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Bulletin, Vol. 64(1). OMM, 2016Quelque 842 millions de personnes dans le monde n’ont pas les moyens de se nourrir convenablement et souff rent de faim chronique. L’insécurité alimentaire et la pauvreté sont clairement liées. Dans de nombreux pays, l’intégration des informations météorologiques et climatologiques dans la prise de décision en matière d’agriculture a permis d’optimiser la production agricole. Cependant, dans les pays en développement, où la plupart des petits exploitants agricoles dépendent de l’agriculture en sec, l’accès aux informations météorologiques et climatologiques pouvant faciliter la prise de décisi ...[article]
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Quelque 842 millions de personnes dans le monde n’ont pas les moyens de se nourrir convenablement et souff rent de faim chronique. L’insécurité alimentaire et la pauvreté sont clairement liées. Dans de nombreux pays, l’intégration des informations météorologiques et climatologiques dans la prise de décision en matière d’agriculture a permis d’optimiser la production agricole. Cependant, dans les pays en développement, où la plupart des petits exploitants agricoles dépendent de l’agriculture en sec, l’accès aux informations météorologiques et climatologiques pouvant faciliter la prise de décision est limitée. Les pouvoirs publics devraient considérer ces informations, essentielles aux agriculteurs, comme un moyen de lutter contre la pauvreté et la faim.
Language(s): French; Other Languages: English, Russian, Spanish
Format: Digital (Free), Hard copy[article]Bulletin, Vol. 64(1). WMO, 2015Some 842 million people worldwide cannot afford to eat adequately and are chronically hungry. The links between food insecurity and poverty are clear. Factoring weather and climate information into agricultural decision-making has optimized agricultural production in many countries. However, in developing countries – where most smallholder farms are rain-fed – access to weather and climate information to guide decision-making is limited. Governments should view such information, crucial to farmers, as a means of alleviating poverty and hunger.[article]
in Bulletin > Vol. 64(1) (2015) . - p.56-58
Some 842 million people worldwide cannot afford to eat adequately and are chronically hungry. The links between food insecurity and poverty are clear. Factoring weather and climate information into agricultural decision-making has optimized agricultural production in many countries. However, in developing countries – where most smallholder farms are rain-fed – access to weather and climate information to guide decision-making is limited. Governments should view such information, crucial to farmers, as a means of alleviating poverty and hunger.
Language(s): English; Other Languages: French, Russian, Spanish
Format: Digital (Free), Hard copy[article]This document presents an overview on the impact of the Dry Corridor phenomenon in Central America, and the work the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - in collaboration with its partners - is doing to support countries to increase disaster resilience of households, communities and institutions.Published by: FAO ; 2015
This document presents an overview on the impact of the Dry Corridor phenomenon in Central America, and the work the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - in collaboration with its partners - is doing to support countries to increase disaster resilience of households, communities and institutions.
Format: Digital (Free)Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MOAI) Myanmar - gov ; Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Rural Development (MLFRD) Myanmar - gov ; et al. - FAO, 2015This report assesses the disaster impact of the cyclone Komen on agriculture and rural-based livelihoods of affected populations in Myanmar. The assessment was conducted in the six most-affected regions/states of Ayeyarwady, Bago, Chin, Magway, Rakhine and Sagaing. It was co-led by FAO and WFP under the framework of the Food Security Sector in partnership with UN women, World Vision, CESVI, CARE, JICA and LIFT.
Food and Agriculture Organization (Rome, Italia) ; Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MOAI) Myanmar - gov ; Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Rural Development (MLFRD) Myanmar - gov ; World Food ProgrammePublished by: FAO ; 2015
This report assesses the disaster impact of the cyclone Komen on agriculture and rural-based livelihoods of affected populations in Myanmar. The assessment was conducted in the six most-affected regions/states of Ayeyarwady, Bago, Chin, Magway, Rakhine and Sagaing. It was co-led by FAO and WFP under the framework of the Food Security Sector in partnership with UN women, World Vision, CESVI, CARE, JICA and LIFT.
Format: Digital (Free)This paper presents evidence on how the 2007−2010 drought contributed to the conflict in Syria. It was the worst drought in the instrumental record, causing widespread crop failure and a mass migration of farming families to urban centers. Century-long observed trends in precipitation, temperature, and sea-level pressure, supported by climate model results, strongly suggest that anthropogenic forcing has increased the probability of severe and persistent droughts in this region, and made the occurrence of a 3-year drought as severe as that of 2007−2010 2 to 3 times more likely than by natural ...Published by: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) ; 2015
Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, vol. 112 no. 11, pp. 3241–3246
This paper presents evidence on how the 2007−2010 drought contributed to the conflict in Syria. It was the worst drought in the instrumental record, causing widespread crop failure and a mass migration of farming families to urban centers. Century-long observed trends in precipitation, temperature, and sea-level pressure, supported by climate model results, strongly suggest that anthropogenic forcing has increased the probability of severe and persistent droughts in this region, and made the occurrence of a 3-year drought as severe as that of 2007−2010 2 to 3 times more likely than by natural variability alone.
Format: Digital (Free)This handbook provides decision makers, planners, responders and disaster management practitioners with an overview of the disaster management structure, policies, laws, and plans for ASEAN countries.
The handbook presents an overview of natural and man-made threats most likely to affect ASEAN countries, basic country background information, including cultural, demographic, geographic, infrastructure and other data, as well as endemic conditions such as poverty, water and sanitation, food security and other humanitarian issues. It also provides an overview of the health situatio ...PermalinkThis report examines the resilience of the global food system to extreme weather.
This summary is built on three detailed reports and presents evidence that the global food system is vulnerable to production shocks caused by extreme weather, and that this risk is growing. It highlights evidence that our reliance on increasing volumes of global trade, whilst having many benefits, also creates structural vulnerability via a liability to amplify production shocks in some circumstances. It argues that action is needed to improve the resilience of the global food system to weather-re ...PermalinkMalawi - government, 2015The PDNA report indicates that the Malawi 2015 floods affected 1,101,364 people, displaced 230,000 and killed 106 people. The assessment focuses on medium to long term reconstruction and provides the guiding principles for recovery, including assessment of the damage, losses, and recovery and reconstruction strategies for each sector are provided in detailed sector.PermalinkThis policy brief identifies possible implications of climate change disturbances on crops and livestock in world production centers by 2030, 2050 and 2080. Most of the studies on food systems under climate change are producer-centric, while this brief looks at options for importing countries, and discusses some recommendations.
The imperative of climate change adaptation for a resilient food system requires institutional, technological and economic transformation not only in food exporting but also food importing countries. Furthermore, mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions in ...PermalinkThis Topic Guide addresses the threat that climate change poses to food security and poverty reduction achievements. The peer-reviewed guide explains how programming around climate-smart agriculture can help adapt and build resilience to climate change – at the same time stimulating economic growth and poverty reduction in the agricultural sector.
The main message from this Topic Guide is that climate change is already affecting food security and agricultural growth under all types of agriculture, and is expected to continue to have an increasingly serious impact on smallholders and lar ...PermalinkThis report focuses on the risks of climate change to development in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and parts of Europe and Central Asia. For each region, the report addresses the regional patterns of climate change, such as heat extremes, extreme precipitation, droughts, tropical cyclones/hurricanes, and sea-level rise.
Building on earlier Turn Down the Heat reports, this new scientific analysis examines the likely impacts of present day (0.8°C), 2°C and 4°C warming above pre-industrial temperatures on agricultural production, water resource ...PermalinkWater, food and energy are fundamental to African development. However, several crucial issues need to be addressed. Are African resources used to meet African needs or are they being exploited to satisfy the needs of other actors facing food and energy insecurity?PermalinkThis report presents a series of tables which analyse the potential impact of a changed climate on the most common diseases afflicting cattle, sheep, goats, camels, donkeys, pigs, and chickens in Mali. For each livestock disease identified, the disease status under current climate was assessed, including the geographical range of the endemic zone, the rate of disease outbreaks within endemic zones, the mode of pathogen transmission, and the relative economic importance to livestock owners. These served as the baseline for an assessment of the likely change in risk of infection under climate sc ...Permalink2014Background: The amount and distribution of rainfall and temperature influences household food availability, thus increasing the risk of child under nutrition. However, few studies examined the local spatial variability and the impact of temperature and rainfall on child under nutrition at a smaller scale (resolution). We conducted this study to evaluate the effect of weather variables on child under nutrition and the variations in effects across the three agro ecologies of Ethiopia.
