Everything But The Kitchen Sink: Chick Chick!
Just got back from visiting my sisters friend who has new chicks hatching! As you may know I already have five chickens but we only get 1 egg a day from them because they're quite old now, so hopefully we'll be getting a few new chicks. So exciting! She also had four kittens and they were sooo cute, we wanted to take them home with us. But that would be stealing, so not cool!
I want to share with you guys a sort of scrap book of clothes and shoes that I've been collecting for a while now. It just shows how quickly the fashions change!
I probably should pop off now, Charlie isn't looking that happy with me!
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Carroll of Hope - lifting our covid spirits
£1,244 raised of £10,000 goal
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Best Beginnings is organizing this fundraiser to benefit Best Beginnings.
During this third National Lockdown, lift your COVID spirits by watching Carroll of Hope.
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Heartfelt thanks to the midwives from across the country who created "Carroll of Hope", a magnificent version of 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' featuring the 'Queen of Lovers Rock' Carroll Thompson to raise our spirits and vital funds to support our work.
Together we can make a difference for future generations.
Best Beginnings are thrilled to have been chosen as the charity to receive 100% of donations for "Carroll Of Hope". As well as raising vital funds to support our work, we also hope the song will raise the spirits of the nation at this incredibly challenging time.
Since the first lockdown in March 2020, more than half a million babies have been born in the UK.
#CarrollOfHope celebrates the incredible work of midwives and the collaboration between midwives and the Best Beginnings team.
All the money raised through this uplifting initiative will help Best Beginnings launch the latest version of the Baby Buddy app - our NHS approved app which has already supported more than 300,000 people across the UK.
Baby Buddy 2.0 is being developed with input from hundreds of parents and professionals to support mothers, fathers and other parents through pregnancy and their children's early years. Just like the current version of Baby Buddy and in-line with the charity's mission to reduce inequalities, the new app will be for all parents and be particularly relevant and engaging for parents whose children are at higher risk of poor outcomes.
The new pregnancy and parenting app will have hundreds of engaging and informative films and written content, the ability to create your own digital best friend to support you on your parenting journey and 24/7 access to the Baby Buddy Crisis Text Messenger. Baby Buddy 2.0 has a new look and feel with personalised daily information bespoke for mothers, fathers and other co-parents through pregnancy to their child's first birthday.
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Professor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, Chief Midwifery Officer for NHS England who founded the Midwifery Ambassador's Network said: "Thank you to Best Beginnings for the work that you continue to do to inform and empower parents from diverse backgrounds. Like Best Beginnings, I'm passionate about working collaboratively to reduce inequalities in health outcomes and both Claire Mathews, Regional Chief Midwife, and I are delighted that the single created by the Midwifery Ambassadors across the country will be of help. I, like many others, look forward to seeing the impact of the new Baby Buddy 2.0 and its contribution to supporting parents and their relationships with their midwives",
Carroll Thompson, dubbed the 'Queen of Lovers Rock' said: "It was pure joy to create this single with so many fantastic midwives from across the country and to know the money raised through it will support the launch of Baby Buddy 2.0. My mother was a senior midwife for many years, so I am aware of the importance of supporting and empowering all parents and the positive impact that Baby Buddy will create. I dedicate this song to midwives everywhere and to all the families now and in the future that will benefit from Best Beginnings' powerful and empowering work."
Best Beginnings exists to support parents of all backgrounds to give their children the best start and Baby Buddy 2.0 will be their flag-ship vehicle to achieve this. Baby Buddy 2.0 is being developed with input from hundreds of parents and professionals to support mothers, fathers and other parents through pregnancy and their children's early years. Just like the current version of Baby Buddy and in-line with the charity's mission to reduce inequalities, the new app will be for all parents and be particularly relevant and engaging for parents whose children are at higher risk of poor outcomes.
Alison Baum OBE, CEO and Founder of Best Beginnings, comments: "I am thrilled that the Midwifery Ambassador Network and Caroll Thompson have created "Carroll of Hope" to help raise vital funds for Best Beginnings. Since the first lockdown midwives in the UK have brought more than half a million new babies into this world. By supporting this Christmas Single you'll be celebrating midwives everywhere and supporting the "birth" of Baby Buddy 2.0. Together we can make a difference for future generations."
Simon Austin, the musician who gave his time to work with the Midwifery Ambassadors to create the single said, "I became a father for the second time during the pandemic and like many new parents experienced isolation, anxiety and some depression. The collaboration that has gone into creating and releasing this Christmas Single has been incredibly therapeutic. I'm thrilled that the money raised through the Carroll of Hope will help launch Baby Buddy 2.0 with supportive daily information for fathers as well as mothers. Having the app would have made such a difference to me in my darkest hours and it feels great to be able to pay forward."
Early this year, working collaboratively with Home-Start UK and the Parent-Infant Foundation, Best Beginnings published the Babies in Lockdown report which captured the experiences of more than 5,000 parents. The report highlights the serious challenges parents are experiencing and how the pandemic is exacerbating underlying inequalities. For example the survey found that almost 9 in 10 (87%) parents were more anxious as a result of COVID-19 and the first lockdown. There was a notable variation amongst respondents who reported feeling "a lot" more anxious: White 42%, Black/Black British 46%, Asian/Asian British 50%, Parents 25 years old or under 54% and parents with a household income of less than £16k 55%. The Baby Buddy app aims to lessen these inequalities and be a trusted and empowering source of information and support for all new and expectant parents.
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I Don't Get Smash Bros.
Continuing on from a previous theme, the Super Smash Bros series, though obscenely popular and capable of selling millions, is a series that I just can't seem to get on the right wavelength to enjoy.
Though I've been known to, I'm not going to get on that high horse about how it's not a proper fighting game and the world would be much better off if everyone would master the intricacies of Street Fighter III or Mark of the Wolves. It would, but the point is that Smash Bros is as much a party game and a Nintendo museum as it is a fighting game. It's all very tongue-in-cheek; a snakes and ladders to Street Fighter's chess. I'll just leave that argument there since I'm sure you can find several theses' worth of fanboys clashing over it.
I have my copy of Brawl, just like I had Melee and the original game before it, and yet the huge appeal still eludes me. Subspace Emissary, the bizarrely titled adventure mode, is a painful slog that's totally at odds with the classic mode and that had me bored senseless after an hour. I'm not opposed to a story mode in this – indeed, the FMV scenes and the ludicrous contrivances that bring Mario, Sonic, and Solid Snake together in one universe can be pretty brilliant – but the platforming just doesn't do it for me. How about wrapping the story around the normal fighting engine?
Regardless, the basic fighting has a certain charm, and when played online (when that decides to work – Nintendo WFC makes PSN seem reliable) or in local multiplayer it's a blast. The arenas also never fail to impress me, from the schizophrenic Wario Ware stage to the quite beautiful [insert 'for a Wii game' disclaimer here] Twilight Princess one, all with their own little idiosyncrasies and gimmicks. Coupled with the fact that the game's basically one big fan-wank – hundreds of music tracks, even more obscure characters to unlock in the form of trophies and stickers – I can see the appeal, but to me the underlying game is just incredibly overrated.
Still, credit for Nintendo for really going all out with this game. The fact that it allows you to create maps and save screenshots (the above one is mine) and replays to be shared on SD card or – get this – traded online, shows that if they can move on from the friend code rubbish (mine's 2621-2435-6589, incidentally), Nintendo might not be completely left behind when community features like those in Halo 3 and LittleBigPlanet become commonplace. God knows what they're going to put in there for the next version. Every Nintendo character ever playable?
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So Solid Snake isn't the only non-Nintendo character to make it into Smash Bros Brawl, as Nintendo has announced that Sonic will be pitting himself in mortal combat against Mario for the first time. Now we know how Sega got permission to put Mario into its Olympic game, then.
I was very indifferent towards Smash Bros Melee, probably because it came out at the same time as I was getting into Street Fighter III: Third Strike's home debut on Dreamcast and, let's face it, in a battle of fighting mechanics only one of those is going to come out on top. It was an enjoyable little fanwank but I find myself constantly baffled by lists putting it up there as one of the best games of all time. It's not. Seriously, it's not. It's not even close to being the best game on GameCube, and that's saying something.
As such, my anticipation for Brawl was almost nil. I still need to buy Metroid Prime 3, and that gets the nod over Smash Bros for having a proper single player experience in there. But this has changed things entirely. The original Smash Bros may have been wish fulfilment for a lot of people who grew up with Nintendo, but in making a fighting game with Mario and Sonic, Nintendo have gone and created my most wanted game from about 1993. Seriously, if I'd told 8-year-old self about this game my little head would have exploded.
So what are the odds on Snake slitting Sonic's throat for that awful next-gen abortion? Don't go all family friendly on us, Nintendo.
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I've just seen IGN's ten reasons to wait for a Revolution, but has the irony escaped anyone else that the second reason they give is "Same Games, Prettier Graphics" and then goes on to list a new Zelda, a new Metroid, and a new Smash Bros as reasons to get a Revolution? Those won't be the same games with better graphics?
OK, so we'll get them with some quirky new control scheme but will they really be new gaming experiences or will they be the same games shoehorned onto the new controller? To give Nintendo credit they're far better with original concepts than either Sony or Microsoft, but even their new stuff isn't always as new as they'd tell you – The Wind Waker took a shocking new direction but was essentially Ocarina of Time with cartoony graphics and dull sailing sections, and although the DS has some great stuff now what was Nintendo's first big game for it? Super Mario 64 with either less-than-ideal digital controls or unworkable analogue controls. While a Metroid Prime might work with the Revolution controller without any concessions, I really can't see a Zelda or Smash Bros on that controller without some kind of add-on, which essentially makes them the "Same Games, Prettier Graphics".
Maybe Nintendo will prove me wrong, but if they want to gain the popularity that Mario, Zelda, and Metroid can afford they're going to have to stick to the status quo and not make it so that we have to swing a remote as if it was Link's sword. Their original concept really needs original games, as the DS has shown, and when one of the main selling points is that it plays Nintendo's whole back catalogue (same games, same graphics?) is that going to happen?
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¶1. Poloff discussed this year's UNGA with Ministry of External Relations (MRE) UN Division Director Gilda Neves. Brazil will be represented by President Lula and Foreign Mininster Amorim. Both will have extensive schedules of bilateral meetings. Lula is spending more time than planned in New York due to the cancellation of a planned visit to Canada. Amorim will meet with Secretary Rice. According to Neves, the MRE favors increasing bilateral U.S. Brazilian consultations on UN-related issues, especially peacekeeping in Haiti and other regional security questions. Amorim will also be prepared to brief on Brazilian views of the situation in Bolivia and Brazil's efforts to play a moderating role. The MRE has recommended several themes for President Lula's remarks to the General Assembly, especially the need for development assistance for Africa, support to the UN Millenium Development Goals and the importance of enhancing regional integration mechanisms, for example UNASUL. Lula is also expected to make a case for increased civilian assistance to Haiti in the wake of this year's active hurricane season and for strengthening Haiti's governmental institutions. The president will also advocate support for elections in Africa. Brazil would like to send monitors to Guinea Bissau's October elections, but these fall at the same time as Brazil's own municipal elections, the running of which will occupy Brazil's election experts.
¶2. As usual, Brazil's top priority for this year's UNGA will be Security Council reform. For Brazil, this is defined narrowly as obtaining a new permanent seat on the UNSC. Brazil believes its size, regional influence and gorwing economy entitle it to the status a permanent seat conveys. Neves said Brazil was pleased with the recent decision to move toward inter-governmental negotiations as Brazil was frustrated by the lack of progress in the open ended working group. She expressed her government's view that there was little chance that inter governmental negotiations would lead to consensus and that the issue would ultimately lead to a vote in the General Assembly. "A vote is the way things are done in the UN." she said. Neves also stated that the U.S. view that reform of the UNSC should only take place in the context of broader UN reform was well known, but Brazil's priority was on a Security Council seat.
¶3. Neves had few comments on other USG priorities as described in reftel. Brazil is still assessing the question of a request for an ICJ opinion on Kosovo's declaration of independence. President Lula will likely meet Serbian President Tadic in New York, but Lula's priority will be to gain support for Brazil's UNSC aspirations and for commercial opportunities; Kosovo is not on Lula's agenda. Neves was interested in plans to expand UN missions in Afghanistan and Iraq and whether these expansions were related to changes in U.S. military presence. Brazil strongly supports completion of the Millenium Development goals, and President Lula plans to participate in a meeting on this subject September 25.


