When we are growing up as little girls and boys we are taught trough society that love is something so magical .. so beautiful... so amazing it will bring you to your knees.. In every fairy tail we are taught that the person will rescue you and be all that you ever need in life.. almost as if saying their is one marriage .. one person for each and every person. Making us as children grow up with this interesting ideal that we cant wait to fall in love.. but no one ever talks about the dark side of love..
I went on that hunt as I breezed through life holding that same trust for men.. thinking their has got to be this perfect guy out their for me.. I was one of those woman who only believed in that one marriage .. that guy that I would have children with and that I would stay no matter what.. I truly believed in family.. As strong as I believed in it.. In the beginning he swept me off my feet... When I met him I was young and impressionable.. I had gone through some less than perfect friends. relationships and one night stands.. At this time I was starting to slip away from the belief that people are good .. I was loosing trust for anyone.. I distanced myself from friends and family.. traveling the country .. letting go of the ideal that that amazing guy was standing their waiting for me.. I guess you can say I became cold.. and withdrawn.... I drank a lot since I was beyond lonely.. I worked 6 days a week.. and put my everything in to me instead of someone else. I was beyond hurt.
I had my profile on this dating site in which I talked to hundreds of people on a daily basis.. I may have turned cold but I defiantly didn't forget how to communicate with people to entertain myself though the pain. People had no idea behind the computer I drank so much ... A dark secret I kept hidden for a long time.. In all the people that had profiles on this site.. one specific guy messaged me with this long winded message ... telling me all these things that I had always wanted to hear but never really believed. I let his message stay in my inbox thinking he was lying .. all men talked this way to me.. they only wanted something.. that I really wasn't looking for. He kept messaging me and I never responded... until this one day I responded with this long message back ... something told me .. its ok you got to learn to fly one day.
A year had gone by we spent thousands of hours getting to know each other.. over social media.. text messages .. phone calls.. chat.. cam.. he wasn't one of those guys who asked for anything sexual . I found this weird ... al the guys I knew asked this hundred times.. I figured he was different.. I felt respected.. I felt like I was falling in love with my best friend.. He quickly became my everything... We talked about everything we had in common.. we seemed so similar .. I took so much time to make sure he wasn't in it for one thing. so I let go and decided to follow my gut feeling and give in to this true love everyone talks about. We first met each other over a year later in person. connected immediately like fireworks, I had nothing but a huge smile on my face melting my heart, this had to be real.. I just knew it. We talked about his 2 prior children and that he kept in contact with them but they were not in his custody, but he told me many stories of how he fought for them, he even carried pictures of them in his wallet, and showed them off every time he came in contact with another parent.. I really truly believed he loved those children and gave him the benefit of the doubt .. that people make mistakes.. I could live with that.
We had talked many times about starting family ..we decided this we would go and be ready, 3 weeks later I had missed my period . mine were work this was me, a few weeks later we were confirmed that we were pregnant with our miracle.. I had so much fear but he tome in many conversations our was strong and if I wasn't strong enough he would be my strength , I believed him with all my heart. Things were not to bad until I was about 6 months pregnant .. things quickly took their decent downhill.. He started getting deep in the drug scene .. he started have parties .. he started to stop holding job... He wouldn't speak to me to anymore like use to,, and when he did he gave me only attitude and scowling looks. Fights became horrible.. he would rise his hands to try and punch me , this point I feared him.. and he liked it.. tried everything to help him and support him in all issues no matter what they were he just pulled away me and tried other woman on our couch to sooth his dark needs.
I crumbled ... inside god did I crumble... but through all the pain I was so close to walking away but I knew so being born vey soon... needed to be strong. I figured somehow when he saw his son born it would drive him, and the strength of becoming a parent would hold him higher than all of his issues... god was I wrong.. I almost lost my life giving birth to little boy .. he woke up for one week... then went downhill again. When our son was 3 weeks old.. decided that life was to demanding of him... so he tried to hang himself off our deck... Cutting down the rope was a huge vision to this day still burns in my head. He survived.. but was even more of abusive person.. he began to hate everything I was ..even wanted to be.. but he became terribly obsessive of me hated our child .As parent this was extremely hard to swallow. I just couldn't understand this.
As time went on .. things got worse.. he stopped eating.. he stopped caring.. he wanted me to return to work to cover all our families expenses when our son was 2 weeks ago. As our relationship went from bad to worse... I had left many times and each time I went back .. He would tell me these stories and lies of how he changed and how he was so grateful to have us back in his life.. I loved him with everything I was , so I stupidly believed him. Each time I went back I was risking my safety.. my sanity.. my child.. but it was like an addiction something In me figured I could change him.. I could help him.. I took him to many doctors appointments , me and the doctor made plan for me to watch him 24/7 since he was always suicidal ... I was in charge of his medications ... I basically took the role of his mother. He fed off the power and enjoyed the control of me having no control over my own life but only helping him.. As it almost inflated his ego on some sick level. He would pick fights just to see what I would say.. make me blow up.. just to break me down.
Time kept going some slow some passing faster than I could read the clock.. He would stand by my door for hours and watch me sleep ... made me wonder if he was plotting to kill me. His look in his eyes suddenly changed from light to pitch black.. It was like mask covering who he was. He took no care in to our son... he only yelled ... as time went on we would battle over how he was beyond strict.. and I didn't agree at all. He never said I love you .. and when he did he never meant it.. it was only to please me in what I wanted to here.. Our second son was born ... things depleted more... he became more distant.. he drank more than I had ever seen him.. he brought weapons in to the house .. I feared for our lives so I hid them all in my safe.. which he didn't have a key to , and I pretended I had lost that key. He broke in to my car with his friends when I wasn't looking ... claiming it was somebody else the next morning.. He then had told his dirty friends the things we had in our home.. and since he always had horrible friends.. always looking for drugs always seeking for something to sell.. They came one night and waited outside my house in different cars .. waiting to see when I would leave.. each time I would approach these cars they would fly off in other instances he would be in the cars with them telling them every detail of me and our kids lives.. sometimes it was other women he was on dates with .. he claimed he was just showing my house off..
How did I leave for good u ask?
My last straw was when my oldest got in trouble for not being quiet .. and he shoved him in to a corner by pushing his chest... and raised one hand to beat him... people intervened ... and I formed a plan to get out.. my whole mindset changed ... its like all the strength I needed to fight him came flowing in and all my fear went away.. I was in survival mode. No matter what I had to sacrifice I was willing to for my boys.. That next morning I took him to work like nothing was wrong... I just didn't speak to him. .I couldn't look him in the face.. I came back home and packed all of his belongings which fit in to two bags ... and dropped them off in front of his work...As safe as possible ..I sent him a text message explaining why I had to leave.. and that I truly was done .. and he would never see me or the kids again..
Today I stand with full guardianship of my boys,... getting marred again... expecting again... battling everyday to help my children forget the dark days of the beginning of their lives.. making new memories without pain.. I never will stop fighting for them... I am battling my demons everyday with my regrets.. with my pain... but in all my pain I have come through it all... I have changed everything I am.. for the safety of our lives.. I will continue to strive for our dreams. and I will show my boys nothing but love.. they wake up everyday happy.. with smiles .. they don't fear men like they use to.. They don't have behaviour issues like they did.. they aren't afraid anymore..
I will continue to work on not blaming myself for staying with this horrible person ... I take full accountability for my actions.. I am responsible for all the pain I caused in my family by staying when they were begging for me to leave..i am not at peace yet.. but I am fighting tooth and nail t get their.
The storm is over now... we are free... we don't live in silence anymore.. we are powerful .


