Let’s face it, things are weird. I am avoiding using any Dickensian references because I think they could be only half right and not the happy half, but there is a small of amount of hope: Fukishima may not be exactly as bad Chernobyl; Bradley Manning’s treatment got called on the State Dept carpet by AP reporters; the discovery of a 300-million-year-old shark jawbone found 700 feet below ground in a Kentucky coal mine may disrupt ebiblefellowship.com’s End Times calendar stating May 21 as the Rapture/Judgment Day and October 21 as the End of the World, which seems designed to one-up the Mayan 2012 countdown.*
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One of the clearest voices in the call for the most basic civil rights for all Bahrainis has been a young woman who writes on Twitter as @angryarabiya. She has been keeping the world informed of the shootings and beatings by the US supported government and about the overnight raids during which crowds of hooded “security” forces storm the homes of human rights workers and bloggers, breaking down doors, threatening their families and dragging away these peaceful activists to detention or worse.
We’ve learned that her father, husband and brother-in-law have been taken.
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Given that the State Department gave Blackwater follow-on contracts after Blackwater failed to keep Bhutto safe, then have they at least done a real assessment of what went wrong? Last we heard from Blackwater publicly, they had a purportedly perfect record. But they don’t. And no one told us that. If we’re going to give another $120,000,000 to Blackwater, have we at least studied, first, what went wrong with Blackwater’s notable failure with Bhutto?


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Lido in Winter: Long Walk, Short Pier
The Lido is a marvelous place to walk in the winter--though recently it's been so relatively mild and sunny here that the seaside isn't as deserted as one might hope.
It is here on Lido, at the end of the Gran Viale, that you can ponder the question of whether a pier that does not extend into water should be called a pier at all. Not even at high tide does the structure pictured above come in contact with the sea.
Perhaps it was simply intended as an observation deck, you might think.
No, my friend who has lived here for all of his 70 years (and oversaw much of the construction in Venice for many years) assures me that it was meant to be a real pier. But the comune ran out of money before it was finished. And so you have a pier that is not really a pier--or at least not enough of one--and a lasting monument, my friend suggests, to the competence of the city's government.

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Impact: Investigate the suitability of the Scottish climate for establishment and spread of the pest should it be introduced to provide data for a Scottish-specific BMSB risk assessment.
Impact: Improved understanding of costs and benefits of pesticide use across Scottish sectors and an impact analysis for the most likely withdrawal scenarios such that key gaps can be identified and their impact quantified in order to inform pesticide policy.
The increase in global trade brings with it the risk of spread of new pests and diseases into Scotland. Halyomorpha halys, Brown Marmorated Stinkbug (BMSB) is an invasive pest that has already become established in North America and several European countries. The insect aggregates inside houses over winter and can cause problems as an urban nuisance pest in homes as well as being a pest of agriculture. In this project, co-ordinated monitoring for the presence of BMSB was undertaken by teams at SASA and the James Hutton Institute. A reference collection of voucher specimens of common UK stinkbug species was established, including DNA barcoding. A process-oriented climate-based niche model was used by a team at SRUC to determine the areas in Scotland that are suitable for the establishment of BMSB under current and future climates.
Recommendations and suggested 'next steps', including encouraging further surveillance, are detailed in the report and policy summary documents.
The use of pesticides to manage plant pests and diseases is a key management intervention across plant health sectors, particularly in agriculture, horticulture and commercial forestry production. Pesticide withdrawals through legislation, coupled with resistance development and their impact on plant health, have emerged as key concerns for Scottish plant health stakeholders. This project quantifies the impacts on Scottish plant health that will arise from pesticide withdrawal scenarios and sets this in the context and time frame of alternative management tools.
This report sets out estimates for the crop loss and value to Scottish crop production should the molluscicide metaldehyde be withdrawn. This would leave ferric phosphate as the only available chemical control option. Short term losses are negligible as the substitution of ferric phosphate carries no additional treatment costs and has equivalent efficacy. Longer term there is some risk should resistance arise to this single site mode of action active, and ferric phosphate (although of lower mammalian toxicity to metaldehyde) has some environmental impacts of its own.

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A CRITIC AT LARGE about Edith Wharton Writing a story called “Beatrice Palmato,” Edith Wharton got no further than an outline and a single. Saturday History Lesson: That Time Edith Wharton Wrote Erotica read Edith Wharton’s outline of a story called “Beatrice Palmato,” the thrill of. Read Edith Wharton’s Surprisingly Steamy Erotica! “And now, darling,” Mr. Palmato said, drawing her to the deep divan, “let me show you.
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In her memoirs and private papers it was clear she resented her mother much more than her father.
Edith’s creativity and talent soon became obvious: There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Her short story “Roman Fever” uses an illegitimate child as a plot device—but does not describe any of the out-of-wedlock sexual activity that went into producing it.
The article doesn’t mention it, but this discovery was first published in R. Wharton’s first edity novel, The House of Mirth, published inenjoyed considerable literary success.
She adored him, called him Papa, thought him her greatest support. But that might just be how she wanted it.
Jezebel’s Anna North has unearthed a “prose fragment” from a story called “Beatrice Palmato” that Lapham’s Beatgice published last winter.
Literary types get excited, then, when they discover Wharton’s more explicitly erotic work. Wharton suffered a stroke and died on August 11, Ah, here beatruce his subtle forefinger pressing it, forcing its tight petals softly apart, and laying on their sensitive edges a circular touch so soft and yet so dharton that already lightnings of heat shot from that palpitating center all over her surrendered body, to the tips of her fingers and the ends of her loosened hair.
Open Preview See a Problem? She knew most of all that it was a thing you managed. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Eidth account. Could she have predicted that her narrative now sound so tame, set alongside our childhood V.
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She was awarded the French Legion of Honor for her courage and distinguished work. Wharton traveled throughout Europe to encourage young authors. She knew what fame was, and she knew she had it. As his hand stole higher, she felt the secret bud of her body swelling, yearning, quivering hotly to burst into bloom. A Biography in Books by Edith Wharton.
Fiction is just so much more interesting as cloaked autobiography, and there was reason to suspect it here. After a failed engagement, Edith married a wealthy sportsman, Edward Wharton. In Ethan Frome, a married man and his would-be mistress decide to kill themselves rather than succumb to the temptation to sleep with each other.
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Everyone has brought a warm, grandfatherly cardigan, esith rarely looks up from the yellowed paper. You are usually only allowed to bring a pencil.
She had an idea of what people wanted to know and had, it seems, much of her life hidden it from public view. She lived in France, in the country, having left Palmatk and America for a quieter life. After she comes of age, Beatrice marries a dull man and has two children with him, a boy and a girl.
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For my part, I keep imagining this: Newer Post Older Post Home. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Someone wharto guaranteed come along and read her papers. Per Lee, his death when she was twenty was devastating: Often in the company of her close friend, Henry James, Wharton mingled with some of the most famous writers and artists of the day, including F.
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Wdith she have known that would coincide with the sexual revolution, that what might have been obscene in her lifetime would change and no longer be?
Caroline marked it as to-read Apr 10, Quamazons marked it as to-read Aug 07, She also continued to write, lying in her bed every morning, as she had always done, dropping each newly penned page on the floor to be collected and arranged when she was finished.
Her elder sister commits suicide under mysterious circumstances, and her mother subsequently loses her mind, tries to kill her husband, and dies in an insane asylum.

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Billy started working at Pedal Power in 1995 and he and his wife, Helga, purchased the shop in 2000. His 21 years of mechanic experience is a daily asset, as Billy continues to dive in and get his hands dirty. He is also a Serotta Fit specialist. In addition to being a loving father and prominent figure in the local community, Billy and Helga aspire to empower people, and bring families together through the benefit of cycling.
John has worked at the shop since 2007. He likes to ride mountain bikes when he has time. He is Serotta and Park Tool certified and has had training by Avid, Sram, Campagnolo, Rock Shox and Fox techs. He holds a degree in Telecommunications from the University of Kentucky.
Josh has been with PedalPower since 2010. He started cycling in 2009 when he road his bike to Florida. A recovering roadie who now loves mountain biking and commuting in flip-flops. He is also a certified Fit Specialist.
Ken is an Idaho transplant. He has been racing bicycles since he was a young pup and has worked in bike shops in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and California. He is an Idaho State Champion in BMX ('96) and Road Racing ('11).
Evan comes to Pedal Power with an eye for detail. Evan took up cycling 5 years ago on his dad's old bike. Since then a passion was born. Evan is now the Kentucky state single speed cyclocross champion. He is presently sharpening his mechanics skills and is a wealth of knowledge for cyclocross training and racing. Evan dreams of becoming a cyclocross pro athlete and we have no doubt with his tenacious attitude and passion, this dream will become a reality.
Adam recently moved here from Atlanta, GA. He commutes daily and loves to race Cyclocross. He also likes to troll Gregg by buying a sweet purple Surly Karate Monkey.
Pedal Power is always looking for motivated, enthusiastic individuals looking to live the dream.

