Singapore's problem with flying garbage
by Arno Maierbrugger - Jan 2, 2014
In yet another case of garbage thoughtlessly thrown out of apartment windows of Singapore's suburban high-rises, a heavy two-seater sofa falling from the fourth floor of a building narrowly missed a woman who passed by on a pavement below.
After calling police, officers arrested two men who claimed they had accidentally dropped the sofa while moving it up into an apartment.
So called "killer garbage" has become a serious problem in Singapore's suburban communities, as throwing any kind of small and large garbage out of the window has become a habit among residents of state-subsidised flats, which make up 80 per cent of Singapore's housing.
The issue is decades-old. A pregnant woman died in 1984 after being struck by a bicycle thrown from a flat. Another incident caused the death of a young woman who was hit by a flower pot.
In the following years, laws were introduced that people who throw rubbish from their apartments would lose their homes, and those who injure people would be jailed for up to five years.
However, nothing much has changed. Residents of public housing districts still routinely cover their heads with bags or newspapers when passing by high-rise buildings because many people throw kitchen waste and other small rubbish just out of the window.
In December 2013, a man was arrested for throwing items from the seventh floor of his apartment block, including buckets, an air cooler, a glass tank and a microwave oven. Separately, two young children allegedly threw a speaker and a vehicle battery from their flat. Also in December 2013, a passer-by was injured after a 15-year-old boy allegedly threw a brick out of the building where he lived.
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Economic development and underdevelopment are taking shape in an increasingly interconnected global context. This course examines geographic approaches to "Third World" development, economic globalization, poverty, and inequality. It pays particular attention to the roles of rural-urban and international migration in shaping specific landscapes of development.
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Social and economic differences have been, and continue to be, a prominent feature of Canada's geography. In this course these differences are examined at a regional and local scale. The course adopts a thematic approach and considers issues such as historical development, urbanization, industrialization, immigration and population change, Canada's cultural mosaic and native issues. Emphasis will be placed on the evolution of social and economic policies and Canada's incorporation into a global economy.
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Creating Change is Like Gardening
It was a sad day for me. I discovered yesterday morning how difficult it is to change a norm, even if it's a simple change (with not much sacrifice attached to it) and even when making the change would be a gift to the children and their future.
For almost a year, I've been a member of a group of teachers who are interested in social justice issues. I sit on the sub-committee that deals with environmental justice issues, so it's normal that we would bring forward environmentally related issues.
Yesterday I presented a simple motion that we transition to meatless meals at our meetings (which would amount to a couple of lunches, the three times per year when we meet). The supporting statement explained that eating lower on the food chain (note no use of the V word) has many benefits.
My rationale was that this would lower our carbon footprint and set an example to other educationally-focused groups. It truly is the easiest way we can reduce our personal and collective greenhouse gas emissions.
Industrial livestock processing (veganspeak: the inhumane torture and slaughter of almost 30 billion animals every year in the USA alone -- but I didn't use that language, because it's often considered inflammatory) (imagine how it feels to the animals, then compare that to the "pain" we feel when we "feel their pain" -- we're such wimps at times, eh?) is one of the most carbon-intensive and environmentally damaging human activities on the planet, polluting water, degrading land, and spewing carbon, nitrous oxide and 35-40% of anthropogenic methane emissions.
It took me three meetings to get up the nerve to put forward this resolution. I guess I already knew what the reaction would be. And I was right. To be fair, I was encouraged by how many people spoke in favour. But we use a consensus model and that means that one person holding up a red card can scuttle a motion. Four or five people held up red cards. One person tearfully admitted she's not ready to give up meat yet. (For six lunches per year?) Another said she didn't want to lose her freedom of choice. (Forget that billions of people are losing their freedom to choose to live on a habitable planet.)
The motion was defeated. I was defeated. Afterwards, I got some advice and had some helpful discussions. I'll rework and reword my motion and present it again the next time we meet. But the bittersweet ending came during our farewell go-round. One of the no-voters thanked the group for opening her up to new ideas that haven't been within her realm of consciousness. "I might even start eating less meat," she said. "But not quite yet."
What do I take from this experience? Creating change is more like gardening than building. We have to plant our seeds (the earlier the better) and then be patient. A lot of the process is outside of our control ... though definitely within our circle of influence. Time for me to tend those seedlings.
p.s. Speaking of food growing, the news from drought-afflicted California grows ever more terrifying!
From 7 States Running Out Of Water: "At [the current] usage rate, California has less than two years of water remaining."
And this, from Cows, Rice Fields and Big Agriculture Consume Well Over 90% of California's Water: "Agriculture uses 93% of California's water and almost half of that is devoted to growing alfalfa for shipment to the Far East, mainly China, to feed their cows. California is, in effect, shipping almost half its precious water to China."
You were brave to propose a change of values around eating together. One might think that social justice would be a good motivator to try eating the way half the world does on a regular basis (with no meat as part of a meal). But your gardening analogy is true - you've tilled some soil and planted a seed. Growth doesn't come instantly. It's worth trying again in the future. Shifts in consciousness are special crops. Bravo from Elise.
Sometimes it is hard to see that you are effecting change at all. But you are Julie and you made people stop and think about something in a way that they hadn't before. I haven't eaten beef for 40 years. You just reminded me of some of reasons I made that choice so long ago. And I have to agree with the previous statement from Elise, "shifts in consciousness are special crops". Wendy
GreenHearted September 5, 2014 at 10:54 PM
I just reread this post and thought, "No, I'm not going to retry at a future meeting." But then I also reread your comments, Elise and Wendy, and am feeling buoyed. Thank you for your moral support!
Yes Greenhearted, I agree with you that compasssion is one route to a solution. And I appreciate your efforts at planting seeds in this direction. Your warmth shows through in the way in which you write up your (sad) story re your raising of the possibility of non-eating of meat in some meetings. Norma
Hi Greenhearted. I too appreciate your effort at planting seeds! All warm wishes, Norma
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Swamp politics aids MGM in clash with tribal casinos
Published April 23. 2018 3:28PM
By The Day Editorial Board
So much for draining the swamp. Or respecting state's rights. Or treating Native American tribes fairly.
Reporting by the news website Politico suggests the Trump administration pulled political strings to protect MGM Resorts International and block plans by the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes to jointly open and operate a casino in East Windsor.
The East Windsor casino, authorized by the Connecticut General Assembly as a way to compete with the Springfield, Mass. casino MGM plans to soon open, requires approval by the Interior Department, according to the provisions of the state law.
As reported by Politico, Interior was on the brink of authorizing the approval last September, based on staff recommendations from the department's Bureau of Indian Affairs' Office of Indian Gaming. Citing emails obtained under the federal Freedom of Information Act, Politico referenced "draft approval" letters concerning the Mohegan-Mashantucket project that were distributed on Sept. 11 by Troy Woodward, a senior policy adviser in the Office of Indian Gaming.
On Sept. 14, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Associate Deputy Secretary James Cason met at the White House with Rick Dearborn, the president's deputy chief of staff for policy. The next day the staff's approval recommendation was countermanded. Instead, Mike Black, acting assistant secretary for Indian Affairs, issued essentially a no decision, stating an Interior ruling was "premature and likely unnecessary."
Had the Trump administration cooked up an approach that disrupted the plans for the East Windsor casino and, in the process, did MGM's bidding? It sure looks like that.
MGM has lobbied the administration hard. It hired Gale Norton, Interior secretary for George W. Bush, to work the administration. Sen. Dean Heller and Rep. Mark Amodei, two Republican lawmakers from Nevada, a state where MGM is a major employer, also lobbied Interior officials concerning the Connecticut casino matter. MGM has invested $182,000 in campaign donations to Heller, according to OpenSecrets.org.
