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By Eric Abrahamsen, January 28, '10
The Grayhawk Agency in Taiwan is calling for translation sample submissions for Mai Jia's book Decoded. Any translators interested in submitting a sample for this book, please email a query to firstname.lastname@example.org, and we'll send you two novel extracts to choose from, as well as more background information on the book and author. Please send your inquiries within the next two weeks.
The Grayhawk Agency will be accepting samples through the first week of March, following which two translations will be chosen (one for each of the two extracts) to be used with the promotional package, and recommended to publishers. Translators whose samples are chosen will be paid $300.
The Grayhawk Agency's most recent sale is Zhang Ling's Gold Mountain Blues.
By Eric Abrahamsen, January 15, '10
Another good bit from Han Han's blog (we should just start a Han Han channel here). Minutes after I read this blog post I got a dirty message from Wang Xiaoshan, "in support of Han Han".
Lastly, I saw a news report that said that any cell phones used to send dirty messages or pornographic content will have their SMS capabilities turned off, and you'll have to go to the police station and give them a written pledge before they'll turn it back on again. The government's just like this: it always gives you a verb and a noun, and then it never explains the noun. For instance, you can't be counter-revolutionary, but they never tell you what counter-revolutionary means. You can't commit hooliganism, but what is hooliganism? Now you can't send dirty messages, but they won't tell you what a dirty message is. I used to go along with the government and accept their standards, but friends kept straying unwittingly into mine fields – even some fifty-cent Party members who mean to kiss ass end up not passing inspection, and look stupid. My recommendation is that these mine fields be written out clearly: "over here is a mine field, enter at your own risk". But not only do they make no clear statements, they keeping piling mines on the sidewalk – who's fault is that if we step on them? So it's nearly the New Year, everyone will be sending text messages around: in order to avoid the tragedy of friends getting their phones shut off and having to go to the police station to give a written pledge on the first of the new year, I've decided to sacrifice myself. For the next few days I will continually send dirty messages from my phone until it is shut off. Then I'll come back here to tell everyone exactly what constitutes a dirty message or pornographic content. So if you get a dirty or pornographic message from me, please don't get me wrong: I'm not in heat and I'm not flirting with you, I'm just exploring.
By Eric Abrahamsen, January 14, '10
Following up on the announcement a few weeks ago of the re-opening of the Banyan Tree, China's first influential literary website, this is a short Q&A with Wang Xiaoshan and Yang Yong, Editor in Chief and Managing Editor, respectively, of the new Banyan Tree, the most recent acquisition of Shanda Literature Limited, which is in turn a part of Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited, an online gaming, literature and music empire that has an eye on most of the prime digital real estate in China. The Banyan Tree, which first opened in 1997, has languished over the past four or five years, but Shanda is intent on breathing new life into the old brand.
Why did Shanda buy the Banyan Tree, instead of just starting a new literary website?
Wang Xiaoshan: I think they were looking at the Banyan Tree's brand. That site started 12… 13 years ago now, Christmas of 1997. Back then it was a personal website, but as it grew it fostered a lot of great authors and scriptwriters. So even though it's traded hands several times in the past few years, it's brand and its image is still there. This way, it's big news from the very beginning.
Yang Yong: A lot of literary youth still have an emotional attachment to the site, as well.
By Eric Abrahamsen, January 13, '10
So obviously, between Google agreeing to settle with Chinese writers on the book scanning issue, and Google announcing that it will no longer censor its google.cn search results, these are big days for Google and China.
There's been some press about the Google books issue inside of China, though as you might imagine it is carefully-edited, carefully-angled press, aimed at obscuring the censorship issue while making Google out to be a copyright-stealing, China-bullying corporate pirate. This widely-reposted article, in Chinese, represents the main thrust of reporting in China. In the interest of expediency and irony, we've run that article through the Google translator (editing only the title for clarity), and now leave you to puzzle through the (surprisingly comprehensible) results:
By Eric Abrahamsen, January 11, '10
The following is a translation of "thing number one" from Han Han's latest blog post, "Three Things". He's talking about the continued non-appearance of his much-ballyhoo'd new literary magazine, called <独唱团> (temporary translation: Band of Soloists, any better suggestions?).
I attended two press conferences in Beijing, not for any promotional purposes – I don't like doing promotion even for books that earn me money directly, and I rarely meet with media or readers face to face. The purpose of these conferences was to lower everyone's expectations for Band of Soloists. I had originally meant this magazine to be a freer, wilder sort of literary magazine, but unfortunately, given present publishing restrictions, it's going to be difficult to realize that plan, and I'm also not willing to compromise to the point where the magazine is no better than traditional literary magazines. The magazine has yet to go to print, and the first issue is far from having a publication date. Actually the contents of the first issue were ready months ago; even the second issue is mostly complete, but various stumbling blocks have kept us from printing. I'm feeling pretty helpless; I'll try harder to work with my partners. Please understand that I personally have no desire for delays, I only meant to improve the lives of writers in China, and if the delays continue they could hold up my own finances too, I might not even get a new set of clothing for New Years. So I'm not delaying on purpose, I'm just trying to get a freer creative space for the writers who believe in me. Maybe my own strength and abilities are limited – I hope readers will forgive me, and forgive my incompetence. And please, everyone, lower your expectations for this literary magazine. Even if and when it finally goes to print, the first few issues will likely be terrible. I will do everything I can to guarantee a basic level of quality, but please don't hold out too much hope for it. Let me say to you once again, the flight will continue to be delayed, not because of technical errors with the plane, but because of inclement weather conditions.
By Eric Abrahamsen, January 7, '10
A couple of days ago (we're slow), the Three Percent translation/literary weblog posted their longlist for their 2010 Best Translated Book Award. They've picked their 25 titles based on an impressive (and possibly unique) breadth of reading and understanding of world literature; the list includes some darlings of the international scene (ie Robert Bolano) as well as a hefty representation of relative unknowns. We've got one dog in the race: Cao Naiqian's There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night, translated by John Balcom, but of course everyone's a winner…
By Eric Abrahamsen, January 3, '10
A recent review from the NYT Sunday Book Review begins like so:
Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s wonderfully stylized new novel, “Running Away,” begins with a question: “Would it ever end with Marie?” That’s only fitting for a book that leaves so much unanswered — we never learn the narrator’s name or occupation or, indeed, why his relationship with Marie, his Parisian girlfriend, is tanking. Those aren’t the only riddles, either. From the outset, the narrator fails to divulge why Marie has asked him to deliver $25,000 to a Shanghai associate, Zhang Xiangzhi.
Now I may be afflicted with some occupational disease here, but to me the only thing that stands out in that paragraph is the fact that an author with a French name, writing an English-language thriller, has not only chosen to set part of his international storyline in China, but has given a major character a Chinese name containing two "zh"s and the dreaded "x".
By Eric Abrahamsen, December 26, '09
Last week, a friend called me up and told me to show up at such-and-such a place, at such-and-such a time, and to have my nice pants on. It had something to do with the Banyan Tree, one of China's oldest literary websites, but beyond that I frankly didn't catch the drift.
So this morning I went, and here's the deal: The Shanda Company, an online literature/media company which is eating up everything in sight, recently bought the Banyan Tree (榕树下, róngshùxià). The Banyan Tree was started in 1997, early days for the Chinese internet, and in the late nineties and early oughts it was the place to go for Chinese literature online. It's been pretty quiet for the past five years, but as part of Shanda's campaign to own mostly everything (someone offhandedly mentioned purchasing Paper Republic over lunch, good lord), they bought the Banyan Tree and are bringing it back to life. It was a large and loud event, attended by dignitaries such as Wang Meng, Ai Weiwei, Hong Ying, Feng Tang, Xu Xing, Lu Jinbo and a host of other half-writer, half-journalist chimeras.
As it turns out the friend who called me, whom I've always known as a highly-intelligent, deeply cynical journalist and inveterate rager against many machines, is the new head editor of the Banyan Tree. As soon as I've figured what the hell he's up to I will post in more detail, but I wanted to get this up here now, because when you go look at the Banyan Tree website (http://www.rongshuxia.com/) there's just a great big countdown clock to midnight tonight (Beijing time), at which point presumably something magical will happen. So here's this for now, watch the clock, and we'll get you something a little meatier when the fireworks are over.
EDIT: Well it wasn't immediately magical; it looks like most other online literary sites. We're on vacation at the moment, and will have a talk with the editors when we get back in early January. More then!
By Eric Abrahamsen, December 8, '09
The Foreign Correspondent's Club of China held an event last Friday that was a sort of retrospective on the Frankfurt Book Fair – lessons learned, insights gained, etc. (details here) The four speakers were Michael Kahn-Ackermann, head of the Goethe-Institute in Beijing; Jo Lusby, General Manager (China) of the Penguin Group; Zhou Wenhan, a freelance writer based in Beijing; and Kristin Kupfer, a German freelance journalist.
The discussion, held in the Sequoia Cafe, was good – highlights (from my point of view) included Michael Kahn-Ackermann's point about the enormous disconnect between the official delegation and the Chinese writers who attended. Essentially that the two groups had entirely separate goals, different methods of presenting themselves, and different styles of communication. Jo Lusby continued this with comments that the government would have to learn how to balance its control over "the message" with allowing those people who actually create culture to do their work. There was also a lively debate/argument over the responsibilities of the western press, with one excitable audience member (a journalist) saying, "When we ask Mo Yan if he's a dissident writer he has to answer!"
Zhou Wenhan, the freelance journalist, wrote his remarks out in Chinese, which were then ably translated and read by Jonathan Rechtman. I was impressed with how succinctly and forcefully he presented some very important ideas about how the Chinese government works, and so rather than regale you with half-remembered anecdotes I will paste below, with permission of both author and translator, the English version of what he said:
Kristin has asked me to talk about the strategic issues surrounding the communication between the German and Chinese organizers in a broader sense, but I'm not part of any government think tank or anything, so I can't really say much about the strategic side of things. I can only speak about some of my observations as to how the Chinese government seeks to manage information in all of its interactions with other countries, whether in terms of cultural exchanges, international conferences, or the Olympics.
By Eric Abrahamsen, November 25, '09
The University of Oklahoma is on the verge of launching a major initiative into Chinese literature, which comes as a surprise to those of us who were twiddling our thumbs, but has actually been in the making for three years now. This initiative comes in two parts: a series of Chinese books to be published starting in 2011, and the launching of a new literary journal, Chinese Literature Today, a sister publication of the venerable World Literature Today, available in Chinese through Beijing Normal University. The new journal will launch next year, and they're soliciting submission, so have at it. The order of the day is "scholarly articles written to be accessible to a wide readership", ie not just smart but well-written, too.
From the Submissions Guidelines (PDF):
World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s College of Arts and Sciences, and Beijing Normal University are pleased to announce an exciting new scholarly journal focusing on contemporary Chinese literature and culture in partnership with NOCFL. The new title, Chinese Literature Today, will feature articles, literary criticism, and original works of fiction and poetry by accomplished scholars and authors from China and abroad. As the editors of Chinese Literature Today, we would like to invite you to take full advantage of this exciting new opportunity by submitting your work today.
In 2006 World Literature Today (WLT), one of America’s oldest periodicals devoted to world literature, began working with China’s most prestigious College of Chinese Language and Literature at Beijing Normal University (BNU) to produce a special issue focusing on China. WLT celebrated this publication in the summer of 2007 by holding the first “China and World Literature Today Conference” in Beijing. Following these initial successes, WLT and BNU began the more ambitious project of initiating a Chinese-language edition, which was unveiled at the “China and World Literature Today International Conference” held in Beijing in October 2008. Many of the nearly three hundred international and Chinese novelists, scholars, editors, and poets who attended the conference voiced a desire to see more Chinese literature and literary criticism available in English translation. Thus, Chinese Literature Today was born.
Submissions should be sent to the CLT editor at email@example.com by December 16, 2009.
Download the full submissions guidelines (PDF) here.
Download the CLT styleguide (PDF) here.
By Eric Abrahamsen, November 17, '09
News broke today that Su Tong's novel The Boat to Redemption was chosen by the Man Asia Literary Prize judges as this year's winner. Su Tong was the only Chinese writer on the long list. The book is to be translated by Howard Goldblatt and published in the UK next February by Transworld UK.
Here's an article from the Guardian with more detail. The following is from the press release from the Peony Literary Agency (née Creative Work) which represents Su Tong.
On Nov 16, 2009, the Man Asian Literary Prize announced in Hong Kong the recipient of
the prize. Open to all Asian novels unpublished in English, the prize aims to bring
exciting new Asian authors to the attention of the world literary community.
Su Tong's prolific and provocative oeuvre – six novels including Rice (2004) and My Life as Emperor (2006), a dozen novellas, more than 120 short stories – have earned him a
place at the centre of China's literary scene. His best known work abroad is the novella
Wives and Concubines, which was made into the film Raise the Red Lantern directed by
Zhang Yimou and starring Gong Li. The film garnered an Oscar (1991), and won a Bafta
in 1993. Su Tong's Binu – The Myth Of Meng Jiang Nu (2006), the tale of the girl whose
tears collapsed the Great Wall, sold more than 100,000 copies in China within a month of
publication. It has since been sold into 15 countries.
Boat to Redemption which won the award is a raw, charged and unerringly human
comedy of the revolution. It is the story of disgraced Secretary Ku who has been banished
from the Party and leaves the shore for a new life among the boat people on a fleet of
industrial barges. Refusing to renounce his high status, he maintains a distance – with
Dongliang, his teenage son, from the lowlifes who surround him and he takes on Life,
Fate and the Party in the only way he knows…
For further information, please contact Marysia Juszczakiewicz (in Hong Kong) or Tina
Chou (in Beijing) at:
Tel: (852) 2167 8887
Fax: (852) 2167 8885
By Eric Abrahamsen, November 15, '09
EDIT: We've made a permanent home for the materials we brought to the Frankfurt Book Fair, which you can see by clicking here or following the link under the Explore Paper Republic heading on our home page.
So, very briefly: I and Nicky Harman have arrived in Frankfurt, where we'll be attending the Frankfurt Book Fair through the 28th.
In the near future I'll put up a longer, more detailed post about what we're up to here, but the short version is: we've come with a small packet of seven Chinese books that we think the whole world ought to translate and read. The small version of the packet can be downloaded by clicking here (PDF, right-click to download), and in the next couple of weeks we will be uploading substantial translation samples for each of those books, which can be downloaded separately. Take a look at the packet for now, and let us know what catches your fancy!
The sample from Han Dong's forthcoming novel Screwed!, can be downloaded here.
Three essays from Liang Wendao's Common Sense are here.
By Eric Abrahamsen, November 10, '09
Julia Lovell very kindly consented to give us the following interview, on the occasion of the Penguin Classics' publication of her translation of the complete fiction of Lu Xun.
Edit: Great minds think alike, or at least ask their questions of the same folk – Danwei has also posted an interview with Julia.
Lu Xun occupies a transitionary literary period between the classical writing of imperial China and what we consider modern Chinese today. How did you go about choosing an appropriate voice and register in English? What were some of the resources you turned to?
I suppose that when I started I was trying to recreate Lu Xun's own frame of reference. As is well known, he was a voracious reader of foreign literature. He once advised young writers to "read no Chinese books. Or as few as you can. But read more foreign books"; he even advocated something called "hard translation" that imported foreign syntax into the Chinese language through translation. So I thought that an obvious place to start might be some of the (particularly Eastern European) writers that he was keen on, and whose impact on his writing some scholars have studied: Gogol's "Diary of a Madman", for example. My own academic background is also very much in May-Fourth period writing - so I found it helpful to draw on knowledge of that era and of its ideas about the literature it was trying to create. A big part of the May Fourth vision of a new, modern literature was that it should intervene in life, that it should have an edge of political urgency to it - and that's strongly there in a lot of Lu Xun's fiction and essays.
But finally, and at the risk of sounding lazy, I think that Lu Xun does a lot of a translator's work for him/her. There's a tightly controlled fury bound up in his best, most powerful stories (I'm thinking particularly of pieces such as "Medicine", "Tomorrow", "Kong Yiji") that simply asks to be recreated in the target language. (Though I'm not saying I've succeeded at that.)
By Eric Abrahamsen, October 30, '09
There's plenty more to say about what went on at Frankfurt, but I said most of it in an article for the Abu Dhabi paper The National, which I will link to and leave it at that!
By Eric Abrahamsen, October 19, '09
Thursday night was China Literature Night, the largest gathering of Chinese writers during the fair. Mercifully, most officials had gone home at this point, and we enjoyed the rare treat of a major cultural event that did not begin with long-winded speeches by someone with a title. It was a thrilling sight for a Chinese literature fan: the front row of seats were occupied by Liu Zhenyun, Su Tong, Xu Zechen, Li Er, Ah-Lai , Yu Hua, Mo Yan, Tie Ning – I'm finding it difficult to avoid the words "power lineup". They jumped right into it. The first round was a conversation between Tie Ning and a German sinologist named Ulrich Kautz. I'm not too familiar with German sinologists, but he had snow-white hair, a Zhongshan suit, and a bit of an attitude – clearly a sinologist.

