Construction is completed on a semi-buried Public Works Complex that is one of the most environmentally friendly buildings in the Lehigh Valley. Built into the side of a hill, the low-lying, $4.7 million complex features a vegetated roof and berm curving to the ground on three sides, making the building visible from only the front. The building occupies the southeast corner of a 52-acre parcel of municipal land. The remaining land surrounding the complex will become a park. The complex features three buildings, including six drive-through truck bays with wings on either side housing mechanics’ bays, equipment storage and administrative offices. Trucks enter and exit the complex via lanes at the front of the building leading to the center courtyard, which includes above-ground fuel tanks and a covered salt storage bin. Other perks of the building include the green roof, which reduces stormwater runoff by collecting rain in an underground storage tank. The water is then recycled to clean the trucks. The vegetated roof will last twice as long as a normal roof and be self-sustaining after three years. It also makes heating and cooling more efficient by insulating the building better than a traditional roof.


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What’s better than a small family of beautiful air plants? Answer: A large family of air plants and pups! Your air plants want to pass on their genes and will eventually start growing small “pups” at their base. These genetic copies will eventually become a new plant that can removed and grown separately saving you money as your air plant family grows!
When should you expect pups?
After the first bloom cycle an air plant will start its reproduction process by growing a very small “pup” at its base. The bloom cycle can take anywhere between 6 months and several years after birth. Patience is definitely a virtue when it comes to raising air plants. They seem to do things in their own sweet time. There are several things you can do to encourage pups but we will get to that in a moment.
These pups are the beginning of an entirely new and independent air plant that will eventually mature, bloom and propagate pups of its own. While air plants also seed and spread the traditional way, pups are an easy way to grow your collection. Let these adorable little pups grow to be at least one third to half the size of its mother. They don’t do so well on their own until they’ve grown up a little.
In the wild these pups would stay attached to the mother plant until it dies. This will produce beautiful clumps of air plants. Removing pups is not necessary if you want to let them grow au naturale. Large balls of plants are highly desirable and rare to find. They can be hung with wire or line and are really neat when placed in trees.
Tillandsia Caput-Medusae normally produces a pup within a month of the bloom drying up.
If you like the idea of growing your pups separately you will need to perform a surgery of sorts. Don’t worry, no blood will be involved...hopefully. All you need is a sharp blade or knife, some good light and a new place to grow the removed pups. Simply cut the pup away from the mother at its base. Do your best to not damage the pup and error on the side of cutting more from the mother than the pup. It’s actually a very simple procedure that anyone can do. Sometimes the positioning of the pup allows you to easily snap it off between two fingers.
Once they are removed you can grow them just as you would a full sized plant. It’s really that simple. Owning air plants can be a very rewarding hobby but being able to propagate pups is one of the most exciting aspects of raising air plants. Please feel free to contact with us with any question in the comments section below.
Tillandsia Melanocrater quickly creates hardy pups that can be separated from the parent with a sharp knife or by gently pulling the pup from the mother.


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Demi Lovato Posts Sultry Photos in Strapless Swimsuit — and Boyfriend Max Ehrich Sweetly Reacts
Demi Lovato's new boyfriend Max Ehrich left a sweet comment under her steamy post
Demi Lovato is already staying "Cool for the Summer"!
On Saturday, the pop star, 27, shared a series of bare-faced photos that she took of herself in her pool while wearing a strapless, sweetheart-neckline swimsuit.
"Swipe to see how I discovered the self-timer feature for taking pics," she captioned the photos of her in the red one-piece. The "Sorry Not Sorry" singer then tagged her photographer Angelo Kritikos, and joked, " you in trouble boo boo 😝🌴."
Kritikos responded to Lovato in the comments, praising her for the photos and welcoming the challenge. "BRING IT ON BOO 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 😍😍😍😍," he wrote.
Several celebrities left uplifting comments under the post, including Lovato's boyfriend Max Ehrich. The Young and the Restless star left an adoring heart-eye emoji under his girlfriend's post.
Model Ashley Graham also wrote "my girl is straight fire 🔥," while fellow singer JoJo added, "A beauty."
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Just last week, the singer shared another photo from her lavish pool, this time a selfie showing off her new online purchase: a pair of "rave goggles."
"When I’m bored I buy stuff online. Like these rave goggles that I have no purpose for much less wearing by the pool 😎🌴🌈 Happy May y’all," she captioned the post while wearing the kaleidoscope goggles on her head.
Ehrich again showed Lovato some support in the comments, leaving a series of emojis under the post, including a pink heart.
PEOPLE confirmed in late March that Lovato and Ehrich are dating, and the pair appear to be social distancing together amid the coronavirus outbreak.
In the last few days, Ehrich has shared his own photos from what looks to be Lovato's pool, as well as one cuddling with her dog, Batman. He called the little back pup his "son" in the caption.
The couple was spotted grocery shopping at Erewhon Market in Los Angeles together in early April. It was their first public appearance came after weeks of fan speculation about the relationship based on their social media presence.
They first sparked romance rumors in late March when Lovato made a brief, accidental appearance during Ehrich’s Instagram Live.
Lovato's close friend and "I'm Ready" collaborator Sam Smith recently dished on her new relationship, telling Andy Cohen during an appearance on the Bravo host’s SiriusXM radio show that she seemed "happy."
“They seem so sweet,” the singer, 27, told Cohen last month. “She seems happy at the moment which is the most important thing.”


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BARTLESVILLE, Okla. - The superintendent of the Bartlesville Public Schools is one of 22 members of the Oklahoma Commission on School Safety, and he says he is ready to share his thoughts at the commission's first meeting in a week.