At this point, no one should be under any illusions about the hardball MGM is playing to block the East Windsor competition. Its ruse about a Bridgeport casino, another delaying tactic, is part of the game.
A subsequent October meeting that Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt had with Norton may have violated the ethics agreement Bernhardt signed in May 1, 2017, committing him to stay clear of conflicts, reports the Huffington Post. It also appeared to violate President Donald Trump's executive order prohibiting administration officials from involvement in issues for which they had lobbied, within the past two years.
Before taking his current post, Bernhardt had worked for the lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber & Schreck, which has represented MGM in the Connecticut-related casino dispute. MGM is Norton's only client when it comes to Interior matters. Both Bernhardt and Norton were previously partners at Brownstein Hyatt, and he served as deputy chief of staff when Norton was Interior secretary.
No wonder the local tribes were outmuscled when confronting that many swamp monsters.
Both Bernhardt and Norton told Huffington their meeting was a social visit. Is anyone going to buy that explanation? Certainly not Public Citizen, which has filed an ethic's complaint about Bernhardt's behavior.
"The excuse that the meeting was merely a social visit is not very credible, given that it was an official meeting on government time and on government premises. It seems highly likely that the meeting was about MGM," Craig Holman of Public Citizen told the HuffPost.
The meeting could have well been an opportunity to get their stories straight as to why Interior had rejected its staff recommendation in failing to act on the Connecticut casino matter. Probably not coincidentally, subsequently on Oct. 30 Norton delivered a 24-page memo to Zinke arguing why Interior's decision was the right one.
Well-documented is Trump's animosity towards the tribes over the competition their casinos posed for his Atlantic City casino properties. "They don't look like Indians to me," he said in a harrumph during a 1993 congressional hearing.
There may be legitimate reasons for challenging the proposed jointly operated casino off tribal land, but the process should be fair. Instead, it looks like a heavy thumb was placed on the scale in MGM's favor.
Connecticut's delegation in Washington needs to keep up the heat on the Trump administration, having already successfully pushed for an investigation by the Office of Inspector General, now underway. Meanwhile, the state and the tribes have sued the Interior Department in an effort to force it to act.
Unless forced to break out the pumps, the Trump administration won't be draining this particular swamp anytime soon.
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Oxygen reduction on a modified ruthenium electrode
Anastasijević, Nikola A.
Dimitrijević, Z. M.
Adžić, Radoslav R.
Oxygen reduction has been studied in alkaline solution on a ruthenium electrode modified by thallium and lead adsorbates. A partially oxidized ruthenium electrode is inactive for oxygen reduction. Thallium and lead adsorbates cause pronounced changes on the ruthenium surface giving rise to a four electron-reduction of oxygen. Disc-ring electrode measurements show a predominant direct four electron-reduction, with a first charge-transfer rate determining step. Mass fractions of various reaction pathways have been calculated and the model explaining a direct four electron-reduction discussed. Once activated, ruthenium retains its activity even in the absence of thallium and lead ions in solution phase.
adatoms / adions / electrocatalysis / oxygen reduction / ruthenium electrode
Electrochimica Acta, 1992, 37, 3, 457-464
The Research Fund of Serbia, Yugoslavia
The National Science Foundation through the Yugoslav-American Fund, Contract No. 764
DOI: 10.1016/0013-4686(92)87036-Y
AU  - Anastasijević, Nikola A.
AU  - Dimitrijević, Z. M.
AU  - Adžić, Radoslav R.
AB  - Oxygen reduction has been studied in alkaline solution on a ruthenium electrode modified by thallium and lead adsorbates. A partially oxidized ruthenium electrode is inactive for oxygen reduction. Thallium and lead adsorbates cause pronounced changes on the ruthenium surface giving rise to a four electron-reduction of oxygen. Disc-ring electrode measurements show a predominant direct four electron-reduction, with a first charge-transfer rate determining step. Mass fractions of various reaction pathways have been calculated and the model explaining a direct four electron-reduction discussed. Once activated, ruthenium retains its activity even in the absence of thallium and lead ions in solution phase.
T2  - Electrochimica Acta
T1  - Oxygen reduction on a modified ruthenium electrode
DO  - 10.1016/0013-4686(92)87036-Y
author = "Anastasijević, Nikola A. and Dimitrijević, Z. M. and Adžić, Radoslav R.",
abstract = "Oxygen reduction has been studied in alkaline solution on a ruthenium electrode modified by thallium and lead adsorbates. A partially oxidized ruthenium electrode is inactive for oxygen reduction. Thallium and lead adsorbates cause pronounced changes on the ruthenium surface giving rise to a four electron-reduction of oxygen. Disc-ring electrode measurements show a predominant direct four electron-reduction, with a first charge-transfer rate determining step. Mass fractions of various reaction pathways have been calculated and the model explaining a direct four electron-reduction discussed. Once activated, ruthenium retains its activity even in the absence of thallium and lead ions in solution phase.",
journal = "Electrochimica Acta",
title = "Oxygen reduction on a modified ruthenium electrode",
doi = "10.1016/0013-4686(92)87036-Y"
Anastasijević, N. A., Dimitrijević, Z. M.,& Adžić, R. R.. (1992). Oxygen reduction on a modified ruthenium electrode. in Electrochimica Acta
Anastasijević NA, Dimitrijević ZM, Adžić RR. Oxygen reduction on a modified ruthenium electrode. in Electrochimica Acta. 1992;37(3):457-464.
doi:10.1016/0013-4686(92)87036-Y .
Anastasijević, Nikola A., Dimitrijević, Z. M., Adžić, Radoslav R., "Oxygen reduction on a modified ruthenium electrode" in Electrochimica Acta, 37, no. 3 (1992):457-464,
https://doi.org/10.1016/0013-4686(92)87036-Y . .


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Shares of Reliance Industries (RIL) gained 3 per cent to Rs 2,287.50 on the BSE on Wednesday after the company said Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) will invest Rs 5,512.50 crore into the company's subsidiary Reliance Retail Ventures (RRVL) for 1.2-per cent stake. RIL's stock had hit a record high of Rs 2,368.80, hit on September 16, 2020.
This is the seventh deal to be announced by the Mukesh Ambani-led firm in four weeks, stepping up its stake-sale process that has seen marquee investors back the firm so far. With this investment, RRVL has raised Rs 37,710 crore from leading global investors including Silver Lake, KKR, General Atlantic, Mubadala, GIC, TPG, and ADIA in less than four weeks.
Reliance Retail, a subsidiary of RRVL, operates India's largest, fastest-growing and most profitable retail business serving close to 640 million footfalls across its around 12,000 stores nationwide.
"Reliance Retail has rapidly established itself as one of the leading retail businesses in India and, by leveraging both its physical and digital supply chains, is strongly positioned for further growth. This investment is consistent with our strategy of investing in market-leading businesses in Asia linked to the region's consumption-driven growth and rapid technological advancement," said Hamad Shahwan Aldhaheri, Executive Director of the Private Equities Department at ADIA.
Meanwhile, according to a Business Standard report, RRVL is expected to divest only a small stake of 10-15 per cent in its retail holding company, the proceeds of which will be used to fund acquisitions such as the retail and wholesale business of Future Group and others. As part of its initial and ongoing fund-raising exercise, RRVL has already divested 8.48 per cent stake to a bevvy of private equity funds for Rs 37,710 crore


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ADC Regional Dance Complex
The American Dance Center was founded in 1971 and continues to set the standards in dance education.