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Satellite monitoring of flood events at high spatial and temporal resolution is considered a difficult problem, mainly due to the lack of data with sufficient acquisition frequency and timeliness. The problem is worsened by the typically cloudy weather conditions associated to floods, which obstacle the propagation of e.m. waves in the optical spectral range, forbidding acquisitions by optical sensors. This problem is not present for longer wavelengths, so that radar imaging sensors are recognized as viable solutions for long-term flood monitoring. In selected cases, however, weather conditions may remain clear for sufficient amounts of time, enabling monitoring of the evolution of flood events through long time series of satellite images, both optical and radar. In this contribution, we present a case study of long-term integrated monitoring of a flood event which affected part of the Strymonas river basin, a transboundary river with source in Bulgaria, which flows then through Greece up to the Aegean Sea. The event, which affected the floodplain close to the river mouth, started at the beginning of April 2015, due to heavy rain, and lasted for several months, with some water pools still present at the beginning of September. Due to the arid climate characterizing the area, weather conditions were cloud-free for most of the period covering the event. We collected one high-resolution, X-band, COSMO-SkyMed, 5 C-band, Sentinel-1 SAR images, and 11 optical Landsat-8 images of the area. SAR images were calibrated, speckle-filtered and precisely geocoded; optical images were radiometrically corrected to obtain ground reflectance values from which NDVI maps were derived. The images were then thresholded to obtain binary flood maps for each day. Threshold values for microwave and optical data were calibrated by comparing one SAR and one optical image acquired on the same date. Results allow to draw a multi-temporal map of the flood evolution with high temporal resolution. The extension of flooded area can also be tracked in time, allowing to envisage testing of evapotranspiration/absoption models.
|Titolo:||Monitoring flood extent and area through multi-sensor, multi-temporal remote sensing: the Strymonas (Greece) river flood|
|Data di pubblicazione:||2017|
|Appare nelle tipologie:||1.5 Abstract in rivista|


