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Creating a sustainable city
Clarence led other southern municipalities in generating solar power in 2016-17. Local people are taking power generation into their own hands. About 7.8 million kilowatt hours of power were generated and returned to the grid in the 2016-17 year by local Clarence homes and commercial buildings .
In Clarence, over 2,821 home roof tops have solar photovoltaic panels and 827 have solar hot-water systems. There are 66 solar photovoltaic systems in the commercial sector, a 3-fold increase from 2006-07.
There were 29 electric vehicles registered in Clarence in the 2016-17 financial year.
Electric cars are recharged by electricity from Tasmania's electricity grid. Electricity generated in Tasmania has a much lower greenhouse gas
emissions 'factor' than petroleum products.
The 'factor' is a number used to compare greenhouse gas emissions from different energy sources.
Climate change actions at Clarence City Council
The City of Clarence Strategic Plan 2021-2031 sets our corporate direction. Sections 4.4 and 4.5 relate to climate change.
Energy efficient street lighting cuts costs and carbon pollution
Clarence City Council changed all 2,400 street lighting lamps to energy efficient LED (light emitting diode) lights in 2020. The new lights are about 80% more efficient than the ones they replaced.
With lighting costs of nearly $1 million in 2018, the upgrade will lead to significant cost savings and significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions for Council and the community.
The cost of the capital upgrade is expected to be paid back in operational cost savings in about 5 – 8 years. This is good for Council, and good for the environment.
Saving energy and reducing carbon emissions
Council's three highest energy using buildings have been upgraded so they use less energy. Energy efficient insulation, lighting, heating and air conditioning have been installed. Council officers are continuing to pursue energy efficient upgrades for Council buildings.
Clarence leading municipality in generating solar power
Clarence City Council is contributing to the generation of solar electricity with the installation of a 100kW solar system on the roof of the Clarence aquatic centre. The solar power pre-heats water for the pool and provides power for heating and lighting.
Solar power is low emissions renewable energy. Power from the electricity grid is hydro-renewable energy. Local solar generation reduces the amount of energy from non-renewable sources imported to Tasmania from the Australian national electricity market via the Basslink cable.
Electric Vehicle Charging Station at Council Offices
An electric vehicle charging station is available for public use at the Council Chambers to encourage the transition to electric vehicles. Electric vehicles in Tasmania make a valued contribution to reducing carbon pollution as vehicles are fueled by renewable hydro power from the grid rather than carbon-intensive petrol or diesel.
Home Energy Audit Toolkit
Council can help local business and residents to use energy more efficiently. People can borrow the Home Energy Audit Toolkit from Council, to measure energy use in their business or home and identify ways to use less energy and save money. Contact Council to borrow the kit.
A Climate Forecast for Clarence
Energy Use in Clarence
Surging Sea Levels
Tasmania – A 100 year history
Why does 2-3 degrees matter?

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The problem was that left: 0; was not defined which apparently was needed for safari to diplay it in its correct position.

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Over five years, Garland visits 20 creative centres of the Indo Pacific. We explore the different values of what we make in the world, including the joy of making, building community and telling stories. We invite you to share this journey with us.
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To create the book, go to Edit View. The set contains word banks for support – on each page, click/tap on the text box and choose the options from the toolbar.
Students can read about the topic in the Clicker Custom Set "Seeds to Bread". For related Clicker resources, search for growing food on LearningGrids.
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Students can make their own book on the topic using the Clicker Book "Food from Plants – Make a Book". For other Clicker resources on this topic, search for growing food on LearningGrids.
With this Connect Set, students write a nonfiction report about growing and farming plants for food around the world.
Choose from the tabs. Link beginning, middle, and end phrases to write about a different food plant, and how and where it grows.
For other Clicker resources on this topic, search for growing food on LearningGrids. For other sets on related topics, search for food or plants.
This Word Bank supports writing about the growing and farming of plants for food around the world.
With this Clicker Book, students create their own book about plants grown for food in different parts of the world.
With this Clicker Board, students complete a Venn diagram to show whether a range of food and drink products are sourced from plants or animals – or both.
Drag and drop the food pictures/names into the relevant area of the diagram. Add more foods by double-clicking on the page to create a cell. Then double-click the cell to start writing.
For Clicker Resources on this topic, search for food or plants on LearningGrids.
This Word Bank supports writing about the process of making chocolate.
The words are arranged in the following topic grids: Cocoa Beans, Shipping, Roasting, Crushing, Cocoa Liquor, and Chocolate Bar.
Students can read about making chocolate in the Clicker Book "From Beans to Bar – Read a Book." For other Clicker resources on this topic, search for making chocolate on LearningGrids.


Explore deep esoteric cosmologies in Neil Kramer's unique audio workshop "Knowing The Mystery". 2015.
Enlivening, instructive, and heartening, Neil shares applied spiritual wisdom designed to bring truth and fulfillment into daily life. Inquire into the enigmatic super-structures of reality and the everyday miracles of transformation and beauty that characterize our world.
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The commission may hold sessions at any place in the state when deemed necessary to facilitate the discharge of its duties and may conduct the hearing and other proceedings provided for in sections 75-101 to 75-801, in the Major Oil Pipeline Siting Act, in the State Natural Gas Regulation Act, or under any other law of this state at such place or places in the state as may, in the judgment of the commission, be the most convenient and practicable for determining the particular matter before the commission. The commission may hold public meetings as provided in section 57-1407.
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Pierre Demers, né le  à Deal dans le Kent et mort le , est un physicien et inventeur québécois.

Biographie

Jeunesse

Pierre Demers est né en 1914 pendant un voyage de ses parents en Europe. Sa mère, Blanche Legris (1883), était fille d'un médecin canadien français installé à Arctic, au Rhode Island (États-Unis). Son père, Alfred Demers (1876), était fils d'un homme d'affaires de Montréal (Pierre Demers, 1837) et petit-fils du premier forgeron de Pointe-Claire (Pierre Dunmas dit Demers, 1806).

Bien avant 1914, Alfred Demers avait vendu à ses frères sa part de la quincaillerie familiale P. Demers et fils, rue Notre-Dame à Montréal, pour devenir un florissant investisseur en bourse et en immobilier. Grand admirateur de la culture française, il part s'installer à demeure en France en 1914, mais doit s'arrêter en Angleterre à cause des troubles liés au déclenchement de la Première Guerre mondiale. C'est donc à Deal (Kent, Royaume-Uni) que naît Pierre Demers le 8 novembre 1914.

Pierre Demers fait ses études primaires dans trois écoles françaises :
 Institut Gavignet, rue Motte-Picquet, Paris ;
 collège municipal de Cannes, Le Cannet ;
 collège Bourdaloue, Grasse.

Les Demers reviennent à Montréal à temps pour que Pierre entreprenne son cours classique à Montréal, qu'il débute au collège Sainte-Marie à partir de 1925 et qu'il termine au tout nouveau collège Jean-de-Brébeuf entre 1928 et 1933.

Un esprit scientifique précoce
Pierre Demers commence ses activités de nature scientifique bien avant l'université avec quelques articles et conférences (notamment  et ). Durant les étés de 1932 à 1934, à la suite d'un stage de recherche à la Station de biologie marine de l'Université Laval à Trois-Pistoles sous la direction de  Alexandre Vachon, il étudie notamment la reproduction des crevettes. Il note la petite taille de tous les mâles et la grande taille des femelles, précédant ainsi la découverte de leur changement de sexe à un an. Ces travaux menèrent à ses premières communications aux  et  congrès de l'ACFAS.

Il en profite pour herboriser et rapporte plusieurs spécimens à son maître-à-penser, le Frère Marie-Victorin, notamment un potamot de Robbins qui suscita un ajout à la Flore laurentienne alors en rédaction.

De 1933 à 1938, Pierre Demers fréquente la Faculté des sciences de l'université de Montréal comme étudiant et chercheur. Il obtient plusieurs diplômes, notamment sous la direction de Léon Lortie :
 1935 : licence ès sciences physiques ;
 1936 : licence ès sciences mathématiques ;
 1936 : maîtrise ès sciences (chimie).
Grâce à une bourse d'études du Québec (qu'il partage avec un autre co-boursier), Pierre Demers part pour Paris en 1938 afin d'étudier à l'École normale supérieure où il est admis sur recommandation de Léon Lortie et d'Edmond Buron. Il y deviendra le premier étranger à obtenir le titre d'agrégé de l'université de France (sciences physiques). Il deviendra l'ami de Jean Schiltz. Par la suite, à l'automne 1939, il entre au Laboratoire de synthèse atomique du Collège de France, dirigé par Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Ses travaux sont encadrés par Joliot-Curie et Hans von Halban et il y côtoie des conférenciers tels que Lew Kowarski, Paul Langevin, Francis Perrin et Pierre Süe.

