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What if 20 Million Illegal Aliens Vacated America?
(Note: ILLEGAL – here without papers)
Tina Griego, journalist for the Denver Rocky Mountain News wrote a column titled, 'Mexican Visitor's Lament' — 10/25/07.
I interviewed Mexican journalist Evangelina Hernandez while visiting Denver last week.
Hernandez said, 'They (illegal aliens) pay rent, buy groceries, buy clothes… What happens to your country's economy if 20 million people go away?' Hmmmm, I thought, what would happen, so I did my due diligence, buried my nose as a reporter into the FACTS I found below.
It's a good question – it deserves an honest answer. Over 80% of Americans demand secured borders and illegal migration stopped. But what would happen if all 20 million or more vacated America?
The answers I found may surprise you!
In California, if 3.5 million illegal aliens moved back to Mexico, it would leave an extra $10.2 billion to spend on overloaded school systems, bankrupt hospitals and overrun prisons. It would leave highways cleaner, safer and less congested. Everyone could understand one another as English became the dominant language again.
In Colorado, 500,000 illegal migrants, plus their 300,000 kids and grand-kids – would move back 'home', mostly to Mexico. That would save Coloradans an estimated $2 billion (other experts say $7 billion) annually in taxes that pay for schooling, medical, social-services and incarceration costs.
It means 12,000 gang members would vanish out of Denver alone.
Colorado would save more than $20 million in prison costs, and the terror that those 7,300 alien criminals set upon local citizens. Denver Officer Don Young and hundreds of Colorado victims would not have suffered death, accidents, rapes and other crimes by illegals.
Denver Public Schools would not suffer a 67 percent drop-out/flunk-out rate because of thousands of illegal alien students speaking 41 different languages. At least 200,000 vehicles would vanish from our gridlocked cities in Colorado. Denver's 4% unemployment rate would vanish as our working poor would gain jobs at a living wage.
In Florida, 1.5 million illegals would return the Sunshine State back to America, the rule of law, and English.
In Chicago, Illinois, 2.1 million illegals would free up hospitals, schools, prisons and highways for a safer, cleaner and more crime-free experience.
If 20 million illegal aliens returned 'home' —
The U.S. Economy would return to the rule of law.
Employers would hire legal American citizens at a living wage.
Everyone would pay their fair share of taxes because they wouldn't be working off the books. That would result in an additional $401 Billion in IRS income taxes collected annually, and an equal amount for local, state and city coffers.
No more push '1' for English or '2' for Spanish.
No more confusion in American schools that now must contend with over 100 languages that degrade the educational system for American kids.
Our over-crowded schools would lose more than two million illegal alien kids at a cost of billions in ESL and free breakfasts and lunches.
We would lose 500,000 illegal criminal alien inmates at a cost of more than $1.6 billion annually. That includes 15,000 MS-13 gang members who distribute $130 billion in drugs annually would vacate our country.
In cities like L.A., 20,000 members of the '18th Street Gang' would vanish from our nation.
No more Mexican forgery gangs for ID theft from Americans! No more foreign rapists and child molesters!
Losing more than 20 million people would clear up our crowded highways and gridlock. Cleaner air and less drinking and driving American deaths by illegal aliens!
America's economy is drained. Taxpayers are harmed. Employers get rich. Over $80 billion annually wouldn't return to the aliens' home countries by cash transfers. Illegal migrants earned half that money untaxed, which further drains America's economy – which currently suffers an $8.7 trillion debt.
At least 400,000 anchor babies would not be born in our country, costing us $109 billion per year per cycle. At least 86 hospitals in California, Georgia and Florida would still be operating instead of being bankrupted out of existence because illegals pay nothing via the EMTOLA Act.
Americans wouldn't suffer thousands of TB and hepatitis cases rampant in our country – brought in by illegals unscreened at our borders.
Our cities would see 20 million less people driving, polluting and grid locking our cities. It would also put the 'progressives' on the horns of a dilemma; illegal aliens and their families cause 11 percent of our greenhouse gases.
Over one million of Mexico's poorest citizens now live inside and along our border from Brownsville, Texas to San Diego, California in what the New York Times called, 'colonias' or new neighborhoods. Trouble is, those living areas resemble Bombay and Calcutta where grinding poverty, filth, diseases, drugs, crimes, no sanitation and worse. They live without sewage, clean water, streets, electricity, roads or any kind of sanitation.
The New York Times reported them to be America's new ' Third World ' inside our own country. Within 20 years, at their current growth rate, they expect 20 million residents of those colonias.
(I've seen them personally in Texas and Arizona; it's sickening beyond anything you can imagine.)
By enforcing our laws, we could repatriate them back to Mexico. We should invite 20 million aliens to go home, fix their own countries and/or make a better life in Mexico. We already invite a million people into our country legally more than all other countries combined annually. We cannot and must not allow anarchy at our borders, more anarchy within our borders and growing lawlessness at every level in our nation. It's time to stand up for our country, our culture, our civilization and our way of life.
Interesting Statistics!
Here are 14 reasons illegal aliens should vacate America , and I hope they are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them:
1. $14 billion to $22 billion dollars are spent each year on welfare to illegal aliens. (that's Billion with a 'B' ) – http://tinyurl.com/zob77
2. $2.2 billion dollars are spent each year on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $7.5 billion dollars are spent each year on Medicaid for illegal aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
4. $12 billion dollars are spent each year on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they still cannot speak a word of English! http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
5. $27 billion dollars are spent each year for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
6. $3 Million Dollars 'PER DAY' is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. That's $1.2 Billion a year. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
7. 28% percent of all federal prison inmates are illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
8. $190 billion dollars are spent each year on illegal aliens for welfare & social services by the American taxpayers. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
9. $200 billion dollars per year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html
10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html
11. During the year 2005, there were 8 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our southern border with as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from other terrorist countries. Over 10,000 of those were middle-eastern terrorists. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine, crack, guns, and marijuana crossed into the U.S. from the southern border. – http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
12. The National Policy Institute estimates that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion, or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period. http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/publications.php?b=deportation
13. In 2006, illegal aliens sent home $65 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin, to their families & friends. http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
14. The dark side of illegal immigration: Nearly one million sex crimes are committed by illegal immigrants in the United States!' http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
Total cost a whopping $538.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR!!!
