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Timmelsjoch (Passo Rombo) 2,509m
The Timmelsjoch is one of the classic passroads of the Eastern Alps and connects Austrian Ötz Valley with South Tyrolean Passiria Valley. While the Northern ramp from Austria leads on its last kilometers directly to the pass summit the southern route from Italy is much more interesting. This southern climb winds in several turns on narrow road to the top and forms with its 1,800 meters of altitude gain one of the most challenging passes of the Alps. Southern ramp of Timmelsjoch also constitutes crowning part of the Ötztaler Cycle Marathon.
Northern approach from Sölden in Ötz Valley
Northern ascent from Ötz Valley is very diversified and overcomes at first some nice switchbacks until the toll gate at the treeline. Subsequently the scenery changes and a long straight climb follows to the pass summit.
Start: Sölden 1,354m
Altitude difference: 1,346m (plus 200 meters on the return way)
The profile shows the initiall climb to Zwieselstein at five kilometers. Toll gate is situated at an altitude of some 2,100 meters at Hochgurgl. After a short desecent the way proceeds to the pass summit at 2,473m.
Departure in the center of Sölden
At the end of the village the way diverts to the right to Ötztal Glacier Road and to the left to Timmelsjoch.
Only few curves but much motorized traffic until the village of Zwieselstein
Panoramic scenery of the Ötztal Alps shortly before Obergurgl
The serpentines are numbered...
.. and wind up to ...
...the toll gate at 2,171m at the village of Hochgurgl. Cyclists can proceed at the very right without paying a toll charge.
After the toll gate a short descend provides an altitude loss of some 100 meters and a view to the straight long ramp through Timmels Valley. Unfortunately, many motor bikes use this part of the climb as an Autobahn-like road...
Clouds from the Italian side of the pass cover the rest of the climb providing a freezing cold headwind from above.
View back to Ötz Valley
The restaurant on pass summit is hardly visible in the thick clouds.
The Italian sign on pass summit indicates an elevation of 2,509m. However, GPS reports 2,473 meters.
Austrian northern approach from Sölden. Paradisiac conditions mid of May 2007 when Timmelsjoch had officially not been opened yet. However, passroad with alongside metres high snow was smoothly rideable with a road bike. While all motorbikes (usually populating Timmelsjoch) had to return at the toll gate, the road bike could just be lifted over the barrier....
The profile (way to summit and return to Sölden) shows the counter ascent behind the toll gate.
At the toll gate at an altitude of approx. 2,200m
Mid of May somewhat winterly on the last part of the passroad...
Lonesome idyll on pass summit: No cars, no motorbikes, no coaches full of tourists
Southern approach from St. Leonhard in Passiria Valley
Start: St. Leonhard 694m
The outline shows the ascent on the first 16 kilometers. After that it becomes more plain for two further kilometers until the "Gasthaus Schönau" at 1,700 meters. Behind this restaurant the steep spectacle begins with its switchbacks to the pass summit. Total slope has moderate 6,1% in average.
In St. Leonhard you can either choose the way to Jaufenpass or to Timmelsjoch. Today it's the left turn.
At an elevation of 1,000m you pass the village of Moos.
The lower part of the route.
Further way to Timmelsjoch shows up for the first time (disappearing in the clouds in the background).
At "Gasthaus Schönau" you can get an idea of what will follow...
The summit is anywhere up there.
Clouds cover numerous cyclists riding the passroad today.
The route has several tunnels and half-tunnels. Most of them are quite short but shortly before pass summit you have to face this problem: The pitch-dark tunnel has more than 500 meters and is completely unlighted. Due to the quite heavy motorized traffic (in particular motorbikes on weekends) you should not abstain from wearing a back light with you.
These are the last meters to pass summit.
Official elevation of the pass is 2,509m. However, two GPS devices and my barometric altimeter report an altitude of beneath 2,500 meters. Current maps sometimes also show only an elevation of 2,491m.
The view to the Austrian side shows the Autobahn-like descent towards Sölden. At Ötztaler Cycle Marathon a photo sensor analyses the highspeed of the participants down there.


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package akka.s3

import java.io.File
import java.nio.file.Paths

import scala.sys.process.Process

class S3CmdTest extends ServerTestBase(ServerConfig.forTest) {

  case class FixtureParam()
  override protected def withFixture(test: OneArgTest) = {
    test(FixtureParam())
  }

  def s3cmd(command: String) = {
    val config: File = getTestFile("s3cmd.cfg")
    val cmdLine = s"s3cmd --config=${config.getAbsolutePath} ${command}"
    println("***" + cmdLine)
    Process(cmdLine)
  }

  implicit class RaiseError(e: Int) {
    def orFail = {
      if (e != 0) {
        assert(false)
      }
    }
  }

  val dlfile = "/tmp/albero-s3-dlfile"

  test("put and get") { _ =>
    val f: File = getTestFile("test.txt")

    (s3cmd("mb s3://myb") !) orFail

    (s3cmd(s"put ${f.getAbsolutePath} s3://myb") !) orFail

    // s3cmd uses only the basename as the keyname
    Paths.get(dlfile).delete
    (s3cmd(s"get s3://myb/test.txt ${dlfile}") !) orFail

    (Process(s"cmp ${f.getAbsolutePath} ${dlfile}") !) orFail
  }

  test("upload and get") { _ =>
    val fn = "s3test-large.dat"
    mkRandomFile(Paths.get(s"/tmp/${fn}"), 32 * 1024 * 1024)

    (s3cmd("mb s3://myb") !) orFail

    (s3cmd(s"--multipart-chunk-size-mb=5 put /tmp/${fn} s3://myb") !) orFail

    Paths.get(dlfile).delete
    (s3cmd(s"get s3://myb/${fn} ${dlfile}") !) orFail

    (Process(s"cmp /tmp/${fn} ${dlfile}") !) orFail
  }
}

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About talha wine and its historical origins, much is actually known and already published. In this site we will try to give our best contribution. SOON MORE HISTORICAL DATA HERE.
As it is mentioned by the Alentejo Regional Wine Board (CVRA) site, talha wines are at the origin of the Alentejo production.
It is a magnificent and enduring history. Archaeological artefacts scattered across the region attest to the uninterrupted presence of the wine and vine culture on the quiet Alentejo landscape. Unfortunately, the veil of time still hides the identity of those who brought the cultivation of the vine to the Alentejo. Neither can we accurately identify when it happened. What is known, however, is that when the Romans arrived in the south of Portugal, vine growing and wine making were already a vital part of the customs and traditions of the local population. It is suspected that the Tartessians, an ancient civilisation based in the south of the Iberian Peninsula and heirs of the Andalusian Megalithic culture, were the first to domesticate the vine and later introduce wine to the Alentejo.
However, it was the Romans, with their farming expertise, who made the cultivation of the vine and the making of wine mainstays of the Alentejo lifestyle.
In fact, historical records strongly suggest that the first Portuguese wines exported to Rome may have come from this region — the Alentejo may very well have been pioneers in the globalisation of Portuguese wine! Roman influence was so critical in the development of Alentejo viticulture that even today, after over two thousand years, signs of their civilisation continue to be seen in day-to-day tasks. The podão, for example, a traditional pruning knife, was widely used until very recently.
However, the most enduring tradition left behind by the Romans, and still an integral part of the Alentejo winemaking process, is that of fermenting must and storing wine in talhas de barro - clay vessels, produced in all shapes and sizes. The Romans introduced the practice into all their territories, but only in the Alentejo has it prevailed. Some of these clay vessels weigh up to a tonne, reach two metres in height, and can store up to 2,000 litres of wine. The porous vessels were treated with pês, a natural pine resin, to prevent leakage, using ancestral methods passed down along successive generations of artisans calledpesgadores, a profession almost extinct now. Each clan of pesgadores had their own secret pês recipe,magic formulas that conferred their own distinctive flavours and characteristics to each talha de barro.
As a result, the wine culture remained almost absent in the southern territories. Only after theLusitanian kingdom was established did the cultivation of vines and the making of wine see a renaissance in the Alentejo, with the blessing of the royal family and the new religious orders. By the sixteenth century, vines flourished as never before in the region with the production of the famous wines of Évora –the wines of Peramanca – as well as the whites from Beja, and the palhetes from Alvito, Viana and Vila de Frades.


