Coal is a black combustible sedimentary rock that most creationists believe formed during the Biblical flood of Noah. Coal is not only a stark memorial to the Noah's flood but also bears witness to the reliability of the Bible. Basically, Peat, Lignite, Sub-bituminous coal, Bituminous, Steam coal, and Anthracite are the coals that we use mainly in our life. Coal is used not only as an energy source, but also as an industry. Coal gives us a lot of help but also has a detrimental effect on us. Workers who mining coal can easily get diseases such as cardiopulmonary disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, lung disease, and kidney disease. Furthermore, coal has an adverse effect not only on people but also on natural environment. Nowadays, coal is the most used fossil fuel and a non-renewable energy source. However, since 200 years ago, people consumed an incredible amount of coal. Higher energy demands and poor efficiency practices have increased coal usage. Therefore, it's now critical to find alternative means of energy generation before depleting the global supply.
It is a picture showing the formation theory of coal.
Like all fossiliferous rock, the origin of coal is a key point of contention between Biblical and secular scientists. Most creation scientists regard coal as having formed due to the destruction and subsequent burial of the preflood forests during the Biblical flood. This unique catastrophe would have devastated the entire forest and vegetation cover of the earth's surface. Some debris would been buried immediately by explosive volcanic blasts, whereas other debris would have been carried off by the rising waters. Thus whole coal measure sequences with multiple seams would have been deposited rapidly.
The creation geologist, Tas Walker, has described the formation of coal beds in the the Gippsland Basin in Australia through the Biblical flood model. It is viewed that the Basin was filled with sediment early in the second part of Noah's flood by flowed off the land and the receding floodwater have deposited sediment around the edges of the continent. After, continued erosion by fast flowing water eroded the north of the Gippsland Basin and covered the coal measures with sands and gravels, so that has originated the coal. There is an evidence how Gippsland Basin is related with Noah's flood. The sediments at the Gippsland Basin was folded and the top of the fold was sliced off and that is consistent with erosion by broad sheets of receding floodwaters. Also, the kinds of plants in Australia today are similar to the plants in the coal buried during the final stage of the Noah's flood. Therefore, coal is not only a stark memorial to the Noah's flood but also bears witness to the reliability of the Bible.
Secular geologists argue that coal is usually made by accumulated plants, giant plants and ferns. When the accumulated plants, giant plants and ferns die, decrease of the sea levels created many swampy environments and they form layers at the bottom of the swamps. Later, water and dirt begin to pile up on top of the dead plant remains. Over thousands of years pressure and heat build up on top of the plant remains, undergoing chemical and physical changes and pushing out the oxygen and that finally becomes coal.
Coal is a black combustible sedimentary rock and it is often in the form of lignite which contains a high content of volatile matter and low carbon content.
The type of coal is generally defined according to the grade of metamorphism. Energy holds more when it has a higher grade of metamorphism. Basically, Peat, Lignite, Sub-bituminous coal, Bituminous, Steam coal, and Anthracite are the coals that we use mainly in our life. Peat is generally considered a precursor of coal, but it also has been used as a fuel too. It can be very useful to soak up oil spills when it is in dehydrated form. Lignite is the lowest quality coal and the first one to be formed. Also, it is a low grade fuel with a high moisture. Sub-bituminous coal is the coal which most often is used as fuel for steam electric power generation. Bituminous is a dense sedimentary rock which contains 70% to 86% of carbon and 31% to 46% of volatile matter. Also, it is a high quality type of coal. Steam coal is a transition type between bituminous and anthracite and it also known as thermal coal. This coal is suitable for electric power production. Anthracite is a hard, shiny coal which contains 86% to 98% of pure carbon and 3% to 8% of volatile matter. This coal is the highest rank of coal and highly valued for its properties.
It is a picture of a coal factory that used in the coal in the coal industry.
Coal is a very common natural resource. However, it is a indispensable natural resource to people. Coal is used primarily as an energy source, either for heat or electricity and it is generate through combustion. For example, Coal fired power stations generate 40% of global electricity. Usually, the energy is used to heat homes and heat from burning coal boils water. Also, steam from the burning coal spins a propeller and that turns into electricity, that powers factories. Coal can also used as plant fertiliser. Coal can be turned into ammonia fertiliser by breaking it into carbon monoxide and hydrogen gas. Therefore, coal can be used not only as energy but also as a biological raw material.
Coal is used not only as an energy source, but also as an industry. Steel industry is the second largest user of coal after the electricity production. About 70% of steel is created using coal. More than 600 million tons of coal were used to produce more than 1 billion tons of steel. Coal is also used as an energy source in the cement industry. Large amounts of energy are required to produce cement. Therefore, kiln usually burn coal in the form of powder and consume around 450g of coal for about 900g of cement produced. The paper industry and the aluminum industry also require a large amount of coal energy. Therefore, coal being the cheapest energy resource forms an essential input to these industries. Coal is also used for chemicals and pharma industry, such as creosote oil, naphthalene, phenol, benzene, soap and shampoo. These are produced by products of chemical.
It is a picture of person who got black lung disease by coal mining.
Coal gives us a lot of help but it also has a detrimental effect on us. Workers who mine coal can easily get diseases such as cardiopulmonary disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, lung disease, and kidney disease. Because coal contains sulfur, burning it produces sulfur dioxide. Sulfur dioxide causes lung damage and heart problems. Therefore, it aggravates cardiovascular and lung diseases. Representatively, workers who mine coal can get black lung disease by breathing in coal dust. It results in shortness of breath, and puts individuals at risk for emphysema, bronchitis, and fibrosis. Black lung disease is incurable and increasing in severity. Therefore, about 1,200 people in the US still die from black lung disease annually. Also, workers can get silicosis, which is caused by the inhalation of fine particles of silicia, a very common mineral in the Earth crust. Coal-borne disease caused 13,200 deaths in 2010. Also, the analysis found that coal-borne disease resulting in more than 20,000 heart attacks, 9,700 hospitalizations, and more than 200,000 asthma attacks.
Coal has an adverse effect not only on people but also on natural environment. Sulfur dioxide from burning coal can combines with atmospheric water to form sulfuric acid, that acidifies water then soils, and can hinder the development of plants. Furthermore, coal mining releases methane, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide. Transporting these add 600000 tons of nitrogen oxide to the environment. Therefore, this causes global warming. Underground mining causes widespread damage to the environment. Underground mining huge brings huge amounts of waste earth and rock to the surface. This waste often becomes toxic when it contacts air and water. Also, when coal and other rocks unearthed during mining mix with water, this creates acid mine drainage. The water takes on toxic levels of minerals and heavy metal and leaks out of abandoned mines. From there it contaminates groundwater, streams, soil, plants, animals and humans.
This picture shows that the overuse of Earth resources such as coal is increasing.
Coal is very old and reserves are finite. Since 200 years ago, people consumed an incredible amount of coal. Nowadays, coal is the most used fossil fuel and a non-renewable energy source. 7 billion people on the planet, the demand on coal continue to increase. Also, people excessive and unnecessary use of coal. Therefore, coal is all about to gone and the climate seriously impacted.  People often claimed that we have enough coal to last hundreds of years. In 2011, it was estimated that we have enough coal to meet global demands for 188 years. However, if the demand increases, the timeframe will decrease. Also, if people step up production to fill the gap left through depleting our oil and gas reserves, the coal deposits we know about will only give us enough energy to take us as far as 2088.  In addition, researcher David van Wyk said, the rate at which South Africa's coal is being mined is unsustainable, and all known reserves will be depleted by 2050.
Higher energy demands and poor efficiency practices have increased coal usage, and it's now critical to find alternative means of energy generation before depleting the global supply. It takes individual and community actions to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels. One solution to prevent depletion of coal usage is to go green. Using green energy electricity services such as solar energy to reduce pollution can reduce coal use. Another solution is to reuse many consumer goods instead of discarding them. Reusable glass plates and cups reduce the amount of styrofoam and plastic that require fossil fuel resources such as coal.
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Lisa Haynes started with Five Keys in 2016. Her career journey has always focused on providing better opportunities for those involved in the justice system and underserved communities. In her prior role as Chief of Education and Careers, she led a team to launch a Career Pathway program for over 450 youth annually. In 2014, she wrote the petition which launched a K-8 charter school in the Bay Area where she served as a Founding Director. Lisa began her career in Education as an English and Social Science teacher. She understands the rich history and the culture of the learning necessary to change the lives of students. She has dedicated her life to teaching and learning, and is deeply committed to equip faculty and staff with the best strategies and support to realize educational success for all students.


