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La Berg-Schlotter ou Poule d'Elberfeld est une race de poule domestique d´origine allemande. La poule se caractérise par sa crête pendante (schlottern signifie  ou ).

Description
Grande race

Volaille solide, de type fermier, trapue, port à peine mi-haut, queue portée assez haute et plumage bien collé au corps.

Elle pond ~150 œufs par an.

Naine

Poule naine solide, de type fermier, trapue, port à peine mi-haut, queue portée assez haute et plumage bien collé au corps.

Elle pond ~150 œufs par an.

Origine
Créée dans le duché de Berg, au début du , principalement sur la base de souches locales et des Bergische Kräher  (Chanteurs du Berg).

Standard
Grande race
Masse idéale : coq : 2 à 2,75 kg ; poule : 1,75 à 2,25 kg.
Crête : simple.
Oreillons : blanc pur.
Couleur des yeux : rouge à brun foncé.
Couleur de la peau : blanche.
Couleur des tarses : couleur selon la variété.
 Variétés de plumage : noir doublonné blanc, noir doublonné fauve, noir, coucou.
Œufs à couver : min. 55g, coquille blanche.
Diamètre des bagues : Coq : 18mm ; Poule : 16mm.

Naine

masse idéale : Coq : 1000g; poule : 900g.
Crête : simple.
Oreillon : blanc pur.
Couleur des yeux : rouge à brun foncé.
Couleur de la peau : blanche.
Couleur des tarses : couleur ardoise.
Variété de plumage : noir doublonné blanc.
Œufs à couver : max. 40g, coquille : blanche.
Diamètre des bagues : coq : 15mm, poule : 13mm.

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Références
  Club spécial allemand avec description de la race
 Le 'Standard officiel des volailles(Poules, oies, dindons, canards et pintades)'', édité par la SCAF.

Race de poule originaire d'Allemagne

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Is Foreign Debt a Problem for Bangladesh? Part-A Foreign debt in Bangladesh Introduction: External debt is one of the sources of financing capital formation in any economy. Developing countries like Bangladesh are characterized by inadequate internal capital formation due to the vicious circle of low productivity, low income, and low savings. Therefore, this situation calls for technical, managerial, and financial support from Western countries to bridge the resource gap. On the other hand, external debt acts as a major constraint to capital formation in developing nations.
The burden and dynamics of external debt show that they do not contribute significantly to financing economic development in developing countries. In most cases, debt accumulates because of the servicing requirements and the principal itself. In view of the above, external debt becomes a self-perpetuating mechanism of poverty aggravation, work over-exploitation, and a constraint on development in developing economies. Public borrowing can be seen by private investors as a warning signal of the government becoming bankrupt within the foreseeable future. They may also fear that government will impose higher taxes in future in order to facilitate the repayment and servicing of the loan. In that case private investors will become less enthusiastic to invest. However, policy makers have to know whether public borrowing is followed by any crowding- out effect on investment, through whatever channel, and to what extent and whether the detrimental effect of such actions outweighs the benefit coming from the use of borrowed.
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Russia to supply nuclear-capable missiles to Belarus | CNN
Russia will transfer nuclear-capable Iskander-M missile systems to its ally Belarus over the coming months, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday.
Putin told Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko at a meeting in St. Petersburg the missile systems "can use both ballistic and cruise missiles, both in conventional and nuclear versions," according to the Kremlin.
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Russia launched its February 24 invasion in part from Belarusian territory, which borders Ukraine to the north. Throughout the war, Moscow has used Minsk as a satellite base including for many of Russia's air operations in Ukraine, according to intelligence collected by NATO surveillance planes.
On Saturday, Ukraine claimed Russian forces had fired multiple missiles on the Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy regions from Belarus.
In a transcript of the meeting, Lukashenko expressed to Putin his "stress" over what he alleged are flights by United States and NATO planes "training to carry nuclear warheads" close to Belarus' border.
He asked Putin to consider "a mirrored response" to the flights or to convert Russian fighter jets, which are currently deployed to Belarus, to "carry nuclear warheads."
Putin replied that "there is no need" to match the US flights and suggested Belarus could modify its own Su-25 aircraft to be nuclear-capable instead.
"This modernization should be carried out at aircraft factories in Russia, but we will agree with you on how to do this. And accordingly, start training the flight crew," Putin said.
The Iskander-M is a Russian-built short-range ballistic missile system that can carry conventional or nuclear warheads with a maximum range of up to 500 kilometers (310 miles), according to Janes Defense.
The weapon uses both optical and inertial guidance systems to strike its targets, hitting them with a range of warheads, such as cluster munitions, vacuum bombs, bunker-busters, and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) warheads, according to the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance.
The Iskander-M was first used in 2008 during the Russia-Georgia conflict, when the Russian Army used it to hit targets in Gori, according to the Alliance.
CNN has reached out the Pentagon for comment on Lukashenko's claims.
The meeting between the Russian and Belarusian strongmen came ahead of a week of summits in Europe, where the grinding war in Ukraine – entering its fifth month – will be front and center.
The leaders of Japan, Canada, the US, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, the European Union and host Germany will meet for the Group of 7 on Monday.
US President Joe Biden hopes to announce new sanctions and military assistance alongside European allies during his visits to Germany and Spain. Both the G7 and NATO summits will hear from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who continues to appeal to the US and other countries for more help.
During his nightly address on Saturday, Zelensky said, "sanctions packages against Russia are not enough" and called on the western partners to provide Ukraine with more "armed assistance."
"The air defense systems – the modern systems that our partners have – should be not in training areas or storage facilities, but in Ukraine, where they are now needed," he said.
On Saturday, the eastern Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk was "completely under Russian occupation," the city's head of military administration Oleksandr Striuk said, following months of grueling and bloody fighting. Severodonetsk was one of the last major Ukrainian strongholds in the area.
Regional military officials said Friday that the last troops in Severodonetsk had been ordered to leave, as it was impossible to keep defending their positions. This effectively ceded the city to Russia and put the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk almost fully under Russian control.
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Q: Avoid Scroll bars when showing content from other page? hello im new to web developing and i need help on something ! I used jQuery and a javascript code to show content from other page , but sometimes it results showing a scroll bar for example : i made an album and if i add to many photos it shows a scroll bar ..
here is the code and a photo:
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A: "#albumin")
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Web;
using Glimpse.Core.Extensibility;
using Glimpse.Mvc.AlternateType;
using Glimpse.Mvc.Model;
using Glimpse.Mvc.Tab;
using Glimpse.Test.Common;
using Moq;
using Xunit;
using Xunit.Extensions;

namespace Glimpse.Test.Mvc.Tab
{
    public class MetadataShould
    {
        [Theory, AutoMock]
        public void Construct(Metadata sut)
        {
            Assert.IsAssignableFrom<ITab>(sut);
            Assert.IsAssignableFrom<ITabSetup>(sut);
        }

        [Theory, AutoMock]
        public void ExecuteOnEndRequest(Metadata sut)
        {
            Assert.Equal(RuntimeEvent.EndRequest, sut.ExecuteOn);
        }

