and implementation of discarded resource infrastructure.
Summer Programs is responsible for educating summer guests and staff about the policy's implications on their activities on campus, as well as supporting with adequate infrastructure and management.
Student Life is responsible for informing and following this policy within student activities.
The Buildings and Grounds Discarded Resources Work-Study staff will play a supporting role in the fulfilment of all the aforementioned responsibilities.
Wood and Paper Products Procurement Policy
Whereas, the United States has already lost 96% of its old growth forests. Only 22% of the world's old growth forests are still intact. 76 countries have already lost all of their old growth forests. Eleven more countries are on the verge of losing their old growth forests.
Whereas, old growth forests and tropical forest have important ecological values, as well as an existence value.
Whereas, native forests everywhere are being converted into mono-cultural plantations; for example, the Southern US is losing its native hardwood forests to pine plantations, and old growth forests in Chile are being converted into eucalyptus plantations. Engineered wood products, like chipboard or OSB, accelerate clear cutting, plantation conversion, and native forest loss. Timber companies are also experimenting with genetically engineered trees, which endanger all native forests.
Whereas, a coalition of environmental and community groups have agreed to the following for companies to meet:
No wood products from old growth forests
No wood products from U.S. public lands
No new conversion of natural forests to plantations
No purchase of-oriented strand board (OSB) from virgin tree material
No genetically engineered trees
Whereas, most the larger retail chains of wood and the top three home builders in this country have agreed to stop buying/using wood from endangered forests by 2002. As a result, a plentiful supply of wood that can be verified as not coming from endangered forest will soon become available.
Whereas, on-going mapping and monitoring work by will provide these companies and other interested parties with detailed maps showing the location of endangered forests throughout the world. Global Forest Watch, an initiative of World Resource Institute (WRI), is creating the first worldwide monitoring network that tracks threats to forests using satellite imagery and computers to gather the data and to map it out.
Whereas, the Certified Forest Products Council is a business association supported by environmentalists that certifies forest certification programs in an effort to unify independent certification efforts.
Whereas, College of the Atlantic recognizes that in the next few years new technology will bring down the price of tree-free and recycled paper, as well as provide for a wide variety of new options such as old-growth free and chain of custody tracking of all wood and paper products.
To assure that the policy is in line with current scientific knowledge on forest management. Community input will be sought from Social Environmental Action and other avenues.
Part II: Paper Procurement
Resolved, College of the Atlantic shall purchase paper that meets as many of the following criteria as possible, with the spirit of this policy insisting on meeting all of the following qualifications:
The paper contains 50% or greater post consumer recycled content. Over the next three years, COA shall meet the following goals so that at the end of 2004, GOA shall use 100% Post Consumer Recycled or Tree Free Paper.
For fiscal year 2001–2092: 50% dollar value of total paper purchases contain 100% post consumer recycled or tree free content.
For fiscal year 2003–2004: 100% dollar value of total paper purchases contain 100% post consumer recycled or tree free content.
The supplier certifies in writing that any virgin fiber in the paper is not originating from old growth forests.
Is certified as Totally Chlorine Free (TCF) or, if not available, Elemental Chlorine Free (ECF)
The supplier certifies in writing that the paper only contains virgin fiber from a forestry operation that is certified as sustainable. The certifying organization must be an independent, non-profit, non-government certification organization accredited by the Certified Forest Products Council, such as the Forest Stewardship Council. The products provided must meet or beat these standards. (Note: If this qualification is met, then so is #2 as long as the organization is accredited by the Certified Forest Products Council.)
NOTE: 100% post consumer recycled paper or a tree-free alternative would be the best way to meet all the aforementioned criteria.
Resolved, College of the Atlantic shall inform all staff and faculty that copies and printouts are double-sided; in order to save 50% paper use. Students shall be asked to do so as well and if no noticeable improvement (no drop in paper consumption on campus) is made by Winter 2002, the College shall examine the use of a per sheet of fee system for printers in order to discourage excess copying and/or to purchasing even more environmental friendly paper products.
Resolved, Staff of the College shall immediately begin to identify any photocopiers and printers that are not capable of double-siding or having difficulty using the high content recycled paper and report such machines to the schools purchasing agent. By 2004, COA will have replaced all equipment which does not double side.
Resolved, College of the Atlantic shall meet as many of the above criteria as possible. If a source that meets all of the required criteria is not currently available at a quality suitable for copy machines and printers (even after updating the equipment); at no time shall the College purchase paper that contains less than 30% post-consumer recycled content.
Resolved, College of the Atlantic shall explore the use of alternative tree-free paper product.
(Passed 2001)
Sustainable Building Policy
Campus Committee for Sustainability (CCS) recognizes that any growth or new building construction could potentially put College of the Atlantic even further from its long-term environmental and climate commitments, including those towards energy and waste reduction. In order for COA to create a more holistically sustainable campus, it is imperative that the College adopt a policy for new building spaces that is consistent with its other sustainability commitments and initiatives.
The Sustainable Building Policy formalizes and codifies COA's commitment to sustainable design for all new building spaces on its campuses. This policy addresses a wide range of areas in sustainability, including energy use, discarded resource management, water use, and the selection of building materials, through outlining minimum standards that must be achieved through the design and operation of all new building spaces.
The standards stated in this policy are intended to inform Campus Planning and Building Committee (CPBC), the Buildings and Grounds Committee, and the College as they develop goals for future building projects and work with each project's architect and general contractor to ensure the sustainability of any new building space and documentation of efforts towards sustainability made during the design and construction process. These standards apply only to the design and long term operational life of the new building space, and not to the construction period . Separate standards for sustainable construction based on the Kathryn W. Davis Residence Village project have already been developed by CPBC.This policy does not replace the existing process for setting goals on new building spaces, but rather it supplements the process with standards that must continually be met for each new project.
In this policy, a "new building space" refers to any renovation or addition made to an existing building or to the construction of any new building or structure unless otherwise specified in this document. The standards stated in this policy apply to any new building space on any COA-owned property that will either have a heating, ventilation, or air-conditioning system, connection to electricity, access to water supply, and/or the capacity to generate discarded resources.
The implementation of these standards should maintain or increase the quality of life for those who utilize, occupy, and/or maintain the new building space.
Passive solar potential must be evaluated when determining the design and orientation of a new building space.
All heating systems installed in a new building space must be powered by carbon-neutral fuels.
All electricity use within a new building space must be either offset directly with on-site renewable energy or with green purchased power & renewable energy certificates.
Total energy use (heating & electricity) of new building spaces (excluding renovations) must meet or exceed 30% reduction of the most current ASHRAE building standards.
Real-time energy use monitoring systems must be present for any new building space.
Appropriate locations for the potential installation of clotheslines must be identified adjacent to any new residential building space.
Discarded Resource Recovery and Management
New building spaces must incorporate a design that encourages zero-waste practices.
Receptacles for recycling and reuse of materials, including organic material (compost), must be incorporated throughout the new building space.
Isolated waste receptacles throughout the new building space must be minimized. Whenever possible, each waste receptacle must be accompanied by a full suite of recycling and reuse receptacles.
Design of the new building space must facilitate the placement of easily accessible, clear, and consistent signage for all locations with discarded resource receptacles.
All new building spaces (excluding renovations) must include infrastructure to enable easy handling and removal of discarded resources to appropriate processing locations. Renovations whenever possible should improve such existing infrastructure.f. Restroom facilities within new building spaces must incorporate human manure recycling systems such as composting toilets whenever possible.
New building spaces must incorporate design for greywater and non-toxic rainwater collection systems whenever possible.
Water meters must be installed for all new building spaces to monitor hot and cold water use.
All water fixtures installed in a new building space must conform to the most current EPA WaterSense specifications.