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Filing A Personal Injury Claim: 3 Facts You Need To Know - bankruptcy saved my family - can it save yours?
If you are seriously injured as the result of an accident, you may be able to collect compensation for your injuries by filing a personal injury claim. However, you should know that not all accidents will result in a viable injury claim. Taking the time to review the three facts outlined below can help you to determine whether or not your accident claim has what it takes to stand up in court.
All people make mistakes, it is simply a fact of life. In some cases, a tragic accident truly will be nothing more than an accident. However, in other cases, these accidents could have easily been prevented if a single person or company had acted in a careful manner. It is these cases that will qualify for compensation under current personal injury laws.
In order to collect compensation after an accident, you must prove that someone else is legally liable for causing your accident. Under the laws that govern personal injury cases, legal liability is only assigned to individuals who act in a negligent or incompetent manner, and whose negligent actions are to blame for causing an accident.
When determining whether or not legal liability is present in your case, take the time to ask yourself who is to blame for causing your accident and what actions did they take or not take that caused your accident.
Personal injury laws require you to site damages when filing a personal injury lawsuit. These damages should include expenses such as medical bills, lost wages, and property damages. If no damages were suffered as a result of your accident, you will not be able to collect compensation for your injuries even if the other party is ruled legally liable for causing the accident.
In order to determine what damages exist in your case, simply ask yourself what expenses you have incurred that would not have been present if you had never been in an accident.
All personal injury cases will have a statute of limitations attached to them that determines exactly how long you have from the date of your accident to file a claim. The length of this court mandated time limit will be vary from state to state and case to case. In some cases, you will have as little as one year to settle or file your claim, while other cases may be allowed as long as three years to file.
If you allow the statute of limitations on your case to expire, you will no longer have the legal right to file a claim. Contacting a reputable injury lawyer in your local area will allow you to identify how long you have to file your claim and help you to ensure this deadline does not pass you by.


