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Joey was hoping there would be at least one piece left over from his big brothers' pizza snack.

Outside of the Town Hall theater on West 43rd Street in Manhattan, a crowd of smiling and optimistic people Friday overflowed into the one-way street. Delivery trucks and yellow taxi cabs creeped by, their engines engaged in a shouting match with Bennet Weiss, a man who bore a fleeting resemblance to the Democratic presidential candidate they were all there to support.

 

"We don't have billions of dollars! All we have are people wearing Bernie pins," Weiss yelled, a large black umbrella covered in Bernie Sanders campaign pins at his feet, catching drops of sweat from his brow. The Occupy Wall Street protester-turned-Sanders supporter urged the crowd to wear the pins at all times with no exception -- even in the shower -- and gave them away freely to anyone who said they didn't have enough cash to afford to pay the suggested donation.

 

That's the kind of populist support Sanders' campaign has steadily been attracting since the U.S. senator from Vermont formally announced his candidacy in late April. Friday was no exception, with passion-filled people who think Sanders has proved himself the worthy champion of causes they care about the most, such as income inequality, climate change, Wall Street reform and further healthcare reforms. But, perhaps most importantly, they also think he can win the White House.

 

"Absolutely" he can win, said Joe Trinolone, 30, a former finance industry worker from Long Island, New York, who is studying mathematics at St. Joseph's University. "I mean, he's winning right now."

 

Sanders, during a fundraising speech Friday, ticked through the policies he cares about and areas of change he wants to see in Washington should he become president. At each turn, his blend of outrage, optimism and sly sarcasm brought raucous cheers from the crowd of 1,100. He rejected recent Wall Street Journal criticism of the high price tag of his proposals, including making public colleges and universities free, lowering so-called real unemployment by pumping funding into infrastructure repairs for the nation’s roads and bridges and implementing a universal healthcare system.

 

Instead, he pointed to European nations that already have those programs. He implored the crowd to think about what many of them were already talking about: that taking on the big-money interests in the United States that impede those sorts of policy changes is a shared moral obligation.

 

“Welcome to the revolution,” Sanders said, describing what he believes must happen to American politics. “We can accomplish all of this and more.” And the crowd ate it up.

 

When asked why they support Sanders, many described his candidacy as a movement. They love his policies, and have a hard time thinking of much they don’t like about him. They especially like that he has been a consistent voice during his time in Washington. That’s a big perceived difference between Sanders and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Those "feeling the Bern" were split on whether they would consider voting for her if she becomes the nominee. Many were newcomers to political action but felt compelled to join the fray when they heard Sanders and his message.

 

“I’ve never been excited about a politician my entire life,” said Meira Marom, 34, a Brooklyn third-grade teacher with a master's degree in creative writing. When Marom started seeing social media posts about Sanders and reading about him, she decided to stop focusing her personal time on writing for herself. She now writes and publishes something about Sanders every day -- Dr. Seuss themes every Sunday, poems and parodies. “I decided this is the most worthy cause to put my rhymes to use.”

 

Sanders has seen an unexpected rise in the polls since he joined the race for the Democratic nomination shortly after the current national front-runner Clinton announced her candidacy. While Sanders was trailing Clinton by 21.4 percent in national averages of polls compiled by Real Clear Politics, a look at early nominating states like Iowa and New Hampshire paints a different picture of vulnerability for Clinton and strength for Sanders.

 

The two candidates are tied in Iowa, which constitutes a dramatic drop for Clinton and an impressive surge for Sanders, who has been distancing himself from Clinton in New Hampshire at the top of the Democratic pack since Aug. 25, when he jumped past her in the state for the first time. He currently leads there by 10.5 points.

 

The candidates are noticeably different in many ways, from policy prescription to fundraising strategy.

 

Clinton has moved leftward since announcing her candidacy, but she is still threatened by the populist appeal of Sanders, who has long championed the causes that seem to be coming into grace for the Democratic Party. While the candidates currently hold some very similar positions on issues such as immigration reform, gay rights, gun control and campaign finance reform, Sanders has been able to stake out positions to the left of Clinton on other issues that excite some vocal voters.