In 1991, the school relocated to Olympia Fields as part of the 20th anniversary celebrations. In 1997, a
two-story, state-of -the- art studio and dance boutique was established in Orland Park. The ADC East
studio and dance boutique, in downtown Homewood, opened in 2001. Now, with two locations, the 6 studio regional complex has become one of Chicago's largest and most comprehensive dance environments. Both Centers feature multiple, large, state-of-the art studios with high ceilings, sprung floors, double mounted barres, full-length mirrors, surround-sound, gift and dancewear shop, snack, video and dancer's stretch areas, seated lobby, executive office, costume storage and children's party center.
Taking Dance One Step Further
Unique in its concept, the ADC has received Congressional Recognition Awards for the Performing Arts and numerous artistic honors from the Illinois Arts Council and Office of the Governor of Illinois. ADC directors, Jack and Kathleen Villari have been recognized as "Outstanding Dance Educators of America" for their innovative program of studies, world-wide literary works, and original productions featuring international dancers including Bolshoi Ballet soloists.
The ADC was selected outstanding dance school of Illinois by the Young Americans National Invitational and the only school chosen to represent the state of Illinois at the International Dance Festival in Los Angeles 1995-2019. The ADC was invited to perform their own show at the '96 World Olympics in Atlanta and performed in the 2012 Orange Bowl Half-Time Show in Miami. ADC dancers have consistently received the over-all, "Best of Show" awards at regional dance competitions.
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"Such a loving & happy place. I grew up here. They truly have a passion for dance & their students! They treat each & everyone as their own. ADC was definitely a hallmark of my childhood & teenage years. My second home!" - Destyni M.
"Coming into the studio at an older age I felt very nervous like I would not fit it in. Not even close!!! The students and staff have made me feel very welcome. I have grown so much.
This studio has changed my life!" - Christina R.
"There is never any pressure to be perfect, but simply to love dance & keep doing your best, which is why I have continued to take classes here well into my 30's! And believe it or not, there are lots of other women I take classes with at ADC with very similar stories. Dancing shouldn't stop just because you're not in school anymore! I'm sure I'll keep taking classes here until I can't move anymore!" - Taylor M.
"I can't thank ADC enough for being one of the greatest joys of my daughter's life..." - Kelly S.
"I am so grateful to be a part of the American Dance Center family. I grew up at ADC and it truly shaped the person that I am now. There is no question that I learned complete and correct dance technique during my years there. But more importantly, I learned that dance is more than just steps: it's the emotion, feeling, and "spirit of dance." My teachers at ADC taught me how to dance, but they also taught me to be a leader, a hard worker, and a kind, joyful individual by their example and instruction." - Carly F.
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Bridging the gap between classroom studies and the professional stage, the American Dance Center brings recognition and performing outlets to the suburban area. Emphasizing the joy of movement, the school offers nationally recognized programs for pre- school through professional levels. State certified to teach college level classes, the ADC offers one of the most comprehensive opportunities in the area for young men and women to develop their talents. This progressive system of study provides student showcases, professional performances, scholarship opportunities and career counseling.
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The Narrations are the Religion
It is reported that Muḥammad b. Sīrīn said, "They used to consider themselves on the [right] path as long as they followed al-athar (guidance of the Sunnah and Salaf as passed down in the narrations)."
Al-Lālakā`ī, Sharḥ Usūl I'tiqād Ahl Al-Sunnah wa Al-Jamā'ah Vol.1 p120.
It is reported that 'Uthmān b. Ḥāḍir said, "I said to Ibn 'Abbās: 'advise me.' He replied, 'It is upon you to be upright, follow al-athar, and beware of innovating [in religion].'"
Ibn Battah, Al-Ibānah Al-Kubrā Vol. 1 p214.
It is reported that ʿAbdullāh b. Al-Mubārak said, "Let it only be the narrations (al-athar) that you rely upon, and take from reasoning and opinion that amount that will help you to understand and explain ḥadīth."
Ibn ʿAbd Al-Barr, Jāmi' Bayān Al-'Ilm wa Faḍlihi Vol. 3 p329.
It is reported that Sufyān Al-Thawrī said, "The narrations (al-āthār) are the religion."
And it is reported that he also said, "A man should not even scratch his head except based on a narration."
Al-Harawī, Dhamm Al-Kalām wa Ahlihī Vol. 2 p264.
It is reported that Al-Musayyib b. Rāfi' Al-Asadī said, "We only follow, we do not innovate; we follow behind and do not start anything [in the religion], and we will never stray as long as we adhere to the narrations."
Al-Musayyib b. Rāfiʿ Al-Asadī Muḥammad b. Sīrīn Sufyān Al-Thawrī ʿAbdullāh b. Al-Mubārak ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbbās
Bidʿah Ḥadīth Law Sunnah
Falsehood that leads to Falsehood [Al-Kalam, dialectical, speculative theology]
Not Even if You Have a Response
Risking your religion through Argumentation
We Take Our Religion from the Companions
Umar b. Abd Al-Aziz on the Way of the Believers


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Homeless veteran in Augusta: 'You can't find anything available'
Steven York, 59, stands on the Bread of Life Ministries Veterans Shelter on Wednesday. Before he was hospitalized, he had spent many of the previous 10 years, together with winters, in an RV with no warmth, electrical energy or working water. "I was homeless, didn't have a proper place to live for quite a while, over 10 years," the veteran mentioned. Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal
Steven York, 59, previously of Corinna and Dexter's space however has lived on the Bread of Life Ministries Veterans Home in Augusta since August and works 5 days every week Veterans Affairs Medical and Regional Office Center at Togus, simply exterior of Augusta.
He works as a warden in a coaching program designed to assist him find a job exterior of the veterans' facility.
York moved to the shelter after being discharged from the Veterans Hospital in Toguz, the place he had been handled for psychological well being points. He served in the military from 1989 to 1995.
Before he was hospitalized, he had spent many of the previous 10 years, together with winters, in an RV with no warmth, electrical energy or working water.
"I was homeless, didn't have a place to live for quite a while, over 10 years," York mentioned in an interview. "I hopped in and out of my brother's home, between there and the RV. And then I made a decision to remain in the camper."
To hold heat in the winter with out the warmth, "I just dressed as tightly as I could," although he stayed at his brother's home on the worst nights of winter, reminiscent of when a nasty storm blew up.
He mentioned he obtained a number of assist for his psychological well being on the VA and at Bread of Life.
But regardless of working 5 days every week, he nonetheless hasn't discovered his personal condominium. He want to find an appropriate condominium in the Augusta space to remain near the VA hospital. He's on a ready checklist to get a voucher to pay for his condominium, however with or with out a voucher, he mentioned there merely weren't any areas obtainable to hire.
"I've been looking (for my own apartment to rent) since I've been here," York mentioned. "You cannot find anything obtainable. It's not that it is too costly, there are simply too many individuals queuing."
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Criminal Quilts began with a commission from Shire Hall Gallery (now closed) in late 2012 to make new work inspired by their building. I chose to work with photographs of women criminals with their hands on their chests which were on display in the historic courtroom building which housed the gallery. The first series of six miniature quilts was purchased by the Shire Hall Gallery for the Staffordshire Museums collection and displayed in the Shire Hall until closure in 2017. Three are now on display in the Staffordshire Record Office. I have continued to make new pieces in this series since 2013 including Criminal Quilts: Hanging (made 2015) which won the Fine Art Quilt Masters competition at the Festival of Quilts 2016, and a number of small and large pieces which were shown in my solo exhibition Narrative Threads and in a number of other galleries.
In 2017 I received Arts Council funding to develop Criminal Quilts throughout 2017-18 with exhibitions, seminar and a publication. Find out more about this project here.
See below for more information about the research behind the work I created for Criminal Quilts 2012-2015. Original archive photographs are courtesy of Staffordshire Records Office.
Criminal Quilts: Hanging
Winner of the Fine Art Quilt Masters competition 2016.
