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Q: Rate Limits , error : 'blocked' I have a product registered and planning to use 10 Nest cameras (which is the max limit).
I am currently receiving error: 'blocked' in the response which I read from the documentation is due to rate limits.
How do I come out of blocked state ?
Also rate limits are applicable for every device that is every camera , or for a product or for the access token of the product ?

A: For the NestCam, there are different limits depending on whether you have a Nest Aware subscription for the camera or not.
The rate limit for Cameras depending on what you are trying to to. For Snapshots pictures (snapshot_url) without Nest-Aware is 2/minute and for cameras with nest aware it is 10/minute.
For other API uses, there are Per Device/Structure limits and per Access token limits.
You can review the rate-limit documentation on the Nest API website at
   https://developers.nest.com/documentation/cloud/data-rate-limits/


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Computed Tomography-Based Morphometric Analysis of the Hip Bones (Ossa coxae) in Turkish Van Cats
Osman YILMAZ1, İsmail DEMİRCİOĞLU2
1Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, TR-65080 Van - TURKEY
2Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Harran University, TR-63200 Şanlıurfa - TURKEY DOI : 10.9775/kvfd.2020.24449 This study was carried out to determine the osteometric measurement values of the ossa coxae by using three-dimensional (3D) modeling of the images obtained by computed tomography in Van Cats. In the study, 16 adult Van cats, 8 of which are male ones and 8 female ones, were used. Firstly, cats were anesthetized with the ketamine HCl - xylazine HCl combination. Their images were obtained by scanning through 16 cross-sectional CT devices (Somatom Sensation 16; Siemens Medical Solutions, Erlangen, Germany). Then, The scanned images of the ossa coxae in each cat were transformed into the three-dimensional structure by using MIMICS 20.1 (The Materialise Group, Leuven, Belgium) software program. Later, morphometric (12 linear), volumetric, and surface area measurements were calculated and statistical analyses were performed. In the present study, 12 of 14 measurement parameters of the ossa coxae were higher in males than in females. In the osteometric analysis, it was observed that the greatest length of one half (GL), length between the inner edges of the acetabulum (LA), the greatest breadth across the tuber ischiadicum (GBTi), and the smallest breadth across the bodies of the ischia (SBI) measurement values were significantly greater in male cats than in female cats (P<0.05). The volume and surface area values of the ossa coxae in van cats were found as 12.33±2.14 cm3 in male cats and 9.81±0.71 cm3 in female cats; 94.66±11.01 cm2 in male cats and 83.84±7.73 cm2 in female cats, respectively. These differences between the measurement values of male and female cats were seen to be statistically significant (P<0.05). As a result, basic morphometric measurement parameters of ossa coxae between both genders in adult Van cats were determined by using CT and 3D modeling programs. It is thought that the data obtained from this study may be useful in determining the sexual dimorphism of these species and also in determining the clinical applications and scientific studies to be carried out in the region. Keywords : Bilgisayarlı tomografi, Morfometri, Ossa coxae, Üç boyutlu rekonstrüksiyon, Van kedisi

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Q: Are injective modules flabby on basic open sets? In order to give a simple proof of a basic fact about quasi-coherent modules (see below), I'm interested in knowing whether the following statement holds:
Statement: If $A$ is a commutative ring and $I$ is an injective $A$-module, then:
$$ I \longrightarrow I_f \longrightarrow 0 \  $$
is surjective, for any function $f \in A$.
For example:

*

*If $A$ is a domain, then $I$ is divisble, and the statement follows.

*If $A$ is noetherian, then the statement also holds, because any injective module $I$ is the direct sum of injective envelopes $E(A/\mathfrak{p}_j)$, that are flabby sheaves.

My question is both whether the statement is true for arbitrary, commutative rings (I guess it is not), and whether there exists a class of rings (as in the case of domains), where the statement holds without much effort.

Motivation:
If the statement above is true, then it is easy to prove that any injective module $I$ gives rise to an acyclic quasi-coherent sheaf $\widetilde{I}$ over $ {\rm Spec}A $, where $\widetilde{I} (U) := I_U$.
Then, this would allow to easily prove the following basic theorem:
Theorem: Quasi-coherent modules $\widetilde{M}$ are acylcic sheaves over ${\rm Spec} A$.
Proof: Let $M$ be an $A$-module and take an injective resolution
$$ 0 \to M \to I^\bullet \ . $$
Taking the associated sheaves, we have a resolution of the quasi-coherent sheaf $\widetilde{M}$, that is aciclyc because of the argument above, and hence it computes the cohomology of $\widetilde{M}$:
$$ 0 \to \widetilde{M} \to \widetilde{I^\bullet} \ . $$
But taking global sections we obtain the original sequence (because $\Gamma ( {\rm Spec} A , \widetilde{M}) = M $, for any module) that is exact, so $\widetilde{M}$ is acyclic. $\square$

