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Why Juul Pods OUGHT TO BE Avoided no matter what
The Juul Pods is really a new method of quitting smoking, which is available to an incredible number of Americans. The Juul Pods is electric cigarettes designed to use electronic technology which differs from other nicotine-based products. There are various health benefits that this kind of cigarettes offer. Also, they are extremely convenient to use as they can be taken anywhere with no need to go in your house or car.
The Juul Pods is battery operated, meaning that there is no need to worry about recharging them like other models. You merely put the battery in the most notable and put the pod inside. The highly portable JUUL Vaporizer utilizes JUUL E-juice, which is designed to provide an all day, each day solution for stopping smoking. Each pod contains nicotine salt, which gives the user the nicotine fix they are seeking when trying to quit smoking with this product. It is strongly recommended that you substitute your E-juice every three days to provide your body the best chance to stop smoking.
It is possible to choose from a number of different flavors when it comes to Juul Pods. You can find fruit flavors such as for example banana, apple, and cherry. There are also herbal flavors such as for example mint and green tea. There are numerous different sizes of Juul Pods. There are single serving pods, double servings, triple servings and all the way up to two packs.
All Juul Pods contains a battery powered electronic system called the Juul Pulse. The Juul Pulse is situated on the bottom portion of the Pod. It works by measuring the amount of nicotine that is left in the pods after you have finished smoking. This information is then delivered to the Pod’s digital screen, which helps to count the quantity of puffs taken, which tells the Pod how many nicotine packets ought to be refilled with nicotine.
Some individuals may find Juul Pods addictive. Nicotine is really a highly addictive substance. This can be due to its pleasant physical effect – a burn in the mouth and throat. This effect isn’t caused by the specific nicotine content of Juul Pods, but by the ‘kick’ that the smoker receives if they first have a puff. Because nicotine is an addictive substance, it is likely that the negative health effects of continuous use of Juul Pods will outweigh the positive health effects of using these products that will help you quit smoking.
When you smoke a cigarette, you are inhaling thousands of chemicals and tar into your lungs. These toxins are absorbed during your lungs, your mouth and finally, into your bloodstream. Nicotine creates a rigorous physical and psychological reaction within your body, causing you to crave cigarettes once more. The constant craving for cigarettes may eventually cause your body to deteriorate over time, weakening your lungs and reducing your overall functioning capacity.
However, Juul Pods contains no tobacco, so there is no reason for you to suffer from cigarettes. Furthermore, the ingredient used to create Juul Pods, nicotine, is an addictive substance itself. Nicotine is highly toxic to adults in addition to children. If you are unable to stop using Juul Pods, you can begin to experience withdrawal symptoms which might include nervousness, depression, anxiety, stress and irritability. These symptoms is only going to get worse if you continue to use the e-cigarette in the long term.
As, well because the health concerns connected to tobacco use, you can find other serious dangers associated with the usage of Juul Pods, especially e-juice flavors. Among the major ingredients used to generate Juul Pods is Ethyl Alcohol, also referred to as ethanol or methanol. It has shown to be extremely poisonous when taken internally; this is especially true if you have ever had a drink made from ethyl alcohol. The ethyl alcohol in Juul Pods can go straight through your system, and if you aren’t careful, they can enter your stomach and podsmall.com enter your intestines, causing extreme harm to your health. Here is the main reason that it is vital that you only drink e-juice flavors created from natural ingredients.


Massachusetts Health Policy Commission Supports Extending State’s Co-pay Assistance Programs
A Massachusetts law that allows patients to seek assistance from manufacturer co-pay assistance programs (coupons and discounts) is set to expire in January 2021. Patients Rising Now co-signed a letter submitted to the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC) on how prescription drug coupons help patients and caregivers afford costly essential medications. HPC subsequently released a report that lends policy recommendations for drug manufacturers, payers, and employers, with recommendations that will allow co-pay assistance programs to continue while addressing the state’s health care cost control efforts.
Typically, drug coupons that help patients with cost sharing are offered for brand name prescription drugs, which make up 10% of all prescriptions in the U.S. and account for a whopping 79% of the total drug spend. Coupons can provide significant financial relief for patients by reducing their out-of-pocket (OOP) spend, but health insurance companies and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) argue that they drive utilization of high-cost branded drugs even if lower cost generic alternatives may be available for substitution. This in turn can increase health plan premiums for all enrollees.
It is important to note that coupons are a cost-sharing option for individuals enrolled in commercial plans. Regulations prevent enrollees in federal health insurance programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, and Veteran’s Administration from using manufacturer coupons.
HPC’s report highlights the following facts about the impact of the drug coupon program in MA:
- MA has seen a nearly three-fold increase in the number of branded drugs that offer coupons between 2012 (when commercial coupon use was first authorized in the state) and 2018. However, only 3% of drug claims used a coupon in 2018, because generic drugs make up a majority of prescription fills.
- Coupons are most beneficial for patients who have high OOP responsibility, especially as rising drug prices and high deductible health plans add to financial stress. In 2018, 11.4% of private sector employees in MA had a separate prescription drug deductible that averaged $734—more than double the national average of $384.
- Drug coupons can improve medication adherence and subsequently, clinical outcomes. Studies have shown that higher OOP costs increase the rate of medication abandonment, particularly when the patient cost burden is higher.
- From the health care spending perspective, coupons may disproportionately increase the demand and utilization of higher cost drugs despite the availability of low-cost alternatives. The report provides a detailed estimation of how coupons influenced premiums and utilization of generic close therapeutic substitutes in MA.
Policy Issues With Coupons
Copay accumulator programs, also known as accumulator adjustment programs, introduced by health insurance plans and PBMs create a barrier for coupons to count toward a patient’s deductible, which shifts the cost of prescription drugs from the payer to the patient. They may prevent an increase in premiums, but patient OOP cost-sharing may increase. The report also points to high-cost generic equivalents that do not have coupons and may be a cost burden for patients.
HPC’s report provides a few policy suggestions that that will let patients continue to use coupons while balancing the cost for the state as a whole. These recommendations can be applied to the U.S. health care system as well:
- Drug manufacturer transparency: Policies could be developed to force drug manufacturers to share data on coupon value, use, and other information to increase accountability and transparency.
- Payer transparency: Physicians and patients should be kept in the loop on drug prices and available substitutions so they can make informed decisions when a drug is prescribed. This can be achieved via alerts integrated in the clinic’s health information technology system. Health plan designs should build in steps that reduce financial barriers for patient access to care.
- Reining-in drug prices: Strategies can be developed to tackle both high drug launch prices and drug price increases.
Arizona, Illinois, Virginia, and West Virginia have banned co-pay accumulator programs—drug coupons used in these four states count toward a plan’s deductible or OOP limit.
Patients Rising Now acknowledges the important contributions of Surabhi Dangi-Garimella, Ph.D. in this article. Improving patient access is our mission and we are happy to utilize a variety of experts to carry that out.


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“Our Dear Leaders”
January 26th, 2010
J.D. and Turk are not entirely dissimilar characters: they’re best friends, after all, and both have their quirks which make them quite enjoyable to watch in a “look at how immature he can be” sort of way. However, what I always found interesting was how Turk was always capable of better balancing the two: while the show struggled at the start of this season to position J.D. as both a mentor and a source of comedy, Turk has always been taken somewhat more seriously, which meant that he could be a bit more over the top without losing our respect or the respect of his new Med Students.
Ultimately, though, I think “Our Dear Leaders” didn’t entirely work because there is a point the Chief of Surgery needs to have moved beyond these types of stories. While it may be thematically helpful to have all of the stories play into a sense of leadership, to lump Turk in with the med students is problematic in terms of the necessity to exaggerate his character’s response to particular actions. It’s not that Donald Faison is no longer funny, or that there isn’t a story to be told about the fact that he’s too old to be acting like a Med Student, but the story never really gave him much material to work with, and it never quite connected the dots in terms of making this a story about Dr. Turk needing to come to terms with his maturity (instead suggesting he suck it up so the source of his jealousy would keep donating money to the hospital).
It wasn’t a terrible episode, but it seems as if the show still struggles when it tries to straddle these two worlds as opposed to capturing the points at which they interact.
“Our Stuff Gets Real”
January 12th, 2010
I think we might owe Zach Braff an apology, or a qualified one at least.
