On February 5, the lead story in the Sun Journal, �Up in the Air,� informed us of the possibility of having windmills installed in this area to generate electricity. From what I have read, this seems to be a political boondoggle that benefits only the folks who build the windmills and the politicians who are �bought� to approve such projects.
Our government throws bucketfuls of money at windmills. Companies that provide windmill power get 12 times more taxpayer subsidies than do companies that provide oil and gas power. Similarly, windmill power companies get about 6.5 times more taxpayer subsidies than do nuclear power companies. Therefore, it pays � and it pays very well � to sell windmill power instead of the others.
But is wind power worth the cost? Remember, if the wind doesn�t blow then the windmills don�t generate any power. Also, if the wind blows too hard then the windmills shut down and don�t generate any power. Obviously, we need to have an oil, gas, or nuclear power plant to generate electricity when the windmills will not. Consequently, windmills do not stop us from relying on other power sources.
And what happens when the government�s windmill handouts stop? What happens when the windmills wear out? Quite simply, they are normally abandoned since that is less expensive than decommissioning them, taking them apart, and trucking them to a landfill. California alone has over 14,000 abandoned windmills � standing around, doing nothing! The whole country has tens of thousands sitting idle!
We need to look at windmills with a skeptical eye.


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All Aboard Florida/Brightline Gets More Time to Sell Bonds
Jim Turner News Service of Florida
June 1, 2018 - 6:00am
Brightline received a seven-month extension Thursday to sell $1.15 billion in tax-exempt bonds for the expansion of the controversial passenger train line to Orlando.
The U.S. Department of Transportation granted the extension, noting that the extra time gives All Aboard Florida --- the parent company of the fledgling private rail service now running between West Palm Beach and Miami --- until the end of the year to sell what are known as "private activity" bonds.
Part of the reason for the "provisional" extension is that All Aboard Florida continues to work on alternative financing for the project, Derek Kan, undersecretary of transportation for policy, wrote in a letter to All Aboard Florida Holdings Vice President Bruce Snyder.
Otherwise, Kan noted that All Aboard Florida is expected to comply with the conditions in an original bond allocation, which was set last December and had been due to expire on Thursday.
Brightline had earlier received $600 million in private activity bonds for the first phase of the project.
Brightline President Patrick Goddard issued a statement that said the extension "propels our project as we extend Brightline to Orlando."
The service, which expanded its route from Fort Lauderdale to Miami in the first half of May, isn't expected to travel north of the West Palm Beach Station until early 2021.
The use of the tax-exempt bonds, in which investors receive a tax-credit and assume full risk, has split members of Florida's congressional delegation.
Republican Congressmen Brian Mast, Bill Posey, Ron DeSantis and Matt Gaetz recently backed a letter from U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., asking for the bonds to be suspended before they are put on the market.
Meadows, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee, held an April 19 hearing on the bonds at the request of Mast.
Mast and Posey represent districts that cover the Treasure Coast, where opposition to the rail service has been the most pronounced.
Treasure Coast officials contend the service, which bills itself as the nation's first privately funded "intercity" rail system, will create unsafe conditions at rail crossings and shouldn't be eligible for federal assistance.
In February, Martin County, Indian River County and Citizens Against Rail Expansion (CARE) filed a federal lawsuit in Washington, D.C., calling the U.S. Department of Transportation "cheerleaders" in approving the Brightline project and requesting that the bond allocation for the West Palm Beach-to-Orlando rails be thrown out for being approved "in excess of statutory authority and otherwise contrary to law."
Pro-Brightline congressional members, mostly representing areas where the rail service now stops or is planned to stop, described the service as "transformative" and a "project of national and regional significance."
Pro-Brightline members of Congress include Florida Republicans John Rutherford, Dennis Ross, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Carlos Curbelo and Democrats Darren Soto, Lois Frankel and Frederica Wilson.
They have been joined in support by U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., and U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz. Shuster is the outgoing chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
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Do a little research and you
Permalink Submitted by RICHARD RIKER on June 2, 2018 - 9:37am
Do a little research and you'll find that no passenger trains in the U.S. operate at a profit. The investors must want a tax right off. MONEY PIT, MONEY PIT!!!
You have to lose money in
Permalink Submitted by jadebenn on June 12, 2018 - 9:15pm
You have to lose money in order to qualify for a tax write-off. Why on Earth would any investor intentionally lose money?
I feel safer investing MY
Permalink Submitted by C Breeze on June 1, 2018 - 8:24am
I feel safer investing MY money in "Baseball Cards" (pick ANY shortstop today, and someday his card could be worth a half million $ just like Honus Wagner's.... and "All Aboard Florida's" pretty color trains will be bankrupt before too much longer... (Passengers, unlike freight, are fickle and unpredictable)
How many more people will
Permalink Submitted by jerry on June 1, 2018 - 6:50am
How many more people will they kill, traffic they will stall and noise they will make disturbing people before they put an end to this stupid project just so republican connected investor can make money? …………...You can't put HSR through densely populated areas on ground level and using 1800s steel wheel tech is just silly, expensive and noise travels over a mile on either side of the track...……….They need to either make it elevated, different suspension or go away...………….. And there already is a train running the route they are on, a bit slower, safer and not so often but adequate for the ridership...…….. Not sure how Brightline makes any money at all. In fact unlikely ever to pay back it's costs. …………….. Note this got going just after Scott canceled the Tampa-Orlando HSR route, a far better economic bet that would have went on to make a nationwide HSR network...………. But apparently they were not paying off the right people as Brightline fiasco shows.
The people that are killing
Permalink Submitted by Richard on June 1, 2018 - 11:18am
The people that are killing them selfs by running past the gates or walking on the tracks !!!!!! It is there own stupidty in doing so !!!!!!