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The state where 900 women have vanished in a year
When her mother's body was found decapitated on her town's main street, Ahilin Quiñones became another one of the countless orphans in Mexico's Guerrero state, whose lives have been destroyed by a surge in female kidnap and murder. Her mother, Aidé Nava, was a mayoral candidate in their cartel-infested Mexican mountain village of Ahuacuotzingo.
After vowing to rid the town of its opium-cultivating gangsters, she was kidnapped by the cartel who tortured, raped and decapitated her.
On March 11, the ruthless gangsters left her body out in the open and covered it in a spray-painted sheet which read: 'This will happen to anyone who doesn't get in line.'
'The police told us they couldn't identify the body without the head,' Ahilin told MailOnline, 'I was forced to recognise my mother's corpse by a birthmark she had on her forearm.'
Ahilin, 19, has lost everything to the gangsters who terrorise her home town of Iguala.
Her father, town mayor Fransisco Quiñones, was murdered at gunpoint nine months earlier. Her elder brother was 'disappeared' by the gangsters in 2012.
Locals say Ahilin and her sister Vanessa could be the cartel's next targets.
'Women go missing every day from this region,' Ahilin said, cradling her six-month-old daughter, whom she hopes to spare from a life of perpetual terror by moving to the United States, 'My mother is just one among thousands.'
Six women are murdered in Mexico every single day, according to the National Citizen Femicide Observatory, which claims only a quarter of the 3,892 murders it reported in 2013 were actually investigated.
And the southern Guerrero state, where Acapulco is a popular holiday resort, is the most dangerous place for women in North America.
Forty-three protesting students were disappeared at the hands of the local police in Iguala last year. The audacity of the kidnapping made headlines around the world and still does. But there are many more cases that receive little or no attention.
An average of 14 women per 100,000 are murdered annually in Guerrero - four times the national average.
The most recent official statistics saw an astonishing 343 per cent increase in femicide on the previous three years, with more than 500 mothers, sisters and daughters being murdered annually.
Female defence organisations say that this year's statistics are already exceeding previous averages
'The murderers aren't even trying to hide their crimes anymore,' said Maria Luisa Garfias, the last remaining founder of Women Allied for Justice, a pressure group that represents murdered and disappeared women.
'The criminals enjoy total impunity,' she told MailOnline from her office in Guerrero state capital Chilpancingo, where she has death threats are often plastered to the windows.'
Garfias' organisation estimates that more than 600 women in Guerrero have disappeared so far this year and 1,249 rapes were reported in 2014, though the true figure could be much higher.
Disappearances do not count as deaths in official statistics, even though the corpses of many women show up in remote or wooded areas eventually.
Garfias said an even darker reality lurks behind these horrifying statistics.
She said: 'Women are terrified of the authorities. We had one rape victim who reported the crime to the police but ended up being disappeared because she had sought justice.
'We think that only about 40 per cent of rape victims even report the crime for fear of retribution.'
Guerrero state daily newspaper, Vértice, regularly publishes graphic photographs of the previous day's murders on its back page.
'We've been amazed not only by the increase in female victims, but also the terrible ways they are murdered,' said the paper's 'Red News' editor Jorge Pacheco.
'Thrown from bridges, hung beside busy motorways, horrifically mutilated. More and more of these photos arrive every day. Things are going from bad to worse.'
Many experts and human rights groups fear that Mexico's femicide problem is spiraling out of control.
Isarve Cano Vargas, 19, from the city of Tehuacan, is just one of around 4,000 women and girls who are kidnapped and murdered every year.
The daughter of a former politician was found dead in May, around a month after she went missing, even though her family paid her captors' demanded ransom of around £83,000.
In January, the decaying body of aspiring actress Carmen Yarira Noriega Esparza, 27, was found inside a water tank in the Mexico City apartment block where she lived.
Psychology graduate Esparza vanished in February 2014, and friends and family feared she had been kidnapped by human traffickers and sold as a sex slave.
Maria Santos Gorrostieta, the mayor of Tiquicheo, was driving her young daughter to school when she was ambushed by a group of armed men.
The body of Gorrostieta, who had already survived two assassination attempts, was found stabbed, burned, battered and bound by a roadside in San Juan Tararameo, Cuitzeo Township.
And high school student Lupita Perez Montes, 17, who was last seen on January 31, is among 18 young women who have disappeared from the northern city of Ciudad Juarez in just over a year.
Guerrero state recently launched an online database for the state's disappearance victims, but locals complain only the rare cases that are formally investigated by the authorities actually appear on it.
Garfias said: 'Our women's defence organisation has taken over 900 cases of murder, disappearance and rape to the State Attorney's office in the past twelve months.
'Yet only 9% of all of those complaints have been investigated. Why aren't the other 91% visible?'
When approached by MailOnline in person and subsequently via telephone, the Guerrero State Attorney's office declined to comment.
At a meeting of Guerrero's Committee for the Murdered and Disappeared, MailOnline heard the testimonies of many families left in uncertainty by the disappearance of loved ones.
Primary school teacher Noé Velasquez had taken out a loan of £12,000 – over three times his annual salary – to pay for his daughter's ransom earlier this year.
His daughter, 18 year-old Jimena Vasquez, disappeared in March after meeting a man she had met online for coffee.
Although he gave the full ransom of 300,000 pesos to her kidnappers, his daughter never returned. Jimena Velasquez remains on Guerrero state's disappeared list.
'I've got enormous debt', he told MailOnline, 'but I'd pay ten times that if I could just have my daughter home and safe.'
Maria Velez, 15, disappeared in 2010 from Chilpancingo after getting into an unidentified black car outside her school.
It is the second time that her mother, Lilia Juarez, had lived through a forced disappearance. Her partner Jesus Moreno disappeared in 2008 in similar circumstances.
'My loved ones have been taken from me', she said, 'and I can't know if they're alive or dead. I'm living through hell.'
Maria Rodriguez and Atanacio Molina's eldest son Josué Molina disappeared last year when three armed men kidnapped him from outside his school.
He had been overheard plotting revenge over the kidnap of his cousin just a week before. He has not been seen or heard from since.
It was the first time Maria and Atanacio had spoken to the media about their missing son.
'It's not a good idea to tell the newspapers about a kidnapped relative, as the criminals invariably take the unwanted publicity out on their victim', said Maria with tears in her eyes. 'But it's been over a year and we've heard nothing.'
Nearly every member of the committee has had to conduct their own investigations into the disappearances of their loved ones, and most have received death threats as a result.
'They (the narcos) called and told me that if I kept investigating then my daughter would become an orphan', said Haydee Cortes, whose husband disappeared at the hands of armed men in 2007.
'They've threatened me continuously but I'm not scared', said Maria Rodriguez. 'If only I could know he was dead for certain then I could leave this terrible uncertainty behind and grieve for my son'.
As many as 38 per cent of all forced disappearance cases in Mexico occur in Guerrero. 20 per cent of these disappeared victims are women, nearly double of that in the second-worst affected state, where females make up just 12 per cent of the disappeared.
'It's an insipid form a terrorism,' said Federico Mastrogiovanni, author of Neither Alive, Nor Dead, an investigation into the recent surge in nationwide forced disappearance in Mexico.
'When the families aren't sure whether a kidnapped family member is still alive they are less likely to go to the police for fear that by denouncing the crime they will anger the criminals, who may then take it out on their loved one.'
Guerrero is one of Mexico's most impoverished states, and gender inequality is a serious issue. Women earn on average just 38 per cent of what their male counterparts do, and state-wide literacy among adult females is just 77 per cent.
'Strong women are turned into social pariahs here,' says Maria Luisa Garfias, 'The patriarchal society here is enforced by the narco culture that has developed in recent years.'
Guerrero is an important state for the drug cartel industry. The state's fertile land, poverty, lack of roads, semi-tropical climate and inaccessible terrain make it perfect for the clandestine cultivation of marijuana and opium poppies – used to manufacture heroin.
It's considered the most fought-over state by narcotraffickers in Mexico.
'Here we've got the Rojos, the Pelones, the Templars, New Generation, the Zetas, the Gulf Cartel and Sinaloa all fighting over control of narcotics production', said Ahilin's uncle Pedro Nava, who campaigns for the region's local population.
'We have shootouts in the hills around us every night', says Pablo Nava, whose daughter Aidé was brutally murdered earlier this year. 'When things don't go one side's way they take it out on the local women.'
Around 41 hectares of opium poppy fields surround the town where Pablo's granddaughters have been left parentless as a result of the violence.
Read the original story on the Daily Mail
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Q: How to add markers and set custom tap events on markers with Google Maps Plugin? I have a list of markers like this
List<Marker> markers = <Marker>[
    new Marker("1", "Name 1", 28.421364, 77.333804,
        color: Colors.amber),
    new Marker("2", "Name 2", 28.418684, 77.340417,
        color: Colors.purple),
  ];