Methods: A longitudinal panel study was conducted. We used crop productions (cereals and oilseeds), lives ...PermalinkThe aim of this study is to compare and combine the results from different conservation agriculture experiments using meta-analysis in the hope of identifying patterns among study results, sources of disagreement among those results, or interesting relationships that may come to light in the context of the different studies.
Conservation agriculture involves reduced or no-tillage, permanent soil cover and crop rotations to enhance soil fertility and crop yields. Conservation agriculture practices are increasingly promoted on smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa as a means to overcome ...PermalinkCentral and South America. The report assesses the implications of climate change for agriculture, with a particular focus on those aspects of climate change that will have greatest impact on the crops currently grown in each region. The study investigated the ability of General Circulation Models (GCMs) and downscaled climate change scenarios to reproduce already observed climates, to establish the reliability of future climate projections, as well as projections of how associated crops might grow under future conditions.PermalinkThis document provides some recommendations for addressing disaster risk in agriculture in the post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction. It presents: (i) the status of mainstreaming disaster risk in agriculture, reporting on the progresses and highlighting some emerging trends; (ii) the drivers for mainstreaming disaster risk into agriculture; (iii) the regional/international policy frameworks and initiatives within agriculture to be targeted; (iv) measuring disaster risk in agriculture; (v) a list of agencies contributing and description of institutional commitment; and (vi) key docume ...PermalinkThis study has a focus on climate adaptation strategies for farmers in Malawi.
This paper assesses farmers’ incentives and conditioning factors that hinder or promote adaptation strategies and evaluates its impact on crop productivity by utilizing household level data collected in 2011 from nationally representative sample households in Malawi. The study distinguishes between (i) exposure to climatic disruptions, (ii) bio-physical sensitivity to such disruptions, (iii) household adaptive capacity in terms of farmers’ ability to prepare and adjust to the resulting stress, and, finally, ( ...PermalinkRusinga O. - 2014PermalinkThis case study aims to illustrate how the Western Province in Sri Lanka is promoting urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry as a strategy to reduce vulnerability to climate change, while at the same time enhancing urban liveability and livelihoods. Key messages include that the province is promoting the rehabilitation of flood zones through their productive use as a strategy to improve storm water infiltration and mitigate flood risks. It is recommended that future upscaling of these interventions will need new urban design concepts and the development of a provincial climate change ...PermalinkThis paper is the first in a series of Evaluation Reviews, which are intended to highlight and distil findings from published evaluations of climate change related programme interventions. This paper is aimed at sharing some design, monitoring, and evaluation (DME) ‘lessons learned’ that are pertinent to Climate Change Adaptation (CCA), which have been drawn from a small selection of agriculture/food security (AFS) programmes across Asia. The paper is organised into five sections. It begins with a brief overview of climate change in Asia and the implications for agriculture and food security, ...PermalinkThis working paper summarises work on the costs and benefits of climate change adaptation for the water sector in Africa. It reviews adaptation cost estimates for the continent and the main economic appraisal methods used, then summarises results. It focuses on adaptation to climate impacts on the water sector, such as damage to water infrastructure, rather than impacts from water on other sectors, such as agricultural drought. The paper identifies two key priorities for future appraisals: 1) greater focus on the costs and benefits of ‘soft’, non-infrastructure adaptation interventions 2) use ...PermalinkThis paper deals with the consequences of climate change for farmers in Africa, including increasing temperatures and changing rainfall, increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide content and impacts on agricultural production. The paper attempts to illustrate local conditions that must be taken into account to understand the impacts/consequences of climate change for African farmers and how they may cope with them. The review is in three parts; climate change is approached by dealing with the three sides from which the danger comes: (i) global warming, (ii) increasing climate variability, (iii) mo ...PermalinkThis paper highlights the impact of climate change on agriculture. It argues that the erratic climate of the region has strongly impacted the local food system especially the seed availability and therefore food security in general. This paper identifies some of the innovation in water use efficiency, water management at crop levels, and proposes some agriculture interventions in order to achieve a sustainable local seed systems, participatory breeding, livestock adaptation measures and improvement of existing agroforestry as well as knowledge management.PermalinkThis report examines four topics: (i) disasters in 2012, with a focus on recurring disasters; (ii) the role of regional organizations in disaster risk management; (iii) wildfires; and (iv) the important role of women in disaster risk management. It highlights the value given by governments and other actors in working together to prevent disasters and, to a lesser extent, to respond to disasters occurring in the region. It also features the development of strong regional initiatives and different mechanisms for encouraging collaboration, including frameworks for disaster risk reduction, regiona ...PermalinkThis paper argues that the high and volatile food prices that triggered a renewed interest in food security since the 2008–09 crisis are expected to continue due to the impacts of climate change. It notes that current policy is focused on food production; however, a broader approach based on food systems would be more appropriate as it encompasses all aspects of food production, storage, distribution and consumption. As most low-income groups in both rural and urban areas are net buyers of food, access and affordability are central concerns. There is also a need for more attention to urban foo ...PermalinkEuropean Commission, 2013In the wake of the Sahelian droughts and the resulting food insecurity crises of the 1970s and mid-1980s, the international community and national governments alike have focused on early warning systems as a mechanism to prevent famines and avert acute malnutrition. Thirty years later, food insecurity still prevails in many areas of the globe, amidst rapidly evolving geopolitics. A different and innovative way to tackle the problem of the fluctuating food availability attracted the attention of development agencies and governments in developing countries some 15 years ago: index-based crop ins ...PermalinkThis report evaluates the extent to which farms facing higher levels of drought risk are more likely to participate in conservation programs, and finds a strong link between drought risk and program participation. It examines drought risk adaptation, defined as the choices that farmers make in response to drought risk exposure, and addresses the policy uncertainty by examining the role of drought risk within agricultural conservation programs and considering potential changes in conservation program design, such as adjustments in contract ranking criteria or changes in eligibility requirements ...PermalinkThis assessment was conducted in 2012. Field research focused on Gulu, Lira, Luweero, Mbale, Isingiro, and Kasese, USAID/Feed the Future priority districts that include important cropping systems, represent different agro-ecological zones, and are near weather stations that have collected consistent rainfall and temperature data for a long period of time.
The research and analysis show how current climate patterns shape – and how future climate patterns may influence – key crop value chains and the livelihoods of households that depend on them.PermalinkPlan International, 2013This study shows that climate change and environmental degradation are causing pronounced negative effects on food, water and energy, with two distinctive features – gender and geographic inequality, where men, women and children are disproportionately affected and where some areas are more vulnerable and hit much harder than others. The study also reveals that the effects of climate change have a tendency of being accompanied by other human-induced impacts such as resource over-exploitation, which are already posing a major environmental challenge in Africa. These factors represent a major ch ...PermalinkThis case study is designed to provide a practical example of how to use climate information to support adaptation planning and policy-making. The paper focuses on the Bagamoyo district in coastal Tanzania. Local livelihoods are mostly based on natural resources, including small-scale agriculture, seaweed farming, traditional fishing and small-scale eco-tourism. People living on the coast report that climate variability and climate change are affecting their lives due to factors such as unreliable timing and intensity of rainfall, major flooding and sea-level rise. These impacts have increased ...PermalinkAccording to this report, the global livestock sector contributes a significant share to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, but it can also deliver a significant share of the necessary mitigation effort. The authors call for urgent, concerted and collective action from all sector stakeholders to ensure that existing and promising mitigation strategies are implemented. They also highlight a need to reduce the sector’s emissions and its environmental footprint, especially in view of its continuing expansion to ensure food security and feed a growing, richer and more urbanized world populati ...PermalinkSub-Saharan Africa is particularly vulnerable to global challenges such as food insecurity, climate change, rural poverty, malnutrition and environmental protection. This puts pressure on the fragile food production system.