Superintendent Gary Quinn, who spoke to 2NEWS one month after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., says there is a sense of urgency around examining the current safety practices in place for Oklahoma schools.
"There's a lot of urgency right now, a lot of concern about school safety and this is an ideal time for us to have this type of discussion," he said.
The one month anniversary of the tragedy in Newtown holds a different kind of importance for Bartlesville Public Schools. It was on that day that police say 18-year-old Sammie Chavez, a Bartlesville High School student, planned to shoot and kill his peers and set booby traps to entrances at the school to kill responding police officers.
The goal of the commission is to study security practices and provide suggestions to the state legislature about how those practices can be changed or improved.
One of the questions raised in the debate over how to better protect schools in Oklahoma and around the country is whether to arm teachers and principals with firearms.
Quinn says he is against that idea.
"We want our teachers to be students' instructors, students' friends, someone that's helping to guide them and direct them and we don't want them to have to be the ones that's armed and ready to have to protect them in that way," he said.
Quinn also says there is a fine line between an atmosphere of perceived safety and a bunker mentality. He says arming every teacher could have a reverse effect on students and create fear as opposed to a feeling of protection.
The superintendent also raises questions about hiring armed security guards for every school and providing upgrades like bulletproof glass. He says cash-strapped schools won't have the budget to cover those additional costs.
Instead, Quinn proposes improving on already existing procedures like monitoring who enters and exits buildings and how many entrances are available to the public.
"Some of them are reducing the number of doors that we have adults come in. Also the number of doors where students enter and exit during the school day. So, some of them are just small procedures that, 'Hey, that makes sense. Let's implement those,'" Quinn said.
Bartlesville High School avoided a tragedy one month ago because a student alerted their assistant principal to Chavez's plot. Quinn says building trust between the student and staff will be one part of his message. He says the "snitches get stitches" rule can no longer apply. He calls recognizing threats and reporting them a civic duty.
"We know their names, we know them. We tell them, 'Hello,' as they come in the door. We visit with them about their activities they had in the evening," he said. "You know, as you develop that kind of relationship, then you have a chance then for them to feel comfortable coming to you with something that could be -- something that you need to know."
"If we have them willing to come to us and to share with us things that they've heard and they've seen and as long as we're supportive and do something about it, then I think we'll have that relationship with our students," he said.
The commission's first meeting is Jan. 22.
They hope to have their recommendations to the legislature by March 1.
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When the Department - faded since the war and busy only with bureaucratic battles - hears rumour of a missile base near the West German border, it seems like the perfect opportunity to regain some political standing in the Intelligence market place. The Cold War is at its height and the Department is dying for a piece of the action. Swiftly becoming carried away by fear and pride, the Department and her officers send deactivated agent Fred Leiser back into East Germany, armed only with some schoolboy training and his memories of the war. In the land of eloquent silence that is Communist East Germany, Leiser's fate becomes inseparable from the Department's. 'A devastating and tragic record of human, not glamour, spies' New York Herald Tribune 'A book of rare and great power' Financial Times
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The United Auto Workers and automakers returned to the bargaining table this weekend but aren't making much progress, according to the union.
"Progress is slow and I don't really want to say we're closer," UAW President Shawn Fain told MSNBCon Sunday morning.
Talks resumed on Saturday following the launch of an unprecedented strike against the Big Three automakers — Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, the parent company of Chrysler, Jeep and Ram. Fain said they plan to continue negotiations on Sunday and Monday.
On Friday, about 13,000 workers at three Midwest plants walked off the job after the auto companies failed to reach a deal with the union on pay, pensions and other benefits. The 3 plants on strike assemble some of the automakers' most popular vehicles including Ford Broncos and Rangers, Jeep Wranglers and Gladiators, and Chevrolet's Colorado and the GMC Canyon.
"It's a shame that the companies didn't take our advice and get down to business," Fain said on Sunday. "They did what they always do, they delayed until the very end, to the last week, and then they want to get serious about this."
This week, Julie Su, the acting labor secretary, and Gene Sperling, a White House senior adviser, are expected to arrive in Detroit to help with negotiations.
The strike currently involves less than 9% of UAW membership at the three companies. But more workers could go on strike at a moment's notice, depending on how negotiations go.
Ford and GM announce hundreds of temporary layoffs
About 600 workers at Ford's Michigan Assembly Plant's body construction department and south sub-assembly area of integrated stamping were told not to report to work on Friday because the components they produce require e-coating. According to Ford, e-coating is a protection measure completed by the facility's paint department, which went on strike.
"Our production system is highly interconnected, which means the UAW's targeted strike strategy will have knock-on effects for facilities that are not directly targeted for a work stoppage," Ford said in a statement.
General Motors similarly said the strike at Wentzville Assembly in Missouri was already having "a negative ripple effect" at the rest of its Fairfax assembly plant in Kansas. The company warned that 2,000 Fairfax workers are expected to be out of work by early next week.
"This is due to a shortage of critical stampings supplied by Wentzville's stamping operations to Fairfax," General Motors said in a statement. "We are working under an expired agreement at Fairfax. Unfortunately, there are no provisions that allow for company-provided SUB-pay in this circumstance."
Ford and General Motors will not offer compensation for laid-off workers, UAW calls its a strategic attack
When a factory is idled because of supply chain issues, companies typically give partial pay to its non-striking workers. But in this case, Ford and General Motors said there will be no such compensation.
The UAW President Shawn Fain said the union will make sure that affected workers continue to have an income and called the temporary layoffs as a strategic attack to hasten negotiations.
"Let's be clear: if the Big Three decide to lay people off who aren't on strike, that's them trying to put the squeeze on our members to settle for less," Fain said Saturday in a statement.
He also argued that the auto companies can afford to avoid such temporary layoffs.