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Delhi: Black fungus cases in covid patients being seen again
by Sachin Gupta
May 7, 2021 - Updated on December 25, 2021
A very rare but serious fungal infection, Black Fungus or Mucormycosis (previously called Zygomycosis) is caused by a group of molds called mucormycetes. In Delhi, doctors have witnessed a rise in triggered Mucormycisis covid-19 cases in patients again.
The fungus is generally caused by molds. These molds are living throughout the environment. People who generally have a health problem or take medicines which lower the body's capacity to fight virus, germs, and sickness are prone to such fungal infection. These infections are rare but can be fatal.
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Doctors have observed a steep rise in such cases in last year as well in December. Doctors have seen 12 such cases with a short span of 15 days.
According to Dr. Manish Munjal, Senior ENT Surgeon at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, the cases of infection are again seen in covid patients. He told the media that they were seeing a rise in the dangerous black fungus infection triggered by covid 19 again. He added that due to this deadly infection, many patients lost their life leading to a high mortality rate. Also, the consequence was the removal of bone from the jaw and nose and loss of eyesight.
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Q: ASP.NET Google Maps API not reading long/lat from variable I have a variable accepting the long/lat from the database.
I am passing the variable to the map but the map comes up gray on loading.
My variable has the correct long/lat as it reads the correct data to a textbox, and my map is also functioning correctly as if I hard code in a long/lat it will load correctly.
This is my code:
 conn1.Open();
    SqlCommand cmd2 = new SqlCommand("SELECT LocLat FROM Specialists where SpName = '" + Convert.ToString(this.PreviousPage.Session["id"]) + "'", conn1);
        SqlDataAdapter da2 = new SqlDataAdapter(cmd2);
            DataSet ds2 = new DataSet();
            da2.Fill(ds2);
        String SpLoc = cmd2.ExecuteScalar().ToString();

        lblIn.Text = SpLoc;

        GLatLng mainLocation = new GLatLng(SpLoc);
        GMap1.setCenter(mainLocation, 15);

        XPinLetter xpinLetter = new XPinLetter(PinShapes.pin_star, "C", Color.Blue, Color.White, Color.Chocolate);
        GMap1.Add(new GMarker(mainLocation, new GMarkerOptions(new GIcon(xpinLetter.ToString(), xpinLetter.Shadow()))));

        conn1.Close();

This is how the page appears after running:

Any Suggestions?

A: http://maps.subgurim.net/ejemplos/ejemplo_300_Asignar-Centro.aspx
You are supplying a single value to the constructor whereas you need the below and to convert to Double:
String lat = SpLoc.Split(',')[0];
String lng = SpLoc.Split(',')[1]:

Double lat1 = Convert.ToDouble(lat);
Double lng1 = Convert.ToDouble(lng);

GLatLng mainLocation = new GLatLng(lat1, lng1);

You will need to extract the latitude and longitude from your database return or in your database return.
This also appears to be subgurim-maps you may want to add that to the tag. I don't have this package installed to test.