And the basic code to show and draw the map
class  HomePage extends StatefulWidget {
  @override
  _HomePageState createState() => new _HomePageState();
}
class _HomePageState extends State<HomePage> {
  Completer<GoogleMapController> _controller = Completer();
  static final CameraPosition _kGooglePlex = CameraPosition(
    target: LatLng(11.052992, 106.681612),
    zoom: 11,
  );
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context){
    return new Scaffold(
      body: GoogleMap(
        initialCameraPosition: _kGooglePlex,
        onMapCreated: (GoogleMapController controller) {
          _controller.complete(controller);
        },
      ),
    );
  }
}

How can I add markers from my List<Marker> to Google Maps and add onTap method to those markers?

A: As with google_maps_flutter 0.3.0, marker api has changed. Before 0.3.0, you have to add your markers on controller like that.
mapController.addMarker(
  MarkerOptions(
    position: LatLng(37.4219999, -122.0862462),
  ),
);

After the change on marker api,GoogleMap widget has a property named markers which takes Set of markers, not list of Markers. So you can give a set of markers to your GoogleMap widget. Also markers have onTap property for tapping.

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LSU was No. 1 for the final eight weeks of the season and set a record by beating seven teams ranked in the top 10 at the time of the game. Miami in 1987 and Alabama in 2015 each beat five teams ranked in the top 10 at the time of their games.
LSU also did it impressively: The Tigers beat teams that were ranked 2, 4, 6, 7, and 8 in the final Top 25 by an average margin of 20 points.
"Now I think that this team is going to be mentioned as one of the greatest teams in college football history," LSU coach Ed Orgeron said. "15-0, one of the greatest teams in LSU history, led by some of the greatest players. Give them all the credit."
The Tigers also won AP titles in 2007 and 1958.
Georgia, LSU's Southeastern Conference rival, was fourth and Pac-12 champion Oregon was fifth. Florida was sixth and Oklahoma, which made the playoff, was seventh.
Alabama finished eighth, its lowest final ranking since 2010, giving the SEC four of the top 10. It's the fifth time one conference has had four teams in the final top 10, and fourth for the SEC.
No. 9 Penn State and No. 10 Minnesota gave the Big Ten three teams in the top 10.
Navy finished No. 20 and Air Force was ranked No. 22, marking the first time two service academies were in the final AP poll of the season since 1958.
Navy was one of four American Athletic Conference schools in the final rankings, a new high for the conference. Memphis was 17th, Cincinnati 21st and UCF 24th.
The Top 25 teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, final records, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote, and previous ranking:
Record Pts Pv
1. LSU (62) 15-0 1550 1
2. Clemson 14-1 1487 3
3. Ohio St. 13-1 1426 2
4. Georgia 12-2 1336 5
5. Oregon 12-2 1249 7
6. Florida 11-2 1211 6
7. Oklahoma 12-2 1179 4
8. Alabama 11-2 1159 9
9. Penn St. 11-2 1038 13
10. Minnesota 11-2 952 16
11. Wisconsin 10-4 883 11
12. Notre Dame 11-2 879 14
13. Baylor 11-3 827 8
14. Auburn 9-4 726 9
15. Iowa 10-3 699 19
16. Utah 11-3 543 12
17. Memphis 12-2 528 15
18. Michigan 9-4 468 17
19. Appalachian St. 13-1 466 20
20. Navy 11-2 415 21
21. Cincinnati 11-3 343 23
22. Air Force 11-2 209 24
23. Boise St. 12-2 188 18
24. UCF 10-3 78 NR
25. Texas 8-5 69 NR
Others receiving votes: Texas A&M 54, FAU 46, Washington 39, Virginia 28, Southern Cal 16, San Diego St. 13, Arizona St. 12, SMU 10, Tennessee 8, California 6, Louisiana Tech 2, North Dakota St. 2, Kentucky 2, Kansas St. 2, Louisiana-Lafayette 2.
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Q: Using webrat's contain(text) matcher with haml I'm using the following webrat matcher:
response.should contain(text)

With the following haml:
%p
  You have
  = current_user.credits
  credits

I've written the cucumber step 'Then I should see "You have 10 credits"', which uses the webrat matcher above.  The step fails, webrat does not find the text in the response because the haml actually produces

You have
10
credits

How can I get the matcher to match the output that haml produces?
Note: the above is a simplified example to the situation i'm dealing with.  Writing the following haml is not an acceptable solution:
%p= "You have #{current_user.credits} credits"

A: You're right, this is a pain.  I've found Webrat to be annoyingly touchy too much of the time.
Two ideas:

*

*Fix your test. In this case you want it to be blind to newlines, so get rid of them all: response.tr("\n","").should contain(text)

*Fix your Haml.  This is probably the better option.  You can use the multiline terminator | to tell Haml not to put line breaks in:

    %p
      You have |
      = current_user.credits |
      credits

See the Haml reference for more obscure stuff like this. (A surprising amount of which has to do with whitespace.)

A: Better than
%p= "You have #{current_user.credits} credits"

would be
%p You have #{current_user.credits} credits

since Haml automatically interpolates text nodes.

A: I've found that something like:
response.should contain(/You have 10 credits/m)

will often give me the match I want without me having to goof with my Haml. Given the choice between mucking with my markup, which I really want to be readable, and changing my matcher to a regular expression, the latter seems a small price to pay for the more straightforward coding of the view.

A: There are various facilities in Haml for manipulating whitespace, but the correct thing to do here is to either revise the matcher to be whitespace-independent or to use a filter for writing your inline content. For example:
%p
  :plain
    You have #{current_user.credits} credits

Or if you need more complex logic:
%p
  :erb
    You have <%= current_user.credits %> credits

Haml is designed for efficiently expressing the structure of a document, but it's not so good at expressing inline content. When you want to do fancy inline stuff (as here), it makes sense to drop into ERB/HTML rather than going purely Haml. For more details see this blog post.


