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Something from the dusty bookshelf. A good choice for RIPXIII and FrightFall Read-a-Thon.
TITLE: Your Heart Belongs to Me
AUTHOR: Dean Koontz
PUBLISHER: Bantam
PUBLICATION DATE: October 27, 2009 (first published 2008)
GENRE: Horror, Mystery
From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense comes a riveting thriller that probes the deepest terrors of the human psyche—and the ineffable mystery of what truly makes us who we are. Here a brilliant young man finds himself fighting for his very existence in a battle that starts with the most frightening words of all…
At thirty-four, Internet entrepreneur Ryan Perry seemed to have the world in his pocket—until the first troubling symptoms appeared out of nowhere. Within days, he's diagnosed with incurable cardiomyopathy and finds himself on the waiting list for a heart transplant; it's his only hope, and it's dwindling fast. Ryan is about to lose it all…his health, his girlfriend Samantha, and his life.
One year later, Ryan has never felt better. Business is good and he hopes to renew his relationship with Samantha. Then the unmarked gifts begin to appear—a box of Valentine candy hearts, a heart pendant. Most disturbing of all, a graphic heart surgery video and the chilling message: Your heart belongs to me.
In a heartbeat, the medical miracle that gave Ryan a second chance at life is about to become a curse worse than death. For Ryan is being stalked by a mysterious woman who feels entitled to everything he has. She's the spitting image of the twenty-six-year-old donor of the heart beating steadily in Ryan's chest. And she's come to take it back.
Something from the library. I have the regular edition sitting on my dusty bookshelf, but I wanted to read this new edition which I started during Banned Books Week.
TITLE: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
AUTHOR: Anne Frank
PUBLISHER: Anchor Books
PUBLICATION DATE: February 1, 1996 (first published 1947)
GENRE: Nonfiction, Classics, Autobiography/Memoir
For almost fifty years, Anne Frank's diary has moved millions with its testament to the human spirit's indestructibility, but readers have never seen the full text of this beloved book--until now. This new translation, performed by Winona Ryder, restores nearly one third of Anne's entries excised by her father in previous editions, revealing her burgeoning sexuality, her stormy relationship with her mother, and more.
Another one from my dusty bookshelf, which I am reading aloud to my younger daughter. We are loving this series! It just gets better and better!
TITLE: A Dangerous Path
PUBLICATION DATE: March 17, 2015 (first published 2004)
Join the legion of fans who have made Erin Hunter's Warriors series a #1 national bestseller--with new editions featuring a striking new look! More thrilling fantasy, fierce warrior cats, and epic adventures await in Warriors #5: A Dangerous Path.
ShadowClan has chosen Tigerclaw as their new leader, and Fireheart fears that this old enemy still harbors dark plans for vengeance on his former Clan. A mysterious threat has invaded the forest, placing every cat's life in peril. And Fireheart's beloved leader has turned her back on their warrior ancestors. Fireheart can't help but wonder if she's right--has StarClan abandoned them forever?
Another one from my dusty bookshelf, which I am reading aloud to my younger daughter.
TITLE: The Hatchling
SERIES: Guardians of Ga'Hoole, Book #7
AUTHOR: Kathryn Lasky
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Inc.
Beneath a shadowed moon in a cloud-streaked sky, the sacred orb splits and a hatching is born: It is Nyroc, son of Kludd, fallen leader of the Pure Ones, and his evil mate, Nyra. Born from evil, trained to evil, Nyroc is destined to fulfill his father's terrible plan, the oppression of all owldom under the vicious talons of the Pure Ones.
But doubt grows in Nyroc's heart, fed by strange forbidden legends of a great tree far away where noble owls live in peace. And a light dawns in Nyroc's gizzard, nourished by friendship.
A day is nearing when Nyroc must choose to fulfill his destiny-or defy it.
It will be a day of blood and terror.
Another one from my dusty bookshelf, which my younger daughter is reading aloud to me! She picked it for her home reading.
TITLE: Matilda
AUTHOR: Roald Dahl
ILLUSTRATOR: Quentin Blake
PUBLISHER: Puffin Books
PUBLICATION DATE: 1989 (first published October 1, 1998)
GENRE: Childrens
Matilda is a little girl who is far too good to be true. At age five-and-a-half she's knocking off double-digit multiplication problems and blitz-reading Dickens. Even more remarkably, her classmates love her even though she's a super-nerd and the teacher's pet. But everything is not perfect in Matilda's world. For starters she has two of the most idiotic, self-centered parents who ever lived. Then there's the large, busty nightmare of a school principal, Mrs. ("The") Trunchbull, a former hammer-throwing champion who flings children at will and is approximately as sympathetic as a bulldozer. Fortunately for Matilda, she has the inner resources to deal with such annoyances: astonishing intelligence, saintly patience, and an innate predilection for revenge.
She warms up with some practical jokes aimed at her hapless parents, but the true test comes when she rallies in defense of her teacher, the sweet Miss Honey, against the diabolical Trunchbull. There is never any doubt that Matilda will carry the day. Even so, this wonderful story is far from predictable. Roald Dahl, while keeping the plot moving imaginatively, also has an unerring ear for emotional truth. The reader cares about Matilda because in addition to all her other gifts, she has real feelings.
Something from Overdrive. I have about seven holds that have all come in at once!!
TITLE: Then She Was Gone
AUTHOR: Lisa Jewell
NARRATOR: Helen Duff
PUBLISHER: Dreamscape Media, LLC
Fifteen-year-old Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenage golden couple. She was days away from an idyllic summer vacation, with her whole life ahead of her. And then she was gone.
Now her mother, Laurel Mack, is trying to put her life back together. It's been 10 years since her daughter disappeared, seven years since her marriage ended, and only months since the last clue in Ellie's case was unearthed. So when she meets an unexpectedly charming man in a cafe, she is surprised at how quickly their flirtation develops into something deeper. Before she knows it, she's meeting Floyd's daughters - and his youngest, Poppy, takes her breath away. Looking at her is like looking at Ellie. And now the unanswered questions she has tried so hard to put to rest haunt her anew...as well as some new ones about Floyd and Poppy....
GENRE: Young Adult, Contemporary
With this stunning debut novel, New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver emerged as one of today's foremost authors of young adult fiction. Like Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why and Gayle Forman's If I Stay, Before I Fall raises thought-provoking questions about love, death, and how one person's life can affect so many others.
For popular high school senior Samantha Kingston, February 12—"Cupid Day"—should be one big party, a day of valentines and roses and the privileges that come with being at the top of the social pyramid. And it is…until she dies in a terrible accident that night.
However, she still wakes up the next morning. In fact, Sam lives the last day of her life seven times, until she realizes that by making even the slightest changes, she may hold more power than she ever imagined.
Named to numerous state reading lists, this novel was also recognized as a Best Book of the Year by Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, The Daily Beast, NPR, and Publishers Weekly. It has been optioned for film by Fox 2000 Pictures.
TITLE: Find You in the Dark
AUTHOR: Nathan Ripley
NARRATOR: Corey Brill
In this chilling debut thriller, in the vein of Dexter and The Talented Mr. Ripley, a family man obsessed with digging up the undiscovered remains of serial killer victims catches the attention of a murderer prowling the streets of Seattle.
Martin Reese is obsessed with murder.
For years, he has been illegally buying police files on serial killers and studying them in depth, using them as guides to find missing bodies. He doesn't take any souvenirs, just photos that he stores in an old laptop, and then he turns in the results to the police anonymously. Martin sees his work as a public service, a righting of wrongs that cops have continuously failed to do.
Detective Sandra Whittal sees it differently. On a meteoric rise in police ranks due to her case-closing efficiency, Whittal is suspicious of the mysterious caller—the Finder, she names him—leading the police to the bodies. Even if the Finder isn't the one leaving bodies behind, who's to say that he won't start soon?
On his latest dig, Martin searches for the first kill of Jason Shurn, the early 1990s murderer who may have been responsible for the disappearance of his sister-in-law, whom he never met. But when he arrives at the site, he finds a freshly killed body—a young and recently disappeared Seattle woman—lying among remains that were left there decades ago. Someone else knew where Jason Shurn buried his victims . . . and that someone isn't happy that Martin has been going around digging up his work.
When a crooked cop with a tenuous tie to Martin vanishes, Whittal begins to zero in on the Finder. Hunted by a real killer and by Whittal, Martin realizes that in order to escape the killer's trap, he may have to go deeper into the world of murder than he ever thought.
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BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri's bombshell resignation in a televised speech from Saudi Arabia took the nation by surprise Saturday.
In his announcement, Hariri accused Iran and its Lebanese ally, Hezbollah, of holding Lebanon hostage and destabilizing the Arab region.
But what is behind his resignation and what does it mean for Lebanon?
Hariri became prime minister in late 2016 in a coalition government that included the Shiite militant group Hezbollah.
It has been an uneasy partnership between Hariri, a Sunni Muslim aligned with Saudi Arabia, and Hezbollah, Iran's Shiite proxy in Lebanon, which has sent thousands of its fighters to shore up President Bashar Assad's forces in Syria's civil war.
As Hezbollah and Iranian-backed Syrian troops made successive military victories, Hariri came under pressure from Washington and Riyadh to distance himself from the group.
In recent days, Lebanese government ministers have bickered publicly over sending an ambassador to Damascus and repatriation plans for hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees living in Lebanon. Officials denied the tension threatened the unity government.
Then suddenly, Hariri flew to Saudi Arabia earlier this week in a previously unannounced trip. He flew again to Riyadh Friday.
It is not clear what exactly prompted his shock resignation — unprecedented in the way it was announced in a televised address from an undisclosed location in Riyadh. Even close aides seemed not to know it was coming.
In his speech, Hariri said he feared for his life, suggesting he may not be coming home soon. Hariri was prime minister from 2009 until 2011, when Hezbollah ousted him from office. He had until last year lived in self-imposed exile in Saudi Arabia and France.
Hariri's resignation is a reflection of the growing power struggle between Iran and Saudi Arabia in the region. The Iran-Saudi rivalry is rooted in both countries' claim to represent different strands of Islam, Shiite and Sunni, a more than thousand-year-old dispute. Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979 unsettled the ultraconservative Sunni Kingdom. But the explosive modern race grew with Iran's rising influence in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, where Tehran is supporting various players.
Hezbollah, one of Tehran's most reliable partners, has been a key player in the wars in Syria and Yemen, undermining Saudi clout in Syria, and reaching the kingdom's borders by supporting Yemen's anti-Saudi rebels.
With the ascension of the ambitious firebrand Mohammed Bin Salman to crown prince in Saudi Arabia, the rivalry with Tehran took a sharper turn. In one interview, he threatened to take the war to Iran.
Hariri's resignation has to be accepted by President Michel Aoun, a formality. It effectively shatters the national unity government and plunges the country into uncertainty and potentially a prolonged period of political paralysis.
Aoun must appoint a new prime minister, but it will be difficult to find a consensual Sunni figure able to form another coalition government. According to Lebanon's sectarian-based power-sharing system, the president must be a Maronite Christian, the prime minister a Muslim Sunni and the parliament speaker a Shiite Muslim.
A new government that leans further toward Hezbollah would risk isolating the country and subjecting it to U.S. sanctions.
With Israel, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. seeing eye to eye on the need to stem Iran's growing clout, many fear Lebanon may be the place for a showdown with Iran's ally, Hezbollah.
Israel and Hezbollah have fought a number of wars, the last of which ended in a stalemate in 2006. Israel has recently said it will not tolerate an Iranian presence in Syria, spearheaded by Hezbollah, which has also established a presence near the Syria-Israel border.