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Beverages limited to water, milk, all natural juices, naturally sweetened coffee & tea, and, to help the adults keep their sanity, wine and beer! Please leave a reply below if you have any questions about what is okay to eat during your pledge. In addition to your bread choice, when selecting foods like pastas, cereals, rice, and crackers always go for the whole-grain option. Avoid store-bought products containing high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and those "that have some form of sugar (or sweetener) listed among the top three ingredients" according to Michael Pollan. Lastly, to once again quote Michael Pollan, he says to "eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself." If you had to peel, chop and deep fry potatoes every time you wanted French fries then you might not eat them very often. These days it is easier and cheaper to buy unhealthy junk food than it is to find and buy healthy, nourishing foods our bodies need and crave. As you ring in the New Year and vow to make more health-conscious choices, your journey to a better lifestyle begins with knowing where your food comes from. Real Time Farms, an online nationwide food guide, lets you do just that by allowing you to trace your food back to its farm roots. Real Time Farms is a crowd-sourced guide, meaning it's powered by the people, so anyone can add information or photos on farms, food artisans and farmers markets in their area. I tested the site for myself and found that the Ann Arbor Farmers Market features items from over 105 farms and 32 local food artisans. Real Food Wythenshawe is an ambitious five-year programme to engage and excite the people of Wythenshawe in growing and cooking fresh, sustainable food. It is a large-scale programme, which will reach as far across the entire community as possible.
Mike Kane, MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East said "Unit-E is a lasting legacy of the work of my predecessor Paul Goggins MP and a testament to the incredible hard work of all involved with Wythenshawe Food Bank and Real Food Wythenshawe.
The Science in the City festival (22nd-29th July) runs alongside the conference and aims to engage the public in all aspects of science. The Geodome was officially launched today and Real Food Wythenshawe are holding a garden party on 11 May to celebrate. Real Food Wythenshawe will be holding a number of Growing workshops this February and March. The awards were given out in beautiful St Anne's Square and the sun shone as well-known garden designer Diarmuid Gavin and the National Trust's city gardener in residence Sean Harkin presented the gold award to Jacqueline, Pam, Rachel, Kay and Susan. The CLS Real Food Wythenshawe project were featured on the BBC 1 National Lottery Show on Saturday 1st August 2015 as part of the National Lottery Good Causes competition, where they are finalists in the Environment section. The CLS Real Food Wythenshawe project are appearing at the Royal Horticultural Show at Tatton Garden Flower Show between 22 and 26th July 2015.
The CLS Real Food Wythenshawe project are finalists in the Big Lottery Good Causes Awards 2015 in the Environment category.
The CLS Real Food: Wythenshawe project has developed its Geodome with the help of Manchester College and their students.
Any local residents to Wythenshawe are welcome along to a FREE two-day workshop that will teach them about clay contsruction and oven making. This year is the year of the Geodome, amongst many other big Real Food: Wythenshawe Projects. It might still be freezing cold where you live, but believe it or not, Spring 2014 is just around the corner! Be the real food hero at potlucks and parties with recipes that taste amazing and won't break the bank!
When I first started blogging, I read a post at Faith and Family Live that asked readers to share what they spent on food in a week. I see I actually added $150 to the food budget from the tax refund, $50 from a credit card rebate, and $60 that I made selling stuff at a friend's garage sale. We started getting a gallon of raw milk and a dozen eggs each week in February of this year, and every week that went by, I was making new changes, from making more of my own bread to switching to meat from the farm (starting in May). I've been paying more for quality ingredients or weird ingredients so that I can test things for this site. I'm sure we eat more, especially snacks like nuts and dried fruit, than in past years.
One can't deny that prices have increased, on everything from beans to milk to grains.
We made the conscious choice as a family to seek more organic foods (but certainly not all!) and buy what we needed rather than worry so much about finances. I also ran out of energy to shop some deals and clip the few remaining coupons I could, so sometimes I'd just grin and bear it when I had to buy something for more than I usually would. There, see, I've rationalized it all away and now have successfully prioritized food and health as I should! Some other tips for controlling the grocery budget at my friend Donielle's new site, Natural Living Moms. Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest Click here for my disclaimer and advertising disclosure - affiliate links in this post will earn commission based on sales, but it doesn't change your price. I'm not sure what that breaks down to percentage-wise, but we agreed at the beginning of our marriage that quality food was worth the money. Going grain free or about 80% grain free as we are now, definitely increased our grocery budget about $100.00 per month.
When we switched to a real food lifestyle, I'll be perfectly honest, our food purchases went from 14% of our budget to 29%. For years, if I even looked at food labels, I was reviewing items such as fat grams, calorie count and sugar content. I am sure you've heard similar advice a thousand times, and I hate to tell you that it couldn't be more true.
I actually used to eat white bread, but what I bought for my husband from the grocery store was what I thought was whole-wheat bread. And don't just believe the health claims on the outside of the box. Read the ingredients to make sure the product is truly made with only 100% whole grains – not a combination of whole grains and refined grains which is unfortunately how a lot of "whole grain" products are made.
Despite the mixed research on if HFCS is really worse for you than good ol' white sugar, it just happens to be "a reliable marker for a food product that has been highly processed".
According to Michael Pollan not only will you find "food that is in season, which is usually when it is most nutritious", but you will also find a selection of pesticide-free produce and properly fed meat products. Only eating "junk food" such as cakes, sweets, and fried foods as often as you are willing to make them yourself will automatically ensure the frequency is appropriate.
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The ultimate goal of the organization, according to Cara Rosaen, Co-Founder & Director of Vegetable Outreach, is to help people find food they can feel good about eating. Since Rosaen and her husband, Karl, launched Real Time Farms in 2010, they have been incredibly well received. We have always focused on the quality of the information—that is, focusing on getting rich information about food sources—(like) growing practices, stories on the growers and images," Rosaen said. Rosaen enjoys working with other organizations, and says she's excited for the opportunities this new partnership will bring. If you can trace your food back to its roots, you're more likely to enjoy it with a clear conscience. The dedication and commitment of staff and volunteers, to ensure that families in Wythenshawe who are struggling to feed themselves have somewhere to go and do not go hungry, is a daily inspiration to me".
Bloom from C-Beebies down at the dome on 13th February 2015 and joined forces with Havelely Hey School to record an interesting show all about how fish can help grow fruit and vegetables….Very exciting!! Full of vitamins, essential fatty acids, minerals and fiber — this superfood should be consumed happily and often. This unique beverage has been used for over 2000 years to improve health and fight against infection and chronic disease.
The comments were hopping, some with frustrations that they spent so much, some annoyed that the author asked them to compare to others in a faith-based situation, and many simply sharing their food budgets. I hope I can give you some insight into how real food may or may not change your budget, and some hope that you CAN eat well, spend less – without going into debt.
Our lifestyle at the time included some make-from-scratch foods but also a great deal of sale shopping and couponing. You can see a little about where I buy my meat at my local resources page and more on Country Life bulk orders at today's other post on making use of local food sources.
Some of that I can deduct as a business expense, but I still left it in the food budget to be realistic.
Food was more important then, and if you really care about your family's health, perhaps making it more of a priority in your budget is the way to do that. I believe that God calls us to be good stewards of all His gifts as we work to feed our families: time, finances, the good green earth, and of course, our healthy bodies. While this may be important to some, the best indicator of how highly processed a food is can actually be found in the list of ingredients.
This will help to displace the processed foods in your diet, and will actually make your food selections in general very simple.
When we finally checked the ingredients and found 40 different items on the list, including white flour and sugar, we decided it was time for a change.
The white flour or other refined grain alternative is simply high in calories and low in nutrition. Those selections are most often things like pre-made chicken nuggets, fries, and pasta made with white flour, among other things.
It is also better for our environment to purchase locally grown products as opposed to the supermarket produce, which travels on average 1500 miles from the farm to your plate. You can preserve the healthy, home-grown nutrition you value and make it available all year round with canning! There will be lots of activities including market stall, pop-up badminton, African dance and face painting.
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I also kind of slacked on my receipt-entering for the entire year, to the tune of a full basket of receipts greeting me for tax time this spring! Then we redid our budget in the fall of 2009, and the eating out stopped, and our grocery budget got slashed to $50 a week. Hers are my absolute favorite eggs, to the point where I have other, really good, well-raised eggs, and they just don't live up. We also feel better and I've stopped having nightmares about heart attacks and diabetes coming to kill us in our sleep. If what you are buying contains more than 5 ingredients and includes a lot of unfamiliar, unpronounceable items you may want to reconsider before buying.
No more counting calories, fat grams, or carbs when your only concern is selecting whole foods that are more a product of nature than a product of industry. Why would there be so many on the list if it only takes a handful of ingredients to make bread? Utilising the Trussell Trust model has resulted in a collaborative and sustainable approach, bringing people and organisations together to focus on, supporting individuals and families living in food poverty and addressing the long term solutions. Soon after that I started looking more into the food we ate and last summer I really started looking at our diets.
It will showcase modern indoor growing techniques, provide an example of a fully integrated high quality food producing ecosystem and demonstrate what sustainable food production can mean in an urban setting. Fast forward to today, and our budget is $100 a week, and we eat mostly organic, whole foods ?? I also just started buying our meat, eggs, and cheese from Grassfield farm, and hope to shop mostly local this summer. Which should allow us to save money to put towards larger bulk purchases on staple foods and meats.
Not only do they grind their own wheat every morning, but their honey whole-wheat loaf only has five ingredients – whole-wheat flour, water, yeast, salt and honey. I'd also like to look into buying part of pig, and maybe a part of beef later this year-if we do this then it will come out of our general budget, and not from grocery money.
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Who's to Blame for the Tech Bubble? Silicon Valley Insiders.
By Noam Scheiber
In the ongoing debate over the existence of a tech bubble, the bubble-deniers have settled on a common theme: The valuations of tech companies may be rising, but the people bidding them up are savvy insiders. They're unlikely to be completely blinkered. "It's a handful of very sophisticated investors who have insight into the companies and into the market," private equity investor Edwin Poston recently told Bloomberg Television.
That makes the experience of the last few years much different from the tech craziness of the late '90s, when anyone with a few thousand dollars and an eTrade account was piling into Internet stocks. "Bubbles are a very specific phenomenon where you've got mass psychology and you've got … every shoe-shine boy buying stock," venture capitalist Marc Andreessen told The Wall Street Journal in January. "There's nothing like that [now]."
Poston and Andreessen have a point. The great bubbles in history, right up through the dotcom fiasco and last decade's real estate unpleasantness, have typically been mass phenomena. Indeed, as Charles Kindleberger explains in his classic text, Manias, Panics, and Crashes, the actual bubble phase of these episodes tends to occur when insiders start selling to credulous outsiders.
But just because bubbles typically don't inflate until the small-timers get involved doesn't mean you can't have a bubble without them. According to Kindleberger, economists consider a bubble to be "any deviation in the price of an asset or a security or a commodity that cannot be explained in terms of 'fundamentals.'" His preferred definition refers to "an upward price movement over an extended period of fifteen to forty months that then implodes." Obviously, we don't know about the implosion part of the story yet. But everything else about today's tech valuations fits the profile.
Start with the price movements. There are any number of signs that tech companies have become wildly overvalued, but my favorite comes from David Golden, managing partner of Revolution Ventures. According to Golden, there were roughly a dozen tech startups that raised more than $10 million in their first round of fundraising in 2009.1 Last year, there were over 100 such companies—this at a time when it's getting cheaper and cheaper to launch a start-up.
As for fundamentals, often there are glaringly few on which to hang these valuations. Earlier this year, Facebook paid $19 billion for WhatsApp, a messaging app with 450 million users but little revenue to speak of. Facebook's next big splurge--$2 billion on the virtual reality headset-maker Oculus VR—didn't even have a product the average consumer could buy yet, to say nothing of real revenue or profits. The only way to defend these gob-stopping prices is to invent new ways of valuing the companies, something that happens pretty much any time there's a bubble. Unfortunately, as the hedge fund manager David Einhorn recently wrote to his investors, the old methods almost always come back with a vengeance once the mania dies down.
In fairness, there is evidence that WhatsApp and today's other Silicon Valley darlings have some value that their late '90s predecessors lacked, even without much revenue. Facebook, after all, has the ability to parlay non-paying users into dollars by way of its advertising infrastructure. "One would have thought that a company with no revenue would be valueless," says Steve Blank, an entrepreneur and Stanford professor who warned about a tech bubble back in 2011. "But for the first time users are equivalent to sales," at least for certain companies. Still, says Blank, who has slightly moderated his bearish views, it's hard to believe the value remotely approaches the sums being paid.2 Evenjudging by the price-per-user it spent acquiring Instagram two years ago, which was itself considered inflated, Facebook overpaid for WhatsApp by several billion dollars.
It turns out that insider-ness provides little protection against delusional thinking. "A fundamental observation about human society is that people who communicate with one another regularly think similarly," the Nobel-Prize winning economist Robert Shiller writes in Irrational Exuberance, his book on the late '90s. This is as true of venture capitalists and tech executives as it is of lowly clock-punchers. Indeed, Shiller cites several experiments showing that people will often accept an observation that is self-evidently bonkers merely because seven or eight peers—about the size of a typical Silicon-Valley board meeting—insist it's right. "People simply thought all the other people could not be wrong," Shiller explains.
A market dominated by insiders may even exacerbate the self-delusion. When most tech stocks trade on public exchanges like the NASDAQ or the New York Stock Exchange, skeptical investors at least have the opportunity to bet against them by selling short, which can have a disciplining effect. But when firms stay private, only insiders like venture capitalists and other tech executives have a chance to invest, and there is no way to bet against them.3 "I had lengthy discussions with [the French bank] Societe Generale for six months about how to short," says Bob Rice, a New York-based money manager, who ultimately threw up his hands. "It's a terrible problem that you can't short [tech startups]."
Ultimately, it's the tech companies' preference for putting off IPOs and staying private, and not the soundness of their valuations, that may be the biggest difference between the current tech boom and the last one. According to University of Florida finance professor Jay Ritter, the average company goes public after 10 years today, versus just six years in 2000. David Golden points out that tech companies were going public so quickly in the '90s that the mom-and-pop investors who bought their stock were essentially fronting them venture capital—a highly risky form of investing not normally associated with grandmothers in Nebraska.
Today, on the other hand, something close to the opposite is happening: Tech companies are putting off their IPOs for so long that venture capitalists and other private investors are playing the role of the moms and pops and buying in at hugely inflated prices. The New York Times recently reported that the average size of a "late-stage" round of funding for private tech companies was over $44 million this year, up 77 percent from 2013. Many of these private companies, like Airbnb, Dropbox, and Lyft, are raising hundreds of millions of dollars from investors—the kind of capital companies previously raised by selling shares to the public. These insiders have, in effect, become the dupes that other insiders exploit.
The good news, as the Times' Annie Lowrey later pointed out, is that most of the money lost when the bubble bursts will come from private investors, who can afford it, not people invested in the stock market, where relatively few tech startups dwell these days. The only average folks likely to suffer are those who make their living in the Bay Area.
The bad news is that, 15 years after the last tech bubble, we still haven't proven we can look at a tech startup and judge it by the value it actually has (or is likely to have), rather than the value we want it to have. Surely the money could be better spent elsewhere.
Noam Scheiber is a senior editor at The New Republic. Follow @noamscheiber
I'm referring to the first round of money they raise from institutional investors.
Suppose for the sake of argument that WhatsApp really was worth $19 billion to Facebook. (Hard to believe, but okay.) It clearly overpaid nonetheless. In a rational market, the fair price isn't the value to the buyer; it's a little bit more than the next guy was offering. And, so far as we know, there wasn't really a next guy. Certainly not one offering double-digit billions.
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I'm up since 3 o'clock in the morning…. so now here I'm sitting with my espresso and my netbook. Hopefully there still is internet. I'm writing this in Word… so it will be copy-paste and that's it.
I will include a picture which I just made on the beach half an hour ago.