Chercheur, professeur, docteur
Forcé de quitter Paris à l'arrivée des Allemands en 1940, Pierre Demers revient au Québec via le Portugal et trouve un emploi au laboratoire de recherche et développement de la Canadian Industries Limited à Belœil. Il y utilise et perfectionne des techniques de spectroscopie.

Pierre Demers reprend ses travaux sur la physique fondamentale lorsqu'il est engagé comme chercheur à Énergie atomique du Canada à Montréal et à Chalk River où il fait des mesures sur les neutrons lents et rapides. Ses travaux contribuent, à son insu, au projet Manhattan. Son apport consiste notamment dans l'amélioration des techniques d'ionographie corpusculaire (voir § « Ionographie » ci-dessous).

C'est ensuite comme professeur en exercice de l'université de Montréal que Pierre Demers termine ses recherches de 1947 à 1950, année où il obtient son doctorat d'État de la Faculté des sciences de Paris et acquiert le titre de docteur ès sciences physiques avec mention très honorable. Le jury devant lequel il défend sa thèse est constitué de Pierre Victor Auger, Jean Cabannes, Pierre Grivet et Yves Rocard. Il devient alors professeur titulaire, poste qu'il occupe jusqu'à sa mise à la retraite en 1980.

De 1947 à 1980, Pierre Demers enseigne la physique à des milliers d'étudiants au baccalauréat et à des dizaines d'étudiants en maîtrise et en doctorat. Il enseigne notamment à Hubert Reeves, qui lui consacre quelques pages dans son autobiographie et aux doctorants Roger Mathieu et Ishfaq Ahmad.

Pierre Demers est le second Canadien français à obtenir un doctorat en physique après Christian Lapointe, dirigé par Franco Rasetti à l'université Laval.

Outre de multiples cours de langue, Pierre Demers s'est perfectionné à l'université Cornell à Ithaca lors de cours d'été comme boursier de l'Acfas en 1937, au MIT pour un stage d'études en spectroscopie avec, notamment, le  , à l'université Goethe à Francfort pendant une année sabbatique en 1970-1971 sous la direction de , le Laboratoire d'ionographie du CNRS à Strasbourg-Cronenbourg pendant la même année sous la direction de Pierre Cüer et finalement à l'Institut polytechnique Rensselaer pour un stage d'études sur la couleur notamment avec le  Fred W. Billmeyer  en 1978.

Ionographie

Même s'il s'intéresse à l'astronomie, à la biologie et aux mathématiques, c'est l'ionographie corpusculaire qui est au cœur des trente-cinq premières années de la carrière de Pierre Demers. Cette technique, qui utilise des émulsions photographiques pour saisir l'effet de collisions de particules à haute énergie, s'appuie sur la chimie et permet des progrès importants dans l'étude de l'infiniment petit. Pierre Demers apprend et développe déjà cette technique au laboratoire de synthèse atomique du Collège de France en 1939 et 1940.

Il est appelé à participer au laboratoire nucléaire canadien pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.  Le laboratoire de Montréal regroupe plusieurs scientifiques français et britanniques ayant fui l'Europe devant la menace allemande. Sous la supervision directe du physicien britannique Alan Nunn May, il .

Pierre Demers perfectionne  cette technique à la caractérisation de la série « 4n + 1 » d'isotope fissile, aussi connue comme le cycle du combustible nucléaire au thorium. Cette caractérisation a ensuite permis la production d'uranium 233 pur, un des premiers carburants nucléaires. Pierre Demers est le seul physicien canadien français à participer aux recherches nucléaires du projet Manhattan. Cependant, le lien qui existait entre le laboratoire canadien, le projet américain et la première bombe était initialement inconnu de Pierre Demers et de plusieurs autres membres de la même équipe.

« Le but de mes travaux ne m'était absolument pas connu. J'ai été tenu dans l'ignorance », a dit M. Demers en de nombreuses occasions. Il en tenait responsable le Ministre des Munitions et des Approvisionnements de l'époque, C. D. Howe, qui aurait personnellement envoyé les copies des rapports canadiens aux responsables américains du projet Manhattan. Il faut noter que le Royaume-Uni, les États-Unis et le Canada avaient une entente secrète rendant cette collaboration tout à fait légitime à la suite de l'Accord de Québec.

Après la guerre, Pierre Demers devient professeur de physique à l'université de Montréal. Il y poursuit ses travaux de recherche sur l'ionographie corpusculaire et en particulier sur l'ionographie en couleur qu'il réalise grâce à des émulsions de bromure d'argent. Il travaille notamment à l'étude du rayonnement cosmique et solaire en poursuivant à la fois l'amélioration des techniques expérimentales et l'approfondissement de la connaissance. De 1946 à 1975, Pierre Demers multiplie les publications, les directions de thèses, les collaborations, les stages internationaux et les conférences sur le sujet (voir plus de deux cents entrées bibliographiques sur l'ionographie dans la Bibliographie interactive).

Le développement des capteurs magnétiques et numériques pour les accélérateurs de particules, en particulier les accélérateurs à cible fixe, rend graduellement désuète l'ionographie corpusculaire au cours des années 1970. Pierre Demers se concentre alors sur d'autres méthodes et d'autres sujets de recherche, notamment la perception colorée et le système du québécium.

Littérature et arts plastiques
Pierre Demers publie deux recueils de poésie :
 Nuits et Jours en 1943 ;
 Sonnets pour Noël et le Carnaval en 1962.
Il réalise également plusieurs tableaux, sculptures et installations, qui n'ont été exposées qu'à sa résidence.

Centre d'études prospectives du Québec (CEPQ)

En 1966, Pierre Demers fonde le Centre d'études prospectives du Québec, avec notamment Louis Cournand, Pierre Lefebvre, Clermont Pépin et Gilles Tremblay (musicien), qui se réunissent régulièrement à sa résidence. Plusieurs personnes qui influencent l'évolution du Québec après la révolution tranquille y collaborent, notamment Jacques-Yvan Morin, Rock Demers et André Barbeau. Surtout un foyer d'idées et de discussions, le Centre d'études prospectives du Québec produit néanmoins quelques publications, notamment sur la pollution par le bruit.

Centre québécois de la couleur (CQC)

Ayant œuvré avec succès à l'introduction de la couleur dans l'ionographie corpusculaire, Pierre Demers met de l'avant au début des années 1970 son intérêt pour la couleur. Après quelques publications théoriques sur le sujet, il fonde en 1975 le Centre québécois de la couleur avec neuf personnes :
 Camile Brouillet, professeur de couleur au Collège Ahuntsic, imprimerie ;
 André Delorme, professeur en psychologie de la perception visuelle à l'université de Montréal ;
 Lucie Duranceau, professeur de couleur et communication au Collège Dawson ;
 Pierre Garneau, directeur artistique à la scénographie de la Société Radio-Canada ;
 Ben V. Graham, professeur d'optométrie à l'université de Montréal ;
 Maurice Day, décorateur à la Société Radio-Canada et professeur de couleur à l'université du Québec à Montréal et dans divers cégeps;
 Alfred Pellan, peintre, muraliste, illustrateur et costumier québécois;
 Maurice Raymond, professeur de couleur à l'université du Québec à Montréal;
 Jean-Pierre Saint-Dizier, professeur de sciences physiques à l'université de Montréal;
 Charles E. Sénécal, industriel dans les matières plastiques.

Le Centre québécois de la couleur a plusieurs collaborateurs au fil des années, notamment :
 Pierre-Louis Aerts, ancien militaire ;
 Patrick Callet, chercheur en mathématiques (France) ;
 Yvon Cozic, artiste visuel ;
 Guido Molinari, artiste peintre.

Comme en témoignent ces listes de personnes, le Centre québécois de la couleur contribue à rapprocher les milieux scientifiques, artistiques et même industriels autour du thème de la couleur, au moment même où les technologies numériques font leur apparition. Mais il n'est pas qu'un foyer d'idées. Plusieurs activités expérimentales, rencontres et colloques marquent son parcours, notamment les documents cités en référence ci-dessous. Comme en témoignent Paulette Tourangeau et Maurice Day, le Centre québécois de la couleur aura participé entre 1975 et 1985 au renouveau de l'enseignement de la couleur au Québec.