By Howard Phillips. Pp. 168. Jacana. 2012. ISBN: 9781431403851.
The carefully chosen account of the five epidemics that emerged in South Africa over a few centuries following European conquests makes for fascinating reading. The book is rich with detail, eminently readable and entertaining, the seriousness of the subject matter notwithstanding. It is well written, concise and covers complex, often unappreciated, historical events.
The comparative impotence of biomedicine in the face of these epidemics stands out as a major feature of this history. What stands out even more, however, is the 'politics' of epidemics. In South Africa, not surprisingly, the 'victim blaming' took on 'racial', religious, geographical and xenophobic tones with slave, Khoi, Muslim, migrant, the German Kaiser, the British, blacks, whites, Christians, and others, cast as villains responsible for the outbreaks. Such 'micropolitics' led to 'macro-politics' which shaped and disfigured the South African spatial and political landscape. The establishment of Ndabeni, Langa, Klipspruit, later Pimville, and Soweto, among others, were some 'macro-political' consequences of epidemics. The book describes many examples of such macropolitical machinations and provides tangible evidence of the role of the 'people of politics' in society's response to the five epidemics. But not all political consequences were bad. South Africa has the epidemics to thank for the establishment of a ministry of health, the emergence of health-orientated NGOs, and the production of vaccines.
The rich epidemiological detail included in the accounts provides a numeric measure of the sheer scale of the epidemics. The mortality rates in most of the epidemics, except for polio, were horrendous! The numbers allow for comparison and it is a revelation to see how comparatively 'less severe/benign' HIV/AIDS mortality is when compared with some of the other more acute epidemics. Of course, the numbers do not reflect the full picture and the author describes the trans-generational after-effects of the epidemics with great insight.
The dialectical relationship between epidemics and conquest, conflict and war, is illustrated in the accounts of almost all the epidemic diseases. The chapter on HIV/AIDS provides extraordinary insights into the complexity of the epidemic, and it gives one a great appreciation of the added perspective that a historian brings to our epidemiological understanding.
I recommend the book to all scholars in the health sciences, of history and the social sciences. It provides an extraordinary review of epidemic disease through the prism of history and enriches our understanding of epidemics, while at the same time enhancing our understanding of human society.


The Gustav Mahler Society of New York presents Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) in a Piano Edition by the composer, November 1, 2018, 8 PM at the National Opera Center, 330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY.
On November 1, 2018, the Society will present a performance of Mahler's original piano version of Das Lied von der Erde at the National Opera Center, 330 Seventh Avenue. The artists are Alexandra von Roepke, mezzo-soprano, Peter Furlong, tenor and Christian Kälberer, pianist, who have recorded the work on the Thorofon label. They have engaged in long and deep study of the score that reveals some interesting aspects of its gestation.
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Thomas Sidney Carnahan is an American attorney, businessman and community leader.
In 2005, Carnahan founded Wind Capital Group, a leading developer, owner and operator of utility-scale wind farms in rural America.[no citations needed here]
Carnahan has testified on before Congress and appeared on CNN, Fox Business News, ABC World News, MSNBC, NPR and other major outlets as an expert on energy, public policy and development.[no citations needed here] He has served as the Chairman of the American Wind Energy Association, a national trade association of domestic and international wind energy interests that promotes wind energy.[no citations needed here]
Carnahan serves on the Board of Forest Park Forever, a not-for-profit group that supports Forest Park in St. Louis.[no citations needed here] He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the St. Louis Art Museum.[no citations needed here]
Tom Carnahan is the son of Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan and U.S. Senator Jean Carnahan and a member of the prominent Missouri Carnahan Family.[no citations needed here] Carnahan's grandfather, A. S. J. Carnahan, served in Congress for seven terms, and was appointed by President John F. Kennedy as U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone.[no citations needed here]
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RxSwift bindings for ReduxKit.

```swift
import ReduxKitRxSwift
let store = createStore(reducer)
```

## Usage / Quick start

```swift
import RxSwift
import Redux
import ReduxKitRxSwift

// Setup State, Actions and Reducers
struct State {
    let count: Int
}

struct IncrementAction: SimpleStandardAction {
    let meta: Any? = nil
    let error: Bool = false
    let rawPayload: Any? = nil
}

func reducer(previousState: State? = nil, action: Action) -> State {
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    switch action {
    case let action as IncrementAction:
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    }
}

// Create the Store
let store: Store<State> = ReduxKitRxSwift.createStore(reducer)

let disposable = store.subscribe { print("Count: \($0.count)") }
// -> Count: 0

store.dispatch(IncrementAction())
// -> Count: 1

disposable.dispose()

store.dispatch(IncrementAction())
// ->
```

## Installation

### [Carthage](https://github.com/Carthage/Carthage)

Add ReduxKitRxSwift to `Cartfile`
```
github "ReduxKit/ReduxKit" ~> 0.1
github "ReduxKit/ReduxKitRxSwift" ~> 0.1
```

Run in terminal:
```bash
$ carthage update
```

### [CocoaPods](http://cocoapods.org)

Add ReduxKitRxSwift to your `Podfile`:

```ruby
source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'
platform :ios, '8.0'

pod 'ReduxKit', '~> 0.1'
pod 'ReduxKitRxSwift', '~> 0.1'
```

Then, run the following command:

```bash
$ pod install
```

## API

### createStore

```swift
func createStore<State>(reducer: Reducer, state: State? = nil)
	-> Store<State>
```

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### createStateStream

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public func createStream<State>(state: State)
	-> StateStream<State>
```

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```swift
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```

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Where was The Bubble filmed and can fans visit the real-life locations?
The filming locations of a movie can often make or break the final product as the difference between real-life locations and CGI sets can be huge.
In Netflix's newest comedy, The Bubble, the movie blends both types of location for its film-within-a-film premise.
But just where was The Bubble filmed and can fans of the movie visit any of the real-life locations?
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The Bubble release date and plot preview
The Bubble popped its way onto Netflix on Friday, April 1st, 2022.
Directed by Judd Apatow (Anchorman, Bridesmaids), The Bubble tells the story of a group of actors who are locked together in a pandemic bubble as they attempt to film the latest entry in the Cliff Beasts franchise.
Jurassic Park meets Tropic Thunder as the film charts the chaotic production process of Cliff Beasts 6 as arguments among the cast, wayward producers and the ever-looming pandemic have everyone on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
Where was The Bubble filmed?
Filming on The Bubble took place in several locations in the United Kingdom between February 21st and April 16th, 2021, focusing on three main sites.
The first of these locations is Cliveden House which serves as the exterior for the Clifton hotel where the cast members of Cliff Beasts 6 are forced to isolate.
Located on the River Thames and on 376-acre grounds owned by Britain's National Trust, Cliveden House's history dates back to the 17th century and is currently used as a five-star hotel.
The location doubled as Buckingham Palace in The Beatles' movie Help! and has further royal connections as Meghan Markle stayed there the night before her wedding to Prince Harry.
Hedsor House
The second main location that features in The Bubble is Hedsor House, another – albeit smaller – stately home that was used as the interior of the fictional hotel.
Hedsor House is often used as a wedding and event venue and has featured as a location in several films and TV shows in years gone by including Downton Abbey, 2007's The Golden Compass, 2015's Legend and Richard Curtis's The Boat that Rocked.
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First opened in November 2000, the venue hosts conventions, conferences and exhibition events all year round.
In The Bubble, the crew built an enormous film studio in the convention centre to create the huge green-screen film sets we see throughout the film.
Book a stay at Cliveden House
More often than not, locations in a film or TV show are usually purpose-built sets that members of the public cannot access.
However, as a functioning hotel, fans can book themselves a room at the luxurious Cliveden House, an award-winning five-star hotel that is steeped in over 350 years of history.
The Grade I-listed stately home sits within 376 acres of grounds maintained by the National Trust and comes complete with its own spa.
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For two adults to stay during the upcoming Easter weekend, the cheapest room available is the Deluxe Double Room, priced at £790 per night.
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And lastly, the Cliveden House hotel even offers guests the chance to stay in a separate cottage, located away from the main house which will set guests back an eye-watering £4,000 per night.
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The Bubble is available to stream now on Netflix after releasing on April 1st, 2022.