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If you live to an average life expectancy you have a total of around 620,000 hours. Given that we sleep for around a third of that, you have about 410,000 usable hours.
Time is a strange concept though isn't it? I mean, what is an hour?
I often have the following debate with my wife when the clocks change – she'll say something like "We gain an hour this week-end" and I'll respond, "No we don't, it's just that what we call it has changed. Six o'clock is now known as five o'clock." The Earth, Moon and Sun still move in the same harmonious rhythm. We still have the same amount of time in our lives. What we call the time is just that, it's what we call it.
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The last time you stopped and really noticed another human being?
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WAIKATO'S HOME OF FINE ART
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New Zealand b. 1953
Paul Hartigan has been a key figure in New Zealand art since the 1970s. The Auckland based artist was born in New Plymouth in 1953 and graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, with a DFA in 1974. Since then he has had more than 35 solo shows, and innumerable group shows.
His work is held in public and private collections throughout New Zealand including Auckland Art Gallery, Te Papa, The National Library of New Zealand, Sarjeant Gallery, The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery and Chartwell Collection. He is also in the collection of Australia's Queensland Art Gallery.
Paul Hartigan's earliest paintings and prints reflect his interest in American Pop Art and his fascination with popular culture. Neon signs, tattoo flash, movie posters, advertising and 1950s modern design were favourite resources. Hartigan was particularly drawn to 1950s pulp comic books like The Phantom and Donald Duck for their mix of Black line and bold colour.
Hartigans's Phantom has become the iconic image of New Zealand Pop art of the 1970s.
In 1980 Hartigan started working in neon, allowing him to draw simultaneously in light and colour. He developed a quirky personal image vocabulary, a library of jazzy hieroglyphs and modern-primitive pictograms rendered as luminous light drawings – these neon images became his recognised trademark. His large-scale installation Colony, (2004) can be seen on permanent display at the University of Auckland.
At Home with THE PHANTOM in the 1950s
A steady diet of Phantom, Walt Disney comics and Hollywood movie star magazines featured prominently in my boyhood experiences while growing up in New Plymouth, Taranaki during the 1950s. These popular culture sources transposed their influences into my early Pop paintings, completed at the end of the 1960s and early 1970s whilst attending Elam School of Fine Arts at The University of Auckland. During this period at art school I became aware of the Pop Art movement and my all time art-hero, Picasso, was replaced by new generation Americans Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine and Dan Flavin. British pop movement artists Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, Allen Jones and Patrick Caulfield also provided huge inspiration and direction for my work, my artistic aspirations and ideology.
All my early paintings were based on printed images or print media – imagery from trashy popular culture magazines and comics were my bent. I loved the 'small ads' in the very back of such magazines whose readability was almost practically destroyed by the coarse dot screen process used in publishing at that time. I was always fascinated by the actual process of printing and studied the pages intensely, often with a magnifying glass to observe the techniques and happy accidents of printing – quirky off-register mistakes and ink bleeds led me to emulate such effects in my paintings. I translated these observations into my work by applying different coloured layers of enamel paint, but allowing previous applications to show through in the final surface layer. In later post-pop works, this technique was refined to create a type of 'halo' around the depicted comic line, an effect that subsequently led me to create my illuminated paintings using neon tube. In employing this medium, to me a kind of 'electrified paint', I could combine the trademark Hartigan properties of 'line and colour' within one calligraphic stroke.
I so loved The Phantom as a boy, and even now he has a special place in my head and heart. I still read my old comic issues, of which I have hundreds, to remind me of my artistic origins and concerns. The Phantom, as a comic 'super-hero', always seemed to have arisen from quite a different mold to more conventional archetypes like Superman for example. He didn't have super-powers, he wasn't able to manage global catastrophes, he wasn't grandiose or unreal – he was just an ordinary guy in a stylish black and purple costume with a wolf-dog, heart-set on turning evil on its ear – but for readers of the strip, he made the world's morality of the times a reality. So, being enamored of my hero, I wrote away to the fan club in Australia and subsequently received a skull ring and a printed portrait of The Phantom with a printed gold frame; I made a drawing from this item and used it as the base composition for my large enamel portrait completed during the final months of 1973. The scale of the work was intentionally large, creating a larger than life presence as a fitting tribute to my hero.
I'd always had a love of enamel paint, I liked the way it smelt and flowed off the brush – with delight I painted my mother's kitchen pastel green during the 60s. I liked the glossy end result, its mirror like finish. It would dribble and slip if you applied too much at once and I was fascinated by the way it slid down the surface like a snail, slowly descending to the bottom.
Dribbling paint was a prominent feature of my early paintings during the seventies decade. It was used primarily as a way of 'softening' the commercial origins of the graphic source material for that period of work, and paint was applied generously and luxuriously thick to build up the surface, like stove enamel – it turned the base commercial image into something more meaningful, something evidently deeper. I had recontextualized and transformed the 'commercial' and the 'comic' into 'fine art'. At the same time I was consciously aware of it being a powerful subversive device in my work – to destroy for the viewer the painted illusion I had created in front of them. I wanted them to engage with the image but be wholly conscious of the illusionistic aspect of image making at the painter's hand, the idea that 'a painting' is in the end, 'just an illusion', a kind of trick or even manipulation of the mind.
Additionally, it transpired by way of 'editing' the dribbling paint, that I became conscious of the possibility of introducing pathos into the portrait; I edited out most of the dribbles but controlled them carefully around the pupil-less mask to create an effect of 'weeping' or sadness – a clear contradiction in terms of male gender stance of the time, for either hero or mere mortal – "boys don't cry".
Recently, when I got my old mate out of storage for The Cartoon Show exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery I was amazed at how, decades later, he still gripped me with his compelling look of resolve – baddies beware!
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Uranian astrology is surely an innovative system of astrology developed at the beginning of the twentieth century by Friedrich Sieggrün (1877-1951) and Alfred Witte (1878-1943), two pioneers of the modern-day astrological revival. The system is oftentimes known as the Hamburg School, a reference to Witte's main teaching centre in Germany.
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Second, the Uranian system introduced the thought of midpoints to astrological interpretation. Since the name implies, a midpoint is actually a spot halfway between any two planets pictured on the horoscope. The midpoint is where in which the combined energies of these two planets manifest. The 2 planets and their midpoint form a planetary picture. The calculation of said midpoints requires yet another level of mathematical skill by the astrologer creating the chart, a well known fact that limited the spread in the Uranian approach.
Third, by far the most questionable aspect of the Uranian system was the introduction of hypothetical planets towards the chart. Before the introduction of space travel and the growth of various way of verifying the presence of otherwise unknown planets, the presence of different as yet undiscovered planets was proposed. Such speculation was encouraged through the discovery of Uranus and Neptune and heralded the discovery of Pluto(1930) and Chiron (1977), a comet originally believed to be a planet.
Uranian astrology was unique in suggesting the existence of at least eight hypothetical planets which were because of the names Cupido, Hades, Zeus, Kronos, Apollon, Admetos, Vulcanos, and Poseidon. Each one of these planets was assigned its particular role in the chart.
Uranian astrology enjoyed its greatest success in German-speaking countries throughout the first half of the 20th century. Additionally, it delivered cosmobiology, an astrological system started by Reinhold Ebertin, one of Witte's students. It has had little success away from German-speaking countries, though Witte's most important book, Rules for Planetary Pictures, was published inside an English edition in 1939. Also, modern advances in astronomy made the addition of hypothetical planets to the horoscope an extremely dubious endeavor.
Another three personal points are thought inner personal points. The first is the Sun, representing the will and ego of the individual. The Sun also rules your day. The Moon is definitely the second inner personal point, representing the emotions from the individual. The Moon also rules the hour. The final in the inner personal points is definitely the MC. The MC represents the person's unique individuality, soul, or spirit from the individual. It rules as soon as or minute.
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After three weeks trying to rest my ribs, I went back to playing hockey tonight. I felt like Howie Morenz — not the Howie Morenz in his prime but the one six feet underground. Dead. I may have mistimed my comeback. Also, let the record show that it has rained every Monday since I started.
On the way home I heard a news item about scientists trying to map the genome of a wooly mammoth from hair samples over 60,000 years old. I felt a little like those scientists tonight as I ventured out on an ice sheet desparately trying to ressurect a creature from the dead.
It's sunny right now, like a glorious autumn day, but that won't last. We're sealing the windows, installing the storm windows, switching the sheets to flannel. Welcome winter. You came early and we weren't quite ready. You knocked on the door and we were still vacuuming, putting flowers in water, checking the simmering supper — we haven't opened the wine yet, or checked to make sure there was ample T.P. in the bathroom, or put on any atmospheric music. You're a terrible guest and frankly you had overstayed your welcome before you even arrived.
Today was a gray wet day. One of those days when you stay inside and vacuum. The kind of day that makes "pathetic fallacy" look sympathetic. What do you do on a day like this? I buy cupcakes. Everyone knows cupcakes bring sunshine and lollipops into your day... And about 500 calories, which is why I also went for a swim. Funny thing is you can never tell how busy the pool will be. I have no idea of what Calculus to apply to such a forecast (probably because I sucked at Calculus). Take today for instance — there weren't many people there at all. Probably all out buying cupcakes.
Skipped out on hockey this week just like last week. I figure I had sprained the muscles around the ribs and that clicking sensation was the contracted muscle in tension. Or something like that.
I'm determined to get back on the ice this Monday... as long as I don't sprain something watching the Grey Cup on Sunday.
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Another rainy Monday though it didn't actually rain on the drive to the rink. Third time out with freshly sharpened blades and I hurt myself. Just me. There wasn't even anyone near me. I was skating one direction, the pass was behind me and as I twisted and reached back I could feel my ribs buckle into my abdomen. I knew what had happened right away. It's the third time I've done it and the second time I've done it to my right side.
What's happened is the cartlidge has torn from the rib on the last "floating rib" I guess, tearing or straining the ligaments and neighbouring muscles around the bone. I told you I've done this before. Now all I have to do is wait 2 or 3 weeks.
The funny thing is a rib injury always reminds me of is Little House on the Prairie - Pa was always busting up his ribs and getting wrapped up. Then he'd ride back into town or git up on the barn roof or whatever. All I know is when you crack a rib you're more concerned about breathing than "getting back on the saddle". Then again I'm not prairie folk - I'm just a guy who twisted hisself up sumthin' bad, Ma... now let me lie still and apply the heating pad.
This year has seen the unprecedented use of attack ads in Canada by the Conservatives (whether there was an election or not) and despite claims that rivals would not take "the low road to the highest office" American presidential hopefuls have continued the fine tradition of swapping low blows. I guess as long as these kinds of ads work politicians will continue to run them. Are those ads really effective? Do sensible people watch an ad and think, "well, if that guy's adversary says so - then it's gotta be true!"
While there's still a couple of days left I thought I'd remind everyone how ridiculous negative ads can be by posting these two parodies. The one above is from Mad TV. The one below is an old favorite here at the theatre - John Hodgeman's Attack Ads.