"With their record profits, they don't have to lay off a single employee. In fact, they could double every autoworker's pay, not raise car prices, and still rake in billions of dollars," he said in a statement on Saturday.
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Cats ... To be honest, although it seems like they are the queen of the house, you should be the one making the decision about your furry friend's welfare.
Cats (often like babies) don't know what's best for them.
Here is a list of some allergies that cats commonly have:
(NOTICE, NOT ALL CATS HAVE THE SAME ALLERGIES AND SOME CATS HAVE MORE ALLERGIES OR SOME HAVE LESS BUT THE ONES WE MENTION HERE ARE A BIG NO-NO)
1. Dairy products (Cow milk)
A shocker, huh? We've all grown up watching cartoons where cats drank milk but unlike that happy fantasy, cats can't drink milk(cow's milk) in real life. you can't just pour milk out of a carton into a bowl and give it to your cat because most cats are lactose-intolerant. The same for kittens but you can give them kitten-specified milk that won't hurt their tummies.
Mmmm.... Melts in your mouth, huh? well, despite being delicious chocolate can kill your cat! Chocolate contains theobromine and caffeine, both are absolutely very bad for your cat. If they eat even a little bit it could cause serious problems such as vomiting, diarrhea, seizures, rapid breathing, and in serious cases, where the cat eats a lot: comas and even death can happen.
3. Raw food
As I mentioned earlier, salmonella and E.coli are real and your cat can get them from eating raw meat or eggs.
4. Dog food
Cats are not dogs no matter what the evolution theory says. Cats need certain types of vitamins and such from their food, when they are fed dog food they lack the nutrients that they need and this can lead to skin conditions like a dull coat, muscle degeneration, vision problems, heart diseases, and liver and kidney problems.
5. Raw Bread and Yeast
The yeast or raw dough could rise in their stomach and (no, the cat won't explode and no, the cat won't become a balloon) cause some dangerous stomach issues.
The common allergies that are mentioned above apply to all cats, there are many more but I feel as though these are the most common ones...
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Meanwhile in Lowell, here’s a local diarrhea dandy hanging from the top of a fence upside down because his pants are stuck and then proceeding to fall at least 20 feet to the concrete
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One minute you’re trying out the new product from Diego, the next minute you’re a Parkour pancake.
Nailed the landing at least. Eat your heart out Kerri Strugg.
That fall was no juke dude….
Notice at the end the dude didn’t bother putting his pants back on because……Lowell.
Pants are overrated anyway.
Luckily the mesh shorts meatpuppet with him elected to take the stairs instead of the Spiderman superhighway. It really did look like the zombie apocalypse.
Evidently he decided that that underwear was also overrated after the filming stopped….
He decided to treat the police to a complementary colon screening seminar, which involved him sticking his digits up his prison purse…
Or as they call it in Lowell, the Shockley.
Now I’m sure we’ll have to brace ourselves from the inevitable self-righteous “it’s a disease” patrol, who will no doubt blame the videographer for laughing and doing nothing.
But even though he’s a ginger, I’m still with him. That shit was hilarious. And if you honestly think you wouldn’t laugh after seeing something like that happen then you’re probably wicked fun to be with at parties.
Don’t be ripping on gingers.
We reap souls with zero fucks given throughout the process.
I believe addiction is a disease and we should try and help where we can. BUT, this shit is funny and that dude clearly doesn’t need or want that kind of help right now so imma laugh hahahahahhaa. Why can’t we want to help and laugh anymore. My idiot friend falls down the stairs im going to laugh, but then ask if he is ok
Funny shit. Still laughing.
I love this song. But what exactly does this have to do with that?
It was playing in the car that was recording the video
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We're used to Oblivion's 'Radiant AI' *cough* but Skyrim is reportedly
going to go one better. Killing NPCs will be just as possible as it was
last time around, but it isn't them you'll have to worry about. No, not
their ghost coming back to haunt you (although now we think about it,
that would be equally immense). Turns out their family might not be so
pleased about your wrongdoing...
According to EB Games Australia, family members of NPCs you accidentally (right?) kill on your travels will try to exact bloody revenge on you the next time they see you. Characters in Oblivion had aggression behaviours that could be manipulated to your advantage using spells and the like, but this is the first time the system has been used in this way.
It sounds amazing, but we can't help but remember this video:
It's the 'uncanny valley' of the Artificial Intelligence world. The closer things get to reality without being reality, the more any abnormalities stand out. Still, Skyrim's a chance to get it all absolutely spot on. Fingers very tightly crossed.
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The former Mrs. Bergen County — now a self-promoting local fashion designer — was arrested over a weekend party at her New Jersey home that included at least one passed out minor.
Soneca Guadara, 47, was arrested and charged with maintaining a nuisance and leaving property in custody of another where alcohol was being served to minors.
Officers got called to an “intoxicated, possibly unconscious, juvenile” near Guadara’s Summit Avenue home in Franklin Lakes around 7:45 p.m. Friday. They found alcohol in the home and nine juveniles, along with a tenth youth passed out off the property.
Police sources said it was “the standard kids getting together, having alcohol thing” and it looks like a teenage house party. Police said it was not clear if Guadara was home or not at the time.
The self-proclaimed “fashion stylist” that came “from Miami to the burbs of Jersey” is the former “Mrs. Bergen County”, according to the Pascack Valley Daily Voice.
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About the new LMS
How will the website change and will there be help to use the new services?
We will have a new look library catalogue. There is a comprehensive help guide available by clicking the question mark on the top right of the catalogue page, and we have now produced a short video showing the main features of the new catalogue
Will I still be able to renew my items online?
Yes, you will.
Will I have to get a new library card?
No, you will continue to use the same library card.
Will it change how long I can borrow items for?
