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The 2014 EPI builds on measures relevant to the goal of reducing environmental stresses to human health, which are grouped into one policy objective named environmental health. Environmental health scores are based on three constituent policy categories: health imp acts, air quality, and water and sanitation. All indicators and composite indices in the EPI are normalized as a 0-100 proximity-to-target score, with 100 representing "at target" and 0 being furthest from the target.
Canon 550D with EF-S 10-22mm/f3.5-4.5 set at 13mm. Night shot. ISO 400, f10.
Composite of two images at 30 and 15 second exposure to allow tree branches to be seen without washout of any of the church. Camera was tilted up at fairly large angle to capture the branches and top of steeple. This forced heavy perspective correction to normalize the image - left just a bit of distortion to keep it "normal" looking. Click on picture to see image with black background for full drama of the branches. Looks like a little bit of flare going on due to the flood light at far left of camera - that 10-22mm lens is very sensitive to flare.
Child life specialists work to normalize the hospital experience for their patients.
“The best part of our job is when kids come in and feel comfortable here, feel like doctors and nurses are their friends,” Ashley Kane, Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital Child Life manager said. “We hear kids who say 'I don't want to leave, I don't want to go home' because we're able to make the hospital a more comfortable place.”
Michigan Engineering graduate Frank Sedlar and PetaJakarta.org staffers participate in a "brown water rafting" down Ciliwung River in Jakarta, Indonesia.
They are documenting the consequences of the process of normalisasi ("normalization") that Jakarta government has been implementing along the banks of rivers that cut through Jakarta and empty into the nearby sea. The normalization policy turns heavily populated river banks in Jakarta, Indonesia into concrete and walled deserts after evicting local residents from the river banks.
For the next week we are following a Michigan Engineering graduate who helps map flooding in Jakarta using social media based data. Follow our blog at umjakarta.tumblr.com/
Photo by Marcin Szczepanski/Senior Multimedia Producer, University of Michigan, College of Engineering
Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy
Pharmaceutical strength contains 500mg of USP grade Natural Progesterone per ounce.
•Relieves Hot Flashes and Night Sweats
•Normalizes Estrogen Dominance
•Anti Aging
•Enhances Weight Loss
•Prevents Bone Loss and Lowers the Risk of Osteoporosis
Firefighters from Camps Long and Eagle extract an accident victim during Emergency Medical Technicians-Basic training recently.
U.S. Army photo by Dathan Black
The Re-unification Sculpture located at the Tunnel Number 3 visitor center. The 3rd tunnel was discovered on October 17, 1978. It is located just 52km from Seoul. The USO offers frequent tours to the DMZ.
U.S. Army photo by Dan Thompson
The central idea of my final series is abstracted and unusual bodies. I want to normalize the differences in all of us. Taking photos of scars, piercings, freckles, hands in weird positions, the body in fluid motions, and things of that nature spoke to me because I have always been somewhat of a preacher of body confidence. The world has become a mean place as of late, and I wanted to try and bring some positivity and love back. I’ve always tried to be a positive person, and in doing this series, I wanted to show that no matter who you are or what you look like, you are by definition beautiful and unique.
The photos in my final series demonstrate the exploration of my concept because they all portray traditionally less beautiful, less often noticed parts of the human body. I wanted to photograph body parts that aren’t photographed as often, and I wanted to explore new angles and ideas.
The photo of the eye uses contrast and emphasis, as well as a unique angle to get a new perspective on the face.
The photo of the face with paint uses contrast in color and texture, and some unity with the color of the paint and the color of the hair. It warps the face, causing unique highlights and shadows.
The photo of the waist uses contrast in value and form to make the photo of an otherwise boring midsection a little bit different and unusual.
The photo of the shoulder uses extreme contrasts in value and light to highlight parts of the face that are typically not focused on. The body is in a weird, contorted position and uses light contrast and unity to highlight the way the body moves.
The photo of the silhouette uses light to weirdly shape the face and make it slightly unusual and unique. In all of the photos, I used light to emphasize the weirdness of the body and the way it can move. My main goal in the series was to draw more attention to and normalize the complexity and overall uniqueness of the body. Every person has a different body, that moves in different ways, and every body is insanely and unimaginably complex.
