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It is still hard to find a decent, local wine bar in London. Sager and Wilde is a rare find in part of East London, which is just becoming up-and-coming. Opening a wine bar in this area is a sure sign of it.
Sager and Wilde is just want you want from a local wine bar: good selection of wines and great food to go along with it.
The interior is also a suitably industrial, dark and understated to fit the somewhat grim local area. The center piece is an amazing bar desk. It looks like made of a salvaged, antique stained glass wall with iron cast detailing.
Great service and welcoming atmosphere are another reason that has created an instant hit with the wine lovers.


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Coty Says Net Revenue Falls In December 2013 Quarter
February 14, 2014: 12:00 AM EST
Beauty brand Coty Inc. reported net revenue decreased 4 percent to $1.323 billion in the fiscal second quarter ending December 31, 2013, compared with the same period of the previous year. Adjusted operating income dropped from $220.7 million to $183.3 million, while adjusted net income decreased from $127.1 million to $111.3 million, the company said. Also, adjusted earnings per diluted share dropped from $0.32 to $0.28, while net cash from operating activities decreased by $9.7 million from $355.8 million to $346.1 million, the company added. For the half year, net revenue decreased 3 percent like-for-like and 4 percent as reported to $2.501 billion, while adjusted operating income declined from $423.7 million to $369.4 million, compared with the same period of the previous year. Adjusted net income decreased from $244.9 million to $219.6 million, the company said.
"Coty Inc. Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2014 Results", Coty, February 14, 2014, © Coty Inc.

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A new form of Genome Sequencing, invented by the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, has successfully re-built the DNA of a Siberian girl from 80,000 years ago.
Usually, to gain genetic knowledge, two strands of a sequence were needed in the traditional DNA sequencing. However, researchers at the Institute have managed to pull off this same process using only one strand. From sequencing the genome 31 times over, an extremely clear picture of this girl has been created, giving us a unique look 800 centuries into our past.
She had brown eyes, hair and skin. She was one of the Denisovans: the middle point in evolution between ourselves and the Neanderthals. It's an amazing discovery that could possibly make the view of our past a lot more clear.
Faster than you can say "welcome to the land of tomorrow," scientists have begun to map out the history of our evolution, possibly turning what we've known to be 'fact' upside down. But don't expect re-animation anytime soon. Simply fascinating.


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"Before being referred to Citrin Cooperman, my books and accounting had been a mess for years. I had a horrible experience with my previous accountant who filed my taxes incorrectly and past the deadline. My previous accountant never really took the time to understand my business and never seemed to have my best interests at heart. When I was introduced to Michael Iannuzzi, he immediately wanted to get to know me and my business. He took the time to learn the ins and outs of my business and fully understand my tax situation before making any suggestions. From the moment I met Michael and Paul LiRosi, I felt comfortable and appreciated as a client. They explained everything to me in as much detail as I needed, and were happy to answer any questions or concerns. When filing my taxes last year, they came up with a detailed plan as well as several options to reduce my tax burden. They are always happy to jump on a call to explain any confusion and have been instrumental in getting my books back on track. Overall, I've been very impressed with their service and expertise and look forward to working with them for years to come."
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It sometimes seems as if every second property is advertised as being family-friendly, but children aren't the only creatures under four foot to consider. If you have pets, the property you choose should take their needs into account as well.
You may not be worrying about school catchment zones, but some locations are more suitable for pets than others.
If you have a cat that's allowed to wander, or a dog with escape-artist tendencies, consider whether you can live away from busy roads. Having Houdini returned to you with a shame-faced look in his eyes is one thing; an animal casualty is quite another.
There are a number of great amenities out there for dog owners, too. If you have an off leash dog park close by, that's a bonus. A dog-friendly oval, or nearby walking trails, also make the daily walk more pleasant and provide valuable socialising for your pooch. At the very least, the area should be easily walkable, with pavements and pedestrian access around the streets.
If you have a dog, living somewhere with its own garden will make your life, and his, far more pleasant. Make sure that the property you choose is or can be securely fenced, especially if you own a breed known for its escape skills. If your dog will be outside while you're elsewhere, there should be some shaded areas and access to shelter.
Of course, people can and do successfully keep dogs – especially smaller breeds – in apartments. If your new home doesn't have a garden, though, be aware that you'll need to be more diligent about taking Fido for scheduled exercise.
He'll need toilet breaks as well. So if you do decide that a pet and an apartment are a workable combination, try and look for something on the ground floor. Taking your canine friend up and down several flights of stairs can be inconvenient, and many dogs dislike or are unable to navigate stairs.
Unless you're the proud owner of a hairless Sphinx cat, your pet – whether of the feline, canine or even rodent variety – is likely to shed. They may scratch your furniture, mark your floors, or kick litter around. While training helps, a certain level of mess is inevitable if you share your space with animals.
Tiles are usually more resistant to scratching than timber floors, and far easier to sweep than a thick carpet full of fur. If you do prefer timber, choose a low sheen finish that won't show up scratches, and be vigilant about any errant puddles before they stain.
If you're painting, opt for high-gloss options in the rooms where your pets hang out, as it's less prone to permanent marks. And for furnishings, microsuede is a champion of the genre.
Every council has different restrictions around the keeping of animals, including cats, dogs, chickens and livestock. These are drawn from the laws of your state or territory and imposed as by-laws. Strata corporations will also have their own by-laws, so if your home is strata, make sure you're familiar with these.
Many impose limits on how many pets you are allowed. Some require that cats are enclosed in a suitable enclosure or kept indoors. If you want to keep chickens, there are usually rules about how close to a neighbour's boundary their coop can be. Roosters are often prohibited.
A pet friendly home can be a wonderful boon for you and your companion animal. In turn, your animal may help you feel more at home in your new suburb. Good luck!