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Will it change how many items I can borrow?
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Will I be able to see what items I have borrowed before?
If you had this feature activated on the old LMS then 5 years of your borrowing history will have transferred across to the new LMS. If you want this feature activated going forward please speak to a member of staff the next time you visit your local library
Will I be able to see my reading lists?
Unfortunately, reading lists did not transfer across to the new LMS. You can now create new reading lists in the new LMS.
Will I still be able to use the iguana library app?
No – this app no longer works so you will need to uninstall it. Please download the My Library App for Android or iPhone and iPad and sign in with your library card number. Within the app you can check your account, place reservations, renew your items, link family accounts together and find your nearest library, along with its opening hours. The app also stores your barcode which you can use at the new kiosks in libraries. When you first go into the app please login to access the Essex Library Services profile, which will then let you see your nearest Essex library.
Will I be able to link my family’s accounts together as I currently can in the iguana app?
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Are there any other changes?
- You cannot place a reservation with a temporary card number (this is the number you are given if you join online). You can use BorrowBox and Overdrive for e-books and e-audio with a temporary card number. You can exchange a temporary card number for a permanent card number by visiting your local library. A permanent library card will give you access to the full range of library services
- The maximum number of reservations possible on a customer account is 20
- As long as they are not requested by someone else you can renew items up to 10 times
- You can borrow and reserve e-books and e-audio from BorrowBox and Overdrive directly from the library catalogue
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When Caveau's Tom Chiumento had the opportunity to be guest chef at a Hidden Harvest Wasted Wednesday dinner on Wednesday he enjoyed it so much he is coming back.
Mr Chiumento will not only return in a fortnight for the next Wasted Wednesday community dinner he also offered to host one with Simon Evans at Wollongong's most hatted restaurant later in the year. With 40 people lined up along Crown Street before 6pm the larger venue will mean fewer miss out.
"It was so opposite to what we normally do at the restaurant. We generally use very fresh high quality produce and also have a lot of time to come up with and test dishes. We generally talk about the cultural influence and significance of food. But there is also the environmental and social impacts. I said to founder Berbel Franse we would like to do them every six months to keep the connection between us".
Following the dinner there was a quiz and a discussion. Mr Chiumento said he learned and took a lot away from the experience. And said what the Hidden Harvest kitchen was doing was really important.
He admits not knowing what ingredients he would be working with and only coming up with a vegan menu after he arrived was a challenge. But he loved it,
The produce comes from local retailers and suppliers. It is surplus food left over that would otherwise be thrown out.
"I had no idea what I would be working with beforehand. Simon and I got there at 10.30 and started from scratch," he said.
"We tried to come up with a menu that showed the different ways we like to come up with dishes. The first was a charred cabbage. We tried to show if you put a lot of technique into using a cabbage you can make it taste really amazing. We brined it in ocean water for about two hours and then charred it over charcoals to give it a beautiful kinds of smokey salty flavour".
The second dish was a play on pasta carbonara. The pasta was made from eggplant, the bacon from mushrooms and the carbonara sauce from cauliflower.
Mr Chiumento enjoyed how people dined both to celebrate food and learn about food waste and how to reduce it. He likened the experience to being like what contestants faced with the mystery box on MasterChef. And answered a question about that from one of the diners during question at the end of the night.
First time Wasted Wednesday diner Miranda Clark said what the volunteer run Hidden Harvest was doing was a great way to reduce food waste. "It also created a conversation about how we can reduce it in our own homes. I think it is a great initiative and something that will help the environment".
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JOHANNESBURG - DE BEERS, the world’s biggest diamond producer by volume, posted a 15.5 percent fall in the value of rough diamond sales during its fourth sales cycle as India’s deadly second wave of Covid-19 weighed heavily on demand.
De Beers, an Anglo American plc subsidiary, said yesterday that the provisional value of global sight holder sales and auctions fell to $380 million (R5.3 billion) during the fourth sales cycle from $450m a cycle earlier.
However the figure was significantly higher than $56m recorded during the fourth and fifth sales cycles of last year. De Beers chief executive Bruce Cleaver said the group continued to see robust diamond jewellery demand in key American and China consumer markets.
“However, the scale of the second wave of Covid-19 in India, where the majority of the world’s diamonds are cut and polished, has led to reduced midstream capacity and subsequently lower rough diamond demand, during what is already a seasonally slower time of year for midstream purchases,” Cleaver said.
India, the world’s biggest diamond cutting and polishing centre, has to date recorded 25 million Covid-19 cases, with deaths soaring to 283 000.
India’s Covid-19 cases started rising in mid-March, stretching hospitals to capacity with shortages of beds, oxygen supplies and doctors.
“Our thoughts are with all those in India as the country navigates the current challenges presented by the pandemic reminding us that the road ahead remains uncertain and that we must continue to adopt a watchful approach,” Cleaver said.
India is regarded as a global hub for the global jewellery market and exports more than 75 percent of the world’s gems, jewellery and diamonds.
However the pandemic has wiped the shine off the global and Indian jewellery sector.
De Beers said owing to the restrictions on the movement of people and products in various jurisdictions around the globe, it had continued to implement a more flexible approach to rough diamond sales during the fourth sales cycle of 2021, with the Sight event extended beyond its normal week-long duration.
De Beers said the provisional rough diamond sales figure quoted for cycle 4 represented the expected sales value for the period May 3 to May 18 and remained subject to adjustment based on final completed sales.
Anglo American plc’s shares fell 5.73 percent to close at R620.87 yesterday.


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Food & Yard Waste Pilot Program
City Council approved moving forward on a year-round residential food and yard waste pilot to test, evaluate and revise the program before potential city-wide implementation. A food and yard waste service will meet current and future waste disposal needs, extend the life of our landfill and protect the quality of life of future generations.