This piece uses four layers of transparent cloth with a print of one of the original archive photographs behind. Naturally-dyed silk organza, hand embroidery, reverse appliqué and appliqué.
Criminal Quilts: Patchwork
Ruth Singer. Narrative Threads
Ruth Singer Narrative Threads
A series of seven small pieces exploring the possibilities of small quilt-like pieces, with a personal & domestic feel. Techniques include trapunto quilting, embroidery and digital print. These pieces were shown in the Textile Art Center, New York, 2013. Two were shown in the Leicester Open 26 exhibition from March 2015 and one in Cank Street Gallery, Leicester 2016.
Trapunto
Shire Hall Gallery Collection
This series of quilts are part of the permanent collection of Staffordshire Museums & Galleries and on display at the Shire Hall Gallery, outside the historic court room.
Background to the work
Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford, who were looking for work inspired by their building, an eighteenth century courtroom. When I visited the building, I found the images of criminals photographed with their hands on their chests completely fascinating. Their hands were photographed like this in case of any missing fingers, which would count as identifying marks. I chose to work with photographs of women as I found the details of their clothing so intriguing.I have used the motif of hands to create pieces exploring the layers of history embedded within the building and within the lives of the women shown in the photographs. Some of the pieces take the form of miniature quilts which refer back to the domestic lives of these women and reflect the clothing and fabrics they would have known and worn. Quilts are usually associated with comfort and security, which I imagine would have been lacking in the lives of these women, particularly during their time in prison. The muted colour palette I have chosen also links to the sepia-toned photographs as well as the structure of the building in wood, brick, stone and lead.
The commission process
The curator was interested in my Monumental Folly pieces and wanted to commission a piece inspired by the Shire Hall Gallery building. The gallery is based in converted 18th century court building with surviving panelled courtrooms, pastel-coloured plasterwork ceilings, holding cells and a whole range of interesting patterns, textures and shapes. Normally, details like this would lead my work. I love texture, pattern and detail like this. But when I visited the building, what really struck me – almost haunted me – were the Victorian mug shots of criminals, particularly those with their hands on their chests. I didn't exactly choose them, they chose me. I have used the motif of hands to create a collection exploring the layers of history embedded within the building and within the lives of the women shown in the photographs. Several of the pieces take the form of miniature quilts which refer back to the domestic lives of these women and I am very much influenced by the types of clothing and fabrics they might have known during their life times.
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Veronica Aldous
I really love this installation, wish I could have seen it x
Much of the work will be shown at Festival of Quilts 2018 and in subsequent exhibitions into 2019 hopefully.
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Helen Cowley
Recently saw the exhibition at the Brewhouse, Burton having read about it in Today's Quilter. I found it very moving, extremely interesting, fascinating to see the photographs of ordinary women who committed crimes mostly quite petty due to poverty.
Looking forward to the talk on October 23.
Maggie Malone
These are amazing. I am wondering do you give talks I am one of the programme planners for Romsey Quilters in Hampshire.


Ecuador confident of a berth in World Cup
Quito (Ecuador): Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said he is confident the national football team will succeed in qualifying automatically for the 2014 Brazil World Cup.Ecuador play Chile Tuesday in the final day of the South
IANS Updated on: October 15, 2013 13:19 IST
Quito (Ecuador): Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said he is confident the national football team will succeed in qualifying automatically for the 2014 Brazil World Cup.
Ecuador play Chile Tuesday in the final day of the South American Qualifying Tournament, reports Xinhua.
"Tomorrow last try in Chile," Correa said via Twitter. "It's almost impossible to be left out" of football's top competition.
Using the team's nickname, Correa said he was "still happy about the Tri's victory" last Friday, when it defeated Uruguay 1-0, putting the team just one point shy of qualifying automatically for Brazil.
By beating Uruguay, Ecuador held on to fourth place in the regional tournament, behind Argentina, Colombia and Chile. The top four teams advance directly to the World Cup, while the fifth must go to playoffs.
Ecuador heads into its away match against Chile, in Santiago, with 25 points and a goal tally of Ƴ.
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Climate Change Brings Geopolitical Complications for Australia
By Christopher Ryan
Recent catastrophic fires have made all too apparent the risks Australia faces due to global warming, exacerbated by a lack of coordinated Australian state and federal policy. Australia's vulnerability to climate change is also aggravated by its geography. Australia is surrounded by developing countries such as Timor-Leste that do not have the resources, skills, knowledge, and infrastructure to mitigate the impacts of climate change in the coming decades.
The impacts from climate change on developing countries include water and food insecurity, as well as the destruction of homes and livelihoods in catastrophic events. This leads to the potential for environmental refugees and internally displaced people as recently witnessed in Australia and Australia's Pacific neighbors, like Kiribati. To contain regional security threats from climate change will require a budget shift away from Australia's traditional defense resources in order to manage its national, regional, and global responsibilities, as we have witnessed in the recent Australian wildfires.
When climate activism and nationalism collide
Kemal Derviş
There is an overwhelming consensus among scientists that this decade will be the last window for humanity to change the current global trajectory of carbon dioxide emissions so that the world can get close to zero net emissions by around 2050, and thus avoid potentially catastrophic climate risks. But although the massive technological and economic changes required to achieve this goal are well understood, their political implications are rarely discussed.
While climate activists have built an impressive international movement, broadening their political support and crossing borders, the nationalist narrative has been gaining ground in domestic politics around the world. Its central message—that the world consists of nation-states in relentless competition with one another—stands in sharp contrast to the climate movement's "one planet" emphasis on human solidarity. And these two trends are on a collision course.
Although greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions do not respect political borders, and climate change affects all parts of the planet, the impact of global warming is decidedly not uniform. An average global temperature increase of 2°C will create extreme heat stress in India and Africa. Similarly, although rising sea levels will threaten lower-lying areas around the world, and more extreme weather events will affect almost everyone, already poor and vulnerable populations are especially at risk. Another inherently international aspect of the problem is carbon leakage as a result of trade. While GHGs are emitted in one country by the production of, say, steel, it is the use of that steel in importing countries that "causes" the emissions in the exporting country.
Adapt or Perish
By Alice Hill and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
Ever since climate change became a concern for policymakers and laypeople alike, the focus of public debate has largely been on mitigation: limiting greenhouse gas emissions, capturing carbon, and transitioning to renewable energy. Those efforts must continue if we hope to keep the planet hospitable. But it is also time to acknowledge that—no matter what we do—some measure of climate change is here to stay. The phenomenon has already affected the U.S. economy, U.S. national security, and human health. Such costs will only grow over time. The United States must build resilience and overhaul key systems, including those governing infrastructure, the use of climate data, and finance.
Otherwise, the blow to the U.S. economy will be staggering. Assuming that current trends continue, coastal damage, increased spending on electricity, and lost productivity due to climate-related illness are projected to consume an estimated $500 billion per year by the time a child born today has settled into retirement. Other estimates suggest that the U.S. economy will lose about 1.2 percent of GDP per year for every degree Celsius of warming, effectively halving the country's annual growth.
Good news for climate change: India gets out of coal and into renewable energy
By Tim Buckley
In the often grim world of climate reporting, there is at least one upbeat story: India has been aggressively pivoting away from coal-fired power plants and towards electricity generated by solar, wind, and hydroelectric power. This means that the amount of carbon dioxide the country emits into the atmosphere should come down dramatically.