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Investors were snapping up shares in Guangdong port operators and developers on Friday after the provincial capital's Party chief announced plans for a free trade port. Four of the top 10 gainers were port and shipping firms based in the South China province on an index that tracks shipping stocks on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges. The index closed up 4.84 percent, led by shares of the Guangzhou Port Company that surged to its daily maximum limit of 10 percent on the Shanghai A-share market. Guangzhou is mulling construction of a free trade port in Nansha district with a "spirit of reform and innovation," the city's Party chief Ren Xuefeng told a press conference on the sidelines of the ongoing 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on Thursday.The port will most likely be built into an in-depth cooperation demonstration zone for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area initiative, Ren noted. Operation of a high-speed rail service connecting Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong is expected to begin in the third quarter of 2018, the Shenzhen Economic Daily reported Thursday.The plan for the development of a city cluster in the greater bay area, covering the majority of China's Cantonese-speaking regions, was forwarded to the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic planner, at the end of June.Nansha already has a free trade zone and the port is Guangzhou's only gateway to the sea, a regional economy expert told the Gl....
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Arriving at the Grand Floridian with longtime friends, our spirits were instantly lifted. This luxurious, Victorian style hotel is the flagship hotel of Walt Disney World Resort and is pure magic (even without the kingdom). We arrived too early for our reservation, so we hopped on the monorail for a quick tour. Judging by the kids still jumping off the walls and parents at their wits end, our evil plan to steal all the fun without all the exhaustion had worked. Mwhahaha!
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UW Changes Lives: Study looks at drinking water safety in Wisconsin
April 4, 2019 By Jennifer Smith
Christina Remucal is shown hiking in Switzerland. Photo submitted by Christina Remucal
From February through June, we will be highlighting the ways that UW–Madison changes lives for the better throughout the state of Wisconsin. March's theme is Working for Rural Wisconsin. Watch for more at #UWChangesLives on social media. And here's how you can help.
While University of Wisconsin–Madison Engineering Professor Christina Remucal may be thousands of miles from home right now —she's on sabbatical in Switzerland — she's busy investigating an issue that has implications for the water that Wisconsinites drink every day.
Through funding from the University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute, Remucal is studying what happens when disinfectants used in the process of treating drinking water react with compounds naturally present in groundwater, sometimes creating byproducts that can be harmful to human health.
"This project is related to drinking water quality," explains Remucal. "When we have treated drinking water, one of the most important steps is doing disinfection to inactivate pathogens like viruses and bacteria. Most utilities in the U.S. and in Wisconsin use chlorine for disinfection."
Flow paths are shown at the water utility in the town of Merrill. Photo by Reid Milstead
While chlorine is highly effective, it also reacts with dissolved organic matter found in all waters, and this can result in the formation of harmful chemicals called disinfection byproducts. Some of these byproducts, such as chloroform, can be cancer-causing or otherwise detrimental to human health. It is a complex problem, and scientists have not identified all possible disinfection byproducts.
"It's a trade-off when we disinfect our water," says Remucal. "It means inactivating pathogens that will make us sick, and also forming these harmful compounds, which are of course regulated and generally present in low concentrations."
Remucal's research is aimed at understanding the chemical composition of dissolved organic matter and how that composition can affect the types of disinfection byproducts formed during water treatment. While dissolved organic matter is present in both groundwater and surface waters like lakes and rivers, its composition varies widely.
Remucal will place a special focus on groundwater, the source of most drinking water in Wisconsin "We're looking at dissolved organic matter in groundwater, and how that compares to surface water, and then we're looking at how that organic matter — again in groundwater versus surface water — reacts with chlorine to form disinfection byproducts," she says.
The project was selected for UW Water Resources Institute funding in 2018 and runs through 2020. It is made up of three main stages.
In the first, the research team is collecting water samples from water utilities throughout Wisconsin and running analyses. Reid Milstead, a civil and environmental engineering graduate student in the Environmental Chemistry and Technology Program, is assisting with this process. The Wisconsin Rural Water Association is helping connect Remucal and Milstead with local water utilities.
"We're using traditional chemical approaches, but we're also using some really state-of-the-art high-resolution mass spectrometry approaches to look at dissolved organic matter," said Remucal.
Phase two entails sorting through vast amounts of data and identifying trends that are related to water in Wisconsin, but which are also more broadly applicable.
The third and final phase is an ambitious one that takes a predictive approach. "The direction we're moving in is to be able to predict — if this is my water sample, and this is its basic chemistry — how big of a problem disinfection byproducts are going to be," says Remucal.
She will share research results with the Wisconsin Rural Water Association, the Wisconsin section of the American Water Resources Association and others.
While Remucal is enjoying her sabbatical year in Switzerland, where she trained as a postdoctoral researcher, she likes knowing that her Water Resources Institute study will benefit Wisconsinites by furthering what we know about drinking water safety.
"The work we're doing is pretty fundamental, and so it has broader implications for drinking water everywhere, but it's also tied to the state of Wisconsin" through project partners and the water samples chosen, Remucal says. "It will answer some questions locally in Wisconsin, and it's nice to have that aspect to it."
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A Death Refracted – Part 2
October 23, 2020 Bhi Fiction
Part 2 of the story. Edited thanks to Guaj, IYP and SteveF
Part 2 – The waiting room
The journey to Victoria had emptied Bonny. Nothing existed around, inside her. She saw only the blur of colours outside the windows. There was no connection, no stirring, no need to reach past her self. However, inside there was an ember. Beginning to glow, to gather strength. But it was formless; her thoughts barely took a breath before they were drowned. She, herself, was killing them. The idea of loss was…she could not face it. She walked past shapes, shifting images, angled flesh, faces melting one into the other……now she's here…..and there is the shadow of her sister, Derry; an incubus nibbling at her insides.
I wanted to see her, Tuwi tells her.
They're in the waiting room. The woman constable has told them she'll bring news as soon as she knows anything. If they want anything, just ask. And she's gone to check in with the team – Bonny, in one part of her self, wonders what they're doing in the tunnel and why they haven't brought Derry, whatever is left of her, up yet – leaving them with more cups of tea and a plate of digestives.
I hadn't seen her for weeks, Tuwi says. I called every day and she's always put me off, always. Things to do, she said to me, papers to sort out, people to line up, get ready for the hearing. Then I just decided to go over and knock on her door. And she, she just opened the lounge window and told me her horoscope had said no visitors. What could I do? She wipes her cheek with the back of her hand. Her husband holds out a tissue, but she ignores him and twists her left hand in the cave of her right: Just sit on the wall outside and wait?
The room is insulated, the noise of the platforms shut out, and warm, a wet heat. Bonny looks at the posters on the wall behind her sister: "If you spot something suspicious, call the Transport Police on…"; "Bereavement counselling -we're here to listen…"; "Get away to the coast. The quickest getaway you can get is by train. Book online at…" "The quickest getaway, getaway, getaway, getawaywayway…." A hole is beginning to shred its way through Bonny. She wants to rest, the notion of closing her eyes so attractive, just to lay her head down….
She said she was waiting for you, Tuwi says. For your call….
No, No, No! the cry rises cutting, freezes inside her. Bonny hasn't spoken to Derry for over three weeks, not since that incident at the medical centre when she'd stormed into her consulting room, demanding she write up a new prescription, that she owed her that, it was the least she could do as her sister. She'd told herself to just pick up the phone, had, in fact, twice dialled Derry's number and then she'd listened to Kris. She needs to learn, he said; let her make the first move this time. You can't always be running after her.
She was waiting for you to call her.
Bonny's heart curls in upon itself and all she hears is the pounding of her blood tracing out the delta of her guilt, because there is a guilt there, the feeling of abandonment… that she, out of the circle Derry had, she should have been there to save her…..the thin red lines connecting her to her sister to her, they were her duty, she should have fed and fostered……
She called me out of the blue, Tuwi carries on. Said she wanted to meet up for lunch and have a chat. We hadn't done that in ages, and I said Friday, today, would be good. It's my day off. She said great, was Euston ok? Said there were a couple of things she needed to sort out with the library. Kill two birds, she said, and we could spend some time. She looked ok.
Derry was always "ok". Every time Bonny saw her, every time they spoke she said she was ok, everything was good, her job was great, she and Desh were doing up the house, Desh was doing well at the Home Office, focusing on the MBA, getting all the assignments done, going up to Manchester once a month and they were happy. But Bonny knew that wasn't true. The hard scars on Derry's wrists, the ones she tried to hide under the long sweaters, told another story, the cuts on her neck, covered by the extravagant scarves, showed that the blood flowing through her arteries was always in danger of bursting out, washing away the thin veneer she applied so carefully every day.