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Q: Plotting bar plot in python I am trying to plot a single bar plot with multiple colors...
 import numpy as np
 width = 0.3
 y1 =[78.0]
 y2= [70863.0]
 y3 =[138441.0]
 y4 =[ 8223.0]

x = np.range(1)

p1 = plt.bar(x, y1, width=width, color='r')
p2 = plt.bar(x, y2, width=width, color='b')
p3 = plt.bar(x, y3, width= width, color='g')
p4 = plt.bar(x, y4, width= width, color='y')

plt.show()

1) It makes a very ugly plot. How do i control the width of my plot
2) The plot is not right.. y2 is missing

A: I'm operating on the assumption that your code is not exactly the same as you entered it, as, for example, np.range(1) returns an error and you have an unclosed string on your y4 plot command. Because, making some small edits, I can reproduce your plot, except my colors are different than yours. If p3's color is 'b' and p4's is 'g', then you can make some simple fixes.
Preventing hidden bars
When you plot a bar at x = 0, it will arrange itself at the front of your plot. If that means it covers up something, then your old data will be covered up. In this case, you are plotting y3 over top y2. There are two ways to fix this:

*

*Use the zorder kwarg to set the order in which things appear. Things with, e.g., zorder=5 appear on top of things with zorder=4. See the documentation on the defaults for zorder. In this particular instance, you would want

    p1 = plt.bar(x, y1, width=width, color='r',zorder=4)
    p2 = plt.bar(x, y2, width=width, color='b',zorder=2)
    p3 = plt.bar(x, y3, width= width, color='g',zorder=1)
    p4 = plt.bar(x, y4, width= width, color='y',zorder=3)

*Plot them in order, from largest to shortest. If your plot commands are p3, p2, p4, then p1, then they will be drawn on overtop of each other without covering any of them up.

*Space them differently. As you currently plot them, you are having them all based at the same point. If you vary the x coordinate, such as x1,x2,x3,x4 = range(4) and then change your plot command to, e.g. p1 = plt.bar(x1, y1, width=width, color='r') then you won't have missing bars.
Controlling the width (and height)
Matplotlib controls the limits of the plot with plt.xlim() and plt.ylim(). To set a plot's x-axis to go from, say, 0 to 4, you use plt.xlim(0,4). Likewise, if you want to add some white space to the top of your plot to improve the appearance, you can use plt.ylim(0, 150000).
If your statement was instead asking how to make different widths for your error bars, then you can use the width= kwarg in plt.bar(). Right now, it's being set to 0.3, since you earlier defined the variable width=0.3. Changing that, whether on a case-by-case basis or by changing the variable itself, will control how wide the bars are.
Two other comments

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*If you are just plotting a bar that is one point at one point, you don't actually need them to be lists. You can just use plt.bar(2,4) to produce a bar at x=2 that is 4 units high (This also shows that you don't need to set p1 = plt.bar...)

*If you are displaying data that span so many orders of magnitude, it might be helpful to set the y-scale to be logarithmic. This can be done with plt.yscale('log',noposy=clip). That latter kwarg is useful in case you have a y value of 0 -- it will just clip it from the plot instead of breaking.

A: One easy way to plot the levels with number of occurrence of each levels in the particular column : This may be useful in ur case. Here the output column in the data(DF) have two levels ( 0 ) & (1 ) and Y axis shows the count of each levels.
# Target varible bar chart
def snsplot(t):
    sns.countplot(x=t,data=data,palette='hls')
    print('The target variable',t, 'as shown as bar chart')
    plt.show()
#plt.savefig('count_plot')

snsplot(Target_col_Y)

