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From Dumps to Destinations: Converting Landfills to Parks
Posted on October 14, 2011 by Peter Harnik
A tenth excerpt from the recently released book published by Island Press called Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities. In this post, we look at some cities who have created parkland from capped landfills.
New parks can be fashioned out of old garbage dumps. It's not as bad as it sounds.
Fresh Kills Park, New York. The soon-to-open park will be New York's largest city park at 2,200 acres, more than double the size of Central Park. Credit: Garrett Ziegler (Flickr Feed).
Balloon Park in Albuquerque, Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley, McAlpine Creek Soccer Complex in Charlotte, Red Rock Canyon Open Space in Colorado Springs, Rogers Park Golf Course in Tampa, and hundreds of others, both famous and obscure, have been created from landfills. And in a few more years New York City's 2,200-acre Fresh Kills Landfill will have settled in to become that city's largest park.
Landfill parks go back to at least 1916 (many years before the word "landfill" was coined) when the old Rainier Dump in Seattle was turned into the Rainier Playfield. In 1935 in that same city a more momentous conversion transformed the 62-acre Miller Street Dump into a portion of the now-famous Washington Park Arboretum. The following year, New York City closed the putrid Corona Dumps–famously called the "Valley of Ashes" by F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby–and began preparing the land for construction of the 1939 World's Fair. Following World War II, as the volume of trash in America mushroomed, so did the number of landfills. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that as many as 3,500 landfills have closed since 1991; the number from earlier years is anyone's guess.
In an ideal world all trash would be recycled and there would be no landfills. But in a time of severe urban space and resource constraints, closed landfills represent excellent locales for three big reasons: size, location, and cost. A former dump is usually one of the few large, open locations within a dense metro area. There is also the opportunity to correct what may have been a longstanding environmental injustice to the surrounding residents. Finally, there's a good chance that the landfill–which may be as small as dozens of acres or as large as 1,000 or more–is free or inexpensive to buy or possibly that it even comes with its own supporting funds.
While a capped landfill is not necessarily a park director's first choice for a parcel of land, it's impressive and instructive that so many perfectly adequate–or even better than adequate–city parks started out as dumps. Communities from coast to coast have been jumping at the chance to use them. Based on a survey, the Center for City Park Excellence estimates that there may already be as many as 4,500 acres of landfill parks in major U.S. cities.
Mount Trashmore, Virginia Beach. The city's highest point and its largest non-wetland park was constructed in 1974 over an 800-foot-high mound of municipal refuse, and became the best known of the nation's early landfill parks. Credit: Backus Aerial.
In Portland, Oregon, the park department is getting a free 25-acre park. All closure and conversion costs for Cully Park were paid by the solid waste department, which built up a reserve for exactly that purpose by charging a per-ton fee on garbage disposed there. (The park department coordinates closely in habitat development and vegetation management.) In Virginia Beach, where Mount Trashmore required multiple fixes over the decades, the original 1974 capping and the 1986 recapping were paid for by the public works department; the 2003 recapping–hopefully the last–was financed by the park department through its capital improvement budget. In Fresno, California, the landfill isn't even being officially transferred over; the public utilities department will own it in perpetuity but will sign a management agreement with the parks and recreation department.
Frankly, a cheap purchase price is important because preparation costs can be significant. Depending on the age and contents of the landfill, the amount of groundwater or soil contamination, and the planned recreational use, construction costs have ranged from $500,000 for a 2-acre site to $30 million for a regional park of more than 100 acres. Expenses depend on such factors as topography, availability of materials, cover design, and much more. A calculation by the Center for City Park Excellence puts the average at around $300,000 per acre. Financial responsibility for these and other costs may lie solely with the park developer or be shared by the landfill owner/operator.
The construction of municipal solid waste landfills has been regulated since 1991 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Today an owner/operator must install a 24-inch earthen cover within six months of closure to minimize water infiltration and erosion. The cover usually also has a gas venting layer and a stone or synthetic biotic layer to keep out burrowing animals. The EPA requires groundwater monitoring and leachate collection for thirty years after the landfill is closed.
Technically, the two big challenges to using a former landfill are gas production and ground settlement. Landfill gases, including methane, carbon dioxide, ammonia, and hydrogen sulfide, are created when buried waste decomposes. Methane may be released for thirty or more years after closure, and EPA requires gas collection systems. (In parks built on pre-1991 landfills there were occasional stories of picnickers being stunned to see a column of flame surrounding a barbeque grill.) Happily, methane collected from landfills can be sold by park departments to generate revenue. In Portland, Oregon, St. Johns Landfill, a former disposal site within the 2,000-acre Smith-Bybee Wetlands Natural Area, earns more than $100,000 a year from methane that is piped 2 miles to heat the lime kiln of a cement company. The revenue helps pay for closure operations as the site transitions from landfill to park.
Settlement is a bit tougher. Like cereal in a box, municipal landfills gradually slump as much as 20 percent over a two- or three-decade period. That much settlement would cause foundations to break and sink, utility and irrigation pipes to burst, roads and paths to crack and heave, light poles to tilt, and sports fields to crumple. Obviously, if the ultimate reuse of a landfill is as a natural wild land, none of this matters. But most recreational reuses require the construction of at least trails if not fields and buildings of various types. Fortunately, waste sits only in "cells" in certain areas of a landfill, and park facilities can be safely constructed over undisturbed areas, leaving the settling sections to support grass and shrubbery. Therefore, structural foundations can be protected through detailed research and careful planning; the key is to know exactly where the waste is. At New York's Fresh Kills only about 45 percent of the land area was actually used for waste disposal.
Despite the many successful individual examples, there is not yet a seamless landfills-to-parks movement in the United States. Numerous challenges remain–technological, political, and legal–all of which drive up costs. Back when land was more easily available, the impediments were generally not worth taking on. Now in many cases they are. With a three-pronged effort to design safer waste dumps, to work more closely with community activists, and to ensure protection from legal liabilities, cities will be able to gain much new parkland from abandoned landfills.
For more information about landfill parks, read an article published in Places journal here.
Filed under: green infrastructure, planning, renewal | Tagged: fresh kills, fresno, landfills, new york, portland, seattle, virginia beach |
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Cassie Strauss, on January 26, 2012 at 1:32 pm said:
"In Portland, Oregon, St. Johns Landfill, a former disposal site within the 2,000-acre Smith-Bybee Wetlands Natural Area, earns more than $100,000 a year from methane that is piped 2 miles to heat the lime kiln of a cement company. "
That's amazing. Something like that is the kind of unique environmental problem-solving that is actually a win-win situation: recycling the gas (that would have been released into the atmosphere anyway) that is produced when trash breaks down to heat a kiln that would have otherwise been heated by energy off the grid or direct fossil fuels.
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Папуга-бронзоголов великий (Psittacella brehmii) — вид птахів з родини папугові (Psittacidae). Ендемік Новій Гвінеї. Вид отримав назву P. brehmii на честь Альфреда Брема (1829–1884), німецького мандрівника і колекціонера.