She wanted to do some shopping, Tuwi says. For Jessie. Said she was looking forward to her birthday, wanted to find something just right for a three year old. We must have gone to every shop on Regent Street. You know how she is. Has to try everything, feel everything, taste everything.
Bonny can see her clearly, the vivid reds, blues and oranges of her skirts, the gypsy swirls as she strides, hitting the paving stones with a confident heel, the tangles framing that face, the smiles, those sad, sad eyes hiding behind the laughter, and the loudness, the thunder of her as she entered. And Jessie loved that, loved the way that her aunt would sit down with her and read through the pile of books she's just brought, the lilting voice rising and falling with the swell of the story. And she, Bonny, loved to listen as well, to be part of a rare moment.
We bought a little blouse, purple and pink, and there's a book as well, "The Monkey Princesses". Because Derry said Jessie's into princesses and stuff, said she saw all the books about them the last time she was at yours.
It had been Derry's birthday, in March…. They'd gone to the Meridiana. Derry wanted something "a little special." Was it really that long since Derry had been over at the house?
And there's one about poo. She said Jessie needs to know all about poo, as there's a lot of shit around. And she was laughing; So many shits in this world, shitting on everything and everyone.
A bud of a smile cut through the tightness in Derry's chest.
The world is just one big cess pool, she said to me. You need to step lightly.
Tuwi stops to take a sip of water. She's twisting her wedding band, and Bonny notices that she's being chewing her fingernails, the polish ragged from the bites. Peter is sitting, eyes closed, an open magazine limp on the table.
God, my feet were aching with all that walking, and I was starving by now. She didn't really want to eat, but I said, just a nibble. She said she knew some places behind Euston. There's a couple of nice vegetarian places there, fresh and cheap. That's where she and Desh go all the time. She didn't eat much, just nibbled, had a tea and some sweets.
Did she say anything? Bonny wants to know if there's anything that could have been done to stop Derry. But she knows, too, that she's starting to lay the blame….when it is she, herself, who has been neglecting Derry. All she had to do was pick up the bloody phone.
Tuwi chews on the knuckles of her left hand. She looks past Bonny, and then re-focuses on her sister.
She was talking about when we lived in Lower Street. Tuwi frowns and her voice is touched by petulance. I can't remember anything of that. But she said she remembered you taking us to the nursery once. Mum and dad were working and you'd been told to drop us off. When we got there the lady in charge asked whether you had the fees. You had the 50p mum had given you, but the lady said the rate had gone up to 75p. We couldn't stay, and you just marched us into Woolworths and we spent the 50p on sweets. Do you remember that?
Bonny has to reach back.
I do, she says finally. But that was…how can Derry remember? The girls had been two and three. How could Derry see so far back? But Tuwi's words have opened up a room inside Bonny; she feels the door, a solid dark block, sees the lock, and as she listens it slowly turns, clicks open; inside there are three chairs, a single cut of light from a window high in the far wall, and behind the dancing dust there are, she counts them, five paintings, the frames barely discernible, faces turned to the wall. She watches the light spun thread shifting, shapes shapeless forming and unforming…..
Anyway, Tuwi is saying, she was sorting out things at work. She'd seen her manager, the chat with her went well, and a date was set for the hearing. Her manager said not to worry……she pauses and Bonny senses, shares the pain.
Tuwi continues, and there is anger in her voice; And if you're asking if she said something about what she was going to do, she said nothing, nothing at all. It was you she wanted……
Bonny knows; the room is beginning to strengthen, grow inside of her, the falling light being sucked into the cracks, dark fissures, which have appeared in the floor, and there is the faint strain of a song. The ghosts of the shared words are taking shape, settling themselves into the chairs; the lines hardening are of their mother, of Bonny, and Derry before them, and they're holding her down in her chair, both of them pulling on a scarf, tightening around her neck; "YOU ARE MY DEATH", the words explode in a shower of spit from Derry. Bonny wants to scream.
Tuwi whispers, it was always you. She stops, gathers. And then the words break out; I couldn't ….I didn't know she was going to…..
Bonny cannot hold her sister, her sobs break unfettered, she herself breaks. When they're spent, hands twined, barely breathing, tears still hot, she hears herself asking; What happened?
We walked all the way here. She was talking all the time; she was doing so many things, she was updating her website, writing again and there were bookings for birthday parties………..You know, she didn't have to come here, to Victoria, with me. I needed to catch the tube back to Blackfriars. But she insisted, said we needed more time together. She wanted to see me get on my train. We were on the platform sitting on one of those benches. There's people all around us, walking, shoving past. My feet were aching. The rails are shivering and the wind picks up down the tunnel. You know, when the train's coming. She stands up. You're not coming with me? I say; this is my train. She looks at me and smiles. She says, I'll always be with you, always. And walks towards the edge, pushing past the people, and and I think she's making sure we can get on. Then she looks back, holds out her hand to me, turns away then she's gone I can't remember remember screaming screams the noise of the train, the screeching shouting remember someone holding me, asking if I was ok I said where's my sister where is she I want to see her, I need to be with her.
There is a floor – how could I be standing if there wasn't – and there are walls – I have traced them, but is there a ceiling? I can't say. I watched a film, I think it was the "The Beach". One of the characters, played by Leonardo de Caprio if I remember correctly, sits in the dark to get his eyes adjusted to the night. He has to go and check on the poppy fields which are hidden in the middle of the island, and he spends weeks getting his eyes "darkened". It's surprising how adaptable we, our bodies are. We are always adapting, either because we want to and need to, or because we have to and are forced to.
However, inside there was an ember, beginning to glow and gather strength, yet formless enough; thoughts barely taking a breath before they were drowned.
I will continue to read, but each time again I had to return to this sentence with a task to cut a diamond of a very charismatic pen.
Thanks IYP. I appreciate your reading. You have a most insightful pen, which can surely forge, in its heat, diamonds from any carbon field.
very good, yeah, again a great ending.
This is down to the feedback from StevF and Franciman, much appreciated and taken on board, who advised closer attention to flow and punctuation, and to edit deep before submitting.
Hi, Bh First I must say this is a fascinating write. The descriptions are superb. You are clearly trying to get the reader inside Bonnie's head. That's a great idea, however I think you need to slow the pace. Maybe it's me but I think the are too many commas and not enough semi-colons where they are needed to slow things down. But I guess that's just an opinion. I found the dialogue difficult to follow as there is no quotation marks and it's hard to tell if it is speech, thought or description. Also it swings from third to… Read more »
Hi G, That is great feedback. Critical comments are most welcome. I have been, and still am, experimenting on the best way to convey the immediate confusion, shock and emotion of the death, hence the dreamlike sequences and the lack of punctuation in these first 2 parts. Normal syntax and structure creep into the following chapters – and I say that tongue in cheek, as the story is multi-layered and each has layers, which themselves have layers. I have the levels fleshed out inside my head, and am teasing them out in a way that will make sense to the… Read more »
yes, but in my opinion when the writer speaks his/her voice must not be affected by what is going on or is about to happen, especially when the story is multilayered, it is also a way to 'weave' confusion shock emotion. so the first paragraph should be using a less poetic less experimental syntax.
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Hi, Bhi, I don't think the opening paragraph is a good enough platform for the rest of the chapter.Why? Because the sentences are too long and convoluted. The usual effect is to either have a short & snappy opening sentence followed by a longer one or a longer one that abruptly stops and makes way for a shorter one. Either way it's a 'hills and valleys' resolution that sets the tone. Continuous sentences of equal length don't build any tension. Maybe consider something along these lines: The journey to Victoria had emptied Bonny. Nothing existed around, inside of her; she… Read more »
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You are right. Breaking up the lines in the first paragraph does work. I thought the semi-colons and the commas would provide the pauses, the necessary stops but reading the passage aloud what is needed is abruptness, a syntax in turmoil.
Your second entry is a powerhouse. Suicidal indentation and the confusion it causes for the close family members, in this case Bonny, is well done.
CW, Thanks for reading. I'm trying to capture the immediate flux around the incident and the mixture of rapid thought, guilt and anguish was the only way I could do that.
Published: October 23rd, 2020


Feedback has an integral role to play in student learning; it helps them to identify what they are doing well and also areas for improvement to shape their future learning.