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Congratulations to Angel and Joe on their recent marriage! This beautiful couple tied the knot at the Lazaretto Ballroom in Essington, PA.
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Angel's father anxiously waited outside to see his beautiful daughter for the first time. Our NJ Wedding Videographer captured the priceless look on his face as Angel walked towards him. Their father-daughter bond is unbreakable!
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Happy Easter! Here are some special recipes to help celebrate the holiday. The croissant French toast Casserole is a favorite for the holidays. It can be prepared the day before, refrigerated, and baked the next day, if you wanted to do that. I like to use the mini croissants, but the large croissants are also good, cut them into 2-inch pieces. Letting them dry out for a day lets them absorb more of the egg mixture, and cutting them in half crosswise helps to make the pieces fit into the baking dish. This is a very light and fluffy dish that is very satisfying. Maple syrup or a peach preserve when warmed adds a nice touch to the taste.
The bacon egg muffins are delightful and work well as part of a breakfast or brunch or as the meal. The jalapeno appetizer is one of my favorites, and most guests gobble them down quickly. Removing the seeds and membranes from the peppers makes them less spicy.
The roasted asparagus can be as simple as just using dollops of sour cream on each cooked serving. When buying asparagus, gently squeeze and twist the stalks, if they squeak when rubbed against each other they are fresh. To prepare them snap off the tough woody ends, discard those, and blanch in boiling water for 2 minutes. Asparagus can be used in salads, stir-fry dishes, frittatas, or wrap them in bacon and roast until crispy.
The roasted leg of lamb is a very slow roast for a very moist and tender leg of lamb. Put it up in the morning and just let it roast on a low heated oven.
In a bowl whisk together eggs, sugar, half-and-half or milk, cinnamon, orange juice, and vanilla. In a 10 x 13 �inch baking dish place the croissant pieces in a single layer. Squeeze them in to fit. Pour the egg mixture over the croissants, place a couple of plates on top to hold down the pieces to keep them submerged in the liquid. Press down to help absorb the egg mixture. Let this soak in the refrigerator for at least an hour.
Remove from refrigerator, taking off the plates, cover with foil and bake in a 350 degree oven until set about 35-40 minutes. Remove from oven and sprinkle 1-tablespoon granulated sugar over top of croissants and return to oven, broiling for about 2 minutes, until sugar is bubbling. Serve hot, cut into squares, if desired.
In a glass measuring cup stir together peach preserves and water, microwave until hot, about 2 minutes. Serve on the side.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Vegetable spray a 12- cup muffin pan, you will use only 8 cups unless you divide 4-biscuits in half to make the 12-biscuits. Press each biscuit into the muffin cup pressing to the bottom and up the sides to form a cup. Bake biscuits in oven for 8-10 minutes until just a light golden color. Remove from oven.
In a bowl mix together egg, cheese, butter, crumbled bacon pieces, minced scallions, salt and pepper. Spoon evenly into biscuit cups. Bake 13-15 minutes in oven or until set. Serve hot.
Makes 24 � To avoid irritating skin, wear gloves when preparing peppers.
In a bowl combine cream cheese and pimento cheese. Spoon into a re-sealable plastic bag with one corner snipped off.
Cut jalapeno peppers in half lengthwise, leaving the stems on, remove and discard seeds and membranes. Pipe the cheese mixture into the pepper halves. Place the stuffed halves cheese-side up on a baking sheet. Wrap half a piece of bacon around each stuffed pepper half , if necessary to hold together use a toothpick.
Bake until peppers are tender and the bacon is cooked or crisp, about 8-12 minutes. Serve immediately.
This is a slow roasted leg of lamb and it is worth the extra time for a very moist, fall off the bone roast. Roast the meat 6 to 8 hours on a 275 degree oven.
In a small bowl mix together rosemary, garlic powder, onion powder, thyme, and oregano with olive oil. Place leg of lamb in a 12 x 16 inch roasting pan. Rub spice mixture over entire surface of the meat. Pour white wine into pan, evenly distributed onion wedges around lamb, and cover pan and meat with foil, roast lamb 6-7 hours. Remove pan from oven, increase heat to 450 degrees.
Remove foil, pour off juices into a saucepan and onions, set aside. Sprinkle lamb with 1-tablespoon olive oil. Roast in oven uncovered for about 30 minutes until nicely browned and crisped on the outside. Remove from oven and let stand for at least 20 minutes before slicing. Remove and place on a platter.
In saucepan with drippings and onions, add 1-cup chicken broth with 2 tablespoons corn starch dissolved in it. Scrape up any residue from the lamb roasting pan and add to saucepan. Strain gravy through a strainer or puree in a blender and pour back into saucepan Bring to a boil and add Worcestershire sauce, thyme, salt and pepper to taste, lower heat and simmer for 5-7 minutes. If desired add some wine and stir, simmer for a few minutes.
Slice lamb across the grain and serve hot with gravy and mint jelly. Asparagus and/or carrots go well with the lamb.
In a saucepan combine orange marmalade, brown sugar, butter, orange juice, and orange liqueur. Cook on low 5-6 minutes, stirring frequently. Stir in cooked carrots and toss to coat, simmer until hot. Serve hot.
Place potatoes in a large saucepan and cover with chicken broth and water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes or until tender. Drain.
Over low heat stir potatoes into pot cooking for 2 minutes until all the steam has evaporated. Pour into a large baking casserole dish and mash with a potato masher. Stir in eggs, half-and-half, sour cream, butter, seasoned salt, salt and pepper. Add more liquid if necessary. Smooth out top of potato mixture and place butter pats evenly over the top. Put into oven and bake for 20 -25 minutes until hot. Broil for 3-4 minutes to make the top a golden brown.
In a large skillet, with 1-inch of water, steam the asparagus until just turning a bright green, about 2-minutes. Remove from water, drain and place in a shallow oven safe baking dish, toss with olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper. Roast until asparagus is tender, about 6-8 minutes. Remove from oven and just before serving drizzle the blue cheese dressing or ranch dressing across the center of the asparagus. Serve immediately.
In a bowl with an electric mixer beat together cream cheese, sugar, cocoa powder, milk, and vanilla until light and fluffy. Add Kahlua and mix well. Pour into prepared cookie crust, spread out evenly.
In another bowl beat together heavy cream, sugar, and vanilla until soft peaks form. Spread over chocolate cream cheese layer. Sprinkle top with mini chocolate chips, if desired. Chill in refrigerator for 2 hours before serving.


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1. What is Bluetech Accelerator elevator Pitch?
Bluetech is an accelerator program designed for startups working on solutions in the areas of shipping, ports and digital. The program is powered by the Portuguese Republic Ministry of the Sea and will allow for the startups to showcase their solutions in major events like the European Maritime Day and to work alongside with world class partners.
3. Who needs to present? And when?
Mandatory presence is needed from the he founders of each selected startup in the Bootcamp and the Demo Day.
5. Do you take equity of the participating startups?
Bluetech Accelerator does not take equity.
7. Where will the program take place?
Bluetech Accelerator will take place in Lisbon, Portugal.
9. What does my Startup have to gain specifically from this program?
Access to the biggest industry event in Europe – European Maritime Day and to a program powered by the Portuguese Republic Ministry of the Sea.
11. Can I end up developing several pilots with different partners?
Yes, it is a real possibility since everything can happen during as the program develops.
2. In which stage should startups be in order to apply?
Bluetech Accelerator is taking applications from startups with a product working prototype or MVP, in product testing phase and with established working teams.
4. Are there any expenses covered by the program?
An allowance will be provided for the presence at the Bootcamp – value to be defined.
6. Will you be investing in startups?
No, this is not a program focused on investment. The selected startups will be developing pilots along with the program Partners.
8. What are the selection criteria?
The selection will be made by the Beta-i team and experts of all Partners of the Bluetech Accelerator. The team of evaluators will be focusing on your product, your team, market, business model, fit with each Partner and will even be counting on their gut feeling and experience from previous programs.
10. Can I apply with more than one project/startup?
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If you have any kind of online presence then you must have heard of how using social media can help you to drive traffic to your site. There are a number of ways that you can get people to come to your site but first they have to hear about it.
You can use services like IZEA, which is a social site that exposes your work to a large number of people . When you use this service you can look for other blogs or websites to sponsor and they will write reviews of your site.
This brings you a lot of exposure from a wider base than the people who visit your site on a regular basis. While this is not traffic that is guaranteed to return on a regular basis, you at least have put your online presence in front of new sets of eyes and they may decide to come back to see what else you have to offer.
Another good thing about using sites like IZEA is that it puts you as a blogger in touch with sponsors who are willing to let you sample their products in exchange for a review . These reviews are very easy to do and quite a few bloggers are getting lots of free items as a result of taking various opportunities.
As a blogger you also get a chance to sample some items even before they become available to the general public , making you somewhat of a trendsetter. Of course getting free items means that you are able to save money so it all works out to the best situation for both parties.
If you are looking to get some more online exposure I highly recommend checking out IZEA and its offerings to see if they can help YOU become better known on the internet.
LuLuGal – I use IZEA as a way to make some extra money from my blog and to try and expose my site. So far I have had good results in a few short weeks.
Twitter is not the only medium being referred to so do you guys use anything else to drive traffic to your sites? PayPerPost? Social Spark? Facebook?
I can't wait a couple more weeks to join PPP. I love blogging.
I signed up for Pay per Post yesterday, but I doubt I have enough traffic for anyone to pay me to write anything. But Social Spark could be good. I will check it out! Thanks for the referral.
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It agree with last comment. To get in ??? digg smart news is necessary. If you will simply place there the site to sense will not be! So reception of traffic for a small site is almost impossible. If someone is not consent with me prompt as me to receive traffic for my site?
Yes Social Media plays a great role in getting traffic for your website. There are so many Social Media sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkdIn and others. They are the best source to market your business online.
Wouldn't it be nice if a huge social media site like Facebook had an application that would make creating fanpages a breeze? Five minutes to create a customized fanpage versus hours of tedious labor…impossible?


