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Condiment Sauces Market Forecast to 2028 - COVID-19 Impact and Global Analysis By Type (Barbecue Sauce, Soy Sauce, Teriyaki Sauce, Mustard Sauce, Chili Sauce, Others); Form (Liquid, Semisolid, Cream); Distribution Channel (Supermarket/Hypermarket, Specialty Stores, Online Retail, Others) and Geography
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Condiments sauces are known as those sauces which are flavored with herbs, flavorings, spices, seasonings, and colorings and are widely used across the food service industry. Different types of condiments sauces available in the market shelf include soy sauce, barbecue sauce, teriyaki sauce, mustard sauce, and others. Such type of sauce is not just as a cooking ingredients but also used as table sauces for dressing and dips.
The condiment sauces market has witnessed a significant growth owing to factors such as shift in consumer behavior pattern. Moreover, growing popularity of international cuisines owing to customer appreciation provides a huge market opportunity for the key players operating in the condiment sauces market. However, use of sugar and artificial preservatives in such sauces may affect the overall growth of the condiment sauces market.
The "Global Condiment Sauces Market Analysis to 2028" is a specialized and in-depth study of the Food and Beverage industry with a special focus on the global market trend analysis. The report aims to provide an overview of the condiment sauces market with detailed market segmentation by type, form and distribution channel and geography. The global condiment sauces market is expected to witness high growth during the forecast period. The report provides key statistics on the market status of the leading condiment sauces market players and offers key trends and opportunities in the market.
The global condiment sauces market is segmented on the basis of type, form and distribution channel. On the basis of type, the condiment sauces market is segmented into barbecue sauce, soy sauce, teriyaki sauce, mustard sauce, chili sauce and others. Based on form, the global condiment sauces market is divided liquid, semisolid and cream. Based on distribution channel, the global condiment sauces market is divided supermarket/hypermarket, specialty stores, online retail and others.
The report provides a detailed overview of the industry including both qualitative and quantitative information. It provides an overview and forecast of the global Condiment sauces market based on various segments. It also provides marketsize and forecast estimates from the year 2020to 2028 with respect to five major regions, namely; North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific (APAC), Middle East and Africa (MEA) and South America. The Condiment sauces market by each region is later sub-segmented by respective countries and segments. The report covers the analysis and forecast of 18 countries globally along with the current trend and opportunities prevailing in the region.
The report analyzes factors affecting the condiment sauces market from both demand and supply side and further evaluates market dynamics affecting the marketduring the forecast period i.e., drivers, restraints, opportunities, and future trend. The report also provides exhaustive PEST analysis for all five regions namely; North America, Europe, APAC, MEA, and South America after evaluating political, economic, social and technological factors affecting the Condiment sauces market in these regions.
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The reports cover key developments in the Condiment sauces market as organic and inorganic growth strategies. Various companies are focusing on organic growth strategies such as product launches, product approvals and others such as patents and events. Inorganic growth strategies activities witnessed in the marketwere acquisitions, and partnership & collaborations. These activities have paved way for the expansion of business and customer base of market players. The market payers from condiment sauces market are anticipated to lucrative growth opportunities in the future with the rising demand for condiment sauces in the global market. Below mentioned is the list of few companies engaged in the condiment sauces market.
The report also includes the profiles of key companies along with their SWOT analysis and marketstrategies in the condiment sauces market. In addition, the report focuses on leading industry players with information such as company profiles, components, and services offered, financial information of the last 3 years, the key development in the past five years.
Colman's of Norwich
H.J. Heinz Company Brands LLC
P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Inc.
Tapatio Hot Sauce
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The List of Companies
2. Colman's of Norwich
3. Dr. Oetker
4. H.J. Heinz Company Brands LLC
5. McIlhenny Company
7. P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Inc.
9. Tapatio Hot Sauce

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BON JOVI Performs "We Don't Run" In Tel Aviv; Pro-Shot Video Streaming
August 27, 2019, a year ago
Bon Jovi performed the Burning Bridges album track, "We Don't Run", in Tel Aviv, Israel during their 2019 This House Is Not For Sale Tour through Europe. Watch this pro-shot video:
Bon Jovi performs next on September 22, at Estadio Do Arruda in Recife, Brazil. Find the band's live itinerary here.


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Let us feed those who are hungry during COVID 19!
Pro 22:9 "Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor. "
You can make an investment right now in the South African community by funding sustainable vegetable gardening and providing food to the poor.
Right now, the need is great! Our people are suffering as a result of COVID 19 impacts!
The Co-op Community Trust supports local initiatives to feed those who are hungry. We are involved in the sustainable development of food security in the Eastern Cape. We support local vegetable producers, community food gardens as well as projects that distribute food parcels.
We are also partnering with municipalities and other role players to make sure the whole community benefits from initiatives. We are based in the Kouga Municipal Area and facilitate farm and food garden development in Jeffreys Bay, Humansdorp, St Francis Bay, Patensie, Hankey, Port Elizabeth, East London, Summerset-East etc.

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The silence of the tree is singing:
“The forest has gone up in flames.”
I could not sing my speechlessness in tune
with the silence, I had only tears.
Like the little tailor in the Grimm Brothers’ tale,
I took hold of the tree trunk
and held fast to the iron,
so that the wind couldn’t carry me away.
“Memory, it seems, outweighs
But memory is a mold, a measure, a thing,
and you are what you were not.
Fire and wind have vanquished
everything loved and prized.
Sand and ash were given in return.”
That is what the tree sings.
Published in an earlier version in Zoland 2 (2008).
O shepherd of all things,
was it you who looked
secret objects in the face?
You lie flat out, all in tears.
Silence grows her whiskers of darkness,
and a boy peeks in at the door.
He is lovely, but it matters not.
The things have all dispersed now,
they will not answer by name,
and a shepherd’s horn will not gather this flock.
Listen, Sashenka, little novice,
let these scattered things
guard themselves at pasture, much as you
once cared for them yourself?
But what has happened to Semyonovna?
She dances no more.
She slipped in her tear-drenched boots.
And what about the hump-backed horse?
He plows the master’s field
and eats stale oats.
Everyone has taken up arms against me.
To live in the future’s house is impossible–
the mortals have laid in countless empty bricks.
Ah, my amiable friends, quickly,
I beg you, send me
the sun’s rays in photocopy.
I wander around an enchanted island.
Fate dropped me down here four, five,
perhaps six years ago. I forget how many.
I translate with the help of a dictionary,
but the bones of the letters dissolve into sand,
dribbling out in saturnian, elusive style.
The foreign sun makes wrinkles with its razor knife,
you will never know who floats in the water,
where the dark face of a man-woman
ripples and disperses into oblivion.
I got lost in the middle years of life,
among ancient words with scales and wings,
among cloned bits of language and chimeras.
Only the distant voice of a brotherword
in the forest of slanted rays
will open the door for me.
Caught in the branches, so slowly, on the sound-map,
–the slant of unfettered birds–the first words will come to me,
and those that a little boy once carved on the school-desk top
and enclosed in an arrow-pierced oval shape.
The rain ends and the birds strike up a song.
Nature goes on parade.
But Petrovich and I know: bad weather awaits.
Hey, we yell, let it roll! Light the bonfires,
there’s a total black out coming.
The fire, a whirling dervish, will dance into flame
with a whole-body shudder. The factories will rise up
and the proletariat will fly out over the seas
to Sabbath revels at the Capitol.
The franchises could care less, let it all flame out,
the fast-food joints will go broke from natural causes.
In waves from adjoining lands–from Briansk, Oryol, even from China,
riding on wolves, bearing banners,
racing on dromedaries–
the earth’s people will march en masse
on the pimps and parasites
It was 6:00 a.m., and the wounded
were crowded into the subway car, barely awake:
Africans, Chinese, Albanians,
Ukrainians. Anyone left out?
Rocking to the rhythm of the train, they read
the news of murders, of unembellished deaths.
Sounding out the syllables, they repeated
the words: e-lec-tions, oil and gas.
Some gypsies got on, playing the accordion,
and started up a wild dance.
His hand holding out a paper cup,
a grubby little guy was begging for gold.
Emerging out of the long tunnel,
liquid make-up carved out
cheekbones and foreheads
from the faces made of light,
and the ray of a trident
set the firebird ablaze–
forming, on the paper cup,
a vivid purple M.
You think that you’ve leaned against just anything,
but it turns out to be a boundary marker.
The school of logic has dissolved down to bits of bast:
they are floating by in the water, laughably so.
The landscape implacably grows out to meet you,
enters into you flat-out.
Forgive me, if I stop answering you.
No words are left. Only the trees sound inside me.
Alexandra Petrova (b. 1964) lives in Rome, having been born in Leningrad and educated in Tartu. She moved to Rome from Jerusalem, where she lived during the 1990s. Her books of poetry in Russian include Broken Line (1994), Residence Permit (2000) and Only the Trees (2007), and a philosophical operetta Dolly’s Shepherds (2004). She has been translated into Italian, Hebrew, Serbian, and, most recently, Portuguese. All the poems published here are from Only the Trees, save the first one, which comes from Residence Permit.