Опис
Це найбільший птах в роді папуг-бронзоголовів. Його довжина становить близько 24 см, вага від 94 до 120 г. Він здебільшого зеленого кольору, з головою тьмяно-оливкового кольору, жовтими і чорними смужками на спині і гузці і червоним покривним пір'ям на хвості. Його райдужка червона, а дзьоб блакитнувато-сірий, білий на кінці. Ноги сірі. У самців на бічних сторонах шиї жовті смужки; груди зелені. У самиць на шиї смужок немає, однак на грудях чорно-жовні смужки.

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Великий папуга-бронзоголов є ендеміком Новій Гвінеї. Мешкає в тропічних гірських лісах і високогір'ях на висоті від 1500 до 2600 м над рівнем моря; на півострові Хуон до 3800 м над рівнем моря.

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Харчується фруктами, насінням, ягодами, квітками, листям.

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Виділяють чотири підвиди:
 P. b. brehmii: півострів Чендравасіх, Західне Папуа.
 P. b. intermixta: Центральне нагір'я Нової Гвінеї. Більшого розміру, ніж номінативний підвид, нижня сторорона тіла жовтувато-зеленого відтінку.
 P. b. pallida: Південно-західні нагір'я Нової Гвінеї. Схожий на номінативний підвид, однак має вужчий дзьоб.
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 World Parrot Trust

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Птахи Нової Гвінеї
Ендемічна фауна Нової Гвінеї
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            svgBuilder.InnerHtml.AppendHtml(css);

            if(!string.IsNullOrEmpty(data.Title))
            {
                if(data.TitlePosition == ChartPosition.Top)
                {
                    heightOffset = 70;
                    int titleX = (500 - data.Title.Length * 5) / 2;
                    TagBuilder titleBuilder = new TagBuilder("text");
                    titleBuilder.AddCssClass("title");
                    titleBuilder.MergeAttribute("x", titleX.ToString());
                    titleBuilder.MergeAttribute("y", 35.ToString());
                    titleBuilder.InnerHtml.Append(data.Title);
                    svgBuilder.InnerHtml.AppendHtml(titleBuilder);
                }
            }

            lastTextHeight += heightOffset;

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            {
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                // Special case because arcs cant close themselves on 360°.
                TagBuilder gElem = new TagBuilder("g");
                TagBuilder circle = new TagBuilder("circle");
                circle.MergeAttribute("cx", radOffset.NumString());
                circle.MergeAttribute("cy", (250 + heightOffset).ToString());
                circle.MergeAttribute("r", 250.ToString());
                circle.MergeAttribute("fill", item.Color.HexCode());
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            }
            else
            {
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                {
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        {
            startAngle = endAngle;
            endAngle = startAngle + value * anglePerValue;

            var startAngleRad = Math.PI * startAngle / 180;
            var endAngleRad = Math.PI * endAngle / 180;

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            var y2 = radOffset + heightOffset + radius * Math.Sin(endAngleRad);

            int bigArc = (endAngle - startAngle) > 180 ? 1 : 0;

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                string.Format("M{0},{1} L{2},{3} A250,250 0 {4},1 {5},{6} Z L{7},{8}",
                radOffset, (250 + heightOffset), x1.NumString(), y1.NumString(), bigArc, x2.NumString(), y2.NumString(), x2.NumString(), y2.NumString());
        }

        private static TagBuilder generateItem<U, T>(ChartItem<U, T> item, string d, int textAlign, int lastTextHeight, double totalValues)
        {
            TagBuilder gBuilder = new TagBuilder("g");
            TagBuilder titleBuilder = new TagBuilder("title");
            titleBuilder.InnerHtml.AppendFormat("{0} ({1})", item.LabelY, item.ValueY);

            TagBuilder bulletBuilder = generateTextBullet("■", item.Color, textAlign - 25, lastTextHeight - 1);
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                string.Format("{0} - {1} ({2})", (Convert.ToDouble(item.ValueY) / totalValues).ToString("0.00 %"), item.LabelY, item.ValueY),
                textAlign, lastTextHeight);
            TagBuilder pathBuilder = generatePath(d, item.Color);

            gBuilder.InnerHtml.AppendHtml(titleBuilder);
            gBuilder.InnerHtml.AppendHtml(bulletBuilder);
            gBuilder.InnerHtml.AppendHtml(labelBuilder);
            gBuilder.InnerHtml.AppendHtml(pathBuilder);
            return gBuilder;
        }

        private static TagBuilder generatePath(string d, ChartColor color)
        {
            TagBuilder builder = new TagBuilder("path");
            builder.AddCssClass("slice");
            builder.MergeAttribute("d", d);
            builder.MergeAttribute("stroke-linejoin", "miter");
            builder.MergeAttribute("stroke", "black");
            builder.MergeAttribute("stroke-width", "1");
            builder.MergeAttribute("fill", color.HexCode());
            builder.TagRenderMode = TagRenderMode.SelfClosing;

            return builder;
        }

        private static TagBuilder generateLabel(string value, int x, int y)
        {
            TagBuilder builder = new TagBuilder("text");
            builder.MergeAttribute("x", x.ToString());
            builder.MergeAttribute("y", y.ToString());
            builder.InnerHtml.Append(value);
            return builder;
        }

        private static TagBuilder generateTextBullet(string bullet, ChartColor color, int x, int y)
        {
            TagBuilder builder = new TagBuilder("text");
            builder.MergeAttribute("x", x.ToString());
            builder.MergeAttribute("y", y.ToString());
            builder.MergeAttribute("fill", color.HexCode());
            builder.MergeAttribute("stroke", "black");
            builder.MergeAttribute("style", "font-size: 2rem;");
            builder.MergeAttribute("stroke-width", "2");
            builder.InnerHtml.Append(bullet);

            return builder;
        }

        protected class SVGViewBox
        {
            public SVGViewBox(int x, int y, int width, int height)
            {
                X = x;
                Y = y;
                Width = width;
                Height = height;
            }

            public int X { get; set; }
            public int Y { get; set; }
            public int Width { get; set; }
            public int Height { get; set; }

            public override string ToString()
            {
                return string.Format("{0}, {1}, {2}, {3}", X, Y, Width, Height);
            }
        }
    }
}


