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Closes an open object handle.
- hObject [in]
A valid handle to an open object.
If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero.
If the function fails, the return value is zero. To get extended error information, call GetLastError.
If the application is running under a debugger, the function will throw an exception if it receives either a handle value that is not valid or a pseudo-handle value. This can happen if you close a handle twice, or if you call CloseHandle on a handle returned by the FindFirstFile function instead of calling the FindClose function.
The CloseHandle function closes handles to the following objects:
- Access token
- Communications device
- Console input
- Console screen buffer
- File mapping
- I/O completion port
- Memory resource notification
- Named pipe
- Waitable timer
The documentation for the functions that create these objects indicates that CloseHandle should be used when you are finished with the object, and what happens to pending operations on the object after the handle is closed. In general, CloseHandle invalidates the specified object handle, decrements the object's handle count, and performs object retention checks. After the last handle to an object is closed, the object is removed from the system. For a summary of the creator functions for these objects, see Kernel Objects.
Generally, an application should call CloseHandle once for each handle it opens. It is usually not necessary to call CloseHandle if a function that uses a handle fails with ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE, because this error usually indicates that the handle is already invalidated. However, some functions use ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE to indicate that the object itself is no longer valid. For example, a function that attempts to use a handle to a file on a network might fail with ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE if the network connection is severed, because the file object is no longer available. In this case, the application should close the handle.
If a handle is transacted, all handles bound to a transaction should be closed before the transaction is committed. If a transacted handle was opened by calling CreateFileTransacted with the FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE flag, the file is not deleted until the application closes the handle and calls CommitTransaction. For more information about transacted objects, see Working With Transactions.
Closing a thread handle does not terminate the associated thread or remove the thread object. Closing a process handle does not terminate the associated process or remove the process object. To remove a thread object, you must terminate the thread, then close all handles to the thread. For more information, see Terminating a Thread. To remove a process object, you must terminate the process, then close all handles to the process. For more information, see Terminating a Process.
Closing a handle to a file mapping can succeed even when there are file views that are still open. For more information, see Closing a File Mapping Object.
Do not use the CloseHandle function to close a socket. Instead, use the closesocket function, which releases all resources associated with the socket including the handle to the socket object. For more information, see Socket Closure.
Windows Phone 8: This API is supported.
For an example, see Taking a Snapshot and Viewing Processes.
Minimum supported client
|Windows 2000 Professional [desktop apps | Windows Store apps]|
Minimum supported server
|Windows 2000 Server [desktop apps | Windows Store apps]|
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- Kernel Objects
- Object Interface
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AquaNew Seeks Tributes for THIRST GAMES (a fight for life) | Community Spirit
When Suzanne Collins wrote her book The Hunger Games, her depiction of the future Panem – a world focused on self-preservation due to lack of food and clean drinking water – may not be as fictional as we'd like to believe.
The New York Times Best-Selling novel is predicted to become one of the top-grossing movies this year. In it, the story addresses what happens when a world is fraught with natural disasters, drought, storms and global warming. As part of Panem's "peace" treaty, young adults between the ages of 12 and 18 are called upon to be Tributes in a fight to the death.
AquaNew, the founder of Watt-Ahh®, has a different mission...
"You can go without food for a couple of weeks; however, life extinguishes within days without clean water." Dana Gourley, Chief Operating Officer of AquaNew said. "We'd rather offer you Thirst Games – where our Tributes fight for immediate life survival that unfortunately is occurring throughout the world today."
Here is the frightening truth:
- By 2025, 800 million people will be living in regions of the world where water is scarce, and two-thirds of the world population is predicted to live under these stress conditions as a result.
- 1.1 billion people (approximately one-sixth of the world's population) have no access to safe drinking water.
- 2.2 million people, living in developing countries (primarily children), die each year from diseases related to lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation and poor hygiene.
- Half of the world's hospital beds are filled with people suffering from water-related illnesses.
- The average distance that women in Africa and Asia have to walk to collect water is three miles, and tens of millions of children cannot go to school because they must fetch water for their families on a daily basis.
- An estimated 6,000 children die each day from diseases related to a lack of clean water.*
The water we drink today is the same water the dinosaurs drank. There is no new water.
What is Thirst Games? Now, through May 30, 2012, AquaNew invites youth ages 12 to 18 to be voluntary Tributes in Thirst Games, a challenge to provide ideas for worldwide change.
Rules: Submit your conservation or fundraising ideas in one of two ways: 1. Tell AquaNew in 800 words or fewer how you would supply the world with clean water (or about a fundraising effort in which you participated) or 2. Submit a YouTube video explaining your solution (max. 1 min.) for a chance to win. The winner will receive 12 bottles of Watt-Ahh ® and four free movie tickets to see The Hunger Games. AquaNew will also donate $200 to ChildHelp® in the winner's name.
Have you participated in a volunteer project where proceeds were donated to a world organization providing clean drinking water to seriously drought-stricken areas?
Want to give people tips on keeping our rivers and lakes clean?
You can read more of Danielle Palli's work at her blog, The Pelican Pages.

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Tented roofs, a feature of medieval ecclesiastical architecture, were commonly employed to cover high, conical roof structures on churches. It had the shape of a polygonal spire but had a different purpose in that it was usually employed to roof the main internal area of a church rather than as an ancillary building. The word "tent" here means a large circular or polygonal room with a domed ceiling. These rooms were used for various purposes by medieval churches including as baptisteries, tombs, and refectories.
The word "church" here refers to the main body or place of worship of a Christian congregation; it may be defined as "the place where Christians meet to hear God's Word preached and to celebrate the sacraments." In ancient times there was no distinction made between church and chapel, but nowadays the term "chapel" is generally applied to smaller buildings set aside for religious purposes while the term "church" denotes a larger institution with other functions attached to it. However, in early Christianity chapels were often built into the walls of homes where prayers could be said directly facing heaven; these became known as "tombs" because the occupants were saying farewell to life itself. Thus, a tent roof chapel is a small structure set next to a tomb which served as a place of prayer for those who lived there.
In order to preserve heat during cold seasons and protect worshipers from rain, some medieval churches had tent-shaped roofs.
Timber was employed in the Dome of the Rock because the usage of wood in domes had shown to be quite useful in churches. It made the building lighter and more flexible, but it needed to be weatherproofed with copper or lead. The timber used in the construction of the dome was pine.
Domes are particularly useful for church buildings because they allow in light while protecting the interior space from the elements. They also function as high-quality windows when used in large quantities. There are several types of domes used in architecture, including: shell domes, tent domes, and cupolas. Churches that use domes as their roof design include some of the most famous buildings in the world. These include the Great Mosque of Mecca, the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, and Nipponzack Church near New York City.
In conclusion, churches use domes as a means of protection from the elements while allowing in light. They are particularly useful for church buildings because they allow in light while protecting the interior space from the elements.
They were gradually incorporated into the church construction and crowned with more complex roofs until the spire was completed. Towers are a prevalent feature of religious architecture across the world, and they are often considered as attempts to strive aloft toward the skies and the holy.
There are many reasons why churches would need towers. The most obvious is defense: the tower provides protection for people inside the walls of the church when attacked from without or threatened from within. It can also be used as a lookout post, or even as an antenna for sending messages over long distances. There are other ways in which towers find use in religion that aren't readily apparent today. For example, before mechanical clocks were invented, priests used to let people know the time by sounding bells at specific points in the day. Since people needed to be reminded of these times, the bells had to be easy for them to hear from outside the church walls.
The first churches had simple structures with little or no decoration. Over time, builders began to incorporate decorative features into their churches, most notably stained glass windows. These additions to religious buildings are called "afterpieces" and include detailed paintings on the wall or ceiling in place of glass. The artists who created these works often based their designs on biblical stories or historical events related to Christianity. For example, one artist might paint a series of scenes from the life of Christ while another paints pictures for a festival celebrating Easter.
A basic church can be constructed using mud brick, wattle and daub, split logs, or rubble. Its roof might be made of thatch, shingles, corrugated iron, or banana leaves. However, beginning in the fourth century, church groups attempted to build church buildings that were both lasting and artistically attractive. These early churches used concrete for their foundations and walls. They often had flat roofs covered with tiles or slates.
Concrete was first developed in China about 2,000 years ago. It was introduced into Europe around 500 AD by Arab merchants. Concrete has been used for large structures such as bridges, but it was not suitable for use in building small houses. In the 17th century, French scientist Blaise Pascal invented the pneumatic tube system, which is now used in subway stations all over the world.
Pascal also invented a machine called a "pneumatograph," which was the first air-conditioned room. It functioned by passing air through tubes wrapped around a cylinder attached to a fan; the wind from the fan moved through the tubes, cooling off the interior space. This invention helped make big buildings possible again after the great fire of 1668 destroyed much of London.
In the United States, some churches are built with wood, while others are built with concrete. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) uses steel instead.
Their roofs were mostly thatched, but they might also be built of wood or clay on occasion. During the Middle Ages, lumber was an essential component of the majority of constructions. Essentially, wood was used for the majority of a house's framework as well as the roof structure. Oak was commonly utilized in England owing of its high resistance to humidity. The main advantage of using wood instead of metal for these structures is price: it is much cheaper to build a house with wood than it is to build one with metal. A disadvantage of this method is that wood can expand and contract over time, which could cause problems with the stability of the building.
Clay was also used during this period of time. It was easy to work with and available in most areas. However, it didn't last very long so it wasn't very effective at preventing leaks.
Metal has many advantages over wood and clay. It is stronger, more durable, less dense, and does not decay like wood does. Metal also has many different shapes and styles that you can create with it such as flat sheets, tubes, wires, and all kinds of other designs. With these advantages, it is no surprise that metal became popular instead of wood or clay.
During the Middle Ages, most houses were made of wood. However, because of its advantages, metal started to replace wood later on. In fact, houses built in Europe today are usually made of metal because it is easier to repair when needed.

