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Dec18 by Systemic Disorder
It's said that it is better to laugh than cry. But what do we do when a situation has become so beyond parody that laughter is impossible?
As Australia burns, the world is about to finish its second hottest year ever, the seas rise, polar melting is worse than previously modeled and the sixth mass extinction gains momentum, the world's governments met in Madrid for the 25th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, otherwise known as COP25. What did they decide after two weeks of negotiations? They issued a statement titled "Time For Action." And here are two representative decisions concerning "action": The conference "Notes with concern the state of the global climate system" and "Decides to hold, at its twenty-sixth (2020) and twenty-seventh (2021) sessions, round tables among Parties and non-Party stakeholders on pre-2020 implementation and ambition."
I don't feel like laughing.
A dire emergency threatening the long-term viability of Earth's environment, a set of looming disasters almost certain to make refugees out of untold millions of people in the lifetimes of many people alive today, and the best the leaders of the capitalist world can do at their yearly climate summit is "note" there is a problem and that a year from now they will talk about it some more.
Casa de la Panaderia, Plaza Mayor, Madrid
The representatives of the economic system, it should be noted, that is responsible for global warming. And although all indications are that it is impossible to stop and reverse global warming as long as capitalism ravages the planet, obviously as much as can be done needs to be done today because a rational economic system is nowhere near coming into being.
We have been down this road before. A year ago, at COP24 — held in a center of coal production, Katowice, Poland — the world's governments agreed to a rulebook with no real enforcement mechanism. The world's governments had previously agreed to set goals for reducing their production of greenhouse gases but to do so on a voluntary basis with no enforcement mechanism, and COP24 ended with an agreement on guidelines as to how those goals will be reported that also have no enforcement mechanism. As woeful as that was, it was an improvement over COP23, when participants congratulated themselves for their willingness to talk and agreed they would talk some more. They did issue some nice press releases, though.
Having already agreed that talking is good, the world's governments declared at COP25, which concluded December 15, that talking is indeed a good thing and that they shall do more of it.
No progress but there were more nice press releases
Press releases were happily issued at COP25, each giving off a quite surreal air of disconnect. For example, the web site for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change issued a release on December 13 that declared "Global Climate Action Presents a Blueprint for a 1.5-Degree World," which breathlessly informed us that a so-called "Climate Action Pathways" initiative would establish "transformational actions and milestones." What of substance actually did get accomplished? Beyond issuing press releases and inviting everyone to talk next year, it would appear nothing.
Recall that the world's governments agreed at the Paris Climate Summit in 2015 to hold the global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-Industrial Revolution average, a change from the previous commitment of 2 degrees, although they did not make corresponding pledges to reach either goal.
Fridays For Future demonstration in Madrid near the Congress of Deputies (photo by John Englart)
The goals set for COP25 were to reach agreement on a "carbon market" scheme whereby countries could claim credits for carbon sinks such as intact forests and for renewable-energy projects that lead to reduced greenhouse-gas emissions. Poorer countries would be allowed to sell their credits to wealthy countries, which could then count those credits toward their obligations. Brazil, under its neo-fascist president Jair Bolsonaro, wanted to double-count its forests — it sought to count its forests toward its national emissions targets but also sell the credits attached to them. Other countries sought to have past credits count toward post-2020 emissions accounting, another method to evade responsibility.
The result was that no progress was made in Madrid toward the goal of formalizing the agreements from the Paris agreement, nor toward boosting those commitments as the agreement had intended. And thus no progress was made toward holding global warming to 1.5 degrees C., the agreed Paris goal. Even if all pledges made by the world's governments were honored in full (currently a quite unlikely occurrence), global warming would reach 3 degrees.
Biggest greenhouse gas producers say no the loudest
But let us not lay all blame at the feet of Brazil, detestable as its "let the Amazon burn" president is. As a Democracy Now report succinctly put it, "Scores of civil society groups condemned governments in the European Union, Australia, Canada and the United States for a deal that requires far less action than needed to avert catastrophic climate change."
The carbon markets, if they are set up, would be a farce designed to enable the Global North to evade responsibility. As Asad Rehman, executive director of War on Want, told Democracy Now:
"[W]hat's happening here now is rich developed countries, not just the United States, but Australia, Canada, backed by the European Union, not only don't want to cut their own emissions, not only don't want to provide finance that they promised, not only don't want to help the most impacted people, but now want a get-out-of-jail card. And this is what Article 6, the carbon markets are, because what it basically says is, 'I won't have to cut my emissions, but I can pay somebody else, and you cut your emissions, and I will count it as if I cut my emissions,' as if there is a never-ending magic box of carbon pollution that we're allowed to do. It is not possible. … 10 years ago we had an argument, in these very negotiations, about carbon markets, and developing countries and civil society absolutely rejected them. They said they do not deliver emissions reductions. They'll lead to huge human rights violations. They allow profit for private companies and nothing to ordinary people."
Harjeet Singh, climate change specialist at ActionAid, said in a speech at COP25 that:
"[T]he constant bullying of these big countries are making this process worse than useless. Their bullying hasn't stopped. They're not letting us make any progress in this space. There is no substitute for action. And what rich countries are doing, they are creating an illusion of action by just talking. When we demand action, they offer reports. When we demand money, they offer workshops."
Perhaps the worst bullying is coming from the United States, which is scheduled to leave the Paris agreement in November 2020. Despite its intention to exit, the Trump administration nevertheless actively intervened to protect polluting industries. A U.S. "loss and damage" proposal would make it more difficult for developing countries to obtain financial support for the costs they will sustain from global warming. In an interview, Singh said:
"This is worst I have seen in the last 10 years of me attending negotiations. It can't get worse than that. It's arm-twisting and bullying at the highest level, where United States, which is not meeting its emission targets, is not giving any money to Green Climate Fund and not even letting a system to be created that can help people who face climate emergency now. I mean, look at the audacity of United States, the way they are behaving in these negotiations."
Current pledges would leave emissions double what is necessary
The gap between the significant cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions necessary to meet the Paris goals and what has been pledged is growing wider. Climate Action Tracker calculates that the level of emissions necessary to meet the goal of capping global warming to 1.5 degrees would require that greenhouse-gas emissions be half the level of what has been pledged, assuming all pledges are met. To put concrete numbers to that statement, emissions in 2030 would need to be down to 26 gigatons (26 billion metric tons) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO²E). The totality of Paris commitments, as of December 2019, would result in CO²E emissions of 52 to 55 gigatons.
Climate Action Tracker reports there are two countries — Morocco and The Gambia — that have made Paris commitments sufficient to meet the goal of holding global warming to 1.5 degrees. Six countries are compatible with a warming of 2 degrees. All others are insufficient, highly insufficient or critically insufficient. The last of those categories, the worst, have Paris commitments that would lead to a rise of more than 4 degrees and thus most spectacularly fail to meet global responsibilities. Those in this category are Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United States, Ukraine and Vietnam. Several large countries, including China and Japan, are rated as highly insufficient. Among those merely insufficient are Australia, Canada, the European Union, Mexico and New Zealand.