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Q: Uncaught ReferenceError: PrimeFaces is not defined I'm trying to display a dataGrid with primefaces, but it doesn't show correctly :

The code .xhtml is here :
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"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
    xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
    xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
    xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
    xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui">

<ui:composition template="/WEB-INF/templates/basic.xhtml">
    <ui:define name="content">
    <h:form>
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            paginatorTemplate="{CurrentPageReport}  {FirstPageLink} {PreviousPageLink} {PageLinks} {NextPageLink} {LastPageLink} {RowsPerPageDropdown}"
            rowsPerPageTemplate="5,10,15">
        <p:panel header="#{article.name}" style="text-align:center">
            <h:panelGrid columns="1" style="width:100%">
                <p:graphicImage value="/Images/linux.jpg"/>
                <h:outputText value="#{article.description}" />
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        </p:panel>
        </p:dataGrid>
    </h:form>
    </ui:define>
</ui:composition>
</html>

My web.xml :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" version="3.0">
  <display-name>PrimeFaces</display-name>
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.xhtml</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
  <context-param>
    <description>State saving method: 'client' or 'server' (=default). See JSF Specification 2.5.2</description>
    <param-name>javax.faces.STATE_SAVING_METHOD</param-name>
    <param-value>client</param-value>
  </context-param>
  <context-param>
    <param-name>javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.fmt.localizationContext</param-name>
    <param-value>resources.application</param-value>
  </context-param>
  <listener>
    <listener-class>com.sun.faces.config.ConfigureListener</listener-class>
  </listener>
  <context-param>
    <param-name>primefaces.THEME</param-name>
    <param-value>bootstrap</param-value>
  </context-param>
</web-app>

I have installed primefaces-4.0.jar in MyProject/WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/primefaces-4.0.jar and right click on it > Build Path > Configure Build Path... so that I have a primefaces-4.0.jar in MyProject/Java Resources/Libraries/primefaces-4.0.jar. I did the same with bootstrap-1.0.10.jar.
Why is that not working ?
If you need more informations, tell me.
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As a pilot I wind up walking in to many small towns from their small airports or floatplane docks. After hours of flying I prefer to be left alone and unhurried while I do my chores at the end of the day, whether they are the winter chores of wing covers and engine heaters or the summer chores of float pumping and dock ropes. So if it is not too far to town, I just tell my passengers or co-workers to go ahead into town without me. I will walk in when I am finished, and let the rush and noise of the day clear out of my head and the kinks of seven hours in the small plane unwind from my neck and back.
Tonight it is Fort Providence, a quiet town of 900 perched on the north bank of the Mackenzie River, just downstream from the outlet of Great Slave Lake. Here the water of the Mackenzie is first named as the Mackenzie, having made its way this far under several other names — Peace, Athabasca, and Slave. Taken together, without the name changes, this is the second largest river in North America — the dear old Missouri / Mississippi is bigger still. To the locals here, the Mackenzie is simply Deh Cho: Big River.
The road from the airport follows the river, which of course is frozen on this March evening. It is still winter here, make no mistake. 30 below each morning recently, but now the sun has strength and can be felt on the face in the afternoon. Today I saw beads of water on the black tires of the plane as it faced the sun while we re-fueled at mid-day.
The trail I walk tonight runs just off the little highway, and it is a beauty. It is the groomed trail prepared for the weekend dogsled races — six feet wide, smooth as a sidewalk, white and clean and firm. A pleasure underfoot. There is no traffic on the road, and none of the usual detritus of trash and unpleasantness as I near the outskirts of the village. The snow is deep and fluffy, four feet or more of it lining the pathway, perfectly clean and dry. The air is crisp.
The lights of town come on. The first star, or more likely a planet, twinkles up above. Faint orange glow in the west where the sun went down. Fans and fingers of alto-cumulus and cirrus spread across the southwest sky. I can hear the murmur of the river as it steams through a twisting open lead — a narrow black stripe winding for 200 yards through the three-quarter-mile-wide jumble of river ice. The open water slithers back beneath the ice, 600 or 700 miles still to go, down north to the Arctic Ocean.
It is easy to love the North on this night. Spring is not here yet, and I do not yearn for it.


Bashar Assad to step down at a summit in Iraq on Thursday but will support Syrian-led transfer of power, Iraq's foreign minister said on Monday.
Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said the summit is also expected to endorse a six-point peace proposal by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, which calls for a cease-fire, political dialogue between the government and opposition, and full access for aid agencies.
Assad, who is facing a year-long revolt against his rule, was not invited to the three-day summit.
"There has to be a political solution, fundamental constitutional and political changes for transfer of power in Syria but through a Syrian-led process with the help of the international community, (like) to have an election under international monitoring," Zebari said.
"We are not in a position to dictate to the Syrians what of kind of president, what kind of leader they should have," he told Reuters.
Assad has used the army to crush protests against his 12-year rule. The United Nations says more than 8,000 people have been killed in the crackdown while Syrian authorities blame foreign-backed terrorists for the violence and say 3,000 soldiers and police have been killed.
The opposition rejected Assad's call for dialogue saying it was too late, and said it was impossible to have valid election amid continuing repression.
Russia said it gave Annan's proposal its full backing and that his mission could be the last chance to avoid a protracted and bloody civil war, but would need more time.
"His (Annan's) idea is the one that could create consensus because the next step if the Syrians do not respond would be another security council resolution - very tough wording," Zebari said.
Assad's crackdown has angered Arab countries including former ally Qatar, which together with Saudi Arabia has called for arming the opposition.
Zebari said this would deepen the divisions and escalate violence. He also said he did not think there was international appetite for foreign military intervention in the conflict.
"I don't see it, up to now I don't see it... not this year at least."