Doylestown, PA – Sarah A. Eastburn, Esq. will serve as a featured speaker at a breakfast seminar hosted by the Financial Planning Association of the Philadelphia Tri State Area and National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) Delaware Valley in Doylestown on April 25, 2019. The seminar is entitled, "Tips for Working with an Estate Attorney and Estate Planning Techniques under 2018 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act." The seminar will cover tips for preparing a client for a meeting with his estate planning attorney and current estate planning trends, including succession planning for vacation properties and tax planning under the 2018 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
The Financial Planning Association – Philadelphia Tri-State Area (FPA-PTSA) is a not for profit corporation offering a wide variety of personal finance advice from Certified Financial Planners (CFP®). As one of the three largest chapters in the United States, the FPA-PTSA consists of over 720 active members from Philadelphia, Delaware and Southern New Jersey. To register for this event or to learn more about FPA, please visit https://www.fpaphilly.org.
The National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) is the country's leading professional association of Fee-Only financial advisors—highly trained professionals who are committed to working in the best interests of those they serve. To learn more about NAPFA, please visit their website: www.napfa.org.
Doylestown, PA – Grace M. Deon, Esq. served as the judge for a mock murder trial involving local home school students from Newtown and Souderton.
The eighth grade students filled the roles of the attorneys for the prosecution and defense, as well as the defendant, witnesses and even the bailiff. In addition to Ms. Deon acting as the judge, there were volunteers (attorneys and non-attorneys) who served as jurors. The proceeding took place at the Bucks County Justice Center so the students had the opportunity to conduct the trial in an actual courtroom.
Ms. Deon is a shareholder and member of Eastburn and Gray's management committee. Her practice focuses on Employment, Commercial and Special Education litigation. She previously served as the President of the Bucks County Bar Association.
Princeton, NJ April, 10, 2019 — Hill Wallack LLP is excited to announce that it has opened an office in New York City, located at 575 Lexington Avenue, Midtown East, in the heart of Manhattan's prestigious "Fortune 500" corridor. Just steps away are some of New York's most prominent office buildings and hotels.
The addition of the New York office is keeping with the firm's commitment of delivering high-level service to its clients in a cost-efficient, responsive manner and will provide clients with even greater access to the firm's full array of services.
of the nation's largest corporations, banks and insurers. The firm is prominently ranked among the top 100 in size in Pennsylvania, and its attorneys are widely recognized as among the best in the nation, providing creative problem solving, thoughtful counseling, aggressive advocacy, and the highest ethical standards. That rich history and versatility form the foundation from which Curtin & Heefner adds value today … and to which it is committed into the future.


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"Mirage" by Eric Troyer
Genre: Pop, Adult Contemporary
Pop Bits: This Indiana native had already been working as a session musician/vocalist when he was signed to Chrysalis Records. This song was his first (and only) single release and it barely registered on the chart - almost a one-week wonder. Along with the single, Troyer had recorded a full album called "String of Pearls," but it was shelved and remains unreleased. But his work as a session musical really took off when he met Jim Steinman, the super-producer behind artist like Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, and others. In addition to his many credits with Steinman, Troyer also worked on major recording like John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Double Fantasy" and Billy Joel's "An Innocent Man."
ReduxReview: I think this is kind of a lost little gem. It's got a great late-70s sound ala Rupert Holmes. And some nice falsetto in the chorus that is not all screamy. Plus the little freaky effects before the end section is cheezy-licious. This is a nice discovery. Too bad the album was not released. Would have been interesting to hear what else he did during these sessions.
Trivia: Through his connection with Jim Steinman, Troyer met up with Bev Bevans, formerly of the Electric Light Orchestra. When Jeff Lynne disbanded ELO, co-founding member Bevans decided to continue the group and started to form his own ELO. Troyer was selected to be in the group. However, a lawsuit by Lynne kept Bevans from using the original group name so it was adjusted to Electric Light Orchestra, Part II and they issues their self-titled debut album in 1990.
"When the Spirit Moves You" by Touch
"First Be a Woman" by Leonore O'Malley
"Shiver and Shake" by The Silencers
"Hot Rod Hearts" by Robbie Dupree
"Cry Just a Little" by Paul Davis


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"The constant twists will keep the readers hooked. This is a nonstop thrill ride."
--Publishers Weekly
The Cahills of San Francisco are famous for two things: their vast wealth, and the scandals that surround them. Murder, greed, deadly ambition...some people will do anything to get, and keep, the Cahills' kind of money. Not that James Cahill wants any of it. He's tried to make his own way, less interested in a future inheritance than in his construction company--and in enjoying the many women taken in by the easy charms of a handsome, soon-to-be-rich bad boy.
"Jackson juices things up with plenty of sexy suspense and a generous amount of
high-octane thrills." -Booklist
Perhaps there've been too many women. Waking up in a small hospital in Washington State, bandaged and bruised, James barely recognizes the gorgeous blonde who comes to visit. Through the haze of pain and medication, he recalls that she is Sophia, the woman he's been cheating with. Gradually memories return--his girlfriend, Megan, had found out about Sophia. Now Megan is missing, her sister is hounding him--and police and reporters are asking questions. James insists he has no idea what happened. Yet he can't escape a feeling of dread...
"A good mystery that keeps readers guessing until the very end."
--The Parkersburg News & Sentinel
Meanwhile, in a locked room, a woman waits, trapped, petrified, desperate. She thought she knew who to trust. But the betrayal you can't imagine--or can't remember--may be the most terrifying weapon
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How many times do you finish watching an indie movie and the credit roll at the end looks like someone is waving a black blanket under the text?
Well, you don't have to be a Hollywood bigshot to get smooth rolls to your credits. All you need is Adobe After Effects, a couple pointers, and a simple expression that does most of the work for you.
I don't claim to have the perfect way, but I have been using this method for years.
Use fonts that don't have very fine details. Thick, bold choices such as Arial, Aktiv Grotesk, Helvetica, or Montserrat have never done me wrong. You can use serif fonts as well, but be sure to juggle between the ornament of the font vs. potential flicker.
I know that this sounds scary, but it shouldn't be. Something as simple as the "Reduce Interlace Flicker" effect in AE or switching over to "Smooth" Anti-Aliasing in Photoshop can make a nice difference.
This may sound like either complete heresy or a cheat, but reducing the contrast between the background and the text can make a heck of a difference when scrolling text. I generally use 85% white for font color on the text. You can dial it in for taste, but #d9d9d9 is a good starting point. If someone gives you a hard time about it, either they are focusing on the wrong thing or show them the difference once things get scrolling.
After Effects can be a tricky little bugger. You may not know it, but if you set two position keyframes, After Effects incrementally interpolates the data in between. That means that as the user's screen is refreshing, the credits are still rolling in between. This can cause a visible jitter.
One solution I found a few years ago on Creative Cow or AEnhancers was an expression that scrolls the text by whole pixels. Instead of any given position looking like this: 960 422.45, you would have 960 422. The result is arguably the best thing you can do for smoother credits.
Occasionally, when delivering to networks, the length of the credits is already specified. To increase the speed of the roll, change "rate = 2" to a larger whole number.
I wish I remembered the original person for this expression so I could credit them. If anyone knows, please comment.
I've included a quick template that I use all the time. It has a .PSD that contains all the Credit Text and an .AEP for the After Effects Project File. No proprietary plugins are used.


