Our group had the pleasure of warm, sunny skies and a summer-like day at Toluma Farms, Tomales.
Toluma Farms is a Marin County (Tomales) family owned Grade A dairy and organic farm, just twenty minutes west of Petaluma. They are developing a line of fine artisan hand crafted goat cheeses. In addition, Toluma supplies goat milk to Redwood Hill Farms of Sonoma County. An interesting fact about goat milk is that worldwide, more people drink goat's milk than cow's milk. Toluma's goat's milk, like any good goat's milk, has a delicious slightly sweet taste. The goats are milked twice a day and produce a gallon of milk each day which translates into one pound of cheese. They can identify every one of the 200 goats by name! They have Nubian, Saanen, Alpine, La Manchas and Oberhaslis goats at Toluma Farms.
I arrived mid-day to put up our sign and several artists had already arrived and began painting plein air. Donna Solin, Catherine Moreno, and Daphne Gerlach were well on their way already. See photos, below.
The start of a barn painting, by Donna Solin.
Mill Valley artist, Catherine Moreno, beginning a painting of the largest barn.
Goat tries to nibble Daphne Gerlach's supplies.
This goat had a LOT of character!
The goats were so friendly. They paraded down a trail to meet me and my sons, and the other artists. This is when I learned from Eric Butler, Herd Manager, that they all had very cool names. This is a beautiful farm, not far from Dillon Beach. My family ended up at the beach this day, but I am so glad we got to come out and photograph and see the other artists hard at work and enjoying the gorgeous views. Hopefully, some of the paintings and photographs from today will end up at our year end exhibits that bring funds back to the farmers.
This year's second visit of the season brought a handful of artists out to Bolinas on a cool and foggy day in April.
Artist, Maud Zimmer was there to meet the proprietor of Blackberry Farm, Aggie Murch. Zimmer says that it was a lovely day, and Aggie brought out warm, cranberry-walnut cookies for all the artists at "just the right time".
Photos from the day have been contributed by Petaluma-based artist, Daphne Wallace Gerlach.
"Aggie was wonderful to visit with and the beautiful home has lots of history, including an old rose bush; I wish that I could remember the name of it! Aggie was happy to see that someone painted the Buttercups all over the front lawn...(Maud). I am working on a painting of them too. Maud's painting featured the house. I hope to have a painting up and ready soon", says Gerlach.
Click here to visit Ann Brooks Photography Blog with some great photos from this first trip.
Our first visit of 2012 brought our group out to Cerini Ranch, just North of Hog Island Oysters. It was a gorgeous day, with puffy clouds and sunshine. I opened up in the morning and put our signs out for the group. I also enjoyed bringing my 9 year old son, Blake, out to the farm to paint for the first time. He did a decent job painting, but mostly preferred playing iPad in the warm car, watching mom paint. It was nice to have him along for the visit.
When we arrived, we were greated by Vicki- Victoria, a real English gardener, who has lived and cared for the property for years. She was a very nice hostess and came out to see what we were painting mid-day as she strolled the property for a walk. There were about 10 artists on the property throughout the day. We left by 4pm when Patti Elliot and Ann Brooks showed up for afternoon light. Ann has written a terrific blog post about her first time visit with "Art on the Farm". Enjoy!