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Wilcox Volleyball Bounces Back Beautifully
Andrew Bensch Posted on POSTED 11:14 AM, August 24, 2021
After a frustrating season that was both played late and cut significantly short last school year, Wilcox Volleyball looks to have bounced back in a big way.
Last year's COVID-shortened season saw the Volleyball team play in just six matches. Compare that number to the previous season in which they played 37, and one realizes just how little of a season they were able to play. Wilcox Head Coach April Lujan had to deal with low turnout numbers, not only due to COVID-19, but because the season was pushed back so late, it ended up going head to head with the club volleyball season.
This year, though, the volleyball program looks much healthier heading into the new season. There are 14 players on the varsity roster, 16 on junior varsity and the no-cut freshman team has a whopping 22. While varsity features just three seniors, all three, Allie Montenegro, Sage Stephenson, and Mana Rogers were voted team captains by their peer teammates. With seven juniors on the squad, it actually looks like a relatively experienced group on paper. The juniors however, all last played a full high school season as freshmen.
"What's tough is some of these girls missed a whole season basically," noted Coach Lujan. "I have girls that I'm trying to quickly get them up to varsity level, when they have only played their freshman year."
While the volume of players has bounced back, one of the biggest stars of the program graduated this past spring. Star outside hitter, and 6-plus footer Amanda McDowell had her attempt at four years of varsity competition for three sports cut short due to the pandemic. She would have been a four-year varsity player for volleyball, basketball and softball. Without McDowell, the Chargers will have a shorter team than they've had in recent seasons.
"We don't have a lot of height, so we're focusing a lot on defense and ball control," remarked Lujan on the team's preseason practices. "This way, when we compete, we know where the ball is going."
A defense-first mentality makes sense for the Chargers too given that two of their three senior captains are listed as defensive specialists, among their multiple positions. Montenegro is listed as a defensive specialist, libero and outside hitter, while Rogers is listed as an opposite hitter and defensive specialist.
"I think the unspoken goal for everyone is to make CCS and to try and win league" said Montenegro on the squad's expectations for the season. "It will have to be a match by match approach, though. We're going to have to take it day by day, practice by practice in order to achieve our goals."
The Chargers' preseason schedule will be fast and furious, facing off against top tier competition.
"We have a very tough preseason, we are playing high level teams," acknowledged Coach Lujan. "Other coaches reached out to me, and I told them that 'hey I'm all up for it, I love playing higher level teams,' but I wanted to let them know that I'm rebuilding and that my girls will play hard, but I don't have the experience that I had a couple years ago."
Wilcox will play eight non-league preseason matches starting Aug. 26 before opening league on Sept. 9 against Cupertino.
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Islamic radicalism poses dilemma for Jews in interfaith dialogue
By Ron Kampeas	February 12, 2015, 4:18 pm 0 Edit
Former Israeli President Shimon Peres, with microphone, meets in Tel Aviv Jan. 20 with (from left) Sayyid Syeed of the Islamic Society of North America, Rabbi Steve Gutow of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States. (Photo provided by JCPA)
WASHINGTON — After the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris last month, Kari Alterman heard from every one of her Detroit-area Muslim dialogue partners, all of them calling to express their sadness and concern.
They just didn't do so publicly.
Statements condemning violence are normally made after formal dialogues sessions, said Alterman, the director of the American Jewish Committee's Detroit office, and none had occurred since the attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo on Jan. 7 and a kosher supermarket two days later. But even so, Alterman understands the dilemma that Muslim leaders face when asked to condemn a terrorist attack.
"How do you assist your community if you're only quoted publicly as putting it down?" asked Alterman, who spends much of her time engaging with one of the largest Muslim communities in the United States.