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Home Crime, Courts, Calamity Bombing on Thai Resort Island Samui Wounds Several People
Bombing on Thai Resort Island Samui Wounds Several People
SAMUI (DPA) – Seven people were injured late on Friday when a car bomb went off in the car park of the Central Festival shopping mall on the Thai island of Samui, 700 kilometers (435 miles) south of the capital, Bangkok.
Police on the resort island said those injured included six Thais and a 12-year-old Italian girl.
A spokesperson from the island's disaster prevention office said all the victims have since been released from hospital after treatment.
Bomb squad experts have been searching the site for clues as to who might be responsible for the attack.
A twin bomb attack at a luxury shopping mall in Bangkok in February that injured two people was blamed by authorities on elements wanting to destabilize the military government, which came to power in a May coup.
The junta lifted martial law last week, but the military still maintains extensive security powers to counter what it says is the threat of political unrest.
The government has been trying recently to persuade tourists – a key factor in the country's economy – that Thailand is safe to visit after the months of sometimes violent political turmoil that led to last year's coup.
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Paris human chain gives emotional jolt to climate summit
People form a human chain in Nantes on November 28, 2015 during a protest over the ban on public gatherings until November 30, the start of UN climate talks COP21
People form a human chain in Nantes on November 28, 2015 during a protest over the ban on public gatherings until November 30, the start of UN climate talks COP21 (AFP Photo/Jean-Sebastien Evrard)
Guy Jackson, Martin Parry in Sydney
Protesters linked hands near the violent heart of the Paris terror attacks Sunday, giving an emotional jolt to world leaders flying into the French capital to try and save Earth from climate catastrophe.
As hundreds of thousands of people joined protests worldwide, the human chain aimed to send a highly symbolic message to leaders on the eve of the official opening of a 195-nation UN climate summit in Paris.
French authorities cancelled two climate demonstrations in the City of Light after gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people on November 13.
Instead of marching, activists left thousands of pairs of shoes -- weighing more than four tonnes according to organisers -- on Place de la Republique square. A pair of running shoes was left by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, and Pope Francis sent shoes to be placed on his behalf.
In the first organised demonstration in the French capital since the attacks, climate protesters of all ages lined the wind-blown streets to link up in a two-kilometre (1.2-mile) human chain.
"Hear our voices! We are here!" they changed, and held up placards with messages such as: "For a climate of peace".
"There was a lot of solemnity, dignity on the pavements. there was a powerful current that passed between people's hands," said Genevieve Azam, spokeswoman for organising group Attac.
"It was a pleasure to be able to lift the lid that has weighed on French people since the attacks."
Protesters left a 100-metre (300-foot) gap in the chain where flowers have been left outside the Bataclan concert hall, where the worst violence claimed 90 lives, as a mark of respect to the victims.
- Superstorms, drought -
Some 150 leaders including US President Barack Obama, China's Xi Jinping, India's Narendra Modi and Russia's Vladimir Putin will attend the official start Monday of the UN conference tasked with reaching the first truly universal climate pact.
About 2,800 police and soldiers will secure the conference site, and 6,300 others will deploy in Paris.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said nearly 1,000 people thought to pose security risks had been denied entry into France.
The goal of the climate talks is to limit average global warming to no more than two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), over pre-Industrial Revolution levels by curbing fossil fuel emissions blamed for climate change.
"I hope this time the conference will lead to something solid," said protester Denis Diderot, a retired university teacher who joined the demonstration wearing a beret.
Rallies demanding curbs on carbon pollution have been growing around the world since Friday, with marches involving tens of thousands across Australia Sunday kickstarting a final day of people-powered protest.
Similar events were planned for Rio de Janeiro, New York and Mexico City, with protesters echoing scientific warnings of superstorms, drought and rising sea levels swamping vast areas if concrete action is not taken soon.
In Madrid, about 10,000 people, many of htem waving placards reading "Stop CO2", marched on the main Puerta del Sol square, led by a group of children.
- 'Mum, did you know?' -
"In 10 years' time our children are going to say, 'Mum, did you know about this? What was everyone doing'?" said Kate Charlesworth, a doctor and mother in Sydney, where 45,000 people converged.
Religious leaders in Paris delivered petitions to the UN summit organisers with almost 1.8 million signatures demanding immediate climate action.
In a sign of the urgency, the start of the negotiations themselves, conducted by bureaucrats, have been brought forward to Sunday -- the eve of the official opening.
In the past week, the UN's weather body said the average global temperature for the year 2015 is set to rise one degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels, halfway towards the targeted UN ceiling.
Voluntary carbon-curbing pledges submitted by nations to bolster the Paris pact, even if fully adhered to, put Earth on track for warming of 2.7-3.5 degrees C, according to UN climate chief Christiana Figueres.
French President Francois Hollande, host of the November 30-December 11 talks, has warned of obstacles ahead for the 195 negotiating nations.
Potential stumbling blocks range from finance for climate vulnerable and poor countries to scrutiny of commitments to curb greenhouse gases and even the legal status of the accord.
The last attempt to forge a global deal -- the ill-tempered 2009 Copenhagen summit -- foundered upon divisions between rich and poor countries.
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SB'21 Asia-Pacific:
In Asia, the Time for a Sustainable Recovery Is Now
Nithin Coca
Published 10 months ago. About a 5 minute read.
Image: Pierre Blaché/Pexels
In many parts of Asia, COVID-19 is relatively under control; and the focus is on recovery. How the region responds, and how much companies push for a sustainable post-pandemic economy could influence the entire world, due to Asia's place as the global driver of innovation and change.
The tone was optimistic and forward-focused at Sustainable Brands™' 2021 Asia-Pacific conference. A year ago, Asia was at the center of what would become a global pandemic. Today, many countries in the region are putting the worst of COVID-19 behind them, and focusing on recovery, and it will be brands at the center of defining what a sustainable, regenerative and healthy economy will look like going forward.
The event — jointly organized by Sustainable Brands' Japan, Malaysia, Thailand and South Korea teams — was held partly in-person in Yokohama, Japan, but with the majority of participants joining virtually from around Asia and elsewhere. This made it the first Sustainable Brands in-person event held since the pandemic forced all events to go virtual last March.
"New and healthy growth will emerge out of this emergency ... Now is the time for us to come together to foster a fair and equitable and resilient society here in Japan and around the world," said KoAnn Vikoren Skrzyniarz, founder and CEO of Sustainable Brands, speaking via video. "I look forward to hearing the stories that emerge from the year ahead."
Companies participating included Toyota, Nissan, Shiseido, Clorox, PTT Oil, The Stock Exchange of Thailand, Biji-biji and many more. While many shared their unique experiences and goals in making their companies more sustainable, others focused on the need for greater collaboration to meet societal goals and needs.
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New data and research show that, increasingly, consumers in Asia are factoring in sustainability when making purchasing decisions; and that is a trend likely to continue. During his presentation, Yoshiaki Okabe — Chief Brand Innovation Officer at personal care giant Shiseido — explained that this is why his company's messaging and marketing has become increasingly sustainability focused. As Okabe emphasized:
"When it comes to how consumers select brands, the criteria is about the attitude of the company, or the actions that are taken by the brand. We are now in the era where people make choices from a sustainability perspective. Sustainability needs to be visible to consumers."
The data back this up. An enlightening presentation from Anna Lungley, Chief Sustainability Officer at global advertising agency network Dentsu International, showed the clear evidence that sustainability is good business across Asia.
"Consumer attitudes are changing in Asia," she said. "Climate change is the top environmental concern in all markets in the region — except for China, where air pollution is number one." She called on participants to be proactive in meeting customers' desires:
"Brands have a huge opportunity to contribute to sustainable lifestyles by creating markets for more sustainable products, and all of our data says your customers will thank you."
This is true even in Thailand, an emerging economy, said Sakulthip Keeratiphantawong, co-founder and managing director of B Corp Thailand and the Thailand Center for Social Impact Excellence.
"Consumers will pay more if they know that brand is a sustainable brand," she said. For startups and social enterprises, this impacts finance, too: "If you are not aware of capital that is going to flow to sustainability, you will lose the commercial advantage."
Beyond creating better, more sustainable offerings, there is an increased need for brands to work directly with nonprofits and governments to address social issues. Also participating in the event were several Asian NGOs, social enterprises and startups sharing innovative solutions and partnerships aimed at addressing equality, gender and sustainability challenges across the continent.
Atsuko Muraki, co-founder of the Little Women Project, called on companies to proactively think about how they can promote gender equality, to give opportunities to girls and address the root causes of enduring societal problems across regions.
"Japanese society is most behind in the United Nations' [Sustainable Development] Goal five, which is gender equality," Muraki said. "There are girls who are not even able to stand at the start line, to actively participate in society. We would appreciate it if you can support our activities, so that we can empower these girls."
One of the highlights of the conference was a presentation from artist and social entrepreneur Mago Nagasaka. He created art using e-waste from Agbogbloshie — a slum in Ghana known as the world's largest electronics graveyard — and then used the proceeds to fund recycling, education and social programs in that community. He urged participants to take a similar approach to solving problems.
"We're entering the age where we pursue love, and then gain profit in return," Nagasaka said. "Let's start moving and tackle the problems."
For many participants, especially those joining from the US or Europe, joining an in-person event seems like a distant dream, as the pandemic continues to rage. In many parts of Asia, however, the pandemic is relatively under control; and the focus is on recovery. How the region responds, and how much companies push for a sustainable post-pandemic economy could influence the entire world, due to Asia's place as the global driver of innovation and change. As Alexis Crow, lead on PwC's Geopolitical Investing practice, asserted:
"Environmental and social governance became the single greatest trend of our generation, prior to the pandemic. As we've started to rebuild our economies, we've seen a renewed commitment across the board."
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The Clorox Company
SB '21 Asia Pacific
Brands for Good
Finance/Insurance/Investment
Meaningful Connections
Published Mar 3, 2021 7am EST / 4am PST / 12pm GMT / 1pm CET
Media, Campaign and Research Consultant
Nithin is a freelance writer who focuses on global economic, and environmental issues with an aim at building channels of communication and collaboration around common challenges.
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A quilt in progress... I wanted to make my brother a baby quilt that he could gift to some very good friends of his. I fussy cut a fat quarter of some very cute cowboys and cows. Only a fat quarter does not a baby quilt make.
Pieced around the fussy cut blocks and made this quilt up as I went along, so putting this together is taking much, much longer than usual.
The key, I think, is keeping the color palette simple and neutral. That and lots of staring at the blocks and rearranging them over and over on the floor to group the blocks to tell a mini-story and also balance the arrangement of characters with the log cabin blocks and pinwheels.
And, of course, the baby's name to personalize this one-of-a-kind quilt. The back is finished in super soft minkee.
Update: My brother told me that when Cohen, who is 1 years-old, was given the quilt, he immediately hugged it and then put his face on it. Ahh. That makes my heart happy.


