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The "Toxic Twenty": Keeping America's Lights On
Alarmism Coal Energy Environment NGOs Satire
Guest Post by David Middleton
The National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is out with their latest "Toxic Twenty" list…
The NRDC's report is standard green claptrap. Kentucky led the Toxic Twenty, "emitting nearly 40.6 million pounds of harmful chemicals" in 2010.
That's like 20,000 tons in just one year! I guess we better shutter Kentucky's 72 GWh of electricity generation.
The first thing that crossed my mind was the fact that the "Toxic Twenty" looked a lot like a list of the nation's top electricity generating States…
In typical "green fashion" the NRDC casually dismisses this fact, noting that "in 2010, these same states accounted for just 62% of electricity generation." It boggles the mind. 40% of the States generated more than 60% of the electricity.
Here's a comparison of April 2010 electricity generation for the "Green Thirty" vs. the "Toxic Twenty"…
If you back out hydroelectric generation, the ratio grows to 68% to 32%. Since the NRDC are probably not fond of dams, I doubt they'd really count that as green electricity.
Here in Texas, we have a saying for groups like the NRDC: "Y'all can freeze in the dark for all we care."
Tags: Air pollution, Electricity generation, Natural Resources Defense Council, NRDC, Toxic Twenty
NASA's James Hansen is just wrong: Proof that there is no increased drought in the USA tied to temperature
A quick look at temperature anomaly distributions
Back in the day of the first gas crisis in Texas the cowboys would drive around in their big Cadillacs and Lincolns with bumper stickers that said "Drive 90, Freeze A Yankee!"
Frank Kotler
Or we could do "cap and trade": pay a poor person to freeze in the dark for you…
Edohiguma
Didn't you get the memo from Al Gore that states that electricity is definitely created in the plug in the wall?
Hmm still begs a lot of questions as to why some states proportionally emit more than others (e.g. Texas generates most electricity, but is not the major emitter – is this due to the nature of the fuel?)
Though less sarcastic for a second… "emitting nearly 40.6 million pounds of harmful chemicals". Classic. Oh my god! 40.6 million tons! About 20 million kilos! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE! Classic approach. Throw around big, scary looking numbers.
Those are about 200-odd coal wagons (going by a capacity of 100 tons per wagon, based on a NHYH 120t 'Bat Girl' Coal Hopper, which carries 98 tons of coal.) That doesn't really impress me as "OMG! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!"
Graeme W
The first thing I did after reading this was to look at the names of the states. There's a small correlation, but not a lot. Both have Pennsylvania at number three, but otherwise it's all over the place.
eg. Number one on the "Toxic Twenty" is number twenty on the top net electricity generation list. Number two on the "Toxic Twenty" is number ten on the other list. The third on both lists is the same, but the fourth and fifth on the "Toxic Twenty" are eleventh and twenty third, respectively on the other list.
Looking the other way around, the top net electricity generating state is tenth on the "Toxic Twenty" list. Second is sixth on the "Toxic Twenty list, the fourth is forty first, and the fifth is sixteenth.
I'm sorry, but while the shape of the graphs may be similar, the "Toxic Twenty" list does not look like a list of the nation's top electricity generating states.
Paul Nevins
Lot easier to have low emissions when you don't have any power significant power generation. Color me unimpressed by the quality of NRDC's work
_Jim
Severian says August 12, 2012 at 7:29 pm
The other fave that sprang up in response to a plethora of " I *Heart* (Love) NY " bumper stickers was:
. . . " *Heart* NY ? Take I-30 eastbound "
No offense NYers …
I would like to point on that Wyoming provides 65% of the coal in this country. As a proud Wyomingite I would like to petition the NRDC to let Wyoming join the proud "Toxic Twenty". They may generate the electricity but we dig up and ship out the cheap, affordable energy source that fuels them.
Keith Pearson, Formerly bikermailman, Anon No Longer
Here in Texas, we have a saying for groups like the NRDC: "Y'all can freeze in the dark for all we care"
Freeze a Yankee
Drive seventy five
Let's freeze em alive
Governor Briscoe promised us
If any Damnyankees raised a fuss
We'd cut off the gas
Cut off the oil
And let em all freeze and boil.
A rather popular song here in Texas during the mid-70s. I forget the singer, I was six years old but remember it well. And yes, 'damnyankee' is said that way. My dad, who knew his grandparents who lived through reconstruction, jokes that he was 16 years old before he realized that was atually two words. Not looking to argue The War Between the States, or Reconstruction, just an amusing point. To some.
Mt Tongariro, in the centre of NZ North Island, that erupted last monday was emitting 2100 tonnes per day of sulphur dioxide alone. I havent heard of any health warnings and there havent been any evacuations.
Just getting things in perspective, 10 days at that rate would beat Toxic Kentucky's yearly production.
Also there is a 25 000km2 raft of pumice floating in the sea off the NZ coast. Thought to be from an under water eruption but no details on toxic gasses.
What are the toxic chemicals. Just glancing at the graphics, one would guess that they are talking about millions of pounds of mercury. Missed the news about people in Kentucky falling over from mercury poisoning. I view this type of reporting with more than a little skepticism. Years ago American Cyanamid Company was the nation's leader in "toxic" chemical disposal. Top Polluter. The company made this distinction because it was disposing of ammonium sulfate via deepwell injection and accounted for the chemical and the water. AmCy got a Region 6 environmental excellence award for this process. Still they were the biggest polluter. Reports like this are mostly BS
Bill H
I wonder if those eco nuts realize that their battery powered cars require those plants to recharge.. without them they are nothing but expensive paperweights..
Tez says:
its rather interesting how eco nutters refuse to see that natural sources by far out toxify anything that man could do… yet they ignore it.. better yet i want to know how they plan to stop it…:)
tgmccoy
What about the toxicity of tallow candles as that is all that we can use if they win..
I do not think skeptics do ourselves any favors by mocking good news of this sort.
Further, such a large decrease in supposedly deadly toxic chemicals now should make it possible to get reliable observational facts on the impact –if any– of their decrease. So, let's see what develops there.
In the meantime, the above post rather reminds me of donning full armor to attack a hot fudge sundae.
Lets not forget that electricity from nuke plants counts as "green" for these purposes….
Should be a good report for those states generating power and fuels. They could use the report to impose an environmental tax for clean up, financial reserves for decommissioning of the power generating facilities, or for whatever reason on the power and fuels that gets out of their jurisdiction. With lower power cost within their state borders that would encourage more businesses to move in and hence employment while those green states pays a higher price for their fuel and power as they pay the environmental tax collected by the generating states. The more the green states works takes the moral high ground for being green the more they should pay the environmental taxes to the states taking the environmental damage. The dirty 20 or the dirty states should be compensated.
GeoLurking
… Also there is a 25 000km2 raft of pumice floating in the sea off the NZ coast. Thought to be from an under water eruption but no details on toxic gases."
