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Next up: Sears (SHLD). The iconic retailer can't turn a profit or get customers excited about its merchandise or Kmart's. After reporting yet another quarter of steep losses early Thursday, Sears' stock dropped nearly 5%.
Releasing results so close to JCPenney at least makes Sears look good by comparison. At least by many StockTwits traders.
Like J.C. Penney, Sears has a major hedge fund manager backing it in Eddie Lampert. Tough day for both Lampert and Pershing Square's Bill Ackman, who's been a fan of J.C. Penney's CEO.
Still not all traders were equally down on Sears. At least one saw signs of hope in Sears' results.
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The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

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The AMAP Project Directory (AMAP PD) is a catalog of projects and activities that contribute to assessment and monitoring in the Arctic. The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), is a working group under the Arctic Council, tasked with monitoring and asessing pollution, climate change, human health and to provide scientific advice as a basis for policy making.
The directory, which is continously updated, documents national and international projects and programmes that contribute to the overall AMAP programme, and provides information on data access as well as a gateway for the AMAP Thematic Data Centres.
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The Collaborative Interdisciplinary Cryospheric Experiment (C-ICE) is a multi-year field experiment that incorporates many individual projects, each with autonomous goals and objectives. The science conducted has directly evolved from research relating to one of four general themes: i. sea ice energy balance; ii. numerical modeling of atmospheric processes; iii. remote sensing of snow covered sea ice; and iv. ecosystem studies.
The development of methods for the accurate prediction of the extreme response of non-linear dynamic systems which use less computer time than presently commom methods.
- To support the further development of a geocryological database for the Usa Basin (East-European Russian Arctic), including key characteristics of permafrost such as distribution, coverage, temperature, active layer, etc. - To create GIS-based permafrost maps at the scale of 1:1,000,000 for the entire Usa Basin and at 1:100,000 for selected key sites. - To reconstruct the history of permafrost dynamics at key sites in the region over the last thousands of years using palaeoecological analysis and radiocarbon dating of peat deposits, and over the last few decades using remote sensing imagery and/or monitoring (base case scenario). - To predict permafrost dynamics at key sites in the region under future conditions of climate change (20-100 yrs), using a 1-dimensional permafrost model (future global change scenario). - To assess the effects of permafrost dynamics under base case and global change scenarios on urban, industrial and transportation infrastructure in the Usa Basin. Research activities Based on several representative sites, late Holocene permafrost dynamics will be characterized using palaeoecological techniques. Variability in permafrost conditions over the last few decades will be studied based on the available data from long-term monitoring station records and from a time series of remote sensing images (optional). Mathematical modelling of permafrost dynamics will be carried out for at least two sites and a forecast of permafrost degradation in the area under anticipated climate warming will be developed. The likely effects of permafrost degradation upon regional infrastructure (inhabited localities, heat and power engineering, coal and ore mines, oil and gas extracting complex, pipelines and railways) will be analyzed using a GIS approach. GIS data layers on permafrost dynamics and infrastructure will be compared in order to delimitate high risk areas based on existing infrastructure and anticipated permafrost degradation. Hereafter, the created GIS may serve as a basis for more detailed forecasting of permafrost dynamics under both natural and anthropogenic climate changes in lowland and alpine areas of the East-European Russian Arctic.
The aim of this project is to assess the deposition of HM/POP over Europe and to evaluate models. Within the framework of UN-ECE, EMEP Meteorological Synthesising Centre-East (MSC-E Moscow) organised in co-operation with RIVM, a model intercomparison for operational transport models on HM in 1995. In this intercomparison the RIVM will participate with the TREND-model. Results of the intercomparison will also be reported to the OSPAR commission. A model comparison for POPs will follow later. The RIVM/EUROS model is extended with soil and surface water modules in order to improve the description of the exchange process of POPs (deposition and re-emission). With the model, long-term averages of the deposition and accumulatation of POPs are described and scenario-studies can be carried out. In the first instance, Lindane and B(a)P will be taken as examples of POPs dominantly present respectively in the gas phase and attached to particles. When emissions are available the calculations are extended to other POPs.
In 1990, the Directorate for Nature Management (DN) established an area for integrated monitoring within Børgefjell National Park, Røyrvik, N Trøndelag. Studies of vegetation-environment relationships in the area was performed by NINA. The area includes both subalpine birch forest and low alpine heath. The new established vegetation investigation included all together 80 different species. This material was processed numerically by using multivariate methods. Indirect gradient analyses were performed using Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA) and Local Nonmetric Multidimentional Scaling (LNMDS). Direct gradient analyses were performed by using rescaled hybrid Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA). Non-parametric correlation analyses, Kendall’s , were performed between environmental parameters and DCA axis values. The results of the numerical and statistical processing were used partly to provide a description of the vegetational structure in the material and partly to quantify how much each ecological parameters contributed to determination of vegetational structure. This work shows the species distribution along various complex gradients; moisture, nutrient conditions, light etc. The investigation is primarily designed to study vegetation dynamics along these gradients and whether changes in the number of species can be related to changes in physical, biotic and, not least, chemical parameters. Variance analysis was performed to assess to what extent the sample plots tends move in a determined direction from 1990 to 1995. The variation between the years were not significant along the primary complex gradients, but there were a significant displacement of species along the following gradients. The most important species were: Vaccinium vitis-idaea, Melampyrum sylvaticum and Hylocomium splendens), which showed an increase and some cryptogams like Brachythecium reflexum, B. salebrosum and Cladonia ecmocyna which declined.
1) To perform simulation scenarios for the 21st century, including global warming scenarios, of potential radioactive spreading from sources in the Russian Arctic coastal zone and its impact on Barents, Greenland and Norwegian Seas and the Arctic Ocean; 2) To update the environmental and pollution data base of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP); 3) To assess, select and define the most probable simulation scenarios for accidental releases of radionuclides; 4) To implement a Generic Model System (GMS) consisting of several nested models designed to simulate radionuclides transport through rivers, in the Kara sea and in the Arctic ocean / North Atlantic; 5) To carry out simulation studies for the selected "release" scenarios of radionuclides, using various atmospheric forcing scenarios; 6) Assess the impact on potential radioactive spreading from sources as input to risk management.
To assess potential levels of radionuclides input into the Kara sea from existing and potential sources of technogenic radioactivity, located on the land in the Ob- and Yenisey rivers watersheds. Specific Objectives * To reveal and estimate a) most hazardous technogenic sources of radioactive contamination in the Ob- and Yenisey watersheds and b) the most possible and dangerous natural and technogenic (antrophogenic) situations (in the regions of these sources) that may result in release of radionuclides into the environment and may lead to significant changes in the radioactive contamination of the Kara sea * To estimate parameters of radionuclides (potential amount, composition, types etc.) under release to the environment from chosen sources as a result of accidents as well as during migration from the sources to the Kara sea through river systems * To set up a dedicated Database and a Geographic Information System (GIS) for modelling transport of radionuclides from the land-based sources to the Kara sea * To develop and create a dedicated model tool for simulation of radionuclides transport from land-based sources through Ob- and Yenisey river systems to the Kara sea
In 1994, analyses of sediments and fish from Lake Ellasjøen on Bear Island revealed a surprising scenario. The analytical results indicated some of the highest values of the contaminants PCB and DDT in freshwater sediments and fish ever found in the Arctic. The 1994 results were based on limited amounts of samples. During 1996 and 1997 there were carried out new sampling and analyses of several samples. These results verify the results found in 1994. Since the POP-patterns found deviate considerably from the typical patterns expected for local contamination, no local source can be assumed to be responsible for the high POP values found. Thus, the questions that need to be addressed include the source of these contaminants, the transport pathways that deliver these contaminants to this site, total deposition and finally contaminant fate including biological uptake and effects. Previous investigations from the early 80’s on high volume air samples carried out at Bear Island revealed several long-range transport episodes from Eastern Europe. The overall objective of this project is to contribute significant new information to the understanding of contaminant pathways in the Arctic hydrosphere and to provide a better understanding of contaminant focusing in a sensitive polar environment. This will be accomplished through the development of a comprehensive mass balance study of the atmospheric loadings of PCBs and other contaminants to the Lake Ellasjøen watershed to determine the seasonal importance of atmospheric deposition on a remote polar island. Further, effort will be directed at assessing the relative importance of various source regions of contaminants to the island through an evaluation of contaminant signatures and back trajectories of pollution events.
To investigate the impacts of Russia's military and civilian nuclear activities in the Kola Bay and adjacent areas of the northwest Arctic coast of Russia.
(1) Collate information relating to the environmental transfer and fate of selected radionuclides through aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in the Arctic. (2) Identify reference Arctic biota that can be used to evaluate potential dose rates to biota in different terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments (3) Model the uptake of a suite of radionuclides, both natural and anthropogenic to reference Arctic biota (4) Develop a reference set of dose models for reference Arctic biota (5) Compile data on dose-effects relationships and assessments of potential radiological consequences for reference Arctic biota (6) Integrate assessments of environmental impact from radionuclides with those for other contaminants.
The project aims to carry out an environmental assessment of the marine environment close to the three main settlements in the Isfjorden complex; Barentsburg, Longyearbyen and Pyramiden. The study comprises analyses of sediment geochemistry and soft-bottom benthic fauna. Attention is given to distinguishing atmospheric transport of contaminants from those arising from local sources.
Our projects will investigate the effects of radioactive wastes on marine ecosystems. Two marine ecosystems have been chosen for projects: 1) the dumping site for low level radioactive waste in the north-east Atlantic and 2) the western part of the Barents Sea. The data on the radioecology of North Sea and Baltic Sea obtained in our long-time monitoring programmes will serve as a basis for the interpretation of the project´s results.
Our broad area of enquiry is the role of polar regions in the global energy and water cycles, and the atmospheric, oceanic and sea ice processes that determine that role. The primary importance of our investigation is to show how these polar processes relate to global climate.
Our central geophysical objective is to determine how sea ice and the polar oceans respond to and influence the large-scale circulation of the atmosphere. Our primary technical objective is to determine how best to incorporate satellite measurements in an ice/ocean model.
To understand and model the processes by which Arctic deep water is formed on continental shelves by the modification of inflowing Atlantic and Pacific waters.
To develop the next-generation Navy operational ice thickness and movement model.
In 2000 it is proposed to operate an atmospheric programme consisting of a monitoring and a modelling part and composed of 3 programme modules. The monitoring programme consists of two parts. I. It is proposed to continue the weekly measurements of acidifying components and heavy metals at Station Nord in north-east Greenland for assessment of atmospheric levels and trends. The measuring programme includes also highly time resolved measurements of Ozone and of total gaseous Mercury (TGM). The results will also be used for continued development and verification of the transport model calculations. Receptor modelling of the pollution composition will be used for identification and quantification of the source types that influence the atmospheric pollution in north-east Greenland. Comparison of the two sets of modelling results is expected to give better models. II. The purpose of the project is the operation of a permanent air monitoring programme in the populated West Greenland at a location which is representative for transboundary air pollution. The most promising sites are located in the Disko Bay area and in the vicinity of Nuuk. The objectives are to obtain data on the concentration levels of air pollutants that can be used for assessing seasonal variations and trends and for studying long range transport of pollutants mainly from North America to West Greenland. The purpose is further to provide data for development and improvement of long range transport models that can be used to identify the origin of the pollution and its transport pathways. The results from measurements and model calculations will be used to assess the magnitude of deposition to sea and land in this populated region of Greenland. III. In the proposed modelling programme the operation, application and maintenance of the current basic hemispheric model will be continued. Results on origin, transport, and deposition of contaminants on land and sea surfaces in the Arctic are essential for interpretation and understanding the Arctic air pollution. The model will be developed to improve the spatial and temporal resolutions, as well as the accuracy by including physically and mathematically better descriptions of the key processes treated in the model. The work to expand the model to include also non-volatile heavy metals, such as Cadmium and Lead on an hemispheric scale will be continued. Since the atmospheric chemistry of Ozone and Mercury seem to be strongly connected in the Arctic it is planned to continue the development and testing of a model module for hemispheric transport and chemistry for ozone and mercury to assess the origin and fate of this highly toxic metal in the Arctic.
The objectives of this project are: A) to determine the pathway for the transfer of mercury in snowmelt to sea water during the melt period at Alert; B) to determine the extent of open water and wet ice in the summer Arctic as it affects the surface exchange of Hg using satellite radar imagery; and C) to determine the atmospheric dynamics associated with the photochemistry of mercury episodically during the polar sunrise period.
The aim of this project is to compile information and create a computerized database of historical and present global lindane and endosulfan usage data as well as emission data for gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane (gamma-HCH) and endosulfan with 1 degree x 1 degree lat/long resolution. The objectives of this project are: A) to create global gridded g-HCH and endosulfan emission inventories; B) to study the linkage between global g-HCH and endosulfan use trends and g-HCH and endosulfan concentration trends in the Arctic; and C) to assist in comparing concentrations and ratios of different HCH isomers in the Arctic biotic and abiotic environments.