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K-State Recycling
1400 Claflin Road
recycles@k-state.edu
Each residence hall has a large roll off containers for recyclable material and trash. You can place all of the following in the recycle container: paper products, plastic material No. 1-7, aluminum/tin cans and cardboard. No glass is permitted in the containers. The landfill container takes all nonrecyclable material. There also is a canopy tent where you can place furniture and household and electronic items. Inside each residence hall, there are four large boxes where you can place the following items: clothing, blankets and pillows, nonperishable food items and books.
Living off campus? Drop off your recyclable items at the Recycling Center behind Weber Hall.
K-State recycling program assisted by members of the Delta Upsilon fraternity
The K-State recycling staff thank the members of Delta Upsilon fraternity, an independent student organization, who spent their blustery Sunday afternoon on Dec. 15 assisting with a waste audit program with the recycling department.
They sorted through more than 357 pounds of refuse and diverted 115 pounds — or 32 percent — of recycling material from entering the landfill station.
This is a great tradition to keep the drive moving throughout the year in support of the K-State recycling program. Your time and dedication shows a great effort and is very much appreciated by all.
Members of Lambda Chi Alpha assist K-State recycling program
The K-State recycling staff thank the members of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, an independent student organization, who spent their afternoon on Nov. 17 assisting with a waste audit program with the recycling department.
They sorted through more than 254 pounds of refuse and diverted 36 pounds — or 14 percent — of recycling material from entering the landfill station.
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity members assist K-State recycling program
The K-State recycling staff thanks the members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity who spent a recent afternoon assisting the recycling department with a waste audit program.
They sorted through 348 pounds of refuse and diverted 240 pounds — or 69 percent — of recycling material from entering the landfill station.
Recycling efforts off to great start after move-in
The K-State recycling team thanks all the students who moved into the residence hall over the past two weeks and made this university a more sustainable environment.
As shown in the chart below, K-Staters recycled 11.83 tons, or 22,460 pounds of recyclable material and only sent 1.81 tons, or 3,620 pounds of non-recyclable material to the landfill. This was K-State's best diversion rate since at least 2014 and it is impressive.
It's a great way to start the year and let's keep this great passion to recycle throughout the year.
Outstanding job!
Move-in recycling and refuse data
Date Weight of recycling Weight on-recyclable material Diversion rate
2014 3.53 7.7 31.43
2015 6.23 8.48 42.35
2016 11.3 14.53 43.74
2018 13.83 5.85 70.27
Recycling Center shares 2019 move-out results
K-State had another great move-out recycling campaign for 2019. During this year's move-out period, students recycled more than 2,501 pounds of bedding and clothes. All bedding went to the T. Russell Reitz Animal Shelter in Manhattan. All 675 pounds of food was donated to Cats' Cupboard for student use. We had an overall increase in recycling from the 2018 results and a slight increase in refuse. The Recycling Center thanks the Housing and Dining Services staff, recycling staff and students.
Below are the 2019 move out recycling numbers:
Move out data, in pounds
Clothes/bedding
Recycle material
Refuse total
Diversion rate
Recycling supports 4-H Earth Week
K-State recycling supported a local 4-H Earth workshop on recycling and sustainability related concerns. During the two-day event, more than 250 students had hands-on experiences to identify and implement proper recycling procedures. In addition, they also learned how recycling by-products help reduce items that go to landfills.
Recyclemania Final Results
Kansas State University students have won the Big 12 Recyclemania challenge for 2019. They finished best in both percent diversion and pounds per capita among participating Big 12 universities. The rank among ALL participating institutions rose from 85 in 2018 to 54 in 2019. Congratulations to all who participated.
Diversion Rank Percent
Kansas State 54 43.4
Texas 77 37.3
West Virginia 104 28.0
West Virginia 106 9.2
Texas 113 8.5
Texas Tech 140 6.3
Iowa State 158 5.2
Acacia fraternity members assist K-State recycling program
The K-State recycling staff thanks the members of the Acacia fraternity who assisted with a recent waste audit program with the recycling department.
They sorted through 218 pounds of refuse and diverted 18 pounds — or 7 percent — of recycling material from entering the landfill station.
This is the beginning of a great tradition to keep the drive moving throughout the year in support of the K-State recycling program. Your time and dedication show a great effort and is very much appreciated by all.
K-State wins regional Food Recovery Challenge award
Feruary 1, 2019
Kansas State University was named a winner of a 2018 Food Recovery Challenge award for Region 7 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
For decades, K-State Housing and Dining Services has focused on preventing food waste through vendor partnership, precise purchasing, production controls and creative menu writing. A coordinated program among Housing and Dining Services, Division of Facilities Recycling, the K-State Student Union, the College of Agriculture and agronomy department has assisted with the collection, transportation and facilitation of compost from campus organic matter. On-campus composting facilities provide an educational laboratory for students and faculty. Vessel and windrow composting methods are utilized. View a video of K-State's composting program.
In addition, students in various academic programs are educated on methods of food waste reduction in all aspects of the food system, from production to consumption.
"While we all are aware of the positive sustainable impact we can have by reducing our food waste, we also need to realize the educational benefit it provides our students," said Kelly J. Whitehair, administrative dietitian in Housing and Dining Services and instructor in the food, nutrition, dietetics and health department. "Students are the reason we are here as faculty and staff. Knowing that our efforts can demonstrate positive outcomes to them and that we are hoping to extend the beauty of our environment for future generations makes all of the work worth it."
These collaborative efforts have provided for ever-increasing prevention, capture and reuse of food waste materials. The university saw a 16.3 percent increase in food recovered on campus from 2016 to 2017. The opening of a student-focused food pantry, Cats' Cupboard, added an additional outlet for edible food items from campus entities. These efforts not only provide an environmental benefit but a financial one as well. The diversion of 58 tons of inedible food waste, such as vegetable preparation scraps, from the landfill saved nearly $3,000 in landfill tipping fees last year as well as provided rich organic matter for campus landscaping and gardens.
Read more about the award online.
K-State's recycling growth sets the bar for other Big 12 schools
By William Ridge
Recyclable materials are sorted into different piles at the K-State Recycling Centers on March 10, 2016. (Miranda Snyder | The Collegian)
In 2012, K-State Recycling only processed around 1.3 million pounds of recycling material. Their diversion rate, which represents the amount of waste that is diverted from a landfill for recycling, was only 17 percent of all refuse.
Since then, the center made the push to single source all recycling. Bill Spiegel, Recycling Center facility supervisor, said even though they tried to make recycling easier, the center still faced challenges.
"We separated white paper, magazines, newspaper, aluminum cans, plastic bottle—we separated everything. Even though we separated all those things, we still had roughly 20 percent contamination where people threw other materials and other things into recycling," Spiegel said.
This led Spiegel to involve himself and the center with the Student Governing Association, Students for Environmental Action, Panhellenic life and the university administration.
"I asked them all, 'How can I make recycling easier for you? How can it be more convenient?'" Spiegel said.
Based on that feedback, Spiegel and the center turned to a single-stream, or one bin recycling, plan for on campus recycling
"When we made that change, our numbers exploded because it not only made it easier for people on campus to recycle, but it was easier for custodians on campus to empty the recycling bins," Spiegel said.
This method of recycling was adopted throughout campus, including Housing and Dining Services, Athletics and university administrative operations.
After five years of this system, the K-State Recycling Center increased recycling to over 2 million pounds and increased its diversion rate to nearly 33 percent.
With the increase of recycling at Kansas State in terms of mass, the Recycling Center has seen growth as well. Starting in 2011, when Spiegel began working for K-State Recycling, the center had none of the dumpster-like blue recycling bins that now populate the center.
"We went from none to six, then six to 12, and now we have 20 out here," Spiegel said. "They're being filled all the time because we make it convenient for students and faculty to use."
When Spiegel began, the center didn't recycle glass either. In 2012, the center recycled 22,000 pounds of glass. By 2017, that number grew to 127,000 pounds of glass annually.
The growth of the Recycling Center in the last several years has garnered national recognition for K-State. In the Recyclemania competition, a voluntary competition between colleges that takes place between February and March, K-State placed 35th in the nation in total recycling and has been the highest ranked university out of all Big 12 universities four out of the last five years.
"Our biggest competition is the University of Texas, which is nearly three times larger than us, but we keep up with them real well," Spiegel said.
A big part of Recyclemania is the competitive aspect of it, Spiegel said.
"That university about 100 miles to the east of us, they don't do 2/3 of what we do, and we do it with a lot less. That's what it's all about, that's what makes us K-State," Spiegel said.
Spiegel said even though he knows he can't persuade everyone to recycle, his goal is to make recycling as easy as possible for everyone on campus.
"The bins here at the Recycling Center are here and available 24-hours a day," Spiegel said. "On any given day, it's like a drive through. People are always coming around to drop off their recyclables in the bins. Once you get the word out and make it easy for people, they don't mind doing it."
K-State's recycling program is among the best. Meet the man behind it.
Reduce, reuse and recycle at the Union
By Hannah Ens
Recycling at the K-State Student Union involves more than a few pieces of paper and soda bottles. Union recycling bins are located throughout the building and can accept plastics No. 1-7, aluminum, tin and paper products.
Not sure if your trash is recyclable? Here are a few common examples of recyclable materials frequently found in the Union:
Plastic soda bottles, including lids.
Paper soda cups and straws.
Glass beverage bottles, including lids.
Unused napkins.
Cup carriers (cardboard trays).
Restaurant packaging, including:
Chick-fil-A paper bags.
Radina's cups, lids and cup sleeves.
Call Hall at the Union cups.
Fast Track containers.
An additional university recycling bin is located outside the south entrance.
The Union Recycling Committee encourages everyone to think about what can be reduced, reused or recycled before simply tossing it in the trash. During fall 2018 move-in, K-Staters recycled 13.83 tons of recyclable material. Take it even further by upcycling. Upcycling doesn't have to be complicated — it can be as simple as donating clothes you no longer want rather than tossing them in the dumpster. If you're ready to put this principle into action, donate new or lightly-used business professional attire to the Career Closet in the Berney Family Welcome Center. Food and hygiene items for the Cats' Cupboard food pantry can be left in the donation box to the right of the Cats' Den entrance. It doesn't take much to help the environment as well as your fellow Wildcats.
K-State recycling reaches out
Bill Spiegel, K-State recycling supervisor and member of the Kansas Organization of Recyclers, gave a presentation to students in the Onaga school district in recognition of America Recycles Day.
The school forum, sponsored by the Pottawatomie Recycling Committee, suggests ways schools can reduce solid wastes and also effectively recycle in the area.
Spiegel helped students understand their responsibility in taking care of the environment now and in the future.
"It is so easy to say recycle; however, that has changed rapidly," Spiegel said. "Students need to understand their role in reducing solid waste and how to reuse or repurpose things as well as effective recycling techniques."
Overall, 531 students in first through 12th grades were taught the effectiveness of a school-based recycling program.
Recycling Center organizes recycling effort for 451 mattresses
The K-State Recycling Center is passionate about recycling and works with K-State departments to ensure old recyclable materials find renewed beginnings. The center recently worked with Housing and Dining Services to recycle 451 mattresses.
Though the center can recycle aluminum cans, paper, cardboard, glass and more, mattresses are a bit more difficult. Nevertheless, the recycling coordinator found an organization in the Greater Kansas City area that agreed to pick up, sanitize and redistribute these mattresses to children in need at no cost to the university. A team from Housing and Dining Services assisted in loading the 451 mattresses in the three-hour process. A job well done!
The Recycling Program (PDF) started in 1989 and is coordinated through the Division of Facilities. Grants from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), Alcoa, Pepsi, Coca Cola, and City/University funds made it possible to purchase recycling equipment, such as trailers, a side-load collection truck, collection bins, carts, and balers to process the material.
In 1998, the K-State Recycling Committee was formed, comprised of faculty, staff, student and Division of Facilities representatives. The committee's goal is to help expand recycling efforts across the campus and by doing so, create a more environmentally friendly campus, minimize the waste stream and decrease waste management costs.
In 2008, the former Wind Erosion Research building was damaged by a tornado and in 2012 became the new K-State Recycling Center.
Recycling Highlights
Recyclemania is Here
Recyclemania starts February 1, 2020. Watch for details!
Bill Spiegel receives environmental education recognition
Bill Spiegel, K-State's recycling supervisor, was recently recognized by Rachel Wahle, educational program specialist for the Kansas Association for Conservation and Environmental Education, and Amanda Campanella, USD 383 representative, for outstanding community involvement in sustainability measures.
Spiegel discussed environmental education procedures that affect the community with the USD teachers and science technology, engineering, mathematics, or STEM, students. Spiegel also discussed procedures that include the basic recycle material such as paper and plastics, and additional items such as soil and e-waste material. This education process is aiding them in completing the Kansas Green School Program for 2018.
Students try their luck with plastic water bottles instead of the traditional sand bags. Great challenges!
Do you recycle? iRecycle!
This cool app from Earth911.com shows tons of materials that can be recycled. Enter your zip code and it tells you where to recycle. This app is good for Android and iOS.