I suspect that it's gonna be a lot like El Hierro. Dissolved in the seawater. El Hierro's SO2 emission rate is puny compared to most active volcanoes, but one thing they did notice was that a lot of fish turned up dead. Since the only vents were underwater (so far), the subaerial emission of SO2 was small.
I wonder how that affects ocean "de-alkalinization"? The midocean ridges cover a lot of the planet…
E.M.Smith
I have a "modest suggestion":
Let the "Toxic 20" cease selling ANY electricity to Washington D.C. Let the folks in the capital depend 100% on wind and solar. Let them serve as a 'good example' to the rest of us… Lead the way, D.C.!
Alex Heyworth
Any analysis of pollution levels, electricity generation or whatever needs to be done on a per capita basis to have any meaning whatsoever. And with electricity it makes far more sense to measure consumption per capita rather than generation, given the significant levels of electricity imported by some states. Even if you do it on a per capita basis, what it mostly tells you is which states do the bulk of manufacturing.
Try cross-plotting the data in the histograms…could be more informative.
geo: "Further, such a large decrease in supposedly deadly toxic chemicals …"
Well, 'supposedly deadly' is the sole problem. Take Kentucky: Sulfuric and Hyrdochloric acid account for 95.77% of the yearly output. But the EPA itself states that the output of both, from electricity plants alone here, is completely meaningless and non-toxic. Strip just that out and Kentucky is as clean as New Jersey. (The jokes write themselves).
But even that's meaningless as we're talking about air dispersal with a region of whatever square kilometers as defined by political boundaries. For example with mercury compounds, Texas tops at 12,505 while Kentucky comes in 9th at 2,287. But when looked at in terms of square miles that's roughly 55 square kilometers per pound/year for Texas. While it's 45 square kilometers for Kentucky. (2nd place is Pennsylvania at 3,938 pounds, or 30 square kilometers per pound.)
The whole thing isn't terribly useful except for the chart porn. Fun stuff to play with though. Simply chase back to the NRDC release and check the appendix for the methodology (Good on' ya, guys) and a link to the EPA software to fiddle with.
DirkH
"I do not think skeptics do ourselves any favors by mocking good news of this sort. "
So let's ponder why "geo" thinks this is good news.
The NRDC report is called "Toxic power – How Power Plants Contaminate Our Air And States".
a) He likes tocix stuff.
b) He loves attempts by green groups to shut down power generation.
c) He's a marketing guy and thinks that branding states as "The Toxic Twenty" is a great memorable slogan.
Which is it, geo?
anengineer
On your comparison of the 'Toxic 20' and 'Green 30', how about including a factor the amount of electric power exported to and imported from out of state?
One of the biggest hypocrisies is the way many 'green states' achieve their rating by exporting their pollution, sometimes literally, just across the border.
Dave Stephens
Geo, we are NOT mocking news, good or otherwise – we are mocking pure propaganda, which is exactly what the NRDC report clearly is… Mocking propaganda is always a healthy thing. In fact, most clear-thinking folks would consider the recognition of propaganda to be a sign of actual intelligence…
Geoff Sherrington
As Guest Poster David Middleton would know, geochemists in the 1970-80 era put a lot of effort into 'mercury sniffers', looking for mercury release from ground/soil to air that was above usual levels. Mercury is a common indicator element for some types of ore deposits. The point is, there is already natural mercury discharge into the atmosphere. I fail to see the logic of a separate count of mercury coming from the burning of fossil fuels.
Further, there toxicity of mercury varies considerably with its chemical compound form. As a metal, we used to play with pounds of the the stuff in the chem labs. As methyl mercury, it harmed quite a few people by a factory at Minimata, Japan.
While on the soapbox, what does all that pumice off New Zealand do to convetional throries of sunlight absorption by oceans? Bit opaque at times, eh? I remember years when there was pumice all over beaches in E Australia. More to be expected than rare.
Sulphur dioxide. Yes, indeed, what does it do to the pH of deep oceans? Why are the deep oceans lass basic than surface waters and has it always been that way?
And vegetation growth? If I was looking for a global agent that changes tree growth rings, I'd be looking at SO2 long before CO2. But that's not politically correct, so there ……
Alan the Brit
Edohiguma says:
1 Tonf = 1.016 metric Tonnes, to all intents & purposes they're the same! i.e 40 million tons = 40 million tonnes more or less! I think you've slipped your units about a bit!
BTW the poison is always in the dosage!!!
Paul Coppin
Do Greens and their hangers-on even know what electricity is? That's a rhetorical question, btw. The answer, of course, is like the urban answer to the food supply, "from the grocery store". "Electricity cvomes from the wall plug"..
Rik Gheysens
EPA contradicts their own statements. In 'EPA Energy Star Fact Sheet', the 'national average mercury emissions' by the electric sector is estimated 0.012 mg/kWh. (http://www.energystar.gov/ia/partners/promotions/change_light/downloads/Fact_Sheet_Mercury.pdf?1a93-2950)
I have made a new calculation with the figures of 2010.
– EPA (see NRCD's report): Electric Sector Mercury Air Pollution: 68,199 lb, i.e. 30935 kg.
– NEI (Nuclear Energy Institute): Total Electricity Generation 2010 in US: 4,125,059,900 MWh.
So, the national average mercury emissions amount to 0.0075 mg/kWh for the year 2010. The figure of 0.012 is more than outdated.
On this wrong base, EPA told us that CFLs are more environment friendly.
– Mercury emission from electricity use of a CFL 13W: 0.013 kW x 8000 h x 0.012 mg/kWh = 1.2 mg. The mercury content in the lamp is 4 mg. The total mercury emission is 5.2 mg.
– Mercury emission from electricity use of 8 incandescent lamps (a life time of 1000 hours is estimated) of 60W: 0.06kW x 8000 h x 0.012 mg/kWh = 5.76 mg. An incandescent lamp contains no mercury.
I revised the EPA calculation using the recent figure:
– Mercury emission from electricity use of a CFL 13W: 0.013 kW x 8000 h x 0.0075 mg/kWh = 0.78 mg. The mercury content in the lamp is 4 mg. The total mercury emission is 4.78 mg.
– Mercury emission from electricity use of 8 incandescent lamps of 60W: 0.06kW x 8000 h x 0.0075 mg/kWh = 3.6 mg. An incandescent lamp contains no mercury.
I will not enlarge here on other subjects here: CFLs emit dangerous UV radiation, in a recent test (Test-Aankoop Belgium, May 2012) it was observed that no lamp reached half the full intensity of light within 30 seconds, the lifetime of the lamps does not appear to correspond to the promised lifetime on the packaging, the collection of broken bulbs is not always as it should, etc. More information can be found on my website (see my name).
Conclusion: CFLs should be banned immediately. These lamps are polluting more than incandescent lamps. The more the coal fired power plants will adopt the new rules, the more CFLs will become obsolete.