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Did you know that this tool owned by almost every household has been patented no less than 300 times? There are thousands of models of corkscrews, making it a great collector's item!
The history of the corkscrew
As you certainly know, wine has been around for thousands of years. It is mentioned in writings dating back to antiquity among others. On the other hand, the containers have evolved a lot over time. The history of the corkscrew is by definition linked to the cork and the bottle.
The bottle was a great advance in the history of wine because it allowed it to age safely and made it much easier to be moved around.
In order to close the bottles, the first used process is a system of wooden dowels stuffed with oil soaked oakum, all sealed with wax. This cork could be removed by a fixed cord, but it had some weaknesses. This system was replaced by the famous cork that we know today and which led to the need of the corkscrew.
The first written reference on the corkscrew dates back from 1681 and it is compared to a steel worm. However, it was not until 100 years later that the first patent for the corkscrew was filed by the Reverend Samuel Henshall, an Englishman in 1795.
Various ingenious systems to remove corks
The first principle used to remove corks is the principle of the inserted wick. According to various sources, the corkscrew was inspired by the tool used to remove cannons or to remove unspent charges from a musket's barrel. Based on this assumption, it is likely that the first corkscrews were made by gunsmiths.
Very quickly, the shank of the corkscrew was shaped into a pig tail which allowed to have more support within the cork. Over the years, the device was enhanced providing various methods to uncork the bottles.
The T-shaped corkscrew, probably the oldest of the systems we know. The corkscrew is pulled after having pushed the worm into the cork.
The "Walker Bell", one of the first American corkscrews that pushes the bottle downwards while holding the cork in place and pulling it out.
The sommelier knife, also called "waiter's friend is a corkscrew in a folding body similar to a pocket knife. It was conceived by the German inventor Karl F.A. Wienke in 1882.
The winged corkscrew, also known as the "Charles de Gaulle" corkscrew, which was patented by Mr Heely in 1888.
In 1979; Herbert Allen patented the "Screwpull" corkscrew. The original corkscrew is part of the first MoMa's collection in New-York! And among the modern corkscrews, the electric corkscrew which uncorks bottles with a simple click and the latest born, the Coravin which uses a syringe and inert gas.
Collector's corkscrews
The corkscrew collector or helixophile can collect corkscrews in many different ways: by model, by brand, by period… Here is a small selection of the many beautiful corkscrews you can find on Delcampe.
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23. January 2013Matter and Material User Experiments Research Using Synchrotron Light
Interview with Thomas Huthwelker
The Paul Scherrer Institut makes its research facilities available to scientists from all over the world. To ensure these scientists are exposed to optimal conditions when they arrive is the hard work of many PSI staff. An interview with one of these scientists provides a glimpse behind the scenes. This interview is taken from the latest issue of the PSI Magazine Fenster zur Forschung
17. October 2012Media Releases Biology User Experiments Research Using Synchrotron Light
Until recently, it was not obvious whether the earliest vertebrates (animals with a backbone) which had jawbones already possessed teeth or not. Now, an international research team has shown that the jaws of the prehistoric fish Compagopiscis already had teeth. This means that teeth appeared at the same evolutionary time as jaws – or at least shortly afterwards. The leaders of this project were scientists from the University of Bristol, England, who carried out their decisive experiments at the SLS at PSI.
16. October 2012Media Releases Research Using Synchrotron Light Environment User Experiments
Experiments performed at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) investigate processes inside volcanic materials that determine whether a volcano will erupt violently or mildly. In the experiments, scientists heated small pieces of volcanic material similarly to conditions present at the beginning of a volcanic eruption. They used X-rays from the SLS to observe, in real time, what happens to the rock as it goes from the solid to the molten state.
16. February 2012Media Releases Biology User Experiments Research Using Synchrotron Light
Like a shredder, the immunoproteasome cuts down proteins into peptides that are subsequently presented on the cellular surface. The immune system can distinguish between self and non-self peptides and selectively kills cells that present non-self peptides at their surface. In autoimmune diseases, this mechanism is deregulated. However, inhibition of the immunoproteasome may alleviate disease symptoms and progression. With the help of measurements taken at the Paul Scherer Institute, scientists have now succeeded in determining the first structure of an immunoproteasome.
23. December 2011Media Releases Biology Research Using Synchrotron Light User Experiments
Einzellige Organismen, die vor über einer halben Milliarde Jahre gelebt haben und deren Fossilien in China gefunden wurden, sind wohl die unmittelbaren Vorläufer der frühesten Tiere. Die amöbenartigen Einzeller haben sich in einer Weise in zwei, vier, acht usw. Zellen geteilt, wie es heute tierische (und menschliche) Embryonen tun. Die Forscher glauben, dass diese Organismen einem der ersten Schritte vom Einzeller zum Vielzeller in der Entwicklung richtiger Tiere entsprechen.
This news release is only available in German.
11. November 2011Media Releases Biology Medical Science Research Using Synchrotron Light User Experiments
Forscher der Universität Basel und des Paul Scherrer Instituts konnten im Nanomassstab zeigen, wie sich Karies auf die menschlichen Zähne auswirkt. Ihre Studie eröffnet neue Perspektiven für die Behandlung von Zahnschäden, bei denen heute nur der Griff zum Bohrer bleibt. Die Forschungsergebnisse wurden in der Fachzeitschrift «Nanomedicine» veröffentlicht.
This news release is only available in German.
15. September 2011Media Releases Research Using Neutrons Biology User Experiments
An international research team has now demonstrated in experiments at the Paul Scherrer Institute that the soil in the vicinity of roots contains more water that that further away. Apparently, plants create a small water reserve that helps to tide them over through short periods of drought. These results were obtained from experiments carried out with the benefit of neutron tomography.
18. August 2011Media Releases Biology Research Using Synchrotron Light User Experiments
Reorganisation of the brain and sense organs could be the key to the evolutionary success of vertebrates, one of the great puzzles in evolutionary biology, according to a paper by an international team of researchers, published today in Nature. The study claims to have solved this scientific riddle by studying the brain of a 400 million year old fossilized jawless fish – an evolutionary intermediate between the living jawless and jawed vertebrates.
18. January 2011Media Releases Biology User Experiments Research Using Synchrotron Light
Ribosomes are the protein factories of the living cell and themselves very complex biomolecules. Now, a French research group has for the first time determined the structure of the ribosome in a eukaryotic cell – a complex cell containing a cell nucleus. An important part of the experiments was performed with synchrotron light at the Swiss Light Source SLS of the Paul Scherrer Institute.
28. June 2010Media Releases Biology Research Using Synchrotron Light User Experiments
A central feature of any living organism is that food reacts with oxygen and, in the process, energy is released and made available for a variety of reactions within the organism. Using investigations performed at the Swiss Light Source, SLS, researchers have now been able to explain a crucial part of this process at a molecular level.
7. October 2009
Winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry is long-term user of Swiss Light Source at the Paul Scherrer InstituteMedia Releases Research Using Synchrotron Light User Experiments Biology
The Paul Scherrer Institute congratulates Professor Venkatraman Ramakrishnan on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Ramakrishnan is a long-term user of the Swiss Light Source SLS at the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland. He used this facility for his prize winning studies on the structure of the ribosome.
21. November 2007Biology User Experiments Research Using Synchrotron Light
High-resolution phase-contrast X-ray images of fossil seeds
The emergence of flowering plants is regarded as a major botanical mystery. In the 22nd November edition of the scientific magazine "Nature", an international research team with participation from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) publishes results that shed fresh light on this controversial question. New three-dimensional non-destructive imaging procedures have been used to carry out investigations into fossilised plant seeds. As a result, it has been possible to confirm an earlier scientific theory, which had previously been cast into doubt by molecular genetic analyses.


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The Falaise sow trial
Falaise is a village in France, 60 km away from Normandy beaches.
In 1385, taking advantage of the fact that parents were frolicking in the hay, a sow devoured a 3 months old infant, Jean Le Maux, who died of his wounds. She was then arrested, placed in pretrial detention with other prisoners. A lawyer was appointed to represent her. But the cause was lost in advance, and even the owner of the beast testified against it. She was sentenced to death and the decision was notified to her. The local breeders were asked to bring their animals to attend the execution, the purpose being that they serve as an example. She was hanged by the legs, with a mask with a human face on the snout.
In the Middle Ages, indeed, pigs and sows roamed free in the streets of villages, where they acted as garbage collectors, and it happened that as they walked, they swallowed children.
The Falaise sow is not the only animal to have been "judged". In the Middle Ages, the animal was considered a responsible person for its actions and, over three centuries, there are, in France, hundreds of animal trials. Nine times out of ten, they are pigs.
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La Mesa Dam (ABS-CBN Photo courtesy)
As the water level in La Mesa Dam approaches its spilling point, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) has issued a flood warning for residents in low-lying areas of Quezon City and Camanava (Caloocan, Malabon, Navotas, and Valenzuela cities).
Hydrologist Rosalie "Oyie" Pagulayan from Pagasa advised cities along the Tullahan River to be prepared for possible evacuations.
As of 6 a.m. on Sunday, the water level in La Mesa Dam has reached 79.79 meters and is expected to rise further due to continuous rainfall. It is anticipated to overflow once it reaches its normal high water level (NHWL) of 80.15 meters, as the dam lacks flood control components, leading to the overflow of excess water into the Tullahan River and surrounding communities.
Areas at risk of flooding include Barangay Fairview, Forest Hills Subdivision, Quirino Highway, and Sta. Quiteria in Quezon City, as well as parts of Valenzuela and Malabon. The local government units in these regions have been duly alerted to advise residents living near river banks to remain vigilant and be ready for potential evacuations.
In addition, the recent heavy rainfall has caused the water level of Angat Dam in Norzagaray, Bulacan, which serves as the primary source of potable water for Metro Manila and nearby provinces, to rise to 193.84 meters as of 6 a.m. on July 30. However, despite the contribution of rainfall from tropical storms Egay and Falcon, the water level is still below its normal high water level (NHWL) of 210 meters, indicating that more precipitation is needed for the dam to reach its full capacity. (ai/mnm)