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Topical Bible Word Concordance
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Theasaurus: Advent
Advent (1 instance)
17 Bible Verses about Advent
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Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah happened in this way. When his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, before they lived together she was discovered to be pregnant by the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to disgrace her, decided to divorce her secretly. After he had thought about it, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. "Joseph, son of David," he said, "don't be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. read more.
She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he is the one who will save his people from their sins." Now all this happened to fulfill what was declared by the Lord through the prophet when he said, "See, a virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and they will name him Immanuel," which means, "God with us." When Joseph got up from his sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary as his wife. He did not have marital relations with her until she had given birth to a son; and he named him Jesus.
Now in the sixth month of her pregnancy, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin's name was Mary. The angel came to her and said, "Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you!" read more.
Startled by his statement, she tried to figure out what his greeting meant. Then the angel told her, "Stop being afraid, Mary, because you have found favor with God. Listen! You will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David. He will rule over the house of Jacob forever, and his kingdom will never end." Mary asked the angel, "How can this happen, since I have not had relations with a man?" The angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come over you, and the power of the Most High will surround you. Therefore, the child will be holy and will be called the Son of God. And listen! Elizabeth, your relative, has herself conceived a son in her old age, this woman who was rumored to be barren is in her sixth month. Nothing is impossible with respect to any of God's promises." Then Mary said, "Truly I am the Lord's servant. Let everything you have said happen to me." Then the angel left her.
"A shoot will come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch will bear fruit from his roots. The Spirit of the LORD will rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and power, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD. His delight will be in the fear of the LORD. He won't judge by what his eyes see, nor decide disputes by what his ears hear,read more.
but with righteousness he will judge the needy, and decide with equity for earth's poor. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and the wicked will be killed with the breath of his lips. Righteousness will be the sash around his loins, and faithfulness the belt around his waist." "The wolf will live with the lamb; the leopard will lie down with the young goat. The calf and the lion will graze together, and a little child will lead them. The cow and the bear will graze, and their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. The nursing child will play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child will put his hand on vipers' dens. They will neither harm nor destroy on my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea." At that time, as to the root of Jesse, who will be standing as a banner for the nations, the nations will rally to him, and his resting place is glorious.
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"As for you, Bethlehem of Ephrathah, even though you remain least among the clans of Judah, nevertheless, the one who rules in Israel for me will emerge from you. His existence has been from antiquity, even from eternity.
Isaiah 7:14
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"Therefore the LORD himself will give you a sign. Watch! The virgin is conceiving a child, and will give birth to a son, and his name will be called Immanuel.
Now in those days an order was published by Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be registered. This was the first registration taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. So all the people went to their hometowns to be registered.read more.
Joseph, too, went up from the city of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the City of David (called Bethlehem), because he was a descendant of the household and family of David. He went there to be registered with Mary, who had been promised to him in marriage and was pregnant. While they were there, the time came for her to have her baby, and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no place for them in the guest quarters. In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, watching their flock during the night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. Then the angel told them, "Stop being afraid! Listen! I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people. Today your Savior, the Lord Messiah, was born in the City of David. And this will be a sign for you: You will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a feeding trough." Suddenly, a multitude of the Heavenly Army appeared with the angel, praising God by saying, "Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth to people who enjoy his favor!" When the angels had left them and gone back to heaven, the shepherds told one another, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see what has taken place that the Lord has told us about." So they went quickly and found Mary and Joseph with the baby, who was lying in the feeding trough. When they saw this, they repeated what they had been told about this child. All who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds told them. However, Mary continued to treasure all these things in her heart and to ponder them. Then the shepherds returned to their flock, glorifying and praising God for everything they had heard and seen, just as it had been told to them.
While they were there, the time came for her to have her baby, and she gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no place for them in the guest quarters.
After Jesus had been born in Bethlehem of Judea during the reign of King Herod, wise men arrived in Jerusalem from the east and asked, "Where is the one who was born king of the Jews? We saw his star in the east and have come to worship him."
And again, Isaiah says, "There will be a Root from Jesse. He will rise up to rule the gentiles, and the gentiles will hope in him." Now may God, the source of hope, fill you with all joy and peace as you believe, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Isaiah 7:10-14
Later on, the LORD spoke to Ahaz again: "Ask a sign from the LORD your God. Make it as deep as Sheol or as high as heaven above." But Ahaz replied, "I won't ask! I won't put the LORD to the test."read more.
In reply, the LORD announced, "Please listen, you household of David. Is it such a minor thing for you to try the patience of men? Must you also try the patience of my God? "Therefore the LORD himself will give you a sign. Watch! The virgin is conceiving a child, and will give birth to a son, and his name will be called Immanuel.
""Look, the time is coming,' declares the LORD, "when I'll fulfill the good promise that I spoke concerning the house of Israel and Judah. In those days and at that time I'll cause a righteous Branch to spring up for David, and he will uphold justice and righteousness in the land. At that time Judah will be delivered and Jerusalem will dwell in safety. And this is the name people will call it, "The LORD is Our Righteousness."'
For everything that was written long ago was written to instruct us, so that we might have hope through the endurance and encouragement that the Scriptures give us. Now may God, the source of endurance and encouragement, allow you to live in harmony with each other as you follow the Messiah Jesus, so that with one mind and one voice you might glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah.read more.
Therefore, accept one another, just as the Messiah accepted you, for the glory of God. For I tell you that the Messiah became a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God's truth in order to confirm the promises given to our ancestors, so that the gentiles may glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, "That is why I will praise you among the gentiles; I will sing praises to your name." Again he says, "Rejoice, you gentiles, with his people!" And again, "Praise the Lord, all you gentiles! Let all the nations praise him." And again, Isaiah says, "There will be a Root from Jesse. He will rise up to rule the gentiles, and the gentiles will hope in him." Now may God, the source of hope, fill you with all joy and peace as you believe, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