 

Among them are his strong anti-war and anti-government surveillance positions as well as his distaste for President Barack Obama's Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal. Sanders also has been a vocal critic of Wall Street and champion of financial reforms, and his stance on those issues has drawn attention to Clinton's cozy relationship with Wall Street executives and the huge paychecks she has received for speeches to large banks since leaving the U.S. State Department. For some Sanders supporters, though, the perception that Sanders has been a consistent proponent of these liberal policies, and cares about them more than winning, is key.

 

“It’s the message that supporting Bernie Sanders is not just voting on a horse in the race” that attracts Brian Dillon, a 28-year-old self-employed Web designer and developer for e-commerce, said Friday. Dillon has voted just one time in his life, but he has been organizing meetings to drum up support for Sanders.

 

Sanders's fundraising portfolio also is the reverse of Clinton's. While the former secretary of state is expected to spend somewhere north of $1 billion should she win the primary and head into the general election for 2016, the same has not been said of Sanders. Currently, Clinton has raised, through her campaign committee and super PACs associated with the campaign, $47.5 million, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics. Sanders, on the other hand, has raised just shy of $16.5 million, according to CRP data.

 

Their most startling difference in fundraising, however, can be seen in the size of the donations they're receiving. The Clinton campaign received 82 percent of its donations from large contributors, and her top industry donors, not including retired people, so far have been lawyers, business services and the financial industry.

 

In contrast, Sanders relies much more on small donations, which are defined as donations totaling $200 or less. So far, 69 percent of his contributions have come from small donors, and the biggest industries that have given to his campaign have been from the education, legal and healthcare sectors.

 

Who are those small donors? The types of people who showed up Friday. Some said they donate $25 to $30 a month to Sanders. Some said they have donated several hundred dollars since he jumped into the presidential race. Nearly all of them mentioned they don't earn a ton of money personally. One in particular, Machumu Sakulira, said he donated $500 before attending Friday’s event.

 

There is “no way” he would support a Clinton ticket, said Sakulira, a 31-year-old senior political science student at the University at Buffalo. He got on a bus Thursday night at 11 p.m. and arrived in New York at 7 a.m. for the Sanders speech. He said he was going back Friday night. “Bernie represents my interest. My vote is a moral choice, I don’t give it to somebody who doesn’t deserve it.”

 

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Savemart tee, Carlson sample-sale skirt.

- Pigeons are a common sight in the UK and are often seen as pests due to their reputation in urban areas and it's easy to forget them as doting parents. As I was working today I watched this Wood Pigeon spend twenty minutes or so struting about the lawn inspecting numerous twigs and sticks which might pass the judgement of his nesting partner, discarding many as either not the correct length or thickness. Clearly impressed with this selection it ultimately proved too much to manage and more appropriate building material was eventually chosen. Thurnham Court, Devizes.

(Everything about this shot - from the angle to shoot it at, to perfecting the pose, to choosing the right body position - was a pain in my ass but I really liked the idea of this shot & do love the outcome so I guess it's worth it ;3)

Call me Snake offers an optimistic provocation – ‘imagine what could be here’ by Judy Millar. On a walk into the city October 3, 2015 Christchurch New Zealand.

 

The work is comprised of vibrant graphics of Millar’s looped paintings, which are adhered to five intersecting flat planes, and draws inspiration from the forms found in pop-up books. The colourful piece will add a dramatic and rhythmic counterpoint to the city’s current urban landscape — a mix of flattened sites, construction zones and defiant buildings that have stood through the quakes. The work employs theatricality, playfulness and visual trickery, whereby the viewer is unsure about the work’s flatness or three-dimensionality; and it has been designed to offer a different perspective from each angle. The bright colours interrupt the grey of the work’s surrounds, and as buildings pop up around it,

SCAPE 8, New Intimacies curated by Rob Garrett was a contemporary art event which mixed new artworks with existing legacy pieces, an education programme, and a public programme of events. The SCAPE 8 artworks were located around central Christchurch and linked via a public art walkway. All aspects of SCAPE 8 were free-to-view.