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Akem, C.N. (2006) Mango anthracnose disease: Present status and future research priorities. Plant Pathology Journal, 5 (3). pp. 266-273.
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Occurrence and Importance: Anthracnose is presently recognized as the most important field and post-harvest disease of mango worldwide (Ploetz and Prakasli, 1997). It is the major disease limiting fruit production in all countries where mangoes are grown, especially where high humidity prevails during the cropping season. The post-harvest phase is the most damaging and economically significant phase of the disease worldwide. It directly affects the marketable fruit rendering it worthless. This phase is directly linked to the field phase where initial infection usually starts on young twigs and leaves and spreads to the flowers, causing blossom blight and destroying the inflorescences and even preventing fruit set.
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Michail Antonio has not managed to win his race to be fit for this evening’s clash between West Ham United and Sheffield United.
Antonio picked up an injury in the game against Fulham in the Premier League and was ruled out for the FA Cup defeat at Old Trafford against Manchester United.
There was some hope he would return to the side tonight as the Hammers take on the Blades but, as you can see below, he’s not fit enough to even make the bench this evening:
— West Ham United (@WestHam) February 15, 2021
Rush Football’s take
It’s a blow for West Ham and perhaps typical that as soon as the January window shut they saw Antonio pick up a problem.
It’s not a long-term issue but he is missing another fixture here and if the Hammers want to make Europe this season they naturally want him back as soon as possible.
The likes of Jarrod Bowen and Manuel Lanzini will be looked at by Hammers fans to get the goals this evening, then, against a Blades side that is obviously trying to pull off the greatest of escapes from relegation this season.
Kick-off is at 6pm this evening at the London Stadium.


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Ever since entering the world back in May, little Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor has been largely kept out of the public eye, but that changed several weekends ago when first-time parents Prince Harry and Meghan Markle took their four-month-old son with them on a pub crawl in Windsor. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were spotted at The Rose & Crown, located just a short distance from their Frogmore Cottage home in Windsor, England, in what is believed to have been their first public outing as a family.
According to other patrons who spoke to the outlet, the family of three spent two hours at the pub, where they enjoyed a roast dinner, with Harry helping himself to a few pints of beer while his wife opted for water. Sources claimed that little Archie was sound asleep during the excursion and that the family managed to fit right in with the commoners, despite the heavy security presence, which allegedly included private security and two police officers.
The outing marked one of only a handful of occasions that baby Archie, the youngest member of the British Royal Family, has been spotted out in public since his birth. In July, the little royal, then just 2 months old, was seen in mom Markle's arms as they watched Harry compete in a polo match. They were joined by his cousins Prince George, 5; Princess Charlotte, 4, and Prince Louis, 1, as well as Kate Middleton, whose husband Prince William also competed in the match.
The duke and duchess have chosen to keep their son out of the spotlight, even going so far as forgoing the typical post-birth outing on the steps of the hospital, as has become tradition in recent decades. Instead, after Archie's May 6 birth, the couple waited until May 8 to formally introduce their little one to the world.
"It's magic. It's pretty amazing. I have the best two guys in the world, so I'm really happy," Markle said when she and Harry stepped out at St. George's Hall in Windsor Castle on May 8 with Archie in tow. "He has the sweetest temperament. He's really calm."
Despite the lack of public appearances, royal fans have been treated to plenty of information about the seventh in line to the British Throne, including the cute tidbit that the little one takes after his father.