What that means in practical terms is this, according to Climate Action Tracker:
"Under current pledges, the world will warm by 2.8°C by the end of the century, close to twice the limit they agreed in Paris. Governments are even further from the Paris temperature limit in terms of their real-world action, which would see the temperature rise by 3°C. An 'optimistic' take on real-world action including additional action that governments are planning still only limits warming to 2.8°C."
The United Nations' Emissions Gap Report 2018 said that global greenhouse-emissions set a record high in 2017 of 53.5 gigatons of CO²E. Consistent with Climate Action Tracker, the UN report said, "Global [greenhouse-gas] emissions in 2030 need to be approximately 25 percent and 55 percent lower than in 2017 to put the world on a least-cost pathway to limiting global warming to 2°C and 1.5°C respectively." Emissions set another record in 2018 — Carbon Brief reported that 2018's increase of 2.7 percent was the fastest increase in seven years. For 2019? Higher still, although at a reduced rate of increase despite emissions due to deforestation increasing faster than the previous five years.
Fridays For Future demonstration in Madrid (photo by John Englart)
As an additional insult, hundreds of climate activists were thrown out of COP25 at the same time that at least 42 current or former employees of the fossil fuel industry attended as part of official delegations just from Persian Gulf countries. The senior negotiator at COP25 for Saudi Arabia is a former employee for Aramco, Saudi Arabia's giant state oil company. DeSmog further reports that a "think tank" with close ties to U.S. President Donald Trump obtained accreditation for several organizations and individuals who promote global warming denial. One of those organizations, the notorious Heartland Institute, which began life a propaganda outfit seeking to deny the dangers of smoking, hosted an alternative series of talks on what it calls the "climate delusion" with titles like "The Renewable Power Nightmare in Europe."
I know you don't need more facts, but here are more
It takes a special level of delusion (or amoral profit interest) to continue to deny all that is happening around us. To cite only a handful of fresh reports, here is some of the latest climate science:
• The average temperature of the Canadian Arctic increased 2.3 degrees C. from 1948 to 2016 and is projected to increase almost 8 degrees by the end of this century. One result of this is that sea ice within the Canadian Arctic Archipelago has decreased by 5 percent per decade since 1968 and that the flow of sea ice leaving the Canadian Arctic Archipelago for more southerly latitudes, where it rapidly melts, is expected to accelerate.
• The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing nearly 267 billion metric tons of ice per year and currently contributing to global average sea-level rise at a rate of about 0.7 millimeters per year.
• Thawing permafrost throughout the Arctic could be releasing an estimated 300 million to 600 million tons of net carbon per year to the atmosphere. In plain language, the Arctic may be becoming a net emitter of greenhouse gases rather than a storage.
• The Arctic as a whole is warming twice as fast as the global average, and the speed of changes there is happening faster than anticipated.
• The six warmest years on record are the most recent six years (2014 to 2019); 2019 will be the second hottest year ever despite the lack of an El Niño event, during which the hottest years ordinarily occur.
• Remarkably, 2019 has produced 142 national/territorial all-time or monthly record high temperatures, with zero all-time or monthly record lows.
It seems almost superfluous to point out some earlier studies that portend disaster, such as studies that conclude humanity may have already committed itself to a 6-meter rise in sea level; that massive coastal flooding could happen faster than currently expected; that global warming will accelerate as the oceans reach their limits of remediation; and that Earth is already crossing multiple "planetary boundaries" that will drive the planet "into a much less hospitable state."
We're drowning but a few people got rich
If those disastrous predictions come to pass, our descendants are not likely to declare that coping with their immense problems was a reasonable tradeoff for the one percent among their ancestors scooping up massive profits. Saving the future viability of Earth's ecosystems for the future is an immense task, one impossible under our current global economic system.
Capitalism requires endless growth and endless growth requires more production. Capitalism's internal logic also means that its incentives are to use more energy and inputs when more efficiency is achieved — the paradox that more energy is consumed instead of less when the cost drops. Because production is for private profit and competition is relentless, growth and cost cutting is necessary to maintain profitability — and continually increasing profitability is the actual goal. If a corporation doesn't expand, its competitor will and put it out of business. Because of the built-in pressure to maintain profits in the face of relentless competition, corporations continually must reduce costs, employee wages not excepted. Production is moved to low-wage countries with fewer regulations, enabling not only more pollution but driving up energy and carbon-dioxide costs with the need for transportation across greater distances.
Leaving capitalism intact means allowing "markets" to make a wide array of social decisions — and markets are nothing more than the aggregate interests of the most powerful industrialists and financiers. Those markets aren't going to provide new jobs for those currently dependent on the fossil fuel industry, so resistance from those who stand to lose work without a viable alternative are naturally going to resist change alongside oil company executives. It also means that powerful special interests can continue to dictate policies inimical to the environment solely to keep their profits rolling in. As much as we need the fastest possible transition to renewable energy sources — and we certainly do — that transition is insufficient by itself.
We in the advanced capitalist countries have yet to face the fact that we must consume less not only because natural resources are being used at rates well beyond replacement but because to meet the needed reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions requires not only renewables, not only more efficient energy usage, but that we use less energy, especially if hundreds of millions of people in the Global South are to have a chance to boost themselves out of deep poverty. A rational, democratic economic system based on meeting human need that can operate in a steady state or shrink with a falling population is necessary. An economic system geared toward nothing but massive profits for a tiny percentage of people and based on ruthless competition and exploitation, in which corporations can shift the costs of their behavior onto the public and the environment, can't save us. The compete failure of the world's capitalist countries to meaningfully begin to tackle global warming, despite the alarm bells nature is sounding, demonstrates this all too clearly.
So-called "green capitalism" is destined to fail. We need system change, not climate change.
This entry was posted in Environment and tagged climate, climate summit, global warming, longreads, Paris climate accord.
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25 comments on "COP25: Never have so many governments done so little for so many"
dylanfreak says:
Very good article. It clarifies the current dire situation very nicely.
Thanks. Like all who pay attention, I wish the situation weren't so dire.
WeatherEye says:
Indigenous people have provided true leadership. Their battles on the climate frontlines frankly shame us all!
From the First Nations peoples fighting Justin Trudeau's tar sands pipeline across the B.C. Rocky Mountains to the Lakota defending the Missouri River in North Dakota to the Mapuche people facing systematic violent state oppression in Chile to the Amazon peoples defending the Earth's lungs we owe thanks.
Feel free to share my film about the genocide of the first Americans and their struggle to this day against climate breakdown 😀 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGcwNiroU3Y&fbclid=IwAR0SnuULWs1RTkIg1Xvga17pl6QDG1MtNycW_xBTnjo7k6oLK4eLRansCsI
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COP25: Never have so many governments done so little for so many « Systemic Disorder | AGR Daily News says:
Wow. How optimistic.
What has to be understood here is the solution for climate change is just to change the channel to a new program.
And so, that is what "they" do.
The only problem is that the problem is REAL and channel surfing is only good on a TV.
What a surprise when the TV floats out of the house and its only use is to keep afloat.
What? Tubularsock, "Me Worry?"
But before changing the channel, they will talk about changing the channel. It's our only planet, what's the rush?