 

The title for the 2015 Biennial – New Intimacies – came from the idea that visually striking and emotionally engaging public art works can create new connections between people and places. Under the main theme of New Intimacies there are three other themes that artists responded to: Sight-Lines, Inner Depths and Shared Strengths.

For more Info: www.scapepublicart.org.nz/scape-8-judy-millar

On the 7th floor, it's difficult to go higher .....

 

Si on est au 7ème étage et sur le toit, c'est difficile de monter encore ...

unfortunately i had no time to mount my zoom lens, so the always mounted 50mm gave its best for another time

Optimistic destination chalking...

A positive attitude is important, but it is only part of the story. Understanding how to surmount pain, doubt, and failure is a vital component in winning the game of life.

- Chin-Ning Chu

A MKU3A visit to the Chinese New Year in London.

 

My old photostream is at www.flickr.com/photos/emaybe/

An optimistic sign points to a construction fence.

 

East Decatur Greenway

Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.

15 March 2019.

 

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▶ (Temporary) northern terminus of the East Decatur Greenwayhiker/biker trail, at Derrydown Way and E. Freeman Street, just east of nearly completed Avondale MARTA (Metropolitan Atlanta Regional Transit Authority) mixed-use "transit oriented development."

▶ The trail will eventually terminate just northwest of this spot at "a state of the art pedestrian/cyclist plaza," providing connection to MARTA transit and the PATH Stone Mountain Trail.

 

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▶ Completed in late 2019. See it in 2021: here.

▶ How it appeared in 2017: here.

▶ The other end of the trail: here.

 

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Выставка “Этюды оптимизма”

Параллельная программа европейской бьеннале современного искусства

“Манифеста 10″, Санкт Петербург, 2014

 

“Optimistic studies” exhibition

Parallel program of European biennale of Contemporary Arts

“Manifesta 10″, Saint-Petersburg, 2014

 

Автор фотографии: Владислав Ефимов

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As it would turn out for Charleston in 2017, the last place where the eclipse would be in the USA, there was rain that happened right as the event came around.

taken at the nokia store downtown. the walls change colors every once in a while.

 

184. My middle name is: Hoenugget.

183. My great grandma's nickname: Nana (I hate the other one)

182. I was born in: TN

181: I am really: Optimistic >_>

180. My cellphone company is: Verizon

179. My eye color is: Black

178. My shoe size: A women's 11.

177. My ring size is: Who knows. ;P

176. My height: 5'something

175. I'm allergic to: Nothing

174. My first job: Havent had one yet, suckas. ;P

173. My first car: Havent had any. .___.

172. My bed is: Well I have a bunk bed with random blankets on it.

171. My pet: 7 kitties.

170. My best friend: Avabumpbe! :D

169. My favorite shampoo: Lol, whatever my mom buys, but I prefer scented kinds, like strawberries. Yeah, those smell nice.

168. AIM name: Dont have one.

167. Piggy banks are: For 5-year-old's.

166. In my pockets: Various chapsticks and lipglosses. And my phone.

165. On my calender: Nothing really. I dont care. Lol. ;P

164. Marriage is: Trouble for everyone. e_e

163. My mom is: She's very close to me, even though she grounds me a lot for dumb reasons, I wouldnt have anything without her.

162. The last CDs I bought were: Gorillaz albums

161. The last video I watched: Jenna Marbles video. Lol.

160. How many cousins I have: A lot. e_____e

159. Do you have any siblings? An older sister and an older brother who is a lumberjack. Lol. (Only Ava would understand)

158. Are your parents divorced? Yuppers.

157. Are you taller than yo momma? Nupe. -.- My whole family is tall.

156. Do you play instruments? I want to but my mom refuses to let me.

155. What did you do yesterday? Go to art class alone because mah best friend, Ava, is out of town. D;

 