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Two additional commercially available atomizers (really analysis techniques with unique atomizers) must be discussed, because they are extensively used in environmental and clinical analysis. They are the cold vapor AAS (CVAAS) technique for determination of the element mercury, Hg, and the hydride generation AAS (HGAAS) technique for several elements that form volatile hydrides, including As, Se, and Sb. These elements are toxic federal and state laws regulate their concentrations in drinking water, wastewater, and air, so their measurement at ppb concentrations is very important. Because the CVAAS and HGAAS atomizers are analysis techniques, they will be discussed under applications of AAS. [Pg.453]
An atomizer based on glow discharge (GD) techniques is commercially available for the analysis of solid metal samples by AAS. It will be discussed in the applications sections under soM sample analysis. [Pg.453]
These consist of a chain of carbon atoms each carrying 0 to 3 hydrogen atoms except for the simplest molecule, methane CH. Each carbon atom is linked to four other atoms which can be either carbon or hydrogen. Their general formula is( 2 ... [Pg.3]
Figure 5.13 shows the way in which the molecules are visualised, their chemical symbol, and the names of the first three members of the series. The carbon atom has four bonds that can join with either one or more carbon atoms (a unique-property) or with atoms of other elements, such as hydrogen. Hydrogen has only one bond, and can therefore join with only one other atom. [Pg.90]
Alkanes from CH to C4gFlg2 typically appear in crude oil, and represent up to 20% of the oil by volume. The alkanes are largely chemically inert (hence the name paraffins, meaning little affinity), owing to the fact that the carbon bonds are fully saturated and therefore cannot be broken to form new bonds with other atoms. This probably explains why they remain unchanged over long periods of geological time, despite their exposure to elevated temperatures and pressures. [Pg.91]
A number of methods that provide information about the structure of a solid surface, its composition, and the oxidation states present have come into use. The recent explosion of activity in scanning probe microscopy has resulted in investigation of a wide variety of surface structures under a range of conditions. In addition, spectroscopic interrogation of the solid-high-vacuum interface elucidates structure and other atomic processes. [Pg.293]
The average cloud is spherically synnnetric with respect to the nucleus, but at any instant of time there may be a polarization of charge givmg rise to an instantaneous dipole moment. This instantaneous dipole induces a corresponding instantaneous dipole in the other atom and there is an interaction between the instantaneous dipoles. The dipole of either atom averages to zero over time, but the interaction energy does not because the instantaneous and induced dipoles are correlated and... [Pg.192]
Surfaces are found to exliibit properties that are different from those of the bulk material. In the bulk, each atom is bonded to other atoms m all tliree dimensions. In fact, it is this infinite periodicity in tliree dimensions that gives rise to the power of condensed matter physics. At a surface, however, the tliree-dimensional periodicity is broken. This causes the surface atoms to respond to this change in their local enviromnent by adjusting tiieir geometric and electronic structures. The physics and chemistry of clean surfaces is discussed in section Al.7.2. [Pg.283]
Atom abstraction occurs when a dissociation reaction occurs on a surface in which one of the dissociation products sticks to the surface, while another is emitted. If the chemisorption reaction is particularly exothennic, the excess energy generated by chemical bond fomiation can be chaimelled into the kinetic energy of the desorbed dissociation fragment. An example of atom abstraction involves the reaction of molecular halogens with Si surfaces [27, 28]. In this case, one halogen atom chemisorbs while the other atom is ejected from the surface. [Pg.295]
Other atoms and molecules also show similar series of lines, often in the vacuum ultraviolet region, which fit approximately a similar fonuula ... [Pg.1145]
One current limitation of orbital-free DFT is that since only the total density is calculated, there is no way to identify contributions from electronic states of a certain angular momentum character /. This identification is exploited in non-local pseudopotentials so that electrons of different / character see different potentials, considerably improving the quality of these pseudopotentials. The orbital-free metliods thus are limited to local pseudopotentials, connecting the quality of their results to the quality of tlie available local potentials. Good local pseudopotentials are available for the alkali metals, the alkaline earth metals and aluminium [100. 101] and methods exist for obtaining them for other atoms (see section VI.2 of [97]). [Pg.2218]
Unlike the forces between ions which are electrostatic and without direction, covalent bonds are directed in space. For a simple molecule or covalently bonded ion made up of typical elements the shape is nearly always decided by the number of bonding electron pairs and the number of lone pairs (pairs of electrons not involved in bonding) around the central metal atom, which arrange themselves so as to be as far apart as possible because of electrostatic repulsion between the electron pairs. Table 2.8 shows the essential shape assumed by simple molecules or ions with one central atom X. Carbon is able to form a great many covalently bonded compounds in which there are chains of carbon atoms linked by single covalent bonds. In each case where the carbon atoms are joined to four other atoms the essential orientation around each carbon atom is tetrahedral. [Pg.37]
Hence we have two molecular orbitals, one along the line of centres, the other as two sausage-like clouds, called the n orbital or n bond (and the two electrons in it, the n electrons). The double bond is shorter than a single C—C bond because of the double overlap but the n electron cloud is easily attacked by other atoms, hence the reactivity of ethene compared with methane or ethane. [Pg.56]
Methane, CH4, is the first member of this series, all of which have the general formula C H2 + 2- Every carbon atom in any alkane molecule has a tetrahedral eonfiguration and is joined to four other atoms. Alkanes are resistant to attack, at room temperature, by... [Pg.172]
Every member of this series must contain at least one double bond. The two carbon atoms making up the double bond are joined to only three other atoms and they are therefore said to be unsaturated. [Pg.173]
The electronic configuration of each halogen is one electron less than that of a noble gas, and it is not surprising therefore, that all the halogens can accept electrons to form X" ions. Indeed, the reactions X(g) + e - X (g), are all exothermic and the values (see Table 11.1), though small relative to the ionisation energies, are all larger than the electron affinity of any other atom. [Pg.310]
Additionally, to optimize task 4, we applied a conventional, atom pair interaction based multiple-time-step scheme to the force computation within Ihe innermost distance class. Here, for atom pairs closer than 5 A, the Coulomb sum is calculated every step, and for all other atom pairs the Coulomb sum is extrapolated every second step from previously explicitly calculated forces. [Pg.83]
In the following matrices hydrogen atoms are sometimes not shown, because their numbers and position.s can be calculated from organic structures on the basis of the valence rules of the other atoms. [Pg.34]