En parallèle avec les activités du Centre québécois de la couleur, Pierre Demers réalise l'invention du Colorimètre, un appareil permettant de mesurer une couleur en la reproduisant par déplacement d'une plaque colorée devant une source lumineuse. Il obtient pour cette invention le brevet .

LISULF
En 1980, Pierre Demers crée la Ligue internationale des scientifiques pour l'usage de la langue française (LISULF) avec neuf personnes : Florian Gosselin, Jean-Claude Pechère, Rémy Chauvin, Michel Amyot, Guy Bouthillier, Arnold-Jean Drapeau, Gilbert Lannoy, Jean-Claude Richer, Jean-Pierre Saint-Dizier et Armand Vaillancourt. Cette ligue vise à promouvoir l'utilisation du français en science. Elle agit surtout par des propositions de politiques publiques, des manifestations et la publication d'une revue, Science et Francophonie.

La LISULF compte certaines années plusieurs centaines de membres, surtout issus des pays francophones. Active jusqu'en 2017, elle aura pu compter sur des dizaines de collaborateurs pour participer à des colloques, des discussions et pour produire des rapports.

Le programme de la LISULF comporte, notamment :
 le projet « Droit des auteurs » (DDA) par lequel la LISULF demande au législateur d'intervenir afin que les auteurs scientifiques conservent le droit de publier un article dans une autre langue, dans une autre revue, après une publication originale ;
 la manifestation annuelle « Pasteur parlait français » (PPF) par laquelle elle dénonce la décision de l'Institut Pasteur en 1989 que sa revue ne publie plus qu'en anglais. La manifestation a eu lieu tous les ans jusqu'en 2017 au carré Pasteur, rue Saint-Denis à Montréal.
Ses interventions ont conduit, par exemple, à la publication en français du livre sur la Quasiturbine du  Gilles Saint-Hilaire et sa famille.

La LISULF n'a pas survécu longtemps au décès de son principal bénévole. Elle a cessé ses activités en juin 2017.

Québécium

En 1995, Pierre Demers découvre un nouvel arrangement des éléments, différent du tableau périodique de Dmitri Mendeleiev, basé sur des symétries qu'il met au jour dans la répartition de leurs propriétés quantiques et physiques. L'arrangement auquel il conclut l'amène à estimer que les éléments possibles seraient au nombre de 120. Une version préliminaire (et par la suite jugée erronée par Pierre Demers) de ce système ayant conclu à  possibles, il postule l'existence de l'élément  et le baptise « québécium » (Qb) en l'honneur de sa patrie, le Québec. En 2016, les éléments 113, 115, 117 et 118 du tableau périodique de Dmitri Mendeleiev sont découverts par des scientifiques japonais, russes et américains. Les autres éléments hypothétiques mentionnés dans le système sont désignés par l'abréviation latine de leur numéro atomique ( Uuu pour l').

Le système du québécium organise les éléments en tenant compte des correspondances entre les états excités de l'hydrogène et les états électroniques des atomes. Il en arrive à un arrangement qui présente de façon symétrique les propriétés suivantes :
 le nombre quantique s : le spin ;
 le nombre quantique n : le niveau d'énergie ;
 le nombre quantique l : orbital ;
 le numéro atomique Z ;
 la sous-couche électronique s, p, d et f.

Cet arrangement a l'avantage, en outre, d'intégrer dans une géométrie régulière la totalité des éléments 1 à 120.

Pierre Demers est convaincu que cette découverte est beaucoup plus importante que ses précédentes. Il y voit une explication élégante et satisfaisante de ce que la science a longtemps considéré comme irrégulier ou inexplicable et la considère comme un pas vers une théorie unitaire, thème qui l'intéresse déjà depuis plusieurs décennies. Il y voit donc l'expression de lois de la nature sous-jacentes encore à découvrir et examine les régularités similaires dans plusieurs domaines, notamment en biochimie, en génétique et en anatomie.

À quelques jours de son , Pierre Demers travaillait encore activement à élaborer et améliorer ses textes sur le système du québécium. En particulier, il produit en octobre 2014 une explication simplifiée de la présentation elliptique des éléments et montre comment elle s'harmonise avec celle de Dmitri Mendeleiev, tout en l'améliorant. Une vidéo explicative du tableau elliptique des éléments est disponible en ligne.

Droits et batailles juridiques

Pierre Demers s'intéresse à la place faite au français depuis le début de sa carrière mais c'est surtout dans les années 1970, avec la pression grandissante pour la publication en anglais, que son attachement au principe de publier en français suscite des différends avec ses collègues de l'université de Montréal. C'est sur cette toile de fond que Pierre Demers conteste sa mise à la retraite obligatoire, pratique habituelle en 1980. Pierre Demers est convaincu de l'injustice de cette pratique et utilise son cas personnel pour tenter de l'abolir. Il perd sa cause mais des causes similaires intentées après l'institutionnalisation du droit au travail par la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés de 1982 et la Charte des droits et libertés du Québec en 1975 auront gain de cause, résultant en des modifications aux normes du travail du Québec qui interdisent la mise à la retraite obligatoire.

Plus tard, Pierre Demers conteste l'obligation de gazonner dans sa municipalité, Ville Saint-Laurent (fusionnée avec Montréal en 2002). Il utilise son terrain urbain pour collectionner des espèces végétales recueillies dans la nature et transforme ainsi sa pelouse en sous-bois, en contravention avec les règlements en vigueur, qu'il juge abusifs. Son combat juridique dure huit ans et se solde par une victoire partielle (2 des 3 points) de Pierre Demers en cour d'appel. Il aura quand même subi le réaménagement forcé de son terrain. Après la fusion de Ville Saint-Laurent dans Montréal, les autorités municipales cessent d'intervenir à ce sujet et Pierre Demers retrouve de facto la liberté d'aménager son terrain à sa guise. Selon son avocat, la cause de Pierre Demers c. Ville Saint-Laurent serait à l'origine de la refonte de pans entiers de règlements, sur les nuisances entre autres.

Autres activités publiques

Enfant et adolescent, Pierre Demers voisine à Outremont, où il réside, des personnages déjà importants dans l'histoire du Québec ou destinés à la devenir:  Henri Bourassa et sa famille, Omer Héroux et son fils Jean, André Laurendeau, Claude Labrecque qui fut missionnaire au Japon, Gaston Lavoisier, etc. Tout en poursuivant ses études et sa carrière scientifique, Pierre Demers participe de façon soutenue aux associations de scientifiques et aux mouvements sociaux. En plus du Centre d'études prospectives du Québec, du Centre québécois de la couleur et de la LISULF, il est impliqué dans un grand nombre d'organisations :

Prix et distinctions

Hommages
Le 17 novembre 2015, l'Assemblée nationale du Québec rend un hommage à Pierre Demers par cette motion, présentée par Maka Kotto du Parti québécois :

«Que l'Assemblée nationale rende hommage à M. Pierre Demers, l'un des plus éminents scientifiques du Québec, pour sa contribution remarquable à la promotion des sciences physiques et des sciences mathématiques;

«Qu'elle reconnaisse en la personne de ce physicien et chercheur de renommée internationale le combat légitime de toute une vie pour la promotion de l'usage de la langue française dans la communication scientifique, notamment par la création, en 1980, de la Ligue internationale des scientifiques pour l'usage de la langue française;

«Qu'elle salue, en ce mois marquant son 101 anniversaire de naissance, cet ardent défenseur de la culture québécoise et de la langue française qui demain, le 18 novembre 2015, se verra remettre le prix Marie-Victorin, dans le cadre des prestigieux prix du Québec, une distinction qui vient souligner l'extraordinaire carrière de ce pionnier de la recherche scientifique québécoise.»

En janvier 2016, Radio-Canada consacrait un reportage de 7 minutes à Pierre Demers.

L'herbier de Pierre Demers (herbier des années 1930), fut offert par la famille Demers aux Cercles des Jeunes Naturalistes qui fut envoyé à la collection de l'Herbier Marie-Victorin au Jardin botanique de Montréal en 2017 par André St-Arnaud, directeur général des Cercles des Jeunes Naturalistes, au même endroit que l'herbier de son idole le frère Marie-Victorin.