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Using the Advanced Color Tool in ACDSee Pro 3
Advanced Color is a very useful feature found in the ACDSee Pro 3 software program. This feature allows you to have an overall control on the colors of your images and pictures. You can get precise control easily, making the proper adjustments on the color, the brightness, saturation or hue of the image you have in your hands.
The advanced color tool is easy to use, therefore you don't need to worry if you are not experienced with image editing. Basically, the program allows you to be as playful as you want, and try different options of the program until you get the result you want.
The Advanced Color Tools
Advanced Color has three main tools you can use: saturation, hue and vibrance tool. The saturation tool allows you to adjust the vividness of the color in the entire image or on a color by color basis, depending on your taste. Saturation will help you saturate your images, partially or not. You can choose to saturate parts of the images you are working on or the entire image. When you open the Color Tools, you will see the Saturation first and then Brightness and Hue.
In the case you want to increase the saturation of the image, you can work with vibrance as well, since it will give you the chance to edit saturation without messing with the skin tones. You can adjust the vertical panel lines accordingly, in order to achieve the result you want.
The Hue Tool allows you to either change completely the color of your image, or change the color in specific parts of the image. Go to the curve control graph and make the proper adjustments on the white curve. You will also see the black curve that is associated with the combination of the positions of the slider.
The brightness-vibrance tool allows you to adjust the brightness of the image, increasing or decreasing the color brightness of the entire image (or in specific parts of the image).
Adjusting the Tools
Advanced Color gives you the chance to make the adjustments you want using the control graphs and sliders on the editing window. You can use the vertical slider to adjust the brightness, saturation and hue of the image, or you can use the graph to apply the changes you want to particular parts of the image. You will be able to adjust the tones and the vibrancy of the colors without affecting the image balance.
Advanced Color Program Interface
Except for the usual tools and elements of the interface, there is a vast variety of menus with a plethora of key features. There are drop down menus and features at the bottom of the screen. The program also enables right clicking in order to facilitate some adjustments. The color slide bars also help you retain control over the images at all points. When opening the program, you might be intimidated by the variety of options, but they are there to help you, even if you are a novice in image editing.


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The story of the Old Coastguard Station
Nestling on the slipway at Robin Hoods Bay, the Old Coastguard Station is a building with a long and intriguing history. The structure you can see today is perhaps not exactly what you might think.
Records show that in the early 1800's the building then on the site was a public house, later converted into 3 tenements. In March 1829, the recently established Coastguard service took over the building, originally with the aim of combatting smuggling on the Yorkshire coast. They stayed until moving to other premises in the early 1900's.
The building once again reverted to accommodation and in 1910 is recorded as being used for holiday lets. In May 1912 Leeds and Sheffield universities hired the building which became known as the Yorkshire Universities Marine Laboratory. It was rented for £8 per annum until it was purchased for £220 in 1922. The agreement with Sheffield University ended in 1928 but Leeds University's ownership continued.
In the 1960's a grant from the Wellcome Trust enabled the university to demolish the old building and rebuild in a more modern style. One of the features of the purpose-built lab was an 8,000 gallon seawater tank in the basement. From the mid 1960's to its closure in 1982, the lab was principally used as a research establishment. Read more about the marine lab here.
The building was sold and used as a private management training centre until the late 1990's when the National Trust bought it with money from the Neptune Coastline Campaign and bequests from benefactors.
The structure was demolished and rebuilt with an exterior shell as true as possible to the original 1800's design. With the aid of a grant from the North York Moors National Park Authority, it was constructed as an interpretative visitor and education centre, along with a holiday flat on the top floor. The Old Coastguard Station opened to the public in September 2000. Since then the centre's team has welcomed over 600,000 visitors and 35,000 education group visitors.
In 2011 the ground floor exhibition room was renovated to inspire visitors to discover all aspects of life at the edge of the sea including wildlife, geology, tide and wave action as well as human history. A new rock pool tank and hands-on interactive models were installed. Today visitors can also find information about the role of the National Trust locally and other places to visit nearby. Efforts continue to keep displays up to date, reflecting an ever-changing coastline.
The centre is open year-round, please click here to check opening times.


March 4, 2021
Abandoned lighthouse on Great Isaac Cay
Great Isaac Cay is a small Bahamian island located about 20 miles NNE of the Bimini Islands. It is accessible only by boat. And it is so small that it's not visible on google map or google earth. The most prominent feature of the island is its lighthouse, which was erected in 1859.
In the late 19th century local lore tells of a ship wreck on the island with one survivor, an infant. The child's distraught mother, known as the Grey Lady, is said to haunt the island to this very day, wailing in sorrow during the full moon.
On August 4, 1969, the station was discovered to have been abandoned by its two keepers, who were never found. The keepers' house, cistern, and assorted buildings are crumbling into ruins. The Lighthouse looks abandoned but is actually still in use, fully automated.
It is also claimed to be haunted!


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Meaning: transparency; whiteness
The name of two biblical places…
One of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness (Num. 33:20, 21).
One of the royal cities of the Canaanites taken by Joshua (Josh. 10:29-32; 12:15). It became one of the Levitical towns in the tribe of Judah (21:13), and was strongly fortified. Sennacherib laid siege to it (2 Kings 19:8; Isa. 37:8). It was the native place of Hamutal, the queen of Josiah (2 Kings 23:31). It stood near Lachish, and has been identified with the modern Arak el-Menshiyeh.


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This plugin allows Jenkins to play arbitrary audio clips as build actions and notifications.
Play sounds on build events
Overview
This plugin is able to play audio clips locally through sound hardware, remotely by piping them through an operating system command, or simultaneously through all browsers that are on a Jenkins page.
When outputting through local hardware, Sounds requires that the Jenkins' server machine has a working sound card and speaker that is not in a remote server room where there's no one around to hear it.
Jenkins can execute a command on a remote machine to play a sound sent through a pipe. This is normally an SSH command to a remote Linux based host that has a working sound card (e.g. 'ssh <host> play -').
If you have HTML5 Audio capable browsers you can configure Sounds to play sounds through all the browsers that are on a Jenkins page.
Compatibility
For all of the options there are varying degrees of support for the multitude of audio file formats. The most widely supported (but the most inefficient) is WAV.
Triggering Sounds
Configured build action
A job can be configured to play a sound as part of its action. You can have jobs dedicated to playing sounds on a schedule, or have the job play a sound as it does other actions.
Configured post-build actions
The build configuration allows you to select a sound to be played for any build state transition. You can configure:
 - for any possible build result
 - a list of previous build results
 - the sound to play
External trigger
A sound can also be triggered by making an HTTP request and passing a URL to the sound to be played. This enables external tools to play sounds through Jenkins.
http://jenkins/sounds/playSound?src=file:///home/jenkins/sounds/somesound.wav
Customising the sound archive
Making a sound archive
The sound archive is a simple .zip or .jar file containing sound files.
Jenkins analyses each file to detect whether it is a valid sound file supported by JavaSound. JavaSound supports AIFF, AU and WAV, see formats.
NOTE: The filename extension does not guarantee that the format is supported. If you have a file that doesn't play, try passing it though a conversion tool like _URL_
Jenkins ignores the archive folder structure (to simplify packaging) and uses the file name less extension as an ID, so keep the archive flat, or avoid having the same filename in multiple folders.
Publishing your sound archive
Jenkins Sounds can read an archive from the local filing system, or an HTTP URL.
 - publish the archive on a local web server and use http://
 - put the archive in Jenkins' local filing system and use file://
NOTE: Jenkins streams the audio from the archive for each event (to reduce memory requirements), so make sure it's not too far away.
Configure Jenkins to use your archive
Within the Configure System section of Jenkins Management locate the settings for Jenkins Sounds.
Enter the path to the archive.
 - Absolute http:// and file:// URLs will be used unmodified.
 - URIs without a protocol will be assumed to be filing system references and converted to file:// URLs.
After changing the sound archive location URL you must save the form before being able to test the sounds.
The Test Sound advanced option shows a list of the sounds found in the archive and their supported format.
Changelog
Version 0.5 (Jun 25th, 2016)
Version 0.4.3 (Oct 8th, 2013)
 - Allowed local mute to be used by anonymous user when security is enabled (JENKINS-20081).
 - Fixed incompatibility with Jenkins version 1.445 and upwards causing configuration of system command in pipe mode to fail (JENKINS-13825).
 - Fixed error message when 'Sound archive location' field is left empty (JENKINS-19540).
Version 0.4 (Sep 1st, 2011)
 - Major update to provide option where sounds are played simultaneously through all browsers showing a Jenkins page.
Version 0.3 (Mar 1st, 2011)
 - Added capability of piping sounds through a system command (e.g. play on remote linux host)
 - Added the sad trombone - the best build breaking sound effect .... ever!
Version 0.2 (Dec 6th, 2009)
 - Internal sound archive restored if empty archive location submitted
 - Use classpath URI to internal archive
Version 0.1 (Dec 2nd, 2009)
 - Initial release
5 Comments
 1. Unknown User (orangmalu)
 Hello,
 I find your plugin interesting but would it be possible to let this plugin send the speech to a list of other machines on the same network?
 A lot the time, the Hudson server is not in the same room as the developers.
 Just a suggestion.
 Regards.
 2. Hello folks,
 Has anyone an example howto play a sound on a remote system?
 That would be great!
 Best Regards,
 Jan
 1. Do you mean in general or from the plugin? Assuming you mean from the plugin, if the remote system is *NIX then this is already supported, if you're on Windows then you might be able to use cygwin to make it work. I have plans to make this work on any platform, but it's a way down my to-do list yet.
 3. Hello,
 A neat feature would be a pool of soundfiles in which to choose from for each build type. For example, it could play one of a list of 'success' soundfiles on a successful build, randomized each time.
 Cheers,
 Jeff
 4. What privileges are needed to configure Sound Control Panel?