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The International Steam Pages
Bam Steam Express
Retirement has not stopped Leslie McAllister's wanderings....
I have since posted some pictures of the Sakhalin section of the tour.
BAM STEAM EXPRESS JUNE - AUGUST 2000
"This is just a short(-ish) report on how this tour went, in my opinion. Billed as the longest railtour of all time, (an honour it is unlikely ever to lose!), it certainly felt that way, by the time we reached Irkutsk on 11 August, after 42 days! However, I was very sad to leave the train with its patient and helpful staff.
Was it worth it (at over HK$125,000)? Well, this is impossible to answer, as it depends on what value you put on meeting new people, making new friends, consolidating friendships. Oh, and travelling over 10,000 miles behind about 50 different steam locomotives in the year 2000. Certainly the tour did not go to plan and the King of Railtours (Tim Littler of GW Travel) may have eventually have met his match in trying to cover the BAM by steam.
The first section of the tour was from St Petersburg (as Leningrad is now known), down the original Trans-Siberian main line, missing Moscow, to Buy, Kirov, Perm, Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Tayshet, Irkutsk and Slyudyanka. Here we left the Trans Siberian to run down the branch to Port Baikal on the famous lake (the Worlds largest). For much of this part, our train was 15 coaches, with abut 75 passengers.
The main tour now began with about 25 passengers. From Port Baikal we retraced our steps to Slyudyanka and back along the Trans Siberian to Tayshet. Here we joined the BAM, then through Bratsk, Lena, Severobaikalsk, Tynda, Khani to Komsomolsk and Sovietskaya Gavan. Here we reversed, returning to Komsomolsk and then running down to re-join the Trans Siberian at Khabarovsk, continuing to the end of the line at Vladivostok.
A smaller group of 23 passenger now flew to Sakhalin Island for several days touring the islands 36" gauge, Japanese-built railways. Returning to Vladivostok (which had suffered flooding while we were away!), the tour continued by travelling to Nakhodka, before returning along the Trans Siberian mainline to Irkutsk again. We travelled along several branches, which I will recount, if I ever get around to a fuller report! Now for some details -
For those not familiar with Russia, the 4,234 km BAM (Baikal Amur Magistral -literally the Baikal-Amur Mainline) was built as an alternative route to the Trans Siberian Railway, especially the sections which are close to the border with China! It was also intended to tap the natural resources of this region of Siberia. The section from Tayshet to Bratsk was built in the 1930s, while the most Eastern section was built in 1944-6, mainly by POWs and political prisoners, of whom possibly as many as 150,000 died. The project was revived in 1974 and the line was completed between Lena and Komsomolsk, at enormous cost in money and human effort (although many of workers for this part were volunteers from the Communist Youth League). It was intended to be a double track electrified mainline, but that intention was lost as money ran out. It is mainly single track and is only electrified at the Western end.
The junction with the Trans-Siberian is at Tayshet, West of Irkutsk, from which it goes north of Lake Baikal through Tynda, Komsomolsk to Sovietskaya Gavan on the Pacific. At the eastern end there is link to the original line from Komsomolsk to Khabarovsk, but there is another link from Tynda on the BAM south to Skovordino. This was built before the main BAM.
As mentioned before, the main objective of the tour was to travel along the BAM hauled by steam locomotives from Russia's Strategic Reserve. Before we set out, it was clear that our chances were not good, as many doubts remained, especially as the management of a critical railway had changed. The new boss was not going to take any risks, despite earlier promises to the Minister of Railways and the British Ambassador.
So we lost the whole central part (1,163 kms) of the BAM to electric and diesel haulage. Further, as the railway company seemed to want to get us off their line as soon as possible, early running made sure that many of us missed the best bits over the steep North Muya by-pass in the early morning. This was the part the manager felt was the greatest risk, I believe. From what I and others saw, it looks eminently possible with steam, with just one questionnable tunnel, which may be too long either for crews or passengers. You see, as the line was built for electric haulage from Day One there are no air vents which one usually finds in tunnels!
The BAM has many utterly spectacular features, which I am very privileged to have seen, although missing doing them this time behind steam is nigh on disastrous, as I wonder if GW Travel has the energy to fight the battles again? One cannot describe in words the immensity of the undertaking which the engineers took on, or the skill they put into conquering nature (not always successfully). Some of the railway engineering is as good as youll find anywhere on the Earth and the majesty of some section is breathtaking, as the line sweeps about the broadest canvas you could imagine an artist painting.
Although the original purpose of the railway, to provide an alternative Trans Siberian line, for strategic purposes, there was also seen a potential to relieve the earlier line, especially as the BAM is shorter. However, with the reduction of freight haulage in Russia, since the change of government in 1991, this use has been set aside for the moment. The other reason for building the line was to open up natural resources along the length of the line. This would have been questionned in the capitalist economic model, as the markets for anything produced is thousands of miles away. In the controlled socialist model, there may have been an argument, but I cannot easily see it! In 1991, the money supply was cut off and the line seems to have rotted ever since. The worst example of this is the tunnel at Severomuysk, 10 miles long, but lacking the final 500 yards! So the trains run over that impressive by-pass.
Unhappily, the line must be written off as one of the great tragedies of human endeavour, for the line serves no obvious purpose to-day and never looks like serving one even in the furthest future. I hope that I am wrong in this estimation. Along the line are cities - half built large towns - where the people almost entirely work just to keep the line running. There was very little traffic running on the line and what there was seemed to be to do with keeping the line open. Some timber traffic, but many, many timber plants falling into decay and misuse.
Everywhere, half built structures, including many stations, although some that had been finished were very fine. Only Komsomolsk showed any real class as a city, with fine wide boulevards, buildings and tidiness. The line beyond there to Sovietskaya Gavan includes a major climb of some 200 kms, ending with a remarkable horseshoe, brilliantly positioned in a bowl in the hills. This is a very fine piece of railway in delightful scenery.
So, the line is well worth a visit, even electric and diesel hauled. Few lines have been thrust through such immensity. However, Mr Putin must have better uses for government money than keeping an unnecessary line of this length open. GW Travel is thinking of diverting his Private Car trips to return over the BAM. I cannot think of a more unusual journey to offer his clients and commend it to anyone looking for something very different.
The trip to the island of Sakhalin was, on our experience, a one-off. The railway management there made life very difficult for Tim and Marina (the tour managers), so I cant see a repeat. Still we did a big mileage there by the single working steam locomotive, D51.4 (Japanese-built 2-8-2). The Japanese, who organise photographic charters twice a year, only do short distances. The island could be described as attractive and the line has some fine coastal stretches, but almost everything is falling into ruin.
One great surprise was seeing for the first time just how spectacular parts of the Trans Siberian itself are. The reason is probably that we covered different sections in daylight this time (to trips in 1996 and 1998).
Otherwise wed have missed the sight of the giant horseshoe at Obluche, over 25kms of it; or the many 135 degree curves, as the line sweeps about to gain or lose height. We have to convince Tim to run this trip in daylight! A tour just East of Tayshet probably gets in all the good bits
Traffic on the Trans Sib is certainly up both in terms of passenger and freight. Of particular note are the increasing container traffic (P&O are part owners of the container port at Vostochny near Vladivostok) and there are up market trains like the nightly Vladivostok - Khabarovsk "Ocean" with refurbished rolling stock and smart livery.
So, what were the highlights?
¨ P36.0031 (4-8-4) hauled a feeble P36.0249 and 15 bogies (over 1,000 Tonnes) some 113 miles from Kamyshlov to Tyumen at 50.6mph, start to stop, maximum 67mph. This was the location of the fastest run in 1996. ¨ Best speed with a P36 was 71mph (some made it 72) in the next section on to Vagay.
¨ P36.0031 made another superb overnight run on her own on 15 coaches weighing about 850 tonnes, maximum 68mph.
¨ I would judge some of the L Class (2-10-0) performance better than P36 efforts. 50mph was achieved by the following - 4009 did 51 with 15 coaches (840T); 3228 and 3873 did 50 four times, 51 max; with sound effects right off the dial and much fire in the night; 51 with 3217 and 3507 after a fearless climb of the Devils Mountain with 14 coaches (785T); 53 after Irkutsk with the same two; 51 with 3480 and 4639; 50 with 5149 and 3626 on 12 coaches (675T); 54 twice with 3735 on her own with 12 coaches (675T). Despite these highlights, much of the L class performance was modest in the extreme.
¨ Noise and fire highlights from GREEN 3735 and 3438 which gave the great dam at Bratsk a real baptism of fire (they were the first steam engines to cross it!) amidst high powered L Class jet engine roars; but noise and fire first prize goes to 2035 and 3440 on the Ust Ilimsk BRANCH, on a run which ended somewhat apocalyptically at midnight!
¨ Quadruple heading with Yea 2533, 2450 and 3736 with Yem 3927! The latter two were working home, after hauling us earlier and it seemed a more convenient move operationally! The performance of the smaller American-built 2-10-0s was not as good as 1996 and speeds in the forties were unusual ¨ Finally, even in those half-built towns along the BAM, we met friendly people and the most delightful, polite children, who were amazingly keen to photograph us. You see, we were probably the first foreigners theyd ever seen!
Generally, the performance was poor, especially for the first three and half days, when we endured some pretty fearfully bad P36 work! However, the good sections of this trip helped to confirm my opinion that the L Class 2-10-0s are very fine engines, when in good condition and in the hands of keen crews, as happily they were on occasion on this tour.
So, am I glad I spent all this money to do this trip? On balance, the answer must be "yes", for Russia offers railway experiences unequalled world-wide, plus the delight of meeting the Russians and seeing their country coming to life again after a hiatus. If Tim can have another stab at the missing bit of the BAM, itll be hard to say "no". If he offers a daylight trip down the Trans Sib, that, too will be impossible to refuse, for there are many delights still unseen after my two trips!
Unhappily, this will probably be the last tour to use real locomotives from the Strategic Reserve, as that was officially stood down in January. I understand that each railway within Russia has been told to retain 10 locomotives for tourist trains, which will mean that over 100 locomotives will be kept, which is something at least. However, the thrill of stopping for a locomotive change without the slightest idea of what will appear for the next leg will be gone forever.
I will update (and correct, if necessary!) this report in October.
Meanwhile, Im off on two working trips to USA! Watch this space."


Oakland Park, Fla. – The City of Oakland Park announced that it has awarded a $6.4 million guaranteed performance contract to Energy Systems Group (ESG), a leading energy services provider, to develop a comprehensive scope of energy efficiency and infrastructure solutions, the first phase of which is a smart metering program. The meter infrastructure upgrades will enhance customer service, provide early leak detection, increase revenue, provide needed code compliance of backflow prevention, and reduce operating costs. Meter upgrades will begin in 2018.
Like many municipalities with older piping and metering infrastructure, the City of Oakland Park’s meter systems are a source of revenue loss due to water leaks that are difficult to diagnose. Moreover, the costs of manual meter reading and vehicle maintenance have been rising. By installing smart metering technology, data will be collected directly from the meters through a cellular network, reducing the need for manual reading. In addition to the convenient and accurate data collection, the technology has alert capabilities, thereby providing real-time notifications about system leaks, meter tampering, and backflows.
The program will also include a communications platform to help keep the local community informed about the program schedule, benefits, and overall impact via a website and mailers. ESG estimates that the project will result in approximately $15.5 million dollars of cost savings over the 15-year contract term.
“Our City leadership identified smart metering as a long-term cost savings and water conservation measure during the fiscal year 2018 budget process,” said City of Oakland Park’s Public Works Director Albert Carbon. “Oakland Park is committed to making process improvements that maximize our operating efficiency and make the most effective use of our natural resources. Our city is in the midst of significant redevelopment and we project continued population growth. Smart metering is an important component of improving our infrastructure and will help Oakland Park become a greener community.”
“ESG is proud to partner with the City of Oakland Park to implement these metering infrastructure improvements,” said Tracie Lampton, ESG Business Development Manager. “We commend the City Commission for their leadership and commitment to promoting economic growth, modernized infrastructure, and sustainability for the Oakland Park community.”