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How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico
By John Dillin
George W. Bush wasn't the first Republican president to face a full-blown immigration crisis on the US-Mexican border.
Fifty-three years ago, when newly elected Dwight Eisenhower moved into the White House, America's southern frontier was as porous as a spaghetti sieve. As many as 3 million illegal migrants had walked and waded northward over a period of several years for jobs in California, Arizona, Texas, and points beyond.
President Eisenhower cut off this illegal traffic. He did it quickly and decisively with only 1,075 United States Border Patrol agents less than one-tenth of today's force. The operation is still highly praised among veterans of the Border Patrol.
Although there is little to no record of this operation in Ike's official papers, one piece of historic evidence indicates how he felt. In 1951, Ike wrote a letter to Sen. William Fulbright (D) of Arkansas. The senator had just proposed that a special commission be created by Congress to examine unethical conduct by government officials who accepted gifts and favors in exchange for special treatment of private individuals.
General Eisenhower, who was gearing up for his run for the presidency, said "Amen" to Senator Fulbright's proposal. He then quoted a report in The New York Times, highlighting one paragraph that said: "The rise in illegal border-crossing by Mexican 'wetbacks' to a current rate of more than 1,000,000 cases a year has been accompanied by a curious relaxation in ethical standards extending all the way from the farmer-exploiters of this contraband labor to the highest levels of the Federal Government."
Years later, the late Herbert Brownell Jr., Eisenhower's first attorney general, said in an interview with this writer that the president had a sense of urgency about illegal immigration when he took office.
America "was faced with a breakdown in law enforcement on a very large scale," Mr. Brownell said. "When I say large scale, I mean hundreds of thousands were coming in from Mexico [every year] without restraint."
Although an on-and-off guest-worker program for Mexicans was operating at the time, farmers and ranchers in the Southwest had become dependent on an additional low-cost, docile, illegal labor force of up to 3 million, mostly Mexican, laborers.
According to the Handbook of Texas Online, published by the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association, this illegal workforce had a severe impact on the wages of ordinary working Americans. The Handbook Online reports that a study by the President's Commission on Migratory Labor in Texas in 1950 found that cotton growers in the Rio Grande Valley, where most illegal aliens in Texas worked, paid wages that were "approximately half" the farm wages paid elsewhere in the state.
Profits from illegal labor led to the kind of corruption that apparently worried Eisenhower. Joseph White, a retired 21-year veteran of the Border Patrol, says that in the early 1950s, some senior US officials overseeing immigration enforcement "had friends among the ranchers," and agents "did not dare" arrest their illegal workers.
Walt Edwards, who joined the Border Patrol in 1951, tells a similar story. He says: "When we caught illegal aliens on farms and ranches, the farmer or rancher would often call and complain [to officials in El Paso]. And depending on how politically connected they were, there would be political intervention. That is how we got into this mess we are in now."
Bill Chambers, who worked for a combined 33 years for the Border Patrol and the then-called US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), says politically powerful people are still fueling the flow of illegals.
During the 1950s, however, this "Good Old Boy" system changed under Eisenhower if only for about 10 years.
In 1954, Ike appointed retired Gen. Joseph "Jumpin' Joe" Swing, a former West Point classmate and veteran of the 101st Airborne, as the new INS commissioner.
Influential politicians, including Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D) of Texas and Sen. Pat McCarran (D) of Nevada, favored open borders, and were dead set against strong border enforcement, Brownell said. But General Swing's close connections to the president shielded him and the Border Patrol from meddling by powerful political and corporate interests.
One of Swing's first decisive acts was to transfer certain entrenched immigration officials out of the border area to other regions of the country where their political connections with people such as Senator Johnson would have no effect.
Then on June 17, 1954, what was called "Operation Wetback" began. Because political resistance was lower in California and Arizona, the roundup of aliens began there. Some 750 agents swept northward through agricultural areas with a goal of 1,000 apprehensions a day. By the end of July, over 50,000 aliens were caught in the two states. Another 488,000, fearing arrest, had fled the country.
By mid-July, the crackdown extended northward into Utah, Nevada, and Idaho, and eastward to Texas.
By September, 80,000 had been taken into custody in Texas, and an estimated 500,000 to 700,000 illegals had left the Lone Star State voluntarily.
Unlike today, Mexicans caught in the roundup were not simply released at the border, where they could easily reenter the US. To discourage their return, Swing arranged for buses and trains to take many aliens deep within Mexico before being set free.
Tens of thousands more were put aboard two hired ships, the Emancipation and the Mercurio. The ships ferried the aliens from Port Isabel, Texas, to Vera Cruz, Mexico, more than 500 miles south.
The sea voyage was "a rough trip, and they did not like it," says Don Coppock, who worked his way up from Border Patrolman in 1941 to eventually head the Border Patrol from 1960 to 1973.
Mr. Coppock says he "cannot understand why [President] Bush let [today's] problem get away from him as it has. I guess it was his compassionate conservatism, and trying to please [Mexican President] Vincente Fox."
There are now said to be 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens in the US. Of the Mexicans who live here, an estimated 85 percent are here illegally.
Patrol vets offer tips on curbing illegal immigration. One day in 1954, Border Patrol agent Walt Edwards picked up a newspaper in Big Spring, Texas, and saw some startling news. The government was launching an all-out drive to oust illegal aliens from the United States.
The orders came straight from the top, where the new president, Dwight Eisenhower, had put a former West Point classmate, Gen. Joseph Swing, in charge of immigration enforcement.
General Swing's fast-moving campaign soon secured America's borders an accomplishment no other president has since equaled. Illegal migration had dropped 95 percent by the late 1950s.
Several retired Border Patrol agents who took part in the 1950s effort, including Mr. Edwards, say much of what Swing did could be repeated today.
"Some say we cannot send 12 million illegals now in the United States back where they came from. Of course we can!" Edwards says.
Donald Coppock, who headed the Patrol from 1960 to 1973, says that if Swing and Ike were still running immigration enforcement, "they'd be on top of this in a minute."
William Chambers, another '50s veteran, agrees. "They could do a pretty good job" sealing the border.
Edwards says: "When we start enforcing the law, these various businesses are, on their own, going to replace their [illegal] workforce with a legal workforce."
