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Prosperity Bank opens new branch bank building
EXTERIOR VIEW of the new Prosperity Bank branch office on Little York.
EAST ALDINE – The oldest bank in the Aldine area has a new building and modern new facilities next to their old location on East Little York.
Prosperity Bank is now conducting business from their new branch, which was completed and opened just recently.
The bank announced that they had sold their old three story building next door, and it would be torn down by the new owners, and two fast food restaurants built on the site.
The new building is a one story facility with as many active teller windows and drive-thru lanes as the old building, since this branch is one of the busiest of all 250 locations in the Prosperity Bank network. They have branches throughout Texas and Oklahoma, according to their spokesperson.
Prosperity also has two other offices in the East Aldine district, including one on West Little York, and another on Aldine-Bender.
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CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS: Legislature passes property tax, school finance reform
By Ed Sterling, Texas Press Association
AUSTIN — While the Memorial Day holiday was observed across Texas, lawmakers stayed busy at the state Capitol, voting on key bills in the final three days of the 86th Texas Legislature's 140-day regular session.
Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dennis Bonnen did what they jointly set out to do at the beginning of the session in January. They exercised their leadership skills well enough for the Senate and House to pass property tax reform (Senate Bill 2) and school finance reform (House Bill 3), and to pass a state budget for fiscal years 2020-2021 (House Bill 1).
The Legislature is constitutionally mandated to pass a state budget every two years. HB 1, the state budget written by House Appropriations Committee Chair John Zerwas, R-Richmond, and sponsored by Senate Finance Committee Chair Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, contains $250.6 billion in spending. The two-year budget is subject to certification by the state comptroller. The governor has until June 16 to sign or veto any bill or veto any line item within HB 1.
SB 2, titled the "Texas Property Tax Reform and Transparency Act of 2019," amends the property tax appraisal and rate-setting processes. Lt. Gov. Patrick called it the first property tax reform in 40 years. "It will provide an average of $200 in property tax relief this year on a $250,000 home," Patrick said.
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Keeping you updated with a report from Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia
Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia became a Proud Partner of U. S. 2020 Census. Melissa Allala, U. S. Census Partnership Specialist presents Proud Partnership certificate. (PHOTO BY ALLAN JAMAIL)
Our first few months in Washington DC have been busy. With settling in of warmer weather and sunshine, our work on Capitol Hill has really been gearing up. I want to take this chance to fill you in on our work, our committee assignments, and our priorities for the people of Texas's 29th Congressional District.
Committee Assignments
A big part of our work is done through committees, which are specialized groups of representatives who focus on certain issues throughout the year. Committee membership is chosen by the Speaker of the House. I am pleased to have received a seat on two very influential committees, the House Judiciary Committee and the House Financial Services Committee.
The House Judiciary Committee is charged with overseeing the administration of justice within the federal courts, administrative agencies and Federal law enforcement entities. The Judiciary Committee is also the committee responsible for impeachments of federal officials. My background as a lawyer and former judge has allowed me to make an immediate impact on the committee.
Additionally, I also sit on two House Judiciary subcommittees, the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties and the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship. These subcommittees have kept us hard at work fighting what I believe is the White House's anti-immigrant and anti-family agenda.
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Justin Timberlake has resolved his feud with Kanye West and has also claimed he would like to work with the rapper in the future.
Timberlake reunited with his former band 'N Sync during the VMAs, but other members of the group have since insisted that they have no plans for a long-term reunion tour. The singer is set to release new album 'The 20/20 Experience – Part 2', the follow-up to his March LP 'The 20/20 Experience', on September 30.


This page displays sold house prices for Greenview Close in Leeds.
Greenview Close in Leeds LS9 consists predominantly of semi-detached houses. Properties on Greenview Close typically have values around under £100,000, ranging upwards of £100,000 for larger semi-detached houses.
Map showing Greenview Close in Leeds.


The map will be scattered classic & old cars and crash cars with people, you can find them in this fashion!
На карте будут разбросаны классические & старые машины, и аварии машин с людьми, вы можете разыскать в этом моде!
oh my god! seriously? should ride around Los Santos to find the murder and klassychni machine ?! cool!!


East Point Academy, Lowestoft's top performing school, is looking for an inspiring teacher of science to help our pupils achieve even more.
We are part of the Inspiration Trust, twice ranked as the country's top family of comprehensive schools for pupil progress to GCSE, and work closely with our fellow schools across the region. We are committed to offering excellent professional and learning opportunities for our staff, with a busy programme of continuing professional development courses delivered by some of the country's best educational thinkers and practitioners.
Visits to the academy are welcome. To arrange a visit, please contact Rachel Blake, PA to the Principal via email.
Closing date for applications: Wednesday, January 23 2019.
Interview date: w/c January 28 2019.


I can smell gas what do I do? | How can I keep my home safe? | Gas safety checks - our responsibilities | Faulty boilers | The benefits of your annual gas service | What happens if I don't allow a gas safety check? | If you have a fixed-term tenancy | If you are a home owner | Your responsibilities if you sublet your home | How do I make or change an appointment for a gas safety check?
I can smell gas what do I do?
Find out what to do, and how to contact us in a gas emergency.
Read our gas safety tips and advice in the safety pages of our website.
As a landlord, we must make sure all gas appliances, flues and pipework within homes that we manage are safely maintained and checked once a year. Our gas service engineers need access to your home to carry out the annual gas safety check.
By law, we arrange a gas safety check every 12 months.
Over 99% of our residents allow our contractors into their homes to complete the annual gas safety check year in, year out.
We will normally be in touch several weeks before the anniversary date to arrange an appointment and make sure that the check is completed before the anniversary date.
Note that before the service can be carried out it is your responsibility, as a resident, to ensure you have gas and electricity credit on your meters, as the service cannot be completed without gas and electricity being available.
We have produced a short film about gas safety checks and to find out more, download our Better Safe Than Sorry leaflet (PDF, 430KB).
Faulty boilers can emit carbon monoxide fumes into the air and unlike gas it doesn't smell, so there are no warning signs. If you don't let us in to service your gas boiler you could be at risk of carbon monoxide poisoning, which leads to 200 people being hospitalised and 40 deaths every year in the UK.
Gas leaks are dangerous to the family in the home and the neighbours. An explosion can wipe out houses and cause numerous deaths.
Less likely to break down: A serviced boiler is less likely to break down and leave you with no heating or hot water.
You could save money on your energy bills: An annually serviced boiler will run more efficiently.
This is at no cost to you: we provide this as a free service to all our tenants.
What happens if I don't allow a gas safety check?
It is your responsibility under the terms of your tenancy agreement for you to give us access to your home to carry out this work.
If our contractors can't get access to your home for any reason we may serve you with a Notice Seeking Possession for breaking these terms. We may also take legal action and look to recharge the costs.
If you have a fixed-term tenancy with us, not allowing our contractors access to service your gas appliances during the course of your tenancy, may result in Hyde deciding not to issue you a new tenancy at the end of the fixed term.
Your responsibilities are different if you own your home. Please see homeowner responsibilities if this applies to you.
If you sublet your home for less than seven years you are responsible for meeting the landlord's statutory obligations under the Gas Safety (Installation & Use) Regulations 1998.
Ensure that all gas appliances, installation pipe work and flues for which you are responsible, are in a safe condition.
Arrange for your gas appliances and flues to be checked for safety every 12 months.
Ensure the work is carried out using a Gas Safe registered fitter by asking to see a current registration certificate or ringing Gas Safe Register for an engineer on 0800 408 5500 or online at www.gassaferegister.co.uk.
Keep a record of all safety checks carried out for at least two years after the safety check.
Ensure your sub-tenant receives a copy of the gas safety check record within 28 days of the inspection.
Ensure any new sub-tenant receives a copy of the current gas safety check record before they move in for the first time.
Provide us with a copy of the Gas safety Certificate.
How do I make or change an appointment for a gas safety check?
You will have received a letter from our gas contractors to confirm an appointment with you. If you need to change the appointment, the contractor's details are provided in the letter. Please contact them directly.