View Organic Waste Service Recommendations Approved by City Council on September 24.
- 2019 – Planning for food and yard waste collection and processing service
- 2020 – Launch pilot project
- 2021 – Recommendation to Council for city-wide implementation
- 2023 – Full city-wide implementation
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Why is it important to start a food and yard waste service now?
- Waste studies show that food and yard waste currently make up about 50 per cent of what goes in the average Regina resident’s garbage cart.
- A year-round food and yard waste service will allow the average household to send half as much material to the landfill.
- We can only achieve the 65 per cent waste diversion goal set by Council by implementing a food and yard waste program.
- This will prolong the life of our landfill and significantly reduce the greenhouse gasses which are produced when food and yard waste are landfilled.
Why is it important to divert food and yard waste from the landfill?
- Food and yard waste is not garbage. It’s a valuable resource which can be turned into nutrient-rich compost.
- Landfill space is valuable and should only be used for materials that cannot be reused or recycled.
- Diverting waste from the landfill extends the life of the landfill. We want to keep using our current landfill for as long as possible because it is very expensive to open a new landfill.
- Diverting food and yard waste helps the City reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.
Why do we need to do a pilot project, instead of implementing city-wide now?
- Curbside food and yard waste service is new to the City of Regina. The pilot project will be used to test the service and identify and address any issues before rollout to the whole city.
- The pilot project will give some residents the opportunity to use the service and provide feedback that may be incorporated into the city-wide service.
When will the pilot areas be announced?
- The pilot areas will be announced in fall 2020.
How are you selecting the pilot areas? Where will they be located?
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- The pilot areas will include participants from every ward in the City and represent a cross-section of Regina residents. Naturally, the pilot must also include some households with front street collection and some with back alley collection.
What items will be accepted in the food and yard waste service?
- This is a full “scrape the plate” service which will accept a wide range of materials such as food scraps including fruits, vegetables, grains, oils, meats and bones.
- The service will also accept yard waste (such as leaves, grass, plants, garden waste) and soiled paper (like paper towel, cardboard, tissues).
What will the City do with the compost?
- The intention is to use the compost within the city.
- Depending on the quantity and quality of the finished compost, options may include giving it back to pilot participants, using it for the City’s parks or making it available to the general public.
Will residents be required to get a third cart?
- The City will be testing various green cart sizes as part of the pilot.
- Implementing a third cart for food and yard waste is a successful model in other municipalities.
Why not use bags?
- The City made a large investment to transition the garbage service away from bagged collection and towards cart collection.
- Plastic bags can not be processed with the rest of the food and yard waste material and would have to be individually de-bagged in order to be processed.
- Bags increase the likelihood of leakage and can cause issues with odour and pests.
- Bagged collection increases the risk of injury to workers caused by repetitive lifting of heavy garbage bags.
How will we pay for this new service when it goes city-wide?
- Council will consider recommendations for the ongoing funding of the city-wide food and yard waste service after the pilot and prior to city-wide rollout.


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Pragma Systems, a leading provider of enterprise-class remote access and security software, has been selected for the 2013 Texas Excellence Award amongst all its peers and competitors by the Small Business /Institute for Excellence in Commerce (SBIEC).
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Each year the SBIEC conducts business surveys and industry research to identify companies that have achieved demonstrable success in their local business environment and industry category. They are recognized as having enhanced the commitment and contribution of small businesses through service to their customers and community. Small businesses of this caliber enhance the consumer driven stature that Texas is renowned for.
Pragma Systems has consistently demonstrated a high regard for upholding business ethics and company values which is a trait seldom found in its industry. This recognition by SBIEC marks a significant achievement as an emerging leader within various competitors and is setting benchmarks that the industry should follow.
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The Fortnite Season 8, Week 3 challenges have touched downed and include a ‘chest search’ style challenge. This challenge is in a very similar vein to the three ‘Overtime’ challenges from Season 7 that asked you to search chests or ammo boxes at specific locations. This challenge is a little bit easier than the Overtime versions however. You can only loot chests to receive credit, ammo boxes don’t count. Now you may think this makes the challenge more difficult not less, due to a constraint of options, but realistically the locations chosen for Week 3 are quite chest dense.
As per usual, the biggest hurdle inherent to this type of challenge is the fierce competition very early on as these areas become very heavily trafficked for a short-time as people rush to complete it. To help our readership out, we’ve made some ‘maps’ of Fatal Fields and Sunny Steps detailing all the chest spawns we can find. Hopefully this will help people quickly locate the chest spawns to reduce the amount of time spending wandering around and consequently the amount of time they’re an easy kill.
It’s also important to note that chest spawns are set, but not guaranteed. Put differently, specific locations are marked with a chance to spawn a chest. This means all the locations we’ve marked on our maps won’t always contain a chest. Another thing to note is that, for areas that are marked as being in a building, it is possible that the chest will be on the upper floor. In the case of say the red barn or farm house, these might be in the attic or tucked away in a corner.
The best strategy for getting this done quickly is to land at whichever of the two locations is furthest from the Battle Bus’ route. The first reason is that most people will tend to drop at the closer location if they’re doing the challenge. The second is that people tend to drop earlier rather than later as a general rule, you’ll get less traffic from other locations as you scour for chests.
Fatal Fields Chest Locations
Fatal Fields is truthfully your better bet for getting this done quickly if the Battle Bus doesn’t heavily favour one location over the other. The first reason is because it’s not new, which makes it inherently less trafficked (curiosity draws people in after all). The second reason is because there are a lot of chest spawns and they’re relatively spread out, allowing you to get a couple each game without much drama.