The term ‘Sustainable Intensification’ – ‘producing more outputs with more efficient use of all inputs on a durable basis, while reducing environmental damage and building resilience, natural capital and the flow of environmental services’ – has become synonymous with big, industrial agriculture. The writers of the report are concerned that as the world’s population ...PermalinkThis Issues Brief is based on the proceedings of the Expert Group Meeting on the Impact of Climate Change on ASEAN Food Security held in June 2013. This meeting called for higher priority to be given to research on climate shifts, a greater focus on agricultural research and development and also highlighted the need for resource and knowledge inputs from those involved in food value chains across Southeast Asia.PermalinkFuture Fit is a DFID Executive Management Committee initiative, to produce a vision and strategy for the department’s response to the challenges and opportunities that climate change and resource scarcity pose for poverty reduction and development. The Future Fit strategy asks the question what strategic shifts in front line sectors - Food, Water, Energy, and Cities - are needed to protect development gains and respond to the challenge of climate change and resource scarcity. Answers to this question will feed into the review of the DFID business model and resource allocation. As part of this ...PermalinkThis report aims to assist decision-makers in Jordan and Lebanon in understanding the specific challenges and opportunities posed by climate change in the agricultural sector and to develop local-level priorities, informed by stakeholder input, in order to build agricultural resilience in the two countries. The report is divided into four chapters: (i) chapter one introduces the background of the study and the structure of the report; (ii) chapter two provides a synthesis of evidence of climate variability and change in Jordan and Lebanon; (iii) chapter three explains the methodology of the st ...PermalinkThis policy brief by the Asian Development Bank argues that, given the negative impact of climate change on Mongolia, it is crucial to select mitigation actions that reduce vulnerability to climate change, support the achievement of national development goals, and are feasible given local constraints.PermalinkEvidence on Demand was requested by DFID to carry out a climate and environmental assessment. This was for part of the Business Case for building an evidence base in Yemen by gathering high quality, nationally representative data on key poverty indicators and living conditions.PermalinkThis report presents a brief and interactive summary of the Climate Change in Africa research and capacity program’s chief contributions. It provides a guided tour of the program’s efforts and legacy – its aims and means, the principal outcomes of the funding and mentoring it provided to African researchers, and the lessons it offers for future adaptation efforts in Africa and elsewhere. Throughout this report, there are links to programme and project resources, and directions for delving further into its scientific findings.PermalinkThis report focuses on the specific issue of urban food security, describing the demographic and environmental trends as well as food production and infrastructure challenges that impact supply and demand for food in urban areas. Before providing specific examples of the food security challenges faced by cities around the world, the authors propose a framework, or matrix, of issues for policymakers to use in developing and assessing urban food security strategies. The report focuses on case studies in the United States before looking in depth at Chicago, highlighting the city’s challenges as w ...PermalinkWith the intention of providing elements useful for decision making, this study by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) analyses the potential impacts of climate change on the agricultural sector in Belize. The document is organised into six chapters. The first chapter contains a review of the literature related to the impact of climate change on the agricultural sector, emphasising the work in the region and Belize. The second chapter provides an overview of the current situation in the agricultural sector, as well as the strategies adopted by the Belizean gover ...PermalinkIn Mesoamerica, coffee is an important part of agricultural GDP and export revenues which supports about half a million farmers, and employs millions of people on the farms and all along the supply chain. This policy brief summarises the potential risks and impacts of climate change on coffee farming in the region. Traditional coffee agroforests provide important ecosystem services and conserve significant carbon stocks. Climate change threatens coffee production, as projected increases in temperature and changes in rainfall will likely reduce crop suitability in most current growing areas. Op ...PermalinkThis framework explains the Disaster Risk Reduction for Food and Nutrition Security Framework Programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) which has been undertaken with the goal of enhancing the resilience of livelihoods against threats and emergencies to ensure the food and nutrition security of vulnerable farmers, fishers, herders, foresters and other at risk groups. The framework presents four thematic pillars which mirror the priorities outlined in the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA): (i) enable the environment, emphasizing good governance and effective ...PermalinkThis paper identifies sixteen cases of large-scale actions in the agriculture and forestry sectors that have adaptation and/or mitigation outcomes, and distils lessons from the cases. The cases cover policy and strategy development (including where climate-smart objectives were not the initial aim), climate risk management through insurance, weather information services and social protection, and agricultural initiatives that have a strong link to climate change adaptation and mitigation.PermalinkThis brief focuses on the key disaster risk reduction (DRR) activities that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) carries out in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (WBGS). It seeks to give an overview of FAO's DRR strategy and briefly describe their activities in WBGS to protect livelihoods from shocks, to make food production systems more resilient and more capable of absorbing the impact of, and recovering from, disruptive events, such as floods, droughts, earthquakes, animal and plants pests and diseases.PermalinkThis report focuses on the risks of climate change to development in Sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia and South Asia. Building on the 2012 report, Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must be Avoided, this new scientific analysis gives a more detailed look at how the negative impacts of climate change already in motion could create devastating conditions especially for those least able to adapt. It asserts that the case for resilience has never been stronger. This report demands action. It reinforces the fact that climate change is a fundamental threat to economic development and the ...PermalinkClimate-smart interventions are highly location-specific and knowledge-intensive. Therefore, considerable efforts are required to develop the knowledge and capacities to make climate-smart agriculture (CSA) a reality. The purpose of this sourcebook is to further elaborate the concept of CSA and demonstrate its potential, as well as its limitations. It is aimed as a reference tool for planners, practitioners and policymakers working in agriculture, forestry and fisheries at national and subnational levels, dealing with the effects of climate change.PermalinkGero Anna; National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF); University of Technology - NCCARF, 2013This research paper examines the nexus between disasters, human health, and climate change in the Pacific in order determine methods of effective disaster response in a changing climate to enhance long term adaptive capacity. The aim of this paper is to identify gaps in post-disaster support and to disseminate information regarding those gaps among policy-makers so as to establish a society more resilient to disaster.PermalinkGero Anna; National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF); University of Technology - NCCARF, 2013This research paper examines the nexus between disasters, human health, and climate change in the Pacific in order determine methods of effective disaster response in a changing climate to enhance long term adaptive capacity. The aim of this paper is to identify gaps in post-disaster support and to disseminate information regarding those gaps among policy-makers so as to establish a society more resilient to disaster.PermalinkThe study used the innovation system approach to ascertain the intensity and trends of linkages among key actors in the climate change and food security innovation system in Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Data were collected through the use of semi structured interview schedule, key informant interviews and focus group discussions (FGDs) and analyzed using percentages, mean scores and trend analysis. Only 1.8% of the
farmers from Nigeria, 2.5% from Sierra Leone and 0.7% from Liberia possessed special training on climate change adaptation and food security issues. The presence of loc ...Permalink

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Agatha Christie's Hercule PoirotDeath in the Clouds - Season 4, Episode 2 - 12 Jan. 1992 - After spending a bit of a holiday in Paris, Poirot finds himself on a flight to London with an odd assortment of people, some of whom he had met during his stay. When one of the passengers, Madame Gisele, is murdered during the flight by a poisoned dart, Poirot is asked by Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard to assist with the investigation.
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Dogs Smell Signs of Cancer
Small study found they accurately detected presence of
disease in human breath samples.
Dogs have long been used to sniff out explosives,
narcotics, and even counterfeit currency. Now, a new study
shows that man's best friend can also detect lung and
breast cancer in breath samples.
"When we heard anecdotally that there was a device out
there that might be able to detect cancer at its earliest
stages, before it even shows up on an MRI [magnetic
resonance imaging], it was something we wanted to
pursue," said Nicholas Broffman, executive director of the
Pine Street Foundation, a nonprofit group in California that
conducted the study. The group helps cancer patients who
are facing tough treatment decisions.