The reasons for this change are complex and interlocking, but one aspect in particular seems to stand out: The price for solar electricity has been in freefall, to levels so low they were once thought impossible. For example, since 2017, one solar energy company has been generating electricity in the Indian state of Rajasthan at the unheard-of, guaranteed wholesale price of 2.44 rupees per kilowatt-hour, or 3 US cents. (In comparison, the average price for electricity in the United States is presently about 13.19 cents per kilowatt-hour, and some locations in the country pay far more. As recently as 2008, the average homeowner on Block Island, Rhode Island, paid a staggering 61 cents per kilowatt-hour for electricity, before any other fees or charges—which can nearly double the price. And businesses had it even worse, with some business owners reporting electric bills of as much as $30,000 per month.)
Empty Gestures on Climate Change
BJØRN LOMBORG
MALMÖ – Switch to energy-efficient light bulbs, wash your clothes in cold water, eat less meat, recycle more, and buy an electric car: we are being bombarded with instructions from climate campaigners, environmentalists, and the media about the everyday steps we all must take to tackle climate change. Unfortunately, these appeals trivialize the challenge of global warming, and divert our attention from the huge technological and policy changes that are needed to combat it.
If artificial intelligence and other labor-saving technologies come anywhere close to fulfilling the promises of today's techno-utopians and pessimists, we will have to rethink our most basic assumptions about human nature and the good life. We should welcome the challenge as an unprecedented opportunity.7Add to Bookmarks
For example, the British nature-documentary presenter and environmental campaigner David Attenborough was once asked what he as an individual would do to fight climate change. He promised to unplug his phone charger when it was not in use.
Why U.N. Climate Talks in Madrid Were a Massive Failure
Sagatom Saha
The annual United Nations Climate Change Conference wrapped up Sunday in Madrid, after nearly two weeks of wrangling. Despite a two-day extension that made this the longest round of U.N. climate talks ever, the meeting was a massive failure. Instead of setting more ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, negotiators went home mostly empty-handed, having punted the most difficult climate-related questions to next year's conference in Glasgow, Scotland.
"The international community lost an important opportunity to show increased ambition on mitigation, adaptation & finance to tackle the climate crisis," U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres declared in a tweet Sunday. The disappointing result was largely due to the unwillingness of the world's largest economies to commit to deeper emissions cuts and hammer out a promised international carbon trading scheme. Meanwhile, warnings from climate scientists are only becoming more dire. According to the latest U.N. assessment, even if countries fulfill their current pledges to reduce emissions, the world is on track to warm by 3 degrees Celsius by the end of the century—a potentially catastrophic result. ...
Climate Security is National Security
By Joanna Rozpedowski
Between 2008-2012 over 144 million people were displaced by a sudden onset of disasters in more than 122 countries, a number far greater than the number of refugees and internally displaced by conflict and persecution during the same period. Unpredictable climate-related calamities and the associated socio-economic costs test our current legal frameworks and put significant stress on existing capacities of states.
Internal government reviews, climate and security conferences, and domestic security reports have increasingly focused on the strategic challenges posed by global climate change. The proliferation of studies suggests that 'the projected climate change is a threat multiplier in already fragile regions, exacerbating conditions that lead to failed states — the breeding ground for extremism and terrorism.' An overlapping consensus among scholars and policymakers holds that climate-induced crises in the next two to three decades have the potential of aggravating already brittle relations between Sub-Saharan African, the Middle Eastern, and South and Southeast Asian states, destabilizing regions, toppling governments, and issuing in mass migrations, widespread pandemics, and food scarcity.
The University of Toronto's Project on Environment, Population, and Security forecasts that environmental change will significantly stress or reduce the supply of vital natural resources, such as freshwater, cropland, forests, fisheries, leading to environmental scarcity and increased probability of conflict. The United Nations Climate Reports have consistently predicted that increased occurrence of droughts, rising sea levels, and flooding will pose significant challenges to national stability, exacerbating global economic vulnerabilities and political instabilities, which may result in internal civil and political unrest. Similarly, a quantitative study conducted by the State Failure Task Force assembled at the request of U.S. policymakers to identify factors associated with serious internal crises, concluded that massive environmental damage provoked by general patterns of global climate change could directly contribute to political collapse and destabilization. Analyses conducted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Swiss Peace Institute have echoed those concerns.
U.N. Climate Talks End With Few Commitments and a 'Lost' Opportunity
By Somini Sengupta
In what was widely denounced as one of the worst outcomes in a quarter-century of climate negotiations, United Nations talks ended early Sunday morning with the United States and other big polluters blocking even a nonbinding measure that would have encouraged countries to adopt more ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions next year.
Because the United States is withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, it was the last chance, at least for some time, for American delegates to sit at the negotiating table at the annual talks — and perhaps a turning point in global climate negotiations, given the influence that Washington has long wielded, for better or worse, in the discussions.
The Trump administration used the meeting to push back on a range of proposals, including a mechanism to compensate developing countries for losses that were the result of more intense storms, droughts, rising seas and other effects of global warming.
The annual negotiations, held in Madrid this year, demonstrated the vast gaps between what scientists say the world needs and what the world's most powerful leaders are prepared to even discuss, let alone do.
What on Earth Is Going On?
Climate Change And Financial Risk
by Pierpaolo Grippa, Jochen Schmittmann, and Felix Suntheim
Climate change is already a reality. Ever-more-ferocious cyclones and extended droughts lead to the destruction of infrastructure and the disruption of livelihoods and contribute to mass migration. Actions to combat rising temperatures, inadequate though they may have been so far, have the potential to drive dislocation in the business world as fossil fuel giants awaken to the need for renewable sources of energy and automakers accelerate investments in cleaner vehicles.
But measuring the economic costs of climate change remains a work in progress. We can assess the immediate costs of changing weather patterns and more frequent and intense natural disasters, but most of the potential costs lie beyond the horizon of the typical economic analysis. The economic impact of climate change will likely accelerate, though not smoothly. Crucially for the coming generations, the extent of the damage will depend on the policy choices that we make today.
U.S. Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due to Climate Change, Report Commissioned By Pentagon Says
By Nafeez Ahmed
According to a new U.S. Army report, Americans could face a horrifically grim future from climate change involving blackouts, disease, thirst, starvation and war. The study found that the US military itself might also collapse. This could all happen over the next two decades, the report notes.
The senior US government officials who wrote the report are from several key agencies including the Army, Defense Intelligence Agency, and NASA. The study called on the Pentagon to urgently prepare for the possibility that domestic power, water, and food systems might collapse due to the impacts of climate change as we near mid-century.
The report was commissioned by General Mark Milley, Trump's new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, making him the highest-ranking military officer in the country (the report also puts him at odds with Trump, who does not take climate change seriously.)
The report, titled Implications of Climate Change for the U.S. Army, was launched by the U.S. Army War College in partnership with NASA in May at the Wilson Center in Washington DC. The report was commissioned by Gen. Milley during his previous role as the Army's Chief of Staff. It was made publicly available in August via the Center for Climate and Security, but didn't get a lot of attention at the time.
Cow Aren't Killing the Planet: The Questionable Link Between Meat and Climate Change
by Frank M. Mitloehner
As the scale and impacts of climate change become increasingly alarming, meat is a popular target for action. Advocates urge the public to eat less meat to save the environment. Some activists have called for taxing meat to reduce consumption of it.
A key claim underlying these arguments holds that globally, meat production generates more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector. However, this claim is demonstrably wrong, as I will show. And its persistence has led to false assumptions about the linkage between meat and climate change.
My research focuses on ways in which animal agriculture affects air quality and climate change. In my view, there are many reasons for either choosing animal protein or opting for a vegetarian selection. However, foregoing meat and meat products is not the environmental panacea many would have us believe. And if taken to an extreme, it also could have harmful nutritional consequences.