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Who is SAMMinistries?
Since 1983, San Antonio Metropolitan Ministry, Inc. (better known as SAMMinistries) has operated as an interfaith ministry whose mission is to help the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless attain self-sufficiency by offering, with dignity and compassion, shelter, housing and services. SAMMinistries also provides volunteers opportunities to be renewed and fulfilled as they serve. Today, SAMMinistries’ highly recognized Continuum of Care model is supported by more than 175 churches and synagogues and over 3,000 volunteers.
Transitional Living and Learning Center: Provides transitional living, life skills training and support for up to two years.
Transitional Housing: 25 Houses in San Antonio and Bexar County available for rent for families progressing toward self-sufficiency, in a two-year program under the guidance of a caseworker.
Homeless Prevention Services: Offers individuals and families monetary assistance and referrals to bridge the gap between a crisis situation and stability.
Donation Services Warehouse, Job-Training and Educational Assistance at Haven for Hope
The Haven for Hope Campus offers a place where many agencies that care for the homeless can provide their services in a unified manner. SAMMinistries serves this campus and the community through our Donation Services Warehouse; accepting and disbursing clothing, household goods, furniture and helping people movie to a place of their own. Our Job-Training and Employment Development Services help men and women from Haven for Hope and SAMMinistries' programs in their efforts to improve their futures by enriching their employment skills. In addition, our Educational Services provides assistance to those with needing help to further their educational goals.
- Established by 11 downtown congregations in 1983
- FY11 Annual operating budget of $7.2 million
- In FY10 more than 10,729 volunteer opportunities resulted in 36,585 hours of service
- SAMMinistries' Furniture For A Cause is located at 5254 Blanco Rd. and all proceeds benefit SAMMinistries
- Largest provider of homeless services in the City of San Antonio.
FACTS ABOUT SAN ANTONIO HOMELESSNESS
- On any given day, there are 4,000 homeless men, women and children in San Antonio.
- 70% of homeless have been homeless over 1 year
- 18% of request for emergency shelter could not be met
- 31% of the homeless are families with children
- 64% of homeless family members are children
- 37% of the homeless women living in shelters are employed
- 27% of the homeless men living in shelters are employed
- $350 is the median monthly income of a homeless family
- 42 years old is the average age of a homeless adult in San Antonio
- 6 years old is the average age of a homeless child In San Antonio
- In FY11, SAMMinistries provided351,100 nights of shelter and supportive services to 5,859 men, women, and children
- In FY11, SAMMinistries served 1,401 families, which included 2,500 children
*Percentages and averages based on the San Antonio 2008 Point In Time Survey
CAUSES OF HOMELESSNESS IN SAN ANTONIO
- Lack of affordable housing
- Low paying jobs
- Mental illness and the lack of needed services
- Substance abuse and the lack of needed services
- Domestic violence
- Large family households

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Effect of Tribolium castaneum in Qualitative and Quantitative Contamination with Fungi
Sadek Jafar Tuama, Sadek Thajeb Ali, Zainb Hthdy
The objective of this study was to estimate the quantitative contamination fungi in sound whole flour that infested with red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum under the effect of different numerical levels of insect, which are (5, 10, 20) pairs in the level of contamination. The study was accomplished under a temperature 30±2 0C and humidity 70 ±5%. The result showed the following. 13 species of fungus which belong to five genera were isolated from sound and infested whole flour samples with three numerical levels of the insect. These were (5, 10, 20) pairs and for two generations. The species isolated were: Aspergillus flavesus, A niger, A. terreus, Mucor hiemalis, Alternaria Alternaria, Paecilomyces Sp. Penicillium sp1, Penicillium sp2. Whereas at the two numerical levels (10, 20) pairs of insects, the fungus species Sterils mycelia, A.ustus, Emericella sp, Sepedonium sp. were isolated.
The more frequently fungus in the samples of infested flour in the level 20 pairs of insects was A. flavus. Its frequency was (47.37%), also in level 5 pairs of the fungus A niger, which frequency ratio was (42, 58%). In the sound flour samples the more frequency. A. fumigates in level 5 pairs of insects which its frequency was (34, 48%) and in level 20 pairs of insects was the fungus A. niger which its frequency was (66.6%).The results showed that the rate of numerical of fungi increased with increasing levels of numbers of the insects ,the highest rate of fungus numerical was recorded in infested whole flours at the numerical level 10 pairs of insects was (31.41X10)2 colony/ gm. While their average numbers were (15.83×102) colony /gm at level 5 pairs of insects. It was observed that the average number of fungus in flour insects was higher than their numbers in sound flour.