Nigel Harris
The simplest calculations show that the power sector emissions of US states are not at all directly related to their total generation. Dividing Kentucky's 40 million lbs figure by the 7,358 million MWh of electricity it generated in May 2012 gives a figure of around 5,500. Doing the same calculation for Texas gives a figure of 295. And for Washington, the figure is 9.
On a scatter plot of pollution vs electricity generation, Kentucky stands out like a sore thumb,
Took your data and calculated pollution per megawatt hour for those 20 states. Seems like Texas is almost the best of them, by that measure. Maybe we should tell the NRDC to focus on the 5 states with 10X as much pollution/mwh as Texas.
P/M Rank	State	D Rank	Pollution	E rank	MWh	P/M
1	Kentucky	1	40,564,585	20	5998	6763.018506
2	Ohio	2	36,405,858	10	9450	3852.471746
3	Delaware	20	2,942,946	47	781	3768.176697
4	West Virginia	5	18,101,675	23	4884	3706.321663
5	Indiana	4	26,234,197	11	8263	3174.899794
6	Virginia	12	9,474,271	30	3722	2545.478506
7	Michigan	7	15,543,430	15	7334	2119.365967
8	Pennsylvania	3	31,482,857	3	15797	1992.964297
9	North Carolina	8	14,634,490	13	7937	1843.831422
10	Tennessee	11	9,640,464	17	6331	1522.739536
11	Georgia	9	13,438,115	9	9745	1378.975372
12	South Carolina	13	9,343,200	16	6904	1353.302433
13	Maryland	19	3,126,022	32	2962	1055.375422
14	Mississippi	17	3,989,857	29	3843	1038.214156
15	Florida	6	16,662,542	2	16,955	982.7509289
16	Missouri	15	5,114,713	19	6267	816.134195
17	Wisconsin	18	3,574,179	25	4448	803.5474371
18	Alabama	14	8,291,061	4	10339	801.9209788
19	Texas	10	10,454,140	1	32572	320.9548078
20	Illinois	16	4,665,396	5	14685	317.6980592
Tom in Florida
I wonder if visitors from other states are considered. All the snowbirds that come to Florida during the winter would skew the results. On the other hand, we all down here love the money you bring with you. I'm going with money, so com'on down!
The more FF powered generation the better as far as I am concerned.
Duncan – you probably needed <pre> and </pre> HTML commands around your table. "Pre" for pre-formatted. See the bottom of my guide to WUWT for details. http://home.comcast.net/~ewerme/wuwt/index.html
Graeme W says:
The second thing I did after looking at the "Toxic Twenty" list was to look up the EIA State ranking of electricity generation.
Top Ten April 2012 MWh ("Toxic Twenty" bolded):
Texas	32,572
Florida	16,955
Pennsylvania	15,797
California	14,773
Illinois	14,685
Washington	10,693
Alabama	10,339
Georgia	9,745
Ohio	9,450
Seven of the top ten electricity generators are in the "Toxic Twenty." If you back out hydroelectric power, Washington and New York drop out of the top ten.
Fourteen of the top twenty generators are in the "Toxic Twenty."
Conversely, Delaware is the only "Toxic Twenty" State in the ten least productive States. Delaware and Maryland are the only two "Toxic Twenty" States among the twenty lease productive States.
Yes. It would be more informative. It would also have obviated Graeme W's comment.
Bolding fixed…
harrywr2
Coal impurities vary substantially by region/mine.
Installed pollution controls are also all over the lot,
Some our coal fired generating assets are also more then 80 years old.
If I look at coal consumption by state I don't see any correlation between quantity of coal burned and rankings in NRDC's list. I.E Texas burns 100 Million tons of coal per year and Kentucky only burns 40 million tons.
http://www.eia.gov/coal/annual/pdf/table26.pdf
rilfeld
The most "blue" most "liberal" most "environmental" precincts around are also far and away the most vulnerable to power disruption. A condition that was normal in our vacation cabin, annoying on the ranch, and manageable in our suburban home — no electricity — can be fatal in the high rise canyons where many of those who don't like the way power is generated reside. I don't care how "green" you think you are because you can take mass transit to work….if the sparks stop flyin the cities start diein. A lot of that "nasty, dirty" power is being moved from the generators to the consumers…which is where the pollution should be assigned.
profitup10
This is what happens to the State and the economy when you outsource your electric production and make super tight regulations . . . broke Cities, Counties and even the State governments.
http://capoliticalnews.com/2012/08/12/grimes-calif-regs-killing-lumber-manufacturers-and-jobs/
Another of those Texas bumper stickers was "Will the last one to leave Michigan please turn off the lights"
It was awful here in the oil patch until those people who migrated here for work became Texans and raised Texas families.
Our oil patch here in Houston is full of people who don't ever go back where they came from, but stay in Texas instead.
@Keith: "Freeze A Yankee" was by the Folkel Minority. What a blast from the past.
Robert of Ottawa
Why din't they say "18,000 MegaGrams" ? I sounds MUCH more scarier 😉
more soylent green!
Offhand, I'd say those 20 states (40% of 50) generating 62% of the electricity contain far less than 62% of the population.
It's easy to reduce your emissions if you just move your power stations and factories out of state.
Billions required to split split hairs.
Instead of CO2 levels, EPA regulations should be reduced to 1990 levels.
oeman50
Just a couple a clarifications:
Many power stations in the west burn low sulfur coal from Wyoming's Powder River Basin or local lignite (like in Texas), also low sulfur. That reduces the amounts of acids released in comparison to higher sulfur coals in the east.
Many of the differences in emissions are being averaged out as older coal stations are being shutdown and replaced with natural gas. 2011 had a very large switch over from coal to gas, so all of the "toxic" emissions will be lower in the US in the next report.
And since people are aquainted with statistic here, think about it: You can never win. There will always be a "toxic twenty" to bash industry over the head no matter how much it is reduced by controls. The NRDC will not even be satisfied with zero, they always need a mission to exist.
PaulID
I am quite disapointed in my home state we made the green thirty I would rather be in the toxic 20 and have lots of electricity to spare.
A dirty little secret that the enviro-lefties and their media lackeys don't want us to know about is that air quality has been steadily improving for decades in the US. This means that we don't have to gut our economy to "save the planet". Even the EPA's graphs say so:
http://www.epa.gov/airtrends/index.html
Omigosh, they are using TRI reports. A majority of the pollutants are based on engineering factors and other swags. I doubt many reports are based on actual "in-stack" measurements for all the listed pollutants. If you have a factor from some source, you plug it in. Some may come from air emissions monitoring data, but these are not done in that depth very often. The TRI reports have always been GIGO and shouldn't be used for anything.
David, I accept that the top electricity produces are also high in producing pollution, but what I was commenting on was the attempted correlation. If you don't look at just the lists, but where states appear on the lists, the lists do not strongly correlate. Only Pennsylvania matches. Texas, the top electricity producing state, is way down on the list of pollution producers. In other words, it produces it's electricity in a low pollution-efficient way. Kentucky, on the other hand, is in the reverse position.
