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Winner, 2012 Australia Award for Urban Design
Project Proposer, Project Manager and Construction Contractor: Lend Lease
Urban Designers: Lend Lease/fjmt/ASPECT Studios
Architect: fjmt
Project Websites:
http://www.darlingquarter.com
The Darling Quarter precinct is a major 1.5 hectare place making project that has transformed the public domain of Darling Harbour, one of Australia's most visited destinations. The new $500 million mixed use precinct integrates Commonwealth Bank Place, two large campus-styled 6 Star Green Star (world leadership) commercial buildings. The public domain includes new city pedestrian connections, a 3,000 square metre retail terrace with new cafes, restaurants and bars, generous grassed community areas, a 300 seat children's theatre and an innovative playground as its centre piece. The spectacular world-class 4,000 square metre playground is one of the largest illuminated playgrounds in the country and a regional attractor to the city. The playground is also one of Australia's largest play areas to integrate interactive water play in an urban landscaped environment.
This project prompted a shift in thinking about the importance of the public domain in the re-vitalisation of the western edge of the Sydney CBD. Darling Quarter has set a new benchmark for Sydney's public domain and commercial architecture. Significant effort has been given to the integration of this new project into the existing precinct so it reads as an enlargement of the existing public domain. Darling Quarter exemplifies design excellence and leading sustainable design initiatives to create an inclusive, free, public space activated by the community day and night.
Commercial, Public Open Spaces, Mixed Use, Retail, Community, Recreation
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Principle: Enhancing
The Darling Quarter project has revitalised the former Sega World site at Darling Harbour with a focus on place making, good design and community activation. Lend Lease have brought stakeholders and community together to generate a shared vision of place that recognises the Darling Harbour precinct's importance as a major family and tourist destination. The precinct is now activated seven days a week, night and day.
The following place making initiatives have enhanced the site:
Playground – the largest inner city playground in Sydney with challenging play equipment for all ages, including interactive water play facilities set within a landscaped environment.
Retail Terrace – a mix of bars, restaurants, cafes and convenience stores to cater for families and workers.
Children's Theatre – the first dedicated theatre for children.
Community Green – an open turfed area for people to picnic and relax with programmed initiatives.
Illuminated Façade – the entire western façade of the buildings becomes an interactive digital canvas with low energy lights and solar power.
Feature Lighting – throughout the Darling Quarter, feature lighting creates a vibrant night time precinct, dining experience and the first illuminated playground with low energy lighting.
Principle: Connected
The Darling Quarter project revitalises and reconnects the former Sega World site, which was an underperforming entertainment and retail venue that was isolated from the CBD and the harbour foreshore. The development mediates the scale and intensity of the CBD with the open promenades and parklands of Darling Harbour and 'knits' these two precincts together.
Darling Quarter provides a new east-west pedestrian street, which connects Darling Harbour South to the City, and a north-south pedestrian boulevard, which runs along the building's western edge and features al fresco dining spaces, retail tenancies, a children's theatre, grassed areas and a state-of-the-art playground. This north-south connection renews and reinforces the pedestrian spine that starts at the Entertainment Centre on the southern edge and continues through the Cockle Bay promenade and beyond. The development included underground public parking and upgrades to roads and pedestrian crossings to allow clear sight lines, making the ground plane safer for pedestrians and cyclists.
Generated by the geometries of Tumbalong Park, Harbour & Day Streets, the design creates a two-part ensemble of stepped campus-style commercial buildings atop a base of retail activities that enliven the ground plane. The stepped form of the City is continued in the building forms of the city-scale buildings fronting Harbour Street and lower scale forms fronting Tumbalong Park. The roofs create an elegant transition from the upper to lower forms, providing the development with a unique profile and marking the importance of the central atria within the development.
Principle: Diverse
Darling Quarter is a mixed-use precinct that integrates a vibrant public domain with a commercial development. There are various attractions for families at the site including retail facilities, the children's theatre, the playground and the community green. The campus-like environment at Commonwealth Bank Place and the community green are popular with nearby workers.
Principle: Enduring
Darling Quarter is setting the benchmark for green precincts. Environmental initiatives have been setup on the site to ensure that it is sustainable in the long term. Commonwealth Bank Place, a low rise campus-style commercial development on the site has been awarded world leadership status by the Green Building Council of Australia. It includes the first buildings to achieve 6 Star Green Star – Office As Built v3 rating in Australia. The buildings have been certified 6 Star Green Star – Office Design v2 and are targeting a minimum of 5 Star Green Star – Office Interiors v1.1. 6 Star Green Star ratings recognise world class innovation. The buildings and their fit-outs are capable of achieving a 72 percent reduction in carbon emissions in operation when compared to the average performance of typical existing office buildings in Australia.
The project also included the development of the Darling Quarter Recycled Water Plant which treats 245 kilolitres of wastewater a day to produce high quality recycled water for use in the precinct. In addition, the precinct features low energy public domain lighting with dimming switches.
The Darling Quarter development addresses social and cultural issues through place making initiatives to ensure long-term social sustainability. These include:
One of the largest illuminated playgrounds in the country and a regional attractor to the city.
The first theatre dedicated to performances for children in Australia.
A community green.
A busting retail terrace.
An interactive digital media façade: one of the world's largest interactive digital media canvases.
Interpretive text in the Civic Connector paving.
Principle: Comfortable
Darling Quarter provides a comfortable and interesting environment for a diverse range of visitors to the site. Natural materials, bench seating and shade provided by native trees and plants create a relaxed atmosphere appropriate for the Australian climate. The precinct attracts visitors at all times of the day and night, helping to make it a comfortable environment for all at any time of the day or night. Low energy public domain lighting with dimming switches is provided throughout the site to maximise both safety and energy efficiency.
The playground incorporates natural materials, its low walls and edges become seats for parent surveillance and its stairs and planted areas are designed to encourage social interaction. The playground is well illuminated at night, providing a safe place for children to play after dark.
Principle: Vibrant
Darling Quarter is an example of successful urban renewal and place making. It has been visited by millions of families and tourists since opening in September 2011.
Darling Quarter's playground is one of the largest free family entertainment attractors in Sydney. It has been an unrivalled success, full of children day and night. It features challenging play equipment for babies through to teens. A quarter of the playground is dedicated to bespoke interactive water play facilities set within a landscaped environment. The playground is the first illuminated play area in Australia with feature lighting to create a magical night-time ambience. This enables children to use it after dark, in contrast to the normal practice of darkened playgrounds that discourage night use.
The precinct is also home to the first dedicated theatre for children in Australia. It draws families from all over Sydney.
Darling Quarter's community green provides an open area for people to picnic and relax and features oversized rugs, deck chairs, table tennis tables and free WIFI and board games. Throughout the day, families can be seen picnicking and participating in community programs here. At lunch time, it is a popular hotspot for office workers.
The high use of the precinct's public domain also draws customers to the nearby shops, cafes and bars. The precinct's retail terrace is always bustling.
Feature lighting throughout the precinct helps to create a vibrant night-time precinct. The entire western façade of the buildings on the site becomes a 160m long interactive digital canvas with low energy lights and offset by solar power. The public can interact with the facade by altering light sequences from interactive screens located in the public domain.
Principle: Safe
The precinct is in use 24 hours a day, helping to make it an inviting place to visit at any time of the day or night. Safety at night-time is maximised through low energy public domain and building lighting with dimming switches, which also maximise energy efficiency. The precinct's playground is well illuminated at night, providing a safe place for children to play after dark. Changes to roads, parking and pedestrian walkways at the site have improved the safety for pedestrians and cyclists.
Principle: Walkable
The redevelopment has greatly improved the walkability of the precinct. Wide on grade pedestrian routes through the precinct provide connections from Darling Harbour to the CBD and neighbouring sites. These pedestrian routes include the civic connector, the pedestrian boulevard and a pedestrian bridge over Harbour Street, one of Sydney's busiest roads. The redevelopment also included upgrades to roads to allow clear sight lines and underground public parking, making the ground plane safer for pedestrians and cyclists. The precinct is in use 24 hours a day, helping to make it a comfortable place to walk through at any time of the day or night.
Principle: Context
Darling Quarter is a true integration of urban design, architecture and landscape architecture to create a new public place within the city. It has a unified character that responds to the urban and park context through high quality materials such as timber, stone, steel and glass.
Photograph of the Commonwealth Bank Building western facade featuring adjustable timber louvres and rows of established palm trees
The efficient building envelope responds elegantly to Sydney's climatic conditions and the dual city and park frontages. On the city side the buildings have a slick corporate appearance in contrast to the clear glazed western façade that is softened by warm timber mullions and louvers that move in a shifting pattern throughout the day. At night the western façade becomes an interactive digital canvas and provides a backdrop to the precinct feature lighting.
The landscape uses native plants and local fauna suited the Sydney climate and they provide shade for seating areas. The history of the site has been interpreted and inlayed as text in the main civic connector to inform pedestrians of times past. The water play area in the playground is designed to reference the sites industrial history through the use of pumps and water wheels.
Darling Quarter has re-shaped the southern end of Darling Harbour into a functional, attractive and sustainable precinct and created new facilities and connections that have spurred improvements to the whole of Darling Harbour and the western edge of the Sydney CBD
Principle: Engagement
The development unites all aspects of the built environment and exhibits excellence in architecture, landscape, interior design, engineering, construction and place making. Darling Quarter draws together the physical environment, social function and economic viability to create a place of distinct beauty and identity.
In the past, people simply passed through the site and it had few attractors that made people want to spend time there. Today, the precinct is activated by over 6,500 workers in the new commercial buildings and the millions of families and tourists, who come to the playground, children's theatre, picnic on the community green or dine at the bustling retail terrace.
Principle: Excellence
The development has won numerous awards across many disciplines including architecture, interior design, landscape, urban renewal, public domain, construction and sustainability. This is testament to the innovative design and high quality materials used throughout to create a high quality precinct.
The project exemplifies innovation in the following areas:
Architecture: Prior to Darling Quarter, never before in Sydney or areas of similar low latitudes has a commercial building successfully utilised virtually clear glass (62 percent visual light transmittance) for west facing facades. The success of Darling Quarters glazing system has not only increased the aesthetics of the building but also daylight penetration.
Engineering: The Darling Quarter Recycled Water Plant treats 245 kilolitres a day of wastewater to produce high quality recycled water.
Landscape: The bespoke interactive water play area is the first of its kind.
Lighting: The digital façade lighting is one of the largest interactive canvases in the world.
The sheer number of return visitors, the glowing reviews on social blogs and websites and the positive press write-ups are proof of the success of Darling Quarter. The project exemplifies design excellence and leading sustainable design initiatives creating an inclusive, free, public place used by the community day and night.
Principle: Custodianship
Lend Lease with the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority (SHFA) have created a plan for Darling Quarter to encourage activity in the precinct and also to ensure its on-going maintenance needs are met. Darling Quarter's operational budgets incorporate ongoing event programming initiatives; a rare occurrence in other similar developments. The precinct has its own music and events curator and Lend Lease is working closely with SHFA and Jones Land LaSalle to structure family orientated programs at Darling Quarter, including:
Weekly children's story times on rugs on the community green run by the Story Tellers Guild Association
Interactive music programs for pre-school children on the site which run regularly
An installable outdoor cinema for children, Little Darling Flicks, will run on the site for two weeks in January 2013.