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Inyo Supervisors approve irrigation recommendation
By News Staff on March 18, 2015 in Entertainment/Local Events/Activities, General Misc. Stories, Government Agencies/Utilities, Public Event
By Deb Murphy
The only place water seems to show up in the Owens Valley lately is at meetings; it's certainly not coming out of the sky.
The Inyo County Supervisors approved the Water Department's recommendation that irrigation allotments be reduced by 23 percent in the Bishop Cone. The action moves the matter to the Inyo County/Los Angeles Standing Committee.
The run-off prediction of 50 percent of normal in the fourth consecutive year of severe drought will probably set a record, Water Department Director Bob Harrington told the supervisors. The irrigation reductions on Los Angeles Department of Water and Power agricultural leases will allow for better management of what little water is stored in the reservoirs on Bishop Creek.
Better management will, hopefully, avoid issues in West Bishop that surfaced over the last year. Southern California Edison delivered the full Chandler Decree allotments two years ago, having been denied a waiver from LADWP. The results were shallow residential wells running dry during the 2012-13 winter and flooding issues from a high water table during the 2013 spring flows.
The ag leases, totaling 2,300 acres, in the Bishop Creek drainage are allocated 10,958 acre-feet under the decree. Last year, that allotment was cut to 8,785 acre-feet; this year that drops to 8,438 acre-feet. The reduced flows from mid-May to August will reserve 3,352 acre-feet in storage.
But, it wasn't so much the amount of water as it was flow management said area rancher Mark Lacey. "I recognize the challenges on Bishop Creek," he said. "There are so many people involved," he added in reference to the Barlow housing developments and McLaren area. "We need a head of water for an effective spread. Irrigators have to wait for water to come through the housing development."
Lacey explained that ranchers have allotted days that water will be available. If those days include weekends, the water availability is reduced and delayed on its way through the residential area. Lacey asked that Bishop Creek Water Association members be responsible in their water use. "We have work together," he said, "but we also have to suffer together."
Last year, Lacey met with association members and representatives from Edison and LADWP. "The most important time for us (to irrigate) is May through July," he said. "Last year we offered to stop irrigation early," but the offer wasn't accepted.
BCWA President Steve Stevens made a brief statement that association members are planning on conservation measures as well as working with Edison, LADWP and the Bishop Paiute Tribe.
In other water matters, Harrington told the supervisors that LADWP is planning four new production wells: one to replace a well in Laws, two in Bishop, near the Gun Club off U.S. 395, the other at Schober and Barlow lanes and one in Bell Canyon west of Big Pine to supply water to the community's ditch system. The proposed wells will go through the Technical Group for an analysis "to see if they are consistent with the Long Term Water Agreement," Harrington said.
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The Supervisors nor the Water Department want to protect the source of water for homes. By the very idea presented at the 4/17 board meeting to drill more wells is to deplete the ground water and the aquifier. Water has to come from the surface to go down to the… Read more »
Philip Anaya
Domestic wells have to be a priority. Production wells affect the water table of Owens Valley Homes that rely on domestic wells. DWP does not need to drill any new wells in the Bishop Cone this year. We do not need to deplete the groundwater levels and we do not… Read more »
I would hope that 23% reduction applies to LADWP ground water pumping too, but it doesn't appear to. My personal preference would be that LADWP not be allowed to do any groundwater pumping for exportation out of the Owens Valley until such time as the aquifer has recharged. That's just… Read more »
It's not So Cal"s water or freak"n DWP"s water in the cone. That's our water and our Supervisors need to protect it . Starting with keeping DWP"s greedy little hands out of it.
NO H20
No water for bishop but plenty for So Cal to keep building new homes and keep giving permits for
New water meters,


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2 Before you paste the wallpaper you should verify the wall is flat and clean. You must prepare paste brush tape measure step stool and knife to paste the wallpaper.
3 This Non-woven wallpaper is not broken easily in the extreme environment. For example humid environment and hot environment.