Recycled, reused, and locally sourced/manufactured (within a 500 mile radius) materials, as well as certified rapidly renewable, sustainably-harvested, non-toxic, and low-emission building materials must be considered before the purchase and use of any new materials in the construction of a new building space.
Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) and/or documentation of sources and environmental and social impacts of building materials used in the construction of a new building space must be provided whenever possible.
The use of high-embodied energy materials throughout the construction of a new building space must be avoided whenever possible.
Meat Purchasing Policy
In the Spring of 1998, the All College Meeting approved the policy that College of the Atlantic shall only purchase safe, Maine-raised meat, including beef. In this instance, "safe" means that the farms the College purchases from will have humane, free-range animal facilities and will refrain from the use of hormones, antibiotics and animal protein feed. The College will more strongly pursue the purchase of organically certified meat as it becomes available, as the number of certified farms is currently limited. This proposal does not apply to fish or seafood.
Fair Trade Coffee Policy
In March 2001, following the tenets established in the Campus Environmental Initiative, the All-College Meeting ratified the following policy regarding the purchase of Fair Trade Coffee:
College of the Atlantic will restrict the purchasing of coffee by Take A Break (our dining services) and all other offices to brands that are organic and Fair Trade Certified by TransFair USA, its successor organization or another independently monitored labeling Non Governmental Organization.
As part of this policy, the All-College Meeting also approved the following resolution:
TAB shall strive to purchase fair trade certified products whenever possible given budgetary restraints. This includes rice and most fruits and vegetables of non-US origin. No new policy will be necessary to implement such changes unless the additional cost of purchasing such products is substantial.
The full text of the proposal can be obtained from the Chair of the Steering Committee or the Archivist.
Energy Framework
Given that the use of fossil fuels is changing the climate and that the current rate of energy consumption by individuals, the campus, and global community is unsustainable, College of the Atlantic will meet its energy needs by using local and renewable energy sources. This will enable the college to become a fossil fuel free campus by 2030. This goal will be achieved both by reducing our overall energy consumption and by using fossil fuel free sources of energy.
The college strives to make COA a laboratory for students, faculty, and staff to explore the diverse prospects of a more sustainable energy future. A central part of the energy plan will include classes and project-based learning where students can practice the interdisciplinary skills needed to promote responsible energy use. Students will be involved in designing, constructing, maintaining, and monitoring all necessary changes on the campus, including its islands and farms. The college will be a place where energy production is an attractive and healthy part of the landscape, enhancing the quality of our lives, education, community, and environment.
These experiences, along with the college's interdisciplinary curriculum in human ecology, will prepare students to become advocates for the ecological integrity of the climate and planet and give them tools to influence change in their chosen professions and communities.
As the college moves toward a fossil fuel free campus by 2030, it is faced with the challenge of improving the energy efficiency of older buildings before trying to retrofit them with renew- able heating systems. Improving the energy efficiency of buildings typically includes adding insulation, plugging leaks, and, where cost effective, as in the renovation of Turrets, installing energy-efficient windows and doors.
The technologies already exist to replace fossil fuel heating systems with renewable sources of heat. The challenge will be selecting, designing, and financing renewable heating systems to meet the needs of the wide variety of buildings on campus, a challenge that will provide opportunities for student involvement throughout the entire process.
More easily accomplished will be increasing the amount of solar electricity generated on campus. Actions taken to transition buildings to renewable heating sources and the continued sourcing of electricity from large wind farms while increasing on-campus solar PV will reduce the college's carbon footprint, but not eliminate it. The college can transition its fossil fuel vehicle fleet over time to alternatives such as more capable electric vehicles. However, COA will continue to rely on air travel to provide academic opportunities around the world for its students.
Teaching and learning about energy occurs in several classes at COA. Other courses, while not focused on energy, provide additional skills and background for students wishing to be effective advocates for renewable energy.
Targets and Actions
1. Reduce Fossil Fuel Use.
(a) By 2020, COA's research stations on Great Duck Island and Mount Desert Rock will be fossil fuel free to the greatest extent possible.
(b) By 2020, Beech Hill and Peggy Rockefeller Farms will be fossil fuel free to the greatest extent possible.
(c) By 2025, 50% of all campus buildings' primary heating sources will be fossil fuel free.
(d) By 2030, all remaining campus buildings' primary heating sources will be fossil fuel free.
(e) By 2030, achieve a 20% reduction from fuel emissions by 2030 for COA's collective road vehicle fleet based on 2017 baseline data. Maintain the 20% reduction even if the fleet expands.
(f) By 2030, achieve at least 20% biodiesel usage for all COA diesel vehicles, including trucks and boats.
(g) In 2030, the College will conduct a full evaluation of its progress towards the goals set out in this Framework and develop a plan based on most current technologies, policies, and financial considerations to address any remaining fossil usage from on-campus energy consumption.
2. Reduce Total Energy Consumption. Through a combination of energy efficiency and efforts to decrease individual energy consumption, total energy consumed on campus will be reduced.
(a) By 2020, reduce total on-campus energy consumption by 10 percent.
(b) By 2030, reduce total on-campus energy consumption by 20 percent.
3. Generate Electricity.
(a) By 2020, COA will generate on campus at least 15 percent of all the electricity used on campus.
(b) For all electricity not generated on campus, COA will purchase Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) ensuring that its electricity comes from sources that do not actively emit carbon dioxide.
4. Address Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
(a) By 2020, over 50 percent of COA's total on-campus energy consumption will be generated from fossil fuel free sources.
(b) By 2030, all on-campus energy consumption from fossil fuels will be carbon neutral through offsetting remaining carbon emissions by supporting, funding, and/or purchasing carbon credits from local renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
(d) For all College-sponsored air travel (i.e., COA has paid for the plane ticket), COA will offset the carbon released by purchasing carbon credits from renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
5. Educate. Opportunities to learn about energy and participate in projects will be made available to students of all genders, nationalities, and academic interests. Classes and student projects will build on themselves. Data from previous projects will be analyzed, current projects will be implemented, and future projects will be planned. These educational activities will help COA attain the goals laid out in this document.
(a) Each year, between 15 to 20 percent of COA's graduating class will have taken a course in energy and/or participated in a term-long project in renewable energy or energy efficiency.
(b) Each academic year offer one introductory energy class and one intermediate, project-based energy class. Provide support for and encourage independent studies, group projects, and senior projects in energy and efficiency.
6. Experiment. Take advantage of COA's small size and flexible curriculum to conduct experiments and explore different approaches to energy and efficiency as part of teaching, research, and community engagement efforts.
7. Monitor. Expand the quantity and quality of energy data available, make this data easily accessible, and use this information to inform continuing energy work at COA.
(a) By 2020, set up real-time monitoring of electrical and heating systems for all academic and residential buildings on campus.
(b) Establish and maintain an archive of COA energy data and energy projects, open and easily accessible to all COA community members.
(c) Create an Annex to this Energy Framework to monitor and assess progress towards the goals laid out in this Energy Framework in relation to baseline data.
8. Report. The Director of Energy Education and Management (or equivalent staff member) will report once a year to ACM on the progress made toward the targets laid out in this document.
9. Revise. The Campus Committee for Sustainability will review these targets at least every five years and will bring any changes to the ACM. CCS and the Director of Energy Education and Management, in collaboration with other administrators and campus bodies, including the Administrative Dean and the Campus Planning and Building Committee, will expand upon this framework to produce an action plan by Spring 2017, further detailing how various reductions will be achieved.
10. Fund and Finance. Funding for these initiatives will require approval of the President and Administrative Dean, who will balance the goals laid out here with other needs of the College in consultation with the Director of Energy Education and Management, as well as other students, faculty, and staff as appropriate. Where possible, seek grants and third-party funding to help finance renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
"On-campus energy consumption" is defined as energy consumed by all activities taking place on the COA main campus, farms, research stations, and all other COA-owned properties. This includes energy consumed by the COA-owned vehicle fleet, but excludes transportation to and from these locations by personal vehicle, boat and/or airplane. This does not include "embodied energy" related to the production and transportation of food or other materials used/consumed by on-campus activities, as these energy costs are addressed by other College policies and initiatives.