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Laws governing ballot measures in New Mexico
New Mexico Constitution
The state does not have the statewide initiative process and so therefore the following provisions discuss the procedures used by the state legislature to place constitutional amendments on the ballot. However, New Mexico does have the popular referendum process. The provisions of this process are included as well.
Article IV Sec. 1. Vesting of legislative power; location of sessions; referendum on legislation.
The legislative power shall be vested in a senate and house of representatives which shall be designated the legislature of the state of New Mexico, and shall hold its sessions at the seat of government.
The people reserve the power to disapprove, suspend and annul any law enacted by the legislature, except general appropriation laws; laws providing for the preservation of the public peace, health or safety; for the payment of the public debt or interest thereon, or the creation or funding of the same, except as in this constitution otherwise provided; for the maintenance of the public schools or state institutions, and local or special laws. Petitions disapproving any law other than those above excepted, enacted at the last preceding session of the legislature, shall be filed with the secretary of state not less than four months prior to the next general election.
Such petitions shall be signed by not less than ten percent of the qualified electors of each of three-fourths of the counties and in the aggregate by not less than ten percent of the qualified electors of the state, as shown by the total number of votes cast at the last preceding general election. The question of the approval or rejection of such law shall be submitted by the secretary of state to the electorate at the next general election; and if a majority of the legal votes cast thereon, and not less than forty percent of the total number of legal votes cast at such general election, be cast for the rejection of such law, it shall be annulled and thereby repealed with the same effect as if the legislature had then repealed it, and such repeal shall revive any law repealed by the act so annulled; otherwise, it shall remain in force unless subsequently repealed by the legislature.
If such petition or petitions be signed by not less than twenty-five per centum of the qualified electors under each of the foregoing conditions, and be filed with the secretary of state within ninety days after the adjournment of the session of the legislature at which such law was enacted, the operation thereof shall be thereupon suspended and the question of its approval or rejection shall be likewise submitted to a vote at the next ensuing general election.
If a majority of the votes cast thereon and not less than forty percent of the total number of votes cast at such general election be cast for its rejection, it shall be thereby annulled; otherwise, it shall go into effect upon publication of the certificate of the secretary of state declaring the result of the vote thereon. It shall be a felony for any person to sign any such petition with any name other than his own, or to sign his name more than once for the same measure, or to sign such petition when he is not a qualified elector in the county specified in such petition; provided, that nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the writing thereon of the name of any person who cannot write, and who signs the same with his mark. The legislature shall enact laws necessary for the effective exercise of the power hereby reserved.
Article XIX Sec. 1. Proposing and ratifying amendments.
An amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in either house of the legislature at a regular session; and if a majority of all members elected to each of the two houses voting separately votes in favor thereof, the proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their respective journals with the yeas and nays thereon. An amendment or amendments may also be proposed by an independent commission established by law for that purpose, and the amendment or amendments shall be submitted to the legislature for its review in accordance with the provisions of this section.
The secretary of state shall cause any such amendment or amendments to be published in at least one newspaper in every county of the state, where a newspaper is published once each week, for four consecutive weeks, in English and Spanish when newspapers in both of said languages are published in such counties, the last publication to be not more than two weeks prior to the election at which time said amendment or amendments shall be submitted to the electors of the state for their approval or rejection; and shall further provide notice of the content and purpose of legislatively approved constitutional amendments in both English and Spanish to inform electors about the amendments in the time and manner provided by law.
The secretary of state shall also make reasonable efforts to provide notice of the content and purpose of legislatively approved constitutional amendments in indigenous languages and to minority language groups to inform electors about the amendments. Amendments approved by the legislature shall be voted upon at the next regular election held after the adjournment of that legislature or at a special election to be held not less than six months after the adjournment of that legislature, at such time and in such manner as the legislature may by law provide. An amendment that is ratified by a majority of the electors voting on the amendment shall become part of this constitution.
If two or more amendments are initiated by the legislature, they shall be so submitted as to enable the electors to vote on each of them separately. Amendments initiated by an independent commission created by law for that purpose may be submitted to the legislature separately or as a single ballot question, and any such commission initiated amendments that are not substantially altered by the legislature may be submitted to the electors in the separate or single ballot question form recommended by the commission.
No amendment shall restrict the rights created by Sections One and Three of Article VII hereof, on elective franchise, and Sections Eight and Ten of Article XII hereof, on education, unless it be proposed by vote of three-fourths of the members elected to each house and be ratified by a vote of the people of this state in an election at which at least three-fourths of the electors voting on the amendment vote in favor of that amendment. (As amended November 7, 1911 and November 5, 1996.)
Sec. 2. Constitutional conventions.
Whenever the legislature, by a two-thirds vote of the members elected to each house, deems it necessary to call a convention to revise or amend this constitution, they shall submit the question of calling such convention to the electors at the next general election, and if a majority of all the electors voting on such questions at said election in the state votes in favor of calling a convention, the legislature shall, at the next session, provide by law for calling the same. Such convention shall consist of at least as many delegates as there are members of the house of representatives. Revisions or amendments proposed by a constitutional convention shall be submitted to the voters of the state at an election held on a date set by the convention. The revisions or amendments proposed by the convention may be submitted in whole or in part, or with alternatives, as determined by the convention. If a majority vote favors a proposal or alternative, it is adopted and becomes effective thirty days after the certification of the election returns unless otherwise provided by the convention. (As amended November 7, 1911 and November 5, 1996.)
Sec. 3. Initiative restricted.
If this constitution be in any way so amended as to allow laws to be enacted by direct vote of the electors the laws which may be so enacted shall be only such as might be enacted by the legislature under the provisions of this constitution. (As amended November 7, 1911.)
Sec. 4. Amendment of compact with United States.
When the United States shall consent thereto, the legislature, by a majority vote of the members in each house, may submit to the people the question of amending any provision of Article XXI of this constitution on compact with the United States to the extent allowed by the act of congress permitting the same, and if a majority of the qualified electors who vote upon any such amendment shall vote in favor thereof the said article shall be thereby amended accordingly.
Bills that have or might be introduced in the 2011 session of the New Mexico State Legislature include:
The following proposals were made during the 2009-2010 session of the New Mexico Legislature:
Some of the notable features of New Mexico's campaign finance laws:
- Groups in support or opposition of a ballot question are treated the same as other political committees.
- New Mexico requires electronic reporting for all campaign finance reports.
- Mew Mexico requires a group to disclose the name for who paid for get out the vote phone calls if a group plans to make 500 or more calls.
- Laws governing ballot measures
- Laws governing recall in New Mexico
- Local ballot measures, New Mexico
- Laws governing local ballot measures in New Mexico
- Amending the New Mexico Constitution
- School bond and tax elections in New Mexico
- New Mexico signature requirements
- Campaign finance requirements for New Mexico ballot measures


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IOWA CITY, Iowa (KWWL) - The school community at Iowa City West High School is dealing with the fallout of racist social media posts this week.
The district says one student threatened another using a racial slur in a video. In a separate post, a white student was photographed in blackface.
The posts circulated over the weekend and on Monday morning, the school held a meeting to discuss what had happened. After the meeting, students started protesting with Black Lives Matter signs in the hallways.
Students went down the hallways, opening classroom doors to spread their message and express anger, according to the student newspaper West Side Story.
"You don't believe how I felt. I felt like, 'Again? Again Iowa City school district?'" Muna Abdalla said, a Sudanese immigrant who had two daughters graduate from West High. Her younger daughter graduated in 2018.
Abdalla says her daughters also had racist things said to them while at West High.
During the school day on Monday, Principal Mitch Gross sent a message to families saying, "Students always have the right to peacefully protest, and our District respects their engagement in social action and honors their right to free speech. However, a large part of today's protest was disruptive to the learning environment at West High. The administrative team worked to maintain a peaceful environment so that learning could continue. At this time a District team is working to assist in this matter and is currently engaged with the students."
At Tuesday's school board meeting, Superintendent Matt Degner said, "We acknowledge that the initial information shared yesterday did not effectively communicate all our student's perspectives nor the situation that led to the protests. We have a responsibility to look at the ways we provide support to our students to honor and respect their experience."
Abdalla was one of many parents, former students and current students who spoke at Tuesday's meeting, saying there is a repetitive cycle of unchecked racism at the school.
"The sad thing is the students over there, they help our kids more than the counselors, the teachers, the principal," Abdalla said. "I feel like West High is just a dream-killer for the minority kids."
The district says it is working with the Iowa City Black Voices project and the West High Administration team to create positive change.
"The Iowa City Community School District absolutely condemns any type of discriminatory harassment. This type of behavior is unacceptable and will be addressed through our disciplinary policies. We will not tolerate racism, hate, and other discriminatory acts. We want to make clear our ongoing commitment and support for our BIPOC students, staff, and leaders," Superintendent Degner also said at Tuesday's meeting.
School Board Member Charlie Eastham, who is a part of the Black Voices Project, says it is obvious there is an issue with some white students and teachers being unfair or insensitive at West High.
"I want to listen to your experience and I want to understand what we can do to change your experience," Eastham said.
The district has been working on equity reforms in all its schools since 2018. The district approved a new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion plan in April 2019 with six goals:
- Reduce the opportunity gap for structurally disadvantaged students.
- Reduce disproportionality in discipline.
- Create equitable, inclusive, and supportive school environments.
- Attain diverse and culturally proficient teachers, administrators, and staff.
- Increase stakeholder engagement (parents, students, and community members).
- Create culturally responsive and equity informed district policies and practices.