The 2022 EPI builds on measures relevant to the goal of mitigating climate change by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which are grouped into one policy objective category named climate change. Climate change scores are based on the climate change mitigation issue category. All indicators and composite indices in the EPI are normalized as a 0–100 proximity-to-target score, with 100 representing "at target" and 0 being furthest from the target.
Upon further reflection, the choice of picture on the cover seems odd to me. It is normalizing. The heels, the dress, the expression. “I am a domesticated, harmless woman who would never think of blowing up a plane.” It seems a marked difference in marketing strategy than the one I think an American publishing house would take—as in, for example, the case of OJ Simpson’s book, If I Did It. On that cover, the “if” appeared in tiny letters couched inside the giant “I”, such that a casual glance at the cover would read “I Did It.” On this side of the ocean, we play up the violent aspects of written criminals. We as consumers are not interested in their path to gods or peace or reform. We want to see the gears in their minds that turned as they committed, or allegedly committed, or even just plotted, their crimes.
Here, though, in its Japanese format, Kim Hyun Hee’s story appears as one of normalization. The visual message the book sends the consumer is one of reassurance. “She has changed.” “She would never do it again.” And, more broadly: “Even people enmeshed in plots like she was can reform and become upstanding citizens.” What I want to know is: Why? The publication date reads 1991. At this time, Aum Shinrikyo has not committed its gas attack upon the Tokyo subway system. 9/11 has not happened yet. The Cold War has just ended! Why did the publishers feel they had to reassure their public, instead of feed their desire for drama?
It must be a cultural difference. I am too young to know the cultural climate of the time in the United States, much less in Japan. Literarily speaking, at least from Murakami Haruki’s perspective at that time, what seems foremost in the minds of 1991 fictional Japanese characters seems to be the failed student riots of the 1960s. Those who lived during that time are now getting older and looking for some sort of meaning in their lives. Perhaps the publishers of Kim Hyun Hee’s book meant to reassure people looking back disdainfully to that time that if terrorists could be brought around to normality, surely those punk kids could. I do not know. This seems like too much of a shot in the dark to be anywhere near the truth.
Soldiers from 6-52 AMD Battalion and ROKA 510 ADA Battalion compete in a tug-of-war Aug. 24 during a cultural partnership day at Suwon Air Base. 6-52 AMD Battalion hosted members from the ROKA Special Warfare Training Group, 510 ADA Battalion and ROKAF 10th Fighter Wing as they participated in sports, ate food and shared each other’s company.
U.S. Army photo by 2nd Lt. Paul Yoon
Vietnamese Communist party secretary general Nguyen Phu Trong speaks during a meeting with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House, on Tuesday, July 7, 2015, in Washington. Trong is the de facto leader of Vietnam despite holding no official government post, and is visiting Washington to boost ties 20 years after the U.S. and Vietnam normalized relations following the Vietnam War. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
The Normalizing Machine aims to identify and analyze the image of social normalcy. Facing the camera, each participant is asked to point out who looks “more normal” from a line-up of previously recorded participants.
Credit: tom mesic
I need to start this by sharing that I recently listened to an opinion piece about the lasting legacy of Green Day, and the narrator introduced Green Day as "…that band your parents listen to…" and now I feel old.
But anyway.
In a time freshly torn apart by terrorism, war, and politics, Green Day wrote a concept album that encapsulated that early-2000s era turmoil. We’ve somehow normalized the upheaval in the last two decades, but that shaky ground was unfamiliar in the period following 9/11, and that period is right where the American Idiot album transports me every time. I was just entering adulthood and concerned for the world I was inheriting.
The musical follows the paths of three men as they try to navigate the new world and contains the music from the album as well as other Green Day songs—each performance ending with “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” at the curtain call.
I don’t really know the story behind how this angsty concept album made its way to Broadway, but I’m just glad this stage musical exists.