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'I feel we live in a hypocritical country', says actress Zareen Khan
The Actress, Who Appeared In A Bold Role In Last Year's Hit "Hate Story 3', Feels She Doesn't Understand The Disparity Between The Reception Of Bold Scenes By Audience.
PTI | Updated on: 22 Aug 2016, 07:24:49 PM
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Bollywood actress Zareen Khan says when a big star does bold scenes on-screen it is appreciated but when something similar is done by a relatively less established face, people label it as "trash".
The actress, who appeared in a bold role in last year's hit "Hate Story 3", feels she doesn't understand the disparity between the reception of bold scenes by audience.
"If, may be, a bigger name does this (bold scenes) it's alright. It's like 'wow', 'oh my God', 'looking so hot', this and that. But if somebody with not so much a big or established name is doing it, it is called trash, people are trolling it," Zareen told PTI.
"I don't understand all these things. But I don't let them get on to me. I don't get bothered or affected by these things. I am here to do my work. I think I've learnt this over the years," she said.
The actress feels part of the problem is that many people in the country are look down upon bold scenes, but will be the first ones to watch them.
"I feel we live in a hypocritical country. There are a lot of people out there who will say all the possible negative things about that (bold scenes), but they won't avoid watching it. They will still watch it," she said.
"Some people just like being that way. No matter how much they degrade or say bad things about something, they will be the first ones to watch these things."
Zareen, 29, made her debut opposite Salman Khan in "Veer" in 2010. The actress then went on to work in films like "Houseful 2" and appeared in a special number in "Ready" with the "Dabangg" star.
The actress, who made heads turn with her bold avatar in "Hate Story 3" and recently starred in a music video with Ali Fazal, feels shooting for such scenes requires an actress to be very alert.
"There are so many things going on in your head while shooting bold scenes. On screen it might look sensual, or hot and great. But when you're shooting for it, you need to take care of so many things," she said.
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Thousand Oaks' Sole Dispensary Will Be Delayed as Owners Seek Delivery Rules Change
The lone marijuana dispensary slated to open in Thousand Oaks this year wants to go back to the drawing board in light of new rules allowing deliveries anywhere in the state.
Legendary Organics now wants the city council to lift its ban on deliveries because of the new rules dubbed "dynamic delivery." It wants to see the issue settled before it open its doors.
"Dynamic delivery means that Thousand Oaks, which has banned delivery, is going to get delivery," Legendary associate Ned Davis — who also happens to be mayor of the neighboring City of Westlake Village — told the Thousand Oaks Acorn. "And it's not going to be just medical; it's going to be recreational. We feel quite challenged by that. We want to talk to the City Council about this eventually."
If and when the city obliges, Legendary's grand opening will still be delayed. Thousand Oaks' permit process manager Marjan Behzadi said the city is still working on approving construction plans submitted by the company, which had planned to be up and running by now.
"We didn't want to sink a lot of money into building a facility that couldn't support delivery," Davis explained. It's not clear how the construction plans would need to change to accommodate a delivery system.
The city is due to receive a report from staff on Feb. 12 regarding the most recent changes to cannabis law. Council members are likely to discuss possible changes to the ban on deliveries after that.