Both tables, the atom and the bond lists, are linked through the atom indices. An alternative coimection table in the form of a redundant CT is shown in Figure 2-21. There, the first two columns give the index of an atom and the corresponding element symbol. The bond list is integrated into a tabular form in which the atoms are defined. Thus, the bond list extends the table behind the first two columns of the atom list. An atom can be bonded to several other atoms the atom with index 1 is connected to the atoms 2, 4, 5, and 6. These can also be written on one line. Then, a given row contains a focused atom in the atom list, followed by the indices of all the atoms to which this atom is bonded. Additionally, the bond orders are inserted directly following the atom in-... [Pg.40]
Figure 2-45. Canonicallzation starts at the atom with the highest EC value (in the example 16), which gets the number 1, From there, all other atoms are numbered according to their EC values,...
The attack by a reagent of a molecule might be hampered by the presence of other atoms near the reaction site. The larger these atoms and the more are there, the higher is the geometric restriction, the steric hindrance, on reactivity. Figure 3-6e illustrates this for the attack of a nucleophile on the substrate in a nucleophilic aliphatic substitution reaction. [Pg.178]
Two other atomic properties have been used in the definition of atom type, thereby increasing its fuzziness relative to that in the ap and tt descriptors - atomic log P contribution (yielding hydrophobic pairs, hps, and torsions, hts) and partial atomic charges (charge pairs, cps, and charge torsions, cts). [Pg.311]
Even at 0 K, molecules do not stand still. Quantum mechanically, this unexpected behavior can be explained by the existence of a so-called zero-point energy. Therefore, simplifying a molecule by thinking of it as a collection of balls and springs which mediate the forces acting between the atoms is not totally unrealistic, because one can easily imagine how such a mechanical model wobbles aroimd, once activated by an initial force. Consequently, the movement of each atom influences the motion of every other atom within the molecule, resulting in a com-... [Pg.359]
Two factors affect the stability of this orbital. The first is the stabilizing influence of the positively charged nuclei at the center of the AOs. This factor requires that the center of the AO be as close as possible to the nucleus. The other factor is the stabilizing overlap between the two constituent AOs, which requires that they approach each other as closely as possible. The best compromise is probably to shift the center of each AO slightly away from its own nucleus towards the other atom, as shown in figure 7-23a. However, these slightly shifted positions are only correct for this particular MO. Others may require a slight shift in the opposite direction. [Pg.385]
The chirality code of a molecule is based on atomic properties and on the 3D structure. Examples of atomic properties arc partial atomic charges and polarizabilities, which are easily accessible by fast empirical methods contained in the PETRA package. Other atomic properties, calculated by other methods, can in principle be used. It is convenient, however, if the chosen atomic property discriminates as much as possible between non-equivalent atoms. 3D molecular structures are easily generated by the GORINA software package (see Section 2.13), but other sources of 3D structures can be used as well. [Pg.420]
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Displayed at the Paris Auto Salon in November 1922, the 1923 Lancia Lambda was instantly recognized as a new approach to cars. "Even those with no engineering interests had only to look at it to know that it was different," wrote Lancia historian Nigel Trow. "It was low and angular, with a quality of unity, of being 'all of a piece.' It looked deliberate, something that was designed from scratch by a team that knew exactly what was wanted. The car was a total departure from all previous practice."
Of course, not everything about the car was new, but certainly nobody else clapped so many innovations onto one model. The engine, for example, was unprecedented: a V-4 banked at a tiny 13-degree angle (later 14 degrees), with a flat cylinder-head face and combustion chambers in the block. Nobody had ever seen anything like it.
The torpedo body, with pontoon or sweeping cycle fenders, looked more like a fanciful doodle than a production 1923 automobile. The brakes, to cite another attribute, operated on all four wheels. Designed by engineer Battista Falchetto, they were unorthodox in the extreme: conventional manufacture at that time tended to dictate rear brakes only.
This was, incidentally, an example of Vincenzo Lancia's standards governing the car's development -- he merely told his engineers that the brakes, whatever they were, must be capable of hauling the car down repeatedly from 100 kilometers per hour (62.5 mph). Falchetto suggested the use of front brakes by taking Lancia for a test drive in which the standard was met by a car fitted with front brakes only. Only later was it realized that front brakes do 80 percent of the work on any automobile.
The Lambda was faster over a twisty road than anything Lancia had hitherto produced, including the big Tri Kappa, an eight with twice the horsepower. It was soon being raced by privateers all over Europe. In 1924, the Lambdas of Riva and Gauderman finished 1-2 in the under 2,500-cc class in France's Routes Pavees race; another Lambda won the Indian Tourist Trophy at Simla in 1925; the Circuit of La Spezia in 1926; the Tunis-to-Tripoli race in 1927.
When Italy's famous open road race, the Mille Miglia, was instituted in 1927, a trio of Lancias took the first three places overall. The following year saw a Lambda entered by the factory, which prepared it merely by fine tuning a production model; it held second place most of the way and would have finished second to a more powerful supercharged Alfa Romeo had the engine not dropped a valve toward the finish.
Gismondi, the Lambda driver, actually held the Alfa in average speed, thanks to Lancia's superior brakes, handling, long-range fuel tank, and modified fuel supply to prevent fuel starvation when ascending the mountains.
To follow the Lancia Lambda story to 1931, continue to the next page.
Over the production of 13,000 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931 Lancia Lambdas in nine series through 1931, the specification evolved gradually. Displacement was increased to 2.4 liters on the 1926 seventh series and to 2.6 liters on the 1928 eighth series. Also with the seventh series, Lancia parted with its revolutionary practice by offering the option of a separate chassis -- a product of necessity and the pressure of custom coachbuilders.
Also, some owners wanted to create more sporting bodywork for competition; this often took the form of shortening the wheelbase, which could not have been more disastrous. The alteration ruined the handling and seriously weakened the body.
So the Lambda had a problem. Simultaneous with its arrival had come a wave of prosperity in the mid- to late Twenties. There was a huge market for custom bodies, and this meant that a separate chassis option was crucial. "This is perhaps why enthusiasts lay so much store by the seventh series Lambda," wrote Frostick, "since this was the last, and most highly developed version, of the original fascinating concept."
These later custom-bodied Lambdas led in time to the factory's own luxury model, the Dilambda, with a V-8 and separate chassis, independent front suspension, servo brakes, central chassis lubrication, and twin electric fuel pumps. Lancia built 1,700 Dilambdas; they in turn fostered other notable productions, including the prewar Astura and the postwar Flaminia.
See the next page to find specifications for the 1923-1931 Lancia Lambda.