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Tower Research Capital LLC TRC trimmed its holdings in shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ:WBA) by 59.5% in the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 6,570 shares of the pharmacy operator’s stock after selling 9,650 shares during the quarter. Tower Research Capital LLC TRC’s holdings in Walgreens Boots Alliance were worth $359,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Other large investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Nelson Roberts Investment Advisors LLC bought a new stake in shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance in the first quarter valued at about $25,000. Meridian Wealth Management LLC bought a new stake in shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance in the first quarter valued at about $25,000. Weaver Consulting Group bought a new stake in shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance in the first quarter valued at about $27,000. Sageworth Trust Co bought a new stake in shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance in the second quarter valued at about $27,000. Finally, First Interstate Bank raised its holdings in shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance by 228.1% in the second quarter. First Interstate Bank now owns 607 shares of the pharmacy operator’s stock valued at $33,000 after acquiring an additional 422 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 59.70% of the company’s stock.
Shares of WBA stock traded up $1.20 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $55.77. 2,013,000 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 4,500,405. Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc has a 1 year low of $49.03 and a 1 year high of $86.31. The stock has a market cap of $49.53 billion, a PE ratio of 9.26, a PEG ratio of 1.37 and a beta of 0.88. The company has a current ratio of 0.76, a quick ratio of 0.37 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.49. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is $52.37 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $54.62.
The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, September 12th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, August 20th were paid a dividend of $0.458 per share. This is a positive change from Walgreens Boots Alliance’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.44. The ex-dividend date was Monday, August 19th. This represents a $1.83 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.29%. Walgreens Boots Alliance’s payout ratio is presently 30.40%.
In other news, CAO Marco Patrick Anthony Pagni sold 215,323 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, August 14th. The stock was sold at an average price of $50.48, for a total transaction of $10,869,505.04. Following the sale, the chief accounting officer now owns 357,851 shares in the company, valued at $18,064,318.48. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this hyperlink. 15.73% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.
Several analysts recently weighed in on WBA shares. ValuEngine upgraded Walgreens Boots Alliance from a “strong sell” rating to a “sell” rating in a report on Friday, June 28th. Deutsche Bank started coverage on Walgreens Boots Alliance in a report on Thursday, September 12th. They issued a “sell” rating for the company. Morgan Stanley decreased their price objective on Walgreens Boots Alliance from $61.00 to $58.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a report on Friday, August 23rd. Bank of America decreased their price objective on Walgreens Boots Alliance from $53.00 to $51.00 and set an “underperform” rating for the company in a report on Monday, June 3rd. Finally, BidaskClub upgraded Walgreens Boots Alliance from a “strong sell” rating to a “sell” rating in a report on Wednesday, September 11th. Seven equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eleven have issued a hold rating and four have issued a buy rating to the company. The company has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $63.65.
Walgreens Boots Alliance Profile
Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc operates as a pharmacy-led health and wellbeing company. It operates through three segments: Retail Pharmacy USA, Retail Pharmacy International, and Pharmaceutical Wholesale. The Retail Pharmacy USA segment sells prescription drugs and an assortment of retail products, including health, beauty, personal care, consumable, and general merchandise products through its retail drugstores and convenient care clinics.
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Maynilad embarks on lake remediation journey using ultrasound
A pioneering pilot project is reshaping the future of Laguna de Bay, the Philippines’ largest freshwater lake and the third-largest in Southeast Asia. Maynilad Water Services, showcasing innovation and a robust commitment to environmental stewardship, has introduced ultrasound technology to initiate the remediation of the lake’s longstanding water issues.
Maynilad introduced LG Sonic MPC-Buoys to combat Laguna de Bay's algae blooms
MPC-Buoys allow Maynilad to report real-time data on key water quality parameters
Maynilad strives to maintain high water quality standards from its raw water resources
The heartbeat of the region
Laguna de Bay serves as a vibrant hub for the 29 towns bordering its shores. It plays a pivotal role in sustaining these communities, serving as a crucial water source for irrigation, industrial use, daily needs, power generation, a transportation route, and a beloved recreational haven.
Given its significance, safeguarding this lake is imperative. However, water quality problems and algae outbreaks in the Philippines present significant challenges to sustainable development, public health, and the ecosystem.
High turbidity and algae blooms
Maynilad Water Service, responsible for water and wastewater services in the West Zone of the Greater Manila Area, caters to over nine million people and has proactively tackled the challenges faced by Laguna de Bay. Drawing water from the lake, the Putatan Water Treatment Plant has grappled with seasonal hurdles such as high turbidity during the “amihan” (wind) season and algal blooms during the dry season.
In 2022, algal blooms prompted complaints from Muntinlupa residents due to water service interruptions lasting from eight to 18 hours per day. Earlier this year, Maynilad encountered a 15-day period of water service disruptions. The primary cause was a production reduction at the water treatment plant due to high turbidity levels in the raw water from Laguna Lake. As a result, around 170,000 customers experienced water supply disruptions.
Real-time water monitoring
In a proactive move to address persistent algae blooms that degrade water quality, Maynilad took a significant step by initiating a kick-off project, installing LG Sonic MPC-Buoys that target a critical section of the lake. This groundbreaking technology, leading in environmental conservation, employs ultrasound’s power to combat algae without harming the surrounding ecosystem.
Placed near the intake structure of the Putatan Water Treatment Plant, three new MPC-Buoys units are designed to monitor and prevent algal blooms that could compromise the lake’s raw water quality. With real-time monitoring, Maynilad can swiftly detect potential threats and take immediate action to uphold water quality.
The MPC-Buoy systems provide real-time data on water quality, including parameters such as Chlorophyll α, Phycocyanin, pH, Turbidity, Dissolved Oxygen, and temperature. Drawing from over a decade of information collected from numerous LG Sonic devices worldwide, the system also offers a predictive model that alerts water operators to potential blooms or water quality deterioration.
Ultrasonic algae control is viewed as a long-term solution to address raw water quality challenges in Laguna Lake, ensuring consistent water service for customers in the south. Raymund Rasco, Water Supply Operations Manager and Process Engineer at the Putatan Water Treatment Plant attested to how LG Sonic technology empowers Maynilad with an innovative, world-class system that enhances their operations.
“From equipment installation to commissioning and operation, it was manageable and user-friendly. We were able to gather data as soon as we deployed it.”
This collaboration signifies the initiation of an advanced lake remediation program integrating digital twin technology into Maynilad’s operations. With a focused approach on real-time data and proactive monitoring, Maynilad is making significant strides to address challenges posed by algae and ensure the preservation of one of the nation’s most vital water resources.