In fact, they would have to pick a fact finding committee to convene next year so as to pick a committee to discuss the changing of the channel which would have to be reviewed by the entire body so that the fact finding committee to investigate changing the channel would have authorization to proceed on the formation of the Channel Committee which would need to spend their first two sessions discussing the chairmanship appointment process.
Yep. What's the rush?
timothymaloney says:
China may be in the Highly Insufficient category in terms of their 2015 Paris Climate Summit intentions, but they will probably lead the world in decarbonization for the remainder of this century.
Refer to http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-a-f/china-nuclear-power.aspx
Go to the section titled Nuclear Power, 4th paragraph, about halfway through the report. Or just search for the phrase "1400 GWe by 2100".
Note the projections:
200 Generation 3+ reactors by 2040 (compared to our present 100), plus another 200 Generation 4 reactors by 2050.
So combined total of 400 reactors at mid-century, about equal to the world's entire fleet as of now.
Then speeding up in the second half of the century, reaching 1400 reactors by year 2100.
Also check out the export discussion in the preceding paragraph:
"This has led to a determined policy of exporting nuclear technology, based on China's development of the CAP1400 reactor with Chinese intellectual property rights and backed by full fuel cycle capability. In 2015 the Hualong One reactor became the main export product. "
One paragraph that caught my eye was this one: "While coal is the main energy source, most reserves are in the north or northwest and present an enormous logistical problem – nearly half the country's rail capacity is used in transporting coal." Another good reason for China to reduce its coal usage.
China is making much progress toward changing its energy supplies. But it is necessary to ask if all those nuclear power plants are a good idea: 1,400 reactors are 1,400 huge accidents waiting to happen. The problems with nuclear are enormous — and not only in terms of safety and storage of radioactive waste, but because nuclear energy plants only exist because they are massively subsidized. (See "Nuclear energy dangerous to your wallet, not only the environment.")
There is no realistic alternative to renewable energy, much more efficient usage of energy and consuming less. Fourteen hundred potential Fukushimas or Three Mile Islands is madness.
Murray Reiss says:
When Climate Action Trackers says that "under current pledges, the world will warm by 2.8°C by the end of the century, close to twice the limit they agreed in Paris. Governments are even further from the Paris temperature limit in terms of their real-world action, which would see the temperature rise by 3°C. An 'optimistic' take on real-world action including additional action that governments are planning still only limits warming to 2.8°C," does that take into account the latest findings like thawing Arctic permafrost turning the entire region into a net emitter of carbon rather than a sink? It just seems like every week brings new studies that show our situation is even more dire than we assumed the week before.
Greetings, Murray. That is a good question, one that I can't answer. My guess would be that thawing Arctic permafrost, and the Arctic becoming a net emitter rather than a net sink, of greenhouse gases (particularly methane) is not included. The Climate Action Tracker is an estimate of the net emissions produced within a given country, presumably those caused by industrial activity, transportation and the like.
Does it include, for example, emissions caused by Amazon rain forest destruction and assign that to Brazil? It is possible that is included, since that is quantifiable and it is a product of government policy and measurable human activity. But I would have to look closer to determine that with any certainty. Arctic melting, I would guess, is different because although of course the product of human activity is not the direct cause of a specific government action.
Should Arctic melting be counted toward Russia's and Canada's emissions? That is a difficult question to answer. And Arctic Sea melt? But however those are counted, it will contribute to global warming and will need to be accounted for when forecasting future warming. That changes are happening faster than forecast is scary.
stuartbramhall says:
One solution to all these useless conferences would be to require Western delegates to take personal responsibility for their transportation costs unless they sign an agreement in line with the 1.5 degrees C goal – that doesn't involve nuclear energy or carbon capture technology.
Or people waking up and stop voting for candidates dedicated to promoting corporate plunder at all costs. But as the British election just showed (as only the latest of innumerable examples), all too many people will vote for the candidate who tells them what they want to hear, no matter how at variance with reality or the candidate's character.
John Allen aka Ol' Hippy says:
The dismal failures of these "talks" just point to one thing; a collapse of industrial capitalism. I see no other outcome at this point. Since human leaders of state seem to be psychopaths with no empathy or compassion for Earth and her ecosystems we are captive to a cataclysmic disaster in somewhat slow motion. Personal efforts won't be enough as we are baked into the system as a whole whereas the militaries of the world contribute to the massive use of fossil fuels. The only real questions left: when and how severe. Every year without action–and there's been no real action at all, so far–adds to the catastrophe.
"When and how severe." I sure wish I could dispute your assessment, but I can't.
notabilia says:
"When and how severe" is a direct rejoinder to all the hopeists who blithely posit the phantasms of "system change" or "degrowth."
We are indeed "baked into the system" – baked to a crisp.
There are multiple studies out there that conclude humanity has already committed itself to a sea level rise of several meters and/or future dangerous environmental changes. If so, doing whatever is possible now would at least lessen (relatively) the damage.
But if it is not too late, even if the deadline approaches, as other multiple studies suggest, then we owe it to our descendants to reverse course. Regardless of how close to the tipping point we are, and even if we've already passed it, "system change" to a sustainable economy is our only hope. To give up is to guarantee that the future will be as painful as it can be.
The "multiple studies" are performed under the aegis of biophysical scieince, which has been practically illiterate when it comes to sociology, the science of humans and their socio-political institutions. We have no functioning political governance at the international level, and a pathetic slim reed against the maruading colossi of transnational corporations at the national and lower levels.
We "owe" nothing to our descendants. They will live, as we have, with the ineluctable weight of human history bearing upon our every "choice" and circumstance. Good luck to them, as it was to us.
No one is "giving up," because there is precious little that we can do other than the most minor efforts. The amount of CO2 release and mineral extraction that we in the west have been connected to by our happenstance of birth has been gargantuan, beyond the comprehension of mind, though Christopher Clugston documents this in his masterful book "Blip: Humanity's 300 Year Self-Terminating Experiment with Industrialism."
Whatever we want to wish for, or construct elaborate theses toward, or idealize, had better be grounded in some semblance of existential reality, or we will be just as bullshit-smeared as our religious and militaristic and fossil-fuel-addled as our ancestors.
Butch says:
The ramp up of those non-existing chemtrails poorly disguised as contrails for any critical observing eye is also a dramatic tell-tale of pending doom. Forget that "scientists" say that what "we" might have to do looks exactly like what we've been seeing in our skies. Talk talk talk about climate change yet nothing about the "climate-changers".Cold and warm side of storms? Seriously!!! It's been normalized. The political inaction merely reflects the ideology of the system that brought us here, denial of truth and imprisoning those who speak it is the only way now. If the masses knew the truth chaos would prematurely arrive. Its coming, enjoy your so called "peace on earth bullshit. All it would take is for people to stand-up against the tyranny. Too comfortable here in the belly of the beast.
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Don Sutherland says:
Reblogged this on Solidarity Dynamics and commented:
Thanks. This is a good summary of the current situation. However, I think we also have to talk up the various forms of "just transition". In doing so we must highlight the urgency that is required; we must sharpen the class character of "just transition" based on the critical idea that the twin exploitations of humans and nature are truly interdependent; we must escalate the democratic part of "just transition" (see my own blog where I elaborate on that) in which the primacy of workers' and community control. On the third "must", that means we should talk a lot more about that relative to how much we talk about what those who govern the system are doing.