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It is estimated that there are 38 million HIV-positive people in the world. Early detection of the disease is very important not only for the comfort of patients, but also to prevent the spread of this virus, as well as to ensure that patients receive their treatment on an ongoing basis. Vantage Health Technologies and the Nigerian Institute of Human Virology (IHVN) have teamed up to create an artificial intelligence solution: the Vantage Patient Retention Solution, which can predict whether AIDS patients will leave treatment to encourage them to do so.
Vantage Health Technologies, a BroadReach platform created by Dr. John Sargent and Dr. Ernest Darko, is on a mission to develop solutions to the world’s most pressing health problems to address health inequalities.
Two doctors say:
“Our dream is to give everyone in the world the opportunity to access quality medical care. Many health care systems are designed to treat people after they become ill, but we believe that the best approach to health care is to prevent serious illness by changing the system. We gave up our medical careers and became doctors of systems: the BroadReach Group was born. »
AI to combat HIV
When BroadReach was founded about 20 years ago, HIV was a major problem in South Africa: 38.5% of adults tested positive. The company was founded there with the support of USAID, the United States Agency for International Development responsible for economic development and humanitarian aid around the world.
The data was collected on paper, very difficult to use. So they created Vantage Health Technologies and, thanks to AI, were able to connect data from 1,200 hospitals. Today, 2.4 million cases are managed on this cloud platform based on Microsoft Azure.
Vantage solutions for patient retention
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to 25 million people living with HIV, or 67% of the world’s population. However, 8.1 million people do not suffer from viral depression, although HIV treatment will reduce the impact of the virus on their health and reduce the risk of transmitting the virus.
The Vantage decision, funded by a grant from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, allowed IHVN to predict and positively influence the behavior of high-risk HIV patients. According to Annika Lindorsson Krugel, Head of Solutions, Vantage Health Technologies, “Cooperation between healthcare partners combined with state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technology is proving to be a highly effective way to improve the outpatient care of HIV / AIDS patients.”
” In sub-Saharan Africa, the burden of disease and treatment has made the use of technology and partnerships to improve the care process even more important. »
The collaboration between Vantage Health Technologies and IHVN provided pilot implementation in three Nigerian precincts, where implementation teams were able to keep 91% of high-risk patients on HIV treatment.
The ML-based model uses patient history data to predict whether they will miss the next appointment at the clinic and therefore will not be able to receive medication that will mean stopping treatment.
Lists of these patients are provided to the clinical staff, who then intervene to ensure that patients do not miss the next appointment: SMS messages, calls and home visits are arranged to ensure personal attention to each patient before admission to the clinic.
Obstacles to continue treatment
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice independently assessed the patient retention model: it reviewed eight months of data from three Nigerian sites and concluded that stigma, side effects, logistical problems, economic barriers and forgetfulness were the main barriers to compliance. treatment.
According to this study, patients were able to overcome these barriers with the help of caregivers, peer support and understanding of their situation. According to the institute, cultural sensitivity, constant contact with patients with reliable relationships and support for large-scale development initiatives by local teams contributed to the success of the program.
Vantage Patient Retention has been successfully implemented in HIV treatment and care programs in Nigeria and South Africa.
Annika Lindorsson Krugel says:
” The solution is an advanced illustration of what can be achieved when artificial intelligence is used for real human activities. »

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It's now down to 19 degrees with drifting heavy falling snow a few blocks from Portland Adventist Hospital.
Snow Day from SE Portland
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The rent at Silver Springs Apartments ranges from $815 for a one bedroom to a $1,056 three bedroom. Apartments in this building are about 16% less expensive than the Kent average.
This apartment is in Kent. Nearby parks include Kent Memorial Park, Art Wright Field and East Hill Park.
Silver Springs Apartments has a Walk Score of 46 out of 100. This location is a Car-Dependent neighborhood so most errands require a car.
Nearby schools include Mill Creek Middle School, East Hill Elementary School and Green River Community College-Kent Campus.
The closest grocery stores are Kerry Ingredients & Flavours, Jacksons and Carpinito Brothers, Inc.
Nearby coffee shops include Mug Bugs Coffee, Bri's Beans LLC and Kent BigFoot Java. There are six restaurants within a 15 minute walk including BURGER KING®, Mitzel's American Kitchen Kent and Denny's.
Silver Springs Apartments is near Kent Memorial Park, East Hill Park and Kiwanis Park #2.
Located in the heart of Kent, Silver Springs Apartments is nestled in a quiet and convenient location, just minutes from Hwy 167 and 405, making your commute a dream. Fantastic shopping, dining, bistros and wine bars all at your fingertips and within walking distance at Kent Station. Enjoy our 20,000-gallon swimming pool, or come work out in our state of the art fitness center. Stop in today and start living. For those who insist on the best, discover a departure from ordinary apartment living. Call or stop in today.


Penfield will welcome Mike Kornrich to Penfield Amphitheater and Kiwanis Stage on Tuesday, August 27 for the final concert of the 2019 concert series. The concert will begin at 6:30 PM and is geared toward children and families.
Mike plays guitar, banjo, ukulele, and sings songs like “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad,” “When You’re Smiling,” and “Rock Around the Clock.” There are always silly antics between songs, and most songs have child interaction.
Penfield Amphitheater is located in Veterans Memorial Park, behind Penfield Town Hall, 3100 Atlantic Avenue, Penfield. Bring a lawn chair or blanket and enjoy the music in this beautiful setting. For more information, please call Penfield Recreation at (585) 340-8655, option 0.


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The INK4A tumour suppressor gene is negatively regulated by the Polycomb Group (PcG) complexes, which plays an important role in stem cell- and cancer biology. Polycomb Repressive Complex 1 (PRC1) members posterior sex comb protein BMI1 and polycomb proteins CBX7 and CBX8 have been shown to be directly involved in repression of INK4A and delay of senescence, whereas evidence from mouse genetics suggests that polyhomeotic protein Ph2 is also required. However, it is still unknown why the mammalian PRC1 complex has so many possible permutations compared to the basic system in Drosphila and how this relates to the regulation of a single target gene. The aim was therefore to define the requirement and function of the three human polyhomeotic members, HPH1, -2 and -3, for INK4A repression. It was found that depletion of all HPH proteins by shRNA-mediated knockdown in primary human fibroblasts results in derepression of INK4A and premature senescence. In contrast, overexpression of HPH proteins leads to activation of INK4A accompanied by loss of PRC1 binding and PcG-associated histone H3K27 trimethylation at the locus. These diametrically opposite findings suggest that a fine balance in HPH protein levels is required for PcG repression. Furthermore, biochemical investigation of the interaction between CBX and HPH proteins did not demonstrate any level of specificity, but emphasised the RNA binding capacity of both proteins, which was further investigated. In addition, by tandem affinity purification and mass spectrometry analysis it was found that HPH2 interacts with both PRC1 components and novel proteins, which were studied for involvement in INK4A repression. In summary, this thesis demonstrates an essential role for the HPH proteins in the regulation of INK4A and provides novel insights into their functional contribution to PcG repression.
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Blue Mickey Mouse Platy
The Blue Mickey Mouse Platy 4cm is a pleasant and peaceful freshwater fish that’s both hardy and active. It’s also small, pretty, and a great fish for hobbyists of any level; in fact it’s one of the most popular in the fishkeeping industry. You can find Platies in several different colours which make for an eye-catching tank. The Platy has two goals in life: eating and breeding. It will circle the tank eating anything, including algae and their breeding can’t be stopped!
Like guppies, platies are live-bearing fish. Breeding the Platy is more than easy—in fact, it’s really just a question of when because they are always willing and able. The females can warehouse sperm for up to six months; they are almost always pregnant and can give live birth to 10-40 fry every 4 to 6 weeks! Huge broods of up to 80 fry are even possible. The parents won’t usually eat the fry, but it’s still best to put the pregnant female in a separate tank or breeding net/box. Let her give birth there before bringing her back to the primary tank.
It’s quite easy to tell a male Platy from a female by examining their anal fins (the rear fin protruding from their bellies). If the anal fin is fanshaped, your fish is a female. If it’s long, flat, and pointed, your fish is a male. Females are also usually bigger than the males, though this is not a hard and fast rule.
Blue Mickey Mouse Platy 4cm in the wild survive on algae and insects, which provide them with plenty of fiber. Be sure your Platies get plenty of fiber in their new aquarium home. Platies need to eat once or twice a day and they are usually eager to eat, but don’t overfeed them. If they don’t eat all the food in a few minutes, you’re giving them too much at once. You can use a flake food diet, but supplement it with live or frozen food which offers more nourishment. Try live or frozen brine shrimp as well as bloodworms. It’s also a good idea to select flake foods that include vegetable supplements.
Ideal tank mates include: Guppies, Swordtails, Mollies, Some Tetras, Rasboras, Rainbows, Danios, Gouramis, Bristlenose, Plecos and Scavenger Catfish.
- Species – Xiphophorus maculatus
- Common Name – Blue Mickey Mouse Platy
- Origin – Central and South America, in the region from Vera Cruz (Mexico) to Belize.
- Diet – Omnivorous
- PH Range – 6.8 – 8
- Temperature – Tropical and Coldwater 18°c – 28°c
- Breed Type – Livebearer
- Max Size – approximately 7cm
- Sex – Un-sexed