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Арне Скоуэн (; 1913—2003) — норвежский кинорежиссёр, журналист, писатель.

Биография
Арне Скоуэн родился в Осло в семье клерка 18 октября 1913 года.

Четырежды был номинирован на призы Каннского кинофестиваля (1952, 1954, 1955, 1958). Также в 1959 году был номинирован на премию Берлинского кинофестиваля. В 1967—1972 годах возглавлял Ассоциацию норвежских драматургов.

В 1986 году был удостоен премии Ибсена.

Фильмография
 1949 — Уличные мальчишки / Gategutter
 1952 — Аварийная посадка / Nødlanding
 1955 — Пожар в ночи! / Det brenner i natt!
 1957 — Девять жизней / Ni liv (в 1957 году был номинирован на премию «Оскар» как лучший фильм на иностранном языке)
 1958 — / Pastor Jarman kommer hjem
 1959 — Хозяин и его слуги / Herren og hans tjenere
 1961 — / Bussen
 1962 — Холодные следы / Kalde spor
 1969 — Ан-Магритт / An-Magritt

Ссылки
 Статья Алексея Гусева к 100-летию А. Скоуэна на сайте журнала «Сеанс»

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Писатели Норвегии
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Isaiah 10:21 A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.
God always sets aside a group of core believers that is called the remnant. There are examples of the remnant in both the Old and New Testaments. Two examples include 2 Kings 19:31 and Romans 11:4-5. Notice, it is God who achieves and chooses this remnant. There are many examples noted throughout the Bible of God choosing a remnant. The chosen people in this verse is specific and will come from the line of Jacob, nation Israel.
Gibbowr is the Hebrew for "mighty". It could also be translated strong or brave. Some scholars think this term is Messianic in nature and hints at the return of Christ or their Davidic King (NET Bible).
Isaiah 10:22 For though your people, O Israel, may be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant within them will return; a destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
The positive is there will be a group of people preserved. The negative is the majority will be judiciously removed. There is a reminder of the promise God made to Abraham imbedded in the verse. The promise to Abraham is noted in Genesis 22:17 …indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies. See also Genesis 15:5.
It is also a reminder to the gentiles that God is saving a remnant of gentiles as well. Romans 11:5 In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God's gracious choice. Gentiles are a grafted branch in the place of a natural broken branch (Israel) of the olive tree, God's family (Romans 11).
Isaiah 10:23 For a complete destruction, one that is decreed, the Lord GOD of hosts will execute in the midst of the whole land.
In Romans 9:28 the Apostle Paul quotes Isaiah 10:23. Judgment will be thorough and swift.
The verses regarding nation Israel were not prophetically fulfilled during the writing of the Apostle Paul and they have not been fulfilled as of November 2013. God has not finished his work with Israel to date. These difficult events are yet to come. A remnant of Israel will be preserved.