        [Theory, AutoMock]
        public void HaveHttpContextBase(Metadata sut)
        {
            Assert.Equal(typeof(HttpContextBase), sut.RequestContextType);
        }

        [Theory, AutoMock]
        public void HaveProperName(Metadata sut)
        {
            Assert.Equal("Metadata", sut.Name);
        }

        [Theory, AutoMock]
        public void SubscribeToViewMessageTypes(Metadata sut, ITabSetupContext context)
        {
            sut.Setup(context);

            context.MessageBroker.Verify(mb => mb.Subscribe(It.IsAny<Action<View.Render.Message>>()));
        }

        [Theory, AutoMock]
        public void HandleNullFindViewMessageCollection(Metadata sut, ITabContext context)
        {
            context.TabStore.Setup(ds => ds.Get(typeof(ViewEngine.FindViews.Message).FullName)).Returns<List<ViewEngine.FindViews.Message>>(null);
            context.TabStore.Setup(ds => ds.Get(typeof(View.Render.Message).FullName)).Returns(new List<View.Render.Message>());

            Assert.DoesNotThrow(() => sut.GetData(context));
        }

        [Theory, AutoMock]
        public void HandleNullViewRenderMessageCollection(Metadata sut, ITabContext context)
        {
            context.TabStore.Setup(ds => ds.Get(typeof(ViewEngine.FindViews.Message).FullName)).Returns(new List<ViewEngine.FindViews.Message>());
            context.TabStore.Setup(ds => ds.Get(typeof(View.Render.Message).FullName)).Returns<List<View.Render.Message>>(null);

            Assert.DoesNotThrow(() => sut.GetData(context));
        }

        [Theory, AutoMock]
        public void ReturnResult(Metadata sut, ITabContext context, View.Render.Message renderMessage)
        {
            context.TabStore.Setup(ds => ds.Contains(typeof(IList<View.Render.Message>).AssemblyQualifiedName)).Returns(true);
            context.TabStore.Setup(ds => ds.Get(typeof(IList<View.Render.Message>).AssemblyQualifiedName)).Returns(new List<View.Render.Message> { renderMessage });

            var result = sut.GetData(context) as List<MetadataItemModel>;

            Assert.NotNull(result);
            Assert.NotEmpty(result);
        }
    }
}

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Phillies Recall Jake Thompson From Triple A, Option Ricardo Pinto to Lehigh Valley
By Matt Bowker | CSNPhilly.com	• Published July 25, 2017 • Updated on July 25, 2017 at 3:40 pm
After Monday night's rain-soaked blowout loss, the Phillies' bullpen seems to be a bit depleted.
With that in mind, the Phillies have recalled pitcher Jake Thompson from Triple A and optioned reliever Ricardo Pinto to Lehigh Valley.
After a lengthy rain delay cut short Vince Velasquez's start, the Phils' bullpen was charged with six innings of work in the 13-4 loss. Pinto, responsible for five of the runs, tossed 1 1/3 innings as play resumed in the fourth inning.
He may not be down for long, though, as the Phils have an off day Thursday to recover.
Thompson seems like a peculiar choice to call up. He's struggled mightily this year in Lehigh Valley. The 23-year-old who came over in the Cole Hamels trade, is 4-11 with a 5.36 ERA. He's given up 107 hits in 94 innings pitched, as well as 36 walks on the year - one less than he gave up in 129 2/3 innings in 2016.
However, Thompson is already on the 40-man roster and has not pitched since going seven strong innings of two-run ball on July 20.


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Expert iteration
Anthony, Thomas William; (2021) Expert iteration. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
ExIt-Thesis-Corrected-0503-2.pdf - Accepted Version
In this thesis, we study how reinforcement learning algorithms can tackle classical board games without recourse to human knowledge. Specifically, we develop a framework and algorithms which learn to play the board game Hex starting from random play. We first describe Expert Iteration (ExIt), a novel reinforcement learning framework which extends Modified Policy Iteration. ExIt explicitly decomposes the reinforcement learning problem into two parts: planning and generalisation. A planning algorithm explores possible move sequences starting from a particular position to find good strategies from that position, while a parametric function approximator is trained to predict those plans, generalising to states not yet seen. Subsequently, planning is improved by using the approximated policy to guide search, increasing the strength of new plans. This decomposition allows ExIt to combine the benefits of both planning methods and function approximation methods. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the ExIt paradigm by implementing ExIt with two different planning algorithms. First, we develop a version based on Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), a search algorithm which has been successful both in specific games, such as Go, Hex and Havannah, and in general game playing competitions. We then develop a new planning algorithm, Policy Gradient Search (PGS), which uses a model-free reinforcement learning algorithm for online planning. Unlike MCTS, PGS does not require an explicit search tree. Instead PGS uses function approximation within a single search, allowing it to be applied to problems with larger branching factors. Both MCTS-ExIt and PGS-ExIt defeated MoHex 2.0 - the most recent Hex Olympiad winner to be open sourced - in 9 × 9 Hex. More importantly, whereas MoHex makes use of many Hex-specific improvements and knowledge, all our programs were trained tabula rasa using general reinforcement learning methods. This bodes well for ExIt's applicability to both other games and real world decision making problems.
Copyright © The Author 2021. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author's request.
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Songs & Ballads Of The Maine Lumberjacks
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Sandy Stream Song
As printed in fhe Lewiston Journal, Maine, July 21, 1917; from the memory of Edwin A. Reed of Orono, Maine, who is the "em�ployer" referred to in the ballad. The Journal also gives a full account of the history of this song, and Mr. Reed's Sandy Stream lumber operation, an episode of which the ballad celebrates. I knew Mr. Reed and his family in Orono. Although the news�paper account is unsigned, I am confident that the facts have been authorized by the family, probably by Mr. Reed himself before his death in 1915, as he knew the song.was in request. The following excerpts give, in addition to the history of the ballad, an idea of the lumberjack's life. "'Sandy Stream Song' was sung on the streams of eastern Maine for twenty years. For another twenty years it was forgotten. It was in safe keeping, however, for it was locked in the memory of the late Edwin A. Reed of Orono. He was the first operator of Sandy Stream; it was his crew that was burned out on the shores of Millinocket lake and he was the brave employer who led his crew to safety. "The Sandy Stream operation was begun about 1874, if not in that year. At the fime, Edwin A. Reed, 31 years old, was en�gaged with his father in the manufacture of shingles and lumber in
Springfield, Maine___Those were the days of crude, hard labor
in lumbering. Sandy Stream had never been driven. For six miles at the upper end the stream was very rapid and it was a ten-mile stream into Millinocket lake. The telephone and dyna�mite were not then in use. With four oxen, some gunpowder and the old-fashioned fuse, the operators did what they could to clear the stream and build their dams. This lumbering opera�tion took three years and was a financial loss in the end. The first year a crew of 75 men drove 17 days without getting out a log. Yet for a mile and a half along the wood road the logs stood 40 tier deep. The prospects of the season were shattered when the new dam above the falls (Hersey Dam) went out. This hung the drive and was a great setback. The dam had to be re-