Baseline data used to calculate progress towards the Energy Framework will be consumption levels averaged over a period of three years: 2010-11, 2011-12, and 2012-13.
(Initially passed April 4, 2013; Amended January 18, 2017)
Endorse the Earth Charter
"The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental principals for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society in the 21st century. It seeks to inspire in all people's a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the well being of the human family and the larger living world. It is an expression of hope and a call to help create a global partnership at a critical juncture in history."
Where did it come from and who wrote it?
"In 1987 the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development issued a call for creation of a new charter that would set forth fundamental principals for sustainable development. …The Earth Charter is the product of a decade long, worldwide, cross-cultural conversation about common goals and shared values. …Thousands of individuals and hundreds of organizations from all regions of the world, different cultures, and diverse sectors of society have participated."
What are the sources of the Earth Charter values?
"…contemporary science, international law, the wisdom of the world's great religions and philosophical traditions, the declarations and reports of the seven UN summit conferences held in the 1990's, the global ethics movement, numerous nongovernmental declarations and people's treaties issued over the past thirty years, and best practices for building sustainable communities."
What does endorsement mean?
"Endorsement of the Earth Charter by individuals or organizations signifies a commitment to the spirit and aims of the document. It also means a commitment to work for the implementation of the values and principles of the Earth Charter and a readiness to cooperate with others in this endeavor.
The Earth Charter Initiative is seeking to develop a world wide base of support for the Earth Charter. The Initiative is promoting the endorsement, dissemination, implementation and formal and non-formal educational use of the Earth Charter by individuals and organizations in all sectors of society. Nevertheless, organizations are asked to send an official letter of support as stated in the Statement of Endorsement."
Since it was launched in June of 2000, 10,543 organizations, governments, communities and individuals have endorsed the Earth Charter.
The four core principles of the Earth Charter—respect and care for the community of life, ecological integrity, social and economic justice, and democracy, nonviolence, and peace—are consistent with and will help to deepen and further the values stated in the mission and vision of College of the Atlantic.
By endorsing the Earth Charter, COA will be supporting the Earth Charter Initiative, which aims to:
Disseminate the Earth Charter and its principles to individuals and communities throughout the world,
Gain endorsement and implementation by individuals, governments, businesses, and organizations, including the United Nations, and
Promote the educational use of the Earth Charter in schools, universities, and communities.
By endorsing the Earth Charter COA can help to:
Encourage the use of the Earth Charter as "an ethical foundation for the ongoing development of environmental and sustainable development law,"
Promote its use as an ethical framework for businesses, organizations, and all segments of civil society,
Encourage its use as a foundation for programs for sustainable development,
Call and guide communities and individuals toward a sustainable way of life,
Spark dialogue across cultures, sectors, and ideologies concerning global ethics.
Endorsement of the Earth Charter will benefit COA directly by:
Publicly reaffirming our mission,
Deepening our commitment to global ethics,
Providing impetus to reevaluate our curriculum and policies based on this new commitment as well as the values set out in our mission and vision,
Connecting us to other groups and institutions worldwide who have similar goals,
And signifying our participation in the world community.
Therefore, we the COA community, resolve to:
Endorse the Earth Charter,
Explore ways to strengthen our curriculum through appropriate incorporation of the Earth Charter' s core principles,
Broaden our commitment to sustainability both on campus and off,
Use the Earth Charter as a tool for outreach to and collaboration with other groups, and
Agree to revisit and evaluate our implementation of these resolutions at least once a year.
Divestiture Statement
The College of the Atlantic will divest from any common stocks that appear on the attached list of fossil fuel related companies* and will divest from any fixed income from that same list upon maturity; we will also instruct our investment managers to refrain from any further investments in companies on that list.
(Passed April 2013 by the College of the Atlantic Board of Trustees)
*Carbon Underground 200 - gofossilfuelfree.org
Containerized Water Policy
The purpose of this policy is to further College of the Atlantic's demonstrated commitment to general environmental sustainability, including responsible purchasing practices, reduction of campus waste, and reduction of energy and fossil fuel use, as outlined in Articles I, II, III and V of the Campus Environmental Initiative.
Because the Board of Trustees has discontinued its use of bottled water,
Because water containers contribute to waste and the depletion of natural resources through the containerization and transportation process,
Because there is controversy over the sustainability of the commodification of a resource as essential to existence as water,
And acknowledging that we have access to safe, potable drinking water at College of the Atlantic,
Be it resolved that College of the Atlantic will not buy, sell, accept or distribute containerized water.
The term "College of the Atlantic" includes all employees or volunteers of the college while they are operating for or in conjunction with the College as an institution on college property or at college events.
Containerized water includes bottles, jugs, cartons, and any other form of commercially packaged water intended for single-use.
Sparkling water is not included in this policy. However, this policy discourages the purchasing of sparkling water as a substitute for containerized water.
College of the Atlantic shall not purchase, accept gifts of, sell, or distribute containerized water on college property or at college events. At events where the college serves other beverages (soda, juice, coffee, etc.) it will provide equal opportunities for people to drink tap water.
The College may act contrary to this policy in the case of a tap water quality or water access emergency, as declared by the Director of Public Safety, or in the case of a pandemic.
Campus Environmental Initiative
In the Fall of 1996, the All College Meeting formally approved the following
Campus Environmental Initiative as College policy. The mission of College of the Atlantic Campus Environmental Initiative is to prioritize an environmental responsibility into all policies, programs and practices. The Initiative will directly stimulate the development of projects that enhance the sustainability of both the educational and physical landscape.
The core of the initiative is a strategic plan to be used as a reference for staff, faculty and students. The plan identifies aspects of management where resources are not environmentally and economically efficient. In such areas community members will work to implement more sustainable alternatives. The Campus Environmental Initiative aims to teach all community members about local and low-impact living and operating and to develop College of the Atlantic into a showcase of sustainability. The success of the Initiative will be evaluated periodically through environmental audits that evaluate its progress in achieving
the following goals and commitments:
College of the Atlantic is committed to instituting environmentally and socially responsible purchasing policies.
College of the Atlantic is committed to reducing campus waste.
College of the Atlantic is committed to the maximization of energy efficiency and to using sustainable energy sources.
College of the Atlantic is committed to enhancing sustainability in land-use and building planning.
College of the Atlantic is committed to encouraging low fossil-fuel transport.
College of the Atlantic is committed to providing curricular opportunities of study of campus and local environmental issues.
College of the Atlantic is committed to utilizing regional and organic food sources.
College of the Atlantic is committed to environmentally and socially responsible development and investment.
College of the Atlantic is committed to green public outreach.
College of the Atlantic is committed to enabling access of tools for sustainability.
College of the Atlantic is committed to a physical infrastructure, institutional practices and personal behaviors that will foster public health.
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Sustainability in the Curriculum
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This is How Sold Out Launch Works….
Consumer Psychology Knowing exactly what makes people buy and not tip-toe around your buyers for months building an email list, giving value & not making money. The idea is to ditch the advice of creating a list of subscribers and instead create a list of buyers from the get-go. More than 20% of my own email list are buyers and this is exactly what I preach in SOL..because guess what? We want people to see you as a book shopped not a library where they can get free information and never open their wallet EVER.
I have worked on 25+ online launches and about a dozen offline launches of big name brands and after the first dozen, I developed a loose system of LAUNCHING that matches the launch with the psychology of the buyer. It has served me and my clients REALLY well.
I am a mom of 2, wife of one and I live an expat life. Which means no support system and limited opportunities to keep the kids busy. I also cook every day. Till about a year ago I was balancing my online work with my offline consulting gig…so literally NO TIME DUDE! The techniques I teach are all about using the 80:20 rule…things don't get any easier than the way I teach.