About the Ornament
I wanted this ornament to look weathered but still beautiful, or maybe beautiful because of what it had weathered. I decided on oxidized metal. I used a tiny, tiny bit of gum arabic powder to help create some texture in places. Over the gum arabic, I lightly distributed some gold mica powder, as well as the gold/green/red powder that I initially used for a Hadestown ornament. Then I added silver mica to coat the rest of the ornament. FORTUNATELY, I was adding the silver conservatively because I remembered almost too late that I have a mica powder actually called Green Day—I do love a theme. Since my silver coverage was still light in places, I was able to add the new powder so that it just peeks through if it catches the light just right.
The playbill art is easily adapted for vinyl; I mainly moved the heart grenade from the title to the back.
I struggled deciding on a ribbon to use. I like pretty, shiny, sparkly ribbon, so obviously this is what makes up the majority of my ribbon stock. I went with a black satin ribbon with metallic silver stripes, but it looked too clean, too crisp, next to the “rusted” ornament with the ragged lettering effect. Using a dry paint brush, I brushed patches of gold and “Green Day” green mica powders over the porous black areas of the ribbon to give it a similar battle-worn look. I also dusted powder on the silver satin ribbon I used for the hanger so it wouldn’t look so shiny and new.
Forest art - sometimes it is difficult to keep things pristine and pure in the open woodlands. Nature's attempt at normalizing and balancing something that doesn't quite fit in the natural order
So, this anti-gay marriage leaflet is secretly propagandizing the normalization of transexualism? Hmm. Come to think of it, the anti-gay marriage movement makes more sense this way.
The CSIS Americas Program and the Center for International Policy will host a half-day conference that will explore what normal relations between the United States and Cuba could look like, while discussing a legal roadmap for getting there. The purpose of the event is not to discuss whether the United States should normalize its relations with Cuba. Instead, the event will explore the process in its legal, practical, and diplomatic aspects, in the event that a U.S. president decides to pursue such a relationship.
The event will feature a morning keynote address by Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who will discuss his recent trip to Cuba and the outlook for the bilateral relationship, and a luncheon keynote address by Ambassador Tom Pickering, who will discuss the role of practical diplomacy in normalizing relations with countries subject to U.S. economic sanctions.
Washington, D.C. attorney Robert Muse will describe the legal capability of a U.S. president to normalize relations with Cuba, and then moderate a discussion of the various elements of normalized U.S.-Cuba relations. Speakers include: Mark Feldman, former Deputy and acting Legal Adviser at the Department of State; Gustavo Arnavat, former U.S. Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank and Senior Adviser at CSIS; Jake Colvin, Vice President of the National Foreign Trade Council; Prof. Christine Haight Farley, American University's Washington College of Law; Matthew Aho, Akerman, LLC; and Dan Whittle, Environmental Defense Fund.
Please note that this event is closed to the public, but the proceedings will be live webcast on this page during the conference.
Programs
AMERICAS PROGRAM, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON NORTH AMERICA, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON SOUTH AMERICA, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON THE CARIBBEAN, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON THE HEMISPHERE
Topics
DEFENSE AND SECURITY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND RECONSTRUCTION, GLOBAL HEALTH, HUMAN RIGHTS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS, GLOBAL TRENDS AND FORECASTING, GOVERNANCE
Regions
AMERICAS, CARIBBEAN, NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA
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Full Feature in 9 Parts
American International Pictures lived up to its name on this project. Terrore nello spazio was a Spanish/Italian/American effort. The American release title, Planet of the Vampires (PoV) suggests a campier film than it is. There actually aren't any vampires in the usual sense. Yet, it is still a horror/sci-fi hybrid. Director Mario Bava (famous for horror pictures) gives the dark screenplay by Ib Melchior a good presentation, despite a low budget.