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As the world marks D-Day 75 years on, post-war alliance is in doubt
World leaders will attend events this week to mark 75 years since the D-Day landings in Normandy — but the post-war order is under threat.
Tuesday, June 4th 2019, 7:48 AM EDT by NBC News
American troops supported those already on the coast of northern France waded shoreward carrying equipment on Utah Beach, Les Dunes de Madeleine, France. US Army photo
ARROMANCHES-LES-BAINS, France — This town on the northern coast of France wore the scars of World War II with grace ahead of Thursday's 75th D-Day anniversary celebrations.
The remains of a Mulberry harbor — a kind of temporary, portable harbor that was so vital to the Allied invasion — are clearly visible from nearby cliffs, covered with daisies and purple clover. The hulking concrete structures built in secret and ferried over to the coast of Normandy allowed the Allies to pour in troops, weapons and supplies vital to liberating Europe from Adolf Hitler's Germany.
The mood is celebratory in Arromanches, but like the sirens wailing from WWII reenactors's jeeps trundling along the town's wide beach, an alarm is sounding across Europe over the future of the Western order built from the ashes of WWII.
Ties between the U.S. and its traditional European allies have become strained under President Donald Trump. This is a bitter pill for many Europeans, but particularly former enemies who were embraced after the war, according to Norbert Röttgen, a former minister and senior member of Germany's parliament, for Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling CDU party.
"We are beyond that period that we have seen the transatlantic alliance as a United States-led community trying to shape international order from a point of values and interests," he said.
Trump has "deliberately and voluntarily said, 'I am not going to be the leader of the Free World,'" Röttgen added. "He substituted the international and unipolar and unique leadership role with the America First policies."
These alliances have brought peace and relative stability to Europe. Still, Trump has blasted NATO — the military alliance of 29 countries across North America and Europe formed in the aftermath of World War II in response to Soviet Russia — for allegedly shortchanging the U.S.
The White House has taken a hard line on trade, putting tariffs on steel and aluminum from the EU. Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate accord and the historic nuclear deal with Iran, which European countries are committed to. He has branded the continent a "foe" and expressed support for the U.K. leaving the European Union.
The Trump administration has also spooked many in Europe's liberal democracies for his apparent embrace of hardline leaders such as Hungary's Viktor Orban and autocrats like the rulers of Saudi Arabia.
This is not an abstract thing in the economic powerhouse of Germany. A deep bond with the U.S. emerged after what Röttgen termed the "catastrophe" of World War II, when instead of punishing all of Germany for the Nazis' atrocities, the country was given a second chance. Under the Marshall Plan, Western Europe was rebuilt. And the U.S. stood at Germany's side in vital post-war struggles, including facing up to the Soviet Union, Röttgen said.
Trump's perceived turning his back on post-war norms and values has been deeply felt for many Germans, he said.
"It's a departure to be compared with a father leaving his son and turning away from him, and departing from the shared values and the shared foundations of a current system of living together," Röttgen added.
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby spoke to NBC News about the importance of the anniversary and what it said about the ability of former enemies to make peace.
"D-Day led, despite its horrors and the heavy fighting, to the most significant reconciliation that here has been in European history," the leader of the Anglican Communion's 85 million members said on his way to a peace conference in nearby Caen. Out of it brought together "particularly France and Germany but the wartime enemies who within 15 to 20 years had made war between them look completely impossible."
However, Jonathan Eyal, international director at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think tank, cautioned against casting the past 70-odd years of European-American alliance too positively and overplaying the importance of recent strains.
"Like all couples that celebrate their golden wedding anniversary, you tend to remember all the good parts and tend to sort of shunt away the bits that are the bad parts," he said.
Immediately after the war ended, there were very serious doubts about the U.S.'s commitment to the continent and whether Washington would do a deal with the Soviets and continue dividing Europe, he said.
"We also tend to forget the very passionate and deep disputes that did take place during the Cold War," he said. "The disputes about gas and oil pipelines between the Soviet Union and Western European countries."
These "periodic neuroses" about the Americans cutting and running and over the defense burden sharing have been part of the relationship pretty much since it began, he said.
None of that obscured the fact that Germany's contributions to the NATO budget have been falling. Meanwhile, the importance of the U.S.'s role involvement in the continent only has grown.
"There has been a growing acceptance over the last 20 years that actually, there is little substitute for the United States in Europe," Eyal said. "And that actually we should not do things that chase the Americans away from Europe. That will be catastrophic."
Robert Citino, the senior historian at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, agreed that the international liberal order created after World War II was "fraying" under pressure from populist leaders in Europe, and from an American president "who seems unimpressed with multilateralism or NATO or shouldering the entire defense burden for our allies as he says it."
But the relationship remained robust despite this, he added. The elites of Europe and the U.S. have forged a strong and deep alliance over the last seven decades, and because of what came before, he told NBC News aboard a cruise ship traveling to Normandy for the D-Day anniversary commemorations.
"What the world learned beginning in World War I and culminating in World War II … is that old policies of each state being completely autonomous decisionmaker, doing only what it wished was too fragile of a basis for a well-ordered civilization," he said. "We couldn't have World War III."
In Arromanches, D-Day-themed chocolates are sold to tourists speaking French, Dutch, English, German and more. Its beaches teem with WWII reenactors from across Europe, many of whom fly American flags on their period jeeps and motorcycles.
They too are the products of the post-war global order whose relatively open borders fostered tourism, trade and communication.


Effectively marketing your property and attracting good quality tenants is an important part of being a landlord. One of a homeowner's biggest fears is that their property will sit vacant, or they will get a bad tenant. Today, we're talking about how to attract a better pool of candidates so you can select the best possible tenant for your property.
Don't underestimate the value of a professional photographer taking great photos. At Civitas, we have a photographer who works wonders. He doesn't use Photoshop, but the quality of the pictures he takes is amazing. He uses angles and lighting and whatever sorcery he works. Our photographer turns cramped, dark places into gorgeous units that attract tenants easily.
Even if you don't use a photographer, everyone has a phone that can take great pictures. There's no excuse for bad photos these days. You can use good lighting, and you can stand in the corner of the rooms to get a great angle. Plus, data is cheap, so if you take 200 photos, you can remove 185 of them, and just use the best 15. Those photos will also provide a documented record of the condition of the home before your tenant moves in.
When it comes to where you should list the advertisement, there is no secret website that only good property managers know. We put our ads on Zillow, Trulia, and Craigslist. If you go to a local coffee shop or a community forum, place your ad there as well. Put it on NextDoor.com and everywhere you go. When a lot of people see it, you'll get more applications, and you can be selective.
Put effort into your written description. Instead of only giving statistics like the number of bedrooms and bathrooms and the square footage, be descriptive. Say Spacious Victorian house in the Willow Glen section of San Jose is right near the bus stop, and you can smell the aroma of fresh baked bread. Talk about the experience and what it will be like to live there. People will want to see it, and you'll have a better chance of getting more applications.
Without intending to, you can use discriminatory language in advertising. You cannot use language that discriminates based on gender or race. There are also more subtle ways to discriminate. For example, you cannot say a property is a great house for families. That can be seen as discriminatory against certain classes of people.
At Civitas, every property manager has a flyer with green words, yellow words, and red words. Red are the words we never use, green is okay, and yellow should only be used when appropriate. Do some research, and protect yourself.
If you need any help with your property or you have any questions, please contact us at Civitas Property Management.