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Skip to comments.Gamma-producing fusion branches and solid state matter
Posted on 09/05/2013 4:20:38 PM PDT by Kevmo
Gamma-producing fusion branches and solid state matter
Eric Walker Sun, 25 Aug 2013 12:49:47 -0700
I'm including a brief synthesis of some of the thoughts that have been discussed on this list concerning a possibly novel interaction between gamma-producing fusion branches and solid state matter. This synthesis elaborates on a thought experiment that at this time lacks the rigor of something that would be turned into in a paper. My hope is that it can nonetheless be further refined as one step towards a more rigorous presentation, should that come about at some point.
Although the discussion below focuses on PdD somewhat, hopefully it will be clear that it applies equally to NiH(D). I see more promise in NiH and simply feel a desire to try to pick up some longstanding questions that have been raised in connection with PdD, which for most investigators is a system that is more familiar and better understood. For the most part I have been focused on NiH.
Since late 2011 there has been a discussion about a new way that the gamma-producing fusion branches might interact with matter, first set out to my knowledge in a post by Ron Maimon to the physics site physics.stackexchange.com. During 2012 and into 2013 that thread has been picked up on Vortex-L and the idea extended and modified. The foundation for the speculations here is not yet rigorous, so they are only a thought experiment at this point. But, phenomenologically, they go a long way to explain persistent and quirky details of the cold fusion experiments that have been described in Ed Storms's book and review articles and by others, elsewhere. For this reason I think the thought experiment merits a restatement and consideration of some observations it might explain as well as some new predictions. I'll try to do each of these things in turn.
To recap, the original proposal was that in the context of a palladium lattice the gamma-producing dd fusion branch interacts electromagnetically with lattice site nuclei instead of producing a gamma photon. The result is that you would get a prompt 4He that, when born, pushes off of a nearby heavy palladium nucleus. The heart of the idea is that the energy is yielded in a (near-) instantaneous electromagnetic transfer with the palladium lattice site. The gamma, which takes a long time to be emitted, is competetively suppressed and the energy is translated into kinetic energy of the daughter 4He and the palladium lattice site. This happens because the electromagnetic interaction is very fast compared to gamma photon emission. The process is so fast in fact that it also competes favorably with the other dd branches, which involve the production of energetic charged particles and neutrons (a slower process). The discussion here has run with Ron's idea and modified and extended it. The extension is to all gamma-producing fusion branches, and not just d(d,ɣ)4He, and to electromagnetic interaction not only with lattice site nuclei but also with the ambient electronic structure of the metal lattice. The modification involves how the chain reaction proceeds. Whereas Ron proposes that energetic charged deuterons drive the reaction in a very specific way (see for the full discussion), the proposal here is that all electromagnetic interactions, whether directly with the electronic structure or indirectly through disruptions resulting from the motion of fast charged particles, proceed to modify the charge density in the metal lattice such that screening or possibly a mechanism similar to that of the Polywell reactor makes dd fusion and pd fusion orders of magnitude more likely.
The motivation for the approach of this thought experiment is twofold. The first reason this hypothetical mechanism is attractive is that it has a good phenomenological fit to the cold fusion experimental observations. A second reason is that to my knowledge it does not depart too far from conventional physics. While it is true that a few assumptions must be reexamined, our basic understanding of physical laws and interactions need not be set aside, in connection, for example, with the strong interaction, the weak interaction and Coulomb repulsion.
Now for the observations and predictions.
1. In PdD electrolytic experiments, 4He seems to be produced at or close to the surface of the cathode.
The main reason for this belief is that the 4He, which is thought to be the primary ash of PdD cold fusion, is found near the surface and less and less as towards the bulk of the palladium cathode. Because 4He is not mobile in palladium (except when there are fissures and cracks), it cannot migrate out of the cathode in the same way that deuterium can. This means that any 4He that is detected at or near the surface that is the result of a fusion process will have been produced at or near the surface. The requirement for surface or near-surface production of 4He in the PdD electrolytic system does not seem to be a hard and fast one, but there are several lines of evidence that point in that direction.
If the mechanism proposed here holds, the reason for this would be straightforward. Electrical current can be expected, through the mechanism of this thought experiment, to bring alter the charge density of the lattice site nuclei. The electron charge would then become more evenly distributed throughout the lattice and into the interstitial areas, rather than being concentrated around the lattice sites as it normally is. The cause for the change in charge density is not yet clear -- in this case it could be through interactions between migrating electrons with more tightly bound electrons. But because current flows primarily through the skin of a conductor and less and less towards the center, one would see less and less of the effect with increasing depth into the cathode.
2. In PdD electrolytic experiments, it can take a while for an effect to be seen. 3. In PdD electrolytic experiments, there seems to be a relationship between impurities and an effect. Excess heat may not be seen in a pure palladium cathode, for example, whereas it may be seen increasingly effectively in a cathode which has undergone prior electrolysis and has acquired impurities through the process of electrolysis.
It would seem that impurities play a role of some kind. One thought here is that in order for the charge density to be altered, the energy within the electronic structure must be allowed to increase. This process can be expected to be defeated if electrons are mobile throughout the cathode. If there are dielectric impurities that have the effect of isolating certain portions of the cathode into their own insulated islands, the average energy of the electronic structure within those islands can be expected to increase. In a fresh cathode, there may be few impurities and insulated islands of this type. After a long period of electrolysis, however, there may be more and more insulated islands that can retain energy in this way, facilitating the modification of the charge distribution and hence the shielding mentioned above.
4. In cold fusion experiments, one often sees strange transients in the current, in which the current increases for periods of time.
This detail was noted by Abd sometime back. One possible explanation here would be that the process being proposed has two branches -- one is the electrostatic dumping of the energy of a fusion directly into the electronic structure, and the other the creation of kinetic energy as the 4He daughter (in the case of PdD) pushes off of a lattice site. The former branch is relevant here, as it seems to be equivalent to a spark discharge into the electron cloud of around 24 MeV (or 5 MeV). If enough of these events occurred, one supposes there would be an increase in current at the macroscopic level and an apparent decrease in resistivity.
5. In cold fusion experiments, very little prompt radiation is seen.
This is an observation that Ed has steadfastly defended and that I have only reluctantly come around to after reading through some of the early papers. Now that there is a mechanism that makes sense to me that does not purely involve fast particles (such as the one proposed by Ron Maimon in ), I'm more open-minded to cold fusion products being born without kinetic energy. This backtracking on my part inverts the old saying that seeing is believing -- here we have something like, "having a believable explanation is seeing."
The lack of prompt radiation suggests that of the two different branches proposed -- one in which the decaying [dd]* or [pd]* intermediate state electrostatically dumps directly into the electronic structure, and the other in which the resulting 4He or 3He pushes off of a lattice site -- it would seem to be the first branch that is dominant. In that branch, one expects 4He and 3He to be born almost motionless, and the momentum of the reaction to be carried away primarily by the electronic structure. Here it may be the local region of the electron cloud as a whole that receives the momentum, or, alternatively, a single electron. In the former case there would be almost no Bremsstrahlung. In the latter case, which would result in a ~24 MeV or ~5 MeV electron, one would expect Bremsstrahlung.
6. Excess heat has been seen in zeolites impregnated with palladium.
Because the zeolite matrix is an electrical insulator, the energy of the electronic structure in the palladium particles embedded within it can be allowed to increase over time, altering thereby through some as-yet-discovered phenomenon the distribution of charge density. This is similar to the possible role played by impurities mentioned above in connection with (2) and (3).
7. In PdD electroly


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Preparedness Portfolios and Portfolio Studios
We live in a time of great enthusiasm for the role that e-Portfolios can play in education and a time of exploration in which educators and researchers are investigating different approaches to using e-Portfolios to differentially support educational goals. In this paper, we focus on preparedness portfolios and portfolio studios as two key components of an approach to using portfolios in a specific educational context. The paper includes an identification of four commitments that contributed to the emergence of this particular approach, an explanation of the theoretical rationale associated with the approach, and a review of research data that substantiates enthusiasm for the approach. We close with comments on the potential for transferring this approach to other educational contexts.
International Journal of ePortfolio