Eaton, N.C., Curran, M.J., Dakin, J.P. and Geiger, H.
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Despite the many advantages of composite materials, limited data on their inservice performance continues to restrict their application in aircraft structures. Networks of strain sensing elements offer the potential to perform continuous structure health monitoring, as well as gathering information on structure operating conditions. This paper describes some preliminary findings of an ongoing research programme, which aims to implement embedded optical fibre sensing systems. It is envisaged that these systems will be used for health monitoring of composite aircraft components.
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Chronicle Games is looking for a full-time, permanent programmer. Our small team is currently prototyping a mobile / tablet RPG based on the idea of digging and underground exploration. It's pretty unique, but for comparison you could reference Terraria or Gem Miner 2 (on Android only).
For tech, our prototyping framework is currently HaxeFlixel, which should be comfortable to learn for anyone with AS3 or Java experience. We may switch to Unity for production. You would be part of that discussion (and all other important decisions!)
Here are a few of the game's features:
- Procedural level generation
- Turn-based gameplay
- A collect-and-upgrade metagame
- Strategic combat with traps
We're looking for both a senior and junior developer, but either position requires past game engineering experience and a full time commitment. We're definitely indies with a limited budget, but all positions are paid.
Finally, a bit about the company: we're currently three, but will be five people within a month or two (including you). Those of us currently on the project have experience releasing professional games, and we also have some great advisors to help make sure everything we do is top-notch. And although the studio itself is remote, it's a plus if you're in the region of Taiwan (meaning anywhere in southeast Asia).
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No water was used in this recipe to keep the cauliflower dry. To make it saucy, add half a cup of hot water at the end and bring everything back to a boil. I added a diced russet potato to suit my Bengali palate, but it may be omitted if you wish.
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From Neil Young singing about how selling his music for a product (Pepsi, Coke, Miller, Bud) would make him a joke to The Who parodying the concept of selling music to big business (The Who Sell Out), marrying music with commercialism used to be absolute rock ‘n’ roll taboo. Over time, things have no doubt shifted away from the mindset that commercial relationships were whoring yourself and your music to licensing your music out to reasonable outlets being viewed in a respectable light that can actually serve to prop your art up.
Few things have as conflicted a relationship as rock ‘n’ roll and commercialism. In many ways, they are like violence and football. The two can’t exist without each other (although they may want to). In many ways, commercialism (whether it’s licensing, large label distribution, sponsorships, etc.) lie very opposed to the defining spirit of rock ‘n’ roll, which values independence, freedom of expression and a never-ending vendetta against the so-called “man” (i.e., parents, big business, the police, government and so on). However, since the musical paradigm has shifted with the rise of digital music and fall of major record sales, it’s no longer possible for the majority of artists to make a sustainable career out of record sales.
Take underground rapper MC Lars’ recent interview with the Huffington Post about his primary forms of revenue. He makes a measly 13 percent of his revenue off of digital album sales, but guess what is pulling in the largest chunk of Lars’ change? Yes, that’s right: souvenirs (of all things). The artist is actually making more money off the shirts and hats you buy after the show (47 percent) than the show itself (40 percent of Lars’ revenue). This is a guy that doesn’t even license his music for commercials, movies or other media channels, which is pretty much the easiest money a musician can make.
Most people nowadays are not going to have their opinion altered about a band just for appearing in a commercial, and many may even find it cool to witness a band they love get some much-deserved attention.
Also, gone are the days when MTV or radio hold enough weight to determine taste. Now there are so many different outlets to get one’s music from. For instance,
Internet radio (Pandora)
Social media music sites (Spotify)
And even then, people are still having a hard a time as ever getting their music heard by the masses. But there is a common phenomenon that continues to draw attention, and in large numbers: television. More than 115.9 million households still have televisions, and studies show that we are watching an increasing amount of TV, up to 34 hours a week in Nielsen’s 2011 survey. That’s practically a day job. With that kind of artillery, television commercials have not only become a shrewd way to get paid, but also to get one’s music heard by millions.
A shining example of this is the band Fun., who hit it huge earlier this year when their song “We Are Young” was featured in a Chevy Sonic commercial that aired during the Superbowl. That day, 111.3 millions Americans heard Fun., and they continue to listen to the group. “We Are Young” charted at No. 1 on the Billboard 100 for an unprecedented six weeks in a row.
When Fun. toured with Janelle Monae (who contributed guest vocals to “We Are Young”) in late 2011, Fun. was the opening act. Fast forward less than a year later, and now Fun. is sure to be the headliner in virtually any lineup they’re thrown against. The reason? The power of one commercial. Other recent examples of bands who broke it big by licensing out their music for TV ads are Chairlift (Apple), The Asteroids Galaxy Tour (Heineken), Matt & Kim (Bacardi), and Grouplove (Apple). Not to mention plenty of already-established indie acts who just took that extra step with a presence on TV: Grizzly Bear (Volkswagen), Jose Gonzalez (Sony), New Pornographers (University of Phoenix), Vampire Weekend (tons and tons) and many more.
So what to make of this rise of indie music in TV ads, and music and commercialism in general? Look at it this way: as long as promoting the product doesn’t jeopardize the message and values of the band—if the music is a natural fit for what it’s sponsoring— why not? TV commercials appear to be a phenomenal way of generating some (much-needed) revenue. It removes some of the pressure to tour like dogs and promote like crazy. It can even prop a band out of the cellar and give them the resources to produce a great-sounding record and deliver an even more robust tour.
Limited now are the opinions once held strong by artists such as Neil Young and the Who. Those anti-commercial artists still exist (legends from the past few musical eras such as Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits and Elvis Costello still won’t budge), but they are a dying breed in rare company when it comes to artists who can survive without commercial handouts since they built up their fortunes in decades past. Most people nowadays are not going to have their opinion altered about a band just for appearing in a commercial, and many may even find it cool to witness a band they love get some much-deserved attention. Vampire Weekend and the Black Keys were even smart enough to crack on themselves on “The Colbert Report” last year with their well-publicized “Sell Out Off,” dueling back in forth, one-upping each other with TV spots.
Getting wrapped up in such matters nowadays is just petty; focus on the music, and don’t get bummed when your favorite band gets some deserved air time. Even if ol’ Neil won’t give in (and a good rule of thumb is to side with him), there are better fights to be had.

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As someone whose first twenty-five years on the planet were spent within the city limits of Detroit, there will always be a soft spot in my heart for the Motor City. Moreover, once Detroit gets in your blood, it is hard to think of yourself as anything but a Detroiter, even with nearly two decades of living in Toledo.
And it is as a Detroiter-at-heart that I have been watching from across the Ohio border the tragicomedy known as the Kwame Kilpatrick administration. The latest act in this dismal production was news today that Kilpatrick faces charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice, misconduct in office, perjury in a court proceeding, and two counts of perjury other than in a court proceeding. His alleged co-conspirator, former mayoral chief of staff and one-time lover Christine Beatty, also faces a host of felony charges in light of what appears to be perjury over their affair.
The Kilpatrick years are a litany of misgovernance, ranging from misuse of city funds to an inability to carry out mandated state audits to recrimination against whistleblowers. Yet all of these scandals pale in comparison with the embarassing prospect of a sitting mayor being tried and convicted of a felony.
Just ask Marion Barry and the citizens of Washington, DC about the damage to a civic reputation involved with an elected official standing trial.
It is time that Kwame Kilpatrick recognizes that his continued presence in the mayor's office hurts the city of Detroit, and that he would best serve the city he claims to love by stepping down. Detroit has endured too many years of his failed leadership, and it is time to turn the reins of the city over to someone who can guide the struggling city without the heavy and distracting burdens of scandal.
My suspicion, though, is that Kilpatrick is too much of an egomaniac to put the city's best interests ahead of his own desperate attempt to hold on to power. Thus, Detroit will likely suffer another period of being the butt of national jokes, further grinding the remnants of this once-great city into the ground.
Kwame Kilpatrick: be a man and step down.