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Modelbuilder creates several invalid Geodatabases without reason, and also an error "Cannot acquire a schema lock because of an existing lock"
out of date [Invalid Geodatabase release]"
"Failed to delete selected objects.
Cannot acquire a schema lock because of an exisitng lock"
Why is that happening i cannot delete anything, i am not using geodatabases or an mxd, the process just creates shp in folders and that's all. Any help is much appreciated!
All of these things happened to me a few weeks ago. I think I have an idea of what's going on. As previously posted above, there is intermediate data created when a model is run from the model building window. Your model needs a place to put that data and the model is creating filegeodatabases to your default location, like C:\Users\username\Documents\ArcGIS\Default.gdb. If you can't delete the .gdbs from ArcCatalog you may want to try deleting in Windows Explorer. If you run a model from Toolbox, intermediate data is not left behind.
You may want to consider putting your model and Toolbox in a filegeodatabase (if it's your model) and create your data there.
One solution for the second issue is to terminate from Task Manager all Gis applications (Cache, Online etc) and restart ArcMap, then you can delete your files. But with the Default Geodatabases,1,2,3,4,,5,6,7 it seems nothing can be done.
1. Go for a system reboot. Rename the "Default.gdb" to "Default_old.gdb". If successfully renamed, Start ArcMap and delete "Default_old.gdb".
Poddar it did it but didn't seem to work, any other suggestion?
It's hard to diagnose the problem without seeing your model.
Ms Fox i know, but it's too big to paste it. I just don't get it, i don't use geodatabase anywhere and i cannot delete them also.
The big size of the geodatabases is due to the intermediate steps of the model-builder, which I can guess is pretty complex in your case. This will keep up coming as you run the model.
If have a File Geodatabase or Personal Geodatabase, one way to resolve lock issues is to run the Compact (Data Management) tool. While it normally is used to make geodatabases perform more effectively, it also explicitly releases locks as part of its functioning. I've managed to solve several lock issues with this tool.
Make sure ArcGIS and all other GIS applications are closed.
Note the this is not the same as the Compact tool listed under Administrative tools. The Administrative tools one has limited lock-clearing capability.
There could be a variety of issues causing the locks - this tool will solve existing locks, but not prevent new ones. If you continue to get locks, more troubleshooting will be needed.
Thank you for your answers they seem very logic, i will try them. I think also that intermediate data is the cause!


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Reliance says it is not breaching US sanctions against Venezuela
MOSCOW (MRC) -- India's Reliance Industries , operator of the world's largest oil refining complex, has issued a statement that it was not breaching US sanctions against Venezuela, reported Reuters.
The company said that its recent fuel exports to Venezuela were agreed before Washington imposed sanctions in January, and that they were meant to settle Reliance's crude oil imports from Venezuela. The company added that, it has been in "continuous communication with the US Department of State regarding its activities in Venezuela" since the imposition of sanctions.
The Reliance statement came a day after Reuters reported that the conglomerate is selling fuels to Venezuela from India and Europe to sidestep sanctions that bar US-based companies from dealing with state-run PDVSA, according to trading sources and Refinitiv Eikon data.
"Reliance's few transportation fuel shipments to Venezuela, treated as offsets for crude oil receipts, were committed and in-transit when there were no specific restrictions to such transactions. They were all fuels refined in India," it said in a statement.
Reliance had been supplying alkylate, diluent naphtha and other fuel to Venezuela through its US-based subsidiary before Washington imposed the sanctions aimed at curbing the OPEC member's oil exports and ousting Socialist President Nicolas Maduro.
Reliance, the Indian conglomerate controlled by billionaire businessman Mukesh Ambani, has significant exposure to the financial system of the United States, where it operates subsidiaries linked to its oil and telecom businesses, among others.
Additional sanctions against Venezuela are possible in the future, as US President Donald Trump's administration has not yet tried to prevent companies based outside the United States from buying Venezuelan oil.
Reliance said it had been transparent with U.S. authorities and provided detailed feedback to Washington as they were formulating and adjusting policy regarding product shipments to Venezuela.
"Reliance not only has complied with US sanctions laws, but also has done its best to adjust its dealings with Venezuela on a voluntary basis to reflect the ongoing changes in US policy," the statement added.
Reliance reiterated that it has stopped shipments of diluent naphtha to Venezuela, and has reduced its purchases of Venezuelan crude oil to well below its contracted levels.
In 2012, Reliance signed a 15-year deal to buy between 300,000 to 400,000 bpd of heavy crude from PDVSA. Ship tracking data show that Reliance's average purchases from Venezuela were less than 300,000 bpd in 2018 and in the first two months of this year.
We remind that, as MRC wrote before, in late February 2019, Saudi Aramco's Chief Executive Officer Amin Nassar said that the company is in talks with India's Reliance Industries Ltd for possible investments and is seeking other opportunities in the country.
Reliance Industries is one of the world's largest producers of polymers. The company produces polypropylene, polyethylene and polyvinyl chloride and other petrochemical products.
Tags: crude and gaz condensate, petrochemistry, Reliance Industries, Saudi Aramco, Venezuela, India, USA.