Sunny Steps Chest Locations
Sunny Steps presents itself as a good alternative, as it has less chests in total, but is more dense in general with more options to hide and take cover. This does mean there is less running involved and less opportunity to be shot compared to Fatal Fields. However, it is considerably more trafficked, even outside of the challenge, so I’d only recommend looking for chests here if the Battle Bus doesn’t pass near here.
After you’ve opened seven chests you’re done with this challenge. This challenge will be quite tedious to pull off early into Week 3’s release due to the nature of people wanting to finish their challenges ASAP. I’d recommend waiting a couple of days if you want an easier time and aren’t in a rush to get your weekly rewards. Week 3 also reintroduces the old staple, a treasure hunt challenge. We also just received a new vehicle, The Baller; here are all the locations in which it spawns. Epic seems to be looking to up their game this season, possibly in response to Apex Legends getting ready to release its own Battle Pass system.


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Watch the Powershares QQQ 300 live from Daytona International Speedway on Sunday night.
NASCAR fans should be excited for this weekend as it will be the first weekend of Xfnitiy Series racing since the 2015 season ended. It should be an exciting appetizer for the Daytona 500, which will be run a day later.
This race will allow the drivers get the early season jitters out and get their Xfinity Series off to a good start.
It also allows Fox’s broadcast team to build upon their coverage throughout the week’s events. This is the network’s second year airing the Xfinity Series race.
Last year Ryan Reed won the event at Daytona for the first time inside his powerful Ford car. It was also the first time the Rousch Fenway Racing team won the Powershares QQQ 300 and ended a six-year streak of a Chevrolet car winning. No one has won two-straight Powershares QQQ 300 races since Tony Stewart came away with four-straight first-place finishes from 2008-2011.
This year’s race will be aired on Fox Sports 1 in afternoon on Saturday. For those who can’t watch on television, can watch via FOX’s mobile app or other streaming options. All the important race day information is listed below.
Watch Powershares QQQ 300Live Stream
Date: Saturday, February 20, 2016
Time: 3:30 p.m. ET
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Track: Daytona International Speedway
TV: FOX Sports 1
Live Stream: FOX Sports Go
Powershares QQQ 300 live stream: Watch Xfinity Series online

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Best hikes and treks in Africa
If like us, you love to be out in nature, there is nothing better than king to really benefit from the great outdoors. Africa is full of beautiful walks and hikes for the adventurous traveller. Below are just a few of our favourites.
The Republic of Congo
The Republic of Congo is known for its Western Lowland Gorilla trekking, but it is also leading the conservation initiative by preserving a vulnerable rainforest, the “lungs” of our planet and an outstanding adventure destination with minimal impact on the ecosystem. Between rainforests, savannahs, rivers, mineral rich baïs, you undertake an epic adventure of gorilla trekking, game drives, boating, kayaking, forest walking and river-wading to discover rare and endangered species.
Mboko Camp, Odzala Discovery Camps allows for hikes through the rainforests and baïs; an adventurous but conscious way to explore.
Every visitor to Cape Town includes Table Mountain in their trip. Most do this via the revolving cable car, but a highly rewarding activity is to hike the Mountain. Steeped in history and filled with incredible indigenous flora and fauna, this majestic Mountain is best explored on foot with one of our excellent guides. The Skeleton Gorge hike starts at stunning Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, then you ascend Skeleton Gorge through a rare, Afromontane forest. This hike has 6 short ladders and a short section of boulders to scramble over (this is the fun part!). Eventually the path opens up offering expansive views. At the top is the Hely-Hutchinson Reservoir and from this point it is a steady climb onto the ‘back table’ to Maclear’s Beacon, which is the highest point on Table Mountain at 1085 meters. The last section is a relatively flat walk offering iconic views of the front side of Table Mountain and the City of Cape Town below.
Hiking with a knowledgeable guide, from Mother City Hikers, will ensure your safety and that you get the most out of your hike. (image below, left)
Luxury Travel Manager, Belinda, ascending the ultimate Namib dune, Big Daddy. (image below, right)
The wilderness hike through Namibia’s spectacular Fish River Canyon (second largest canyon in the world) is on everyone’s bucket list. The Canyon stretches for 180 kilometres (105.6 miles) from Sesriem down to the Orange River with hikers embarking on a 4-5 day 85 kilometre (52.8 mile) hike, sleeping under the stars.
For those with limited time, exploring the much shorter Sesriem Canyon or walking up Big Daddy, one of the highest dunes in the world. Start your climb as early as possible, so you are able to reach the summit before the desert heat of the day. The going can be tough as your feet sink into the sand, but the views from the top and careering downhill to the eerie Deadvlei down below, makes it worth it!
Rwanda is a country that impresses from the minute you. The epic scenery, pleasant climate and magnificent wildlife make the land a remarkable place to explore on foot. The best hiking to be had is in the western half of the country, all the way from Volcanoes National Park in the north, along the fringes of Lake Kivu in the west (Congo Nile Trail) and down to Nyungwe National Park in the south (home to Chimpanzees and brilliant bird-life). Of course, most visit to trek Mountain Gorillas in the Volcanoes National Park, where conservationist Dian Fossey spent 20 years of her life studying gorillas. Hiking through mountainous rainforest, with strict conservation rules governing this once-in-a-lifetime experience is a once-in-a-lifetime memory.
Once you have completed this experience, you will be hooked on Africa for sure!
Located in Tanzania, Mount Kilimanjaro is the African continent’s highest peak at 5,895 meters (19,340 feet). It is the largest free-standing mountain rise in the world. Known as a walk-up mountain, it is one of the world’s Seven Great Summits and a goal for many adventurous spirits. The mountain is also known for its snow-capped peak; however, scientists warn that the snow might disappear within the next 20 years or so – so book your climb now!