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Meow! Jellycat Kaleidoscope Kitty is a sumptuous soft and fluffy pink pussy cat! Quirky and fun, she has beans in her bottom so that she can sit by your side and keep you company.
Jellycat Kitty Care
- Tested to and passes the European Safety Standard for toys: EN71 parts 1, 2 & 3, for all ages.
- Not Suitable from birth due to fibres shredding.
- Made from 100% polyester.
- Hand wash only; do not tumble dry, dry clean or iron. Not recommended to clean in a washing machine.
- Check all labels upon arrival of purchase.
- Size 28 cms approx
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Even if you are unfamiliar with the parable of Scott Storch, the dean of hip-hop beats featuring squiggly little earwormy keyboards, if you were alive in the 2000s and listened to the radio you are already intimately familiar with his work. You can hear the plinks of the classically trained pianist in Dr. Dre’s “Still D.R.E.,” as well as on Justin Timberlake’s “Cry Me a River.” He produced both “Lean Back” and “Make It Rain” for Fat Joe, “Candy Shop” for 50 Cent, and “Me, Myself, and I” for Beyoncé — alone enough to make him one of the premier hitmakers of the decade — and made bajillions of dollars cranking out beats for pop stars like Christian Aguilera, Ricky Martin, and Mariah Carey. But, like many a musician caught up in the cycle of fame, Scott Storch started doing so much cocaine that he stopped being able to tell the difference between good ideas and very, very bad ones. This, in turn, led to him doing things like making an entire album with Hulk Hogan's daughter and also a music video in which he rapped on a moving speedboat.
It perhaps goes without saying that the 2000s ended poorly for Storch. By 2010, he was an industry pariah, broke and fresh out of rehab, trying to put the pieces of his once-bulletproof career back together. Despite producing the occasional gem, Storch has spent the 2010s as a member of of the hip-hop production D-List.
But there is a place where Scott Storch thrives, and that place is Instagram. Storch — who at 44 looks and dresses exactly like the heir of some sketchy Russian oil fortune — uses the service primarily for a) posting pictures of himself smoking weed while wearing aviator sunglasses, and b) posting videos of himself playing the shit out of the piano while wearing aviator sunglasses. The weed stuff is kind of boring because anyone can smoke weed, but few can play the piano with the virtuosic skill and unbridled passion that Storch possesses, and only Scott Storch himself can display that virtuosic skill and unbridled passion while wearing aviator sunglasses at all times. His Instagram piano habits briefly made waves in 2013, when he posted a video of himself making a beat while getting a haircut and smoking a cigarette, but in the past few months Storch has come into his own as an Instagram piano guy.
Here he is performing with the rapper Berner, playing a beat live onstage while wearing a tracksuit that’s at least two sizes too large:
And here he is in the studio, playing a yacht rock keyboard line as some dude sings softly into a phone:
Now another, in which he plays the piano while smoking a blunt and dancing like an alien wearing human skin:
And a third, which trumps the previous video because not only does it feature Storch simultaneously playing keys and smoking, there's also a man next to him dancing while cradling a pomeranian.
Storch's Instagram is the gift that keeps on giving. To add a little spice to your life, watch him play A Tribe Called Quest's “Electric Relaxation” on a grand piano as the middle-aged character actor Michael Rapaport inexplicably rap(aport)s along. Or, feel free to luxuriate in this clip of him playing “Still D.R.E.,” also on the grand piano, while some dude wearing a Snoop Dogg mask dances on the lid. And if you need your faith restored in the youth, please do watch Scott Storch play classical music for some teens.
Most of the time I think that social media is a development that is slowly eroding society, but every once in a while someone comes along and uses one platform or another in ways that run counter to the conventions upon which they were built. No matter his numerous self-indulgences, Scott Storch is ultimately a behind-the-scenes guy: he makes the beat, the rapper raps over it, and in the end, the rapper gets the glory. And yet with his stilted dance moves, enthusiasm over his own technical brilliance, and shiny, shiny sunglasses, Scott Storch manages to place himself front and center, even if it's just in his own feed.