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The successor to Club Nintendo is finally here, and it seems like a solid improvement! The way it works is you can get three different types Coins through completing Missions.
Miitomo (blue) Coins are from using Miitomo. These apparently work as platinum coins as well.
Mushroom (platinum) Coins are from using My Nintendo itself regularly.
Star (gold) Coins are from purchasing eShop games.
Lots of good stuff to offer, from discounts, VC games (including the first DS VC game on 3DS!), and even new software like Twilight Princess Picross!
I got 250 coins just from doing some basic stuff--signing into Miiverse and eShop (30 platinum apiece once a week), and linking my account to My Nintendo and Facebook. It's a solid starting point towards getting that sweet, sweet Picross game.
All in all, it seems like a good replacement. My only gripe--and it's kind of a biggie--is that it currently doesn't offer any reward for buying physical copies of games. Kinda stings.
Anyway, go nuts and get some Coins! What rewards do you have your eye on?
Currently having to get rid of almost everything on my crappy phone because for some reason Nintendo thought it wise to make Miitomo massive in file size.
New system seems great and the website is designed very nicely.
EDIT: Nevermind, getting rid of almost everything still didn't give me enough space. Thanks Nintendo for making an accessible mobile app that everyone can use.
Ugh, same. Google Play doesn't seem to say how big Miitomo actually is, though, so I'm not sure how much I have to delete. EDIT: Says it's 31MB and I have 300+MB free but still won't download. So that's weird. But I deleted about 70MB worth of apps I don't use and now it's working.
On the Google Play store it told me it was about 60mb. Once you actually get it up and running though it downloads another 400+. It's absurd.
That's enormous! What the crap.
I thought Miitomo wasn't ready yet? The site still says coming soon.
Then again, I'm accessing it on my desktop. Is it a mobile-only application?
Yeah it's a mobile only app.
Yep, nabbed it this morning. Once all is said and done in the install file, it's 72.36MB (Android).
Then why the hell is mine so massive? Gonna try redownloading and see what happens, but something went seriously wrong with mine if it is only that big.
So that's a few hundred MB of wasted data. Guess I'll just wait until I get home. Maybe delete some more apps just for good measure.
Just tried to download it again and yep. Still using over 400MB.
I was able to download it over LTE in like 10 seconds, installed and running, but have to wait until after work to really dive in.
EDIT: oh no now it's downloading a whole huge thing... still pretty fast, 50% after about a minute.
EDIT: wow the graphics look really sharp on my 6 Plus, I'm not used to seeing Nintendo's art-style this hi-res!
Is there even a way to add eachother on here? NW, my bro, and maybe the few FB people I expect would get this are the only users I could imagine using this with.
@carlosrox I'm told you can only add people through Facebook, Twitter, or in person. So that stinks.
I'm loving this new My Nintendo thing. So many rewards! And is that a digital DS game for 3DS I see? Awesome.
Yeah, Wario's on my "to get" list now.
-COINS EXPIRE! Sad but true. You have six months to use them up.
-Games expire too! Well, in the sense that they get removed from the eShop. WarioWare will only be up for a few months, so you gotta stay on top of getting your coins.
-There's a seeecret on the main My Nintendo page. See if you can find it!
I don't really use Twitter, but it seems that in order to add people we need to be following each other on Twitter. Here's my Twitter handle if anyone wants to add me.
I have a Twitter that I hardly ever use but it does come in handy now and again.
Sure is a battery hungry app. I'll have to wait for friends to sign up for it to make any sense I guess.
The group of us NWers on there are having some fun right now. Hop to it!
Downloaded Miitomo this morning! Seems cute enough. I'm wondering how long I'll keep it on my phone for. More fun once you get more friends? I've only got one so far.


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The major impetus for increased attention to the issues of informed consent was a series of studies involving unethical actions on the part of researchers toward their subjects. These studies involved human rights violations in which subjects were neither informed nor had the ability to refuse participation. Highly publicized examples included experiments conducted on Nazi prisoners in concentration camps; withholding treatment for a group of poor Black men with syphilis in Tuskeegee, Alabama, to determine the course of the untreated disease; and not informing elderly patients at the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital in New York that they were injected with live cancer cells (National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects, 1979).The Nuremberg Code, which outlined ethical standards for research, was adopted in response to the human rights violations in Nazi prison camps. This was followed by the Declaration of Helsinki, adopted by the World Medical Assembly in 1964. In the United States the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research (1979) developed a code of ethics for the protection of human subjects, specifying guidelines for re-search sponsored by the federal government.
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A second study focused on what subjects understood of the words used in research consent forms. Lawson and Adamson (1995) interviewed 86 adults on research protocols and found that over 80% understood the following commonly used terms: efficacy, lesion, orally, benefits, adverse reactions, placebo, compensation, ineligible, and withdrawal of consent. Conversely, less than 50% of the subjects understood words such as protocol, open label, and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
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Lake Brunner ( or ) is the largest lake in the West Coast Region of New Zealand, located  southeast of Greymouth. The main settlement, Moana, is on its northern shore. It is an important settlement and waystation for local Māori. The first Europeans in the area were loggers, and sawmills were an important early industry. Being several kilometres inland from the coast road (), it is less frequently visited by tourists than many of the West Coast's scenic highlights, but it is becoming increasingly popular, in part due to its reputation for fishing.