The RIBA Plan of Work 2013 demands an intelligent approach to commissioning. As the profession absorbs the updated Plan, what is the client thinking about?
We learn both from our own projects and from research into other buildings, sometimes even different types. From our research into hotels, Argent realised that using the lobby level differently in an office building offered an enormous opportunity. While in many the lobby is a large-scale, sterile, empty space, our new office building incorporated a hotel-like 'business lounge' and meeting area at ground floor level. People want to use them and they give the building's entrance a more human feel. The business case was clear: leveraging the ground floor for business purposes creates an environment that attracts users to the building, helping to let it.
Clients must own and drive the team to ensure that the final product meets the exact requirements of the original brief. As team leader, you must bring in the right people at the right time. There will be challenges – you can only delegate responsibility to an external team if it truly understands your business objectives. Be an informed client, and lead from the front. Seek to maximise the team's expertise and involvement as it significantly adds value to a project if it is deployed correctly.
With the right architect and team, it's much easier to make a project work better. Contracts, words and guidelines are important, but it is even more vital to ensure that the whole team believes in the project. It's essential that everyone is included in the process, and that no-one ends up working in silos. The building's design and construction is informed by using the skills of the whole team. We have created relationships over many years and work with design and implementation teams who understand us, which is advantageous to new projects too. We choose people that we want to work with, including younger architects and small practices that believe in and understand our vision and mode of practice. We want to work as part of a team. The architect for Eleven Brindleyplace, Birmingham, listened to what we wanted, but also had the confidence to challenge our assumptions and suggest new ideas. Progress depends on this sort of debate. New ideas need to be integrated through a dialogue. This gives us the market edge and enables business innovation. You need architects to create something that's flexible for the user. Understand not just the building, but how it works for the user – otherwise you have created a sculpture.
We like to involve designers in developing the concept and brief – and to keep testing the brief to improve the concept. At Eleven Brindleyplace we had eight or nine iterations of various concepts to determine the optimum scheme for the site. We also defined with the concept team specific areas that would require additional resource to ensure design priorities were achieved – reception areas and external approaches for example. Never assume your project team knows what you want. At Argent we hold a review day before the concept is fixed with the concept team, contractors' team, key supply chain, letting agents and investment agent – a total review of the project.
Our tried and trusted set of processes put the key players in place very early. We regularly use a design and build process so that the financial risk of the construction process lies with the contractor. But we use our initial concept design team as the 'guardian' of the original brief, to prevent the design concept and quality being undermined in the interest of reducing the construction cost. The concept design team is involved throughout the project to maintain dialogue and continuity for the strategic design, but not in the traditional architectural role. We bring the contractor and its supply chain on board at an early stage to reduce the risk of the concept design being unbuildable. Our contractors view early involvement as very positive – their involvement in the design process reduces redesign work significantly as the concept and build documents can be developed in tandem. They feel included and are able to add their construction expertise to the project. We bring the whole supply chain on board as well, to inform the details of the most significant elements – for example at Eleven Brindleyplace.