Duncan's list, showing pollution per mega-Watt, is a much, much better approach to take. And, as expected from the original data, Kentucky tops the list.with a rate that is roughly double the next state on the list.
So I stick by my statement – the lists do not share a strong correlation. If they did, Texas should have been one of the top states for pollution, not way down at tenth place. Out of the top eight electricity producing states, only one is in the top eight pollution producers (not a strong correlation there). It's only when you include the ninth, tenth and eleventh from both lists do you increase the correlation from one out of eight to four out of eleven – still not a great correlation.
The information is useful to compare, because you're right that electricity production does mean producing pollution, but the information you've provided shows that most of the top electricity generating states produce their electricity in an efficient manner, and that most of the pollution being produced is NOT by those top electricity generating states (apart from Pennsylvania).
Oops… an error in my previous statement. It should be two out of the eight and five out of the eleven. Regardless, less than half of the top eight/eleven polluting states are on the top eight/eleven electricity generating states.
Of course, the more states you look at the, the more that will appear on both lists (until you eventually get all states on both lists), but the top ten is 20% of the states, and the correlation in the top ten is not very high.
benfrommo
"Michael Kelley says:
August 13, 2012 at 10:59 am "
The other secret is that the Clean Air Act was completely unncessary…because pollution levels were coming down on their own due to local ordinances and other forms of local regulation. There was never a reason to centralize the pollution controls because in the end people dis-like pollution and it effects locals more then anyone else.
But you are correct, pollution levels have been decreasing but they have been doing so for the last 100 years.
To all who are looking at the total numbers of production versus MW/hr produced (or similar metric) this gets you into trouble often times. The point made at the top of the article is that the "toxic 20" is rather abritrary and that its not really relevant. I think the point remains if you think about it. It all depends on how the "toxic 20" was exactly computed. Is nuclear power clean? (IE what are the emissions from this?) Is hydro-electric clean? Are transport costs included for fuel and for the maintanenace of "renewable resources?" Think fuel costs as well. How is this computed? I think the answer is that its not, and that they rather just grade based on what they think of as bad forms of power generation, mainly coal if I had to guess.
And so on. Look at Kentucky in detail in map form here: http://www.eia.gov/state/state-energy-profiles.cfm?sid=KY
•Ninety-three percent of Kentucky's net electricity generation in 2011 was generated from coal.
That is directly from the link. Lets look at the other toxic 20 in more detail … http://www.eia.gov/state/seds/seds-states.cfm?q_state_a=TX&q_state=Texas
For instance Texas produces the most power of the states, but is only number 9 on the list of pollution. Why is this? If you look at Texas production of electricity by source:
Coal = 36.5%
NG = 45.4%
renewables = 6.7%
Nuclear = 10%
As a caveat, the way this is figured out might be what is consumed as well by a percentage, but it does give an idea (the source is the same website in this case) about how things are computed for the toxic 20. Coal is bad, and NG is lesser bad, but renewables are good. When you are looking at this in particular, this is what you will find.
Now that we know this, look at Ohio. •Coal fueled 78 percent of Ohio's net electricity generation in 2011, nuclear energy contributed 11 percent, and natural gas added another 8.9 percent
Pennsylvania: 44% coal, nuclear 33%, but PN is also a big producer of electricity, so this makes sense.
Indiana: Coal 83 percent of Indiana's net electricity generation in 2011.
West Virginia: 96% coal
Florida: 66% NG, 23% coal, but Florida also produces the second most power of any state. Texas is #1.
And you find more as you look at each Toxic 20 state. I would look for what makes states NOT TOXIC next, but heck that is for some other time by someone else. But a cursory look at California tells us that I was correct in my assumptions:
Over half of Cali's power comes from NG. Almost no coal, and a high amount of nuke (17%) and other renewables. This is why the state is "green" so to speak. Probably also why electricity costs so much there, but that is neither here nor there.
benfrommo, that makes a lot of sense. The linked report in turn links to a NRDC report which claims to use the publicly available figures given to the EPA's Toxic Release Inventory (TRI).
My next question was then what constituted a toxic chemical, because I wondered if they included CO2 in that list. However, while I'm not absolutely sure, I couldn't find it when I did a search on the TRI so I presume not.
So all this report is doing is confirming that coal powered electric generation produces significantly more pollution than the alternatives such as natural gas or nuclear. I'm a little surprised at how much more, but then I've never looked into the details that closely, so I suspect it's not a surprise for anyone working in the industry.
@benfrommo
Thanks, if you look at the top of the post I asked this question, but you are the only one to answer it.
NP on the reports, as for what I was really trying to show was how generalized and how third grade level this analysis was, and in turn I guess they based their findings on what the EPA does…which is the same level. Some have likened it to propaganda which I would tend to agree with.
Basically, all they do is say "pollution of this type is THIS bad" and then monkey with weights on different "exhaust" types to give the results they desire. You could create a chart of "20 worst states" based on any weight you wanted to, and they indeed do based on what I thought they would…..They hate coal most, and NG they dislike, but say its "tolerable" because of knee jerk reactions. No actual science used, so in effect yes the toxic 20 is just some "who's who list of who produces the most coal fired electricity". And the more you use nuke or hydro or renewables, the better, but the rest has to be NG because very few new nukes are going up and electricity usage will only increase unless our economy indeed goes down the toilet because in the end the two variables economic expansion and energy usage have always been directly related to one another.
David, I accept that the top electricity produces are also high in producing pollution, but what I was commenting on was the attempted correlation…
Graeme, I think you may be reading something into my post that isn't there. Or at least wasn't intended to be there. Perhaps the problem is in the way I worded this…
Upon reading that list, the first thing that crossed my mind was that most of the "Toxic Twenty" States were also among the nation's top electricity generating States. I was not literally correlating the State positions on the two lists.
I should have illustrated this relationship with a Venn diagram.
CO2 is not part of the TRI. Despite the endangerment finding, CO2 is still not listed as a pollutant on their Air Trends page.
@ benfrommo,
Great comments.
Thanks, David. If you didn't intend to imply there was a correlation, then, as you've said, it was just a misunderstanding on my behalf. Please accept my apology :)was very interesting and
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Kampala Gets COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach Support From Bloomberg Philanthropies
Bloomberg Philanthropies' Partnership for Healthy Cities initiative, in collaboration with World Health Organization and Vital Strategies, aims to support equitable distribution of vaccines by member cities
Michael Wambi
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Some of the high-risk parts of Kampala's city could be targeted with awareness messages about COVID19.
Kampala has been named among the 18 cities in low- and middle-income countries that qualify for grants targeting COVID-19 vaccines preparedness.
The funding from the Bloomberg Philanthropies' Partnership for Healthy Cities initiative will see Uganda's Capital city receive up to $50000 funding to support communication awareness needed for vaccine confidence.
The Bloomberg Philanthropies' Partnership for Healthy Cities initiative on Thursday said in a press statement that the grants come as mayors around the world grapple with implementing equitable COVID-19 vaccination programs for their citizens.