A lot of us placed the blame of Scrubs’ struggles on the return of obnoxious J.D. in the earlygoing, leading some of us to suggest the show would have been far better off without him, but what we learn in “Our Stuff Gets Real” is that the problem was not so much the presence of J.D. and more the absence of Elliot. The writers’ mistake was not so much having J.D. return but rather taking away the element which grounded him to reality (his pregnant wife): in the context of that relationship, both J.D. and Elliot are able to remain helplessly neurotic without becoming insufferable, and there’s something there which is both poignant and meaningful (if, of course, not nearly as poignant or meaningful as what they left on in Season 8).
The rest of the episode is similarly on point, delivering another strong installment not only based on the return of the most original cast members yet but also by demonstrating some keen awareness of its new characters and their place within both the original cast and the show’s new dynamics. It wasn’t perfect, but the problems seemed dialed down and the positive seemed dialed in, and that’s the right place for the show to be.
December 22nd, 2009
As Scrubs continues into its ninth season, one can’t help but feel as if the greatest mystery is why said season needs to exist.
It’s not that “Our Mysteries” or any other episode of the season thus far is terrible, but rather that what we’re seeing lacks any sort of emotional punch beyond a desperate play at some sort of nostalgia. And unfortunately, that was already the focus of the show’s creative resurgence in its eighth season, which I found myself absent-mindedly revisiting over the weekend. There, the show used a new crop of interns in order to raise questions of maturity and “moving on” in the characters we knew and loved, which was a good strategy for transitioning a character like J.D. from buffoon to father/husband.
However, the problem with the ninth season thus far is that it seems to want to go beyond that, to actually build these med students into characters, and yet the only parts of their stories which are really connected on an emotional level (Scrubs’ strong suit) have more to do with the returning characters than Lucy, Cole, or Drew.
And what that is, precisely, is still a mystery to me.
“Our First Day of School”/”Our Drunk Friend”
December 1st, 2009
“Everything’s new, except for the title.”
When Scrubs returned for an eighth season on ABC last year, I was a naysayer.
In my eyes, the show had worn out its welcome with a number of problematic seasons that became problematically silly in a way that ruined the heart that made the show so compelling in earlier seasons. I got to the point where I felt the show did not even deserve the chance for closure: no matter what I once felt for these characters, I had no desire to see them continue on thier problematic path.
And then season eight happened, and my point of view changed. The show literally went back to basics, rewinding back into the earlier seasons and starting to tell stories about our beloved characters maturing and a new crop of interns learning the ropes and in need of mentors. The show was breaking no new ground, relying on the same combination of cutaway humour/blind sentimentalism that defined seasons one and two, but it grounded the show to a sense of identity that reminded me what I missed during the dark years. So when it had its beautifully executed finale, season eight proved itself to be the perfect endnote on these characters’ journey.
And then ABC renewed the show. And all over again, it felt like everything was wrong: this was a show that had a chance to leave on a high note after most of us had written it off, and now it’s risking everything to return. And so we had another summer/fall of Bill Lawrence assuring us that the show would be different, this time a distinct enough entity from the Scrubs we knew (he wanted to call it Scrubs Med) to justify returning even after J.D.’s emotional departure.
Watching the ninth season premiere, I’ve realized that the problem is less that this is inherently bad (in fact, it’s quite good) and more that this is absolutely exactly what happened last season. The show presents a new set of med students looking for mentors, and keeps the older doctors around to serve as those mentors, resulting in a show that isn’t actually that different from what they did a year ago.
Which makes it solidly engaging, if not nearly the sort of reboot that it might have been a year ago.
May 6th, 2009
ABC made a decision last year to save Scrubs, which at the time seemed like a mistake: the show was struggling mightily with its creative focus, and if you go back and read my review of the out-of-order finale NBC aired you’ll find that I was more than ready for the show to die. At the same time, there was a sense that a show seven years running deserved a better sendoff. So while I was frustrated that ABC chose to pick up the series on some level, I also hoped that it would be worth it.
It was. The show’s eighth season has not been amongst its most novel, but it’s probably the most consistent the show has been since at least Season 4, and as the series faces yet another finale with an uncertain future this time I find myself entire ready to say goodbye. The show has been on a victory lap all season, giving each character their time to reflect on the past seven years through a vacation, a new set of interns to remind them of themselves, and a new set of memorable if familiar patients that brought the show back to its emotional roots.
There are some rumblings that “My Finale” will actually be “J.D.’s Finale” more than that of the series: the first-person narrator of a majority of the series has been the series’ star, and his relationships with the various characters (his bromance with Turk, his relationship with Elliot, his mentorship with Dr. Cox) are the series’ most memorable. And it’s this reason that this doesn’t just feel like J.D.’s finale: his future is the future of all of these characters, and the idea of them continuing on while he’s off at another hospital doesn’t feel right.
For me, I want the show to be over: I want to go out on a good season, and on a great episode, one which takes some shortcuts but gives John Dorian the kind of exit that feels right for this character, and thus one that felt right for the series. It’s not that the series can’t continue beyond this point, but rather that in many ways it shouldn’t.
But, after a season of good will after seasons of struggle, I’m willing to keep an open mind should they make that decision.


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Participation in India Art Fair 2018 at NSIC Complex, Okhla, New Delhi, India
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at Kathmandu, Nepal has successfully attained with its third participation at India Art Fair 2018, 9-12 February 2018. The Nepal Art Council at India Art Fair builds on the success of past editions of each year. Nepal’s Participation at the fair is coordinated by Mr Sagar SJB RAna, Vice-Chairman, Nepal Art Council and curated by Swosti Rajbhandari Kayastha, Curator at Nepal Art Council and have showcased the art works of 7 artists- Chirag Bangdel, Jeevan Rajopadhya, Mekh Limbu, Rabindra Shrestha, Sabita Dangol, Sujan Dangol and Sunita Maharjan.
India Art Fair has been a unique platform which is perfect for artists to showcase their ingenuity and for art connoisseurs and enthusiasts to appreciate it. Founded in 2008, the India Art Fair is not just an exhibition of art but a representation of a cultural community that continues to break new ground. This year the gallery has featured 78 galleries from 18 countries offering unrivalled access to new and exciting art from India and the region. India Art Fair was organised with presenting partner BMW from Ferbruary 09-12 at NSIC Complex, Okhla, New Delhi, India.

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text: The National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers (NASACT), the Association of Government Accountants and the Association of Local Government Auditors will conduct an audio conference next Thursday to address ARRA administrative costs. "This monumental legislation placed many additional responsibilities on accountability professionals in state and local governments without designated funding," said NASACT in a release. However, OMB, on May 11, issued guidance which provides flexibility in recovering administrative costs, which "Should enable states to obtain the resources necessary for enhancing their administrative capacity to meet the Recovery Act responsibilities," according to the release. There is a fee for the conference, which is scheduled for Thursday July 16 at 2 p.m. EDT. Contact Pat Hackney for more information.

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Salinization is a worldwide problem that affects the physical and chemical properties of soil, leading to the loss of crop productivity. As salt-affected soils are common in arid and semiarid climates with precipitation rates lower than evapotranspiration rates. Utilization of nitrogen at different levels and inoculation with biofertilizer led to an increase in total porosity improves soil aggregation and possible moving salt soil under irrigation water. The increasing frequency of dry periods in many regions of the world and the problems associated with salinity in irrigated areas frequently result in the consecutive occurrence of drought and salinity on cultivated soil.
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T'wolves eager to pick up first road win at No. 14 Tech
Updated 6:30 am, Friday, October 9, 2015
Northwood has yet to beat a team with a dual-threat quarterback or win a road game this year, while Michigan Tech has yet to lose a football game despite some close calls.
The Timberwolves are hoping to reverse all of those trends Saturday when they head to the Upper Peninsula to take on the 14th-ranked Huskies at 1 p.m.
NU goes into the weekend on a two-game winning streak, having beaten Wayne State 31-13 and Walsh 16-7, both at home, over the past two weeks to improve to 3-2 overall and 3-1 in the GLIAC. Tech is 4-0 both overall and in the conference, including narrow wins over Wayne State (20-15) in week one, over Malone (28-27) in week two, and over Northern Michigan (24-23) in week four.
“They’re pretty mentally tough. They’ve squeaked out a few wins,” Timberwolves’ coach Leonard Haynes said of the Huskies. “They just got by Northern, and they just got by Malone, and both of those teams could’ve won those games. Tech is just finding a way to do it at the end.
“It’ll be a good matchup, I believe, (with us) going up against another quality opponent. We’ll definitely see how far we’ve come,” Haynes added. “ ... We’ve just got to go up there and get a road win. We haven’t done that yet. That will be the challenge for our players this week.”