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MIAMI — The top U.S. military commander for Latin America said that the Trump administration isn't looking to use military force to remove Nicolas Maduro even as it expands counternarcotics operations in the Caribbean.
Adm. Craig Faller, head of U.S. Southern Command, said in an interview that the recent decision to double anti-narcotics assets in Latin America was months in the making and not directly tied to Maduro's indictment in New York on charges of leading a narcoterrorist conspiracy that sent 250 metric tons of cocaine a year to the U.S.
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Faller said the coronavirus did force some in the Pentagon to rethink the timing of the deployment out of concern for the safety of service members. While controls to protect the workforce have been enhanced, it was determined that over the long term, the U.S. is positioned to take advantage of the disruption in narcotics supply chains caused by the virus as drug cartels scramble to source precursor chemical and other inputs.
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He cited two "quick wins" since the start of the deployment — a 1.7 metric ton seizure in the Pacific Ocean near Costa Rica last week and another 2.1 ton interdiction a few days ago.
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So, Day Two of the blog and another post?
Looks like someone is procrastinating. That WIP will NOT be pleased.
But, seriously, I wanted to share with you a recent interview I did with the fantastic Carl Purdon. It's fun, it's funny, it's unique, and you actually learn a bit more about me … if that's what floats your boat.
This entry was posted in Jonathan Winn, Martuk the Holy, The Martuk Series, Writing and tagged Amazon, author interview, Carl Purdon, ebook, film, horror, indie, indie author, indie author interview, interview, Martuk, Martuk the Holy, movies, playwright, screenwriting, The Elder, The Martuk Series, The Wounded King.