Geography
Lake Brunner is the largest lake in the West Coast region,  across with an area of 4061 ha, just over . The outlet of the lake is the Arnold River, a tributary of the Grey River / Māwheranui, next to the largest settlement of Moana, on the north shore of the lake. The largest rivers feeding into Lake Brunner are the Crooked River from the east, the Orangipuku River and Bruce Creek from the south at Swan Bay, and the Eastern Hohonu River from the west at Hohonu Spit. It is 31 km southwest of Greymouth, at an altitude of 76 m. Two small islands in Pah Bay near the mouth of the Crooked River are known as the Refuge Islands (Takataka and Takatakaiti).

The lake is normally reached by heading south from State Highway 7 at Stillwater, or north from Jacksons on State Highway 73. A smaller road connects Kumara and Inchbonnie via the lake's southern shore. Most of the lake shore is only accessible by boat; the only settlements are Moana, Ruru, Te Kinga, and Mitchells. Bain Bay can be reached by a walking track from Mitchells, but a damaged bridge was removed in January 2021 and the track is currently closed.

Lake Brunner was created in the last ice age by a spur of the Taramakau Glacier, which split from the main glacier and flowed north either side of Mount Te Kinga, between it and the Hohonu Range. Both these prominent mountains are made of erosion-resistant granite and granodiorite, cooled magma 100–145 million years old. When the glacier receded about 11,000 years ago, it left behind moraines which impeded the flow of rivers to the sea and filled the gouged-out glacial valley; the large blocks of rock it dropped, known as glacial erratics, can still be found in the surrounding bush. At this point, the lake would have been larger and deeper than today, with several outflows, but the Arnold River eventually became the main one, cutting through the moraine ridges to drain the lake to its present level. The same process of moraine deposition and glacial retreat created nearby Kangaroo Lake, Lady Lake, and Lake Haupiri.

To the south of the lake, linking it to the Taramakau River valley, is a  stretch of flat land known in the 1860s as the "Natural Paddock" or "Bruce's Paddock". The term "paddock" referred on the Coast to any treeless expanse, and Natural Paddock was mostly pakihi swamp.

The lake is large enough that it can be subject to severe weather, including a powerful easterly wind known as the "Brucer", which blows up the valley from Inchbonnie, once  belonging to Thomas Bruce (1831–1908) who began farming there in 1872.

Lake Brunner has a maximum depth of 109 m, but local stories claimed that the lake was bottomless, or that it was connected with the sea and rose and fell with the tides. A naval survey after WWII established its deepest part, near the Takataka islands by the mouth of the Crooked River, at around 335 feet. Like Lake Kaniere, the other large glacial lake on the West Coast, Lake Brunner is in a deeply-scoured basin and drops off quite rapidly around most of its shoreline. Its water is stained the colour of tea, sometimes appearing almost black, by the tannins—organic and humic acids—leached into its tributaries: a consequence of high rainfall in a catchment that is almost entirely forested. The lake waters are acidic, with a low pH and low oxygen levels compared to lakes on the eastern side of the main divide. The soils in its catchment are derived from greywacke, granite, and schist, and are low in nutrients, but unlike many other West Coast glacial lake, Lake Brunner has significant alluvial soils on its margin. The lake has less thermal stratification than other West Coast lakes, as it is subject to strong winds, and its level fluctuates significantly following heavy rain, sometimes covering the jetty at Moana.

Name

Although the Māori name for the lake is often given as just "Moana", two names for the lake are recorded. The first, Kōtuku moana, translates as "sea of herons", referencing the white heron (Ardea alba modesta), known to Māori as kōtuku. In New Zealand kōtuku have a population of roughly 200 at any one time, breeding only at Ōkārito on the West Coast, and are symbols of beauty and rarity in Māori culture.

The second name, Kōtukuwhakaoka, is shared with the Arnold River, and is the name of a Māori chief from the North Island who came upon the lake after following the river upstream. According to legend, the chief was attacked and killed by a taniwha which lived in the lake, which later became one of the two islands in the lake after it was killed by the chief's son. The name was variously rendered as Kotukuwakaho and Kotuku-kaoka; Brunner spelled it "Kotu-urakaoka" in the proclamation that in 1853 defined the boundaries of the province.

In the Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998, the lake's name was rendered slightly differently, as Kōtuku-Whakaoho. The origin was traced to a husband and wife, Kōtuka and Māwhera, who gave their names to the lake and the Grey River respectively.

The English name "Lake Brunner" was chosen by John Rochfort to honour the 19th century explorer Thomas Brunner, who was the first European to visit the lake.

History

Māori occupation
The lake was a significant resting point for Māori groups travelling east or west over the Hurunui saddle. They would stop at the lake to fish for eels and kākahi (freshwater mussels), catch birds, or process pounamu. The green stone only found on the West Coast was a precious commodity to Māori all through Aotearoa, and a significant trade good for the Poutini Ngāi Tahu, the hapū who lived west of the Southern Alps / Tiritiri-o-te-moana. Fortified settlements were built at Pah Point on the eastern side of the lake, and on nearby Takataka Island, with terraces, stockades, and gardens. There is evidence of pounamu working taking place at Pah Point and Takakataka Island at the lake, and Kotuku up the Arnold Valley.

Early exploration

Brunner, who in the 1840s had undertaken several journeys to and from the West Coast alone or in the company of Charles Heaphy—but always led, provisioned, and hosted by local Māori—spent Christmas of 1847 at the settlement of Māwhera at the mouth of the Māwheranui (Grey River). The resident Poutini Ngāi Tahu told him about a lake upriver, and Brunner was keen to explore the area inland. After a three-week delay while his guides went on a fishing trip, and ten days of provisioning, Brunner and twenty Māori set off upriver in four canoes on 26 January 1848. Heading up what came to be known as the Arnold River, the party reached the lake on 29 January. They camped on Takataka (later known as the Refuge Islands) near the mouth of the Crooked River, where they ate kākahi and raupō root, and Brunner smoked the last of his tobacco. His guides told Brunner there was an overland route across the mountains near the Taramakau River, but the group turned back and headed to the Grey and the Inangahua Valley.

In October 1857 Leonard Harper, led by Ihaia Tainui and three other Māori, left Canterbury and crossed the mountains at the Hurunui Saddle, known afterwards as the Harper Pass. Heading down the Taramakau towards the sea, he glimpsed grassy flats and the lake on his right, but did not investigate. In February 1859 surveyor John Rochfort followed the same route down the Taramakau, but after camping below its junction with the Ōtira, east of Mount Turiwhate, he headed north through the low gap that led to the lake. On the shore the party made a canoe from a kahikatea log and crossed the lake, which Rochfort named after Thomas Brunner, and exited by the river he dubbed the "Arnould".

From January to March 1863 young explorer Herbert Charlton Howitt, who previously explored for gold across the Hurunui Saddle, cut a trail over the pass to Lake Brunner. He initially planned to make a trail around the lake shore to the Arnold River as a route to the coast. In April he decided instead to cut a track from the lakeshore over the Hohunu Range to the lower Taramakau, avoiding the dangerous Taramakau Gorge. On 27 June, Howitt and two of his party set off across the lake by canoe to fish for eels and retrieve stores from their camp at the Arnold River outlet, and were never seen again. The canoe, which sat only three inches above the water when laden, was presumably swamped in a storm, and the three men drowned; numerous subsequent searches turned up only his tent and some eel lines at the lake shore.

In December 1865, during the West Coast Gold Rush, word got around that a group of prospectors, known as the "Kangaroo party", had lodged a claim on land to the north-east of Lake Brunner. Eight hundred men headed to the lake, where they found a ferry boat waiting to take them across the lake at 15 shillings a head, and a well-stocked store on the other side. When no gold was to be found, an angry mob looted and demolished the store and headed back to Greymouth. Flooding in the swamp at the Arnold River outlet marooned 200 of them, who clung to kahikatea trunks without food until the waters receded.