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package org.apache.camel.itest.doc;

import org.apache.camel.CamelContext;
import org.apache.camel.ComponentConfiguration;
import org.apache.camel.EndpointConfiguration;
import org.apache.camel.component.direct.DirectComponent;
import org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultCamelContext;
import org.apache.camel.test.junit4.CamelTestSupport;
import org.junit.Test;

public class DirectComponentConfigurationAndDocumentationTest extends CamelTestSupport {

    @Override
    public boolean isUseRouteBuilder() {
        return false;
    }

    @Test
    public void testComponentConfiguration() throws Exception {
        DirectComponent comp = context.getComponent("direct", DirectComponent.class);
        EndpointConfiguration conf = comp.createConfiguration("direct:foo?block=true");

        assertEquals("true", conf.getParameter("block"));

        ComponentConfiguration compConf = comp.createComponentConfiguration();
        String json = compConf.createParameterJsonSchema();
        assertNotNull(json);

        assertTrue(json.contains("\"name\": { \"kind\": \"path\", \"displayName\": \"Name\", \"group\": \"common\", \"required\": true, \"type\": \"string\""));
        assertTrue(json.contains("\"timeout\": { \"kind\": \"parameter\", \"displayName\": \"Timeout\", \"group\": \"producer\", \"label\": \"producer\", \"type\": \"integer\""));
    }

    @Test
    public void testComponentJsonSchema() throws Exception {
        CamelContext context = new DefaultCamelContext();
        String json = context.getComponentParameterJsonSchema("direct");
        assertNotNull("Should have found some auto-generated JSON", json);
    }

}

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Q: The time complexity of Fibonacci Sequence I saw some textbook about the worst-case time complexity of Fibonacci Sequence. However, I have the following question:

A: Alternatively, one may observe that, from
$$
T(n)\le 2T(n-1)+c,\qquad n\ge 1,
$$ by dividing by $2^n$ one deduces
$$
\frac{T(n)}{2^n}\le \frac{T(n-1)}{2^{n-1}}+c\cdot\frac{1}{2^n},\qquad n\ge 1,
$$$$
\frac{T(n)}{2^n}- \frac{T(n-1)}{2^{n-1}}\le c\cdot\frac{1}{2^n},\qquad n\ge 1,
$$ then summing from $n=1$ to $n=N$ terms telescope on the left hand side giving
$$
\frac{T(N)}{2^N}- \frac{T(0)}{2^{0}}\le c\cdot \sum_{n=1}^N\frac{1}{2^n}=c \cdot \left(1-\frac1{2^N}\right)
$$ that is