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Betsy DeVos resigns just as talks of removing Trump via the 25th Amendment gain serious traction
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U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was one of President Donald Trump's longest-serving cabinet members, but it looks like she's not making it to the final episode of this fucked up reality TV show.
The Michigan native and GOP megadonor tendered her resignation Thursday night following the absolute shitshow on Wednesday, in which Trump incited a violent mob to storm the U.S. Capitol.
"That behavior was unconscionable for our country," she said in her letter, which was obtained by The New York Times. "There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me."
She's the second cabinet-level official to step down, following Elaine Chao, the Secretary of Transportation and wife of Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who also denounced the attack.
It's surreal to see these high-ranking Republicans ditch Trump now, when Trump's rhetoric has been the same ever since he descended that golden escalator in Trump Tower in 2015, like a steady drumbeat leading a march to this moment for the past four years. The only difference is now Trump's rhetoric is impossible to ignore.
But the resignations come at another major inflection point: just as Democrats are demanding that Vice President Mike Pence invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office, which allows the Vice President and Cabinet officials to declare the President unfit for duty.
So DeVos may say she's leaving because Trump crossed the proverbial Rubicon, but in reality it's because she's too cowardly to do anything about it except to try to save her own skin.
In response to the news, the American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten issued a succinct statement:
"Good Riddance."
Trump's America Betsy DeVos 2020 election coup


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Link Between Hearing and Cognition Begins Earlier Than Once Thought
Research has shown that adults with age-related hearing loss have higher rates of cognitive decline.
Now, a study from researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons has found that even the earliest stage of hearing loss—when hearing is still considered normal—is linked to cognitive decline.
The study was published online today in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.
Age-Related Hearing Loss Stats
Age-related hearing loss is one of the most common health disorders of aging, affecting two-thirds of those over age 70.
Few adults are tested for hearing loss in the United States.
Only 14% of U.S. adults with hearing loss wear hearing aids, the standard treatment.
Link Between Hearing Loss and Cognitive Impairment
Because studies show people with age-related hearing loss are more likely to have impaired cognition, it is thought that hearing loss may trigger cognitive decline. But these studies have only examined people diagnosed with hearing loss, which is defined as the inability to hear sounds under 25 decibels (dB).
"Physicians in this field have used 25 dB—about the loudness of a whisper—to define the border between normal hearing and mild hearing loss in adults, but this level is arbitrary," says Justin S. Golub, MD, MS, assistant professor of otolaryngology-head & neck surgery at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and a hearing specialist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian.
"It has been assumed that cognitive impairment wouldn't begin until people passed this threshold. But no one actually looked at whether this was true."
Any Hearing Loss May Be Cause for Concern
The researchers looked at data from 6,451 adults (average age 59) who were enrolled in two ethnically diverse epidemiologic studies. Participants underwent hearing and cognitive testing as part of the studies.
Golub and his colleagues found that for every 10 dB decrease in hearing, there was a significant decrease in cognitive ability, a pattern seen across the entire spectrum of hearing.
Surprisingly, the largest decrease in cognitive ability occurred in those whose hearing was just starting to become impaired, just 10 dB off the perfect mark.
"Most people with hearing loss believe they can go about their lives just fine without treatment, and maybe some can," says Golub. "But hearing loss is not benign. It has been linked to social isolation, depression, cognitive decline, and dementia. Hearing loss should be treated. This study suggests the earlier, the better."
Can Hearing Aids Prevent Cognitive Loss?
The current study did not address whether hearing loss causes cognitive impairment. It is possible that early declines in both hearing and cognitive performance are related to common aging-related processes, the researchers noted.
Justin S. Golub, MD, MS (CUIMC)
"But it's also possible that people who don't hear well tend to socialize less and, as a result, they have fewer stimulating conversations. Over many years, this could have a negative impact on cognition," says Golub. "If that's the case, preventing or treating hearing loss could reduce dementia incidence by more than 9%, according to a recent analysis published in The Lancet."
A new study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, is now testing the possibility that hearing aids can slow cognitive decline in older people with age-related hearing loss.
More studies are needed before recommending changes in hearing loss categories. "One possibility is to formally introduce a new category, such as borderline hearing loss, ranging from 16 to 25 dB of hearing ability," says Golub.
The study is titled "Association of Subclinical Hearing Loss With Cognitive Performance." The other contributors are Adam M. Brickman (Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY), Adam J. Ciarleglio (George Washington University, Washington, DC), Nicole Schupf (CUIMC), and Jose A. Luchsinger (CUIMC).
The research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (K23AG057832, L30AG060513, and K24AG045334).
Dr. Golub reports receiving travel expenses for industry-sponsored meetings from Cochlear, Advanced Bionics, and Oticon Medical; consulting fees from Oticon Medical, and Auditory Insight, Optinose, and Decibel Therapeutics; honoraria from Abbott; and departmental educational grants from 3NT, Storz, Stryker, Acclarent, and Decibel Therapeutics.