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USA. Golfito Marina Village & Resort Unveils pivotal partnership with the international SeaKeepers society
As part of the relationship with the marine research-focused nonprofit, SeaKeepers, scientists will maintain an onsite presence at the development's property in the Ocean-side town of Golfito, Costa Rica
The facilitation and subsequent support of pivotal marine biology research is being buoyed in Costa Rica by a unique partnership that's unfolding along the country's Southern Pacific Coast.
Golfito Marina Village and Resort -- a new 40-acre luxury development and Blue-flag marina being built in the ocean-side town of Golfito -- is proud to announce its support of The International SeaKeepers Society, a not-for-profit organization, which focuses on the health of the world's oceans and climate.
As part of the burgeoning relationship, Golfito Marina Village & Resort will supplement the shipment of a SeaKeepers "wet lab" container in the weeks ahead from the SeaKeepers headquarters in Miami, Florida to Golfito, Costa Rica. Once in place on the development's property, a team of researchers and scientists from the University of Florida will begin using the 40-foot lab to conduct important biodiversity research. Their studies will include a range of endeavors, including the sampling of small marine species, the sequencing of DNA genomes, and to determine what key findings can be gleaned for pharmaceutical needs.
"We are beyond thrilled to announce the culmination of this partnership and to welcome the SeaKeepers team to our development," added Noam Schwartz of Hacienda El Dorado S.A., developer of Golfito Marina Village and Resort. "This long-term relationship will undoubtedly yield vital discoveries about our oceans as well as how to protect them."
"This part of the world is a rare jewel…rich in diversity and teeming with species and microorganisms to be studied," said Richard Snow, President & CEO of The International SeaKeepers Society. "To have full access to not only the distinctive ecological surroundings of Golfito Marina Village and Resort, but to be able to travel to the nearby Galapagos Islands and Pacific Ocean will be an invaluable asset to our research teams, moving forward."
In addition to facilitating the onsite presence of The International SeaKeepers Society, Golfito Marina Village and Resort has been a staunch supporter of the organization's annual signature event. This year Golfito was a top-tier sponsor of the Bal de La Mer & Founders' Dinner on November 5 in Fort Lauderdale, during which renowned oceanographic explorer, conservationist, and documentary filmmaker, Fabien Cousteau, was honored. The partnership between Golfito Marina Village and Resort and SeaKeepers was spotlighted as part of the evening program.
About Golfito Marina Village & Resort
Golfito Marina Village & Resort is a soon-to-be-delivered, 40-acre luxury project in the heart of Golfito, a bay-side town on Costa Rica's Pacific Coast. Directly on the water with unobstructed bay views, the resort is being developed by Hacienda El Dorado S.A., an award-winning team of highly respected and experienced professionals. Together, the company principals boast more than 35 years of industry experience in the United States and 12 years of recent activity in Costa Rica, having developed 11 successful projects in the neighboring towns of Quepos and Manuel Antonio. For more information, visit http://golfitomarinavillage.com/
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TRAILBLAZERS takes us on a wild journey of modern-day exploration when the world premiere airs Friday, April 29th at 10PM only on Discovery Channel.
Each hour-long episode of TRAILBLAZERS will follow three elite survivalists as they lead separate teams of scientists through some of the most dangerous regions of the world in the search for clues and discoveries that could lead to scientific breakthroughs. From the largely unexplored island of Papua New Guinea, to the Jurassic Park-like jungles of Bolivia and the volcanic landscapes of Ecuador – Gary Humphrey, Nick Koumalatsos and Shaun Keilen represent some of the most elite trailblazers in the world. With decades of combined survival experience between them- do these trailblazers have what it takes to not only survive the harsh elements, but accomplish their mission while keeping everyone on their team safe?
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1) Is there a possibility of self collision ? I have already added <adjacent> tags to avoid collision between the joints.
2) Is there a possibility with Inverse Kinematics when I am shifting my goal transformation matrix by a very small distance?
3) Is environment locking necessary ? As per the example, environment is not locked when MoveToHandPosition is called.
4) This question is not related to this problem. I wanted to understand the concept of seedik in the taskmanipulator.GraspPlanning. I searched on openrave site, but found only examples of its usage.