"It's so hard when people paint our community with a broad brush, saying 'the Jewish community thinks X', when really we go from the far left to the far right," she said. "To do so with the Islamic community, they're not homogenous in any sense."
Maintaining a dialogue with American Muslims poses delicate dilemmas for Jewish community professionals called upon to both enhance interfaith relations and oppose radical Islamist activity.
For some Jewish professionals, it means choosing interlocutors carefully. National groups cited as problematic by Jewish professionals are the Muslim American Society, which has roots in the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Council on American Islamic Relations, which the Anti-Defamation League has said promotes anti-Jewish tropes like excessive Jewish power. The American Islamic Congress, a nonprofit that receives significant funding from the U.S. State Department, was cited as an appropriate partner by both the ADL and the AJC.
Jeremy Burton, the executive director of Boston's Jewish Community Relations Council, said his group conducts direct dialogue only with Muslim groups that forcefully condemn terrorism and limits interactions with groups that do not — or which have ties to radical groups like the Muslim Brotherhood — to broader interfaith forums.
"We have to build relationships with those who are struggling from a moderate position for the soul of Islam," Burton said.
Rabbi Marc Schneier, co-founder of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, which promotes twinning days between Muslim and Jewish communities in the United States and abroad, said it is critical to engage directly with Muslims even if they do not condemn terrorism at the outset.
Radicalism "is a Muslim problem, and we have to challenge them on it," Schneier said. "This battle must be fought from within Islam. We have to help those who can fight the battle to take on this responsibility."
An analogous dilemma arises in dealing with groups that share the Jewish communal concern over Islamic radicalism but veer into anti-Muslim bigotry. That predicament was underscored last month when a Texas lawmaker, Molly White, posted on Facebook that she had instructed her staff to greet Muslim visitors with a demand that they renounce terrorism and pledge allegiance to the United States. The Republican state representative's action drew a swift rebuke from the local ADL director.
Some groups, including the ADL, abjure such alliances entirely, but others enter into them cautiously, confining their cooperation to Israel advocacy. In Nashville last summer during the Gaza War, the local Jewish federation director spoke at a pro-Israel event organized by groups named by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-Muslim hate groups, including the Tennessee Freedom Coalition and Act For America. The federation did not co-sponsor the event.
"On the issue of Israel, we stand together with them in the hope that Israel will find the safety and security for its people," Mark Freedman, the federation director, said at the time.
Rabbi Steve Gutow, the president of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the public policy umbrella, said communal resistance to dialogue with Muslims has largely dissipated since 2007, when he faced difficulties shepherding a resolution through the council recommending local groups engage with Muslim partners.
"The level of opposition then was pretty strong," said Gutow, who recently returned from an interfaith trip to Israel that included three rabbis, three imams and three Episcopal priests. "I don't hear people standing up and saying we shouldn't do it anymore."
Yet some claim that American Jews are naive about the intentions of their Muslim dialogue partners, among whom radicalism is more widespread than it might appear.
"There's lots of evidence that there are many radical leaders posing as moderates," said Charles Jacobs, the Boston-based activist and founder of Americans for Peace and Tolerance, which aims to expose Muslim radicalism in the United States. On its website, the group calls out Schneier and the ADL by name for engaging with radicals under the guise of dialogue.
"Radical leaders exploit this Jewish wishful thinking to promote their agenda, which is to find a bridge into civil society to be accepted as moderates," Jacobs said. "And what better bridge could there be than to get a Jewish hechsher?"
Burton said Jews engaged in dialogue understood these dangers, but argued that the problem is only made worse by suggesting all Muslims are a threat.
"We cannot be naive about the danger of Islamist radicalism having some traction in the United States," Burton said. "But we only exacerbate the threat by painting too broad a brushstroke to the whole Muslim community in the country."