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Nuclear power back in the spotlight
By Andy Vuong | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: February 8, 2008 at 3:23 p.m. | UPDATED: June 23, 2016 at 3:11 p.m.
Thirty years since a U.S. nuclear reactor was last ordered and more than a decade since the last plant opened, the controversial energy source is back on the radars of utilities across the country.
Federal regulators received four license applications for seven new nuclear power units in 2007 and expect to receive another 15 applications for 22 units this year.
Though none of those units is proposed by Xcel Energy or planned for Colorado, the state's largest utility says it will examine the power source in future resource acquisition filings, which detail how the company will meet consumer electric needs years down the road.
Xcel announced plans in December to boost generating capacity at its two nuclear plants in Minnesota.
"Nuclear power needs to be a part of the nation's portfolio to meet increasing demand for electricity while reducing carbon emissions," Xcel spokesman Mark Stutz said. "We have no plans at this time in Colorado to pursue additional nuclear power. But we don't discount its use in the future, and we will at least take a look at it in future resource filings."
Several factors are driving the renewed interest in nuclear energy.
Operations, maintenance and fuel costs for nuclear plants have dropped about 30 percent since 1995, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute. At the same time, the cost of operating a coal-fired plant has remained relatively flat, while natural-gas prices have surged.
"It's become a matter of economics," said Tom Johnson, an assistant professor in the department of environmental and radiological health sciences at Colorado State University. "Nuclear is starting to become a little bit cheaper than coal."
Another factor is the nation's focus on reducing carbon dioxide emissions, considered the main cause of global warming. Utilities are facing the threat of a tax on carbon emissions. Unlike coal and natural-gas plants, nuclear plants emit little, if any, greenhouse gas.
As part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the federal government offers tax credits and loan guarantees for the construction of new nuclear plants. The government also instituted a "Nuclear Power 2010 Program" to streamline the often onerous licensing process and encourage near-term reactor orders. The program also pays for some of the licensing and planning.
Still, despite the increase in applications, no new nuclear units have been ordered even as plants have opened around the world at an average rate of four per year since 1996, according to Congressional Research Services, the research arm for Congress.
Operation concerns
Working against nuclear power is the cost of construction, which far exceeds the cost to build a coal or natural-gas plant.
A nuclear plant with 1,000 megawatts of capacity would cost about $2 billion to build if construction started in 2015, according to estimates by the research service. A similar coal-fired plant would cost about two-thirds of that, and a natural-gas unit about one-third. Coal and natural-gas plants generally are built with much lower generating capacity, further reducing construction costs.
One megawatt of generating capacity powers about 1,000 homes. The research service estimates it would take five to seven years to build a nuclear plant.
Concerns also remain about the safety hazards of using radioactive materials to generate power and the struggle to find proper storage for nuclear waste.
"Even though the waste is a really small quantity, it's very, very toxic, and it will be here for a very long time," Boulder environmentalist Leslie Glustrom said.
Though no deaths or injuries have been caused by a U.S. nuclear plant accident, a failure at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania in March 1979 heightened safety concerns. Regulators said the worst-case scenario of the failure would have been the release of radioactive gases to the environment, which didn't happen.
Glustrom and others say utilities should focus on boosting safer alternative energy sources such as solar and wind power.
Renewed interest
Nuclear-energy supporters argue that those technologies are taking too long to develop.
"For 30 years, people have been asking about solar and wind, but right now, they're only a tiny fraction of the power produced," Johnson said.
Today, 104 U.S. nuclear reactors are in operation, generating about 20 percent of the country's electricity. Coal accounts for more than half.
Denver-based energy industry consultant Peter Bryant said U.S. utilities may have no choice but to renew their investments in nuclear power.
"There's still no proven approach to carbon sequestration for coal, so coal plants will continue to be slowed down in their build-out," said Bryant, president of TransTech. "Energy needs will continue to increase despite advancements in the conservation of energy, and the renewables are just not going to fill that whole growth."
Though Bryant said it's possible for a nuclear plant to be placed in Colorado, the state's experience with the power source is rocky.
Colorado's lone nuclear plant, Fort St. Vrain near the Weld County town of Platteville, was decommissioned — taken out of service — in the 1990s after a long history of operating problems. Xcel converted it to a natural-gas-fired plant.
"A great source of energy"
Platteville Mayor Steve Shafer said he would support the construction of a new plant or recommissioning Fort St. Vrain, though he believes that would be highly unlikely because the reactor has been taken apart.
"It's a great source of energy," Shafer said of nuclear power. "The capability could still be there (to recommission Fort St. Vrain), but it would probably be more cost effective to start from scratch."
Nuclear energy expert Bob Meyer said a plant could be placed in the area around the Rawhide coal-fired plant near Fort Collins or on the Eastern Plains.
"We have a lot of open-land area, and we've got enough cooling water available in a number of locations that we could certainly build one or more nuclear plants here," said Meyer, who lives in Fort Collins.
Colorado's abundance of sun and wind resources, however, could push Xcel toward those alternatives instead. Xcel said in its latest resource plan that it would roughly double its renewable generation in the state with solar and wind power. The utility will file its next plan in two years.
Andy Vuong: 303-954-1209 or avuong@denverpost.com
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Friday 12th July, 8pm at the home of Susie Gretz.
Bicycle provision at Old Oak Common station – current proposal is for this to have zero car parking. No bike facilities on site currently specified, so we have encouraged them to consider cycling as a mode of transport for the large catchment outside walking distance. Emphasised the issues at Kings Cross St Pancras where cyclists approaching HS1 must share space with taxis, minicabs and cars dropping off, sometimes double parked on a two-way road.
Need to take account of present and forthcoming cycle links – Amazingly the Superhighways and Cycle Crossrail were not marked onto their mapping and seemingly not considered. We've reminded HS2 that they should think of these as they can also widen the catchment of cyclists who can reach this station and provide areas for them to target cycle links from the station towards.
Disruption to cycle networks – should there be severance of cycle routes they need to take active account and aim to give cyclists the shortest possible diversion. I have drawn their attention to the best achievements of Crossrail in this regard as opposed to the issues on Upper Ground. We have also emphasised any leisure routes that were affected should see alternatives and that dismounting should be avoided wherever possible.
Lastly, although not formally in this stage we have reminded them of the Crossrail commitments on HGV safety and encouraged them to ensure that they follow these guidelines as a minimum this will be a lobbying job to achieve.
possibility some entrances and exits especially at bottom of Wood Lane where it meets Shepherds Bush Green may change from cycle lane and one traffic lane to two general traffic lanes. Additionally talk of removing some bus lanes.
Lastly, key to remember cycle crossrail will land in the second (or north) phase of Westfield. This is mixed development of shops and housing and links up to Imperial College campus. New green space to be delivered, consultation describes Hyde Park as good example of mixing pedestrians, cyclists and equestrian use. However, space allocation in Hyde Park is insufficient to meet current safety or comfort standards for pedestrians or cyclists.
Much further off. Key thing to be aware of is that present use of this area sees a huge majority of car based commuting. Framework seeks to challenge this. Development will make use of Old Oak Common station set to be delivered in HS2/Crossrail. Long term plan, what would our vision of best practice cycling facilities look like here? What can we learn from other similar areas, e.g. Olympic Park?
Hire bike applications continue. A bit like HS2, focus is less on principle of scheme (it's happening) but on ensuring implementation is of good quality and avoids unnecessary danger. An application for a stand by Hurlingham Park has met some local difficultly and is going to judicial review.
CS9 plans in Hounslow are essentially finalised, Andrew Gilligan is apparently still due to meet the council in the near future.
Alex has been to the most recent Richmond and Hounslow meetings. Both were similar groups to our own with some similar struggles and strengths.
Key business in other boroughs is mini-holland bids.
Aldgate – already before the recent death plans had been put together to replace the gyratory at Aldgate with more conventional two way streets, a public square and other measures. These changes were met with some approval and some criticism at a recent City Cycling Forum Alex attended.
This is worth a review as there are two gyratories (more accurately pairs of them) in the borough which create hazards to cyclists. One is the Hammersmith Broadway combined with King St/Beadon Road and the other is Shepherd's Bush Green combined with Holland Park Roundabout.
Alex also pointed out that Gilligan was present at this meeting on Aldgate and expressed public dissatisfaction with variance of kerb line (moving cyclist position through junctions) and also City of London's proposals for quiet ways which were also presented.
It now looks as though replacing the gyratory will form a part of the flyunder proposal and feasibility study. More discussion on this in future meetings. John and Alex reminded the group of the danger of a long buried section of the A4 actually increasing local traffic on roads such as King Street.
We then had a quick discussion (it was getting dark!) on what priorities we could examine. Hammersmith Bridge remains key, and clearly a problem – Alex notes here that he is assembling video and other notes of the conditions on the bridge to help support campaigning to improve the environment for cycling.
Also agreement that the broadway and green need to be reviewed. Alex keen group consider north/south routes as most push from TfL and Cycling Commissioner is currently on east/west routes.
More here to discuss over email and at our next meeting.
Potholes continue to be a concern, Alex has his friendlier guide to submitting details via borough website to come but agreed issue is potentially wider than just this borough.
Sat 3rd August – Ride London – We are starting from Brook Green.
Other possible rides later this summer – Wandle Trail? Parks in area?
Big Ben Ride 2 was a success, and all involved really enjoyed the tour. Other similar distance rides with a free or cheap tour would be great.
Date for next meeting is Monday 9th September. Location to be confirmed, but may be a pub for a change and to enjoy the summer. Recommendations welcome! Hope to encourage more members to attend.
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Лесные и полевые мыши () — род грызунов семейства мышиных.

