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For 2022, I contributed ecosystem illustrations to The Moon Is My Calendar. This 12 cycle moon calendar features illustrations specially paired with each cycle.
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"This radiant full color wall calendar contains 12 lunar cycles featuring mandalas paired with the seasonal energy and astrological sign with uncluttered pages with space to record, plan, and reflect on your experience. All the astrological signs are color-coded with the element of the zodiac sign to show what sign the moon is in each day.
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Have no idea who the Kray twins are? Well, they were notorious gangsters from East London involved in murder, robbery, assault and lots of dangerous stuff.
The infamous brothers, named Ronnie and Reggie, have been immortalised in cinema, too (Tom Hardy starred in one film).
Mum-of-five Lisa Tarr missed all that and decided to name her newborn twins Ronnie and Reggie.
The 27-year-old, from High Wycombe, Buckingham, says she never heard of the criminals but kept coming across the names Ronnie and Reggie on Google.
She had the premature boys in October and the pair were little fighters from the start – overcoming a nasty bout of bronchitis.
The full-time mum said when she announced the name people asked if they were named after the infamous Kray brothers.
But she said she’d never heard of the pair.
Lisa now insists that her babies are not named after the gangsters.
‘I kept Googling for boy names, and those two kept coming up,’ she explained.
‘When I told people I was thinking of calling my twins Ronnie and Reggie, they asked me if I was thinking of the Kray twins.
‘I’d not heard of them – obviously they’re not named after that Ronnie and Reggie! But they’re nice, old-fashioned names, and they suit my sons.
She has proudly dressed them in Christmas outfits – Reggie as Santa Claus, suited and booted in red and white, and Ronnie in a cute Elf costume with a pointy hat.
‘Reggie is a bit bigger than Ronnie, so we thought we’d have to dress him up as Santa instead of Ronnie,’ she added.
‘But Ronnie is a little smaller, and is a little mischief – so he’s definitely an elf!
‘The two of them are so beautiful, and such tough fighters!’
Cuties Ronnie and Reggie were born prematurely in Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury, weighing just 4lb 6oz each.
They’ve had an uphill battle since and spent two weeks in November recovering from a nasty bout of bronchitis.
But Lisa’s youngest boys have gone from strength to strength and she can’t wait to spend this holiday with them at their healthiest yet.
Lisa – also mum to Jordan, 10, Kye, four, and Lyla, two – and her 30-year-old handyman partner Noel Oxlade are spending Christmas Day with Lisa’s whole family.
She bought the cute Christmas outfits for £4 at Mothercare earlier this month.

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Canton’s West Lawn Cemetery
Author: Kimberly A. Kenney
Cemeteries are important links to our past, and Canton’s West Lawn Cemetery explores Canton’s own history through the stories of the people interred there. Using vintage portraits and photographs of their businesses, homes, families, and contributions, accompanied by photographs of the monuments, sculptures, and markers that distinguish them, Canton citizens who are now gone from this world still live on in this book. Kimberly A. Kenney, author of Canton: A Journey Through Time, is the Curator of the Wm. McKinley Presidential Library & Museum. She compiled this look at Canton’s history through historic images from the Stark County, and current photographs from her own collection. The book is $19.99 plus $4.50 shipping and handling.