Railway construction

By 1867 the Canterbury provincial government had built a bush track along the south bank of the Grey and Arnold rivers, and along the south-west shore of the lake to Natural Paddock. The first farmers in the area settled around the Crooked River in 1868–69. In the 1880s a railway linking Greymouth and Christchurch was begun, which opened up the Arnold Valley and Lake Brunner. The route was originally proposed to follow the eastern side of the lake, but Westland MP Richard Seddon, from 1891 Minister of Public Works, insisted that it follow the western shore, closer to his constituency of Kumara. After some wrangling, the railway was laid to the east of the lake, and a road constructed to connect Kumara with the southern lakeshore, from which a steamboat could convey people to a railway station—although this ferry never eventuated. Moana had its own railway station by 1892, and the line continued as far south as Te Kinga, where it hit swampland. Materials were then conveyed by the steam launch Little Tay across the lake and up the Orangipuku River to Inchbonnie, and during 1893 construction continued in both directions up to Rotomanu and down to Jacksons. The link between Stillwater and Ōtira was completed in 1894. The Midland Line connecting Greymouth and Christchurch opened in 1923, after 36 years of construction and the building of the Ōtira Tunnel. The building of the railway created a market for the long-lasting timber of manoao or silver pine (Manoao colensoi), which was used for railway sleepers, telegraph poles, and bridges.

All trains stopped at Moana for water, and the settlement quickly grew: by 1906 it had four shops and a billiard room, and in 1907 a grand hall opened, hosting bachelor dances for the timber workers. The road took longer: by 1896 it had reached from the south from Rotomanu to Bell Hill, with a track to Stillwater, and by 1918 it was possible to drive from Rotumanu to Kotuku and then Greymouth—although the road was only kept navigable by grazing deer and a gate needed to be traversed at Bell Hill.

Sawmilling

Numerous sawmills sprung up along the railway line; some transported felled trees to the railway with bush trams operating on wooden rails. Other had logging gangs felling trees around the lake and towing them by boat to mills on the lake shore. Nyberg's mill, later the Lake Brunner Sawmilling Company, operated in Ruru. The Moana Sawmill Company, with a log landing near the Arnold River outfall. Stratford and Blair operated a sawmill beside the Moana railway station. In the 1930s trees were felled at Irishman's Landing across the lake and towed by launch, the Monica, to Moana. United Mills operated in Te Kinga, using timber felled in a logging camp across the lake at Bain Bay. Initially they were transported across the lake by the Tiki, a steam launch, and from 1938 to 1963 by the Tikinui, which towed a punt onto which logs that would not float were fastened. When a "Brucer" blew, waves were so high they would break over the Tikinui's wheelhouse (8 feet above lake level); the boat would cast loose its punt and logs and make for shelter, returning to retrieve any floating logs the next day. After native timber forestry had ceased on the West Coast, a business sprang up using divers and chains to salvage logs from the lake bottom for milling. Logs that had sunk to the lake floor a century ago remained perfectly preserved, with axe marks still visible.

In the Great Depression, two thirds of the area's sawmills shut down, and in 1963 the Lake Brunner Sawmilling Company, the first to send logs through the Ōtira Tunnel, closed from lack of suitable timber. The cleared flat land around the lake proved suitable for farming, particularly dairy herds, and from the early 1960s local farms were supplying the Westland Cooperative Dairy Co. in Hokitika. By 1976 twenty percent of the catchment of the lake was farmed and Moana had a population of 84, with most of the buildings being holiday homes.

Flora

Lake Brunner is notable in being surrounded by intact native forest, although the flats have been extensively logged while kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides) swamp forest is found at many points along the lake shore. Kahikatea is able to tolerate submergence of its roots, and when lake levels are high it is possible to travel by kayak through forests of 30 m trees, one of the few places on the West Coast where this is easily done. The lakeside kahikatea and flax (Phormium tenax) community includes small-leaved divaricating shrubs like mingimingi and Coprosma rhamnoides, and the trees rimu and kamahi.

Much of the forest on the flats and surrounding hills is tall podocarp forest, predominantly kahihatea, rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), tōtara (Podocarpus totara), and silver pine/manoao (Manoao colensoi), which can reach the lake edge at places like the Hohonu River. The drier forest away from the lake edge is dominated by rimu, mataī (Prumnopitys taxifolia), Hall's tōtara (Podocarpus laetus), and needle-leafed tōtara (P. acutifolius). On the higher slopes the forest is predominantly southern beech (formerly Nothofagus). In the understory can be found wheki-ponga (Dicksonia fibrosa), distinguished by its skirt of dead fronds, marble-leaf (Carpodetus serratus), and the climbing rātā Metrosideros perforata. On the forest floor ferns include crown fern (Lomaria discolor), hanging spleenwort (Asplenium flaccidum) growing as an epiphyte on tree trunks, Prince of Wales feathers fern (Leptopteris superba), and filmy ferns (Hymenophyllum). These are most easily observed from the Rakaitane Walk.

Māori occupied both Takataka (Refuge Island) and Takatakaiti until about 1850, clearing all the forest and leaving only bracken fern (Pteridium esculentum). Because the islands have no deer or possums, vegetation was able to regenerate undisturbed. Takataka was declared a Scenic Reserve in 1944. A vegetation survey in 1978 found young podocarp forest on the southern part of Takataka and scrub elsewhere; this has since become low forest, with only a small patch of bracken remaining.

The phytoplankton of Lake Brunner is composed mostly of diatoms, Chlorophyceae, and Chrysophyceae. It contains species of Staurastrum, Volvox, and Asterionella (specifically Asterionella formosa) that are common in lakes on the East Coast, but rare in the West.

Fauna

Both the white-faced heron (Egretta novaehollandiae) and the white heron / kōtuku (Ardea modesta) occur at Lake Brunner, and waterfowl include black swans (Cygnus atratus), Canada geese (Branta canadensis), scaup (Aythya novaeseelandiae), paradise shelducks (Tadorna variegata), grey ducks (Anas superciliosa), mallards (A. platyrhynchos), and coots (Fulica atra). Little shags (Phalacrocorax melanoleucos) and black shags (P. carbo) can both be found. Birdlife is most common and easily-observed in Iveagh Bay. Fernbirds can often be seen in the mixed kahikatea/flax vegetation on the track to Bain Bay.

The New Zealand freshwater mussel (Hyridella menziesi) is found in Lake Brunner. It is the only South Island lake with the calanoid copepod Boeckella delicata.

Fishing

Fishing for eels at the lake was popular amongst both Māori and European settlers. Today, though, Lake Brunner is one of New Zealand's most significant brown trout (Salmo trutta) fisheries, and is often referred to as "the place where fish die of old age". There are also small numbers of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Rainbow trout originate in North America, and brown trout are a European game fish introduced throughout New Zealand following the establishment of a hatchery in Tasmania in the 1860s. In 1891, 15,000 young trout were transported from Greymouth by rail to stock the lake. Smelt (Retropinna retropinna) were also liberated in Lake Brunner to serve as food for trout, but did not establish.

Trout are caught from boats in the shallow lake waters, especially Iveagh Bay, or by fly fishing in the Orangaipuku, Hohonum or Crooked Rivers and the mouth of the Arnold River. The fish are abundant but not large—only 1 to 1.5 kg. The temperate West Coast climate means trout can still be caught in winter, when in the cooler eastern South Island lakes they are much less active.