After you have taken on the climb of Mount Kilimanjaro, a wildlife safari is the perfect way to reward yourself.


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Soy Sauce was invented 600 years ago and is an essential condiment in Japanese cuisine.
Sagawa Shoyu is the earliest manufacturer and located in Yanai City’s white walled historic district. The dedicated act of brewing in the traditional method has been taking place there since the Samurai era. Sagawa briefed us to create a series of Poster Designs that dramatized the craftsmanship that goes into making their sauce and how it brings the taste of food alive.
Too much Soy Sauce can ruin the flavor of food, too little and the natural flavor isn’t enriched. With this principle in mind we engaged a Gyotaku artist (fish printer).
He took just the right amounts of Sagawa Soy Sauce and used it as an ink on Washi paper to Illustrate the food. A calligrapher completed the idea with: Sagawa Soy Sauce. Just enough brings the taste alive. Just as Soy Sauce brings food to life, it brought the Poster Designs to life too.


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Instead of carrying your books by hand, lug them around in the Volcom Messaround Backpack. A spacious main compartment holds your binders, while a zippered front pocket stores your small essentials. Volcom even gave it an internal zipper pocket for your personal items.
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It is soo cute! my friend was like wow that is actually a cute backpack , Like she didnt think it was possible. anyways its good for those days where you keep it casual ,and want to wear a backpack . Don't put too much stuff in it tho or it will rip on the bottom like mine did ! I think Ima just buy it again since its 20 bucks why not.
my sister bought this for me for christmas! a great, uncomplicated bag. one large inner pocket, the interesting slanted front pocket and one inner mesh pocket. no other accessory pocket, no key clip, no insulation, no sunglasses pocket... but sometimes you just want something simple to throw everything in. capacity wise, i think two large textbooks is pushing it. this is a better bag for towel, shirt and waterbottle as opposed to book, calculator, ipod, pencil case binder... if you catch my drift. ;) the design is really unique, love this bag!


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EXCLUSIVE: The Office and Parks & Recreation executive producer Greg Daniels is teaming with a writer from each of his two NBC series to develop new animated comedy projects for the network. One of the projects will be written/executive by The Office co-executive producer/co-star Mindy Kaling, who will also voice a character, the other – by Parks & Recreation producer Alan Yang. Daniels and his manager/producing partner Howard Klein will executive produce both comedies. The Mindy Kaling project revolves around a girls high-school volleyball team. Alan Yang’s toon is about a group of 20something guys sharing a house in Los Angeles’ upscale community of Hancock Park. For King Of The Hill co-creator Greg Daniels, returning to his animated roots was important when he closed a new overall production deal with Universal Television this past summer. “One of our focuses will be to return Greg to primetime animation, for which he had particular success with King of the Hill when he and I worked together at FBC,” NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt said in announcing the deal. In addition to the two animated projects, Daniels has a live-action comedy in the works at NBC, a U.S. version of the UK series Friday Night Dinner, which is looking for a writer. Kaling, repped by UTA and 3 Arts, will next be seen in the feature comedy The Five-Year Engagement. Yang’s first feature, Gay Dude, comes out next summer. He is with WME.
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Cindy Ng is the host of the Inside Out Security podcast. On one blog post, she defined data privacy or information privacy as a branch of data security concerned with the proper handling of data – consent, notice, and regulatory obligations.
Data security is the application of steps to prevent unauthorized access to information in whatever form it exists.
Perhaps the careless swapping of the two has led to confusion in some quarters of the enterprise.
Different but same
Very different and yet so easily confused for the other, the two – security and privacy – are nonetheless connected.
Rob Hinson, a privacy expert at OneTrust, believed that you can’t have one without the other. He described a situation in which a person stores someone’s else is money at his location – without consent.
“No matter how secure a person’s money is while stored at someone else’s location, the very fact that someone else is holding on to that money is already wrong. This state is what you’d call privacy! Your data should be protected both in terms of it being kept private and private. What belongs to you should stay with you unless you deem otherwise,” he explained.
This is the challenge that many organisations face today.
The Deloitte Insights paper, Reimagining customer privacy for the digital age, noted that progress in the evolution of the digital economy has had one unexpected outcome – it has exposed the considerable challenges businesses and regulators must address towards the protection of customer data – both in terms of privacy and security.
Deloitte noted that large financial institutions’ privacy policies, for example, often fail to address the complexities of privacy that have emerged, partly putting the blame of technology.
They also don’t account for different types of privacy concerns beyond the protection of personal financial data—from location to thoughts and feelings, to biometric information.
Myths and bad practices
During a CXOCIETY roundtable discussion on digital transformation, several delegates acknowledged the unexpected rise of security budgets alongside the digitalization efforts. Still, one executive asked whether enough was being done given the increased incidents in hacking incidents occurring worldwide.
This may well have to do with the success [sort-off] of some security vendors in terms of marketing their security offerings as the be-all and end-all of security needs.
Hinson conceded that some quarters of enterprises, mainly end-users, may actually think that security is sufficiently accorded to them as long as they have an endpoint solution in place.
“In Asia, some view security and cybersecurity strategies as largely being endpoint management and how you need to make sure that all of your systems are encrypted. However, sometimes cybersecurity also has to take into account the individuals who are involved and the possibility for human error and breaches from that aspect,” he cautioned.
Hinson does, however, make it clear that at some point a breach or a hack will occur. What is important is that the organisation has taken steps to minimise [or mitigate] the risks.
“It is not necessarily what you did wrong but the number of things you did right. So that when the auditor or regulator does come, you can confidently point out what happened, the steps the organisation took, and are able to prove with confidence that you did everything you could to prevent it,” he concluded.