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Here's my card:
How surprised are you about the colours? Mmm, thought not! So I started by brushing those colours in diagonals across some watercolour card. Then I spritzed the stamp with water and placed it fairly randomly blotting up the excess ink as I went along.
The addition of a die cut happy on a black banner and the a stamped birthday and I was done.
Stamps: HLS, Bold Birthday Sentiments; Stamplorations, Seashell Cosmo
Inks: Ranger distress, wilted violet, mermaid lagoon, picked raspberry; Memento, tuxedo black
Die: Clearly Besotted, happy
Thanks for visiting today, I'm really pleased you found the time. And keep crafting!
What a fun technique ... gorgeous card.ReplyDelete
Beautiful colour choice, so soft and pretty. I love the look you've achieved by stamping with water. Fabulous!ReplyDelete
Such pretty colors...terrific design! Thanks for sharing at Less is More!ReplyDelete
Those colours just flow into each other and so unusual to apply them diagonally. Fab sentiment arrangement too.ReplyDelete
So pretty, really effectiveReplyDelete
WOW! Super spectacular Jane and love your adorable feminine colour choice.ReplyDelete
Great use of the technique and as always thanks for playing along and sharing this week at Less is More. Sarah
Love the diagonal blend of those gorgeous shades, and the black strip really pops against your pretty background.ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for playing along at Less is More and Happy Little Stampers, Anita x
Great and very effective technique, loving your colours !ReplyDelete
What an amazing ghosting effect here Jane... the colours somplement each other beautifully and the images are stunning!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much
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Stunning colours and great use of the technique Jane! The black sentiment pops against it and I like the layering of the sentiment too! Thank you for joining us on HLS CAS challenge! Hazel xxReplyDelete
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Come out and network at this month’s Thursday Therapy, May 9th from 6-9pm at 508 Tequila Bar. Located right across from Stubb’s on 8th and Red River, the venue is perfect for some drinks and lively conversation.
Along with a great happy hour that runs until 7pm with $2 Lone Star & PBR, $3 Wells, $4 wine, and $5 House Margaritas & Sangrias, catering will also be provided by Tex-Mex favorite Pelons!
Come see the ambiance set up by Jennifer Mueller with Party Lite decorations and pose for some great snapshots of the event with Le Photo Booth Co.
Video for the night will be provided by Nostalgia Film, so get ready for a very eventful evening.
Don’t forget to bring those business cards and your best networking smiles to meet some great wedding industry pros.
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Hey there, speedsters! Are you ready for another adrenaline-fueled, pedal-to-the-metal adventure with the “Fast and Furious” family? Buckle up and hold on tight, because we’re about to delve into the full throttle excitement of “Fast and Furious 11: A Decade of Unstoppable Speed and Thrills!”
Exploring the Impact of the “Fast and Furious” Franchise
From its humble beginnings as a street racing film to becoming a global phenomenon, the “Fast and Furious” franchise has taken us on a wild ride. This action-packed series has not only entertained audiences for over a decade, but it has also left an indelible mark on popular culture. The movies burst onto the scene with their heart-pounding car races and adrenaline-infused stunts, captivating car enthusiasts and action film fanatics alike.
Fast and Furious 11; The Legacy Continues
Now that the family has gathered, grab a Corona, and let’s speak about Fast & Furious 11. The eagerly awaited sequel to the beloved action series is almost here, and speculation about what to anticipate is starting to circulate.
It’s always a mystery as to how far the writers will push us as each film seeks to surpass the previous one, since the films have brought us everywhere from the arctic ice caps to the Brazilian favelas, a quick journey into space, and even Neptune’s Net seafood restaurant. Here is all the information you need to know about Fast and Furious 11 till we find out more.
We were suspended at the end of Fast X. To refresh your memory, or in the unlikely event that you haven’t seen the movie and don’t want to see the conclusion for yourself, we see Aimes shoot down the plane carrying Roman, Tej, Han, and Ramsey. It turns out that Aimes was collaborating with antagonist Dante Reyes and tricking Dom Toretto’s crew in the process. Shortly after, the film ends. We still don’t know what happened to the people on board, but in true F&F style, we’ll assume they all miraculously made it out alive.
At this point, it’s unclear what else the Fast and Furious 11 narrative will entail. A return to street racing has been speculated by some, including Craig Lieberman, the man in charge of the vehicles in the first two films, who claims that the movie will be going “back to basics,”
We find it a little hard to believe the franchise could turn so easily back to its roots at this point, but we’re open to being wrong. Right now, it seems few people know for certain with even Jason Momoa, who plays Dante Reyes, claiming in an interview with Variety in January that he hadn’t seen a script
Fast and Furious 11 Release Date
As of right now, Vin Diesel has stated that Fast and Furious 11 will release in the US on April 4, 2025. We anticipate that this date will be the same, if not identical, in other markets. And at the same date Minecraft movie is also releasing
Last fast and furious movie
In the beginning, Fast and Furious 11 was supposed to be the last film in the series. But it seems like Universal has figured out a way to make more and more money so after fast and furious 11 their will be 12th part coming soon in 2027
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The education proposals will be a key component of Defense Secretary Ash Carter's effort to overhaul the military personnel system. The Pentagon is wrapping up its "Force of the Future" review and plans to publicly unveil a slate of recommended changes in September.
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A buzzword found across the slate of proposals is "permeability," the notion that troops should be able to more easily move in and out of the active-duty force and forge a career path that mixes operational assignments with time spent in the civilian sector in graduate school, on family leave, or on assignments working with private industry or corporate fellowships.
Beyond funding more graduate programs, the Pentagon's proposal aims to also break down some of the cultural and political barriers that make many of today's officers reluctant to temporarily leave the active-duty force. For years, many officers have felt such nontraditional assignments were a liability before promotion boards designed to reward those who hew to a more conventional career track.
"One of the biggest pieces of this is the acculturation. You can create more opportunity, but how do you get the real high performers — the future chief of staff of the Army or the future chief of naval operations — how do you get them to do it?" the defense official said.
The emerging slate of reforms will include new benchmarks designed to encourage officers to go to civilian graduate schools and other "broadening assignments" that involve spending time beyond the insular military community.
Specifically, the Pentagon may phase in a requirement for officers seeking to move up into the general and flag ranks. A certain percentage of each annual cohort moving into the O-7, one-star paygrade would have to show a career track with time spent in the civilian world.
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That could reverse a trend in some services that has significantly reduced officer enrollment in civilian schools. For example, Army data shows that the percentage of brigadier generals holding graduate degrees from civilian universities has dropped steadily from nearly 60 percent in the 1990s to less than 40 percent today.
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Some new evidence suggests that the quality of the officer corps has been declining. A July study out of the Brookings Institution, a well-respected Washington think tank, found that Marine Corps second lieutenants have performed progressively worse on a standardized test administered at officer training school over the last 35 years; the average new officer's score on the General Classification Test dropped from 131 to 122 between 1980 and 2014. A perfect score on the test, which measures intelligence and aptitude, is 160.
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Enlisted troops not left out
The Pentagon's proposal also aims to boost education in the enlisted force. The services are planning to set aside some money in their budgets to send high-performing enlisted members to earn undergraduate degrees from civilian schools.
Those troops would move into a reserve unit during their school years before returning to active duty to take on leadership roles as senior noncommissioned officers.
Traditionally, enlisted troops who earned undergraduate degrees and returned to service entered the commissioned officer corps. But Pentagon leaders believe enlisted members need more education to be effective in a force where both technology and missions are growing increasingly complex.
"The experience of Iraq and Afghanistan is that you've got young E-6s and E-7s making very important decisions, not only tactically but operationally," the defense official said. "These are the types of folks we want with the experience of attending an undergraduate university."
Enlisted troops are entitled to a taxpayer-funded college program after separation through the generous GI Bill program. Pentagon officials hope that institutionalizing a career track that includes an undergraduate degree for enlisted troops will help the service to retain them and make them more likely to return to service after school.
Closing the 'Civ-Mil Gap'
Other reforms in the works inside the Pentagon would encourage officers to pursue graduate education. Proposals include scaling back or ending "up-or-out" rules that force officers to compete for promotions within their "year-groups." Many officers are reluctant to seek out nontraditional assignments because they fear their peers who pursue more strictly operational career tracks will receive priority consideration from promotion boards.
The joint-service requirements imposed under the Goldwater Nichols Act also may be under scrutiny because critics say they make the system too rigid and force troops into "check the box" assignments that offer limited professional development.
Collectively, the personnel reforms being finalized by the Pentagon aim to give troops more exposure to the civilian world and possibly shrink the cultural divide between the military and civilian worlds.
"Military officers need to be in touch with American society," Kohn said.
"It is important not just to expose graduate students in the colleges and universities to military officers, but to expose military officers to the civilian world. The development in the last 15 to 20 years of awarding a master's degree for attendance at staff and war college has diminished the number of people getting a first-rate education on the outside. It has, in my judgment, isolated the officer corps unnecessarily and to the officers corps' disadvantage," Kohn said.
"It makes for an isolated officer corps that is more alienated from the people they are serving."