$$
T(N)\le c \cdot \left(1-\frac1{2^N}\right)+T(0),\qquad N\ge 1.
$$

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It's taken me months to come to terms with my life and who I am right now, and it's taken weeks to write this in a way that I'm okay with.
Topics, awareness and conversation about mental illness and mental health have been slowly, but more positively, making its way into our minds, out of our mouths and spreading through the veins of our society. But growing up knowing words like 'anxiety' and 'depression' didn't always mean they were fully understood. Although it seems we are now surrounded by our friends, family, strangers and celebs all fighting daily battles with their mental health, the battle can be easily misunderstood and still feel confusing. My experience with mental health has been messy, dark, confusing and not always something I wanted to accept. And that wasn't even my own mental health. It's hard to understand something that hurts, and with mental health you can hurt, and other people can hurt as a cause of your hurt. Now, as I battle my own issues, I'm understanding it more than ever.
Six months ago, I was extremely happy with myself, I was acing university, following my passion, keeping fit and healthy, living independently, working hard, and I had exciting plans and hopes for my future. Everything was great. I was the best I had ever been in my life in every way possible. Until one day, I just wasn't.
I used to think happiness and positivity and depression and negativity were like a switch that you could turn on and off. And the use of the switch would depend on how hard you wanted it and how hard you tried. With mental health, I've found that it's partly true. Except the switch is one of them stupid ones that flick back on as you leave the room and you have to go back to turn it off again but it's constant and lasts through the night and into some days and you have no control over the stupid damaged switch. Life becomes a constant battle with the switch that never used to even cross my mind before because it was never an issue and would almost always be on happy positivity mode.
Some days feel the same as six months ago. I can still fill my days with positivity and people comment on how much I smile and brighten their day. Some days I see hope for my future and am inspired by all the good in the world, and all the good left for me to make. Some days I feel happiness because I know that one day I'll be exactly where I want to be, doing exactly what I love with someone who loves me just as much as I love them. And I won't question or doubt anything about myself or my life because everything will be good enough.
But some days it's hard to even fake a smile. Some days I feel so far from who I even used to be, yet alone from where I hope I'll ever be. Some days I can't believe how much pain has been in my life and how people keep finding new ways to hurt me. Yet alone all those hurting other people, all those other people suffering. Some days I can't imagine working with people in crisis because how can life and the people in our world be so cruel to ever put another human in that point of crisis in the first place? Some days my brain drives me crazy. I lose complete focus, worth and love for myself and the world. Nothing ever seems good enough.
I've read articles after blogs after websites about how to cope, what to do, what not to do and what depression and anxiety even are. There's poetry and quotes and helplines and chatrooms. People tell you to exercise, get out the house, talk to someone, get a good night sleep. Lol. And for those who know me and follow my IG and blogs on the reg, you'll be laughing along with me. I've gone from one extreme to the other. Here I am, little miss positivity, spreading sunshine and love around the world and trying to save the planet, feeling the most negative ever and trying hard not to hate everything around me.
And it's funny when people comment how you're coping so well, like you could never tell that I was even remotely low, like how my IG looks like life goals and how it appears I'm the same person from six months ago. Because mental illness isn't visible through a photo unless you post a picture of yourself crying in bed with the caption 'btw i'm depressed'. And it goes to show how you never know what battle someone might be fighting.
My "choose happiness" and "be a seeker of everyday magic" mantra is just not so relevant right now. Sure, if you're having a bad day it might help. But depression doesn't seem like a bad day because depression doesn't seem to leave. Instead, you might have good moments in your bad day. Or your day might not be particularly awful, but there are no feelings of happiness like you knew it before.
I know things will get better. And like everything in life, this is temporary. But for now, I'm learning and finding my own ways to cope through it. I'm trying to find peace, worth and love for myself. I am healing from the pain, trauma and sadness in my life. For the first time in months, I'm starting to accept these feelings and thoughts. And that it's normal. And that it's okay. I'm very slowly remembering the things that make me happy and trying to remind myself who I am. And even writing this, I feel relief to be talking about it. And although I'm quite used to blogging and being honest and open with what I write about, mental illness is a new topic for me. Today I'm raising awareness about my newest fight in life; mental health.
Know that mental illness is serious and varies and has tonnes of different symptoms and effects for different lengths of time and on different scales of severity. It's a huge problem in our society with millions of sufferers. It is always important to talk about it. Self-love and self-care are important too. And realising you're not alone and that you can recover from this is important to remember also. If you don't have it, you'll know someone that has it, or you'll soon have it, or you have had it.
Let's be kinder, more understanding and more loving. A mantra that can always be applied.


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2003 / newscast
Shia Muslims with Vision for Iraq (2:15)
As US news agencies brought images of looting Iraqis to the American public just days after the US entered Baghdad, it is now emerging that some of the foreign journalists themselves partook in lifting Iraqi paintings, monetary bonds and other items. While a Fox news engineer could face criminal charges, a Boston Herald correspondent who brought back a large painting has said he thought it was no big deal because "all the embedded reporters were doing it." Meanwhile, amid buoyant celebrations marking the Shia anniversary of the death of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Mohammed's grandson, the many gathered Shia also called for the US to leave Iraq and for Islamic Unity. FSRN correspondent Tony Cross reports from Karbala, Iraq.
US Military Bases in Iraq (3:52)
Today White House Spokesperson Ari Fleischer responded to the Shia gathering in Karbala. Meanwhile, many experts believe the US has been taken aback by how organized and vocal the Iraqi Shia community has been to their presence. And the United States is warning Iran, that is ruled by Shia clergy, against any interference in Iraq. Citing US officials, the New York Times reported that Iranian-trained agents had been crossing into southern Iraq to form relationships with Iraqi Shia clerics aiming towards an Iranian-style Islamic government. White House Spokesperson Ari Fleischer did not comment on the validity of the reports but said that Iran should not interfere "in Iraq's road to democracy." Nadja Middleton reports on how the government may now use its military presence in Iraq to exert pressure on Iran and around the Middle East.
Nike in the Supreme Court (3:25)
The Supreme Court was asked this morning if a corporation should have the free speech rights of a human being. The case they are addressing involves the Nike corporation defending the right to lie in its advertising. Josh Chaffin reports from DC.
Palestinian Arrests Rise (4:56)
After an intense mediation by the Egyptian intelligence services director and the Russian envoy to the Middle East, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and his appointed Prime Minister Abu Mazen concluded a last minute agreement on the new cabinet members. According to this agreement, Mahmoud Abbas abu Mazen named himself Minister of Interior, and named Muhammad Dahlan, former Chief of the Preventive Security in the Gaza Strip, and one of the difference points with Arafat, Minister of State for security affaires. The details of the agreement were not yet revealed, but political observers think Arafat will have a supporting majority in the cabinet. Meanwhile, as the numbers of Palestinians arrested by the IDF grows daily. And while Israel considers those arrested criminals, Palestinians say they are political prisoners. And as Awad Duaibes reports, this is an issue that touches each single Palestinian family with more than six hundreds forty thousand Palestinian arrested since the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Pesticides Poisoning Indian Villagers (4:16)
In the last days incidents of pesticide poisoning around the world have seen a major river poisoned in the Philippines, while in Botswana fumigation processes are leading to poisons entering the food chain. This as the World Health Organization, says there are 3,000,000 cases of pesticide poisoning worldwide every year. The WHO says a large majority of such poisoning afflicts farm workers in underdeveloped countries. In the south Indian state of Kerala, hundreds of villagers have been affected by the highly toxic pesticide Endosulfan, which a government plantation sprayed on its cashew crops for 25 years. The village of Padre is now plagued by high rates of cancer and congenital deformities, as Vinod Jose and Miranda Kennedy report.
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For all up to date news, events and information for the Mid Shires Branch please visit our new website.
Welcome to the Mid Shires Branch, launched in April 2016, previously the East District of the Midland Branch.
We offer a welcoming atmosphere for professional networking and development.
An annual seminar which gives us the opportunity to look in depth at a particular topic with expert and high profile speakers. Our last two seminars covered Emotional Resilience – the way forward, and Managing Occupational Road Risk (when we were still the East District of the Midland Branch).
We look forward to welcoming you to our Branch.
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If so, then check to see if DHCP is turned on at the router. UsernameIssues View Public Profile Find More Posts by UsernameIssues 11 Mar 2013 #4 benjy206 Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit 1,217 posts Ireland Yes i would say its a problem Failing or actually succeeding all the above Then at that point I'm going to go ahead and blame some type of third party software, almost certainly a Firewall product like Comodo Send request returned 0x80004005.
Don't confuse it with Remote Procedures Call (RPC) Locator. I've contacted AT&T about this issue and they helped none. This is a discussion on [SOLVED] Wired desktop can't connect to the internet. Hit the Enter key after each one.
And thanks for the detailed post. Yes, my password is: Forgot your password? You could take a chance that your PC is clean and do a Repair Install or take the "Better to be safe than sorry" route and open a new thread in Sorry, we couldn't post your feedback right now, please try again later.
This should also list your SSID, the name assigned to the router. Http s Error: (07/16/2013 08:45:08 AM) (Source: Google Update) (User: Bowei-PC) Description: Network Request Error. Send request returned 0x80004005. I double checked the security and retyped the key in to be sure.
Http status code 0. Regards Randy #10 Trouble, Sep 17, 2011 nousername New MemberJoined:Sep 15, 2011Messages:14Likes Received:0 It's a netgear prosafe 8 port gigabit switch gs108, I'm not sure of my model number. But still no internet access. Maybe that is the priority?
Any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance! An error occurred while releasing interface Loopback Pseudo-Interface 1 : The system cannot find the file specified. Use common sense. Jun 9, 2011 #17 Mark56 TechSpot Paladin Posts: 1,889 Yup, sorry mixed up with other threads but all the rest of my advise still applies.
Your other choice is to gamble on the possibility that there is no infection remaining and simply run a Repair Install from the OS disc to fix the damaged files (which Request has timed out. After I have analyzed some time, found the following recommended solutions Steps taken to fix issue in my laptop (windows 7): - Changed the machine IP manually into temporary IP address. We've had it for a very long time, so I have a feeling it might be having issues now.
I've uninstalled and installed the latest network driver. Then clcik on Diagnose this connection in the taskbar near the top of the window, tell us what it says. trying CUP:WinHTTP. The computer with the IP address 10.0.0.11 did not allow the name to be claimed by this computer.
The little wireless icon in the corner says that I'm connected but it has a exclamation mark in a yellow triangle saying no internet/no network access. My System Specs Computer type Laptop System Manufacturer/Model Number Employer provided Dell Latitude OS W7 Pro SP1 64bit CPU i7 Memory 8GB Graphics Card Intel HD Graphics Hard Drives crappy SSD so here goes. within the Networking Support forums, part of the Tech Support Forum category.
trying CUP:iexplore. trying CUP:iexplore. Error: 0x80072ee7. Until you figure out what's up with your network connectivity...I suggest uninstalling uTorrent and your assortment of toolbars/add-ons.