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NEW YORK, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Initial public offerings for LinkedIn and Dunkin Donuts, takeovers of Mead Johnson Nutrition and Harley-Davidson, and a Cold Stone Creamery sale are among the 10 deals predicted by columnists from Dow Jones Investment Banker for 2010.
"Technology should lead the market in M&A quantity in 2010 as technology hardware, services and telecom/media are all businesses in transition and will use M&A to avoid obsolescence," said Adam Smallman, managing editor, Dow Jones Investment Banker. "Other areas that may see lots of activity in 2010 include the consumer products, pharmaceutical and automotive industries."
Telecom, Media and Technology
Rob Armstrong, senior columnist, Dow Jones Investment Banker, believes an IPO of LinkedIn and a sale of Allscripts to possibly Cerner, McKesson or General Electric are possible. Armstrong says, "The hire of a new CEO is a major step for any pre-IPO company and is often intended to show a commitment to potential investors that they have a tangible revenue model. LinkedIn's new CEO, Jeff Weiner, has close connections with venture capital and spent his career at Warner Brothers and Yaho
|SOURCE Dow Jones & Company|
Copyright©2010 PR Newswire.
All rights reserved

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Environment experts on Monday welcomed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's 10-point action plan to tackle the air pollution in the capital, but stressed the need to adopt a holistic and long-term solution to improve air quality.
Every winter, Delhi experiences a huge spike in air pollution due to stubble burning in the northern states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
To combat air pollution in Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday announced a 10-point "winter action plan" that focuses on dust control, using the Pusa bio-decomposer, installing smog towers and checking waste burning and vehicular emissions.
Avinash Chanchal, Climate Campaigner, Greenpeace India, said the air pollution crisis should not be seen as just seasonal and the action plan must be long-term.
"Although every winter, Delhi witness huge spike in air pollution levels due to meteorological changes and episodic events like stubble burning with other permanent contributors, including transport, waste, industry etc, we should not see this crisis as seasonal or just a winter crisis," he said, adding that air pollution is all year-round problem in Delhi.
The pollution levels are consistently above the national ambient air quality standards throughout the year, he said.
Chanchal appreciated the efforts of the Delhi government in tackling air pollution due to stubble burning, but said that solutions should address the root cause.
"It's good to see the Delhi government preparing for the winter's air pollution crisis but it should also adopt a holistic and long-term solution to improve the air quality. The plan needs to address the consistent major contributors like emissions from vehicular, power, industry, waste and other sectors which exist throughout the year.
"To tackle the stubble burning problem, it's good that the Delhi government is talking about giving solutions to the farmers rather than penalising them. But the solutions should address the root cause and be easily accessible to the farmers. Bio-composter is a good step but it's a short term solution," he said.
Lauding the city government for its action plan, V Vinoj, Assistant Professor, IIT Bhubaneswar, said it was a good step but action plans need to be regionally enforced.
"It's a good step from the government. However, air quality over Delhi is a result of a combination of local and regional emissions. It will be more effective if action plans are regionally enforced in sync with meteorological forecasts of short time scales," he said.
According to Tanushree Ganguly, Programme Lead, Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), Delhi's urban poor should have access to alternatives to using biomass for their space heating requirements which can help in mitigating air pollution.
"In addition to the sources that the winter action plan tackles, the government should also ensure that Delhi's urban poor have access to alternatives to using biomass for their space heating requirements. One way could be through the creation of clean and warm night shelters.
"Further, given that Delhi now has a functional Decision Support System to pin point sources of pollution, the government should ensure that insights provided by it are used to plan and roll out actions in advance to prevent severe air quality levels in the city," she said.
Expressing confidence in the government's action plan, Namita Vikas, Founder and Managing Director of auctusESG LLP, a global expert advisory firm facilitating global sustainable development and climate transition, said such measures with low-cost technologies are imperative.
"India is emerging as a global hotspot for climate-related risks. To tackle these, each state needs to institute enabling policies towards large-scale climate mitigation that address the specific climate risks they face.
"In this context, Delhi's 10-point plan would help reduce the chronic air pollution that persists over the city, especially at the onset of winter. At the same time, such policies, strengthened with effective data monitoring, low-cost technologies and capacity building at the state and local-level is imperative," she said.
In his 10-point winter action plan, the Delhi CM urged the neighbouring states to retrofit thermal power plants in NCR areas with new technology and ensure the use of CNG-operated vehicles and cleaner fuel in industries in the region.
Kejriwal claimed that the Centre and neighbouring states have not done anything to check stubble burning, which will lead to a rise in air pollution in the winter season. He appealed to the governments of neighbouring states to work together to make the air clean.
He also urged the Centre and states to ensure free spraying of the bio-decomposer for in-situ management of crop residue, as his government has been doing in Delhi.
(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
First Published: Oct 04 2021 | 7:46 PM IST

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A European counterterrorism operation in Mali is telling the Malian transitional government that the presence of Danish troops on its soil is legal and is calling on the rulers in the volatile West African nation “to respect the solid grounds on which our diplomatic and operational cooperation are based.”
The move comes after the transitional government in Bamako told Denmark to withdraw its soldiers from the country’s north, saying no permission had been given for them to deploy there. A week earlier, a 90-person Danish contingent that includes a surgical team had arrived in Mali for a one-year deployment.
The statement, issued Wednesday by the 15-country Task Force Takuba, “deeply regrets” that the transitional authorities in Mali claimed that the Danish deployment had been made without a proper legal basis and consent from the Malian government.
The Danish Foreign Ministry earlier had said President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita had requested in 2019 that Denmark send troops to join the Takuba effort. But less than a year later, Keita was deposed in a military coup.
The ministry in Copenhagen said the Danish contribution also had been approved by the current transitional government led by coup leader Col. Assimi Goita.
A statement Wednesday from Mali’s transitional government spokesman Col. Abdoulaye Maiga, said that a request from the Danish government to deploy troops had been under consideration but not approved.
“No agreement has authorized the deployment of Danish special forces as part of the Task Force Takuba,” it said. Denmark must immediately pull its forces from Mali, it added.
After seizing power in August 2020, Goita initially pledged to uphold Mali’s international agreements but recently has shown signs of reluctance, at one point even temporarily grounding U.N. peacekeeping flights in the north.
Over the past 18 months, Goita has solidified his control, naming himself president of the government that was supposed to organize new democratic elections by the end of next month. Now Goita says that won’t happen until 2024, prompting Mali’s neighbors to impose punishing economic sanctions this month.
Mali has been battling an Islamic insurgency in the north since 2012, and former colonizer France led a military operation in 2013 to force the insurgents from power in the major towns of northern Mali.