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The Dangers of Mining Industry in the Philippines A Term Paper Presented to Mrs. Lorna Caponong Department of English CASS, MSU-IIT In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for ENGLISH 2 (Writing in Discipline) Second Semester, SY 2010-2011 by Charissa L. Abingosa Sittie Joharah Alulong Maria Reziel E. Cortes Jeff de Jesus March 15, 2012 TOPIC OUTLINE I. Introduction II. Mining Industry in the Philippines A. Brief History of Mining in the Philippines B. Scales of Mining Operations 1. Specification of Large-scale Mining a. Definition of Large-scale Mining b. Condition of the Large-scale Mining Industry in the Philippines 2.
Specification of Small-scale Mining c. Definition of Small-scale Mining d. Condition of the Small-scale Mining Industry in the Philippines III. Health and Environmental Threats of Mining in the Philippines A. Environmental Threats 1. Soil Pollution and the Effect to the Bodies of Water 2. Loss of Flora, Fauna, Biodiversity, and Food Insecurity 3. Land Destruction, Subsidence, Siltation B. Health Threats 1. Effects on the Occupational Health and Safety of Mine Workers 2. Health problems due to Water, Soil, and Air Pollution IV. Suggested Actions for the Detraction of the Dangers of Mining V.
Conclusion What is mining? Why does Mining Industry in the Philippines exist? Is mining essential for the economic development of the Philippines? What has mining brought to the Philippines? Is it desirable or undesirable? Mining is the process or business of removing minerals from the ground (Encarta Dictionaries, 2008). Consequently, the nature of mining operations creates a potential negative impact on the environment both during the operations and for years after the mine is closed. This impact has led to most of the world’s nations adopting regulations to moderate the negative effects of mining operations.
Philippines should therefore adhere to those countries. | Philippines is the fifth most mineralized countries in the world (Asia Economic Institute, 2011). In fact, the former House Speaker Jose de Venecia (2009) estimated that the reserves of minerals under Philippine soil cost one trillion dollars. Apparently, mining throughout the history of the Philippines is fraught with questions – the very extractive nature of the industry is the biggest challenge, more so, given the country’s unique geographic features and sensitive and diverse ecosystems.
Hence, mining industries in the Philippines is harmful to the Filipinos’ Health and destruction to the environment which causes several calamities. “We have seen the devastating effects of some of the mining operations; the spillages of mine tailing in Boac, Marinduque, in Sipalay, Hinobaan, Negros Occidental, in Itogon, Benguet, and mudflows in Sibutad, Zamboanga del Norte…” (Catholic Bishops of the Philippines, 2004). The situation of mining in the Philippines, especially the small-scale mining, has been at its worst state. Mining has been blamed on the recent ecological calamities endured by the country.
This term paper is purported to significantly ascertain the negative effects of mining industry in the Philippines to the Health of the Filipinos and the Environment. And by the end of the term, this term paper will expectantly aware the public of the hazards of mining and hopefully encourage a responsive mining activity in the country. In the year 1988, Philippines was the sixth largest producer of chromium in the world and ranked ninth in gold production and tenth in copper production (The Library of Congress Country Studies and the CIA World Factbook, 2004).
It was during these years when the Philippines had abundant sources of copper, chromium, gold and nickel, as well as smaller deposits of cadmium, iron, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, and silver. Industrial minerals included asbestos, gypsum, limestone, marble, phosphate, salt, and sulfur. Mineral fuels included coal and petroleum. Hence, seeing the industry’s productivity, it is convincing that Philippines during these times had operated an agreeable mining activity. Considering the lucrative mining industry of the Philippines during 1900’s, despite its rich mineral deposits, the recent one is just a fraction of what it was before.
The Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (2012) considered low metal prices, high production costs, and lack of investment in infrastructure contributed to the industry’s overall decline. However, it can be seen that along the hasty evolution of technology comes the degrading quality of the Philippine’s Mining Industry. There has been a speculation that mining industry in the Philippines in the year 2012 is on the verge of its biggest boom in history as according to Environment Secretary Ramon Paje, mining industry is forecast to grow 17 percent in the recent year, with the metals sector seen rising 24 percent. As we allow you to mine, we cannot allow you to dirty the environment”, he added. Paje (2011) also clarified that the government has been cautious in issuing mining permits. However, the nature of mining in the recent generation is naturally destructive, being scrutinized because of the past harm done along with the change of its nature. This is specifically considered in large-scale mining operations because of the extractive nature of the operation. Therefore, even though the Philippine government is painstakingly cautious in issuing the mining permits, it is still arguable if mining is sustainable.
Persistently, some local government units have been ordaining mining prohibition in their territories, alluding concerns over environmental degradation, unequal distribution of tax revenue, unemployment caused by displacement of small-scale miners, and relegation of Indigenous People. Nonetheless, mining can also be acceptable. Later on, the researchers will try to suggest, with the benefits of research, some ways to minimize the negative effects of mining. The readers will realize that, throughout the history of mining in the Philippines, mining industry is harmful to the Filipinos’ Health and destruction to the environment.
Some of the categories of Mining Operations are Small-scale mining and Large-scale mining. These scales of mining are predominantly operated in the mining sites of the Philippines. Small-scale mining can be categorized into small-scale underground mining and small-scale surface mining. Small-scale underground mining produces 5,000 to 50,000 metric tons per year; based on the run-of mine (ROM) output while the small-scale surface mine supplies 10,000 to 100,000 metric tons per year (Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement, 2009). According to the Chairperson of Cordillera People’s Alliance, Windel Bolinget (2011), small-scale mining “… eans it should be community-controlled and must be within the communities’ cultural, political, economic collective life… With this concept and practice, traditional small-scale mining is sustainable. ” Traditionally, small-scale mining operations rely heavily on manual labor using simple methods and do not use explosives or heavy mining equipment or chemicals that would apparently be hazardous both to man and environment. In spite of this, the recent technology used by small-scale miners has surpassed its traditional procedures already. Safety measures weren’t directed to avoid any accidents.
On the face of it, these fatuities caused numerous mining disasters resulting to loss of lives and our own environment in peril. On the other hand, Large-scale mining involves the mobilization of substantial capital, heavy equipment, high technology and a much bigger workforce (Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement, 2009). Large-scale mining companies in the Philippines are in majority owned by foreign investors. In terms of volume of output, large-scale mining supplies sufficient quantities to satisfy the requirements of the export market and large industries on a regular basis.
In fact, large-scale underground mines produces above 500,000 metric tons per year, based on the run-of mine (ROM) output, while large-scale surface mines produces above 1,000,000 metric tons per year (Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement, 2009). Apparently, Large-scale mining, when compared to the other scales of mining operations, seems to be the most detrimental, considering its technology-oriented nature. In particular, the mineral extraction methods used in the scale has shown hazards both to man and his environment.
Mining industry in the Philippines has generated a vast range of problems; these problems are mainly related to environmental destruction. Worsening the situation, these apparent effects were often neglected. Just to mention, the excessive depriving of lands and mountains brought up by mining is at its critical point. Thus, the lives surrounding the area affected are at risk. “Time will come when our children no longer recognize the names of trees, the footprints of animals, the birds’ songs. This will be the time when the forest is gone, the mining companies are gone, the rivers no longer flow. And us?
We will still be here” (Samparan, 2009). The environmental threats posed by mining industry in the Philippines are namely: land pollution, air pollution, water pollution and noise pollution. However, this term paper will mainly focus on the land and water pollution since these two threats are the most disastrous and most detrimental to humans. Putatunda (2011) defined that pollution is the process that introduces contaminants into the environment, which in turn causes the instability of the ecosystem, including both the physical aspects and the living organisms. Land pollution comprises land destruction and subsidence.
Basically, land pollution is the contamination and degradation of Earth’s land surface caused by misuse of land resources and human activities. Mining operations causes mountains to weaken. Viewers who witnessed the deterioration would describe it to be the falling of mountains. However, the technical term for this phenomenon is ground subsidence. Rain-loosed earth collapses into hollowed space at the base, ‘spreading’ mountains out sideways (First Peoples Worldwide, 2011). They fall on rice fields and streams, heaping trouble on many households, and on the worst case scenario, cause death.
In July 1999, Pablo Gomez, a villager in Mankayan where Philex and Lepanto operated an underground block-caving, was killed when he was suddenly swept away in a landslide caused by the mining operation. 71 million cubic feet of earth gave way beneath him, covering and destroying 14 hectares of farming land (Unrepresented Nations and People Organization, 2011). Aside from subsidence in land, the water tables, the upper surface of groundwaters, have also subsided as deep mining tunnels disrupt groundwater paths (Cordillera People’s Alliance, 2007).
Tunneling often leads to a long-term lowering of the water table. In 1973, a disaster hit Gumatdang, Itogon’s oldest rice-producing village. Atok-Big Wedge implanted two gigantic tunnels on opposite sides of the village, immediately draining the water from its most abundant irrigation sources (Empian, 2010). In 1962, Benguet Corporation implanted another drainage tunnel that stretched between its Kelly mine in Gumatdang and its mines in Antamok. Instead of just draining water from the mines, the tunnel drained the water from a major irrigation source, drying up ricefields.
In addition, the felling of timber to reinforce underground tunnels has denuded surrounding watersheds, aggravating water loss. Air pollution caused by mining is due to the contaminated smoke released by machineries used in the operation. Land pollution gradually affects the bodies of water, causing water pollution. One of the water pollutions caused by mining is siltation, the deposition of finely divided soil and rock particles upon the bottom of stream and riverbeds and reservoirs (Roberge, 2012). Siltation of rivers is a serious problem in Benguet resulting from mining operations.
In the case of the Philex, a tailings dam collapsed in 1992, releasing some 80 million tons of tailings and causing heavy siltation in the irrigation system downstream (Philippine Indigenous Peoples Links, 2007). The company paid 5 million pesos to the affected farmers. Again, during a typhoon in 2001, another tailings dam of Philex collapsed. Ricefields in San Manuel and Binalonan, Pangasinan, were buried in toxic silt a meter deep. This time, Philex refused to admit responsibility for the disaster putting the blame on nature (Cordillera People’s Alliance, 2007).
The aftermaths of mining operations in the Philippines have severely threatened its environment. What was done is done. With land, air, water and noise pollution, our mother earth is in danger. Continuing to live in the present, ignoring the past, is presumptuous to be hopeful of having a convenient life in the future. Human beings should not forget that they are utterly dependent on their environment. Therefore, they should secure it and shoulder any actions that have damaged it. Mining has brought several destruction and pollution to the Philippine environment.
This destruction undeniably affects the health of every residents and workers where mining is active as well as to the adjacent places. The Institute for Occupational Health and Safety Development (IOHSD) conducted a research regarding the health of mine workers of several places on 2006. The IOHSD stated that in the year 2000, the Bureau of Labor and Employment statistics recorded 78 occupational accidents. In the year 2002, the number tremendously increased to 822 or a 1,053% swell. The above mentioned Institute also stated some occupational health hazards which caused several ailments and deficiencies to the mine workers.
One of which is the exposure to intense heat. While the workers are exposed to heat, their hydration is very limited and it was discovered the miners usually have fluid and salt deficiency due to constant sweating and increased stress on the heart which in the long run cause heat stroke, opacity of lens, and reduced fertility. Poor ventilation is also one of the health hazards to mine workers which rob the sufficient oxygen needed by the body which may cause brain malfunction (Cordillera People’s Alliance, 2007).
Due to the nature of the work of miners, they are exposed to vibration. Vibration can cause permanent bone damage, vibration syndrome and digestive problems due to constant shaking of the internal organs. Exposure to airborne particles makes the workers vulnerable to systemic toxic effects because they frequently absorb lead, manganese, cadmium, zinc, and etc. Exposure to chemical fumes coupled with poor ventilation can cause accidents. Repetitive stress injury (RSI) is caused by abusive or overloading of a muscle in a repetitive manner (Cordillera People’s Alliance, 2007).
Miners complain weakness of the affected area, heaviness and numbness. Noise that miners experience can cause hearing impairment and/or disrupt body function like blood circulation, hormone imbalance and peptic ulcer. Manual lifting of materials may lead to acute pain. Biological and chemical hazards dangers to health of miners because miners expose themselves to cyanide. Cyanide blocks the transfer of oxygen from blood to body tissues which may cause serious ailments (Cordillera People’s Alliance, 2007).
The health and security hazards of mining in the Philippines are not limited to the workers but also to the settlers of a place where mining is active. According to the article by Farah Sevilla (2011), “Mining and Indigenous Women in the Philippines,” there are occasional disasters that happens such as mine tailing and dam failure which pollute the soils and rivers because of the toxic chemicals coming from mine tailings and dams. This has brought threat to the health of indigenous communities, especially women. The pollutants in air, water, and land contaminated the food and water which the settlers intake.
Women risk suffering reproductive health problems such as spontaneous abortion and malformed babies. Marinduque, one of the country’s leading mining sites, was discovered that the children living in the area had very high levels of lead and other metals. Some of these children died due to the metal poisoning as what according to United States Geological Survey, the Philippines Department of Health and Oxfam Mining Ombudsman (Soliditary Philippines Australia Network, 2004). The people of Bicol also suffer from different health problems. An article by Danny O.
Colleja (2011) about a Group producing a documentary on effects of Mercury in Bicol states that the used mercury, used in the formation of amalgam of gold and silver, is being disposed with the tailings which directly go to water bodies. Studies conducted in Bicol’s mining sites and nearby communities revealed that drinking waters and rivers have exceeded the recommended water quality criteria. It is also reported that marine species such as fish and mollusks have mercury levels beyond the allowable limit while the miners and children examined exhibited symptoms of mercury contamination.
Miners in the Philippines are found to have mercury levels up to 50 times above World Health Organization (WHO) limits, as what according to United Nations (2006). The residents of Benguet also experience health problems due to mining. According to the case study on the Impacts of Mining and Dams on the Environment and Indigenous Peoples in Benguet of Cordillera People’s Alliance (2007), the most common symptoms felt by residents of Mankayan, Benguet who have inhaled chemical fumes from mines are headaches, dizziness, cough, chest pain, nasal and eye irritation, itching of the skin, rashes, and diarrhea.
Wounds take longer to heal when exposed to the water of Abra River, one of the affected rivers in Benguet. The incidents and number of reported complaints regarding mining in their respective places will continue on increasing not unless proper action is taken. The health problems is how one of the biggest threat that mining has brought. It is therefore very hazardous to the environment and most especially to the health of the residents of nearby mining sites.
According to Executive Secretary Pacquito Ochoa (2011), “For mining to be acceptable, it must be guided by the principles of sustainable economic development, environmental protection, social equity and of course, good governance”. According to Sharma (2009), there are some ways to reduce the environmental impacts of mining and apparently will reduce the health threats. Some of the conceived ways in order to detract those negative aftermaths of mining are: 1. Reducing the consumption of minerals Humans are heavily reliable to metals nowadays.
But still, in order to reduce the impact of mining industries on the Philippine environment, Filipinos should consume less, so that fewer minerals are needed to build products like cars, appliances, electronics, etc. It can be suggested that resources should be consumed efficiently, but also by simply using less and recycling more. For example, instead of fabricating more cars and letting people buy them, Filipinos could rely more on public transportations. 2. The efficiency of manufacturing processes can be increased to reduce the amount of new minerals required
This suggested action requires advancement in technology to make the manufacturing process of mining more efficient yet less environmentally-harmful. For example, structural beams might be designed to be equally strong while using less steel. 3. Substitution of other materials and processes with more environmentally friendly materials and processes A long list of environmental ills, from toxic pollutants to deforestation to species loss to climate change, is due to the gargantuan appetite for materials, especially in industrial countries.
Nations and businesses are discovering ways to use materials more intelligently–to provide the goods and services people want using much less wood, metal, stone, plastic, and other materials. By reducing wasteful use, and by steering production toward durable goods that are easy to reuse, remanufacture, or recycle, a few pioneering firms are recasting the role of materials in our lives. For example, plastics might be used instead of metal to build appliances. Or biomass can be used instead of uranium to produce energy. 4.
Using recycled materials instead of mined materials Filipinos must look at getting more of our raw materials from secondary sources if they hope to decrease the impacts of mining, especially the health threats. Recycling has a number of advantages. For instance, it takes far less energy to recycle discarded materials than to extract, process, and refine metals from ore. It takes 95% less energy to produce aluminum from recycled materials rather than from bauxite ore; recycling copper takes seven times less energy than processing ore; and recycled steel uses three-and-a-half times less (Sharma, 2009).
For example, if tin cans are efficiently recycled, less material needs to be mined to make cans. 5. Improving environmental performance at mines Mines can be designed so that they produce less waste or use less toxic chemicals. Mining moves enormous quantities of earth; altogether, it digs more of earth’s soil each year than natural erosion by rivers does. Mining also uses large amounts of chemicals in processing and results in significant emissions to air and water.
By systematically examining environmental impacts and adopting measures to mitigate these impacts, it is possible to make mining less destructive of the environment. 6. Legislation and regulations to reduce environmental impacts can be enacted and enforced Governments can require mines to adopt increasingly effective environmental procedures and invoke penalties for failure to comply. Better regulations and better enforcement of existing regulations are keys to improving environmental performance in mining. 7. Cleaning up the abandoned mine sites
Companies and governments can be held accountable for abandoned sites and be required to carry out an environmental cleanup. Abandoned mine sites are potentially destructive if not properly closed. 8. Economic measures Economic measures like tax shifting can be introduced to provide incentives for practices like product substitution and disincentives for poor environmental performance. Considering all the mining incidents and researches on the impacts of mining, it is concluded that Mining Industries in the Philippines are dangerous to the Health of the Filipinos and their Environment.
Throughout the history of mining industry in the Philippines, Filipinos must have learned the fact that Mining, when not responsive and environment-friendly, is detrimental to the environment and thus, imperils their health, reducing their physical performance and will apparently affect their income, contributing to the economic instability of the country. To sum it up, the Environmental Threats of mining to the Philippines are: land pollution which comprises land destruction and subsidence; air pollution; water pollution such as siltation; and noise pollution.
The Health Threats are namely: hearing impairment; disrupt body function like blood circulation, hormone imbalance and peptic ulcer; reproductive health problems such as spontaneous abortion and malformed babies; and many other minor health impacts. The aforementioned aftermaths of mining operations in the Philippines have severely threatened the Philippine environment and the Filipino’s Health. With all these hazards, our mother earth is in peril. Human beings took advantage of the environment; therefore, they shall be the ones to be blamed and should take responsibility of any loss it had suffered.
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Retrieved February 4, 2012, from www. un. org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/workshop_IPPE_cpp. doc Philippine Indigenous Peoples Links (2007). Chronology of tailings dam failures in the Philippines [Electronic Version]. Retrieved February 7, 2012, from www. piplinks. org/system/files/Tailings+dam+failures+(070722). doc Putatunda, R. (2011). Land Pollution. Retrieved February 21, 2012, from http://www. buzzle. com/articles/land-pollution. html Roberge, P. (2012). Water Glossary. Corrosion Doctors. Retrieved February 4, 2012, from http://corrosion-doctors. rg/Water-Glossary/S. htm Jackson, P. (2006). Water Pollution. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved February 4, 2012, from http://www. mbgnet. net/fresh/pollute. htm Sharma, P. (2009). Ways to Reduce Environmental Impacts of Mining. Google Knol. Retrieved March 10, 2012, from http://knol. google. com/k/partha-das-sharma/ways-to-reduce-environmental-impacts-of/oml631csgjs7/41# Article from an Internet journal based on a print source (format differs or page numbers are not indicated) People’s Journal (2012). Rich PH, poor Pinoys.
Retrieved March 1, 2012, from http://www. journal. com. ph/index. php/news/editorial/25112-rich-ph-poor-pinoys Online Report with No Author Identified and No Date/Article Retrieved from an Online Database Philippine Daily Inquirer ( 2011, September 15). Philippines welcomes miners but not polluters. Inquirer. Retrieved from http://newsinfo. inquirer. net/59277/philippines-welcomes-miners-but-not-polluters Electronic Book First Peoples Worldwide (2011). Climate change, mining and food security in the Philippines. Retrieved February 27, 2012, from http://www. irstpeoplesworldwide. org/publish/gsCordilleraPeoplesAlliance. pdf Other sources Redmond, W. (2008). Encarta Dictionaries [computer software]. U. S. A. : Microsoft Corporation. Sites Geotayo Philippines (2009). Economic Profile of the Philippines. Retrieved February 29, 2012, from http://www. geotayo. com/economy. php Online Periodicals Solidarity Philippines Australia Network (2004). Breaking Promises, Making Profits: Mining in the Philippines. Retrieved February 29, 2012, from http://cpcabrisbane. org/Kasama/2004/V18n4/BreakingPromises. htm