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Cunningham Elected to 2020 DTCI Board of Directors
At the November annual meeting of the Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana, the following officers and directors were elected. They assumed office January 1, 2020.
Norris Cunningham is a co-founding partner of Katz Korin Cunningham PC and leads the firm's healthcare practice. He previously served as chair of the Indiana State Bar Association Diversity Committee and is past chair of the Long Term Care Subcommittee of the Health Section of DTCI. Mr. Cunningham now serves as chair of the DTCI Diversity Committee. He is a certified arbitrator by the American Arbitration Association and the American Health Lawyers Association. Mr. Cunningham is a frequent presenter on long-term care at national and regional meetings.
Mr. Cunningham was a captain in the U.S. Air Force from 1989 to 1994 and a lieutenant colonel in the Indiana Air National Guard from 1994 to 2010. He received his BA from Aurora University in 1988, his MS from Central Michigan University in 1991, and his JD from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in 1996.
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Mexico arrests ex-top police official over torture allegations
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A former top police official once seen as vital to Mexico's battle against drug cartels was arrested on Monday on charges of torturing suspected kidnappers in 2012, Mexican authorities said.
Luis Cardenas Palomino, with the Federal Police from 2010 to 2012, was the next-in-command to former Security Minister Genaro Garcia Luna, who was arrested in the United States in 2019 on charges of taking bribes to help the Sinaloa cartel.
Both served in those roles under former President Felipe Calderon, whose so-called war on drugs unleashed gang territory disputes that led to record levels of violence.
Cardenas and another former law enforcement officer were charged during an indictment of Garcia Luna in October, despite both being at large.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at a regular news conference shortly after the arrest described Cardenas as Garcia Luna's "second" and said the detention underscored his administration's zero-tolerance approach to impunity.
Officials arrested Cardenas early on Monday after searching a building in Naucalpan, a suburb north of Mexico City, the Attorney General's office said in a statement. The statement did not detail the case for which Cardenas was accused of torturing suspects of a kidnapping.
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Surging Wildcats sweep three at Hannan
Published 11:45 pm Tuesday, March 13, 2012
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COVINGTON — After starting this season 0-4, East St. John finds itself on a roll.
The Wildcats have won six of their last eight games, including a sweep of the Archbishop Hannan tournament this past weekend. ESJ defeated Pearl River, Crescent City and St. Martin's to even its record out at 6-6.
"We're finally starting to put things together," said East St. John coach Curtis Tsuruda. "We're hitting with men on base, which was our Achilles' heel be.-fore. Our pitchers did a good job… This is great for their confidence, especially the close victories. If you do it once, you know you can do it again later on."
The Wildcats first secured a significant victory over a strong Pearl River team, 9-7.
Daniel Franklin went 3-for-4 with two RBIs to lead ESJ at the plate. Shawn Jackson had a double and two RBIs. Ashton Lewis earned the win on the mound.
"Our guys are learning to be more disciplined in their approach," said Tsuruda. "To be able to play well whether you're ahead or behind … in football, it's the way the ball bounces sometimes. In baseball, for it to bounce you need to hit it. You need to create your own breaks, and they're learning that."
The Wildcats followed that victory up with a more dominating performance against Crescent City, a 12-3 victory.
A number of Wildcats hit well in the win. Darnell Lee went 3-for-3. Meanwhile, Lewis, Bruce Winn, Brown and Donald August each collected two hits. Winn notched the win for ESJ.
Franklin had another strong performance in a 7-6 win over St. Martin's, going 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles. I'Kee Brown picked up the victory.
Tsuruda said that his players are pleased with the recent success, but he cautions that it's very early. "It's a marathon," he said. "Our players are in uncharted waters. Not so much in the record, but in what we're trying to do. The season is a grind, and we've got to work hard to keep the momentum going."鶝
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China's Belt and Road initiative, explained by Kazakhstan
By Georgi Gotev | EURACTIV.com reporting from Astana Jul 4, 2018 Roman Vassilenko with map, 4 July 2018. [Georgi Gotev] This article is part of our special report The New Silk Road . Roman Vassilenko, deputy minister of foreign affairs of Kazakhstan, met on Wednesday (4 July) with a group of international journalists from around the world to field questions about his country's development and the China-promoted Belt and Road initiative. This week Astana is hosting a number of international events and has attracted many journalists. Vassilenko, who is a career diplomat, having served in the UK and in the US, spent two and a half hours with reporters and answered many questions. The diplomat said he had received many questions in advance concerning the Belt and Road initiative, and made use of a map to offer explanations. Map Kazakhstan Region He argued that it is that map that gives a sense of why Kazakhstan is among the strongest supporters and key participant
Hambantota: "the Chinese port"
BY Aarti Betigeri In early 2011, I was in Hambantota, southern Sri Lanka, looking for the new port. After hours of driving, from the southern beaches through kilometres of wetlands featuring water buffalo, ibises, and the odd elephant, through vivid green jungle as far you could see, the wilderness eventually gave way to sparse development, then to a small town. This was Hambantota: at that stage nothing more than a few streets, a bus terminal, some squat government buildings, and concrete apartment blocks. Stopping at a checkpoint, my driver asked the way to the new port that had recently opened – the purpose of our visit. "The Chinese port? It's that way," said an armed man, cocking his finger. It wasn't clear whether he was government or private security. As we drove further, we encountered more and more road signs in Chinese characters. As we drove further, we encountered more and more road signs in Chinese characters, then asked again for directions. "The Chinese port is o
Kiev hosts Ukraine-China economic forum on Belt and Road cooperation
KIEV, July 4 (Xinhua) -- A Ukrainian-Chinese economic forum on the Belt and Road Initiative was held on Wednesday, attracting more than 200 participants. During the event, Chinese and Ukrainian officials and representatives of business and industrial circles discussed ways to deepen the economic relations between the two countries within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative. The forum was jointly organized by the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UCCI) and the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT). Speaking to Xinhua during the forum, Valeriy Korol, vice-president of the UCCI, highlighted the importance of the Belt and Road Initiative to Ukraine, which lies at the crossroads between the East and the West. "I'm sure that it has a great future, first of all, for the Ukrainian business," Korol said. Ukraine and China have made a series of steps toward closer partnership under the Belt and Road Initiative, which included a mee
The Environmental Challenges of the Belt and Road Initiative
Photo Credit: Greenpeace BY GREGORY COUTA Jul. 05, 2018 | Ever since China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was first proposed in late 2013, it has increasingly attracted worldwide attention with its massive scale and immense potential economic impact. Described as the " project of the century " by Chinese President Xi Jinping, the initiative, which seeks to strengthen trade and investment partnerships across Asian, European and African markets, could affect over 4.4 billion people in some 70 countries and generate a GDP of over USD 21 trillion once completed. The size of the proposed investments is truly unprecedented. Estimates vary, but China could invest up to USD 1.25 trillion in various infrastructure projects over the next decade or so. While many governments and businesses have unsurprisingly welcomed the implementation of the BRI for the lucrative opportunities that are likely to be provided and have already planned to act in order to extract the greatest benefits
Belt and Road Initiative cooperation a new highlight in Sino-Singapore ties: Teo Chee Hean
Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean at the China Lanzhou Investment and Trade Fair, on July 5, 2018.ST PHOTO: CHONG KOH PING Chong Koh Ping China Correspondent LANZHOU - Singapore and China are old friends who have been able to nurture and evolve bilateral ties over time to meet their needs and national interests. And today, 40 years after China opened up to the world, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an area which both countries can work on together, said Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean on Thursday (July 5). "Historically, Singapore has been a key node along the ancient Maritime Silk Road, and remains globally-connected today," Mr Teo said in a speech at the 24th China Lanzhou Investment and Trade Fair, in Lanzhou, provincial capital of northwestern Gansu. "As globally-connected countries, Singapore and China are natural partners for the long-term development of the BRI," added Mr Teo, who is on a nine-day visit to China. The ambitious plan init
China's Debt-Trap Diplomacy