At Plymouth we are constantly seeking innovative ways to enhance our practices of proving students with feedback on their assessed work. However feedback should be perceived as restricted to assessed work, we are constantly providing feedback to our students through a range of different mechanisms.
In this session we will revisit some of the founding principles of effective feedback and consider mechanisms through which we can provide feedback to students that extends throughout the whole curriculum. We will discuss how to prepare students to use feedback to enhance their future performance and develop feedback literacy. We will draw on recently published good practice to identify ways we can give feedback that is 'faster and smarter' and help ensure our feedback is provided in a prompt and timely fashion.
Contact: Rebecca Turner (rebecca.turner@plymouth.ac.uk), Jane Collings (jane.collings@plymouth.ac.uk) for further information.


Ludwigsburg, February 7, 2019. Today, at its headquarters in Ludwigsburg, filtration specialist MANN+HUMMEL presented a technology which reduces nitrogen dioxide (NO2) at locations with high levels of pollution. At the end of last year, Filter Cubes from MANN+HUMMEL were successfully installed at the busy Neckartor road junction in Stuttgart to reduce the level of fine dust pollution. The filter specialists have now further developed the technology and integrated a newly developed combifilter medium. The medium retains fine dust and also filters NO2 out of the air. The innovation helps to protect the people's health and could make driving bans in inner city areas unnecessary. The Filter Cubes, which were installed last year at the Neckartor road junction in Stuttgart, will be adapted to include the new technology by the summer of 2019. Before the end 2019, the further developed filters will also be used in a pilot project in Ludwigsburg.


This recipe is perfect for Ramadan.
Heat olive oil or butter. Sautée onions.
While onions are cooking, wash zucchini / courgettes. Start by cutting off ends, then cut then slice them into medium-thick slices, leaving the skin on.
When onion is translucent, add zucchini / courgettes. Mix well, but gently.
Let this mixture cook over low heat for about 15 minutes, until the water from zucchini / courgette has evaporated. They should remain crunchy, but if you prefer them soft, just cook them a little longer.
Add capers and chopped lemon.
Leave on burner for a few minutes, gently stirring, so that the zucchini / courgette will absorb the lemon flavor.
This dish can be eaten warm with chicken or fish, for example, or cold, as a salad.
You can view the original recipe in French on Christophe's website Cuisine Pied Noir.
This recipe is simple but absolutely delicious. It was passed down to me by my grandmother. When people who've never eaten it taste it for the first time, they always ask me what I put in it to give it that incredibly special taste. The answer is: nothing.
Grilled bell peppers have a totally different taste from raw bell peppers; they are sweet and fruity. A chemist might say this is due to the transformation of the starch into sugar during cooking, with undoubtedly a few Maillard reactions thrown in (a chemical reaction between an amino acid and a reducing sugar).
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Cut bagels in half crosswise. Toast.
Mix goat cheese and white pepper to taste.
Spread inside bottom surface of bagels with goat cheese.
Put one slice of salmon on each bagel.
Evenly distribute leek shoots on bottom half of bagels.
Put top half of bagels back in place.
Mélangez le fromage frais avec un peu de poivre blanc.
Coupez les bagels en 2 et passez-les au toaster.
Tartinez les bagels avec le fromage frais, ajoutez une tranche de saumon fumé et terminez avec une couche de pousses de poireaux.
Tajine or tagine, as the Berbers call it, is a oven-stewed dish baked in a heavy clay pot. It is found in North African cuisines, in particular in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya.
The name "tajine" actually refers to the clay pot in which it is cooked, because it has a very particular shape. The bottom part is flat and circular with low sides. The cover is dome-shaped and rests inside the base while baking. A tajine dish is usually painted or glazed and is quite decorative, so it can put directly on the table.


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Cindy Gardner
Executive Vice President, Global Communications Universal Filmed Entertainment Group
Cindy Gardner is Executive Vice President of Global Communications for Universal Filmed Entertainment Group (UFEG) and Corporate Affairs for NBCUniversal. She oversees worldwide external and internal communications for UFEG as well as NBCUniversal initiatives, including community relations, corporate social responsibility programs and strategic communications for the Studio Lot.
In this role, Gardner is responsible for UFEG's media relations, executive and employee communications. She also leads NBCUniversal's west coast based corporate media relations, crisis communications and issues management, philanthropy, cross company initiatives and special events. Gardner works closely with the senior management and publicity teams in film, theme park and studios operations to support their business initiatives.
Previously, Gardner served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs for Universal Studios for 11 years beginning in 2005. Gardner joined Universal in 1995 and held various communications roles including Vice President, Corporate Affairs; Director of Corporate Communications and Special Projects; and public relations associate.
Prior to Universal, Gardner served as account manager for Rosen & Company where she managed a diverse roster of public relations accounts. She began her career as a marketing associate and account manager for National Computer Systems in Mesa, Arizona.
She has served on the board of the Universal City North Hollywood Chamber and as Treasurer of the Hollywood Hills West Neighborhood Council representing Universal Studios. She is also a board member of Universal Studios Hollywood's Discover a Star Foundation.
Gardner graduated from Arizona State University with a B.A. in business management.
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Vibes Production Manager Potashnick Passes
Bridgeport, CT (January 25, 2011)--Michael J. Potashnick, co-emcee and original production manager of the popular Gathering of the Vibes festival, died of pneumonia January 10.
Bridgeport, CT (January 25, 2011)–Michael J. Potashnick, co-emcee and original production manager of the popular Gathering of the Vibes festival, died of pneumonia January 10.
Born Oct. 7, 1958 in Trenton, NJ, and raised in nearby Morrisville, PA, Potashnick's career began as an acrot, performing in more than 85 plays and musicals, including appearances on the soap operas, General Hospital and Another World. In 2006, he relocated to Vermont, where he was best known in his fundamental roles as Production, Stage and Site Manager at Lake Champlain Maritime Festival, the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, and Burlington's First Night, among other events in the Burlington, VT region. He also remained involved at the Gathering of the Vibes Festival, acting as Production Manager from 1996-2004 and Co-Emcee from 2004 through 2010.
"Michael was family," said Ken Hays, founder of the Vibes. "He exemplified what the Vibes means to so many, reminding us from his spot on center-stage of the love we have to offer each other, and that through music, we can truly see the light that brings harmony and balance to the world. We will miss him tremendously."
Two gatherings will take place to honor Potashnick; the first gathering, organized by a collaborative group of his extended Burlington production family, will take place Sunday, February 13th from 2-5 p.m. at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main Street, Burlington, VT. Friends and family are invited to join together for an afternoon of storytelling, remembrance and celebration.
Hosted by Gathering of the Vibes, the second celebration will take place Sunday, February 20th on the campus of the University of Bridgeport's Arnold Bernard Center from 3-9 p.m. The Bridgeport gathering will include live music and dedications by some of Michael's favorite artists.
Those planning to attend either event are requested to RSVP via the "Michael Potashnick Memorial" Facebook page. Those wanting to make contributions in his memory are asked to donate to his favorite charities: The United Way and the SoNo Arts Festival in Norwalk, CT.
Those who would like to contribute stories and photos to Michael Potashnick's memorial services are asked to submit medium/high-resolution photographs (preferably in JPEG format) and stories (1-2 paragraphs) through a special memorial website, www.atomicproaudio.com/mikep.html, or email them directly to mjpmemories@gmail.com
51 Production Services Promotes Taylor to VP Production
Gathering of the Vibes Returns for 18th Year
NAB Launches ICE Production and Post Production Awards
Cloud Nineteen DVD Production Post Production Studio Opens
Meyer Sound Laboratories
Meyer Sound Promotes Todd Meier to Digital Products Manager; Michael Creason to Design Services Manager
U2 Tour Manager Sheehan Passes
Berklee Online Debuts Music Production Graduate Degree
Busy Day for Premier Production & Sound Services and HARMAN's JBL Loudspeakers Includes Sound Reinforcement for Voodoo Experience Festival and Other Regional Events


This resource, which will come to you in a six-part series, is designed to set you up for success when you're following up with prospects that come into the practice as online and social media leads.
As you know, these online prospects can be difficult to get on the phone when you first call them. But by taking a multimedia outreach approach, and by letting them 'warm up' before trying to book the consult, you can turn more of these leads into happy patients.
The goal of this series is to give you the scripts and tools you need to make this a reality.
Buyer awareness – What Level Are They On?
Before we discuss the different ways to follow up with online prospects, it's vital to note that not all leads are created equal.
It's because prospects fall into different States of Awareness.