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and in the cutting of stones for settings, and in the carving of wood, that he may work in all kinds of craftsmanship. "And behold, I Myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are skillful I have put skill, that they may make all that I have commanded you: the tent of meeting, and the ark of testimony, and the mercy seat upon it, and all the furniture of the tent, the table also and its utensils, and the pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, and the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offering also with all its utensils, and the laver and its stand, the woven garments as well, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, with which to carry on their priesthood; the anointing oil also, and the fragrant incense for the holy place, they are to make them according to all that I have commanded you." The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "But as for you, speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'You shall surely observe My sabbaths; for this is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you. 'Therefore you are to observe the sabbath, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people.
Through inspired Christian wall art we can gain a greater knowledge of who God is. He is first of all our great and mighty Creator, the Maker of heaven and earth. Sadly many Christians have fallen prey to the phantasies of the theory of evolution, believing the silly lies that we have come forth by chance, from apes. David Sorensen designed several pieces of beautiful Christian art about God the creator, showing the beauty and majesty of God’s creation and giving Him glory for all He has made. These Christian artworks are great for schools or churches, or even for our own homes, to acknowledge God as our Creator, who is full of wisdom and power.
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Let me share a secret with you. The resurrection power of Jesus Christ is also here and now at work, to raise you from the dead. From your dead circumstances. Your sickness. Your despair. Your sin. Your darkness, whatever it is. Just believe. Just look at Jesus Christ and see Him resurrected from the dead. SEE HIM, beloved.I ask you: OPEN YOUR EYES AND SEE HIM. Don’t look down. Don’t loose your interest. Scripture Verse Christian Image
Christian wall art can have a deep impact on your life. God can speak directly to your heart through a piece of art that was inspired by His Holy Spirit. The Christian wall art designed by David Sorensen has touched thousands of lives, all over the world. Many people testified how a piece of Christian wall art literally saved their life or how God used this art to heal a trauma in their heart. People came back to the Lord, after seeing one of our Christian artworks, and some were inspired to a deeper life of dedication to Jesus Christ. Goodnews Art
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"Now I am sending Huram-abi, a skilled man, endowed with understanding, the son of a Danite woman and a Tyrian father, who knows how to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone and wood, and in purple, violet, linen and crimson fabrics, and who knows how to make all kinds of engravings and to execute any design which may be assigned to him, to work with your skilled men and with those of my lord David your father. Scripture Art
Christian wall art can have a deep impact on your life. God can speak directly to your heart through a piece of art that was inspired by His Holy Spirit. The Christian wall art designed by David Sorensen has touched thousands of lives, all over the world. Many people testified how a piece of Christian wall art literally saved their life or how God used this art to heal a trauma in their heart. People came back to the Lord, after seeing one of our Christian artworks, and some were inspired to a deeper life of dedication to Jesus Christ. Scripture Art