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Connected Technologies LLC, provider of a powerful cloud-hosted security management platform and Digital Watchdog (DW™), the provider of digital recorders, surveillance cameras and video management software have unveiled new integrations between DW Spectrum and Connect ONE that provide deeper reporting and management controls for dealers and their customers. Connect ONE and DW Spectrum integrate natively through software to receive or trigger notifications or events without system configuration such as opening a vulnerable in-bound port on the end-user’s network, port forwarding or connecting to the user’s IP address. Output control and lockdown With the expanded integration, dealers can add new feature sets, events and notifications gathered from DW Spectrum’s VMS, NVR or surveillance cameras for viewing and control on the Connect ONE, all-in-one interface. “Connect ONE is focused on expanding the possibilities for integrated systems for our dealer-customers,” said Dan Simon, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Connected Technologies. “This integration gives dealers the ability to provide more value in their managed services offerings through Connect ONE,” he said. Connect ONE’s users can receive events to monitor the health status of the NVR or perform special logging of activities or analytics. All Connect ONE Event Rules can be activated in response to NVR events such as report logging, notifications to users and system control – including arming, disarming, output control and lockdown. Connect ONE pushed system events such as arming, alarm, access, trouble and audit changes to the NVR are supported. Providing complete solutions ConnectOne’s ability to simplify integration with a variety of technology presents an opportunity for DW Dealers" Events are shown on the DW Spectrum interface to indicate the source and type of event along with a text description, such as user, zone, door, area, etc. Events received by the NVR can also record video bookmarks, trigger a camera preset and increase recording quality. “We are excited to see our technology partners take a deeper dive into DW Spectrum’s open architecture and all the functionality it offers,” said Patrick Kelly, Director of IP Video Solutions, DW. “ConnectOne’s ability to simplify integration with a wide variety of technology really presents an opportunity for DW Dealers to provide complete solutions.” DW Spectrum and Connect ONE integrate via direct network connection or DW Cloud. Integrated security management solution Following set up, users can retrieve a camera list for quick and easy configuration, view live video, search playback recordings, record snapshots upon an event from intrusion/access system for video verification and review a 10-second pre-event and up to a 45-second post event video clip. DW Spectrum is a powerful and user-friendly IP Video Management software, highly optimised to provide unlimited scalability, unmatched bandwidth savings and simplified system setup and management. Connect ONE by Connected Technologies is a cloud-hosted integrated security management solution which provides a single user interface to control intrusion, access control, video surveillance, critical environmental monitoring and energy management. Connect ONE works with the Bosch B and G series as well as DMP XR/XT series, ELK M1 series and Honeywell Vista Turbo security and access control panels.
Returning to work after the global pandemic will not be business as usual, and security systems are an important asset when it comes to helping to keep occupants and buildings safe. For example, video analytics can provide insight into how spaces have previously been used and can help to predict where and when occupants encounter each other or congregate. These foot-traffic patterns can inform settings for a variety of devices – like ventilation and temperature controls – and even help owners create social distancing plans and monitor personal protective equipment (PPE) compliance. “While the ‘new normal’ is still being defined, we believe there will be a greater focus on creating healthier environments while also complying with new regulations,” says Marcus Logan, Global Offering Leader, Honeywell Commercial Security. “Temperature, humidity, energy efficiency, security, safety, comfort, productivity, and demonstrating compliance with regulations are all a part of a healthy building.” For example, social distancing is a new concept for the workplace. How do you make that happen in an open work setting, in breakrooms, elevator lobbies and meeting spaces? Optimised systems create healthier environments Anxious employees will need reassurance about returning to the workplace Building owners will need to look at how they can optimise their systems – or deploy new ones – to create a healthier environment. Building technologies, like those provided by Honeywell's Healthy Buildings solutions, provide building owners with more control over critical factors to encourage sustained compliance with changing building standards, safety guidelines, government-issued regulations, and a company's risk management policies. These solutions also provide transparency for occupants into a building's status, says Logan. Hygiene will be a critical issue: People will want to know that the spaces are ready for their return. Increased cleaning procedures and schedules will evolve, and a way will be needed to demonstrate the procedures are effective and that they have been strictly adhered to. Identifying ways to measure effectiveness of sanitisation and track compliance to the procedures will be a key challenge to solve. This is a space that will evolve significantly in the coming months and years, says Logan. Access control and video analytics Contact tracing is a new requirement in some businesses, and security technology – like access control and video analytics with advanced reporting – can help. Access control technology integrated with video analytics can be used to trace occupant movements within a facility. These technologies capture data that can be used with advanced reporting to provide a digital footprint of where a person has been within a facility and if they may have been exposed to someone identified as being infected with a contagious virus. Building owners can then proactively notify exposed individuals evolve to self-quarantine and minimise further spread of an infection. Video analytics can help to predict where and when occupants encounter each other Anxious employees will need reassurance about returning to the workplace. They will not only seek confidence that the building is optimised for a healthier environment but also that processes are in place to quickly identify and respond to potential issues. Transparency and visibility into how the building works and the health of the environment will help to reassure occupants returning to the workplace. “One way to do this is to share building analytics with occupants – to help them understand factors about the indoor air quality or occupancy density,” says Logan. Controlled health, safety and security Honeywell’s solutions provide building owners with more control over critical health, safety and security factors to encourage sustained compliance with changing building standards, safety guidelines, government-issued regulations and a company’s risk management policies, Logan adds. Visibility into how the building works and the health of the environment will help to reassure occupants returning to the workplace Every day there is new information coming from the medical and scientific community about COVID-19, and the building industry is just starting to learn what it all means. Logan warns that there is no single solution that will keep every environment healthy and safe. A good strategy features deploying a combination of solutions, optimising systems and being vigilant to make sure that companies are sustaining compliance to new and changing regulations, says Logan. “Today more than ever we must be mindful of the changing culture of how buildings are managed by making apparent the need to be mindful of health and well-being in all aspects of our lives,” says Logan. Honeywell has developed outcome-based solutions that allow building owners to transparently address building quality factors while supporting their business continuity needs in the uncertain environment. “We’re giving them the data they need to confidently reassure their employees to accelerate their business operations,” he adds.
There are a handful of amazing things that set San Francisco apart from other global cities. Notably, there is the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, Fisherman’s Wharf and Chinatown, the Twin Peaks overlooking the city skyline, San Francisco Bay, and The Moscone Centre. Just how does a convention centre fit into the list of places to see in beautiful San Francisco? It is the largest convention and exhibition complex in San Francisco, California. It includes three main halls spread out across three blocks and 87 acres in the prime South of Market neighborhood. The convention centre originally opened in 1981 and has gone through several renovations. It is currently upgrading its security system to reflect a modern, state-of-the-art security solution. Securing SMG/Moscone Centre Security at the SMG/Moscone Centre is handled similar to the security at a Tier 1 airport. However, clients who use the facility are required to provide their own inside security. When the doors of the convention Centre are open to the public, it plays host to people who want to come in and look around. Our new security system will provide analytics, and the ability to look at the images in real time" “We are responsible for facility security inside and on the perimeter outside. This is considered a soft target, so we do everything possible to harden the security,” said Damion Ellis, Director of Security at the SMG/Moscone Centre. Damion adds, “The time is right for us to take out the old security system, including the old analog camera system. Our new security system will provide analytics, and the ability to look at the images in real time.” IP cameras installed for wide surveillance Like any major metropolitan area, the San Francisco metropolitan region has its own issues that have to be dealt with that aren’t pleasant. This includes keeping track of the homeless population and what they are doing. Damion Ellis further said, “We are able to place the new IP cameras in places where the homeless population congregates on the outside, in dark corners of the facility.” CompleteView VMS video platform The Moscone Centre complex consists of three main halls. Moscone South is located to the south of Howard Street and is three-storey tall. It opened in 2017, replacing the original Moscone Centre building that opened in 1981. A Keith Haring sculpture stands outside the hall at the corner of 5th and Howard streets. Moscone North is located to the north of Howard Street, and Moscone West is a three-level exhibition hall located across 4th Street from Moscone North. Integration with ProWatch access control platform “One of the most compelling reasons Moscone deployed CompleteView video platform was the integration with Honeywell’s ProWatch access control platform, as well as newly designed multi-sensor cameras,” said Salient’s Regional Sales Manager in the Bay Area, Cindy Doyle. Cindy adds, “The ease of use and intuitive software allowed the guard staff to use maps in the system to identify where triggered events took place for guard dispatch.” Monitoring door alarms Prowatch access control platform is currently being used to monitor door alarms throughout the property Prowatch access control platform is currently being used to monitor door alarms throughout the property and triggering video call-up and/or alarm video event when there is a forced or held open door. In order to keep track of outside foot traffic and provide interior and exterior security, an analytics option was foremost on everyone’s mind, and integrator Microbiz Security Co., dove in with an initial site survey to determine the best course of action. Microbiz has partnered with the SMG/Moscone Centre for several years. Video analytics solution “Our goal was to take a look at what it would take to secure the facility, but to do it properly,” said Todd Chritton, President of Microbiz Security. “The integrator had some suggestions in terms of offering better security coverage in some areas,” said Marco Escobar, Vice President of Operations at Microbiz Security, adding “What they knew was three buildings needed to update from its current 2002 technology, and upgrade to 2018 technology. It also was beneficial to the integrator having worked on site for several years and also having worked with Ellis during his tenure with the Hilton Hotel chain.” Multi-sensor and multi-megapixel IP cameras Marco Escober further stated, “We’ve been a long-time vendor at the convention centre, and we offer a pride of installation as well as using the best of the best security solutions. We began by updating current cameras to Arecont Vision multi-sensor and multi-megapixel IP cameras and Salient Systems’ CompleteView VMS, Dellintegrated server with RAID6 configuration and CompleteView Enterprise software." He adds, "The VMS is a fully open architecture, enabling convention center security staff to seamlessly leverage existing technology investments and minimise disruption.”
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A good product. Although the instructions were a bit sparse to say the least. Remove the door panel and spend five minutes working out how to remove the old mechanism and how the new one fits and I found it was no problem. Just over an hour saw the job done.
Most of the previous criticisms of the product seem to have been addressed. It now includes crimp connectors to connect the wiring and I was able to fit all three securing screws onto the window. You still need to find the three 6mm bolts (10mm heads) to mount it though. These need to be about 30mm long.
When you're removing the old mechanism you'll find two of the bolts are hidden under the door - easy if you know they're there. The original wiring is almost long enough to reach the new position of the motor so I found by cutting the wires off the old motor and soldering (or crimp connecting) to the new wiring I had plenty to play with. With my wiring the red wire connected to the black & blue wire, but do a dry run first to make sure it works the right way round.
My only criticism is the window no longer drops as straight as it should, but this in no way affects its operation, hence the 4 out of 5.
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As we navigate more COVID-19 lockdowns across Australia, here’s a guide to the main benefits you may be entitled to from the government, state by state. With new COVID-19 lockdowns, and an increasing number of cases it’s understandable if Aussies are feeling overwhelmed. On top of that, concern about their finances can just add to […]
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Aussie parents have coughed up more than $26 million to help their adult kids since COVID-19 hit our shores – and one in five is at financial risk from doing so. Parents helping their adult kids financially isn’t an unfamiliar concept in this country, but figures reveal mums and dads have forked out approximately $26.8 […]
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Aside from the shutdowns, job losses and restrictions, there’s been another worrying element to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic – scammers are zeroing in on the changes to our financial interactions and shopping habits to take advantage of people across Australia. Government website Scamwatch.gov.au reports that it’s received reports of over 2700 COVID-19 related scams – […]


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I’ll admit to cautious optimism when I saw the logline for “Meg and Quagmire,” if only because Family Guy telegraphed this eventual plot move all the back in “The Thin White Line” in season three. I honestly thought that the Meg/Quagmire pairing could potentially create good humor. In that episode years ago, Quagmire asking Meg her age was a decent joke establishing just how little Quagmire cared about anyone he couldn’t hit on, but it was no surprise that seven years later the show went back to that shallow well and carved out an entire episode for that eventuality. Meg turns 18 since that development doesn’t fundamentally alter the status quo of the series, and it’s only logical that the second she becomes “legal” Quagmire would come knocking. Much like the oddly serious “Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q” in the fall, tonight’s episode shortchanged what could have been a very serious episode by relying too heavily on in-episode tangents and time wasting.
Since I’d rather start with a positive comparison, I was impressed that I couldn’t shake the How I Learned to Drive similarities for the first half of the episode. Paula Vogel’s 1997 play is more about incestuous sexual abuse instead of a lustful neighbor, but Quagmire’s unsettling seduction tactics lined up with Uncle Peck’s attempts to gain Lil’ Bit’s favor. He texts her with age-appropriate mindless slang abbreviations, helps her “study” chemistry, and on their first date addresses Peter as “Mr. G.” Even though it’s deeply uncomfortable, there is something oddly fascinating about how Quagmire completely alters his personality to break down every wall Meg has in order to seduce her, straining to seem young enough to gain Meg’s trust. Meg is an inherently lonely and saddening character. She would trust anyone who gave her the time of day, but there is no sincerity to Quagmire’s interest. As he tells Peter, it’s just the way he is: Meg is 18, so he goes for it even in the face of Peter’s protests.
One of my roommates made the observation tonight that there are two big types of tangents/cutaways in a given episode of Family Guy: ones that reveal something in the past, removed from the “present” plot, and tangents that just waste time in the present and delay getting back to the actual plot of an episode. Tonight is a good example of Family Guy overusing the latter category. Peter’s speech to Quagmire about Meg not obeying him, his second monologue that closes out the episode, the War Games conversation, and others all feel like useless padding. It’s as though the writer’s came up with ten minutes of an actual episode, then instead of ten minutes of more plot decided that looking at their watches was a better idea. The episode starts with Peter, Lois, and Meg at the Teen Choice Awards, an elaborate setup for some pretty good jokes – all the fake teen idol names with “Chad” were amazing – but overall very few of those sequences managed to find anything funny.
The production cycle of animated shows came into play tonight in a way I found particularly interesting. It’s something I’ve wanted to write about for a while, since only animated episodic shows like this have a production schedule that far in advance. This episode had been listed on the Family Guy Wikipedia page as produced but unaired for around a year, meaning it was just sort of hanging around on the schedule. I couldn’t help but see Quagmire as something similar to Michael Fassbender’s character in Shame. The same movies about Glenn Quagmire would probably be adjusted to the title Shameless. He doesn’t admit to an addiction, but accepts what his natural behavior will be. That accidental character similarity aside, I wonder what a show like South Park would do if they decided to rush a Shame-themed episode about sex addiction. It wouldn’t look anything like this serendipitous bit of scheduling. Family Guy has the opportunity to look a serious episode in the face and try to find little corners of humor in a stark situation, but always chooses to look away and pitch to cutaways instead. That’s the structure of the show by and large, but that doesn’t make it any stronger.
By the third act, most of the discomfort is gone, and the show shifts the focus away from Quagmire seducing Meg and onto how Peter and Lois go into animated-third-act-action-mode in order to save Meg from her first adult decision separate from her parents. Up at Glenn’s cabin, Peter simply raises his voice enough to get Meg to listen to him, and it’s yet another sad moment in her life. She isn’t allowed to make her own decisions, even when it’s making a huge mistake at the hands of an obvious pervert. I didn’t really want to see Meg and Quagmire actually seal the deal, that’s about the last thing anyone wanted to see, but Peter exerting his misplaced paternal instinct felt like a copout all the same.
- Unofficial Cutaway Counter: 10. A pretty high count this week, and that’s part of what made this episode so disappointing.
- Several candidates for the worst cutaway: the Mexico girls, Peter literally kicking ass and taking names, and Mort’s Jewish Fight Club could all win the dubious honor.
- When Quagmire was telling a work story to Meg, it took me a minute to realize that he’s always been a pilot. That’s a detail that I’d completely forgotten since it’s mentioned so infrequently.
- My favorite fake teen idol names from the Teen Choice Awards: Chad Chadinson, C. Zachary Chad, and N.Y.T.F.$.
- When Peter notices the highway traffic was due to the road not being fully animated, it led to a meta poke-the-animator joke that’s been done better everywhere from Monty Python all the way to Spongebob Squarepants. It was audaciously lazy.