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Po Sum On is a medicated oil from Hong Kong.
The product was licensed since 1907 by the Po Sum On Medicine Factory Limited and sold in herbal stores world wide.The ointment and healing balm were invented by Kwok Cheu Nam and manufactured originally at the company's factory at 162 Tung Lo Wan Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.
Menthe haplocalyx. Peppermint oil is a volatile oil which is frozen from a solution distilled from fresh peppermint and water. According to ancient Chinese medicine books, peppermint oil's main effect is relieving headache caused by colds and flu's, primary infection of the upper respiratory canal, and sore throat, mouth ulcer, skin rash and lungs discomfort caused by fever or other epidemic diseases.
Camellia sinensis . A volatile oil extracted by distilling dried camellia branches and leaves, it has a light colour and fragrance and a consistency like olive oil that gives this formulation its rich quality. According to ancient Chinese medicine books, Chinese camellia oil can eliminate chill and ease pain. It is a major ingredient for cold remedies and stomach tonic.
Daemonorops draco, also known as Resina Draconis . According to the import medicinal herbs standards set forth by China's Ministry of Health, Dragon's Blood can stop bleeding and eases bruises. Dispels blood stasis and alleviated pain; used for fractures, strains and contusions.
Glycyrrhiza uralensis. .The dried root of liquorice, a legume. According to ancient Chinese medicine books, liquorice can eliminate heat, toxins and sputum, ease coughing, and sooth cramps and pains in the limbs.
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As one Division IV coach stated, "Year in and year out, forecasting this division proves to be quite difficult because of the parity that exists between the perennial top dogs." I agree with that statement wholeheartedly yet here I am trying to make sense of this upcoming season. I am not sure if I can pick a favorite with conviction (especially on the boys side) but I can point out the top teams and individuals.
Over the past 8 years, the most successful team has been St. Mary's Berkeley coached by former Cal All-American and school record holder high jumper, Jeff Rogers. They won NCS titles in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013. The next best team has been San Rafael coached by Jason Jacobson who has led his teams to two NCS titles in 2010 and 2012 and his 2010 team also won the California state meet. I think both teams will find a way to be competitive this year but at this point other teams appear to be just a step above both teams.
This is a tough one to pick (I said that already right?) but at this point I will go with McKinleyville. This may be a surprise but they return all 6 of their competitors from last year's NCS meet. Their coach, Jason Lewis, has done a nice job rebuilding that program and coaching Division IV defending champion, Morgin Coonfield. They will be led by senior John Milender (4:35.05/10:19.45) who finished in 16th place at last year's NCS meet. San Rafael, after last year's 2nd place finish, will be led by individual favorite, Nassim Kabbara (4:20.56/9:50.80). This deep division offers many other contenders for those elusive four state meet berths. Arcata returns 5 out of 7 and improved nicely during the track and field season. They will be led by Brandon Kelsey (4:35.09/9:39.12) and Kellen O'Neill (4:35.33/9:51.66). Sir Francis Drake could be another dangerous team with 5 out of 7 returning from last year and that doesn't include Brody Barkan (1:59.09 although did run 1:57.88 in previous season) and Nick Harris (2:03.12). Should they decide to run cross country this coming season, coach Bill Taylor will have quite a group to help secure their first section title since 2000. Piner will also return 5 out of their top 7 and will be paced by junior, Eduardo Calderon (16:16 at 2013 NCS MOC). St. Mary's Berkeley only returns 2 out of their 7 from last year's championship team but history has proven that they reload and will be competitive once again.
The race for the individual title will be between the top returner Nassim Kabbara of San Rafael and impressive rising sophomore, El Molino's Brian Schulz who were separated by only 5 seconds at last year's NCS MOC meet. They will also be challenged by Brian Kelsey of Arcata, Eduardo Calderon of Piner, Zach Bibeault (4:37.07) of Terra Linda and Brady Lane (4:32.86/10:12.36) of El Molino.
The girls team battle should be an interesting one as the top teams (Arcata, St. Mary's Berkeley and Piedmont) all return the majority of their runners from last season. Arcata, the 3-time defending champion, have also had success at the state meet although last year came away with a disappointing finish for them (8th place) after a 2nd place finish the year before. St. Mary's Berkeley, like their boys counterpart, have been the most consistent team in this division. They finished in 2nd place at NCS and followed that up with another top 10 finish at state (10th place). Piedmont seemed to have an off day at the NCS meet last year but they rebounded nicely at state with an NCS best 4th place team finish.
Arcata will once again be led by junior Chloe Pigg (2:26.56, 5:15.42, 11:15.34). The team will be bolstered by a trio of seniors (Zoe Ziegler, Elise Ford and Sara Davis) who have never finished lower than 1st place at Hayward HS in November. An addition of a strong freshman could make Arcata quite formidable once again. St. Mary's of Berkeley will have a new front runner with the graduation of top talent Spencer Moore. They return 5 of their top 7 from last year and will more than likely be led by senior Chloe Jenkins who ran 2:11.31 PR at the state championship after her section championship. Piedmont doesn't quite have the up front talent of Arcata and St. Mary's Berkeley but through 7, they may be the best team. Sophia Mills (5:10.94) should be their front runner once again and all the girls that competed at the state meet all return. The race for the team title should be quite close while the race for the state meet which will include the top 4 teams. The rest of the contenders will include Sir Francis Drake, Piner, San Rafael and San Marin.
The individual chase could be rather one sided with defending champion Morgin Coonfield (2:20.81, 4:58.33, 10:37.06) of McKinleyville steamrolling the field. She will be chased by Chloe Pigg from local Arcata HS. Pigg won the section title convincingly as a freshman and seems to be rebounding to form as she heads to her junior season. The rest of the contenders will include Chloe Jenkins of St. Mary's Berkeley, Michaela Barros of Fortuna, Sophia Noto of Sir Francis Drake, the Arcata duo of Zoe Ziegler and Elise Ford as well as Sophia Mills of Piedmont.
Comments are welcome. Feel free to chime in with your thoughts on this division.
Julia Maxwell not listed on Stanford's CC team? Any idea if she is reshirting or perhaps she is going elsewhere.
Julia now listed on stanford's roster.
Check the facts … Bill Taylor has not coached/trained the Drake varsity boys' x-c team for the last 6 years. It was Rod Berry for 4 years, and now, Robyn Berry these past 2 years.
I have failed you. A thousand pardons.
There is a number of freshmen to be listed on the prepcaltrack site. That they are trying to identify to the school. If not NCS other Norcal site. Emily Perez who runs for CV track club, Cassidy Haskell and Simone Abdur-Rah. Eveyone know what H.S. these future stars will be attending this fall?
BTW still Girls remaining D-4 for NCS.
When will girls d4 be posted?
@ The poster asking about the incoming frosh - Perez I would guess is going to Castro Valley. It is possible she goes to another Hayward/Oakland/Alameda school of course such as Bishop O'Dowd.
Abdur-Rahim I can only assume is former NBA All-Star and UC Berkeley star Shareef's daughter. So while it is possible she goes to Berkeley High, I have not heard anything from/of her and I think I would given her pedigree as a runner and athlete. I think it is more likely she goes to a Sacramento-area school as I think Shareef lives up there.
Haskell runs for Diablo Valley TC, so Miramonte, Acalanes, Carondelet, Dublin, Campo are the likely schools.
Simone Abdur-Rahim is the daughter of Long Beach Poly star Karim Abdur-Rahim, and Valley High standout Cha'Ron Abdur-Rahim. She attends Cosumnes Oaks High school in Elk Grove, CA.
Saint Mary's berkeley also has a formidable team this year with a solid returning top 5.