About this time, John the Baptist appeared, preaching in the Judean wilderness, "Repent, because the kingdom from heaven is near!" He was the one the prophet Isaiah was referring to when he said, "He is a voice calling out in the wilderness: "Prepare the way for the Lord! Make his paths straight!'"read more.
John had clothing made of camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist. His diet consisted of grasshoppers and wild honey. Then the people of Jerusalem, all Judea, and the entire region along the Jordan began flocking to him, being baptized by him in the Jordan River while they confessed their sins. But when John saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he told them, "You children of serpents! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruit that is consistent with repentance! Don't think you can say to yourselves, "We have father Abraham!' because I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones! The ax already lies against the roots of the trees. So every tree that isn't producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. I am baptizing you with water as evidence of repentance, but the one who is coming after me is stronger than I am, and I am not worthy to carry his sandals. It is he who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand. He will clean up his threshing floor and gather his grain into the barn, but he will burn the chaff with inextinguishable fire."
In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, watching their flock during the night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. Then the angel told them, "Stop being afraid! Listen! I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people. read more.
Today your Savior, the Lord Messiah, was born in the City of David. And this will be a sign for you: You will find a baby wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a feeding trough." Suddenly, a multitude of the Heavenly Army appeared with the angel, praising God by saying, "Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth to people who enjoy his favor!" When the angels had left them and gone back to heaven, the shepherds told one another, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see what has taken place that the Lord has told us about." So they went quickly and found Mary and Joseph with the baby, who was lying in the feeding trough. When they saw this, they repeated what they had been told about this child. All who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds told them. However, Mary continued to treasure all these things in her heart and to ponder them. Then the shepherds returned to their flock, glorifying and praising God for everything they had heard and seen, just as it had been told to them.
Suddenly, a multitude of the Heavenly Army appeared with the angel, praising God by saying, "Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth to people who enjoy his favor!"
This is necessary because you know the times it's already time for you to wake up from sleep, because our salvation is nearer now than when we became believers. The night is almost over, and the day is near. Let's therefore put aside the actions of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let's behave decently, as people who live in the light of day. No wild parties, drunkenness, sexual immorality, promiscuity, quarreling, or jealousy! read more.
Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, and do not obey your flesh and its desires.
"Comfort! Yes, comfort my people," says your God. "Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her heavy service has been completed, that her penalty has been paid, that she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins." A voice cries out: "In the wilderness prepare the way for the LORD; and in the desert a straight highway for our God.'read more.
Every valley will be lifted up, and every mountain and hill will be lowered; the rough ground will become level, and the mountain ridges made a plain. Then the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all humanity will see it at once; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken." A voice says, "Cry out!" So I asked, "What am I to cry out?" "All humanity is grass, and all its loyalty is like the flowers of the field. Grass withers and flowers fade away when the LORD's breath blows on them; surely the people are like grass. Grass withers and flowers fade away, when the LORD's breath blows on them, but the word of our God will stand forever." "Climb up a high mountain, you messenger of good news to Zion! Lift up your voice with strength, you messenger to Jerusalem! Lift it up! Don't be afraid! Say to the towns of Judah, "Here is your God!' Look! The Lord GOD comes with strength, and his arm rules for him. Look! His reward is with him, and his payment accompanies him. Like a shepherd, he tends his flock. He gathers the lambs in his arms, carries them close to his heart, and gently leads the mother sheep."
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The Geography of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest
Adrian Kavanagh, 29th October 2015
Looking ahead to Ireland's debut at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Sofia (Bulgaria) on 21st November 2015, this post offers a brief review of the contest's history, while specifically drawing out the geographical dimensions of this. This finds that the membership of the contest has been much more fluid than for the (senior) Eurovision Song Contest, with the contest becoming increasingly dominated by Former Soviet states over the 2005-2013 period after having been more dominated by Western states in the first two years of its existence (2003 and 2004). Wins for Malta (2013) and Italy (2014), as well as debuts at the contest for a number of more western states (such as Slovenia, San Marino, Ireland, Australia* and Italy) over the last three years, have seen a growing western reorientation in recent years. Despite this more recent trend, the Former Soviet states of Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Russia and Ukraine are shown to have dominated the contest – especially over the past decade. The post also looks at voting patterns at the contest and finds that the geographical ("friends and neighbours" and "diaspora") voting trends associated with (senior) Eurovision are also evident at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Finally, the geography of support for Irish acts at the (senior) Eurovision Song Contest is discussed, as a means of teasing out potential support patterns for the Irish act at November's Junior Eurovision Song Contest. (more…)
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I really liked this whetstone! I had a Smith's pocket sharpener that could get my knife sharp enough for working around in the yard (I have an Opinel no.8). However, in doing a little research I found that the sharpener was only around 600 grit on the finest setting. So this BearMoo 1000/4000 grit looked like the perfect step up, and it turned out to be the perfect stone for me. The pictures are an accurate representation of what you get. The removable rubber base was helpful when switching from one side to the next, and it kept the stone from sliding around. The instructions say that the stone can work with either water or oil, but that water is preferred. It said to leave the stone soaking in water for five minutes, and the stone worked like a champ. I especially liked how the instructions gave you an approximate time of how long the stone takes to sharpen a knife -- it just helped give me an idea that it would take about 15-20 minutes on the 1000 grit side, and then another 10-15 minutes on the 4000 grit. Just turn on a TV show!
I first received my Kamikoto knife as a gift. I have found my new favorite knife! I am very pleased with the balanced grip, which in itself is a work of ergonomic art. I have never used a single bevel blade before and, after a bit of experimenting, find it an improvement for several tasks. Based on my experience with the Kamikoto knife, I purchased the Knife Set for my son who is a graduate chef of many years experience. He also is very pleased with his gift.
The recent introduction of the Axminster Rider Sharpening Station utilises the Axminster Rider Double Sided Diamond Bench Stone and a top quality Connel leather strop, both set in a phenolic plastic board. There's a 'step like' area at each end that's been machined out of the phenolic surface. Each step has been engraved 25°, 30° and 45°. They're intended to be used with the Rider Honing Guide to ensure that the correct, repeatable honing or grinding angle is achieved every time the blade is sharpened. You can watch Jason Breach take you through sharpening with the Axminster Rider Sharpening Station, along with other sharpening methods.