While Congress debates building a fence on the border, these veterans say other actions should have higher priority.
1. End the current practice of taking captured Mexican aliens to the border and releasing them. Instead, deport them deep into Mexico, where return to the US would be more costly.
2. Crack down hard on employers who hire illegals. Without jobs, the aliens won't come.
3. End "catch and release" for non-Mexican aliens. It is common for illegal migrants not from Mexico to be set free after their arrest if they promise to appear later before a judge. Few show up.
The Patrol veterans say enforcement could also be aided by a legalized guest- worker program that permits Mexicans to register in their country for temporary jobs in the US. Eisenhower's team ran such a program. It permitted up to 400,000 Mexicans a year to enter the US for various agriculture jobs that lasted for 12 to 52 weeks.
John Dillin is former managing editor of the Monitor
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By Andres Simonson / August 3, 2016 August 3, 2016 / 3 minutes of reading
The Lakewood Estonian House in New Jersey, United States, is turning 70, which can only mean one thing – time to throw a party. A lot happens in a span of 70 years. Halley's Comet nearly completes its seven-billion-mile elliptical cruise around the solar system. In the east, the Sun rises over …
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JBANC: the ironclad leadership of the US in NATO is critically important
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The Joint Baltic American National Committee, Inc. (JBANC) is very concerned with recent misguided statements related to the United States' commitment to upholding NATO treaty agreements. As a nonpartisan organisation, JBANC believes in and advocates for robust transatlantic relations between the United States and the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia …
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G.R. Baker Memorial Hospital has been operating over capacity since at least 2013, according to Ministry of Health figures obtained by Black Press Media and confirmed by Northern Health.
Most recently, in the 2017-18 fiscal year, G.R. Baker Memorial Hospital ran at an average of more than 19 per cent over capacity.
When a hospital is operating over capacity, it means it has more patients in need of a bed than beds available.
High hospital occupancy rates aren't unique to Quesnel. Province-wide, the average hospital occupancy rate in B.C. in the 2017-18 fiscal year was 102.2 per cent, where it has hovered for the last five years.
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According to Strang, this could mean they have insufficient community resources to help them, they're in the midst of a family crisis, there's a change in the status of a primary caregiver, or they are waiting for a bed in Dunrovin Park Lodge, Quesnel's only long-term care facility. Another significant factor which can play a role in the discharge of a patient, more broadly, is housing.
Strang says the majority of patients who remain in hospital after reaching the point where they could be discharged (referred to as an alternate level of care patient or ALC) are seniors or persons with a disability which requires a certain level of accessibility that may not be easily met.
In the 2017-18 fiscal year, for example, G.R. Baker averaged at 75.4 per cent capacity without ALC patients. Including ALC patients, the hospital averaged at 119.6 per cent capacity.
Rather than increasing the bed capacity in the hospital, Strang and Collins both suggest improving supports within the community for these patients is a better solution to the problem.
"Those supports are aimed at seeing people either able to return to their home environments with home-health support, or to other accessible living environments, potentially including long-term care but potentially other levels of care as well," says Collins.
Part of the problem, says Strang, is that there is an aging population.
One method of handling this, she says, is being more efficient with the resources they do have, and then working to enhance those services. She says there needs to be a continuum of care: seniors, specifically, should be able to live at home, before moving into a place like Fraser Village, which allows for independent living with some supports, then an assisted living facility, then, eventually moving to Dunrovin for long-term care.
She adds that the new Quesnel Lions Housing Society building, Silver Manor, is a good step toward accessible housing in Quesnel.
An important support which allows patients to be discharged from the hospital is having access to the appropriate housing. Without an appropriate housing situation in place, it can be difficult to discharge some patients, while others have even ended up discharged to the shelter at Seasons House.
Melanie MacDonald, the executive director of Seasons House, says the shelter has seen a growing population of seniors over the past several years. She says poverty and a lack of housing for seniors are two of the primary issues they face in the community.
Other seniors at the shelter do not necessarily fit into mainstream housing: these are the seniors who have problems with their mental health or with substance use.
At any given point, there are between five and seven seniors living in the shelter, says MacDonald. Currently, there are seven.
Peter Nielsen, the founder of Voice for North Cariboo Seniors, echoes MacDonald. Although Silver Manor will help, he says there is still a lack of affordable housing for seniors in the community.
"Most facilities have long waitlists … or aren't really affordable for seniors," he says.
In mid-December 2018, there were 31 people on a waitlist to get into Dunrovin Park Lodge, Quesnel's only long-term care facility. According to Northern Health, the average wait is approximately 115 days, or almost four months. It is important to note, says Eryn Collins, that wait times do vary, as emergency placements are sometimes made for individuals with critical, clinical needs.
The issue of seniors' housing has also come up at city council.
The Age Friendly Initiative Committee, which was then chaired by Mayor Bob Simpson, presented an age-friendly assessment and action plan to the previous council on June 26.
The report details seniors' housing in Quesnel. There are two assisted living facilities, one public and one private, with a total of 46 units; one residential care facility (Dunrovin) with 117 beds; and an affordable housing apartment building for those aged 60-plus, which has 46 units. The new Silver Manor also features 30 units for seniors.
The report also mentions the new Dakelh and Quesnel Community Housing Society development, which provides affordable and accessible housing. It has 38 units.
Two pages of the 45-page report specifically discuss seniors' housing. The report lists a few age-friendly features of the city: new seniors' housing was under construction (Silver Manor, now completed); a reasonable cost of real estate compared to other parts of the province; and the existence of supported seniors' housing, i.e. Dunrovin.
It also cites areas in need of improvement. Those include: a need for more affordable housing; a need for more supported housing (i.e. assisted and long-term care facilities); a need for more independent-living housing; and a need for more options (i.e. condos, townhouses) for seniors to downsize into as needed.
The report also made two recommendations to council. The first is to redevelop the old Quesnel Junior School site into a "seniors' development" with a wide spectrum of seniors' housing offered. The report says this would make more supported and affordable housing available to seniors. It is worth noting, however, that this recommendation is not something that the City has pursued.
The second recommendation is to create a Seniors Directory of all seniors-related services and programs, which would be disseminated widely. This directory would include government resources related to Home Improvement Assistance Programs, which is a series of programs run through the Province of B.C. and dedicated to helping seniors continue to be able to live at home.