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Fundraiser for the Carrie Deer sculpture; Fermentation on Wheels hits town; the Biennial keeps rolling out; and Phenomenon the Poet returns.
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'The Kuwait Investment Authority announced that recent news regarding talks with German auto parts supplier Continental AG was incorrect and baseless,' KIA said in a statement.
German business weekly WirtschaftsWoche said on Saturday that the auto parts supplier was in talks with KIA over possible investment.
The report had propelled Continental shares on Monday but the stock was lower on Tuesday, extending declines after KIA's statement.
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The WMA Laboratory tests the incoming wastewater and treated wastewater discharged to Little Neshaminy Creek every day of the year. Samples are also collected at different points in the treatment process to make sure the process is producing the cleanest water possible. Samples from the solids handling process are collected to make sure that the biosolids meet the standards for land application to cropland. The laboratory also collects samples to send to other laboratories that can do more advanced testing. The laboratory is also responsible for special testing projects.
The goals of our Pretreatment Program are to protect the wastewater treatment plant process, collection system, personnel, and the environment. To achieve these goals, WMA focuses on 3 types of dischargers.
- Industrial - Each industrial user in our sewer service area is issued a Wastewater Discharge permit. The permit limits the amount and type of pollutants that can be discharged to the sewer system. The Pretreatment staff issues permits, collects samples of industrial discharges, does on-site inspections of industrial users to verify compliance and takes enforcement action, if needed.
- FOG - FOG (Fats, Oils and Grease) is a major cause of sewer line blockages. FOG also causes problems at the wastewater treatment plant resulting in increased costs. FOG Program staff inspect restaurants and other businesses which serve food to make sure they are following best management practices to keep as much FOG as possible from entering the sewer system.
- Dental Offices - Dental offices are the largest source of mercury discharged to wastewater treatment plants in the United States. Mercury can make its way through the wastewater treatment plant into the environment. Most dental offices are required by law to install an amalgam separator. The amalgam separator captures mercury at the source so it can be recycled. WMA staff assists dental offices in meeting the requirements of this regulation.ImageImage


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Cost of living in Calabozo, Venezuela compared to Alwar, India
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Cost of living in Calabozo (Venezuela) is 318% more expensive than in Alwar (India)
For example, you would need at least ₨158,970 (Bs 24,677) in Calabozo to maintain the same standard of living that you can have with ₨38,000 in Alwar.
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Agata Szydłowska was born in Warsaw on 13th October, in 1983. She graduated in Art History at the University of Warsaw. She has continued her studies at the School of Social Sciences at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where she is working on her doctoral thesis on the relationship between Polish graphic design and national identity since 1945.
From 2006 to 2011, she worked at the Poster Museum in Warsaw, where she contributed to arranging and coordinating the International Poster Biennale. She collaborated with the Victoria & Albert Museum in London on the project "Designing Democracy: Posters and the Political Transformation of Europe 1989-1991". She has co-ordinated or organised numerous other poster and graphic design exhibitions in Poland, Bulgaria, Great Britain and Spain. She has also participated in design conferences in Poland, Great Britain, Russia and Slovakia. She regularly writes for 2 + 3D magazine.
Her area of interest is the social and political functioning of design, and the methodology of research on graphic design and its history.
She cooperated with the Association of Graphic Designers (STGU), which, as a part of the Cultural Programme for the Polish Presidency in the EU in 2011, organized the Design for Freedom - Freedom in design. Polish Graphic Design 1981-2011 exhibition in Tokyo and Berlin.
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Exclusive Shop Hop Patterns
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These are the corrected templates for the pattern featured in the 2020 All Iowa Shop Hop Magazine. (Pattern revised June 17.)
The name of this quilt about says it all. Be sure to alternate and rotate blocks to get that nice “scrappy” look. (Pattern revised June 5.)
Applique templates for the Heritage Rose Quilt featured in the 2020 All Iowa Shop Hop Magazine. (Templates updated June 5.)
An original pattern by Laura Strickland from the Orange Blossom Quilt Design Studio for the 2020 All Iowa Shop Hop. Finished quilt size is this 72″ x 84″.
Designed by Shelley Robson for the 2020 All Iowa Shop Hop, this 14″ x 15″ bag is a great way to hold your Shop Hop Magazine and other necessities as you head out on the Great Sewing Adventure Across Iowa.
This 2020 All Iowa Shop Hop Quilt was designed by Shelley Robson of Pieced Tree Patterns. The finished piece is 62.5″ square. It features a center block of the cream Toile designed exclusively for this year’s Shop Hop surrounded by 16 colorful flower blocks.
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Concert Review: Loretta Lynn @ 9:30 Club
WASHINGTON — Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club first made a name for itself some thirty years ago hosting bands like Black Flag, X, and Minor Threat. Loretta Lynn is no punk rocker, but she’s been shaking up the status quo and sticking it to the man since Henry Rollins was an angry toddler. Thus it is only fitting that Lynn appear at the 9:30, and her first appearance at the club since 2002 was well worth the wait.
The sold out crowd was really something to behold: becardiganed hipsters shoulder to shoulder with graying geezers, all united in sheer adoration for the Coal Miner’s Daughter. Anything Lynn did was received with thunderous applause: drinking from her water bottle, forgetting the words to “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man),” threatening to give her son a whupping, it didn’t matter.
And that adoration is well earned, because after forty-five years in the music business Loretta Lynn can still belt out a song like a singer half her age. For 90 minutes she wowed the audience with nearly all of her hits, from “Honky Tonk Girl” to “Portland Oregon,” with a few surprises thrown in, such as her version of the Bellamy Brothers’ hit “Let Your Love Flow,” with which she opened her show. She and her male backup singers also formed a quartet for a few gospel songs sung with all the fervor of a tent revival.
Aside from her solo hits, Lynn donated a fair amount of her set to the songs she sang with Conway Twitty, her son Ernest joining her on a rather inappropriate mother-child duet of “Feelins,” and rhythm guitarist Bert Hansen sang Twitty’s part on “Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man.” Lynn then shared with the crowd the story of Twitty’s death; Lynn’s husband, Doo, had suffered a heart attack in Branson and was admitted to the hospital in Springfield. On his way to visit the Lynns at the hospital, Twitty passed out and died of an aneurysm. Both Lynn and audience were briefly subdued after that, but things quickly picked up again, thanks in part to some banter with both her son and the crowd.
Indeed, Loretta Lynn’s show is a family affair, and it’s apparent that the 74 year-old singer feels strongly about making sure that the rest of her clan has moments in the spotlight. The trouble is that the rest of the family doesn’t have her talent, nor do they possess her inherent charm. Twin daughters Patsy and Peggy, AKA The Lynns (who charted two singles from a self-titled 1998 Reprise album), performed in a manner reminiscent of the Kinleys (blandly inoffensive, the aural equivalent of Cheerios), and were preceded by brother Ernest singing Toby Keith’s “I Ain’t As Good As I Once Was” like a drunk at karaoke night.
Worst of all was Lynn’s granddaughter, Tayla, a 20-something who screeched her way through feminist anthem “Rated X” whilst shaking her ass, twirling her hair, and otherwise coming off as an even less talented Kellie Pickler.
As much as it pains me to say it, I think Lynn’s touring days are drawing to an end. She appeared frail under her lavender rhinestone gown, requiring frequent breaks and sitting in a chair onstage while her children and bandmembers sang a song or two at a time. In addition to forgetting the lyrics of multiple songs, Lynn launched into “You’re Looking at Country” before being halted by a band member, apparently forgetting that she had just sung it not ten minutes before.
Despite these occasional moments of dottiness, however, Loretta can still sing with the best of them, and her frailness serves as a harsh reminder: In the past few years we’ve lost so many country music legends–go see your heroes while you still can.
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Champaign-Urbana residents commute by car less than other big cities
September 1, 2015
The cars that race down Green Street every day may imply otherwise, but a report from the U.S. Census reported residents in the Champaign-Urbana area make up one of the lowest rates of private vehicle commuting in the country.
The report, “Who Drives to Work? Commuting by Automobile in the United States: 2013,” was published in August by the American Community Survey Reports division of the U.S. Census Bureau. The survey included 15 metro areas throughout the country.
In 2013, 78.4 percent of workers in Champaign-Urbana commuted to work by private vehicle. The second most popular mode way to get to work was walking, which was 7.9 percent of commuters choice of transportation.
Brian McKenzie, author of the report, said in the report the private automobile is the main form of transportation for work and other travel purposes in the United States. In 2013, about 86 percent of United States workers commuted to work by private vehicle, either driving alone or by carpooling. The rate of carpooling has declined since 1980, dropping from 19.7 percent to 9 percent, according to the report.
Rita Morocoima-Black, transportation planning manager for the Champaign-Urbana Urbanized Area Transportation Study (CUUATS), said processing the information found in the census was tasked to CUUATS, the transportation entity of the Champaign County Regional Planning Commission. The commission is a part of the Metropolitan Planning Organization responsible for administering the federally mandated transportation planning process for the Champaign-Urbana area, along with Savoy, Bondville and Tolono, according to the Champaign County Regional Planning Commission’s website.
Morocoima-Black said people in Champaign-Urbana choose to commute to work by vehicle due to convenience.
“People value time, and they know that walking, biking or taking the bus will take longer time for them to get to work in the morning or back home in the evening,” Morocoima-Black said. “Another factor for not using transit is the lack of privacy or peace and quiet time, as well as the lack of direct access to destinations outside of campus and the downtowns.”
The report found that nationally, Champaign-Urbana has a higher rate of private vehicle commuters than the New York-Newark-Jersey City area, Boulder, Co. and Ithaca, NY, among other places.
Bill Brown, Cunningham Township Board member, said the report references Champaign and Urbana as one entity. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Urbana has about 55 percent of residents using their car to commute to work, followed by walkers at 15 to 16 percent. Sixteen percent of residents use public transit and 6 percent bike.
“One thing to remember about the data is that the American Community Survey conducted by the census takes a small sample by mail every week throughout the year, so 6 percent by bike means an average for the whole year,” Brown said. “It would probably be lower in the winter and higher in other months.”
Charlie Smyth, Cunningham Township Board member, said he agrees with Brown’s assessment.
“Champaign-Urbana is basically in the group with lower automobile use. That’s important,” Smyth said in an email. “Being a college community like several others on the list, walking is a big second choice. For those who live near campus, it makes great sense.”
Morocoima-Black attributed a steady rate of the use of alternate transportation methods to efforts that have been made in the last 10 years to make such methods more appealing to commuters.
“The staff at MPO and it’s members have been working for the last 10 years to make the Champaign-Urbana urbanized area more bike and pedestrian friendly,” Morocoima-Black said. “(We are) providing new, more and better bicycle and pedestrian facilities, and conducting educational and enforcement campaigns to educate the people in the community about the benefits of biking and improving traffic safety.”