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In threes it seems.
It all started when I made my niece Caitlin a Seashore dress for Christmas.
I had some pieces left so I decided to make my great-niece Amaya one as well.
But it didn't fit.
Her mummy requested another one so nicely I couldn't say no.
And why would I?
Who doesn't love to sew a baby dress?
After consulting my brains trust I decided to go with a size 3T.
Better too big then too small.
As I have made this dress four times now and twice very recently I have it down pat so I thought I would share some short cuts.
Please note, I am a big fan of following instructions. I always pull them out and check as I sew. I may do things a little differently here and there but if in doubt always check the directions.
So, lets get sewing....
An egg cup makes the perfect template for the round pieces.
of your dress.
Just like the posh fashion houses!
Dont worry about the wee gap at the top, that will disappear into the seam allowance.
- Sew the facings together at the side seams
- Sew the side panels to the centre back
- Sew the pocket linings to the front ruffle.
- Press the facings side seams open.
- Press the seam of the back piece
- Trim the pocket lining/front ruffle seam and clip the curve.
- Neaten the bottom edge of the facing
- Neaten the back piece/side panel seams and press towards the side panel.
- Topstitch the pocket lining/front ruffle
- Topstitch the side panel/centre back
Knot the threads once you are happy with the fit. Then you can ease out your gathers with out the fear of it coming undone.
- Sew the front ruffles to the side pieces
- Sew the back ruffle to the back piece.
Straighten up and keep topstitching.
Repeat for the other side seam.
I like to stitch a narrow turning guide.
Press, pin and sew.
Then press again.
Match notches and side seams.
Transfer the centre notch stitching guide.
I like to mark all the seams I will be sewing over with chalk and reverse a few times when I reach the mark. This will make these seams sturdier when they are trimmed at a later point.
Take your time and sew accurately to achieve a nice curve.
Press and trim back the seam allowance.
I use a piece of dowel and a knitting needle (very carefully)
If this is a struggle, dampen the fabric a little.
For some tips see here
Press well and you are done Baby!
Tilly loves it and wants one exactly the same.
Ummm, no Sweetie.
Chose a different fabric.
Happy Seashore sewing.
The butterflies are stencilled. I show you how in this post.

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By Raul A. Angulo
One of the best things about FDIC International 2016 was meeting new firefighters and vendors who help support the mission of the fire service with new tools and equipment.
There are so many great tools on the market that this year my mission was to walk the show floor to see what tools would stop me in my tracks. The newly unveiled P4 Rescue System by Power Hawk® was one of these tools.
The P4 is a fully self-contained battery-powered, interchangeable spreader, cutter, and combination rescue tool without hydraulics. Don’t let “battery-powered” fool you. We’re not talking about the Energizer bunny here or your battery-powered screw gun on the garage workbench that seems to lose it charge when you need it most. The Power Hawk P4 incorporates Electronic Direct Drive™ (EDD) technology by RESQTEC®-a worldwide manufacturer and provider of rescue extrication tools and aircraft recovery equipment-and uses a lithium ion battery as the direct power source to the motor, the gearing system, then directly to the output cutting and spreading force without hydraulic fluids, combustible fuel engines, pumps, hoses, valves, or seals. The actuation gearing system used to deliver the spreading and cutting forces is the muscle behind the tool. This gear system, which performs the functions of both a hinge and torque amplifier, has been transferred and applied to the P4’s design, allowing for a lightweight tool with high-output force.
Power Hawk Technologies, Inc., in Rockaway, New Jersey, manufactures and provides a variety of rescue systems and tools for fire and emergency services, law enforcement, the military, and explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) and is no stranger to aviation or battery-powered rescue tools. In fact, there is a company lineage that goes all the way back to Wilbur and Orville Wright, who made history with the first powered air flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903. In 1929, they partnered up with another aviation pioneer, Glenn H. Curtiss, and formed the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. It went on to become one of the largest aircraft and engine manufacturing companies in the world. In the decades to follow, Curtiss-Wright transformed some of its core propeller gear and motor technologies into lightweight, high-force, actuating systems.
In the early 1990s, William R. Hickerson, a Curtiss-Wright Flight Systems employee from the Fairfield, New Jersey, facility (who also happened to be a volunteer firefighter), invented the idea to use the Curtiss-Wright Power Hinge™ gear actuator to create a portable battery-powered rescue tool that eliminated hydraulics completely. In 1994, the 12-VDC-powered Power Hawk P-16 Rescue System was introduced at FDIC in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ten years later, the same employees who invented, developed, and managed the Power Hawk Rescue System product line purchased the business from Curtiss-Wright and formed a new company, Power Hawk Technologies, Inc.
|1 The new P4 rescue tool from Power Hawk Technologies, Inc. debuted at FDIC International 2016. It is a fully self-contained standalone cutter/spreader rescue tool that uses Electronic Direct Drive (EDD) technology and a lithium ion battery for power and strength and eliminates hydraulics. (Photos courtesy of Power Hawk Technologies, Inc.)|
Today, there is no question that we live in a global economy and if American companies want to be successful, we have to network, think outside the box, and look beyond our national borders to stay competitive and excel in an international market. The P4 is the perfect example where new innovation was made possible by Power Hawk Technologies partnering with a long-time industry friend, RESQTEC.
While reading about aircraft recovery operations, I was surprised to learn that when a large commercial aircraft-like a 747 jumbo jet-overshoots or veers off a runway, it’s called a runway excursion. There are at least two runway excursions each week worldwide, and it’s the most common type of aviation accident reported annually. It costs the global industry about $900 million per year. Axel Maarschalk founded RESQTEC in 1972, which is based in Lisse, the Netherlands. He partnered with Hurst Performance and introduced the hydraulic rescue tool concept into the world market outside North America. They were the first to launch the hydraulic rescue ram dedicated for fire service use.
It is the international sharing of the EDD technology, the lithium ion battery power source from RESQTEC, and the Curtiss-Wright Power Hinge actuating gear system from Power Hawk that is incorporated into the P4.
The P4 Rescue Tool
The first thing I noticed was the compact (lithium ion) battery that slides right into the P4 unit. Unlike the P-16 rescue tool, which relies on a 12-VDC battery that has to be carried along with the tool and connects to the spreader/cutter with cables, the P4 is a self-contained, standalone unit ready to go. The battery only has two buttons: an on/off button and a test button that lights up five bars to indicate the charge level on the battery. You can’t get more “firefighterproof” than that. The lights are bright and easy to read even in sunlight, and the two buttons are easy to depress with gloves. The EDD direct-drive power is concentrated directly on the cutting and spreading gears because no hydraulics are used. In Power Hawk tests, the tool has been able to cut doors on multiple cars on a single battery charge.
Right in front of the lithium ion battery is a sturdy handle that allows the operator to firmly grip, balance, and direct the forces of the tool-very similar to the top handle on a chainsaw. The other rounded handle grip is at the base of the unit behind the battery. It’s shaped like a mini steering wheel and allows the operator to grab and operate the P4 in any position.
The control knob, set inside the base (mini-steering wheel) handle, is a large mound-shape dial with four evenly spaced notches so the operator can open and close the tool with thumb pressure. Moving your thumb to the left opens the arms; thumb pressure to the right closes the arms. The short base doesn’t extend beyond the operator. This allows the operator to operate the P4 in any position, and it can be easily used by a left-handed or right-handed rescuer. The base handle also protects the control knob from accidental activations when the tool is set down on a surface.
The P4’s patented Rotating Power Head allows the cutter and spreader arms to be rotated to the left or the right. With the turn of the top dial, which is called the clutch knob-a pressure brake set-the power head can be rotated up to a 61-degree angle. This allows the spreader, the cutter, or the combination tool to be used in any position, in tight spaces, around corners, over the top, or underneath surfaces without any loss of power or spreading and cutting strength. This is a feature that traditional straight rescue tools cannot do.
|2 The P4 patented Rotating Power Head allows the cutters or spreaders to rotate up to 61 degrees, which allows it to be used in any position, in tight spaces, and around corners without any loss of spreading power or cutting strength.|
Interchangeable arms and tips are also features of this tool. The spreader tips slide onto the arm and are held in place with a retainer pin. The spreader tips are reversible for changing the angle on a purchase point. There are also aircraft spreader tips available for aircraft rescue and firefighting applications.
The double-column retainer pin is one solid unit-one for each side. The pins secure the spreader, cutter, and combination tool attachments to the P4-another improvement from the P-16, which uses two separate (but tethered) retainer pins per arm to secure the attachments. This allows the operator to secure each side of the spreader or cutter attachment with a single motion, which saves time. By removing the pins, the operator can quickly turn the P4 from a spreader tool into a cutter or switch out to a combination blade (one side cutter, one side spreader) in seconds. The retainer pins are locked in place with magnets instead of cotter pins or spring-loaded heads. The gearing system allows the torque forces to remain at the working end (front) of the tool, not toward the rear, so the operator isn’t wrestling with the tool.
For extended use, the P4 has the EDD 10X Battery Backpack as an accessory. It is a lightweight backpack equipped with a larger lithium ion battery that gives the P4 10 times the operating time of a single battery operating charge. Urban search and rescue personnel will love this feature. There’s also an LED light that mounts on the unit with a strap that shines light directly on the working objective during night operations or inside dark structures.
The P4 is an all-weather tool and, because it has a self-contained power source, eliminates the problems and maintenance associated with hydraulic rescue tools, including setup times. Since you’re not dealing with hydraulic or combustible fluids, there are no storage requirements. That means the P4 can be carried on any apparatus, including command vehicles and rescue ambulances. The ergonomic, compact design makes it an attractive, viable option to invest in when apparatus compartment space is at a premium because of all the other equipment fire departments need to carry.
The bottom line is: If you have a powerful battery-operated rescue tool that is ready to go with the push of a button and capable of handling the job, it will become the “go-to” rescue tool of choice. Time is of the essence. Rescues need to be safe, but they also need to be fast. Ready-to-go systems beat systems that need to be set up-every time. That’s just the way firefighters are.
RAUL A. ANGULO is a captain (ret.) with Ladder Company 6 of the Seattle (WA) Fire Department with 35 years of service. He is an international fire service speaker and author and an editorial advisory board member of Fire Apparatus & Emergency Equipment.