Okay, I'm not actually in Venice, Italy right now (physically, anyway). But, with falling temperatures and snow in the Pacific Northwest forecast, it's tempting to look back on warmer days.
I snapped these pictures last year from the balcony of a cruise ship. My friend Julia and I had just returned from a week on the Mediterranean, exploring places like Croatia, Greece, and Montenegro. Places where the sun always seems to shine. They are more forgotten treasures I'm finding as I sit inside on these cold, dark nights, searching for things to do that don't involve Netflix.
Its always comforting to reminisce our past journeys! And Venice is a great recount!
For sure! Makes me want to go again!
Absolutely agree. And you make us want to go again too!


It appears in the Bible mainly in the Psalms but also in Revelations 19.
Halleluyah is composed of two root words.
Yah is the the Lord. It is actually an abbreviation of YHWH which is the Hebrew name of God. The English equivalent of YHWH is Yahweh or Jehovah.


HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! This is my first review post for 2015 and I'm looking forward for more! Well.. hope everyone had a good new year celebration because mine is totally awesome! Wish us all a prosperous year.
Well.. about my book review, it is my first time to read an LGBT kind of book and I want to be really honest with this one because it's my first try! So here... reading this book at first was okay with me I meant it was normal so I go on and as I turn the pages, I noticed the change of the story and I kind of weird-ed out.. I'm not sure how to react at first so my first word was "WHAT?!" But I still continued reading and what I liked about this book is that it is an easy read, it is romantic and cool. I like their story and I seriously love it, I was thinking if that kind of story happened in real world, I was trying to relate two different worlds LOL. Reading this kind of book has a different feeling in me but it is not a bad feeling you know it is good and weird and I don't-know-how-to-react kind of way.
For me, Chapter 10 was the part where everything gets so interesting to me. It is where I had that different feeling and I seriously tweeted Nikki about that part! I can't believe I did and I fangirled like a crazy kid.
Anyway, chapter 10 changed everything and that part is the reason why I loved it and why I want to pursue reading the e-book. I have no regrets on accepting this LGBT book for a review. AND hopefully there is a part two because I want to know more about their story if Ridge (the basketball guy) will make his way back to Micah (the carousel guy).
Thank you Nikki for giving me a chance to read this amazing book of yours! It was a challenge for me because it's LGBT but I didn't feel any bad things in here, things turned the other way around I just loved it.


**Fundraising for schools: Submit your success story to youthprograms@thesfi.org and we'll feature it on our website.
Outdoor School Oregon State funding information link to website.
Schools can collect cans for a deposit drive, organize a car wash, recruit donations for a silent auction, etc.


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Andy M Wright (born 1962) is a London-based music producer, songwriter, and arranger who has worked with international artists such as Simply Red and Mick Hucknall, Simple Minds, Jeff Beck, Eurythmics, Dave Stewart, Toše Proeski, Atomic Kitten, Imelda May, and Andreas Vollenweider.

Since the mid 1980's, he has worked as a programmer, keyboard player, session musician, musical arranger, and notably, a producer on projects spanning multiple music genres.

Early career
Beginning in the mid-1980s, Wright played and performed in various bands and worked for a keyboard and equipment rental company in London, delivering and setting up instruments and studio gear for recording sessions. During this time he became proficient in the latest technologies then in use - and, already an accomplished keyboard player and musician, he was subsequently employed at Trident Studios, London, over several years. Whilst at Trident he played and programmed keyboards on sessions for many of the major acts of the time, and generally began to learn the art of recording and production.

The 1990s
During the 1990s, Wright set up his first recording studio in London's Primrose Hill. As a musician/producer/programmer, he worked on The KLF hit "America:What Time Is Love?" followed by a programming stint with Massive Attack on their album Protection. 1995 also saw the beginning of Wright's long working relationship with Simply Red on the album Life. his work helping to spawn a number one hit single "Fairground".

During this period, Wright also collaborated on pop records for Shakespear's Sister, Imogen Heap, Sinead O'Connor and Alisha's Attic. He also has a co-production credit with Tom Jones on the album The Lead and How To Swing It with Alan Moulder and U2 producer Flood.

In 1999, Wright was involved in the production of the Eurythmics album Peace which included the hit singles "I Saved the World Today", "17 Again" and the title track "Peace".

2000s to present
In 2000, Wright began working with noted guitarist Jeff Beck. The resulting album, You Had It Coming, produced the Grammy award-winning track "Dirty Mind" in the best rock instrumental performance category. Concurrently, Wright also produced the single "Reach" for S Club 7 as well as "Bring It All Back".

In 2001, Wright's production of Atomic Kitten's "Eternal Flame" reached number 1 in the UK charts. Wright followed this with production of Gianna Nannini's album Aria in 2002.

In 2003, Wright and Jeff Beck worked together again on the eponymously titled album Jeff. This produced the Grammy winning track, "Plan B", also in the best rock instrumental performance category. Wright's productions in 2003 also included "Sunrise", the first single to be released from the album Home by Simply Red, as well as working on "A Thousand Beautiful Things" for Annie Lennox, plus the song "Caruso" for the Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti on the album "Ti Adoro".

2004 / 2005 involved extensive work for Simply Red including co-production of the album Simplified.

In 2006, Wright began his collaboration with Macedonian artist Toše Proeski on songs for the album The Hardest Thing. Following Proeski's death in October 2007, The Hardest Thing was released posthumously in January 2009, going on to notable success throughout the Balkan region. He also worked with Soho Dolls, the Icelandic group, Nylon, and further projects for Simply Red.

In 2007, he contributed to Stay, for Simply Red.

In 2008, Wright worked on production of Mick Hucknall's first solo album post-Simply Red: Tribute to Bobby.