Discussion in 'ROTC' started by Jen2277, Apr 17, 2019.
I'm an enlisted airmen in the Air Force and I want to apply for SOAR and ASCP this year at Embry-Riddle in FL. The whole process seems very fuzzy to me. I found a checklist online but where do I turn my package in at? I believe the packages are due sometime in October but I have no real date. Also, do I have to take the AFOQT prior to applying or is it optional? I have good ACT scores if that can take its place. I meet all the basic qualifications but if anyone has experience in SOAR and ASCP I just need guidance on how this all works.
Not that I know anything about it, but what does your chain of command say? Aren't you going to have to work with them at some point anyway? Might as well start now, unless you already have and they sent you to do the research.
You will have to take the AFOQT.
Everything you need to know, including the process, the required package, deadlines, and the official people to contact for additional questions is available on the AFROTC page here. The applicable AFI is 36-2013. I strongly suggest you read the AFI for yourself and understand it, including keeping an eye out for future changes. I found many on-base personnel (who should know better), unknowingly pass along outdated or superseded information that can quickly derail an application.
POC-ERP is another route, as-is just finishing your degree on AD and applying to directly to attend TFOT.
As @kinnem mentioned, you will need command approval for this. Begin with your First Shirt, your direct supervisor, and your Base Education office.
Persistence pays off. If you don't get in this year, keep applying and working toward your degree in the meantime. Good luck!
I agree you need to talk to someone in your chain. Tbpxece may know the real answer. He may chime in, but if not, I would reach out to him via a pm as soon as you get enough posts to pm.
JMPO, I would take the AFOQT. You will need it later on in AFROTC. There are certain things to understand about the AFOQT.
1. It is more akin to the ACT than the SAT.
~ 4 portions and all timed. Qualitive, Quantitive, Pilot and Nav.
2. You can purchase study guides like the ACT.
~ The test can only be taken 180 days apart. That means if you wait until you get into AFROTC the clock is ticking regarding when you are eligible to retake it again.
4. If you do amazing on the 1st shot AFOQT prior to enrolling in AFROTC, impo it can give you an edge.
~ Strong scores will be in your file, and the AFROTC CoC will see them. 1st impressions always matter. ACT scores are nice, but the CoC knows that the AFOQT matters more.
~~ Not to be rude, but they may also have in their mind it has been yrs since you took that ACT, and are out of the standardized test taking world like you were in HS.
~~~ This could be a double edged sword. Do poorly and they see it too....see above about purchasing study guides.
~ You will have a job in AFROTC as a cadet. Your CoC may see you differently than another AS100. Come your AS200 yr you will need to go to SFT. The CoC's ranking is a big chunk of that score for the selection board.
~ If you do well on it, than you will have less stress on your back. You won't need to re-take it again. Thus, while other cadets are studying and fretting over the AFOQT, you have checked the box, and can spend time on your academic classes...again, the cgpa will be part of the score for the selection board.
~ Unlike TBAS, AFOQT does have study guides. You can shine here within the det. Don't be "that guy/gal", be a mentor to these young cadets and tutor/study/mentor them. The cadre will see this. It shows not only initiative on your part, but peer bonding and leadership. See above regarding CoC ranking for SFT.
Also, you only get two attempts at the AFOQT, so make sure you take plenty of practice courses.
I know smart folks that froze up on their first go-round and bombed it. The time limit for each section can be problematic.
Tbpxece, hence why I said buy the study guides.
To add in why this score matters. You cannot commission without passing SFT. You can't go to SFT without passing the AFOQT. Caveat: You can get a waiver, but you might as well buy one powerball ticket and believe you own the winning ticket.
The SFT selection board is broken down into 4 categories.
Tech/rated - highest % selected.
Non-tech/non-rated - lowest selection rate.
If memory serves me correctly AFOQT scores are 15-20% of the whole score. I can't recall the breakdown specifically. I am sure Tbpxece knows it, but it was something like 40% CoC rank, and than the remainder % included cgpa, PFA, and the AFOQT.
~ PFA scores are typically no lower than a 95 avg for any of the 4 cats.
The board is masked. IOWS they will not care if you are a scholarship, SOAR or walk on cadet because nobody on the board knows your background. It is all about the points.
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And you're dead on the money, ma'am.
As for SFT selection, this is another reason to ask any prospective college's cadre what their previous years' selection rates were. If those rates were <90% and/or are dropping, that'd be a red flag. Any solid Det should have a heavy focus on making sure their cadets are squared away well in advance of the time their package goes up to the board.
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Now they're offering waivers for three tries.
Yeah, that option has always been there, but you have to show a "life event" that indicates the third time will be different. I personally have never met a third time tester, but I've met plenty of folks who commissioned to a different branch because their waiver was denied.
If you've bombed it twice, odds are you will bomb it a third time. That test really is not that hard if you prepare.
The only other scenario is when they switch test versions. There are a couple of versions that were invalidated after the fact. The select few who had taken that version (and not commissioned with it) were given one of their attempts back after a certain date.
Agree, its an easy test even without much prep. I personally knew one guy that took it three times, never passed.


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Diverse microorganisms undergoing growth and reproduction. As organisms evolved from simple prokaryotes to unicellular eukaryotes to multicellular organisms their strategies for internal energy partitioning dramatically changed as illustrated by a recent mathematical model.
Image courtesy of Mari Kempes
Microbe metabolism
For the smallest organisms, size determines how microbes spend energy.
Every living organism balances a budget of sorts — by allocating energy to various parts of its body to fuel essential life processes. Throughout its lifetime, an organism may rebalance this budget to spend more energy on certain processes over others. How an organism spends its energy determines, in large part, its ability to survive in the world, and researchers who study "bioenergetics" are modeling energy use in organisms to understand how populations grow and evolve.
Researchers at MIT have now come up with a model for how energy is spent in the smallest, simplest organisms on Earth, ranging from single-celled bacteria to multicellular microbes. The model divides an organism's possible energy use into two broad categories: growth and reproduction, and maintenance and repair. Based on the size of a given organism, the model accurately predicts what fraction of energy is spent on each category.
This information, the scientists say, could be crucial for determining how populations of bacteria and other microbes grow and spread in oceans and soil. The model may also help researchers interpret major evolutionary shifts: As microbes evolved to be more complex, they likely rebudgeted energy to support new cellular machinery.
The researchers published their results in the Dec. 26 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Mick Follows, co-author of the paper and a senior research scientist in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, says all organisms, at one point or another, face a decision to repair or reproduce, some investing more energy in one process over the other.
"You can imagine a life strategy for one organism might be, 'I'm not going to spend anything on maintenance, I'm just going to reproduce as quickly as possible and hope I make so many copies that some of them will get through,'" Follows says. "And the opposite strategy is, 'Well, I'm going to invest less in reproduction, and really take care of myself and keep myself in prime condition and not die if I can help it.'"
Follows' graduate student Christopher Kempes developed a mathematical model that predicts, broadly, how microbes allocate energy. Kempes devised equations to represent how fast a given microbe grows, as well as the total amount of food an organism can convert to energy. The team, along with research scientist Stephanie Dutkiewicz, then compiled data from other researchers who measured the weight of various microbes over a lifetime, including single-celled bacteria and tiny, multicellular shrimp.
The MIT team combined the data with their equations, and found some interesting patterns among the microbes.
For the gut microbe Escherichia coli, almost every ounce of energy is spent on reproduction. Throughout its lifetime, a single E. coli bacterium grows and divides continuously, quickly colonizing a stomach lining or Petri dish with millions of simple cells. Slightly more complex green algae exhibit a similar trajectory, reproducing up until the very end before refocusing energy inward, on processes that maintain cellular machinery. In contrast, tiny, millimeter-long crustaceans are more self-involved, spending most of their lifetime maintaining complex components before expending energy on reproduction.
The general trend, Follows says, seems to be that the bigger and more complex a microorganism, the more energy it spends on looking out for itself, or repairing internal structures. Smaller, simpler organisms focus more on growing and proliferating, counting on sheer numbers to increase their survival chances.
"You can get an inkling of how you're going from very simple cells that can grow faster," Follows says. "As they add machinery, they invest more in maintenance. And then at some point, that strategy also becomes energy-intensive. But at that point, multicellularity allows you to share energy and resources with other cells."
These trends, the team speculates, may reflect broad evolutionary changes between single-celled prokaryotes such as E. coli, more complex eukaryotes such as green algae and simple multicellular organisms such as tiny shrimp. Through their model, the researchers are able to determine the very smallest size of the simplest organisms, based on how they use energy, as well as the size at which organisms evolve to be multicellular.
"Those evolutionary transitions occur in our model at very predictable stages," Kempes says. "These transitions allow the organism to get bigger, and that's the story of how life got so complex."
Steven Allison, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California at Irvine, says the group's new model may be used to evaluate how all organisms, large and small, expend energy.
"The key innovation here is that microbes' use of energy and resources can change through their life cycles," Allison says. "These differences have not been appreciated before. This means that it may be possible to predict population growth rates based on the size of the cells and their type."
The team plans to incorporate the mathematical model for a single organism's energy use into models of large-scale populations. Follows says knowing how a single organism allocates energy could help researchers more accurately model how microbes spread throughout an environment. For example, if a scientist builds a model to represent bacteria in the ocean, the population may look very different depending on whether the researcher programs the bacteria to expend all their energy on reproduction or repair.
"In some sense, today's models of phytoplankton in the ocean don't use this kind of information," Follows says. "We need to make [these models] better."
Topics: Earth and atmospheric sciences, Energy, Evolution, Metabolic engineering, Bioenergetics, Microbes
Paper: "Growth, metabolic partitioning, and the size of microorganisms"
Stephanie Dutkiewicz