Today, I woke up groggy, as usual, and was dreading having to pack for a long drive to Florida, with a stop at a funeral along the way.
I really don't like funerals. I've only met the person who died twice. It's more of an obligation, and I resent having to change my travel plans to accommodate it. I've been whining for days, when I am not thinking up schemes to get out of it.
Yes, I really am that selfish. And yes, it is what happens when you live as a heavy drinker. No one expects anything less from you after a while. They know you are a whiny (but entertaining, you imagine), self-centered person that cannot be counted on when it really matters.
But after some spiritual reflection, I had this rush of joy when I realized it had been thirty days since my last drink, and that I didn't have to play this role today. I am in awe of the fact that I can be of use to the people there. I can pay my respects with respect! I need not harp silently on how this man's death inconvenienced me. I can be a positive, praying influence on the shocked family. I can make it easy on my husband, who knows he is half-dragging me there. I can graciously and lovingly be a partner instead of a millstone. I can allow him to take his attention from placating his whiny spouse to supporting his friends and family, who have suffered an unbelievable loss.
And I am ecstatic about this! I know the feeling won't last forever, but who cares? I am not fixated on the drinking that will be going on after the funeral — I have barely thought about it. I am free to be what I really am — a loving person, a child of God. The alcohol hides this about me. Love doesn't come naturally when I choose drinking over actual human contact. I have been among the walking dead. All I have to do is read my first post to see how shocking my state of mind was under the influence.
I can choose to be strong instead of weak. I can break these chains once and for all. I have never felt more free.
The coolest thing is about to happen. It's beyond cool, really, because I am about to make a giant leap in universal understanding. I am about to tip the Karma scales in another direction. I kid you not.
Today, I am going to take the money I saved from not drinking so far this week (at least $50) and I am going to go to Walmart. I am not a fan of Walmart, but it's where I can get the most for my money. I am going to buy the healthiest individually wrapped snacks that I can find and drive to a small building on the "iffy" side of the small town where I live. There, I will drop off these snacks to the nice woman who runs a program for homeless women and their children. The program involves a year-long support network and long-term housing for women who have experienced addiction, violence, joblessness, mental illness, etc.
Can you see the incredible symmetry in this action? Let me say this: I have never done anything like this except through my good intentions on the road to hell. Even those weak altruistic actions I have attempted in the past go by the wayside once drinking is back on the table. But today, I am going to take money that would have supported the local ethanol industry and transform it into take-home snacks for homeless families. The website says that these snacks are often all they have to eat for dinner.
OMG, the gallons of money that I wasted by dumping it into the polluted stream of indulgence and addiction! How much better will I feel knowing that the money went to a child? I am about to find out. Amazing.
But wait … I have taken this a step further. I have volunteered (via the website) to work one day a week in the childcare area of the building. Women often show up with nowhere for their young children to go and therefore cannot attend AA, fill out paperwork, etc. I love kids, especially now that my own are all grown up. I can help someone who needs it, for once. I no longer have to be the needy one, the one that constantly asks for support to get through the day, who is an open funnel for wasting money and time.
I could be someone else. Actually, I could be me without alcohol.
An unbelievable achievement: I have not had one sip of ethanol in 18 days. (I call it ethanol now because that is what it is. The same thing you get at the gas station. It's lethal, flammable, etc., but with enough sugar-coating, ingestible. That's why it tastes so bad. It is literally poison.) I got all of this from a book called, "The Naked Mind: Control Alcohol." Spoiler alert! The book is not about controlling alcohol. It convinces you on a sub-conscious level to think of it as poison. Which it is.
I am doing well. I am not obsessing about alcohol, mostly because I have had a relatively stress-free few weeks. But guess what? In the past, I have succumbed to drinking even more often at "happy" events — weddings, getting together with friends, holidays. I don't need to avoid triggers as much as I need to realize that everything is a trigger, starting with the first thought. The minute I let that first thought in the door, the second thought will grab whatever situation I am in and make it an excuse to drink. It's genius really. There is no circumstance that I can't mold to my own secret wish to drink, if I so choose. (Even if I don't so choose, the thought will choose me.) I need to stop drinking completely, and not hold out thoughts such as: "If I get a terminal disease, than I can have a drink." In the past, I have actually wished for a health-related false alarm just to get that drink. That is sick.
So today, I am watching my thoughts. They mostly involve chocolate truffles at the moment. And truffles never leave me wondering what stupid thing I said or did after having a few.
I'd never heard of an Ayurvedic massage, not before my self-imposed rehab at a mountain retreat that promised yoga, meditation, vegetarian food, and healing. No meat or alcohol allowed on the premises.
It was here on a table, on top of a mountain so high that we often walked through clouds, that silent women anointed my body — my forehead, my palms, my feet — with warm, fragrant oil. Their skilled caresses and the lull of soft Indian music made me feel like I was in another world. Like anything might happen.
I vaguely remembered something about the anointing of saints, of Jesus. I read later in the Ayurvedic literature in my room that it was a call for healing. For miracles.
I wondered if the silent women could feel how desperately I needed a miracle. I knew, though, looking in the mirror later, that desperation was a feeling that I could no longer summon up. Instead, a familiar numbness clouded my mind, obscuring what used to be concern for my own wellbeing.
"Miracles happen here," claimed the retreat's website. I needed one for myself, no doubt. But also some to bless those I had damaged with my need to anoint myself with wine.
During my final days at the spa, I was anointed for the last time. Afterward, the woman wrapped steaming towels around my head and feet so that I was covered in a shroud of white, with a sheet wrapped tightly around my body.
Like a corpse I thought. The anointing of the dead.
It's up to you, she seemed to say.
I could take this blessing from the gods and hold it tight forever. Or release it and turn away. Let the unforgiving tide roll in and take me out to sea.
I want to hold on.