Highlights from recent projects
The following are some of the notable projects that Wright has either produced or co-produced in the years since 2009.

Musical credits
An extensive list of Wright's work is catalogued on AllMusic.

References

1962 births
English record producers
English songwriters
Simply Red members
People from Arnold, Nottinghamshire
Living people
Missing middle or first names
Date of birth missing (living people)

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Q: Open a tab in an existing new window Is there a way to open a new tab in a window that you have opened already, through JavaScript, from the parent window, but open the tab in the new window, not the parent window?
In other words, can you do this type of a thing in the same DOM from one JavaScript?
//this opens the new window
var windowOpened = window.open("html1.html", "", "width=400, height=200");
//this is where I would like to open a new tab in the window I opened above
windowOpened.open("html2.html","","_blank");

I'm fairly certain that the "_blank" is not valid, but it is there for an example.  I'm hoping there has to be a way that will open the new tab in the window that was already opened, through javascript from another window.
I know I could use jQuery-ui and open a window that has tabs in it, that I can add tabs to or even remove a tab.  But I'm needing an existing browser window to open a new tab in the window that I opened from the "parent" window.
Is this possible?  If so how?

A: The parameter you used for the '_blank' is the name of the window. If you use the same name it will open in the same window.
windowOpened.open("html1.html","myWindow");
This will open in the same window:
windowOpened.open("html2.html","myWindow");

A: OK, I got it to work this way, thanks to your help @marcosspn:
var window1 = window.open("html1.html", "tab1", "width=400, height=200");
window1.open("html2.html", "tab2");

Apparently the window names, declared in the window.open("url", "windowName", "options") command have to be different, but the var declared in the first window open, has to be used to open the new tab in the same window.
Hope this helps some more people.  Yet, I have another issue, and that is how can I pass the window1 object to another function to use the already opened window.  I'll work on that, now, but any advice on passing window objects would be helpful.
Thanks.

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international mining associations: who uses limestone? accurate global production and consumption statistics for limestone are not readily available.
limestone mining plant. in stone quarry, production of limestone aggregate from surface quarries will undoubtedly remain the principal method of mining.
majhigawan limestone mine the limestone mining lease named as majhigawan is spread mechanized mine and rated capacity of mine 1.25 mtpa limestone production .
abstract: limestone mining and cement production at yandev, nigeria commenced in 1980 without an environmental study area are shown on tables 4, 5, 6 and 7.


Depending on the quantities to be produced, modules make sense for small runs where the fixed cost of PCB design and debugging won't be amortized across a large quantity and the unit cost for building small quantities will be higher than using modules. When the quantities increase beyond a certain point, the fixed costs for development become less significant and the unit cost is the main factor determining cost. This would favor a custom PCB and good assembly house to build it.


Take your welding skills to the next level in this workshop. Advance your skills and incorporate new metals and thicknesses. Students develop advanced welding techniques and receive instruction to give your welds a more professional appearance. We will also cover plasma cutting. Other welding processes may be explored with the permission of the instructor.
The class meets on Tuesdays from April 16, through May 21, 2019.
The class starts at 06:00PM to 08:40PM.
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A Hallmark Research Initiative
The Materials Hallmark Research Initiative was announced in 2014 with funding from the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research for three years. Although this Initiative no longer receives DVCR funding, Professor Ray Dagastine and Dr Rackel San Nicolas continue as key contacts for the active community of materials researchers at the University.
The nano- and bionano-technology research revolution has produced exciting research outcomes, but in many instances this is an area that has failed to translate these discoveries to society. This is largely due to the significant challenges in the scalability of engineered particles, nano-scale materials, and devices to move into production. Globally, we are seeing a shift in focus on the governmental level from supporting materials research on the nano-scale where success is defined by producing micro-grams of materials, to engineered materials that can be produced at scale. This shift from the nano-scale to the meso-scale allows for viable links to process engineering while still creating materials that possess novel properties that differ from traditional macroscopic materials.
The overarching vision of the Materials Hallmark Research Initiative was to support and develop interdisciplinary research in scaleable nano- to meso-materials across three research themes:
Materials into Medicine
Materials for Energy
Controlled Assembly of Materials.