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The highly anticipated St. Marys Planning Commission meeting turned out over 200 residents at City Hall last Thursday over the newly proposed ordinances. Citizens packed the halls and many waited outside watching the meeting on their smartphones.
The meeting lasted nearly 3 hours and over 205 citizens signed up to speak publicly about the ordinances, but the Planning Commission made clear that public comment was not going to be taken.
Former Planning Chair, Mike Rich, resigned just one day before Thursday’s meeting. The new Planning Commission Chair, Kara Roll, stated that recorded public comments sent in by the June 8th deadline would be considered by the Commission to revise some of the ordinances.
Planning member Leslie Warner said, “We set up this meeting to specifically work based on the public hearings that were done. We actually need to work as a committee and I move that we should not have a public comment in this session.”
New Planning Chair, Kara Roll, reminded the public that the newly proposed zoning codes were started in 2015 and received numerous public comments before the November 2017 vote. The Planning Commission voted down the newly proposed zoning codes during that time.
Roll stated that the vote by the Commission in November “did not meet the criteria as required by [the city’s] code.” The City Council then asked the Planning Commission to review the codes once more. Three Planning Commission members resigned or were not re-appointed. Additionally, Jeff Adams resigned as Planning Director for the city in later months. Now, Adams has been hired as a consultant to help facilitate the revision process in the newly proposed zoning ordinances until a final draft is ready for Council’s consideration.
“The goal of this Planning Commission is to make the best possible recommendation to City Council,” said Roll.
Commission member Wiley King stated that many of the public comments addressed stormwater drainage, but King emphasized that the zoning changes deal with land use, not drainage.
“The proper process is in the City of St Marys is when a subdivision, which is taking two or more lots, engineering has to be done to make sure the drainage is done properly. The City engineer reviews the plans for drainage along with other areas in City government,” King stated.
King also mentions that fire and police also review the changes for safety and traffic concerns before a final permit is issued on a structure. King reminded the public that if stormwater becomes an issue before a structure is built in a specific area, the City Planning Director, with the verification of the City engineer, must sign off on that document telling the Planning Commission if a permit can be awarded before building.
Many technical changes were made at Thursday’s meeting. The Planning Commission voted on each change during the 3-hour meeting. Also, many of the changes were tabled for further discussion and review.
At the end of the meeting, Chair Kara Roll stated that the Planning Commission would need to continue their work on revising the proposed zoning code. Roll said another work-session like meeting is needed to create one document for additional public comment before sending to the City Council. The Planning Commission has not set a date for their next meeting to finish their changes.
The Planning Commission has a scheduled meeting for June 29th, according to the City Calendar, but that is not the meeting needed to consider the public comment through June 8th. The Planning Commission is not seeking additional public comments while they decide on the next meeting. Additionally, the Planning Commission is not going to seek public comment until all changes have been made.
Many citizens are planning to organize petitions to educate fellow citizens and send to their elected Councilmembers and the Mayor. The City Council meeting is Monday June 18th at 6 p.m. and some citizens plan to attend to voice concerns during the public comment period of the meeting.
3-hour meeting: What were some of the big changes?
One of the most controversial ordinances dealt with RV storage. The ordinance on storage of no more the one travel trailer or RV’s stored on a residential lot. The ordinance also stated that the RV cannot be hooked to water and electricity in the residential area while stored.
Consultant Jeff Adams advised the Planning Commission to possibly table this specific ordinance to get further discussion. Adams also indicated that many of the residents in the public comment wanted to ability to hook their RV up to their water/electricity in an unlimited capacity. Public comment also suggested there should be guidelines given to this section of the newly proposed ordinance.
“It is very difficult to enforce the way that it is written in two places and somewhat conflicts. One of [the ordinances] has a conflicting setback where the right-of-way is halfway into the yard,” said Adams.
Planning Member Wiley King had concerns that some properties did not have enough setback to store such vehicles and would force residents to store them in the front of their yard. King pointed out the writing of the ordinance suggests that people will not be allowed to “screen” or place a fence in the front yard to conceal the RV.
The discussion of “screening” was also reviewed and Chair Kara Roll suggested that screening could include natural screening other than fencing.
Planning Member Warner said, “As proposed, this ordinance is limiting, but we are looking for a balance here. If we could table this, that would put me in a better position. We do not have enough time in this setting to try to address it.”
Oversized vehicle language was also tabled for a later time.
Allowing RV overnight stay –
Planning Member Warner said that staying on an RV for visiting is not an issue, “but living in the RV that is a different situation.” Warner believed the overall ordinance was “too strenuous.”
The Planning Commission decided to table this ordinance on RV storage and overnight use for further discussion at a later time.
Land Disturbance Permitting –
According to the consultant, Jeff Adams, the land development use ordinance needed further clarification. Adams stated that the city has a hard time keeping up with those developers coming into the city and getting the required permits to disturb the land. Adams stated that the ordinance must be clear and there should be minimal impact on the character and wetland areas within the city. Adams stated that many developers say they run into different jurisdictions, such as with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Adams stated that the current language is “not strong enough.”
Planning Member King stated that people pay taxes on their marsh property and maintain it for the view, hence “the reason they bought it in the first place.” The current language was amended from previous hearings to where residents could maintain their marshland buffer. Wheeled vehicles and mechanical vehicles in the marsh is prohibited.
The Commission also removed the $75 annual special permit fee to use the land; however, a specialty use permit would remain in place if the land needed additional use and development. These changes mentioned in this section were accepted by the Planning Commission.
Parking ordinances –
During the public comment period, residents were concerned that the City was limiting the number of parking spaces per residents. The Planning Commission clarified the ordinances reflected in Table 6 (page 71).
The header said, “required parking spaces” and was changed to “minimum required parking spaces.” Then, from the crowd, City Councilman Bob Nutter voiced that the word “required” should be removed. A citizen pointed out that nobody should be commenting from the crowd as Chair Roll stated that no public comment was allowed.
The wording was changed to reflect a minimum requirement of parking by the Planning Commission
Downtown Form-Based Districts: Lot sizes and Tiny Homes –
Lots Sizes –
Currently, the lot size requirement in the R-1 Form-Based District is at 9,000 square feet. The newly proposed ordinances call for 5,000 square feet. The discussion then veered to accommodating Tiny Houses on such lots. A decision allowing 8,000 square feet would be the proposed change accepted by the Planning Commission.
Tiny Houses minimum floor area in the Form Based District –
City Planning Director Carter Thompson and consultant Jeff Adams recommended that homes in the newly defined Formed Based Districts have a minimum floor area square footage of 720 square feet. Commission members challenged the logic of such a small footprint that would decrease the value of the homes already in the area. According to Adams, many comments were made from the public that requested these smaller homes and smaller lots to accommodate for more growth in the city. Many of the residents in attendance did not like this recommendation despite the public comment Adams mentioned.
“My concern is we have a number of houses already around the 900 square foot range. The people have struggled to figure out how to expand them to properly meet the standard to get a second bathroom or third bedroom. That is the struggle with the housing stock we have here now. To me, having 720 square feet is probably not a positive for this community in the long run,” said Planning Member Leslie Warner.
Chair Kara Roll said that she thought the idea was to incorporate Tiny Homes in the area base on Georgia’s standard code for Tiny Houses.
“I thought we were using the Georgia residential term [for Tiny Homes]. A non-tiny house would then start at a minimum of 720 sq. feet was how I read this,” said Roll.
Roll wanted to leave the option of the Tiny Home to be placed in the historical area of St. Marys and have the Historic Preservation Board give further recommendations.
“It’s a trend and many communities are shrinking building sizes for retirees; especially the young Millennials who do not want the houses of their parents. They want a different product, and this is not unusual in different communities,” said Planning Director Thompson.
Chair Roll believes adding to the Form-Based codes in this section of St. Marys will protect the values of the home in the newly proposed district. Roll said such homes would need to have certain aesthetic requirements that would fit into the neighborhood.
“You start putting a lot of smaller houses in with the larger houses, what are you going to do to the neighbors that have the larger houses? You are going to devalue their houses. It is going to affect the tax base,” stated Planning Member Wiley King.
The intermixing of Tiny Houses with larger standard homes does not only apply to the Downtown area of St. Marys but could possibly be allowed in other parts of the St. Marys.
“This could apply to Sugarmill, Cumberland Harbor, and Osprey Cove,” said King.
According to Planning Director Carter Thompson, Cumberland Harbor and Osprey Cove subdivisions do not allow for these regulations for Tiny Homes. “That’s a horse of a different color,” said Thompson. According to Thompson, Sugarmill would not be exempt from this regulation to allow for smaller homes among larger established homes.
The Planning Commission accepted to change the minimum floor area of Tiny Houses in the R-1 District of Downtown only to 900 square feet with a minimum lot size of 8,000 square feet. The width of the property will be 60 feet with a depth of 120 feet.
The Planning Commission also changed the Residential-2 and 3 areas to a minimum floor square footage of 900 and a roof pitch to 45 feet. The Commission finally decided to change all residential minimum floor square footage to 900 square feet throughout the city’s residentially classified areas.
All 5-foot lot setbacks were changed to 7.5 feet setbacks and mobile home units were restricted to only 35 roof pitch heights.
The minimum square footage for the cottage cluster homes, duplexes, and townhomes were changed from 720 square feet to 900 square feet with all side yard setbacks changed from 5 feet to 7.5 feet.
Tiny Houses/Cottage Clusters in the Cottage Court –
The building code for building Tiny Homes has been given state guidelines for construction according to the consultant, Jeff Adams. For the Downtown Form-Based Cottage Clusters, there was a proposal to keep the minimum floor square footage at 240. Many citizens in the crowd voiced displeasure throughout the chambers on the size of those Cottage Clusters.
Planning Member Leslie Warner stated he liked the idea of the Cottage Court, but 240 square feet was too small. “I would not support that.”
Chair Kara Roll believes the way the current code is written, it would thwart off any abuse to creating a large-scale 240 square foot Cottage Cluster homes. Jeff Adams said that the Cottage Cluster lots would require 22,000 square foot lot for the clusters to be built, but there are very few lots in the Downtown that would house such a development.
Roll said several people, naming local builders, that said they Cottage Cluster would add value to the community.
“It is something that people are looking for. Everyone is learning about it on HGTV. It’s like this national thing that is happening. There is an interest from residents that live here now. Because this is something that is highly regulated, I feel like this is a very controlled way of making that an option,” said Roll.
Planning Member Lloyd Streit, who owns a local real estate firm, said the cost to build the Cottage Cluster to a minimum of 550 square feet and anything more would be cost prohibitive. “The product could be unmarketable.”
Chair Kara Roll said that the Cottage Clusters would create “the kind of neighbor we are looking for” which means they would be “financially responsible, have disposable income, and be eco-friendly.” Roll also said that many people could use the clusters as accessory dwelling units and it would help retirees “age in place.”
Currently, 60 percent of the city’s population is under the age of 40, according to the city’s master plan research. Jeff Adams asked for a size that the Commission would agree to at that meeting but could revise later.
The Planning Commission decided to do more research on a reasonable number of minimum floor square footage for Cottage Clusters along with leaving the 240 square feet minimum in place to review later.
Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) –
The current code reads as follows: An Accessory Dwelling Unit shall have a minimum of two hundred and forty (240) square feet on one level and shall not exceed seven hundred and twenty (720) square feet or fifty percent (50%) of the Ground Story area of the Principal Dwelling, whichever is less.
Planning Member Lloyd Streit had concerns over the how the code would be enforced between ADUs and Tiny Houses. Planning Development Director Carter Thompson said the ADUs must be built to Form-Based District standards and not exceed 50 percent of the lot’s square footage area.
Outdoor Displays –
The current Outdoor Displays ordinance, according to Jeff Adams, is unenforceable. The newly proposed ordinance would restrict displays to 5 feet in proximity to the business. The goal, according to Adams, is to keep it from entering the street and confine displays into an area.
“So, if I was a vendor has a special sale and they put stuff in my parking lot that is beyond the 5-foot perimeter. Then what happens?” asked Warner. The individual would have to apply for an assembly permit which is a current procedure that is already in place, according to Adams.
Screening of Outdoor Displays –
For those businesses that do not place their product back into their building, screening is required in the new codes. The code is as follows:
Outdoor display shall be limited to store hours and removed and placed inside a fully-enclosed building or behind a six-foot privacy fence, behind the front building line, each day; b. Outdoor display shall be confined to within five (5) feet of the Principal Structure’s front Building Facade, shall not occupy more than thirty percent (30%) of the horizontal width of the front Building Facade or twenty (20) feet, whichever is less; and, 61 5. Standards for Specific Uses and Activities c. Outdoor display shall not impair the ability of pedestrians to use the sidewalk or parking areas and shall comply with ADA clearance and accessibility.
The Planning Commission voted to pass this section of the code because they cited it would be more enforceable.
Lawful Nonconforming Structures – Structured that would be grandfathered in for further redevelopment.
The code is as follows: This section addresses uses, structures, and lots that lawfully existed prior to the adoption of this Zoning Ordinance or a subsequent amendment, but no longer conform to the provisions of this Zoning Ordinance.
If over 50 percent of the structure is destroyed, the structure would have to be built to new zoning standards. If less than 50 percent, it could still be built under the grandfather clause – basically keep it like it was originally.
Below are the proposed areas of the city color coded as R-1,R-2, R-3, C-1, and PD.
Video of 3 hour – June 15th Planning Commission Meeting –
St Marys Planning Board Special Called Meeting Starts @ 5:30 pm | Agenda is to vote up or down the HOA-like ordinances. If passed, the ordinances go to Council.
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I hunted this book down after seeing the film that was made of the Ostermann Weekend. At the time, there was 'some' talk of making a movie of 'The Bourne Identity' so having liked the Ostermann Weekend film, I thought I'd get a little bit ahead of the curve by reading the book before the film was made. The Matt Damon film takes the book mainly as 'inspiration', I would say. It truly is an excellent movie and would have made it onto my list of favourite films had I not already burst the ceiling on my 'Ten' favourites. The film managed to re-set the bar in terms of action movies that had already been elevated by films such as 'Die Hard' and 'True Lies', but departs from the book in many, many ways.
One of the most significant, I would suggest, is the main female character 'Marie St Jacques' who was rechristened 'Marie Helene Kreutz' and ably played by Franke Potente in the movie, in the series of books, she is highly capable and intelligent woman who works for the Canadian government as an economist and is a more than able assistant to Jason Bourne throughout his many adventures. She doesn't die in the series of books, but the Marie Kreutz character is killed off at the beginning of the second Bourne movie, which I thought was a great shame.
I stopped reading the Bourne novels after 'The Bourne Supremacy' which unfortunately was Ludlum's last Bourne novel.