Synopsis
Mysterious signals received from a distant planet named Aura suggest some intelligent life, perhaps a distress call. Two interplanetary space ships are sent to investigate. The Galliot goes in first, but seems to crash. The crew of the Argos go lower to check on them. A sudden increase of gravity pins everyone to the floors and the Argos seems to be doomed to crash. At the last minute, the gravity normalizes and Captain Mark Markary is able to land the Argos. When various members of the crew awaken, they go viciously homicidal temporarily. Captain Mark is able to restore order. The Galliot is found near by, perfectly intact. When a team of the Argos investigate, they find the entire crew of the Galliot dead. They killed each other. The Galliot's "Meteor Rejector" device is smashed, making the ship unspaceworthy. The Argos team return later to find no bodies. (They are rising from the dead, but the Argos crew don't know this yet.) A team from the Argos find a derelict alien ship with a huge alien skeleton out front. Mark and Sanya check it out and almost become trapped inside. Various crewmen, usually given lone sentry jobs, disappear one by one. Two Galliot crewmen appear with a story of being unconscious after the landing. They are taken aboard the Argos, but it was a trick. They were zombies who came to steal the Argos's "Meteor Rejector" device. One zombie explains that Aura is inhabited by a race of energy beings. The Auran sun is dying but they cannot construct spaceships. So, they lured other race's ships to Aura to hijack their bodies and flee. The takeover can be done willingly too. Captain Mark says "Never". Mark, Sanya and Wess steal back the Meteor Rejector and plant bombs aboard the Galliot. They take off in the Argos. Wess discovers that Mark and Sanya are possessed by the Aurans. He smashes the Meteor Rejector, thinking he's stopping the Aurans. He dies in the process. Possessed Mark and Sanya decide to set down on an obscure little planet: Earth. The End.
PoV has the quirky charm typical of Italian sci-fi, but also some visual fun via Bava's sense of art.
The American title is a misnomer, but probably deemed better (by A.I.P.) for marketing. The dead bodies, re-animated by the Auran energy beings, were more the classic zombie than the classic vampire. There is no sucking of blood or needing of human blood, etc. The whole rising-from-the-grave scene is clearly in the zombie idiom. Mixed into the zombie trope is the familiar 50s theme of alien-takeover.
Like many B movies, the production budget for PoV was very tight. Modern viewers could easily scoff at the modest special effects and simple sets. Yet, fans of B sci-fi can appreciate how much mileage Bava got from his shoestring budget. He made an entire alien planet out of a few "rock" props left over from a prior sword-and-sandal film, making use of lots of dry ice fog to disguise how sparse things were. The ship models were quite small (and therefore cheaper), but he manages to make them look larger. To save on matte art and optical effects, Bava used mirrors to put actors and small models into the same shot. Of course, having the Argos and Galliot be identical ships meant handy double use. The giant alien skeleton was probably his biggest expense, but well worth it.
Bava also made ample use of strong color to make things look "alien." Pairs of red-green, or red-blue, or green-orange lights add a vivid other-worldliness. The lighting is reminiscent of that used in the soviet film: Mechte Navstrechu ('62) ("A Dream Come True"). American audiences wouldn't get to see the soviet footage until 1966 when A.I.P. created another of their mash-ups, this one entitled: Queen of Blood.
Some viewers see an inspiration for Ridley Scott's famous Alien (1979). Certainly the scene in which Mark and Sanya discover and explore the derelict alien ship bears a strong resemblance. Even though this scene in PoV is more of a sidetrack than pivotal, it is certainly possible that Scott drew upon it as a portion of his story.
Screenwriter Ib Melchior was fond of the notion that alien planets harbored mysterious danger. His dark vision was quite the opposite of the almost glib notion that alien beings would be pretty women in short skirts. Melchior's Angry Red Planet ('60) featured ominous unseen Martians who tell the earthlings to get lost and never ever come back. Journey to the Seventh Planet ('62) featured a malicious intellect being that messed with the earthlings' minds and was trying to get off its cold, dark moon, to a better planet -- like earth.
The ending of PoV is decidedly un-hollywood. Most of the crew die. Even the last uncompromised humans (Wess) dies trying to stop the Aurans. He fails, despite his heroic sacrifice. Auran-Mark and Auran-Sanya fly down to an unsuspecting earth. The danger of the mind-controlling energy being Aurans was about to be loosed on our simple civilization. On its own, such an ending does have nihilist overtones. It also smacks of a potential sequel along the Body Snatchers line.
Bottom line? PoV will not impress modern viewers who rate movies by how lavish the effects are. It is still a budget film. It also suffers some of the usual pitfalls of foreign films repackaged for American release. There are almost too many characters who are easy to mix up (everyone wore identical leather suits) Nonetheless, it one of the better B movies of the 60s.
reprocessing of www.flickr.com/photos/nebarnix/175321297/in/set-721575941...