~Belive in~

154. Love at first site? Yus.

153. Luck? Um, sometimes.

152. Fate? I have a different definition of fate. e.e

151. Yourself? Not really. :P

150. Aliens? Yup.

149. Heaven? I believe that Im going to come back as a different life form. I'm Buddhist.

148. Hell? ^^

147. God? Buddha.

146. Horoscopes? Not really but I read them.

145. Soulmates? My friends. Forever and Always.

144. Ghosts? Yushhhh.

115. Six flags or Disney? Disney.

114. Yankees or Red socks? I really dont care.

 

~Here's what I think About~

113. War: Bull Shissa.

112. George Bush: An old white guy.

111. Gay marrige? I support gay rights. Theres nothing wrong with happiness.

110: Presidentiol election: I really do not care.

109. Abortion: I dont care. ;P

108. MySpace: Lol, I hacked my sisters. Dead.

107. Reality TV: Never watched it.

106. Parents: I love my dad and my mom even though theyre a real pain sometimes.

105. Backstabbers: Call me when you grow up.

104. eBay: _>

86. Got your nails done: First week of summer.

85. Went to a wedding: Um like in 12 years.

84: Broke a bone: Never! Wooh.

83: Got a piercing: 3rd grade.

82. Broke a law: A while ago when I was with Ava. Lol Walmart.

81. Texted: Just now.

 

~Misc~

80. Who makes you laugh most? Ava. XDDDD

79. Something I really miss when I leave home: My phone charger and the loneliness of being locked in my room.<3

78. The last movie I saw: Napoleon Dynamite for the 1700000000000 time.

77. The thing I am looking for most: Self peace.

76. The thing I am not looking forward to: Going to a new school.

75. People call me: Annoying, loud, funny. Yup.

74. The most difficult thing to do: Take math tests.

73. When getting a speeding ticket: HAH, never got one.

72. My zodiac sign: An Aquarius.

71. The first person I talked to today: My mom.

70. First time you had a crush? Hmmm, Ive never really had a crush. Every guy I know hates me.

69. The one person you can't hide anything from: Ava and Ally.

68. Last time you said something you were thinking: LOL.

67. Right now I'm talking to: Ava!

66. What are you going to be when you grow up? A Liger.

65. I have/will get a job: When I turn 16 hopefully.

64. Tomorrow: I will be doing nothing Soon to be green.

53. TV show I watch: I watch anime online.

52. Favorite website: Google+ Facebook and Flickr.

51. Dream Vacation: London or Africa.

50. The worst pain you were in: When ever I see or hear my grandma's name.

49. How do you like your steak cooked? I dont like steak.

48. My room is: Pink and yellow.

47. Favorite celebrities: Gorillaz, Blur. Nuff said.

46. Where would you like to be? With Ava.<3

45. Do you want kids? No, then Id have to spend money on them. Unless my husband did.

44. Ever been in love? Well not really with a person.

43. Your best friend? Ava, and Ally.

42. More guy friends or girl friends? Girl. I go to an all girls school but Im moving to a co-ed school next year. .____. Im scurred.

41. One thing that makes you feel great is: When I get B's or higher in math.

40. One person you wish you could see right now: Ava and Ally. I miss them.

39. One place you'd like to move: Africa or London.

38: I wish I was a personal: e_e No idea.

 

~Favorites~

37. Candy: Jujubees.

36. Vehicle: Geep.

35.President: I dont give a crap.

34. City visited: LA

33.Cellphone provider: Verizon?

32. Athelete: Dont care. Lol.

31. Actress: I dunno.

30. Actor: JON HEDER, CAN I MARRY YOU?

29. Singer: Gorilllllazzzzzzzzz and Blur. So basically Damon Alabrn, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Emilie Autumn.