Paul Pogba will be allowed to leave Man United this summer, according to reports.
The £89million Frenchman, 25, has either started on the bench or been hauled off in seven of his last 11 games for the Old Trafford club.
And the Daily Mail claims United boss Jose Mourinho has finally lost patience with his star man and will sanction the sale.
He’s not the only one either, with Anthony Martial, Daley Blind and Matteo Darmian also set to be shown the exit door.
Academy graduate Pogba’s return from Juventus was hailed as the spark that would see the club return to the top of the game.
But the midfielder has looked off the pace and, despite several brilliant performances, is not delivering what he was bought to provide.
Pogba’s man-of-the-match performance against Manc City was followed by a poor showing in a shock defeat to rock-bottom West Brom.
Since the turn of 2018, Mourinho has not been afraid to drop his star man for the likes of Scott McTominay, Marouane Fellaini and Ander Herrera.
Jan 31 – Pogba replaced by Mata 63 minutes into defeat at Spurs
Feb 3 – Mourinho benches Pogba for McTominay in win over Huddersfield
Feb 11 – Pogba replaced by Carrick in Newcastle
Feb 21 – Frenchman dropped for Sevilla game
March 13 – Mourinho again benches Pogba for second leg
March 17 – Pogba is an unused sub as United beat Brighton
April 15 – Martial replaces Pogba against West Brom
And Pogba is in real danger of being benched again for the trip to Bournemouth on Wednesday, as well as Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final against Tottenham at Wembley.
Following the Baggies defeat, Mourinho fumed: “What is the criteria for a manager to choose a team?
“I only know one criteria. It’s the way they play. It’s the only way I can select players.
“Or do you want me to go for the price they cost, or their salary, or their beautiful face? The only way is to go with performance.
“If I play a player against Bournemouth and the player is phenomenal, he plays the semi-final. It’s an opportunity for people to play and to try to get a place in the team for Spurs.
“Some of the guys that played today (against West Brom) don’t have a place in that team.”
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The difference between potassium nitrate, potassium sulfate and potassium chloride?
Potassium nitrate, potassium sulfate, and potassium chloride are all potash fertilizers. They contain the same ingredients but have very different uses. Would you like to know the difference between potassium nitrate, potassium sulfate, and potassium chloride?
Potassium nitrate is a colorless crystal with low hygroscopicity, relatively easy to agglomerate, good physical properties, easy to apply, and is a good water-soluble potassium fertilizer. Potassium nitrate is a chlorine-free potassium and nitrogen compound fertilizer. The total content of phytonutrient potassium and nitrogen can reach about 60%, and it has good physical and chemical properties.
Potassium nitrate contains 13.5% of nitrate nitrogen and 46% of potassium; it is a chemically neutral and physiologically neutral fertilizer, with good water solubility, and long-term application will not cause soil acidification.
It is suitable for fruit tree young fruit expansion stage to early coloring stage, which can promote the expansion of pulp cells. Because it contains nitrate nitrogen, it is not recommended to use it in the later stage of coloring, which will easily cause blueness.
Theoretically 54% potassium content, generally 50%; it is a chemically neutral, physiologically acidic fertilizer with good water solubility, but long-term use will increase soil acidification. It is suitable for grapes from late coloring to fruit maturity to promote fruit growth. The powder is colored to increase the sweetness of the fruit.
Potassium chloride is one of the most widely used potash fertilizers in the world, accounting for more than 90% of all potash fertilizer consumption. Potassium chloride is not only used directly as potash fertilizer or as a basic fertilizer for blending fertilizers, but also as the basic potassium source for the production of chlorine-free potassium fertilizers such as potassium sulfate, potassium nitrate or potassium phosphate.
Pure potassium chloride is a white shiny crystal. Commercial potassium chloride has a pale yellow, brick red or white appearance, crystal or granular, low free water content, and a certain degree of hygroscopicity.
The difference between potassium nitrate, potassium sulfate and potassium chloride
1. Comparison of the appearance of fertilizer
Potassium nitrate, in appearance, is a small colorless crystal (looks like white), but it has strong moisture absorption, so it is prone to agglomeration of fertilizers during long-term storage.
Potassium sulfate is also a colorless crystal in appearance (looks like white). It has relatively low moisture absorption, so under normal circumstances, the problem of fertilizer agglomeration does not occur.
Potassium chloride is mostly white or light yellow or brick red crystals and particles in appearance. It has a certain degree of moisture absorption, but its moisture absorption ability is not too strong.
2. Comparison of nutrient content of fertilizers
Potassium nitrate contains both potassium and nitrogen, and the nitrogen contained is nitrate nitrogen that can be quickly absorbed and utilized by crops. The potassium content is generally 46%, and the nitrate nitrogen content is generally 13.5%.
Potassium sulfate contains both potassium and sulfur. The potassium content is generally about 50%, and the sulfur content is generally about 18%. It should be noted that the potassium content in potassium sulfate fertilizers is generally not fixed. The potassium content added to the potassium sulfate produced by different manufacturers is different. The specific potassium content depends on how much potassium is added during the production of the product (the outer packaging will have a clear text mark ).
Potassium chloride contains potassium and chlorine. The potassium content is generally about 50-60%, and the chlorine content is about 45%. Although its potassium content is very high, its production process is simple, and it is used to produce potassium sulfate It is the basic raw material of potash fertilizers such as potassium nitrate and potassium nitrate, so it is a kind of potash fertilizer with lower use cost in potash fertilizer.
3. Comparison of acidity and alkalinity of fertilizers
Potassium nitrate is a neutral fertilizer, potassium sulfate is an acid fertilizer, and potassium chloride is a neutral fertilizer. Neutral fertilizers, such as potassium nitrate and potassium chloride, will not change the pH of the soil after use, while long-term use of acidic fertilizers can easily cause soil acidification problems, such as potassium sulfate.
4. Comparison of absorption speed after using fertilizer
After applying potassium nitrate, potassium sulfate, and potassium chloride to crops, under the same environmental conditions, the crops absorb potassium nitrate faster, potassium sulfate absorbs in the middle, and potassium chloride absorbs faster Slow, in other words, the speed of effect is potassium nitrate>potassium sulfate>potassium chloride.
5. Comparison of purchase price and usage cost
If you are a farmer who frequently uses potash fertilizer, you should know that the prices of the three types of potash fertilizers on the market are: potassium nitrate is more expensive than potassium sulfate, and potassium sulfate is more expensive than potassium chloride. Therefore, in terms of the cost of potash fertilizer, potassium nitrate>potassium sulfate > Potassium chloride.