Sally is early in the awareness phase. She's not even really thinking about LASIK, nor is she thinking about how much she hates her glasses and contacts.
Sally will take longer to sell. Sally will take more education to sell. Sally will take more agitating of her problem to sell.
If we were talking relationships, Sally is on a first date. Are you going to propose (aka ask for the sale) on the first date? At your own peril.
He's highly aware. Aware of his problem. Aware of his frustrations. Aware of the possible solutions. John is even aware of when and why he wants to gain access to the solution.
John is ready to get hitched. So do you flirt around with him? No. Just get him in the door, get him a great result and take his money.
Rule of thumb – If someone seeks you out, they are going to be a warmer lead vs. someone who passively engages on Facebook.
One is not better than the other. They both have money, they both have a problem that you can solve. Take the right approach with each, and you can turn both into patients.
Questions about how to master the digital conversation for your business?
Now that we have discussed the types of leads and their awareness levels, let's get into the first communication modality – phone.


Earlier, manifests once printed could not be edited. The seller had no choice but to hand over all shipments (including canceled shipments) mentioned in the manifest to courier partner. This meant that seller bore unnecessary return to origin charges.
That's why Snapdeal launched Edit Manifest feature which removes the canceled order/s from the manifest copy to help sellers save cost on returned goods.


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"Authors" and "Illustrators"
The first mock-up of the cover for The Warren Commission Report: A Graphic Investigation into the Kennedy Assassination showed that the book was "by" me and "illustrated by" Ernie Colón and Jerzy Drozd. An ego boost for sure, but also a pretty insane way to describe the writers and artists of a comic book. I said as much to the folks at Abrams ComicArts, our publisher, and they quickly rectified the situation. The credit line now just lists our three names.
My objection to the original credits is twofold: the idea that I'm the true author, the possessor of the singular vision that carried the work through from conception to completion; and the description of what comic book artists do as "illustration." Unless one person really is doing it all, making comics is a collaborative effort; and the people who draw them are not illustrators—certainly not in the sense that they provide adornment for a finished text, or even that the pictures they create explain or clarify some aspect of that text. With no slight intended toward artists of children's picture books or those who do spot illustrations for novels (many of whose names will be lauded long after mine is forgotten), what comic book artists do is something different.
That is, comic book art is not an aid to understanding the narrative; it is central to it. It is the thing itself. Because without the drawings, there's really no narrative at all—at best, there's a sketchy and frustratingly incomplete blueprint for one. The visual thinking—the visual storytelling thinking—that artists bring to a project is essential to making the narrative work, and writers ignore or reject it at their peril.
Even in a book like The Warren Commission Report—which began with a huge amount of content that had to be considered, selected and organized, and where that selection process was almost entirely in my hands—it was essential for me to be open and responsive to the artists at work.
For one thing, Ernie now has a long track record in nonfiction comics, starting with The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation in 2006; and in that book he devised a particular reportorial visual style that I needed to understand and internalize (as did Jerzy) in order for us to work effectively as a team. That style plays a crucial role in establishing the fairness and objectivity of the narrative, and I could not have conceived of it myself.
On the other hand, to portray me as "author," and Ernie and Jerzy as "illustrators," rather underplays my role in the finished art, even while overstating the mighty force of my guiding intellect. I thought long and hard about what each page would look like, drawing on more than thirty years of comic book writing experience to find the best and most apt techniques of visual storytelling to use. Not just the basics, like making sure I didn't clutter the page—though Ernie will correctly say the early drafts didn't always succeed at that—but choices related to compressing or expanding the action; what image should dominate a page; appropriate balloon placement (a visual element just as much as it's a textual one); and the use of color to provide cues about both factual and emotion content.
The truth is, as anyone who has worked in comics will tell you, readers regularly praise or pan an artist for something the writer bears greater responsibility for, and vice versa.
And yet, when I look at comic book reviews in places like The New York Times, what I see is that old formulation: "by Writer X, illustrated by Artist Y."
Of course you don't have to tell me that the "illustrator" credit has plenty of history in comics, used liberally when credits started to appear in monthly titles, especially at Marvel. I suspect, though, that the term was at that time meant to elevate the presumed hack scribbler working in a gutter medium. "Illustrator" sure sounds important.
But it's the wrong word. And to use it now, I think, perpetuates a pernicious misunderstanding of what the people who draw and write comics actually do. If a rough distinction has to be made regarding who did what, I'd say that "written by" and "drawn by" are much closer to the mark—it's the "drawn-ness" of comics that makes their narratives unique, after all.
What I know for certain is that a story told in comics is told collaboratively, by everyone whose name is in the credits, not "authored" by one and then "illustrated" by another.
7 responses to ""Authors" and "Illustrators""
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Stuart M. Perkins
Enjoyed this!
Good post. As a comic book artist getting my MFA in Illustration, I find that the writing and illustration are two totally different ball games. Some of the best illustrators in the program end up banging their head against the wall to put out a good story, and others are waiting for our drawing to match our storytelling skills. The two disciplines are so intertwined, you have to be able to do both, even if you are just credited as the "writer", or "illustrator".
-SCL
velswab
Nice words.
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Q: Add an Advanced Search page I think it would be helpful if there was an advanced search page. This could do the following:

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*Allow user to select AND instead of OR

*Allow easy filtering by tags

*Allow easy filtering by user

*Allow searching of only questions with no accepted answers

*Allow searching of only questions with no answers

*Include an actual search button, allowing search via handheld devices
There would be a link to this search page on the footer of every page (no need to clutter the header).
A lot of this is already available, but requires the user to know all the "tricks" for searching on SOFU. This page would make advanced searches more accessible in general, as well as supporting some new functionality.
What else would you want to see on an advanced search page?

A: Much of this is now available, and can be found documented here:
https://stackoverflow.com/search
The rest should probably be broken out into separate feature-requests.

A: One thing I run into frequently is the need to find a specific answer that was made in reply to a question of which I only remember a keyword or two.
So I remember that I - or someone else for that matter - recommended ABC in an answer to a question that dealt with XYZ.
Searching for ABC alone yields way too many results, as does searching for XYZ, often even if I search for an answer made by myself, narrow it down to my own answers using USER:xyz.
The solution to this would be a combined search: Find only answers matching certain criteria, in a question matching certain other criteria.

A: SO needs to be able to search in cooperation with tag selection.
Before anything else, the following must be fixed:

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*Enter a search term and get the results.

*Now you want to filter the results by a tag button you are interested in. Select the tag  (e.g. my programming language) and expect to see the search results for only your tag.
Nope. You get all question filtered for the tag, not by your search term.
Okay, then how about the following:

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*Select the tag button you are interested in and get the results.

*Now enter a search term and expect to see the search results for only your tag.
Nope. You get all question filtered for your search term, and not by your tag.
This should be done by default, without need the [tag] entered, and even without an advanced search page.

A: We have an Advanced Search page already:

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Why Bill English has done the hard thing, with Hit & Run
by Wyatt Creech
It's too easy to call an inquiry just to put the questions to bed, so the Prime Minister has called it right. Why put people through the mill without incontrovertible evidence?
I don't want to be disrespectful to a fellow pundit, but to my mind Bill English has got it right by deciding not to hold an inquiry into allegations that New Zealand soldiers may have committed war crimes in Afghanistan. The evidential threshold just hasn't been met.
The 'Hit & Run,' exposè (a collaboration of Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson) made claims which if true would worry many New Zealanders and opened up a call for a full and open inquiry. Forgive me for being cautious.
Inquiries are like torture chambers to those being investigated; they should not be called unless there is incontrovertible evidence to justify the call. Holding a inquiry just to 'clear up the issue' is not justified. The default position should be that we back those from amongst us that serve and risk their lives for our country.
I do have one reservation; that is whether or not the NZDF were upfront in their statements on cilivian casualties. Having long said concerns about civilian deaths were "unfounded", the NZDF now says it appears there "may" have been some collateral civilian casualties that occurred during the overall raid. But that is one of those dreadful consequences that unfortunately occur around such actions; that is not what most understand as the deliberateness and hatefulness of a 'war crime'.
Maybe its an age thing, but I am getting cynical of calls for inquiries anyway. Usually there is a hell of a smoke in these claims, but damn all fire.