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SMOKELORE
Factors In Accuracy, Part One:
Rifles And Shooting
by John Barsness
Annealing Cases
by Ken Howell
Factors In Accuracy, Part Two:
Handloading
Sonora: Where Giants Walk The Earth
by Rick Bin
Your Chronograph Can Tell You More
Big Eyes: Seeing Is Believing
Handloading for Long-Range Shooting
by John Haviland
Looking Long
The Campfire Hardcore Hunting Backpack Review
by Scott Reekers
Big Ivory
(as told by Elgin Gates)
A New Way To Hunt Lion
Killer Buffalo
Three Types of Hunters/
The Five Stages of a Sport Hunter
by Denny L. Vasquez
How I Killed a Bear
by Charles Dudley Warner
Last Minute Muley
The .300 Winchester
by Jack Steele
Choose the Right Backcountry Tent
Who Bombed Elmer Keith?
Rare bears ...
Those Other North American Bears
Laban Fieldman
THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA grizzly (Ursus magister) flutters on the California state flag but roams free nowhere as far as anybody knows. Another grizzly that "common knowledge" also considers to be extinct may actually still exist, though no one in recent years has ever laid eyes on one for certain. This mystery bear was ?maybe still is ?the Ungava grizzly that once roamed the Ungava Peninsula, on the east side of Hudson Bay.
Like the California grizzly, scientists believe the Ungava grizzly to be extinct. Might these rare bears still roam the Hudson Bay?
The Ungava grizzly roamed (and maybe it still roams!) the barrens from the east shores of the Hudson Bay to the Atlantic Ocean of Labrador. It is above all others a bear of mystery. Most authorities doubted the existence of this bear until 1975. Then someone dug-up a skull from a late-tenth-century camp site near Okak Bay, Labrador. Before then, many authorities had scoffed at the idea that a grizzly existed in that area ?one writer even said that he would not believe that such a bear had ever existed unless he saw one with its abstract of title attached.
The only other authenticated grizzly find from the region is a 12,000-year-old skull that archeologists unearthed near Lake Simcoe, Ontario, in 1965. Extensive aerial surveys on the Ungava, Peninsula, including the Torngat Mountains in 1958 and their associated local inquiries failed to produce any information on grizzlies. Several authorities have noted that there are no ground squirrels in the Ungava region (ground squirrels are essential elements of the barren-ground grizzly's diet).
Recent literature on American bears includes numerous mention of the mysterious Ungava grizzly. Harper wrote, in Land and Fresh Water Mammals of the Ungava Peninsula, "And if perchance still extant in some remote corner of the barrens, the grizzly must be on the extreme verge of extinction." His treatise also mentions such evidence as several hides, tracks, and sightings. Nothing is conclusive, but it is at least proven that the Ungava grizzly did live and roam the eastern barrens at one time. One authority described the sighting of a "largish brown bear followed by two smaller ones" reported by a plane crew between Fort Chimo and the Hudson Bay in 1946. Off-color black bear are unknown in that region.
The Hudson Bay Company (HBC) sent a considerable number of grizzly pelts from the Ungava region to England. If HBC had acquired those pelts by trading with natives far to the west, they would have had little commercial value by the time they reached the Ungava region. Other skins have come from northern Labrador. Huge tracks were reported in 1896 and 1897 at Cambrian Lake.
Harper believes that the Ungava grizzly could have become extinct after the Indians first acquired and began to use firearms. He thinks that the decline in caribou numbers during the early part of the century could have contributed to the extinction of this rare bear.
Another expert described a territorial expansion of the barren-ground grizzly during the winters of 1948 and 1950. Grizzlies were seen on the ice of Southampton Island, only ninety miles from the northwest corner of the Ungava Peninsula.
Does the Ungava grizzly still roam the vast wilderness between Hudson Bay and the Atlantic Ocean? Before you say yes or no, consider that the grizzly when his numbers are low becomes a most elusive citizen of the remote wilderness. Today's experts can't even decide whether the grizzly still roams the vast Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area in the Bitterroot Mountains of Idaho and Montana, even though there are many reports of sightings and rumors of transplant projects. I think that the Ungava grizzly is probably still out there. If he is indeed still out there, he is one of the rarest of the American bears.
The glacier or blue phase of the black bear may be the rarest huntable bear in the world. Just as generally unknown to the sporting world is the all-white Kermode bear. Only a very few have been killed in the last eighty years. Several mysterious subspecies of the grizzly tantalize the hunter ?the plains grizzly, the barren-ground grizzly, the possibly extinct Mexican grizzly, and the rarest of the rare, the Ungava grizzly that I have already mentioned.
Among the varieties of the black bear, the glacier or blue bear (Ursus americanus emmonsi) is probably the rarest North American big-game trophy that can be legally hunted. It was first identified as a separate species in 1895, before the new taxonomy specified the identifying criterion for a species (individuals capable of producing fertile offspring). It is identical to the common black bear in all respects, including its cranial characteristics, except for its color variation, so it is now taxonomically classified as a subspecies of the black bear.
The glacier bear looks like any other black bear except for its hair, which is blessed with a bluish-gray under fur, along with part of the guard hairs being whitish. Long-time glacier-bear guide Jim Keeline says, about this rare subspecies, "The claws are typically gray and the under fur light gray. They are small for their age but have large heads. They look leggy."
The glacier bear is certainly nothing more than a color phase of the black bear, with the color passed-on by recessive genes. In other words, it takes two bears, each with the blue gene, to make a glacier bear. Both parents could actually be black, with the blue gene. All manner of color combinations of sows and cubs are possible and are seen in the wild.
One report quotes outfitter Branham as saying that blue bears run smaller than blacks, with most being killed in the 5?foot class. Branham has long been a top glacier-bear guide. He says that hunters have about a ten-percent chance of scoring. One of his clients hunted them six times before he was able to collect a hide. The largest this outfitter claims measured six feet, nine inches squared. I have seen photographs of a large number of these unusual trophies, and the finest pelts have a lot of white hair.
Almost all blue bears are killed in the area between Yakutat and the Alsek River, sixty miles to the east. It doesn't sound like much territory, but after guiding for one of the outfitters in that area, I discovered that much of this country is close to being virgin because of its poor accessibility. Glacier bears have been killed in other locations as well. I know of two being shot near Haines, Alaska, which is east of Yakutat about a hundred fifty miles. Years ago, another hide was seen that was killed in the Seward area. One of the best skins that I have seen used to sit in a sporting-goods store in Juneau. Many years ago, I saw a fantastically fine pelt of a bear from the Ketchikan area that was killed by a game warden.
Jack Atcheson, Jr, of Butte, Montana, killed a glacier bear a few years back that lacked the white hair. It does show the basic blue color, and it made a beautiful life-size mount.
International bear expert Charles Jonkel of Missoula, Montana, told me of a live-trapped Montana black that showed the grayish-blue hair color. I found his story interesting but was really impressed last fall when Ted McIntyre killed a Montana black bear with part of its hairs very light gray. This was a small bear, and its unusual coloring was not apparent until it was dead on the ground.
Probably fewer than forty blue bears have been taken by modern hunters. The Fish and Game regulations require that all bears be inspected in Alaska. Blue bears are tallied separately from the normal black bear.
Jim Keeline, who has for many years either been guiding or working for Fish and Game around Yakutat, is an expert on the glacier bear. He reported that he saw three glacier bears at once near the Yakutat dump. Being a pilot, Jim did a lot of census work around Yakutat. When asked about this rare bear, he claims that he has seen none on the Canadian side of the Alsek ?but seldom flew the area. He noted that he and his friend Tom Knutson once saw in the Juneau area a black sow accompanied by a black cub and a blue cub. By the spring of 1985, Keeline's clients had killed five glacier bears. Three were in the five-foot class, and two were over six feet. I saw the last one ?it was huge by glacier-bear standards, measuring over 6?feet square. It had a beautiful pelt.
The Branhams are considered the top glacier-bear guides. Besides the Branhams and Jim Keeline, two other guides of note are Ken Fanning and Dick Cox. Arnie Israelson's area is also worth considering.
It seems that few hunters actively pursue the blue bear as a primary trophy. Hunts for them are expensive at between six thousand and ten thousand dollars, so the average hunter would much prefer to hunt the giant coastal brown bear. The blue bear is hunted like any other black bear in the area. In the spring, it feeds on the low alder-studded, grassy mountain slopes. The hunter glasses these slopes from a distance. This is snow country, so a hunter doesn't have to look very high up before he can see nothing but snow.
Yakutat is hard to get to ?it is accessible only by air. Once he's there, the hunter still has to get to blue-bear country. Local weather is horrible. During the fall of 1987, over eight feet of rain fell in sixty days. The bears' habitat itself is huntable only in the spring, until the alders start to leaf-out. After that, forget hunting. The time between when bears emerge from their dens and the alders' leaf-out can be very short. Guides there feel that a hunter's chance of scoring run between ten and twenty percent. Most springs, at least one blue bear is taken ?and the number has run as high as four. Several hunters have gone after the blue bear on their own. A couple of them claimed that they saw blue bear, but neither man had killed one.
Guides there report that maybe two to ten percent of the Yakutat black bear show some blue coloration. The percentage estimate varies, depending upon whom you talk to. In any event, considering the weather, the adverse terrain, and their low numbers, the blue bear is a very difficult trophy to get.
For many years, the San Diego Zoo owned a glacier bear. The Denver Museum Of Natural History has a very fine diorama of glacier bears.
To the south of the glacier bear lives the Kermode bear (Ursus americanus kermodei), the rarest of all the black bears. It is the all-white color phase of the black bear, but it isn't an albino. All specimens within the subspecies have the same cranial and dental characteristics by which the subspecies is described. In other words, not all Kermode bears are white. Most reports say that the cream color runs at least three fourths of the hair length. Most also note that the subspecies has reddish-brown feet.
Harold Yocum described a Kermode bear's color in a 1961 article in Frontiers: "Except for a few scattered black and partly black hairs, the pelage is white next to the skin, darkening to a creamy shade towards the outer tips." He also believes that only twenty-one have ever been killed, with only eight being collected since 1909.
This bear is to be found only around Terrace on the Skeena River, around Douglas Channel south of Kitimat, and on Princess Royal and Gribble Islands ?within a radius of only seventy-five miles.
The Kermode bear was first described by Hornaday during the early 1900s. He thought that he had discovered a brand-new species of bear, based on a handful of all-white ?but not albino ?skins that he was able to collect. This bear gets its name from Francis Kermode, who was director of the British Columbia Provincial Museum at the time. He helped Hornaday collect more of their white pelts. As soon as they described the species, other authorities of the era criticized their claims, for they could not accept the Kermode bear as a separate species. Finally, in 1928, one expert successfully challenged the classification, and today the animal is properly considered a subspecies.
Two black adults can breed and produce white offspring. The white phase has received nearly all the public attention, but other colors also occur. Serge Houde's article "White Bears Of The West Coast" says about their color "In the Kermode bear range not only are blacks, browns and whites found, but on rare occasions, individuals of chestnut red, gold, orange, bright yellow, blue gray and even pintos."
The Denver Museum of Natural History has an impressive diorama of life-size Kermode bears.
When Lewis and Clark made their way across the plains of Montana during the first decade of the last century, they encountered several plains grizzly bears. Many were quite aggressive, and life-or-death situations were common. Their first encounter was near the confluence of the Yellowstone and the Missouri Rivers. With its aggressive nature, the grizzly of the open lands was immediately vulnerable to man's hatred and rifle ball. He was doomed. The retreat of the plains grizzly corresponds with patterns of human settlement. The last of the Canadian plains grizzlies were exterminated from the Peace River District in the 1930s. And so ended the plains grizzly ?or did it?
In many areas, grizzly bears have been driven from the plains to the most remote mountain country on the continent.
The plains grizzly of Montana, under the impact of the rifle, was driven to the high habitats were man seldom goes. Pressures against the Montana grizzly have diminished during the last several years, and its range appears to be extending back onto the plains. Grizzlies are often found thirty miles or more from the protection of timber. Pressure is against the bear from some stockmen, but for now, the bear has won the current round in the fight for the return of the grizzly.
Maybe a remnant of the true plains grizzly is still with us. In central Saskatchewan lie the wild Pasquia Hills. Grizzly hides were commonly traded in the area until World War One. Even though the grizzly has been officially considered gone from the province for many years, reports continue to filter-in. In 1960, a highly reputable observer saw a grizzly from a helicopter. In 1964, he found tracks of a bear that were determined to belong to a grizzly. Two 1939 photos show a dead bear what was claimed to be a grizzly and certainly appears to have been a grizzly. Many people believe that a few plains grizzlies still roam the Pasquia Hills.
Some experts believe that the grizzlies of Alberta's Swan Hills are remaining specimens of the plains grizzly. The Swan Hills are heavily forested and difficult to hunt.
For those who want to romanticize, all is not lost ?there lives across the northern barrens of Alaska and Canada a first cousin of the plains grizzly: the barren-ground grizzly. This grizzly (Ursus arctos richardsoni), first described by Samuel Hearne in 1771, travels across the almost endless harsh treeless environment of the "Far North," a landscape where survival is difficult. Early North American literature frequently mentioned the grizzly of the barrens. The writings of other north-country travelers don't even mention this secretive bear ?mute testimony to its rarity.
What is the barren-ground grizzly and where does it live? The subspecies dwells in the harshest of environments, the barrens of northern Alaska, eastward across northern Canada almost to the western shores of the Hudson Bay. Some experts feel that the animal is extending its range to the southeast. In Alaska, its numbers appear to depend upon the caribou, while in the Northwest Territories, its every existence, according to one expert, appears to depend on the ground squirrel. The grizzly's eastward extension may be limited by the range of the ground squirrel.
Nowhere is the barren-ground grizzly numerous. Reynold, in his studies in the eastern Brooks Range, concluded that this bear lived in densities varying from as many as one bear per fifty-nine square miles to as few as one per hundred square miles. To the west, thanks to an abundance of caribou, the density of the barren-ground grizzly's numbers increases to one per seventeen square miles. Another biologist has estimated that the central Brooks Range has a grizzly population of one bear per hundred ten square miles. Still another biologist has stated there was no population estimate for the barren-ground grizzly of Canada. All the authorities seem to agree on the low reproductive potential of the barren-ground grizzly. Many sows do not have their first litters until they are eleven or twelve years old, an age when they could be considered "old ladies."
MacPherson, in the January, 1965, issue of Canadian Audubon Magazine, published "The Barren Ground Grizzly Bear and Its Survival In Northern Canada." He feared that protection would be removed from this rare bear. He felt that the population numbered some five hundred to a thousand bears, with only about a hundred breeding sows. With a kill of more than thirty-five, their numbers would probably decline. As is the case for any bear, most of their diet consists of roots, grasses, sedges, horsetail, and carrion. In many areas, ground squirrels are an important part of their diet before they den-up.
There are now few opportunities to collect this rare bear. In Alaska's management unit 26, which covers all the treeless "north slope," nonresidents must draw for a very few tags. In the east Brooks Range, from east of the Canning River to the Canadian border, an area including the seven-million-acre Arctic Wildlife Range, the quota is five permits ?two in the spring and three in the fall. Residents can hunt without limit but may kill only one bear each four years.
In the Gates of the Arctic National Park, only twenty permits are issued each year. In the Northwest Territories, the mountain-grizzly season is open to residents only, with a quota of only one bear per lifetime. The barren-ground-grizzly season recently opened again in the northwestern part of the province,
The Mexican grizzly (Ursus arctos nelsoni) is almost as mysterious as the rarest of all, the Ungava grizzly, but the Mexican grizzly has at least been seen by men who are alive today. Officially, the Mexican grizzly is considered extinct ?but with so much positive evidence, including recent findings by the leader of the Border Grizzly Project (Chuck Jonkel), one should say that there are at least a few individuals remaining. Unfortunately, many experts doubt the validity of sightings by any other observer unless that other observer has a PhD degree in bear biology.
This rare subspecies lived (or lives) in much of northern Mexico, including the states of Baja, Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, and Sinoloa. To the south, the habitat is unsuitable for bears ?the vegetation there is too tropical.
This subspecies is considered to be a smaller bear than most of its northern cousins. Its maximum weight is thought to be about seven hundred pounds. Like all grizzlies, it has considerable color variation, with the darker colors predominant.
Jonkel, discussing the Mexican grizzly some time ago, said, "You know, Mexicans are different from Americans. Here, if a man gets a day off, he is likely to head to the high country for a bit of relaxation. In Mexico, nobody goes into the mountains unless he has to. It is impossible for a man like me to conduct a proper search of the Mexican grizzly habitat. Not only are there a lot of bandits, but they grow narcotics in those hills and don't take kindly to strangers. Maybe the only way to really look that country over would be to pose as a drug buyer." Jonkel wrote, in Mexican Grizzlies: 1977-79 Studies ?Status, Habitat, Recommendations, Final Report Border Grizzly Project #58, "Kofford reviewed the literature, conducted extensive interviews and spent three months in the field. He concluded (not decisively) that the grizzly was extinct by the mid-1960s. Despite these excellent efforts by Kofford, the possibility of grizzlies in Chihuahua was still recognized through the late 1970's. Aubrey Johnson (Arizona), a representative for the Defenders Of Wildlife, surveyed the Sierra del Nido area in 1975, but found no new evidence. Both Kofford and Leopold, however, reported accounts of grizzlies in western Chihuahua along the Sonora. Leopold and Dr Bernardo Villa (Jonkel et al 1977) also reported fairly reliable records of two to eight grizzlies being killed in the Sierra del Nido as late as 1973-74, but these are not yet fully verified."
No grizzly kill has been verified in Mexico since 1955. A review of the pertinent literature available leads to the conclusion that fair numbers of these grizzlies remained until about 1960, when conditions there drove them to prey on cattle. Ranchers responded by using the highly toxic compound 1080 to reduce their numbers. After this period, this grizzly all but vanished. The few that are apparently alive today may be a nonreproducing few scattered individuals. Who knows for sure? Its numbers may be much higher than we Americans are aware of.
Any adult bear is a fine trophy for any hunter. Any of these rare bears would be a trophy among trophies.
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redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
import httplib, json, urllib, sys