By THE EDITORS July 3, 2018 6:30 AM Chinese President Xi Jinping at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party in Beijing, October 18, 2017.	(China Daily/via Reuters) To understand China's geopolitical ambitions, look to Sri Lanka. Mahinda Rajapaksa was elected president in 2005 after making ambitious campaign promises to rebuild his country's infrastructure. When he came to office, he struck a deal to develop the Hambantota port — located in the south of the island — with a Chinese state-owned enterprise called China Harbor. The contract with China Harbor was expensive; Sri Lanka is not exactly awash in cash. So its government had to borrow money to put up its share of the cost. Sri Lanka first borrowed $307 million from the Chinese Export-Import bank, then $700 million (this time with a higher interest rate), and, finally, $1 billion. By the time Rajapaksa was out of office, the port was a commercial failure and the country owed more than $3 billion to China. After negot
Where are the solutions?
It is that time when once in five years all political parties highlight the problems of Balochistan. In political gatherings, press statements and social media posts, these parties decry the suffering of Balochistan's people. It is that time when an ordinary citizen of Balochistan is made to believe that all political parties care for his problems and wish to resolve them. But no political party proposes any concrete or precise solutions to the province's enormous problems. Ever since the creation of Balochistan as Pakistan's province, power politics in the area has revolved around a vicious cycle that has benefitted the ruling political elite, not the people. The cycle starts when a political party is in the opposition or is out of power. This party then becomes the biggest champion of the rights of Balochistan's people and uses the support of the public to make its way to the government. Once there, it forgets about the people's problems and concocts excuses about how it is helple
CPEC – A vital doorway for Exports from Azerbaijan to China
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Ahead of elections, China's ambitious CPEC project faces backlash by locals
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Balochistan National Congress (BNC) rejects the Pakistan's elections
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China's Belt and Road: Exporting Evangelism?
A Chinese man prays during a mass on Christmas eve at the South Cathedral official Catholic church in Beijing, China (Dec. 24, 2014). Image Credit: AP Photo/Ng Han Guan Aided by the networks created by the Belt and Road, Chinese missionaries are heading abroad, much to Beijing's dismay. By Jeremy Luedi July 04, 2018 At a time when their compatriots back home are dynamiting churches that have mushroomed across the country, Chinese construction companies are winning contracts to build churches across Africa. The economies of scale and other logistical advantages which Chinese firms enjoy in other sectors are being carried over to church construction. "China is now winning contracts to build churches because its corporations out-bid those from elsewhere," notes Jesse Mugambi, professor of religious studies and philosophy at the University of Nairobi. Not only is officially atheist China building houses of worship across Africa, its mega-corporations are also
Guns And Debt On The Belt And Road
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Stronger Legal Cooperation for Sound and Steady Development of the Belt and Road Initiative
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The 10 Best Songs For Social Change, according to Joya Mooi
"Vouch to listen to this every day - you'll change..."
Amsterdam-based songstress Joya Mooi's desire to shape a better future fuels Side A of her new album 'What's Around The Corner', a thought-provoking body of work delving into the theory of social change on both a political and personal level.
The daughter of a South African freedom fighter, Joya's music aims to give insight into the experiences of a new generation from the African diaspora and spark change for the better, merging the worlds of pop, trap, R&B and more to toast her sonic expression. Keeping in line with the themes of the album, Dummy sat down with Joya Mooi to delve into her favourite tracks for bringing about social change.
1. Janet Jackson – 'What About'
"When I first heard the Velvet Rope, I was years too young to really know what it was about. But it spoke to me; the rage, the emotions. I truly admire Janet Jackson for telling this story about abuse in this vulnerable way."
2. Abdullah Ibrahim – 'Mannenberg'
"As a daughter of a South African political exile, this song holds so many feelings. From hope, resistance, resilience to identity. It's the anthem of the anti-apartheid struggle that set so many people in motion."
3. Kendrick Lamar – 'Alright'
"I mean, instant anthem. This song brings solace, it's an uplifting reckoning. It takes your hand, makes you stand tall and it shows you where we could be in the future. There's nothing like it."
4. Rochelle Jordan – 'LAY'
"Sonically it sounds like a love song, but there's so much to it. It's about the anxiety and emotions that black people got through with their loved ones in the face of racism, police brutality. Hoping deeply they return safely to your arms, every night."
5. Noname – 'Rainforest'
"Her delivery man…asking brilliant questions and being so nonchalant though factual about the environment and global injustice. And connecting anti-Black violence, capitalism, and colonisation so eloquently."
6. Mustafa – 'What About Heaven?'
"How do you cope with losing a loved one due to violence? 'What About Heaven' is so powerful – it's the emptiness, the pain, the larger chains of loss. Wanting better for your community. How can you not feel despair and want action?"
7. Mansur Brown – 'God Willing'
"So strange how songs without any vocals/lyrics, can move you. Fortunately I heard this song live in London and I couldn't stop crying. Music is such a strong language to come together as people – would vouch to listen to this every day – you'll change."
8. Georgia Anne Muldrow – 'Seeds'
"Really look up to Georgia as a writer, musician about being vocally conscious. You can hear in her music that she cares so much about the environment, Black representation and much more. Seeds made me question the food industry on a new level."
9. Nana Adjoa – 'I Want To Change'
"I think fighting for social change can be ruthless for your personal life. This song captures beautifully how hard it is to get yourself in motion and how uncomfortable it can get. Changing the world is also changing yourself."
10. Little Simz – 'Introvert'
"The entire album is amazing but especially this song and video struck me. It's powerful, it celebrates blackness in a universal way. She charges and goes off with drums, horns, guns blazing and bars for days."
Stream Joya Mooi's new album 'What's Around The Corner (Side A)' below:
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Arbaaz Khan is soon jumping on the bandwagon and starting his web show Pinch. It will have celebs talking about how social media is a double-edged sword and discussing its pros and cons in a chat show format. The celeb list has all the big names except for Salman Khan! Surprised? Well, don't be because Arbaaz has a total legit reason to for the same. He told media that while it is very obvious to involve Salman, he wants to see where he gets without his superstar brother. It is very obvious that Sohail Khan and Arbaaz Khan are shadowed with Salman's star power and have often seen as his brothers. Now, Arbaaz wants to explore the digital space without Salman at least in the first season. He said that Salman wanted to come but Arbaaz wanted to just be on his own.
About the chat show, Pinch will stream on QuPlay's YouTube channel. Few celebs to feature on the chat show are Karan Johar, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Kapil Sharma, Sonam Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sunny Leone.The show will be live on March 12th, 2019 at 1 pm. The show has been written and directed by Abbiy Obheroii.
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Award for GB Roof Garden restaurant from 'Wine Spectator' magazine
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The GB Roof Garden Restaurant for the fourth year in a row has received a very important distinction from 'Wine Spectator', one of the most popular wine magazines and is among the winners of the Wine Spectator Restaurant Award.
Last year the restaurant was included in the list of distinguished wine lists receiving the 'Best of Award of Excellence 2015'. Once more this year, the GB Roof Garden restaurant of the Hotel Grande Bretagne, has been awarded with the 'Best of Award of Excellence 2016', a distinction that honors and establishes the destination for true wine lovers, showing a deep commitment to wine, both in its cellar and through its service team.
The Sommelier of the restaurant, Evangelos Psofidis, with a significant knowledge, distinctions and passion for wines and spirits, aims to display the largest wine-producing regions of the world through the restaurant's wine list. Thus, he chooses to incorporate into the awarded list, wines that accurately represent the characteristics of these areas.
'Wine Spectator' is a lifestyle magazine and since 1976 focuses on the culture of wine. It publishes 15 issues per year and includes news, articles, and many comments and evaluations on wines. It was ranked by the Luxury Institute as the #1 among several business and consumer publications. Its purpose is to recognize restaurants worldwide with interesting wine lists representing a vast variety to satisfy wine lovers and the appropriate choices in regards to their cuisine.
The restaurant GB Roof Garden follows the philosophy of 'food pairing wine' and believes that the ultimate taste experience can be achieved with Mediterranean dishes that are perfectly matched with fine wines.