This one didn't feature nearly the improvement as the other two did, probably because of the in-camera-darkfield introducing such horrible artifacts that there just isn't anymore information to squeeze out of it. Remind me never to do that again. Nonetheless, the three stars to the right aren't nearly as clipped and the red glow around them is nice and pretty :c)
Camera: Pentax *IST DL
Lens: 50mm Pentax KA F1.4 (shot at F2.5)
Exposure: 9x240 seconds
Total normalized exposure (min at iso 100): 576min@iso100
Total normalized light (min at iso 100/f-ratio): 92min@iso100@f1
ISO: 1600
Hand Guided with a 500mm F4.5 reflector on an EQ mount
I need to start this by sharing that I recently listened to an opinion piece about the lasting legacy of Green Day, and the narrator introduced Green Day as "…that band your parents listen to…" and now I feel old.
But anyway.
In a time freshly torn apart by terrorism, war, and politics, Green Day wrote a concept album that encapsulated that early-2000s era turmoil. We’ve somehow normalized the upheaval in the last two decades, but that shaky ground was unfamiliar in the period following 9/11, and that period is right where the American Idiot album transports me every time. I was just entering adulthood and concerned for the world I was inheriting.
The musical follows the paths of three men as they try to navigate the new world and contains the music from the album as well as other Green Day songs—each performance ending with “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” at the curtain call.
I don’t really know the story behind how this angsty concept album made its way to Broadway, but I’m just glad this stage musical exists.
About the Ornament
I wanted this ornament to look weathered but still beautiful, or maybe beautiful because of what it had weathered. I decided on oxidized metal. I used a tiny, tiny bit of gum arabic powder to help create some texture in places. Over the gum arabic, I lightly distributed some gold mica powder, as well as the gold/green/red powder that I initially used for a Hadestown ornament. Then I added silver mica to coat the rest of the ornament. FORTUNATELY, I was adding the silver conservatively because I remembered almost too late that I have a mica powder actually called Green Day—I do love a theme. Since my silver coverage was still light in places, I was able to add the new powder so that it just peeks through if it catches the light just right.
The playbill art is easily adapted for vinyl; I mainly moved the heart grenade from the title to the back.
I struggled deciding on a ribbon to use. I like pretty, shiny, sparkly ribbon, so obviously this is what makes up the majority of my ribbon stock. I went with a black satin ribbon with metallic silver stripes, but it looked too clean, too crisp, next to the “rusted” ornament with the ragged lettering effect. Using a dry paint brush, I brushed patches of gold and “Green Day” green mica powders over the porous black areas of the ribbon to give it a similar battle-worn look. I also dusted powder on the silver satin ribbon I used for the hanger so it wouldn’t look so shiny and new.
The CSIS Americas Program and the Center for International Policy will host a half-day conference that will explore what normal relations between the United States and Cuba could look like, while discussing a legal roadmap for getting there. The purpose of the event is not to discuss whether the United States should normalize its relations with Cuba. Instead, the event will explore the process in its legal, practical, and diplomatic aspects, in the event that a U.S. president decides to pursue such a relationship.
The event will feature a morning keynote address by Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who will discuss his recent trip to Cuba and the outlook for the bilateral relationship, and a luncheon keynote address by Ambassador Tom Pickering, who will discuss the role of practical diplomacy in normalizing relations with countries subject to U.S. economic sanctions.
Washington, D.C. attorney Robert Muse will describe the legal capability of a U.S. president to normalize relations with Cuba, and then moderate a discussion of the various elements of normalized U.S.-Cuba relations. Speakers include: Mark Feldman, former Deputy and acting Legal Adviser at the Department of State; Gustavo Arnavat, former U.S. Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank and Senior Adviser at CSIS; Jake Colvin, Vice President of the National Foreign Trade Council; Prof. Christine Haight Farley, American University's Washington College of Law; Matthew Aho, Akerman, LLC; and Dan Whittle, Environmental Defense Fund.
Please note that this event is closed to the public, but the proceedings will be live webcast on this page during the conference.