That device, of course, is a dog, and researchers believe it
picks up on chemical differences that linger in the breath
of a person with cancer. While canines won't ever replace
standard medical testing, experts think they may become
an important early screening tool in the future.
In this study, three Labrador retrievers and two
Portuguese water dogs were trained for a few weeks to
either sit or lay down in front of breath samples from lung
and breast cancer patients, while ignoring those of healthy
The trial comprised of breath samples from 55 patients
with lung cancer, 31 with breast cancer, and 83 healthy
people. The samples were captured in special tubes. All
cancer patients had recently been diagnosed through
conventional methods, such as mammograms or CT
scans, but had not yet begun chemotherapy. And the trial
samples were different from the ones used to train the
The results show the dogs were 88 percent to 97 percent
accurate in identifying both early- and late-stage breast
and lung cancers.
The ability of dogs to detect cancer was first discovered in
1989, and reported in the medical journal, The Lancet. A
woman's pet had alerted her to the presence of melanoma
by constantly sniffing the skin lesion on her leg.
Subsequent studies have shown, dogs can smell
melanoma and bladder cancer.
A dog's nose is so powerful, it can detect odours 10,000 to
100,000 times better than a human nose can. Later this
year, the research team plans to launch a study on canine
detection of bladder cancer.
In the past, dogs are trained to find everything from drugs
to off-flavoured catfish, but it usually takes him five to six
weeks. The U.S. Military spends about three months,
training explosive detection dogs.
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Moose Knuckles – Waterton Parka
Mens Moose Knuckles Waterton furless Parka.
Featuring adjustable detachable hood, 90/10 down-filling, and, four Soft-Touch Brushed Pockets.
- Slim Fit: Contemporary and sleek, we engineered this fit to compliment your body instead of covering it up. It’s best suited for light layering, like light knits and thin sweats. For a roomier fit, size up.
- 37″ Back Length. Measurement is done based on a medium.
- Nylon Down-Proof Lining
- Detachable Adjustable Hood
- Stand Collar
- Two-Way YKK Zipper with Hidden Storm Placket
- Four Soft-Touch Brushed Pockets
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To-Go-Go Mini Wood Signs
These signs are exclusively for To Go Go and are not available in the studio.
Each sign is a single board 9″ x 9″.
Each kit includes everything you need to complete your wood sign at home: wood, vinyl stencil, background color, stencil colors, paint brush, sponges, paint palette, hook to hang your completed sign and step by step video instructions.
You can choose curbside pick up at Pottery by You, shipping via USPS or we will deliver to your front porch.
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Discover a city where real estate titles date back to the Kings of Spain.
Stroll the palm-lined streets and discover gingerbread mansions, tin-roofed conch houses, the John Audubon House and Ernest Hemingway's home.
Walk in the footsteps of Thomas Edison, Lou Gehrig, Harry Truman, and Tennessee Williams.
Marvel at the accomplishment of Henry Flagler, an oil tycoon whose Florida Keys Over-Sea Railroad train made its first journey to Key West on Jan. 12, 1912, literally connecting the previously isolated Florida Keys with the mainland for the first time, forever changing the face of the island chain.
Gaze at the fabled treasure of the galleon Atocha. Discover tomorrow's fine art treasures by Key West's well-known and unknown artists.Once the sun is safely tucked away by jugglers, mimes, musicians and street artists, the city moves to a different beat. A night beat. The streets, filled with sidewalk cafes, open-air bars, legendary pubs and world-classrestaurants come alive. Gourmets and gourmands alike treat their palates to island specialties. Drama, musicals and comedyflourish on our stages.
As you enjoy these sights, you'll discover that modern Key West is a warm-hearted place where all are welcome. The city's vibrant Gay and Lesbian Community helped spearhead the island's economic and social revival in the 1980's.
ONE HUMAN FAMILY is the official philosophy of the island community of Key West and Monroe County; a simple motto which serves not only as a shining example of daily life here, but as one that is openly shared with global neighbors throughout the world.
Key West's African cultural heritage is represented by the vibrant Bahama Village neighborhood, founded in the early 1800s by Africans migrating from the Bahamas, and in historic churches, indigenous food and annual festivals.
Among Key West's most significant African cultural sites is the 1860 African Burial Ground, located on the island's Atlantic Ocean shore beside a Civil War-era fort. It is believed by experts to be America's only African refugee cemetery.
A memorial honoring the buried Africans is being constructed at the site.
New restaurants and stores are popping up in the historic Bahama Village neighborhood, which was settled in the 19th Century by Bahamian immigrants. Hemingway loved coming here to mix with the hard-working locals at boxing matches and arm-wrestling contests.[[PASTING TABLES IS NOT SUPPORTED]]
In this city of fascinating contrasts, you could easily find yourself wanting to let go of mainland hassles permanently.
Come visit Key West. Like all the Keys, you'll find it's rich in history.

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Immediately counterattack an enemy attack from within your range
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This here is the first assault rifle that the US firearm accessory manufacturer Magpul developed. They went on to sell production rights for it, and it's known as the "Bushmaster ACR" for civilian use and as the "Remington ACR" for military and law enforcement use. It uses 5.56mm NATO, 6.8mmx43SPC, and 7.62x39mm ammunition. This lets the user decide if they want more stability or more firepower, you see?


To say that Enchanted Portals had challenges getting off the ground would be an understatement of the century. It was immediately accused of being just a clone of Cuphead, no thanks to the developers shamelessly loving Cuphead. From the art style looking like a knockoff version of Cuphead, controversies about how some enemies in the game were seen as racist stereotypes, and how the gameplay trailer didn’t show off anything that different and new from the inspiration, a lot was fighting back against this game. With only two people working on the whole thing (Daniel Jiménez as the director and programmer and Gemma Torrellas as the artist and composer), it was just problem after problem for this game. With the game finally out for us to see in its full glory, the results of all the problems and development troubles are now here for the gamers to see, and it’s admirable that this two-person team overcame all these obstacles. Unfortunately, the results and gamers also said this game is the worst game of 2023.
The main characters are wizards in training, Bobby and Penny. The game doesn’t tell you what their names are; they’re only found in outside promotional materials, like their Kickstarter and store page. While cleaning up the shop of their wizard master, they find a spell book and decide to try and test their might by reciting a spell from the book. The problem is that said spell conjured up a portal that sucked them in alongside the book. Now they have to travel across different worlds till they can get the book back.
Let’s start with some positives to prepare the game for a verbal (or written in this case), beatdown. This game wears its Cuphead influence on its sleeve, with the art style looking like a mixture of modern cartoons with classic old-school toons. Not only that, but a couple of bosses even change the art style up to add more variety, like giving off a creepy gothic aesthetic that looks more in place in Don’t Starve, covering the characters with computer code to represent them being inside a computer, and the final boss has a couple different art styles depending on the phase. It does look cool and fancy enough to make the graphics stand out against Cuphead’s rubber hose animation.
The same could also be said for the music, however not as much. Most of the songs are just okay, if forgettable. They do try to blend into the environment and background, so it isn’t all just the same old retro tunes. Some songs sound like they are part of the golden age of the cartoon era, others sound like they are part of the roaring 20s, and there are even some that go all the way up to the digital age. Each stage has a unique theme in terms of background music and location, and it would be disingenuous to say that there is no effort here. However, they don’t do enough. There are only three points in the game where the music and graphics can change and match up together in a way that gives off a vibe as if you’re traveling through time. If they tried to hone in on that aspect more, like with the characters going through animation through the decades with the music and art style slowly progressing along with them, then it could be something that truly would stand out.
And this is the lead into the start of the game’s problems, and the center point for every critique present within the game; it feels like it was rushed out too quickly. Cuphead had an extremely troubling development cycle leading up to the release. Studio MDHR was founded by brothers Chad and Jared Moldenhauer, trying to create a game once during the year 2000 only to fail, getting a small team together in 2010, having to switch game engines in 2014, and even mortgaging their houses and quitting their jobs just to focus on the game, got saved by Microsoft before finishing in 2017. Enchanted Portals meanwhile was started as a two-person team in 2019 after falling in love with Cuphead, released a Kickstarter in 2020 only for it to fail, and released their game in 2023; with a development cycle of only about 4 years. Now yes, it’s impressive that they were able to create the game with a failed Kickstarter with only two people, but it paints a picture of just how it feels like less effort went into it than Cuphead. And yes, there is a genuinely passionate team behind it, and it is impressive that it came out at all, but it not only needed a couple more years in the oven to bake, but it isn’t immune to criticism about its problems, which this game has a lot of unfortunately.