Références

Bibliographie
Liste des ouvrages :

 Bibliographie interactive, site officiel
 Bibliographie interactive sous forme d'une ligne du temps, site officiel
 Décennie 1930-1939
 Décennie 1940-1949
 Décennie 1950-1959
 Décennie 1960-1969
 Décennie 1970-1979
 Décennie 1980-1989
 Décennie 1990-1999
 Décennie 2000-2009

Notes bibliographiques : Détails

Liens externes

 Québécium, site officiel
 Site du centenaire de Pierre Demers, site officiel
 Page d'accueil personnelle, site officiel

Naissance en novembre 1914
Naissance dans le Kent
Élève de l'École normale supérieure
Élève du collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal
Étudiant de l'Université de Montréal
Universitaire canadien du XXe siècle
Universitaire québécois
Inventeur canadien du XXe siècle
Inventeur québécois
Scientifique canadien du XXe siècle
Scientifique québécois
Physicien québécois
Physicien canadien du XXe siècle
Agrégé de sciences physiques
Docteur ès sciences de la Faculté des sciences de Paris
Professeur à l'Université de Montréal
Membre de la Société royale du Canada
Membre de la Société américaine de physique
Membre de l'Académie lorraine des sciences
Chevalier de l'ordre de la Pléiade
Centenaire canadien
Décès à 102 ans
Décès en janvier 2017
Lauréat du prix Marie-Victorin
Ordre de Jacques-Cartier

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People of the Year 2018: Lars Wingefors
We speak to the CEO behind 2018's fastest-growing publisher about its ongoing acquisition spree and honouring THQ's legacy
If the old THQ was the prime example of how a games business can completely collapse, THQ Nordic surely is a textbook on how to build a new one.
Previously Nordic Games, the rapidly-growing publisher rebranded two years to match the more recognised but defunct firm from which it had already acquired so much intellectual property. In 2018, its expansion ramped up considerably, not only adding more franchises to its portfolio, but also entire studios and publishers.
In case you haven't been keeping up, THQ Nordic's acquisitions this year have included... (deep breath)... Carmageddon; Coffee Stain, including their three internal studios, plus various IP such as Goat Simulator and Sanctum; Bugbear Entertainment and the Wreckfest IP; the Expeditions series; Alone in the Dark; Act of War; Kingdoms of Amalur; TimeSplitters; Second Sight; developer HandyGames, plus its IP such as Townsmen and Aces of Luftwaffe; and, of course, Koch Media and Deep Silver, including their three internal studios, 800 employees, the Dead Island and Saints Row IP, plus the licence for Metro.
Lars Wingefors, THQ Nordic
And the publisher isn't stopping there.
Sitting with his hand steadily on the tiller is CEO Lars Wingefors, who points to 2018 as the year THQ Nordic truly showed its hand.
"I told everyone that we would do acquisitions and organically invest in our own development, and this year we've started to see the first fruits from that," he tells GamesIndustry.biz.
"Many things have happened this year. I told everyone from the beginning that this would all take time - it takes time to develop games, at least three years - so it's been great to show our stakeholders, whether that's employees, shareholders or the industry, that we've started delivering."
By far the standout acquisition has been the €121 million purchase of Koch Media -- and one that has most definitely paid off. In the first quarter after the acquisition, the addition of Koch's games to the balance sheet saw revenues increase by 673% -- in the most recent financials, this rocketed to 1,403%. Profits are also up, rising by 65% year-on-year in Q3 and almost tripling year-on-year for January 1 to September 30, up 179.5%.
Koch's portfolio is even outperforming that of its new parent, although Wingefors says he has no plans to merge the two.
"My aim is definitely to continue acquiring IPs -- and I personally have a deep love for many of these old games"
"They are working together in terms of distribution and discussing whether we could explore IPs - Koch can explore THQ IPs and we can explore some of theirs. So there are many things going on as brothers and sisters, but they are totally running their own business and I firmly believe in that strategy, not creating one big organisation. Because that's a big business risk and it's very easy to destroy a lot of value and people's willingness to enjoy their work when you start micromanaging and cutting things."
He continues: "In terms of revenues, I haven't set targets that either of them need to be meeting. I think we can all prosper within the same group -- and now we have Coffee Stain on board, that gives us a third leg when it comes to games. God knows, one day there might be a fourth."
The addition of Koch's portfolio also elevated THQ Nordic as a publishers. Saints Row, in particular, is a hugely popular IP, while the upcoming Metro Exodus is a far larger title -- both in terms of scale and investment -- than anything the firm has produced before, shifting it towards the upper end of the mid-range in which it sits and potentially closer to AAA.
Yet the properties it has acquired continue to vary in scope and appeal. The Expeditions IP caters entirely to fans of squad-based tactical RPGs, while Goat Simulator is a notably more accessible and free-form affair.
Lars Wingefors started the company with just seven people but has since grown it to nearly 2,000. Photo: Claes Thirmar
Wingefors tells us this is intentional, as he is actively avoiding the 'fewer, bigger, better' strategy -- one that the previous THQ adopted in its waning years -- that has contributed to the downfall of publishers past.
"We have the opposite strategy, not concentrating on a few IPs but looking at a very diversified pipeline," he says. "All these labels like AAA, AA, indie - I'm not looking at things from that perspective, I think we need to stay focused on the daily business."
"I told everyone that we would do acquisitions and organically invest in our own development, and this year we've started to see the first fruits from that"
It might appear that THQ Nordic is simply snapping up any properties it can get its hands on, but Wingefors maintains that "we have a very clear strategy of what we want". Not only that, but there are plenty of developers and publishers that have expressed interest in being acquired as well because they "think they could prosper within our group".
Such was the case for Bugbear and Coffee Stain, Wingefors tells us, adding that nothing identifies a promising potential acquisition like a publishing relationship.
"You sign them as a publisher, then you get to know them for a number of years and then sometimes we welcome them to the group," he says.
"We don't have to buy everything, we don't have to own everything. There are so many great, great game companies out there in the world but I think they might have a price expectation or valuation driven by financial markets that makes them too big a business risk for us to put on our balance sheets. That's why I'm keen to have a very broad acquisition strategy. My ambition is to slowly build something substantial that will be sustainable for a very long time."
But given the rate at which THQ Nordic is growing, is there not a danger that such a vast publishing business could become unsustainable? Wingefors doesn't believe so -- in fact, he cites this as another reason for not merging Koch or Coffee Stain into their parent.
"Each publishing division sets their own pace as to how much they could organically grow, whether that's by development or by acquisitions within their own divisions," he says. "I prefer building the group through publishing divisions because it's a very efficient way for me to run the business and to allocate capital and create shareholder value."
Of course, it's one thing to acquire properties and another to do something with that investment. To begin with, THQ Nordic has mostly concentrated on straight ports and even a handful of remasters for the more popular brands in its library. De Blob, Red Faction and Titan Quest all returned to shelves this year in some form, while Darksiders received its first sequel in six years.
"My ambition is to slowly build something substantial that will be sustainable for a very long time"
Wingefors has already told us that the development of a new Darksiders was "fairly quick" and that: "Out of the more than 100 IPs we own, you shouldn't expect sequels from all of them because not all IPs are relevant any more."
Expanding on this, he says: "Creating a new sequel [in certain genres] might be very difficult. Not only can that be difficult, we'd also be trying to bring back the old creators of the IP, and they might be locked into various studios or situations [for years]. That's why we're acquiring a good number of IPs, because it takes a long time to execute on it and you need a lot of them to start having a pipeline.
"My aim is definitely to continue acquiring IPs -- and I personally have a deep love for many of these old games. Collecting them all together makes sense and we have shown fans that we are actually able to do something with them. Although, some fans are impatient and want us to put out new content very quickly."
Managing fan expectations is "always a challenge with IPs", Wingefors says, adding that taking franchises forwards without the original developers behind the wheel is going to be a hurdle THQ Nordic will regularly have to overcome in the future. The problem with franchises that have been absent for many years is everyone waiting for its return wants a different thing.
"You could see that from Darksiders -- some fans prefer Darksiders 1, some prefer Darksiders 2 and we tried to do something different but still recognisable for the old fans," says Wingefors. "I think it would be the same for De Blob or Red Faction, it's all partly because people have great memories from their childhood of an IP. It's like having a memory of an old film or TV series. But not everything has aged very well -- you need to make different gameplay to make it a relevant product, and that's challenging because you can face some very loud opinions on social media when you're trying to change something.
Darksiders III has been a crucial test for THQ Nordic, as it's the first new titles it has developed from one of the 100-plus IPs acquired over the past few years
"This is why it takes time. We need time to understand the IP really well, we need to talk to fans and the old creators -- perhaps they can't join the team, but they can give us some input. We also need to find people who are passionate about the IP -- there are a lot of developers out there who really like IPs, such as Titan Quest or Darksiders amongst many others."
The rate at which THQ Nordic has been acquiring dormant IP might seem an expensive endeavour -- particularly if the publisher isn't planning on creating new products with all of them -- but Wingefors assures that, "we haven't paid a monstrous amount for any IP."
"We're not concentrating on a few IPs but looking at a very diversified pipeline. All these labels like AAA, AA, indie - I'm not looking at things from that perspective"
The remasters and ports released so far are "meeting their financial expectations" and the cash flow is helping to fund other projects, even in small ways. The CEO also views them as "long-term investments", pointing to Red Faction Guerilla ReMarstered as an example of a "product that we can update and put it out on new generations for many years to come."
With 55 titles in development -- 35 of which have yet to be announced, plus whichever products will be added through Coffee Stain's development and publishing pipelines -- it's something of an understatement when Wingefors tells us THQ Nordic has a "very wide range of games" on the horizon.
The amount of IP THQ Nordic has acquired means the company could very comfortably become a catalogue business, one living off sales of remasters and remakes -- yet Wingefors has demonstrated he's determined to keep pushing the business forward.
At a time when we're losing count of how many new publishers are emerging, regardless of their focus or chosen niche, video games is becoming an increasingly competitive environment -- especially beyond the realm of AAA blockbusters. Having a hefty portfolio of well-known and well-loved IP under your belt gives you as good a chance to thrive as any, but actually capitalising on those properties and demonstrating how you plan to take them forward is the key to keeping those pre-established audiences interested in your product.
In 2018, Wingefors and his team has most certainly demonstrated that and show no signs of resting on their success thus far.
"We can't just say that we're happy with what we've got," he concludes. "We need to continue delivering new products -- whether they are remasters, remakes or sequels -- in order to continue selling the old content.
"I don't think we'd have the success as a company if we just had the strategy of acquiring IPs and not making any new content. The receptions from either fans, industry or platform holders wouldn't be the same. Now everyone understands it's a process: we bring out the old content and sell it, and then we make a new version if we think there's demand and we can find the right developers. I hope that fans understand this better now."
The SpongeBob SquarePants effect: Why THQ Nordic is doubling down on licenses
CEO Klemens Kreuzer discusses the Purple Lamp acquisition and being part of the ever-expanding Embracer empire
By James Batchelor
Embracer Group acquires 13 studios: Here's everything you need to know
Flying Wild Hog, Coffee Stain North, Zen Studios, Julian Gollop's Snapshot Games, and more added to THQ Nordic parent's growing games empire