28. Bands: Gorillaz and Blur.

27. Clothing store: I dont care.

26. Grocery store: Lol Target?

25. TV show: NAPOLEON DYNAMITE/

24. Movie: NAPOLEON DYNAMITE.

23. Website: Flickr, Google+, Facebook.

22. Animal: CATS, AND CATS ONLY.

21. Theme park: Ahhh Universal Studios. <3 So fun.

20. Holiday: Christmas and Halloween.

19. Sport to watch: I hate watching sports.

18. Sport to play: Tennis.

17. Magazine: ...Dont read them.

16. Book: Vampire Knight.

15. Day of the week: Friday.

14. Beach: Beaches disgust me. I prefer private swimming pools.

13. Concerts atended: Well Ive only been to a Miley Cyrus concert and a Heart concert. e_e

12. Thing to cook: Pffft, I dont cook.

11. Food: FRUIT<3

10. Resturant: Um...?

9. Radio station: My earbuds.

8. Yankee Candle scent: I like the smell of coconuts.

7. Clogne: Rihanna perfumeeeee.

6. Flower: Japanese Cherry Blossoms<3

5. Color: Yellow!<3

4. Talk show host: Lol No one.

3. Comedians: I like my friends who are funny. e3e

2. Dog breed: I. HATE. DOGS. A LOT.

1. Are you happy this is over: Oh, sure.

  

A toy car dumped in a local pond. The reflection completes its smile, seems like an optimistic type.

 

Psychological resilience is defined as an individual's ability to successfully adapt to life tasks in the face of social disadvantage or other highly adverse conditions.Adversity and stress can come in the shape of family or relationship problems, health problems, or workplace and financial worries, among others. Resilience is the ability to bounce back from a negative experience with "competent functioning". Resilience is not a rare ability; in reality, it is found in the average individual and it can be learned and developed by virtually anyone. Resilience is a process, rather than a trait to be had. It is a process of individuation through a structured system with gradual discovery of personal and unique abilities. A common misconception is that resilient people are free from negative emotions or thoughts, and remain optimistic in most or all situations. To the contrary, resilient individuals have, through time, developed proper coping techniques that allow them to effectively and relatively easily navigate around or through crises. In other words, people who demonstrate resilience are people with optimistic attitudes and positive emotionality; they are, in practice, able to effectively counter negative emotions with positive emotions. Compare the pressures you face in a typical week with a few years ago: have they increased? Now think about the years ahead: are the pressures likely to keep growing? If you’re answering 'yes', this could be a good time to review and renew your strategies for resilience. Alan Heeks has many years’ experience of exploring how people can raise their wellbeing and resilience through contact with nature.Resilience is generally thought of as a "positive adaptation" after a stressful or adverse situation. When a person is "bombarded by daily stress, it disrupts their internal and external sense of balance, presenting challenges as well as opportunities." Resilience is the integrated adaptation of physical, mental and spiritual aspects in a set of "good or bad" circumstances, a coherent sense of self that is able to maintain normative developmental tasks that occur at various stages of life. The Children's Institute of the University of Rochester explains that "resilience research is focused on studying those who engage in life with hope and humor despite devastating losses". It is important to note that resilience is not only about overcoming a deeply stressful situation, but also coming out of the said situation with "competent functioning". Resiliency allows a person to rebound from adversity as a strengthened and more resourceful person. “One of the themes that emerges from these groups is that people feel increasingly depleted by everyday life and work, and it’s getting worse.