On paper, Saturday’s matchup figures to be a low-scoring struggle. Tech enters the game ranked second in the GLIAC in total defense, allowing 311.8 yards per game; leading the league in rushing defense, giving up only 81.0 ypg game on the ground; and ranked fourth in scoring defense, surrendering 21.5 points per contest.
Northwood is holding its own defensively, too. Although the Timberwolves are allowing almost 400 yards per game, they have done a nice job of keeping opponents out of the end zone, ranking second in the league in scoring defense at 18.8 ppg.
NU has also made a habit of creating turnovers. The Timberwolves are tied for first in the league in fumble recoveries with seven and are second in both interceptions (six) and total turnovers forced (13).
“I’m very proud of that group and what the coaches are doing with game plans,” Haynes said of his defense. “Players are stepping up and making plays. You always want to see guys step up and make plays in critical moments.”
Various players have also stepped up for Northwood on the offensive side of the ball. In last week’s win over Walsh — with NU’s top two running backs, Jared Briguglio and Luke Shaffer, both sidelined with injuries — the Timberwolves pounded out 216 rushing yards and possessed the ball for nearly 35 minutes. Senior C.J. Patton and sophomores Vashon Nutt and Andre Carter carried most of the load on the ground last week.
“That’s one thing in football, or in any sport — just having depth,” said Haynes. “ ... C.J. Patton came in last week and did an excellent job. He was pressed into a starting role, and he did an excellent job against a strong defensive front. ... He didn’t have any breakaway runs, but he had a lot of 3-to-5-yard tough runs between the tackles.”
Briguglio, who has played sporadically with a hip injury, is being evaluated on a day-to-day basis, while Shaffer, who is battling a knee injury, is still a couple of weeks away from returning, Haynes noted. Meanwhile, sophomore running back Damian Nicholson will miss the entire season with a shoulder injury.
“It’s tough when you’re banged up, but (we embrace) that next-man-up mentality, and let’s keep it going,” Haynes said. “ ... You can never have too much depth. At this level, you sometimes have a fall-off and there’s a big difference between your No. 1’s and your No. 2’s, so you’re always trying to recruit for depth. We’re pretty blessed to have some depth at the wingback and fullback spots.”
Northwood has also been hit with the injury bug on defense, especially in the secondary. Junior defensive back Ayrn Curtis, one of the league’s top DBs, has missed significant time with a knee injury and will be out for at least a couple more weeks, while fellow junior DBs Nick Tripp (hamstring) and Cody Ellwanger (ankle) are listed as day-to-day.
That banged-up NU defense will be charged with slowing down Tech junior quarterback Brandon Cowie, who has completed 73 percent of his passes for 751 yards and nine touchdowns with only one interception and who is also the Huskies’ second-leading rusher with 207 yards and a TD. Interestingly, Cowie was MTU’s leading receiver last year before transitioning to QB.
In Northwood’s two losses this season, the Timberwolves had trouble stopping dual-threat QBs Jason Vander Laan of Ferris State and Isaac Fisher of McKendree.
“That’s something we’re working on (this week),” Haynes said of trying to slow down Cowie. “We’re scouting out this young man. ... He does pose a threat. He’s a big quarterback who can run a little bit, he has a decent arm, and he fits that mold of a Michigan Tech quarterback. We’re coming up with plans to make sure we keep him in check.”
Tech’s leading rusher is sophomore John Williams, who has run for 213 yards and two TDs, while the Huskies’ top receiver is junior David Walter from Midland High, who has 20 catches for 253 yards and five TDs.
MTU’s stingy defense is led by senior linebacker Paul Kuoppala, who is fifth in the league with 9.5 tackles per game.
Haynes said that his offense will have to be versatile against the Huskies’ defense.
“Tech has a pretty good defensive front, and they play really sound football. They don’t usually beat themselves. They’re pretty disciplined,” he noted. “ ... We’ve got to play sound, mistake-free football against a team like Tech, and when they do mess up and make a mistake, we’ve got to take advantage of it.
“ ... We’re getting there. We continue to be a work in progress offensively, but it’s good to see that it’s coming together,” he added. “Our coaches have done a great job of taking what the defense is giving us and not being one-dimensional. We’re still going to be Northwood; we’re still going to run the ball. But we want to be smart, also.”
NU leads the all-time series vs. Tech 21-20, but the Huskies have won the last five meetings and seven of the last eight. The Timberwolves’ last win over MTU was 38-26 in 2009.

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One of their most recent releases through YouWorkForThem is Fancy Melody, a vintage type duo that pairs a handwritten script with a strong, all-caps sans serif. This pair of type designs bridges the gap between contemporary and vintage aesthetics, fitting equally well into both depending on their application. #ad #fonts #フォント #scriptfonts
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The United States is making the greatest push in its history to use renewable energy. However, thus far, one of the biggest obstacles for implementing renewables has been the United States’ exorbitant energy demand, which accounts for 26 percent of the world’s energy consumption. Market research firm Frost & Sullivan recently released a report focusing on the demand aspect and how it will pan out in conjunction with renewables adoption.
According to Frost & Sullivan, the nation imports nearly 30 percent of the energy it consumes, and minimal reduction in imports is anticipated to 2020. Renewables adoption is intended to remedy the reliance on foreign fuels; however, the firm notes that the industry must focus on developing more than renewables alone. It states the country must also push for greater efficiency and more intelligent transmission and distribution methods.
Frost & Sullivan’s new analysis finds that United States energy consumption will increase by 7.3 percent during a 10-year period over 2010 levels. To meet this mounting need, the market has witnessed strong growth in renewable technologies, which has been supported by the focus on domestic energy production and sustainability. Solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind power are the fastest growing renewable technologies and, according to Frost & Sullivan, will represent more than 40 percent of electricity generation in 2020.
“Increased energy consumption over the forecast period of 2010 to 2020 is driven by increases in population and economic growth,” said Georgina Benedetti, Frost & Sullivan senior industry analyst. “The population in the United States is projected to increase by 7.5 percent from 2011 levels, reaching 324 million by 2020.”
The Department of Energy estimates 223 gigawatts (GW) of new generating capacity will be needed between 2010 and 2035. Local transmission infrastructure capability, currently in the process of being upgraded to withstand increasing loads and new forms of generation, is an important requirement to deploy large renewable-energy projects that also meet the necessary gigawatt capacity. Additionally, the transmission line shortage threatens to slow the growth of wind energy and large utility-scale solar projects and could prevent some states from meeting renewable-energy mandates. High costs further challenge renewable technologies growth.
Frost & Sullivan credits governmental support for solar and wind’s exceptional growth. Section 1603 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was one of the main drivers for solar installations during 2010 and 2011, but the market has taken a recent hit with Congress voting not to extend that section of the Treasury program. Similarly, while expiration of the loan guarantee, the production tax credit and the investment tax credit programs are imminent, these items fueled a 33 percent increase in wind energy in 2011 from prior year’s levels. Frost & Sullivan said the market is vulnerable to a severe halt in production if these incentives are not extended and could result in a diminished ability for renewables to meet energy supply goals by 2020.
“With the anticipated recovery of the American economy, an improvement in the standard of living is expected, which is linked to increased uses of electronics and domestic appliances that further increase the country’s energy consumption,” Benedetti said.


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Townhomes for Sale in Americana Fairfax | Annandale, VA - November 2016 Home Values
By Peggy Yee, Search Vienna Homes For Sale - Northern Virginia
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Townhomes for Sale in Americana Fairfax | Annandale, VA - November 2016 Home ValuesThis is a snapshot of recent sales in the Americana Fairfax neighborhood of Annandale, VA. Real estate market data and analysis is provided by Peggy Yee, Realtor. Please click here for the October 2016 full market report of townhomes for sale in Americana Fairfax, Annandale VA.These market activity gauges show the market trends for the previous month (September) as compared to the 5-year October average. The market supply is 0 months, which indicates there are currently no homes on the market. The average sold price is $360,000 and the average days on market is 76 Days. Click here for the full November 2016 market report for the Americana Fairfax area including total number of sold homes and average price...

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Last Woman Hanged (2014) by Caroline Overington tells the true tale of Louisa Collins, convicted murderer who was executed in Sydney in 1889. Found guilty of poisoning her second husband Michael Collins with arsenic, Louisa was hanged, leaving her young children in the care of the State.
When the couple moved to Botany in 1886 so that Andrews could work as a wool-washer, they took in boarders to make ends meet. Rumours circulated in the tight Botany community that Louisa enjoyed drinking with the men who stayed in their home.