Описание
Лесные и полевые мыши достигают длины от 6 до 15 см, при этом хвост длиной от 7 до 15 см. Масса составляет от 15 до 50 г. У лесных и полевых мышей мягкая шерсть, обычно серого или бурого цвета сверху и белого или серого окраса снизу. Лапы как правило белые, у некоторых видов имеется жёлто-красное пятно на груди или тёмная полоса на спине. Хвост покрыт волосами, не хватательный.

Распространение
Область распространения лесных и полевых мышей простирается вглубь Евразии, от западной Европы до Японии и южного Китая. Как следует из названия, не все виды населяют леса, многие виды обитают на открытых ландшафтах и в полях.

Большинство видов не проникают в человеческие жилища, но могут быть вредителями зерновых или переносчиками болезней. Чаще мыши роют глубокие норы, в которых строят гнёзда из травы. В зависимости от вида мыши могут быть активны днём или ночью. Они питаются корнями, семенами, ягодами, орехами и насекомыми.

Систематика и виды
Род включает 20 видов и подразделяется обычно на 4 подрода и одну группу видов (иногда все эти таксоны рассматриваются как группы видов):

Подрод Apodemus s.str.
  Европа, юг Сибири до Байкала, Китай (кроме юга), Приморье, Приамурье, Корея, Тайвань.
  Центральный и Юго-Восточный Китай.
Подрод Alsomys
  Гималаи, Тибет, Юго-Восточный Китай.
  Непал.
  Тибет, Юго-Восточный Китай.
  Тайвань.
  Японские острова.
  Юг Сибири, Сев. Китай, Приморье, Корея.
Подрод Sylvaemus

 Apodemus epimelas

Подрод Karstomys

Группа видов argenteus
  Японские острова.

Примечания

Литература

 Ronald M. Nowak: Walker's Mammals of the World. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999 ISBN 0-8018-5789-9