The Parthasarathy temple is a magnificent religious building of the VIII century, is located in the ancient city of Chennai (Madras), the capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The temple was created in honor of one of the main Gods of the Hindu Pantheon, Krishna.
The name "Parthasarathy" is Sanskrit and means "charioteer of Arjuna" (Arjuna one of the heroes of the Hindu epic "Mahaabhaarat").
The temple is one of the most ancient buildings in all of Chennai. It was created during the reign of the powerful dynasty Pallavas, on the orders of one of the kings Narasimhavarman I. Later it was extended, first by the Chola dynasty, and then in the days of the kings of Vijayanagar. About 1564, the Church was reconstructed. Over time, the temple was crashed to the gardens, there were towns and villages.
Parthasarathy consists of two main towers, called gopuram and Vimana five small towers, which houses the Shrine of the temple. Chief among them are two, located opposite each other: the main - Parthasarathy - "looks" to the East, the second - Narasimha is facing West. The Parthasarathy idol in one hand holds a sword and the other is folded in the gesture of Varada-Mudra, which represents compassion, mercy and sincerity. In addition, temple has 4 statues of the avatars or incarnations of Vishnu: Narasimha, Krishna, Rama and Varaha.
During the year, in Parthasarathy hosts several large festivals. So one of the most famous, striking and beautiful among them is the water festival Theppam, also known as Theppotsavam, which lasts seven days.