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# require symbol description (symbol-description)

The `Symbol` function may have optional description:

```js
var foo = Symbol("some description");

var someString = "some description";
var bar = Symbol(someString);
```

Using `description` promotes easier debugging: when a symbol is logged the description is used:

```js
var foo = Symbol("some description");

> console.log(foo);
// Symbol(some description)
```

It may facilitate identifying symbols when one is observed during debugging.

## Rule Details

This rules requires a description when creating symbols.

## Examples

Examples of **incorrect** code for this rule:

```js
/*eslint symbol-description: "error"*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var foo = Symbol();
```

Examples of **correct** code for this rule:

```js
/*eslint symbol-description: "error"*/
/*eslint-env es6*/

var foo = Symbol("some description");

var someString = "some description";
var bar = Symbol(someString);
```

## When Not To Use It

This rule should not be used in ES3/5 environments.
In addition, this rule can be safely turned off if you don't want to enforce presence of `description` when creating Symbols.

## Further Reading

* [Symbol Objects specification: Symbol description](https://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0/#sec-symbol-description)


Offering a sun terrace and views of the garden, L'Oasi Del Relax is set in Oleggio Castello in the Piedmont Region, 44 km from Lugano. Free WiFi is offered throughout the property and free private parking is available on site.
Every room at this bed and breakfast is air conditioned and comes with a flat-screen TV. You will find a coffee machine and a kettle in the room. Each room comes with a private bathroom with a bath and bidet, with a hair dryer provided.
Free use of bicycles is available at this bed and breakfast and the area is popular for cycling. Como is 44 km from Oasi Del Relax, while Stresa is 16 km from the property. Malpensa Airport is 19 km away.


05156 makes up %0.000 of the Vermont population, with a total of 9,283 people, compared to the Vermont total of 626,604.
The Average Household Income for 05156 is $60,428 compared to the Vermont average of $71,391.
The Median House Value for 05156 is $145,900 compared to the Vermont average of $217,500.
The Median Age for 05156 is 42.00 compared to the Vermont median of 42.00.
The Mean Travel time to work for 05156 is 0.00 minutes, compared to the Vermont mean of 22.49 minutes.
57.53% of the population in 05156 have White Collar Jobs, compared to the Vermont population, in which 69.94% have White Collar Jobs.
42.47% of the population in 05156 have Blue Collar Jobs, compared to the Vermont population, in which 30.06% have Blue Collar Jobs.


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Song Sleuth with Sibley
December 6, 2017 - Blog, Featured, The Outdoors - Comments:
Text by Joan Carson
Wildlife Acoustics, maker of the Song Sleuth bird-identifying app, has announced the launch of a birding sweepstakes. It is presented by L.L. Bean Co., maker of outdoor wear and gear. David Sibley, renowned artist and author of "Sibley's Guide to Birds," is the prize.
The winner of the sweepstakes will have the opportunity to enjoy a weekend birding with Sibley during the L.L. Bean Bird Festival, May 26-28, 2018, in Freeport, Maine. In addition to spending the day with Sibley, the winner will also win a $1,000 L.L. Bean shopping spree. The winner will receive air travel and hotel accommodations for two to Freeport for three nights, two birding outings and one meal with Sibley. Two copies of the new Song Sleuth app are included.
David Sibley is a self-taught bird illustrator and a recognized authority on North American birds. In 2000, his seminal work, "The Sibley Guide to Birds," established him in the birding world. This field guide includes 6,600 of his watercolor illustrations. This book and more of his work can be found at www.sibleyguides.com.
The starting date for entering the contest was Dec. 1. It ends on March 1, 2018. No purchase is necessary to enter or win. A purchase or payment of any kind will not increase the chances of winning. To enter and to learn the official rules and complete details, visit sweepstakes.songsleuth.com.
Wildlife Acoustics, Inc. provides bioacoustics-monitoring systems for scientists, researchers and government agencies worldwide. Founded by Ian Agranat, the company creates hardware and software tools for biologists and researchers who monitor a multitude of wildlife, including but not limited to birds, bats, frogs, insects and marine life.
Song Sleuth is a birdsong-identification assistant currently available on the iPhone. The sweepstakes coincides with the launch of Song Sleuth 2.0 in mid-February 1918. Along with new capabilities and the addition of more species, an Android version will also be introduced.
When a bird is heard that can't be identified, tapping on the app will suggest what species of bird is singing. It covers nearly 200 of the most frequently heard species of birds in North America. The app includes a full set of reference recordings as well as information about each species' appearance, habits and status.
L.L. Bean, founded in 1912, began as a one-room operation selling one product, the Maine Hunting Shoe. It is still family-owned but can be found worldwide and is a leading multichannel merchant of outdoor gear and apparel. It currently operates 38 stores in 17 states across the United States, along with 25 stores in Japan. The flagship store in Freeport, Maine, receives more than 3 million visitors every year.
Tags: bird watching, birds, books, garden, nature, northwest, outdoors, people, things to do, trees, wildlife
Joan Carson
A founding member of Kitsap Audubon, the local chapter of the National Audubon Society, Joan Carson is a columnist whose primary subjects are birds, birdwatchers and birding. For more than four decades, her columns have appeared regularly in the Kitsap Sun, Tacoma News Tribune, The Olympian and the Peninsula Daily News. Joan is past president... (see more by Joan Carson)