text:
/*globals console, module, require*/
var padding = require('./padding');
var graphics = require('graphics');

var switchQuadrantNameToIdentifier = {
    TopLeft: 'A',
    TopRight: 'B',
    LowerRight: 'C',
    LowerLeft: 'D'
};

var propertiesToCss = function(width, height, x, y) {
    'use strict';
    var xString = x !== 'center' ? Math.round(x, 0).toString() + 'px' : x;
    var yString = y !== 'center' ? Math.round(y, 0).toString() + 'px' : y;

    return {
        'background-size': Math.round(width, 0).toString() + 'px ' + Math.round(height, 0).toString() + 'px',
        'background-position': xString + ' ' + yString
    };
};

var getWidthHeightFromAnchor = {
    landscape: {
        TopLeft: function(anchorPointAndPadding, faceBox) {
            'use strict';
            var aspectRatio, newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset;
            if(faceBox.targetHeight < (faceBox.sourceHeight - anchorPointAndPadding.y)) {
                aspectRatio = (faceBox.sourceHeight - anchorPointAndPadding.y) / faceBox.targetHeight;
                positionYOffset = anchorPointAndPadding.y === 0 ? 0 : - (anchorPointAndPadding.y / aspectRatio);
            } else {
                aspectRatio = faceBox.sourceHeight / faceBox.targetHeight;
                positionYOffset = 0;
            }
            positionXOffset = 0;
            if(anchorPointAndPadding.x > (faceBox.sourceWidth / 4)) {
                positionXOffset = - (anchorPointAndPadding.x / 2);
            }
            newWidth = faceBox.sourceWidth / aspectRatio;
            newHeight = faceBox.sourceHeight / aspectRatio;
            return propertiesToCss(newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset);
        },
        TopRight: function(anchorPointAndPadding, faceBox) {
            'use strict';
            var aspectRatio, newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset;
            if(faceBox.targetHeight < (faceBox.sourceHeight - anchorPointAndPadding.y)) {
                aspectRatio = (faceBox.sourceHeight - anchorPointAndPadding.y) / faceBox.targetHeight;
                positionYOffset = anchorPointAndPadding.y === 0 ? 0 : - (anchorPointAndPadding.y / aspectRatio);
            } else {
                aspectRatio = faceBox.sourceHeight / faceBox.targetHeight;
                positionYOffset = 0;
            }
            positionXOffset = 0;
            if((faceBox.sourceWidth - anchorPointAndPadding.x) > (faceBox.sourceWidth / 4)) {
                positionXOffset = - ((faceBox.sourceWidth - anchorPointAndPadding.x) / 2);
            }
            newWidth = faceBox.sourceWidth / aspectRatio;
            newHeight = faceBox.sourceHeight / aspectRatio;
            return propertiesToCss(newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset);
        },
        LowerLeft: function(anchorPointAndPadding, faceBox) {
            'use strict';
            var aspectRatio, newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset;
            if(faceBox.targetHeight < anchorPointAndPadding.y) {
                aspectRatio = anchorPointAndPadding.y / faceBox.targetHeight;
                positionYOffset = (faceBox.sourceHeight - anchorPointAndPadding.y) === 0 ? 0 : - ((faceBox.sourceHeight - anchorPointAndPadding.y) / aspectRatio);
            } else {
                aspectRatio = anchorPointAndPadding.y / faceBox.targetHeight;
                positionYOffset = 0;
            }
            positionXOffset = 0;
            if(anchorPointAndPadding.x > (faceBox.sourceWidth / 4)) {
                positionXOffset = - (anchorPointAndPadding.x / 2);
            }
            newWidth = faceBox.sourceWidth / aspectRatio;
            newHeight = faceBox.sourceHeight / aspectRatio;
            return propertiesToCss(newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset);
        },
        LowerRight: function(anchorPointAndPadding, faceBox) {
            'use strict';
            var aspectRatio, newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset;
            if(faceBox.targetHeight < (faceBox.sourceHeight - anchorPointAndPadding.y)) {
                aspectRatio = (faceBox.sourceHeight - anchorPointAndPadding.y) / faceBox.targetHeight;
                positionYOffset = anchorPointAndPadding.y === 0 ? 0 : - (anchorPointAndPadding.y / aspectRatio);
            } else {
                aspectRatio = faceBox.sourceHeight / faceBox.targetHeight;
                positionYOffset = 0;
            }
            positionXOffset = 0;
            if((faceBox.sourceWidth - anchorPointAndPadding.x) > (faceBox.sourceWidth / 4)) {
                positionXOffset = - ((faceBox.sourceWidth - anchorPointAndPadding.x) / 2);
            }
            newWidth = faceBox.sourceWidth / aspectRatio;
            newHeight = faceBox.sourceHeight / aspectRatio;
            return propertiesToCss(newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset);
        },
        CenterTop: function(anchorPointAndPadding, faceBox) {
            'use strict';
            var newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset;
            var aspectRatio = faceBox.sourceHeight / faceBox.targetHeight;
            var positionYOffset = 0;
            positionXOffset = 'center';
            newWidth = faceBox.sourceWidth / aspectRatio;
            newHeight = faceBox.sourceHeight / aspectRatio;
            return propertiesToCss(newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset);
        },
        CenterLeft: function(anchorPointAndPadding, faceBox) {
            'use strict';
            var newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset;
            var aspectRatio = faceBox.sourceHeight / faceBox.targetHeight;
            var positionYOffset = 'center';
            positionXOffset = 0;
            newWidth = faceBox.sourceWidth / aspectRatio;
            newHeight = faceBox.sourceHeight / aspectRatio;
            return propertiesToCss(newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset);
        },
        CenterRight: function(anchorPointAndPadding, faceBox) {
            'use strict';
            var newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset;
            var aspectRatio = faceBox.sourceHeight / faceBox.targetHeight;
            var positionYOffset = 'center';
            positionXOffset = 0;
            newWidth = faceBox.sourceWidth / aspectRatio;
            newHeight = faceBox.sourceHeight / aspectRatio;
            return propertiesToCss(newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset);
        },
        CenterBottom: function(anchorPointAndPadding, faceBox) {
            'use strict';
            var newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset;
            var aspectRatio = faceBox.sourceHeight / faceBox.targetHeight;
            var positionYOffset = 0;
            positionXOffset = 'center';
            newWidth = faceBox.sourceWidth / aspectRatio;
            newHeight = faceBox.sourceHeight / aspectRatio;
            return propertiesToCss(newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset);
        }
    },
    portrait: {
        TopLeft: function(anchorPointAndPadding, faceBox) {
            'use strict';
            var aspectRatio, newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset;
            if(faceBox.targetWidth < (faceBox.sourceWidth - anchorPointAndPadding.x)) {
                aspectRatio = (faceBox.sourceWidth - anchorPointAndPadding.x) / faceBox.targetWidth;
                positionYOffset = - (anchorPointAndPadding.y / aspectRatio);
            } else {
                aspectRatio = faceBox.sourceWidth / faceBox.targetWidth;
                positionYOffset = anchorPointAndPadding.y === 0 ? 0 : - (anchorPointAndPadding.y / aspectRatio);
            }
            positionXOffset = 0;
            newWidth = faceBox.sourceWidth / aspectRatio;
            newHeight = faceBox.sourceHeight / aspectRatio;
            return propertiesToCss(newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset);
        },
        TopRight: function(anchorPointAndPadding, faceBox) {
            'use strict';
            var aspectRatio, newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset;
            if(faceBox.targetWidth < anchorPointAndPadding.x) {
                aspectRatio = anchorPointAndPadding.x / faceBox.targetWidth;
                positionYOffset = - (anchorPointAndPadding.y / aspectRatio);
            } else {
                aspectRatio = anchorPointAndPadding.x / faceBox.targetWidth;
                positionYOffset = anchorPointAndPadding.y === 0 ? 0 : - (anchorPointAndPadding.y / aspectRatio);
            }
            positionXOffset = -((faceBox.sourceWidth - anchorPointAndPadding.x) / aspectRatio);
            newWidth = faceBox.sourceWidth / aspectRatio;
            newHeight = faceBox.sourceHeight / aspectRatio;
            return propertiesToCss(newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset);
        },
        LowerLeft: function(anchorPointAndPadding, faceBox) {
            'use strict';
            var aspectRatio, newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset;
            if(faceBox.targetWidth < (faceBox.sourceWidth - anchorPointAndPadding.x)) {
                aspectRatio = (faceBox.sourceWidth - anchorPointAndPadding.x) / faceBox.targetWidth;
                positionYOffset = - (faceBox.sourceHeight - anchorPointAndPadding.y / aspectRatio);
            } else {
                aspectRatio = faceBox.sourceWidth / faceBox.targetWidth;
                positionYOffset = (faceBox.sourceHeight - anchorPointAndPadding.y) === 0 ? 0 : - ((faceBox.sourceHeight - anchorPointAndPadding.y) / aspectRatio);
            }
            positionXOffset = 0;
            newWidth = faceBox.sourceWidth / aspectRatio;
            newHeight = faceBox.sourceHeight / aspectRatio;
            return propertiesToCss(newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset);
        },
        LowerRight: function(anchorPointAndPadding, faceBox) {
            'use strict';
            var aspectRatio, newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset;
            if(faceBox.targetWidth < anchorPointAndPadding.x) {
                aspectRatio = anchorPointAndPadding.x / faceBox.targetWidth;
                positionYOffset = - ((faceBox.sourceHeight - anchorPointAndPadding.y) / aspectRatio);
            } else {
                aspectRatio = anchorPointAndPadding.x / faceBox.targetWidth;
                positionYOffset = (faceBox.sourceHeight - anchorPointAndPadding.y) === 0 ? 0 : - ((faceBox.sourceHeight - anchorPointAndPadding.y) / aspectRatio);
            }
            positionXOffset = -((faceBox.sourceWidth - anchorPointAndPadding.x) / aspectRatio);
            newWidth = faceBox.sourceWidth / aspectRatio;
            newHeight = faceBox.sourceHeight / aspectRatio;
            return propertiesToCss(newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset);
        },
        CenterTop: function(anchorPointAndPadding, faceBox) {
            'use strict';
            var newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset;
            var aspectRatio = faceBox.sourceWidth / faceBox.targetWidth;
            var positionYOffset = anchorPointAndPadding.y === 0 ? 0 : - (anchorPointAndPadding.y / aspectRatio);
            positionXOffset = 'center';
            newWidth = faceBox.sourceWidth / aspectRatio;
            newHeight = faceBox.sourceHeight / aspectRatio;
            return propertiesToCss(newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset);
        },
        CenterLeft: function(anchorPointAndPadding, faceBox) {
            'use strict';
            var newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset;
            var aspectRatio = faceBox.sourceWidth / faceBox.targetWidth;
            var positionYOffset = 'center';
            positionXOffset = 0;
            newWidth = faceBox.sourceWidth / aspectRatio;
            newHeight = faceBox.sourceHeight / aspectRatio;
            return propertiesToCss(newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset);
        },
        CenterRight: function(anchorPointAndPadding, faceBox) {
            'use strict';
            var newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset;
            var aspectRatio = faceBox.sourceWidth / faceBox.targetWidth;
            var positionYOffset = 'center';
            positionXOffset = 0;
            newWidth = faceBox.sourceWidth / aspectRatio;
            newHeight = faceBox.sourceHeight / aspectRatio;
            return propertiesToCss(newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset);
        },
        CenterBottom: function(anchorPointAndPadding, faceBox) {
            'use strict';
            var newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset;
            var aspectRatio = faceBox.sourceWidth / faceBox.targetWidth;
            var positionYOffset = (faceBox.sourceHeight - anchorPointAndPadding.y) === 0 ? 0 : - ((faceBox.sourceHeight - anchorPointAndPadding.y) / aspectRatio);
            positionXOffset = 'center';
            newWidth = faceBox.sourceWidth / aspectRatio;
            newHeight = faceBox.sourceHeight / aspectRatio;
            return propertiesToCss(newWidth, newHeight, positionXOffset, positionYOffset);
        }
    }
};