The City of Quesnel is also looking into housing. Coun. Scott Elliott is the chair of the Housing Committee and is working on a needs assessment report on housing in Quesnel. He says the report will look at housing en masse and will include seniors' housing.
Once the report is complete, he says the City will be better able to see what is and is not needed.
Silver Manor, a new development by the Quesnel Lions Housing Society, offers lower-than-market-value rents for seniors 65 and older. It also features two fully accessible suites available to people with a disability aged 55 and older.
The building officially opened in January and, as of Jan. 9, has one vacancy. The building was originally filled months before it opened, but one tenant was unable to move in.
The manor doesn't accept pets, and laundry, parking and utilities are not included in the rent, which ranges from approximately $600 to $650 a month.
Mitch Vik, the president of the Quesnel Lions Housing Society, says the building is meant to address just one part of the problem: "Which is, what do seniors do when they can't manage their home anymore — and they can't afford a condo?
"That's what we've come up with, with these apartments," says Vik.
Vik, also a city councillor and the new chair of the Age Friendly Initiative Committee, says although the building has a vacancy, he knows of a number of seniors who have applications for the manor that have not yet been filled out and returned.
Aside from more accessible and affordable housing in the community, there are several other supports that can allow hospitalized seniors or those with disabilities to be discharged from hospital. Some of these supports might include home visits from nurses, or help from programs like the United Way's Better at Home.
Better at Home picks up the piece that health doesn't cover, says G.R. Baker's Debbie Strang.
In Quesnel, Better at Home is run by Brenda Gardiner.
Gardiner says the program helps seniors with transportation to appointments, house cleaning, snow removal, lawn care and home repair (if it relates to a safety issue) and provides friendly visits.
The program is largely run by volunteers but can cost seniors between $6 and $20 an hour, depending on the service.
The demand is extremely high, with 402 seniors enrolled in the program, compared to 117 volunteers, many of whom only volunteer seasonally.
"We should have cut it off 50 clients ago," says Gardiner.
"There's definitely a need [for more supports in the community]," she adds.
Within the community, many seniors also access support from the Voice for North Cariboo Seniors and Seasons House.
As part of his work with Voice for Seniors, Peter Nielsen delivers food every month to low-income seniors.
At Seasons House, many seniors participate in a drop-in program that provides them with extra food support and a sense of community. Melanie MacDonald says many seniors come in for a meal and stay for a hockey game, for example.
The shelter also helps seniors to get on the SAFER rental subsidy program through B.C. Housing.
With files from Tyler Olsen.


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  process.env['AZURE_AD_TEST_GROUP_NAME'] = 'testgroupauto';
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Q: How to make a discord bot do something after I react to an emoji in an image sent by itself I'm making my first discord bot and I'm trying to make it send a message after I react to one of its emojis, problem is, when I click the thumbs up emoji, the bot simply does not send the message, it's been a few hours now and I can't find the problem, I'm sorry if this has been solved somewhere else, I couldn't find anything that works.
if (command === "ping") {

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    const sentMessage = await message.channel.send({files: [attachment] })
    sentMessage.react('');
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    const filter = (reaction, user) => {
        return reaction.emoji.name === '' && user.id === message.author.id;
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I found that I was missing the "GUILD_MESSAGE_REACTIONS" intent, now i have these 3 "GUILDS", "GUILD_MESSAGES", "GUILD_MESSAGE_REACTIONS", still not working sadly!
Here's the full code:
https://pastebin.com/Q0eZ6VSz

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Hi, this code is working except a small thing...
sentMessage.createReactionCollector(filter, { time: 15000 });

change this to:
sentMessage.createReactionCollector({filter, time: 15000 });

also I suggest you to add max: 1 option too.
so final code:
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sentMessage.createReactionCollector({filter, max: 1,  time: 15000 });

in this situation only gets first react by you.

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A Multinational University in Central Asia
On March 5, 2018 March 5, 2018 By Emma SabzalievaIn Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
I'm sharing a post I wrote for the Centre for Canadian & International Higher Education's blog about the University of Central Asia. The post was published today at https://ciheblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/05/a-multinational-university-in-central-asia/ and is also copied below:
It's the early 1990s and 15 new countries have emerged from the colossal historical moment that was the fall of the Soviet Union. Some of these new countries have never experienced statehood with their current set of borders before – including the five Central Asian nations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
With the collapse of a huge unified political and economic system, questions of nationhood and national culture exist alongside a great number of urgent problems for these new countries. Unemployment is growing – as much as 30% in some countries – and as many as 40-70% of the population are falling below the poverty line. How can the new national governments create economic opportunities when jobs have vanished overnight?
And yet at the same time, the new nation states inherited a legacy of well-developed social infrastructure that was particularly strong in healthcare and education. In Central Asia, for example, the first universities and Academies of Science (research institutes) were created during the Soviet era. Whilst the region has an incredibly rich heritage of learning and discovery stretching back more than a millennium, the 20th century saw the founding of the first formal institutions of higher education here.
It is into this context of economic crisis but highly developed education and social institutions that the University of Central Asia (UCA), a new institution equally based in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in Central Asia, came into being. And it was UCA's story that the university's Chancellor Dr Shamsh Kassim-Lakha came to share with a large audience a joint CIHE/Munk School seminar held at OISE on March 2, 2018.
The story of the University of Central Asia
From 1995, agencies of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), a major international secular private foundation with a presence in 30 countries worldwide, began working with the Central Asian governments. At their request, agencies of the AKDN began to provide food assistance, education, and financial services. As the 1990s progressed and the economic situation stabilized across the region, education rose up the agenda as a priority area. A successful Humanities Project, initiated in Tajikistan in 1997 under the auspices of AKDN funding (and still running today), showed that innovation in higher education could work.
In 2000, the UCA was created. It is believed to be the only regional university in the world to be founded by international charter signed by the three host countries; the charter has since been lodged with the United Nations. It joins a tiny number of other regional universities such as the University of West Indies and the University of the South Pacific.