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Q: Write lambda function as def:-function I'm trying to write a lambda-function into a def:-function in order to better understand what is going on in a Python example-script I got. In some function in that script a lambda-function is integrated and I'm wondering what it would look like as def:-statement. (I'm new to using lamda functions)
So here is the code:
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame({"A": [18,28,29,32,35,36,37,37,39,40,42,42,46,48,54,56,57,61,61,62,63,65],                  "B":  [9,13,17,15,23,21,24,28,26,30,29,36,38,42,40,48,40,51,54,50,51,57]})

a = lambda df: np.corrcoef(df[:,0], df[:,1])[0,1]
print(a)

>>>function <lambda> at 0x0000016896784950> #result of print-statement

def lamb(df):
    g = np.corrcoef(df.iloc[:,0],df.iloc[:,1])[0,1]
    return g

b = lamb(df)
print(b)

>>>0.974499725153725 #result of print-statement

How do I alter the def lamb(df):-code so that its print-statement has the same output as the print-statement of the lambda-function?

A: print(a) prints a function, but
b = lamb(df)

print(b)

print the output of the function
Try print(lamb) to get the similar result

A: With
print(a)

You're trying to print a function, to have the same usable output:
print(a(df))

Is what you're looking for

A: just print the function lamb. this will print the function at location at 0x......
print(lamb)

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Q: Get objects involved in Java stacktrace I can retreive the current stacktrace using Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace() but this gives me only the classes involved in the call. Is it possible to retreive the object instances involved in the call trace? Maybe some kind of library which allows me to retreive the objects from the heap?
I have a problem which requires me to trace back to a Spring bean which indirectly created the object where i'm requesting the stack trace.
UPDATE
If there's no builtin tool for this in Java i'm searching for an embeddable library which can do this for me in runtime.

A: It is a very interesting idea, but, unfortunately in whole no, you could not, it is impossible.
UPD: One of the reasons why answer is "no" is that fact, that if it could be possible, then some List of references to all created objects must exist. But in this case Java GC would not work at all.

A: You may try housemd. It's developed by an engineer@alibaba and safe to be used even in a production environment, e.g. taobao.com.
Its feature include:

Display object field value
Output invocation stack trace

Following is an example screenshot:

A: Try the Eclipse debugger in order to view the value of objects used in a particular method. Place breakpoints on the lines where you want to pause the program.


The Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances (AIDA)/the International Insurance Law Association was founded on 28 April 1960 in Luxembourg. At the initial assembly, held at the International University of Comparative Sciences, the organisation's 16 founders appointed a provisional Committee of Directors and two co-Presidents, Prof. Antigono Donati and Prof. Hans Möller, who were entrusted with the task of promoting the foundation of national chapters of AIDA in the Latin world (Donati) and in the Anglo-Saxon and Germanic world (Möller).
On 19 May 1960, the first national chapter was established in Italy. By the end of that year, 16 national chapters had been established in Europe, America and Asia. The first World Congress of AIDA was held in Rome on 4-7 April 1962. The World Congress, which had been proposed by Prof. Donati during the initial assembly of AIDA, was organised by a Scientific Council of Directors chaired by Prof. Donati in his capacity as President of the Italian Chapter, the host of the event. The Congress, which surpassed all expectations, was attended by some 1,000 delegates from 50 countries. The delegates included many leading jurists and representatives of the international insurance industry. The Congress was opened in the presence of the President of the Italian Republic and closed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs. One of the members of the Mexican delegation was Emilio Portes Gil, former President of the Republic.
The first Congress was devoted exclusively to fundamental issues as Prof. Donati pointed out in his opening address: "Considering the large attendance at this Congress and therefore the presence of scholars of such different origins, it is necessary to reach an understanding on questions of principle, on broad trends, and on overall architectural lines rather than on particular issues". The three themes discussed at the Rome Congress were (1) the juridical concept of insurance; (2) the functions and scope of private insurance and social security and (3) the state control of insurance.
During the Congress, the General Assembly of National Chapters met and approved the international by-laws of AIDA and appointed officers. Prof. Donati was elected by acclamation as the first President of the Association for the four-year term from 1962 to 1966.
In 1966, the second World Congress was held in Hamburg. This Congress dealt with insurance themes of more direct import to specific countries plus issues such as state intervention in respect of insurance companies in difficulties; means of reducing the costs of civil liability insurance; and the effect of the policyholder's behaviour on contractual guarantees. The Hamburg Congress marked the first time that general reports on the themes which were debated were based on the national reports prepared by the various chapters, a policy which has facilitated the gathering of insurance documentation.
Since 1966, Congresses have been held every four years in Paris (1970), Lausanne (1974), Madrid (1978), London (1982), Budapest (1986), Copenhagen (1990), Sydney (1994), Marrakech (1998), New York (2002), Buenos Aires (2006) and Paris (2010). The 2014 World Congress will be held in Rome and 2018 in Rio de Janeiro.
In addition to World Congresses, the AIDA by-laws authorise chapters to hold conferences at a regional or transnational level. Four Panamerican Congresses and seven Ibero-Latin-American Congresses have been held.
The first Panamerican Congress of insurance law was held in Mexico City in 1964 and was organised by Emilio Portes Gil, former President of the Mexican Republic. The Congress, which was well-attended, was officially opened in the presence of Adolfo Lopez Mateos, the then President of the Republic of Mexico. Subsequent Panamerican congresses have been held in Buenos Aires (1969) and Rio de Janeiro (1971 and 1984).
The seven Ibero-Latin-American Congresses, promoted by the Ibero-Latin-American Committee of AIDA, were held in Bogotá (1989), Mexico City (1991), Buenos Aires (1993), Santiago de Chile (1995), Madrid (1997), Cartegena de Indias (2000) and Rio de Janeiro (2003).
In addition to Congresses, AIDA has formed special international working parties which include representatives of many chapters. The first two working parties were formed in Lausanne in 1974 with the purpose of studying the themes of "Insurance and Acts of Violence" and "Risk Accumulation and Subrogation", both of which had been debated during that year's World Congress. Similarly, in 1978 in Madrid two more working parties were formed for the study of "Prevention and Insurance" and "Pollution and Insurance". Subsequently, other working parties have since been formed to study the State Supervision of Insurance, Pensions, Motor Insurance, Products Liability, Reinsurance and Motor. The Motor Insurance Working Party publishes a newsletter in addition to their other activities. The Prevention and Pollution and Insurance working parties have been combined to form a new working party, New Technologies, Prevention and Insurance.
Whilst the purpose of Congresses is the debate of the most significant insurance themes at an international level, the various chapters study the same issues from a national viewpoint and contribute to possible solutions. A few national chapters, for example, Japan, Italy, Poland and Spain, have also formed regional subsections. Additionally, some national chapters have organised colloquia to debate specific themes on an international perspective.
Finally, a large proportion of AIDA's activities is published. These include the proceedings of all World and Continental Congresses and important meetings, collections of studies on the themes dealt with by some of the working parties, including Reinsurance, Pollution and Insurance and Products Liability, and monographs. A volume of "Studies" in honour of the late Honorary President of AIDA, Prof. André Besson ("Hommage à André Besson"), edited by the Hungarian Chapter was published in 1987, and a collection of 27 monographs on insurance contract law by Prof. Marcel Fontaine, was published in two volumes published in 1990 and 1992.
The AIDA World Yearbook, published by the Italian Chapter, is a bilingual (Italian–English) volume on the history and activities of all chapters of AIDA.