var switchCaseSelection = {
    forceDefaultOrientation: function(orientation) {
        'use strict';
        if(orientation === 'square') {
            return 'landscape';
        }
        return orientation;
    },
    A: function(faceBox) {
        'use strict';
        var newAnchor = padding.calculateAndAddPadding.TopLeft(faceBox.vertices.A, faceBox);
        var orientation = this.forceDefaultOrientation(faceBox.getOrientation());
        newAnchor = getWidthHeightFromAnchor[orientation].TopLeft(newAnchor, faceBox);
        return newAnchor;
    },
    B: function(faceBox){
        'use strict';
        var newAnchor = padding.calculateAndAddPadding.TopRight(faceBox.vertices.B, faceBox);
        var orientation = this.forceDefaultOrientation(faceBox.getOrientation());
        newAnchor = getWidthHeightFromAnchor[orientation].TopRight(newAnchor, faceBox);
        return newAnchor;
    },
    C: function(faceBox){
        'use strict';
        var newAnchor = padding.calculateAndAddPadding.LowerRight(faceBox.vertices.C, faceBox);
        var orientation = this.forceDefaultOrientation(faceBox.getOrientation());
        newAnchor = getWidthHeightFromAnchor[orientation].LowerRight(newAnchor, faceBox);
        return newAnchor;
    },
    D: function(faceBox){
        'use strict';
        var newAnchor = padding.calculateAndAddPadding.LowerRight(faceBox.vertices.D, faceBox);
        var orientation = this.forceDefaultOrientation(faceBox.getOrientation());
        newAnchor = getWidthHeightFromAnchor[orientation].LowerLeft(newAnchor, faceBox);
        return newAnchor;
    },
    /* Top Quadrants Left to Right */
    AB: function(faceBox, faceBoxAnalysis){
        'use strict';
        var newAnchor;
        if(faceBoxAnalysis.TopLeft.percent > 0.75) {
            newAnchor = padding.calculateAndAddPadding.TopLeft(faceBox.vertices.A, faceBox);
        } else {
            var anchorPoint = new graphics.Vertex2D(faceBox.vertices.B.x - faceBox.vertices.A.x, faceBox.vertices.A.y);
            newAnchor = padding.calculateAndAddPadding.CenterTop(anchorPoint, faceBox);
        }
        var orientation = this.forceDefaultOrientation(faceBox.getOrientation());
        newAnchor = getWidthHeightFromAnchor[orientation].CenterTop(newAnchor, faceBox);
        return newAnchor;
    },
    /* Bottom Quadrants Left to Right */
    DC: function(faceBox, faceBoxAnalysis){
        'use strict';
        var newAnchor;
        if(faceBoxAnalysis.LowerLeft.percent > 0.75) {
            newAnchor = padding.calculateAndAddPadding.LowerLeft(faceBox.vertices.D, faceBox);
        } else {
            var anchorPoint = new graphics.Vertex2D(faceBox.vertices.C.x - faceBox.vertices.D.x, faceBox.vertices.D.y);
            newAnchor = padding.calculateAndAddPadding.CenterBottom(anchorPoint, faceBox);
        }
        var orientation = this.forceDefaultOrientation(faceBox.getOrientation());
        newAnchor = getWidthHeightFromAnchor[orientation].CenterBottom(newAnchor, faceBox);
        return newAnchor;
    },
    /* Top Quadrants Right to Left */
    BA: function(faceBox, faceBoxAnalysis){
        'use strict';
        var newAnchor;
        if(faceBoxAnalysis.TopRight.percent > 0.75) {
            newAnchor = padding.calculateAndAddPadding.TopRight(faceBox.vertices.B, faceBox);
        } else {
            var anchorPoint = new graphics.Vertex2D(faceBox.vertices.B.x - faceBox.vertices.A.x, faceBox.vertices.A.y);
            newAnchor = padding.calculateAndAddPadding.CenterTop(anchorPoint, faceBox);
        }
        var orientation = this.forceDefaultOrientation(faceBox.getOrientation());
        newAnchor = getWidthHeightFromAnchor[orientation].CenterTop(newAnchor, faceBox);
        return newAnchor;
    },
    /* Bottom Quadrants Right to Left */
    CD: function(faceBox, faceBoxAnalysis){
        'use strict';
        var newAnchor;
        if(faceBoxAnalysis.LowerRight.percent > 0.75) {
            newAnchor = padding.calculateAndAddPadding.LowerRight(faceBox.vertices.C, faceBox);
        } else {
            var anchorPoint = new graphics.Vertex2D(faceBox.vertices.C.x - faceBox.vertices.D.x, faceBox.vertices.D.y);
            newAnchor = padding.calculateAndAddPadding.CenterBottom(anchorPoint, faceBox);
        }
        var orientation = this.forceDefaultOrientation(faceBox.getOrientation());
        newAnchor = getWidthHeightFromAnchor[orientation].CenterBottom(newAnchor, faceBox);
        return newAnchor;
    },
    /* Left Quadrants Top to Bottom  */
    AD: function(faceBox, faceBoxAnalysis){
        'use strict';
        var newAnchor;
        if(faceBoxAnalysis.LowerRight.percent > 0.75) {
            newAnchor = padding.calculateAndAddPadding.LowerRight(faceBox.vertices.C, faceBox);
        } else {
            var anchorPoint = new graphics.Vertex2D(faceBox.vertices.C.x - faceBox.vertices.D.x, faceBox.vertices.D.y);
            newAnchor = padding.calculateAndAddPadding.CenterBottom(anchorPoint, faceBox);
        }
        var orientation = this.forceDefaultOrientation(faceBox.getOrientation());
        newAnchor = getWidthHeightFromAnchor[orientation].CenterBottom(newAnchor, faceBox);
        return newAnchor;
    },
    /* Right Quadrants Top to Bottom  */
    BC: function(faceBox, faceBoxAnalysis){
        'use strict';