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Q: if datediff equal 1 hour, update table alrighty--i've never used datediff before, and I'm kinda a morron when it comes to sql, but i'm trying to get this code to work and am having no luck.
$date = date('Y-m-d H:i:s',strtotime('now'));
$sql = "UPDATE starinformation SET starOwner = nextOwner WHERE DATEDIFF(minute, SiegeStart, :date) = 60";
$que = $db->prepare($sql);
$que->bindParam('date', $date);

try{
      $que->execute();
} catch(PDOException $e) {
   $e->getMessage();
}

I want it to update the table where the difference between the two dates is at least 1 hour.

A: Try changing this:
$que->bindParam('date', $date);

to this:
$que->bindValue(':date', $date);

A: Based on your question title, you need to change the query to
$sql = "UPDATE starinformation SET starOwner = nextOwner WHERE DATEDIFF(hour, SiegeStart, :date) = 1";

Secondly, please ensure that SiegeStart is later than :date, else the result will be negative since the DATEDIFF parameters are Interval, StartDate and EndDate.

A: First off, you state "I want it to update the table where the difference between the two dates is at least 1 hour" (emphasis added).
To do this you will want to compare minutes to >= 60. I would strongly recommend against using DATEDIFF(hour, ..) >= 1. Reason being that DATEDIFF() uses boundaries.
e.g.
SELECT DATEDIFF(hour, '2014-02-14 08:59:59', '2014-02-14 09:00:00')
SELECT DATEDIFF(minute, '2014-02-14 08:59:59', '2014-02-14 09:00:00')
SELECT DATEDIFF(second, '2014-02-14 08:59:59', '2014-02-14 09:00:00')

The result is 1 for all 3, as you crossed 1 hour boundary, 1 minute boundary, 1 second boundary. This comes as a surprise to many.
If your code is still not doing what you want, run a SQL Profiler to catch the SQL it is running, and manually run that SQL to see the result. This will often show any issues with a generated SQL statement that are hard to debug.

A: Try changing your query as follows:
$sql = "UPDATE starinformation SET starOwner = nextOwner WHERE DATEDIFF(minute, SiegeStart, :date) >= 60";


Introduction by Foster, Carter E.
Over the course of more than 30 years, Roni Horn has developed a body of work of concentrated visual power, classical in its restraint, beauty and sensitivity to material. Horn's pieces invite conceptual engagement, though her practice defies easy categorization, and also elicit in the viewer a refreshed attention to matter itself, to make being here enough (as the title of a previous monograph put it). Her subtle explorations of the complex energies between object and subject have expanded the vocabulary of every medium in which she works. This slipcased, two-volume set accompanies the most comprehensive overview of Horn's work to date--which opens at Tate Modern in London in February 2009 and then travels to New York's Whitney Museum of American Art in November of that same year--and has been overseen by the artist herself. The first volume includes a plate section of works in the exhibition with an essay by Briony Fer; the second volume, the subject index, is fully illustrated and includes texts on a variety of topics related to Horn's work by a host of prominent artists, critics, curators and cultural figures, alongside the artist's own writing. Born in New York in 1955, Roni Horn achieved international recognition in the 1980s, and her works have been the subject of numerous major exhibitions since. In 2007, she undertook Artangel's first international commission, creating Vatnasafn/Library of Water, a long-term installation in the town of Stykkisholmur, Iceland. She has had solo exhibitions at numerous leading art institutions, including Inverleith House, Edinburgh (2006), Fotomuseum Winterthur (2003), The Art Institute of Chicago (2004), Folkwang Museum, Essen (2004), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2003), Dia Center for the Arts, New York (2001-02) and Museo Serralves, Porto (2001).


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Day one has finished itself off quite wonderfully and here I am in bed typing up a few words. While I ran hard today and am tired right now I know that tomorrow I will bring yet more energy to the game, more speed, more intensity because that's what my team needs and deserves.
Liquid starts down 6-1 against MONSTER. Puts a zone on (…a monster) when the wind kicks up and manages to tie it at 8-8. Both teams then play man and trade points until Liquid gets a couple breaks to win 15-12. Teams are surprised when I mention this.
Too Bad holds seed with no upsets. Loses to Blackfish…interesting game that will fit into a later post I have about this game we play.
Stella holds onto a lead against Lotus until late in their game at which point Lotus dials it in and squeaks out a victory.
I saw many of my friends, old friends, new friends, and some of the ladies of Super Hot Pot (from Paganello).
Gecko upsets TFP; is this a ploy on TFP's part? I suspect that it's a hard fought win.
ONYX also upsets Pyschoplastique to take first seed in their pool.
New baby Mackie is a darling little baby.
DiscGraceful has three close loses that end their shot at the top 8.
Karma (16th seed Toronto team) shows strength in their core fundamentals by beating Demon but is still relegated on point differential (Demon beat Sofa Kings). I expect a top 12 finish from this team, they will contest for top 10.
I will be at the fields early again to Tweet some top games.
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FORTALEZA, Brazil – UFC on ESPN+ 2 ceremonial fighter weigh-ins take place today, and you can catch a live video stream of the proceedings here on MMAjunkie at 4 p.m. ET (1 p.m. PT).
The weigh-ins take place at Centro de Formacao Olimpica do Nordeste in Fortaleza, Brazil. The same venue hosts Saturday's event, which streams on ESPN+.
In addition to the video stream above, you can check out the early and official UFC on ESPN+ 2 weigh-in results from earlier in the day.
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Bahumi on new TV show, "Grown Woman"
Somizi's daughter, Bahumi Mhlongo secures a role on a new South African TV show.
The TV show which is titled Grown Woman will be premiered on 1Magic on 3 February at 9.30pm.
The dramedy stars actress Linda Sokhulu alongside Bohang Moeko, Hlubi Mboya, Bahumi Mhlongo and Nandi Nyembe.
Speaking about the show, Shirley Adonisi, director of local entertainment channels at M-Net, said they are all for stories about women taking charge of their lives.
"Friday nights on 1Magic have become the home of edgy, boundary-pushing shows about women taking charge of their lives and narratives.
"We're excited to keep this genre going and to push it forward with the premiere of Grown Woman, and we can't wait for our audiences to engage with it," said Shirley.