Sharpen your dulling knives and other tools quickly and easily with a choice from the best knife sharpener selection at Academy Sports + Outdoors. The handheld knife sharpeners feature large, ergonomic handles that generally fit either hand safely and securely, and finger guards that are full length to protect your fingers. The sharpening blades are often made of diamond-honed tungsten carbide for quick restoration of extremely dull blades or ceramic rods for a polished finish. A handheld knife sharpener tends to be small and portable, perfect for use out in the field when you need a professional knife sharpener to sharpen your hunting or fishing blades.
Well, I've seen a lot of charts comparing various grit sizes in different systems out there, and at the behest of a friend on another forum, I've started somewhat of an ongoing project. None of this data is mine, it has been compiled from internet sources, and cross-checked where possible. If you spot an error, or have additional data that you would like added to the chart, let me know and I'll revise the tables and post up a new version.
✅ SAFE & EASY TO USE: We understand the importance of safety when dealing with sharpening tools, your purchase comes with Silicone base for holding the stone inside Non Slip Bamboo base, this setup will ensure the stone is FIXED IN ONE PLACE while sharpening. Using our whetstone is extremely Easy & Economical. You don't need any expensive sharpening/honing oil as its designed to work best with water. And it can be easily cleaned with water.
The Juuma sharpening and honing stones offer a simplified working principle while at the same time ensuring the highest possible quality in the offered grits. Juuma Cobalt Blue stones are made of an aluminium oxide and a bonding agent. Adding cobalt serves to slow stone abrasion and increase the speed of sharpening. The speed bonus is especially marked when stoning blue steel (blue paper steel that is often used for Japanese planes and chisels). The cobalt gives the stones their blue colour. Juuma is our proprietary brand. Juuma sharpening stones are produced by a renowned Japanese whetstone manufacturer.
When the block is intended for installation on a bench it is called a bench stone. Small, portable stones (commonly made of bonded abrasive) are called pocket stones. Being smaller, they are more portable than bench stones but present difficulty in maintaining a consistent angle and pressure when drawing the stone along larger blades. However, they still can form a good edge. Frequently, fine grained pocket stones are used for honing, especially "in the field". Despite being a homophone with wet in most dialects of modern English, whetstones do not need to be lubricated with oil or water, although it is very common to do so. Lubrication aids the cutting action and carries swarf away.
Diamond hones are made from very small, industrial grade, diamonds adhered to the face of a metal or plastic plate. Also, because Diamonds are so much harder than any of the other sharpening materials, they tend to cut very fast and last much longer than the other whetstone materials. But, they are also often more expensive to purchase. In addition, Diamond Stones generally consist of three different styles consisting of a solid metal plate coated with an adhesive and diamond dust with holes in the plate to allow the swarf to escape, a solid plate without holes for sharpening tools with corners that might catch in the holes, and a plastic plate with islands of exposed plastic interspersed with the adhesive and diamond dust to act as a lubricant.
A diamond plate is a steel plate, sometimes mounted on a plastic or resin base, coated with diamond grit, an abrasive that will grind metal. When they are mounted they are sometimes known as diamond stones.[12] The plate may have a series of holes cut in it that capture the swarf cast off as grinding takes place, and cuts costs by reducing the amount of abrasive surface area on each plate. Diamond plates can serve many purposes including sharpening steel tools, and for maintaining the flatness of man-made waterstones, which can become grooved or hollowed in use. Truing (flattening a stone whose shape has been changed as it wears away) is widely considered essential to the sharpening process but some hand sharpening techniques utilise the high points of a non-true stone. As the only part of a diamond plate to wear away is a very thin coating of grit and adhesive, and in a good diamond plate this wear is minimal due to diamond's hardness, a diamond plate retains its flatness. Rubbing the diamond plate on a whetstone to true (flatten) the whetstone is a modern alternative to more traditional truing methods.[13]
We recommend that customers invest in Kamikoto's Toishi Sharpening Whetstone to keep handcrafted knives sharp and ready to cut. The Toishi Sharpening Whetstone sits on a beautiful wooden bamboo stand and features two sides – one with a coarse grit to grind away any roughness, and the other with a fine grit that sharpens and polishes the edge. The finer the grit, the finer the edge on your knife. The sturdy wooden stand holds the whetstone safely in place so you can concentrate on gaining the sharpest edge possible.
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You've acquired a good chef's knife, you're using it almost daily to make tasty dinners for the family, and it's stored in a nice knife rack or a magnet for safekeeping. So why stop there? Keeping that knife's edge fine will make cooking not only safer but, let's face it, much more fun. Whether you've spent £150 on a high-end knife or under a tenner on a dinky paring knife, keeping it sharp is crucial.
The newly designed dual-sided combination whetstone from Fallkniven features a super fine white ceramic stone (0, 1 micron) with a grit of 1400 to 2000 and the dark grey ceramic stone is made of synthetic sapphires (1 micron) and has a grit of 800-1000. There is no need to add any oil or water, just lay the blade on the stone, raise the blade's spine and deburr your blade on the grey side until it has a razor-sharp edge and then use the smooth white side to get a nice polished edge.
I am no expert on sharpening, I learned how back in boy scouts many years ago but haven't looked back into it since. I got this stone in the mail yesterday, soaked it for 20 minutes in water and began working on the dullest knife in my butcher block. This knife showed lots of signs of nicks and general dullness when held in the light to examine the edge. After 30 minutes with just this product, limited knowledge, and lots of water, I was able to restore that knife. It is now sharper than when I bought it (keep in mind this was a $12-$18 kitchen knife off the shelf)
Well made stone. Good quality. The flattening stone was a welcome bonus. The 3000 grit side is perfect for initial sharpening. A caution on the 8000 grit side - It is not remotely close to 8000 grit. It seemed closer to 4000 grit of a quality Japanese whetstone. I purchased a 6000 grit King S1 stone for final polishing. Stay away from the cheaper King 1000/6000 KW65 combination whetstone. That seems to use plastic binder which literally permanently clogs the 6000 grit side.
Last, it should be noted that dual-sided Coticule/Belgian Blue whetstones are also sometimes available which have a layer of Belgian Blue stone on one side and a layer of Coticule on the other. Thus, these whetstones provide a softer, more coarse, grit on one side and a harder, finer, grit on the other. Plus, due to the inherent toughness of the Belgian Blue stone, these dual-sided stones do not require a substrate layer.
I would recommend getting a stone with a lower grit (less than 800) after you get a polishing stone, as the main uses of a lower grit stone would be to take off a lot of metal very quickly (removing chips). Its better to get a bit of experience on something a bit slower (1000 grit) and learn to hold a steady angle before diving deep into lower grits. The only time I could have used a stone lower than 800 grit (I used a 500 grit) was when I was completely changing the edge on a Kasumi (59-60HRC) knife.
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Sorry to post here but I can't find a way to contact Mr Meteo aka JacquesD?
For two days I've tried to register with Weather for You. Everytime I try I get an error that the Captcha is entered incorrectly. I've listened to the scratchy voice and the letter are the same as displayed.
Is there any other way to register please? I'm interested in the Weather Sky template.
I'd try PM'ing him on here or post in one of his thread so he gets the advisory email.
PS. those Captha are a right PITA on all sites.
Thanks uncle-bob. PM sent. I'd have done so earlier but I'm not used to web based forums. Usenet is my main thing.
Anyone got the answer to this? I'm having the same problem.
You must be certain that all the fields required a filled in and correct and that includes correct length of password.
It reports the Catchpa error even when that is not what caused the error.
dc1500 wrote: Anyone got the answer to this? I'm having the same problem.
I see from your site that you are busy doing other things and your weather pages are off line.
I've encountered "verification" puzzles like that before. My experience is that the last item is the problem. The sentence at the end is a clue for the answer, "--------"
I registered just he other day but haven't received the confirmation email yet, need to pm.