    },
    /* Left Quadrants Bottom to Top  */
    DA: function(faceBox, faceBoxAnalysis){
        'use strict';

    },
    /* Right Quadrants Bottom to Top */
    CB: function(faceBox, faceBoxAnalysis){
        'use strict';

    },
    /* Face Box collides with all the Quadrants */
    ALL: function(faceBox, faceBoxAnalysis, priorities){
        'use strict';

    }
};

function selectAnchorPoint(faceBox, faceBoxAnalysis) {
    'use strict';
    var priorities = Object.keys(faceBoxAnalysis).map(function(key) {
        return [key, faceBoxAnalysis[key].percent];
    });
    priorities.sort(function(first, second) {
        return second[1] - first[1];
    });
    var Quadrants = '';
    priorities.map(function(key){
        Quadrants += switchQuadrantNameToIdentifier[key[0]];
    });
    console.log(Quadrants);
    var style;
    if(priorities.length === 4) {
        style = switchCaseSelection.ALL(faceBox, faceBoxAnalysis, priorities);
    } else {
        style = switchCaseSelection[Quadrants](faceBox, faceBoxAnalysis, priorities);
    }
    console.log(style);
    return style;
}

module.exports = {
    selectAnchorPoint: selectAnchorPoint
};

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Fitness Trainer and Yemi Alade's publicist Escapes Death... gives thanks.
Nigerian fitness trainer, Yemi Alade's publicist and blogger was full of gratitude, after escaping a freak accident, unscathed.
"To think I was sitting on the driver's seat is amazing!
Your grace still amazes me! Your love is a mystery! #OgheneDoh I had a really scary dream while taking a nap about me getting involved in a accident. Good lord knows it was really scary! Went on my day as usual and decided to go on with day as normal. I do not drink, smoke or do any form of Nacrotics. But I came of out this accident unhurt and alive! I am so extremely Grateful to God for saving me and showing me that yes he is GOD in my life. This festive period and anyday please drive safe, don't drink and drive so you don't endanger the lives of other people! One Driver careless mistake almost cost me my life if not for GOD! #Thankful #Unhurt #GodEngineering."