This quite long question/response came through from Louise Curham, my collaborator on the Line Describing a Cone tour. She came to Kellerberrin a few days before the opening of the exhibition, and the idea was to present the Cone at the old Kellerberrin cinema, which is owned by Domenico de Clario, and called The Aurora Project. Unfortunately, our vintage xenon arc projector packed it in ten minutes before we were due to screen the Cone. As you may understand, this was quite upsetting for Louise and I. The Aurora Project is such a beautiful space, it really was the one site which got us thinking about showing Anthony McCall's work in Australia in the first place. So to not be able to show it there was a real disappointment. However, the night was still an "event" – farmers rushing around, pulling the machine apart to get to the bottom of the problem, locals dashing off for fuses from the service station, the old cinema projectionist being pulled away from his TV to rummage for spare parts in his back shed. Local girls offering to do a gymnastics display to keep the crowd entertained while they wait for the tech problems to be solved. All of this taking place in a misty cavern. And of course, accompanying the whole night, Anne Walton's in/e/gress mounted in the doorway of the cinema, and Louise's super8 films beaming in the front rooms.
I have been able to jump the gun on other blog readers in that I actually went to Keller.
I had no concept of what it was you were doing – I got feedback from Anne and Jane that it was beautiful, very small and very quiet (they were reflecting upon the work that you were doing in saying that. Anne was very troubled about not going ahead with knitting a cosy for the pipeline.
At this point, I was in the dark. This is because I don't go on-line until it's imperative. Being on-line is not recreational for me, it is employment oriented ie myself as commodity. On-line is strictly tool for me. This limits its art potential for me. My loss, as I realised on looking at Kellerberrin.com (but also my gain in that my actual time, is spent in actual places).
So my questions become: as a fairly wealthy wheatbelt town adjacent to Perth, is Keller generally speaking on-line? Who was Kellerberrin.com talking to?
are so strong! Ouch! Ouch!) was very beautifully done.
rubbish. It was in a sense animated by your attention. Rubbish bins are functional items but not in Keller, at least not this many of them. Somehow this makes such a quantity of them a folly for me. Also interesting to consider the Australian rural streetscape as a garden or a sculptured landscape.
Was this the artwork? By focusing the gaze on the appartently tiny, apparently inconsequential of Keller was the artwork about the ability of the artist to re-assign values? Is this about the 'special' vision of the artwork? This is a very biased question as I'm interested in sensitising people, drawing their attention to tiny sensations about things they haven't noticed before – my favourite of these is the passage of light in the day – if you can get joy out of that, then everyday you can have a moment of joy. I dont' want to load you with my readings but I do want to give you context for my questions.
This idea of focusing attention connects with many media, eg dance – one view of contemporary dance is that it is entirely about framing the gaze – drawing attention to certain parts of the body, event through movement, through theatrics (lighting etc). There may be a tenuous link from focusing attention to mastery – think of this in contemporary music, quite hard to show you're a noise master or to demonstrate this mastery to a classical pianist. To establish mastery do you need a canon? Who is that Japanese noise guy they all love so much who was here last year? This is an issue with Kellerberrin.com because people want to know what the artwork is, where is it? How do we know if it's any good. Not a new question for the visual arts – is the beginning of this Duchamp? P'raps it's really Cezanne (whose early paintings are truly hideous in my view and in fact most of his paintings are so rough and brutal somehow – I got a shock seeing 1998 exhib in Sydney at how 'ugly' they are really anyway this is a segue). It's good because I say it's good, it's good because Tony Bond says it's good. It's worthy of your attention … why? Contemporary fine arts education seems to focus on equipping students to answer this question. This in itself is problematic. I am not happy with justification alone. Why does the audience need to know if it's any good? My own view – real project of contemp. Art practice is to empower people to feel good about making this decision for themselves – to be open to aesthetics in all places ie to position themselves at a very key point in designating the value of the work. It's anti connoisseurship.
I can go on here to a thread about the difficulty of this kind of position because the responsibility for having an 'opinion' rests on the viewer, and this has scarey John Howard overtones (all the responsibility is yours, it's your fault if you can't get a job, be healthy, get educated) – this has amnesia about the wider social framework, the meta frame. So empowering people to feel good about making their own aesthetic decisions also involves educating them which is dodgy because it positions the artist as having something worth educating others about. Not sure about this.
Despite the apparently quiet surface of the work, the object is a copy of the writing that took place during the two months – this work was very demanding – it involved you having active engagement with the community. Kellerberrin.com is not just an artist's diary while on safari. Far from it. Can you describe some parameters you had for yourself in the writing task? I've touched on this above I guess so you may have already covered this.
But I am interested in observing you in past year or so – very high commitment and activity and outflowing energy (again coloured by my own perception and situation – I often find myself mapping myself on to others, this may be an example of this so read generously). A perception of the Keller work to me was that this was your attempt to cut back – to make the work a more sustainable practice – one where energy exchanges are in balance. Its form reflected this but I think maybe in practice it was as intense as LI world tends to be but with a greater degree of muteness – less of a need to make use of one's self but in fact a very great need in setting people at ease, finding points of connection or inviting lines of connection/interest, listening, writing. There is a muteness in so far as the reflection back by the artist is text only.
Now my favourite topic – Flusser – his consideration of writing as absolutely tied to history – that history is born with writing. I don't know. I wish I knew more historiography. Sounds very 80s. But it does have a certain air of reality about it. So writing as documentation – were you in any sense recording a 'slice of life' – making a living testimony to Keller at a certain time and to yourself at a specific time and place?


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Diagnosed with a brain tumour, Kavanaghs find comfort in community
May 3, 2016May 2, 2016 Anna Killen
Christine and Matt Kavanagh, with two-year-old son James in the background, at home on April 28.
One Sunday in the fall of 2014, born-and-raised Beachers Matt and Christine Kavanagh invited their neighbours over for a dinner party. At their house on a quiet street just southeast of Gerrard and Victoria Park, Matt made martinis, smoked brisket and pulled pork, and the neighbours – some of whom had lived on the street for over 50 years and hadn't once attended a neighbourly BBQ – had an opportunity to get to know each other, a value that's always been important to Matt.
Early the next evening, while at the kitchen sink washing the martini glasses from the night before, Christine answered the phone to devastating news. Her husband had suffered a seizure. She rushed to the hospital, leaving her young daughter, the eldest of three, with her father.
Matt, an ambitious man on track to become a pillar of the community through his work as a coach, mentor and burgeoning leader in the education system, was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour. Shortly before Christmas, he underwent a craniotomy to try to remove as much of the tumour as possible. He went into the surgery knowing that there could be any number of complications – the tumour is in a particularly difficult spot in his brain – and when he woke up, the family learned that the surgery had left him with a brain injury, a rare neurological condition called Gerstmann's Syndrome.
"They did their best to remove what they could, and essentially some good brain material was scooped out (along with portions of the tumour)," said Matt. "Aside from the tumour itself, which will continue to grow and cause problems in the future, immediately I was left with a suite of problems that affects all sorts of things."
Matt, a high school science and history teacher, is adept at explaining the nuances of his condition. His short-term memory is affected, as is his balance, spatial relations, depth perception. He struggles with right-left confusion and proper application of force – when he shakes someone's hand, he has to think about which hand is the correct hand, and then how much force to use.
"One of the reasons that I'm still tired and fatigued is constantly living in this hyper state of consciousness," he said.
He's always been a very patient person with a gift for reading people, said Christine, but that part of his personality has been affected by the brain injury – irritability and anger are new issues he is working on in therapy, and he is involved in clinical trials.
"There's a lot of internal, a lot of stuff you can't see," said Christine, noting that to a passerby Matt looks fine – he's developed a variety of compensation strategies.
"The past year-and-a-half has largely been focused on just getting me to where I am now, which is reasonably stable," said Matt. "There's still a ways to go but at the end of the day I'm walking, I'm talking, I'm functioning more independently. I hope to be released back out into the wild come the fall."
Now, the family has started having conversations about what the immediate future – and long-term future – might look like. Top of mind is the family home, a space that was fine for the family of five before Matt's condition, but now is cramped and dangerous for Matt when he works in the kitchen – he's always taken care of the cooking.
What started as a conversation about opening up the kitchen and renovating it to make it more safe has now turned into a much larger conversation, one about how to ready the home for palliative care needs down the road. Part of those discussions were sparked by the family's experience at Gilda's Club, a therapy and support network in downtown Toronto.
"They do some really special things," said Christine, noting that the children's program uses art therapy and drama to help children work through learning about cancer and what it means.
At first, only the Kavanagh's eldest daughter attended Gilda's Club, but now the whole family attends. In her group, Christine met a woman whose husband was at the end of 10 years with the same brain tumour as Matt.
"He was in palliative care at the home, dying, and every week she would talk about his decline and his needs," she said. "It really got me thinking, our house is not ready for that… I don't want him in a hospice. We want him home. And yet we don't want to move. We'd lose our support system."
It's important to the Kavanaghs that Matt have independent space, for his own needs and to provide some normalcy for their children.
"For me, they are the primary concern – and Matt's independence and dignity," said Christine. "If Matt's gone, he's gone, but the kids will always live with his brain tumour for the rest of his life. They're going to be young – unless something happens, they've broken the blood barrier at Sunnybrook, so that's hopeful, there's always new stuff coming out, but realistically as of today that's what we're facing and if things change, great, then he still has the proper space."
That's where Christine and Matt's support system comes into play. Believers in being open, they asked their community for help, and very quickly a plan was born: designers, builders, an occupational therapist, and others came on board to help the Kavanaghs with their wish list – a bedroom and ensuite on the main floor, an open concept – and organize a benefit fundraiser to help pay for the renovations.
"They're community people," said Matt, of the friends he's collected along the way who have rallied around him.
"You're well loved," said Christine.
The Matt Kavanagh Benefit Fundraiser Party is this Friday, May 6, at the Balmy Beach Club.
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Q: Is there a way to compare lists of gradients? I have evenly spaced time-series graphs with years on the x-axis (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,..2010) and no. of patients who visited clinics A, B, C, and D on the y-axis (in four separate graphs). I want to compare the difference in the growth of clinics. I calculated the gradient of the list of the no. of patients visited using np.gradient() for each clinic. I'm not sure how to compare the list of slopes (change in the no. of patients over time).
This is sample data and the calculated gradients.
year = [2000, 2001, 2002, 2003]