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Large LEED Community Under Development in Florida
When complete, the subdivision will include 160 housing units that the developer hopes will meet the LEED-Platinum standard
By Scott Gibson
Houses in Mirabella at Village Green, a subdivision in Bradenton, Florida, have stucco exteriors and barrel-tile roofs. Each of the 80 buildings in the project will be a duplex containing a pair of 1,542-square-foot homes separated by a concrete-block common wall.
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Image Credit: All images: Mirabella at Village Green	A computer-generated rendering of the Mirabella at Village Green project shows two units. Mirabella developers are wooing homebuyers with LEED-certified performance and comfort upgrades in a package that sells for less than $250,000.
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What developers think will be the largest collection of LEED-Platinum homes in the country is taking shape in southwest Florida.
Mirabella at Village Green, as the 160-unit subdivision is called, is under construction in Bradenton, a city of about 51,000 just south of Tampa on Florida's Gulf coast. It's at a very early stage of development — just 10 homes have been finished, with another 20 under construction, according to an article in the Bradenton Herald. The project won't be complete for another two years.
But when it is finished, Mirabella will offer its buyers a combination of energy- and water-saving features that developers say are unusual in the Florida housing market, at least at this price.
Buyers can select one of two designs, the Mirabella web site says, either of which measures 1,542-square-feet. Priced at less than $246,000, the two-bedroom, two-bathroom houses will feature a "garage-forward" design. The units are what builder Joe Jannopoulo of Synergy Building Corporation calls "paired villas," two individually owned units separated by a common wall and contained in a single building. In all, there will be 80 buildings when the subdivision is complete.
None of the buildings has yet received LEED certification — the paperwork on the first of them is still being processed. But developer Marshall Gouty and Dennis Stroer, a LEED certifier working on the project, are both confident they'll meet the requirements for LEED-Platinum, the highest of four categories in the LEED for Homes program.
The only two units that won't be submitted for certification are in the model building.
"We've been searching, and we've been doing a lot of research because we'd love to say we're the largest," Gobuty said by phone. "The closest one we've come up with is a 58-unit subdivision in New Jersey. However, those are almost a million dollars. We can't find anything close to this."
Walls have R-4 insulation, and ceilings have R-20 or R-30 insulation
Florida, Gobuty said, hasn't been known for exacting building standards. Aluminum-framed windows and concrete block walls that are all but uninsulated are still common. "[Mirabella] changes the landscape," he said, "especially in Florida, where it's always been how quick you can build, how cheap you can build, and how low you can sell."
Floor plan: Buyers can choose between two single-level floor plans. Each has two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
Exterior walls are still built from 8-inch concrete block, but a layer of 3/4-inch-thick rigid insulation is installed on the inside between the block and the drywall (R-3.75 at R-5 per inch), and the builder is considering filling block cores with foam in the next round of construction, which would add another R-4, Jannopoulo said.
Windows are double-pane PVC units with a Solar Heat Gain Coefficient of 0.20 to 0.22.
The standard insulation package for the truss-framed roof is R-30 worth of blown-in fiberglass, separating the house from its vented attic. But buyers can upgrade to an R-20 layer of open-cell foam applied to the bottom of the roof sheathing and opt for a sealed attic instead.
Houses have air-source heat pumps for heat and SEER 15 air conditioners (more efficient SEER 18 units are available as an upgrade).
Other features include: EPA WaterSense faucets, toilets, and showers; low-VOC paints and finishes; a mechanical room inside conditioned space; and LED lighting. Average HERS scores range from 62 to 64.