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to be able to manage their account. Customers who do not have an online First Bankcard account will need to set one up by logging in with their Sheetz credit card number and the last 4 digits of their Social Security Number. There is also a Sheetz credit card app available to make payment and account management even easier.
Please note drivers who have a Sheetz credit card are automatically enrolled in the "My Sheetz" program which is free to join and saves money on every gallon of gas purchased up to 8 cents a gallon, and offers discounts on food and drink inside Sheetz.
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Q: Why pam_loginuid module fails on writing to /proc/self/loginuid with -EPERM? I found that application using pam library to authenticate fails on error:
Error writing /proc/self/loginuid: Operation not permitted

By strace i found that fail is on write to the /proc/self/loginuid file.
Further inspection and adding some debug code to kernel (code below):
static ssize_t proc_loginuid_write(struct file * file, const char __user * buf,
                   size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
    struct inode * inode = file_inode(file);
    uid_t loginuid;
    kuid_t kloginuid;
    int rv;

    printk(KERN_DEBUG "proc_loginuid_write\n");

    printk(KERN_DEBUG "a+++ %s\n", current->comm);
    printk(KERN_DEBUG "b+++ %s\n", pid_task(proc_pid(inode), PIDTYPE_PID)->comm);
    printk(KERN_DEBUG "+++2++ pid = %d\n", current->pid);
    printk(KERN_DEBUG "+++3++ pid = %d\n", pid_task(proc_pid(inode), PIDTYPE_PID)->pid);

    rcu_read_lock();
    if (current != pid_task(proc_pid(inode), PIDTYPE_PID)) {
        rcu_read_unlock();
        printk(KERN_ERR "proc_loginuid_write failed by permission!\n");
        return -EPERM;
    }
    rcu_read_unlock();

    if (*ppos != 0) {
        /* No partial writes. */
        return -EINVAL;
    }

    rv = kstrtou32_from_user(buf, count, 10, &loginuid);
    if (rv < 0)
        return rv;

    /* is userspace tring to explicitly UNSET the loginuid? */
    if (loginuid == AUDIT_UID_UNSET) {
        kloginuid = INVALID_UID;
    } else {
        kloginuid = make_kuid(file->f_cred->user_ns, loginuid);
        if (!uid_valid(kloginuid))
            return -EINVAL;
    }

    rv = audit_set_loginuid(kloginuid);
    if (rv < 0)
        return rv;
    return count;
}

showed in dmesg that:
[   30.672242] proc_loginuid_write
[   30.672249] a+++ testapp
[   30.672251] b+++ testapp
[   30.672254] +++2++ pid = 2920
[   30.672257] +++3++ pid = 2451
[   30.672259] proc_loginuid_write failed by permission!

Name testapp is intentionally changed name. So it looks like the file /proc/self/loginuid is file created by parent, and it is read by child thread.
I tested same code on kernel 3.14 and 4.9 and on 3.14 kernel it works and on kernel 4.9 it doesn't works. Why?

A: I found the solution for the problem.
Old kernel 3.14 has turned off option CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL in config. So on there was no file /proc/self/loginuid and pam module simply don't cares when there is no such file.
On newer kernel 4.9 option is automatically selected by CONFIG_AUDIT=y.
So simplest solution is to turn off CONFIG_AUDIT option, but why in process of kernel evolution CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL became a non controllable option is matter for other question.
Thanks!


Here is another kind of artist palette. This one is in the traditional palette shape, with the thumb hole for easy holding. It's made of white plastic and contains a number of small convex "mixing wells". If you normally mix small (really small) amounts of color each time, and want to keep them separate from each other, then this palette might work well for you.
Because it's plastic, you do need to be careful about not letting the paints dry on the palette, as it can be difficult to clean after the paint has hardened. A thorough wash after use should be fine!.


The application deadline for the 2016 POV Digital Lab is Friday.
Digital Labs will be hosted in New York City (Sept. 24-25), Los Angeles (Oct. 15-16) and San Francisco (Oct. 29-30). The sessions are being held under the banner of the PBS series POV.
To make a proposal or join a team, apply by Friday.
The Digital Labs have developed a reputation for incubating successful media projects. Your community station may consider participating to learn best practices and more.