In early 1887 Andrews took ill and after a few days of excruciating pain he died. Louisa's behaviour immediately after his death was viewed unfavourably by police and local gossips, especially as she did not don mourning clothes and applied for access to Andrews life insurance. Within two months of being widowed, Louisa married Michael Collins, a former boarder, pregnant with his child.
Collins was not good with money and the insurance funds dissipated quickly. Their infant son John died, and Louisa's older children were not fond of their new stepfather. In mid-1888 Collins took ill, with symptoms similar to Andrews, and died on 8 July. Almost immediately Louisa was arrested for his murder by poisoning.
What happened next was appalling. Louisa Collins was tried - four times - by a prosecution determined to convict. The evidence against her was entirely circumstantial and there was much to suggest that both men may have became poisoned through their work as wool washers as skins were treated with arsenic. She had an extremely ineffective defence attorney and her young daughter May was compelled to give evidence against her. The first three trials resulted a hung jury, but the last, with a backdrop of media frenzy, voted to convict. These four trials occurred in rapid succession with gross misconduct on the part of many of the judges.
Overington combs through the evidence for and against Louisa and highlights many inconsistencies which lead the first three juries to be unconvinced of her guilt beyond reasonable doubt. She also explored the historical context of the rise of the women's suffrage campaign, the temperance movement and the sensationalism of the media. What emerges is a travesty of justice in which a woman was killed by the State in a most horrific way.
This book was intriguing in many respects with Overington's skills as a journalist lending weight to her research. I particularly enjoyed the story of the early feminism in Australia. I learned a great deal about how autopsies were performed in hotels, the travel by tram around Sydney, and about the medical fraternity of the time. Although I need no further evidence to support my stance against capital punishment, this book was a reminder of how State-sanctioned killing is immoral and unjust.
I did not particularly like Overington's writing style, however, and felt that some of her turns of phrase distanced me from the content. She included many asides where she presented information with a modern gaze, and would have been better off sticking purely to the facts. An example is when she was talking about Alexander Green, one of the first hangmen in NSW. Overington writes "like most normal people, Green did not set out to become a hangman...". This sentence jarred me as judgemental and unnecessary. Later she writes about Louisa's fate moving to Parliament house "... in about the time it took to traverse the distance by foot. Well, not quite, but the point is made." The point could have been made without the poor analogy. This occurred regularly throughout the book and I wished it had been better edited prior to publication to remove some of these clunky asides.
But overall I am pleased that I read the book and had a glimpse of this time in our history. This book is recommended to those with an interest in history or the judicial system.

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We will keep you informed of our progress protecting the Yucatán Peninsula. Thanks for your interest!
We are pleased to announce 10 years of collaboration with Defensa Ambiental del Noroeste (DAN) — an inspiring organization of dedicated environmental leaders working to protect Mexico’s Baja California.
DAN attorney Maria Llano stopped by our office last week to celebrate our partnership and discuss the threat of an enormous open pit gold mine proposed for Sierra La Laguna Biosphere Reserve.
Maria Llano (center) meets with ELAW staff
The proposed project would include a desalination plant, a 40-km aqueduct from the coast to the project site, and water-filled ponds for disposing of high volumes of cyanide soaked waste rock.
“The disposal method poses serious risk,” says Mark Chernaik, ELAW Staff Scientist. “The tailings ponds could contaminate water supplies and the local habitat with acid mine drainage, and once the mining operation is over it will be impossible to return the site to its former condition.”
SEMARNAT (Mexico’s EPA) denied permission for the project twice, but a third Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been submitted for an even larger project.
“The new version is worse than the original, calling for disposal of wastes in a thinner slurry that will impact a even larger area of undeveloped land,” says Mark.
ELAW’s science team worked closely with Maria and her colleagues at DAN to review the series of EIAs for the proposed gold mine.
“Now we have to wait until SEMARNAT makes a decision, hopefully rejecting the project again,” says Maria. “If not, we will continue the struggle to promote the rule of law, and protect the biodiversity and the quality of life in the region.
We will keep you informed of our progress in Mexico and around the world to level the playing field for grassroots advocates and local communities.
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Our new ELAW Fellow arrived Saturday night!
Minerva Rosette is an environmental engineer with the Southeast office of Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental (CEMDA, Mexican Center for Environmental Law). We are collaborating with Minerva to protect communities and coastlines on the Yucatán Peninsula.
During her Fellowship, Minerva will meet with ELAW Staff Scientists to learn about the dangers that herbicides pose to waterways, model protocols for protecting marine fisheries, and protecting fragile soils in Quintana Roo.
Waste management in Mexico is an enormous problem. Minerva will learn lessons from Eugene’s waste management system on tours of NextStep Recycling, the Glenwood Transfer Station, and Short Mountain Landfill.
Before joining CEMDA, Minerva worked with local communities to conserve the biodiversity of the Sierra Tarahuamara.
We look forward to collaborating with Minerva and connecting her with the global ELAW network!
Cancun is a poster child for coastal development gone awry, but nearby ecosystems can still be saved.
ELAW Staff Scientist Heidi Weiskel was in Quintana Roo last week, collaborating with ELAW partners at the Southeast office of Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental (Mexican Environmental Law Center). CEMDA is working hard to protect marine and coastal ecosystems from short-sighted development schemes.
L to R: Minerva Rosette, Heidi Weiskel
Heidi teamed up with CEMDA’s new Staff Scientist, Minerva Rosette, to review plans for a major housing development near a protected mangrove forest, and an enormous tourism complex proposed for Holbox Island. The tourism complex would cut channels through pristine mangroves to increase waterfront acreage and build hotels, villas, condominiums, offices, shopping plazas, and roads, to service thousands of visitors. The project would devastate Holbox’s rich fisheries and stunning landscape, and likely harm the whale shark population.
Heidi and Minerva evaluated different strategies for measuring the carrying capacity of Holbox, and the most effective way to communicate the true impacts of the proposed tourism complex to the Holbox community.
Minerva is an engineer by training and spent the past three years using GIS and other tools to help communities protect the Urique-Batopilas biological corridor. “Minerva is a wonderful addition to the CEMDA team and ELAW community,” says Heidi. “I look forward to working with her to protect the extraordinary beauty and rich biodiversity of the Yucatán.”
While in Cancun, Heidi also worked with CEMDA Staff Attorneys Raquel Campo and Ximena Ramos. Ximena is a former ELAW volunteer and recently received an LLM in environmental law from the University of Oregon School of Law.
The key to ELAW’s work is identifying strong local partners, because they know best how to protect local communities and the environment. We provide our partners with the tools and resources they need.
We celebrate Alejandra Serrano, the director of the Southeast office of CEMDA, and her whole team for their hard work protecting the Yucatán.
ELAW Partner Raquel Gutierrez-Nájera has dedicated her life to protecting Mexico’s ecosystems and the communities that depend on them. She and her team at the Instituto de Derecho Ambiental (IDEA, the the Institute for Environmental Law) recently celebrated a victory for a natural protected area in Zapopan, Jalisco.
Zapopan is part of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area and home to approximately one million people. Its government website highlights ecotourism as one of the city’s appealing features. The Barranca del Río Santiago, a 3.5 km wide, 700 meter deep canyon through which the Santiago River flows, is one of Zapopan’s natural attractions.
Recently, the municipality was considering a change in land use designation that would have allowed sludge from the Agua Prieta Residual Water Treatment Plant to be stored within the natural protected area in which the Santiago River is located. According to the project proponent, the Agua Prieta Plant is to be completed in 2013 and will generate an estimated 178 tons of sludge daily.
IDEA consulted with public service officials who were concerned that the sludge could pose a threat to water quality and biodiversity within the protected area. To accommodate the sludge storage area, buildings within the Tempizques community of Zapopan were leveled and 30 families were displaced. On August 30th, Mexico’s Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources issued a resolution denying the land use change, stating that it would be inconsistent with the municipal decree that created the protected area and would not be in accordance with the management plan.
Raquel hopes that this victory will set a precedent for protecting the natural environment in Mexico.
Congratulations to the IDEA team!
Latin America Program Assistant
This week I attended the 97th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in Portland, Oregon. In 2004, the ESA, a group of several thousand U.S. and international ecologists, met in Portland, OR. The theme of the conference was “Lessons of Lewis & Clark: Ecological Exploration of Inhabited Landscapes.” Eight years later, we are back in Portland and the theme is “Life on Earth: Preserving, Utilizing, and Sustaining our Ecosystem.” One does not need to be a Ph.D.-ecologist to notice the difference in tone.