A key aim of the UCA is to "create job creators, not job seekers", according to Dr Kassim-Lakha. UCA is striving to fulfil this mission in a number of ways:
Providing very low cost continuing education across a widely disbursed area, including in neighbouring Afghanistan. Courses are vocationally oriented, covering subjects such as Business English, Accounting, and Car Mechanics;
Undergraduate education with two majors at each of the three UCA campuses. Two campuses – in Naryn, Kyrgyzstan and Khorog, Tajikistan – are operational; the Kazakh campus in Tekeli is expected to open within the next five years. Right now, there are just under 200 students and at capacity, UCA hopes to host 1,200 students on each campus. Graduate education will follow in the future;
Research in areas of relevance to the mountain societies that host UCA. The Mountain Societies Research Institute and Institute for Public Policy and Administration are already producing some interesting outputs;
Across all its activities, UCA is striving to engage the communities and countries around it. This ranges from a new Mountain University Partnershiplinking up UCA to existing higher education institutions in the towns it is operating in to substantial financial support for the majority of its undergraduate students.
The cost of creating a new university
Even though tuition fees are minimal compared to other higher education systems – US$5,000 plus $3,000 for accommodation and living costs – this is well beyond the means of most prospective students. Huge financial subsidies mean that most students are only paying a fraction of the true cost of their education, which Dr Kassim-Lakha put at $28,000.
A huge amount of money has been put into the UCA initiative. There's the financial subsidies for students, the cost of construction – the campuses have each cost nearly $100m to build – before you start to account for ongoing running costs.
Some of that cost has been met by generosity from Canada. To date, around C$20m of funding has been channeled from Canadian government agencies and non-governmental organizations into the creation of UCA, and Dr Kassim-Lakha expressed the university's deep gratitude towards the Canadian people for this support. As well as direct funding, there are already concrete partnerships in place with the University of Toronto, Seneca College, University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria, each supporting UCA to develop a specific area of its curriculum.
Nevertheless, and perhaps understandably, working out how the university will be financially sustainable in the future is the issue Dr Kassim-Lakha said that keeps him up at night.
In the very specific former Soviet context it is based in, there are also potential challenges arising from an autonomous university attempting to set its own future direction within national higher education frameworks that remain heavily state-centric and bureaucratized.
And actively choosing to build a tri-campus university in small and remote mountain towns, as UCA has done, adds another dimension to the challenge. The guiding rationale for doing so – to reduce political, social and economic isolation – means that the university and other AKDN agencies are not just building a university, but a whole framework around it: from providing continuing education courses to qualify local people to work on the building sites to creating physical infrastructure such as building roads and pipelines.
UCA is an incredibly ambitious and exciting new endeavour. If the quality of its graduating students – the first of whom will reach the workplace in 2021 – come anywhere near matching the quality of financial investment and effort placed into creating UCA, then the results could be transformative for the mountain societies and the countries they are located in.
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EPA's plan to regulate chemical contaminants in drinking water is a drop in the bucket
https://theconversation.com/epas-plan-to-regulate-chemical-contaminants-in-drinking-water-is-a-drop-in-the-bucket-111243
Date: March 3, 2019Author: nickrapp21 0 Comments
Read the full article by Laurel Schaider
"After more than a year of community meetings and deliberations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced in February 2019 that it would begin the process of regulating two drinking water contaminants, seeking to stem a growing national public health crisis. If EPA follows through, this would be the first time in nearly 20 years that it has set an enforceable standard for a new chemical contaminant under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
The chemicals at issue, PFOA and PFOS, have contaminated drinking water supplies across the country affecting millions of Americans. They belong to a class of synthetic chemicals called PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, that are widely used in products including firefighting foams, waterproof apparel, stain-resistant furniture, food packaging and even dental floss.
These chemicals have been linked with numerous health problems, including cancers, thyroid disease, high cholesterol, low birth weight and effects on the immune system. Studies show exposure to PFAS in children can dampen the effectiveness of vaccines – a topic my colleagues and I are currently investigating as part of a project called PFAS-REACH. In laboratory studies, low levels of PFAS can alter mammary gland development, which could have implications for increasing breast cancer susceptibility later in life.
What's more, PFAS are highly persistent. Once released into the environment, they don't break down – a fact that has led many to dub these substances 'forever chemicals…'
PFAS have been used for decades, but only in the last few years have we begun to grasp the full extent of contamination. A 2016 study reported that over 16 million Americans are exposed to these contaminants in drinking water, and a more recent estimate put that number at 110 million.
PFAS find their way into water supplies from military fire training areas and airports, as well as industrial sites and wastewater treatment plants. For instance, in 2010 my colleagues and I at the nonprofit Silent Spring Institute, which studies links between environmental chemicals and women's health, first detected PFAS in public and private drinking water wells on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The Department of Defense has identified approximately 400 current or former military sites with known or suspected contamination, stemming mostly from use of firefighting foams.
Today there are more than 4,700 PFAS substances in use. All are chemically similar and highly persistent. The United States phased PFOS out of products in 2000 and PFOA in 2006, but they are still turning up widely in drinking water, which is why states want EPA to set standards specifying what levels of exposure are safe. Meanwhile, studies suggest that some newer PFAS chemicals have similar health effects, and most have not been studied at all.
Scientists are working hard to better understand these chemicals in order to mitigate the public's exposure. For example, researchers at the STEEP Superfund Research Program, a multi-institutional effort which I am a part of, are investigating how these chemicals move through the environment, their chemical characteristics, how they accumulate in our bodies, and their impacts on our health…
EPA has been considering regulating PFOS and PFOA in drinking water since 2009. The agency's recent announcement is a step in the right direction, but still only addresses these two chemicals in drinking water and any new federal standard won't be fully implemented for years.
Earlier this year my colleagues and I published an analysis in which we showed wide variation in the way state and federal regulators manage these contaminants in drinking water. We found that seven states have their own guideline levels for PFOA and PFOS. Of these, Vermont, Minnesota and New Jersey have adopted levels that are more stringent than EPA's current non-enforceable levels.
More recently, New Hampshire, New York and California have also proposed guideline levels lower than EPA's. The day after EPA announced its plan, Pennsylvania officials announced they would create their own standards, citing concerns about EPA's sluggish efforts to address the issue.