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Macrolatinos@ Noticias de diciembre
XVI Congresso Brasileiro de Limnologia
23 - 27 de Julio
Enlace al programa en pdf
Simposio sobre urbanización y ecosistemas de río (SUSE)
SUSE4: Making urban stream rehabilitation a co-evolutionary process
Mayo 31 - Junio 3
Carolina del Norte, EEUU
Oportunidades de estudio / trabajo
15 Doctorados en Alemania
Fecha límite solicitud: 9 de enero de 2017
(Via M. Kuemmerlen)
(Enlace)
Doctorado en Reino Unido
Impacto de eventos climáticos extremos en redes tróficas dulceacuícolas
Fecha límite solicitud:23 de enero de 2017
(Enlaces 1 y 2)
Postdoc en España
River connectivity
Fecha límite: 06 de enero 2017
Crumiére, A. J., Santos, M. E., Semon, M., Armisen, D.,Moreira, F. F.,& Khila, A. (2016). Diversity in Morphology and Locomotory Behavior is Associated with Niche Expansion in the Semi-aquatic Bugs. Current Biology 26:1-7.
Martins, T., Moreira, F. F., Mercado, J. & Santiago-Blay, J. A. (2016). Lecto- and Paralectotype Designations and Redescription of Arachnocoris alboannulatus Costa Lima, 1927 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nabidae). Life: The Excitement of Biology 4(3):165-173.
Cardona-Rivera, G.A. & A. Ramírez. (2016) Predation of Telebasis vulnerata (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) eggs by detritivorous caddisfly larva, Phylloicus pulchrus (Trichoptera: Calamoceratidae). International Journal of Odonatology 19(4): 253-256.
(Via A. Ramirez, aramirez@ramirezlab.net)
Nota - Con mucho gusto compartimos los trabajos que nos hacen llegar a aramirez@ramirezlab.net o a limarie.reyes1@upr.edu (Asunto: Macrolatinos).
Efemerópteros y la fragmentación de la hojarasca
Tim Moulton y co-autores Claudia Andrade and Vinicius Neres-Lima
Una nota sobre la importancia de los insectos en el procesamiento de la hojarasca, aún cuando no sean fragmentadores según el concepto de grupos funcionales.
There has long been interest in macroinvertebrate shredders – almost perhaps to the degree of obsession amongst stream ecologists. The processes of tearing, masticating, mining and generally converting larger pieces of leaves into small pieces appears to be important in many northern hemisphere and higher latitude streams. Some of the early work in tropical American streams seemed to reveal a lack of shredders, or at least a lack of the classical shredders of temperate streams (Irons et al. 1994). With further work, the picture has become more complex, and there seems to be a variety of conditions of shredder diversity and shredding in different tropical streams (Boyero et al. 2015). Certainly Magnolia Longo found an abundance of shredders in her study at Isla Gorgonia and came up with an unusual and important shredder – cockroaches (Longo and Blanco 2014).
I will not continue on this general theme, but I would like to draw attention to our latest research, which has apparently revealed the shredding activity of a not "classical" shredder group – leptophlebiid ephemeropterans. I mentioned this work at the meeting in Santa Marta (3er Congreso Latinoamericano de Macroinvertebrados de Agua Dulce, marzo de 2016) and Wills Flowers gave me some interesting feedback – that he had been shown Ulmeritoides apparently sclerotizing leaves. Following up on this I found mention of shredding and scraping in Leptophlebiidae, and particularly in the subfamily Atalophlebiinae (Polegatto and Froehlich 2003). See also (Bello and Cabrera 2001).
Here is a brief summary of our work – it should be published soon (Andrade et al. 2016). We researched the effects of shrimps (Macrobrachium and Potimirim ) and insects on leaf processing. We selectively excluded the shrimps and the insects by using electricity at different intensities – low intensity excluded only the shrimps, high intensity excluded the medium and large-sized insects as well as the shrimps. We found, to our surprise, that the low-intensity exclusion had almost 2x the rate of leaf processing compared to the control and the high-intensity. We concluded that this could be caused by a trophic cascade of the shrimps inhibiting the insect shredders. That is, when the shrimps were excluded the insect shredders acted more strongly in processing leaves.
Our next question was – who were the shredders who were making this difference? This was not obvious from our results. The "classical" trichopteran shredders Triplectides and Phylloicus were quite rare and embarrassingly were more common in the high-intensity electrification – where they were supposed to be excluded. The mining chironomid Stenochironomus was common, but its pattern of abundance did not coincide with the leaf processing. On the other hand, leptophlebiid ephemeropterans were common and almost significantly more abundant in the low-intensity treatment – corresponding with the faster leaf processing. Thus we propose that they were the agents for the faster leaf processing. The principal genera present at the site, Farrodes, Miroculis and Askola are commonly found in leaf litter. They also have a stable-isotope signature which indicates that they assimilate allochthonous material (Neres-Lima et al. 2016).
We find it very interesting that this group apparently causes shredding – it seems to scrape surfaces and perhaps is not so much of a "tearing" shredder, but a scraping shredder. We really need more observations and a more detailed look at the different genera involved. We also find it fascinating that this effect was only revealed when we excluded the shrimp, which apparently cause a very strong trophic cascade – similar to the result we found with periphyton on hard substrate with baetid ephemeropterans and shrimps (Moulton et al. 2015).
We would like to hear from other Latin-American stream ecologists who have had similar experiences – either with leptophlebiids or with other "not-classical" shredders.
Tim Moulton (and co-authors Claudia Andrade and Vinicius Neres-Lima)
moulton.timothy@gmail.com
Rio de Janeiro, December 2016.
Andrade, C. M., V. Neres-Lima, and T. P. Moulton. 2016. Differentiating the roles of shrimps and aquatic insects in leaf processing in a Neotropical stream. Marine and Freshwater Research.
Bello, C. L., and M. I. Cabrera. 2001. Alimentación ninfal de Leptophlebiidae (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) en el Caño Paso del Diablo, Venezuela. Revista de Biologia Tropical 49:999-1003.
Boyero, L., R. G. Pearson, M. O. Gessner, D. Dudgeon, A. Ramírez, C. M. Yule, M. Callisto, C. M. Pringle, A. C. Encalada, M. Arunachalam, J. Mathooko, J. E. Helson, J. Rincón, A. Bruder, A. Cornejo, A. S. Flecker, C. Mathuriau, C. M´Erimba, J. F. Gonçalves Jr, M. Moretti, and T. Jinggut. 2015. Leaf-litter breakdown in tropical streams: is variability the norm? Freshwater Science 34:759-769.
Irons, J. R., M. W. Oswood, R. J. Stout, and C. M. Pringle. 1994. Latitudinal patterns in leaf litter breakdown: is temperature really important? Freshwater Biology 32:401-411.
Longo, M., and J. F. Blanco. 2014. Shredders are abundant and species-rich in tropical continental-island low-order streams: Gorgona Island, Tropical Eastern Pacific, Colombia. Int. J. Trop. Biol. 62:85-105.
Moulton, T. P., C. Lourenço-Amorim, C. Y. Sasada-Sato, V. Neres-Lima, and E. Zandonà. 2015. Dynamics of algal production and ephemeropteran grazing of periphyton in a tropical stream. International Review of Hydrobiology 100:61-68.
Neres-Lima, V., E. F. Brito, F. A. M. Krsulović, A. M. Detweiler, A. E. Hershey, and T. P. Moulton. 2016. High importance of autochthonous basal food source for the food web of a Brazilian tropical stream regardless of shading. International Review of Hydrobiology 101:132-142.
Polegatto, C. M., and C. G. Froehlich. 2003. Feeding strategies in Atalophlebiinae (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae), with considerations on scraping and filtering. Pages 55-61 in E. Gaino, editor. Research update on Ephemeroptera & Plecoptera. Università di Perugia, Perugia.
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Looks good. I don't understand what you intend by the 'signal'. A*sin(t), or the whole of V(x,t) or something else? What would one be trying to infer from observing a system like that? What would be assumed known?
Comment Source:Looks good. I don't understand what you intend by the 'signal'. A*sin(t), or the whole of V(x,t) or something else? What would one be trying to infer from observing a system like that? What would be assumed known?
Note that Instiki(?) also accepts png images, which will very probably have smaller sizes than jpegs for graphs and other diagram type illustrations.
Great page, Tim! If it's okay with you, I'll blog about this one someday.
Like Graham I found the first sentence a bit mysterious, since you start by mentioning a physical system responding to noise, and then mention "signal to noise ratio", which is not a concept I understand for a general system - only something like a communications system.
Comment Source:Great page, Tim! If it's okay with you, I'll blog about this one someday. Like Graham I found the first sentence a bit mysterious, since you start by mentioning a physical system responding to noise, and then mention "signal to noise ratio", which is not a concept I understand for a general system - only something like a communications system.
Sharp lines on wide expanses of solid colour are one of the worst cases for a scheme like jpg which uses DFTs (well, DCTs actually) on blocks. PNG has compression mechanisms that adapt to this better.
If it's okay with you, I'll blog about this one someday.
Sure, but I think the really interesting point is that Earth has several different stable climate states, and that there is evidence for the "snowball earth" scenario. I read this in the primer (the primer on climate modelling).
I don't understand what you intend by the 'signal'.
I. Zaliapin and M. Ghil, Another look at climate sensitivity, Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 16 (2010), 113-122.
JB: Hmm, there's some nice catastrophe theory in there — I see a fold catastrophe in Figure 5, which gives a "tipping point".
A remarkable property of the energy balance model governed by Eq. (11) is the existence of several stationary solutions that describe equilibrium climates of the Earth [...]. The existence and linear stability of these solutions result from a straightforward bifurcation analysis of the 0-dimensional energy balance model (11) [...]; there are two linearly stable solutions – one that corresponds to the present climate and one that corresponds to a much colder, "snowball Earth" [...] separated by an unstable one, which lies about 10K below the present climate.
Are you thinking of using a model like this coupled to noise, Tim? Something like that would be fun.
Comment Source:A really nice simple model of Snowball Earth was mentioned in [week301](http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week301.html): > **NU**: Yes, we do have to be careful to remember that the formula above is obtained from a linear feedback analysis. For a discussion of climate sensitivity in a nonlinear analysis to second order, see: > * I. Zaliapin and M. Ghil, [Another look at climate sensitivity](http://www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/17/113/2010/npg-17-113-2010.pdf), _[Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics](http://www.nonlin-processes-geophys.net/17/113/2010/npg-17-113-2010.pdf)_ **16** (2010), 113-122. > **JB**: Hmm, there's some nice catastrophe theory in there — I see a fold catastrophe in Figure 5, which gives a "tipping point". The model has ice albedo feedback, and the authors write: >A remarkable property of the energy balance model governed by Eq. (11) is the existence of several stationary solutions that describe equilibrium climates of the Earth [...]. The existence and linear stability of these solutions result from a straightforward bifurcation analysis of the 0-dimensional energy balance model (11) [...]; there are two linearly stable solutions – one that corresponds to the present climate and one that corresponds to a much colder, "snowball Earth" [...] separated by an unstable one, which lies about 10K below the present climate. Are you thinking of using a model like this coupled to noise, Tim? Something like that would be fun.
Are you thinking of using a model like this coupled to noise, Tim?
c) there have always been people trying to exploit the long living superstitions that the gods punish humans through weather catastrophes.
Scientific evidence that the climate on Earth is capable to change drastically, for a long time, in a way that no longer sustains the biosphere as we know it, is big news. Maybe it has been out there for centuries. But I doubt it has reached the minds and hearts of many.
Human activity has global impacts, impacts that may change the world as we know it. We have to acknowledge this fact, and we have to learn how to act accordingly.
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 Are you thinking of using a model like this coupled to noise, Tim?