text: Keys Select Hotel, Thiruvananthapuram sits opposite Main Fire Station, 1 km from Trivandrum Railway Station. Offering a fitness centre and games arcade, its rooms are fitted with a flat-screen TV. Decorated in pleasant shades of green and white, rooms are fitted with a safety deposit box and ironing facilities. For convenience, free bottled water and tea and coffee making amenities are provided. Staff at the hotel’s tour desk can provide assistance for sightseeing and car rentals. A business centre is available. Round-the-clock room service is also offered. Guests can enjoy a variety of international dishes in Key's Cafe. This hotel is easily accessible from M. G. Road Shopping District. It is 1 km from Thampanur Bus Station, while Trivandrum International Airport is 6 km away.

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The Relay Mirror Experiment (RME) required continuous illumination of its satellite by ground-based lasers. To maintain tracking, the system relied on an array of six-inch diameter hollow retroreflectors, mounted on the lower deck of the spacecraft. The retroreflectors are tailored to the mission, including compensation for their orbital velocity. The array has a lidar cross section of up to 3,000 square kilometers. This paper describes the design, construction, testing, and use of this retroreflector array.
James W. Baer, James W. Baer,
"High cross-section orbital retroreflector array design and testing", Proc. SPIE 1697, Acquisition, Tracking, and Pointing VI, (25 November 1992); doi: 10.1117/12.138197; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.138197


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Why deal with traffic and parking when you can ride Charlottesville Area Transit (CAT) to University of Virginia Health System? Four CAT routes (4, 6, 7, and 9) service the bus stop pictured above, which is located outside the Health Sciences Library. Across the street is another bus stop that is serviced by the free trolley, and routes 4 and 7. Use CAT to commute to work, visit the Health Sciences Library, or to get away for lunch on the Downtown Mall. Everyone with a valid UVA ID rides for free, and a free app is available for tracking bus arrival times. For more information, go to CAT’s webpage.
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Publisher description for Handbook of human immunology / edited by Maurice R.G. O'Gorman, Albert D. Donnenberg
Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog
Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding.
Since the publication of the first edition of the Handbook of Human Immunology in 1997, major scientific achievements have elucidated our understanding of the complexities of the human immune system. This second edition compiles the major breakthroughs of the past decade including dramatic increases in the number of recognized “clusters of differentiation” on the surface of leukocytes and associated cells, establishment of an entire new chemokine and chemokine receptor nomenclature system, and discovery of more than 30 “lymphokines.” The text emphasizes clinically relevant immunological parameters, and clarifies the basic principles underlying immune system assays, as well as applications and interpretations of immune tests.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Immune System Diseases.