The grants also to be received by neighboring Rwanda's city Kigali will help the cities to support their planning for vaccine distribution rollouts with an emphasis on reaching high-risk populations.
he vaccine preparedness activities being funded with grants of up to $50,000 for six months include communication campaigns to increase vaccine confidence, community outreach to vulnerable populations, supplies to set up mass vaccination sites, enhancement of data capacity, training for healthcare workers and community leaders, and critical tools to achieve city-wide coordination.
The 18 cities according to the statement are members of the Partnership for Healthy Cities, an initiative supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) and Vital Strategies.
The other cities in Africa include: Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire; Accra, Ghana; Cape Town, South Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The others are in South America and Asia.
"Local leaders have helped spearhead the world's response to the pandemic from the beginning, and that now includes pushing to ensure vaccinations happen as quickly as possible, especially in high-risk communities," said Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies and WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) and Injuries.
"We're working with cities throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America to increase equitable vaccine access by providing much-needed support and technical assistance. This initiative will help countries save more lives – and help the whole world overcome this devastating pandemic."
"The equitable distribution of vaccines is not only a moral imperative, it is also an epidemiological and economic imperative," said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, World Health Organization.
"As long as this virus is transmitting anywhere, the higher the chances that a variant will emerge that evades vaccines, and the longer the global economic recovery will take. We simply will not end the pandemic anywhere until we end it everywhere. These grants will support city leaders to reach some of the most vulnerable groups with vaccines."
Founded in 2017, the Partnership for Healthy Cities has grown into a network of 70 cities around the world committed to saving lives by preventing NCDs, such as heart disease, diabetes, chronic lung disease and cancer, and injuries.
In March 2020, Bloomberg Philanthropies expanded support to help member cities by providing tools and information for COVID-19 prevention and mitigation measures as part of the $40 million Bloomberg Philanthropies COVID-19 Global Response Initiative.
"Cities are drivers of public health and over the past year have mounted a remarkable COVID-19 response. The path to widespread vaccination is complex and requires detailed planning, coordination, data management, and logistics support by urban leaders and their staff," said José Luis Castro, President and CEO of Vital Strategies.
"We look forward to using our expertise to help cities improve their ability to reach high-risk communities as they develop and implement equitable policies and practices to safeguard health and rebuild stronger health, social, and economic systems."
Cities in the Partnership are using the funds in creative, targeted ways to reach their high-risk populations.
Cape Town, South Africa, is planning to use the new funds to reach the more than 530,000 people estimated to be living in homeless shelters, unhoused people, and migrants.
The city's methods will include advertising on minibus taxis, the dominant mode of public transport for low-income commuters, deploying mobile billboards and sky banners, and fighting misinformation using radio programming.
This will be complemented by mobile information and vaccine registration units that will partner with trusted community leaders to optimize messaging and hold socially distanced face-to-face consultations with people in hard-to-reach areas.
"It is important that while our communities have access to health care, they also have access to reliable health information. We want to make sure that our communities are properly informed about COVID-19 vaccination so that they can make well-informed decisions," said Dan Plato, Executive Mayor of Cape Town.
"We've seen the power of working with trusted local voices to share COVID safety messages with vulnerable people earlier in the pandemic, and we plan to build on those efforts to encourage vaccination for all."
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Q: Httpd proxy - Serve thousands of concurrent high latency requests I have a REST web service built with J2EE running on top of Tomcat that has 3 interfaces. Two of those interfaces respond quickly (with milliseconds), but one of those interfaces is blocking in between 1-2 seconds before it can send out the HTTP response. It is that way because of the nature what this web service is doing and there's nothing I can do to block for less time.
Application is running in Amazon in RHEL7 OS and has Apache Web Server 2.4.6 in front of it acting as a reverse proxy which just handles handles LDAP authentication.
The requirement is that every interface must separately handle 1000 requests per second without significant drop in response time compared to no load and 99.5% of the requests must succeed. On the blocking interface to have 1000 requests per second, it means therefore a bit over 1500 concurrent users.
I composed a performance test and the application itself without Apache can easily serve even higher number of concurrent users without significant drop in response time. However if I let the test's pass the Apache proxy, then response time's drop dramatically on the blocking interface. Even with 500 concurrent users 10% of the requests on the blocking interface respond longer than 4 seconds. Even worse if I run the test for hours, apache will take so much memory that it makes other applications in the same operating system crash (without Apache running I have over 2 gigs of free memory). I've played with instructions from this SO: How do you increase the max number of concurrent connections in Apache?
Things went a bit better, but not too much.
So my question is, has anyone got experience configuring Apache as a proxy that would handle over thousand 1-2 sec latency concurrent requests and at the same time handle well low-latency requests (the other two interfaces) and if there is someone, then how did you configure your Apache to achieve that?

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In the spirit of the season Palm Beach style
With Halloween on the horizon, one South County Road resident got into timely harvest mode, putting a load of pumpkins on display along the wall of an estate-section property.
Author Sara E. SkinnerPosted on October 14, 2011 Categories Out and About
Bright skies and warm weather bring visitors to the Avenue
A bright and hot summer Sunday afternoon in Palm Beach drew more than a few visitors to Worth Avenue.
"We came to look at the shops, only we didn't realize they'd be closed," said Nina Hakopian, of Davie, as she and her husband, Andre, were preparing to enter Taboo.
Patricia Mathurin, of Woodstock, Maryland, took the opportunity to visit the Avenue on the advice of her friend Jo Ann Hogan, of Baltimore. The two had driven over the bridge from the Palm Beach County Convention Center where Mathurin's niece, Jessalynn Medairy, and other family members were working as part of the Second Annual International Pole and Exotic Dance Fitness Convention.
Hogan described the Avenue to Mathurin as "the Rodeo Drive of the East.
"I was here roughly 20 years ago," said Hogan. "We came here to see the stores and maybe do some shopping. We didn't know the stores would be closed."
Aside from restaurants, only a handful of stores were open for business.
One of them was ViVi G. Shoes where Marie Nikolaishvili, of West Palm Beach, was busy cutting several lengths of black ribbon. "We had a few customers," she said. "It's a regular Sunday. It's always quiet on Sundays."
That sentiment was echoed by Sashawna Donaldson at The Sunglass Hut. "Sunday is very slow. There's not much going on."
And some people, like Ed and Maryelle Brown, of Fort Lauderdale, simply came to admire the view.
"We're just going to wander down to the beach," said Ed Brown. "We like Palm Beach and so we come and visit."
Author Sara E. SkinnerPosted on June 12, 2011 Categories Out and About
Par 3 Golf Course offers Groupon deal
While checking my e-mail this morning, I found that the Groupon deal of the day for the Palm Beaches is none other than — a golf package at the Ray Floyd-designed Par 3 Golf Club.
For just $35, duffers can enjoy a round of golf, cart rental and range balls for two, or $99 for 12 rounds of golf, which, the ad says, is a $220 value.
To access the deal, click here.