The GB Roof Garden of the Hotel Grande Bretagne and the Tudor Hall Restaurant of the King George hotel are the only restaurants in Athens that were included in the Wine Spectator's list for having one of the most outstanding restaurant wine lists in the world. This honor is an inspiration for further successes and confirms the Hotel Grande Bretagne's continuous effort for exceptional services and products.
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Kirkwood bridge needs to be repaired shortly after upgrades
August 15, 2018 6:46 pm adwpadmin News
KIRKWOOD (WBNG) — After investing $10,000 in the covered bridge just a month ago, Kirkwood officials were proud of the Kirkwood Park structure and the uses residents could get out of it.
"People have gotten married there, we've had all sorts of occasions there. It's a shortcut to the park obviously, and we just love it," said Gordie Kniffen, the Kirkwood Town Supervisor.
However, that bridge was badly damaged during Tuesday's floods in the town. Now, officials are hoping that the damage isn't as bad as it looks.
"We're gonna try bringing a crane out here and put a beam underneath it and lift it back up onto its foundation and once its there we can assess the true extent of the damage," said John Finch, the Kirkwood Commissioner of Public Works.
If the damage is only superficial and not structural, officials say repairing the bridge will be simple and not overly expensive compared to the estimated $1M they say it will take to fix all of the damage across town.
If the damage is structural, town officials are unsure what the future of the bridge will be.
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Minnesota Growler: BevVeg Dives into the Murky world of Animal Additives
BeVeg Dives into the Murky world of Animal Additives
A few centuries ago, a fisherman heading out to sea needed a pouch for his ale. He chose a swim bladder—an organ used by fish to control buoyancy—pulled from a bucket of leftovers from his previous day's catch. Filling the pouch with murky beer, he made for the marina. A few days later, while pouring a pint, the fisherman noticed his beer was no longer murky, but clear. Back on shore, he quit his job, channeled his marketing chops to rename "swim bladder" as "isinglass," and became a rich man by selling it to brewers far and wide.
Whether this legend is the real origin story behind how fish bladders began being used as beer clarifiers is lost to history. What has not been lost is the practice of using isinglass. If you thought you were drinking vegan by avoiding milk stouts, honey brown ales, and Bailey's Irish Cream, think again. While the use of fish products to clarify a beverage may seem far-fetched, the practice of adding isinglass (as well as a slew of other animal-derived products) to beer, wine, and spirits has a long history.
Fining agents improve the filterability of beer and wine by binding to haze-causing particles like yeast, thus creating larger particles that are easier to remove. Adding isinglass to beer as a regular practice dates back to around the 19th century. Beer historian Roger Protz posits that the practice stems from the rise in popularity of pale ales over darker beers, and the move away from ceramic and metal mugs to transparent glassware. Drinkers could see their beer and sought out increasingly less murky pints.
The practice of clarifying wine using animal-derived products is at least as old. Egg whites (or albumen) have been added to wine for centuries, as has dried ox blood and blood albumin (a protein found in blood plasma). Other animal fining agents used for beer and wine include: casein, a mammalian milk-derived protein; chitin, a fiber procured from the exoskeletons of lobsters, crabs, and shrimp; and gelatin, extracted from boiling animal skin, tendons, ligaments, and bone.
While still used by some (Newcastle uses isinglass in all their beers, as does Foster's brewed in the U.K.), it is not inherently necessary to use animal-based finings in the production process. World-class beer, wine, and liquor can be—and increasingly is—made with vegan-friendly ingredients and additives without sacrificing quality.
In fact, the majority of beer and wine producers today choose an animal-free approach to fining—not necessarily because it's vegan-friendly, but because it's more cost effective and reliable. Processing liquid through a centrifuge or plate filter, or using one of the myriad animal-free finings now available (carbon, silicic acid, bentonite clay, limestone, and plant casein, to name a few), produces more consistent results than animal-derived finings.
"[The fining process] is something that has changed greatly because of technology," says Chuck Kanski, owner of Solo Vino wine shop in St. Paul. "Using animal byproducts is not even taught in school now, so new winemakers don't even know about it. Moving forward, because of the expense, the vast majority of winemakers are using tools or equipment that's reusable."
Andy Sparhawk, the Craft Beer Program Web Manager for the Brewers Association, says the same is true for brewers. "Most breweries that I know do not use finings," he says. "They use [diatomaceous earth] or employ centrifuges."
It's there that the disconnect happens: Vegan consumers are making purchases based on their values. Brewers and winemakers are making fining and filtering decisions based on what will create the best-tasting product—which, today, are usually are free of animal products. But because the breweries and wineries are not intentionally pursuing vegan practices, they also aren't advertising them, meaning their products' vegan-friendliness isn't being communicated to the increasingly large crowd of ingredient-savvy consumers.
It's due to this gap that Jason Doucette founded Barnivore.com in 2001. The website and app uses crowdsourcing to identify and evaluate the vegan-friendliness of beer, wine, and spirits, and is one of the primary tools available to help vegans and vegetarians drink with peace of mind.
Doucette explains that part of the reason Barnivore exists is because there isn't a single style, origin or type of beverage that is predictably vegan. "There's no real rule of thumb that says 'this kind of beer will be fine to drink' or 'that beer isn't,' aside from German purity laws," he says.
A glance through the hundreds of products on Barnivore.com reveals another barrier for those seeking animal-free beverages: there is no consistency. No consistency in the use of animal products within beverage categories, and a striking lack of consistency within individual products themselves. Paper trails of customer contacts and company responses for products available on the site reveal a history of producers flip-flopping from "yes, this product is vegan" to "no, it's not" to "yes, it is again."
"Companies change back and forth from vegan-friendly products to non-vegan-friendly. It can depend on the brewer's or winemaker's preference," Doucette says.
The lack of clarity and consistency is not necessarily a ploy to dupe consumers; the concern over using animal products simply hasn't been a big issue until recently. However, the increasing number of consumers choosing vegan or vegetarian lifestyles may entice brewers and winemakers to be more intentionally inclusive of this growing customer base going forward.
Carissa Kranz, chief compliance officer at BeVeg, an international law firm that certifies vegan beer, wine, and liquor products, anticipates this shift. "As more and more consumers learn about the hidden ingredients that may be lurking in their favorite beverages, coupled with the growing vegan and vegetarian movements, we expect to see more beverage makers consciously choosing to replace animal-derived ingredients with vegan-friendly alternatives," she says.
Some breweries are already openly touting their switch to vegan-friendly tactics. In late 2015, Guinness announced their brewery would be free from animal byproducts by 2017; PETA declared the brewery "100 percent animal free" on January 23, 2018. Scotland-based BrewDog added a Vegan Society certification to their labels in February 2016, one of the first breweries to do so.
"Today, talking about using animal products in winemaking is like talking about a horse and buggy in the time of electric cars."
– Chuck Kanski
As a whole, though, the craft beverage community has yet to bridge the larger disconnect between how they make their products and how they market them. "Today, talking about using animal products in winemaking is like talking about a horse and buggy in the time of electric cars," says Kanski. Sparhawk says it's not a topic he hears brewers frequently discussing, either.
Alternation Brewing in Denver, Colorado, is one of the few breweries that has been intentionally vegan from the get-go. Owner and head brewer Brendan Pleskow and co-founder Jenn Sickels are both vegan, and not only are their brewing processes vegan, so is every food truck they have at their taproom. Pleskow echoes Sparhawk's sentiment. "We rarely ever see it being discussed in the Colorado brewing community, despite there being a large vegan population in Denver," he says. "We are the only brewery in Colorado, of 300-plus that are ridiculously diverse in age, concept, and race, that has even brought up the concept [of a vegan brewery]."
And yet, even Alternation Brewing doesn't market their veganism.
"I would venture to guess most of our customers don't even know we operate as vegan," Pleskow says. "The vegan community and the brewing community are very separate entities in most circumstances. Much of America has a stigma toward the vegan community, mostly because they don't understand it."
The vegan and craft beverage communities may be separate, but they are not at odds. With the majority of breweries, wineries, and distilleries already producing vegan-friendly products, they simply need to take the next step and communicate that to the growing number of ingredient-conscious consumers.
This article originally appeared on The Growler