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Insulation in Mirabella houses may seem a little skimpy to northern readers. Bradenton is in Climate Zone 2, where the 2012 International Energy Conservation Code's prescriptive approach requires R-38 of insulation in the ceiling and R-6 in mass walls — values that Mirabella homes don't reach. But as Dennis Stroer of Cals-Plus, a Venice, Florida, company that is handling some of the LEED certification work on the project, explains, the project is using a performance-based alternative.
In the northern tier of the country, high-performance houses have lots of insulation because the temperature difference between inside and outside can be extreme. But in Florida, Stroer says, temperature differences aren't nearly as dramatic — the temperature difference across the building envelope may be 20 degrees or less. Designers are more focused on other conditions, such as high humidity, and the performance path to code compliance is common.
In following a performance-based path to compliance, builders use computer modeling software to show energy costs won't be any higher than they would be in a house meeting prescriptive requirements of the code. High-efficiency mechanical equipment, such as AC units, can compensate for lower levels of insulation.
The Mirabella houses, Stroer added, are built to Energy Star standards and appear to have the points needed for LEED-Platinum certification.
Building to LEED standards a challenge
Gobuty said that meeting LEED requirements added about 6% to what construction costs would otherwise have been, and managing the process has been among the biggest challenges.
"On top of the work, the cost, it's the management," he said. "We have to have our people inside to make sure the subcontractors do the work precisely, because if it's not done exactly, you're not going to be passing and then you've just wasted a lot of money. We have to manage the process all the way through.
"LEED is a big challenge," he continued, "it's a big undertaking. We have to do a lot of extra work, but I believe in the end our customers are going to be much happier and they'll have a much better product."
The houses have drought-tolerant landscaping and smart irrigation systems that can sense rainfall. Most of the construction waste generated on site is recycled, the Herald said, and materials not completely consumed in the construction of one house were moved to the site of the next one, cutting down on waste.
The 42-acre project also reaped LEED points by being built on the site of an old golf course rather than undeveloped land.
Selling the development has meant re-educating his sales staff, as well as educating buyers who aren't familiar with some of the features Mirabella is trying to promote, Gobuty said.
"There is no textbook for this," he said. "Right now, no one is doing it. Being first is interesting. I'd love to be a fast second, but we are the first. The education process creates a niche, but at the same time it's not something people are familiar with. The good part is we know we're doing the right thing. In five years, everyone will be doing it. Right now, we're alone."
Malcolm Taylor | Jan 01, 2016 06:33pm | #1
Leed throws up these logical inconsistencies. The developer gets Leed points for building on an old golf course, but there's no reason to believe that they did this for anything other than economic reasons. It's like an easter egg hunt: A lot of the points you gain for accreditation are things that just happened that you then claim credit for after the fact. There is an air of absurdity around the whole process.
C N | Jan 04, 2016 02:55pm | #2
RE: Leed
Just because a developer does something economically reasonable by using previously developed land doesn't mean it can't also be a sustainable action. (or at least more sustainable than using undeveloped land). That's like saying you shouldn't get LEED points for using salvaged materials because you had them in the plans for economical reasons before you decided to pursue LEED.
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As Hermione kept chasing Draco around the room, Harry turned towards Justin, who was eating his loaf. "Which one did you get?"
Justin said plainly, "I got plain."
Harry frowned briefly, "Really?"
Justin snirked, "Yeah, when I got here, Snape asked me which side buttered my bread, and I just smiled at him and said, 'I never butter my bread.' He said back, 'then you'd better be better than the lot of them.'"
Harry's loaf, which was last, turned out to taste like soap. Harry ate it all with a grin on his face.
Snape wouldn't deliberately poison him, would he?
[a/n: looking forward to the next chapter, leave a review!]