Let’s get into the gameplay. You start in a run-and-gun level, where you need to run to the right, attacking enemies. Enemies with colors around them require you to use a specific spell. It should be interesting, but there are a couple of big problems here. The first problem is that the levels are randomly generated. They have some premade sections, but the real randomly generated factor here is with the enemy placement. Some sections will only have one enemy coming after you, while others will spawn a whole conga line of enemies, with some even spawning within other enemies. Considering how they don’t vanish and follow you throughout the whole level, the best bet is to just stop and deal with them, constantly switching spells to deal with the shielded enemies. It’s also recommended that you ignore Insane difficulty, as it’s less insane, and more cheating with no chances to regain health and having to start over from the beginning of the world upon dying. The boss stages have you dealing with Cuphead-styled bosses. You have to dodge their attacks and keep firing your weapon at them till they go down. They either range from complete pushovers standing in one spot on the stage with attacks missing you easily, or unfair with them spamming attacks with no way to tell when they’re coming thanks to no sound effects or very small visual indicators.
The first big complaint here is that the game more or less just throws you into the deep end. There’s no tutorial stage like in Cuphead, and even the visual prompts the game gives you in the first stage don’t tell you how to perform certain actions. While there is a how-to-play section you can always pull up on the pause menu, you just read over the instructions on how to perform those moves without learning about how to feel them control in battle. As it is now, it’s okay, but feels a bit too complicated. Some of the moves feel pointless, like the impulse move for when riding a broom, and all the different spells you have. You have a spread shot spell, a fire spell, and an icicle spell. However, it’s hard to tell what the difference between them is due to the game being quiet about it. The closest guess as to what they do is the spread shot is the weakest weapon, but has the most coverage, the fireballs are fast and somewhat more powerful, and the icicles are the slowest type of spell yet the most powerful. It could be proven wrong, however, with how the game refuses to tell you anything.
And that’s another problem; the game doesn’t give you enough information. The sound for music can be decent at times, but the sound effects needed a rework. Compared to Cuphead where all the bosses have their special sound effects linked to each attack, the enemies either have very hard-to-hear sound effects if they’re generous or none at all. There is a need for more sound effects and ensuring they’re louder and more prominent. The health system also needs to be reworked. Health is told through a color system, with green meaning that you’re healthy, and red meaning you’re on the verge of death. The problem is that it takes a couple of hits to go down from green to the next layer down, and a couple of hits to finally die after being in the red. This would be bad enough, but with the hitboxes and lack of invincibility frames after getting hit here that the player has to deal with, it’s a whole lot worse. Attacks that look like they would not touch your character just keep hitting you, pitching in cheap shots, especially during the platforming stages with all the extra enemies. Add in the fact that you have little to no invincibility frames after getting hit, meaning you’re more likely than going to be getting hit over and over again by the same enemy or attack, and you have a recipe for a way to easily lose your health.
However, the biggest problem here, aside from the game not being given enough time to cook, is the platforming levels. If you played one, you played them all, no joke. They’re all just straight shots from the left to the right to get to the goal. Some levels will require you to jump over pits, but they’re just the most basic platformer challenges that there could be in a game. There is no verticality here of any kind, no secondary goals, nothing. The most you will be doing here is shooting down an enemy creating a gate blocking your path. If you play them as safely as possible, killing every enemy so they can’t hurt you, expect to spend up to 5 minutes on each level, when you just want to get to the bosses, which are at best, unique and decent, like the Beethoven and Rocky bosses that have a unique gimmick for their fights and use it to their fullest potential, and at worst, more of the trial and error annoyances that plague the rest of the game, like the world three bosses just bombarding the screen with enemies and projectiles with no sound effects to indicate their arrival. If you want to rush out to get to the bosses, then good luck dodging all the enemies and stopping them from knocking down your health with how often they love to abuse the fact you have no invincibility time after getting hit. Given how half the game is doing these stages, it’s easy to see how they can get tiring fast with how little they innovate on them each time.
This isn’t even getting into all the other little problems it has, like the game only having animation for the introduction but only using slideshow stills for defeating the bosses and ending, betraying the cartoonish nature it took from Cuphead, the game being able to be beaten around 2 hours yet costing $20, the same price as Cuphead, a game with a lot more time and content to explore, how there is no ranking system meaning no reason to improve on your runs throughout the levels, unlike Cuphead, and no easy way to replay bosses while skipping the platforming levels, where Cuphead kept them separated. Yes, it’s unfair to use Cuphead as a standard, but when the developers openly admit their love and how the game is inspired by Cuphead, comparisons will be drawn, and unfortunately, here these comparisons serve to show just how weak the game is. At its best, it’s wasted potential for a celebration of cartoons throughout the ages, and at worst it’s an inferior copy to the inspiration in every conceivable way. The magic just isn’t here, unfortunately. Hope there can be some patch that fixes these issues, but as this is their game’s first step onto the scene after being declared done, it’s going to take an actual wizard to fix this game. Hope they can fix it somehow, but for now, just play Cuphead again.


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The next few weeks are prime time vacation weeks for most American families (before the kiddos head back to school). And many top vacation destinations involve water, sand, lake homes, beach homes, tents, campers, boats…and lots of food! Today we are taking a deeper dive into food—particularly snacking—on these treasured summer family vacations (or even “staycations”).
Americans snacking is a growing trend. According to market research conducted by Dupont Nutrition & Health, now almost 90% of the U.S. population says they snack. More interesting is that snacking frequency has also increased during this time. The percentage of people snacking three times a day has doubled to over 50% of the snacking population since 2010.
Snacking is definitely becoming more of a lifestyle than simply a between-meal indulgence—which means your options are increasing. The snacking revolution has led to snacking innovation. And what better time to try new snacks and snacking recipes than during your summer vacation?
Here are some of our ideas for summer vacation snacks—whether on the beach, at the lake, at the pool, on a boat or hanging back at the house enjoying family and friends!
At the Beach/Lake/Pool or on the Boat:
Cheese: Always a favorite with lots of selections and they’re easy to pack, serve and eat by itself, or with crackers and dips.
- We love these Crystal Farms Nibblers—especially the Buffalo and Sour Cream & Onion flavors! They also have Classic Cheddar, Chipotle Pepper, Habanero and Smokey BBQ.
- These kid-friendly, adorable Quick Snack Kabobs from Sargento are super easy with only three ingredients!
Smoothies: there are many new varieties of ready-made smoothies in the frozen and dairy aisles of the grocery store…easy to grab and go…easy to pack…easy to serve a healthy snack (or light meal) to family and friends.
- These delicious, ready-to-drink Florida’s Natural Smoothies in the dairy aisle come in Cherry Berry Citrus, Orange Pineapple Mango Citrus, Orange Strawberry Banana Citrus and Wild Berry Orange Citrus.
- If you like Jamba Juice then you’ll love their Jamba At Home Smoothie kits that come in a scrumptious variety of fruit, organic and fruit & veggie smoothies—just add juice.
- If you love creamsicles then you must try the Jamba Orange Dream Machine Smoothies!
Back at the House:
Soft Pretzels: There’s nothing quicker (only seconds) and nothing easier than heating up frozen soft pretzels or pretzel bites for a late afternoon snack to hold the kids (and adults) over for dinner.
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- These Cucumber Bites are a great summertime snack that will please everyone without overly stuffing them.
- Turn ordinary meatballs into an extraordinary appetizer—make Puff Pastry Meatball Marinara Tartlets.