 I'm not thinking that far ahead :-) The next step I plan is to implement the simple energy balance model of the primer, because the implementations shipped with the CD are either in BASIC (don't have a compiler for this) or in Java and broken, because the model is mixed with the client code which uses a graphic library that is obsolete, not included, and which I did not find on the internet anymore (a classic blunder in software engineering :-) Regarding snowball earth: I think a lot of criticism of the "global warming agenda" stems from the overwhelming experience that a) the weather can be pretty rough, but b) after a few days everything is back to normal, no matter how crazy the hurricanes, thunderstorms etc. broke havoc the day before and c) there have always been people trying to exploit the long living superstitions that the gods punish humans through weather catastrophes. Scientific evidence that the climate on Earth is capable to change drastically, for a long time, in a way that no longer sustains the biosphere as we know it, is big news. Maybe it has been out there for centuries. But I doubt it has reached the minds and hearts of many. Human activity has global impacts, impacts that may change the world as we know it. We have to acknowledge this fact, and we have to learn how to act accordingly.
I'm really happy that you'll correct these defects! I hope you'll make the result easily available via the Azimuth Project.
I don't know which energy balance model you're talking about... is it a zero-dimensional model? I hope you include the equations on the Azimuth Project, perhaps in the page Energy balance model, which I am about to create. The paper I referred to above has a simple zero-dimensional energy balance model that's probably a bit different, since it's designed to illustrate bistability and tipping points. I'll include the equations in Energy balance model.
Comment Source:Tim wrote: >The next step I plan is to implement the simple energy balance model of the primer, because the implementations shipped with the CD are either in BASIC (don't have a compiler for this) or in Java and broken, because the model is mixed with the client code which uses a graphic library that is obsolete, not included, and which I did not find on the internet anymore (a classic blunder in software engineering :-)  I'm really happy that you'll correct these defects! I hope you'll make the result easily available via the Azimuth Project. I don't know which energy balance model you're talking about... is it a zero-dimensional model? I hope you include the equations on the Azimuth Project, perhaps in the page [[Energy balance model]], which I am about to create. The paper I referred to above has a simple zero-dimensional energy balance model that's probably a bit different, since it's designed to illustrate bistability and tipping points. I'll include the equations in [[Energy balance model]].
I hope you'll make the result easily available via the Azimuth Project.
Sure, I just uploaded the Java code I used for the graphics on the stochastic resonance page.
To mix the model code with the presentation code is a classic blunder, because it violates a principle called separation of concerns. This principle is older than I am! (At least I think so, I don't have the original source, which would be a paper by Edsger Dijkstra, I think, beginning 1970ties or late 1960ties).
I don't know which energy balance model you're talking about... is it a zero-dimensional model? I hope you include the equations on the Azimuth Project, perhaps in the page Energy balance model, which I am about to create.
Sure, my plan is to explain EBMs on that page, explain one model in particular and provide an implementation of it. In the primer there is both a 0-dim model and a 1-dim model, the dimension being the latitude. Both should be pretty easy to do.
Question: When I say "here is an executable jar", is it completely gibberish to you or do you know what to do with such a thing?
Comment Source:John wrote:

 I hope you'll make the result easily available via the Azimuth Project.

 Sure, I just uploaded the Java code I used for the graphics on the stochastic resonance page. To mix the model code with the presentation code is a classic blunder, because it violates a principle called separation of concerns. This principle is older than I am! (At least I think so, I don't have the original source, which would be a paper by Edsger Dijkstra, I think, beginning 1970ties or late 1960ties).

 I don't know which energy balance model you're talking about... is it a zero-dimensional model? I hope you include the equations on the Azimuth Project, perhaps in the page Energy balance model, which I am about to create.