What signs of true love when a man?
Continuing to praise women is a sign of sincere love in men. The man in love always makes sure that the woman he loves feels good about herself. He tells her that she is beautiful and wonderful all the time so that she feels reassured in difficult times. More so to make it feel distinct from outside and inside all the time.
One of the clear signs of love in a man is that he puts the woman who loves the highest ranking of his priorities, and for him the most important person in life, if the man talks about the future with the girl, and invites her to the family gathering, he certainly wants to be part of the girl Great of his life and his future.
Continuous giving is one of the signs of love in a man who is in love. He offers everything he can for his love without any fee and without selfishness, even if he does not like to do things and deeds. For the sake of his loved one, he does everything. She is happy being happy.
There are many signs of love in men, but the most important is his commitment to the emotional relationship between him and his partner, the real man does not withdraw after a problem or a small quarrel occurred between them, and does not discharge his anger when he is in a bad mood, he is a person aware of the importance of women And the relationship between them, and strive to maintain the relationship even in difficult circumstances and times between them.
The loving man remembers all the things that matter to him and means his beloved in a mysterious and surprising way for women. He remembers the dates of the important events, the birthdays, the annual memories, the things that the woman loves, the things she hates, and all the small remarks she makes before him. Emanating from the heart of man.
The man will happily associate with the other person when he falls in love; he will avoid doing things that upset his sweetheart, and he will do the things she likes, whether it's gardening, dancing, going to the gym or learning the things that will make her happy. Happy, and will make an effort to do so.
A woman can make sure that a man loves her when he initiates things that indicate his desire to be part of his life and future plans, such as providing them to family and friends, introducing them to them, talking about their future children, and other things that concern their future.
When a man falls in love, he tends to rearrange his daily priorities, change his clothes, behaviors, or habits so that they are more clearly compatible with his lover's behaviors and habits because his love becomes out of control and uncontrollable.
Passwords: A man asks his lover the passwords he uses to access his various devices and pages, and wants to know their secrets, even if you do not want to share them.
Reply to his calls: the man expects them to respond to his call once he contacted, even if busy with another call.
Control: The man forces his sweetheart to inform him of her daily plans and plans.
A compliment and praise of others: The man does not prefer to praise the woman whom another man loves in his presence, and every time you say something nice about someone, whether a friend, or family members, will immediately begin to point out his shortcomings.
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California's 3rd District Court of Appeal will hear arguments later this month about whether the opinion of an agreed medical evaluator is sufficient to support a finding that a worker with an impairment rating of less than 100% is nonetheless permanently and totally disabled.
State Compensation Insurance Fund and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation argue that the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board erred when it determined Dean Fitzpatrick suffered a permanent and total disability as a result of a cumulative injury to his heart and psyche.
The California Chamber of Commerce argued in an amicus brief that the potential financial harm to employers would be "astronomical" if the WCAB decision is allowed to stand.
The California Applicants' Attorneys Association says in an amicus brief that the WCAB decision was both correct and based on substantial medical evidence, and should not be overturned.
Dean Fitzpatrick was a correctional officer who suffered an accepted cumulative trauma injury to his heart and psyche. He apparently suffered from Prinzmetal's angina that caused anxiety and depression, according to State Fund's petition for review.
The QME assigned a 97% impairment rating for the heart condition. The AME provided a Global Assessment of Functioning score of 45, which translated to an impairment rating of 71%. When the ratings were combined, Fitzpatrick was left with a 99% permanent disability rating.
Following a trial last year, a workers' compensation judge in June found that Fitzpatrick was 100% disabled, pursuant to Labor Code Section 4662(b). The WCAB denied State Fund's petition for reconsideration in September.
Labor Code Section 4660 establishes the Permanent Disability Rating Schedule. The PDRS, which is based on the fifth edition of the American Medical Association's Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, can be rebutted by a worker showing he suffered a greater loss of future earnings capacity than is reflected in the scheduled rating.
The carrier argues that the judge and the WCAB relied on an "invented expansion" of Labor Code Section 4662(b) in arriving at the conclusion that Fitzpatrick was 100% disabled.
State Fund argues that the legislative intent of the provision in 4662 allowing PTD determinations in accordance with the fact was to limit the conclusive presumptions to the enumerated conditions, which includes the loss of both hands or eyes, and injuries causing mental incapacity or paralysis.
The California Chamber of Commerce agreed with State Fund's statutory analysis and said Labor Code Section 4662 was not the proper way for the WCAB to conclude that Fitzpatrick was totally disabled.
Fitzpatrick didn't have the specified conditions under 4662(a), the chamber argues. By jumping straight to finding that Fitzpatrick was totally disabled in accordance with the facts of the case, the WCAB ignored the requirements in Labor Code 4660, according to the chamber.
The chamber also claimed that the board didn't require Fitzpatrick to present substantial evidence to rebut the presumption that his 99% rating was correct.
"In doing so, the board presented future litigants with an improper advantage wherein employees would be found total and permanently disabled without proper rebuttal evidence being required and forcing employers to accept a total permanent disability rating when the employee is actually only partially disabled," the chamber said.
The chamber also said that while the difference between a 99% disability rating and a total disability rating may appear minor, the financial implication is not.
"While the permanent disability established here was 99%, the 1% difference would mean that the employer is liable for an additional $1.3 million," the chamber said.
The California Applicants' Attorneys Association said in its amicus brief that employers are trying to shift the appellate court's attention to rebutting the PDRS and Labor Code Section 4660, when such issues are not relevant.
CAAA argues that the phrase "all other cases" in Labor Code 4662(b) makes the statute applicable to all other cases, and was not an attempt to restrict the conclusive presumption of total disability to the four specified conditions as State Fund argued.
"If the Legislature sought to limit all findings of permanent and total disability to only those defined by Labor Code 4662(a) or rebuttals to the PDRS via Ogilvie, this could have easily been done," CAAA said. "Both SB 899 and SB 863 provided sweeping changes to the workers' compensation scheme including the 2005 PDRS, yet the plain, unaltered language of Section 4662 states unambiguously that an injured worker may prove permanent and total disability in accordance with the facts."
CAAA said the argument that the WCAB has created an unfettered path to arrive at PTD is false.
"Injured workers still have to prove the facts upon which a finding of permanent and total disability could be made, and absolutely nothing in Labor Code 4662 in any way hinders a defendant's ability to submit medical evidence, rebut exert testimony, provide their own vocational experts, or enter the full gamut of discovery that could be employed to argue against a finding of permanent total disability," CAAA said.
The 3rd DCA is holding oral arguments at 9:30 a.m. Sept. 17.


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NEW HAVEN, CT – The University at Buffalo men's tennis team concluded play at the ITA Northeast Regionals this past weekend hosted by Yale University. The Bulls had five players compete in singles and two teams compete in doubles.
In doubles action, junior Ethan Nittolo and freshman Hao Sheng Koay had the most success as they won a pair of matches, finding their way into the Round of 16. They won their first match of the tournament 8-1 over a duo from Lehigh and then followed that up with an 8-4 win over the #5 ranked team in the field from Cornell. They ultimately fell just shy of the quarterfinals, 8-5, to a pair from Dartmouth. Also competing in doubles was Villhelm Fridell and Petr Vodak, who dropped a tough 8-7 decision in their opening round.
In singles, Nittolo and Vodak both picked up victories in their opening matches. Nittolo defeated Anthony Arocho of Brown, 6-1, 6-2, before dropping a tough three-set match to Kyle Mautner from Penn, who was seeded in the top eight in the tournament. Vodak won his opening match against Alan Nunez Aguilera from St. Johns, 6-4, 7-5, but then he fell to Jackie Tang of Columbia in three sets, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Tang was ranked second in the singles field.
Koay and Fridell both received first round byes in the tournament, but they both fell in their first matches in the round of 64 in straight sets. Senior Vidit Vaghela lost his opening match in the round of 128.
The Bulls will conclude their fall schedule beginning on Friday, Nov. 10 when they head to the MAC Invite being held in Kalamazoo, MI.


Jussier Formiga picked up a first round submission victory over Ulka Sasaki on the main card on UFC Fight Night Japan.
With that victory now a thing of the past, the Brazilian fighter wants a shot at the UFC Flyweight Title.
Of the six fighters that Formiga has defeated during his UFC tenure, only two of those fighters have gotten a shot at the UFC Flyweight Title. Those two fighters are Chris Cariaso (UFC 178) and Wilson Reis (UFC On Fox 24).
Interestingly enough, all four fighters who defeated Formiga during his UFC tenure also got/are getting a flyweight title shots as well. Those four fighters are Joseph Benavidez (UFC 152 & UFC On Fox 9), John Dodson (UFC 191 & UFC On Fox 6), Henry Cejudo (UFC 197) and Ray Borg (getting a title shot at UFC 216).
With Demetrious Johnson successfully defending the title against Ray Borg at UFC 216, the Brazilian fighter wouldn't be getting a potential title shot until 2018 at the earliest.