filenames = [
    'blockly.js',
    'block.js',
    'block_svg.js',
    'bubble.js',
    'comment.js',
    'connection.js',
    'contextmenu.js',
    'field.js',
    'field_dropdown.js',
    'field_label.js',
    'field_textinput.js',
    'flyout.js',
    'generator.js',
    'inject.js',
    'input.js',
    'mutator.js',
    'names.js',
    'procedures.js',
    'scrollbar.js',
    'toolbox.js',
    'tooltip.js',
    'trashcan.js',
    'utils.js',
    'variables.js',
    'warning.js',
    'workspace.js',
    'xml.js']

comment = '// Do not edit this file; automatically generated by build.py.'

def gen_uncompressed():
  target_filename = 'demos/blockly_uncompressed.js'
  inc = '''%s
(function() {
  var filenames = %s;
  for (var x = 0; x < filenames.length; x++) {
    document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="../../' + filenames[x] + '"></script>');
  }
})();
''' % (comment, filenames)

  f = open(target_filename, 'w')
  f.write(inc)
  f.close()
  print 'SUCCESS: ' + target_filename

def gen_compressed():
  target_filename = 'demos/blockly_compressed.js'
  # Define the parameters for the POST request.
  params = [
      ('compilation_level', 'SIMPLE_OPTIMIZATIONS'),
      ('output_format', 'json'),
      ('output_info', 'compiled_code'),
      ('output_info', 'warnings'),
      ('output_info', 'errors'),
      ('output_info', 'statistics'),
    ]

  # Read in all the source files.
  for filename in filenames:
    f = open(filename)
    params.append(('js_code', ''.join(f.readlines())))
    f.close()

  # Send the request to Google.
  headers = { "Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" }
  conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('closure-compiler.appspot.com')
  conn.request('POST', '/compile', urllib.urlencode(params), headers)
  response = conn.getresponse()
  json_str = response.read()
  conn.close

  # Parse the JSON response.
  json_data = json.loads(json_str)

  def file_lookup(name):
    if not name.startswith('Input_'):
      return '???'
    n = int(name[6:])
    return filenames[n]

  if json_data.has_key('errors'):
    errors = json_data['errors']
    for error in errors:
      print 'FATAL ERROR'
      print error['error']
      print '%s at line %d:' % (
          file_lookup(error['file']), error['lineno'])
      print error['line']
      print (' ' * error['charno']) + '^'
  else:
    if json_data.has_key('warnings'):
      warnings = json_data['warnings']
      for warning in warnings:
        print 'WARNING'
        print warning['warning']
        print '%s at line %d:' % (
            file_lookup(warning['file']), warning['lineno'])
        print warning['line']
        print (' ' * warning['charno']) + '^'
      print

    code = comment + '\n' + json_data['compiledCode']

    stats = json_data['statistics']
    original_b = stats['originalSize']
    compressed_b = stats['compressedSize']
    if original_b > 0 and compressed_b > 0:
      f = open(target_filename, 'w')
      f.write(code)
      f.close()

      original_kb = int(original_b / 1024 + 0.5)
      compressed_kb = int(compressed_b / 1024 + 0.5)
      ratio = int(float(compressed_b) / float(original_b) * 100 + 0.5)
      print 'SUCCESS: ' + target_filename
      print 'Size changed from %d KB to %d KB (%d%%).' % (
          original_kb, compressed_kb, ratio)
    else:
      print 'UNKNOWN ERROR'

if __name__ == '__main__':
  gen_uncompressed()
  gen_compressed()

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Remote Explosives were an Epic Explosive Weapon in Battle Royale. They allowed the player to detonate explosions from a distance. They dealt extreme damage to structures, able to destroy almost anything. Remote Explosives dropped in stacks of 3 with a maximum stack size of 6, and could be found in Chests, Supply Drops, Supply Llamas and Vending Machines.
When detonated, Remote Explosives destroyed everything in sight, making them very overpowered. Remote Explosives were Vaulted in Patch 6.00, therefore making them currently only available in Creative mode, but not in Playground Mode. In 7.20 Content Update they were added to Creative mode.
Remote Explosives are detonated when shot.
If a player other than the one that placed the Remote Explosives shoots and detonates them, the ownership of the Remote Explosives is transferred upon detonation. This means that Remote Explosives can injure teammates if an opponent shoots the Remote Explosives before activation.
Similarly, careless players that stay too close to their Remote Explosives can have the tables turned on them and even be killed by what seemed to be their own weapon.
Remote Explosives are ready to be re-enabled after a bug fix and an adjustment to their explosion radius. The damage radius is now a unified 520 units, whereas in previous patches it was 600 units for structures and 400 units for players.