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We are the voice of sustainable agriculture in California. For over 40 years, we've been advocating for state and national policies that create more resilient family farms, communities and ecosystems.
Policies at all levels of government impact farms and ranches everywhere, shaping who has the opportunity to farm, the markets that farmers rely on, and the health of the ecosystems farmers work with. Advocating for policy change presents a unique opportunity to impact the lives of farmers and grow a more equitable and sustainable future for food and agriculture.
CAFF's 2023 Policy Priorities
Family Farms React to Governor's Proposed Budget, Major Cuts
USDA Halts Almond Board Rule Change & Saves Direct Market Farmers
Significant Investments & Drought Relief for Family Farmers in State Budget
CAFF collaborates with farmers to create and advance policies that are rooted in their needs, promote economic fairness, strengthen local communities, center justice and equity, and advance environmental sustainability. We work to give voice to family farmers across California, listening to their needs, concerns and aspirations, and speaking up for those often too busy in the field growing our food to do so on their own.
With over four decades of experience in the halls of Sacramento and Washington D.C., together we advocate for policies ranging from food safety regulations to immigration reform, ecosystem protections to the local markets on which our small businesses depend. Local, state and federal policies have the power to help farms thrive, steward our lands and produce healthy food.
STATE: Every year, we weigh in on California legislation, lending our support to bills that promote our mission and our members, opposing those that threaten them, and sponsoring bills of our own to give family farmers a better chance at success. CAFF provides backbone support and is a member of the California Food & Farming Network, which is building a movement centered on racial equity to transform the food and farming system through state policies.
VIEW OUR POSITIONS HERE
NATIONAL: CAFF is an active member of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, working with partners from across the country to advocate for forward-thinking reform in the halls of D.C., from the Farm Bill to Immigration, giving California communities and farmers a voice in the national debate.
LEARN MORE ABOUT NSAC
CAFF's Statewide Policy Committee
C. Lilian Thaoxaochay
Small Farms Community Educator, UCCE Fresno Small Farms & Specialty Crops Program
Emma Torbert
Farmer, UC Davis Student Farm
Dawnie Andrak
CAFF Board Chair
Ken Kimes
Farmer, New Natives
Corralitos, CA
Gowan Batist
Farmer, Fortunate Farm
Cindy Lashbrook
Farmer, Riverdance Farms
Nelson Hawkins
Farmer, We Grow Urban Farm
Judith Redmond (emeritus)
Full Belly Farm
Chris Fields Sr.
African American Farmers of California
Monica Lin
FoodShed
Cheyenne Stone
Big Pine Paiute Tribe
Farmer, Porter Creek Vineyard
Steve Kroes
Policy Consultant & Realtor
Josefina Lara Chavez
Senior Manager, Latinx Farmer Programming & Farm to Market
Lilian is a first-generation Hmong American born and raised in Fresno, CA. Her family has farmed in the Central Valley for over 30 years. Lilian completed her MA in Cultural Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz and has a BA in Medical Anthropology and Asian American Studies from Stanford University. Her background has included community work combating racial/ethnic health disparities and advocating for cultural competency in medical education. Her current interests include the histories of Hmong agriculturalists in Southeast Asia throughout the 20th century, refugee farming in California, and the futures of small-scale growers in the Central Valley. She is currently a Small Farms Community Educator with the UC Cooperative Extension in Fresno County's Small Farms and Specialty Crops Program. In her spare time she's an avid reader, amateur photographer, and the co-founder of maivmai, an online publication for budding Hmong American writers.
lilthaox@ucanr.edu
Emma Torbert is the Market Garden manager for the Student Farm and started in September 2020. Before the Student Farm, Emma was one of the founding members of the Cloverleaf Farm, an organic fruit farm, and worked there for 10 years. She received her masters in Horticulture and Agronomy from UC Davis and worked for the Century Project at the Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility for seven years after graduating. She worked on organic farms throughout the US and South America, is committed to creating more equitable land access in the US and dreams of starting a co-housing farm one day.
Dawnie Andrak, board chair, is co-owner of Local Roots Food Tours, offering culinary diplomacy experiences. She graduated in 2017 with a Master of Arts, in the inaugural class of University of the Pacific's Food Studies program. Dawnie is also a graduate of our Food Literacy Academy, as well as a graduate of the Center for Land Based Learning's Farm Academy, a program for beginning farmers. Dawnie also founded and currently serves as Chief Operating Officer for Capitol WebWorks, LLC, an internet consulting firm specializing in political, governmental, association and nonprofit, and public affairs communications.
Gowan Batist was born and raised on the Mendocino Coast into an agricultural family. She studied metal fabrication and sustainable agriculture in college, and farmed in Portland, Oregon on a 150-acre farm before returning to Mendocino to manage the Noyo Food Forest, Fort Bragg Unified School District's farm-to-school program. During her three seasons as manager of the Noyo Food Forest program, she began composting spent grain from North Coast Brewing Company as a hobby. The hobby became a mission and a career, and Fortunate Farm was founded on 40 acres co-owned by North Coast Brewing Company in 2014.
Nelson holds over 13 years of experience in small diversified farms working with fruits, vegetables, gourmet mushrooms, cannabis, chicken eggs, freshwater fish, honeybees, and vermicomposting. In 2018 he founded We Grow Urban Farm in West Sacramento, CA. His farm cultivates one acre of seasonal vegetables and fruits for their summer farm stand, community supported agriculture program, local restaurants and food distribution programs. Nelson earned a Bachelor's of Science degree in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems from UC Davis with a minor in ecology. His passion has led him to create ecologically focused farms that play an important role in building a strong regenerative local food system. Nelson currently serves on the Racial Equity Farmer Advisory Committee at the California Department of Food and Agriculture(CDFA) and is part of the 2022 Political Leadership Fellowship with the National Young Farmers Coalition, in addition to serving on the CAFF Policy Committee. Nelson is committed to inspiring and empowering the next generation of farmers of color.
Judith Redmond is an emeritus member of the CAFF Board. She spends her days as a farmer at Full Belly Farm in northern California, and as a volunteer for a number of community organizations including CAFF. She is currently involved with organizations like California Climate and Agriculture Network; U.C. Davis Ag Sustainability Institute; and AGree (Transforming Food and Ag Policy). She is a Fire Commissioner with the Capay Valley Volunteer Fire Department and on the steering committee of the Annual Hoes Down Harvest Festival hosted by Full Belly Farm.
Chris currently farms at the African American Farmers of California(AAFC) demonstration site in Fresno, California where he grows fresh vegetables for families in the Fresno area. Chris' full-time position is with the Fresno Irrigation District as a Water Systems Operator where he has worked for the past 7 years. He has the responsibility of delivering water through the canal systems in Fresno. Chris also enjoys serving the community through various non profits and is the founder of Jesus Is Our Shepherd Ministry Inc, where they offer Transitional Housing to men and women.
Monica Lin is a Mexican immigrant of Chinese descent, living and working in San Diego. She is a strong advocate of community based food systems, and against industrial systems which perpetuate racism and classism that continue to exploit people and the planet. Monica currently works with a network of farmers in San Diego through Foodshed - a farmer owned distribution company with the goal of strengthening the local food system. Foodshed works in community with marginalized farmers and disenfranchised neighborhoods. Monica is committed to listening to her community's needs and advocating for meaningful change. (learn more about Monica Lin on the Foodshed website - here)
Cheyene Stone is a Paiute/Washoe who was born and raised on the Big Pine Reservation in Inyo County. She is a strong advocate for her community through her engagement with tribal affairs, food sovereignty, cultural bearing, land stewardship, as well as a KoapaNuu Indigenous consultation work. She practices and teaches traditional artistry such as basket weaving, holistic medicine, and beaded jewelry making as well as facilitates a community garden producing fresh foods for her community. Ms. Stone is an ethnographer and has been involved in K-12 education curriculum development. In addition, she currently sits on various advisory committees including the CDFA BIPOC Farmer Advisory Committee.
Steve has spent 30+ years in nonprofit management, public policy research and advocacy, and management consulting. He's also a real estate agent, with a special interest in the Sierra foothills near Sacramento (where he hopes to have his own small farm someday!)
steve@2redwoods.com
www.2redwoods.com
Josefina was raised in the Salad Bowl of the United States, the Salinas Valley. She has a graduate degree in Public Administration, from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Through her work and volunteerism, she has served communities locally and internationally with social justice, equity, and love being at the root of it all. She is passionate about creating stronger connections between people, and is currently working on getting her farm off the ground.
josefina@caff.org
Pete Price
In Memoriam: In 2020, we lost a friend, devoted CAFF board member and tireless champion in Sacramento fighting for family farms across the state. Pete Price served as CAFF's legislative representative from 1998 to 2010 and joined the board in 2000 where he chaired the Policy Committee. Working to reform our food and agricultural system, Pete volunteered countless hours, always guided by an unwavering commitment to fairness, justice and sustainability. Learn more about Pete's Legacy here or, to help us carry on his work here at CAFF, consider making a contribution here in his memory.
Have you called your elected representative lately? The most useful action you can take on legislation is to call the main office of the legislator you are seeking to influence, in either Sacramento or Washington DC. They'll be ready to hear your perspective and take notes. Even a handful of calls on a specific bill may influence their vote.
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Dave Runsten
Water Policy Director
Endeavoring to keep small farmers farming through policy solutions in Sacramento and D.C.
Jamie Fanous
Working with farmers to create & advance policies rooted in farmer needs, social justice and equity
Paul Towers
Building a fair, responsive and democratic organization so California's family farmers can thrive
Dave directs all of CAFF's policy work on water topics and provides overall counsel to our policy team. Dave is an agricultural economist who conducted research on such topics as contract agriculture in Mexico, fair trade coffee in Oaxaca, regional competitiveness of the produce industry, living wages in Los Angeles, and farm labor in California.
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Jamie works to advance policies rooted in farmer needs and engage farmers in developing those policies. Jamie has committed nearly 10 years to sustainable food and agriculture systems ranging from on-farm technical assistance, soil health and agriculture policy, to on-farm research and data management. She holds a MS in Agriculture, Food, and Environment, and a MA in Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University. Jamie is committed to developing sustainable agriculture policy rooted in social justice and equity.