This is the first time the Par 3 has promoted itself with Groupon, said Tony Chateauvert, golf manager.
"They contacted us. Basically you have to make it such a deal that it's hard to refuse," Chateauvert said. Funds from discount deals help maintain the course in the summer, when there are fewer people here, and fewer people on the links, he said.
Chateauvert is hosting the course's first Palm Beach singles/doubles night, a night of golfing and mingling, starting at 5 p.m. on Thursday.
"I have a steel drum band coming," he said. "For $20, the entry fee is going to include golf, prizes, cart and one free drink." The event is close to sold-out but a few spots are still available, Chateauvert said.
For more information, call 227-6452.
Author Sara E. SkinnerPosted on June 1, 2011 Categories Out and AboutTags deal, discount, Groupon, Par 3 Golf Course
Hollywood Icon Jane Russell Dies
Only six weeks after speaking at The Paramount Church, screen icon Jane Russell, 89, passed away at her home in Santa, Maria, California Monday of respiratory failure.
Although best known for her films in the 1940s and '50s, Ms. Russell is — and always has been — a devout Christian.
In December, Russell called the Rev. Dwight Stevens, pastor of The Paramount Church, and told him she wanted to speak at the church. Through a mutual friend, Ms. Russell became aware of Stevens plight to raise money to replace the landmark property's signature railings.
"She was a delightful lady," Stevens said. "It was evident that she was not in such good health when she was here. It was a standing room audience that day and the people loved her. In fact, they mobbed her afterward to have photographs taken with her. She graciously posed for pictures with every person who wanted a picture taken with her. She insisted on a question and answer after her prepared remarks and she took questions for 30 minutes. The people were so appreciative to dialog with her in person.
"I'm so saddened to hear of her passing, but I look forward to seeing her again in heaven because we share that same belief as Christians," Stevens said. "She was a devout Christian, very open about her faith and her belief in God."
Ms. Russell shot to fame as the star of Howard Hughes' 1941 Western The Outlaw. Other notable films include "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," "The French Line," "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes," "The Tall Men" and "Foxfire."
During her Hollywood career, she was married for 24 years to star UCLA and pro football quarterback Bob Waterfield. That marriage ended in divorce. In 1968, she married actor Roger Barrett, who three months later died of a heart attack. In 1978, she married developer John Peoples, and they lived in Sedona, Ariz. He died in 1999 of heart failure.
After experiencing problems in adopting her three children, Ms. Russell founded World Adoption International Agency, which has helped facilitate adoptions of more than 50,000 children from overseas.
Author Sara E. SkinnerPosted on March 1, 2011 Categories Out and AboutTags Jane Russell, Paramount Church
A matter of size @ Starbucks
Just had to stop by the Starbucks at 150 Worth this afternoon to check out the Trenta, the coffee company's largest drink cup, which debuted today.
I asked the baristas if the Palm Beach store had sold any of the Trentas.
About how many?
Not a chatty crowd, if you know what I mean.
So, I waited around a bit to see if anyone would be ordering a 31 oz. beverage.
The previous "big" drink at Starbucks is the Venti, a 24-ouncer.
It was around 4 p.m., which is a fairly busy time at the island Starbucks, so my hopes were high that someone would be adventurous and thirsty and anxious to be one of the first to have the Trenta experience.
Got one! An iced coffee with half-and-half ordered by a young gentleman, which is shown here.
Just so you know, the Trenta cup is only available filled with iced coffee or tea.
And, a Trenta-sized iced beverage will run you $3.25 to $4.15…plux tax.
By the way, the Trenta is just slightly smaller than a 7-Eleven Big Gulp.
Those super-sized drinks are a mere 32 oz.
Author Sara E. SkinnerPosted on January 18, 2011 Categories Out and AboutTags Starbucks Palm Beach
Meeting up with a Met in Via Mizner
While covering the outdoor Chanukah on Worth Festival in Via Mizner last night, I took a break from the cold and ducked into Renato's to warm up.
While chatting with Town Councilman William Diamond at the bar (he had the same idea of escaping the chill before the menorah lighting took place), a gentleman walked into the restaurant.
I said to Diamond, "That's a baseball player."
So, when the gent passed by heading to his table, I asked him if he was a ballplayer.
"Yes," he answered. "I'm Keith Hernandez."
Diamond (who should know his Mets, as he hails from New York City) was impressed with my sporting ways and urged me to go over and take a shot of Hernandez at his table.
I did, as you can see here in my not-so-great iPhone photo, and asked KH what he was doing in Palm Beach.
"I have a place in Jupiter, and I get down here as quickly as I can when the season's over."
Hernandez works as a broadcaster for the Mets during baseball season, he told me.
After our exchange, it was time to head outside again.
Duty called.
Author Sara E. SkinnerPosted on December 7, 2010 Categories Out and About
Goodyear Blimp hovering over Royal Poinciana Way Area
So one might say I'm somewhat obsessed with the Goodyear Blimp, since a couple of years back (one, two….not sure) I was coming over the north bridge to work and lo and behold I saw the blimp and it looked like it was landing either on the Daily News roof – or behind the building in the Publix parking lot.
Once I parked my car and ran toward Publix with my co-workers….well, yeah, you can guess what happened…Not a blimp in sight!
I was rescued by a reader a few weeks later who snapped a photo of said blimp.
This morning, I had a similar experience….so I started snapping photos with my phone immediately…..
But there wasn't any need to worry about the blimp disappearing today.
It's been hovering for HOURS in the Royal Poinciana Way area.
I took photos when I walked over to Publix at noon and about 1:45 p.m. a co-worker came in and announced the blimp is still with us….so I shot some more photos.
Just thought I'd share, since – I'm sure this time – I'm not the only one who saw it!
Author Sara E. SkinnerPosted on November 15, 2010 Categories Out and AboutTags Goodyear blimp, Palm Beach, Royal Poinciana Way2 Comments on Goodyear Blimp hovering over Royal Poinciana Way Area
An unlikely accidental tourist visits Palm Beach
Anyone walking along Bradley Place or Sunset Avenue near Publix just before noon today could see a rare sight on the island: a ferocious-looking alligator (of the faux variety, thankfully) peering out the back of a pickup truck.
The truck pulled over on Sunset just behind Cucina, so I went over to the driver to ask where this particular reptile was headed.
I also took a quick snap with my iPhone…
"We're taking him to Johnny Longboat's," said Todd Pearson, who works for Southern Restaurant Services in West Palm Beach, and was in the driver's seat.
Southern Restaurant Services is a supplier of equipment (and obviously faux alligators) to food-service businesses throughout South Florida.
Pearson and his co-worker Roberto Varahona, in the passenger seat of the cab, had taken a wrong turn, thinking they could get to Longboat's, a restaurant on Singer Island, where the alligator was headed, via Palm Beach, .
They didn't realize that the Palm Beach Inlet separated the two islands…
"We'll get him there eventually," Pearson said with a laugh.