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Protecting Miners
Protecting Miners: MSHA Guidance on Mitigating and Preventing the Spread of COVID-19
This guidance is intended for miners and operators in coal, metal, or nonmetal mines to help them identify risks of being exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, at work and to help them determine appropriate control measures to reduce such risk. This guidance contains recommendations, as well as descriptions of mandatory safety and health standards. It is not a standard or regulation, and it creates no new legal obligations. The recommendations are advisory in nature, informational in content, and are intended to assist operators in recognizing and abating hazards likely to cause death or serious physical harm from the spread of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) as part of their obligation to provide a safe and healthful mine.
COVID-19 is an infectious disease spread most commonly through respiratory droplets and particles produced when an infected person exhales, talks, vocalizes, sneezes, or coughs. People who are physically near (within 6 feet) a person with COVID-19 or have direct contact with that person are at greatest risk of infection. COVID-19 can be spread by people who have no symptoms. Particles containing the virus can travel more than 6 feet, especially indoors, and can be spread by individuals who do not know that they are infected.
Operators should implement COVID-19 Prevention Programs at each mine. Operators may consider a stand-alone program or additions to existing training and education programs. The most effective programs engage miners and miner representatives in the program's development, and include the following key elements:
Conducting a hazard assessment of the mine site;
Identifying a combination of measures that limit the spread of COVID-19 in mine settings;
Adopting measures to ensure that miners who are infected or potentially infected are separated and sent home from the mine; and
Implementing protections from retaliation for miners who raise COVID-19-related concerns.
The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) will continue to update this guidance over time to reflect developments in science, best practices, and standards.
Pursuant to the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, as amended by the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response (MINER) Act of 2006 ("the Mine Act"), operators must comply with safety and health standards and regulations issued and enforced by MSHA. Under the Mine Act, an operator is any owner, lessee, or other person who operates, controls, or supervises a coal or other mine or any independent contractor performing services or construction at a mine. A miner is any individual working in a coal, metal, or non-metal mine.
What Operators and Miners Need To Know about COVID-19 Protections in Mines
An important way to protect yourself is to stay far enough away from other people so that you are not breathing in particles produced by an infected person – generally at least 6 feet (about 2 arm lengths). However, this physical distancing is not always practicable in mine settings and is not a guarantee of protection from transmission, especially in enclosed spaces.
Practice good personal hygiene and wash or sanitize your hands often. Always cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze or use the inside of your elbow and do not spit. Monitor your health daily and be alert for COVID-19 symptoms (e.g., fever, cough, shortness of breath, or other symptoms of COVID-19).
Face masks covering the mouth and nose are simple barriers to help prevent your respiratory droplets or aerosols from reaching others. Not all face masks are the same; the CDC recommends that face masks be made of at least two layers of a tightly woven breathable fabric, such as cotton, and should not have exhalation valves or vents.
For operations where the face mask worn by miners can become wet and soiled, provide miners with replacements daily or more frequently. Face shields may be provided for use with face masks to protect them from getting wet and soiled, but they do not provide protection by themselves.
The main function of wearing a face mask is to protect those around you, in case you are infected but not showing symptoms. Studies show that face masks reduce the spray of droplets when worn over the nose and mouth.
Although not their primary purpose, studies also show that face masks can reduce wearers' risk of infection in certain circumstances, depending upon the face mask.
You should wear a face mask even if you do not feel sick. This is because people with COVID-19 who never develop symptoms (asymptomatic) and those who are not yet showing symptoms (pre-symptomatic) can still spread the virus to other people.
It is especially important to wear a face mask when you are unable to stay at least 6 feet apart from others, since COVID-19 spreads mainly among people who are in close contact with one another. However, wearing a face mask does not eliminate the need for physical distancing or other control measures (e.g., handwashing).
It is important to wear a face mask and remain physically distant from co-workers and others even if you have been vaccinated, because it is not known at this time how vaccination affects transmissibility.
Many operators have established COVID-19 prevention programs that include a number of best practices and important steps to keep miners safe. Ask your supervisor or miners' representative, if applicable, about programs in your mine.
Elements for a COVID-19 Prevention Program
Under the Mine Act, mine operators, with the assistance of the miners, have the primary responsibility to prevent the existence of unsafe and unhealthful conditions and practices at mines. Operators should implement a COVID-19 prevention program in the mine. Prevention programs are the most effective way to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 at work.
The most effective COVID-19 prevention programs engage miners and their representatives in the program's development and implementation at every step, and should include the following elements, as applicable to the unique conditions at the mine site:
Identify a mine coordinator who will be responsible for COVID-19 issues on the operator's behalf, and who will regularly communicate with the miners' representative or other direct contacts for miners.
Identify where and how miners might be exposed to COVID-19 at work. This includes a thorough assessment of the mine site to identify potential hazards related to COVID-19. These assessments are most effective when they involve miners and miners' representatives, because they are often most familiar with the conditions they face.
Identify measures that will limit the spread of COVID-19. This should include hazard removal, engineering controls, administrative controls, personal protective equipment (PPE), and other measures, prioritizing controls from most to least effective, to protect miners from COVID-19 hazards. Key examples, discussed in additional detail below, include:
Minimize the hazard by separating and sending home infected or potentially infected people from the mine;
Ensure miners complete isolation or quarantine as appropriate;
Provide information and resources regarding COVID-19 vaccines;
Implement physical distancing in communal work areas (e.g., limiting the number of miners on hoists, personnel carriers, or other transport vehicles at any one time);
Suppress the spread of the hazard using face masks when respirators are not required;
Improve ventilation;
Use appropriate PPE to protect miners from exposure;
Provide necessary supplies for good hygiene practices; and
Perform routine and enhanced cleaning and disinfection as appropriate.
Consider protections for miners at higher risk for severe illness through supportive policies and practices. People of any age who have certain underlying medical conditions are at higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19. Miners with disabilities may be legally entitled to reasonable accommodations (e.g., temporary reassignment to a less-populated work area or to duties with minimal in-person contact) that protect them from the risk of contracting COVID-19. Where feasible, operators should consider reasonable accommodations for certain miners identified as high-risk, such as Part 90 miners.
Educate and train miners on your COVID-19 policies and procedures using accessible formats and in a language they understand. Mine operators must communicate supportive policies clearly, frequently, in plain language that miners understand (including non-English language and other accessible communication methods, if applicable), and via multiple methods to miners, contractors, and any other individuals on site, as appropriate, to promote a safe and healthy mine. Communications should include:
Basic facts about COVID-19, including how it is spread and the importance of physical distancing, use of face masks, and hand hygiene;
Policies and procedures implemented to protect miners from COVID-19 hazards, including a method for miners to report COVID-19 symptoms, possible COVID-19 exposures, and possible COVID-19 hazards in the mine (and set forth in the operator's COVID-19 prevention program); and
Some means of tracking which miners have been informed and when.
In addition, ensure that miners understand their rights to a safe and healthful work environment, whom to contact with questions or concerns about safety and health, and their right to raise safety and health concerns free of retaliation. Ensure supervisors and managers are familiar with human resources policies and procedures.
Instruct miners who are infected or potentially infected to stay home and isolate or quarantine to prevent or reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19. Ensure that absence policies are flexible and non-punitive. Policies that directly or inadvertently encourage miners to come to work sick or when they have been exposed to COVID-19 are strongly discouraged because they increase the likelihood of COVID-19 exposures. Operators should consider implementing pre-shift screening for miners to complete prior to entering the mine setting.
Minimize negative impacts of quarantine and isolation on miners. While often not practicable in a mining setting, if possible, allow workers to work remotely when their job duties allow. If this is not possible, allow miners to use paid sick leave, if available, or consider implementing paid leave policies to reduce risk for everyone at the mine. The Tax Relief Act of 2020 provides certain employers 100% reimbursement through tax credits to provide employees with paid sick leave or expanded family and medical leave for specified reasons related to COVID-19 through March 31, 2021.
Isolate miners who show symptoms at work. Miners who appear to have symptoms upon arrival at work or who develop symptoms during their work shift should immediately be separated from other miners, customers, and visitors, sent home, and encouraged to seek medical attention.
Perform enhanced cleaning and disinfection after people with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 have been in the mine setting. If someone who has been at the mining operation is suspected or confirmed to have COVID-19, follow the CDC cleaning and disinfection recommendations. This can include:
Closing areas used or occupied by the potentially infected person for enhanced cleaning;
Opening outside doors and windows to increase air circulation in the area, where applicable, if feasible;
Waiting as long as practicable before cleaning or disinfecting (24 hours is optimal);
Cleaning and disinfecting all immediate work areas and equipment used by the potentially infected person, such as offices, bathrooms, shared tools or equipment, and tables or work surfaces.
Vacuuming the space if needed and practicable. Use a vacuum equipped with a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter, if available. Wait until the room or space is unoccupied to vacuum;
Providing miners engaged in cleaning or disinfecting with appropriate disposable gloves. Additional PPE (e.g., safety glasses, goggles, aprons, respirators) might be required based on the cleaning/disinfectant products being used and whether there is a risk of splash. Cleaning products should be used in accordance with manufacturer's guidance.
After cleaning, disinfecting the surface with an appropriate EPA-registered disinfectant on List N: Disinfectants for use against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19;
MSHA's Hazard Communication (HazCom) standards set forth in 30 CFR Part 47 remain applicable for hazard communication and PPE appropriate for exposure to cleaning chemicals.
Once the area has been appropriately disinfected, it can be opened for use. Miners who did not have close contact with the potentially infected person can return to the area immediately after disinfection.
If it has been more than 7 days since the infected person visited or used the facility, additional cleaning and disinfection is not necessary. Continue routine cleaning and disinfection, as described above.
Provide guidance on screening and testing. Follow state or local guidance and priorities for screening and viral testing in mines. Testing may be arranged through a company's occupational health provider or in consultation with the local or state health department. Operators should inform miners of testing requirements, if any, and availability of testing options. CDC has published strategies for consideration of incorporating viral testing for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, into COVID-19 preparedness, response, and control programs.
Note: Performing screening or health checks is not a replacement for other protective measures such as face masks and physical distancing. Asymptomatic individuals or individuals with mild non-specific symptoms may not realize they are infected and may not be detected through screening.
Record and report COVID-19 infections and deaths. Operators are responsible for recording work-related cases of COVID-19 illness on their Form 7000-1 if the following requirements are met: (1) the case is a confirmed case of COVID-19; (2) the case is an occupational illness (as defined by 30 CFR 50.2(f)); and (3) the case involves one or more relevant recording criteria (e.g., medical treatment, days away from work). Operators must follow the requirements in 30 CFR 50.20 and 50.20-1 when reporting. More information is available on MSHA's website. Operators should also report outbreaks to health departments as required and support their contact tracing efforts.