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Pressureless Melt Infiltrated Non-Oxide Ceramic-Metal Composites
In the present study highly dense (open porosity < 1 %), light-weight (d £ 2.85 g/cm3) and Al4C3-free non-oxide ceramic-metal composites were produced at comparatively low temperatures ( 1250°C) by pressurless melt infiltration. Phase analysis of the SiC-B4C-Al composites revealed that a significant amount of hygroscopic Al4SiC4 and Al4C3 phases were formed. Si3N4 powder was added in different amounts to the SiC-B4C powder batches to suppress formation of these phases via in-situ reactions during the infiltration process. X-ray diffraction results of the SiC-B4C-Si3N4-Al composites confirmed that the incorporation of Si3N4 to the SiC-B4C system reduced or eliminated the formation of the hygroscopic phases and resulted in in-situ formation of AlN, SiC and Si phases in the composite.
Katsutoshi Komeya, Yi-Bing Cheng, Junichi Tatami and Mamoru Mitomo
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The Canadian Press
Jan 15, 2016 2:05 pm EST
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Environmental activists who want a drilling moratorium in the Gulf of St. Lawrence weren’t impressed Friday as regulators extended an oil exploration licence for the Old Harry site by another year.
Corridor Resources Inc. (TSX-CDH) of Halifax had until Friday to offer a $1 million deposit to extend the licence until next January.
The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board announced the province and Ottawa agreed to waive the fee. Federal and provincial Natural Resources ministers ratified the move “in consideration of regulatory factors that have resulted in … delays in drilling a validation well in the final year of (Corridor’s) nine-year licence term,” the board said in a news release.
Spokesman Sean Kelly said no one was available for further comment.
Corridor Resources President and CEO Steve Moran referred all questions to the offshore petroleum board.
“It’s awful,” said Sylvain Archambault of the St. Lawrence Coalition, one of several environmental and indigenous groups across Canada that have called for a drilling moratorium in the Gulf.
“This is the third time they’ve obtained such a free pass.”
In its news release, the offshore board said it will soon announce plans for consultations with aboriginal groups and the public on related environmental assessments. Such regulatory requirements must be complete before any drilling goes ahead, Kelly confirmed in an email.
The federal government has estimated the Gulf and surrounding areas potentially hold 39 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 1.5 billion barrels of oil.
Indigenous groups and environmental activists have urged a moratorium in the Gulf pending a scientific review of risks. They also want to see collective management strategies involving the five adjacent provinces — Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI and Newfoundland and Labrador.
“Drilling would be close to the shore of any province,” Archambault said Friday in an interview. The Old Harry site is about 80 kilometres west of Newfoundland. One theory is that it was named for a community on the nearby Magdalen Islands.
“Scientific spill scenarios clearly show that the west coast of Newfoundland would be impacted as well as Cape Breton and the Magdalen Islands,” Archambault said.
“In the Gulf there are fisheries worth over $1.5 billion. There’s tourism, communities living all around the Gulf. We really don’t want the same scenario that happened in the Gulf of Mexico to repeat itself here.”
The Deepwater Horizon explosion April 20, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 rig workers. An estimated 3.19 million barrels of oil spewed into the water before engineers could cap the blown-out well 87 days later.
“And the Old Harry drilling site would be smack in the middle of the Laurentian Channel which is the highway used by all the migrating species — whales, salmon, cod,” Archambault said. “Anything happening there would be disastrous.”
Source: 680 News
The Gulf of St. Lawrence as seen from space. “Highly significant ecological areas such the Gulf should be top on our list to declare off-limits, whether oil is at $40 or $400 a barrel,” writes Gretchen Fitzgerald of the Sierra Club. (NASA)
GRETCHEN FITZGERALD Chronicle Herald
November 16, 2015
Your Nov. 7 Weekend Focus: “Oil, Water and Old Harry” got it wrong when it implied that oil prices are the most important obstacle to oil and gas development in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
The implication of this slant is that if oil prices rise, we will see development go ahead. The article also got it wrong when it implied that the threat of one oil well was insignificant to the Gulf’s ecology and economy. Finally, the article also ignored the fact that a single well, as damaging as it could be, is merely the toehold for future development, and that in the context of global climate change, it is imperative we shift away from these dangerous fossil fuel projects.
Groups have been fighting oil and gas development in the Gulf long before oil prices dipped. As the Newfoundland and Labrador offshore petroleum board acknowledged in 2010, they had never received such an intense public response to a project before they announced they were considering exploration at Old Harry in the middle of the Gulf.
This is because the Gulf is a unique place that is particularly vulnerable to oil development — and many people, from fishermen to scientists to national environmental groups such as Sierra Club feel strongly about this. This opposition will outlast the vagaries of oil price fluctuations.
Gretchen Fitzgerald, Director, Atlantic Canada chapter, Sierra Club Canada (Photo: Flickr)
Granted, because there has been no arm’s-length, ecosystem-wide assessment for oil and gas development in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, it is difficult to figure out what the whole story is.
Although a single ecosystem, parts of Gulf waters are considered jurisdiction of five eastern provinces and the federal government. The Gulf is also considered traditional territory for indigenous communities that have fished and lived on its shores for millennia. Our previous federal government’s lack of ability or willingness to play a co-ordinating role to oversee complex, inter-jurisdictional issues like the Gulf has added to the confusion.
As I write, consultations are underway in Quebec to assess the impacts of developing provincial petroleum resources, and mirror legislation has been passed provincially and introduced federally to create a management scheme similar to our offshore Accord Act — potentially opening up the Quebec portion of the Gulf to development.
Similarly, consultations are underway in Newfoundland to assess fracking, and the area that has experienced the most intense interest from fracking companies is located in the Gulf, off the West Coast of Newfoundland.
As we witnessed when the BP spill spewed billions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, quickly followed by a toxic brew of dispersant chemicals designed to hide the oil under the surface (chemicals that oil companies can now be permitted to use in Canada), an exploratory well can have devastating impacts.
Only one-quarter of the three billion barrels of crude spilled in the BP disaster is accounted for, and tar balls still wash up on beaches. Mangroves that are nurseries for sea life — similar to the salt marshes in our Gulf of St. Lawrence —have been damaged or destroyed. Dolphins have been poisoned by the oil, and marine mammal strandings have spiked since the spill.
Oil and chemical traces are found in fish and shellfish in the Gulf of Mexico, with unknown consequences for their development and the food chain. Imagine the impact of a similar spill on the marine mammals, sea turtles and fish that now live in our Gulf — which is six times smaller in size than the Gulf of Mexico.
As the BP spill illustrated, one exploratory well is certainly enough to damage our Gulf and the communities it supports. But one well would probably lead to others, increasing the risk with each additional project.
In the weeks leading up to UN negotiations on climate change in Paris, we need to acknowledge that some oil will need to be left in the ground to secure our future. Highly significant ecological areas such the Gulf should be top on our list to declare off-limits, whether oil is at $40 or $400 a barrel.
Gretchen Fitzgerald is director, Atlantic Canada chapter, Sierra Club Canada Foundation.
Source: Chronicle Herald
When the Deepwater Horizon oil well blowout spewed 5-million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, one of the main tools used against the oil was a chemical dispersant called Corexit. 7-million litres of this detergent-like chemical was used to break up oil slicks, in part to disperse the oil into the water and prevent contamination of coastlines, birds, and marine mammals.
It was also thought that dissolving the slicks like this would increase the rate at which natural bacteria would bio-degrade the oil. But work by Dr. Samantha Joye, a microbiologist in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia, and her colleagues, has shown that Corexit seems to inhibit, rather than facilitate, the ability of microbes to break down oil, leaving the toxic oil in the water for longer.
This throws into question a big part of the case for using chemical dispersant on oil spills.
Samantha Joye, a professor of marine sciences in the University of Georgia Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, studies the oil plumes generated by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout. (Credit: Todd Dickey/University of Georgia)
“The dispersants did a great job in that they got the oil off the surface,” Joye said. “What you see is the dispersants didn’t ramp up biodegradation.”
In fact, she found the oil with no dispersant “degraded a heckuva lot faster than the oil with dispersants,” Joye said.
Joye’s team chronicled nearly 50,000 species of bacteria in the Gulf and what they did to the water with oil, and water with oil and dispersant.
One of the main groups of oil munchers are fat little sausage-shaped bacteria called marinobacters, Joye said. They eat oil all the time and comprise about 3 percent of the bacteria in normal water. But when there’s oil, they eat and multiply like crazy until they are as much as 42 percent of the bacteria, Joye said.
But when the dispersant was applied, they didn’t grow. They stayed around 3 percent, Joye said.
Instead, a different family of bugs called colwellia multiplied more, and they don’t do nearly as good a job at munching the oil, Joye said. She theorized that for some reason the dispersant and marinobacters just don’t work together.
So if the oil wasn’t degraded by the bacteria, the question remains: Where did it go? Joye guesses it might still be on the floor of the gulf.
Should authorities avoid dispersants in the future? “That’s an extraordinarily complicated question,” says Joye. Corexit has its problems, but it does seem to keep oil away from coasts. “Nobody wants to see oiled birds, turtles, and dolphins, but the bottom line is that if you disperse that oil, it’s still in the water. You feel better, but is it improving the situation? My gut instinct is that I would put my faith in the microbial communities to do their job.”