Meanwhile, some states are developing their own guidelines covering additional PFAS chemicals. For instance, Minnesota has included in its guidelines a chemical called PFBS, which is used in Scotchgard. North Carolina regulators are focusing their efforts on a substitute called GenX that seeped into local water supplies from a plant upstream and has been detected in their air and soil.
A key question now is how EPA's drinking water standard for PFOA and PFOS will compare with what states are doing. Will the agency consider the full body of scientific evidence on health risks associated with exposure to this class of chemicals when setting a 'safe' limit in drinking water? Will it consider effects on sensitive populations, such as pregnant women and children? Although the science is still evolving, one thing is clear: The more we learn about these chemicals, the more we see health effects at lower and lower levels.
It is important to give states latitude to adopt more stringent approaches than those set by EPA, and a lot can be learned from how states set guidelines. However, the emerging regulatory patchwork raises concerns that some Americans are not adequately protected. Some states have the resources and technical know-how to conduct their own risk assessments, but others may lack the funding and expertise.
Political and social factors, as well as pressure from industry, can lead to wide disparities in exposure, with some communities protected and others left vulnerable. A federal standard would ensure that everyone is protected, regardless of whether their states have the will and the resources to develop their own standards…"
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Home Publishing Digital transformation Canadian govt bill to make Google and Facebook pay news media
Canadian govt bill to make Google and Facebook pay news media
INS and DNPA ask Competition Commission to protect Indian news media
Newspapers in Assam
On the morning of 9 May 2022, while The Hindu, The Hindu Business Line and The Indian Express are talking about a government 'order' on online news media compensation by the tech giants, there is thus far no evidence that the act tabled in the first week of April in Ottawa has yet been passed. While the federal government tabled the bill in parliament on 5 April 2022, the Act when passed is expected to add to Canadian newspaper revenues by as much Canadian$ 150 million.
Bill C-18 known as the Online News Act would create a framework for news outlets to collectively negotiate deals with tech companies to share online advertising revenues when the parties cannot reach a privately negotiated agreement. It would basically compell the tech giants to compensate Canadian new media for content that appears on their global platforms. Canada's heritage minister Pablo Rodriguez, who table the bill in parliament said during a press on Parliament Hill, "The news sector in Canada is in crisis and this contributes to the heightened public mistrust and the rise of harmful disinformation in our society… "We want to make sure that news outlets and journalists receive fair compensation for their work."
Canadian news organizations and industry lobby groups such as News Media Canada urged the federal government to follow Australia's example and introduce industrywide measures that force tech companies to pay for content. While Google and Facebook have been compelled to reach agreements with the news media in Australia and France, the format or terms of the agreement imposed by the Australian agreement is seen as the best deal so far for news media by industry experts.
The proposed Canadian legislation would allow news outlet collectives to strike deals with the tech giants. If an agreement can't be reached, the news outlets would go to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for mediation. In cases where the mediation fails, the CRTC would initiate arbitration through a three-member panel, which would issue a binding contract between the news outlet (or outlets) and the digital platform. The CRTC would also have the power to impose penalties of up to Canadian$ 15-million each day on the platforms that don't comply with the rules.
Indian news media appeals to CCI for fair deal from tech giants
As we have been reporting over the past several years, the Indian newspapers have through the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) and the more recently formed Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) gone to the Competition Commission of India to request redressal against the market imbalance imposed on them by the tech media enjoying 80 to 90% of the advertising revenue generated by online news.
As we wrote in end-April, the INS had asked Google to compensate them for carrying their content online by sharing 85% of its ad revenues in mid-February. "Google is taking a 'giant share of advertising spends' leaving publishers with a small share and that the publishers are facing a very opaque advertising system as they are unable to get the details of the Google advertising value chain," it said.
The Competition Commission of India initiated an investigation into complaints against Google for abuse of its dominant position in the online news media market based on a plaint filed by the INS. The INS says that while the news content is generated by the publishers, Google gets to keep an arbitrary and disproportionately large share of the advertising revenue since it controls and dominates the entire digital ecosystem including both buying and selling advertisements. It has also questioned the opacity and obliqueness of the Google ad revenue system.
In mid-April 2022, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) also got into the act and hinted at the possibility of regulatory intervention to enable Indian news media to get a fair revenue share from tech giants such as Google and Facebook. In a consultation paper issued recently, the TRAI said that policy interventions in other countries have played a substantial role in addressing news media concerns and negotiations.
It is not clear whether the seemingly voluntary intervention of the TRAI will help or confuse the process of compelling the tech giants to negotiate fairly and squarely with Indian news media outlets. At the same time it is not clear why the three Indian news media outlets cited above are this morning saying that the Canadian government has passed the Online News Act. Nor is it clear why they are projecting the notion that it is only the digital News Publishers Association (and not also the venerable INS), which they say is representing the "top Indian newspapers and their digital editions" to the CCI for fair compensation from the tech giants.
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Washington State boasts the largest ferry fleet in the world. These iconic boats ply various routes throughout the Puget Sound, connecting Seattle and points north to the islands and the Olympic Peninsula, and taking passengers out on the water in an Anacortes to Sidney ferry.
Anacortes serves as the departure point for the San Juan Islands, and the Anacortes to Sidney BC Ferry. Either route is an absolutely beautiful journey through pristine waters. Bring your camera: in addition to rugged and picturesque vistas, there is a wealth of wildlife to see, including orca whales, eagles, sea lions, dolphins and a wide variety of sea birds. Anacortes is the ideal home-port for ferry activity – a staging area for day-trips or a place to come back to after an overnight journey.
Washington State Ferries encourages customers to make reservations, especially during busy travel times. Reservations are for vehicles only; there are no reservations for passengers or walk-on customers. Reservations can also be made from the Friday Harbor and Orcas terminals to Anacortes. Vehicle reservations are not available for inter-island travel or from the Lopez or Shaw terminals back to Anacortes. Therefore, if you are planning to travel back from Lopez or Shaw, please leave adequate time. For more information on sailings that may require a longer wait without a reservation, see the WSF Best Travel Times links at http://www.wsdot.com/ferries/schedule/Default.aspx.
If you are making ferry reservations for any of your guests, it is critical that you know their name, what sailing they want to take, and the size of their vehicle. If you are making more than ten reservations at a time, please call customer service at 1-888-808-7977.