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|Named Person:||John F Kennedy; Hubert H Humphrey; Orville L Freeman; Orville L Freeman; Hubert H Humphrey; John F Kennedy|
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Kennedy on platform with Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, Governor Orville Freeman, and others; Freeman waves his hat as Kennedy applauds (medium long shot) --
Kennedy, with Humphrey to his left (medium shot) --
Young boys listen from behind the chain-link fence; one applauds --
Kennedy speaks (medium shot) --
The audience (2 medium closeups) --
Kennedy speaks (shot from behind with view of crowd) --
The crowd applauds --
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Propeller (closeup) --
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The pilot --
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The pilot --
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View from the cockpit showing the crowd waiting along the runway ("7231 9705" punched into clear leader here) --
The crowd waiting for Kennedy (shot from moving car) --
Kennedy gets into car, surrounded by crowd --
The car pulls up at the livestock yard --
Kennedy on the speaker's platform --
A group of men listens --
Another group of men, most of them African-American, listen --
The crowd (long high shot) --
Men listen from a loading dock --
Men listen (2 closeups, medium shot, long shot, closeup) --
View from moving car as it proceeds through city streets, past Democratic Headquarters and through the crowds lining the streets --
Kennedy greets well-wishers from his car (various shots), then takes a microphone --
Uniformed young men listen --
Others listen (various closeups).
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University of Tennessee students and faculty will begin their fall semester in just a few days, followed soon by the Volunteer football season. This year, large construction projects will change the way many get through campus.
Madison Nolen is returning to UT as a senior this year, and her younger sister, Makenzie, will be starting as a freshmen. The two toured campus Thursday to map out their walk to class, and learn about the road changes.
"We started at the dorms," said Madison, who had to second guess her way through construction. "So we had to go around and cut back to the 'Strip' and walk down the 'Strip' to get back to the Hill."
UT officials took advantage of the summer months, and moved forward on several maintenance projects on campus. However, other large-scale projects will continue throughout the school year. Those include a new University Center and a residence hall.
"There was a joke going around, it would have been easier to tell people what streets were open, rather than what streets were closed," joked Vice Chancellor of Finance and Administration Jeff Maples.
UT officials are also preparing for the large crowds expected during football season.
"It's something we're going to have to adapt [to] as we go through the season. I think we have a good plan in place," Maples said. "It's a very congested area, but we will pull back the construction fence on game days, seven Saturdays, to expand for traffic and pedestrians."
According to a release from UT, the following roads will impacted by construction:
- One lane of Andy Holt Avenue just west of the pedestrian walkway is closed as part of the Melrose Avenue residence hall construction, but along this section of road, the sidewalk is open only on the south side. The remaining lane is one way westbound.
- The section of Andy Holt Avenue next to the University Center and the Haslam Business Building is permanently closed. It will become a pedestrian plaza as part of the new Student Union complex.
- Chamique Holdsclaw Drive will be closed from Pat Head Summitt Street to Lake Loudoun Boulevard until December 2012 for the addition to the Lawson Athletic Center Football Training Facility.
The east sidewalk on Pat Head Summitt Street north of Volunteer Boulevard will remain closed for ongoing work on the music building.
UT expects slower pedestrian traffic once classes begin due to construction through the center of campus. The following routes have been recommended to avoid the Student Union site:
- To reach the north side of the Hill or north of Cumberland Avenue, the best route is to walk north along Melrose Place, then east between Hodges Library and the Tyson House, cross Volunteer Boulevard north of the Haslam Business Building, then north to Cumberland Avenue, then east toward the University Center.
- To reach the south side of the Hill or Neyland Stadium, the best route is via the newly paved pedestrian path on the north side of Staff 9 lot near Neyland Stadium.
- A pedestrian pathway now runs from Volunteer Boulevard through the section of Andy Holt Avenue that is permanently closed to traffic. This path provides access to the Hill. Bicyclists should walk their bikes through this area.
Several parking lots have been added to UT's inventory and other lots have been changed to accommodate student, faculty and staff needs. For more information, visit the UT's campus parking website.


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Williamsburg Gets a Big Hole With Edge
This is the site of the massive Edge development on Kent Avenue in Williamsburg. (The photo was obviously shot before the recent bout of rain.) A massive amount of soil testing was done on the site, which is in the midst of a very environmentally interesting waterfront area. There was once a massive Manufactured Gas Plant several blocks north of the site, which left behind a large--but unknown--plume of underground toxins. The former Astral Oil Works is also said to have spilled petroleum products (again, quantity unknown), particularly during a massive explosion that rocked the facility. The entire waterfront area occupied by Northside Piers, The Edge and East River State Park was once dedicated to industrial use via the Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal. Oh, but all we wanted to say here was that construction at The Edge is moving along nicely.


1. The Lament
2. Don't Put Your "Hoe Down"
3. The Change-Up
4. Old Dirt
5. Poster Boy
6. Our Pastime, Passed Down
7. "The Road That Leads To"
8. On The Rise
9. Of Two Minds
10. Comic Relief
12. Just Running Around
13. For Which It Stands Part 1
14. For Which It Stands Part 2
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Cloning Americana is a band with a complex sensibility. Their name is purposely enigmatic but also immediately thought provoking. The members of the ensemble are happy to let listeners make their own judgment as to what the name means. The band members experience puzzled expressions leading to those of amusement, as there are attempts to make sense of the two words together. In essence, the name allows individuals to interpret it using their own unique sense of what it means to be an “American.”
For the band, there are two sides to the coin. There is the discourse of what has happened to the ideals that the country was founded on. In the band’s humble opinion, there is a lack of respect and honesty in the contemporary United States that citizens have come to accept as cultural norms. At the same time, there is the pride and joy of being able to live in a country that historically has celebrated independence, creativity, and personal expression.
The duality is expressed appropriately enough through jazz music, the cultural gem of the United States yet, ironically, one of the most neglected forms of music. Cloning Americana presents the intriguing sounds of irony on their new CD, For Which It Stands (Sunnyside, 2011).
Cloning Americana is a quartet collective featuring a handful of the most highly in demand musicians in New York City. The group is made up of reeds specialist Billy Drewes, bassist Scott Lee, pianist Gary Versace, and drummer Jeff Hirshfield. The musicians are long time friends that have played together in various settings. Cloning Americana came together as the friends began contributing compositions then finally recorded at Drewes home studio in November 2011.
The accord between the band members is as palpable as the sincerity of their music. The song titles refer to issues and topics that the members take to heart.
The mournful “The Lament” and “Old Dirt” are somber, impressionistic elegies to America’s spirit. The mid-tempo “Don’t Put Your ‘Hoe Down’” has a slight western swing and maintains a tongue-in-cheek social commentary. The delicately bi-polar “The Change-Up” begins mildly before Drewes and Versace pick up intensity, only to let it drop and build again. “Poster Boy” amps up the playfulness while “Our Pastime, Passed Down” sounds like a group prayer.
The thoughtful sax and bass duet “The Road That Leads To” leads, apropos to the title, into the dancingly propulsive “On the Rise.” An introspective bass solo introduces “Of Two Minds” which is followed by the knotty wit of “Comic Relief.” “Wetlands” is a dark, teary tribute to one of the States’ endangered natural wonders. The tempo picks up on “Just Running Around,” echoing the nonchalant but overactive nature of most Americans. The two part “For Which It Stands” is a heartfelt requiem ending in a new pledge voiced by Drewes.
For Which It Stands is both a musical tribute and entreaty. Cloning Americana celebrates the “purpose” for which the United States of America stands but also invokes the need for decency and thoughtfulness that seem to have gone missing.
released August 30, 2011
Billy Drewes - saxophones, bass clarinet & vocal
Scott Lee - bass
Gary Versace - piano
Jeff Hirshfield - drums


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Investorideas.com, a leading investor news resource covering cannabis and hemp stocks releases a special report looking at the upcoming MJBizCon event in Las Vegas, December 11th-13 and some of the many attending industry leaders and exhibitors expectations, including SinglePoint Inc. (OTCQB: SING).” data-reactid=”19″>Point Roberts, Washington and Delta, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – December 5, 2019) – Investorideas.com, a leading investor news resource covering cannabis and hemp stocks releases a special report looking at the upcoming MJBizCon event in Las Vegas, December 11th-13 and some of the many attending industry leaders and exhibitors expectations, including SinglePoint Inc. (OTCQB: SING).