Setting the record straight on meat and greenhouse gases
New report finds costs of climate change impacts often underestimated
By Dana Nuccitelli
Flooding in Port Arthur, Texas during Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
Climate economics researchers have often underestimated – sometimes badly underestimated – the costs of damages resulting from climate change. Those underestimates occur particularly in scenarios where Earth's temperature warms beyond the Paris climate target of 1.5 to 2 degrees C (2.7 to 3.6 degrees F).
That's the conclusion of a new report written by a team of climate and Earth scientists and economists from the Earth Institute at Columbia University, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. It's a conclusion consistent with the findings of numerous recent climate economics studies.
Once temperatures warm beyond those Paris targets, the risks of triggering unprecedented climate damages grow. However, because the rate and magnitude of climate change has entered uncharted territory in human history, the temperature thresholds and severity of future climate impacts remain highly uncertain, and thus difficult to capture in climate economics models. Put simply, it's difficult to project the economic impacts resulting from circumstances which are themselves unprecedented.
The world needs a grand coalition to tackle climate change
Fatih Birol
More than 40 years after the International Energy Agency (IEA) published the first edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO), the report's overarching aim remains the same – to deepen our understanding of the future of energy. It does so by examining the opportunities and risks that lie ahead, and the consequences of different courses of action or inaction. The WEO analyses the choices that will shape our energy use, our environment and our wellbeing. It is not, and has never been, a forecast of where the energy world will end up.
This year brings many changes. I would like to highlight two in particular. First, we have renamed the 'new policies scenario' as the 'stated policies scenario', making more explicit our intention to hold up a mirror to the plans and ambitions announced by policy-makers without trying to anticipate how those plans might change in future.
Second, the sustainable development scenario – which provides a strategic pathway to meet global climate, air quality and energy access goals in full – has been extended to 2050 and set out in greater detail. This delivers sharper insights into what is required for the world to move in this direction.
Climate Change Is also a Health Crisis
MARIA NEIRA
GENEVA – The climate crisis is also a health crisis. The same emissions that cause global warming are also largely responsible for polluting the air we breathe, causing heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, and infections, and affecting every organ in our bodies. Air pollution is the new tobacco, causing as many deaths as cigarettes do. And though it threatens us all, children, the elderly, pregnant women, and adults with weakened immune systems are the most at risk.
Today, too many politicians offer facile answers, mutually incompatible promises, and a return to purportedly simple and exclusive identities. Instead, the world's democracies need leaders who are able to counter the populist narrative in three main areas.3Add to Bookmarks
It is now common knowledge that smoking tobacco severely harms you and those around you. That is why the tobacco industry's lobbying and advertising campaigns have been strictly regulated around the world. Globally, we have taken steps to safeguard existing health policies, and to force these companies to tell the truth: that their product kills.
'Bleak' U.N. Report on a Planet in Peril Looms Over New Climate Talk
With world leaders gathering in Madrid next week for their annual bargaining session over how to avert a climate catastrophe, the latest assessment issued by the United Nations said Tuesday that greenhouse gas emissions are still rising dangerously.
"The summary findings are bleak," said the annual assessment, which is produced by the United Nations Environment Program and is formally known as the Emissions Gap Report. Countries have failed to halt the rise of greenhouse gas emissions despite repeated warnings from scientists, with China and the United States, the two biggest polluters, further increasing their emissions last year.
The result, the authors added, is that "deeper and faster cuts are now required."
As if to underscore the gap between reality and diplomacy, the international climate negotiations, scheduled to begin next week, are not even designed to ramp up pledges by world leaders to cut their countries' emissions. That deadline is still a year away.
Climate Change and South Asia's Pending Food Crisis
By Rabiya Jaffery
Are South Asian governments adapting to climate change's impact on agriculture in the region?
Experts predict that ensuring food security for South Asia's expanding population will be one of the chief problems the subregion faces in the coming years. Countries of the region will need to place addressing food insecurity among their top policy agendas to ensure stability.
South Asia is currently home to nearly 1.8 billion people — the majority living in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh — and has been the fastest growing region for the past five years.The UN estimates that the population of the region will grow by 40 percent by 2050.
"The growing population will demand a higher supply of secure food, water, housing, and energy to maintain stability," says George Stacey, an analyst working with Norvergence, an environmental advocacy NGO. "This is why countries in the region need to ensure they have the policies in place to adapt to the increasing number of people living there in coming years."
And Stacey, among other climate experts, says that the challenge to secure food for South Asia's growing population is exacerbated by the threats of climate change.
The International Politics of Energy and Resource Extraction
Despite concerns over the environmental impact of industrial mining and the contribution that fossil fuels make to global warming, resource extraction continues to be a major source of revenue for both developing countries and wealthier nations alike. In fact, new data show that the amount of resources being pulled from the earth has tripled since 1970, though the global population has only doubled in that time.
Amid global efforts to reduce carbon emissions as part of climate change diplomacy, fossil fuels remain among the most prized extractives, for a simple reason: Global demand combined with the wealth they generate continues to give some countries, including members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, outsized global influence.
Redefining the power industry
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The demands of a changing climate are starting to affect how many businesses operate, from attempting to tamp down their carbon emissions and ramp up energy efficiency, to adjusting to new risks caused by violent weather. Electric utility companies in the United States are no exception.
Here, we offer four quick takes on the changes in store for the power industry. In the first two, we size up the rising peril to utility assets and show how one US state is aspiring to meet new, tough clean-power mandates. Then we look at the potential of residential batteries and how they might buttress the industry's stressed-out grids.
Finally, we tap the ideas of one expert who warns that climate change may be shifting the economics of long-term infrastructure investment. Power suppliers and many other businesses will need to be much more resilient in this changing environment.
The Uneven Global Response to Climate Change
Recently published climate science ultimately underscores the same points: The impacts of climate change are advancing faster than experts had previously predicted, and they are increasingly irreversible. The latest blockbuster report, from a United Nations grouping of biodiversity experts in early May, found that 1 million species are now in danger of extinction unless dramatic changes are made to everything from fuel sources to agricultural production. Despite these warnings, however, scientists confirm that the world remains on pace to blow past the goal of restricting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, likely with catastrophic consequences.
Persistent climate skepticism from key global figures, motivated in part by national economic interests, is slowing diplomatic efforts to systematically address the drivers of climate change. In particular, U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement immediately undermined the pact but has also had long-term implications. Countries like Russia and Saudi Arabia, who were never eager to participate in the first place, now have cover to back away from their commitments.
How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong
By Eugene Linden
For decades, most scientists saw climate change as a distant prospect. We now know that thinking was wrong. This summer, for instance, a heat wave in Europe penetrated the Arctic, pushing temperatures into the 80s across much of the Far North and, according to the Belgian climate scientist Xavier Fettweis, melting some 40 billion tons of Greenland's ice sheet.
Had a scientist in the early 1990s suggested that within 25 years a single heat wave would measurably raise sea levels, at an estimated two one-hundredths of an inch, bake the Arctic and produce Sahara-like temperatures in Paris and Berlin, the prediction would have been dismissed as alarmist. But many worst-case scenarios from that time are now realities.
Science is a process of discovery. It can move slowly as the pieces of a puzzle fall together and scientists refine their investigative tools. But in the case of climate, this deliberation has been accompanied by inertia born of bureaucratic caution and politics. A recent essay in Scientific American argued that scientists "tend to underestimate the severity of threats and the rapidity with which they might unfold" and said one of the reasons was "the perceived need for consensus." This has had severe consequences, diluting what should have been a sense of urgency and vastly understating the looming costs of adaptation and dislocation as the planet continues to warm.


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DOLE invited to city's labor measure hearing
Jean Marvette A. Demecillo/JMD (The Freeman) - August 22, 2014 - 12:00am
CEBU, Philippines - Cebu City Council has invited the Department of Labor and Employment-7 to a public hearing to know the legal basis of the proposed ordinance obliging all project contractors to include unskilled or semi-skilled employees in their work force.