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- Volet de programme : Jeunesse Canada au travail dans les établissements du patrimoine
- Titre de l'emploi : Program Coordinator
- Nom de l'organisme : Teck Centennial Public Library
- Lieu de l'emploi : Kirkland Lake, Ontario
- Durée de l'emploi : 2017-05-02 à 2017-08-26 (17 semaines)
- Salaire horaire : 14,00 $
Teck Centennial Public Library seeks a dynamic, creative and responsible post-secondary student to lead the Children's TD Summer Read Club. Reporting directly to the Library CEO and Children's Clerk, the Program Coordinator will be responsible for planning, implementing a variety of programs for children, youth and families as well as promoting the TD Summer Reading Program. Programs may be delivered at the Library or at various locations out in the community.
Duties and Responsibilities:
-Plans and executes programs for children, youth and families, including, but not limited to, school age children.
-Research ideas for programs, establish themes, and organize materials and supplies.
-Design a performance measurement tool for evaluating the summer reading program.
-Evaluates completed programs and prepares reports as directed.
-Prepares and follows a specific summer program budget.
-Performs other duties as assigne.
The successful applicant should:
-Have completed at least one year of an Early Childhood Education, Bachelor o Education degree or diploma, Child and Youth Worker; or have comparable skills or experience.
-Must plan to return to school in the fall
-Be fluent in the English language; French will be considered an asset.
-Possess excellent and demonstrate organizational skills.
-Be competent with technology and some application software.
-Be able to work effectively and efficiently with minimal supervision.
-Obtain a clear vulnerable sector police check.
-Be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, or have refugee status in Canada.
-Be legally entitled to work in Canada.
-Be between 16 and 30 years of age.
Term of Employment:
Start date: May 2, 2017
End date: August 26, 2017
Hours of work: 30 hours per week; Tuesday to Saturday
Rate of Pay: $14.00/hour + 4% vacation pay.
Qualified candidates are invited to submit their resume (complete with reference and covering letter) in confidence by Saturday, April 15, 2017.
Please apply by mail / e-mail to:
Library CEO, Teck Centennial Public Library
10 Kirkland Street E
Kirkland Lake, ON P2N 1P!
or fax resume to: _PHONE_
We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those under consideration will be contacted.
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WebDAV in EPiServer CMS 5
Product version:
EPiServer CMS 5 R2
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Introduction
WebDAV is an extension of HTTP that allows for extended file handling. Moving from the readonly-internet that first emerged into a read and write enabled Web creates new needs. WebDAV meets those needs and provides a base for developers to extend the functionality of a site and its ease of use for an editor or administrator. In EPiServer CMS it is used to give easy access to files (such as Word documents, images, etc).
For more information on what WebDAV is, please visit _URL_.
IMPORTANT! There are several issues and configuration parameters that may require modification for the built-in WebDAV clients in Windows to work properly with EPiServer CMS. Read the section Client Configuration carefully.
Table of Contents
Advantages of WebDAV
 - Easy file management.
 - The possibility to support drag-and-drop operations of groups of files with no need for extra components, i.e. multiple file uploads.
This opens up possibilities for developers to create their own add-ins with extended file handling capabilities. You could for instance develop:
 - Providers that convert EPiServer CMS 5 content into traditional files and back. This would allow editors to use locally installed applications, such as Microsoft Word, to edit EPiServer CMS 5 web content.
 - Providers for reports. The developer could create the possibility to provide data as Excel files.
WebDAV for Developers
In a future release, the APIs for writing custom extensions to the WebDAV module will be exposed and documented. If you have urgent needs to develop solutions based on WebDAV, please contact EPiServer's support department.
Setting up WebDAV in EPiServer CMS 5 R2 running on IIS 5.1 (Windows XP) / IIS 6 (Windows 2003 Server) / WebDev server (Visual Studion built-in web server)
Edit web.config and make sure it contains the sections outlined below (note that WebFolder is simply a suggested default, you may change this to another name).
 1. Find the element <sectionGroup name="episerverModules"> under the <configSections> node and make sure it contains the webDav definition as follows:
 <configSections>
 <sectionGroup name="episerverModules">

 </sectionGroup>
 </configSections>
 2. Find the <episerverModules> node and make sure it contains a <webDav> sub-node. In the webDav sub-node, list the Virtual Path Providers that should be accessible via WebDAV. An example that exposes the Global VPP:
 <episerverModules>
 <webDav name="WebFolder">
 <provider
 name="Global files"
 type="EPiServer.WebDav.Provider.VirtualDirectoryProvider,
 EPiServer.WebDav"
 virtualPath="~/Global/" />
 </webDav>
 </episerverModules>
 3. Find the <httpModules> node under the <system.web> and make sure it contains an add statement for webDAV as follows:
 <system.web>
 <httpModules>
 <add name="WebDav" type="EPiServer.WebDav.Module, EPiServer.WebDav" />
 </httpModules>
 </system.web>
 4. On the same level as the <httpModules> section, add an <httpHandlers> node with an <add> statement for webDAV as follows:
 <system.web>
 <httpModules>
 <add name="WebDav" type="EPiServer.WebDav.Module, EPiServer.WebDav" />
 </httpModules>
 <httpHandlers>
 <add path="*" verb="OPTIONS,PROPFIND" type="EPiServer.WebDav.Handler, EPiServer.WebDav"/>
 </httpHandlers>
 </system.web>
 5. At the level directly below <configuration>, add a <location path="WebFolder"> element as follows:
 <location path="WebFolder">
 <system.web>
 <httpHandlers>
 <add path="*" verb="*" type="EPiServer.WebDav.Handler, EPiServer.WebDav"/>
 </httpHandlers>
 <globalization requestEncoding="utf-8" responseEncoding="utf-8" />
 <authorization>
 <deny users="?" />
 </authorization>
 </system.web>
 </location>
 6. If you want to use Basic Authentication to access data in the WebDAV folder, you also need to enable the BasicAuthentication http module. It is present in the httpModules section, but commented out by default. To enable it, simply remove the XML-comment indicators:
 <httpModules>
 <add name="BasicAuthentication" type="EPiServer.Security.BasicAuthentication, EPiServer" />
 </httpModules>
Setting up WebDAV in EPiServer CMS 5 R2 running on IIS 7 (Windows Vista)
These instructions assume that you are running EPiServer on IIS7 under "Integrated Pipeline Mode" which is the default mode for an IIS7 EPiServer installation. If you have changed your installation to run under "Classic Mode" instead, you should follow the IIS 6 configuration instructions instead.
Edit web.config and make sure it contains the sections outlined below (note that WebFolder is simply a suggested default, you may change this to another name).
 1. Find the element <sectionGroup name="episerverModules"> under the <configSections> node and make sure it contains the webDav definition as follows:
 <configSections>
 <sectionGroup name="episerverModules">

 </sectionGroup>
 </configSections>
 2. Find the <episerverModules> node and make sure it contains a <webDav> sub-node. In the webDav sub-node, list the Virtual Path Providers that should be accessible via WebDAV. An example that exposes the Global VPP:
 <episerverModules>
 <webDav name="WebFolder">
 <provider
 name="Global files"
 type="EPiServer.WebDav.Provider.VirtualDirectoryProvider,
 EPiServer.WebDav"
 virtualPath="~/Global/" />
 </webDav>
 </episerverModules>
 3. Find the <modules> node under <system.webServer> and add the <add> statement for webDAV as follows: Note that this statement should be entered after the UrlRewriteModule
 <system.webServer>
 <modules>
 <add name="UrlRewriteModule" type="EPiServer.Web.UrlRewriteModule, EPiServer" preCondition="managedHandler" />
 <add name="WebDav" type="EPiServer.WebDav.Module, EPiServer.WebDav" preCondition="managedHandler" />
 </httpModules>
 </system.webServer>
 4. Find the <handlers> node under <system.webServer> node and add the <add> statement for webDAV as follows:
 <system.webServer>
 <handlers>
 <add name="OPTIONSVerbHandler" path="*" verb="OPTIONS" type="" modules="ProtocolSupportModule" scriptProcessor="" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="None" allowPathInfo="false" preCondition="" responseBufferLimit="_PHONE_" />
 <add name="PROPFINDVerbHandler" path="*" verb="PROPFIND" type="EPiServer.WebDav.Handler, EPiServer.WebDav" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="None" allowPathInfo="true" preCondition="" responseBufferLimit="_PHONE_" />
 </handlers>
 </system.webServer>
 5. At the level directly below <configuration>, add a <location path="WebFolder"> element as follows:
 <location path="WebFolder">
 <system.webServer>
 <handlers>
 <add name="wildcard" path="*" verb="*" type="


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Ladislav Kosa, Iveta Macková, Ivo Proks, Ondrej Pritula, Ľubomír Smrčok, Miroslav Boča, Håkan Rundlőf
March 1, 2008
Three thermal effects on heating/cooling of K2TaF7 in the temperature interval of 680–800°C were investigated by the DSC method. The values determined for the enthalpy change of the individual processes are: ΔtransIIHm(K2TaF7; 703°C) = 1.7(2) kJ mol−1, ΔtransIHm(K2TaF7; 746°C) = 19(1) kJ mol−1 and ΔtransIIIHm(K2TaF7; 771°C) = 13(1) kJ mol−1. The first thermal effect was attributed to a solid-solid phase transition; the second to the incongruent melting of K2TaF7 and the third to mixing of two liquids. These findings are supported by in situ neutron powder diffraction experiments performed in the temperature interval of 654–794°C.