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Spice and Recipe: The Origins of Flavor with Mike DiGiacomo is an ethinc cooking show and the newest production of New Americans Media.
Spices and recipes of the world are only one click away.
The New Americans Media launches "Spice and Recipe: The Origins of Flavor," an ethnic cooking show that mounts on the idea that spice and family recipes travel with immigrants and just like immigrants. "That's what makes the United States so great … There are spices and ingredients and different flavors from every country that brings it all together and you have this melting pot of food, ingredients and flavor," says Mike DiGiacomo, the host of the show.
DiGiacomo, a Midwestern and a second generation Italian-American, is a familiar face and name in the Omaha, Nebraska area. A reporter by training, he most recently hosted a morning show which included a cooking segment. DiGiacomo found himself at home, and now is expanding his skills to discover the origins of flavor by inviting immigrants to showcase recipes from their countries of origin.
And not only that. The show will also highlight the immigrants' journey to the United States, offering yet another window on the challenges of starting life all over again.
"Spice & Recipe: The Origins of Flavor" is produced in the studio of KPAO-TV, a public access television serving the Omaha area.
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"It's become very, very clear to me that digital trumps print, and that pure digital, without any legacy costs, massively trumps print." — David G. Bradley, owner of Atlantic Media, quoted in The New York Times on September 24, 2012.
The magazine business isn't the book business, but…
For the better part of two decades, many people have seen the potential quandary the digital transition posed to big successful full-service publishing organizations. If distribution no longer requires scale, what does that mean to the companies that not only succeeded by creating distribution at scale, but which also are largely locked in to their high-cost, high-maintenence infrastructures?
This was one of my concerns when I delivered my "End of General Trade Publishing Houses" speech at BookExpo in 2007. When bookstores go away, I figured, it would become absolutely necessary but would be very hard for publishers working across audiences to adjust to being multi-niche. And it seemed to me that the big organizations built to deal with thousands of dispersed retail outlets at scale would be far too expensive to maintain when the outlets weren't there. And stepping down the overhead level wouldn't be easy.
There's no shortage of understanding of this challenge. All big publishers are looking for new ways to apply scale to gathering names, analyzing data, improving discovery, social marketing, and creating partnerships with others that can provide audience reach.
Several companies have built business strategies around the expectation that traditional publishing organizations are going to have to get smaller and change the way they staff their print value chain. Among the biggest players, Donnelley, Ingram, Perseus, and even Random House fit that description: offering a variety of ways for publishers to offload everything except the functions that are absolutely core to publishing: editorial selection and development, rights management, and marketing.
The companies that offer the print value chain solutions also have digital services, of course, but they have competitors in that space that specialize in providing what demands scale for digital publishing. The competitors tend to start their service offerings further up the workflow than those that started by focusing on scalable distribution. Two new partnerships announced last week suggest the emergence of new commercial models for publishing.
The big eye-catching announcement was that Barry Diller and Scott Rudin, both with Hollywood roots, are putting substantial investment — announced as $10 million, but they could certainly add more when and if they want to — behind a new commercial trade house called Brightline to be led by publishing veteran Frances Coady. Brightline will partner and build its books with The Atavist.
Perhaps less noticed, but pointing in a similar direction, is that agent and entrepreneur Jason Allen Ashlock has set up a new niche publishing imprint to do crime and suspense books, working on the PressBooks platform created by Hugh McGuire.
The publishing ambitions here are quite different, but the point they make about the direction of publishing's future are very much the same.
Diller and Rudin backing Coady would appear to be poised to compete with major publishers for major books. You don't put $10 million into play as your initial investment to sign up a bunch of previously self-published or genre fiction authors. And The Atavist's bookbuilding capability was built with a Hollywood consciousness in mind. They have not only designed what they do so that it rather elegantly accommodates links (allowing them to be made either very obvious or very unobtrusive), The Atavist always envisioned that its own publishing of serious topical non-fiction would have a potential cinematic or TV iteration. Their standard contractual agreement cuts them in on those rights which it was very much in their vision to reserve for themselves and develop.
This is not to imply that Brightline will need in any way to depend on The Atavist's original commercial vision or contracts; they will certainly have their ideas about both.
Ashlock's ambitions, at least initially, appear to be more modest. As the proprietor of a young and developing literary agency, he would need to acquire titles that don't have the kind of advance-against-royalties requirement that Brightline would feel comfortable with. So he's announced his publishing enterprise, called Rogue Reader, which will do "crime fiction", apparently only one title per month and also apparently previously little-known or unknown writers.
The message here is that we see a similar answer coming from the opposite ends of the continuum of investment and power of what the genesis of a successful future publisher might look like. Both an ambitious well-funded highly-commercial list headed by a publishing veteran and fledgling authors publishing in a niche under the direction of a young entrepreneur with much less seasoning are being launched on new publishing platforms which have copious capabilities to do digital publishing efficiently. These new publishers can treat the diminishing print-in-store marketplace as a bit of an afterthought because there are more and more sources from which to purchase those capabilities for as long as they are needed.
And since the need for those capabilities is diminishing, and since there are so many companies that own them and can't suddenly not own them, the chances are that the cost of obtaining those capabilities from somebody else is likely to just keep going down.
We are getting closer to the day when all a publisher really will need to "own" is the ability to acquire and develop good books and ways to reach the core audience for them persuasively and inexpensively. Diller and Rudin, with their Hollywood roots, certainly have access to many of the great story-creators and storytellers. Through connections to lots of people with marketing platforms plus the extensive network of connections through Diller's IAC collection of web properties, they also have the capabilities to promote them.
Could any publisher build scaled web marketing capabilities more effectively than IAC? Diller's team seems to be figuring they can rent everything else besides the core capabilities and be competitive. I think that's right.
Ashlock doesn't have their reach, but by sticking to "crime fiction" he thinks he can build a community around what he'll do that will enable effective and efficient marketing. And as an agent, he's in a good position to recruit good projects, although he will deal with the conflicts involved in turning somebody who comes to him as a literary agent seeking a publishing deal with another house into his own author. The ethics of this question have been hotly debated. One prior experimenter of this type — agent Scott Waxman who started ebook publisher Diversion Books — seems to have given up agenting in favor of being a fulltime ebook publisher. It will be interesting to see how this plays out for Ashlock.
Both Brightline and Rogue Reader will undoubtedly be building out their development. We can expect them both to announce soon how they'll handle putting books in stores. One would imagine that the business development teams at all the companies with big distribution capabilities are knocking on Brightline's door. One book a month isn't necessarily as attractive and publishers won't want to encourage agents to become competing publishers, but I would imagine Rogue Reader will be able to find more than one company with these capabilities willing to answer their phone calls as well.
Rebecca Smart, the CEO of Osprey, was at our office last week let our friend Hannah Johnson of Publishing Perspectives capture a couple of minutes of video about what she'll be discussing at Publishers Launch Frankfurt on October 8. It's a quick example of the out-of-the-box thinking which will be coming from 18 different presentations at our 10:30-6:30 event.
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The Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) has responded favourably to the federal government's announcement of a $150 million investment into flood mitigation projects in the GTA area.
In a statement issued right after the federal disaster fund investment announcement, the IBC made special mention of the City of Toronto, the Regional Municipality of York, the Corporation of the City of Markham and the City of Vaughan. The municipalities, together with the federal government, have pledged over $400 million toward funding projects that would improve the flood resiliency of their respective communities.