The measure of City Councilor Alvin Dizon seeks to require private contractors and/or subcontractors to whom public works projects have been awarded to hire at least 20 percent of unskilled/semi-skilled labor and at least 10 percent of the skilled labor requirements for every project to be taken from the available bona fide qualified residents in the barangay wherein the projects are to be undertaken.
The council has also invited private contractors and other concerned parties during the public hearing set on September 17.
Dizon, council committee vice chairman on labor and employment, said the proposed measure would increase employment opportunities among residents in the city.
"Unemployment remains to be one of the critical challenges of the country and local government must strive to help lower unemployment rates in their respective areas because when people have jobs, they have the means to live better lives," he said.
He cited the National Statistics Office report stating that unemployment in Central Visayas significantly decreased by 1.6 percent as of December 2013 but underemployment in the region increased from 12.2 percent to 13.6 percent.
He also cited the Regional Economic Situationer of the National Economic Development Authority-7 that said construction industry in Cebu is "booming" since 2011, with "over 30 planned medium-and high-rise buildings set to be built between 2011 to 2015.
"In 2013, the country's construction sector posted an all-time high performance with Cebu identified as one of the highest performers and as per NEDA data, around 4,891 new construction projects were approved in the first semester of 2013 valued at P7.83 billion, and the construction boom is expected until 2020," he said.
Dizon has proposed a penalty of non-approval of building permit application by the city Office of the Building Official. (FREEMAN)
CEBU CEBU CITY COUNCIL CENTRAL VISAYAS CITY COUNCILOR ALVIN DIZON DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT DIZON NATIONAL STATISTICS OFFICE OFFICE OF THE BUILDING OFFICIAL REGIONAL ECONOMIC SITUATIONER OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
Over 6 thousands farmers in Central Visayas get cash, food aid
The Department of Agriculture-7 has started distributing cash and food subsidies to 6,048 farmers in Central Visayas.


Stories from Thursday, September 17, 2009
It's offical: Baldwin's a Hog (High School Sports ~ 09/17/09)
Daniel Baldwin, Arkansas Razorback. I don't know about you, but just saying or hearing it gives me goosebumps. But then, I am a sports guy and I can't expect everyone to get as fired-up about it as I am. ...
Mohawk tennis sweeps CRA (High School Sports ~ 09/17/09)
The Piggott Mohawk tennis teams swept Crowley's Ridge Academy recently in a set played at Jonesboro. With the win the girl's team improved to 2-0-1 overall, while the two-man boy's team remains unbeaten at 3-0...
Junior, seventh grade Mohawks roll over Bobkittens (High School Sports ~ 09/17/09)
A huge crowd filled Piggott's Parker Field last Thursday afternoon and evening, as the Mohawk junior and seventh grade teams began their 2009 campaigns with wins over Corning. The seventh grade squad built on last year's unbeaten season with a 22-8 wins in their contest, while the junior Mohawks racked-up all their scoring in the first half as they cruised to a 32-0 win...
Lady Mohawks making strides (High School Sports ~ 09/17/09)
The Piggott Lady Mohawk volleyball teams continue to show improvement as the season progresses, and last week the senior squad showed a lot of character as they battled back from a deficit to beat Harrisburg at home. ...
Mohawks fall to Tigers at home (High School Sports ~ 09/17/09)
Team speed was the difference in the ballgame Friday night, as the Piggott Mohawks dropped their home opener to the Caruthersville Tigers at Parker Field. Although the Tribe had more total offense on the night, the speedy Tigers took advantage of several big plays to notch the 34-14 non-conference win...
It happened here, years ago (Column ~ 09/17/09)
1969 Donna Vester of Corning was named Miss Clay County for 1969; local girls among the alternates were Rhonda Wiley, Jill Litzelfelner and Melinda Hampton. Meanwhile, the grand champion Angus heifer and bull were from Haley Angus Farm and Dick Haley and daughter Diana were pictured; while the Hereford grand champs were from the Aubrey Vangilder Ranch and he was pictured with his twin grandsons Keith and Calvin Evans.. ...
My medicine chest (Column ~ 09/17/09)
My medicine cabinet resembles the Wal-mart pharmacy. If my doctor adds one more pill to my already bulging list, I may have to take a college course in the Logistics of Pill Taking, with a minor in pharmaceutical medicine chest...
Josephine "Joy" (Hatch) Kunnath (Obituary ~ 09/17/09)
Josephine "Joy" (Hatch) Kunnath, 78, of Overland Park, Kans., passed away peacefully at 8:25 a.m. Monday, Sept. 7, 2009, in Overland Park. She was born on April 6, 1931, in Omaha, Neb. Joy graduated from South High School in 1947. Soon after, her love for nursing began and she volunteered as a Candy Striper after school and on weekends...
Juanita Fern Moffitt (Obituary ~ 09/17/09)
Juanita Fern Moffitt, 75, of Piggott, passed away Friday, Sept. 11, 2009, at St. Bernards Regional Medical Center in Jonesboro. She was born May 1, 1934, and was the daughter of the late Walter Pricey and Mollie (Claycomb) Pruett. She also was preceded in death by her brother, Raymond "Sonny" Pruett...
Opal Inis Coburn (Obituary ~ 09/17/09)
Opal Inis Coburn, 92, of Piggott, passed away Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009, in Piggott. She was born Aug. 10, 1917, in Piggott, and was the daughter of the late Walter Lee and Mattie Pearl (Johnson) Thompson. She was united in marriage to Arthur Rogers on Feb. 18, 1939, and he preceded her in death in February of 1955. She married James Richard Coburn on Aug. 1, 1965. He also preceded her in death in 1981...
Cooper retires after long career (Local News ~ 09/17/09)
After 26 years of teaching, all at Piggott Elementary School, Mrs. V'Ora Cooper, affectionately known as Mrs. Vee, retired this past spring from the job she absolutely adored. "I loved every day of it," noted Mrs. Vee. "I got there early and left late. I tried my best to teach them life skills and good manners as well as academics."...
Hemingway-Pfeiffer museum donates copy of John Hemingway book to library (Local News ~ 09/17/09)
Keeping with a tradition that began in 2003, the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center donated a book to the Piggott Public Library last week. The museum donates a book to the library each year in remembrance of the birthdays of Ernest Hemingway and Pauline Pfeiffer, and in tribute to her parents, Paul and Mary Pfeiffer...
Piggott P.D. gets new bulletproof vests (Local News ~ 09/17/09)
Working in the field of law enforcement, the members of the Piggott Police Department remain a mere moment from finding themselves in harm's way. Though small communities such as Piggott often take pride in not having the level of crime found in larger cities, the danger faced by the PPD is very real. Last week, the department took an important stride in protecting its officers with the purchase of new bulletproof vests...
It's Clay County Fair week in Piggott (Local News ~ 09/17/09)
Friday evening the 2009 Clay County Fair officially began with the annual talent show at the Piggott Community Center. The activities in the eight-day run of the event then continued Saturday with Youth Day, an antique tractor pull and the various pageants. ...
Where has all the civility gone? (Column ~ 09/17/09)
We've got to believe even the most vehement opponents of President Obama, if attempting to be objective, would have to agree his recent health care reform address to Congress was presented in a moderate and reasonable manner...
Cougars looking ahead after difficult defeat (High School Sports ~ 09/17/09)
Friday night's game with Augusta is one the Rector players and coaches are hoping to leave in the past. After beginning play with two strong showings, including a preseason win over Corning and nearly pulling out a victory over Manila in the regular season opener, the Cougars were dealt a mighty blow at home last week, falling to the visiting Red Devils, 42-6...