In the Hit & Run case, the Chief of the Defence Force, Lieutenant-General Keating, was overseas at the time the book was released with much PR hype just before the 6pm news. There was no one about with the authority and knowledge to immediately answer the claims made in the book. After some days of media intensity, with different angles from different commentators putting different spins on the 'evidence', the Chief of the Defence Force returned and was genuinely grilled by the press.
I have seen cases before when the media have the blood up – that was all there. But I have to say Keating seemed totally on top of the subject, and was able to be specific and precise about where the book had it wrong. His responses were both substantial and credible.
Once he had spoken, the tone of the conversation quickly shifted. The continuing calls for an inquiry sounded increasingly desperate; hairs were being split all over the place. I heard one commentator saying the issue had been raised so we needed an inquiry to put it to sleep. That would justify an inquiry every time an issue was raised. OTT to the highest order.
Like most New Zealanders, I hold New Zealand soldiers in high regard. Maybe it is a small country thing. Maybe its something in the water. But I am sure our soldiers instinctively behave better than soldiers from most nations on earth.
If soldiers everywhere adopted the New Zealand military culture, I feel very confident we would not see just horrible and dishonourable activities like the torture and prisoner abuse case that occurred at Abu Ghraib, when a relatively small group of US soldiers turned despicable in Iraq. Our soldiers are not perfect – nobody is – but I would like to see real evidence that something genuinely went wrong before an inquiry of any sort is organised. And after Lt-Gen Keating's credible explanation of what occurred in Baghran Province, the real evidence necessary to justify an inquiry is not there.
And let's not miss that there is an irony here. From the politicians' point of view the easiest answer to a call for an inquiry is to agree – that quickly shuts down the issue. By the time it emerges from the convoluted inquiry process the world will have moved on and the personalities that might be held accountable if there really was a problem will be long gone. Or you get a Cave Creek type conclusion – the problem was caused by 'systemic failure'; the whole system is to blame and no-one is accountable.
The hard thing to do in this circumstance is to say 'no' to the screams for an inquiry. As it is so often the case, the hard thing to do is the right thing to do.
by Brent Jackson on April 05, 2017
I do have one reservation;
So the claim that our soldiers left the scene when there may have been injured and dying civilans does not concern you ?
I would like to see real evidence
What would you regard as "real" evidence. There is plenty of evidence detailed in the book. Have you actually read it ?
by Megan Pledger on April 05, 2017
WC said:
But I am sure our soldiers instinctively behave better than soldiers from most nations on earth.
First off, that's not a lot to live up to.
Second of all, that's easy to do when the nearest armed conflict is nearly 5000 km away.
Third of all, they weren't ordinary soldiers, they were elite soldiers who had been trained in the deadliest arts of warfare, acting a week after the death of a comrade.
Fourth of all, it really sounds a lot like white man's privillege talking rather than any objective fact.
by Ian MacKay on April 05, 2017
A bit puzzled am I Wyatt. Keating named the attack village in Operation Burnham wrongly. The book had a mapping area wrong but all the rest was claimed to be correct. The two villages were the ones that were attacked
Otherwise what were the areas where the book went wrong? " Keating seemed totally on top of the subject, and was able to be specific and precise about where the book had it wrong."
Actually, if the police were shown evidence of an attack on a child or a dog, would they investigate it?
by Chris Morris on April 05, 2017
Brent/ Ian
The book is not real evidence. Look at the detail shown on the aerial photos P64-67. They authors' sources (as the authors did not go there themselves) have circled and labelled things like where the snipers were, which houses were attacked, where the helicopters landed and where people died. Now look at the village on Google Maps where everyone admits the attack occurs (disregard the name as that is a red herring). Totally different layout. That means everything the sources detailed is wrong.
If this was a criminal trial, no lawyer would be silly enough to submit it as evidence. The cross-examination would totally destroy their case. Why should an inquiry be any different?
100% correct Chris
It's an unverifiable story in a book written by someone with a long history of political hit jobs timed to attack political parties not favoured by the author, close to general elections.
A real journalist would have asked for the input of the NZDF before publication but clearly that wouldn't do: Nicky's aim, as always, is to a write 'gotcha' and score a cheap political point.
The geography was wrong
The photo of the ammo was wrong
The local witnesses are currently under the rule of the Taliban and would have been in line for compensation and so are totally unreliable.
My experience of SAS troopies is that they don't sit in pubs and talk about operations. Maybe Nicky was talking to the camp cook?
Charlie. The photo of the ammo was clearly known to be helicopter shells and never SAS cases, but of course Keating says they were never in that village so the shels never existed.
So the errors claimed apart from the map reference were???
by Anne on April 05, 2017
You should be careful what you say Charlie and Chris Morris. There's more evidence to come.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player?audio_id=201839199
Some of it maybe more than you can cope with given your blind obeisance to authority figures but please make an effort.
Making it really simple for you. H&S in their book show this photo and detail what happens in a number of houses.
https://www.google.co.nz/maps/@35.1789619,68.1511949,764m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
This information came from their sources. However, they now have been forced to admit the actual attack was here
That means all the detail on which they base their case is wrong as the villages are totally different layout. They show Fatima dies about 30m SE of a house on the south bank of the stream just downstream from a valley junction.. The actual village where the attack occurred has NO house on the south bank of the stream and no valley junction so Fatima cannot have died there. So yes, the shells were not collected from the village where fatima was supposed to have died as the SAS was never there.
I could detail all the other information in their maps that is wrong, like the supposed locations of all the injuries and fatalities, but there isn't enough time in the day to convince a true believer
The second map reference is wrong (Copy and paste by shortcuts is not alway reliable). The village attacked is shown as
And Anne, the sources would have been the same people who gave the wrong details on the photographic map, so their evidence has already been shown to have no credibility. All Mr Stephenson hasn't evidence, he just says information will come out - he hasn't got anything yet - he is still pursuing "leads".
by MJ on April 05, 2017
Dratt. I had money on Wyatt Creech being the next 1990s National cabinet minister with a desire not to go to hell enough to work with the angels and Nicky Hager! Something about fishing regulation or something!
You've cost me money sir. However, thank you for proving that like Bill English you are the person I thought you were, and not suprising me completely with a show of morality and desire for principled governance and democratic civilian control over our military!
I thought for a moment that writing for Pundit meant a desire to do what was right and not to be simply partisan. Thank goodness for cartoon villains.
In fact you'd make Sir Joh proud!
@ Chris Morris
I'm sure you know there were two villages attacked, Khak khuday Dad and Naik. Hager and Stephenson have agreed the coordinates given them were 2km out, but It makes not one iota of difference to the susbtance of the story - just a distraction and cover-up technique being used by the Defence Force chiefs and Bill English. In fact the CDF, Keating in his attempt to distract ended up making a more revealing error. He claimed the attack took place in Tirgiran Village which does not exist. The attack actually ocurred in the two villages Hager and Stephenson claimed, which are situated in the 'Tirgiran Valley'.
Thus it gives me, and most intelligent and open minded people, more confidence in the words of Stephenson and Hager than it does the CDF.
by Graeme Edgeler on April 06, 2017
Why put people through the mill without incontrovertible evidence?
Incontrovertible evidence is the standard for conviction. It's not the standard to start investigating!
I assume you wouldn't want police to apply this standard when investigating a murder. They find a body with a stab wound to the stomach, and the person has died from blood loss: no incontrovertible evidence it wasn't a suicide or an accident, so they shouldn't even investigate it to see if it was murder?
Why would you apply a lower to standard to starting an investigation into a war crime than you would any other possible crime? How can there be incontrovertible evidence of anything before you start investigating?
by Katharine Moody on April 06, 2017
@Graeme, exactly.
by Chuck Bird on April 06, 2017
Wyatt, I do not think you should apologize for having a contrary view. Contrary views will give credibility that Pundit is not some left wing blog that does not like contrary views.
Graeme asks, "Why would you apply a lower to standard to starting an investigation into a war crime than you would any other possible crime?" I should think that is obvious. I do not think the police have a right to shoot someone who throws down their weapon and runs away. War is different. I am sure our SAS are not gang raping females including young girls. If they were I would be concerned.
Analogies are always but I will give you one. Most of us agree that the police should not ill-treat a prisoner to get information. However, in war when you are dealing with evil people the same rules do not apply. If you knew their side had hostages I say you do what you need to to find out where they are.
I am sure our SAS are not gang raping females including young girls. If they were I would be concerned.
But not concerned enough to investigate, because, if they were, that would be a war crime. Which would mean even if a video of it occurring was released, we wouldn't start an investigation because a video is not "incontrovertible proof" (could just be acting and special effects).