It took three years, a viral hit, collaborating with K-pop legend Jackson Wang, and a global pandemic for the musician Stephanie Poetri to realize she’s had the recipe for her own success all along. Poetri, 21, originally hails from Jakarta, Indonesia, where she was raised in a musical family. Her father—whom she tells me over Zoom from her current apartment in Los Angeles, is from “Texas,” in a Matthew McConaughey-esque drawl—was a music teacher who bestowed upon her everything she knows now about “the art of music.” And her mother, known by her stage name of Titi DJ, is the equivalent of Southeast Asian pop royalty: she’s had a flourishing music career since the 1990s, and recently was a host on Indonesian Idol and The Voice Indonesia.
“Ever since I was born, pretty much, people expected me to do something in music, but I wanted to be rebellious,” Poetri says. “I was like, I’ll never do music.”
But her curiosity and natural inclinations prevailed, and Poetri is now fully ensconced in the music industry. She’s signed to the label and Asian music collective 88 Rising, and today, will release her latest song “Picture Myself”—one single off her upcoming EP, which is slated to drop in March. The track takes Poetri’s love for classic singer-songwriter fare (an acoustic guitar, thoughtfully placed lyrics, her melodic voice) and puts a pop spin on it—think Olivia Rodrigo without the heavy drums.
Poetri says she has come to a point where she has discovered her own sound and realized what she wants to put out in the world, musically speaking, “for the rest of my life.” It wasn’t easy, and entailed something of a roundabout journey to arrive where she is now.
She remembers when she was a young teenager, she once asked her father how to write a song. Her dad, who mostly made country music, drew a diagram to show her the bones of a song: structure, setting, mood, and message. “Then I just started writing for fun,” Poetri says. “But as I started approaching my graduation [from high school], a part of me, deep down, was like, I never tried anything creative like this. I might as well.”
A self-described “multi” K-pop fan, (“I just love all the bands. I support all of them,” she gushes,) Poetri was obsessed with the genre—especially the bouncy, house-inflected production on songs like “Really Really” by Winner. She signed up for a production class that would teach her how to make music like that. In the class, she wrote a song that would become her first hit, “I Love You 3000,” (the title is based on a line from the film Avengers: Endgame.) It immediately blew up, garnering over 125 million views on YouTube and topping Spotify’s Global Viral 50 for over a month. She also won the Best New Asian Artist – Indonesia award at the 2019 Mnet Asian Music Awards after “I Love You 3000” dropped. Wang, the star known as the frontman of the much-beloved K-pop group Got7, took notice—and jumped on a remix of the track soon after it released, called “I Love You 3000 II.”
As Poetri’s big moment started to pick up steam, the pandemic crept around the corner. In March 2020, the singer had just moved to Los Angeles to pursue her musical career, but she returned to Jakarta to be with her family once Covid-19 hit the United States. “I was so happy to be with my family, but I definitely had some moments where I just felt stuck, like I’m not going anywhere,” she says. To combat the feelings of ennui and stagnancy, Poetri worked on what would become her 2020 EP AM PM. She’d log on to Zoom with producers early in the morning or late at night and write songs, doing weekly sessions and workshopping with other artists. But she still felt lingering anxiety to deliver another smash hit and impress the big wigs throughout the process.
“I had a lot of fears going into a session after ‘I Love You 3000,’” she says. “When I wrote all of my songs before, it was by myself in my room with a loop or guitar chords or some random keys on the piano.” In sessions with producers, she worried she wouldn’t have anything to contribute, and that the wellspring of ideas that might have come to her while alone in her bedroom would have dried up. But, she says, “Picture Myself,” is one song that speaks to her musical foundation. It’s an honest track that recalls why she got into music in the first place—simply because she loves it.
“When I [first] heard ‘Picture Myself,’ I was like, this vibe is me,” she says. “And honestly, that was the vibe I was going for when I wrote ‘I Love You 3000,’ but at the time, it didn’t feel like the right move to put out another acoustic song. But honestly, that’s all I wanna do.”
This next project, she explains, returns to that initial feeling that sparked the idea and the sound for “I Love You 3000.” The moment allowed Poetri to trust herself and her sonic intuition. “I feel like I can finally breathe out,” she says. “This is what I wanted to do from the start.”


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Clements Robert Markham was born on 20 July 1830 at Stillingfleet, Yorkshire, where his father was vicar. He was educated at Cheam and Westminster School. He was offered a cadetship in the Royal Navy through family connections, and in June 1844 joined Admiral Seymour’s flagship HMS Collingwood for a four year voyage through the Pacific. This voyage enabled him to learn Spanish. He decided, though, that he would prefer to be an explorer rather than a naval officer. However, he stayed in the navy for a brief period in the Mediterranean. Early in 1850 he volunteered for an expedition to search for Franklyn’s lost expedition to discover the Northwest Passage, returning to England in October 1851. He decided to leave the Royal Navy taking issue with the amount of idleness that occupied long periods of his service along with his distaste for corporal punishment. He left the Royal Navy at the end of 1851.
His initial exploration expeditions were to Peru (1852-3 and 1859-60) and India (1861). He was employed as a junior clerk in the Inland Revenue and then the India Office, which allowed him time off to travel. In 1867 he became head of the India Office’s geographical department and was attached to Sir Robert Napier’s HQ for the military expedition to Abyssinia in 1867-8, for which service he was awarded the CB. He returned to the Arctic in 1875-6.
He was elected to the Royal Geographical Society in 1854 and in 1863 he was appointed honorary secretary, a position he held for 25 years. He was also secretary of the Hakluyt Society until 1886, subsequently being president until 1910, and translating 22 volumes from Spanish into English. In 1873 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1888 he resigned as Hon. Secretary of the RGS, but in 1893 he was elected President, as a result of a dispute over women members. Also in 1893 he was promoted to KCB. Markham devoted his time to supporting Antarctic exploration, organising the funding of the Scott expedition of 1901-4, and consistently supporting Scott rather than Shackleton. He died on 30 January 1916 overcome by smoke when he set fire to his bedclothes while reading by candlelight.
His publications include
• Franklyn’s Footsteps (1852)
• Cuzco and Lima (1856).
• A History of the Abyssinian Expedition (1869).
• General Sketch of the History of Persia (1874).
• A Memoir of the Indian Surveys (1878).
• Peruvian Bark (1880).
• A narrative of the life of Admiral John Markham (1883)
• The Life of Christopher Columbus (1892).
• The Life of Captain Stephen Martin, 1666 – 1740 (Navy Records Society, 1895)
• The Letters of Admiral John Markham, 1801-07 (Navy Records Society, 1905)
• The Incas of Peru (1912).
• Elizabeth B aigent “Clements Robert Markham (1830 – 1916”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (O.U.P., 2006).
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ASHBURNHAM -- Good-luck charms come in many forms. Four-leaf clovers, rabbit's feet and ladybugs, for instance. But for Cushing Academy, good luck is now in the form of a penguin's beak.
"This fall, I intend to create the new tradition of all Cushing community members rubbing the penguin's beak as they pass by the statue as a gesture of good fortune," Headmaster Christopher Torino said.
Four Cushing students were given the task to create the life-size sculpture under the supervision of Bob Johnson, chairman of the school's Visual Arts Department, that would represent the school's mascot -- the emperor penguin.
"Our penguin mascot statue is a great Cushing story -- indicative of the ways in which students and faculty collaborate to learn and create something that leaves a meaningful legacy for both the people involved and the 151-year history of the academy," Torino said.
"The students came up with the idea to make it so that people could stand with it," said Johnson, standing next to the 4-foot-4-inch-tall bronze penguin statue positioned on a flat granite base outside the main entrance to the new Watkins Field House.
Beginning in September, Cyvian Chen, Ruochen Li, Breton Lorway and Simret Semine researched characteristics of the emperor penguin to make the design as authentic as possible, and even took a trip to the New England Aquarium in Boston.
"We wanted to study and document the way the penguins walk and stand," Johnson said.
Such attention to detail is seen in the penguins' inward-turned feet and realistic subtleties, including the delicate feather carvings on the body and wings, smoothed head and small webbed feet.
It took nearly a full school year for the students to perfect each piece.
"At first, it was fun to be a part of something secret, to be in on something," said Lorway, 16, of Princeton.
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Lorway is the granddaughter of former longtime Headmaster Joseph Curry, but she was selected to join the group based on her artistic talents, Johnson said, as were the other three members, all of whom have since graduated.
"Being able to leave a legacy was also really important to me -- doing something that was not only special to me, but special to everyone who will ever be here at Cushing," Lorway said. "But also for my grandfather, who was headmaster here. It's another little legacy to put in there for me and him, my family and my grandmother, who was a sculptor and also taught here."
Each student used plasticine, a nondrying modeling clay, to create a maquette -- a miniature version of what each envisioned the final statue to look like.
"It was a team effort," Lorway said. "It was so rewarding to work with people that were all so amazing."
Added Johnson, "We combined the strengths from each piece for the final product."
The group then traveled to Skylight Studios in Woburn to witness the casting process.
Since its installation, the penguin has been a hit.
"People love it," Lorway said. "So many people were coming up to me and the other kids and said, 'Oh my gosh, I saw the penguin, it's amazing.' Every day I would just be happier and happier every time someone said it."
"Everybody that visits the school takes a picture with it," Johnson said.
"It's a great talking point for prospective families to see something that our students have created," said Heather Hill, director of marketing and communications for Cushing.
The sculpture is the third student-made statue on the private high school's campus, Johnson said.
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There have been two major sales spikes in the past week, both of them noteworthy due to their unexpected rise in popularity and the fact that both of them were highlighted from the stage at the Democratic National Convention. The first was the “pocket Constitution,” which Khizr Khan held up in defiance to GOP candidate Donald Trump; Khan offered to loan his dog-eared copy to the candidate since he had obviously never read it. The other specific mention of a book was in former First Daughter–and possibly First Daughter again–Chelsea Clinton’s speech, who spoke passionately about her favorite childhood read, A Wrinkle in Time.
Both books received a surge in sales that launched them up the bestseller lists once they were mentioned. What experienced a sales push during the Republican National Convention? Booze and needlepoint pillows.
Despite the fact that the GOP candidate’s books were all ghostwritten–some of them by the woman who has taken the fall for plagiarizing Michelle Obama’s speech for Melania Trump’s RNC appearance–there are admittedly Republican party followers who can read, and who even enjoy it. But where was the push for a more dignified, cultured, and educated appearance from the Convention by professing a love of books?
Sadly, we’re hard pressed to find a public devotion to reading from the party leaders, other than the requisite mention of loving the Holy Bible, of course. And with the demographic breakdown of GOP supporters, it may not be hard to see why candidates are not reaching out to voters through literature, but rather instead through television personalities like Scott Baio and Duck Dynasty’s patriarch Phil Robertson, and longtime party icons like Ted Nugent.
According to research by Neil Irwin and Josh Katz of The Upshot, “Counties with Trump support correlate with counties where voters have less education, work in old-economy jobs, and when asked about their ethnicity say ‘I’m an American.'” And as Sam Wang reported for the Princeton Election Consortium, “Trump voters tend to have lower incomes than Republican voters as a whole.”
There may be something at work here other than just a lack of education and appreciation for reading, and it speaks to a national crisis within the world of books. According to Bill Fay’s article for Debt.org, “Republican affiliation in cities with populations over 500,000 is only 39 percent, compared with 52 percent in suburban areas and 59 percent in rural areas. Suburban communities strongly lean Republican, and rural areas are almost exclusively Republican.”
In other words, areas of the country that have the least access to bookstores and libraries tend to be predominantly Republican.
With the sales spike in A Wrinkle in Time following Ms. Clinton’s speech, the numbers brought it even higher than sales for Trump’s most famous (ghostwritten) title, The Art of the Deal, whose author has spoken out against the candidate with thoughts on his possible mental illness and his status as a sociopath.