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This post is a little different, inspired by a trip to Berlin last December and in celebration of our common European home. I’ve written about perhaps Berlin’s most famous modernist estate, the Hufeisensiedlung (the Horseshoe Estate) in an earlier post.
Weimar Germany, the democratic state founded in 1919, emerged from the horror of world war and the collapse of the reactionary and authoritarian regime which had largely triggered it. It promised, for a troubled and tragically brief period, an humane alternative to the brutality which both preceded and succeeded it and its social democratic stronghold Berlin – Red Berlin – pioneered some of the most progressive working-class housing of its time. This post and the next examine four of Berlin’s most significant modernist estates and allow us to study both a model and form of social housing provision radically different from that which existed in Britain.
The constitution of the new state was promulgated in the town of Weimar, 175 miles to the south-east of Berlin, in August 1919 when the capital, in the throes of revolutionary upheaval, was considered too dangerous for the newly elected National Assembly. This was a democratic constitution, proclaimed plausibly – with its protection of democratic norms and minority rights – as the most democratic in the world. (That it succumbed to Nazi tyranny within fourteen years might be taken as a lesson to another contemporary proudly constitutionalist state.)
The constitution was especially radical in its guarantee of social rights, most notably in Article 155 which promised ‘Every German their own healthy home’ – an attack on the speculative building and private profit which had dominated housing provision and blighted working-class lives hitherto. Henceforth, the Article continued, ‘the allocation and use of land’ was to ‘be controlled by the state in a way which prevents its misuse’. The Reichssiedlungsgesetz (State Settlement Law), passed at the same time provided the detail of this ideal, giving the federal states powers of compulsory purchase and requiring them to set up non-profit-making building societies which would finance the new housing programme.
Greater Berlin itself was a product, in 1920, of the new regime – an agglomeration of eight towns, 59 rural communities and 27 rural estates with the political clout and financial power to implement the reforming ambitions of its social democratic majority. With a population of 3.86m, it was the third largest city in world.
That population had risen fourfold since 1871 and most of its working class were housed in the so-called Mietskaserne (rental barracks) which ringed the centre. These were generally five-storey blocks built around a series of enclosed courtyards – privately (and expensively) rented, grossly overcrowded, with tiny individual apartments and shared facilities.
In the aftermath of war, it was estimated the city needed 100,000 new homes. By 1923, however, only around 9000 subsidised homes had been built in Berlin. Two things were critical to the social housebuilding boom which followed. The Hauszinssteuer (housing interest tax) of 1924 was a tax levied on housing wealth created during the hyperinflation of 1922 and 1923; it provided revenues of around 750m Reichsmarks into the late twenties. The Dawes Plan, agreed with the United States in the same year, was intended primarily to help Germany pay the punitive reparations levied after the First World War but it brought access to international loans and helped fund mortgages on housing projects.
The architect-planner Martin Wagner was the crucial figure in the Neues Bauen (New Building – a term encompassing lifestyle as well as bricks and mortar) programme which followed. In 1924, he organised three of Germany’s largest trade union groups to form the Deutsche Wohnungsfürsorgegesellschaft für Beamte, Angestellte und Arbeiter (mercifully we can call it DEWOG) which undertook the overall coordination of the country’s socialised housebuilding industry. One month later, he helped found the Gemeinnützige Heimstätten-, Spar- und Bau-Aktiengesellschaft (or GEHAG) – a housing cooperative which built much of Berlin’s housing in the succeeding years.
‘In Berlin the essential partner for new house-building initiatives was the trade-union movement’ (2) and Martin Wagner himself, a committed social democrat, served as the city’s municipal building director from 1926 to 1933 until forced out by the Nazis. The dominant architectural figure was the Jewish socialist Bruno Taut. With the personnel, politics and finance in place, it’s time to look at the buildings.
The first modernist estate was Siedlung Schillerpark erected in the Wedding district north of the city centre for the Berlin Savings and Building Association and built by the construction workers’ guild, the Bauhütte Berlin. It features 330 homes, predominantly built to Taut’s designs in three phases between 1924 and 1930, with landscaping by Walter Rossow.
The earliest blocks are located along Dubliner and Oxford Strasse, three and four-storey blocks, red-brick with bands of white plastering, enclosing carefully planned courtyards intended to fulfil Taut’s principle of ‘outdoor living space’. Alternating balconies and loggias, facing the sun, were used to create striking facades. There is a strong influence here of the Amsterdam School which Taut had studied in the early twenties. (3)
The actual apartments were of more traditional form and some of the earliest – where three homes accessed a single landing – were single-aspect, lacking cross-ventilation. The flats varied in size too, from 1½ to 4½ rooms (the main figure refers to living rooms separate from kitchen and bathroom; the fraction represents a small box-room) and, though designed intentionally for different income groups, all enjoyed the same standard of fitting. Low attics contained laundry and drying rooms. A separate bathhouse and new kindergarten were provided in 1930.
It was intended to pioneer a new and civilised form of urban living at density both in its quality of accommodation and design aesthetic. Clearly modernist in form, Taut included some personal signatures – a rich use of colours, textures and surface patterns – and some idiosyncratic expressionist elements seen, for example, in the reinforced concrete tapered pillars.
To one commentator, it was all a: (4)
bold statement of new site planning ideas and building forms, a forcefulness of expression, drawing attention to itself as something revolutionary. The preference for flat roofs, straight lines, and right angles is symptomatic of the will to express the social spirit of a new age.
Most new public housing of the time was not of such consciously modernist design but new building regulations, drawn up municipal building councillor Walter Koeppen, introduced strict zoning rules separating housing and industry and banning the use of side and rear blocks in future developments. New blocks had to be arranged either around the plot perimeter (Randbebauung) or as open-ended terraces (Zeilenbau). The Mietskaserne had been consigned to history. (5)
A desperate housing shortage remained, however; by 1926 it was estimated 174,000 homes were required to accommodate Berlin’s growing population. One consequence was rising rents; between 1925 and 1929, they almost doubled – for a two-bedroom flat, from 23.10 Reichsmarks to 43.75. Planners and architects looked to secure affordable rents by standardising schemes and reducing space standards; at worst, a so-called Existenzminimum (‘minimum existence’) home, condemned by Wagner, contained just 1½ rooms and 40 square metres of floor space.
The Carl Legien Estate (named after the German trades unionist and social democrat who had died in 1920), built for GEHAG between 1928 and 1930 in the densely-settled working-class district of Prenzlauer Berg, reflected such economising measures. Eighty per cent of its 1149 flats were of 1½ to 2 rooms but it was an attempt by Taut (in collaboration with Franz Hillinger) to provide high-density housing in a consciously modernist and progressive form: in the words of Kurt Junghanns (Taut’s biographer): (6)
to defeat the tenement building system on its own terrain and to prove that the new principles can also be used to build in a better way in an urban context.
The estate comprised a series of four- to five-storey blocks along existing street lines but there the resemblance to the earlier tenement housing which surrounded it ended. Two innovations stand out.
Firstly, Taut maximised the light and air of the new development by creating three large U-shaped open courts along its main artery Erich-Weinert-Strasse. Living rooms and balconies were placed on the inside of the blocks, facing the courts, to emphasise their communal, semi-public nature.
Secondly, Taut – who had famously urged that colour (he called it ‘this wonderful gift from God’) should have ‘absolutely the same rights as form’ – painted the exterior facades a sunny yellow which made the narrow side streets appear wider. Interior loggias were painted yellow too for emphasis and rear walls across the interior courtyards in pairs of red brown, blue or dark green.
Shops and two communal laundries were provided in the blocks’ impressive head-buildings and a central plant delivered heating and hot water to each of the tenements. For all the necessary economies, the estate raised working-class living standards to a new level and it became ‘a very desirable residence’.
Ironically, the condition of blocks deteriorated sharply under the post-war socialist regime (Prenzlauer Berg found itself in East Berlin) and by 2005, within a united Germany, the estate suffered a 40 per cent vacancy rate. A major refurbishment that year by a private real estate company has restored their former popularity but with the added irony supplied by a resurgent capitalism that it now caters for a ‘more affluent and wealthy clientele…Prenzlauer Berg, which used to be the epitome of poverty and overpopulation, has now become one of the most gentrified enclaves in Germany’. (7)
It seems that each generation must fight anew the battle to secure good quality and affordable accommodation for its least well-off. That struggle continued in innovative ways in Weimar Germany in the later 1920s and we’ll look at two more of Berlin’s modernist estates in next week’s post.
You’ll find some additional images of the two modernist estates featured here on my Tumblr page.
(1) For more on these, see ‘Mietskasernes: Working Class Berlin, 1871-1922’
(2) Ian Boyd White and David Frisby (eds), Metropolis Berlin (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2012)
(4) Ronald Wiedenhoeft, Berlin’s Housing Revolution. German Reform in the 1920s (1971)
(5) Mark Hobbs, Visual Representations of Working-Class Berlin, 1924–1930. University of Glasgow Department of History of Art PhD thesis 2010
(6) Quoted in Jörg Haspel and Annemarie Jaeggi (eds), Housing Estates in the Berlin Modern Style (Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munchen Berlin, 2007)
(7) Ulduz Maschaykh, The Changing Image of Affordable Housing: Design, Gentrification and Community in Canada and Europe (Routledge, 2016)