Former Miss America host Gary Collins was busted again for DUI.
The 70 year-old actor/host was arrested just south of Montecito by the California Highway Patrol at 9:16 pm on Saturday. Law enforcement sources said that Collins resisted a field sobriety test, but was given a blood alcohol test.
He was then brought to the Santa Barbara County Jail where he was booked and released.
This is the third time Collins has gotten in trouble for drinking and driving. A year ago he pled no contest to DUI in a crash that killed the other driver, who was making an illegal left turn. And in 2002 he was found not guilty of DUI in Mississippi.
Collins is now on 4 years probation. A jail sentence is more or less given if he was driving drunk again.
Aside from his 8 year stint on Miss America, Collins was a former host of Hour Magazine and The Home Show, and also appeared in series such as The Sixth Sense and Born Free.


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Q: maximum response time on keypress I work for a company that develops psychological tests. One of these tests measures the reaction time of a candidate.
Anyone has an idea of the maximum delay between a key press and the time that this key event is available? What are the dependencies?
Is there a guaranteed maximum response time? I readed something about 5 - 25 ms.
What is the best way to handle keyevents to have a minimum delay?
Thanks in advance,
Kevin

A: Windows UI processing is very complex. It includes algorithms like priority promotion on keypress, but it will usually wait until the next scheduler ticklet (at worst, 30ms on desktop systems and 60ms on server systems) if another process asks for a full CPU cycle,
To overcome that, you would need a special keyboard driver that would provide event at the same latency, but also measure the accurate time. Accurate time measurement is possible on windows systems if dynamic CPU clock switching is disabled (Lookup entry QueryPerformanceCounter(), you would need to know how to invoke it from DDK), in which case, the keyboard event would still arrive with unpredictable latency, but the original bus event would be time-stamped correctly. Then you remain only with bus latencis which should be smaller than the standard deviation of your measurements. See also What happens from the moment we press a key on the keyboard, until it appears in your word document


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Normal weight obesity and mortality in United States subjects ≥60 years of age (from the third national health and nutrition examination survey)
John A. Batsis, Karine R. Sahakyan, Juan P. Rodriguez-Escudero, Stephen J. Bartels, Virend Somers, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez
Current body mass index (BMI) strata likely misrepresent the accuracy of true adiposity in older adults. Subjects with normal BMI with elevated body fat may metabolically have higher cardiovascular and overall mortality than previously suspected. We identified 4,489 subjects aged ≥60 years (BMI = 18.5 to 25 kg/m2) with anthropometric and bioelectrical impedance measurements from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys III (1988 to 1994) and mortality data linked to the National Death Index. Normal weight obesity (NWO) was classified in 2 ways: creation of tertiles with highest percentage of body fat and body fat percent cutoffs (men >25% and women >35%). We compared overall and cardiovascular mortality rates, models adjusted for age, gender, smoking, race, diabetes, and BMI. The final sample included 1,528 subjects, mean age was 70 years, median (interquartile range) follow-up was 12.9 years (range 7.5 to 15.3) with 902 deaths (46.5% cardiovascular). Prevalence of NWO was 27.9% and 21.4% in men and 20.4% and 31.3% in women using tertiles and cutoffs, respectively. Subjects with NWO had higher rates of abnormal cardiovascular risk factors. Lean mass decreased, whereas leptin increased with increasing tertile. There were no gender-specific differences in overall mortality. Short-term mortality (<140 person-months) was higher in women, whereas long-term mortality (>140 person-months) was higher in men. We highlight the importance of considering body fat in gender-specific risk stratification in older adults with normal weight. In conclusion, NWO in older adults is associated with cardiometabolic dysregulation and is a risk for cardiovascular mortality independent of BMI and central fat distribution.
American Journal of Cardiology
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2013.07.014
Nutrition Surveys
Adipose Tissue
Batsis, J. A., Sahakyan, K. R., Rodriguez-Escudero, J. P., Bartels, S. J., Somers, V., & Lopez-Jimenez, F. (2013). Normal weight obesity and mortality in United States subjects ≥60 years of age (from the third national health and nutrition examination survey). American Journal of Cardiology, 112(10), 1592-1598. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2013.07.014
Normal weight obesity and mortality in United States subjects ≥60 years of age (from the third national health and nutrition examination survey). / Batsis, John A.; Sahakyan, Karine R.; Rodriguez-Escudero, Juan P.; Bartels, Stephen J.; Somers, Virend; Lopez-Jimenez, Francisco.
In: American Journal of Cardiology, Vol. 112, No. 10, 15.11.2013, p. 1592-1598.
Batsis, JA, Sahakyan, KR, Rodriguez-Escudero, JP, Bartels, SJ, Somers, V & Lopez-Jimenez, F 2013, 'Normal weight obesity and mortality in United States subjects ≥60 years of age (from the third national health and nutrition examination survey)', American Journal of Cardiology, vol. 112, no. 10, pp. 1592-1598. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2013.07.014
Batsis JA, Sahakyan KR, Rodriguez-Escudero JP, Bartels SJ, Somers V, Lopez-Jimenez F. Normal weight obesity and mortality in United States subjects ≥60 years of age (from the third national health and nutrition examination survey). American Journal of Cardiology. 2013 Nov 15;112(10):1592-1598. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2013.07.014
Batsis, John A. ; Sahakyan, Karine R. ; Rodriguez-Escudero, Juan P. ; Bartels, Stephen J. ; Somers, Virend ; Lopez-Jimenez, Francisco. / Normal weight obesity and mortality in United States subjects ≥60 years of age (from the third national health and nutrition examination survey). In: American Journal of Cardiology. 2013 ; Vol. 112, No. 10. pp. 1592-1598.
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It's wedding season and we've all seen our fair share of proposal videos (like the guy who surprised his girlfriend in London to propose, or the bride who helped her cousin get engaged at her wedding). In fact, it seems like every day, people are constantly thinking of new, creative, adorable ways to pop the question — not that I'm complaining about that, mind you. Today, a new proposal has gone viral, though it's probably not for the reasons you think: Tyler Shelton's "Not Your Average Proposal" video has been racking up views, but not because it has any big gimmicks or crazy effects. In my opinion, that's why people are going so crazy over it — because it's so honest and sincere.
Tyler Shelton, the mastermind behind TribeTyler, a video blog where Shelton documents every single day of his 20s, has been with his now-fiancee Haylee for over seven years. Tyler had always envisioned asking Haylee's dad for her hand in marriage, but sadly, he passed away in April of 2014. So Tyler did the next best thing: he asked all of Haylee's siblings if they would give their blessing, and then documented it all on video. As you can imagine, they all gave a resounding yes (otherwise we probably wouldn't be obsessing over the video).
But the sweetest part that will bring you to tears is the beginning of the video — you see, it's addressed as a letter to Greg, Haylee's late dad.
Here's Haylee and her dad.
That last bit is going to say "daughter," by the way.
Aww, stop. That's so sweet.
Haylee said yes, as you probably guessed.
Beautiful. I love everything about this.