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Paul provides overall organizational leadership at CAFF, including staff management, programmatic strategy, and administrative and financial oversight. He previously worked at Pesticide Action Network North America, is a founder of the California Farmer Justice Collaborative, a founder of the California Food & Farming Network, and has engaged in policymaking and community organizing with agricultural communities for over fifteen years. He is originally from Southern Arizona (Tohono O'odham territory) and rooted in botany and agriculture in Southwestern deserts. Paul studied Environmental Policy Analysis and Planning at University of California - Davis and is a graduate of the Green Corps field school for environmental organizing.
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Global Warming / Climate Change
Skeptical UN IPCC Scientist: ?The use of fossil fuels has done more to benefit human
Thread: Skeptical UN IPCC Scientist: ?The use of fossil fuels has done more to benefit human
October 29th, 2009, 07:04 AM #1
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Thursday, Oct 29th, 2009
UN IPCC Scientist Richard Courtney, a UN IPCC expert reviewer and a UK based atmospheric science consultant, is featured on page 224 of the U.S. Senate Report of More Than 700 Dissenting Scientists Over Man-Made Global Warming. Below is a guest essay by Courtney.
Certainty and Not Doubt – By Richard Courtney
I have certainty and not doubt.
I am certain that constraining the use of fossil fuels would kill billions of people. Holding the use of fossil fuels at its present level would kill at least 2 billion people, mostly children. And reducing the use of fossil fuels below present levels would kill more millions, possibly billions.
That is not an opinion. It is not a prediction. It is not a projection. It is a certain and undeniable fact, and I explain it as follows.
The use of fossil fuels has done more to benefit human kind than anything else since the invention of agriculture.
Most of us would not be here if it were not for the use of fossil fuels because all human activity is enabled by energy supply and limited by material science.
Energy supply enables the growing of crops, the making of tools and their use to mine for minerals, and to build, and to provide goods, and to provide services.
Material Science limits what can be done with the energy. A steel plough share is better than a wooden one. Ability to etch silica permits the making of acceptably reliable computers. etc.
People die without energy and the ability to use it. They die because they lack food, or housing, or clothing to protect from the elements, or heating to survive cold, or cooling to survive heat, or medical provisions, or transport to move goods and services from where they are produced to where they are needed.
And people who lack energy are poor so they die from pollution, too.
For example, traffic pollution has been dramatically reduced by adoption of fossil fuels. On average each day in 1855 more than 50 tons of horse excrement was removed from only one street, Oxford Street in London. The mess, smell, insects and disease were awful everywhere. By 1900 every ceiling of every room in Britain had sticky paper hanging from it to catch the flies. Old buildings still have scrapers by their doors to remove some of the pollution from shoes before entering
Affluence reduces pollution. Rich people can afford sewers, toilets, clean drinking water and clean air. Poor people have more important things they must spend all they have to get. So, people with wealth can afford to reduce pollution but others cannot. Pollution in North America and Europe was greater in 1900 than in 2000 despite much larger populations in 2000. And the pollution now experienced every day by billions who do not have the wealth of Americans and Europeans includes cooking in a mud hut using wood and dung as fuel when they cannot afford a chimney.
The use of fossil fuels has provided that affluence for the developed world. The developing world needs the affluence provided by the development which is only possible at present by using fossil fuels.
We gained our wealth and our population by means of that use.
The energy supply increased immensely when the greater energy intensity in fossil fuels became available by use of the steam engine. Animal power, wind power and solar power were abandoned because the laws of physics do not allow them to provide as much energy as can be easily obtained from using fossil fuels.
The greater energy supply enabled more people to live and the human population exploded. Our population has now reached about 6.6 billion and it is still rising. All estimates are that the human population will peak at about 9 billion people near the middle of this century.
That additional more than 2 billion people in the next few decades needs additional energy supply to survive. The only methods to provide that additional energy supply at present are nuclear power and fossil fuels. And the use of nuclear power is limited because some activities are difficult to achieve by getting energy from the end of a wire. (If anybody doubts this then I tell them to ask a farmer what his production would be if he had to replace his tractor with a horse or a Sinclair C5).
So, holding the use of fossil fuels at its present level would kill at least 2 billion people, mostly children. And reducing the use of fossil fuels would kill more millions, possibly billions.
Improving energy efficiency will not solve that because it has been known since the nineteenth century that improved energy efficiency increases energy use: as many subsequent studies have confirmed.
Flashback 2002: U.S. Environmentalist Laments Introduction of Electricity in Africa
Flashback 2002: Jerry Brown says 'it's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S.
Ugandan Activist: 'African life span is lower than it was in U.S. and Europe 100 years ago. But Africans told we shouldn't develop' because wealthy Western nations are 'worried about global warming': Excerpt: 'Telling Africans they can't have electricity and economic development – is immoral'
Flashback 2003: S. African Activist: Poor countries should just say: 'Go to hell' to Wealthy Western Nations: 'If you don't want us to fill in our wetlands, then you bomb your big cities like Washington, a third of Holland and Rotterdam and so on, and restore them to being swamps'
Flashback 2002: UN Earth Summit's Failure Called 'Good Thing' For Poor Nations: Excerpt: The first world became rich without the IMFs and World Banks, and the less of them that are around, the more likely the Third World is to do the same."
It is a moral issue! – 'People cannot cook'…Chad's Global Warming Inspired Ban on Charcoal leads to 'Desperate' Families! – January 16, 2009
Poor Kenyans rebel as UK grocery store's "carbon friendly" policies may stop food exports
India: 'It is morally wrong for us to reduce emissions when 40% of Indians do not have access to electricity'
Report: 'Green, UN, rich nation and African elites impose deadly anti-development colonialism' – June 8, 2009
Greenpeace Leader: There is urgent need for the suppression of economic growth in U.S…'Lifestyle of the rich in the world is not a sustainable model' – August 20, 2009
Flashback 2002: Average American Lifestyle Called "Total Bull—t" by Environmentalist – Excerpt: 'If anyone in a developing country looks to the U.S. and wants a lifestyle like the average American–it's total bull—t!'
Gore: U.S. Climate Bill Will Help Bring About 'Global Governance' – July 10, 2009
Former EU Environment Minister Margot Wallstrom: 'Kyoto is about the economy, about leveling the playing field for big businesses worldwide'
'Climate Justice…the underlying principle for global equity'
Canadian Prime Minster Stephen Harper once dismissed UN's Kyoto Protocol as a 'socialist scheme'
Flashback 2000: Actor Chevy Chase Says 'Socialism Works' — 'Cuba might prove that'
Black clergymen protest Robert Redford 'link his environmentalism to racism'
Obama Advisor Warren Buffett 'repeats criticism of cap and trade, saying it would be a huge, regressive tax'
Wash. Post's Moment of Clarity: In Poorer Nations, Energy Needs Trump Climate Issues – September 9, 2009 – Excerpt: Millions of people are eager to buy their first washing machines, refrigerators and air conditioners…dearth of power hinders prosperity. [...] Some environmentalists see a chance for Asian and African countries to take the lead in developing renewable energy technologies such as solar and wind power, bypassing Western energy models based largely on coal and oil. But many economic experts here are doubtful that will happen. "The United States and Europe have had the energy they needed to grow and develop," said William Bissell, a prominent Indian entrepreneur and author of "Making India Work." "But we haven't had our 21st century yet."
Another IPCC Scientist Reveals How UN Scientists talked about ?trying to make IPCC re
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Push to ban sale of toy poker machines for kids
TOY poker machines sold in Adelaide that encourage children to play for lollies have prompted calls for tougher laws banning the sale of products that promote gambling to young people.
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TOY poker machines that encourage children to play for lollies or to win back their savings from money boxes have prompted calls for laws banning the sale of products that promote gambling to young people.
Anti-pokies advocates have raised concerns about the Candy Jackpot Slot Machine and Pokie Saver Money Bank toys, found at two Adelaide stores.
It is not illegal to sell such products but authorities have recommended the store owners offering the miniature poker machines take them off the shelves.
The State Government is preparing legislation that would prevent their sale to children.
Should the sale of toy poker machines be banned?
The tougher laws would aim to protect children from exposure to gambling products or advertisements for them, Consumer and Business Services Minister Gail Gago said.
Independent Senator and anti-pokies campaigner Nick Xenophon said toy poker machines led to "dangerous conditioning of kids" to gamble and has written to gaming Commissioner Dini Soulio, urging him to investigate.
"There is something pretty sick about a so-called toy that promotes poker machines as a way to save money when so many people have lost their life savings because of the pokies," he said.
"This sends completely the wrong message to kids."
Pokies Anonymous and Communities Against Pokies member Shonica Guy discovered the Candy Jackpot Slot Machine at a Semaphore Rd store and was alerted to the Pokie Saver Money Box, sold in an Elizabeth Shopping Centre store, by a fellow member.
"I was horrified. Its encouraging people to gamble," she said.
"It is contradictory because if you play the pokies you lose your money, you don't save it.
"It does say its recommended for people over 18 (years) but it doesn't say 'not for' people under 18 and I think that's a loophole there."
Pokies Anonymous leader Julia Karpathakis called for a ban on the sale and marketing of "anything that looks like a pokie machine" to children.
"People are oblivious to what the potential of something like that is," she said.
"They're normalising them (poker machines).
"I think parents should be really diligent as to what they're children are actually playing."
Opposition gaming spokesman Rob Lucas said his party did not believe "these sorts of products should be available to children if they're promoting gambling".
"The Government has been talking about this for a number of years. It's about time we saw specifically what they're proposing," he said.
Ms Gago said she was "concerned about children being exposed to items that may encourage gambling" and encouraged businesses not to stock them.
"The Government is progressing with legislation that ... would prevent the sale of such products to minors in the future," she said.
For help contact Pokies Anonymous on 0458676823 or Gambler's Help Youthline on 1800262376.
Originally published as Push to ban sale of toy poker machines for kids
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A Universidade de Jinan (暨南大学) é uma universidade pública chinesa localizada na província de Cantão (Guangdong). É uma das universidades mais antigas da China. Tem 112 anos e foi fundada no ano de 1906  por um  chinês que viveu no estrangeiro. A universidade tem 59 departamentos e cinco campi (três na cidade de Cantão –  Gaungzhou, um em ShenZhen e outro em Zhuhai). Tem mais de 50 mil estudantes, incluindo muitos estudantes internacionais. A universidade de Jinan foi a primeira universidade na China a recrutar estudantes estrangeiros e atualmente é a universidade com o maior número de estudantes internacionais. Oferece cursos de graduação, mestrado e doutoramento em direito, medicina, tradução, educação, engenharia, arquitetura, ciências sociais, e outros.