 Sure, my plan is to explain EBMs on that page, explain one model in particular and provide an implementation of it. In the primer there is both a 0-dim model and a 1-dim model, the dimension being the latitude. Both should be pretty easy to do. Question: When I say "here is an executable jar", is it completely gibberish to you or do you know what to do with such a thing?
It's complete gibberish, although "executable" lets me know that it's computer jargon. I don't know what "jar" means in this context. I bet I could find out in less than 2 minutes. But it's nice to write so that even lazy people can understand you.
Comment Source:>Question: When I say "here is an executable jar", is it completely gibberish to you or do you know what to do with such a thing? It's complete gibberish, although "executable" lets me know that it's computer jargon. I don't know what "jar" means in this context. I bet I could find out in less than 2 minutes. But it's nice to write so that even lazy people can understand you.
I added a bit about the Duffing oscillator to the References section of Stochastic resonance.
There are three pictures on this page. The second one, illustrating "a very high value of D", is different from the other two: it's smaller, and the vertical axis is not labelled "position".
Tim — or anyone else &mdash when you have time, could you please prepare a version of the second picture that's just like the other two? I know you already tried this once, and we put this picture on my website because it was too big to upload to the Azimuth Project.
I'm sorry to be such a perfectionist about the visual appearance, but I am: it doesn't matter much now, but when I write a This Week's Finds, I always want to minimize irrelevant differences between items that I'm comparing, so readers can focus on the essential differences.
If it's easier to tell me what to do, that's fine too! I'm afraid it probably won't be.
Comment Source:I added a bit about the Duffing oscillator to the References section of [[Stochastic resonance]]. There are three pictures on this page. The second one, illustrating "a very high value of D", is different from the other two: it's smaller, and the vertical axis is not labelled "position". Tim — or anyone else &mdash when you have time, could you please prepare a version of the second picture that's just like the other two? I know you already tried this once, and we put this picture on my website because it was too big to upload to the Azimuth Project. I'm sorry to be such a perfectionist about the visual appearance, but I am: it doesn't matter much now, but when I write a This Week's Finds, I always want to minimize irrelevant differences between items that I'm comparing, so readers can focus on the essential differences. If it's easier to tell me what to do, that's fine too! I'm afraid it probably won't be.
3) a more mathematical week about stochastic resonance.
The first one can remind our readers about energy balance models, and introduce the idea of bistability. The second can talk about glacial cycles, how mysterious they are, and the Milankovitch cycle. The third can discuss stochastic resonance - the theory, and the idea of using it to explain glacial cycles.
A lot of this material is on the wiki and just needs to be written in a more fun-to-read style.
I'm thinking of doing all this after a series of interviews with Eliezer Yudkowsky, which are already done and just need to be formatted. So there is time for us to make lots of pretty pictures beforehand, if you like.
Comment Source:I do plan to write about stochastic resonance in TWF. I plan to write 1) a week about [[Snowball Earth]], 2) a week about the [[Milankovitch cycles]], and then 3) a more mathematical week about [[stochastic resonance]]. The first one can remind our readers about energy balance models, and introduce the idea of bistability. The second can talk about glacial cycles, how mysterious they are, and the Milankovitch cycle. The third can discuss stochastic resonance - the theory, and the idea of using it to explain glacial cycles. A lot of this material is on the wiki and just needs to be written in a more fun-to-read style. I'm thinking of doing all this _after_ a series of interviews with Eliezer Yudkowsky, which are already done and just need to be formatted. So there is time for us to make lots of pretty pictures beforehand, if you like.
I made some new graphs for this page.
Comment Source:I made some new graphs for this page.
wasnt there somewhere an interactive version of an example of stochastic resonance ?
I remember an interactive version too, but don't know where it is either.
Comment Source:I remember an interactive version too, but don't know where it is either.
The link was on the page Blog - increasing the signal-to-noise ratio with more noise. I added it to stochastic resonance under the heading "Interactive Online Example".
Comment Source:The link was on the page [[Blog - increasing the signal-to-noise ratio with more noise]]. I added it to [[stochastic resonance]] under the heading "Interactive Online Example".
Michael Knap, A stochastic energy balance model.
I need to update this second one and add more text. Thanks for reminding me!


A child born in Nigeria today is likely to live for only 55 years which is now the life expectancy in the country, UNICEF has revealed.
The Nigerian child can only live a year longer than his contemporaries in Chad and the Central African Republic, not expected to live beyond 2073, and two years more than that in Sierra Leone.
In its latest report released in Abuja today, the global body said that 395,072 babies will be born on New Year's Day globally, with Nigeria welcoming a total of 25, 685, or 6.5 per cent, out of these.
Plight of the Nigerian baby is unlike that of the child born in Italy, Singapore, Spain or Switzerland in 2019 that the report said has the highest live expectancy of living till 2103.
The report noted that Nigerian babies will account for almost 40 per cent of all those born in West and Central Africa, and more than 23 per cent of those born in sub-Saharan Africa.
Nigeria and seven other countries will also account for over half of the world's births that day.
The countries are: India, 69,944; China, 44,940; Pakistan, 15,112 and Indonesia, 13,256. Just as U.S., DRC and Bangladesh will have 11,086, 10,053 and 8,428 of the babies respectively.
"We can and must do more to ensure that children born in Nigeria survive their first day of life – and are able to survive and thrive for many months and years to come," said UNICEF Nigeria's Acting Representative, Pernille Ironside.
Compared to Nigeria, life expectancy is higher in Ghana, standing at 64; it is 65 in Sudan, and Rwanda that came out of a genocide barely two decades ago has up to 90 per cent insurance coverage, with 68 years life expectancy.
Nigeria has just about 10 to 13 per cent insurance cover with infant mortality rate that is one of the highest in the world.
"We as a people need to redefine our values, make the leadership accountable in critical areas like health delivery, reduce corruption to the barest minimum, make health insurance universally available, accessible and affordable," Omonaiye added.