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Reiterating the commitment of the security forces to root out terrorims, Dilbagh Signh said, “We are chasing the remaining terrorists and will eliminate them soon.”
Restrictions were lifted on Monday from interior parts of Srinagar after three days as normalcy was restored in the city.
The curbs were lifted following improvement in the situation, officials said.
Authorities had imposed restrictions in five police station areas of the city on Friday as a precautionary measure to thwart protests by separatist groups against the US decision to declare Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin as a "global terrorist".
The restrictions continued for the second day in view of a strike called by trade organisations against the proposed implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the state.
Yesterday, the authorities imposed restrictions in seven police station areas of the summer capital to maintain law and order in view of a strike called by separatists to protest the killing of two civilians during an anti-militancy operation in south Kashmir on Saturday.
Shops and business establishments opened across the city this morning after two days of strike.


EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) – An East St. Louis woman recognized as the oldest person in Illinois has died at the age of 111.
A funeral home in the city says Mayetta Epps-Miller died Monday.
The Belleville News-Democrat reports (http://bit.ly/TD5z5b ) that Epps-Miller was recognized as the oldest Illinois resident in January of last year. At that time, she was also listed as the 14th oldest living American.
The supercentenarian a term referring to anyone over the age of 110 was born April 15, 1901.
She is survived by a son, five grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, 23 great-great-grandchildren and two great-great-great-grandchildren.
In a 2010 interview with the News-Democrat, daughter-in-law Doris Epps described Epps-Miller as “the rock in the family” and someone who “pulls everybody together and makes sure everyone is on track.”
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RAMONA Six parents were so frustrated by increasing rhetoric and conflicting information in the drawn-out labor dispute between teachers and the Ramona Unified School District that they set out to determine for themselves and other parents what’s fact and fiction.
The parents are mothers who know each other from their volunteer work at Mt. Woodson Elementary. They formed the Ramona Parents Coalition.
“We were dismayed at the breakdown of negotiations” between the district and the Ramona Teachers Association, said Shelly Yerkes, a coalition founder.
Yerkes said they tried to understand the situation, but they found incomplete and biased information from both sides.
“We started to notice that people (were) so obsessed with the money, their own suffering, and protecting their specific interests that they lost sight of our children,” she said.
The parents also want to protect the value of their community, Yerkes said, and that includes the quality of education; attracting and retaining top teachers; and the district’s financial solvency.
From extensive research, they produced a 78-page report. They dug deep into the California Department of Education website, and analyzed claims and documents from district officials and the teachers union.
The women don’t have any particular expertise in labor negotiations or budgets. They are educated, and working or have worked in industries as varied as escrow management, software, finance and engineering. At least three were laid off in recent years.
At first, Yerkes said, the group hesitated to move forward for fear of animosity and being labeled “anti-teacher.”
“We know that we are pro-children, pro-teacher, pro-district, and pro-truth,” she said.
About 100 people turned out Wednesday night to hear the coalition’s findings, which range from salary comparisons with other districts to whether Superintendent Robert Graeff received a raise.
Ramona Parents Coalition
To request a copy of the coalition’s report, email ramonaparentscoal.... The coalition also has a Facebook page.
They learned that Ramona teachers fall in the middle salary-wise among the county’s school districts. Graeff didn’t exactly get a pay hike. He received a step increase — automatic pay bumps depending on experience or training that are built into a salary schedule — just as teachers do. Graeff’s step increase is 2.5 percent this year; the average teacher’s is 5 percent, which typically occurs annually early in a career. Graeff now pays $986 a month in health benefits and had separate stipends, such as an auto allowance, rolled into his base salary.
The parents do not support a teachers strike; they don’t want to see lawsuits; and they don’t like the contract that the district imposed on the teachers last month. They want the district and teachers back at the bargaining table.
If Graeff and teachers union president Donna Braye-Romero can agree on one thing, it’s that they are encouraged by parent interest and involvement.
Graeff said he appreciates their efforts to serve as a bridge between the union and the district, but he may not personally agree with each of their viewpoints.
Braye-Romero said she disagrees with some of the coalition’s findings and its push for negotiations.
“The problem is, they don’t understand why we won’t just go back to the table,” Braye-Romero said. “They would like us to be the ones to open talks. We want the district to lift the imposition.”
She said that just because the coalition members don’t support a strike doesn’t mean that other parents feel the same way.
“If a strike becomes our last-ditch effort to get the district to become reasonable, then we would have to take that,” Braye-Romero said.
In April, the school board approved a three-year contract with across-the-board cuts for teachers after more than 18 months of failed negotiations that included participating in a state-supervised “Fact Finding” hearing.

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