The Travelling Natural History Museum, it's a museum that visits you! An exhibition or workshop that can easily be adapted to your venue and timescale and will give you access to the UK's largest travelling collection of fossils and replicas.
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We curate dinosaur and natural history-themed exhibitions and events, create exciting dinosaur workshops for schools and run unforgettable children's parties with our historical artefacts, fossils and LIFE SIZE REPLICAS.
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What I loved about 1997's "Men in Black" was it embraced its own corniness. The aliens were over-the-top and blew up like Jello molds; the sets had a distinct comic book feel to them; and the story balanced workplace comedy with fantastical backdrops. The style worked, propelling the film to financial and critical greatness. But I lost all hope when the sequel, "Men in Black II," dropped in 2002 and turned out to be just a cash grab. However, this summer's Men in Black III is a surprise return to form that, while flawed, breathes new life to a franchise none expected to make a comeback.
Despite 14 years on the job Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) still aren't communicating as well as they should be. While they work out the kinks in their relationship, a ruthless alien criminal named Boris the Animal (Jemaine Clement) takes aim at the latter and travels back to 1969 to assassinate his younger incarnate. By doing so, he alters the timeline, changing the Agency and wiping the Arknet, a security system that's protected the Earth from full-scale alien invasions, from existence. With the present facing catastrophe, J uses his own time machine to venture back to the same year, where he teams up with a 29-year-old K (played by Josh Brolin) and Griffin (Michael Stuhlbarg), an all-knowing fifth dimensional being, to find and defeat Boris before he disrupts the flow of history.
As with any threequel, there are bumps along the way. Written by Etan Cohen (with creative input from David Koepp, Jeff Nathanson, and Michael Soccio), the screenplay for Men in Black III has some outdated jokes and slang which, given the film's premise, might've worked had they not been so distracting. Fortunately, it also doesn't go the way of "Dark Shadows" and get hung up on making trite "man out of his time" jokes. In addition, Boris could've been handled differently. Clement, of "Flight of the Conchords" fame, would've been more memorable had his role consisted of more than cheesy motives and maniacal laughter. But, to be fair, it's always been more about our shade-donning heroes than the villains.
Brolin does an excellent job keeping the duo fresh. Director Barry Sonnenfeld's (who returns to the helm with a vengeance) crowning achievement was casting the "No Country for Old Men" star, who looks and sounds like fans would imagine a young K to. Most importantly, he has chemistry with Smith. Both actors are visibly enthusiastic and keep us interested even when the story starts to dip. A rather poignant twist at the end (and the closest the franchise has come to heart-wrenching drama) sends K and J's relationship home and sets the scene for a possible fourth installment — something I'm now definitely excited for.
That's not to jump ahead of myself — especially not before discussing the superb visual and special effects. Many of the aliens were devised by makeup expert Rick Baker and while there aren't as many as in previous chapters, the ones shown remain lovably cartoony and maintain that quintessential "Men in Black" aesthetic. So does the final action set-piece, which is set at Cape Kennedy on the day of the first moon landing attempt. However, the added 3D doesn't add much and remains a superfluous incentive.
And as much as I enjoyed Men in Black III, I could've help but notice one glaring omission: Frank, the talking pug. Life, I suppose, must be ruff in the life of canine MIB agents.
Not as good as the first but much better than the second.
It's an entertaining enough flick but it lacks a good sampling of Rick Baker inspired aliens.
For lack of a better way to describe MIB III, it's MIB without TLJ.
Josh Brolin was great call to play a young Tommy Lee Jones. Of course MIB isn't the same without Jones, so I would have still liked to see more of him.
Overall, MIB 3 is a good picture though.
I guess after the letdown that was MIB2 and the extended layoff, MIB3 is as good as one could expect.
Will Smith still has his star power. I found the movie light & entertaining, that is until the end got a bit emotional.
Has star power, sure, but that doesn't have anything to do with anything. He didn't have any zing in his quips – it felt like he was on cruise control the whole time.
Good review of a good movie. Missing was the continuity with the previous movies though.
I had written this off so I'm happy to hear it is so well received. I still think I'll wait for it to show up on my NetFlix queue in a few months…..
I liked it alot—plus it managed to knock the Avengers from the top spot!