O campus de Zhuhai é na cidade de Zhuhai e foi fundado em 1998. Está localizado próximo duma montanha e tem um lago. Tem 6 faculdades, uma biblioteca grande, um ginásio, um estádio, duas cantinas e nove dormitórios para os alunos. O campus de Zhuhai oferece cursos de tradução, humanidades, direito, engenharia eléctrica e de embalagem, internet das coisas (internet of things), finanças e comércio internacional, entre outros. Tem aproximadamente 7 mil estudantes, incluindo muitos estudantes de Hong Kong, Macau e Taiwan. Na Universidade de Jinan os calouros têm orientação e formação durante uma semana, onde estudam KungFu e conhecem amigos. O campus também organiza uma festa para eles. Su Bingtian é um atleta famoso que estuda na Universidade de Jinan.

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El Salvador government pledges to protect El Faro
By Carlos Lauría/CPJ Americas Senior Program Coordinator on April 6, 2012 10:35 AM ET
"El Salvador is committed to guaranteeing the safety of El Faro and its staff so they can continue their investigative work," David Rivas, spokesman for President Mauricio Funes Cartagena, told CPJ in a recent phone conversation. The government's pledge came after groundbreaking reporting by the digital newspaper about secret negotiations in which local gangs, known as Maras, said they would limit murders in exchange for official concessions, like having imprisoned gang members transferred to lower-security prisons.
As a result of their reporting, El Faro's staff members have reported being followed and photographed. "This is a very sensitive issue so we have to ensure all safeguards are taken," said Rivas, who indicated that President Funes is aware of the situation and has ordered Minister of Security David Munguía Payés to meet with El Faro. I told Rivas that reporting by El Faro on this issue is of great national interest and that the government must guarantee the news website can investigate without fear.
This is especially true after the release on March 19 of a statement signed by the two most powerful gangs (Mara Salvatrucha and Mara 18), endorsed by Roman Catholic leaders, and delivered to several local outlets. The communiqué, in which the gangs confirmed they have called a truce and are now in a period of reflection, described El Faro's reporting on the negotiations as "irresponsible, skewed, and unprofessional." In an editorial on March 26, El Faro said the statement was written such that it did not appear to be authored by gang members, alleging it had been produced by officials involved in the negotiations with the Maras.
Although Funes denied that his government struck a deal with the gangs to reduce the number of murders in exchange for better prison conditions, the Salvadoran president acknowledged at a March 28 press conference that the administration "facilitated" the truce between gangs by transferring 30 gang leaders to lower-security prisons, according to press reports. Murders have dropped abruptly in the two weeks since the truce, from an average of 14 a day to six, the press said. El Salvador, according to a recent U.N. report, has one of the highest homicide rates in the world, with 66 homicides per 100,000 people.
El Faro first reported on a criminal network involving politicians in May 2011, in an article titled "El cartel de Texis" (The Texis Cartel). El Faro's director Carlos Dada told CPJ that in February, nine months after the story ran, the site's staff members reported unidentified persons following and photographing them. Dada said he suspected the police were following staff members to identify sources for the May article.
The minister of security, retired Gen. Munguía Payés, told CPJ he had no knowledge of anyone following El Faro staff members and that no such order had come from any government office. Later, however, officials held a meeting with members of several media organizations, excluding El Faro, at which they claimed to have intelligence suggesting gang members were angered by El Faro's reporting and that the site's staff was in danger, Dada said. The next day, the minister told El Faro employees they were at risk of being attacked by the gangs, but did not provide any information and did not offer any protection for the staff, Dada said.
When asked about the threats made to El Faro's staff, Munguía Payés told CPJ the ministry had a "responsibility to give protection to any Salvadoran who is at risk and is threatened." He said the police had complied with this responsibility by notifying El Faro about the information they received, and that they were in the process of confirming the credibility of the threats. If the threats were corroborated, he said, they would discuss possible protection measures with El Faro. Dada said yesterday that the site has not heard anything further from Munguía Payés.
CPJ research shows that journalists covering El Salvador's widespread gang violence risk becoming targets themselves. In 2009, Christian Poveda, a French-Spanish filmmaker who had documented gang violence in El Salvador for decades, was slain by members of the Mara 18 gang.
Carlos Lauría, CPJ's program director and senior program coordinator for the Americas, is a widely published journalist. A native of Buenos Aires, he has written extensively for Noticias, the leading Spanish-language newsmagazine. Follow him on Facebook @ CPJ en Español.
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Óscar Martínez: Trust and safety for journalists and sources is vital in El Salvador
Óscar Martínez knows first-hand the dangers of reporting on crime and gang violence. The co-founder of Sala Negra (Black Room)--an investigative reporting project run by the El Salvadoran new outlet El Faro--says he and his colleagues have been threatened and harassed for their hard-hitting coverage. But, Martínez says, their...
News of convictions in journalist murders sadly infrequent
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Solidarity, a key to security, eludes Salvadoran press
May 25, 2012 10:16 AM ET
No other journalists are remembered quite like this. Visitors looking through the glass display at the Monsignor Romero Center & Martyrs Museum in San Salvador see the pajamas and other clothes that three Jesuit university priests were wearing when they were shot down by automatic rifle fire. A series...
Why journalists need new ways to stay safe
After the Salvadoran online newsmagazine El Faro exposed a secret government deal with criminal gangs last month, its staff faced repercussions that illustrate the new and complicated risks facing journalists worldwide. El Faro's report, which said the government provided more lenient treatment of imprisoned gangsters in exchange for the...


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Sean Feucht Net Worth 2022
Sean Feucht is a famous American singer as well who is mostly famous for his song named we are hungry. In this article, we will share everything about Sean Feucht net worth, biography, wiki, age, career, weight, height, girlfriend, and lifestyle.
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The 2016 Rally Australia (formally the 25. Kennards Hire Rally Australia 2016) was the thirteenth and final round of the 2016 World Rally Championship. The race was held over four days between 17 November and 20 November 2016, and was based in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. Volkswagen's Andreas Mikkelsen won the race, his third win in the World Rally Championship.

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Power Stage
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