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But in response to pressure from a student-led Native American alliance, Northwestern officials say they plan to form a commission to research Evans' connection to the one of the worst massacres of Native Americans in the country's history.
In 1864, Evans was territorial governor of Colorado when a militia of about 700 men attacked a temporary village of Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho people at Sand Creek. According to the National Park Service, the soldiers killed 165 to 200 Native Americans, about two-thirds of them women, children and elderly.
Known as the Sand Creek Massacre, it is considered one of the worst acts of genocide in the country's history and led to Evans' removal from his governorship after a congressional investigation.
According to the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance at Northwestern, the university has ignored that part of Evans' history. Evans continued as a major benefactor and member of Northwestern's board long after details of the massacre came to light.
"Many institutions that have been around as long as Northwestern have issues like these," said Heather Menefee, 19, a Northwestern sophomore and the student alliance's co-president. "But it was surprising to me that you could go on the Northwestern website and look at the official biography of John Evans, and it didn't even mention his involvement in Sand Creek. It seemed like the university was erasing it."
While Evans was not directly involved in the massacre, many believe his actions as governor created an environment hostile to Native Americans, and his effort to cover up what happened that day was met with fiery criticism.
In a "Report of the Committee on the Conduct of War" published in the Chicago Tribune in 1865, Evans' testimony before the congressional panel is described as "characterized by such prevarication and shuffling as has been shown by no witness they have examined … for the evident purpose of avoiding the admission that he was fully aware that the Indians massacred so brutally at Sand Creek were then, and had been, actuated by the most friendly feelings toward the whites."
Northwestern spokesman Alan Cubbage said administrators have had "a fairly constructive conversation" with the students, who put together a petition asking the university to investigate Evans' past and wrote a scathing guest column about the situation that was published in the campus newspaper Jan. 23.
"The provost has asked several of our very renowned faculty members in the history department and other departments to offer advice about what sort of people should be on a study committee," Cubbage said. "We're looking at a committee that would look into the historical aspects of John Evans and his role in the Sand Creek Massacre."
Cubbage said the committee would include scholars from other universities.
Given the country's history, many universities have had to confront historical connections to slavery or to crimes against Native Americans. In 2003, for example, Brown University launched a Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice to investigate the university's relationship to slavery and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Gary Alan Fine is the director of graduate studies in Northwestern's sociology department and also carries the title of John Evans Professor of Sociology. After receiving the professorship in 2004, Fine researched Evans and quickly learned of his connection to the Sand Creek Massacre.
He brought up the subject of Evans' questionable past during his inaugural lecture at the university and said he is pleased to see students pressing for a deeper investigation.
"I think the challenge for administrators now that they're taking it seriously is how much they want to embrace this," Fine said. "The model at Brown, which I think was enormously successful, is they made it a campuswide effort. They brought in all the interested parties — students and faculty and administrators and alumni and members of the African-American community — and used it as a teaching opportunity for Brown and also an opportunity to be part of a national dialogue."
Adam Mendel, 22, a Northwestern senior and co-president of the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance, said his group is calling on the university to recognize Evans' responsibility for the massacre, establish a Native American studies program and create a scholarship fund for Arapaho and Cheyenne students.
Because Evans didn't give the order for the massacre — documents from the time show he was not even in Colorado when it happened — some question the extent of his culpability. Others point out that along with helping create and fund Northwestern University, Evans was a noted abolitionist who was appointed to the territorial governorship of Colorado by Abraham Lincoln.
But Mendel said his research paints a picture of Evans as a man eager to rid Colorado of Native Americans. A proclamation Evans sent out not long before the massacre authorized all residents of Colorado to "kill and destroy, as enemies of the country, wherever they may be found, all such hostile Indians."
"His proclamation speaks toward his policy toward the Native Americans in the area," Mendel said. "He had a hostile policy toward them, encouraged people to hunt and kill them. He didn't specifically order the attack, but he instituted policies that led to the attack. He was particularly out there, even for this time period. He was investigated by Congress and removed from office. Colorado's admission to the union was delayed for a few years because of this event."
Bethany Hughes, 31, a Northwestern doctoral student and member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is working on a research project about the massacre. She said that in addition to being territorial governor, Evans was a railroad magnate with a vested interest in making sure rail lines were built across Colorado and farther west.
She said that even after losing his governorship, Evans thrived thanks to his railroad operations — and Northwestern continued to receive money from him.
"It is a complex situation," Hughes said. "There have been great, positive outcomes of John Evans' actions — we have the university, we support scholarship and research and creativity and art. You can trace that all back to John Evans. But you can also trace back to John Evans the impact on a more specific community, the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. To dismiss or not deal with this conflict and tension in John Evans' nature has been troublesome for Northwestern."
Cubbage said the university's provost and vice president for academic affairs will meet with some faculty members next week to discuss forming a commission to study Evans. He applauded the students for seeking an accurate historical investigation, given the wide-ranging information that is out there relating to Sand Creek.
"I think this was the worst act of genocide in the American context," Fine said. "Yes, there's a need for justice. Yes, there's a need for memory. A lot of things have been written about Sand Creek by amateur historians. Let's see what we can sort out through having enough resources to look at the appropriate archives and make a scholarly determination of what really happened."


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Resolve issues with encryption key
This topic discusses solutions to typical issues you might experience with Magento Commerce encryption key in your environments.
For a new Starter project, the Magento encryption key is on your
master branch Production environment. When you branch to other environments, the key travels with the code and database.
For a new Pro project starting with a "blank site" Magento Commerce (Cloud) template, the Magento encryption key is on the Integration
master branch and environment until you initially deploy across all environments.
Encryption key not in all environments
All Cloud environments require this encryption key in all three environments or the store will encounter authentication and authorization errors for actions like completing a payment on a cart, processing a return, and adding shipping to orders.
To verify and update the encryption key environment variable:
SSH to each of the Cloud environments: Integration, Staging, and Production.
app/etc/env.phpin a text editor.
- Verify the existing value of
crypt. The value should be your Magento Commerce key.
- If the value is incorrect, add the key value, and save your changes to
- Exit the text editor and repeat this process for each environment. Test store actions in each environment to verify if the issue persists, such as completing a cart purchase.


text: Cassini observations have shown that Saturn's tenuous E Ring has a double-banded vertical structure, with the density of particles decreasing in the equatorial plane of the rings. We have conducted numerical simulations, using SWIFT, supported by order-of-magnitude analytical calculations, to investigate how the micron-sized ice particles behave in the vicinity of Enceladus' orbit to form the observed structure. Effect of Saturn, including its J2, and Enceladus are considered.The other moons have negligible effect over the 200- year integration. We follow the orbits of massless particles ejected from Enceladus' south pole with velocities ranging between 0.9 to 1.4 times the escape velocity at the moon's surface. Our results suggest that Enceladus causes the double-banded structure by attracting the particles towards the moon due to its gravity, that would otherwise pass at some distance away and then by eliminating the particles which collide with the moon. This creates a scarcity of particles in the equatorial plane which is manifested as a double-layered structure.


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In the 5,000m2 pond, Hanh grows different varieties of lotus. With the help of the head of Hung Phuc Pagoda in Thanh Tri District, Hanh managed to breed a rare variety of white lotus which has double petals with violet edges.
Hanh said that he tried to go to many areas such as Hung Yen and Bac Ninh to find the seedlings and tending methods of different lotus varieties. Sometimes he asks for help from friends to buy rare lotus varieties from faraway areas such as Hue to get royal lotus, or pink single-petal lotus from southern provinces. Hanh has devoted much effort in adjusting the water level and the amount of mud to change the pond into a favourable environment for these varieties of lotus. In the future, he hopes to invest in a 10,000m2 pond and grow other kinds of lotus.
Thanks to its diversity, the pond attracts a lot of lotus lovers to come, admire and take photos of lotus. The flowers are most beautiful when they start blossoming and can be best photographed at dawn in weak sunlight.
In Ninh Xa pond, the most special lotus variety is the white, pink-edged one with double petals. Sometimes this breed can produce flowers that have both white and pink petals.
Lotus flowers in bloom in the early morning. Photo: Cong Dat/VNP
A blossoming lotus flower.
A gorgeous flower under early sunlight.
Twelve varieties of lotus do not blossom at the same time so not every visitor to the pond can admire all of them but enjoying the light and relaxing aroma of lotus only can offer visitors unforgettable memories.


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Bethesda Presbyterian Church in Camden is one of Robert Mills' architectural masterpieces. Finished in 1822, it is a prime example of Greek Revival architecture.
Robert Mills mentions Bethesda Presbyterian Church in his 1826 publication, Statistics of South Carolina: "A handsome church has been erected in the upper part of the town, with a portico of four Doric columns in front, and a neat spire in the rear, containing a bell. The interior is arranged so that the floor and pews rise as they recede from the pulpit, giving an advantage to the audience, both in seeing and hearing."
The monument in the foreground (seen below), also designed by Robert Mills, is where Baron Johann de Kalb is buried. The memorial was dedicated in 1825 with the cornerstone laid by the Marquis de Lafayette, a good friend of de Kalb.
A German, Baron de Kalb was sympathetic to the colonists' cause of independence from the British. He died at the Battle of Camden in 1780, at the hands of Cornwallis' men.
Bethesda Presbyterian Church is listed in the National Register:
Bethesda Presbyterian Church, constructed in 1822, possesses national significance as an example of the work of Robert Mills. One of only a few Mills churches remaining in the United States, Bethesda is distinctive both for the quality and type of its design and for the stage it represents in Mills' career. Architecturally Bethesda is representative of a distinctive phase in Mills' career. No longer a journeyman, but not yet the preeminent Federal architect designing the nation's early monumental buildings, Mills displayed in Bethesda the work of a maturing architect strongly influenced by Jeffersonian classicism.
Bethesda, with its neo-classical temple form, represents "an important stage in Mills' creation of a distinctly American classical style. The south façade has a tetrastyle Doric portico and entablature. The north façade, while referred to by Mills as the rear of the building, is the current entrance to the church. It has a tristyle Tuscan portico with double scissor stairs that lead to the two gallery entrances. The steeple is located above the church's north gable, directly above the interior balcony. According to Mills, "the interior is arranged so that the floor and pews rise as they recede from the pulpit, giving every advantage to the audience, both in seeing and hearing." The De Kalb Monument, located in the churchyard, reflects Mills' concept of classical style and represents one of his smaller memorial designs. The marble monument resting on a granite base was constructed in memory of Baron de Kalb, a German who became a major general in the Revolutionary War and who died at the Battle of Camden. The Marquis de Lafayette laid the cornerstone to the monument in 1825.