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A: hi you should not import phplist database. Just create database, set this database name, mysql username & password in config.php file (find step 5) and follow installing phpList in a few steps:

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*This will create a directory called phplist-x.y.x where x.y.z is the
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*In this directory, there will be a directory public_html which
contains the directory lists. Upload the "lists" directory into a
directory that can be accessed via the web. The rest of the files
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*Create a database for phpList to use. phpList needs the name of that
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*Configure phpList by opening the config.php file in the lists/config
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When a gas is in contact with the surface of a liquid, the amount of the gas which will go into solution is proportional to the partial pressure of that gas. A simple rationale for Henry's law is that if the partial pressure of a gas is twice as high, then on the average twice as many molecules will hit the liquid surface in a given time interval, and on the average twice as many will be captured and go into solution. For a gas mixture, Henry's law helps to predict the amount of each gas which will go into solution, but different gases have different solubilities and this also affects the rate. The constant of proportionality in Henry's law must take this into account. For example, in the gas exchange processes in respiration, the solubility of carbon dioxide is about 22 times that of oxygen when they are in contact with the plasma of the human body.
Diffusion Osmosis Membrane transport Graham's Law Fick's Law
Kinetic theory concepts
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Graham's Law
When gases are dissolved in liquids, the relative rate of diffusion of a given gas is proportional to its solubility in the liquid and inversely proportional to the square root of its molecular mass. Important in the transport of respiration gases is the relative diffusion rate of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the plasma of the human body. Carbon dioxide has 22 times the solubility, but is more massive (44 amu compared to 32 for oxygen). According to Graham's law, the relative rate of diffusion is given by
Graham's law may be applied to the process that occurs in the alveoli of the lungs.
Diffusion Osmosis Membrane transport Henry's Law Fick's Law
Fick's Law
The net diffusion rate of a gas across a fluid membrane is proportional to the difference in partial pressure, proportional to the area of the membrane and inversely proportional to the thickness of the membrane. Combined with the diffusion rate determined from Graham's law, this law provides the means for calculating exchange rates of gases across membranes. The total membrane surface area in the lungs (alveoli ) may be on the order of 100 square meters and have a thickness of less than a millionth of a meter, so it is a very effective gas exchange interface.
Diffusion Osmosis Membrane transport Graham's Law Henry's Law
Oxygen Transport in the Lungs
The total membrane surface area in the lungs (alveoli ) may be on the order of 100 square meters and have a thickness of less than a millionth of a meter, so it is a very effective gas exchange interface. The relative rate of oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange across these thin membranes depends upon diffusion and the solubility of the gases in the fluid membrane. This is described by Fick's law.
The process of respiration involves the lowering of the diaphragm to increase the volume of the thoracic cavity, which by the ideal gas law is seen to lower its pressure. A model of lung action can be made with a bell jar, balloons, and an elastic membrane. The thoracic cavity normally has a negative gauge pressure to keep the lungs inflated, and the diaphragm action must lower it more to accomplish inhalation. The inhalation process must accomplish the inflation of the alveoli of the lungs, which itself is a remarkable process. The pressure achieved by the diaphragm action is only about -4 mmHg compared to a pressure inside the alveoli of about -3 mmHg, so inhalation must be accomplished with a pressure differential of only about 1 mmHg. The remarkable efficiency of oxygen transport across the lung membranes is characterized in Fick's Law.
Lung model Alveoli of lungs
Gas law concepts
Breathing Pressure Model
Air is drawn into the lungs by lowering the diaphragm, making the pressure more negative in the thoracic cavity. Exhalation is accomplished by the elastic recoil of the diaphragm and of the tiny air sacs (alveoli ) of the lungs. That elastic recoil produces a positive pressure.


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Connie Hedegaard (15 de septiembre de 1960, Copenhague) es una política danesa, miembro del Partido Popular Conservador de Dinamarca, que fue comisaria europea de Acción por el Clima durante la Comisión Barroso II. Está casada y tiene dos hijos.

Después de cursar estudios de literatura e historia fue miembro del parlamento danés desde 1984 y hasta 1990, dedicándose posteriormente al periodismo hasta su nombramiento como Ministra de Medio Ambiente en 2004. Entre 2005 y 2007 fue también Ministra de Cooperación Nórdica. Entre 2007 y 2009 fue ministra de Clima y Energía.

Fue presidente de la Conferencia sobre el Cambio Climático de la ONU 2009 hasta el 16 de diciembre de 2009, cuando renunció a su cargo. El 10 de febrero de 2010 asumió el cargo de comisaria de la Unión Europea en la cartera de Acción por el Clima, como miembro de la Comisión Barroso II (2010-2014). Fue sustituida por Miguel Arias Cañete tras la entrada en funcionamiento de la Comisión Juncker.

Enlaces externos
 Ministerio de Clima y Energía de Dinamarca
 Currículo (en inglés)

Políticos de Dinamarca del siglo XX
Nacidos en Copenhague
Comisarios de la Unión Europea de Dinamarca
Ministros de Clima y Energía de Dinamarca
Ministros de Medio Ambiente de Dinamarca

Energía de Dinamarca
Políticos de Dinamarca del siglo XXI
Políticas de Dinamarca
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The right-hander was hit by Washington outfielder Michael Taylor's grounder with two outs in the second inning. Sanchez made the throw to first for the out but didn't return in the bottom of the third inning.
Sanchez pitched two scoreless innings against the Nationals, allowing one hit and striking out one. He was replaced by right-hander Wes Parsons, who made his major league debut.
Sanchez is 6-3 with a 2.83 ERA in 16 games this season. He had gone at least six innings in six consecutive starts.


Layer (either Perfect Plum or Whisper White) – 3 7/8 x 3 7/8. Top two run completely through the Elegant Dots Embossing Folder, last one only the top 2/3. Add using dimensionals.
Strips – first one Silver glimmer – 5/8 x 3 7/8 an 3/8 x 3 7/8, second one Mint Macaron – two strips 1/4 x 3 7/8, and third one 1/4 x 3 7/8.
Cut two different sized Lots of Labels from Whisper White, stamp splatter in Mint Macaron and greeting in Night of Navy, later using dimensionals and add using dimensionals.
Stamp dragonfly using Perfect Plum on Whisper White, cut out and add to card fronts.
For third card, add some Basic Rhinestones to finish off.
So…which one is YOUR favorite???
And speaking of favorites…we have just released Create with Connie and Mary July 2015 Mini Session – 5 FABULOUS projects. It's a PERFECT time to join!
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I love them all, Mary! Beautiful and definitely something I shall try on my own. I never say CASE because even if I start out trying to CASE something, it never turns out as I saw it. Thanks for the inspiration!
They are all gorgeous. I can't pick a favorite.
The last one with th e sparkle and bling!! Great job!!
They are all fabulous Mary! But if I had to pick one… the 2nd one! I love the balance of colours!
Hey Mary!! Such a great set of cards. Great color choices.Hey Kara!! Awesome card. Super CAS. I love how you inked the corner with those vibrant colors. Thank you so much for playing us this week at CASology.
Hey Mary!! I'm not sure why my comment combine your comment with another one. I'm sorry about that. I tried to delete it but I couldn't. So sorry about that.
The 1st is my favorite because I love purple! All are very nice.
I liked each one as much as the one before….but really couldn't pick just one of them however my DH is going to be unhappy because now you are making me want that stamp set. Thought I could resist it because the dragonfly was really the one image that I liked….and now I like that dragonfly way too much! Gonna have to go buy that renegade framelit for the dragonfly, too….oye!!!


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

namespace CS.Hardware.BooleanArithmetic
{
    public class Inc16 : Adder16
    {
        public Inc16()
        {
            C = true;
        }
        public Inc16(bool[] a, bool[] b)
        {
            A = a;
            B = b;
            C = true; // Set the carry flag for bit 1 to add 1.
        }
    }
}

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Tanker company Euronav has sold the Suezmax vessel Felicity to an unnamed global supplier and operator of offshore floating platforms.
The Suezmax tanker Felicity, with a 157,667 deadweight tonnage, was built in 2009 by Samsung.
Announcing the sale on Tuesday, Euronav said that a capital loss on the sale of approximately $3 million would be recorded in 4Q 2018 and the cash generated on this transaction after repayment of debt would be $21.1 million.
The vessel has been delivered to its new owners and will be converted into an FPSO and therefore leave the worldwide trading fleet.
Posted on January 15, 2019 with tags euronav, Felicity, Tanker.
CCI-CableService has been awarded an electrical cables supply deal by SBM Offshore for ExxonMobil's FPSO Liza Destiny.


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Google Scholar citation profile
My research bridges the natural and social sciences. I publish in several fields, including environmental science and environmental studies, geography, development studies, and urban studies. I have published in Science, Global Environmental Change, Review of International Political Economy, and World Development.
Smart Earth: Digital Technologies and Environmental Governance
For the past several years I've been working on a major new initiative on digital technologies and environmental governance.
One of our recent publications is a co-authored meta-review which surveys 3,100+ articles published on Smart Earth (across the social and natural sciences over the past 20 years):
Bakker, K. and M. Ritts. 2018. Smart Earth: A meta-review and implications for environmental governance. Global Environmental Change. 52: 201 – 211. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378017313730)
Currently I'm collaborating with David Jensen (UNEP) and a number of other international organizations on a 'digital ecosystem for Earth'. We've published a series of articles on Medium exploring potential for globalized digital environmental governance.
Our first article sets out priorities for global environmental governance to "go digital." Despite the numerous potential pitfalls, we believe that we are at a pivotal moment in history: mobilizing the tools of the Digital Age to address our most pressing environmental threats will be critical for ensuring a more sustainable future. We're keen on engaging a broad range of views, so we have framed our article with a question: "Are these the 20 top priorities for a digital ecosystem for Earth in 2020?"
Our second article calls on public, private, civil society and international actors to take deliberate action and collaborate to enable a global digital ecosystem for the planet, mobilizing infrastructure, software, and data analytics to generate real-time insights that can power the structural transformations needed to achieve sustainable development goals. We highlight 20 of the most important international initiatives that are moving the "digital ecosystem for Earth" ahead in 2020.
If you prefer a PDF version, you can download a document containing all of our UNEP-UBC co-authored articles here.