A = [12, 14, 36, 45]
np.gradient(A)
array([ 2. , 12. , 15.5,  9. ])

B = [2, 10, 8, 24]
np.gradient(B)
array([ 8.,  3.,  7., 16.])

C = [8, 8, 15, 14]
np.gradient(C)
array([ 0. ,  3.5,  3. , -1. ])

D = [0, 12, 0, 6]
np.gradient(D)
array([12.,  0., -3.,  6.])

Any help is appreciated.

A: You could use matplotlib to create a rough sketch of four arrays on a graph to compare the data.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.plot(A)
plt.plot(B)
plt.plot(C)
plt.plot(D)
plt.show()

You would have to construct the figure based on your year data and the amount of people which would then create the slops.
or use the gradients:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot(np.gradient(A))
plt.plot(np.gradient(B))
plt.plot(np.gradient(C))
plt.plot(np.gradient(D))
plt.show()


Integro Insurance Brokers today announced the acquisition of Insurance Revolution, Inc., the parent company of Maloy Risk Services, Inc., a niche insurance retail broker; and Piedmont Managers, LLC, a Lloyd's cover holder for hedge fund management liability and technology E&O insurance products. Maloy's specialty practices include: financial institutions, including hedge fund, mutual fund, registered investment advisers, venture capital and private equity firms. The firm is also highly regarded in the technology and life science industries.


Does voting make a difference?
Voting is a civic duty, but does it really make a difference? For anyone living outside about sixty marginal constituencies, clearly no. You are more likely to be run over outside the polling station than your vote changing the balance in Parliament.
Even if it did, would that make a difference to how the country is run, since the main parties seem to share so many of the same metropolitan, nannying, spin-ridden presumptions? Well, yes: however much all politicians claim they will cut taxes and improve state services, it is plain that some believe in more state control of our economic and social lives, and others in less.
Nevertheless, what we need is something that none of them promise: a complete overhaul of our political system. It has become a presidential system, though Britain does not have a constitution that can contain presidential power. It has become the Prime Minister and a bunch of unelected party apparatchiks who decide policy. Ministers, the civil service, Parliament, even the courts are elbowed out of the way.
The problem is not how to choose our leaders, but how to restrain them. Parliament used to be there for that purpose, but with 120-odd ministers owing their pay and perks to the Executive, it has become a Downing Street poodle.
If I lived in a marginal seat, I would vote for the strongest Parliamentarian, someone who might hold the Executive to account. Since I live in a 'safe' seat, what can I do? Well, I might just 'spoil' by ballot paper by writing in a message that all of the candidates will see. That I want a Parliament that represents the people and returns power to us – not the present system of elected dictatorships.


KUUF Sanctuary 10:30 – 11:30 Rev. Carol McKinley; Protecting the health of mothers and babies in childbirth is a basic measure of a society's development. Yet every year in the U.S., 700 to 900 women die from pregnancy or childbirth-related causes, and some 65,000 nearly die — the worst record in the developed world. Why does this happen, and what can be done to better care for the new mother?
This sermon is in response to the request from Nathan and Genevieve Emmett, who successfully bid at KUUF's auction to name a sermon topic. Thank you, Nathan and Genevieve, for this opportunity to become more aware of an issue that touches all our lives, and the life of our community.
The Reverend Carol McKinley is an affiliated community minister with the Olympia UU Congregation, where she coordinates its Faith in Action Ministry. She also serves on the Pacific Northwest District Healthy Congregations Team.
We meet each Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m. A typical service lasts about an hour.
Many, though not all, of our Sunday services are recorded and posted here online.
We have a variety of speakers. Some services are led by our members and others are presented by visiting ministers, college professors, or community activists.
As to what to wear, feel free to come in whatever you find comfortable. We're an informal group, and the way we dress on Sunday morning ranges from office wear to jeans and sweatshirts.
We have childcare for preschoolers available during the service. School age children usually stay in the sanctuary for some of the service, and then leave for their own program before the sermon. About once a month we have an intergenerational service.
KUUF has an active choir that practices weekly and performs once a month for the Sunday service. We sing a variety of music from hymns, to rounds, to sacred music from other traditions. To join the choir, see any choir member or contact KUUF's music director, Matt Jones.
In addition, KUUF has other opportunities to contribute musically. We often feature music from congregants during the service. Please contact Matt at music@kuuf.org if you would like to make some music!
KUUF services are family friendly, with a sermon near the end of each service. Children who don't wish to remain in the sanctuary for the sermon are "sung out" by the congregation as they are accompanied to the "Kid Zone," where they can play, read or have a snack! We also offer Children's Religious Education throughout the year. To learn more, click here.