I was not surprised by Billy Gillispie's decision to resign as head coach at Texas Tech.
It was a little more than a week ago that I suggested that would be the best move for him. His health should be the No. 1 priority in his life, and dealing with the responsibilities of coaching a major program, coupled with the controversy over issues related to the handling of his players, had to affect his blood pressure.
Let's face reality, there is the pressure to build a winning program that surrounds every Division I basketball coach.
Gillispie's resignation at this point was best for him and the Red Raiders, even at this late date. Chris Walker has been serving as a temporary replacement and it is possible he will get a shot as the interim head coach. If he doesn't, Texas Tech could go with a veteran looking for work and there are a number of experienced former head coaches looking for an opportunity to return to the sidelines.
My friends, it has been a busy offseason in terms of coaching changes. In the last week, there have been two major ones with the Gillispie announcement and Jim Calhoun's retirement at Connecticut. The transition to Kevin Ollie as head coach of the Huskies will be interesting to watch.
Think about some of the new faces in different places on the sidelines for 2012-13. John Groce takes over at Illinois after his solid run at Ohio University. He inherited the job when Bruce Weber was let go. Weber did not stay out of work for long, taking the position at Kansas State when Frank Martin went to South Carolina. Trent Johnson left LSU for TCU, which allowed former Tiger Johnny Jones to return to his alma mater as head coach.
Two names associated with the 1988 NCAA championship will be on the sidelines this season. Larry Brown is back, taking over at SMU. His proud pupil Danny Manning is the new head coach at Tulsa. Manning took over for Doug Wojcik, who landed at College of Charleston. James Johnson moved up to become head coach at Virginia Tech as Seth Greenberg is now my teammate here at ESPN.
Tim Miles took over at Nebraska. Rick Ray replaced Rick Stansbury, who retired at Mississippi State.
Wow ... I cannot wait to see how all of these new coaches do at their respective schools. The season is right around the corner, baby!