I agree war is different. Many things that would be criminal if done by police in NZ are not criminal if done by SAS soldiers on missions. I am not advocating investigating those things which we allow them to do, and which the law of war and international humanitarian law allow them to do. That would be stupid.
I am saying that when considering whether to investigate the things we *have* forbidden SAS soldiers from doing, we shouldn't expect to have incontrovertible evidence to be available before starting an investigation. This is a moronic standard to apply.
Most of us agree that the police should not ill-treat a prisoner to get information. However, in war when you are dealing with evil people the same rules do not apply.
Humane treatment of detainees is an absolute. Feel free to try to change this law, but please do not tell me it is not the law.
Graeme, I would not try to tell you or Andrew what the law is. What I am arguing is how the law should be applied. Discretion is often used by police or judges in whether to charge of convict. If a group of terrorists got hold of nerve I think NZ and its allies should turn a blind eye on interrogation methods. You may have a different view and you are entitled to as I hope I am as well on this forum.
We have a law against abortion in this country except in certain circumstances. One of those circumstances is the mental health of the mother. The vast majority of abortions are performed on these grounds. Everyone knows that the vast majority are not mentally ill or will become mentally ill if they do not have an abortion. Therefore many people are likely to have committed a serious criminal offence. Some people think they should be prosecuted. Do you?
My point is that there are cases when common sense and discretion should be used. In this case our Prime Minister is using his discretion taking all things into account including the time since the incident and international alliances.
Are you seriously suggesting that it is not a good idea to investigate a possible war crime because it happened some time ago (i.e. because NZDF didn't investigate properly at the time) and because it would harm our international alliances if we investigated war crimes? If our allies are harmed by war crime investigations, we seriously need to think about whether we are on the right side.
Also, you seem to be conflating "investigation" with "prosecution". Prosecution depends on the result of the investigation. And an inquiry wouldn't directly lead to a prosecution anyway; at best it would led to a recommendation to prosecute or not.
by Jude on April 09, 2017
Have to agree with Graeme and Richard. An inquiry is not a prosecution. From the arguments and rhetoric put across to date, the overwhelming impression I get as to why there shouldn't be an inquiry is that if we had one, it might turn up something unsavoury for NZDF.
Jude, while it what you say may be true and the NZDF or the US military I wonder why the concern for children is so selective. A three year old girl may have been killed by US helicopter gunship six years ago. Will proving this save anymore children in Syria?
A few days ago I was moved by the horrific scenes on TV of children dying a horrible death inflicted on them by the Assad government backed by the Russians. Donald Trump was likewise moved and acted decisively and quickly with action that sends a strong message to Syria about the use of banned chemical weapons. Hopefully, this will not only send a message to Assad but to the fat psychopath in North Korea and China.
I am very pleased to see our Prime Minister has given qualified support for this necessary action. I wonder if Wayne Mapp also disagrees with the PM on this issue as well.
Maybe Wyatt Creech could add some balance on Pundit by giving his view on President Trump's decisive action compared to President Obama's red line.
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EPA Reveals First US National Recycling Strategy With Focus On Climate Change
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the first US national recycling strategy, including core objectives and additional areas of focus. In addition to marking the first time the EPA has rolled out a national recycling strategy, this new effort is also the agency's first recycling plan to factor in the climate impact presented by "materials management."
The EPA's 2021 National Recycling Strategy was announced on National Recycling Day, bringing awareness to various matters related to materials management and how the US plans to move forward amid increasing climate change concerns. The agency plans to spend the next few years working to support a "circular economy," referring to recycling programs that reduce the number of resources needed to produce new items.
Going forward, the EPA foresees a future in which the economy uses fewer materials for new products, something that will involve redesigning products to use up fewer resources, as well as redesigning materials and increasing the use of "waste" for new products and materials. Though recycling is an important part of addressing the modern world's growing waste issues, the first step is reducing the number of materials that'll end up needing to be recycled.
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As part of its newly detailed 2021 recycling strategy, the EPA has outlined five specific objectives that it says will strengthen the overall US recycling system. These objectives include improving the markets for recycled materials, improving the nation's recycling infrastructure and collection of used materials, as well as reducing contamination related to recycling, coordinating to improve data collection, and enhancing the programs and policies that support recycling.
A number of hurdles are presented by the current recycling programs in the US, not the least of which is the nation's aging infrastructure and failure to effectively educate the public in a way that empowers them to increase their personal recycling efforts. The EPA notes that many people remain confused about which items they're able to recycle, for example; this may lead to consumers tossing recyclable items in the trash instead.
As well, the lack of standardization across the industry makes it tricky to monitor recycling performance. Standardizing measurements and definitions, as well as collaborating on targets and identifying performance indicators, is one of the big objectives outlined in the EPA's 2021 national recycling strategy.
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In addition to its five big objectives, the EPA has also detailed other areas its national strategy will focus on, one of which is particularly important: ensuring recycling efforts don't disproportionately impact certain communities.
The agency says it wants to "increase equitable access for overburdened communities" located near waste and the facilities that deal with it. Improper management of waste can have huge impacts on nearby communities, reducing the quality of life, increasing health risks, and more. Under the new national strategy, the EPA aims to reduce these impacts on communities while likewise making recycling services more equitable and ensuring that overburdened communities aren't left behind amid this grand effort.
As mentioned, the additional areas of focus will also include reducing the impact recycling efforts have on the environment. The UN's International Resource Panel found that around half of greenhouse gases around the world are the result of producing, consuming, using, and disposing of the various materials used to manufacture items.
The Biden administration has stated a goal of cutting net greenhouse emissions by around half of 2005 levels over the next decade. The first national recycling strategy, which will take huge steps toward achieving that 2030 greenhouse gas reduction goal, is focusing primarily on dealing with municipal solid waste. However, the EPA will also work with other agencies to lay the groundwork for the circular economy and the environmental benefits associated with it.
Additional strategies will be formed that address materials beyond municipal solid waste, including things like food waste, old electronics, and the plastics that increasingly fill bodies of water and landfills.
Before that happens, however, the EPA says it'll take the next couple of months to work with others on coming up with a plan to implement its new national recycling strategy. This will involve working with other federal agencies, as well as tribal partners and local entities down to the community level.


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Walmart has temporarily closed more than 100 locations in order to protect its employees and customers as Hurricane Ida slammed the Gulf Coast region Sunday.
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As of Monday morning, the major U.S. retailer already halted operations at 114 locations. Most of the closures are in Louisiana and Mississippi, which were hit by the storm on the same date Hurricane Katrina ravaged the area 16 years earlier.
The company's continuously updated map, which was created to help customers "plan for the storm and possible effects," also indicated that there are a few locations in other parts of the country that have closed. Some locations on the map include Florida and California.
"We assess the status of our facilities and will continue to operate as long as it is safe to do so," Walmart said. "We pay close attention and follow local and/or state evacuation mandates."
The map is continually updated by Walmart's Emergency Operations Center, which monitors hurricanes and other potential disasters in real time, according to Walmart.
Hurricane Ida blasted ashore Sunday as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the U.S., knocking out power to all of New Orleans, blowing roofs off buildings and reversing the flow of the Mississippi River.
It touched down as a Category 4 storm and rushed from the Louisiana coast into one of the nation's most important industrial corridors.
Ida's 150-mph winds tied it for the fifth-strongest hurricane to ever hit the mainland U.S. It dropped hours later to a Category 1 storm with maximum winds of 95 mph as it crawled inland.
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TTM S2 E9 - Joel Goldberg on the Culture of Israel & Youth Ministry
by Brian Brodersen Apr 06, 2017
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Pastor Brian Brodersen interviews Joel Goldberg, director of Netivah Youth Ministry, based in Israel, on this episode of Things That Matter. Joel grew up in an unique situation of having a Messianic Jewish background in Israel. He expresses the challenges of that situation; however, Joel is also able to see the work that God was doing to prepare him for Netivah that he now directs, geared towards teenagers. Joel provides a great synopsis of the current vibe and feel of Israel, as the society has become more open towards Christianity. Although it is still unpopular for Jews to believe in Jesus, postmodern thought and a greater influence of media has changed the culture of Israel to be more tolerant of different beliefs. While this has affected young people to become more atheistic or agnostic, it has also opened Messianic Jews to share their faith in Jesus more openly. Netivah has been created to support and aid young people, especially as they enter into their service in the Israeli military, as both men and women are required to serve for a time. Please pray for Netivah and pray for Israel!
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