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"IBC and its members have advocated for and welcome the dedicated funding for stormwater infrastructure upgrades," said IBC CEO Don Forgeron. "The property and casualty insurance industry continues to see the devastating effects of this new era of an unpredictable, changing climate."
Forgeron added that insured damage from severe weather last year hit $1.9 billion – the fourth highest level of losses in Canada's history.
"However, unlike the 1998 Quebec ice storm, the 2013 Calgary floods or the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire, no single event caused the high amount paid out for losses in 2018. Instead, Canadians and their insurers experienced significant losses from a host of smaller severe weather events from coast to coast," the CEO explained.
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IBC said in a statement that it will continue to request that all levels of government increase their investment in disaster mitigation. The bureau will also remain a supporter for improved building codes, better land use planning, and incentives to encourage developers to stay away from flood-prone areas.
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I write again on the law on dual citizenship to clarify what I have found out and consider as widespread misunderstanding of or confusion about the nature of dual citizenship.
I have recently read, to my utter chagrin, theories about how one has to do something to activate one's citizenship or to pass a test of allegiance as a condition precedent to dual citizenship, etc. Most of these theories have been but forth in relationship to a child born of parents of two nationalities (e.g., Ghana and Nigeria). These theories have been proposed to suggest that one cannot become a dual citizen without taking an affirmative action, such as acquiring a passport of another country. The theories are not just false and misleading but utterly and fatally so.
Each country determines her citizenship laws. In general, citizenship is acquired either at birth or through naturalization. To keep the discussion short, I only focus on citizenships at birth. Some countries, like USA, follow the jus soli doctrine while others, like Ghana, follow the jus sanguinis doctrine. Jus soli simply means citizenship is determined by the soil on which you are born. Jus sanguinis simply means citizenship is determined by your parents' blood.
Because each country determines her citizenship laws, it has long been recognized that many people will be born with 2 citizenships. This is why many countries now accept dual citizenship as a fact of life and while progressive countries have buried ancient and archaic views (e.g., questioning their loyalty) about such dual citizens.
As a concrete example, both Ghana and Nigeria follow the doctrine of jus sanguinis (citizenship by blood). As such, a child born to a Ghanaian/Nigerian couple is automatically, without doing anything, a dual citizen at birth and will remain so unless the child, as an adult, affirmatively renounces one of the citizenships and even so only if the country allows such renunciation. Nigeria, for example, "worships" Nigerians at birth and do not allow them to renounce their citizenships easily or disqualify them from holding any office, including the Presidency, even if they hold 30 other citizenships.
To make it more interesting, let us assume that the child is born in USA where citizenship is based on the jus soli doctrine. This poor child will come to the world with 3 citizenships. He does not have to know it, do anything about it, claim it, write about it, acknowledge it, etc. He is born a dual citizen and remains so until he affirmatively renounces one or more of those citizenships. This is not a problem at all and happens routinely everyday. But notice that no country can confer dual citizenship on a person. A country can only determine her citizenship law but cannot confer dual citizenship on anyone. What a country can decide is whether or not to permit her citizens to hold the citizenships of other countries.
So it is completely false to say one has to "activate citizenship before one can claim it" or pass an allegiance test or apply for a passport as a condition precedent to dual citizenship by birth.
One becomes a dual citizen at birth by the operation of the citizenship laws in 2 or more countries. This is exactly why the Supreme Court struck down the requirement of a dual citizenship certificate in Asare v. Attorney General (2012) where the Court said one does not have to do anything to become a dual citizen. If one is a citizen in 2 or more countries, one is a dual citizen. No card is necessary to show this anymore than one needs a card to show that he is a "single citizen." This is why the dual citizenship certificate issued by the ministry of interior was a useless piece of paper (albeit sold at $200), although it is still being sold unlawfully to unsuspecting dual citizens.
One does not become a Ghanaian or a citizen of any country (at birth) by a test of allegiance or by activating a citizenship or by getting a passport or by getting a dual citizenship card.
One becomes a citizen at birth automatically whether one knows it or not, claims it or not, accepts it or not, etc.
You may not like being a Ghanaian but if you are born a Ghanaian then you are a Ghanaian unless you renounce your citizenship but even here on terms decided by Ghana, not by you. And you are Ghanaian if either of your parents are Ghanaians, no matter where you are born!
This is why a Ghanaian father can obtain both a USA and a Ghanaian passport for his child, born in USA, if he so desires. In fact, some Ghanaian ministers of State have travelled to USA to deliver their children. These children automatically are dual citizens.
A passport is a travel document. It is not a test of allegiance or a condition precedent to citizenship. In fact, it is the other way round. That is, one has to prove their Ghanaian citizenship to obtain a passport. There are many Ghanaians who do not have or need a passport. It does not say anything about their allegiance to Ghana. And there are many Ghanaians who have a passport. It has nothing to do with their allegiance. They just need it to travel.
When people support laws that exclude dual citizens from holding some positions, they think they are "going after" those who carry USA, UK, or other western passports in addition to being a Ghanaian (these people won't admit this agendum though).
But the law, as they have written it, casts a very wide net, has a substantial reach and is now beginning to devour people born to a Ghanaian and another parent from a neighbouring country, such as Nigeria. There are MANY dual citizens born in Ghana and elsewhere everyday because of mixed marriages (between Ghanaian and Nigerian, Togolese or other ECOWAS couples).
There are many people who are dual citizens and were born so. A dual citizen is not just a Ghanaian with an American passport. A dual citizen is anyone born to a Ghanaian and another parent from a country whose citizenship laws follows the jus sanguinis doctrine (or anyone born to a Ghanaian in a country that follows the jus soli doctrine).
Ms. Charlotte Kesson-Smith's case exposes the flaws in the dual citizenship law. Our discriminatory and irrational dual citizenship law has trapped her. But it should not.
I DO NOT think her parentage and dual citizenship by birth status alone should disqualify her. It will be a tragedy if it did just as it was a tragedy when AdamuDaramani was sent to jail for being elected MP while a dual citizen.
What do progressive and honest nations do when confronted with Ms. Charlotte Kesson-Smith's dual citizenship dilemma? They rethink the problematic law not deny the obvious and incontrovertible fact that she is a dual citizen by birth.
On the other hand, Ms. Kesson-Smith must feel proud of her dual citizen heritage not deny her roots! She must not be compelled to choose between her parents' countries and reject something that she has carried from birth, knowingly or not.
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Nana is a Chartered Commercial Property Surveyor and a Barrister. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, a member of the Ghana Institution of Surveyors and the Honourable Society of Lincolns Inn and a Registered Surveyor in Bermuda.
Prior to moving to Bermuda, Nana worked for the Birmingham City Council in the UK where he was involved in the Birmingham New Street Station Redevelopment and major Housing Regeneration Schemes as well as managing the Council's property portfolio.
He currently works for the Government of Bermuda with the Department of Public Lands & Buildings where he has been involved in involvement with the proposed St Georges Hotel, Morgan's Point Development and the Airport Redevelopment.
Nana is also the Secretary to the Honourary Consulate of Ghana in Bermuda where he assists the Honourary Consul, Dr. Teye-Botchway. He is steeped in knowledge of Ghana's culture, geography, economic development and political landscape. Nana has given presentations on Ghana at various fora in Bermuda and is passionate about promoting the synergies between Ghana and Bermuda to the mutual benefit of both countries.
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Meanwhile, steel production in cities with relatively heavy pollution should be cut by 50 percent, and in slightly less polluted cities be reduced by at least 30%, the plan says. Companies with better environmental protection records will have to cut production less than their more contaminating counterparts.
This production slowdown is expected to dampen diesel demand from the industry.
The plan also says that goods transport by train should be increased and bulk materials for new or expansion projects should be transported by train, ship or pipeline if possible. More cargo transport by train should lead to lower diesel demand from the trucking sector.
In addition, the plan requires the 28 cities to make three-year action plans to upgrade their fleets of vehicles and ships. Electric vehicles and vehicles that meet ''national standards VI'' should account for 80 percent of the buses, environmental sanitation vehicles, mail vans, taxies, commuter trains and light logistics vehicles in these cities by 2020.