2013 Lankford, B., Bakker, K., Zeitoun, M., and Conway, D., (Eds.) Water Security: Principles, Perspectives, and Practices. London: Routledge.
2013 Norman, E., Cohen, A., and Bakker, K. (eds.) Water Without Borders? Canada, the United States, and Shared Waters. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press)
2010 Bakker, K. Privatizing Water: Governance failure and the world's water crisis. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press; Asian edition: NUS Press, 2011)
2006 Bakker, K. (ed.) Eau Canada: The future of Canada's water. (Vancouver: UBC Press)
2004 Bakker, K. An Uncooperative Commodity. (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Recent Articles (selected examples)
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In press Neville, K., Baka, J., Weinthal, D., and K. Bakker. "Corporate Disclosure and Investor-Activist Resolutions over Hydraulic Fracturing." Review of International Political Economy.
2018 Baka, J., K. Neville, E. Weinthal, and K. Bakker. 2018. Policy Mobilities and Agenda-Setting at the Energy-Water Nexus: Constructing and Maintaining a Policy Monopoly in US Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation. Review of Policy Research. (DOI) – 10.1111/ropr.12287
2017 Dunn, G., R. Brown, J. Bos, and K. Bakker. 2017. "The Role of the Science-Policy Interface in Sustainable Urban Water Transitions: Lessons from Rotterdam." Environmental Science & Policy. 73 (2017): 71-79.
2017 Neville, K., Baka, J., Gamper-Rabindran, S., Bakker, K., Andreasson, S., Vengosh, A., Lin, A., Nem Singh, J., and Weinthal, E. Debating unconventional energy: Social, political and economic implications. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 42, 241-266.
2016 G. Dunn, R. R. Brown, J. J. Bos & K. Bakker (2016): Standing on the shoulders of giants: Understanding changes in urban water practice through the lens of complexity science, Urban Water Journal, DOI: 10.1080/1573062X.2016.1241284
2016 Simms, R., Harris, L., Bakker, K., and Joe, N. (2016) Navigating the Tensions in Collaborative Watershed Governance: Water Governance and Indigenous Communities in British Columbia, Canada. Geoforum. 6 – 16. DOI 10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.04.005
2015 de Freitas, C., A. Marston, and Karen Bakker. "Not-quite-neoliberal natures in Latin America: An introduction." Geoforum 64: 239-245.
2015 Dunn, G., Harris, L., Bakker, K.. "Microbial Risk Governance: Challenges and opportunities in freshwater management in Canada." Canadian Water Resources Association Journal. 40(3), 237-249.
2015 Norman, E. and K. Bakker."Do good fences make good neighbors? Canada-United States Transboundary Water Governance, the Boundary Waters Treaty, and 21st century challenges." Water International. 40(1), 199-213.
2014 Bakker, K. 'The Business of Water' Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 39(1), 469 – 494.
2014 Cohen, A. and K. Bakker. The eco-scalar fix: Rescaling environmental governance and the politics of ecological boundaries in Alberta, Canada. Environment and Planning D. doi:10.1068/d0813.
2014 Yates, J. and K. Bakker. Neoliberalism and Post-neoliberalism in Latin America. Progress in Human Geography. 38(1), 62 – 91. (second author: contribution 40%)
2014 Dunn, G., Harris, L., Bakker, K., and Allen, D. Drinking Water Quality Guidelines across Canadian Provinces and Territories: Jurisdictional variation in the context of decentralized water governance. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 11(5), 4634-4651. (third author; contribution 25%)
2014 Cohen, A. and K. Bakker. The eco-scalar fix: Rescaling environmental governance and the politics of ecological boundaries. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. doi:10.1068/d0813
2013 Bakker, K. and C. Morinville 'The Governance Dimensions of Water Security: A review.' Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Science. 371 (2002), 2013011
2013 Bakker, K. Constructing "public" water: The World Bank and water as an object of development. Environment & Planning D, 31(2), 280-300
2013 Bakker, K. Neoliberal versus Postneoliberal Water. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 253-260.
2012 Bakker, K. Water Security: Research challenges and opportunities. Science, 337, 914. (Summary and reprints also available.)
2012 Cook, C. and K. Bakker. Water Security: Debating an emerging paradigm. Global Environmental Change, 22(1), 94–102.
2011 Bakker, K. and Cook, C. Water governance in Canada: Innovation in the context of fragmentation. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 27(2): 275–289.
2010 Bakker, K. Debating green neoliberalism: The limits of "neoliberal natures". Progress in Human Geography, 34(6), 715–735.
2010 Furlong, K. and Bakker, K. The contradictions of 'good' governance: Business Models, Alternative Service Delivery, and Sustainability in Municipal Water Supply. Environment and Planning C 28(2), 349–368.
2010 Bakker, K. Participation du secteur privé à la gestion des services des eaux : Tendances récentes et débats dans les pays en voie de développement. Espaces et Societés 139, 91–105.
Recent Book Chapters (selected examples)
2018 Bakker, K. (2018) "Bienes Comunes versus Mercancía: Alterglobalización y el derecho huano al agua en el hemisferio Sur." In In Astudillo Pizarro, F. and Salamanca Villamizar, C. A. Recursos, Vinculos y Territorios: Inflexiones transversales en torno al agua. Buenos Aires: UNR Editora, pp 53-84. —
2018 Bakker, K., L. Harris, N. Joe, and R. Simms. (2018). "Indigenous Peoples and Water Governance in Canada: Regulatory Injustice and Prospects for Reform." In Water Justice, ed. R. Boelens et al., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 193-209.
2017 Bakker, K. 2017. "The Business of Water." In Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Water Policy, ed. K. Conca and E. Weinthal. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2017 Ahlers, R., Zwarteween, M. and K. Bakker. 2017. "Large Dam Development: From Trojan Horse to Pandora's Box." In The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management, ed. Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius, and Werner Rothengatter. 556 – 576, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2017 Bakker, K. 2017. "From a 'State Hydraulic' to 'Market Environmentalist' Paradigm: Changing Paradigms of Urban Water Supply in Developing Countries in the 20th Century." In The UNESCO Water Book Project: Water and Humanity: Historical Overview, ed. V. Scarborough, 197–217. Paris: UNESCO.
2016 Dunn, G., L. Harris, and K. Bakker. "Canadian Drinking Water Policy: Jurisdictional Variation in the Context of Decentralized Water Governance." In Water Policy and Governance in Canada, vol. 17, ed. S. Renzetti and D. Dupont, 301–20. New York: Springer.
2016 Norman, E., and K. Bakker. "Transboundary Water Governance." In Water Policy in Canada, vol. 17, ed. S. Renzetti and D. Dupont, 139-158. New York: Springer.
2015 Norman, E.S., A. Cohen, and K. Bakker. "The Water Convention from a North American Perspective." In The UNECE Convention to the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes; Its Contribution to Internation, ed. A. Tanzi, O. McIntyre, A. Kolliopoulos, and A. Rieu-Clarke, 423–34. Boston: Brill Press.
2015 Cook, C., and K. Bakker. "Water Security: Key Issues." In Handbook on Water Security, ed. C. Pahl-Wostl, J. Gupta, and A. Baduri, 19–37. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
2015 Bakker, K. "The Neoliberalization of Nature." In Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology, ed. G. Bridge, T. Perreault, and J. McCarthy, 446–56. London: Routledge.
2014 Kooy, M., and K. Bakker. "(Post)Colonial Pipes Urban Water Supply in Colonial and Contemporary Jakarta." In Cars, Conduits and Kampongs: Modernization of the Indonesian city, 1920 – 1960. Eds. F. Colombijn and J. Cote, 63–86. Leiden: Brill.
2014 Bakker, K. "From a 'State Hydraulic' to 'Market Environmentalist' Paradigm: Changing Paradigms of Urban Water Supply in Developing Countries in the 20th Century." In The UNESCO Water Book Project, Volume 7: Water and Humanity: Historical Overview, ed. V. Scarborough, 197–217. Paris: UNESCO.
2013 Bakker, K. Hegemony does not imply homogeneity: Thoughts on the marketization and privatization of water. In Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South, (Eds.) L.Harris, J. Goldin, and C. Sneddon. Routledge: London.
2012 Bakker, K. "The 'matter of nature' in economic geography." In Barnes, T., Peck, J. and E. Sheppard (eds.) The New Companion to Economic Geography. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
2011 Bakker, K. Splintered Urbanisms: Water, urban infrastructure, and the modern social imaginary In Gandy, M. (ed.) Urban Constellations Berlin: Jovis, 62–64.
2011 Bakker, K. Conflicts over water supply in Jakarta, Indonesia. In Barraque, B. (Ed.), Urban Water Conflicts, Paris: UNESCO, 195–217.
2011 Bakker, K. The human right to water revisited. In Sultana, F., Budds, J. and Loftus, A. (eds). The Right to Water. London: Earthscan, 19–44.
2010 Bakker, K. Commons versus Commodities: Political ecologies of water privatization. In Peet, R., Robbins, P., and Watts, M. (Eds.) Global Political Ecology London: Routledge, 345–368.
2010 Norman, E. and K. Bakker. Governing Water across the Canada – U.S. Borderland. In G. Hale and M. Gattinger (eds.), Borders and Bridges: Navigating Canada's International Policy Relations in a North America Context. Oxford University Press, 194–212.


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Our close partners helping to develop innovative research into reproductive health.
Edinburgh Fertility Preservation
Due to the improved survival rates from many cancers, there is increasing attention on how cancer treatment can adversely affect the subsequent quality of life. For young people, among the most important of these are effects on fertility. Fertility preservation options are available for some patients; however, for others including young boys there are no such options, with an urgent need for more research.
Edinburgh Fertility Preservation (EFP) was founded by a group of clinicians and scientists working at the University of Edinburgh and hospitals within Edinburgh. Our aim is to develop procedures for fertility preservation in children and young adults, usually cancer patients, who are due to undergo treatment which may compromise their long-term fertility.
A major component of fertility preservation involves cryopreserving or 'freezing' tissue, and we are the first and currently the only centre in the UK with approval to cryopreserve both ovary and testis tissue. Our research focuses on the germ cells in these tissues and their development into sperm and eggs.
We aim to fulfil both clinical and scientific roles in the field of fertility preservation, with the diverse professional backgrounds of our team making this possible.
The Edinburgh Fertility Preservation website
Child Life and Health
Child Life and Health (CLAH) was established in 1931. The Department was initially in Chalmers Street adjacent to the old Royal Infirmary and the Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion. CLAH moved into its first purpose-built accommodation when the new Wing of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children was completed in August 1994.
The Child Life and Health website
The Edinburgh Reproductive Tissue Bio Bank
The procurement and subsequent use of human tissue samples is the cornerstone of medical research that has facilitated countless medical discoveries and advances in therapy.
The Edinburgh Reproductive Tissue Bio Bank (ERTBB) has been set up to aid medical and scientific researchers working in the field of reproductive biology, with the long term goal of improving the health, diagnosis and treatment of women and their un-born infants.
The Bank provides high quality tissue samples and matched medical data in an anonymised form for researchers working on projects which have already obtained ethical approval from an appropriate ethics committee.
The Edinburgh Reproductive Tissue Bio Bank website
The Shared University Research Facilities
The Shared University Research Facilities (SuRF) at the University of Edinburgh offer a comprehensive range of services to underpin and support research within the QMRI, SCRM, University, NHS and wider research community.
The Shared University Research Facilities (SuRF) website
The Scottish HPV Investigators Network