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Several bits of new information regarding Blizzard Entertainment's upcoming MMORPG World of Warcraft have been posted. First, Blizzard themselves updated the official FAQ for the game with several questions that popped up with the start of the closed public beta test. Besides the updated FAQ, Blizzard also updated the screenshot section with five new in-game shots.
And if that wasn't enough, HomeLan Fed posted an interview with producer Shane Dabiri, speaking about the upcoming beta and the future of World of Warcraft. On the question of what will happen content-wise after the game is finally released, Shane replies:
We are very familiar with not having finished everything we wanted to add to a shipped product. We continue to tweak and add content to many of our other products to this day (StarCraft or Diablo balance patches for example). These other games do not have a live team associated with them, yet we have managed to give players what they desire. With World of Warcraft, we are going beyond this extra step and will have a staff of almost 100 game masters that will support players around the clock (24 hours a day/7 days a week). We will also have a dedicated 'live team' of programmers, designers, artists, and sound engineers continually creating content for the game, as well as fixing any bugs that might pop up.The full interview includes other interesting information and everybody curious about the game should head over to HomeLan Fed to read it.
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Phil and Brenda Liskey consider their family farm in northwestern Augusta County as part of their life journey. Phil, 64, and Brenda, 65, both grew up on Shenandoah Valley farms before heading off to college. Brenda used her degrees to teach elementary school and special education, while Phil found himself using his agricultural business degree with Rockingham Co-op.
Their hearts, however, were drawn to the land where they wanted their children to experience the quality of life that comes from growing up on a farm. After looking at 25 to 30 places, they landed on the farm they now call Golden Spring Farm. It was affordable, probably because it was in need of some tender loving care.
That was in 1985. Two years later, Phil left the co-op in order to put his years of experience in animal nutrition to good use by opening his own animal feed store. Farm Choice, Inc. today has expanded far beyond animal feed to include countless products that might come in handy on the family farm.
The farm and store journey that they launched more than 30 years ago has also been an environmental project as they learned to be good stewards of the land. Through best management practices, they brought Golden Spring Farm back to life by taking a minimalist approach to chemicals, fencing off creeks, and establishing a wildlife plot with nut and berry plants, around the farm’s perimeter.
A calf enjoys a meal from its mother at Golden Spring Farm in Augusta County. (Photo by Nancy Sorrells)
“It has been good health wise for the children growing up on the farm. We try to be as environmentally friendly as possible. We both grew up with the idea that we have to be good stewards of the land because we are just here temporarily,” the couple explained.
In 2017, Brenda and Phil took the next step in their stewardship journey by installing solar panels at their store. Then, in 2020, they put a ground-mounted solar array at one end of the poultry houses and another one in a field behind their home.
The result is that 100% of the electric bills at the store, at the poultry houses, and at their house are covered. The only bill they receive from Shenandoah Valley Electric Co-op at the farm and Harrisonburg Electric at the store is the small meter fee. All the electric usage, which amounts to about $650 a month just for the poultry houses, is offset by the energy produced by their solar panels.
“Solar panels were the next step in our environmental journey. We used two different local companies to install the panels and liked them both,” Brenda said.
(Photo by Nancy Sorrells)
Phil explained that they financed the panels with a low interest loan over a period of 10 years. “The monthly bill for the loan is exactly the same as the electrical services bill was so we don’t even notice it. The payment for the loan and the electric bill is the same so the cash flow is the same. In five years more years at the store and eight more years on the farm we won’t have any bill at all so this is a win-win,” Phil said.
When asked about how many solar panels he installed or what the kilowatt output was, he answered with a smile that he had no idea.
“I don’t pay attention to the actual specs. What I care about is that I don’t get an electric bill for the farm, the house or the store,” he said.
Phil and Brenda said that they have been pleased with the addition of solar to their operations. “I don’t know why anyone would not do it,” Brenda said of the addition of solar to the farm portfolio.
A visit to the solar array behind the poultry house reveals that the cattle do not seem to mind either as a few animals had been using the underside of one row of panels that morning to break the brisk winds and garner shade from the hot morning sun.
The small cow-calf operation that the Liskeys operate fits in to the environmental practices of the entire farm. Lush, green farm pastures, sectioned off with strands of electric fence, provide the multi-colored herd of moms and calves as well as a big Angus bull with plenty of nutrition as they rotate from field to field.
“The electric fence is a psychological barrier, not a physical barrier,” Phil explained. Because the Liskeys’ cattle already know the meaning of that thin strand of wire, he has strung it closely around each array to keep the animals from rubbing up against and damaging the solar panels. There is still enough room for the animals to get under the panels for shade and they are not shy of taking advantage of what they probably consider some pretty odd-looking “trees” in their pasture.
“It’s part of our continuing lifestyle,” Phil said of the solar arrays. “Farming is a lifestyle. Promoting good environmental practices is a lifestyle. Solar is just part of the package of promoting those good practices.”
Perhaps the post on the Farm Choice Facebook page five years ago when the store went solar best summed it all up: “We have a new crop. We are harvesting solar energy.”


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NY-LON: bringing together poets from London and New York, a cross-continent poetry connection.
Take part in a captivating evening that celebrates cultural exchange and artistic collaboration, and explores identity, social justice and the complexities of human nature.
We’re joined by Kwame Dawes, Ugochi Nwaogwugwu and Jive Poetic from the US; and Salena Godden and Lemn Sissay from the UK. Hosting will be the wonderful BREIS.
Supported by some of the UK’s freshest new voices and house band, this event transcends borders, uniting cultures through the universal languages of music and poetry.
This event is part of the Speak Up Newcomer programme connecting US & UK poets, produced by Apples and Snakes and Young Identity.
Kwame Dawes has authored 36 books of poetry, fiction, criticism and essays, including Nebraska, Bivouac and City of Bones: A Testament. Speak from Here to There, co-written with Australian poet John Kinsella, appeared in 2016. He holds posts at Prairie Schooner, the University of Nebraska, the African Poetry Book Fund, Calabash International Literary Festival and the Academy of American Poets.
Ugochi Nwaogwugwu is a multidisciplinary creative and founder of Spirit Speaks, Inc. Chicago Music Awards named Nwaogwugwu and her band African Soul Ensemble (A.S.E.) Best African Entertainer in 2005 and 2022. Her poems have featured in anthologies Storm Between Two Fingers and Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different. Nwaogwugwu created an original pan-African poetry form called Ike, paying homage to her Igbo heritage of Nigeria.
Jive Poetic was one of two poets selected by the US Embassy to represent American slam poetry during an international cultural exchange programme in Poland. He has collected grand slam championship titles internationally. He is founder of Insurgent Poets Society and co-founder of Soundbites Poetry Festival, and hosts the open slam at Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
Lemn Sissay OBE is a poet, playwright, memoirist, performer and broadcaster. He was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize in 2019 for memoir My Name Is Why. His Landmark poems can be seen in public spaces around the UK. With Hans Ulrich Obrist, Sissay co-curated the exhibition Poet Slash Artist for Manchester International Festival 2021. He was previously writer in residence at the Southbank Centre, and was the first poet commissioned to write for the London Olympics 2012.
Salena Godden FRSL
Salena Godden FRSL is an award-winning author, poet and broadcaster of Jamaican-mixed heritage. She is Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a patron of Hastings Book Festival and has been awarded Honorary Fellowship at West Dean. Her debut novel Mrs Death Misses Death won the Indie Book Award for Fiction and the People’s Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards and the Gordon Burn Prize. Film and TV rights for Mrs Death Misses Death have been optioned by Idris Elba’s production company Green Door Pictures. A hardback edition of Pessimism is for Lightweights – 30 Pieces of Courage and Resistance was published by Rough Trade Books in February 2023. Her poem Pessimism is for Lightweights is on permanent display at The Peoples History Museum, Manchester. Godden has signed a 3-book deal with Canongate: she is currently working on a memoir and a poetry collection which are both due for publication in May 2024, plus a second novel set in the Mrs Death Misses Death universe due in spring 2025.
This event was funded in part by a grant from the United States Department of State. The opinions, findings and conclusions stated herein are those of the author[s] and do not necessarily reflect those of the United States Department of State.
For access information, including details on cloak room, cafes and how to get there, please see the Southbank website.


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A federal judge has ruled in favor of Elkhart, Indiana public schools in a lawsuit over the constitutionality of a school Christmas Spectacular presented by the performing arts department of Concord High School. The show is an annual tradition that in the past has included significant emphasis on performances with a Christian emphasis, including a live nativity scene populated by students as actors.
After a lawsuit was filed challenging the show as a violation of the separation of church and state, the court issued an injunction halting the show as planned, and finding a likely constitutional violation in the show as presented in 2014. In response, the 2015 show was modified to increase the spotlight on other religious holiday traditions, to lessen the Christian emphasis, and to replace the live nativity scene actors with mannequins and limit its presence during the show.
Plaintiffs maintained that the revised show violated the injunction and violated the Establishment Clause’s religious liberty protections. In a ruling yesterday, the court disagreed. While the 2014 violation still demands a remedy, the changes, the judge found, removed the constitutional concerns for the 2015 show.
Here is an excerpt from the opinion:
The portrayal of the nativity scene in the 2015 show was very different. As just noted, the nativity scene was on stage for less than two minutes. It did not span multiple performances, either, as it was only on stage while a choir sang a short version of O Holy Night, and it was not on stage for the conclusion of the show. The scene was also less elaborate than in previous years. Previous shows included almost twenty student actors as part the living nativity scene. Mary and Joseph stood inside the stable behind a manger, with three students on each side dressed in white robes, depicting angels. Students dressed as the three wise men would then walk onto the stage and take their place in front of the nativity scene. In addition, multiple students were spread to the sides of the stage dressed as shepherds. The nativity scene that was actually presented in 2015, though, included only Mary, Joseph, and three wise men, each situated inside the stable set and depicted by mannequins instead of students. When presented in that limited manner, the nativity scene did not stand out from any other portion of the show,
Set against that context, nothing about the presentation of the nativity scene, which likewise provided the visual complement for a single song, drew additional emphasis to or suggested a preference for the nativity. To the contrary, it was presented on par with each of the other performances. Under those circumstances, even though the nativity scene is undoubtedly religious in nature, a reasonable observer would not perceive the show as expressing a preference for the nativity scene or endorsing its religious message.
The ACLU and Freedom From Religion Foundation commented on the ruling in a press release:
FFRF and the ACLU note that staging a nativity scene, live or otherwise, during a school event has no secular or educational purpose. “The nativity scene and the concert’s heavy focus on the religious aspects of Christmas send an exclusionary message to our clients and others that the school prefers Christians over non-theists and people of other faiths,” noted ACLU Senior Staff Attorney Heather Weaver.
The case is still ongoing. Judge DeGuilio has asked the parties to submit supplemental briefing on how to remedy the violations to plaintiffs’ rights occurring in 2014 and earlier. Those issues should be fully briefed by the end of October.
It is unclear whether the judge’s ruling will be appealed. Stay tuned.