The bad news is that we are in trouble. We are no longer studying habitats as a kind of curiosity or academic exercise. That was a luxurious time and it is over. Instead, we are focused on life itself: how to preserve and sustain it so that we can survive in the world we have created. The good news is that ecologists know this shift has occurred and, in increasing numbers, are heeding the call to make our research relevant beyond academic circles. This year’s meeting was full of that message.
Dr. Jane Lubchenco, a world-renown marine ecologist (who studied snails for her PhD, just as I did!), is currently the head of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration. During the keynote address, she gave a call to arms, telling audience members that ecologists should not only make their science relevant, but also become politicians, lawyers, teachers, and activists. It was wonderful to hear those words of enthusiastic advice, since Jane has long been a mentor of mine. By coming to work for ELAW I am following her wisdom.
While at the conference, I attended a session entitled, “Linking Ecological Science & Public Policy: Case Studies in Latin America.” The first speaker, Dr. Exequiel Ezcurra, a Mexican ecologist at the University of California, Riverside, told the story behind the recent conservation victory in Cabo Pulmo, Mexico. A Spanish company received a permit to construct a massive development with 34,000 new rooms in a spectacular marine park. All the other development in the region only totaled 10,000 rooms. This one new permit would have destroyed the marine park, and the fisheries, corals, and incredible biodiversity found within.
Scientific studies have shown that protection of the park since the mid-1990s has enabled fisheries to rebound to levels higher than anyone envisioned. The Park itself has become a kind of diving and tourist shrine and sustainable ecotourism has provided the surrounding community with economic stability. In short, protecting the marine park, which has the only living coral in the Sea of Cortéz, was a brilliant success story about to be lost with a single building permit.
But Dr. Ezcurra and many, many others—among them ELAW partner organizations Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental (CEMDA) and Defensa Ambiental del Noroeste (DAN)—kept the issue in the media, and kept the fight constant, and in June 2012, the permit was revoked. It was a day to rejoice.
Dr. Ezcurra reminded us that, as scientists, we have an opportunity and an obligation to go beyond publishing cool papers about snails eating algae. Though current academic and social systems may not reward us for protecting wild lands rather than publishing important papers, we can and must pay attention to what is happening around us.
That sense of responsibility—and excitement about our new role in society—was palpable at this year’s meeting. It would be a mistake for ecologists to give up, and this meeting left me with hope and certainty that we never will.
ELAW Staff Scientist
The Mesoamerican Reef is shared by Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. ELAW is working with grassroots advocates in each of these countries on a coordinated effort to protect marine resources.
“Our partners in Belize and Guatemala are on the verge of permanently protecting hundreds of square miles of important marine habitat,” says Lori Maddox, ELAW Associate Director. “Their good work is creating a linked chain of diverse, biological storehouses that will help revitalize a dying fishery and sustain the flow of tourist dollars to the entire region.”
Lori and ELAW Staff Scientist Heidi Weiskel traveled to Belize this month for a workshop with partners to advance this initiative.
Read about their visit in Ambergris Today, a Belize newspaper.
ELAW Communications Director
If you’ve been following our recent news, you’ll know that we’ve had ELAW Fellows visiting from Mexico, Panama, Ukraine, Estonia, Hungary, Ghana, and Liberia with us over the past couple of weeks. The ELAW office is quieting down, and I’m taking this opportunity to (finally) write about the amazing visit of these young, inspiring attorneys. And, for those of you who could not attend, I will highlight presentations they gave at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC).
These advocates were here to work with the ELAW team on issues directly related to their work at home protecting communities. They also learned ways to be more involved and contribute to the ELAW network. And, of course, we couldn’t bring environmental advocates to Oregon and not show off some of our natural wonders, like the coast.
This year’s PIELC was Thursday, March 3 – Sunday, March 6 and it was a hit! The theme was Turning the Tides: Creating a Clean and Green Future. Our gratitude and congratulations go out to the student group, Land Air Water (LAW) that helps organize this amazing annual conference. Each year, ELAW times it so that our visiting Fellows are able to attend and present their work at PIELC. One theme that resonated through each Fellow’s presentation this year was how closely they work with local communities who are deeply affected by environmental abuses.
On Thursday, Lovesta Brehun, who works with Green Advocates in Liberia, kicked off the conference with the first panel, Challenging Firestone Liberia’s Environmental Abuses, describing the practices of one of the world’s largest latex rubber processing facilities along the Farmington River, discharging poorly treated effluent, and emitting toxic pollutants. Green Advocates represents the interests of the public and are demanding that Firestone clean up its act!
On Friday afternoon, Lovesta shared another panel, Ghana and Liberia Forestry and Mining, with Rockson Akugre, an attorney with the Center for Public Interest Law (CEPIL) in Ghana, as well as local lawyer Dan Kruse of Cascadia Wildlands. Dan traveled to Liberia to work with Lovesta and Green Advocates as a part of an ELAW exchange program, and together they shared information about the logging that threatens family land and livelihoods in much of Liberia. Lovesta spoke passionately about her country, whose people are still struggling to overcome decades of civil war. She detailed examples of how multinational corporations are exploiting people as they attempt to get back on their feet.
Rockson spoke of the extractive industries in Ghana, particularly gold and copper mining companies, and the need for strong enforcement of environmental laws. He described how multinational corporations often promise jobs and an improved economy to local communities, but the reality is much different. Rockson has visited villages near the mines and they are some of the poorest and most disadvantaged communities in Ghana.
Friday evening, ELAW hosted a reception in honor of our ELAW Fellows. It was a chance for ELAW supporters, past and present ELAW employees and volunteers, and other PIELC participants to connect. Bern introduced our visitors and announced ELAW’s 20-year anniversary!! Everyone enjoyed wine donated by Benton-Lane Winery in Monroe, Oregon and beer provided by Oakshire Brewery here in Eugene.
On Saturday morning, Olena Kravchenko, Executive Director of Environment-People-Law (EPL) in Ukraine, shared a panel with members of the Eugene-based group, Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides. During the panel, Pesticide Pollution is a Danger for Life, she described how EPL has worked with the government to oversee and ensure tons of leaking pesticide dumps were cleaned up, and the dangerous chemicals shipped to Hamburg for proper disposal. Members of the audience were impressed to learn how Olena’s group gained the confidence of the local community by being present every step of the way to hold the government accountable and ensure the cleanup was safe.
At the same time, Pedro Leon, an attorney at Instituto de Derecho Ambiental (IDEA) in Mexico, and Tania Arosemana, an attorney at El Centro de Incidencia Ambiental (CIAM) in Panama, discussed the complications of extractive industries in their home countries. Seats filled, people lined themselves along walls and sat on stairs to attend the panel, Latin America: Impacts of Mining and other Natural Resource Extraction. Pedro focused on one of IDEA’s current projects: ensuring indigenous communities have a voice and maintain control of their traditional lands when threatened by rock/gravel extraction from a local riverbed.
Tania spoke fervently of green washing used by companies to convince community members of commitment to education and community well-being. CIAM is demanding a moratorium on mining in Panama. They believe that Panama needs to enact stronger regulations and demonstrate more oversight before large-scale mining is allowed in Panama.
The last of the ELAW panels took place first thing Sunday morning. Kart, the founder and Executive Director of Estonian Environmental Law Center (EELC) and Szilvia, an attorney with Environmental Management and Law Association (EMLA) gave a presentation entitled Environmental Impact Assessments in Estonia and Hungary, providing examples of how their organizations are working to make the approval process for proposed projects that threaten the communities and the environment transparent. Kart discussed her work with a local community affected by the noise from crushing and blasting at a nearby limestone quarry. Szilvia’s organization worked with a local community, re-routing a major road expansion away from their town and around a protected green space.
After the closing keynote address, we agreed that the perfect way to wind down after a very busy conference was to venture out to a local winery. We had lunch on an overlook, where we could admire the gorgeous scenery and taste Oregon’s famous Pinot Noir. It only took about one glass each before we were all ready to call it a day. We were looking forward to another field trip the next day.
On Monday, we accompanied our Fellows to Oregon’s coast. We could not have asked for better weather – the sun was shining and visibility was great. Sea lions swam near the shore, and a gray whale was just visible in the distance. Before returning home, we went for a walk on the beach at low tide – Tania even took off her shoes to play in the surf!
Now that our recent Fellows have returned home, we will continue to work across the internet, but nothing can replace face-to-face meetings. Not only is time spent in each other’s company productive and efficient, it is when we learn the most about on another and our reasons for doing what we do. We find motivation and encouragement in the stories of people around the world, whose work we can relate to, as they face unique challenges and struggle against the odds protecting the environment and human rights.