Most home hobbyists measure the total ammonia via the API “Ammonia” test kit. This test kit measures both ammonia gas and ammonium ions. It is not unusual for a hobbyist to be surprised by a sudden unexpected spike in these numbers. It is not cause for concern most of the time.
Ammonia+ammonium spikes and nitrite spikes will commonly occur with an uncycled aquarium filter or just after cycling. The filter simply isn’t cycled completely and needs to complete its cycling. These types of spikes won’t be covered here. We’ll only talk here about established aquariums which have been cycled completely.
Ammonia or nitrite spikes in established aquariums can come from a lot of things, chloramine in the water supply, dead bodies of fish, dying plants, a fortified soil substrate, overfeeding, cleaning the filter media, changing the filter cartridges, just to name the main ones.
It is important to note that small ammonia+ammonium spikes are harmless. It requires some surprisingly high levels of ammonia+ammonium before things get damaging to the fish.
|pH of the water
|API Ammonia test in ppm
To use this chart measure the pH of the water. Find the pH in the left column. Then read across to the right. The numbers are what the API ammonia+ammonium test levels are. For instance, if one measures 7.6 pH, reading across one should be “alert ” at 2 ppm on the API ammonia+ammonium test, “alarmed” at 8 ppm (probably should do a water change) and really “alarmed ” at the toxic level of 20 (I would do a 90% water change!).
Many people will vociferously question these toxicity numbers. So if you want supporting papers on ammonia toxicity go to this link:
Spikes in an Established Aquarium
Ammonia and nitrite oxidation actually requires very little from a filter and the filter media. Almost anything will work after three to four months of breaking in. As Cory of Aquarium Co-op pointed out, used gym socks have been used quite successfully to oxidize ammonia so Mother Nature is very flexible and very forgiving.
But if high ammonia+ammonium levels are detected in an established tank and these level last for more than a week, there are several possible reasons for these intransigent high ammonia+ammonium levels:
- Chloramine in tap water is ammonia combined with chlorine. It gives ammonia when the water conditioner removes the chlorine. Most of the time the levels reached are low and easily handled by the filter in most tanks. Note Prime and Safe do not remove or even “temporarily detoxify” ammonia. A test was done using the test that Seachem recommends and Prime and Safe did not “detoxify the ammonia temporarily”.
- Cleaning away most of the beneficial bacteria on a regular basis. This can be by “thoroughly cleaning” the media in a filter (or replacing Polyfil or cartridges often) like every month. When one cleans or dispose of the filter media, one is cleaning away the bacteria which oxidize ammonia. The results of this can be viewed in the following link:
- The filter is a hang-on-back with insufficient surface area to form a lot of brown “gunk”, i.e. beneficial bacteria. Information on improving a hang-on-back filter can be found at this link:
- The filter media is something like ceramic rings which can’t form enough brown gunk on their surface to filter out the ammonia. More on this at this link:
- The pH of their aquarium is too low, and the beneficial bacteria can’t do their work (like below 6.5 pH), Crushed coral, aragonite, or baking soda solve this problem. For more information click on the following link:
- Having “old tank syndrome”, where the nitrates go up, the pH goes down and the beneficial bacteria stop working. A 90% water change solves this. More information can be found at the following link:
- Ammonia test kits can go bad with time. Many kits give 0.25 ppm ammonia with distilled (ultra pure no ammonia) water. Nitrite tests are less sensitive.
- Some hobbyists rush the aquarium and put in large numbers of fish or very large fish. Both of these courses of action can overload the filter and give ammonia and/or nitrite spikes.
- And some hobbyists, especially newcomers to the hobby, overfeed their fish. This abundance of food rots and gives off ammonia which can convert to nitrite.
- And one surprisingly common cause of ammonia spikes in an established aquarium is dying plants. The plants can appear healthy but be dying. Since plants are living organisms with protein in their cells, when plants die they release ammonia.
- Sometimes people use a soil substrate in their aquarium in order to grow plants. This soil is often fortified with ammonia containing fertilizers. Because organic matter has a high cation exchange capacity this effect can last through many 100% water changes.
Generally persistent spikes of ammonia and/or nitrite in an established tank can be remedied by adding a lot more biofiltration and not cleaning the filter media till the flow slows down. An under-gravel filter, a canister or a sump are all very good options. The canister needs to be filled with a good biomedia like foam, K1 or pot scrubbers.
In some established aquariums with fish and persistent very high ammonia it is best to do something called a “fish-in” cycle. This is easy to do. Here is a link on how to do it:
Note it is very unusual to have ammonia or nitrite spikes in an aquarium which has been established for more than four months or so if the filter media has not been thoroughly cleaned or replaced on a regular basis. The colonies of beneficial bacteria keep growing even after they have completed cycling, so the amount of beneficial bacteria in a filter can be enormous. So one can clean away 95% of the beneficial bacteria and still have enough to prevent ammonia spikes. I’ve only had ammonia spikes in cycling aquariums. I’ve NEVER had a spike in an aquarium established for more than four months.
Garbage Can Water Conditioning
A technique called “garbage can water conditioning” can be used either if one has very high ammonia from chloramines out of the tap or one has very alkaline water with chloramines. It safely removes both the chlorine and the ammonia from water.
Lately many people have been reporting 4 to 8 ppm of ammonia straight out of the tap from chloramines. It appears there has been a change in the way water utilities are killing the biofilm which forms in water lines. This 4 to 8 ppm of ammonia needs to be neutralized by Mother Nature if the pH is high. This can be done by doing something called “garbage can water conditioning”.
If one has high ammonia coming out of the tap and/or high pH use a greater than 24 hour residence time in a water conditioning container (like a plastic tote, pail or garbage bin) with a functioning biofilter to remove the ammonia.
To do this take a plastic tote, pail or garbage bin and fill it full of the water. If you have a fifty gallon (200 liter) tank and you do a 50% water change that is 25 gallons (100 liter). So you will need at least a 25 gallon (100 liter) bin or can. Add a sponge filter, a considerable amount of food, some inoculate (brown gunk from an established filter, black soil or compost from the garden store) and just leave it to cycle, adding large amounts of food every day.
When the bin, tote, can or pail is well cycled in four to six weeks, do a 90% to 100% water change and again fill it with water. Do nothing to the sponge filter(s). After that only add very small quantities of food once a week to the bin or pail. You do not want to build up nitrates and beneficial bacteria live for years with no food.
This bin or pail will now remove the ammonia from water in 24 hours quite reliably. There will be enough bacteria and gunk in the sponge to handle any amount of chloramine the municipal water authority can throw at it. Simply put your water change water in the container when you do a water change. If you do a water change once a week this will give the filter in the “garbage can” container one week to remove the ammonia (and the chlorine). One week is plenty of time to remove the ammonia.
A Very Stubborn Myth
The myth that ammonia spikes will rapidly kill fish is simply incredibly ingrained into the hobby. The best way to illustrate that is to delve into one YouTube video.
Ben Ochart had the following sequence of events happen:
1 action: He took in a new fish that had supposedly suffered from some aggression and had tattered fins. He put it in an existing aquarium.
His conclusion: The fish was healthy and didn’t need quarantining
2 action: He had some blocked cartridge filters, so he replaced all the cartridges at the same time he added the new fish.
His conclusion: He removed most of his beneficial bacteria
3 action: He added some Fritz Maracyn antibiotic to the water in the tank with the new fish to treat the tattered fins
His conclusion: The antibiotic killed the small number of beneficial bacteria remaining
4 action: The water turned cloudy and the fish in the tank appeared to be in distress, being up at the surface and “panting”. He did a 50% water change.
His conclusion: His filter cleaning had killed off the beneficial bacteria and this was putting his fish in distress.
5 action: The next morning four large, prized fish alongside the new fish were dead. He tested the water for ammonia and it was zero.
His conclusion: He had had a sudden “unseen” ammonia spike and that had killed his fish.
6 action: He added some cycled filter media to the filters and added Fritz bottled bacteria and no more fish died.
His conclusion: He felt he made four mistakes: not quarantining, replacing the cartridges, adding the antibiotic, and not adding bottled beneficial bacteria soon enough.
I found this whole sequence just kind of sad. It was SO preventable and Ben is such a likable guy. I felt bad for him. Losing fish like he had really hurts.
Ben made only one of the four mistakes he thought he made. Ben made two mistakes: he didn’t quarantine a fish and he put the antibiotic into the water and not into the food. The fish he added had a bacterial infection. The bacterial infection killed four of his prized fish. Simple. Easy. If he had quarantined the fish or if he had added the antibiotic to his fish food, his four prized fish would probably still be alive.
But Ben is like most hobbyists and if some fish die the first and ONLY thing that comes to his mind is “An ammonia spike killed them“. And he is going to believe this even though a much simpler explanation is staring him right in the face. Note he even added antibiotics. Yet a bacterial infection never crossed his mind.
Changing all his cartridges at once was not a good idea but it had nothing to do with his fish dying. And ammonia is a slow poison that kills fish slowly over weeks. It does not kill overnight. And if it somehow did get high enough to kill the fish the spike certainly wouldn’t disappear before morning. The cloudy water was also harmless.
And cloudy water is NOT caused by ammonia. In Ben’s case it was probably just caused by the fact that the antibiotic he added to the water is an insoluble powder. Insoluble powders will result in cloudy water. And the bacterial infection just died out on its own. The bottle bacteria and cycled filter media had nothing to do with it going away.
Humans can be very stubborn about their beliefs. If the first thing which comes to mind is an ammonia spike, that is what sticks. Even when a much simpler explanation is glaringly obvious.