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"""Constants for the Risco integration."""

from homeassistant.const import (
    CONF_SCAN_INTERVAL,
    STATE_ALARM_ARMED_AWAY,
    STATE_ALARM_ARMED_HOME,
)

DOMAIN = "risco"

RISCO_EVENT = "risco_event"

DATA_COORDINATOR = "risco"
EVENTS_COORDINATOR = "risco_events"

DEFAULT_SCAN_INTERVAL = 30

TYPE_LOCAL = "local"

CONF_CODE_ARM_REQUIRED = "code_arm_required"
CONF_CODE_DISARM_REQUIRED = "code_disarm_required"
CONF_RISCO_STATES_TO_HA = "risco_states_to_ha"
CONF_HA_STATES_TO_RISCO = "ha_states_to_risco"

RISCO_GROUPS = ["A", "B", "C", "D"]
RISCO_ARM = "arm"
RISCO_PARTIAL_ARM = "partial_arm"
RISCO_STATES = [RISCO_ARM, RISCO_PARTIAL_ARM, *RISCO_GROUPS]

DEFAULT_RISCO_GROUPS_TO_HA = {group: STATE_ALARM_ARMED_HOME for group in RISCO_GROUPS}
DEFAULT_RISCO_STATES_TO_HA = {
    RISCO_ARM: STATE_ALARM_ARMED_AWAY,
    RISCO_PARTIAL_ARM: STATE_ALARM_ARMED_HOME,
    **DEFAULT_RISCO_GROUPS_TO_HA,
}

DEFAULT_HA_STATES_TO_RISCO = {
    STATE_ALARM_ARMED_AWAY: RISCO_ARM,
    STATE_ALARM_ARMED_HOME: RISCO_PARTIAL_ARM,
}

DEFAULT_OPTIONS = {
    CONF_SCAN_INTERVAL: DEFAULT_SCAN_INTERVAL,
    CONF_CODE_ARM_REQUIRED: False,
    CONF_CODE_DISARM_REQUIRED: False,
    CONF_RISCO_STATES_TO_HA: DEFAULT_RISCO_STATES_TO_HA,
    CONF_HA_STATES_TO_RISCO: DEFAULT_HA_STATES_TO_RISCO,
}