The right strategy begins with…
Hinson acknowledges that organisations are spending considerable resources on the protection and privacy of customer data. However, he believes that an effective strategy should begin with the recognition of the “value” of the customer’s data.
He conceded that enterprises, including financial services institutions, are spending millions towards the protection of customer data, and understands the concern raised by some quarters within the organisation with respect to how much it will cost to protect this data.
“To me, it not so much the way it's being secured but looking at it from the value of what's being held and what measures you should take from a security perspective to ensure that the data is not compromised,” he suggested.


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Ever wondered what it would be like to hang out with the cast of The Big Bang Theory for an hour? Well, an entire audience of people got to do just that at Paleyfest this year. Here are 10 things we learned about the show from this year’s panel.
10 Things We Learned About The Big Bang Theory
Every year, the Big Bang Theory cast appears in some capacity at the Paley festival. Paleyfest is a festival held in Los Angeles that gives fans access to some of their favorite actors, media personnel, writers, and producers from the best television shows out there. This year an entire panel from Big Bang showed up. This included Chuck Lorre, Steve Holland, Bill Prady, Steven Molaro, Kaley Cuoco, Jim Parsons, Johny Galecki, and Kunal Nayyar. Fans learned a ton about the show, including what goes on backstage and what might come in the future.
1) They Were All In Shock To Meet Stephen Hawking
The first thing we learned about The Big Bang Theory at Paleyfest was that nearly every person on set was in shock and awe when meeting Stephen Hawking. The scientist appeared on the show for the first time during The Hawking Excitation. He even watched a taping that included Simon Helberg doing an impression of him. Chuck Lorre recalled that Stephen had a huge smile on his face the entire time.
Jim Parsons described the experience a little differently. He said, “It was frightening. That’s the smartest person you’re ever going to meet…We pretend to be these types of people all the time. I don’t know it was a true honor. But it was in retrospect, since his passing, that I look back even more able to say Jesus Christ, what an honor it was to get to work with him…I was just trying to leave the room fast enough before I say something stupid…”
2) Kaley Remembers The First Time She Met Johnny Galecki
The second thing we learned during the Paleyfest panel was that Kaley remembers the first time she met Johnny Galecki. It’s hard to imagine a time before Penny and Leonard’s love. Kaley recalled, “I remember when Johnny and I were doing the first few episodes, this was so many years ago, and he had an iPhone. And I was like ‘hey you got one of those iPhones?'” It’s crazy to think that this whole show started before smartphones were the norm. Kaley said she even commented that it looked hard to type on and she told him “I’m not getting one of those crazy phones!”


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Political ads are hurting brand ad effectiveness
Election 2016 will be over soon, and the coming weeks will no doubt see a flurry of ads as the campaigns and their supporters make a final effort to influence voters.
This year’s election has been an unusual one. The Republican candidate, Donald Trump, has eschewed traditional advertising to an extent never before seen, instead relying on earned media, much of it negative. The Democrat candidate, Hillary Clinton, has spent hundreds of millions of dollars, much of it to arguably questionable effect.
While this presidential elections will no doubt be a boon to media sellers despite the unusual circumstances, brand advertisers may not be faring so well according to research from J. Walter Thompson and Forethought, which found that brand ads lose their oomph when they follow political ads.
The research indicates that brand ads displayed adjacent to political ads see a 34% hit to brand reputation, a 32% decrease in the perception of brand value, a 26% drop in purchase intent, and a 24% decline in product quality perception.
Ken Roberts, the CEO of Forethought, explained the findings in simple terms:
My brand ad follows your loud political ad, and my positive message gets lost. This has a profound detrimental impact on evaluations of subsequent brand advertising, of the brand itself, and ultimately, future purchase intent.
Even political ads that contained seemingly positive messages had a detrimental effect on the brand ads they were displayed alongside. “Even political advertising with positive messages generates negative emotions in consumers. And the negative priming effect holds true even for very product-specific attributes, such as taste,” Mark Truss, J. Walter Thompson’s global director of brand intelligence, stated.
This probably shouldn’t come as a surprise to brand advertisers. According to research by comScore, ads on “premium” publisher sites are more effective than ads on sites with less stature. The theory is that advertisers benefit from the perceived quality of publishers’ brands and content and it seems reasonable to hypothesize that a similar dynamic could be at work when it comes to how ads displayed before or after each other affect consumers’ perceptions.
Unfortunately for brand advertisers, not only does the growing use of programmatic ad buying for both digital and traditional ads make it more difficult control to control where their ads are being displayed, it also makes it virtually impossible for them to control what ads are being displayed before, after and near theirs.
Fortunately, Election 2016 will soon be in the past, but the apparent impact of political ads on brand ad effectiveness is something that brand advertisers will probably want to explore and consider more broadly going forward as it’s possible that non-political ads have the potential for similar effects.


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Ballston BID approved
The Arlington County Board on Saturday unanimously approved the creation of a Ballston Business Improvement District.
The business improvement district, including 119 commercial properties, will take effect Jan. 1 and would raise more than $1 million to enhance the commercial area by adding 4.5 cents to a Ballston commercial property real estate rate. The tax increase would be approved in the spring during the regular fiscal 2012 budget process.
BID organizers said they would like to promote the area as a science and technology hub, featuring the National Science Foundation, a new research center for Virginia Tech as well as several federal and defense contractors. Supporters said they must work to keep Ballston competitive as the economy rebounds and other office space is offered throughout the metropolitan area.
About half of the commercial property owners supported the measure with 15 percent opposing it. The remaining commercial properties did not respond to a petition about the district.
The BID's tax rate and budget must be approved annually as part of the county's budget process, with a full review conducted after five years.
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