Listen to CBC podcast interview with Dr. Samantha Joye
THE GUARDIAN – 27 August 2015
News of Tory-appointed official follows on Environment Minister granting Shell up to 21 days to stop underwater oil spills
The agency tasked with giving approval for Shell’s deep-water drilling off Canada’s east coast includes a Tory-appointed official who worked for Shell for decades, it has emerged.
Shell’s billion-dollar plans for exploratory drilling 200 km from Nova Scotia’s southern shore have been green-lighted by Canada’s Environment Minister, but they await a final review this fall by the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board.
The Petroleum Board includes as a board member Douglas Gregory, who spent three decades working for Shell Canada and Royal Dutch Shell.
Gregory opened Shell Canada’s exploration office in Nova Scotia and oversaw early deep-water seismic exploration off the coast before retiring in 2003.
He was appointed to the Petroleum Board by the federal Conservative government in 2007.
The conflict-of-interest revelations will provoke anger over an already controversial project that has been criticized by fishermen, First Nations and environmental organizations.
In June, Conservative Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq sparked an outcry by approving a plan that would allow Shell up to 21 days to cap any oil blowouts.
In contrast the United States requires Shell to have capping equipment on-site in Alaska within 24 hours.
Shell plans to save money by not keeping the equipment on standby in Nova Scotia, instead shipping it when necessary by boat from Norway.
An underwater oil spill off the coast could do irreparable damage to marine life and the fishing and tourism industries vital to the economy of eastern Canada.
The Conservative government has been widely criticized for overhauling Canada’s environmental laws to make it easier to win quick approval for such resource projects.
Federal environmental reviews of the sort conducted for Shell’s drilling plans now happen with shortened timelines and drastically restricted public participation, and only for projects determined by the federal government.
The Harper government has cut 40 percent of the budget of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and fired hundreds of scientists who contributed to environmental reviews.
“The Canadian system of environmental oversight wasn’t very effective to start with, but the current government has made it much worse. They’ve sidelined departments with an ecological perspective or gutted their scientific capacity, and are moving toward making captive agencies like the Petroleum Board solely responsible for environmental assessments. At this rate, Nova Scotians may be watching in horror as an oil spill continues for weeks,” said Mark Butler, policy director of the Ecology Action Centre.
Since its election in 2006, the Conservative government has appointed dozens of former industry insiders or government officials with no environmental expertise to the agencies that oversee offshore oil and gas exploration.
In what Butler decries as yet further erosion of environment protections, the Conservative government introduced legislation last month that will strip the federal environment assessment agency of its power to continue reviews of oil and gas projects around Nova Scotia and hand authority to the Petroleum Board.
Former Nova Scotia premier and provincial Progressive Conservative party leader Rodney MacDonald was another recent Conservative appointment to the Petroleum Board.
Gregory was a voting member until last year and has since become an alternate, voting when other members are unavailable, while also chairing the Health, Safety and Environment Advisory Committee.
He worked for thirty years as a manager and geophysicist and also did a stint with Canada’s largest oil lobby group.
A communications advisor for the Petroleum Board said Gregory has never voted on an issue that had to do with Shell but could not say if he has formally recused himself from all discussions around the drilling plan.
“Anything related to a conflict-of interest matter would have to be asked of the federal government,” the advisor said.
The federal government referred questions to the Petroleum Board.
A petition calling on the Board to refuse approval of Shell’s drilling plans has gathered more than 50,000 Canadian signatures.
Shell’s efforts to drill for oil further north in the Arctic have faced a global campaign, with US Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton recently adding her voice to the opposition.
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SumofUs petition Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board – sign now, to pressure CNSOPB to refuse Shell’s application
Shell wouldn’t have to cap an oil spill for 21 days? Outrageous.
This is Shell’s dream. The Canadian government just gave it permission to drill for oil off Nova Scotia’s coast — and the company doesn’t need to cap an oil blowout for 21 days.
Are they kidding? Shell will be allowed to freely spill oil into the ocean for three weeks — potentially wreaking environmental havoc on Nova Scotia’s amazing marine life, major fishing grounds, coastal communities and the Sable Island National Park Reserve, the world’s largest breeding colony of grey seals.
And it’s all so Shell can save a few bucks by not having to keep safety equipment nearby.
The U.S. requires oil companies to cap blowouts within 24 hours. Canada is giving Shell three weeks to bring equipment in from Norway after a blowout happens — 5,000 kilometres away.
Shell is gambling with our oceans to cut its own costs. But we have a chance to stop it. The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB) still has to make its final decision on Shell’s application. If we overwhelm it with objections, we can stop Shell.
Tell the Petroleum Board to refuse Shell’s application to drill in Nova Scotia.
Shell wants to drill up to seven exploratory wells — which are especially risky and prone to large spills — off the coast of Nova Scotia in the next four years. If a blowout did happen, it would be catastrophic for Nova Scotia’s major fishing grounds. Haddock, lobster and crab stocks would be at risk, as would whales, dolphins, sharks, sea turtles and hundreds of species of migratory birds.
When a spill happens, safety equipment would have to travel 5,000 kilometres or more just to cap the spill. And worse, some of the backup safety equipment is located in South Africa, a staggering 12,000 kilometres away.
BP’s DeepWater Horizon disaster taught us just how devastating a prolonged blowout can be for wildlife, habitat and livelihoods. But some believe a blowout in Nova Scotia could be even worse — because the oil wells would be in much deeper water and a much harsher environment, and because of a lack of technological capability on Shell’s part.
The SumOfUs community has stood up to Big Oil’s destruction of the environment, and we’ve had a major impact. Hundreds of thousands of us came together to stop Shell from drilling in the Arctic, and to demand that Chevron pay for its crimes in the Amazon. Now, let’s stand together to keep Shell out of Nova Scotia.
Nova Scotia Petroleum Board: refuse Shell’s application to drill in Nova Scotia!
Shell gets OK to take 21 days to cap blowouts off Nova Scotia coast, CBC News, 5 August 2015
Canada Gives Shell Permission to Leave Future Offshore Well Blowout Uncapped for 21 Days, the U.S. Gives 24 Hours, DeSmog Canada, 7 August 2015
CBC News – Nova Scotia
Environmentalist says it’s ‘almost inconceivable’ to give oil giant that much time to act
By Zak Markan, CBC News Posted: Aug 05, 2015 6:30 AM AT Last Updated: Aug 05, 2015 4:11 PM AT
A Nova Scotia environmentalist is criticizing federal Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq’s decision to approve an “almost inconceivable” offshore drilling plan from Shell that allows up to 21 days to contain a subsea blowout, despite the U.S. requiring the same company to cap blowouts within 24 hours.
On June 15, Aglukkaq signed off on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency’s assessment of Shell Canada’s Shelburne Basin Venture Exploration Drilling Project.
Shell Canada’s spill containment plan, accepted by the agency, says it can have a primary capping stack in place within 12 to 21 days after a blowout off southern Nova Scotia.
The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board has not given Shell approval to do exploratory drilling yet.
John Davis, a long-time environmentalist who spends a lot of time on Nova Scotia’s South Shore, says any company getting 21 days to stop a subsea blowout is ‘almost inconceivable.’ (CBC)
John Davis, a long-time environmentalist who spends a lot of time on Nova Scotia’s South Shore, said Shell’s plan doesn’t make sense.
“It seems to me almost inconceivable that [Shell] would give themselves up to 21 days to stop a blowout in an area that is so close to all of our major fishing ground here on the South Shore,” he told CBC’sInformation Morning.
In the environmental assessment for the project, Shell Canada said the capping stack equipment would be brought in from Stavanger, Norway.
Shell said it would also deploy a backup capping stack from either Scotland, South Africa, Singapore or Brazil.
Stark contrast to U.S. regulation
Davis said the decision to allow Shell up to 21 days to cap a blowout in the Shelburne Basin is in stark contrast to what U.S. regulators are requiring from Shell for an exploratory drilling project in the Chukchi Sea in Alaska.
The U.S. Interior Department’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement has given Shell an exploration permit on the condition that it must have a capping stack on a vessel nearby on standby that must be deployed within 24 hours of a blowout.
“What Shell said to our regulator is, ‘There isn’t a capping stack available in Canada, nor in North America. Nor is there a vessel capable of moving and maintaining that capping stack, so we can’t have one here because there isn’t one,’” said Davis.
“The reality is, there is no capping stack and there is no vessel anywhere unless the oil companies are forced to have it near their drill site by the regulators.
“The vessel carrying the capping stack to the drill site [off Alaska] came from Norway. It simply doesn’t make sense that you could accept that argument,” Davis said.
CBC News has requested interviews with Environment Canada and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency to explain Aglukkaq’s reasoning for approving Shell Canada’s well containment plan for Shelburne Basin. They deferred questions to the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board.
The board wasn’t available for comment Wednesday, but said it will speak to the issue later in the week.
Link to this story and listen to Information Morning Interview with John Davis
July 22, 2015 John McCauley, CPA CMA Director, Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency 160 Elgin Street, 22nd Floor Ottawa ON K1A 0H3 Tel.: 613-948-1785 Fax: 613-957-0897
Dear Mr. McCauley,
Save Our Seas and Shores Coalition, a coalition of fishermen, First Nations, environmental organizations, and concerned citizens has been advocating protection of the Gulf of St Lawrence from offshore oil and gas development for over fifteen years.