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ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia. El Tri closed in on a place in the Round of 16 with a compelling 2-0 defeat of South Korea. Carlos Vela (penalty, 26′) and Javier 'Chicharito' Hernandez (66′) helped El Tri survive what was a more open match against a fluid South Korea side. Son Heung-Min (90+3′) got a goal back for the East Asian selection, but it was not enough to avoid defeat.
Mexico opened the match operating heavily out of possession, looking to find a breakthrough early. However, it was the Daeguk Warriors, who fouled several El Tri players early and often, who ended up having the better chances earlier.
The first chance off the counter for the Daeguk Warriors came only seven minutes in, when off a counter to the left, Hirving Lozano intervened on the left flank to take away a chance for Lee Jae-Sung to score from the right wing. Several minutes later, Hirving Lozano recovered a goal scoring chance off the counter after Son Heung-min dragged beyond Edson Alvarez to set up what could have been a shot on an open goal with a hard challenge.
El Tri were not without their chances with the possession and started to find more chances on goal themselves. None of the chances came better than a penalty off a clearly handed cross attempt by Andrés Guardado in the 25th minute. Carlos Vela converted the penalty beyond South Korea goalkeeper Jo Hyun-Woo to open the scoring.
The next minute, on a sustained buildup, Hirving Lozano had a chance to double the lead off the dribble inside the area but fired his shot well wide of the far post.
Guillermo Ochoa also intervened late in the first half to stop a late first half chance by Son Heung-min, amid significant Korean pressure on his goal.
The second half started with El Tri and the Daeguk Warriors both finding chances on frame and fluidity with their passing and movement. Carlos Vela and 'Chucky' Lozano both tried to connect on chances early in the half. But it was Lee Jae-Sung and Moon Seon-Min, through Hwang Hee-Chan's control and recognition of space for those attacks, who forced interventions most from the Mexico defense early on.
And early on, the Daeguk Warriors returned to a heavily physical strategy without the ball, trying to tackle the ball and El Tri players hard to try to force the likes of Andrés Guardado, Miguel Layun, as well as Hector Herrera. The strategy, despite getting several Korean players booked, helped to open up a long passing game for both teams.
Eventually, off of one counter in the 65th minute, Mexico doubled its advantage as Hirving Lozano found Javier 'Chicharito' Hernandez inside the area to double El Tri's advantage. The goal was Chicharito's 50th international goal, the first El Tri player to ever do so in an international career.
As the match wore down, few teams found additional chances on frame. However, Guillermo Ochoa received a hard, legal challenge inside the area while trying to cover up a wayward shot.
Three minutes into second half stoppage time, Son Heung-Min ended El Tri's clean sheet with a dribble and curling shot from outside the area that surprised Guillermo Ochoa. But it would not be enough for the Daeguk Warriors to take anything from the match.
With the win, El Tri (2-0-0, 6 pts) eliminates South Korea (0-0-2, 0 pts) from having a chance to advance. If Germany (0-0-1, 0 pts) fail to defeat Sweden (1-0-0, 3 pts) in the late match, El Tri would confirm their place in the World Cup's knockout phase.
At that point, El Tri's match against Sweden on Wednesday, June 27 could be for anything from winning Group F outright and avoiding Brazil in the Round of 16 to confirming their place in the Round of 16 in general.
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The Pop band The 1975 has dropped the emotive new video named 'The 1975' self-titled.
The 1975's self-titled video has collaborated with Greta Thunberg & Directed by Ben Ditto & Jon Emmony. The brand new accompanying video to 'The 1975' sees the phrases of Thunberg's speech playing over alarming pictures of local weather change in action.
Recently, The 1975 has dropped their new album called 'Notes On A Conditional Form'. This is the most awaited album we got.
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That includes a speech from Thunberg that performs over an instrumental, the track, which discloses the pop band's new album 'Notes On A Conditional Form', which helped to lift awareness of local weather change.
Speaking about the album, The 1975 have in some way put out an album made for introspection and headphone listening and dancing around your lounge, something deep and sprawling and sometimes foolish to dig deep into over many listens, throughout which your favorite track will shift each day.
"Something that requires time and attention – something just right for now."
The 1975 – The 1975 – Watch it here.
Talking in regards to the time he met Thunberg's last yr on Pedestrian.TV, Musical artist Matthew Healy said the 17-year-old environmental campaigner was "one of the only people I've been truly starstruck by.
"She's so famous in regards to iconographically famous. You know she's like, on a poster with Gandhi kinda-famous. So when I first seen her through the studio, through like frosted glass as well, you could just see the outline of her. And like Slash said, 'To be truly iconic, you must be recognisable in silhouette'. She's recognisable in silhouette. So, it was really powerful."
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Healy continued: "Greta is the most punk person I've ever met in my life. When I met her, she was wearing an 'anti-fascist all-stars' t-shirt. I know like, not like an 'Antifa' – she wasn't supporting violence, she was supporting…fucking wild, man. Like I came from that kind of thing."
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High fitness (F > 1) of a state x means that on average more transitions enter x than leave x (the sum of all transition probabilities leaving x can never be >1). Thus, while the process runs, high fitness states will become more probable, and low fitness states less probable, as would be expected from a process undergoing natural selection.
A doubly stochastic process is defined by the requirement that F (xi) = 1 for all states xi. It can be shown that double stochasticity is a necessary and sufficient condition for a Markov process to be characterized by a non-decreasing statistical entropy function, i.e. a function of the probabilities which can only increase (or remain the same) over time, whatever the initial distribution of probabilities. Such processes correspond to the irreversible processes implied by the second law of thermodynamics. In a more general process, fitness can be larger or smaller for different states, and thus probability would tend to concentrate in the high fitness states, decreasing overall entropy. So, a necessary and sufficient condition for a Markov process to allow self-organization (i.e. decrease of statistical entropy) is that it have a non-trivial fitness function, i.e. there are x's such that F(x) =/ 1. Assuming classical probabilities, the sum of all P's must be 1 and thus we have the condition: Sumi F(xi) = n. Therefore, for every F(x) > 1, there must be at least one F(y) <1. This condition is equivalent to saying that selection is possible, because there are different fitness configurations from which to choose.
Having symmetric transition probabilities is a sufficient condition for a Markov process to be doubly stochastic. Indeed, symmetry means that P(xj -> xi) = P(xi -> xj) for all i,j and thus: 1 = Sumj P(xi -> xj) = Sumj P(xj -> xi) = F(xi).
Therefore, having asymmetric transition probabilities is a necessary condition for a Markov process to have non-trivial fitness, and thus, to allow self-organization.
We can also interpret the P's not as probabilities but as effective numbers or frequencies N (e.g. size of a population) which can be different from 1. In that case, the total number N = Sumi N(xi) can increase or decrease during the process, and we get a model that resembles population dynamics, where fitness gets its traditional meaning from biological evolution theory: F (x) = N(x(t)) / N(x(t-1)).