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As well as a huge humanitarian toll on the people of Kosovo, the environment of this 13th richest biodiversity resource in the world was also feared at risk as well as the entire Balkan region and other regions of Europe.
Once again, there was illegal use of depleted uranium (DU) by the US and UK. It was also used in the Gulf War.
This report is an on-line radio talk about the effects of DU being used. You may need to download the Real Audio player to listen to this.
The World Health Organization has an informative fact sheet about Depleted Uranium, where they point out that DU has both chemical and radiological toxicity with the two important target organs being the kidneys and the lungs. While they indicate that some impacts of DU at smaller doses may not be as bad as first thought, at higher dosage, there are possible risks of lung cancer and kidney damage, for example.
March 2000, about 9 months after the bombing ended, finally NATO admitted to the UN that it used depleted uranium. NATO said they dropped 10 tonnes of depleted uranium in shells. However, NATO is still holding back critical data on how depleted Uranium was used, while being urged by the UN to clean up its uranium debris in Kosovo, as reported by the Guardian.
As early as July 1999, environmentalists warned that KFOR troops and civilians may suffer from the effects of depleted Uranium, resulting in similar effects as the Gulf War Syndrome. In fact, since the Gulf War 1991, there have been similar concerns.
Towards the end of 2000, it was revealed that Depleted Uranium was also used in other areas of the Balkans. Various European nations are now concerned (in many, it has become an uproar) about the effects on their soldiers, especially when six Italian soldiers died from Leukaemia, which is linked to radiation exposure (and observed amongst survirors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as this article points out). Only the United States and the United Kingdom's defence departments claim that there is no risk, while further evidence is increasing against their claims. While it has caused an uproar in the European mainstream, the U.S media in comparison hardly mentions anything.
However, it should be noted that even though there is discussion on this issue, the discourse of the wider issues of the bombing itself remains unquestioned by the mainstream. The effects on those who have to live near bombed checmical factories and polluted rivers that have resulted from this NATO bombing remains unquestioned. Of course, concern for one's own soldiers is valid, but so to is of other people.
Contradictory statements from Clinton were made warning Milosevic not to use chemical weapons while NATO/US themselves were using depleted uranium weapons, bombing oil refineries and other factories that ended up spewing toxic clouds of lethal chemicals into the air. Furthermore, as John Pilger highlights, the U.S. has used chemical weapons in many prior conflicts as well.
As it turns out, a UN agency that went to Kosovo and other areas of Yugoslavia, has said that the NATO air strikes have had a "devastating impact" on the environment. It says that it has also affected agriculture, industries, employment, essential services, land, air, rivers, lakes and underground waters as well as the food chain and public health has also been affected.
Interestingly enough, another UN report suggests that Yugoslavian claims of environmental catastrophe from the bombing have been rejected, although it is admitted that there are some severe local problems. An additional point is that there has been little data about the environment before the bombing so that the comparison is difficult to make.
Regardless, it is estimated that it could take billions of dollars worth of aid and up to ten years to restore the war-torn Balkan region.
Visit the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Balkans web site for more updated information and reports on the environmental effects of the region.
Did NATO really act out of Humanitarian Concerns?
Shah, Anup. "Effects of Bombing on the Environment." Global Issues . 14 Jul. 2001. Web. 26 Apr. 2019. <http://www.globalissues.org/article/131/effects-of-bombing-on-the-environment>.


Sales Director Michael Gilmore sat down with George Cole from IER this month to talk about the latest buzz.
There's no doubt what was making the noise in 2014 TV market, Ultra High Definition (UHD) 4K TV and curved TV. It looks like this trend will continue into 2015 and beyond, but it is a trend that consumers are enjoying?
Q: All the major TV manufacturers are pushing UHD 4K, sometimes along other technology like curved TV and Smart TV. Is the industry's excitement shared by the consumer?
A: I'd say around 80% of customers are not aware. I don't think the manufacturers are doing enough to advertise 4K.
Q: Do you think part of the problem is that UHD 4K sets were launched while standards were still being set?
A: Yes, this was an issue about a year ago, when we didn't know what was coming down the road. Some companies are offering consumers an upgrade option for older sets, which is a good thing.
Q: What are manufacturers doing about providing UHD 4K content?
A: At the moment, 4K TV manufacturers are providing retailers with some UHD content during the pre-Christmas period. However we are still waiting for Sky, BT & BBC to confirm their roll out dates. Netflix Amazon and You Tube are now streaming 4K content and this will increase into 2015.
Q: Curved TVs are also being pushed by manufacturers, are consumers aware of these?
A: Consumers are aware of curved a little more than 4K, that's partly down to Samsung's advertising.
Q: What is the reaction when a consumer see's a curved TV?
A: It's a Marmite effect, customers either love it or hate it.
A: A room with the right lighting can show off the depth, width and immersion you can get with a curved TV. In our Bolton and Rawtenstall stores we have bespoke pieces of curved furniture that looks amazing.
Q: Will we see more UHD 4K and curved TVs in 2015?
A: You can expect to see huge ranges of UHD 4K TVs at all prices points. Curved will come in many variations, each with it's unique design.
To read the full interview between George and Michael think click this link.


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Fernando Alonso says he will begin to consider his plans for 202 in July, suggesting that he would prefer to focus on a single series next year, having embarked on numerous different disciplines in recent years as he has ramped up efforts to take out motorsport's 'Triple Crown'.
Having combined full campaigns in Formula 1 and the World Endurance Championship last year, Alonso has continued racing sports cars this year, and will return to the Brickyard in July to attempt the Indianapolis 500 for a second time – where victory would see him equal Graham Hill's unique feat of winning IndyCar's flagship race, the Monaco GP and Le Mans 24 Hours.
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With the remaining races on the WEC calendar and Indy at the forefront of his thoughts, Alonso says he is yet to think about what he will be doing next year.
"At the moment I am focusing on Spa, Indianapolis and Le Mans and until July I will not consider anything about the future," Alonso told Spanish media.
Alonso has always conceded that his decision to step away from F1 could be reversed if he were offered a top-level drive.
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And the two-time world champion hopes to return to a more consistent schedule next year.
"The idea is not to change around so many times, because you lose the perfection you need to succeed in a great specialty," said Alonso.
Both Lando Norris and Carlos Sainz made Q3 at the Bahrain Grand Prix as McLaren's MCL34 looks to have made decent progress, with Norris going on to score sixth place in Sakhir.
Although a vast improvement on the results Alonso was limited to at the tail-end of last year, he is yet to be convinced over a return to F1 with his former team.
"It's better to be in Q3 and to score points, but I do not feel like racing in F1 this year," said Alonso.
"Well, if Carlos wins two or three races before Abu Dhabi, maybe yes," he smiled.
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TPG ups offer for ISP after M2 makes competing bid.
The board of Internet service provider iiNet confirmed this morning that it supported a revised acquisition offer by TPG.
TPG's second offer for the ISP comprises shares or cash; its original offer was cash-only. TPG is offering $8.80 cash or TPG shares and a $0.75 dividend per iiNet share. Shareholders who opt for shares will receive 0.969 TPG shares for each iiNet share.
TPG values the offer at $9.55 per share. Its original offer was valued at $8.60 per share.
The offer implies an enterprise value for iiNet of $1.9 billion.
iiNet and TPG revealed details of the original acquisition bid in March.
The revised offer came in the wake of a competing bid for iiNet by M2. M2 valued its offer at $11.52; however, that was based on $9.25 worth of M2 shares and a special dividend of $0.75 per iiNet share as well as an estimation of $1.37 in synergies that would accrue to iiNet shareholders.
Details of the M2 offer for iiNet were made public in April.
"The iiNet Board has undertaken thorough and extensive analysis of both offers in conjunction with its advisers, and has determined the Revised TPG Offer to be more favourable to iiNet and iiNet Shareholders than the M2 Proposal," said a statement issued to the ASX by iiNet this morning.
The iiNet board said its reasoning included the certainty of the value represented by the TPG offer, compared to "the inherently uncertain future value of a combined iiNet and M2 under the M2 Proposal", as well as changes in the pricing of M2 shares.
The ability for shareholders to choose whether to receive cash or TPG shares in exchange for their iiNet holdings was a key factor in the board's recommendation.
Both suitors have indicated they will retain the iiNet brand, the ASX statement noted.
"The Board has weighed up both offers and given careful consideration to the merits of a primarily cash- based offer, to one which predominantly comprised scrip," iiNet chairperson Michael Smith said in a statement.
M2 previously set a deadline of 5pm today for iiNet to enter into a scheme implementation deed or else it would withdraw its proposal.
iiNet shareholders are due to vote on the TPG offer in July.


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