We are advocating this protection due to our Gulf’s extremely sensitive nature, counter-clockwise currents that only empty into the Atlantic once a year, winter ice cover and prime breeding grounds for over 2,200 marine species that spawn, nurse and migrate year round.
Given that the offshore oil and gas industry already has unfettered access to approx. 88% of East Coast waters, with only Georges Bank under moratorium, the fact that we are still fighting for the Gulf’s protection after all this time indicates the disrespect we feel our federal government has for the hundreds of coastal communities and multi-billion dollar renewable fishery and tourism industries in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador, who rely on our Gulf for its sustenance. We are growing tired of this disrespect, given that our livelihoods go directly back into our coastal communities and into municipal, provincial and federal coffers.
At this time, we are writing to comment on the proposed regulations that would make the Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (the Nova Scotia Board) a responsible authority under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 (CEAA 2012).
In our opinion, entrenching powers for industry controlled offshore petroleum boards into Canada’s Environmental Assessment Act is NOT responsible conduct and will NOT LEAD to a responsible authority. Rather, we consider this a dangerous precedent.
We are profoundly discouraged that CEAA, a federal agency whose legislated mandate is to protect Canada’s environment (and the public interest) would consider such an ill-conceived notion. It is a step backwards. We urge you to reconsider these proposed regulations.
Do you remember the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon disaster? Allow us to stir your memory:
Five Years After BP Spill, New Rules to Boost Safety -LA Times April 20, 2015: “On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 people in one of the nation’s worst environmental disasters. For 87 days, the country was transfixed by images of millions of barrels of oil gushing from the seafloor, coating marine life and soiling more than a thousand miles of coast from Texas to Florida. The spill of 3.19 million barrels of oil into the gulf, an amount determined by a federal judge, upended how the federal government regulates offshore drilling… According to a study prepared by the Natural Resources Defense Council, more than $11.6 billion has been paid to individuals. Commercial fisherman could lose $8.7 billion by 2020 along with 22,000 jobs, and lost tourism dollars are more than $22.7 billion. “As many as 5,000 marine mammals may have been killed along with 1,000 sea turtles and nearly 1 million coastal and offshore seabirds, the environmental group said.” “Before the disaster, the Minerals Management Service, part of the Department of the Interior, was the one-stop federal agency handling all issues related to natural gas and oil production on the continental shelf. It awarded leases, collected royalties, conducted environmental impact studies and carried out safety inspections — prompting complaints that its mission created CONFLICTS OF INTEREST. For example, how could the same agency seeking to increase oil revenue be trusted to strictly regulate safety, which could cut income? A month after the disaster, US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar ordered that the agency be split into the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and the Office of Natural Resources Revenue. Each arm focused on a different task, separating revenue from safety and both from leasing issues.
Separation is good for all of the agencies, said Eileen P. Angelico, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. “I think it allows us to focus on our mission and to do it more effectively than before.””
Mr. McCauley, it is clear from these comments that separating its environmental protection from the same agency that promotes offshore oil and gas development has been good for the US.
Why won’t Canada do this? A separate safety regulator was recommended by the Offshore Helicopter Safety Inquiry in Newfoundland so why is CEAA apparently choosing to ignore Recommendation 29 of the Wells Inquiry?
It is our position that the proposed effort to entrench industry controlled boards into Canada’s Environmental Assessment agency is an initiative that will take us backwards, further weakening Canada’s environmental protection. Further, it will deepen and will make even worse the conflict of interest that the C-NSOPB and the Newfoundland Board (C-NLOPB) are already in.
We strongly oppose these proposed regulations.
Sincerely, Mary Gorman
Save Our Seas and Shores Coalition
MONTREAL — Quebec must impose a 12-year moratorium on oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to give time for a comprehensive assessment on possible risks to the ecosystem, the chiefs of three native groups said Wednesday.
The waters of the St. Lawrence are vital to the livelihoods of the Innu, Mi’kmaq and Maliseet nations and should be protected, they told a news conference in Montreal as the Assembly of First Nations continued its annual meeting.
They also asked federal party leaders to tell voters ahead of this fall’s election where they stand on the protection of the Gulf from development.
Mi’kmaq Chief Scott Martin said he feared an environmental catastrophe in the St. Lawrence similar to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that devastated parts of the southern U.S. coastline.
Martin added there are currently “numerous knowledge gaps” within oil-industry reports on risks associated with drilling along the waterway.
“The gulf is a highly productive body of water and diversity is very rich,” he told reporters. “No one can tell us what effect a blowout like a Deepwater Horizon can have on the food chain.”
Martin said he wants an “integrated assessment” of all the risks involved with resource exploitation in the area before Quebec grants exploration or drilling permits.
The chiefs said they decided the moratorium should last 12 years after calculating the time they thought it would take to conduct studies, write reports and consult the public.
Resource exploitation along the St. Lawrence River cannot be carried out without their consent, the chiefs said, adding the Supreme Court of Canada ruled native people must be consulted and accommodated before their territory can be used for commercial development.
Some chiefs were more hard line than others.
Innu Chief Jean-Charles Pietacho said his people won’t be silenced with petrodollars.
“Never will I accept royalties that come from (the oil and gas sector),” he said.
Anne Archambault, grand chief of the Viger Maliseet First Nation, was more nuanced in her comments, saying she needed to consult her people before deciding on royalties.
She said her people’s ancestral rights to the Atlantic salmon “take precedence over oil,” adding 95 per cent of her community’s revenue comes from the salmon industry.
Native groups demand protection of Gulf from oil and gas development The Telegram
Chiefs from the Innu, Maliseet and Mi’gmaq Nations are demanding that federal party leaders tell voters whether they will protect the Gulf of St. Lawrence’s unique and vital ecosystem.
With Québec proposing to open the Gulf of St. Lawrence to oil and gas exploration, Chief Jean-Charles Piétacho of the Innu of Ekuanitshit said in a news release, “This is an issue that affects the livelihoods of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in five provinces and it is the federal government’s responsibility to protect them.”
The release notes that last month, Québec announced it would lift a moratorium on oil and gas exploration in the Gulf and begin granting permits once legislation is in place. Newfoundland has already granted an exploration permit at the Old Harry Prospect, northeast of the Magdelen Islands, but drilling has not yet been allowed.
It says both Québec and Newfoundland’s powers are from the federal government and they will need federal government approval for major decisions. Old Harry is at the boundary used by Canada to assign each province its regulatory authority.
“The Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico five years ago was an exploration well, like what the provincial governments want to allow,” said Chief Scott Martin of the Mi’gmaq of Listuguj. “We want federal party leaders to tell the people of New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Québec whether they are willing to risk that kind of catastrophe in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.”
A strategic environmental assessment by Québec concluded that a catastrophe on the scale of Deepwater Horizon is “plausible” if exploration goes ahead. The native groups stress in their news release that results would be devastating for a commercial fishery around the Gulf worth $1.5 billion annually and a tourism industry that generates another $800 million per year.
The Innu, Maliseet and Mi’gmaq communities of Québec formed an alliance in 2013 for the protection of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. At the Assembly of First Nations meeting in Halifax in 2014, Maliseet and Mi’gmaq chiefs from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick joined them in calling for a moratorium.
“The salmon has sustained our peoples since time immemorial and it migrates through the Gulf before it returns to our rivers to spawn,” said Grand Chief Anne Archambault of the Viger Maliseet First Nation. “We have rights protected under the Constitution to harvest what the Gulf gives to us and those rights take precedence over oil and gas.”
The award winning documentary “The Great Invisible” premieres on “Independent Lens” on PBS and on Pivot, Participant Media’s television network, on the fifth anniversary of the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, Monday, April 20, 2015. This will be a rare opportunity to learn about the potential risks of planned deep water drilling in our own Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
View the trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDw1budbZpQ
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“On April 20, 2010, communities throughout the Gulf Coast of the United States were devastated by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, a state-of-the-art, offshore oil rig operated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico. The blast killed 11 of 126 rig crewmembers and injured many more, setting off a fireball that was seen 35 miles away. After burning for two days, the Deepwater Horizon sank, causing the largest offshore oil spill in American history. The spill flowed unabated for almost three months, dumping hundreds of millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic ocean, shutting down the local fishing industry, polluting the fragile ecosystem, and raising serious questions about the safety of continued deep-water offshore drilling.
Brown traveled to small towns and major cities across Alabama, Louisiana and Texas to explore the fallout of the environmental disaster. Years later, the Southern Americans still haunted by the Deepwater Horizon explosion provide first-hand accounts of their ongoing experience, long after the story has faded from the front page”.