Walk-on and bicycle passengers do not need a ferry reservation. Many resorts will arrange to transport guests from the ferry landing. Car, bike or moped rentals, as well as taxi and limousine services, may be available. For details, check with your lodging or contact the San Juan Islands Visitors Bureau at: 888-468-3701 ext. 1 or 360-378-9551 ext. 1.


(52286) A highly recommended role has become available on an estate in rural Shropshire for Housekeeper / Cook to take over from the current lady who is retiring after 18 years with the family.
This is a highly sought after role where the client will consider both those candidates with previous experience in a similar household role, a hotel background or someone with transferable skills but you must be professional and have excellent references.
The role covers a 30 hour working week normally 8am to 3pm with an hours break plus additional overtime paid for occasional evenings and weekends.
The role is a mix of both hands on housekeeping working alongside two daily housekeepers as well as cooking for the employers.
A simple breakfast is required and a good home cooked lunch and dinner to be left ready for the evening. Menus are agreed with the employer and they enjoy fresh home cooked food using produce from the garden wherever possible.
The house is kept to a high standard and all members of the housekeeping staff have their own areas to maintain as well as covering each other when the house is busy or when someone is away.
Other responsibilities with this role include household and personal laundry, security of the property, helping with the household dogs and shopping / errands. Flexibility is key but the family are respectful and in return look for discretion, professionalism and a good sense of humour.
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Easter is a special and important day to us as Christians. Sometimes we celebrate Easter in April, however, this year we are celebrating Easter on Sunday, March 27.
Easter Sunday is the most significant celebration for Christians because it reminds us that Jesus died for our sins and was resurrected. Some of our friends may see Easter as a fun day where they hunt for Easter eggs and get candy. But, the resurrection of Jesus is the real reason why this day is important to us as Christians.
The answer is actually very simple: Resurrection means to come back to life after death. Jesus died on the cross for our sins, but He came back to life three days later. Jesus' friends found His tomb was empty, and then they saw and even touched Him. He stayed on earth for another 40 days and then Jesus went back to heaven to be with God.
Many of my friends used to ask me why Jesus' resurrection was so important. Why couldn't Jesus pay for sin by dying on the cross and then stay dead?
If Jesus had only died and never come back to life then His death would have been like the normal death of a human. But the resurrection shows Jesus is both a man and the Son of God, with the power to come back to life.
This is the real Easter: an empty cross and an empty tomb. Jesus has risen!


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Engineers perfecting hydrogen-generating technology
Purdue researchers demonstrate their method for producing hydrogen by adding water to an alloy of aluminum and gallium. The hydrogen could then be used to run an internal combustion engine or a fuel cell. The reaction was discovered by Jerry Woodall, center, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering. Charles Allen, holding test tube, and Jeffrey Ziebarth, both doctoral students in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, are working with Woodall to perfect the process. (Purdue News Service file photo/David Umberger)
Researchers at Purdue University have further developed a technology that could represent a pollution-free energy source for a range of potential applications, from golf carts to submarines and cars to emergency portable generators.
The technology produces hydrogen by adding water to an alloy of aluminum and gallium. When water is added to the alloy, the aluminum splits water by attracting oxygen, liberating hydrogen in the process. The Purdue researchers are developing a method to create particles of the alloy that could be placed in a tank to react with water and produce hydrogen on demand.
The gallium is a critical component because it hinders the formation of an aluminum oxide skin normally created on aluminum's surface after bonding with oxygen, a process called oxidation. This skin usually acts as a barrier and prevents oxygen from reacting with aluminum. Reducing the skin's protective properties allows the reaction to continue until all of the aluminum is used to generate hydrogen, said Jerry Woodall, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue who invented the process.
Since the technology was first announced in May, researchers have developed an improved form of the alloy that contains a higher concentration of aluminum.
Recent findings are detailed in the first research paper about the work, which will be presented on Sept. 7 during the 2nd Energy Nanotechnology International Conference in Santa Clara, Calif. The paper was written by Woodall, Charles Allen and Jeffrey Ziebarth, both doctoral students in Purdue's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Because the technology could be used to generate hydrogen on demand, the method makes it unnecessary to store or transport hydrogen - two major obstacles in creating a hydrogen economy, Woodall said.
The gallium component is inert, which means it can be recovered and reused.
"This is especially important because of the currently much higher cost of gallium compared with aluminum," Woodall said. "Because gallium can be recovered, this makes the process economically viable and more attractive for large-scale use. Also, since the gallium can be of low purity, the cost of impure gallium is ultimately expected to be many times lower than the high-purity gallium used in the electronics industry."
As the alloy reacts with water, the aluminum turns into aluminum oxide, also called alumina, which can be recycled back into aluminum. The recycled aluminum would be less expensive than mining the metal, making the technology more competitive with other forms of energy production, Woodall said.
In recent research, the engineers rapidly cooled the molten alloy to make particles that were 28 percent aluminum by weight and 72 percent gallium by weight. The result was a "metastable solid alloy" that also readily reacted with water to form hydrogen, alumina and heat, Woodall said.
Following up on that work, the researchers discovered that slowly cooling the molten alloy produced particles that contain 80 percent aluminum and 20 percent gallium.
"Particles made with this 80-20 alloy have good stability in dry air and react rapidly with water to form hydrogen," Woodall said. "This alloy is under intense investigation, and, in our opinion, it can be developed into a commercially viable material for splitting water."
The technology has numerous potential applications. Because the method makes it possible to use hydrogen instead of gasoline to run internal combustion engines, it could be used for cars and trucks. Combusting hydrogen in an engine or using hydrogen to drive a fuel cell produces only water as waste.
"It's a simple matter to convert ordinary internal combustion engines to run on hydrogen. All you have to do is replace the gasoline fuel injector with a hydrogen injector," Woodall said.
The U.S. Department of Energy has set a goal of developing alternative fuels that possess a "hydrogen mass density" of 6 percent by the year 2010 and 9 percent by 2015. The percent mass density of hydrogen is the mass of hydrogen contained in the fuel divided by the total mass of the fuel multiplied by 100. Assuming 50 percent of the water produced as waste is recovered and cycled back into the reaction, the new 80-20 alloy has a hydrogen mass density greater than 6 percent, which meets the DOE's 2010 goal.