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ISLAMABAD: Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday that proofs were being created instead of searching against the former premier.
Claiming that all are engaged in conspiring against the ex-PM, she said that no evidence had been found against the former premier in the past and the same will happen in future.
Speaking to the media after appearing before the NAB court, Maryam said that efficiency was being shown in the proceedings against Nawaz Sharif, adding the same should also be exercised in the case of Imran Khan.
Does rule of law only apply to Nawaz Sharif, she asked.
While referring to former dictator Gen (retd) Musharraf, she asked does any court or authority has the courage to call him and question what he did with the Constitution and law?
Earlier in the day, an accountability court in Islamabad hearing graft cases against the Sharif family issued bailable arrest warrants for former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.
The arrest warrants for the former prime minister had been issued for failing to appear in court in two references – Azizia Steel Mills and Flagship Investment.
The NAB court, earlier, resumed hearing graft cases against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, her daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Capt (retd) Safdar.
Later, the court adjourned the hearing until Nov 3.
Earlier, Khawaja Harris, the counsel for ex-PM, pleaded before Accountability Judge Mohammad Bashir that his client should be exempted from appearing in court owing to his wife’s illness.
NAB prosecutor Imran Shafiq opposed granting exemption to the former prime minister.
He prayed the court to suspend the surety bonds of Nawaz Sharif and issue warrants for his arrest.
Maryam Nawaz had reached Islamabad from Lahore to appear before the court.
Special passes were issued to ministers and 15 journalists to enter the court.
Police and FC had been deployed at and around the judicial complex to ensure security.
Ex-PM Nawaz Sharif did not appear in court today as he is in Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah, however, his representative Zaafir Khan appeared on his behalf.
The court, in the previous hearing, had allowed exemption to Nawaz Sharif from appearing before it for 15 days, which had already expired on Oct 24.

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UpThird Week of The Month - Healthy Housing Data
Very Strong Weekly Unemployment Claims Data
This column writes a forecast article each month that covers the New Construction prospects, the existing home prospects, and the new home sales potential. Every week we have a weekly unemployment claims report, even though the mainstream media barely discusses it.
(Sep. 16) The week started with picking up where last week ended: The Monthly Treasury Report. "August Treasury Report: On-Budget, Off-Budget Revenue Up" took a different approach than most of the reports in the news. Corporate Revenue and Individual Revenue both rose compared to last August, as did on-budget and off-budget revenue. What was missed elsewhere was that some spending that normally happens during September was pushed into August, just as it was last year. The "Trillion dollar deficit" should drop as we could run a $120 billion surplus during September.
(Sep. 16) The real estate industry is an economic multiplier. Real estate sales stimulate retail sales and hiring. "August Real Estate Forecast: Building Momentum" projected possibilities for the New Home Construction data, the New Home Sales data, and the Existing Home Sales data.
(Sep. 18) Wednesday's August New Construction Report caught people of surprise if they had not read the forecast article published on this website. "August New Construction: Jumps in Starts, Units Under Construction, and Completions." We have had our best new construction year since 2007. We had our most completions during any month since December 2007.
(Sep. 19) The weekly unemployment claims data has been basically ignored since 2016. The normal headline first-time claims number was ignored, The continuing claims data was ignored "as always." The Insured unemployment rate fell to 1.01%. All of this is covered in "Eighteenth Week with First-time Claims Under 200k, Again." We are set to challenge last year's 21 week mark.
(Sep. 21) Thursday also included the August Existing Home Sales report. Some things happened that changed the narrative. June was a weaker than expected month, which meant that the annualized rate of sales was weaker than expected. July was strong than expected, boosting the annualized sales level where it normally would decline. This happened during August, too. The rare Saturday article "New August Existing Home Average Sales Price Record" examines the units sold data, average sales price data, and inventory data."
This week, and at the end of the last week, we received remarkable information regarding government revenue, new construction, existing home sales, unemployment claims data, and it is all pointing towards a continuing expansion. Reports on the data that is generated by the government or by the REALTORS are not as sexy as the Trade Negotiations with China, Biden Gaffes, Democrats dropping out of the Presidential Race, the roller coasters of the stock markets, plural, or some random tweet.
It's the Economy.
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Sure, it’s only one state and it was a small, 200-person sample.
At least that’s what the Obama Campaign must be telling themselves at this point.
According to this article in Business Insider on June 12, 2012, support for Obama’s reelection among black voters in North Carolina is at an unprecedented low of 77% while support for Mitt Romney has climbed to 20%. In a state that Obama won against John McCain in 2008 by only 12,000 votes these numbers are not a warning light, they are a death knell.
President Barack Obama is rapidly losing support among African-American voters in North Carolina, a new poll out today from the Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling shows.
The poll finds that Mitt Romney would get 20 percent of the African-American vote if the election were held today, compared with 76 percent for Obama. Overall, Romney has a 48 percent to 46 percent lead on Obama in the crucial swing state.
Obama received 95 percent of the support from African-Americans in North Carolina in the 2008 election, compared with just 5 percent for Republican nominee John McCain.
Besides the obvious headlines here, it is worth noting a couple things.
First, plunging support for Obama among the black community is extremely encouraging in terms of race relations for this country because it reflects the reality of Obama’s job performance. I do not care who the person occupying the White House may be– George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Ronald Reagan– no one should be getting an unwavering 95% block of support from any racial group in this country.
In other words, if race is not a primary factor, it is difficult to fathom how black voters can monolithically line up to support President Obama in the face of the highest black unemployment ever; the defiant opposition of Obama to school choice for low income black families; support for gay marriage, and; policies that have driven up the price of every staple that disproportionately affects black families. Maybe this is controversial. I hope not. Barack Obama has been a disaster for the black community and party identification alone simply cannot explain support in the 95% range. So these numbers from North Carolina may indicate that black voters may be starting to dispense with racial identity politics and look at Obama’s policies.
Imagine the real, racial healing that could occur if candidates could finally be evaluated without regard to their skin color and solely according to their policies and principles? If the Democrats were forced to actually compete for the votes of blacks rather than simply own them outright, there would be a major shift to the right in Democrat candidates and, thus, far more consensus politically. Even more tantalizing is the prospect that the Race Hustling Industry (run by the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton) would no longer find an audience for their hate mongering.
The second major point I take away from this article is the possible consequences of even 20% of the black community voting for even a quasi-conservative Republican like Romney.
The Democrat Party knows that they have no shot at retaining or regaining power without the monolithic support of the black community. If even 25-30% of the black vote goes to Republicans it is over for any Democrat candidate. As a result, Democrats pull out all the stops when it comes to keeping the black voter in line. That includes hurling racial epithets at any black, Republican candidate that dares run for office, shaming any person of color who votes Republican as an “Uncle Tom,” and continually fomenting racial hatred and fears as we have seen so clearly with the Trayvon Martin case in Florida.
If, however, even 20% of black voters pull the lever for Romney, the spell may be broken. Twenty percent is alot of voters. Far too many for the Democrats to stigmatize as “traitors” or Uncle Toms as a whole. Suddenly, the cultural norm of automatically voting Democrat is fatally weakened. Once the stigma of voting Republican is tempered, it is game over.
One of the best kept secrets, repeatedly suppressed by Democrats, is that the black vote typically went to the Republican Party– the party of Lincoln, afterall– until the 1960’s. How many people know, for example, that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a registered Republican? How many black voters know that it was the Republicans in Congress that broke the Democrat opposition to the first Civil Rights Act?
It may be the greatest irony of the 21st Century that the first, black President may be the one who loses the black vote forever.