Programs
AMERICAS PROGRAM, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON NORTH AMERICA, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON SOUTH AMERICA, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON THE CARIBBEAN, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON THE HEMISPHERE
Topics
DEFENSE AND SECURITY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND RECONSTRUCTION, GLOBAL HEALTH, HUMAN RIGHTS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS, GLOBAL TRENDS AND FORECASTING, GOVERNANCE
Regions
AMERICAS, CARIBBEAN, NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA
The CSIS Americas Program and the Center for International Policy will host a half-day conference that will explore what normal relations between the United States and Cuba could look like, while discussing a legal roadmap for getting there. The purpose of the event is not to discuss whether the United States should normalize its relations with Cuba. Instead, the event will explore the process in its legal, practical, and diplomatic aspects, in the event that a U.S. president decides to pursue such a relationship.
The event will feature a morning keynote address by Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ), who will discuss his recent trip to Cuba and the outlook for the bilateral relationship, and a luncheon keynote address by Ambassador Tom Pickering, who will discuss the role of practical diplomacy in normalizing relations with countries subject to U.S. economic sanctions.
Washington, D.C. attorney Robert Muse will describe the legal capability of a U.S. president to normalize relations with Cuba, and then moderate a discussion of the various elements of normalized U.S.-Cuba relations. Speakers include: Mark Feldman, former Deputy and acting Legal Adviser at the Department of State; Gustavo Arnavat, former U.S. Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank and Senior Adviser at CSIS; Jake Colvin, Vice President of the National Foreign Trade Council; Prof. Christine Haight Farley, American University's Washington College of Law; Matthew Aho, Akerman, LLC; and Dan Whittle, Environmental Defense Fund.
Please note that this event is closed to the public, but the proceedings will be live webcast on this page during the conference.
Programs
AMERICAS PROGRAM, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON NORTH AMERICA, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON SOUTH AMERICA, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON THE CARIBBEAN, AMERICAS PROGRAM: FOCUS ON THE HEMISPHERE
Topics
DEFENSE AND SECURITY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND RECONSTRUCTION, GLOBAL HEALTH, HUMAN RIGHTS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS, GLOBAL TRENDS AND FORECASTING, GOVERNANCE
Regions
AMERICAS, CARIBBEAN, NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA
Inside ring, lower picture: Side view of spailcraft, moving along a line, perpendicular to the wind. Upper picture, frontal view of lower picture, to point out the normalized lift transference between lift and the reaction force at the track. Normalization between lift and the reaction at it, is in fact the proof of stability; which is the very principle of spailing.
Blades in wind mills also move perpendicular to the wind.
Ring: Spailcrafts run along a looped track, connected to one another. They are placed equidistant apart which then gives us the principle of the Turbo windmill.
Spailcraft firstly eliminates the capsizing momemtum. This formes a stable structure and therefore can be sized up and withstand higher winds.
The 2020 EPI water resources issue category includes the wastewater treatment indicator. All indicators and composite indices in the EPI are normalized as a 0–100 proximity-to-target score, with 100 representing "at target" and 0 being furthest from the target.
Following the EU-CELAC Summit 2015, the GMF held a roundtable discussion with representatives from the EU and LAC countries to discuss the trend of growing ties between the EU and Latin American and Caribbean countries, including other pressing issues, such as TTIP, U.S.-Latin American relations, and the importance of normalizing U.S.-Cuba relations.
LORMALIZED = Lorenz + nOrmalization + Real-tiMe + interActive + visuaLize + partIcles + reZa + procEssing.org + 4D
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President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with Vietnamese Communist party secretary general Nguyen Phu Trong in the Oval Office of the White House, on Tuesday, July 7, 2015, in Washington. Trong is the de facto leader of Vietnam despite holding no official government post, and is visiting Washington to boost ties 20 years after the U.S. and Vietnam normalized relations following the Vietnam War. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
The 2014 EPI builds on measures relevant to the goal of improving ecosystem vitality which are grouped in six policy categories. The forest category included the change in forest cover indicator. All indicators and composite indices in the EPI are normalized as 0-100 proximity-to-target score, with 100 representing “at target” and 0 being furthest from the target.