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Dojran Lake
By admin December 12, 2017 December 21, 2017 travels
We in Global transfer service will tell you about Dojran lake. According to an old legend, a Macedonian girl named Dojrana was fetching water from special springs that had to be sealed after use. At the very moment Dojrana was filling her jugs, she heard that her beloved had come back from the army and forgot to seal the springs. Lake Dojran was, as the legend says, the result of her careless euphoria. Due to the Mediterranean climate of southern Macedonia and the proximity of the balmy Aegean not far to the south, in the Dojran area vegetation starts blooming n early spring and continues to do so until late autumn. Even though Lake Dojran is only 10 meters (30 feet) deep at its deepest point, it is full of life. The large quantity of weeds that grow in the lake and the large number of plankton on its surface make Dojran's waters very helpful for treating rheumatism, skin diseases and respiratory diseases, so many tourists come here precisely for this. What are distinguishable about the Dojran lakeside are the fishing boats and the fishermen's huts standing on stilts above the surface of the water. The method of fishing here is original and very old, performed with the help of the cormorants, gulls and other birds that fly above the lake, directing the fish into the baskets where they are gathered in enormous quantities. The father of history himself, Herodotus, noted Dojran's fish potential way back in the 5th century B.C. According to him, the lake was so teeming with fish that if you put an empty basket in the water at night, it would be full by morning. Today, the best known types of fish are red-finned carp, trout, perch, eel and claw-fish.
Dojran Lake is a lake with an area of 43.1 km² shared between the Republic of Macedonia (27.3 km²) and West Macedonia within Greek Macedonia, Greece (15.8 km²). To the west is the city of Nov Dojran, to the east the village of Mouries, to the north the mountain Belasica/Beles and to the south the Greek town of Doirani. The lake has a rounded shape, a maximum depth of 10 m and a north-to-south length of 8.9 km and is 7.1 km at its widest, making it the third largest lake partially in the Republic of Macedonia after Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. The lake was on the southern line of the Macedonian front during World War I, and its southern shore became the site of the Battle of Doiran between allied Greek and British troops attacking from the south, and Bulgarian troops entrenched to the east of the lake. A monument to the battle and two cemeteries for Greek and British troops stand on a hill a few hundred meters south of the lake.
Prespa Lake – Magnificient scenery
Mavrovo Lake
1000 Skopje, Macedonia
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Prop. 58- The transfer of a principal residence between parents and children, and the transfer of up to one million dollars ($1,000,000) of other real property between parents and children, is excluded from reappraisal under some circumstances. A timely Claim for Reassessment Exclusion for Transfer Between Parent and Child must be filed to receive the exclusion. Transfers of property other than principal residences will be checked State wide for the $1,000,000 limit.
If you do not complete and return this form, it may result in this property being reassessed.
The first $1,000,000 of the factored base year value of other real property between parents and children.
NOTE: Effective January 1, 2009, Revenue and Taxation Code Section 63.1(j) allows a county board of supervisors to authorize a one-time processing fee of not more than $175 to recover costs incurred by the county assessor due to the failure of an eligible transferee to file a claim for the parent-child change in ownership exclusion after two written requests have been sent to an eligible transferee by the county assessor.


With the use of a dentist then one is able to know what is ailing the oral cavity of someone and with this one is able to get the right treatment. When it comes to the oral health then a dentist should always be able to educate a patient well on how they will take care of themselves well. When one is visiting a good dentist then there are some things that they should always be able to advice on doing them and this are that one should always make sure that they brush their teeth at least twice a day and then one should always take a lot of water every day. Some of the things which are always done are that one should always make sure that a dentist is visited once every six months and also one should make sure that they avoid sugary foods.
A good dentist should always have a very good reputation, they should make sure that they meet your needs well and also one should make sure that they do a very good research about the doctor. When one is a dentist they can always become their own bosses and with this it always comes with a lot of freedom and also the flexibility when one is working. With being a dentist then one is sure that there is a good job prospects and also the stability and also one is able to get a very good income that comes with it. With the dentists then one is sure that they have touched someone's life and also put a smile on their faces and thus resolving any pain that they might be going through.
When one visits a dentist then should always make sure that they remove any stain from the teeth or any discoloration of the teeth too and they also should make sure that they make the teeth look more brighter and also one have a whiter smile.
A good dentist should always make sure that they clean the teeth of the patients and this one prevents the gum diseases and also tooth decay. A good dentist is always able to detect if there is any problem with your teeth and with this they are able to know if there are any broken fractures or even the fillings which need to be attended to immediately. With the cleaning of the teeth and also the checkups one is sure that there is no bad breathe that one has. When one is a dentist then one is able to educate the public about the oral health and also one is able to meet different people and also make them smile.