Operators also may consider recording all worker cases of and exposures to COVID-19 in a separate log for contact-tracing and training purposes. Additional information about contact tracing may be available from local public health departments.
Of significant note: MSHA recommends that operators make every effort to maintain the confidentiality of information related to a miner's COVID-19-positive status—even in cases where it may be obvious that a certain employee has tested positive or is in quarantine.
Implement protections from retaliation and an anonymous process for miners to voice concerns about COVID-19-related hazards. Under the provisions of Section 105(c)(1) of the Mine Act, miners, miners' representatives, and applicants for employment are protected from retaliation for engaging in safety and/or health related activities, such as identifying health or safety hazards, asking for MSHA inspections, or refusing to engage in an unsafe act. This includes, for example, a miner, miners' representative, or applicant for employment raising a concern about infection control related to COVID-19 to the operator, the operator's agent, or miners' representative.
In addition to notifying miners of their rights to a safe and healthful work environment, operators should ensure that miners know where and how to raise questions or concerns about safety and health, and that there are prohibitions against retaliation for raising safety and health concerns or engaging in other protected activities. Also consider using a hotline or other method for miners to voice concerns anonymously.
To the extent possible, consider making a COVID-19 vaccine or vaccination series available at no cost to all eligible employees. Provide information and training on the benefits and safety of vaccinations. Operators may also consider permitting miners to attend vaccination appointments during their regularly scheduled shift to expedite the process.
Treat vaccinated miners the same as those who are not vaccinated: Miners who are vaccinated must continue to follow all protective measures, such as wearing a face mask and remaining physically distant. At this time, there is incomplete evidence about the ability of COVID-19 vaccines to prevent transmission of the virus from person-to-person. The CDC explains that experts need to understand more about the protection provided by COVID-19 vaccines before changing the recommendation on steps everyone should take to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Other applicable MSHA Standards: There are numerous health and safety standards that may be used to address COVID -19. Mine operators are required to abate the health and safety hazards addressed by the following standards:
Sanitation requirements: 30 CFR 56.20003(a), 30 CFR 57.20003(a), 30 CFR 56.20008(b), 57.20008(b), 71.402 and 75.1712-3;
Training requirements: 30 CFR 46.1-12, 48.3, 48.11; 48.23; and 48.31
Workplace examinations: 30 CFR 56.18002, 57.18002, 77.1713, 75.360, .361, .362, .364;
Safeguards: 30 U.S.C. 874(b) and 30 CFR 75.1403;
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): 30 CFR 56.15006, 57.15006, and 72.701.
Additional Detail on Key Measures for Limiting the Spread
Remove the Hazard by Separating and Sending Home Infected or Potentially Infected People from the Mine for Quarantine or Isolation.
One key measure involves minimizing the hazard by isolating miners who are infected or potentially infected so they cannot infect other miners. Most operators will follow a symptom-based strategy for identifying and separating and sending home miners. However, there are certain circumstances where operators may consider a COVID-19 test-based strategy, rather than a symptom-based strategy, for determining return-to-work dates.
Miners who have or likely have COVID-19 should be isolated until they meet CDC guidelines for exiting isolation. If they think or know they had COVID-19 and had symptoms, they can return after:
At least 10 days since symptoms first appeared and
At least 24 hours with no fever without fever-reducing medication and
Other symptoms of COVID-19 are improving (loss of taste and smell may persist for weeks or months and need not delay the end of isolation).
Some miners might need to stay home and isolate longer than 10 days, as recommended by their healthcare providers.
A healthcare provider may recommend that a worker who had severe illness from COVID-19 (admitted to a hospital and needed oxygen) stay in isolation for up to 20 days after symptoms first appeared.
Miners who had COVID-19 or tested positive for COVID-19 and have a weakened immune system should consult with their healthcare providers for more information. Their doctors may work with infectious disease experts at the local health department to determine when they can be around others.
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, employers are permitted to require a doctor's note from miners to verify that they are healthy and able to return to work. Given potential delays in seeking treatment and demands on the healthcare system, requiring a COVID-19 test result or a healthcare provider's note for miners who are sick to validate their illness or return to work may cause significant delays affecting operators and miners alike.
A worker who has recovered from symptoms after testing positive for COVID-19 may continue to test positive for three months or more without being contagious to others. For this reason, these miners should be tested only if they develop new symptoms of possible COVID-19. If they have new symptoms, they should discuss getting tested again with their healthcare provider, especially if they have been in close contact with another person who has tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 14 days. CDC reports that instances of reinfection have so far been infrequent.
CDC does NOT recommend that employers use antibody tests to determine which miners can work. Antibody tests check a blood sample for past infection with SARS-CoV-2. Viral tests check a respiratory sample (such as swabs of the inside of the nose) for current infection with COVID-19.
Miners should quarantine if they have been exposed to COVID-19, which means:
They were within 6 feet of someone who has COVID-19 for a combined total of 15 minutes or more within a 24-hour period, starting from 2 days before illness onset (or, for patients without symptoms, 2 days prior to test specimen collection) until the time the patient is isolated, or
They provided care at home to someone who is sick with COVID-19, or
They had direct physical contact with a person who has COVID-19 (e.g., hugged or kissed them), or
They shared eating or drinking utensils with a person who has COVID-19, or
Someone who has COVID-19 sneezed, coughed, or somehow got respiratory droplets on them.
Local public health authorities determine and establish the quarantine options for their jurisdictions. CDC guidance provides that individuals who have been exposed should:
Stay home for 14 days after last contact with a person who has COVID-19,
Watch for fever (above 100.4°F), cough, shortness of breath, or other symptoms of COVID-19, and
To the extent possible, stay away from others, especially people who are at higher risk for getting very sick from COVID-19.
CDC also recognizes that local public health departments may consider other options for ending quarantine; for example: end quarantine after day 10 without testing, or after day 7 after receiving a negative test result (test must occur on day 5 or later). CDC continues to endorse quarantining for 14 days and recognizes that any quarantine shorter than 14 days balances reduced burden against a small possibility of spreading the virus. Therefore, after stopping a quarantine of less than 14 days, these individuals should:
Watch for symptoms until 14 days after exposure;
Immediately self-isolate and contact the local public health authority or their healthcare providers if symptoms appear; and
Wear a face mask, stay at least 6 feet from others, wash hands, avoid crowds, and take other steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Use Face Masks to Suppress the Spread
Miners may be required to wear respirators as PPE under certain circumstances. Miners should not wear face masks while wearing a respirator with no exhalation valve, but should wear face masks when the respirator is not worn, or over the respirator exhalation valve when the respirator has an exhalation valve. Face masks can be worn by any miner not wearing a respirator, to reduce COVID-19 transmission from themselves to other miners, and should be provided by the mine operator, at no cost to the miner.
For operations in settings where the use of face masks may increase the risk of heat-related illness indoors or outdoors or cause safety concerns due to introduction of a hazard (for instance, straps getting caught in machinery), or in the case of a miner with a disability who cannot wear a mask, or cannot safely wear a mask, for reasons related to the disability, the operator should consult with an occupational safety and health professional to determine the appropriate face mask/respirator or other precautions for their miners as part of their safety program.
Improving Ventilation
Underground mines with required ventilation plans, as set forth in 30 CFR Part 57 Subpart G or Part 75 Subpart D, must continue to follow those plans, and MSHA will continue to enforce applicable standards regarding mine ventilation.
For operations with miners inside buildings or facilities not required to have ventilation plans, the CDC has released important guidance about ways to improve ventilation and prevent the spread of COVID-19 in buildings. Below are a number of strategies to do so. Some of these recommendations are based on American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Guidance for Building Operations During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Ensure ventilation systems operate properly and provide acceptable indoor air quality for the current occupancy level for each space.
Increase ventilation rates when possible.
When weather conditions allow, increase fresh outdoor air by opening windows and doors. Do not open windows and doors if doing so poses a safety or health risk (e.g., risk of falling, triggering asthma symptoms) to building occupants.
Use fans to increase the effectiveness of open windows. To safely achieve this, fan placement is important. Avoid placing fans in a way that could potentially cause contaminated air to flow directly from one person over another. One helpful strategy is to use a window fan, placed safely and securely in a window, to exhaust room air to the outdoors. This will help draw fresh air into the room via other open windows and doors without generating strong room air currents.
Disable demand-controlled ventilation (DCV).
Reduce or eliminate recirculation, for example by opening minimum outdoor air dampers. In mild weather, this will not affect thermal comfort or humidity. However, this may be difficult to do in cold or hot weather.
Improve central air filtration to the MERV-13 (the grade of filter recommended by ASHRAE) or the highest compatible with the filter rack, and seal edges of the filter to limit bypass.
Check filters to ensure they are within service life and appropriately installed.
Keep systems running longer hours, 24/7 if possible, to enhance air exchanges in the building.
Ensure restroom exhaust fans are functional and operating at full capacity.
Inspect and maintain local exhaust ventilation in areas such as kitchens and cooking areas.
Use portable high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) fan/filtration systems to help enhance air cleaning (especially in higher-risk areas such as a nurse's office or areas frequently inhabited by persons with higher likelihood of COVID-19 and/or increased risk of getting COVID-19).
Generate clean-to-less-clean air movement by re-evaluating the positioning of supply and exhaust air diffusers and/or dampers (especially in higher-risk areas).
Consider using ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) as a supplement to help inactivate SARS-CoV-2, especially if options for increasing room ventilation are limited. Upper-room UVGI systems can be used to provide air cleaning within occupied spaces, and in-duct UVGI systems can help enhance air cleaning inside central ventilation systems.
If ventilation cannot be increased, reduce occupancy level in the building. This increases the effective dilution ventilation per person.
Use Personal Protective Equipment Wherever Necessary
When the measures described above cannot be implemented or do not fully protect miners, operators must provide PPE to supplement other controls where required.
Determine what PPE is necessary to protect miners.
Provide all PPE, if necessary, including respirators (N95 filtering facepiece respirators or better, including elastomeric respirators, without exhalation valves or vents), face shields, protective gowns and gloves, to the miners at no cost.
Make sure to provide PPE in accordance with relevant MSHA and consensus standards. Respirators, if necessary, must be provided and used in compliance with 30 CFR 56/57.5005 and 30 CFR 72.701, 72.710 (e.g., medical determination, fit testing, training on correct use), including certain provisions for voluntary use when miners supply their own respirators. Respirators also must meet the NIOSH approval requirements under 42 CFR Part 84. Other PPE must meet the requirements in 30 CFR Part 56, Subpart N, 30 CFR Part 57, Subpart N, and 30 CFR 75.1720.
There are times when PPE is not required under MSHA standards, but may be required as a reasonable accommodation for certain miners under the Americans with Disabilities Act, as described above (see "Elements for a COVID-19 Prevention Program," item 4). Others may want to use PPE if they are concerned about their personal safety (e.g., if a family member is at higher-risk for severe illness, wearing a face shield in addition to a face mask as an added layer of protection). Encourage and support voluntary use of PPE in these circumstances.
MSHA Guidance on Mitigating and Preventing the Spread of COVID19.pdf