MJBizCon is an annual three-day event where cannabis industry professionals network, listen to premier keynote speakers and explore the more than 150 exhibiting businesses. The event brings together many top-level individuals and businesses that are working to advance the cannabis industry while also increasing its visibility on a global scale.
When asked about how this year’s event has evolved to differ from last year, Tess Woods from the MJBiz Team commented, “Each year we produce MJBizCon, it is important for us to highlight the advancements the industry has made. This year, we are launching the Investor Intelligence Conference and the MJBizDaily Awards. For the first time, we will also surpass 35,000 attendees from more than 70 countries.”
Woods also commented on the noticed trends and industry trajectory saying, “It’s clear if you look at market data and consumer behavior in medicinal and adult use markets that the industry has only begun to develop here in the United States and the globe. Our annual Marijuana Business Industry Factbook recently projected the enormous YOY growth rates for the next five years. I have no reason to believe those types of curves won’t continue to be seen far into the future.”
While the industry may have suffered somewhat from negative press and underwhelming financials, companies, investors and conference attendees have renewed optimism in the industry looking to 2020.
1606hemp.com and have completed our first large purchase from a distributor. Smokable hemp is one of the fastest growing segments in the industry and we are at the forefront of it. Being federally legal through the passing of the 2018 Farm Bill, we are able to ship nationwide through distributors, direct to store and direct to consumer.”
SinglePoint recently released a recap of their successful 2019 and a look ahead to 2020 as the company comes off its largest 3rd quarter in history, exceeding $1,000,000 in revenue for the quarter. The company continues to see expanded growth in two major markets, Hemp and Solar and throughout Q4 and into 2020, SinglePoint will focus on growing these two market segments as demand increases for both. SinglePoint recently launched 1606 hemp which will have its major debut at the December 11-13, 2019 MJBIZCON where thousands will converge at the Las Vegas Convention Center to see the latest products in the industry. SinglePoint expects the sale of 1606 to be a large contributor in 2020 to overall company growth.
“We are excited for the launch of our 1606 Original Pre-rolled Hemp. We believe we can quickly scale the sales of this product via ecommerce and retail buyers. The Hemp Pre-rolls have a major profit margin which will support continued organic growth,” states Wil Ralston, President of SinglePoint.
1606 Original Hemp cigarettes are nicotine and tobacco free. Some research suggests that smoking hemp cigarettes could be a potential tool to replace tobacco and nicotine addictions.
According to a Brightfield Group survey of more than 5,000 CBD users in the US:
According to a June 2019 market research report published by MarketsandMarkets™, the industrial hemp market is projected to grow from $4.6 billion in 2019 to $26.6 billion by 2025, recording a compound annual growth rate of 34.0% during the forecast period. The CBD market is on track to grow to $23.7 billion through 2023, according to Brightfield Group. The firm also estimated the smokable hemp market to be valued at $11.5 million in 2018, a growth of 250% from 2017.
“We have an exceptional strategic plan in making SinglePoint one of the biggest publicly traded companies in the Smokable hemp space. We believe we offer investors and our current shareholders tremendous value given our leadership position in several explosive markets including ecommerce, Hemp and Solar. As SinglePoint continues to grow revenue and profit we continue to strive for meeting the qualifications to apply for a listed exchange,” states Greg Lambrecht, SinglePoint CEO.
SinglePoint predicts growth in its markets will continue. Support for legalization passed recently when lawmakers in the House Judiciary Committee approved a Bill that stands to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act of 2019 (the “MORE Act”) passed by a wide margin with bipartisan support. This bill will now head to Senate; this is just the first of many steps but as support continues, SinglePoint believes it will only continue to open up options for businesses to obtain legal payment processing accounts. SinglePoint is currently growing its portfolio of accounts and as soon as the company believes there is a viable, stable payments option it will be able to onboard additional clients.
As SinglePoint’s Hemp business continues to blossom, Direct Solar of America drives additional expansion. Direct Solar, a subsidiary of SinglePoint Inc. (SING), a leading residential and commercial solar brokerage, continues to exceed revenue growth targets and has been pivotal to improving the Company’s financials.
Direct Solar of America is filling a gap in the solar market by providing homeowners the knowledge and comfort throughout the solar purchasing cycle. There are many complexities when it comes to the purchases including tax credits, leasing vs. buying, installers among other decisions to make. Direct Solar separates itself by becoming experts in the intricacies of solar in each market. Direct Solar has surpassed over $900,000 in revenue in just six months of operations.
This year’s MJBizCon kicks off next week on December 11th and it seems many of the exhibitors are looking to use this event, filled with industry professionals and investors, to help reinvigorate the industry and update the cannabis market on their recent developments. Reflecting, 2019 may not have been all we hoped for when looking at the hemp and cannabis sector but it seems 2020 is inciting many companies to be optimistic as we start to see real revenue generation and an improved regulatory environment.
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“On the bone-dry western flank of Arizona, where the Colorado River Basin meets the Mojave Desert, sit 11,000 acres of alfalfa, sorghum, wheat, and Sudan grass belonging to the Colorado River Indian Tribes (CRIT), all destined to be harvested and sold for animal feed. For anything to grow here, irrigation is a must. Less than a quarter inch of rain has fallen so far this year, according to Josh Moore, who manages the farm on behalf of his tribe.
“The reservation is set up on a pretty outdated flood irrigation system,” Moore says. A network of canals built in the 19th century delivers water from the Colorado River, a system that seemed like a better idea before the watershed entered a persistent and increasingly dire state of drought. Although the canals supply enough water to meet CRIT’s farming needs for now, the tribes are planning for a hotter, drier future. This season, black plastic tubing can be seen snaking down hundreds of rows of sorghum: an experiment with microdrip irrigation that could radically reduce the farm’s withdrawals from an overtaxed watershed.
Around the world, most crops depend on rain alone for their water, but in places where rainfall isn’t sufficient, we’re forced to irrigate. Despite all the innovation that’s made its way into agriculture in recent years, from GPS-guided tractors to genetically engineered seedlings, 85% of all irrigation is still done by releasing vast quantities of water across the surface of a field, pretty much the same way it was handled 4,000 years ago in Mesopotamia.
Flood irrigation has hung on because it’s cash-cheap, but from a natural-resource perspective, it’s staggeringly expensive. As much as 70% of the water goes to waste, and overwatered crops can fail to reach their full potential. Excess fertilizer is carried away by the runoff, contaminating streams, wetlands, and lakes.
Microdrip irrigation was supposed to solve all that. In the 1930s, a young engineer named Simcha Blass noticed a tree that had grown much taller than the others in the same row; when he looked closer, he found that its roots were being fed by a tiny leak from a nearby irrigation pipe. Years later, the Israeli used the concept to create a plastic drip irrigation system that went on to be sold under the brand name Netafim. It remains the global leader in its sector.
Today, there are hundreds of drip irrigation companies, but the technology is being applied to less than 5% of irrigated acres globally, usually to big-ticket crops such as almonds, wine grapes, and tomatoes. The limiting factor is cost. As the systems are currently designed, pushing water through hundreds of feet of pipe requires a lot of force, which farmers supply with pumps; electric ones if they have power in their fields, carbon-belching diesel versions if they don’t. The dripper lines are also prone to getting clogged by silt particles or algae found in natural water, so it must be filtered, which adds another expense. The whole setup amounts to at least $2,000 an acre, plus energy bills. For lower-value crops such as cotton or alfalfa, drip irrigation simply doesn’t pay.
The microdrip setup being used by CRIT Farms, however, cost less than $400 an acre to install, and the required pressure is supplied entirely by gravity, which has the advantage of being free and carbon-neutral. To the casual observer, the system doesn’t look like much. But to Moore, the idea of drip irrigating crops for animal feed is nothing short of revolutionary. Assuming, of course, that it actually works.