Tickle My Senses: Owner's Delight n Neighbour's Envy- Goan Pork Sausages Curry with Potatoes and Peppers!
1.Chop the onion, potatoes and pepper to medium size cubes. Open up the sausage outer covers and empty the sausage meat into a large cooking vessel. Rinse the outer covers in a cup of water and add this water to the sausages.Let the sausage meat and the gravy come to a boil on a medium flame, then close the vessel and allow the meat to cook for 10 minutes.
2. Add the cubed potatoes and slit green chillies to the meat mixture, and let the potatoes cook with the meat covered till almost done. Add the cubed onions and peppers once potatoes are almost cooked. and cook for another 5-7 minutes till onions turn translucent. Taste for salt. Drain away all the excess fat using a spoon.
Serve hot with white bread and a fresh salad. Enjoy!!
absolutely delicious curry...cant wait to try this tempting dish..
first time here...love your space.
I absolutely miss Goa sausages, but here is the recipe for Goa Sausage Pulao that you might like. Fry onions until they just turn brown, add the sausages as you would for the curry, then the rice and fry well. Then add the water, salt or stock cube to taste and cover and let cook as you would any other pulao.Enjoy!
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Troy University announces Provost's List for Fall Semester/Term 2
TROY is pleased to announce students who have been named to the Provost's List for the Fall Semester and Term 2 of the 2020/2021 academic year. Full-time undergraduate students who are registered for at least 12 semester hours and who have a grade point average of at least 3.65 qualify for the Provost's List. The Fall Semester includes students at the Troy, Ala., campus. Term 2 includes students at TROY's campuses in Dothan, Phenix City and Montgomery, Ala., along with locations outside of Alabama and online.
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2020 Accountancy Day Awards and Scholarships
The Troy University Sorrell College of Business and School of Accountancy celebrated Accountancy Day on September 10. The ceremony honored students as well as provided 19 scholarships for students in the program.
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Troy University's Department of Theatre and Dance presented its annual spring performance, "VIBE". The production, which features 55 student dancers and eight choreographers, premieres seven dynamic works seamlessly connected through the explosive energy of continuous, athletic movement. The show ran Feb 20-23 in the Trojan Center Theater.
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Troy University announces 2020 IMPACT Leaders
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Troy University's Dothan Sorrell College of Business Guest Speaker: Owner of Chick-fil-A, Jeff Koch
On February 20, TROY alumnus and entrepreneur Jeff Koch held a seminar for the Sorrell College of Business. He spoke on his experience and challenges in the food service industry and focused on the operation of a business format franchise."
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Troy University Student Research Conference
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Beta Gamma Sigma Inductees
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The Hall School of Journalism recently made strong showings at major regional and international conferences, earning awards in a variety of categories.
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TROY Online Recognizes Student Academic Success
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BLOOMINGTON — For months, the Illinois High School Association and Craig Anderson, it's executive director, have been seeking a meeting with state leaders to collaborate on developing a plan to safely conduct high school sports and activities this school year.
Finally on Wednesday, members of the IHSA staff and the Illinois Elementary School Association (IESA) met virtually with the Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike, Deputy Governor Jesse Ruiz and IDPH Chief of Staff Justin DeWitt.
Unfortunately for the student-athletes in the state of Illinois, the results of the meeting did not provide any answers as to when extra-curricular activities like sports would return from their hiatus as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We appreciate the dialogue with the state leadership and believe it is crucial that it continues moving forward,'' said Anderson in an official IHSA release. "We understand that the state faces shifting priorities as it continues to fight the pandemic, while also beginning the distribution of the vaccine. There was not expectation that a single meeting would resolve all of our questions. However, we believe that collaboration with state officials is vital for the IHSA to be able to develop an informed plan for the 300,000-plus student-athletes and over 800 high school that encompass the Association.''
Currently, Illinois is one of six states that is not currently holding its basketball season nor has a plan in place to conduct its season.
Under the modified format announced at the start of the 2020-21 school year, basketball was to be conducted during the winter sports season which was to run from Nov. 16 until Feb. 13. Other sports that were scheduled for this season include boys swimming along with boys and girls bowling. All sports have been paused since Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced a higher mitigation level back on Nov. 17,2020 and they will not start until the state returns to Phase 4 in the All Sports Policy.
Anderson acknowledged the prospects of all high school sports seasons this year are in jeopardy. The IHSA Board of Directors are scheduled to meet again on Wednesday.
"Our Board of Directors are going to have difficult decisions to make regarding the seasons for medium- and high-risk sports very soon,'' he said. "With no specific IDPH timeline or statistical benchmarks established for the return of sports and the calendar shrinking, putting together a puzzle that allows for all sports to be played becomes increasingly improbable.
"We continue to urge all residents of our state to be diligent in their efforts to adhere to safety guidelines, as a lower positivity rate remains the key to athletics returning.''
The IHSA and IESA used Wednesday's meeting with the IDPH to reintroduce recommended mitigations from the IHSA Sports Medicine Advisory Committee, as well as seek understanding on any preliminary insight IDPH may have related to the return of interscholastic sports. The IHSA also asked IDPH leadership to review risk levels of all remaining sports, with consideration for lowering some sports from their current risk levels.
"We believe that there is both data and science that validates the idea that we can safely conduct sports,'' Anderson said. "We have seen it work in other states and believe it can in Illinois if we utilize the mitigations provided by IDPH and the IHSA SMAC. Students are already leaving or participating out-of-state on weekends. We believe that competing for their high school remains the safest venue for participation.''
According to published reports, there have been 54 basketball players transfer to out-of-state programs to play this winter, including Landon Moore, Rickey Woods and DeMarco Clayton from Bloomington, Nelson and Noah Reynolds from Peoria Notre Dame and Ra'Shamiya Webb from Normal West.
Football, boys soccer and volleyball are scheduled to begin practices on Feb. 15 during a spring sports season, while baseball, softball, boys and girls track, along with boys tennis, girls soccer and now wrestling will tentatively start their seasons on April 19, 2021.
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Richard Allen "Richie" Neild, age 78 of West Lebanon, IN, went to be with the Lord at 4:29 p.m. on Saturday, January 23, 2021 at Ascension St. Vincent Hospital in Williamsport. Richie was born on August 6, 1942. He was the son of William Richard and Juanita (Winland) Neild. Richie was a 1960…