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It may be December, but for me the holidays arrived last July. Sandra Byers visited the James Watrous Gallery to discuss her upcoming solo exhibition with Jody Clowes and myself. She brought a small box with her and much to my surprise she removed the lid and revealed twelve of her tiny porcelain sculptures, packed like fragile ornaments. I had no idea she would be bringing actual artwork with her. I was immediately transfixed by the delicacy and texture of the pieces as they snuggled in my hand. One piece transported me to a moment in the forest, when I discovered a beautifully curved leaf next to my dog's tufty paw. Another piece carried me away to Venice Beach, where I had a particularly good day gathering shells with my sister. While these moments are singular and personal, the magical experience of discovery in nature is universal.
It was in the 1970s that Sandra realized she had a voice through her artwork. She had graduated from Cornell and was living in a live/work loft on lower Broadway in New York City. Most of her studio work at that time was small, glazed, functional stoneware. It was an exciting time to be in New York City and she exhibited her work for the first time at the American Craft Council show in Rhinebeck, up the Hudson River. In 1976 she first tried using porcelain because she thought it might be translucent. This decision would launch her on a 30-year research journey and transform her work into sculptural, unglazed forms. Porcelain captured her attention because of its lovely smooth texture. Although it is known as a difficult material to work with, that did not deter Sandra.
Last week she invited me to visit her studio, which is in an old school house in Rocks Springs which she shares with her husband, fellow artist and ceramicist Win Byers. We began the day in Sandra's kitchen—she was baking bread for our lunch. The sun was streaming in through the tall schoolhouse windows. When the pair purchased the schoolhouse in 1980 it had sat empty for six years. They spent a very chilly first year, but have gradually fixed up the building to include a light-filled gallery, office, large ceramic studio, kiln room, photography studio, and an upstairs living space. Nearly every room includes something salvaged from another old building or Delaney's Surplus, which is just down the road.
After the bread came out of the oven, we headed down to the damp room, which is inside the ceramics studio. This humid room is where Sandra keeps her pieces while they are in process so that they do not dry out. Sandra works on her sculptures over the course of several days and at any given time has five to twenty pieces she is working on. "It's a very patient process," she says. She knows the material so well she simply has to touch it to know if it is ready for her to work on that day. As Sandra confidently picks up one of the pieces, she explains to me that she is evening out the edges so that every angle is just right. She gently pinches and smoothes the porcelain. "There is a lot of playing, responding to it. I'm constantly turning it in my hands…and the piece is constantly getting softer," she says as she gently returns the piece to the table and covers it. If she keeps working on it, the porcelain will turn to mush. She'll return tomorrow morning to check to see if it has firmed up enough for her to work on again.
With each day her pieces gradually become thinner and smoother, mirroring how the ocean tumbles and treats rocks and shells. She usually has an idea of the form before she begins, but the details are not worked out until she has the porcelain in her hands. "I'm letting the work at times tell me what to do," she says. Sandra says her artwork is her response to the natural world, and after seeing her process the statement resonates even more. As the pieces are forming, inspired by sticks, rocks, leaves, seashells, and such, she is listening to those natural objects and the earth itself to tell her what to do. We all need to stop and listen to what nature has to say to us in its own quiet way.
Visit Sandra Byers' exhibition The Nature of Things at the James Watrous Gallery through December 27, 2015. Rina Yoon's Between In and Yeon is also on view. Please note that the gallery will be closed on Dec 24 and 25. For more details, visit the current gallery site.
Rachel Bruya is an artist who also writes.


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The Pleats of Matter
Aaron Cassidy (Composer)
Department of Music and Drama
School of Music, Humanities and Media
Centre for Research in New Music
Research output: Non-textual form › Composition
The Pleats of Matter (2005-2007), which takes its title from the first chapter of Deleuze's The Fold (an investigation of the Baroque, Leibniz, and the monad), is a work that explores the nature of folds, bends, and pleats, and their concomitant implications of surplus, enveloping, collapsing, and obfuscation. It is a work in which overflowing trajectories of material and process collide, overlap, collapse, and slide, where strata melt and rupture and deform, and where form and shape are only the final byproduct of lines folding into one another, of shapes subsumed by other shapes, of forms twisted within other forms.
Published - 1 Jun 2007
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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Honor is a sub-brand of Chinese telecommunications and consumer electronics behemoth Huawei. Albeit new, Honor has successfully made a strong base in the Indian smartphone market. The brand has positioned itself successfully in the budget and high-end segments both. Honor smartphones are geared with trendy designs, value for money specifications, and exclusive features. Our price list for Honor mobiles in India includes all the phones by the brand. Check it out to glide through all the Honor handsets currently on sale in India.