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DMT-Gesellschaft für Lehre und Bildung mbH (DMT-LB), based in Bochum, is a collective association of the German coal mining industry and acts as the funding organisation of Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (German Mining Museum) and Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola. It was established as the Westfälische Berggewerkschaftskasse (WBK) in 1864 and merged with the Steinkohlen-Bergbau-Verein (Stbv) and Bergbau Forschung GmbH under the auspices of DeutscheMontanTechnologie e.V. (DMT) in 1990.

History
The Westfälische Berggewerkschaftskasse (WBK) was founded in 1864 as part of a reform of Prussian mining legislation. Starting in the 18th century, mining office and mining relief funds started springing up in Prussian territories (including the County of Mark and Essen and Werden Abbeys, which had been part of Prussia since 1803). These were funded with the mandatory contributions of the private mining companies (cooperatives) and served to finance the state mining offices as well as certain mining-related communal activities such as road construction, geological measurements and the training of mining officers and foremen.
The new organisation WBK brought together several of these forerunner funds. It took over responsibility for funding the Bergschule Bochum (Bochum mining college, now THGA), which was set up in 1816. The organisation's remit was later expanded to include mining colleges in Bergkamen, Duisburg and Recklinghausen. WBK was also active in the field of applied science, including the Erdmagnetische Warte Bochum (Bochum Geometric Observatory), which was built in 1854 and later moved to Vossnacken/Velbert. It also helped to fund construction of the Bergmannsheil University Hospitals in Bochum and the expansion of the network of ship canals that link the Ruhr Valley to areas such as the North sea. The decades that followed also witnessed numerous laboratories, testing facilities for firedamp experiments in Dortmund and inspection sites for hoisting cables and mining lamps. In the process, WBK increasingly handled public appraisal and inspection duties in the area of mine safety and occupational health and safety. The scientific collections of WBK paved the way for Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum  in 1930.

During the period of rapid reconstruction following the World War II, the German coal mining industry experienced a brief revival before the coal crisis hit, resulting in huge falls in sales and mass pit closures. In 1968, Ruhrkohle AG was set up as a company to rescue the struggling mining firms. At roughly the same time, people were starting to consider consolidation of the many joint technical and scientific institutions maintained by the coal mining industry. Following lengthy negotiations, the association Deutsche Montan Technologie für Rohstoff, Energie, Umwelt e.V. (DMT) was established as of 1 January 1990, which, alongside WBK, also incorporated Steinkohlen-BergbauVerein (Stbv), Bergbau-Forschung GmbH in Essen and Versuchsgrubengesellschaft mbH on the site of the former Tremonia colliery in Dortmund. (214 ff.) In turn, two further companies were set up under the auspices of this association, which, at the time, counted all German mining companies as members:

 DMT-Gesellschaft für Forschung und Prüfung mbH (DMT-FP), which, following multiple restructuring measures, was incorporated within the TÜV Nord Group in 2007 and has been operating as DMT GmbH & Co. KG ever since.
 DMT-Gesellschaft für Lehre und Bildung mbH (DMT-LB). Alongside the DBM and THGA, this company also operated four vocational colleges until late 2000. Just like the firm's activities in the area of retraining and qualification, these colleges were transferred to RAG companies (RAG-Bildung Berufskolleg GmbH), which are also now part of the TÜV Nord Group, as a result of restructuring or changes of ownership.

Organisational structure of the DMT-LB today
The sole shareholder of DMT-LB is Deutsche Montan Technologie e. V. (DMT), which is funded by the RAG-Stiftung as well as RAG AG and its subsidiaries. DMT-LB employs some 300 people, 40 of whom are teaching staff at THGA. In 2017, the company's turnover amounted to €36.1 million, with some 53% attributable to institutional grants.

Bibliography

 Das Wissensrevier. 150 Jahre Bergbauforschung und Ausbildung bei der Westfälischen Berggewerkschaftskasse/DMT-Gesellschaft für Lehre und Bildung. Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Bochum 2014
 Vol. 1: Stefan Moitra: Die Geschichte einer Institution.  (= publications from Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum No. 197)
 Vol. 2: Michael Farrenkopf, Michael Ganzelewski: Katalog zur Sonderausstellung. Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum vom 19. Juni 2014 bis 22. Februar 2015.  (= publications from Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum No. 198)
 1816–2016 Die Geschichte der Technischen Hochschule Georg Agricola. In-house publisher of Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum.

References

External links

 DMT-LB website
 Archive of Westfälische Berggewerkschaftskasse at Bochum Mining Archive

Bochum
Economy of North Rhine-Westphalia
Mining in Germany

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Last month, the Clinton campaign hired Nadia Garnett to lead strategic efforts as the African-American Vote Director.
Garnett has displayed her skills in ways that few have. In addition to serving as national political director for the Center for Community Change, Garnett was also special advisor in the Office of Presidential Personnel at The White House.
She also served as eastern state director for The Atlas Project, a political research and data firm that works with electoral and issue advocacy campaigns. There, she coordinated campaign staffers, political consultants, and state experts regarding their role in developing, managing and executing campaign plans in presidential election years, according to her bio.
NBC BLK reported that Tamia Booker will serve as the director of African-American outreach and Zina Pierre will work with pastors and Black churches as the campaign's African-American faith director. The Clinton campaign tapped Joel Payne to be the director of African-American paid media and LaDavia Drane is the campaign's deputy director of congressional affairs.
Marlon Marshall, who serves as director of state campaigns and political engagement for Clinton, is as seasoned as any individual in any political camp.
The St. Louis-born resident possesses a broad portfolio that includes helping the campaigns of John Kerry and now presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Marshall's colleague, Garnett is also far from a political novice.
Garnett has worked with pollster Cornell Belcher at his Washington, D.C.-based Brilliant Corners and Garnett once served as a field director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's Independent Expenditure.
Together, the new hires could be viewed as the face of the Clinton campaign in the Black community. But, they also do much more in trying to help the former First Lady and Secretary of State become the nation's first woman president.
They are Clinton's eyes and ears and they lead her efforts to make sure her message is known in every state, including where the assumption is that the GOP will ultimately carry that particular territory.
As Kerry's southern political director, Garnett also helped to establish and strengthen political relationships with Democratic National Committee members, Congress, state and local elected officials and grassroots activists in Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana and Virginia.
Once a key White House aide, Marshall has remained the highest-ranking African-American staffer on any presidential campaign. He organized for John Kerry in 2004, joined Clinton's campaign in 2007, and then worked on both of Barack Obama's campaigns.
The St. Louis native also served as the national field director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee – the first Black person to hold that role.
Marshall joined the White House staff in September 2013.
In a Nov. 2015 CNN profile, several Clinton aides credited Marshall with helping to create a diverse campaign team at the state and upper staff level.
Plugged in staffers have helped Marshall to make sure the campaign is tuned in with what people are talking about.
When, for instance, video surfaced of a Black high school student getting yanked from her chair by a school resource officer in South Carolina, a digital staffer flagged the incident and Marshall coordinated the campaign response.
One of his most important tasks is helping the Clinton campaign navigate a cultural and political terrain that includes a new civil rights movement, viral racial incidents and the waning tenure of the nation's first Black president.
Both Marshall and Garnett said Clinton believes in developing and maintaining a strong economy for all Americans and working with U.S. allies.
When noting Trump's slogan of "Making America Great Again," Marshall said it's just talk.
In part, Clinton wants resources for training police officers. She also has a global view of the future and what needs to be done, he said.
"One reason I'm excited about her is that she gets it," Marshall said.
It's also important to recognize that Clinton has previously been elected to office and knows the ins-and-outs of politics and the needs of American citizens, Garnett said.