Marmaduke council enforcing clean-up (Local News ~ 09/17/09)
Property matters remain a key discussion for the Marmaduke City Council. While most of the town's residences have been restored and cleaned since the April 2006 tornado, there are still some properties which do not meet city code...
Clay County Fair now underway (Local News ~ 09/17/09)
Friday evening the 2009 Clay County Fair officially began with the annual talent show at the Piggott Community Center. The activities in the eight-day run of the event then continued Saturday with Youth Day, an antique tractor pull and the various pageants. Despite a rainy forecast, the fair schedule continues this week and will wrap-up Saturday evening with a demolition derby...
Kindergarten a vital time in the lives of students (Local News ~ 09/17/09)
For many children, kindergarten is the first gateway to the world outside their families. As such, this stage of the education process is a vital time in the lives of young students...
RPD purchases new bulletproof vests (Local News ~ 09/17/09)
Working in the field of law enforcement, the members of the Rector Police Department remain a mere moment from finding themselves in harm's way. Though small communities such as Rector often take pride in not having the level of crime found in larger cities, the danger faced by the RPD is very real...
Rector students participate in Clay County Fair events (Local News ~ 09/17/09)
The students of the Rector School District will have a strong presence in the 2009 Clay County Fair. RHS senior Harmony Cagle got things off to a strong start, as she was chosen as the overall winner of the talent show held earlier this week. Cagle, the daughter of David and Karen Cagle of Rector, wowed the crowd with her dance routine...
Young buffalo sighted in Rector (Local News ~ 09/17/09)
Unbeknownst to many local residents, Rector has been home to one of the most important icons of the untamed western frontier. For the last 15 years, Darrel Dale has kept young buffalo in the field beside his and wife Shelia's Susan Circle home...
Mrs. Clay County crowned (Local News ~ 09/17/09)
Sherri Douglas of Rector (center) was crowned Mrs. Clay County for 2009 Saturday night and was named Miss Congeniality as well. She is the wife of Jeff Douglas. First alternate was Amber Minton of Piggott (second from left), the wife of Mark Minton; second alternate was Lana Mansfield of Pollard (second from right), the wife of Jeff Mansfield; third alternate was Shirley Greer of Piggott (far left), the wife of John Greer and fourth alternate was Brittany McClung of Rector (far right), the wife of Matt McClung.. ...


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[S-IT22] [EE] Interaction and Coevolution of the Core and Mantle in the Earth and Planets
[SIT22-P45] Experimental investigation into the cause of a high attenuation zone of the lunar seismic waves: A possible partialy molten layer at the lowest lunar mantle
Mako Igarashi1, Yuki Shibazaki2, Rei Shiraishi1, Tatsuya Sakamaki1, *Akio Suzuki1 (1.Department of Earth and Planetary Materials Science, Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, 2.Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University)
Keywords:core-mantle boundary, low-velocity zone, partial melt
Existence of a partially molten layer at the lunar core mantle boundary is suggested by recent seismic studies. It is important to study experimentally the chemical and physical condition at the boundary. However, the chemical compositions of the lunar mantle are still poorly understood. There is a long-standing hypothesis that dense Ti-rich cumulate minerals were crystallized from the lunar magma ocean at shallow depth (~100 km) at the final stage of the lunar formation history. Furthermore, those minerals subsequently sank deep into the moon because of gravitational instability. Convective mixing of the late and early cumulates could result in a hybrid lunar mantle.
In this study, high temperature (1200 - 1500°C) and high pressure (4 - 5 GPa) experiments are conducted to investigate the solidus of the lunar lowermost mantle which could be composed of the mixture of the late and early cumulates. The composition of the late cumulate suggested by Elkins-Tanton et al. (2011) was selected in this study. The solidus temperatures were determined to 1225 ± 10°C at 4 GPa and to 1275 ± 25°C at 5 GPa, defining a slope for the solidus of 5 °C/ kbar. Based on the solidus temperatures determined in this study, melting temperature at lunar core- mantle boundary (approximately 4 - 5 GPa) can be extrapolated as 1225-1275 °C, which is also lower than previous studies (e.g. Van Orman and Grove, 2000; Thacker et al., 2009).
Because the lower limit temperature at lunar core-mantle boundary (e.g. Flourish and Nakamura, 2009), which was estimated by terrestrial heat flow and seismic studies, has been reported to be higher than the solidus of the later cumulates determined in this study. Therefore, later cumulate could be a strong candidate for component of partial molten layer at lunar core- mantle boundary.
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Indesit Introduces Chore Club To Encourage Housework Sharing
Aug 18, 2020|Indesit
Major appliance manufacturer, Indesit has introduced a Chore Club to encourage families to involve children in the household chores through light-hearted learning activities, as part of the brand's wider #DoItTogether campaign. The #DoItTogether campaign continues to focus on the gender imbalance of sharing the domestic duties, as 85 per cent of women claimed to be solely responsible for delegating household chores*, and aims to encourage families to think about how to share the chores fairly.
The Indesit Chore Club kicked off on 1st August 2020 and is designed to turn everyday chores into enjoyable and interesting ways to educate children. Throughout August, Indesit will be sharing a range of fun activities on social media that encourage children to get involved in household chores. The activities include recipes that involve mathematical equations and learning Spanish while unloading the dishwasher. Indesit's easy-to-use, family-friendly appliances play a starring role in making housework easier, as families try to balance busy lives with the ever increasing demands of the home.
In 2019, Indesit conducted a survey to learn more about family life, how chores are delegated and why parents chose to involve their children in the housework. A key objective of the #DoItTogether campaign is to encourage parents to educate their children on the importance of sharing chores and improving the gender balance for the next generation. The study revealed the main reason for involving children in housework was to make them feel more responsible, which was closely followed by teaching the children the importance of independence*.
Easy-to use appliances from Indesit include the Aria built-in range of ovens that boast the family-friendly Turn&Cook feature and its Innex range of washing machines that benefit from Push&Wash, a one-button system that commences a dedicated programme with the simple push of a button, making the chore of doing the laundry a simpler, faster and fuss-free operation.
Sara Bazeley, Brand Manager, Indesit, says: "Involving children in the housework is important for future generations and the Chore Club activities are a fun way of encouraging children to participate. We hope families have fun with the Chore Club and that the increased exposure of the important role appliances have in completing the household chores inspires consumers to invest in the latest appliance technology that can save them precious time and resources."
For further information on easy-to use appliances from Indesit, please visit the website at www.indesit.co.uk
*The online survey using a structured questionnaire was carried out between 27th April and 8th May 2019. A representative sample of the population was defined as follows:
2000 adults, 100 per cent parents, aged between 20-64 in the UK
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The Indesit Chore Club is designed to turn everyday chores into fun ways to teach children everyday lessons
Indesit manufactures intuitive, straightforward appliances that allow all members of the family to get great results with minimal effort
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Indesit is part of Whirlpool UK Appliances Limited. Reliability, practical and user-friendly design are the cornerstones of Indesit's philosophy, which has seen the evolution and continued development of award winning appliances.
Whirlpool UK Appliances Limited is the only white goods manufacturer to operate its own independent service and logistics operations.
Whirlpool UK Appliances Limited is managed by Whirlpool EMEA, part of Whirlpool Corporation, the world's leading kitchen and laundry appliance company.
Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is the world's leading kitchen and laundry appliance company, with approximately $20 billion in annual sales, 77,000 employees and 59 manufacturing and technology research centers in 2019. The company markets Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Maytag, Consul, Brastemp, Amana, Bauknecht, JennAir, Indesit and other major brand names in nearly every country throughout the world. Additional information about the company can be found at whirlpoolcorp.com or find us on Twitter at @WhirlpoolCorp.
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