If you’d like more information about how you can help support ELAW’s Fellows Program, visit our website.
ELAW Office Manager
I am in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico working on a very large mesquite table that this office has inherited from its previous owner. The large beautiful wooden table which would take at least ten strong men to move sits in the middle of the office. There are lovely paintings and hand carved wooden masks on the walls from Mexico and Bolivia; art from Central and South America intermingles with the computers, files, phones, and printers, making this more than a welcoming place to work. This was the home of Dr. Raquel Gutiérrez Nájera, an environmental lawyer, professor, writer, theorist, and idol to many old and new activists in Mexico and abroad. She has provided this house to IDEA (Instituto de Derecho Ambiental), the public interest environmental law group which she founded in 1997. Now they have a rent free existence and the security to continue working in Jalisco, as well as other Mexican states. While her role at the organization has evolved, she is still acting President of the organization and plays key roles in important litigation efforts.
Today is one of those days; most of the lawyers including Raquel are out on an official court visit to Arcediano, the site of a proposed dam project which they have been fighting for more than six years on behalf of Señora Lupita Lara, the plaintiff in this case. By now Lupita Lara has seen neighbors bought out and relocated, the historic Arcediano Bridge destroyed and her own home demolished. Yet she is firm in her commitment to this fight against this badly planned, environmentally detrimental and politically charged state project. Even though the environmental permit for this dam project has been revoked, lawsuits claiming reparations and damages to Lupita Lara are still pending.
The goal of today’s field work in Arcediano is not only to assess the current condition of the site where construction for the dam was halted last year. But also to bring scientific experts to assess the viability of the project within the river basin as originally set forth, to provide evidence in the lawsuit challenging the expropriation of Lupita Lara’s land. This case is still ongoing and thus payment of damages and reparation to Señora Lara has yet to be decided. A phone call just came in; they are driving back from the river, tired and a bit dusty but optimistic about the outing.
This is just one aspect of the many things IDEA and Raquel have done regionally to defend people’s rights to water and property, while also creating policy and the necessary awareness of all environmental issues. I am here because I was invited to speak at the First International Conference on Environmental Health (I Congreso Internacional de Salud Ambiental), a four day event which brought together scientists, activists, defenders, government, students and citizens. The main goal of this conference was to understand the deep link between the environment and public health, and the tools necessary to achieve this in practice. Mainly, how environmental devastation has direct and long-lasting effects to ecosystems and habitat, but also direct consequences to the health, livelihood and well being of individuals, their families and communities.
In presenting five international litigation cases from ELAW, I was able to show how activists around the world have called on ELAW for crucial scientific support to provide evidence in their litigation. From community workshops, sample collection and analysis, to giving critical assessments and testimony, the work of scientists Meche Lu and Mark Chernaik has supported focused community efforts. These cases include: untreated sewage in Chacras de la Merced, Argentina; pesticides and agrochemicals from palm oil production in San Lorenzo, Ecuador; arsenic and lead poisoning waste in Arica, Chile; industrial waste and pollution from paper mills in Webuye, Kenya; and air contamination from steel production in Cherepovets, Russia. While this represents a sample of very diverse legal strategies by local advocates, it is clear how environmental justice issues move forward when we have the science to back them up, no matter which legal avenue is taken. The many students from the school of Health Sciences as well as those from Law school were nodding while I spoke; the seeds which IDEA and Raquel have been planting in Guadalajara and Mexico have definitely fallen on fertile ground.
Carla García Zendejas
Tijuana, Baja California, México
No matter what your line of work, I bet you wish you had a group of colleagues you could always count on for professional advice, support and brainstorming. In this day and age, it seems we all have ‘friends’ online who we can call on for opinions through Facebook, Twitter, etc. But years ago, in the age before Google and social networks, ELAW was using email to make these connections. And still is.
Email had the power –and still does– to connect continents. This was incredibly useful for fledgling environmental attorneys all over the world in the 90’s. Having this technological marvel at our disposal was one thing, one great thing, but counting on environmental attorneys from around the world for advice was quite another. This was ELAW.
Sometime in the fall of 1999 I was immersed in grassroots work to enact our new environmental legislation in Baja California. This was a daunting task, not only resulting from the number of community groups involved, or the meetings at the Capital with congressional officials, but mainly because we wanted to cement our law in new principles: access to information, access to participation basic right to know mechanisms for all within the law.
No one knew that I had a secret weapon at my disposal: attorneys from around the world going through the same sweeping changes in legislation, just an email away, through ELAW. And yes they came to my rescue, with language, with ideas, and concepts which should be included in the law, including a marvelous manual on Good Practices in Access to Information written by a lovely and giving attorney from Spain named Fe Sanchis Moreno.
Fe’s document became our bible and pointed us in the right direction. It took as much political will as the many hours we spent in meetings all over the state, and the law was passed a year later.
Last Wednesday, the Baja California Legislature finally approved reform to our State Transparency Law, which had also faced much resistance. Although Mexico has gone through deep evolution regarding transparency and accountability which are now fortified in our Constitution, individual states have struggled with the details, the practicality, the tools and the will to implement these rights.
We are delighted to be celebrating this new generation of transparency laws but I cannot help but remember the beginnings. Overarching changes come from many sides; grassroots efforts and political alliances throughout Mexico created our Transparency Law in 2002, yet each state, each municipality, has experienced a different path. Environmental legislation and Right to Know principles have gone hand in hand since the Rio Declaration* so it is no surprise that I am reminded of these times years ago when countries around the world were pushing for transforming legislation.
The certainty that external factors and pressure are essential to change is clear, but the importance of global networks sharing information and critical concepts to provoke this change is just as valuable. So, now as the power of the internet is scrutinized for its ease to damage and hurt people deeply, which I will not deny, we should not forget that this marvelous tool can be a profound instrument of change. If the question of how we can all do better with this great instrument also depends on a social networking revolution, then let us begin! Because there is no time to prepare for it, we are late in meeting this technology with the maturity it demands from us.
Carla García Zendejas
Tijuana, Baja California, México
*UN Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro 1992, also known as The Earth Summit.


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StarWars.com has announced a lineup of six books and comics that will take guests into the vast world of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge and Black Spire Outpost. Here’s a rundown of the content that you’ll be able to dive into to learn more about Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge which opens at Disneyland and Disney’s Hollywood Studios later this year.
Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge miniseries
We start with a Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge miniseries that will be released on April 24, 2019. Written by Ethan Sacks, this five-issue miniseries will be the first to meet the infamous Dok-Ondar, the Ithorian collector of rare antiques and a character that guests will be able to see in the new theme park lands.
This novel will be set as a prequel to the Disney Parks experience that guests will step into later this year. It centers around General Leia Organa and the top spy that she sends to Black Spire Outpost who searches desperately for Resistance allies. Black Spire will be released on September 3, 2019.
A Crash of Fate
Written by Zoraida Cordova, A Crash of Fate is set to be released on August 6, 2019 and is a young adult novel that will focus on Izzy and Jules. Izzy and Jules were best friends until Izzy’s family abruptly left Batuu when she was six. Now she’s back, and Jules, the boy who never left, is unsure what to make of her. While on the run from vengeful smugglers and an angry pirate, the two friends will come to terms with who they are, and what they mean to each other.
Star Wars: Myths & Fables
Star Wars: Myths & Fables features thrilling stories, fables, and myths in a galaxy far, far away. The book features two stories that take place on the remote Outer Rim world of Batuu, plus many other untold tales from the edge of the galaxy. Star Wars: Myths & Fables will be released on August 6, 2019.
Official Galaxy’s Edge Cookbook
For the foodies, there will be an official cookbook from Insight Editions, featuring some of the exotic cuisine created for Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge as well as dishes drawn from the saga’s history. The book will be written for home cooks of all ages and skill levels by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel, New York Times bestselling author of A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Cookbook and The World of Warcraft Cookbook, with Marc Sumerak (Star Wars: Droidography). The Official Galaxy’s Edge cookbook is set to be released later this Fall.
Galaxy’s Edge Kids Comic
A Galaxy’s Edge kids comic will come from IDW Publishing, home of the critically-acclaimed Star Wars Adventures and Tales from Vader’s Castle, to transport readers to the mysterious world of Batuu in an action-packed adventure for readers of all ages. The Galaxy’s Edge kids comic is set to be released later this Fall.
Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge will open this summer at Disneyland and later this Fall at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

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The England defender spoke to the media on Monday. Hear what he had to say right here.
Pundit and former England striker Alan Smith sits down with FATV to discuss the World Cup so far.
The England striker answers some of your Facebook questions.
The England defender answers a few questions regarding off-pitch matters.
The World Cup winner recalls the scenes after the final whistle at Wembley in 1966.
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Jokowi Says Hyundai-LG's EV Battery Plant in Indonesia is Southeast Asia's Largest
Jakarta. President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said on Thursday that the electric vehicle (EV) battery plant, owned by South Korean companies Hyundai and LG in the West Java town of Karawang, will become the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia.
The factory, operated by the joint venture company Hyundai LG Industry (HLI) Green Power, is scheduled to commence production early next year.
"HLI Green Power will initiate production next year with a capacity of 30 million battery cells, sufficient for the production of approximately 180,000 electric vehicles. This factory is not only the first of its kind but also the largest in Southeast Asia at the moment," the president said during his visit to the factory.
The presence of this factory aligns with the government's ambition to position Indonesia as the largest electric vehicle ecosystem in the region and a significant player in the global EV supply chain, Jokowi said.
"Once we integrate into the global supply chain, other countries will rely on us for battery cell supplies," he added.
Accompanying the president during the visit, Investment Minister Bahlil Lahadalia revealed that HLI has initiated production trials at the factory, which was constructed two years ago.
"Two years ago, we broke ground on this factory for EV battery production. Currently, production is in the trial-and-error phase, but starting from March next year, actual production will commence," Bahlil said.
He also noted that upon completion, the factory will have an installed capacity of 30 GWh.
"We have long aspired for an EV battery factory in Indonesia, and now, by the grace of God, we have it," the minister said. He added that approximately 100 Indonesian workers have been sent to South Korea to acquire the necessary skills in EV battery production before being employed at the factory.
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Ever wondered where some of our popular expressions come from? Often an eloquent and original phrase which becomes part of common vernacular language finds its origins in literature.
One of the most common sources for such phrases or idioms is the Bible. Having about 775,000 words, there is plenty of material there to mine for literary gems, and having been translated into 5,000 or more languages, it’s not surprising that some popular phrases used have become popular expressions. Here are a few of them, with thanks to The Phrase Finder:
“For everything there is a season”
Meaning: There is an appropriate time for everything to happen
Origin: This phrase from Ecclesiastes 3: “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” The passage, which continues “A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted” and so on in that way, was also the basis for the popular 60′s song by The Byrds, “Turn, Turn, Turn”
“Drop in the bucket”
Meaning: Something is only a very small portion of the whole
Origin: Isaiah 40:15 reads: “Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales; he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.” The same chapter contains the famous phrase “The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
“The money is the root of all evil”
Meaning: Literally interpreted.
Origin: An accurate translation of the quote is “The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.” (1 Timothy 6:10) It suggests that there is nothing intrinsically evil about money itself, but rather it is the love of money that will lead to much evil.
“The handwriting on the wall”
Meaning: Danger or trouble is immanent
Origin: The king of Babylon, Belshazzar, ignoring previous warnings, took and worshiped idols. Then: “Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace.” (Daniel 5:5) This writing ended up being a warning of Belshazzar’s doom. The phrase ended up being used to refer to warnings about impending doom.
“By the skin of your teeth”
Meaning: Barely getting by; narrowly reaching a goal
Origin: In discussions with his friends after his downfall, Job remarks “I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped with only the skin of my teeth.” This is a literal translation of the Hebrew; Job was referring to how he had escaped with his life and little else.
Meaning: A person who does a good deed or shows kind compassion in a time of need
Origin: The origin of this short phrase is a famous parable Jesus told when asked “Who is my neighbor?”: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. 34He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn and took care of him. 35The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’ Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?” The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.” Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
“Can a leopard change its spots?”
Meaning: Can a person can truly change his or her nature?
Origin: In Jeremiah 13, the prophet Jeremiah rhetorically asks whether a person can change his or her own skin, or a leopard can change its own spots. The assumed answer is no; we are unable to change such things by ourselves. However, making real change in our lives is not hopeless when we are willing to admit we can’t make change on our own strength alone. If you’ve been wanting to make changes in your life lately but haven’t been having success, or just need a patient listener to talk with, consider contacting an online mentor to talk. It’s a free and confidential service by email.
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How B.C. high school students are feeling growing stress over post-secondary admission
Pressure from schools, families, peers are leading to anxiety and depression, students say
From excitement to anxiety, the first week of school provokes a range of feelings in kids of all ages. For B.C. high school students, it also brings plenty of stress.
Students say the pressure they feel around the transition to post-secondary is considerable —and high school counsellors and psychologists say it's become worse in recent years.
"I feel like the pressure really ramped up as I got into my more senior years of high school," said Vancouver student Kai Leong.
Leong, 18, said he's been thinking about getting into university since he was in Grade 7. The pressure intensified around Grade 10, when he started feeling a need to keep his grades up and take on more extracurricular activities.
For students aiming for top-tier universities, grades need to be very high. At the University of British Columbia's Vancouver campus, for example, students entering directly from high school for the 2018-19 school year had a mean average of 91 per cent.
In addition, scholarship foundations consider extracurricular activities in their decisions — and now American universities, as well as some Canadian institutions, are starting to take them into consideration, as well.
Leong, who's starting this week in the faculty of sciences at UBC, said it feels as though the bar for entry to university is constantly rising.
"You're hearing about all these great things that people are doing," he said. "People are doing more, and people are doing more...and then the schools are expecting more when people start doing more. So it just gets harder every year."
Helena Murray-Hill, 18, graduated from high school in Victoria in June. The amount of work she and her classmates were expected to do to prepare for university was overwhelming, she said.
"It was just worrying about our future and constantly being told that we have to be doing so much if we ever want to succeed," she said.
Murray-Hill said she saw her classmates sacrificing sleep for schoolwork.
"I knew so many students that, in order to meet these requirements, were getting three, four, five hours of sleep instead of the recommended seven to eight. What was keeping their grades up was coffee," she said.
'There's got to be a cultural shift'
Murray-Hill, who is starting in the faculty of arts this week at the University of Victoria, said many of her classmates struggled with anxiety and depression. The pressure, she said, comes from many different directions.
"It's coming from the universities, it's coming from the scholarship foundations, it's coming from the parents, it's coming from the government, it's coming from the teachers," she said. "And it's coming from your peers, who [you feel] are all succeeding when you're not. There's got to be a cultural shift."
Earlier this year, a college admissions scandal highlighted the intense competition for spots in top-tier universities in the United States.
Almost 20 parents, including actors Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, have been charged in the U.S. over an alleged multimillion-dollar scheme to help their children into elite universities by cheating the admissions process.
Competition for university spots in Canada appears to be increasing, too.
Rummana Khan Hemani, registrar, vice-provost and associate vice-president at Simon Fraser University, said admissions have been competitive for quite some time, but she's seen the language around the subject change over the past five years.
"We've talked about being more competitive or using language like 'there's competitive entry' or 'limited seats.' That kind of language has really entered generally into the university narrative, not just at SFU but in Canada," she said.
Khan Hemani attributes the change to an increasing interest in post-secondary education. There have been more students entering university directly from high school in recent years, she said.
"That means a lot more students seeking places in universities or colleges, and, in some cases, competing for the same number of seats," she said.
This story is part of a series call Pomp and Pressure, which examines the stresses and choices high school students in B.C. are facing when it comes to post-secondary education. It airs Sept. 3-6 on CBC Radio One's The Early Edition and On The Coast, with features on CBC Vancouver News at 6 and cbc.ca/bc.


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ABB, HDF to power ocean-going vessels with fuel cell systems
Technology firm ABB has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Hydrogène de France to jointly manufacture megawatt-scale fuel cell systems capable of powering ocean-going vessels.
The MOU envisages close collaboration on the assembly and production of the fuel cell power plant for marine applications.
ABB has already teamed up with Ballard Power Systems on the development of the megawatt-scale fuel cell power plant, which will serve as the basis for the new system planned to be manufactured at HDF’s new facility in Bordeaux, France.
Fuel cells turn the chemical energy from hydrogen into electricity through an electrochemical reaction. With the use of renewables to produce the hydrogen, the entire energy chain can be clean.
The zero-emission technology is capable of powering ships sailing short distances, as well as supporting auxiliary energy requirements of larger vessels.