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U.S. embassies in Pakistan lack resources to carry out emergency plan in case of attack -- By Kellan Howell, The Washington Times
The two U.S. embassies in Pakistan don't have the resources they need to survive emergency situations, a new report found, putting lives at risk 18 months after the deadly attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi, Libya.
While the Embassy in Islamabad and Consulates General Karachi, Lahore, and Peshawar had adequate emergency action plans — and had sufficient planning, training, and drills for emergency preparedness — there was still concern over a lack of resources, said the State Department's Inspector General report.
The watchdog recommended that these embassy sites obtain the necessary resources and continue to practice emergency drills. The watchdog also called for the Bureau of Diplomatic Security to further validate emergency preparations and security at high-threat posts, such as those in Pakistan.
Pakistan is considered one of the highest threat countries that U.S. officials work in


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September 27, 2021 Intelligence: Late-Breaking Lab News
| From the Volume XXVIII, No. 13 - September 27, 2021 Issue
MedPAC Reports to Congress on Issues in Lab Test Price Survey
Following the opening of her criminal trial in a Silicon Valley courtroom in recent weeks, Elizabeth Holmes—the disgraced ex-Founder and CEO of Theranos—continues to be the subject of news headlines. Federal prosecutors are calling witnesses to testify. Much of this testimony includes anecodotes and facts about her personal life and the way she made business decisions. Our sister publication, Dark Daily, issues regular e-briefings that cover the disclosures that would be of greatest interest to clinical lab managers and pathologists.
MORE ON: Holmes
Last week, pathologist Adam Rosendorff, MD, testified for the prosecution. He was the CLIA laboratory director for Theranos from April 2013 until December 2014. He stated that he resigned after repeatedly notifying Holmes and ex-COO Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani about inaccurate lab test results and other serious problems with many of the lab's testing operations that would have negative consequences for patients.
11 PSCs CLOSING IN ROCHESTER, NY
WXXI News reported that the University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center would temporarily close 11 patient service centers (PSCs) on Sept. 28 due to its inability to fill necessary positions. Health system officials stated that the open positions were not because of COVID-19 vaccination requirements for the health system's staff.
• Sysmex America announced the retirement of CEO Ralph Taylor, effective Sept. 30, ending 14-years of service. Taylor previously held positions with Beckman Coulter and Coulter Electronics.
• Andy Hay was selected to be the new CEO of Sysmex America, of Lincolnshire, Ill., and he served with the company for 32 years.
• Julie Khani will join Hologic, of Marlborough, Mass., as Vice President of Government Affairs. Her prior positions were at the American Clinical Laboratory Association, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, and Ford Motor Company.
In the July 26 issue of The Dark Report we wrote that Compass Group leaders had "sent a letter to the College of American Pathologists (CAP) expressing concerns about the College's CLIA accreditation process and service." This was incorrect. TDR has confirmed that it was one individual lab member of the Compass Group who contacted CAP directly with concerns about the CLIA accreditation program during the time originally referenced. We regret the error.
That's all the insider intelligence for this report. Look for the next briefing on Monday, October 18, 2021.
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California Gold - Yes, you can still prospect and recover gold in California
December 05, 2019 Kevin Hoagland & Kevin Bell GPAA State Director CA. Season 1 Episode 17
Kevin Hoagland & Kevin Bell GPAA State Director CA.
Many people believe that the moratorium on dredging in California has all but stopped prospecting in the state. This is just not true. There are a number of different methods of recovering gold at and around the state's waterways that are efficient and productive.
I sat down with CA GPAA State Director Kevin Bell and discussed a few options for getting on the gold.
This is a two-part series in part 1 we talk about Production Panning, Sluicing and using a Rocker Box in the stream to the 300-foot line set forth by the state for mechanized and motorized equipment.
In part 2 it is everything past the 300 foot boundery.
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away. Welcome to the on the gold podcast. I'm your host, Kevin Hoagland. And today we're talking about the golden opportunities in the state of California. Just because there's a moratorium does not mean that you cannot go prospecting. We're going to talk about what you can do in the state of California that falls within the guidelines and how you can make probably a lot of gold before it's all said and done. And joining me today is Kevin Bell. Kevin Bell is one of the state directors for the state of California and a very active prospector. Good morning, Kevin. How are you?
Morning. Cab. How's everything going?
Everything is going great. At least we're not doing this at four o'clock in the morning.
Okay, So let's jump right into this one, because it just needs to be covered. Moratorium. State of California on dredging. And that means that you can't go dredging. And because of that or high banking anything within 300 feet oven active water channel. Correct?
Yes. Yes. Yeah. Anything within. There's no mechanized equipment within 300 feet of the stream or the water, the watercourse, anything outside that everything is legal. Inside. That 300 foot mark is basically no mechanized equipment. Can hand operated equipment. Only
a lot of people have the problem making the distinction between motorized and mechanized.
Yes, and so the state of California is has put it. If it's a device, whether it has a motor or not, if it's a compound or mechanical tool for gold extraction, that does not fit the definition of and tools. So the key word is and tools. So it's it's non, ah, mechanical, both whether it pulls water out of the stream or it's a compound tool for separating material,
and that's a great way to say it. Anything that pulls water from this dream is considered a mechanized
There are some tools that you use. Where there they draw water up into the tube, different things like that or with a hand pump, different things. Those are not able to be used within that 300 foot from shore. Line up 300 feet, Correct. Ah, what about 301 feet?
Everything is legal. Sky's the limit. You know we still with our high bankers or recirculating systems. They should be used in a tub or a pond. Either one.
Right. Because you cannot have any solid or any liquid reenter the stream channel. So if I'm at 301 feet, I have to be re circulating, and I have to assure that that material is not going back into the active stream channel,
right? No. Free 12
right? No free flow. Perfect. Perfectly to say that within 300 feet. What can I do? It sounds like I'm pretty limited.
Well, actually, you're not. They've not put any limitation on the end tools. So, for instance, you can use full size sluices and even production pins within that area, so that really extends your ability to move material.
Now, can I dig material right there at the water line?
Yes. As long as you're using hand tools, you can dig at the water line or the stream bed itself.
And what about anywhere in that 300 foot barrier from the stream line all the way up to that 300 foot?
Yes. As long as you're not disturbing any sort of green plants, trees, things like that.
Standard prospecting in small scale mining procedures as not just the state of California, but anywhere. So that's that's really standard. That's not just California. That's everywhere, as faras prospecting is concerned. So let's talk about what we can do within 300 feet. I can use a number to shovel. I can fill buckets full of material. I can take it down to the stream bed, and I can pan or Aiken sluice. Or I can use something like a rocker box because a rocker box, if you're using the differ handle, is actually not classified as a mechanical devices.
No, it is perfectly legal. So if you are dipping and filling the rocker box by a bucket or O. R. A dip absolutely legal.
Okay, now there is a rocker box. It's on the marketplace right now that has been around for a very, very long time, and that is the one that is made by gold grabber. The gold grab A rocker box is a rocker box that has a hand pump that draws water up or you can hook it up to a 12 volt battery. Absolutely cannot use that rocker box within the 1st 300 feet,
right? So if you're just using it as a standard device, without having the rest of the handle hooked up or having that electric pump perfectly legal,
Once you add those other items, then it becomes illegal because you're actually pulling water from the stream.
Okay, so a 300 feet in the 1st 300 feet, I cannot use that rocker box. But at 301 foot absolutely can use that all day long.
Okay, So panning. Gosh, I can go gold panning. Oh, wow, G Wiz, that's gonna take forever.
Well, that's the nice thing is there's no limitation on banning. It's a hand tool so you can use production pans
any problem.
And that's where I want to lead this, too. A lot of people would just shy away from doing any prospecting if they thought the only thing they could do was go down to the stream and just work a standard gold pin. And quite frankly, I would, too. That's not a real joy for me to go down in Just Pan Buck, you know, Pan a scoop it in time of material. But there is the production pan, and I want to talk about that because you and I both use production pans. I used the gold hog flow pan. You used the pyramid pro Pan, and the reason that we used these pans is because they move a massive amount of material in a very, very short order of time. It's not a gold pan. It is a gold band, but it's not a standard I will
fight. It's a gold,
right? So I've done my prospecting and we have to reiterate that over and over and over, I've done my prospecting. I know exactly where I'm going to be working. I've got my material. I know the trend. I know where it's headed. I'm going to take some buckets of material or Evan down on the streamlined. I'm just going to shovel directly into my production pan and started panning
right and all say that production pans, I Maybe people I need to clarify are we need to clarify. Production pans will run as much material in a day as a regular slopes, so you are not limited, even at that level,
So you get that high volume of material processing, yet it doesn't require any flow so you can run it in a pool or real low water and it can run either unclassified or classified
right? That
is its biggest feature,
right? And I have a tendency with mine to classify down the one inch, no matter what I and can I just shovel into? Absolutely. Have I shoveled into it? You bet. And I will continue to do that at times where it just makes sense. But I still like to classify down to that one inch.
Yeah, that makes it a lot easier if I am running unclassified. I still shovel collapse by
right, so at the end of the day, and I don't know what your production rate is. But when I'm out and I'm on a stream and I'm using my production pan and I'm breaking that material down very, very quickly, I'm dumping. I'm doing my fast cleanups, pulling my map, rinsing it out, throwing it back together and going right back to work. At the end of the day, I I'm going to have at least 3/4 of a five gallon bucket full of virtue on concentrate. I'll take that home and then do my final classification in my final recovery and someone like that. What a year results when you're using your production pan
right? Very similar years. And And I think that, you know, when you run your production pin, all you're doing is getting it down to the size of the material where the gold is and putting it in a bucket,
and then repeating.
And that's part of the prospecting process. I've prospected this area. I know that all of that the majority of my gold is going to go through Ah, 20 mash green. But I did find a few pickers that were above the 20 mash. So when I'm panting, I'm going to stay just right above that 20 machin. That's everything that's going to go in because I don't want to miss the pickers. So when I'm production painting and you do that by sight, or else if you really want to, you can classify all the way down to that. But that kind of defeats the entire purpose of a production pan.
Right? Speed is everyday.
Speed is everything, and at the end of the day, having that concentrate to take home is a absolute must, and so production panning is a way to run volume in the state of California inside that 300 foot barrier. Now let's talk about sluice boxes.
The you can run full size sluice boxes. And even there, you know there's no dimensional restriction on the sluice cider. So you have a large loose, you know, 16 inch wide things like that without without restriction
and that material. You can take that directly from the stream channel on the bank or wherever you have performed your prospecting within that 300 feet class, fight down and run it side
down and run it.
Yeah, A
limitation. Uh, within that 300 foot. As long as you're not, you know, damaging vegetation or something. You have no restrictions. You know, one of the things I want to reiterate and tools are not a limitation. There's no, you know, there's no real limitation, a hand tools, and it Your only real limitation is how much material you can run in a day.
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That's a great point. It is limited to what you can do in the course of a date. But everything is limited to what you can do in the course of the day, and that's what you work to do. You go to that point. And then what you have for your recovery is what you have for your recovery. Now, I don't know if you want me to mention this, I'm going to. Anyway, You have a particular spot because you have prospecting Thursday, which is something that you've been doing ever since you retired. Where you go out, you've got a certain spot on a certain river, you go out and you're not working hard. And at the end of the day, you've got grams.
Yes, and the material that you're running, we're so familiar with the layer of material that we need to process We on Lee process that that line,
right? And
so you're really concentrating the amount of gold you're working and that you're extracting
so through your prospecting. You know exactly the material that you're going to work and you're not working hard. You're just having fun and just working steady throughout the course of a day and you end up with I mean, I've seen some multiple graham days that you've sent me pictures up, so
yeah, the nice thing about it is is you're not wasting time running material. That's marginal. I like you know you're only running the highest grade material through the slough, so your recovery goes up dramatically, and that should be what you always you know, you know here, especially here in California, where we tend to have pocket material. You want to always make sure that you're you know, where the best, the best cold. It's
well and don't care if you're just in California anywhere that you're working, you should know where the best gold is, so that is done through your prospecting. So to be successful in the state of California right now is a possibility. Now it's more than a possibility. If you do your prospecting, you know the material that you are working. And if you're in that 300 foot mark, I know that it's hand tools on Lee, which means a hand, a sluice, a shovel, a bucket, different things like that. But if you're outside of that, the possibilities are unlimited. Outside the 300 foot, you know
that's where your dry washers and you're recirculating devices come in,
right, and we've covered gold pans. We've covered production gold pans, sluice boxes, rocker boxes that are hand dipped in hand, operated, not mechanized. There's always metal. Detecting is well,
Oh, yes, yes. And that that's one of the great opportunities that metal detecting is allowed within the 300 feet or outside the 300 feet. So it should always be something that the minor that's coming to California bring.
I agree. I agree. So for this inside the 300 foot, let's just make it simple, You prospect. You find your gold, you pan use loose, you rocker box or you metal intact.
in part two of this, we're going to talk about what you can do outside your 300 feet closing words.
Well, you know, I just wantto let people know, Kev, that you're you're not hampered by this law. You have the ability to get really good recovery on goal. There's a lot of gold here in California. You have year round flows in a lot of these areas, and as long as you do your prospecting, you are going to do amazingly well. Even though you're only using hand tools.
Well said Wait, thank you for joining us on Part one of California prospecting and mining. This was the 300 foot. What you can do the next one will be what you can do outside of 300 feet. Kevin, thank you for joining today as the state director for the state of California and making sure that people understand that there are still incredible golden opportunities available every day in the state of California.
You bad cab. Thank you. And, uh, I just invite everybody to make the trip. Don't be afraid. Make the trip.
Bring your gold pan. Bring useless box. Bring a shovel, bring your metal detector and get on the gold.


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