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The Bottom Line - President Trump Economy Has Done Well
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Scott Jones says that we're fighting so hard, people are finding issues with tax reform. He says that President Obama took over in a recession, but had job growth.

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TAST stitch 67 is fancy hem stitch. It’s a great stitch and I like to share a few old samples to inspire you. The first one is my TAST 2010 sampler. You can read the details in my original posts here and here.
This is a work in progress photo of my last TAST 2010 sampler with a repeat of all stitches. The threads are yellow perle 8 and DMC fil or clair.
A seam on my ornament Beezzz. I attached the lace
with fancy hem stitches, the threads are perle 5 and a metallic thread.
Here I attached a piece of lace on my pink ornament. The thread is perle 5 and Sulky metallic. Later I added some French knots between the stitches.
My last detail is part of block one for Karen’s
class Embroider, Embellish, Create. It was the perfect stitch to secure my rouleau loops. The thread is cotton a broder.


'The Vampire Diaries' Actress Katerina Graham Engaged
Katerina Graham will probably change her status to "engaged." On Monday, October 29, the actress' boyfriend Cottrell Guidry posted engagement news on his Facebook page, but later deleted it.
Before the rumor started, the "Skyler" star already gave a hint by tweeting on October 27, "Vans, @joyrichla socks, top man pants, dog... #WaitingForWifey." In the meantime, there is still no confirmation from "The Vampire Diaries" actress.
During the weekend, the duo celebrated Halloween by dressing up as Princess Jasmine and Aladdin. They were snapped together with friends who dressed up as Ariel and Sebastian. "Sebastian, Ariel, jasmine and Aladdin ... #disneyS**t," the actor tweeted.
Katerina is known for playing Bonnie Bennett in The CW's vampire series. Aside from acting career, she is exploring her talent in music by releasing "Against the Wall [EP]" in May. Recently, she promoted her newest single on Twitter, "New default!!! Wanna Say Remix EP available on iTunes tuesday!"
"The Vampire Diaries" premiered its fourth season on Thursday, October 11. It reached great ratings with over 3 million viewers.
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So Fi Zine. A home for sociological fiction, poetry and visual art.
AKE Zine. A critical feminist art/research experiment about affect, knowledge and embodiment.
QTM story zines. What does it mean to queer the map?
Algorithmic Micropolitics. On how we experience algorithms in everyday life.
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Book 5 days Virunga and Kahuzi-Biega tour which offers you a great opportunity to get up-close to both the mountain gorillas and the Eastern Lowland gorillas while in their natural habitats. These are 2 exceptional primate species and they are all a sub-specie of the Eastern gorilla.
It is an incredible gorilla tour taking you through mountain gorilla trekking in the Congo Virunga National Park and Eastern Lowland gorilla trekking in Kahuzi-Biega National Park. On this trip, your journey will begin and end in Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda.
Detailed itinerary of the 5 days Virunga & Kahuzi-Biega N/Park gorilla tour
Day 1: Leave Kigali for Bukavu in the D.R. Congo.
Today, expect to be picked up from your hotel or upon arrival at Kigali Airport. You will start your trip to D.R. Congo to enjoy your 5 days Virunga & Kahuzi-Biega gorilla tour.
Lunch break will be made enroute and you will have opportunity to visit the King’s Palace, Museums, genocide site in Butare while on a short city tour. Thereafter, continue with your journey to Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Day 2: Eastern Lowland gorilla trekking tour
Enjoy your heavy breakfast and later, leave your respective lodges for briefing at Kahuzi-Biega park offices. You will get to learn about the various rules to be followed on a search for Eastern Lowland gorillas.
About 12 gorilla groups exist in Kahuzi-Biega National Park but only two – Chimanuka and Mugaruka are currently open for trekking. On this day, you will trek one and they include Mugaruka and Chimanuka families. After 2-5 hours of learning more about the lowland gorillas and 1 hour of photography, magical encounter, get back to relax in the lodge.
Day 3: From Kahuzi-Biega National Park, drive to Virunga National Park
Leave Kahuzi-Biega National Park a home to largest population of Eastern Lowland gorillas for Virunga National Park where a section of rare mountain gorillas thrives.
You may go on a boat ride on Lake Kivu to Goma then have lunch break en-route and later, connect to Virunga National Park. If time allows, you may have a fun-filled evening walk prior to sun set.
Day 4: Mountain gorilla trekking in Virunga national park
Have the best of your breakfast and after, assemble at Virunga park offices to be briefed about rules to follow while tracking mountain gorillas. Have some snacks, bottled water since this is unpredictable wildlife experience that may last you 2-6 hours. You will have a chance to explore one of the 8 habituated gorilla families in the Virunga National Park (Humba gorilla family, Mapuwa, Munyaga, Bageni, Lulengo, Rugendo, Nyakamwe and Kabirizi).
You will trek only 1 of these gorilla families in a group of 8 visitors. The park guide will escort you and interestingly, there are some amazing primates and birds to keep an eye on. The entire experience lasts for 2-6 hours and it includes 1 hour of face to face interaction with mountain gorillas then you return to the lodge to have enjoyable dinner and comfortable night stay.
Day 5: Drive from Virunga in D.R. Congo back to Kigali, Rwanda
After a hefty breakfast, you will check out of the lodge then drive back to Kigali. Get to Kigali early then have a quick Kigali city tour. After, have lunch break before connecting to Kigali Airport for your departure flight.