The Vermont Solutions Festival is set to take place at Stratton Mountain Resort on August 27th and 28th, but it might not have been possible without the efforts of certain Vermont residents such as Middlebury cross-country ski coach, Andrew Gardner.
Gardner, who acts as the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) first coordinator for sustainability in athletics, pioneered the idea of bringing sustainability to athletics such as skiing.
It would be a college knee injury that drove Gardner’s competitive nature on a mission for new ways to express his passion for the sport, even though he was sidelined from ski competition.
Gardner said, “You look at what the pinnacle of success in athletics, how athletes represent their success, some of it being at the highest levels of consumption possible. I can’t wait for a time when reduction becomes hip, when paring down is the new bling.”
“I visited authors and essayists,” Gardner said. “And with the help of a college grant, I started to look at the underpinnings of sustainability in the sports that I love. It’s really the same calling that is at the foundation of the Vermont Solutions Festival”
As Middlebury’s cross-country ski coach, Gardner has implemented several initiatives designed to meet his goal of mergiing sustainability and athletics. That work has included hosting a summit on the Middlebury campus collecting the major environmental groups, powering his ski team’s truck on used vegetable oil and a plan to increase biking availability throughout the Vermont campus. He explains his motivation as a natural progression of skiing.
“I’m motivated to do this work because climate change is so visceral for a skier,” Gardner said. “I remember visiting glaciers when coaching in Europe and watching people freak out when snow was melting at rates they hadn’t seen.”
“To that end, Stratton Mountain is a perfect place to host the Solutions Festival because you can’t even make artificial snow if the temps don’t drop low enough.”
At Stratton, Gardner’s vision is to dedicate a day every year searching for the solutions to problems that arise when sport and sustainability collide. As he suggests, the Vermont Solutions Festival is intended to be a gathering of minds to take on sport in a more sustainable manner, with a farm-to-table dinner, a Farm Stand bike ride, a keynote address from local author Bill McKibben, a panel discussion with leaders from sport and sustainability backgrounds, a youth summit and a concert from the Del McCoury band.
“The line that keeps ringing in my head about this event comes from environmentalist Doug Peacock who said, ‘Sport is a perfectly valid way to organize a life, you just don’t have to screw everything else up with it.’ It’s my hope that this festival will create solutions for exactly how to do that.”


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Family Constellations in Limburg
Systemic Family Constellations is a unique, phenomenological and systemic approach to healing. We are all members of a family and we are bound by deep ties of love and loyalty.
However, unresolved issues from the past may cause the heart to shut down. If left unattended, this disruption in the flow of love carried across generations, ripples into the shadows of the family landscape, often emerging as illness, emotional difficulties, and broken relationships.
A kind of “living map”, Family Constellations offers a creative and profound way of seeing into the hidden family dynamics, the entanglements that shape our lives and the suffering we experience.
In a brief time, Family Constellations work has the potential to touch us on a deep energetic level.
It leads to a transformation in our lives and the lives of those around us.
This work deepens the respect for the mystery of life and the forces that shape it.
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Water, sewer utilities slated to increase further for 2023: city Finance
Gravity could be forgiven as water and sewer rates could continue to climb uphill after a city report on the proposed utility budget has recommended another annual increase to the services.
A report from the city’s Finance department is suggesting a two per cent increase to the water rates charged city residents — along with a similar two per cent rise in sewer fees — to help pay for the costs related to several major projects on the horizon in 2023.
City chief financial officer, Chris Jury, said the utility budget proposed for 2023 continues to cover a lot of ground with capital projects, and the bill needs to be paid for that laundry list.
“What we have had in our plan for quite a few years is sort of that two per cent increase for water and one-and-a-half wastewater,” he said in a special budget meeting of council on Nov. 14.
“For this year we were proposing to go with a two per cent and a two per cent” increase.
The 2023 capital projects included the Sewer Treatment Plant (STP) maintenance ($225,000), RBC lifecycle maintenance ($550,000), lift stations ($200,000) and a Liquid Waste Management Plan ($165,000).
On the water delivery end, 2023 capital projects include completion of phase three of the secondary source pump station ($200,000), phase four of the finished water storage ($1.35 million), the reservoir dam inspection ($67,000) and watermain replacements ($600,000).
Jury said the extra half of a per cent difference for wastewater comes out as $3 million when the city gets to the end of that wastewater treatment facility upgrade (or replacement) project. It could be $3 million less in borrowing, $3 million more in reserves, or it could just be a contingency piece that adds up over time, he added.
“I think we’ve done a good job of keeping those reserves, and fueling those reserves, and that we are able to do these projects,” Jury continued, “but also being conscious of the fact that we are in unusual times with inflation and what an impact that amount can make as we look out to the horizon as we shift to the two per cent, two per cent instead of the two per cent and one-and-a-half.”
The 2022 utility rate (combined) for a single family dwelling in Nelson was $1,089, while the proposed increase for 2023 would bump the figure by $22 per year to $1,111.
On the commercial end, the utility increase effect on a commercial restaurant would creep from $3,202 to $3,266 — a proposed rise of $64.
Coun Jesse Woodward said the work outlined for both utilities was needed, and somehow the city needed to pay for it.
“So just having some good communication around that (increase) would really help to soften some of the blow on what it means to all of us,” he said.

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The chances of something happening on the other side of the world directly affecting us here are pretty slim.
With globalization, though, this is changing. What happens in East Asia today may very well have a huge impact on us tomorrow. And it may even kill us.
These days, diseases such as the flu can travel globally in a very short period of time. And now researchers at the Harvard Initiative for Global Health at Harvard University predict that as many as 81 million people in the world could die in one year if a very contagious form of the flu spread in modern times.
Just to put that number in perspective, the total number of human deaths from all causes last year was 58 million.
Pandemics -- global disease outbreaks caused by viruses or other organisms -- usually occur because the type of organism is new. Our immune system has trouble fighting it, as it has never seen it before.
The study is published in the current issue of the British medical journal Lancet.
"We wanted to see what the actual numbers might look like," said Dr. Christopher Murray, professor of public policy and social medicine and director of the Harvard Initiative for Global Health.
To do this, the researchers applied historical death to current populations to see what would have happened if a virus spread around the globe in 2004. They expected a death toll between 15 million and 20 million.
What they found out was that between 51 million and 81 million individuals would die in current times if a pandemic like the 1918-20 flu hit -- and 96 percent of these deaths would be in developing countries.
'Pandemics Are Just Like Earthquakes'
With the avian influenza epidemic in birds and the few hundred cases recorded in humans, some fear that a bird flu pandemic is approaching. However, the onset of such an event is difficult to predict.
"Flu pandemics are just like earthquakes," said Kenneth Hill, associate director of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies at Harvard University and co-author of the study. "Major outbreaks are by no means regular. And you can't predict that the next one will be this year or the next.
"All you can say is that based on historical records and probabilities, a major one is likely to happen," Hill said.
Experts say that, on average, flu pandemics happen every 30 to 40 years, and it is not possible to say how serious a new pandemic will be. It depends on the characteristics of the new virus.
The 20th century saw three main pandemics -- in 1918, 1957 and 1968. The 1957 and 1968 pandemics each killed 1 million to 2 million people -- a relative drop in the bucket. The one in 1918 killed more than 20 million and is often used as a theoretical upper limit for future pandemics.
"Since it is hard to say if future ones will be more like a 1918 or a 1957 pandemic, it certainly makes sense to be prudent and do what we can to prepare ourselves for a pandemic," Murray said.
What Preparation Means
"Unfortunately, we can't avoid pandemics," Murray said. "But we can reduce the number of cases that occur and reduce the number of deaths."
One interesting result of the study was that it showed a large variation in how different countries around the world would be affected by the pandemic. And poorer countries would likely bear the brunt of the catastrophe.
"[In 1918], the poorer the country, the higher the mortality from the flu," Murray said. There was more than a 30-fold variation in mortality between countries they noted.
The researchers say the situation would be the same today.
This highlights the fact that despite medical advances, the disparities in health between rich and poor countries continues to remain extremely high, experts said. The poor continue to not benefit much from the increased wealth and advancements that the rest of the world is seeing.
"There are two main reasons why the poorer countries have a greater proportion of the deaths," Hill said. "One is that the health infrastructure is weaker in developing countries. And the second is that the populations are less healthy to begin with."
"Due to poor nutrition and other diseases the poor are more easily compromised."
Other experts agree that given the conditions in which many in the developing countries live -- where there is overcrowding and limited or no access to simple things like clean drinking water -- it is not surprising to see such a stark contrast.
U.S. Would Not Be Safe
While the United States has a detailed pandemic preparedness plan, the researchers say it will not be able to avoid a pandemic if one were to occur.
"We have the ability to monitor new strains of influenza and create vaccines, which may be of help, but we cannot completely protect ourselves in that way," Hill said. "The thing about influenza virus is that it is extremely contagious. It is hard to control if it gets into the human population."
"The 1918 influenza spread around in a matter of weeks even without air traffic. Attempts to seal off borders don't work," Hill said.
While the 1918 pandemic is a worst-case scenario, there is no guarantee that the next pandemic will not be even more deadly. And experts agree that one of the best ways to prevent the deaths from such a virus would be to make sure that developing countries are better prepared to handle a pandemic.
"Developed countries have an obligation to protect the population of developing countries," Hill said.
"In many ways there hasn't been enough focus on helping poor countries to have practical strategies to prepare for the flu," Murray said. "Because most of the mortality will be in poor countries, we need to focus more policy attention in helping them in coming up with effective strategies."
"It's a moral imperative alone," Murray said.