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I'm back from Jamaica, compiling my trip report. I went as a volunteer with a farmer-to-farmer training project for 9 days (plus two travel days). I was a volunteer with the FLORIDA ASSOCIATION FOR VOLUNTEER ACTION IN THE CARIBBEAN AND THE AMERICAS (FAVACA), funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) From the American People established by John F Kennedy in 1961. USAID is the lead U.S. Government agency that works to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realize their potential. One of the FAVACA programs is the Jamaica Sustainable Farm Enterprise Program.
For those who don't know Jamaica at all, let's start with a map of the island, which is south of Cuba.
I was hosted by the Source Farm Ecovillage, Johns Town, St Thomas Parish, Jamaica. Here's a more detailed map with St Thomas parish colored in pink. The Source Farm is east of Morant Bay, very near the coast.
The Source Farm Foundation and Learning Village is a multi-cultural, inter-generational eco-village, located in Johns Town, in the parish of St. Thomas, Jamaica.
Here is a 2014 site map, showing roughly what buildings are there, and where the gardens are located. Actually the gardens have expanded quite a bit since this map was drawn.
I stayed in Earthbag 1, a house built of stacked bags of bauxitic soil with cement, rendered over with cement, giving an adobe effect. The structure stayed fairly cool. The windows had no glass, but insect screens and wood louvered shutters. I've never actually had a house to myself before, even a small one like this!
The newer houses in the eco-village are monolithic concrete domes, which hold up very well against hurricanes, earthquakes and termites. Jamaica is rich in marl (lime) and other minerals, and there is a cement works near Kingston. Because many other homes on the island are built from concrete block covered with cement rendering, there are many workers skilled in rendering, who can quickly adapt to dome houses.
I got to taste many kinds of mango, passion fruit, star fruit, star apple, ackee, bammy (cassava flatbread), yam, breadfruit, callalloo (amaranth leaves) and meringa seeds, as well as foods I was already familiar with. I had an especially lovely supper with Nicola and Julia, of snapper with bammy and festival (described by April Jackson on The Yummy Truth as a Jamaican savory beignet made with cornmeal), and Red Stripe beer at Fish Cove Restaurant by the ocean.
Festival, bammy and fish in Jamaica.
My teaching work was organized by the people at Source Farm and included the whole group of farmers in JSFEP. The schedule included several farm visits, but unfortunately it rained very hard for four or five days (this was meant to be the dry season!) and many areas were flooded. One farmer told me that the biggest challenges to farming in Jamaica are climate change and theft. Both are serious. The heavy rains I experienced showed how much damage unusual weather can cause. At one farm, where a co-operative onion-growing project was underway, one farmer got trapped by rising waters and had to be helped by two other farmers to swim and wade through the wild waters. After that, the farmers in the group had to take turns to guard the place so that the drip irrigation equipment didn't get stolen. Another farmer told me about losing an entire crop of sweet potatoes one night – someone dug up the whole lot. The thefts, of course, are related to poverty and desperation in some cases, and a culture where each person has to take what they need as there is little in the way of government support. And a history of colonialism with sugar cane and banana cash crops, followed by a crashing economy.
The roads are in poor shape and in rural areas people rely on calling taxis to get from one place to another. Everyone needs a phone to live this way, and I saw some very battered up phones and chargers carefully repaired and kept running. Arranging a meeting time requires a flexible attitude about timeliness.
The farmers were looking at increasing production, planning planting quantities, scheduling succession plantings, and considering new crops. I met one-on-one with a few farmers, and I did some research into the possibilities of growing asparagus and garlic in the tropics, for a couple of them. I had to get my head round the idea of planting a sequence of three crops each needing four months. No winter cover crop cycle. Cover crops are very different from ours. Some overlap – sorghum-sudangrass, sunn-hemp. But no place for winter cereals! The principle of feeding the soil stays the same, using legumes to add nitrogen, bulky cover crops to smother weeds and add biomass.
I was teaching vegetable crop planning, crop rotations, and scheduling co-operative harvests to help the farmers double their presence at the Ujima Natural Farmers Market to every Saturday rather than very other Saturday, starting in June. The demand for sustainably grown fresh local produce exists, and farmers are interested in learning to boost production.
On the second Saturday I was there, I gave a workshop on crop planning, to 22 farmers, and we got some lively discussion going, as they offered each other tips, and diagnosed some diseased carrots (looked like nematodes to me).
I treasure the time I spent in Jamaica, even though it wasn't all sunshine and mangoes. I met many wonderful farmers and enjoyed my stay in the Source ecovillage, which reminded me somewhat of Twin Oaks Community, where I live in Virginia.
Tomato Seedlings in the greenhouse earlier in spring.
What a week! With the forecast for low temperatures on Sunday and Monday nights this past week, we back-pedaled on our transplanting plans. The tomato plants in our coldframe were very tall. In order to cover them we extended the cold-frame height by balancing plastic crates on top of the blockwork walls. Setting the lids on top of this construction was a bit precarious, but it worked well. Only a few of the taller tomatoes got nipped at the very top on Monday night when the temperature plummeted to 30F. 5/14 is very late for a last frost for us. Our average for the past ten years is 4/30, but in 2009 it was 5/19. In 2011 it was 4/14. Farming is full of surprises!
Tomato Transplants in the cold-frame.
On Tuesday we started transplanting tomatoes. Hot dry windy weather. On Wednesday 5/15 it reached 90F. On Thursday afternoon we planned to continue the big transplanting of our Roma paste tomatoes. Three rows are in mowed no-till rye, vetch and winter peas cover crop and one row is on black biodegradable plastic mulch. (Here's an interesting link to a comparison of the two biggest brands of biodegradable plastic mulch. http://extension.udel.edu/ag/files/2012/03/2012DegradableMulchWM.pdf) But Thursday's shift was inauspicious. We started with only 5 of us (we plan for 7). One person had to leave at 4pm. One person was called away to bale hay. Another person agreed to provide childcare for the person baling hay, from 4-6pm. Then another person started to feel ill, and left the scene. The 3 of us still working at 3pm started to sow our second zucchini and summer squash. We each used two dowels to make holes every 6″ in the biodegradable plastic mulch. We got the holes popped through, but then another community member cycled by and warned us of a strong thunderstorm heading right for us. Discretion being the better part of valor, we retired for a tea-break and to consult the local radar on Wunderground. An intense "red and yellow" storm, not very wide (ie not very long-lasting), was due any minute. Once it started to rain we decided to quit trying to garden for the day. good thing too. We got an inch of rain in an hour. Too bad the soil hadn't dried out enough for us to do a second hilling of the potatoes before this new rain. or make ridges for sweet potatoes. Now we'll have to wait another week, during which there is 20-80% chance of some rain every day except Monday, when it is forecast to be foggy. So I'm getting closer to finishing reading my library book. . .
Meanwhile, in the Mental Gardening Department, I found I had made mistakes in my Growing for Market articles on parsnips and fennel, about which plants can cross-pollinate each other. So I wrote an apology and correction. One of these mistakes is in my book. In case you are reading my former, deluded, beliefs, here is the correction: On parsnips, the facts are that parsnips can cross with wild parsnip, but not with carrots or Queen Anne's Lace, as I wrongly claimed.
On fennel, the facts are that fennel does not cross with anything except other fennel. It is widely said (even by some seed companies!) that dill and fennel cross, and some even describe the terrible flavor of the resulting crosses. Clearly this is a superstitious belief that continues because acting on the belief produces good fennel (or dill) seed. Similar to how someone might snap their fingers to keep away tigers – no tigers – complete success! I've long believed dill and fennel crossed. It's good to know I don't need to worry about that any more.