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Шихино — микрорайон в северной части города Ржева Тверской области. Относится к Советской стороне города.

Располагается севернее Новоторжской железнодорожной линии ОЖД, на правом берегу реки Холынки.

На востоке, по Холынке, граничит с микрорайоном  Зеленькино.

История
Шихино имеет долгую историю в несколько веков, однако документально упоминается лишь с середины XIX века как небольшая деревня в 19 дворов.

В начале XX века здесь уже проживала не одна сотня человек, являвшихся, согласно архивным документам, прихожанами городской Покровской церкви, находившейся в районе Торговой площади на Князь-Федоровской стороне.

В 1920-х годах в Шихино зарегистрировано 27 дворов.

К 1940 году, перед войной, село Шихино было включено в состав Ржева.

В 1961 году на краю Шихино, по улице 10 лет Октября, была организована колония строгого режима №7 в обиходе называемая «Семёркой». Лимит наполнения колонии — 1279 мест. В настоящее время (2012 г.) при колонии функционирует собственное производство, плодоовощная база, филиал профессионального училища № 54, действует Храм в честь иконы Божией Матери «Умиление».

В конце улицы Новожёнова находится ветеринарная лечебница. Обширную территорию для неё выделило ещё Ржевское земство в 1914 году. Несколько примечательных построек, стоящих здесь, рабочих и жилых, были построены в годы НЭПа и после войны.

Происхождение названий
Название Шихино произошло от мужского имени Шиха в значении «бездельник», «шваль».

Значительная часть улиц Шихино названо в честь участников ржевского подполья и партизан. Улицы появились с момента присоединения к городу, в 1940 году, поэтому первоначально отражали время первых пятилеток: Колхозная, Совхозная, Крестьянская и т.д. После Великой Отечественной войны их стали переименовывать: Колхозную — именем подпольщика В. Новожёнова, Совхозную — партизана С. Лебедева, появился переулок подпольщика А. Белякова, Крестьянская улица, соединяющая микрорайон с Ленинградским шоссе, носит теперь имя руководителя ржевского подполья  А. Телешева.

Примечания

населённые пункты по алфавиту
Микрорайоны Ржева
населённые пункты, упразднённые в 1940 году
населённые пункты, вошедшие в состав Ржева


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Q: Can I restrict an SQL account from system tables / functions? I've got a piece of vendor software that comes with a MS-SQL database. The software has a user account configured to access the MS-SQL database. Is it possible to restrict that account from accessing things beyond vendor tables/functions?
For example. I don't want this user to be able to call anything like @@SomeFunction or some_function() if it is something that is native to SQL Server. I also don't want it to be able to call into things like syslogins / sysobjects /syscolumns, etc.
So something like this: SELECT *,db_user() FROM sysobjects - Not allowed
Something like this: SELECT *,vendorfunction(column) FROM VendorTable1 INNER JOIN VendorTable2 ... Allowed
Is there a way to blanket deny native SQL functions/tables/Stored Procedure to a user?