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Watching motion pictures is perhaps the best diversion of an individual and countless individuals love to watch movies of their preferred sort. Pretty much every individual has certain specific inclinations about sort of movies they like to watch in their extra time. This amazing mix of video and sound catches the eye of individuals with no exertion. The present-day occupied life has prompted a slow fall in the quantity of individuals going to theaters for viewing their preferred movies. One of the other prime explanations for this slow fall is the accessibility of most recent motion pictures on the web. Individuals can encounter the rush and energy of their preferred most recent motion picture on the 123movies.
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The successor to the popular mid-range phone, the OnePlus Nord, is heading our way with an announcement date officially set for July 22 for Europe and India. Now, OnePlus confirms another key feature of the new phone in a teaser on Twitter.
The OnePlus Nord 2 will have the same display as the OG OnePlus
The OnePlus Nord 2 will sport a 6.43-inch AMOLED display with a 90Hz smooth refresh rate, and it will be HDR10+ certified. One difference that will most likely be present here will be the selfie camera. On the OG OnePlus Nord, it is a pill-shaped punch-hole notch, while the OnePlus Nord 2 is expected to rock a circular punch-hole.
Nord 2 comes with a 6.43 inch 90 Hz Fluid AMOLED display that swipes so smooth you’ll think your fingers are dancing ballet. And it’s HDR 10+ certified.
Another thing we know about the OnePlus Nord 2 is the MediaTek Dimensity 1200-AI chipset, which will power the device, in a first for OnePlus phones. Before that, OnePlus phones were always equipped with a chip from Qualcomm.
We also expect the phone to come with a triple-camera setup, with a 50MP Sony IMX766 sensor for the main camera, an 8MP ultra-wide cam, and a 2MP black-and-white sensor, according to recent leaks. On the front, a selfie camera of 32MP is expected. Keeping the lights on will reportedly be a 4,500mAh battery cell. This is an improvement of around 10% in comparison to the OG Nord.
The OnePlus Nord 2 will be announced July 22 for Europe and India, while announcement or release date for the US is still unknown at this point.


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HCA receives an additional $21.5 million to tackle opioid epidemic
The Health Care Authority has received an additional $21.5 million to continue our efforts to combat the opioid crisis.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced more than $1.8 billion in funding to states to continue efforts to combat the opioid crisis by expanding access to treatment and supporting near real-time data on the drug overdose crisis. Washington will use its funding to expand our state’s opioid response plan, building upon a $21.5 million grant the state received in 2018.
Year two activities funded by this grant will include:
- Increasing access to medication assisted treatment for individuals with opioid use disorder.
- Community prevention services such as outreach and training on safe storage and safe opioid prescribing practices, and school-based specialists.
- Recovery support services including evidence-based peer support.
- Expanding two projects to support treatment and care for incarcerated individuals with opioid use disorder.
- Enhancement of the statewide Starts with One public education campaign.
“We already have reached thousands of Washingtonians with prevention, treatment and recovery resources,” said HCA Director Sue Birch. “This grant will help us spread those efforts even further. We know that while overdoses in our state due to prescription opioids have declined thanks to these efforts, we are experiencing an increase in overdoses and death due to heroin and the synthetic drug Fentanyl. We are not done tackling this epidemic yet, but these dollars help us move forward.”
For help with substance use disorders, Washingtonians can contact the Washington Recovery Helpline at 1.866. 789-1511 or visit https://www.warecoveryhelpline.org.


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“Hey, weren’t you the guys with that color case hardened Hi Power on display at SHOT Show?” I asked of the gentlemen wearing Midwest Gun Works polos at a shared lunch table in Louisville. We were at the NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits, enjoying some pulled pork and talking guns. “I have a weak spot for color […]
So if you’re in the market for a gun for your kid, and just can’t bring yourself to spring for the Hello Kitty AR-15 (you knew I’d get a reference in for that one sooner or later), want a reliable varmint gun, or just want to go plink at the range without putting a dent into your wallet, the Ruger 10/22 is a great place to start your search. You’ll never confuse it with the guns that won the West or some macho black gun, but The Little Carbine That Could has the goods to Git ‘er Done.


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– Shruti Gupta
Stories are famously structured in the format of three acts with exceptions.
Act I: We start with being introduced to the protagonist, who’s journey we will follow. We are also presented with the conflict which the s/hero has to overcome. Here, as a reader, we often find ourselves making our way through the story through the eyes of the leading character.
Act II: In this phase of the story, the characters undergo trials and tribulations to form a certain stance in the face of adversity. As a reader, this is the part where our empathy for the characters are challenged and our thoughts about the situation are laid straight.
Act III: This is where the story resolves the primary conflict in narration bringing it to a satisfying close. This is where we as a reader are given that assurance of normality even when abnormal situations arise.
Guidance or counselling by themselves can often add horse blindness to your already diminishing perspective.Being told to behave a certain way could restrict your mind set in to believing that anything apart from terms not accepted; that the way you are,is not okay. In moments like these, where your own point of view seems solitary, finding a person or their state of affairs so similar to yours could empower you and allow you to accept your own self as it is not so solitary anymore.
Learning through a story, that there are others beside you who go through a variety of afflictions and thus derive the power to overcome them, even if you are required to call for help, is a virtue that storytelling has held since eons. In the words of Lena Waithe,
“I’m writing my story so that others might see fragments of themselves.”


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text: Martine van Vliet, co-founder of the studio, is an urban planner and landscape architect. Graduated from the IAHL in Boskoop / Velp in1995, studied urbanism on the Academy of Architecture from 1995 until 2001 and passed her state exam for both urban planning and landscape architecture. The studio she founded in 2009 with Freek Loos with whom she formed the team of managing directors of Bureau B + B from 2001 to 2009. She works internationally on both urban planning, landscape and public space and on multiple scales. The identity and context of the place is often a starting point for the design. She works on bright and durable designs with innovative solutions in which detailing is essential. Plantations form an important part of the design.


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With the 2020 election not far off, Santa Clarita voters shared their thoughts on where vote centers should reside during a meeting held by Black Women for Wellness at the Newhall Community Center on Sunday.
The meeting gave residents a chance to understand what the new voting process will include, introducing the ballot marking device and digital submissions from home or elsewhere.
Gloria Coulanges, communications and marketing coordinator at Black Women for Wellness, explained how locations will be decided based on demographics, accessibility, proximity to public transportation, capacity and several other factors. Voters will have access to an online portal where they could make vote center suggestions. Proposed sites would require reviews, or ground truth, based on such information.
With Laura Herrera, project assistant with Voting Solutions for All People, Coulanges added that possible locations could include familiar places like schools, restaurants, coffee shops like Starbucks, places of worship and shopping malls. Cities with over 1,000 registered voters will be required to have a minimum of one vote center.
During a break, guests could walk to tables about potential locations, vote center suggestions and community characteristics.
“I was very curious what the new policy would be,” said guest Shawn Norton. “I figured it would be interesting, different, but very important.”
Norton said she hoped distance would not be an issue after a proposed vote center is selected, she said she applauded the modification and modernization of voting in Los Angeles County.
Some attendees expressed concern over voter fraud and keeping ballots safe.
Gala Caprice Cruz found the new process to be more convenient, though she was concerned
about the need for identification when applying for conditional voter registration, a process that can be done after the registration deadline.
“When you are verifying thousands and thousands of ballots and you just have people grinding through the work,” Cruz said, “I just don’t 100 percent feel like necessarily all of the verifications are valid.”
Herrera said the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will continue to safeguard the transportation of physical ballots, and the LA County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk office would be transparent about fraudulent votes going into future election cycles.
VSAP will continue to hold meetings this year to continue receiving input from voters before March 2020, where the vote center model will first be officially used.
To learn more about vote centers, go to vsap.lavote.net.

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