Feb 28, 2014 20:51 Genesis port project to cost $150 million Genesis port project to cost $150 million Bill Lodge| email@example.com Feb. 28, 2014 Comments Houston-based Genesis Energy L.P. announced Tuesday that it plans to spend $150 million to build its planned oil storage and import/export terminal at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge on the west bank of the Mississippi River. Most of that money will be spent on storage tanks and pipelines that connect to both the port dock and ExxonMobil’s Anchorage Tank Farm in West Baton Rouge Parish, Bob Deere, Genesis’ chief financial officer, said in a telephone interview. But Deere said none of the $150 million will be spent on a rail spur that was a topic of discussion Monday during a meeting of the port’s board of commissioners, who voted to grant a Genesis subsidiary a 10-year lease on about 91 acres of land for the terminal. Port officials said that lease would generate more than $2 million in annual revenue for the port once the subsidiary — BR Port Services LLC — begins storing and exporting oil or other bulk petroleum products to Aframax-class tankers. Those large vessels can range to more than 700 feet in length. The lease permits BR Port Services to extend its lock on the land for as many as 20 additional years. Information in the lease also indicates that more than 33 million barrels of crude oil or other petroleum products may be run annually through the terminal. Genesis officials said Tuesday the planned terminal should be operational by the end of the second quarter of 2015. On Monday, port commissioners discussed the possible need for a rail spur that could accommodate unit trains hauling oil to the planned terminal. Some said such a project could cost the port millions of dollars. But Deere confirmed such a spur is not included among Genesis’ planned expenditures at the port. “The project doesn’t include that (rail spur),” Deere said. “We don’t comment on what may happen in the future.” Grant Sims, Genesis’ chief executive officer, said in a written statement corporate officials are “pleased with our growing relationship with ExxonMobil, which has led to the successful development of this new project and our other previously announced projects in Louisiana.” Sims noted those projects include “our Port Hudson Terminal expansion, Scenic Station rail facility and new pipeline connecting Port Hudson, Scenic Station, (ExxonMobil’s) Baton Rouge Refinery and potentially other refineries.” Genesis is spending $125 million on those projects on the east bank of the Mississippi, corporate officials announced in 2012. Also included among those projects is Genesis’ extension of its 18-mile, 24-inch pipeline beneath the Mississippi River to ExxonMobil’s Anchorage Tank Farm, north of the port in West Baton Rouge Parish. Genesis Energy reported Tuesday that net income for the fourth quarter of 2013 was $16.7 million, or 19 cents per unit. That was down from the fourth quarter of 2012, when net income totaled $27 million, or 34 cents per unit.


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This course guide provides information to support and supplement what is covered in the RNG 213 library session.
Types of Sources
Below are some guides by other libraries about the different types of sources.
- Types of Sources - What's the Difference (Milner Library, Illinois State University)
- Know Your Sources - Infographic
- What are technical reports?
- Grey Literature (University of Michigan Library)
- Types of Government Documents (Washington State University Libraries)
- Government Information (NDSU Libraries)
Peer Review and Original Research
See the following library guides for information about peer review and original research:
Example original research article:
Louhaichi, M., Gammon, M., Ben Salem, F., & Ouled Belgacem, A. (2021). Rangeland biodiversity and climate variability: Supporting the need for flexible grazing management. Sustainability, 13(13), 7124. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137124
Example of peer reviewer comments on an original research article:
Peer review record [Peer review of the article Rangeland biodiversity and climate variability: Supporting the need for flexible grazing management]. (2021). Sustainability, 13(13), 7124. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/13/7124/review_report
Range Science Databases
The library provides access to many databases that will have information about plant science research articles. Some of the most recommended databases for Range Science are:
- Web of Science: Core Collection
- CAB Direct
- Natural Science Collection
- Rangelands Gateway
Help Finding Articles
See some of the library guides related to finding articles.
- Finding and Identifying Original Research Articles in the Sciences
- How to Find Journals
- Scopus and Web of Science Search Tips
- Google Scholar - Setting Your Preferences
Remember to look for the Search @ NDSU button in the library databases. Clicking that button will open a new tab/window that will search the library records to see if the library has access to that article.
If the library does not have access to the article, you can request it, for free, through Interlibrary Loan. For more information, see our How to Use Interlibrary Loan guide.
Contact the Librarian
Nicole Juve, Agricultural Sciences Librarian
- Activity 1: Warm Up
Go to www.slido.com and enter code #Z751
- Activity 2: Identifying Sources
Work in pairs or groups to review each of the following sources. Answer the following questions for each source:
- What type of source is it?
- Is it peer reviewed?
Submit responses on this Google Form: https://forms.gle/8mtXgTyMQdrao24H9
The form includes links to each source, but you may also view a list of all the sources in this Google Doc.
- Activity 3: Developing Keywords
First we will do an in-class example together.
Next, you will practice developing keywords for your own research topic/question. Below are two templates you can work from, or use whatever method works for you.
- Developing Keywords Template - Type 1 (Word Doc - download before editing)
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Finally, submit your research question, main concepts, and synonyms and related words on this Google Form.


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Happy Sunday to all my blogger friends,
Is everyone having a good weekend? Mine has been very good and perfect weather. We had another party for my son yesterday; it was a really fun time. However, I am trying to be good about it but I am very sad as he is moving to Idaho Falls on Tuesday. Another one thousands of miles away. My friends keep telling me just think another place to vacation.....
I made this darling Edwin card last night. I used paper from Authentique - Glory (love it) and I cut tags to add dimension and interest to the card. How handsome and patriotic does Edwin look? As we would say at work when we program and have a session that covers more than one topic in that session a twofer or threefer; well this is a threefer. It is for two challenges and Vegas!!!! And yahoo all those cards are finished, boxed and ready to go. Now I can play with all my new stamps.
Here is a close-up of this handsome guy!
And here is the recipe:
Magnolia Stamp - Graduation Edwin
Paper - Authentique - Glory
Happy 4th of July!
I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Tilda's Town - Challenge #7… Time to Celebrate!
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Simon Says....Sporty and or Patriotic


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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
#Nerd by Cambria Herbert ♡♡♡.5
#Nerd by Cambria Herbert is the first book I've read by this author. I enjoyed the story for the most part.
#Nerd is the story of Rimmel, a sophomore in college who is being forced by the Dean to tutor the star quarterback. Romeo is the ultimate playboy, with no desire to have a tutor.
But Romeo has no choice, and when the fraternity he's rushing tells him to sleep with Rimmel as past of initiation, he's not too excited about it. Neither Rimmel or Romeo want to have feeling for each other, but there's no stopping the sparks that fly.
I enjoyed the story and fell in love with the characters. Some of the writing felt a little stiff since we were in the minds of such young characters. There was also some overlap in the story because of the point of view change. I would have liked if there was less of that. I also wish there were less of the title used in the story. It felt forced.
Overall, I enjoyed the story, and I am looking forward to reading the next book #Hater.


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I am participating in classes or workshops with Sarah Freemyer of SF Yoga & Wellness LLC. I am aware that yoga requires physical exertion, which may be strenuous and may cause physical injury, and I am fully aware of the risks and hazards involved. I understand that it is my personal responsibility to consult with a doctor prior to and regarding my participation in any physical fitness program, including yoga. I represent and warrant that I have no medical conditions that I am aware of, which would prevent me from taking part in yoga classes or workshops, and I assume responsibility for any risk or injury I may sustain as a result of my participation. I understand that it is my responsibility to find a pace that suits me.
In consideration of being permitted to participate in the yoga classes, I knowingly, voluntarily, and expressly waive any claim I may have against the instructor, the owner, or the leaseholder of the building for injuries or damages that I may sustain as a result of participating in classes or workshops held by SF Yoga & Wellness LLC. I acknowledge that I have read the above release and waiver of liability and understand its contents.


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Thursday, June 3, 2010
"Old Sail Lofts" an exercise from The Watercolourist's Guide to Painting Buildings
Boy, was this fun!!
I've had this book - The Watercolourist's Guide to Painting Buildings by Richard Taylor for quite a while and never really done much with it - other than admire Mr. Taylor's beautiful paintings. Yesterday I was leafing through it looking for some color info and saw several projects in the book that the author recommends you complete to help learn the techniques he covers. I thought, "I should do one of these exercises". So I did.
I sketched it out fairly closely to the example and decided to go pretty much with the colors used by the author because I wanted to spend my time on painting techniques, not making color choices. Can you tell I've got a one track mind? Being able to focus mainly on painting techniques and the results of those techniques was so helpful and very informative. I thoroughly enjoyed doing this little painting. I did a minimum of reworking and even managed to save a little more white space than usual (yes!).
This was time well spent. I had several "Aha" moments while doing this exercise.... it's a little like having a mentor peering over your shoulder offering advice.
I've posted some WIPs. Photos not so great :-(
Hmmmm........ let's see. What shall I paint next?