“HDF is very excited to cooperate with ABB to assemble and produce megawatt-scale fuel cell systems for the marine market based on Ballard technology,” said Damien Havard, CEO of HDF.
“With the ever-increasing demand for solutions that enable sustainable, responsible shipping, we are confident that fuel cells will play an important role in helping the marine industry meet CO2 reduction targets,” said Juha Koskela, Managing Director, ABB Marine & Ports.
“Signing the MOU with HDF brings us a step closer to making this technology available for powering ocean-going vessels.”
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Economic ties between Turkmenistan and Japan got a boost last week when energy officials met in Tokyo to sign agreements that will result in energy companies teaming up to explore hydrocarbon reserves in the country that holds the world’s fifth largest reserves of natural gas.
According to the first document signed by Itochu, Japan’s fourth largest corporation, and the state-owned Turkmengas, companies may soon be conducting joint exploration of the Galkynysh gas block located about 250 miles south-east of the capital Ashgabat. The parties to the agreement will negotiate the hydrocarbons exploration and production contract according to the Turkmenistani legislation.
Galkynysh gas field, formerly known as the South Yoloten, was discovered in 2006 and consists of several fields. Owned by Turkmengas, Galkynysh is considered one of the biggest of its kind and is expected to hold gas reserves of more than 27 trillion cubic meters.
Up to 60 contractors and more than 14,000 employees are involved in the project’s development, which began 2013. The engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning contracts for the three treatment plants at Galkynysh were awarded to Petrofac ($3.4 billion), consortium of LG International and Hyundai Engineering ($1.48 billion) and China National Petroleum Corporation ($3.13 billion). Gulf Oil and Gas FZE won a $1.15 billion EPC contract to develop the production wells.
Earlier this year, drillers from Turkmenistan received another industrial gas inflow at a depth of about 5,000 meters (5,468 yards). Experts at Turkmengas Natural Gas Research Institute believe the flow rate of this production well is amounted to 1.87 million cubic meters of gas per day.
Once a development agreement is signed, Japan will for the first time join in the direct participation in a project of this kind.
Previously, the government in Ashgabat contracted with Japanese Toyo Engineering, together with Hyundai Engineering and LG International, to construct a $3.4 billion-worth gas chemical complex in the country’s Balkan province. The facilities of the complex are expected to produce up to 386,000 tons of polyethylene and 81,000 tons of polypropylene.
Meanwhile, during the visit of the Turkmenistani delegation to Japan, the energy experts focused on a commissioning of a new GTL (gas-to-liquid) plant in Turkmenistan, as well as the construction of its second stage.
With an aim to diversify and create natural gas refining facilities in the country, Turkmenistan’s government launched in 2014 the construction of a major plant for processing natural gas to liquid fuel or gasoline in Ahal province. A framework agreement for this project was signed between Turkmengas and Japanese Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. The complex is designed to process natural gas into A-92 gasoline.
A second stage of the complex is yet to come – in 2016, Turkmenistan Ministry of Oil and Gas announced that the facility will be able to process 3.7 bcm of natural gas into 1,100,000 tons of diesel fuel, as well as more than 400,000 tons of straight-run gasoline (naphtha), per year.
Turkmenistan’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 meant the newly-created state had sovereignty over what are some of the world’s largest natural gas deposits. Proved natural gas reserves are said to be slightly over 7.5 trillion cubic meters (tcm) according to U.S. government figures – making Turkmenistan owner of the world’s fifth largest gas reserves.
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Join Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and guest soloist Augustin Hadelich for New and Old, the premier event and return of PSO @ COA’s collaborative season. Resident Conductor, Andrés Franco will lead an evening exploring the concept of connecting new and older works of art. Augustin Hadelich will play and discuss his thoughts about music from Mozart to Thomas Adès. The evening’s featured authors will be Bonita Lee Penn and Wendy Scott.


The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has commissioned three companies to design a next-generation space plane whose description sounds straight out of a science fiction movie.
The contract is for the first phase of DARPA’s ‘Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1)’ program — an effort to find reusable, affordable space launch systems for the government.
It’s no secret that the government has been on the lookout for technology to make satellite launches faster, cheaper and more efficient. So how will this ‘hypersonic spaceplane,’ as it’s known, accomplish that?
Here’s how it works:
A satellite is traditionally launched into space via a giant rocket, which is an expensive undertaking that requires scheduling years ahead for limited slots, DARPA said.
The new craft is envisioned as an airplane-like vehicle. It will ferry an expendable rocket and the satellite into suborbital altitude. Once it deploys the rocket, the plane will break off and fly back to earth, just like any other commercial flight. Then it will be ready to go for the next launch.
Here’s a DARPA video that demonstrates those stages:
As part of the contract, DARPA wants each company’s spaceplane to demonstrate 10 flights in 10 days, fly at least once at 10 times the speed of sound, and do it all for less than $5 million per flight.
The companies selected to design this futuristic plane are partnerships between space giants and start-ups. They include Boeing with Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman with Virgin Galactic. The third contractor is a joint venture between California start-ups Masten Space Systems and XCOR Aerospace.
“We chose performers who could prudently integrate existing and up-and-coming technologies and operations,” Jess Sponable, the agency’s program manager, said in a statement.


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Demanding the Room
Dylan Angell, "Demanding the Room"
Today, I sat quite close to the window while the sun slowly slid out of view. It had been some time since I allowed myself to enjoy watching the sky twitch with its exit colors.
A bird or a neighbor might have seen me press my face to the glass like a child, but I have grown so used to going unseen that I no longer imagine how I might appear to others.
Demanding the Room is a subtly sweeping collection of sixty-two poems and prose poems by Dylan Angell, illustrated with drawings and oil-on-canvas paintings by Mark He.
In Demanding the Room, Dylan Angell traverses and roams liminal spaces: between mind and room, room and adjacent room, home and yard, yard and neighbors’ yards, surveilled neighborhood and outskirts, outskirts and boondocks, and, throughout, where he was (a lingering Mexico City) and where he is (his native Durham, North Carolina).
The collection is also hidrotic throughout. Bodies of water abound, surging, upchucking jetsam, swirling houses off their foundations, accepting sinking saints.
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digital marketing agency, boom online, has teamed up with soft furnishings retailer, the mill shop, to recreate iconic horror movie posters using a not so scary medium – fuzzy felt. the series captures famous films and cult classics, from the dystopian crime drama a clockwork orange to the chilling psychological thriller the silence of the lambs.
jaws – original poster credit: roger kastel
upon approaching the project, boom online posed the question: ‘what if you took away all of the big budget CGI and photoshopping? do you think it’s possible to capture the essence of a film with a bit of simple crafting?’ reimagining some of the most well-recognized posters, the design team wanted to understand if they could still evoke the feelings viewers experience when seeing a movie poster – specifically for horror – in a not so scary medium.
the shining – original poster credit: saul bass
from this idea, the team set out to find the least frightening medium possible, which turned out to be soft, fuzzy felt. to form the compositions, which were actually all created as digital renderings using specialist computer software, the elements of the posters were first broken down into color layers. from here, the renderings were made, (with no actual sewing involved) applying the texture of the felt. the result is a series of images that gives the original, sinister posters a light-hearted, and almost childlike, appearance.
alien – original poster credit: steve frankfurt & philip gips
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ERCOT Calls On Texas To Conserve Power Amid High Summer Demand, Forced Outages
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages the state's power grid, is asking people to conserve power as much as possible this week as demand for electricity might exceed supply amid record electricity usage and forced outages.
Texans should reduce their electricity use through Friday, ERCOT said.
ERCOT said several power generators in the state are on forced outages for repairs, putting about 11,000 megawatts — about the amount of energy it takes to power 2.2 million homes on a summer day — out of commission.
“We will be conducting a thorough analysis with generation owners to determine why so many units are out of service,” said ERCOT's Vice President of Grid Planning and Operations Woody Rickerson. “This is unusual for this early in the summer season.”
Generator owners have told ERCOT the number of outages should reduce by the end of the week.
Demand for electricity is also near record levels. ERCOT forecasts that demand on Monday will exceed 73,000 megawatts. The daily record for June is 69,123 megawatts, which was set on June 27, 2018.
ERCOT’s call to reduce electricity usage comes four months after severe winter weather battered the state’s power grid, leaving thousands without power for days. The agency came under fire for failing to adequately prepare for the freeze.
ERCOT offers these tips to help conserve power:
- Set thermostats to 78 degrees or higher.
- Turn off lights and pool pumps.
- Avoid using large appliances like ovens, washing machines and dryers
- Turn off and unplug any device not currently in use.
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