Aluminum is refined from the raw mineral bauxite, which also contains gallium. Producing aluminum from bauxite results in waste gallium.
"This technology is feasible for commercial use," Woodall said. "The waste alumina can be recycled back into aluminum, and low-cost gallium is available as a waste product from companies that produce aluminum from the raw mineral bauxite. Enough aluminum exists in the United States to produce 100 trillion kilowatt hours of energy. That's enough energy to meet all the U.S. electric needs for 35 years. If impure gallium can be made for less than $10 a pound and used in an onboard system, there are enough known gallium reserves to run 1 billion cars."
The researchers note in the paper that for the technology to be used to operate cars and trucks, a large-scale recycling program would be required to turn the alumina back into aluminum and to recover the gallium.
"In the meantime, there are other promising potential markets, including lawn mowers and personal motor vehicles such as golf carts and wheelchairs," Woodall said. "The golf cart of the future, three or four years from now, will have an aluminum-gallium alloy. You will add water to generate hydrogen either for an internal combustion engine or to operate a fuel cell that recharges a battery. The battery will then power an electric motor to drive the golf cart."
Another application that is rapidly being developed is for emergency portable generators that will use hydrogen to run a small internal combustion engine. The generators are likely to be on the market within a year, Woodall said.
The technology also could make it possible to introduce a non-polluting way to idle diesel trucks. Truck drivers idle their engines to keep power flowing to appliances and the heating and air conditioning systems while they are making deliveries or parked, but such idling causes air pollution, which has prompted several states to restrict the practice.
The new hydrogen technology could solve the truck-idling dilemma.
"What we are proposing is that the truck would run on either hydrogen or diesel fuel," Woodall said. "While you are on the road you are using the diesel, but while the truck is idling, it's running on hydrogen."
The new hydrogen technology also would be well-suited for submarines because it does not emit toxic fumes and could be used in confined spaces without harming crew members, Woodall said.
"You could replace nuclear submarines with this technology," he said.
Other types of boats, including pleasure craft, also could be equipped with such a technology.
"One reason maritime applications are especially appealing is that you don't have to haul water," Woodall said.
The Purdue researchers had thought that making the process competitive with conventional energy sources would require that the alumina be recycled back into aluminum using a dedicated infrastructure, such as a nuclear power plant or wind generators. However, the researchers now know that recycling the alumina would cost far less than they originally estimated, using standard processing already available.
"Since standard industrial technology could be used to recycle our nearly pure alumina back to aluminum at 20 cents per pound, this technology would be competitive with gasoline," Woodall said. "Using aluminum, it would cost $70 at wholesale prices to take a 350-mile trip with a mid-size car equipped with a standard internal combustion engine. That compares with $66 for gasoline at $3.30 per gallon. If we used a 50 percent efficient fuel cell, taking the same trip using aluminum would cost $28."
The Purdue Research Foundation holds title to the primary patent, which has been filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and is pending. An Indiana startup company, AlGalCo LLC., has received a license for the exclusive right to commercialize the process.
In 1967, while working as a researcher at IBM, Woodall discovered that liquid alloys of aluminum and gallium spontaneously produce hydrogen if mixed with water. The research, which focused on developing new semiconductors for computers and electronics, led to advances in optical-fiber communications and light-emitting diodes, making them practical for everything from DVD players to television remote controls and new types of lighting displays. That work also led to development of advanced transistors for cell phones and components in solar cells powering space modules like those used on the Mars rover, earning Woodall the 2001 National Medal of Technology from President George W. Bush.
Also while at IBM, Woodall and research engineer Jerome Cuomo were issued a U.S. patent in 1982 for a "solid state, renewable energy supply." The patent described their discovery that when aluminum is dissolved in liquid gallium just above room temperature, the liquid alloy readily reacts with water to form hydrogen, alumina and heat.
Future research will include work to further perfect the solid alloy and develop systems for the controlled delivery of hydrogen.
Source: Purdue University
New process generates hydrogen from aluminum alloy to run engines, fuel cells
Citation: Engineers perfecting hydrogen-generating technology (2007, August 27) retrieved 21 January 2020 from https://phys.org/news/2007-08-hydrogen-generating-technology.html
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Aramark announces information on the reopening of restaurants in the SUB, Starbucks and the two POD locations. The SUB reopens today with Grillworks serving until 2 p.m. Your other favorites open Monday. Schulz Dining Hall reopens Sunday at 2 p.m.
Stay safe and enjoy the SUB and PODs!
Entering the building:
• All employees are required to have masks and gloves on.
• All customers entering the building must have on a mask. While approaching a service location, wearing a mask is a mandate.
• To entryways only – south and east handicap accessible doors
• All methods of payment are acceptable (cash, Warhawk, Flex, credit or debit).
• All transactions are touchless at the registers (customer swipes card).
• At no time, including employees, will the SUB have over 175 guests in the building.
• All available seating will be set at CDC requirements to promote social distancing.
• Only the PODs will remain as self-serve locations.
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Coca-Cola reusable stylus will be available to prevent contamination and an attendant will sanitize the dispensers at all times.
Reduced menu will be available to better serve and promote a safe environment to our students, faculty and staff. Special rolls and wraps will not be available this Fall Semester.
Monday-Thursday 10 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Friday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
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Temporary limited menu will be available to better serve and promote a safe environment to our students, faculty and staff. Limited menu options are provided by EBB corporate.
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Menu will remain the same. Service will change from self-serve to a full service location to follow CFA corporate guidelines.
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Menu and service will remain the same as a full service location.
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Reduced menu will be available to better serve and promote a safe environment to our students, faculty and staff. Service will strictly become full-service to prevent any contamination.
Monday-Thursday: 7 a.m.–11 p.m. Friday: 7 a.m.-2 p.m.
No inside sitting will be available to better serve and promote a safe environment to our students, faculty and staff. Menu will follow corporate guidelines to better serve our guests.
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Christopher "Chris" Kenneth Volstad (born September 23, 1986) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Chicago White Sox organization. He is 6 feet 8 inches (2.03 m) and 230 pounds (100 kg), and is a 2005 graduate of Palm Beach Gardens High School. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Florida Marlins, Chicago Cubs, and Colorado Rockies, and in the KBO League for the Doosan Bears.
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