When we think of integral inventions, say, the airplane, the car, the telephone or the computer, we think about how they revolutionized the way we live. Airplanes let us jet across long distances in much shorter periods of time. Cars allow us to work farther from home, thus making a better living. Telephones allow us to communication across what once would have seemed like impossible distances in the blink of an eye. And computers, of course, can be called the mother of all technologies, as they allow us to share information, technology, money and more. All of these technologies have allowed for more commerce, globalization, the shrinking of the world. When you think about them, you think about them in glorious terms, as heroic inventions that have changed the world. What you don't think about it… their accessories.
When commercial flights came into prominence, suddenly not only did airlines need airplanes – they needed flight attendants, foam pillows, and little packs of peanuts. Car makers needed to make car radios, dash boards, and cup holders. Telephones (especially mobile phones) and computers come with all sorts of accessories that you never in a million years would have thought if in contemplating the rise of the computer. One of these accessories is that all important laptop accessory, the laptop bag.
It is highly doubtful that when companies like Apple and Compaq started introducing their earliest laptops that they thought about how people would carry their revolutionary new machines around. They were likely much more interested in the technology that went inside the laptop than the cloth (or leather, or latex, you get the picture) that would eventually spend so much surrounding these small, versatile and miraculous machines. But as more and more on the go people began adopting laptops, it became clear that laptop bags would be necessary to accommodate them.
Luckily for all of us, who otherwise would have been stuck with laptops in our backpacks, purses, and grocery totes (or worse, under our arms), companies like Mobile Edge did see that laptop bags would soon become a ubiquitous accessory.
Much like clothes, a laptop bag seems to say quite a bit about the owner. For example, what would you think of someone carrying a black leather laptop bag, with a conservative cut and a tasseled opener? No matter what they were wearing, you would probably think they were a business person, right? Now how about someone carrying a laptop bag made of green canvas and covered in patches and permanent market graffiti? You would most likely have a very different impression of that person. And it probably would notsurprise you to know that those two people, with their very different laptop bags, are actually carrying the same laptops inside. That offers a lesson. Technology may be very similar, but leave it to humans to accessorize in everything from the way they use the technology (gaming, constructing a Powerpoint presentation, meeting a new potential love interest) to the way that they carry that technology around, i.e. in a special, customized laptop bag.
There are many places to buy laptop bags. In fact, most stores that sell laptops have realized the need to capitalize on such accessories and sell laptop bags in a location near where the laptops are sold. Sometimes they even throw in a free laptop bag for every laptop purchased. If you are in the market for a laptop, you will likely need a laptop bag. Perhaps after reading this article you will step back and think twice about what your choice of laptop bag says about you.
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While pivotal clinical trials, such as CHAARTED, STAMPEDE, and LATITUDE, have demonstrated the efficacy of abiraterone acetate (Zytiga) and/or docetaxel in patients with castration-sensitive prostate cancer, there is still no clear standard of care.
Based on these pivotal data, the FDA approved abiraterone in February 2018 for use in combination with prednisone for patients with metastatic high-risk castration-sensitive prostate cancer.
Results from the phase III STAMPEDE trial showed that the addition of abiraterone to standard initial therapy lowered the relative risk of death by 37% and improved progression-free survival by 71%.2 However, the study included both nonmetastatic and metastatic patients.
Julie Graff, MD, notes, however, that chemotherapy may be a more feasible option for these patients, and adds that more work must be done beyond abiraterone and chemotherapy to improve outcomes.
Graff, an assistant professor of medicine at Oregon Health and Science University, lectured on early therapies for castration-sensitive prostate cancer at the 2018 OncLive® State of the Science Summit on Genitourinary Cancers. In an interview during the meeting, she shared insight on pivotal trials exploring abiraterone and docetaxel in this patient population.
Graff: I spoke about the newer treatment options for newly diagnosed metastatic prostate cancer. This is cancer that has not yet been treated with hormone suppression therapy and/or cancer that is newly treated and is responding to that therapy. I spoke about 3 important studies; the first one is the CHAARTED study, which looked at ADT plus 6 cycles of docetaxel versus ADT alone.
It showed a superior survival in the arm that got chemotherapy, and that has since become standard of care. That study was conducted in the United States, but there is another British study called STAMPEDE that also included this treatment arm. That study also showed that the addition of chemotherapy helped people live longer if they had metastatic disease. The STAMPEDE study also included patients without metastatic disease, whereas CHAARTED was only in patients with metastatic disease, so they are different studies.
Then, I talked about LATITUDE, which is a study of ADT plus abiraterone and prednisone versus ADT alone. Abiraterone was continued until disease progression. This was for a high-risk group of patients; specifically, they had to have visceral disease, a Gleason 8, 9, and 10 and/or at least 3 bone metastases. They had to have 2 of the 3 high-risk features. Results showed that patients lived longer when they got the combination with abiraterone.
STAMPEDE had an abiraterone arm as well and, again, patients lived longer, especially if they had metastatic disease. STAMPEDE had 2 other arms in it—one with ADT plus chemotherapy and the other with ADT plus abiraterone. [These arms] were recruited around the same time and [we can] pull out some data, showing the similarities in differences between the two of them.
With regard to the phase III LATITUDE data that led to the FDA approval of abiraterone plus prednisone, does this mean that regimen is a new standard of care?
For high-risk patients, we should be using abiraterone for newly diagnosed metastatic disease, or at least offering it. For the high-risk patients with visceral disease, many bone metastases, and high Gleason scores, we know now that those patients can live longer with early use of abiraterone. Is it the standard, or could we potentially use chemotherapy instead?
We could use chemotherapy instead; we don't really have head-to-head comparisons, even though we spoke about the 2 different STAMPEDE arms. It is not meant to be compared necessarily. I speak to my patients about their options. [Chemotherapy] is cheaper for the patient and abiraterone can be quite expensive. The chemotherapy finishes sooner while abiraterone is given until cancer progresses.
Do your patients generally lean toward chemotherapy or abiraterone?
I have talked to my patients about abiraterone versus chemotherapy and, so far, they have leaned toward abiraterone. A lot of patients want to avoid chemotherapy; I have had patients who have had heart failure and I didn't think abiraterone would be safe [for them]. Therefore, they went on to receive chemotherapy.
Where do you see the greatest unmet need in castration-sensitive prostate cancer?
It is a cure. We are hoping people live longer, but invariably they relapse and eventually succumb to their disease. I do think it's possible that we may have combinations for upfront metastatic disease that eliminate the cancer like we do for testicular cancer, for example, which we can cure with chemotherapy for metastatic disease. However, we are not there yet, and I'm not sure we are going to get there with just chemotherapy or these hormonal treatments.
Going forward, what is your advice to community oncologists treating patients with castration-sensitive prostate cancer?
My advice to community oncologists is to have a conversation with patients and give them their options. Interpret the STAMPEDE study carefully since it did include nonmetastatic CRPC as well as metastatic patients. Think about the patient's comorbidities and financial situation, and help them decide what the best treatment option is there for them.
Is there research you are currently working on that you would like to highlight?
I am continuing to do immunotherapy research in metastatic castration-resistant disease. We have continued to enroll patients to the study we have available and seen some outstanding responses. This is with pembrolizumab (Keytruda) added to enzalutamide (Xtandi) for mCRPC that is progressing on enzalutamide.
What are the biggest challenges in enrolling these patients?
The challenges to enrolling patients depends on the trial. We have ones where it doesn't matter what treatments they have received in the past, and they can get on [the trial]. We have others where you have to biopsy a metastatic deposit. In prostate cancer, a lot of the bone metastases can't be biopsied so that has been a big hurdle for my study. There are studies now looking at DNA-repair defects, and only one-quarter of patients have those, so you can see in those studies how we are narrowing the pool.
Fizaxi K, Tran N, Fein LE, et al; the LATITUDE investigators. LATITUDE: A phase 3 double-blind, randomized trial of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) with abiraterone acetate (AA) plus prednisone (P) or placebos (PBOs) in newly diagnosed high-risk metastatic hormone-naïve prostate cancer (mHNPC) patients (pts). J Clin Oncol. 2017;35 (suppl; abstr LBA3).
James ND, DeBono JS, Spears MR, et al. Adding abiraterone for men with high-risk prostate cancer (PCa) starting long-term androgen deprivation therapy (ADT): Survival results from STAMPEDE (NCT00268476). J Clin Oncol. 2017;35 (suppl; abstr LBA5003).