Recreation

The lake was early on recognised for its natural beauty, and in 1887 a tourist account celebrated the impending railway, and the lake "soon will be dotted with handsome villas, the summer residence of the aristocracy of Greymouth and the surrounding districts." Sailing was a popular early activity, and in 1892 the first regatta attracted a trainload of 350 sightseers. The growth of tourism led to the opening in 1931 of the 22-room Grand Chateau Moana, which went bankrupt the following year. A motor camp was built in 1959 in Moana, and a jetty, slipway, and car park in 1961. In the 1960s building a holiday home or "bach" at Moana or Iveagh Bay became popular with Christchurch or Greymouth families. There are boat launching ramps at Moana, Te Kinga (with lake access at Cashmere Bay), and Mitchells. Iveagh Bay was once a backwater, but has rapidly-increasing numbers of expensive holiday mansions.

Swimming, kayaking, waterskiing, and jetskis are all popular at Lake Brunner. Because the lake is fed from surrounding forest, not snow, it can reach pleasant temperatures in summer. The lake is surrounded by bush walks: Carew Falls and Bain Bay (currently closed) from Mitchells, the Mount Te Kinga / Aora o Te Kinga Track from Iveagh Bay, and the short Valenski Walk and Rakaitane Track from Moana.

Water quality

Lake Brunner is recognised for its ecological value and importance to the tangata whenua, to tourism and to fisheries. The lake is classified as oligotrophic, meaning that it has naturally low levels of nutrients, low levels of algae and the water is of high quality. Regular monitoring of water quality in Lake Brunner began in the early 1990s. A report in 2006 identified declining water quality, and this was followed in 2010 by an update describing increasing nutrient levels in surface water, increasing chlorophyll (an indicator of biomass of algae), and a decrease in water clarity. The report suggested that intensification of agriculture in the catchment area could be the cause of the deterioration.

There are 25 dairy farms in the catchment area of Lake Brunner. Dairy farmers responded to the concerns about deteriorating water quality by investing in riparian planting, improved fencing of waterways and bridging of streams on their properties. Many also invested in improved effluent treatment systems. A community group, the Lake Brunner Community Catchment Care Group, was formed to support environmental initiatives include riparian planting around waterways on farms and on public land. The group comprised around 60 individuals, and had support from regional and local councils, NZ Landcare Trust, Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Waewae, Fish & Game, the Brunner Residents Association, and representatives of the dairy industry, including Westland Milk Products. In 2016, at the Local Government Excellence Awards, the West Coast Regional Council received a "highly commended" award for its entry: Lake Brunner Water Quality Enhancement Project. By 2021, it was reported that  of fencing had been constructed on farms in the catchment along with 21,000 plants in riparian strips.

Water quality updates are published periodically by the West Coast Regional Council. The December 2021 update reports that the lake is safe for swimming and recreation, and has remained in an oligotrophic (low nutrient) state. The levels of phosphorus are graded A on the National Objectives Framework issued under the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management, and are sufficiently low that growth of algae is inhibited. Levels of total nitrogen and lakebed dissolved oxygen are graded B on the same scale.

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See also
Lakes of New Zealand

References

Further reading

External links

Lake Brunner at the Department of Conservation
Water Quality of Lake Brunner at the West Coast Regional Council

Grey District
Lakes of the West Coast, New Zealand

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Hyundai as a leading automobile manufacturer had a long journey that evolved from producing magnificent cars that became stronger yet lighter with every redesign. In other words Hyundai has created a new statement of values to be maintained in automobiles.
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Hyundai as an age old manufacturer of vehicles learnt through several experience, how important it is to maintain the vehicle balance to attain high performance index. This leads to the fact that the body weight of any vehicle is required to be evenly distributed. Hence every Hyundai vehicle can be measured as maintaining a 51.2 : 48.8 ratio in distribution of weight from the front-to-the-rear. It needs a mention here, that achieving this ideal distribution of weight was not an easy task. But Hyundai could successfully achieve this by extending the wheelbase and by reducing the overhang both at the front and rear parts of the vehicles. Simultaneously, the front hood length too was increased to add more dynamism to improve the aerodynamics.
As explained by the Philadelphia Hyundai dealer experts, to achieve the best performance in any vehicle, what needs to be done is making the occupants feel comfortable through every patch of ride. If there is any Noise, Vibration or Harshness in the vehicle cabin, it may result into creating a discomfort in the cabin and cause more fatigue to the driver. Hyundai has always given the comfort of the car occupants as first priority and addressed this issue by creating a blockage of noise completely leaving no scope for any external noise, vibration and harshness to spoil the pleasure of driving as well as rides. Hyundai executed this with the installation of a bulkhead in the compartment of engine using advanced soundproofing technologies.


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With the first three days of competition concluded, the Bahamas 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games, which close this Sunday 23 July, reach their half-way point. All nine sports are underway, across two sporting complexes, including the Youth Games' first ever presentations of Beach Soccer, Beach Volleyball, Judo and Women's Boxing. Over 1,000 athletes are competing from 63 countries, many experiencing their first taste of international multi-sport competition. Medals have so far been awarded in Athletics, Aquatics, Cycling (Road) and Judo, with England, New Zealand and Scotland leading the medal tally.
Trinidad and Tobago have won their first ever Commonwealth Youth Games gold medal, thanks to Adell Colthrust's 100m Men's Final win, as have Bermuda, with Matthew Oliviera winning the Time Trial on the beautiful and baking-hot roads of New Providence. (Australia's Madeleine Fasnacht won gold for the Women's event).
Commonwealth Games Federation Chief Executive David Grevemberg CBE, said: "After a high-energy Opening Ceremony of Bahamian beats and Caribbean carnival, attention has turned to the field of play. It's a spectacular sporting showcase of the Commonwealth's aspiring and inspiring young athletes. "The Bahamas are on an impressive trajectory of sports hosting, which now includes the Commonwealth Youth Games with its 1300 athletes and officials from 63 countries across 9 sports. Every Bahamian should be rightly proud of all the work they have done to stage this significant event – and we're all looking forward to an action and final-packed programme as we head into the closing weekend. The athletes are giving their all with thrilling performances that engage and inspire Bahamas' local crowds and visiting friends and families".
17-year old judoka Thomas Lish from England was awarded the first gold of the Games on 18 July after an unbeaten run in the -90kg category against opponents from Australia, Trinidad, Scotland and host nation Bahamas. He said: "It's my first selection for England at such a level and I'm just proud to be here and proud to come home with a medal for my country".
With the largest-ever programme for a Commonwealth Youth Games, the Judo competition took place prior to the Opening Ceremony – affording the host nation The Bahamas two bronze medals on day one of competition.
D'Arcy Rahming Jr, Bahamas Judo Federation High Performance Director, said: "Mya Beneby and Karra Hanna have won the first ever medals for the Bahamas at the Commonwealth Youth Games in any sport. The competition was fierce with over 17 countries. We can now declare that at the cadet level Bahamas judo is competitive at the world level."
England dominated the podium in the Women's Judo competition. Gold medallists were: -48kg, Sian Bobrowska, (England); -57kg, Leah Kaye Grosvenor (England); -70kg, Holly Bentham (England) and +70kg, Emily Ritchie (Scotland).
Gold medallists in the Men's events were: -60kg Simon Zulu (Zambia); -73kg Soni (India); -90kg, Thomas Lish (England); +90kg, Timothy Hollingberry (Australia).
A firm favourite on the Youth Games programme, the Aquatics competition has been taking place in front of a loud, packed crowd at the Betty Kelly Kenning Aquatics Centre. New Zealand has so far dominated the pool, collecting seven gold medals in both Men's and Women's 200m Freestyle (won by Lewis Clareburt and Laticia-Leigh Transom); the 1500m Men's Freestyle (Zac Reid); both 400m Individual Medleys (Lewis Clareburt and Mya Rasmussen); 50m Men's Backstroke (Kennard Campbell) and clinching the 4x200m Mixed Relay. Singapore's Jing Quah and Scotland's Scott McLay have also impressed, winning two gold medals each for the 50m Butterfly and 100m Freestyle.
Scotland's Scott McLay said: "It was fantastic to have the support of my team mates and all the people up in the stands, it really does spur you on. This has set me up really well for the rest of the competition, I just want to keep performing at my best and hopefully pick up a few more medals."
It was a loud and electric first night of athletics competition, delayed by half an hour due to a thunderstorm. The track events got the crowds on their feet, with 100m Women's Gold going to St Lucia's Julien Alfred; 1500m Men's going to John Waweru of Kenya; and 1500m Women's going to Scotland's ecstatic Erin Wallace, whose time of 4:16.61 comfortably outperforms the gold medal run of 4:20.80 by Ethiopia's Lemlem Hailu at the recent IAAF U18 World Championships in Nairobi.
The first Field events also saw impressive performances: with golds for England's Holly Mills in the Long Jump; Canada's Trinity Tutti in Shot Put; and New Zealand's Connor Bell in Discus with 63.17m (beating the previous Samoa 2015 Youth Games medal-winning distance of 60.94m). The Track and Field events continue until Sunday; as do Tennis and Boxing.
The finals of Beach Soccer and Beach Volleyball, in the waterfront stadium constructed specially for the FIFA 2017 Beach Soccer World Cup, take place on Saturday 22 July, with the Cycling Road Race happening the morning after.
Tickets are still available and selling fast, starting at just USD$5. Rugby Sevens draws to a close today (Friday 21 July). Australia play Canada in the Women's final; whilst England take on former Youth Games hosts Samoa in the Men's.
The Opening Ceremony launched the event in fun-filled Bahamian style, with Junkanoo dancers and bands and chart-topping local music stars entertaining the young athletes in Caribbean-club style. The Closing Ceremony promises to pick up the party atmosphere and give the finest young Commonwealth athletes a rousing send-off. With more and more athletes finishing their competition, the final three days also incorporate a cultural festival at the Queen Elizabeth Sports Centre to bring Caribbean flavours and events to the sports ground.
A series of sports leadership workshops delivered in partnership with UNICEF, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Royal Commonwealth Society also provide opportunities for personal development and international friendship.
Organising Committee Chairman Wellington Miller concluded: "We are at the halfway point and I am proud and happy to see The Bahamas and all its volunteers who worked so hard and still working so hard to making this happen and to maintain the high standards required. "I am also happy to see that spectators are coming out to witness the young people of the Commonwealth of Nations compete in so many sports."