David Johnson is a former aviation welder who has turned to frame building. He gets his inspiration from the lines found on classics cars and vintage aircraft.
Each year, the North American Handmade Bicycle Show showcases new bikes from well-known builders and serves as a launch pad for new builders looking to make a name for themselves. Some of these builders are not new to the craft, merely first time exhibitors at the show, while others have but a few frames under their belts.
Read on below for an overview of the newcomers, and then click through the gallery at right for a detailed look at their creations.
Kevin Harvey knows a thing or two about precision manufacturing and the importance of attention to detail, after all, he's the head machinist at Andretti Racing.
Harvey has been building frames off and on for two decades. The bike he displayed at NAHBS was a fillet-brazed gravel racer with a custom lighting system.
Mathew Amonson is based in Brooklyn, New York. His fourth frame is this track-inspired singlespeed with geometry tailored to navigating busy city streets.
The frame uses bi-laminate construction and features staggered seatstays, the idea being that the drivetrain forces apply more torque to the drive-side of the frame.
Josh Clark of Backwoods Engineering has been building bicycle frames for about 12 years. His frame features a gusset with a flock of birds carved into the stainless steel.
Luke Devine is an engineer turned frame builder. His TIG-welded city bike is ready for jaunts to the liquor store thanks to the wooden six-pack basket, made from reclaimed walnut and cherry.
This particular bike started life as a tree standing on Sixth Avenue in Denver, Colorado. After it was cut down, Chris Connor, of Connor Wood Bicycles, gave it a second life as a bicycle. This frame, like the tree it was, still resides in Colorado and has even withstood being raced at Leadville. Connor uses monocoque construction for the front triangle and laminate construction, with layers of Kevlar for the chainstays.
He also builds wooden handlebars using a similar method of layering wood plies with Kevlar fabric.
Jeff Gerhardt built this mixte frame to be a low-maintenance, belt–driven commuter. The lines of the mixte frame make it well-suited to internal routing. The wiring for the front and rear generator lights, as well as the cable for the internally geared rear hub all run inside the frame tubes.
Portland, Oregon-based frame builder Devin Zoller has been building custom carbon road bikes for 1.5 years. Zoller uses tube-to-tube construction supplied by a local defense contractor that builds parts for the MQ-1 Predator drone.
David Mills had this orange track racer on display.
David johnson is a former aviation welder who has turned to frame building. he gets his inspiration from the lines found on classics cars and vintage aircraft.: david johnson is a former aviation welder who has turned to frame building. he gets his inspiration from the lines found on classics cars and vintage aircraft.
Jay Kinsinger's day job is teaching mechanical and biomedical engineering at Cedarville University. In Kinsinger's spare time he crafts wooden bikes such as this tandem.
Syndrome Cycles had this speedy CX-commuter on display. It features rack and fender mounts and a Gates Carbon belt-drive to keep maintenance to a minimum.
Nate Zukas got involved in frame building out of personal need. The 5ft, 7in Zukas has long legs and arms that required a custom fit. Zukas opted to take matters into his own hands and build his own frames.
This singlespeed road bike features a number of custom touches, including the 'Z' shaped drain hole with stainless steel mesh in the bottom bracket.


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Humanist Wins 2020 Ottawa Book Awards
November 14, 2020 humanistfreedoms
HumanistFreedoms.com is thrilled to celebrate the recent announcement that one of our favourite poets and humanists, Henry Beissel, is a winner of the 2020 Ottawa Book Awards.
Henry Beissel is a poet, playwright, fiction writer, translator and editor. He has published 44 books published including 22 collections of poetry. He lives in Ottawa with his wife Arlette Francière, the literary translator and artist. While copies of the critically acclaimed Cantos North(1980 & 2017) and a poet-autographed copy of Fugitive Horizons (2013) adorn our shelves, it was Beissel's Footprints of Dark Energy (2019) which caught the eye of the Ottawa Book Awards jury (Paul Carlucci, Lyse Champagne, Amatoritsero Ede).
Jury Statement for Footprints of Dark Energy: Part Idyll, part love song and mostly about man in nature, Henry Beissel's Footprints of Dark Energy approaches the sublime in its epic treatment of its subjects. The meditative undertones of the shorter poems coalesce into the epigrammatic wit of the long title poem, and all are bolstered by the narration's majestic sweep.
The title poem of this collection takes us on an epic journey across past and present historical events and through spaces defined by the natural sciences, as it explores the challenges of being human in these troubled times. It is accompanied by a gathering of shorter poems that confront the dark forces in our world as they struggle for the light at the end of the tunnel. In stark imagery, these poems turn words into music to celebrate the anguish and the glory of being alive.
Courtesy of Youtube and the ongoing COVID-19 social environment, you can enjoy a highly personal, yet socially distanced, reading by the poet himself:
Since 1985, the Ottawa Book Awards have recognized the top English and French books published in the previous year. Both languages have categories for fiction and non-fiction. All shortlisted finalists receive $1,000 and each winner receives a prize of $7,500.
Winners of the 2020 Ottawa Book Awards were announced during a virtual ceremony on Wednesday, October 21, 2020, at 6:00 p.m. To watch a recording of the event, please visit:
Ottawa Public Library's Facebook page!
Congratulations Henry! And well done! We admire the many contributions you have made to humanism and poetry.
Sources, Citations and References
Featured Photo Courtesy of https://ottawa.ca/en/arts-heritage-and-events/ottawa-book-awards#2020-winners-and-finalists
https://www.henrybeissel.com/
https://www.cbc.ca/books/beverley-mclachlin-henry-beissel-win-2020-ottawa-book-awards-1.5772822
https://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/beverley-mclachlin-beissel-among-winners-of-ottawa-book-awards
https://theworldnews.net/ca-news/finalists-announced-for-2020-ottawa-book-awards
https://canlit.ca/article/gifts-for-the-journey/
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I have a specific type of form-declaration, jQuery will always process the Form Data and sends an Ajax-Request, but inside the form, I have Buttons, once for Form-Submission (Ajax) and once for calling specific Functions. Like so:
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One way to fix this, is to start the form with a hidden submit button, although that ruins the HTML.
All in all, it can look like this:
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Note that every form with the class ajax, should never be submitted "as is", it always has to do a ajax-submission and goes through the JavaScript. The client always has JavaScript enabled, don't worry about that.

A: The default type for a button is submit so when you press enter in a text box its like clicking the first button. Try:
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The El Tigre Fault is a 120 km long, roughly north-south trending, major strike-slip fault located in the Western Precordillera in Argentina. The Precordillera lies just to the east of the Andes mountain range in South America. The northern boundary of the fault is the Jáchal River and its southern boundary is the San Juan River. The fault is divided into three sections based on fault trace geometry, Northern extending between 41–46 km in length, Central extending between 48–53 km in length, and Southern extending 26 km in length.  The fault displays a right-lateral (horizontal) motion and has formed in response to stresses from the Nazca Plate subducting under the South American Plate. It is a major fault with crustal significance. The Andes Mountain belt trends with respect to the Nazca Plate/South American Plate convergence zone, and deformation is divided between the Precordilleran thrust faults and the El Tigre strike-slip motion. The El Tigre Fault is currently seismically active.

Geology
El Tigre Fault is a right-lateral N10°E trending fault, known for its good grade of exposures and markers of horizontal displacement.  Its linear traces are apparent throughout the length of the fault. Morphology of El Tigre strike-slip fault is visible on the western slope of the Precordillera fold and thrust belt.   With evidence of activity during the Middle Pleistocene to present day, it is considered a Quaternary fault. Geomorphic and 10Be (Beryllium) exposure ages have been used in some studies to estimate the Quaternary age and slip rate. Slip rate is estimated to be approximately 1 mm/year and offsets range from 60 to 180 m.

The Nazca/South American oblique convergence zone off Chile is N76°  and El Tigre releases the north-south stress component of continental plate motion at about 30°-31°. In the San Juan Province, it is part of an east-verging thin-skinned belt, and is located in a major active seismic area. Moment magnitude estimates reveal that a 7 ± 0.5 scale earthquake could be produced.

Fault zones

Northern
The northern subdivision is approximately 41–46 km long. One estimation shows the segment begins where the fault bends to the northeast and is 41 km long. Another estimation places the distinction 5.5 km south of this bend resulting in the northern segment 46 km long. This section is more structurally complex than the central and southern sections, due to the segment's northern edge ending in a horse tail termination. This faulted area can be interpreted from the 1 km to 5 km separation of several disperse rupture strands.

Central
The central subdivision is approximately 48–53 km long. This area exhibits transpressive and transtensive geomorphological features.  Sag ponds (releasing basins) form when the right lateral fault bends to the left causing the crust to extend (transtensive). Pressure ridges form when the right-lateral fault bends to the right causing the crust to compress (transpressive). A bedrock scarp with an east-facing slope shows vertical displacement along this part of the fault. The scarp has a slope of 18-24° and maximum height of 85 m. Tectonic shortening appears to have changed direction from WSW-ENE to W-E during the Pleistocene, altering the kinematics to the present transpressive/transtensive system from a mainly transcurrent one.

Southern
The southern subdivision is approximately 26 km long. This segment is characterized by the right-lateral offset of drainage networks. It exhibits an uninterrupted linear trace and strike-slip component that are useful in determining offset. The termination point for El Tigre in the south is recognized by a merging within the Precordilleran Paleozoic strata, as well as its extremely disturbed surface deformation. By dating the alluvial fans in this segment, some studies conclude a horizontal displacement rate of approximately 1 mm/yr. The southern segment along with the central segment are crossed by several oblique and transverse faults almost perpendicular to the El Tigre Fault. These faults are inferred due to the long linear strands of stream channels, as the faults are not visible on the surface.

Discrepancies
The faults location in a seismically active zone and a low erosional environment makes it a good study area. Although many characteristics of geomorphology have been preserved, the area has not been extensively studied using the new methodologies currently available. The fault has sparked new interest in its geometrical and kinematic characteristics within recent years. Previous studies on the El Tigre Fault have a range of inconstancies. Information obtained on the fault can vary from a reactivated fault with a normal component in Jurassic and Palaeocene, an Eocene strike-slip fault, an Oligocene northwest-verging thrust fault, and a south-east dipping normal fault inverted in the Neogene. Research models in the 1980s describe the fault as system anywhere from 800 km up to 1000 km in length. The kinematics, geometry, extension, and deformation have not been widely agreed upon, therefore the new interest in the El Tigre Fault should lead to further studies using modern technology. These future studies should shed light on the discrepancies that have resulted from lack of in depth information in the past.

References

Geology of San Juan Province, Argentina
Strike-slip faults
Seismic faults of Argentina