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Saulx-lès-Champlon és un municipi francès situat al departament del Mosa i a la regió del Gran Est. L'any 2007 tenia 129 habitants.

Demografia

Població
El 2007 la població de fet de Saulx-lès-Champlon era de 129 persones. Hi havia 48 famílies, de les quals 16 eren unipersonals (4 homes vivint sols i 12 dones vivint soles), 12 parelles sense fills i 20 parelles amb fills.

La població ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:

Habitants censats

Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 62 habitatges, 50 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 11 eren segones residències i 1 estava desocupat. 60 eren cases i 2 eren apartaments. Dels 50 habitatges principals, 43 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris, 6 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters i 1 estava cedit a títol gratuït; 4 tenien tres cambres, 4 en tenien quatre i 42 en tenien cinc o més. 46 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 29 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 18 n'hi havia dos o més.

Piràmide de població
La piràmide de població per edats i sexe el 2009 era:

Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 72 persones, 53 eren actives i 19 eren inactives. De les 53 persones actives 50 estaven ocupades (29 homes i 21 dones) i 3 estaven aturades (3 homes). De les 19 persones inactives 3 estaven jubilades, 8 estaven estudiant i 8 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».

Activitats econòmiques
Dels 6 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 1 era d'una empresa de fabricació d'altres productes industrials, 1 d'una empresa de construcció, 1 d'una empresa d'hostatgeria i restauració, 2 d'empreses de serveis i 1 d'una entitat de l'administració pública.

L'únic servei als particulars que hi havia el 2009 era una lampisteria.

L'any 2000 a Saulx-lès-Champlon hi havia 10 explotacions agrícoles que ocupaven un total de 1.168 hectàrees.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

 Résumé statistique Fitxa resum de dades estadístiques de Saulx-lès-Champlon a l'INSEE.
 Évolution et structure de la population Fitxa amb el detall de dades de Saulx-lès-Champlon a l'INSEE
 France par commune Dades detallades de tots els municipis de França accessibles a partir del mapa.

Municipis del Mosa


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Q: How to get from Dictionary> int value for specific key? I have 2 dictionaries in the first case I used Tuple for key values and it works fine like this
Dictionary<Tuple<char, char>, int> pairPoints = new Dictionary<Tuple<char, char>, int>();
foreach (var items in this.pairPoints)
   Console.WriteLine(items.Key.Item1);

but in the second case, I want to get a value which is also in Tuple {int,char} however I can't find something like result.Values.Item1
Dictionary<char, Tuple <int, char>> result = new Dictionary<char, Tuple<int, char>>();
if(distance < result.Values.Item1) {//do my things}

Is it possible to write it something like this or do I have to use a different array method?

A: Well you have multiple ways to do this. But you need to understand first that result.Values is a collection and not a single value, that's why you can't access result.Values.Item1.
Check if any result matches:
if(result.Values.Any(t => t.Item1 > distance))
{

}

Or Loop through results that match
foreach(var item in result.Values.Where(t => t.Item1 > distance))
{
  // use item.Item1 and item.Item2
}

A: result.Values is a collection of Tuple<int, char>
You can access a single item in the collection by the dictionary key:
result[someChar].Item1

Or you can loop though all the values as follows:
foreach(var tuple in result.Values)
    Console.WriteLine(tuple.Item1)

A: You are doing this in wrong way. You have to use Value not Values
Correct way:
Dictionary<char, Tuple <int, char>> result = new Dictionary<char, Tuple<int, char>>();
    foreach (var items in result)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(items.Value.Item1);
        Console.WriteLine(items.Value.Item2);
    }