• It is the only common duck in eastern North America in which the sexes are almost identical in appearance.
• Fossil records indicate that American black ducks evolved in the Pleistocene glacial era.
The American Black Duck occupies a variety of habitats across its breeding range. In Canada, the highest breeding densities of this duck occur in the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence River region of mixed forests. On the Atlantic coast and on the St. Lawrence estuary, the American Black Duck is particularly abundant in coastal marshes. In northern Ontario and Quebec, countless lakes, ponds, and streams provide an extensive but sparsely populated breeding area. Small groups also spend the nonbreeding season in southern Canada (see map), both inland, at ice-free sites where there is abundant food, and on the Atlantic coast, in bays and estuaries.
Like other dabbling ducks, the American Black Duck takes off from the surface of the water by rising straight up into the air, unlike the diving ducks, which run along the water to become airborne.
All ducks tend to return in fall and winter to the same marshes that they visited the previous year, but this trait is most pronounced in the American Black Duck. When tidal feeding areas have become frozen in New England, some American Black Ducks have starved rather than migrate farther south to unfamiliar ground.
The American Black Duck is found in eastern and central North America, largely east of the Great Plains and south of the tundra.
As temperatures drop and the feeding areas freeze over one by one, the southward migration starts. The onset of migration is earliest (early September) in northern interior parts of the American Black Duck's range and follows a broad front southwards and towards the coast. North American waterfowl migrate along one or more of four major flyways: the Atlantic, the Mississippi, the Central, and the Pacific. Most American Black Ducks follow the Atlantic Flyway, but about a third of them use the Mississippi. There is no mass movement of American Black Ducks, as occurs with some prairie ducks. The American Black Ducks move in groups of 20 to 100, leapfrogging each other from one area of good food to another.
When the northern birds reach southern Canada they encounter waterfowl hunters in significant numbers for the first time. American Black Ducks are naturally alert and wary, and they are among the most difficult of all ducks to deceive. To survive, they must learn to avoid decoys, calls, and blinds. They spend the daylight hours in "rafts" (flocks on the surface of the water) far out on large bodies of water where they cannot be approached. They come in to feed in fields of grain stubble or in freshwater marshes only at dusk and leave at the first streaks of dawn.
By the first week of November, migrating American Black Ducks have reached their northernmost nonbreeding areas along Lakes Erie and Ontario, the St. Lawrence River, and the Atlantic coast from the Bay of Fundy south. A few spend the nonbreeding season in the jagged bays of Nova Scotia. Grand Manan and the surrounding islands hold some, but most continue south.
Along the Atlantic coast, migrating American Black Ducks mingle with other birds, including Black, Surf, and White-winged Scoters, as well as Oldsquaws, Harlequin Ducks, eiders, Canada Geese, and Brant. This host moves south to the great bays and sounds of the nonbreeding grounds of the mid-Atlantic coast. As the migration progresses, the American Black Ducks from farthest north drop out, travelling just far enough south to assure an unfrozen food supply. Migration tapers off in early December.
In the interior of the continent, large numbers of American Black Ducks spend the nonbreeding season in the marshes and river valleys south of the Great Lakes.
By the time ducklings have hatched, the surfaces of streams, lakes, marshes, and ponds are nutritious "soups" of mosquito larvae and other insects and tiny water animals which collectively are called aquatic invertebrates. This is the sole food of the ducklings for their first two weeks. They go on to larger items, such as tadpoles and snails, as they grow stronger, and finally begin dabbling for the seeds and tubers, or fleshy roots, of a variety of aquatic plants, as the adults do at this time of year.
Animal foods such as periwinkles, mussels, and various snails become increasingly important to American Black Ducks during their nonbreeding period on the coast. Birds inland continue to eat the seeds and other parts of various aquatic plants. Waste corn in harvested fields is an important food in late fall and winter, whenever it occurs near water areas used by the ducks.
Adult black ducks begin selecting a mate in the fall, and probably most are paired by mid-December. Immatures begin pairing somewhat later, but almost all American Black Ducks arrive paired at the breeding grounds in the spring.
The female selects the nest site, usually in a clump of grass, under a shrub or tree, or in a hole or fork in a tree, near the ground. She digs a scrape (nest) using both feet and her bill, then lines it with grasses, leaves, and other dry plant material. She plucks down, or fine feathers, from her body and adds it to the nest during the approximately one- to two-week period when she is laying her seven to 12 (nine on average) creamy white, or sometimes greenish-buff, eggs.
Incubation, or protection of the eggs until they hatch, takes up to 29 days from the laying of the last egg. Whenever the female leaves the nest during this time, she covers the eggs with down to keep them warm; the male remains nearby for another one to three weeks but does not sit on the eggs. As incubation progresses the males become more and more restless and leave the sitting females for increasing stretches.
Around the time that the first eggs hatch, the males fly to the nearest large body of water and congregate in the centre. Here they moult, or shed their old feathers. They remain flightless for about 10 days until their new primary feathers grow in. Their protection from enemies, such as people, hawks, and owls, at this vulnerable time depends on the fact that it is impossible to approach them unseen on their open lake. They dive to escape danger.
The chicks hatch within a few hours of one another. Shortly afterwards, the female leads them to water to feed. If the nest is far from water and the spring run-off has dried up, this journey may be long and difficult for the young ducklings.
The female guards the ducklings closely for seven to eight weeks until their first flight feathers appear. Then, leaving the young to feed and learn to fly, the female retires into a secluded area to moult. She loses her flight feathers, also remaining flightless for about 10 days until a complete set of new feathers grows in.
As soon as the young are capable of flying from the marshes to the open lakes they leave the females and join the males. Later the females arrive one by one, flying out of the marshes on their newly feathered, shining wings.
While hardy, this duck has nevertheless been a focus of concern among conservationists in recent decades. Once the most abundant dabbling duck in eastern North America, the American Black Duck began a serious population decline in the 1950s, and its populations reached all-time lows in the early 1980s. Populations are currently steady, but there are only about half as many American Black Ducks as there were in the early 1950s.
The decline in the American Black Duck population between the 1950s and the 1980s occurred for a variety of reasons, including habitat losses in both breeding and wintering areas, hunting, competition with Mallards for nesting sites, as well as hybridization with Mallards. In Canada during that 30-year period, habitat loss in the agricultural and industrialized areas of southern Ontario and Quebec led to serious declines in American Black Duck breeding populations. Subsequent surveys indicated that the Canadian population was stabilizing. In the remaining forested breeding habitat, including most of northeastern Ontario, boreal Quebec, and the Atlantic provinces, American Black Duck breeding populations were stable or increasing.
As an initial response to the continental decline of American Black Ducks, the United States and Canada tightened hunting restrictions in 1983 and 1984 respectively. In Canada, further tightening of restrictions was needed, and the improved regulations were introduced in 1989 and 1990. The average number of American Black Ducks killed by hunters yearly has fallen by about 26 percent in Canada since 1989. The corresponding drop in the United States was about 44 percent.
The signing of the joint Canada–United States North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP) in 1986 was another important step forward in the conservation of the American Black Duck. NAWMP is a plan to protect and enhance wetland habitat throughout North America. It aims to restore the populations of ducks, geese, and swans to the levels of the 1970s.
Large-scale aerial surveys of breeding populations of all species of eastern ducks, Canada Geese, and some non-game species initiated in 1990 by the Black Duck Joint Venture, a working group under NAWMP, are providing important data for an ongoing analysis of breeding population trends.
In wintering areas, wildlife managers face problems posed by the degradation and destruction of American Black Duck habitat. For example, mid-Atlantic coastal areas have been affected by ditch-building to control mosquito populations, coastal lagoon and housing developments, and environmental contamination by pollutants.
There is no solid evidence of major decreases in quality or quantity of breeding habitat for American Black Ducks since the late 1980s, except in specific areas, such as those disrupted by the James Bay hydroelectric project. An increase in beaver populations may even be creating more wetland breeding habitat.
In shared habitat, competition and cross-breeding with the genetically dominant Mallard could be contributing to the decline of the American Black Duck as a distinct species. Since 1940, about 1.7 million game-farm Mallards have been released within the range of the American Black Duck. Not only does this increase the problem of hybridization, or crossbreeding, it also increases competition for breeding sites, because both species appear to prefer wetlands with similar characteristics.
Toxic chemicals also affect the American Black Duck breeding population. The traces of DDT that remain in the food chain today are believed to have minimal effects. (The U.S. banned DDT in 1971, and Canada has phased out its use.) However, the less persistent toxic chemicals now being used for spruce budworm control can cause temporary reductions in the aquatic invertebrate foods, such as insects and tiny water animals, available to ducklings. When acid rain or snow causes water to become acidic, many invertebrates die, causing ducklings to starve.
Lead poisoning from lead shot and fishing tackle has caused death and other effects in waterfowl for over 30 years. Lead poisoning may weaken birds, so they are more susceptible to disease. In Canada, lead-free hunting zones have been set up in areas where the problem is serious, and in the United States there was a ban on lead shot in 1991. Ducks' exposure to lead is expected to decline.
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Wright, B.S. 1966. Black duck spring. Clarke Irwin Co., Toronto.
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Learn about Tibetan culture from monks, get your pets blessed at Norman tour group events
NORMAN — Norman Cultural Connection will be hosting the Sacred Arts of Tibet tour group for a variety of public events Sept. 7-19.
A lecture series and the artistic creation of a mandala sand painting will be among the events led by the Tibetan monks from Gaden Shartse Monastic College.
The tour presentations will begin with "The Art and Culture of Tibet" from 1:30 to 2:45 p.m. Tuesday at Mainsite Contemporary Art. The event is free and open to the public.
Pet Blessings will be offered from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Sept. 11 at A1 Pet Emporium with a suggested donation of $10. Pets should be on a leash or in a crate.
Also on Sept. 11, the "Tibetan Calligraphy" and "Butter Sculpture Class" will be hosted by the Norman Public Library Central from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Pre-registration is required at pioneer.libnet.info/event/5215985.
Then on Sept. 12, "Indigenous Welcome Gathering" and "Indian Hand Games" will be from noon to 4 p.m. at First American United Methodist Church.
The creation of the "Boundless Love" sand mandala will begin with an opening ceremony at 7 p.m. Sept. 13 at St. John's Episcopal Church. The monks also may be observed throughout the week as they continue the ancient ritual of creating the sand painting. The sand mandala may be viewed from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily Sept. 14-17.
Additionally, a series of public lectures will take place at 7 p.m. Sept. 14-16 at St. John's Episcopal Church, beginning with "The Power of Loving Kindness" on Sept. 14, "Climate Change" on Sept. 15 and "The Vajravidarin Healing Ritual" on Sept. 16. The suggested donation for each lecture is $10.
The program is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Norman Arts Council Hotel Tax Grant Program, Oklahoma Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional support is provided by Gabriel Bird DDS, Velie Law Firm, STASH, Swift Real Estate Company, and We Are One Foundation.
No events will be held on Sept. 18, and the closing ceremony will take place at 2:30 p.m. Sept. 19.
The monks will be available for personal, business and home blessings. To schedule an appointment or for more information, contact Marial Martyn, executive director of Norman Cultural Connection, at 405-201-9991 or email mmartyn@normancc.org.
Norman Cultural Connection has been hosting the Sacred Arts of Tibet tour groups since 2008. Masks are recommended when attending this year's events.
For more information, follow Norman Cultural Connection on Facebook or go to www.normanculturalconnection.org.


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Thom Hammersley, Rick Hartley and Ian Collins are Rocketship Forest, and describe themselves as a combination of punk, folk, metal, mariachi and electronica.
The band is singer Thom's second longest relationship and I talked to them all about their previous bands, their DIY approach to recording and releasing their music, and their move into putting on their own nights under The Headache Factory banner.
They also talk about each of their own interpretations of the band's songs, exactly what "Jimmy's got a little lizard" means (spoilers: nothing, but it sounds great), and the places Karl Marx used to drink in Salford.
Finally, they perform a brand new song named after Helen McClory's prompt from episode one (if you haven't listened to it, do yourself a favour and stick it in your ears now.
You can find Rocketship Forest on Twitter and Facebook, and you can listen to them on Spotify too. Thom's podcast, The Headache Factory is brilliant and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, but also here.