Author Sara E. SkinnerPosted on October 21, 2010 Categories Out and AboutTags Palm Beach
Jimmy Buffett's yacht seen in Sag Harbor
Although Jimmy Buffett sold his Midtown digs for $18.5 million in June, he's still tooling around in his really, nice 124-foot yacht, Continental Drifter III.
The yacht (seen here) was photographed in Sag Harbor's marina.
The boat was built by Delta Marine in 2003. For specs and interior pictures, click here
For the most recent comings and goings of Buffett, click here.
Author Sara E. SkinnerPosted on September 11, 2010 Categories Out and AboutTags Continental Drifter III, Jimmy Buffett, yacht
A day of freedom for island felons
Today, convicted fraudster Conrad Black was released from the Coleman Correctional Institution near Ocala, while (coincidentally or not?) convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was released from house arrest.
Both these dudes, of course, have residences in Palm Beach, so what would any intrepid local reporters (or celebrity felon stalkers) do but get into the car and do a couple of drivebys to check out the Black and Epstein home fronts on their big day of freedom?
Michele Dargan, who's been covering both stories for the Daily News, and I did just that today.
It was all quiet at the lake end of El Brillo Way, where Epstein has been serving his term.
Just the usual security company vehicle parked outside the gate.
A few lights on and an SUV in the driveway.
Down on South Ocean Boulevard, a small pack of press types, camera people and reporters, all from Canadian organizations such as the CTV, Global News Network, The Globe & Mail and The National Post were staking out the Black residence on a pretty broiling afternoon.
And us, of course.
Word was that Black had been released and that he would be heading down to P.B., but no one seemed to know exactly when.
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IF Internet — THEN Free
Evgeny Nedoborskiy is a fourth year student of international relations at Saint Petersburg State University, Russia. He is currently working on his bachelor's thesis about the impacts of artificial intelligence on international relations. His other academic interests include Russian affairs, European affairs, and just war theory.
ESSAY TOPIC: Is there an ethical responsibility to regulate the Internet? If so, why and to what extent? If not, why not?
If the Internet as the technology has any value for us and we want to preserve its benefits for ourselves and society, then it is our ethical responsibility to oppose any extensive regulation of it.
No Internet actor, whether it is a single individual, multinational tech giant, state, or international body, should have the privilege of single-handedly controlling the Internet: determining its purpose, setting functioning standards and rules of use, directing its development, controlling the infrastructure, etc. The primary reason for this is that, by its design, the Internet is decentralized—and there are three important things about decentralization. First, it is the key characteristic that secures Internet's most important benefits that are most likely to be ethically desirable. Second, it is the main source of self-regulation. Third, it puts the aforementioned responsibility on every single Internet actor. So if the Internet is worth existing at all, then there is a necessity to oppose any unilateral strengthening of control of it.
The Internet's decentralization tends to loosen binding norms and obligations that exist between actors vertically and horizontally. Therefore, the chances of avoiding obligations and receiving no retaliation of any sort in response are lower outside of the Internet than inside of it. This semi-anarchical state, however, has some important and plausible effects humanity never experienced before. It almost indiscriminately provides its users with freedom of information. Owing to the Internet, anyone can access nearly any information with very little effort and price. Physical disabilities, poverty, and discrimination of any sort—nothing can stand in the way of accessing knowledge when you use the Internet. One can start with Wikipedia, which may rightly be called Diderot's Encyclopédie of the 21st century, or access Encyclopédie itself, or access a certain edition of a certain book without paying virtually anything. Not to mention numerous personal observations, opinions, and experiences are available all around the Internet from most popular social network to its "darkest" corners. No matter whether certain information or a piece of content is labeled as undesirable or access to it is restricted by any actor, it most certainly will be accessible freely somewhere on the Internet.
The freedom of information is tightly connected to the freedom of speech and the freedom of expression. The former empowers these latter, and all of them derive from decentralization. The Internet allowed people to manifest human creativity and imagination as never before and regardless of their background. It also gave them a unique opportunity to discuss and debate freely touching absolutely every possible topic. Thanks to decentralization, no authoritarianism, market interests, or personal arbitrariness can fully limit these freedoms which are likely to be considered as fundamental. If you are afraid of governmental intervention into the Internet, think of the Russian failed attempt to block Telegram Messenger or just google the ways of bypassing "The Great Chinese Firewall," which are numerous and surely known on the other side of this firewall. If you are afraid that you cannot pay for accessing academic articles necessary for developing your own research or project, use free repository of scientific articles Sci-Hub (despite copyright issues, everyone uses it). If you got banned on a certain website, you are still able to go to another. The list can go on and on.
Indeed, it is pointless to argue that decentralized model is perfect. Among its drawbacks are fake-news, hate-speech, piracy, Darknet black markets, and many other phenomena. However, it brings order to the Internet too. While the norms and obligation between actors are, indeed, loose, they remain at play. Corporations still follow the law, and black markets are afraid of it; pirates can be bound by ethics and may wish to pay for the pirated things they like; states still have to listen to the public opinion and respect Internet boundaries of other states, etc. This resembles the system of checks and balances. Interconnected and balanced, the actors still push their agenda, but they are limited in establishing it over the Internet because of the significance of other actors. Thus, the Internet does fall into neither the absolute anarchy, nor into the some form of the totalitarianism.
One becomes ethically responsible when he or she is able to act consciously to achieve an outcome that is more ethically desirable. Consequently, the responsibility for the Internet falls equally on the full vertical and horizontal range of Internet actors. Their interests evidently consist not only of material gains, but also of ethical considerations. They may easily come into conflict with the assumption about responsibility to oppose extensive regulation. The idea behind this assertion, however, is not to make everyone drop his or her personal views and moral codes, which may favor regulation over deregulation. It is rather a call for a more tolerant approach to the interests of others, which can be backed either by total moral relativism or, for instance, by Michael Walzer's Reiterative Universalism. Walzer applied his idea to nations and relations between them, however it might be fruitful to apply it to Internet actors (among which nations and nation-states are presented too). In short, whatever one's universal value claims are, he or she should acknowledge claims of others, at least because they are reiterations of one's own universal values even if minimal. Coming back to the Internet's case, one should not deny his or her own views on the Internet. He or she may even promote them on individual, organizational, state, or international levels. But for the sake of the functioning of the Internet, there is also a need to renounce attempts to put it under his or her exclusive real control, which imminently means refusing the principle of decentralization. Because if one wants the Internet to fully ensure the freedom of information, the Internet has to contain all possible information—and this may be hampered by underrepresentation of certain views, positions, or actors on the Internet.
There is no need to go far to see what an alternative to the Internet may look like: France had Minitel, which functioned from the 1980s until 2012, and North Korea has Kwangmyong, which is still online today. Both are very centralized and state-controlled. Are they that bad? Not really, but they are just different in their nature. As the result, they cannot go global. They do not give as much freedom of information as the Internet gives, they do not encourage creativity and debate as much as the Internet, and they are not as cost-effective. Yes, they are better than nothing, but it is apparent today that they are just mere shadows of what they could have become—the great invention, the Internet.