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Home News Trader Joe's customers rally against antibiotic-fed meat
Trader Joe's customers rally against antibiotic-fed meat
Madison E. Rowe
There was a bit of a commotion in front of Trader Joe's Union Square store in New York City this week. The Consumers Union held a press conference there for its Meat Without Drugs campaign. The group called on the national grocer to stop selling meat and poultry raised on antibiotics.
The campaign included more than a dozen consumer, environmental, and animal welfare organizations. They delivered a petition to Trader Joe's signed by nearly 560,000 consumers. The event featured "Joe the Pig," a costumed character wearing a Trader Joes-style Hawaiian shirt — carrying a sign that squealed "Get Me Off Drugs!"
The Meat Without Drugs campaign wants Trader Joe's to help address a major public health crisis: the declining effectiveness of antibiotics caused by their overuse in meat and poultry production. According to the FDA, some 80 percent of all antibiotics are fed to animals. Trader Joe's has so far declined to meet with Consumers Union.
"The rampant use of antibiotics on livestock is weakening the power of these critical medications to treat infectious diseases in people," said Jean Halloran, Director of Food Policy Initiatives for Consumers Union, the policy and advocacy arm of Consumer Reports. "We need meat without drugs to help ensure that the antibiotics we depend on will work when we need them most. We think supermarkets have a responsibility to help end this crisis."
Antibiotics are used on livestock mostly to promote faster growth and prevent disease in crowded and unsanitary conditions.
Consumers Union argues that as a result of large scale use of antibiotics in livestock production, most of the bugs that are vulnerable to the antibiotics are eventually killed off. This leaves behind superbugs that are immune to one or more of the drugs. These superbugs spread on the farm and beyond, contributing to antibiotic resistance in our hospitals and communities.
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Nearly 100,000 people die from infections they pick up in the hospital every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The vast majority are caused by bacteria that have developed resistance to the antibiotics used to treat them. Ultimately, Consumers Union argues, superbugs are showing up on meat and poultry and causing serious illness and even death.
"The continued misuse of antibiotics for growth promotion and disease prevention in industrial food animal production places enormous selective pressure on bacteria and adds to the alarming increase in antibiotic resistant pathogens that threaten human health and animal health," said Robert S. Lawrence, MD, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. "Wholesale purchasers can help protect the health of the public by refusing to source meat and poultry from producers who continue to misuse antibiotics."
Most grocery stores, including Trader Joe's, carry some no-antibiotic meat and poultry. Meanwhile, Whole Foods is the only store that sells these products exclusively, according to a Consumer Reports investigation.
The campaign is targeting Trader Joe's because it already offers some chicken and beef raised without antibiotics, although no pork. Eighty percent of its products are private label, which means it has direct control over its suppliers. In recent years, the grocer has made a commitment to other sustainable purchasing practices, such as only carrying eggs from cage-free hens and sourcing its private label products with non-genetically modified ingredients.
"The link between antibiotic resistance and the daily feeding of antibiotics to healthy animals for meat production is indisputable and is leading to a serious health crisis," said Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch. "This is why we've joined Consumers Union in calling on Trader Joe's to do the right thing and protect public health by insisting that all of its meat and poultry be raised without antibiotics."
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Consumers Union argues that meat and poultry raised without antibiotics doesn't have to be expensive. While prices for "no antibiotics administered" meat and poultry vary depending on the store, type of meat, and cut, Consumer Reports found that some prices were actually lower than the national average for meat raised with antibiotics. In fact, Trader Joe's offers some of the lowest priced "no-antibiotic" chicken and beef products available.
"Knowing that antibiotics will protect our families when we need them is priceless," said Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, co-founder and executive director of MomsRising. "Trader Joe's can be a real leader on this critical public health issue by making a commitment to selling only meat raised without drugs."
Madison is a journalist/media consultant currently working in Toronto.
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Imagining military artificial intelligence (AI) applications can make one dream up scenarios like those in the Terminator films, but in reality, AI solutions for defense are much more mundane and focused on improving decision-making for humans, whether they're aircraft maintenance personnel; pilots; or intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) analysts, says John Canipe, Director of Business Development, Air Force, at SparkCognition Government Systems, during a conversation we had at his company headquarters in Austin, Texas. We also discussed the difference between AI and machine learning (ML), how AI is being applied across multiple military domains, and more. Edited excerpts follow.
AI technologies from SparkCognition tested during autonomous exercises for warfighters - News
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AUSTIN, Texas. Artificial intelligence (AI) company SparkCognition Government Systems (SGS) participated in the Autonomous Warrior 2022 (AW22) exercises, held recently in Australia.
Defense data readiness goal of SGS-won AI development contract - News
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AUSTIN, Texas. SparkCognition Government Systems (SGS), company specializing in artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for defense and national security, announced it has been awarded to the Data Readiness Artificial Intelligence Development (DRAID) Program through the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC).
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AUSTIN, Texas. SparkCognition Government Systems (SGS) has announced its partnership with SkyGrid and LIFT Aircraft Inc. The companies will apply artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology to manage the airspace for autonomous vehicles, specifically HEXA, LIFT's electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
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AUSTIN, Texas. SparkCognition Government Systems (SGS) has announced its participation at International Maritime Exercise (IMX) 2022/Cutlass Express. IMX/CE 2022 is a multinational naval exercise in the Middle East with more than 80 unmanned systems from 10 nations participating.
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AUSTIN, Texas. SparkCognition Government Systems (SGS), an artificial intelligence (AI) company devoted entirely to government and national defense, announced that along with Intrinsic Enterprises Inc, a technology services and product development company, it has won a contract with The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) through its SBIR program.
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AUSTIN, Texas. SparkCognition Government Systems (SGS) announced that it has won a contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) through its SBIR program. Through this contract, SGS will leverage commercial and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to explore the uses of machine learning (ML) to enhance aspects of readiness, including manpower planning and decision optimization.


I am a lighting design student familiar with Daysim/DIVA/Radiance. My question is, how can I accurately create a Kalwall like material for DIVA simulations? I know it is Radiance based and changing the text file should do it, but can an experienced user direct me to the correct values to simulate the diffusivity and translucency of the wall system?
Furthermore, when creating an energy model of the floor plan (with the perimeter Kalwall wall system), should I perform the simulation in Viper with Grasshopper, EcoTect, EnergyPlus, or can I directly use DIVA to estimate cooling loads? Likewise, I need to simulate the resistance value of Kalwall (R-20)? This is the part where I am a bit confused.
Sorry to add, but I do see the new version of DIVA does have single zone thermal calcs. If the area of interest is part of a larger floor plan, how is the best way to separate the interest area from the rest of building (concerning material thermal properties)?
If the area of interest is part of a larger floor plan, how is the best way to separate the interest area from the rest of building (concerning material thermal properties)?
One possibility is to use adiabatic walls for separations between internal portions of the building. You will probably need to make an EnergyPlus material to account for the thermal properties of the Kallwall R-20 (US) panel.
Thanks for the reply. The paper you posted is perfect. Could someone direct to me making an EnergyPlus material?
In that regard, I can just Diva Thermal calculations correct? If so, that'd be great.
These go into your c:\DIVA\Thermal\Rhino\04_material_construction.idf file.
Much thanks for the help. This is great knowledge!
# direct normal transmittance of ~20%.
Besides changing the text after the "noop" command, how do I determined the 6 values in the bottom row? Is the similar way that regular trans materials are formed?
Its all black magic to me, but this material definition comes with some helpful information (only in the official Daysim installer), pasted below.
#      direct normal transmittance of ~15%.
Black magic is right. Thank you for your help on this.