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Tonga is one of 14 Pacific Island countries that is expected to benefit from a new project aimed to provide nationally tailored information on seasonal climate prediction and improve climate services.
The three-year project funded by the Government of the Republic of Korea was launched during a Pacific Climate Scientists regional training and inception workshop held from July 15-17.
Sunny Seuseu the ROK PI-CLIPS project coordinator at SPREP said they will be developing tailored climate prediction information using a region specific tool so that our National Meteorological Services are able to contribute to community resilience and national development planning through better localised climate services.
"We will achieve this by helping our National Meteorological Services access and use specific seasonal climate change prediction systems tuned to island environments, analyse and review the information which can be shared to support the decision making processes in local communities and climate sensitive sectors such as agriculture, water, health and disaster risk management."
'Ofa Fa'anunu the Director of Meteorological Services said Tonga is very pleased to be part of this project that will bring together a range of partners from across the region and beyond to help strengthen their decision making processes, allowing them to take into account seasonal climate predictions when it comes to planning, especially now that we are in El Nino year.


ways I know to help kick the sugar habit, and it includes a marvelous technique called Turbo Tapping that has helped tens of thousands of people kick their soda habit (the number one source of fructose in the U.S. diet).
From there, I recommend you read through my nutrition plan to learn the foundation of a healthy eating plan, one that will help you to limit sugar naturally, without feeling like you're hungry or sacrificing flavor.
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We investigate whether job-related characteristics are related to unhealthy lifestyles. We consider two components of unhealthy lifestyles, namely smoking behavior and overweight.
For our study, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Depending on our dependent variables, we apply tobit and ordered probit estimations. We further run fixed-effects estimations since the panel structure of the SOEP allows us to follow individuals over time. Furthermore, we include interaction terms into our analysis and examine whether there are age differences concerning the relation between job-related characteristics and unhealthy lifestyles.
We find evidence that time pressure and overtime, in particular, are associated to unhealthy lifestyles. Furthermore, we find that the relationship between overtime, fixed-term contracts, commuting, and unhealthy lifestyles is particularly pronounced for the elderly.
Employees who experience high time pressure or who work more hours than defined in their employment contract are more at risk of practicing unhealthy lifestyles. The relations between overtime, fixed-term contracts, commuting, and unhealthy lifestyles are getting stronger with age.
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Address correspondence to: Maike Rubin, MSc, RWTH Aachen University, School of Business and Economics, Chair of Human Resource Management and Personnel Economics, Templergraben 64, 52056 Aachen, Germany (_EMAIL_).
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An Instagram bot (or growth service, as some people call it) automates your account's interactions (follows/likes/comments/DMs) so you can appear on many more people's activity feeds. This increases the number of times your username is seen, which in turn, increases your profile visits, followers, and website clicks.
An account with great content and the correct automation targets and guidelines will generate interactions that are likely to be perceived as organic and translate into profile visits, which will not be flagged by Instagram (you can learn how to do that here).
On the other hand, an account with uninspiring content that has badly automated targets and guidelines will interact with people who will find the activity inorganic and consider it a "spammy bot". We've all received these annoying automated interactions and know how they generate an unpleasant user experience.
It's because of the proliferation of these badly automated bots that Instagram closed down a bunch of well-known automation services in 2017, as well as recently announced its efforts to reduce inauthentic activity on the app. Long story short, they are cracking down on accounts who use bots that are perceived as spammy by the community, as well as accounts who buy followers, likes, and comments at scale.
How Does Instagram Crack Down on "Bots"?
Currently (this section of the article is constantly updated — the last update was on January, 2020), Instagram cracking down on bots by using three techniques.
1. They send you a push notification telling you that they are removing "inauthentic" Likes and Follows they identified were generated by a third party app.They send you a push notification saying that your account information is compromised because you shared it with a third party.
2. They send you a notification to encourage users to change their passwords, which will disconnect them from the third party services so the interaction automation stops — not because their information is actually compromised.
They send you a push notification telling you that you're using a service that helps you get likes and followers and they block your account from interacting for a specific time period. In this case, it's usually because you're using an automation service that isn't safe (more on that below) or because you're automating your likes in a spammy way (read this article about how to automate an Instagram bot that isn't spammy
to learn how to do automate in a way that is unlikely to be noticed). If this happens to you, don't panic, stop trying to interact, and either change your automation provider or program your interactions at a much slower rate. The block will go away in the time specified in the notification (usually one week) and you'll be able to continue interacting.


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The animal product industry is not a sustainable one. Rainforests and natural habitats are burned down for cattle farming, and the amount of methane they produce is enormous. Not to mention the animal cruelty that comes with the meat industry. I'm not a vegetarian, but I only eat meat when I go out to dinner or my mom makes it when I visit.
There has been a lot of popularity over "vegan leather". What is vegan leather? most of it is polyvinyl chloride, or PVC. PVC is made up of monomers of vinyl chloride compounds (H₂C=CHC) combined in polymerization. (Sorry, I'm a science major and couldn't resist). The result is PVC that can be either in a rigid or flexible form. Rigid PVC is rather effective in protecting the environment due to its low greenhouse gas emissions and conservation of resources and energy. It is sturdy and resistant to water, so it's often used in piping, flooring, and roofing.
Vegan leather, however, is flexible PVC that is condensed into fabric. Plastic synthetic fabrics like polyester and nylon pose a significant threat to the environment. Because plastic shreds in the wash, it leads to microplastics in our water systems that cannot be filtered out. Even if you don't wash your vegan leather, it is prone to flaking and wears out quickly. This leads to buying new vegan leather, and continuing harmful plastic production and consumption. I would not say vegan leather is sustainable.
What's a good alternative to vegan leather?
Recycled leather or used leather products. Use items that are already in the waste cycle or buy things made of recycled leather limits the amount of animals used for leather products, and prevents cheap plastic clothing from being funded. These are my only and favorite leather piece: these Teva booties are third-hand. My sister bought them on Poshmark and eventually gave them to me. They're super durable, and are 100% waterproof leather. I wear them everywhere in the spring and fall! Do you have any recycled leather items?


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Pakistani climate activist Ayisha Siddiqa has been named 'Women of the Year 2023'. The 24-year-old is also a human rights activist and believes poetry represents hope – a way to bring humanity back into high-level conversations.
Siddiqa shared an original poem at the annual U.N. Climate Conference in Egypt in November, it was titled "So much about your sustainability, my people are dying" and was about how leaders have failed to act on climate change.
Ayisha Siddiqa added that the effects of high levels of negligence could be seen in life-altering events, including the Pakistan floods that washed away millions of homes and thousands of lives. Even months after the floods, the affectees still suffer from hunger and diseases as they still do not have a roof over their heads or access to resources.
Feeling hurt and wanting to protest, Ayisha Siddiqua channelled her feelings in the form of poetry, "It's an effort to preserve what I have left, while I still have the time, in written form," she says.
"Art makes life worth living, and in my opinion, it's what makes humans worth the fight. Like all of the things that we leave behind, all the creations, wouldn't it be so unfortunate if there's nobody on the other side to witness and observe them?"
Ayisha Siddiqa – A 14-year-old Visionary
Siddiqa was 14 years old when she realized how climate change has impacted the environment and how dangerous it has become for civilization. She also witnessed the demise of her grandparents who passed due to the contamination caused by the pollution of river water.
At 16, she became more aware of the links between climate change and human rights, including that access to resources was a reason worth killing for. "The wounded world is so beautiful because she keeps producing life," she says. "And my work is in defence of life. By default, it's a defence of the rights of women. Therefore, it's also by default human rights."
Eventually, it was these wake-up calls and her values that motivated Ayisha Siddiqua to raise her voice and uplift those who became vulnerable while calling out the polluters who are responsible. "I was raised with the idea that the earth is a living being, that she gives life to you and in return, you have a responsibility," she says. "And I think we, collectively, have come to a point where we are ignoring the cries of mother earth."
In 2020, Ayisha Siddiqa co-founded Polluters Out, a global youth activist coalition and helped in the launch of the Fossil Free University (an activism training course). She is also working to help set up a youth climate justice fund to help correct the imablance of resources against the fossil fuel industry.
According to a 2018 study, when it comes to climate action lobbying, the fossil fuel industry out-spends activists and the renewable energy sector by a factor of 10:1. Siddiqa's work aims to fund philanthtrophists and activits around the globe.
"This work is definitely intergenerational," she says. "I am young now. Tomorrow, I won't be. I absolutely love working with people younger than me to pass on this knowledge so that the chain never breaks."
Kudos to Ayisha Siddiqa for her selfless contributions.
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