"I love your new leopard-print gauchos, boss." "I can't make it to work today — plumbing emergency." "I was a member of the Crips." We've all told the odd tall tale, but how much fibbing is normal? And what happens when it backfires? MC exposes the truth — and consequences — of the lying game.
If it sounds like the truth and it feels like the truth, so what if it's a lie?
The terrifying tale Hillary Clinton shared on the campaign trail about a "dangerous" trip to Bosnia in 1996 certainly made her look brave: "I remember landing under sniper fire," she said, adding that she ran with her head down to get to safety. The drama! The suspense! The ... brazen embellishment! When video footage showed her being greeted warmly upon landing by, among others, a button-cute, poem-wielding 8-year-old girl, The Washington Post awarded the fib the maximum four Pinocchios on its scale of untruths. Translation: a whopper!
Sure is a drag when those little lies come back to bite you on the booty. But politicians do it all the time: John McCain has been accused of lying about his connection to a female lobbyist; Barack Obama borrowed snippets of a friend's speech. And let's face it: Now and then, we all try to make ourselves sound a little more fabulous than we actually are.
Take, for example, a woman I know who made a former job on her résumé sound more impressive — implying she'd overseen all special projects, when in fact she'd overseen just one. When she scored a better job and the company trumpeted its new hire in a press release, guess what ended up getting blasted out to the world? Yep, the smoking fib-ola. She hasn't been caught — yet — but she has certainly paid a price in angst and sleepless nights.
Or take another woman who tried to gain points with her boss by arriving at work early, saying she'd caught a crack-of-dawn train in from Long Island — when in fact she'd just spent the night near the office in Manhattan at her boyfriend's place. "It turned out my train had a suicide that morning, so all Long Island lines were canceled, and everyone knew that," she says. "I looked like an idiot — and my boss asked me why I lied. Pretty humiliating."
Point and laugh at these poor unfortunates if you like, but who among us hasn't risked mortification and ridicule by telling a few white lies to appear more glamorous, brilliant, and accomplished? And who can blame us? It's like an arms race out there, with everyone trying to top each other in a desperate attempt to look like da bomb. When a woman you meet at a cocktail party tells you she has an MBA, speaks seven languages (including three you have to rush home and Google), plays nine instruments, and has scaled Everest, K2, and Kanchenjunga (wherever that is) with her gorgeous boyfriend — twice — are you really supposed to stand there and tell her that you barely earned your B.A. and are fluent in ubby-dubby (ibbits sobbo mubbuch fubbun!)?
If you think "Everyone's doing it" isn't an acceptable excuse, you haven't checked out fakeresume.com, which offers helpful tips on how to fake a college degree (familiarize yourself with the campus and the local bar scene so you can chat about it), create fake references (get your old work buddies to lie for you), and more. "Human-resources managers assume that everyone embellishes, exaggerates, puffs up, and basically lies to some extent on their résumé," the site contends. "So if you're being totally honest, you're being penalized!"
CEOs and VIPs are doing it, too. Over the past few years, RadioShack CEO David Edmondson resigned after falsely claiming degrees from Pacific Coast Baptist Bible College; Veritas Software CFO Kenneth Lonchar resigned after he was caught fibbing about having an MBA from Stanford; and Bausch & Lomb CEO Ronald Zarella got nabbed for padding his bio with an MBA from New York University he didn't possess. Zarella's lie cost him his $1.1 million bonus, but not his job; the contact-lens company ultimately turned a blind eye.
Just this past February, celebrity chef Robert Irvine, host of the Food Network show Dinner: Impossible, was busted by the St. Petersburg Times on a string of remarkably ballsy lies — that he was a British knight, had cooked for presidents at the White House ... and had even helped construct Princess Diana's wedding cake. His contract won't be renewed.
An equally bold liar, Margaret Seltzer concocted a whole different life to make herself sound cool. She put it all in a recent book, Love and Consequences, which People called "a gift to us all." Writing under the pseudonym Margaret B. Jones, she claimed she was a woman of mixed race who grew up in a foster home and ran drugs for the Bloods in South Central L.A. — when in fact she is a white woman who was raised by her biological family in L.A.'s upscale Sherman Oaks 'hood and went to the same private school as Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. When her sister tipped off the publishers, the faux memoir was hastily recalled, and the press pounced. Whoops!
Clearly, it's important to select your lies carefully.
My sister, Turi, started her long, successful (and subsequently honest) career in radio by claiming to have experience she didn't really have. "I realized you couldn't get a job in broadcasting without having had a job in broadcasting," she says. Cleverly, Turi kept her fib modest, saying she'd worked at a radio station in Rantoul, IL — because who would ever make up a job in Rantoul? She then got her job training by walking around saying, "You know, this machine is a little different from the one we used in Rantoul. Can you show me how to work it?" She never got caught — and removed the false job from her résumé as soon as she had real experience.
Another friend of mine was not so lucky, stumbling into an image-burnishing lie that in fact made her seem rather ... unglued. Trying to cover an embarrassing gap on her résumé during a job interview, she said she'd gone through a terrible divorce, although she'd never even been married. She got the job, and her new boss, who took strange delight in the misfortune of others, was intrigued, and started peppering her with questions about her ex. "I tried saying he was a lying, cheating dirtbag, and it was too painful to discuss," my friend says, but that just made the boss more curious. "I had trouble remembering what I'd said my husband's name was, where he was from, how long we'd been married, or if I'd said that he cheated or stole." The stress of maintaining the fiction was one reason she didn't stay long in the job.
The moral of the story: Lie upkeep takes dedication, a good command of the "facts" — and a certain amount of guile. Personally, I learned I didn't have the knack back in college, when I had a job at a museum and, wanting to skip work one day, made up a story about visiting a sick aunt. When I returned, my boss asked after my aunt, wondering what she was afflicted with; I said she had cancer. Every week, my boss checked in about my poor aunt, and my story got more and more convoluted — chemo, remission, every term I'd ever heard on General Hospital — until finally I had to kill her off. I'm so sorry, Aunt Gloria, whoever you are.
74% of readers say the odd fib at work is inevitable.
47% say they lie one to three times on any given day.
71% have stretched the truth when calling in sick.
"I am a very young-looking 50. One day at work, a colleague guessed my age to be 35, and I ran with it, letting everyone at school believe it. But one night we went out to a club, and the bouncer jokingly carded me. He looked at my license, did the math, then yelled, 'You're 50 years old?!' All of my coworkers gasped. For weeks after, everyone was calling me Mrs. Delgado."
"I was working at a brokerage firm, and I wanted a promotion, but no one was taking me seriously. So I rented a BMW and pretended it was a gift from a potential client, to show that I could bring in business. It worked — everyone was impressed. But when I forgot to return it, a colleague picked up a call on speakerphone and everyone heard, 'This is Europcar Rentals.' As I raced to grab the phone, the guy who owned the garage said, 'Please tell Gertie to return the BMW. We open tomorrow at 8 a.m.' People stood up and applauded, saying I'd joined the world of deceitful brokers. But I didn't get my promotion."
"I told a toxic guy I wanted to get over that I was moving to Los Angeles. Months later, I was feeling the urge, so I called him and said that I had moved back and would he want to meet up. Over drinks, I told him about living in Marin County — but I pronounced it wrong. He looked at me funny, maybe because of the mispronunciation or perhaps because L.A. isn't in Marin County; it's hundreds of miles away. I figured that out later. And I never heard from that guy again."
Amy Reiter is an editor at salon.com.


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Join us in person at Old Natchez Country Club on, we will be taking additional safety precautions. Temperatures will be taken at the door, seating will be spaced out / socially distant, and lunch will be plated. Click the "Reserve Now" button to register. Please RSVP no later than Monday, January 25, 2021. Walk-ins and late RSVPs cannot be guaranteed.
Ilonka Deaton was a victim of sexual slavery starting at the age of 12. Her life and the lives of her family were threatened keeping her in bondage. She had just cut a record deal and was recruited by a 13-year-old neighbor and friend (a young scared trafficked victim) for one of the ring leaders who Ilonka thought was going to be instrumental in her music career.
For 5 years Ilonka had a price tag on her and was told, heinous horrible things about herself that she believed. She was rescued before her 18th birthday and legally immigrated to the U.S. Ilonka lived with shame, lies, condemnation, depression, anxiety and fear. By age 25 she had attempted suicide twice. Ilonka stated that being physically rescued out of a trafficking ring didn't set her free. She was still their prisoner until she heard about the Grace of God.
Ilonka is committed to the cause of helping other victims and survivors get freedom and healing from this unbelievable dark crime. She sings and speaks to audiences across the US. calling for people to stand with her in eradicating trafficking and individuals that their stories matter.
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