The invention we have to preserve.
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In summer 2018 Ed Addison, Case Coordinator for St Mungo's project Street Impact London, took part in a two week long cultural exchange programme in the USA. Since then he has also been to Portugal to see how they approach street homelessness. Ed explains more about what he learned from Crescer, an organisation which has homeless and substance use outreach services in Lisbon.
In my work in London, I see on a daily basis how the cycle of homelessness and drug use can be very hard for people to break out of. Using drugs can make people very sick and hard for them to address some basic needs, including housing. I wanted to see if I could learn a different way to support people who are using drugs and facing homelessness, and was fortunate to be able to spend three days with Crescer, which has staff offering substance misuse and homeless outreach services in Portugal's capital, Lisbon.
Throughout the 1990s Portugal had high rates of HIV and opiate related death, affecting all levels of society. Many people in Portugal knew a close friend or family member who was affected.
In 2001 the government decriminalised the use of drugs and gave organisations like Crescer a platform to use a harm minimisation approach to address the issue. This kind of approach recognises that sometimes people will not be ready to make changes such as stopping their drinking or drug use completely, and helps people to minimise the risks to themselves and others.
On my first day at Crescer I went out with the 'E Uma Rua' service in the east of the city. The team was made up of three psychologists, a nurse, a social worker and a psychiatrist. I watched as they talked to people on the streets, offering harm reduction advice, distributing kits meaning people could use drugs more safely and collecting used needles in a needle disposal bin. I was moved to see how the outreach workers offered support to individuals where they were, regardless of their situation. Those they spoke to seemed to hold them in high esteem and were willing to talk about their issues.
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The team also works to empower the local community to offer support to those housed in the project. For example, I saw people from a local convenience store looking after a person with mental health needs and dispensing their daily medication.
I would like to say a big thank you to Crescer for hosting me for three days and giving me a fantastic insight in to the amazing work they are doing in Lisbon.
In London I cycle up to 100 miles a week as part of my job, finding and working with people who are sleeping rough. That equates to a lot of thinking time!
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Leaders all wear a blue uniform with no coloured sleevers/collar.
All sections wear a scarf but different States, Districts and Groups may have different scarves or have a special woggle for you to wear. The Group you work with will provide you with the appropriate scarf.
For formal occasions you will be required to wear bone or stone coloured trousers, but your Scout leader will let you know if, and when, they are required.
Appropriate footwear is needed for fun, adventure and games, sneakers or sand shoes are good, bare feet and thongs are not allowed.
Scouts are sun smart and will need to wear a bucket hat or something similar, Scout hats are available from the Scout Outdoor Centre but any appropriate hat will do unless it's a formal occasion.
For most meetings at your Scout Hall and excursions the uniform will be worn and your Scout Leader will let you know if there are activities, such as one where you might get dirty, where you will wear "mufti" or casual clothes.
The Scout badges that go on the uniform such as the World Scout badge, Group and District badges are usually presented at their investiture ceremony except for the Scout Award Scheme badges which are earned as well as activity or special occasion badges that are usually for sewing onto a badge blanket.
All Uniforms are available at the Scout Outdoor Centre in Rundle St Adelaide or available online.


If you could fill your entire deck with just one card, what would you pick as the most powerful solitary card in Hearthstone.
Originally I considered Ice Block since you could wait out for the fatigue. But then I realised that yiour own fatigue would kill you on your turn.
So then I considered Patches the Pirate, for 7 damage a turn - but I realised Ice Block would then be your downfall.


facility for meetings and fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon.
24th Street, Inc. (the "Club") is a not-for-profit corporation, and as such, cannot affiliate with Alcoholics Anonymous or Al-Anon.
The club's sole purpose for existing is in our Mission Statement above.
Any person who is a member of Alcoholics Anonymous or Al-Anon IS eligible for 24th Street, Inc. Membership.
24th Street Memberships help us budget and pay our monthly operating expenses. We primarily rely on revenue from memberships, rent from 12-Step groups that meet at 24th Street, and general donations to operate.
Contributions in 12-Step meetings go to the 12-Step group, not to 24th Street, Inc..
Each group pays monthly rent to 24th Street for use of clubhouse rooms for their meetings.
24th Street, Inc. depends on your Membership and Donations.
24th Street became a Domestic Nonprofit Corporation in the State of Georgia on April 25, 2018.
The name, 24th Street, was chosen to honor the first A.A. clubhouse, which was located at 334 1/2 West 24th Street in Manhattan.
The 24th Street Clubhouse in Manhattan became Bill and Lois' first steady home in years on November 4, 1940. They remained there for the next five months before moving to what is now known as Stepping Stones. A.A. meetings were held regularly downstairs for years.
Our Board decided that 24th Street was the perfect name for our Clubhouse in Athens, GA, since our goal is to provide a stable, safe environment for Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon members and groups.
A Lease Agreement was signed on May 22, 2018 for a portion of the building at 150 Collins Industrial Boulevard in Athens, GA and the Club opened September 1, 2018.
We currently have six A.A. Groups and one Al Anon Group holding regular meetings at our facility. We look forward to many more Groups joining us as we grow in numbers and Fellowship.
Clubhouses have long been a part of the recovery community in Athens. The Biscayne Room was home for Athens' oldest A.A. group, Athens Biscayne Group. Later the Cobb House became home for many of our long-standing A.A. groups, such as Noon Cobb, The Cobb Group, Easy Does It, and an Al-Anon group as well. In 2007, the Cobb House was sold and the groups that met there were forced to disperse around the Athens Area. In 2017, the property where the Biscayne Room was located was also sold, thus causing the Athens Biscayne Group to find a series of new homes. In early 2018, a group of A.A. members, led by Bill T., formed a committee to investigate opening another clubhouse in Athens. Al-Anon was asked to join the committee and the discussions began. Within six months, a Georgia nonprofit corporation, 24th Street, Inc., was formed and a site selected for the new clubhouse.
In simple terms, 24th Street provides to A.A. and Al-Anon what the Groups cannot provide for themselves. Most A.A. and Al-Anon groups meet in churches, hospitals, treatment centers, or similar places. Under long standing Traditions, A.A. and Al-Anon groups never own buildings or meeting halls. This allows them to avoid the problems and controversies that too often arise from property ownership. Clubhouses, like 24th Street, Inc., are formed because many A.A. and Al-Anon members want to have their "own place" to meet and to enjoy between-meeting fellowship. An A.A. or Al-Anon group cannot itself provide such facilities, but a separate club can.
The groups pay rent to 24th Street, Inc., thus covering a portion of the cost of Club operations. In one sense, 24th Street is the "landlord" and the groups the "tenants", although their relationship goes well beyond that. The Club focuses on material needs, freeing the groups to concentrate on their primary purpose: recovery from alcoholism (or in the case of Al-Anon, the effects of alcoholism).
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