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Missionaries to Ukraine
Ukraine was the center of the first eastern Slavic state, Kyivan Rus, which during the 10th and 11th centuries was the largest and most powerful state in Europe. Weakened by internecine quarrels and Mongol invasions, Kyivan Rus was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and eventually into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The cultural and religious legacy of Kyivan Rus laid the foundation for Ukrainian nationalism through subsequent centuries. A new Ukrainian state, the Cossack Hetmanate, was established during the mid-17th century after an uprising against the Poles. Despite continuous Muscovite pressure, the Hetmanate managed to remain autonomous for well over 100 years. During the latter part of the 18th century, most Ukrainian ethnographic territory was absorbed by the Russian Empire. Following the collapse of czarist Russia in 1917, Ukraine was able to bring about a short-lived period of independence (1917-20), but was reconquered and forced to endure a brutal Soviet rule that engineered two artificial famines (1921-22 and 1932-33) in which over 8 million died. In World War II, German and Soviet armies were responsible for some 7 to 8 million more deaths. Although final independence for Ukraine was achieved in 1991 with the dissolution of the USSR, democracy remained elusive as the legacy of state control and endemic corruption stalled efforts at economic reform, privatization, and civil liberties. A peaceful mass protest "Orange Revolution" in the closing months of 2004 forced the authorities to overturn a rigged presidential election and to allow a new internationally monitored vote that swept into power a reformist slate under Viktor YUSHCHENKO. Subsequent internal squabbles in the YUSHCHENKO camp allowed his rival Viktor YANUKOVYCH to stage a comeback in parliamentary elections and become prime minister in August of 2006.
Eastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Poland, Romania, and Moldova in the west and Russia in the east.
iron ore, coal, manganese, natural gas, oil, salt, sulfur, graphite, titanium, magnesium, kaolin, nickel, mercury, timber, arable land.
Slightly smaller than Texas.
Republic Kyiv (Kiev)
24 August 1991 (from the Soviet Union).
46,299,862 (July 2007 est.)
Ukrainian 77.8%, Russian 17.3%, Belarusian 0.6%, Moldovan 0.5%, Crimean Tatar 0.5%, Bulgarian 0.4%, Hungarian 0.3%, Romanian 0.3%, Polish 0.3%, Jewish 0.2%, other 1.8% (2001 census).
Ukrainian Orthodox - Kyiv Patriarchate 19%, Orthodox (no particular jurisdiction) 16%, Ukrainian Orthodox - Moscow Patriarchate 9%, Ukrainian Greek Catholic 6%, Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox 1.7%, Protestant, Jewish, none 38% (2004 est.).
1997 boundary delimitation treaty with Belarus remains un-ratified due to unresolved financial claims, stalling demarcation and reducing border security; delimitation of land boundary with Russia is complete with preparations for demarcation underway; the dispute over the boundary between Russia and Ukraine through the Kerch Strait and Sea of Azov remains unresolved despite a December 2003 framework agreement and ongoing expert-level discussions; Moldova and Ukraine operate joint customs posts to monitor transit of people and commodities through Moldova's break-away Transnistria Region, which remains under OSCE supervision; the ICJ gave Ukraine until December 2006 to reply, and Romania until June 2007 to rejoin, in their dispute submitted in 2004 over Ukrainian-administered Zmiyinyy/Serpilor (Snake) Island and Black Sea maritime boundary; Romania opposes Ukraine's reopening of a navigation canal from the Danube border through Ukraine to the Black Sea.
* Based on CIA-The World Factbook

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Electrify America appears to have begun installing ultra-fast DC charging stations in at least two locations, according to entries on the charger database site PlugShare.com.
One location is at the sprawling Market of Wolfcreek shopping center east of Memphis, Tennessee at US-64 near I-40. It appears to consist of 4 dual-cable Signet chargers. It isn’t clear from the photo what connectors are supported but most likely each charger pedestal supports one CHAdeMO and one CCS plug.
Another location is at a corner parking area of a large rural Exxon station known as Brugh’s Mill Country Store in Fincastle, Virginia just off US-81 about 20 miles north of Roanoke.
Two ABB chargers are visible and are likely dual-cable but the angle of the photo only makes one cable visible. It’s hard to tell, but these chargers might not yet be installed in their final location and there could be others nearby that are not in the photo.
Electrify America has said that highway locations would have a minimum of 4 charging pedestals each and as many as 10.
The pedestals are typically dual-cabled and support a 50 kW CHAdeMO plug (while will be software upgraded to 100 kW in the future) and a 150 kW CCS plug. Some locations may also have one or more 350 kW CCS pedestals.


November 2020 saw the sixth event in our ‘Education Matters’ series - a series designed to help organisations understand more about the importance of education in opening up opportunities and building aspirations, as well as the business benefits that supporting education can offer. This event provided a stark insight into the impact of COVID-19 on education and a rallying cry for brands to pledge their support for young people at risk of becoming left behind.
At Hopscotch, we’re passionate about supporting young people’s education to protect their future prospects. The global pandemic has put this further under the microscope with numerous reports highlighting the impact on young people. Ofsted reports that the pandemic has seen most children in England’s learning and social skills slipping back.
Hopscotch has recently conducted its own study amongst Gen Z regarding the impact of the pandemic. It found that young people still see education as vital to their prospects. 66% of 16- to 24-year-olds were in favour of businesses supporting education, with only 21% suspicious or sceptical of business involvement. This suggests that brands can help at this critical time by delivering innovative programmes that aim to protect young people’s futures.
Whilst the statistics on the impact of the pandemic on young people’s wellbeing were sobering, the panel’s practical guidance on how brands can provide a valuable lifeline, using their expertise to save a generation at risk, offered real hope.
Here are our key takeaways which include insights from Microsoft, The Gatsby Foundation and Childwise. Together, there’s an opportunity for us to effect real societal impact, offering Gen Z the support they really want and need.
- Understand how you can add value to learning
It’s no surprise that stress and anxiety in 11-18s has increased this year, with 36% reporting that they feel worried and anxious in comparison to 28% in 2019 . That, combined with the varied challenges remote lessons pose, has impacted on young people’s engagement with learning. with 23% saying they did almost no work at all at home .
Now, schools are under pressure to catch up on this lost academic progress. This means it’s likely that interventions which are key to readying young people for life beyond school will be deprioritised. Schools are conscious of this but it’s a tricky balance to strike.
This is where brands can step up and have impact. Use your organisation’s skills, expertise, access to technology and people to help schools continue to provide their students with a rich and varied experience.
Our panel also discussed the importance for brands to stand out from the crowd through a clearly defined purpose and the actions they take to support their customers and communities. This need has increased throughout 2020 due to the pandemic, with society even more concerned about brands demonstrating how they build trust and respect.
- Focus on future skills not future jobs
65% of current students are likely to enter the workforce doing jobs that don’t yet exist . So how are we going to prepare them for a workplace that we can’t even picture?
We can’t know what these jobs will be, so our focus needs to be on the key skills needed to succeed in the future workplace and how we embrace the huge and continuing changes brought about by technology.
The pace of change and extent of the role of technology in our lives now means that young people will not have the option to stop learning. We need to continually develop skills to enable us to embrace whatever the technology of the future looks like.
The need for tech and transferable ‘human’ skills, like confidence, communication ethics, and data science, outpaces the school curriculum. Your organisation knows the skills its future workforce will need, so this is your chance to step up and fill these gaps to enable young people to be better prepared for an uncertain future.
- Find ways to achieve impact – for young people and your organisation
‘Encounters with employers and employees’ and ‘Experiences of workplaces’ are two of the Gatsby benchmarks for Good Career Guidance that schools are under pressure to demonstrate they are delivering against. From a business perspective, this is often done through employee volunteering programmes, which, it goes without saying, have been a challenge in 2020.
Finding ways that your brand can engage with students remotely is vitally important. Previously this had been reliant on face to face interactions but now there is the opportunity to engage with harder to reach students. Not only will it bring benefits to young people and schools, but it can also have a positive impact on your organisation, from improved reputation and brand warmth to increasing the wellbeing of your employee volunteers.
Many schemes are already available to employers and employees to help schools and colleges develop their careers programme in a coordinated way. Example included becoming an Enterprise Advisor at the Careers and Enterprise Company (careersandenterprise.co.uk) or volunteering through Education and Employers (educationandemployers.org).
 CHILDWISE Monitor 2020 / CHILDWISE Monitor 2021 (forthcoming)
 Kids in Lockdown report, CHILDWISE Buzz Bulletin (forthcoming)
 The Future of Jobs Employment, Skills and Workforce Strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, World Economic Forum, January 2016


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CBNNews.com - TEL AVIV, Israel - Tel Aviv ranked 14th in a survey of the world's most expensive cities to live in.
The survey, conducted by Mercer, a human resources consulting firm, evaluated 143 cities on six continents on the cost of various goods and services, such as housing, transportation, food, clothing, entertainment, household furnishings.
The survey used New York as its base, giving it 100 points and rating the other cities against it.
Moscow remained in first place for the third year in a row as the most expensive city in the world to live in, with 142.2 points on the index.
Last year, Tel Aviv was named the most expensive city in the Middle East to live in. This year, it moved up three places.