I've been writing music for over three decades but I never recorded most of it - mostly because of laziness. But the technology makes it a lot easier now so I can enjoy the process if not the result! I'm looking to get some feedback so I can learn to make my compositions stronger (I'm too close to my music to hear it clearly).
Music Background Spent about 13 years working the covers in bars, clubs, bowling alleys. The rest of the time I played with myself!


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Astom built the biggest offshore wind turbine in the world
christine deniel - 14-mai-2015 11:14:56
The Haliade ™ 150-6MW responds to the stricts constraints imposed by the marine environment. This new generation of offshore wind turbine, with a rated output of 6 MW, will be able to supply in electricity the equivalent of 5,000 homes annually. Simple, robust, and effective, it will improve the competitiveness of offshore wind turbines. With a 170 metres height and 1,500 tonnes with each blade measuring 73.5 metres, this first Haliade ™ posed in the North Sea is the largest and biggest wind turbine in the world. This ALSTOMs stroke of genius combines effectiveness, simplicity, yield and strength. By 2020, half of the produced energy will be renewable; the producers need to "go green".
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Electric consumption in France
christine deniel - 17-avr.-2015 13:59:22
Balance French electric 2014 renewables grow and cover nearly 20% of French consumption balance electric french 2014clarification of the regulatory system as well as more favourable economic provisions in 2014 allow renewable energy to pursue their development. The situation of the wind and photovol taique improves with nearly 1 900 MW installed additional-owners in 2014. The France includes now more than 9 100 MW of wind and near 5 300 MW of photovoltaics. The electrical energy produced by non-hydraulic (28 TWh) renewable-lables energy exceeds the produc-tion of thermal fossil for the first time in 2014. More than half comes from wind generation, the rest is divided between photovoltaic and biomass.The maximum of wind production has reached the 27th decem - BER 2014 for a little more power of 7 000 MW, or 80% of wind power installed. The maximum of photovoltaic production reached on May 17, 2014 at 1: 30 p.m. for a capacity of 3 700 MW. Such levels had never been achieved before.In addition, water availability is rather high this year, because of a high volume of rainfall: level of hydraulic production (68.2 TWh) is the strongest of the decade after 2013, which was exceptional.
Electric renewables grow and cover nearly 20% of French consumption in 2014
Christine Deniel - 16-mars-2015 13:25:18
The regulatory systems as well as more favorable economic provisions in 2014 allow renewable energy to pursue their development. Wind and photovoltaic improves with nearly 1 900 MW installed additional-owners in 2014. France includes now more than 9 100 MW of wind and near 5 300 MW of photovoltaics. The electrical energy produced by non-hydraulic (28 TWh) renewables energy exceeds the production of thermal fossil for the first time in 2014. More than half comes from wind generation, the rest is divided between photovoltaic and biomass. On the 27 th of December, the maximum of wind production has reached 7 000 MW, or 80% of wind power installed. The maximum of photovoltaic production reached on May 17, a capacity of 3 700 MW. Such levels had never been achieved before. In addition, water availability is rather high this year, because of a high volume of rainfall: level of hydraulic production (68.2 TWh) is the strongest of the decade after 2013, which was exceptional.
French Industrial groups Alstom and DCNS working alongside to build a floating wind turbine.
Christine Deniel - 14-oct.-2014 17:22:47
Alstom and DCNS signed a contract on October 13 for the development and manufacturing of a 6MW floating wind turbine under the name SeaReed. The two companies will join their knowledge of the industry to fashion a semi-submersible floating device provided by DCNS and combine it with an existing Alstom offshore wind turbine. The two companies will firstly work on adapting the two devices and setting it up. The project already received a public financing of 6 million euros from future investments programs.
Veolia and EDF finalize their agreement about Dalkia
Christine Deniel - 05-août-2014 15:37:14
The two French companies operating in the energy industry, EDF and Veolia, have just finalized the agreement signed the 25 of March 2014 on their joint subsidiary: Dalkia, which is a leading player in the field of energy services. As part of this agreement, EDF handles the entire business of Dalkia in France while international operations are taken over by Veolia. This transaction, announced in October 2013, was subject to clearances from competition authorities which it was obtained in late June 2014. http://www.euro-energie.com/edf-et-veolia-finalisent-leur-accord-sur-dalkia-n-4507
Blue Shark Power System received a grant from the Aquitaine region
Blue Shark Power System has been granted with € 618.760 from the Aquitaine Regional Council for the realization of an innovative tidal developed in collaboration with the Couach shipyard for its industrialization. The Company is developing an innovative hydroelectric engine at Blanquefort Ecoparc (France). The developing technology is ultra-competitive; they announced a price/MW ratio of 4-5 times lower than competing technologies. The new technology has a real commercial interest. The company ensures that several countries in Europe and beyond signed (Brazil) or are being signed as Shanghai. It represents a potential of sales of thousands of turbines. They also answer at a call for expressions of interest for pilot farms of tidal turbines in Normandie, especially for a farm of four machines. Source: http://objectifaquitaine.latribune.fr/innovation/2014-05-19/blue-shark-power-system-l-innovation-dont-l-aquitaine-attend-beaucoup.html
Areva, shortlisted to tender for the supply of offshore wind energy along with GDF Suez for the second time
The world's leading French nuclear group, Areva, is pleased to have been shortlisted to tender for the supply of offshore wind energy along with GDF Suez for the second time: two large wind farms located at Tréport (Seine-maritime) and Noirmoutier (Loire-Atlantique). The French minister of Ecology, Ségolène Royal, announced that the consortium GDF Suez-Areva will be in charge of its implementation and maintenance. This decision strengthens the company's position as a leading player in the renewable energy industry. The contract will have a very positive impact, nearly 6 000 direct and indirect qualified jobs will be created. Moreover to carry out these projects Areva and its partners plan to create six factories in France.
The Infrastructure, Transport and Industry Department Covering all aspects of the areas. we focus on the following sectors: - Energy - Infrastructure - Transport - Industry - Environment / Waste Recycling / Water treatment - Construction In 2012, the Infrastructure, Transport and Industry Department is organising events in : - March 6th, 2012: Trade meeting in the water & waste sector, Dublin - April 16th to 19th, 2012: French Pavilion on the European Wind Energy Association, Copenhaguen - September, 2012: Meetings in the electricity sector, Dublin - October 17th, 2012: French delegation during the International Conference on Ocean Energy, Dublin Events organised in 2011 : - May 24th and 25th, 2011: Irish Rail Trade Meeting, Dublin For further information about the events please contact Christine. Please contact: Christine DENIEL SPICER christine.deniel@businessfrance.fr Tel: +353 (0)1 277 50 83 &nbs
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