text: My score of four stars is 3 for dinner and 5 for breakfast. Breakfast was great, dinner was ok, huge portions. I wouldn't hesitate to go there again. Especially nice if your staying at the Rosarito beach hotel only 3 block walk. Atmosphere is nice with the fireplaces throughout the restuarant.

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After half term we will be taking part in the ‘Ready, Steady… Listen!’ programme. This is a sponsored listen. Parents/carers and children will be encouraged to read at home and gather sponsors which will be used to provide new books for the setting. This is a great opportunity to enjoy books and encourage a lifelong love of stories and books.
All information will come out in the next week or so before half term. We will complete this over a 2 week period which also links in with World book day when we will also raise money to get new books. We look forward to seeing all of the World book day outfits. World book day is on Thursday 5th March 2020.
The children at Greenshoots will enjoy a range of books over the 2 weeks and we will be using props to support the children’s understanding of story books.
We are really looking forward to this sponsored listen and we hope you guys can help raise lots of money for new books for your children to enjoy here.

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Check out Chris Weaver’s music video from his song “Free” from his soon to be released project Alive coming out of Komplex Music Group.
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Chris Weaver from KomplexMusicGroup, drops a new collaboration with filmmaker/label owner Kre8tor.
Seattle Based DJ em-D releases second single from “Light of the City” EP featuring 5 Time award winning billboard artist Spencer Kane
Armond Wakeup has combined both creativity and urban art with the release of his latest visual of “Revelation Is Revolution” from his most recent project ‘Even If I Lose.’
VeggieTales Hip Hop Video Demonstrates That There is a Market for #CHH
Christian Hip-Hop legend, Da’ T.R.U.T.H., is gearing up for a busy 2018.
Reach Records general, Lecrae, recently dropped what appears to be a promo video for his upcoming album on social media.
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South Florida-based artist, FayBN, has released a hip-hop allegory titled “X Girlfriend.”
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Miami hip-hop duo Social Club Misfits (SCM) are excited to release their new album ‘The Misadventures of Fern & Marty.’


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Sacre Pagina - The Pastoral Epistles 1st Timothy, 2nd Timothy and Titus, by Benjamin Fiore Liturgical Press
First and Second Timothy and Titus have for many years borne the collective title "The Pastoral Epistles." Both their style and their content make it difficult to locate them within the corpus of Pauline letters, and recent scholarship most often considers them pseudonymous, works that imitate Paul's letters but apply the apostle's teaching to the concerns of a later time, two or more decades after Paul's death. The Pastorals differ from Paul's own letters in being addressed to single individuals, coworkers of Paul who have been placed in charge of particular churches—Timothy apparently in Ephesus, Titus in Crete. They provide instruction for community leaders, both the individual addressees and other leaders whom they will appoint. The specification of certain offices within the local churches is one of the features that appear to locate these works in a later phase of church development. In this commentary Benjamin Fiore, SJ, places the Pastorals in their historical and literary context. The reader will find here a solid introduction to parallel literary forms in Latin and Greek literature and particular descriptions of the way in which these documents use ancient rhetorical forms to achieve their paraenetic and hortatory purpose. Drawing on his parish experience as well as his academic training, Fiore also provides reflections on the contemporary pastoral application of these books, giving readers a renewed appreciation for the "pastoral" label these epistles bear.
Print on Demand. Delivery Time Approx 7-10 Working Days. Paperback Edition.
Author: Benjamin Fiore
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Dimensions: 150mm x 230mm.


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Million dollar cream cheese and garlic dip. whipped cream cheese 1 cup mayonnaise 2 cups grated colby jack cheese 5 green onions, chopped 1 square cube of crushed garlic cup bacon, finely chopped Combine all ingredients together.
Creamy Garlic Butter Tuscan Salmon (OR TROUT) is such an incredible recipe! Restaurant quality salmon in a beautiful creamy Tuscan sauce! #FishRecipes #Seafood #DinnerRecipes #EasyRecipes
I want you all to pay attention on her bag. It shows a reference to another anime/manga, called "Goldfish Warning". Both mangas/animes (BSSM and Goldfish Warning) were seen on a japanese magazine called "Nakayoshi".

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- Home composting expo begins in Trichy
A three-day long exhibition on recycling solid waste commenced at Kalaiarangam marriage hall near Trichy central bus stand on Friday. The exhibition will spread the awareness on recycling waste into manure at home and also sheds light on alternatives to the recently banned plastic products.
- PWD says can’t find enough plastic waste to build roads
To minimize the harmful impact of plastic waste on the fragile ecology of the state, the Himachal Pradesh high court had directed public works department (PWD) to use plastic waste in the construction of 7km-long Taradevi-Gambhar road in Shoghi sub division of Shimla distict
- Kolkata: From using elevators to sharing books, novel ways to lighten bags
A city school has come up with a unique way to relieve students of the burden of heavy bags. At a certain point in the day, the school elevators only carry Class-VI students’ bags up to the fifth floor. The kids and teachers take the stairs.
- Can you guess the price of Priyanka Chopra's bag?
Priyanka Chopra never fails to impress us with her style. The 36-year-old actress is always dressed to the nines and is undoubtedly one of the best stars internationally. Currently, the actress is in Paris for Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner's wedding. She was spotted on the streets and looked stunning in a grey-coloured jumpsuit by Alberta Ferretti. She styled it with white ankle boots and carried a monogrammed tote bag by Christian Dior.
- Delhi adds 690 tonnes to its woes daily...
Delhi generates around 690 tonnes of plastic waste every day. But for odd seizures in markets, it is single-use plastic items like milk packets, tetrapacks or multi-layered packaging that are causing the most damage to the ecosystem, experts say. At present, Delhi is able to effectively recycle only 15-20% of its plastic waste, due to poor segregation.
- Plastic ban in TN: Siblings to distribute one lakh cloth bags to vendors free of cost
The Tamil Nadu government has a green resolution for the new year as it will enforce a blanket ban on throwaway plastic from January 1, 2019. And a few youngsters are determined to help fellow citizens keep their city free of plastics.
- Prisoners to prepare paper bags
In an effort to make jails plastic-free zones, Punjab government has banned plastic bags in all jails of the state. Now, inmates will prepare paper carrybags, which will not only help eliminate plastic bags from the complexes, but also enhance the craft skills of the prisoners.


The revolution is being televised, live from space. The above live video feed is coming direct from Elon Musk's 2008 Tesla Roadster, which is currently somewhere high, high above us.
On Tuesday afternoon, Musk's rocket company, the new most powerful rocket currently in use worldwide, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The payload for the demonstration launch consists primarily of the Roadster, and a suited dummy named "Starman," which is featured prominently in the feed.
After spending a few hours cruising the Van Allen radiation belts around Earth, the upper stage of Falcon Heavy is set to fire one last time before it detaches from the Roadster, sending it -- and Starman -- headed toward Mars.
Musk has said some of the cameras are mounted on the car itself, but it's not clear if the feed will continue after it separates from the rocket. So enjoy the Starman show while you can.