“When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water,” Benjamin Franklin wrote in a 1746 edition of Poor Richard’s Almanack. He didn’t know the half of it. Today’s global population is 10 times what it was back then, and freshwater sources are in decline. The biggest water hog by far is agriculture, which accounts for almost three-quarters of global use.
Signs of water scarcity are all around us, growing more alarming with each passing year. In August, for the first time in history, the Colorado River was declared by the U.S. government to be in a state of shortage, triggering supply cuts to some of the 40 million people who depend on it. Five million of them get their water courtesy of the Central Arizona Project (CAP), a public utility that delivers river water by canal from the western edge of Arizona to 80% of the state’s population.
Chuck Cullom, the Colorado River programs manager at CAP, has spent the past decade exploring options for increasing Arizona’s water supply, including wastewater-treatment technologies and gadgets that help urban customers curb their use. In 2019, at a conference in Tel Aviv, Cullom met an executive from an Israeli irrigation startup called N-Drip, which was developing a system that promised drastic water savings without the prohibitive costs. “I was superskeptical,” Cullom says. “It sounded like a unicorn solution.”
But agriculture accounts for the vast majority of Arizona’s freshwater use, so Cullom was willing to try N-Drip. In 2020, CAP provided the system to CRIT Farms for use on 40 acres of sorghum. They found that it cut water use in half, while slightly improving the quality of the crops: a staggering result, albeit on a very small scale. This year, CAP expanded the pilot to about 200 acres of sorghum and cotton across Arizona, and, if all goes well, hopes to deploy the system regionally by 2023, continuing to cover the cost of the equipment for farmers who install it.
N-Drip is the brainchild of Uri Shani, a professor of soil physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a former chairman of Israel’s water authority. He set out seven years ago to devise a microdrip irrigation system cheap enough to make sense not just for lettuces and berries but also commodity crops such as soy and corn, which make up the bulk of the world’s agricultural output.
Shani is 72 years old, with short salt-and-pepper hair, wire-rimmed glasses, and an avuncular manner. He was born in 1950, on a kibbutz suffused with an angst peculiar to life in an arid country committed to agricultural self-sufficiency. “My father was an engineer who worked primarily on water. I grew up thinking about water and water solutions all my life,” Shani says, speaking by Zoom from N-Drip’s office in Tel Aviv.
After completing his military service with an elite commando unit, Shani went on to Hebrew University, Israel’s preeminent research institution, and got a master’s degree in soil physics. For his Ph.D. work, he moved to Kibbutz Yotvata, in the desert in Israel’s far south. The area gets less than an inch of rain each year and has only brackish groundwater for irrigation purposes: the outer limits of agriculture. He began there as a grad student and ended up managing the kibbutz.
Shani later became a professor, and in 2006 was tapped to become the first head of the newly created Israel water authority. The role was complex, spanning engineering, management, politics, and economics, and he took it on with the country experiencing its worst-ever drought. Shani turbocharged investment in water recycling and desalination. To pay for it, he significantly—and controversially—raised the price of water.
“Around the world, the reason why there are so many water problems is very few countries are prepared to charge consumers the real price,” says Seth Siegel, N-Drip’s chief sustainability officer and the author of a 2015 New York Times bestseller, Let There Be Water, that recounts Israel’s rise as a leader in water conservation and technology. In 2012, Shani left office with Israel in a freshwater surplus. “It was extraordinary what he pulled off.”
A private citizen once again, Shani began ruminating on the growing threat of water shortages worldwide. More than a quarter of the world’s population lives in water-stressed countries, and the United Nations estimates that water scarcity could displace 700 million people by the end of the decade. The most significant contribution he could make, he decided, would be to help drip irrigation go mainstream. That meant inventing a system that ran without filters and pumps.
To understand Shani’s challenge, you first must understand what’s happening inside those humble black plastic dripper lines. Along each one is a series of holes, and fastened inside every hole is a plastic widget about the size of a Tic Tac, called an emitter. Water moves through an exceedingly narrow, maze-like channel inside the emitter, regulated so it comes out in measured droplets. The resistance produced by those emitters is the reason so much pressure is required to move water from one end of a field to the other in a traditional system.
Shani conceived a new kind of emitter, one that offered so little resistance that the water pressure provided by gravity alone—accrued during the 1- to 2-foot descent from the irrigation canal to the field below—would be enough to propel the water all the way down hundreds of feet of tubing and out into the ground. First, he experimented with weaving plastic and metal fibers into various three-dimensional lattice structures. But it was on a hike one day, he says, that the breakthrough came: Instead of a zigzag channel, his emitter would consist of a rod suspended inside a cylinder, with water flowing through the tube shape formed between them. Unlike with a traditional emitter, now, no single particle of debris could block the water’s flow. “Boom,” Shani says. “I was absolutely convinced it would work. Then we developed all the mathematics.”
Once he fine-tuned the concept, Shani needed to commercialize it. He contacted Eran Pollak, a former finance ministry official with whom he’d worked closely as water chairman, and told Pollak he’d invented drip irrigation that used only gravity. Pollak was skeptical. He’d grown up on a kibbutz, too, and he knew about irrigation; there was no such thing as zero-pressure drip….”
View the whole story here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-23/how-microdrip-irrigation-systems-use-less-water-and-could-change-farming-forever


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In this case, there are some small and simple maintenance practices, such as general cleaning of the heating and cooling equipment that you can do on your own, with the help of the manufacturer’s manual. These are classified under the Do-It-Yourself category. However, for sophisticated procedures that may require expert knowledge, be sure to leave it to us.
The air filters of your HVAC system tend to wear out with time. Cleaning them ensures they are in good working condition and makes them last longer. However, they tend to wear out with time. In the worn out state, they strain the system’s functionality. Therefore, it is recommended that, depending on the type of air filters that you are using, you consider changing them whenever you realize they are worn out. We offer consultancy services and can help you determine whether or not they need to be changed.
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Praise for The Boxcar Baby “Miss AB’Gale Steel, is a pure spitfire girl, full of strong-minded grit, who draws strength out of adversity, and endures hardship by bracing herself against self-pity.” – Jorie Loves a Story
“One thing I really loved about this one was it was fast paced and moved quickly. Mulvihill did an amazing job making realistic characters.” – Bee’s Knees Reviews
“J.L. Mulvihill is quite a talented writer and I think she has such a creative mind to come up with this Steampunk Southern American Adventure.” – Book and Movie Dimension
Author J.L. Mulvihill: Born in Hollywood and raised in San Diego, CA, J.L. Mulvihill has made Mississippi her home for the past fifteen years. Her debut novel was the young adult title The Lost Daughter of Easa, an engaing fantasy novel bordering on science-fiction with a dash of steampunk, published through Kerlak Publishing. The Boxcar Baby, the first novel of her Steel Roots Series, was released by Seventh Star Press in the summer of 2013. J.L. also has several short fiction pieces in publication, among them "Chilled Meat", a steampunk thriller found in the Dreams of Steam II-Of Bolts and Brass, anthology (Kerlak Publishing) and "The Leprechaun’s Story", a steampunk urban Fantasy found in the anthology, Clockwork, Spells, & Magical Bells (Kerlak Publishing) J.L. is very active with the writing community, and is the events coordinator for the Mississippi Chapter of Imagicopter known as the Magnolia-Tower. She is also a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), Gulf Coast Writers Association (GCWA), The Mississippi Writers Guild (MWG), as well as the Arts Council of Clinton, and the Clinton Ink-Slingers Writing Group.

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Today's Stock Exchanges, May 24th. US debt, impasse risk. Weak markets in Asia
MILAN - The markets are once again watching with concern the negotiations between the White House and the Republicans to raise the US debt ceiling and avoid a historic default: when the speaker Kevin McCarthy left the meeting on Tuesday afternoon, he said that the agreement is still to be found and one of his key negotiators, Garret Graves, has made it clear that there are no new leaders on the agenda immediately. Stocks in Asia have reacted weakly to this non-news, while futures on Wall Street are holding up. The collapse of the New Zealand dollar should be noted, with the Central Bank announcing the achievement of the peak on rates.

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