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Plastic With Purpose
Posted on December 5, 2018 by Clare Furlonger in Guest
[About the author: Clare Furlonger is Marketing and Communications Manager for LeapFrog Investments. Clare was a student on the City, University of London Writing for Business short course in Oct-Dec 2018, and wrote this blog as part of a homework/in-class exercise on that course.]
If I were to light a cigarette in the central London office where I work, would it be ok?
It'd be pretty absurd right? I mean for one, I don't smoke. But more to the point, it's illegal. And more than that, it's really socially unacceptable. We know the harmful effects smoking and second-hand smoke have on our health. And because of this, employers have a responsibility to prevent employees from smoking at work.
But this wasn't always the case. 20 years ago, banning smoking in the workplace was considered a 'radical' idea, because smoking was everywhere. You could smoke not only in offices but in schools, in restaurants, on planes, in shops, in cinemas, in bars and pubs, in hospitals, on buses and trains, everywhere. It was normal. Just as using plastic is normal. It's in all the places I just mentioned. We don't even realise, because we are so conditioned to it surrounding us.
Don't get me wrong, plastic is an incredible invention that has revolutionised the world and how we live. It has its purpose. But like smoking, plastic is harmful. To our health, economies, and the environment.
Plastic and our health
Many chemical additives that give plastic products desirable performance properties have negative human health effects. Exposure to these chemicals during manufacturing and through plastic package leaching has been linked to adverse health effects including cancers, birth defects, impaired immunity, endocrine disruption, and developmental and reproductive issues. A recent study of stool samples from individuals across eight countries found every sample contained micro pieces of plastics. In some cases, nine different types of plastic were found in a single sample.
Plastic and our economies
The world produces nearly 300 million tonnes of plastic per year. That is the entire weight of the earth's population combined. It is estimated that 50 per cent of plastic is used once and thrown away, and 91 per cent of plastics are not recycled. Poorly managed waste can have a detrimental effect on economies, creating healthcare costs, productivity losses, clean-up costs, and social inequality.
Plastic and the environment
Plastic hugely impacts the environment. Ineffective waste disposal leads to pollution of surface and ground water. It has a devastating effect on seas and oceans with more than 90 per cent of marine plastics coming from land-based sources. This plastic pollution harms wildlife. Turtles mistake floating plastic bags as jellyfish and eat them, fatally blocking their guts. Birds confuse small plastic toys, bottle caps, lighters and other items as food and ingest them, dying as a result. Seals get plastic rings stuck around their necks or become entangled in plastic debris, causing severe injury and drowning. Just last week, a dead whale that washed ashore in Indonesia was found with 1,000 pieces of plastic in its stomach, including 115 cups, 25 bags, four bottles, two flip flops, and a nylon sack.
Plastic never fully biodegrades. Instead, plastics photodegrade. They break down under UV light into smaller and smaller pieces to the microscopic level. As they do, any toxic additives they contain are released into the environment. They seep into water, into the sea life, into the plant life; into everything. These tiny plastic pieces, known as microplastics, break down further and persist unseen in the deepest layers of the environment indefinitely.
At this very moment, one in three fish caught for human consumption contains microscopic plastics. So, if you eat fish, you're eating plastic.
Our over consumption of plastics and in particular single use plastics – remember 50 per cent of all plastic is single use – is having a devastating effect on the entire planetary ecosystem. And, not so-fun fact, more than half of the world's oxygen is produced via phytoplankton photosynthesis which occurs in the ocean. So, if these phytoplankton cannot survive due to plastic pollution, neither can we.
An insurmountable challenge?
Learning the facts and realising the magnitude of our plastic problem can be daunting. But there are ways we can all make a difference; and businesses are particularly well placed to drive positive change.
Here are five ways to use plastic purposefully in the workplace and reduce plastic pollution.
1. Inform and educate
Your team needs to realise the importance of tackling plastic waste. But this isn't about guilt tripping your colleagues into reducing their plastic consumption. It's about creating awareness, suggesting easy alternatives and inciting a desire to be part of a global movement for the better.
Like the tonnes of plastic in the sea, there is a tonne of informative podcasts, interviews, resources and films on this issue which can be shared with your team.
Engaging with like-minded communities and organisations and signing up to be part of initiatives like plastic free July are also good ways to increase awareness.
2. Reduce
Conducting an audit of the current suppliers and products your office uses for printing, catering and office supplies is a great way to reduce plastic waste. Your office can then develop a procurement policy that ensures future suppliers source goods and services that are produced sustainably, can be recycled or reused, and don't require excessive packaging.
3. Reuse
Two and half billion coffee cups are thrown away in Britain every year alone. Providing reusable coffee cups for your team is an easy way to contribute to reducing this number. When given a reusable cup, each team member could sign a plastic with purpose manifesto, committing to reduce their use of plastic and to saying no to single use plastics.
4. Recycle
Look into what can be recycled and how efficient your current waste and recycling management is. 70 per cent of UK office waste is recyclable but only seven and a half per cent reaches recycling facilities. Throwing just a small amount of unrecyclable material into recycled material can cause the entire portion to become contaminated. So, ensuring individuals are aware of the right way to recycle is key. Colour coded bins and decreasing the number of general rubbish bins help too.
Holding competitions to see which office, team, or individual can recycle the most plastic or use the least amount of single-use plastics in a month is a good way to keep your team engaged and motivated.
5. Replace
By saying no to single-use plastics and consciously adopting alternatives to replace plastics we can create change. This is an ongoing process and it will become easier as more and more alternatives are developed. But there are easy alternatives available now.
Most offices with kitchens have reusable cutlery and crockery. Saying no to plastic versions and using these instead is an easy and effective way to combat plastic waste.
Purposeful plastic
These may seem like small steps for a huge and easily overwhelming issue, but incremental changes go a long way in creating positive and recognisable impact. We've seen massive bans on plastic straws in countries across the globe, the EU has approved a ban on single use plastics, Chile recently banned plastic bags, and new alternatives to plastics are being created every day. Businesses have a key role to play in reshaping plastic's purpose for the better, so that 20 years from now we can look back and know we were part of a change that was once considered radical.


'I can't even put into words actually how much this means to me,' the 'Tik Tok' singer tweets.
[artist id="3213641"]Ke$ha[/artist] bounced onto the scene in 2009 with her raucous pop tune "Tik Tok," and she quickly infected the world with her bouncy dance tunes and in-your-face attitude. Now, she's up for three awards at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, where she will try her best to take home a Moonman or two.
On Tuesday (August 3), the singer tweeted her overwhelming excitement about the nominations: "Holy sh--!!!!!!!!3 VMA nominations...!!! I don't even know what to say. I'm so grateful and thankful and stunned and excited. I can't even put into words actually how much this means to me; ) thank you to every single one of my fans.. !!!!!!!! I'm f---ing losing my sh--. I'm so stoked!!!!!"
Ke$ha's "Tik Tok" is up for Best Female Video, Best New Artist and Best Pop Video. She is also nominated with her pals 3OH!3 for their song "My First Kiss" in the Best Collaboration category.
On Ryan Seacrest's radio show Tuesday morning, the singer first heard about her nominations, saying, "I'm going to pee myself. I'm bouncing around my hotel room. This is the best day ever. ... I want to pee on something. I'm so scared. What do I wear? That means people like me! I've been working so hard for this. I'm so excited. This is the happiest day of my life, so far."
She tweeted about her radio reaction, saying, "You can hear me lose my sh-- this morning with Ryan Seacrest... lol. I kinda flipped."
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Spring has made me busy and get my hands dirty. I've cleaned out every box we brought with us when moved and boy, did we hold on to a lot to a lot of stuff we don't need. That feeling when you get rid of all the unnecessary stuff, it's good! I've also been working on my little container gardening on our deck. My pomegranate plant is blooming with little pomegranates that hang off the tree and every evening a hummingbird drops by to feed on the flowers in the garden. Little lemons and blood oranges are slowly growing and trying to make it to next winter to fruit.
Pesto is one of those simple dishes that's easy to make yet flavorful that can multitask in many parts of the meal as possible. From spreads to dips to pasta, it works its magic in every way possible and all over the place. Since we are well into spring, I thought about taking a few liberties with pesto and adding some of my favorite greens. Especially one particular green leaf that rarely gets much attention, fenugreek. Fenugreek leaves are small and flat, the stem is edible too and sometimes, you might see little yellow flowers attached. It's all edible and tasty. And now it's in my version of a very spring themed pesto.
I've also added two other favorite greens in here, a little fresh mint and a whole lot of fresh pea shoots. No pine nuts in this one (it's sad that they're so costly) but instead roasted sunflower seeds along with the usual suspects, parmesan and garlic. Just like any pesto, serve it up the way you want to!
Mint leaves darken quickly when cut or bruised but lemon juice reduces the darkening a little and brightens the flavors at the same time.
You can use the stems of the greens in the recipe. They pack a lot of flavor. I used them both.
Even though, I've listed the amount of salt and pepper I used, I still recommend tasting it and then seasoning.
1. Place all the ingredients from the pea shoots to the lemon juice in the bowl of a food processor. Attach the metal blade, attach the lid and pulse while trickling the olive oil in slowly. Plus until the ingredients are all combined and you get a smooth paste.
2. Season the pesto with salt and pepper. Serve immediately or refrigerate until ready.