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Plastic Pollution in Ghana: Causes, Effects and Solutions
Plastics are choking the world's oceans, shorelines and rivers. It's getting worse inland. Despite Ghana drowning in plastic trash, the Government has announced it won't be banning plastics, citing the country's growing dependency on plastic products.
How would you tackle the problems of single-use plastic waste in developing cities such as Accra and Lagos?
Last updated: 11 November 2019 6:08 PM (GMT)
By Muntaka Chasant | 1081 words | Reading time: 4 min
A man rides a bike across a timber bridge over a sea of plastics near the center of Accra, Ghana's capital city. Photo Credit: Muntaka Chasant
The Global Plastic Pollution Problem
Latest Plastic Pollution in Ghana Article: Plastic Pollution in Ghana: Urban Trash Heroes
A juvenile Cuvier beaked whale washed up around March 2019 in the Philippines with nearly 90lbs of plastic bags in its stomach. To the shock of researchers, they found "the most plastic" they had ever seen in a whale - 16 rice sacks and plastic shopping bags tightly packed in its belly.1
Plastics are often ingested by marine life who mistake them for food.
A study published in the journal PNAS in November 2019 has found that small pieces of plastics outnumber baby fish by 7 to 1 along the coast of West Hawaii.
Single-use plastics are devastating the world's oceans, habitats, and marine life.
The heavily polluted Korle Lagoon in Accra. Plastic Pollution in Accra, Ghana/ 5 October 2019. Photo Credit: Muntaka Chasant
A study which investigated the social and economic impact of plastics in the ocean says plastic pollution costs the world up to $2.5 trillion a year.
Another study also estimated the cost of plastic pollution to the world's marine ecosystem to roughly $13 billion each year.2
Plastic waste can enter the ocean through improper waste management such as the waste generated by coastal population, disposed plastics in uncontrolled dumps and littered waste.
Up to 12 million tonnes of plastics entered the ocean in 2010 alone (Jambeck et al., 2015).3
According to the United Nations Environmental Programme, more than 8 million tonnes of plastics enter the ocean each year.
How Are Plastics Affecting Poorer Countries?
Single-use plastics waste regularly clog sewers, cause flooding and create a breeding ground for mosquitoes. This can increase the risk of vector-borne diseases — including malaria and lymphatic filariasis — in some poorer countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia.
Plastic Pollution in Ghana
See also: A Small Glimmer Of Hope Comes To Agbogbloshie
Plastics covering a beach in Jamestown, a district near the center of Accra, Ghana's capital city. Plastic Pollution in Ghana/ October 2018. Photo Credit: Muntaka Chasant
Waste infrastructure has failed to keep up with Ghana's economic growth, leaving its capital (Accra) drowning in plastic trash.
Streets and waterways in Accra and other urban areas in Ghana are regularly inundated with single-use plastics — including shopping bags, pure water plastic bags, plastic takeaway food boxes, and water/soda bottles.
Despite Ghana drowning in plastic trash, the Government announced on July 2, 2019, that it won't be banning plastics as it is not in the country's best interest. See Ghana's Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation announce and justify it here.
The minister rhetorically asked the audience in one of the videos in the blue highlighted link above: "If you ban something and you are not able to monitor and police it, what do you do?".
Interesting question to pose to the audience.
Is the Government of Ghana admitting it is incapable of designing and implementing a policy? Isn't it exactly the responsibility of the state to implement and enforce a country-wide policy? Who is the Ghana Government expecting to do this for them? International donor partners?
So, in effect, this is what the Government of Ghana said: even if we do ban plastics, we won't be able to enforce it, so no, we won't be banning it. People in Ghana actually use plastics, so why ban it heh?
Here's my impression of the minister's talking points from the video in the link above:
The minister seemed to have placed users/individuals at the center of Ghana's plastic pollution crisis in a way to avoid responsibility. He hardly urged producers to do more.
He continuously stressed the use of plastics in industry as why they couldn't be banned. Fair enough.
Note to Ghana's Minister for Environment: the emphasis is on single-use plastics — just as China recently announced it plans to gradually phase them out. Plastics from the medical industry (crucial for modern medicine) hardly choke gutters or end up in the Korle. It's the unbranded plastic takeaway food boxes, shopping bags and pure water plastics bags which mostly pollute Ghana's urban waterways.
Statistics on Plastics in Ghana
According to a study, Ghana generated 302,192 kg/day of plastic waste in 2010 (more than 4 times generated in Kenya per day during the same period), and 81% (around 244,835 kg/day) of the waste was inadequately managed - plastic waste dumped in uncontrolled landfills. This did not include 'littered' plastic waste.
On average, each person in Ghana generated around 0.04 kg of plastics per day in 2010. Overall, around 6,044 kg of plastics were littered in Ghana every day. In comparison, only 1,466 kg of plastics were littered in Kenya every day in 2010.
Due to dysfunctional municipal waste management services, residents in urban areas in Ghana regularly burn plastic waste in the open, releasing highly toxic substances such as dioxins and furans into the environment.
Open burning of residential trash (with high plastic content) is a major source of air pollution in many developing countries - including Ghana.
More than 28,000 premature deaths in Ghana every year are linked to air pollution, according to the World Health Organization.4
See the magnitude of Ghana's dirty air problems in the link below:
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Solutions To Plastic Pollution in Ghana
Plastic Pollution in Ghana picture. Copyright © 2020 Muntaka Chasant
The following actions could help to reduce plastic pollution in Ghanaian cities:
• Complete government ban or reuse legislation - This could target the most visible single-use plastics such as pure water plastic bags, shopping bags, and water/soda bottles.
• Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) - This includes regulations to make producers responsible for the impacts of plastics on the environment - such as the growing cost of addressing plastic litter (collection, disposal, street sweeping, waterway cleanups, etc.). This extends the producer's responsibility for a product to the post-usage stage. This could also include mandatory take-back programs.
• Incentives to industry through tax cuts (to encourage transition), promotion of alternative technologies, and raising public awareness about the environmental impacts of single-use plastics could also help to reduce plastic pollution in Ghana and other countries.
Where do you stand - recyclability, reduction, or elimination?
How would you tackle Ghana's growing plastic pollution problems?
See also: Air Pollution in Ghana: Causes, Effects and Solutions
Please leave your comments below, and let us know what you think!
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1. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2689346287758609&id=216407245052538&__tn__=-R (Retrieved March, 2019) ↩
2. https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/25496/singleUsePlastic_sustainability.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1 (Retrieved March, 2019)↩
3. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6223/768 (Retrieved March, 2019)↩
4. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/272596/9789241565585-eng.pdf?ua=1 (Retrieved March, 2019)↩
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I am David, quite satisfied with your write up especially suggestions on solutions. I would want a possible team work to drive this agenda which also would align with the presidents 2020 clean Accra initiative.
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I love what you're doing!👍🏽
There are so many ways to tackle waste in Ghana and Cycolyte has joined in the fight.
Kindly reach out to us in the future. We can save our planet. ♻🌍
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hello guys i really like your article on this issue i am currently doing a research on the issue and i think your information is really useful can i contact you for data or further info if i suppose to need some ?
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Outright Ban on single use plastics
Gertrude Makia
Hello Sam. This is a great write-up I must say. Well done! I think an absolute ban on single used plastics is a lookout for. Yes Ghana can make good of all the plastic waste we have available for wide range of purposes ranging from roofing sheets, building blocks, road tare, etc.
Am currently carrying out a research on the effects of plastics on marine life and the long-run effect on climate change.
Will linkup for more data.
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@Gertrude, I'm carrying out a similar research. I am working on the relationship between Plastic ban and ocean life and the prospects for Ghana. can you leave your email address, so we could share notes.
@Sam, I am definitely contacting you.
Well-done Sam!
It's very important to highlight the fact that some of our leaders make excuses to escape responsibilities. Perhaps, they're waiting for matters to get out of hands.
Anyway aside banning, recycling and reduction of the one-time-use plastic products such as the polythene bags and other plastic shopping bags, I think we can replace them with biodegradable and eco-friendly materials or products such as paper bags, cloth or fabric shopping bags, weaved/straw bags etc. Actually that's what I'm working on now.
Unfortunately, plastics have become so common and cheap in our societies. So bringing on board paper bags and other eco-friendly products (which are not common and expensive) on board is very difficult for people to patronize. But I believe that if the government and or other organizations or concerned citizens like you and I, educate the public and create awareness on the bad effects of plastics products for them to understand how urgent it is for us to take action, we can save Ghana from being swallowed by plastic waste(eg: ban some of the plastics products which are replaceable and a typical example is the polythene bags).
Adwoa
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this.
I hadn't considered the positive impact that the banning of single-use plastic could have on reducing menace of plastic on the Ghanian environment. I'm also aware now that companies could be incentivised to switch to more eco friendly products through government support.
I imagine that making companies take responsibility for the single-use plastic they produce, would push them to produce less or alternatives.
Adingo
currently considering a study on the impact of microplastics on soil health and agricultural production, the case of Ghana. Your write-up has given me more ideas on how to go about it. keep up the good job
Hello, I really appreciate your article. I am actually trying to introduce the use of biodegradable food containers (take away packs) into the system. I think I would need your support. Would be glad if you could get in touch.
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