A group of interested scientists, clinicians and administrators came together to form the Scottish HPV Investigators Network (SHINe). The purpose of SHINe is to act as:
A multi-disciplinary forum for discussion on HPV and HPV-related diseases
Identify emerging research and clinical questions and
Implement a series of research programmes/projects relevant to HPV disease prevention and management in the future.
The Scottish HPV Investigators Network website
This article was published on 12 Jul, 2018
The MRC Centre for Reproductive Health has been awarded the Athena Swan Silver Award.


A small fire broke out in Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO) in Nairobi on the evening (local time) of Wednesday, April 3, resulting in the closure of Terminal 1C. The fire began around 23:45 on Wednesday due to a baggage belt malfunction in Terminal 1C. The terminal was closed and all personnel evacuated with no injuries. According to a Kenya Airports statement on Thursday, April 4, Terminal 1C has been cordoned off and temporarily closed, with flights moved to Terminal 1B. Some congestion and flight delays are possible at NBO in the coming hours and days.
Individuals flying through NBO are advised to monitor the situation, confirm the status of their flight, and anticipate residual flight delays and crowded conditions at the airport.


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Smartly does it
keeping your forecourt in tip-top condition is a clever move, according to helen gregory
As margins on fuel are driven further down, and the forecourt sector becomes increasingly competitive, operators are always looking for ways to cut costs - and maintenance is often the first casualty.
"The multiple grocers spend a lot of time making sure their image is right and that sites are tidy, and they attract customers as a result," says John Binnie, managing director of CSC Forecourt Services. "Other operators are slowly coming round to that way of thinking but cleaning a site is usually the first thing they stop doing when they need to save money."CSC Forecourt Services specialises in cleaning forecourts and Binnie advises that canopies and forecourts are cleaned once a year, and car wash bays every three and six months.Ignore maintenance at your peril, warns Dave Morgan, director at Forecourt Maintenance Services. "If I'm driving down the road and I see a nice, shiny forecourt near to a tatty and dirty one with accident damage, I wouldn't be tempted to stop at that one," he reasons. "Some forecourt owners just think that people will stop because they sell petrol but the bigger players are realising that having a clean and tidy operation makes a difference."Independents have to keep up to speed otherwise consumers won't go back, agrees Andrew Tate, managing director at Tate Fuels. "It's all about market competition - if there's someone down the road making that extra effort you'll want to beat them."More emphasis is being put on car washes than a few years ago because margins on fuel have been driven down, so operators need a car wash to help them survive, reports Car Wash UK sales and marketing director, Colin Russell. "But it needs to look attractive and be well maintained," he says.The company's engineers now have hand-held PDAs which let them send and receive emails and get information about previous site visits. "It makes life so much easier," says Russell "and makes us more efficient." The company also does a one-stop shop service for operators who can task it with maintaining and repairing everything including the bay, doors and compressors. "Door companies usually give three to four days response time whereas we can respond in 24 hours," he says. "It's not good for an operator if they have to shut down the car wash - if someone finds it shut once they might come back, but not after a second time."It can also work on lights and top-up chemicals, which saves heavy lifting by staff and avoids health and safety issues by preventing spills and accidents. The issue of health and safety is certainly another reason for keeping things up to scratch. If you don't clean petrol spillages for example, you're not showing due diligence. Forecourts also have a duty of care under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to store and dispose of waste properly and to help them, Cleansing Service Group has a 24-hour emergency hotline service which operators call if they have oil or chemical spills, leaking tanks or water course contamination.The company warns that drainage channels and underground interceptors can get blocked over time and that regulatory authorities recommend they are cleaned every six months, as local petroleum officers look for evidence of this when they're carrying out inspections."Independent retailers need to keep up-to-date with risk assessments," advises Bob Edwards, retail sales manager at Carlton Fuels. His company works with local fire authorities and councils to make sure this gets done, and that retailers have their Petrol Storage Licence.Health and safety has to be number one when it comes to pumps too. By repairing a pump that's starting to wear you could prevent the need for a much more expensive repair at a later date. If a cracked trigger guard is left to deteriorate, for example, a consumer could damage their car and you can bet they won't come back to your forecourt again, says Dresser Wayne Pignone's service manager, Charlie Campbell.The company supplies and maintains pumps, point of sale, and gauges. It used to have to bring in weights and measures officials to check out pumps but is now certified to do the work itself. "We try to ensure that when we attend a site, an engineer does a walk round the equipment - we would prefer to do it as a continual process although some customers have checks annually or twice a year - depending on the volume," he says.A pumping unit that seizes with dirt can put extra wear on a motor which could burn out, says Campbell who adds that most repairs are on the most basic parts of a pump, such as the nozzle and hose which means you need to pay attention to the basic parts as well as the electrics.Operators also need to make sure that leaks are identified and dealt with as soon as possible, and wetstock management company Edensure has come up with a way to make sure this happens around the clock. Its new Weekend Wetstock Analysis service enables analysts to assess data produced by the ES3 system each day, something traditionally carried out by forecourt managers. By assessing reports at the weekend, Edensure guarantees that leaks are identified and the necessary action taken."The results produced using ES3 are highly accurate but require analysis to identify disparities," says operations manager, Linda Cash. "We found that on weekends managers were often too busy to assess them.""A leak that averages 6ltrs a day could go on for six months before ever failing a test which would mean thousands of pounds in clean-up costs," adds managing director, Martin McTague. "Which is why the sensitivity of wet-stock management is so important. Our system generally detects leaks at 1ltr a day and we can guarantee that we will identify a leak before it reaches total leakage of 150ltrs." Wet-stock management is also the subject of legislation covering Stage II Vapour Recovery which takes effect at the end of 2009 and, according to Campbell at Dresser Wayne Pignone, the vast majority of forecourt dealers aren't prepared. Thousands of sites need to be retrofitted or have new pumps to be legal. "I don't think the dealers appreciate how critical it is," says Campbell, who points to a vapour recovery kit that can be fitted on pumps and says the company is training staff so that they are ready to carry out the work.And although taking care of forecourt signs might not seem a health and safety issue, Xmo Strata says poorly maintained signage can be dangerous. Earlier this year, it had 180 emergency calls in one day because of canopy damage caused by the weather, and the company warns that serious injury could result if this is not repaired.Problems can also be caused by using ill-equipped or poorly-trained workmen. EPOS Engineers, part of Indigo Retail, advises retailers to find out as much as they can about the engineers that will be maintaining their site. Key questions are 'how far away from my site is the nearest engineer based?' and 'how long has the engineer been working in the industry?' The company suggests that they also ask forecourt retailers nearby how they rate the service they receive, which can be a good benchmark. Retailers should also bear in mind that engineers' technical skills can differ between systems.Says Paresh Patel, service and customer care director at Indigo Retail: "We plan for every eventuality and stock spares for scanners and till drawers as well as pumps and gauges. We have access to all types of pumps - both new and refurbished."Typical issues on a more comprehensive planned forecourt maintenance programme might include a detailed checklist and maintenance survey, says Xmo Strata. This should cover at least some of the following: the integrity, cleanliness, and operation of pole signs, canopy, secondary signs, spreaders, fascia, car wash and shop signs; signage on the pumps, directional and instructional signage (in some cases, a regulatory or safety-related issue), and wall projecting signs.The company believes a good maintenance operation will be able to provide a guaranteed call-out within four hours. "You should also expect to have qualified in-house electricians in a credible maintenance organisation - you definitely shouldn't be using unqualified electricians on a forecourt, and you should not accept sign engineers doing electrical work," says managing director, Steve Martin."Some problems are a result of work being done by companies with staff who aren't properly qualified," he adds. Martin has even published a book on the subject and hopes it will encourage the industry to raise standards.CSC Forecourt Services agrees that operators need to check that they're getting an experienced cleaning company to do the job: "Six years ago there was no-one doing this but now everyone's turning up to do it. But you have to ask if they're experienced enough," says Binnie.Plenty of companies offer maintenance contracts, although opinion is divided as to whether this is always a good idea.Xmo Strata reckons that proactive and preventative maintenance over the longer term is significantly more cost-effective. It says planned maintenance visits can be done for a lower cost than an emergency call-out, although some customers baulk at the up-front commitment and usually pay more, in the long run, to solve problems on an ad hoc basis.Meanwhile, Forecourt Maintenance Services' work includes repairing canopies and spraying pump panels - much of it repairing canopy damage where lorries have hit them. However, Morgan doesn't believe in maintenance contracts. "If we said 'give us £100 a month' it might be that nothing needs doing for two or three years," he says. "We think paying for work as you need it is fairer."But maintenance contract or no maintenance contract, remember that first impressions last, says Tate at Tate Fuels, who believes customers get a general impression of a site when they walk in. "If there's rubbish around and a taped-up pump you might not want to buy a sandwich there, you'll just buy petrol and leave."
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Forecourt maintenance: Enduring image


(d) List any natural formations of existing man-made structures (hills, trees, water tanks, towers, etc.) which, in the opinion of the applicant, would tend to shield the antenna from aircraft: The ground station antenna is on the roof of the Geography building at the University of Georgia; however, the ground station is not the highest point nearby. The neighboring buildings are higher than the roof ant top of the ground station. Specifically, the roof of the Chemistry building at the University of Georgia is much higher than the ground station.
(d) List any natural formations of existing man-made structures (hills, trees, water tanks, towers, etc.) which, in the opinion of the applicant, would tend to shield the antenna from aircraft: The proposed spacecraft is a 3U cube satellite operating in Low Earth Orbit. Find attached an Orbital Debris Assessment Report which highlights the demise of the satellite upon re-entry.