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Richardson, Jr. coming off Daytona 500 effort without primary sponsorship
CHINA GROVE, N.C. (February 16, 2010) – Robert Richardson, Jr. is coming off a full Daytona Speedweeks after pulling double duty in the Daytona 500 and Nationwide Series races. With both days ended early, because of wrecks not his fault, the native of McKinney, Texas notched a 31st and 25th place, respectively, while earning high marks in tenacity and ability.
But, the 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series doesn’t give time to reflect backwards as it rolls on this weekend with 34 more races on the schedule. Richardson will return to his role as a Nationwide Series regular in the No. 23 Chevrolet for R3 Motorsports.
With only one previous start to his credit at Auto Club Speedway, Richardson is looking to log laps and learn the fastest way around the two-mile oval. Heading to the West Coast without primary partnership on the team’s Chevrolet means the R3 Gang has to work that much harder to earn some recognition via a good finish.
Past Facts in Fontana: Richardson has only one prior start at ACS, which was in 2008. He started 19th and finished 25th completing 146 of 150 laps (97.3 percent).
Car Facts: Crew Chief John Quinn and team have loaded Chassis No. 41 for the trek west. This car was raced at ACS last October where it started 32nd and finished 18th. It has been tweaked with some enhanced body work to ready it for Richardson to race this weekend.
Did you know: Richardson is a huge Elvis Presley fan. His home and car stereos are frequently tuned to Sirius XM Radio’s Elvis Channel. He also has multiple CD’s, photos, posters and books around his Texas home. Elvis had a home in Palm Springs, Calif., which is 70 miles from ACS, when he was shooting some of his 31 movies.
Talk about racing at Auto Club Speedway: “The track is just a half-mile smaller than what we raced on last week at Daytona. But, the layout is totally different and with it being an oval instead of a trioval, that calls for a different set-up in the car and driving style.
“This track taxes the motor pretty good with the long front and backstretches. We had a great motor in Daytona, and I’m confident we’ll be good to go there this weekend, as well. “
Keys to Success in California: “The most important part is to dial the car in as best you can in the two practice sessions on Friday. Then we want to get a real good qualifying position on Saturday morning. The field can get stretched out pretty quickly at Fontana and you want to try and stay on the lead lap.
“Last week, I had the best car I’ve ever driven at Daytona in my life. If John Quinn and Jeff (Kirkendall – team engineer) can do that again this weekend, I’m pretty confident we can have a good finish.”
Talk about running the next two races (Fontana and Vegas) without primary sponsorship: “I don’t like it one bit. I know things are tough out there right now for a lot of people. But the best part about our team is we aren’t looking for the multi-millions of dollars to go racing. We’re just looking for the right amount to race better and faster.
“I enjoy meeting the sponsor’s executive, VIPs and getting to know them and their customers. I also enjoy racing, and so does everyone on this R3 Motorsports team. We offer a very personable and profitable option for anyone who becomes one or our partners.”
Associate Partner for California: The No. 23 Chevrolet will carry the Stratosphere name and logo on the car’s lower quarter panels for the next two races. The Stratosphere is the official resort of R3 Motorsports while in Las Vegas, N.V.
New Associate Partnerships for the 2010 season: R3 Motorsports has also signed associate partnerships with Maradyne High Performance Fans and Southern Pride Trucking. The team will also continue their association with SponsorEdge.com that was started last weekend prior to Daytona. Decals of each will be on the car for the entire NASCAR Nationwide Series season.
Marketing Partnership Information: To become involved with R3 Motorsports and Robert Richardson, Jr., inquiries can be sent to firstname.lastname@example.org or by calling 704-507-1838
For more information on Robert Richardson Jr., please visit our news archive.


Everytime Oliver Heldens uploads something, we just have to take a listen especially if it’s under his HI-LO brand. Nonetheless, the newest bass house creation comes in the form of a self-remix where the HI-LO sound shakes up Oliver Heldens’ forthcoming original with Da Hool, “MHATLP.” The original is more like a rebirth of the 90s classic, but it still seems fresher than ever. Putting the original, glitchy melody atop a fast four on the floor beat, the HI-LO gruff comes into play during the drop with a raw, rolling bass and high-pitch synth tone chiming in sporadically. With this edit of himself, Oliver Heldens is giving us two for the price of one, and we can’t wait to compare the two. The HI-LO edit will see its release on September 28th thanks to Spinnin’ Records, but you can listen now below.
The last month has been a busy one for house artist Don Diablo, who has now released three remixes and a new original all in the last four weeks along with starting Hexagon Record Label. This guy must not sleep to be releasing this many tracks in such a short amount of time. If you […]
Listen to Win & Woo Got The Dance Floor Burning With This One below
Sit back and get cozy you about to take a journey into the world of DAPRR. This absolutely stunning remix of Little Daylight’s “Siren Call” might be my new favorite track right now. The heavy sub bass, the upbeat catchy synth work and then those vocals. I scratch what I said early this is definitely […]


Harbor Freight 2000 lb Winch Review
This compact portable electric marine winch mounts securely to your trailer to provide heavy duty pulling power for boats and watercraft, vehicles and other loading jobs. The marine winch can be mounted permanently on your trailer, truck bed or bumper or you can use the adapter plate to anchor the winch to your trailer ball. The weather resistant high-impact housing has a molded handle for easy portability.
Harbor Freight 2000 lb Winch Specification
Dead Pull: 2000 lb.
Marine Pull: 5000 lb.
Rolling Stock Pull: 6000 lb.
Maximum Boat Weight
5,000 lb.–(about 18 ft. Boat Length)
Drum (Dia. x L)
1" x 3-1/8"
9-1/2" L x 7-1/2" W x 10" H
Ø3/16" x 30'
Harbor Freight 2000 lb Highlight features
- Three-stage straight gear drive system handles boats to 18 ft.30 ft.
- Aircraft grade wire rope
- Handheld remote with 10 ft. cord20 ft. battery cable with clamps
- Optional hand crank for manual operation
- Carry handle for maximum portability
How to winch with Harbor Freight 2000 lb winch?
- Select a mounting site on the boat trailer, vehicle bumper, truck bed, or other suitable location. (Please notice that: this winch is not waterproof and is not intended for use underwater. Do not mount in locations that are subject to submersion in water)
- If a mounting plate (not included) is used, it must be flat and rated to at least the Winch’s capacity.
- Align the Winch perpendicular to the center line of the vehicle at the desired location. Use mounting holes in the Winch Frame Assembly (34) as a template to mark the spots where holes will need to be drilled in the installation surface.
- Before drilling, verify that the installation surface has no hidden components or structural pieces that will be damaged.
- Drill 3/8" holes at the marked locations.
- Bolt the Winch to the installation surface using 3/8" galvanized/zinc plated bolts, nuts and washers (not included) of SAE Grade 5 or higher.
From customers who love this winch for theirs work, they love the compact size and easy to use, light-weight, portable winch to load light-weight units (under capacity of 2000 lbs).


Tricks of the Trade by Malcolm Holcombe is named No. 3 in the Top Ten Favorite Americana Albums of 2021, according to Mojo magazine. The release on Gypsy Eyes Records was coproduced by Dave Roe. In addition to playing bass on the album, it was recorded at Roe’s own Seven Deadly Sins Recording Studio located just outside of Nashville, TN. Check out the single “Money Train” on the Credit/Video page!


Lacey's work focuses on data management and spatial analysis supporting all research at GLERL. As spatial analyst, Lacey gives guidance to many projects and has collaborated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to expand the the National Water Model across the entire Great Lakes basin. Lacey also develops data processing workflows and archiving to make data publicly accessible to the Great Lakes research community. Prior to GLERL, Lacey held a position as research staff at the University of Michigan compiling bi-national, geospatial datasets across the Great Lakes basin and worked as an environmental engineer at a private consulting firm.
MS Forestry Michigan Technological University 2007;
BS Environmental Engineering Michigan Technological University 2004
Spatial analysis, geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, data science, data management


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Contagion is Steven Soderbergh’s movie in action and thriller genres. A film will be released on October 21, 2011. The main roles are played by well-known stars, like Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Laurence Fishburne and many others. Distributor is 20th Century Fox studio.
The story tells us about terrible unknown virus that strucks down people. At first a virus was only on territory of United States, but it rapidly spreads all over the world. It this the end of human race?..