Play GMO. The year is 2030, a lone scientist pushes the boundaries of morality and genetics with the creation of Bunny. A viable gene sample can be the key to unlocking the secrets of human evolution and change the course of history forever. There's only one problem… Bunny doesn't want to Die!
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CATCH THE BUZZ – EPA Calls For Less Ethanol Next Year. Let's Hear It For The EPA!
The US EPA has changed direction on ethanol production for next year. Its ethanol mandate for 2016 requires less use of biofuel, thus a greater demand for fossil fuel. This is probably a good thing for lots of people, but think about this. It puts the EPA, that stands for Environmental Protection Agency, right in bed with big oil. Less ethanol used, more gasoline used. Does that make sense? For 2016, EPA wants 18.1 billion gallons blended into the nations fuel supply. That's 4.1 billion fewer gallons than last year. First, let's look at the numbers here. You get 2.8 gallons of ethanol per bushel of corn. The US averaged 168 bushels of corn per acre in 2015. That comes to 471 gallons of ethanol per acre. Taking 4.1 billion gallons of ethanol out of the equation reduces the acres of planted corn next season by 8.7 million acres. That's just about 10% of the 81.1 million acres of planted corn last year.
Why would EPA want to use more fossil fuel next year? Well, after careful study, The National Academy of Science, the UN and the Environmental Working Group found that corn ethanol may actually have higher emissions than petroleum-based gasoline, which doesn't even account for the fossil fuels required to raise, harvest and transport all that corn. It's a better bigger picture.
Plus, there's all that subsidy money that farmers are getting to raise all that corn. Tens of billions since the 1980s when this all started. About 40 percent of the corn raised in the US goes into ethanol production, causing corn-based grocery foods to cost US taxpayers about $40 billion more than needed a year.
Another plus for this is the reduced use of seed applied pesticides on all those millions of acres. And herbicide, and fungicides. If big ag was smart, they'd use that 8.7 million acres to meet that federal mandate of 9 million acres of increased pollinator forage needed next season. Of course, the land freed up from all that corn would probably be a killing field for all those pollinators because of lingering pesticides left over from years of applications.
From the beekeeping industry's perspective, that's a boatload of poison that won't get into the system, and, perhaps, some of this now-idled land will eventually find its way back to producing something edible, and safe for our bees.
Anyway you look at it, 8.7 million fewer acres of corn next year has got to be a good thing.
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The environment in your crawl space is crucially important. It helps regulate the atmosphere of everything above your subfloor. That's why it's necessary to control it with proper ventilation, ground covering and a moisture control system.
Water can easily find its way into your crawl space through three different ways.
A gutter downspout exits at or near a low spot by your crawl space, or water is coming in through a hole into your crawl space, or the grade of your yard allows water to go down and into your crawl space.
The water has soaked the soil surrounding your home and is so pressurized that it pushes through the masonry foundation wall and into your crawl space.
Water swells up under ground after heavy rains and nearby run offs, creating a spring that is temporarily or permanently formed in the crawl space soil underneath your home.
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Typically signs of water in your crawl space or basement are standing or ponding water, water marks on foundation or basement walls, water on top of the moisture barrier and water marks or channels in the soil. These issues are fixed with the combination of a interior French drainage system and a sump pump. Our solution is custom for every crawl space and depends on how the water is flowing into the crawl space and where does it need to be removed.
Having a professionally installed drainage system underneath your house adds a tremendous peace of mind as it will protect under house mechanical systems (HVAC) and any other stored items underneath the home. Besides preventing damage to the equipment of your house, it also helps keep moisture levels in check throughout heavy rainy or wet seasons.
All houses need to have a minimum of a 6 mil polyethylene covering. Your house may or may not have one and of course there's an easy way to tell. If you see plastic underneath your house, then you most likely have some part of a barrier.
Barriers help keep both moisture and vapor from rising up, which is why they are commonly called moisture or vapor barriers. These barriers also help prevent pests and termites from easily accessing food sources in your crawl space.
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In pursuit of its value adding services, the Skyway Aviation Handling Company Limited, SAHCOL, a ground handling company of the SIFAX Group of Companies has won three additional airlines to its clientele base. The new clients are Fly Mid Africa, Bristow Helicopter and Hak Air.
General Manager, Corporate Communications of SAHCOL, Basil Agboarumi while announcing the new contract in an official statement made available to LEADERSHIP yesterday, said that the new addition will see SAHCOL providing total ground handling services: passenger, ramp and cargo handling to Fly Mid Africa's four times in a week flight operations in and out of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
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Homes of the English department
October 24, 2019 Author - Gabe SaldañaEnglish80History
Instructor, Senior Teaching Appointment
As Homecoming 2019 arrived on campus in October, the university officially kicked off its 150th birthday celebration. And as English at CSU observes its 80th year as a standalone department, we visit our homes on campus throughout the years.
Our first home—of English classes and later the department—was Old Main, one of the earliest buildings constructed on campus, located on what became known as the Oval. We cannot physically visit the legendary building because was lost to a still-unsolved arson on May 8, 1970.
Copy negative of an undated image of Old Main filed in Historical Files.
The English department, however, had moved by then from Old Main to the Liberal Arts Building, which opened in September 1963. Not only was the department's home newly constructed, but it certainly must have been a welcome respite from the noise of passing trains and the proximity of the college farm. As faculty member R.J. Wattles said of her working conditions, "the smell of beef pulp was overwhelming….We had to have the windows open. We wore our coats and opened the windows."
Historical photo of classroom, teacher and students
In 1974, the Liberal Arts building was renamed to honor Willard O. Eddy. Eddy was hired in 1937 and spent 5 decades teaching at CSU. His legacy includes starting an Honors Colloquium, the precursor of the University Honors Program, and helping establish the graduate program in English. Over his long career, he taught—and created—courses in English and Philosophy, won numerous teaching awards, and chaired the Philosophy department.
Willard Eddy died in 1993 at 85. To honor his passing, the U.S. flag was flown at half-mast on campus and a moment of silence was observed at a Rams basketball game that night. In 1994, the building was renamed Willard O. Eddy Hall, after some remodeling.
The Willard O. Eddy building damaged by 100-year flood. (CSU Source photo)
Not long after, Eddy Hall was among the campus buildings to damaged by a 100-year flood that washed over campus in July 1997. Particularly hard-hit were the faculty offices of the Philosophy and Foreign Languages departments housed in the basement.
Flood clean-up and recovery moved English computer classrooms from the second floor to the basement, where classrooms replaced offices. But even those significant refurbishments look small next to the major renovation project undertaken from 2014-2015.
Guided by then College of Liberal Arts associate dean and former English chair Bruce Ronda, the multi-million dollar revitalization upgraded mechanical systems, and freshened the building inside and out. The English department spent a year housed at opposite ends of campus, with the administrative team in Behavioral Sciences and faculty in Ingersoll. We celebrated our return to Eddy with a Homecoming Open House on Oct. 15, 2015.
Ribbon cutting for remodeled Eddy Hall
Willard O. Eddy Hall dedication pamphlet and invitation
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INSIVUMEH reported that during 1-2 November white fumarolic plumes from Fuego rose 100 m and drifted SW. Explosions ejected incandescent material 100 m above the lava dome, and produced ash plumes that rose almost 500 m and drifted 10 km SW. A lava flow traveled 350 m SSW down the Ceniza drainage. On 3 November heavy rain caused lahars that traveled down the Ceniza drainage, carrying tree branches and 2-m-wide blocks. During 3-6 November explosions generate ash plumes that rose 150-450 m and drifted W and NW. Incandescent material was ejected 100 m above the crater and generated avalanches near the crater. A lava flow traveled 600-800 m down the Ceniza drainage, producing incandescent block avalanches that reached vegetated areas.


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Canvas is University West's new learning platform that will replace DisCo. Canvas is used as a pedagogical tool to execute courses. In Canvas you will always find information about your course, schedule and literature list. Depending on how your teacher chooses to use Canvas you may also find quizzes, hand in assignments, discussion forums and much more.
Please note! You will be given access to your course in Canvas automatically when you register for a course!
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The course page can look very different depending on how your teacher chooses to build the course.
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H.R. 6622 (115th): To designate the Federal building located at 2110 First Street in Fort Myers, Florida, as the "George W. Whitehurst Federal Building and United States Courthouse".
This bill was introduced in a previous session of Congress and was passed by the House on November 27, 2018 but was never passed by the Senate.
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Q: WPF Border not wrap Image Control in uniform stretch I have a WPF Image Control and I would like a WPF Border around it. Problem is the destination dimensions is bigger than the image, so Image Control is set to Uniform Stretch to fit it inside. This is the code to do this:
<Border>
    <Image Stretch=Uniform Width="50" Height="50"/>
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When the Border is put around the Image Control, the Border doesn't know the Image is resized to fit the destination, so the Border goes all around the destination and there is gap between Border and Image (it is supposed to fully wrap on the image).
How can i fix this?

A: Set HorizontalAlignment and VerticalAlignment as Center on border. Default value is Stretch so it stretches to fill the entire grid.
<Border HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Center">
   <Image Stretch=Uniform Width="50" Height="50"/>
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Maybe a fake tree is a better idea?
I once tossed a spent Christmas tree in a fire. I was burning trash. It amazed me what happened.
You've probably seen people on TV or in the movies light things things on fire with gasoline. An understatement. Gas is powerful. I found a video of a Christmas tree being ignited. One watered tree vs. one non-watered.
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