The Spanish newspaper, La Opinion, has published its annual "We Connect" magazine that includes a comprehensive list of programs and resources for California families.
The magazine can be viewed online and is bilingual. Spanish is on pages 1-11, English is on pages 12 -23.
This magazine has excellant information to the Migrant Familes.


The Greens Care Centre consists of 38 assisted living units and 8 frail care rooms, doctors rooms, pharmacy, a restaurant, recreation room, library, indoor swimming pool, sauna and a bowling green with clubhouse.
Assisted living is for those who need access to housekeeping, nursing care and caretakers.
Trained caretakers help nurses with day-to-day tasks which includes bathing and dressing, mobility and personal care.
Assisted living is suited for those who are experiencing the physical changes associated with aging, for example hearing loss, vision impairment, mobility challenges, cognitive changes or due to conditions caused by arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart problems, hip replacements, musculoskeletal disorders, stroke, Parkinson's disease, etc.
The frail care unit offers services for residents who are in need of daily assistance with activities such as eating, personal hygiene and moving about with support. A resident's health is constantly monitored and changes in condition can be responded to quickly and professionally.


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Дозвуковая скорость — скорость движения тела (транспортного средства, в частном случае), меньшая чем скорость распространения звуковых колебаний при заданных условиях в заданной среде.

Например, в воздухе при нормальных условиях скорость звука составляет 331,46 м/с (1193 км/ч).

Скорость звука может меняться в зависимости от условий среды (например, при большей плотности среды звук распространяется быстрее).

При дозвуковой скорости наилучшая обтекаемая форма — каплевидная. При движении на дозвуковой скорости рост сопротивления воздуха (или другого вещества) не является прямо пропорциональным росту скорости тела. Наибольшее сопротивление воздух оказывает при скорости в 1 М (1 Мах).

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 Вычисление скорости звука
 Таблица скоростей звука в газах, жидкостях и твердых телах

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David was fabulous! He not only provided music, but he managed the event with subtle sophistication. He ensured the wedding party got food, managed special dances and toasts, and knew when to change the music to keep the party going. Everyone had a wonderful time. He remained in the background as a personality so the affair was truly focused on the event, but his kindness and thoughtfulness and expertise came through.
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Since Valentine's day is coming, here's an easy hair up do you can do within minutes. Well, only if you already know how to french braid your own hair. But if not, then there's plenty of time to practice! Or you can also just grab your hair into a low pony tail and then braid. This look is just so feminine and cute, and did I mention it's easy?
It's finally Friday! Been waiting for this weekend since well... Monday! Well, I have plenty of cleaning and organizing to catch up to. I swear the cleaning never ends once you move out to your own place. I'm going to try and squeeze in some time to just relax and unwind. Hopefully, we'll also be able to do dineLA tonight or Sunday. I've been wanting to go.
I'll see if I can get a home decor post. I haven't been really decorating lately though, but I'll show you what I have done so far.
So what are your plans for this weekend??
Wish I have half of you skill when it comes to doing hair~ Love the romantic look!


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Known as the world's largest hotel (Total Number of Rooms) and part of a hill resort in Malaysia developed by Genting Group, which includes a waterpark and many other hotels (Let's just say Its Big!). To build all that in MineCraft would take years (pass)! What I liked about it was the Colorful design of the Hotel and wondered if I could replicate it in MineCraft. So, I have taken the architecture of the First World Hotel, gutted it, and filling it with my own creations, placing it on a nice ocean view property (Included) from my World.
This was an extensive build that has taken me taken me several months to complete with many, many, many, design changes along the way (Inside and outside)! So, here is my rendition of the First World Hotel Resort and Conference Center.
We begin with the Hotel. Starting with the Top Floor (11th) – Centered is the Swimming Pool with two Hot Tubs, showers, and plenty of chairs to relax in by the pool. On each of the sides, there is a tennis court with an Archery, Sword Battle arena, and an Anvil Weight Room below. A running Track with an Anvil Bowling Area below that.
Regular Rooms: Located on Floors 2 thru 11. These floors are color-coded to match the colors of the outside of the building. Plus, each room uniquely numbered (Try that in MCEDIT LOL), and includes a bathroom, with Sink, mirror, and running shower. Some rooms having King and Double Beds.
The Suites: Located on Floors 2 thru 10, are the same, but come with a Kitchenette, King Bed, and a nice sitting area.
Moving Down to the main lobby you will find the Grand entrance, one from the beach and one from the parking garage area. The Central hallway, it decorated in stain-glass from one end to the other with water fountains at both ends. There are two registration area found on the front and back. The General Store is opposite the registration side and it there for your stock up needs (Ready to be filled). Opposite the store is the main bar. The main bar has a lower and upper area for seating. Just pass the Bar and general store is the EXIBITION HALL. Large enough to hold a small event. Just past the registration center, you will find an entrance with a tree in front. This is the Hotel Restaurant area with extra seating above. Down Stairs is where the fun begins with a Night-Club with dance floor and lounge area. The Lounge area is extended outside onto a patio seating area.
Conference Center: The lower floors are dedicated for the conference area to host meetings and events. There are plenty of rooms for meetings.
Outside Area: Let's start with the backside, where you will find the parking area and parking garage. Opposite the outside patio is a Theater and concert area, sunk into the ground. On the front side is the steps that lead to the grand entrance, covered with a canopy of color. As you walk the steps extended out over the pools of water, you will find the beach area. There, you will find a couple of beach bars, cabanas for rent, and plenty of chairs to lay-out on the beach with two life guard watch areas. Off to the side is an area to rent boats, horses, cabanas, and additional chairs.
Place it at Ocean level. The cut includes the beach front. Please, please, take it all in before voting (and be honest in your voting). There is lots and lots stuff in here. Find a nice ocean area to place this in. Hope it fits in your world (It's very Big).