"There are many reasons for this, including the many hours spent with smartphones and screens, which mean that they are constantly overloaded with too much information, and alarming news from across the globe. Medical School quotes many research studies showing how long hours in front of screens put people in a continual state of alert, which makes it hard for them both to concentrate, and also to relax. An example of what we can learn from nature is composting: in woods, as in organic farms and gardens, the major source of future growth is waste, dead matter which can be transformed into nutrition for future growth.Resilience is generally thought of as a "positive adaptation" after a stressful or adverse situation.[8] When a person is "bombarded by daily stress, it disrupts their internal and external sense of balance, presenting challenges as well as opportunities." Resilience is the integrated adaptation of physical, mental and spiritual aspects in a set of "good or bad" circumstances, a coherent sense of self that is able to maintain normative developmental tasks that occur at various stages of life. The Children's Institute of the University of Rochester explains that "resilience research is focused on studying those who engage in life with hope and humor despite devastating losses". It is important to note that resilience is not only about overcoming a deeply stressful situation, but also coming out of the said situation with "competent functioning". Resiliency allows a person to rebound from adversity as a strengthened and more resourceful person. You could do the same: imagine recycling negative feelings and anxious thoughts, and using their energy to give you insights and growth. Another theme which emerges for some people at the wood is their concerns for the state of the world, climate change, and damage to the environment. Many people feel helpless about such problems, and simply stuff their worries down. Alan said: “I find that these deep, denied worries affect a lot of people, and sap their energy and resilience. We offer a range of processes, such as composting and deep ecology, to help people face these anxieties, and find a more positive outlook.” The way to positive change for the state of our world begins with dreams. He points out that dreams, in the sense of inspiring visions, and myths, in the sense of prevailing beliefs, have a huge influence in our world. It believes that the wisdom of Gaia, planet earth, can team up with the inventiveness of humans, to find solutions even to the current threats. The mega-crisis represents a mega-opportunity. You could look at it as a chance for humans to grow dramatically in resilience, and in their connection with Nature. We have to dare to dream: if we can at least carry a vision of the future we hope for, it starts to gather momentum.” He provides organic growth approaches for people and their work that help to build resilience. Jane has many years’ experience of working with mindfulness, deep ecology and other approaches to wellbeing, and is part of the Wisdom Tree team.Resilience is generally thought of as a "positive adaptation" after a stressful or adverse situation.[8] When a person is "bombarded by daily stress, it disrupts their internal and external sense of balance, presenting challenges as well as opportunities." Resilience is the integrated adaptation of physical, mental and spiritual aspects in a set of "good or bad" circumstances, a coherent sense of self that is able to maintain normative developmental tasks that occur at various stages of life.The Children's Institute of the University of Rochester explains that "resilience research is focused on studying those who engage in life with hope and humor despite devastating losses". It is important to note that resilience is not only about overcoming a deeply stressful situation, but also coming out of the said situation with "competent functioning". Resiliency allows a person to rebound from adversity as a strengthened and more resourceful person.Three notable bases for resilience, self-confidence, self-esteem and self-concept, all have roots in three different nervous systems—respectively, the somatic nervous system, the autonomic nervous system and the central nervous system. An emerging field in the study of resilience is the neurobiological basis of resilience to stress. For example, neuropeptide Y (NPY) and 5-Dehydroepiandrosterone (5-DHEA) are thought to limit the stress response by reducing sympathetic nervous system activation and protecting the brain from the potentially harmful effects of chronically elevated cortisol levels respectively. In addition, the relationship between social support and stress resilience is thought to be mediated by the oxytocin system's impact on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. "Resilience, conceptualized as a positive bio-psychological adaptation, has proven to be a useful theoretical context for understanding variables for predicting long-term health and well-being".There is some limited research that, like trauma, resilience is epigenetic—that is, it may be inherited—but the science behind this finding is preliminary.Studies show that there are several factors which develop and sustain a person's resilience: The ability to make realistic plans and being capable of taking the steps necessary to follow through with them

Confidence in one’s strengths and abilities

Communication and problem-solving skills

The ability to manage strong impulses and feelings

Resilience is negatively correlated with personality traits of neuroticism and negative emotionality, which represents tendencies to see and react to the world as threatening, problematic, and distressing, and to view oneself as vulnerable. Positive correlations stands with personality traits of openness and positive emotionality, that represents tendencies to engage and confront the world with confidence in success and a fair value to self-directedness.There is significant research found in scientific literature on the relationship between positive emotions and resilience. Studies show that maintaining positive emotions whilst facing adversity promote flexibility in thinking and problem solving. Positive emotions serve an important function in their ability to help an individual recover from stressful experiences and encounters. That being said, maintaining a positive emotionality aids in counteracting the physiological effects of negative emotions. It also facilitates adaptive coping, builds enduring social resources, and increases personal well-being. Formation of conscious perception and monitoring one's own socioemotional factors is considered as a stablity aspect of positive emotions.[citation needed] This is not to say that positive emotions are merely a by-product of resilience, but rather that feeling positive emotions during stressful experiences may have adaptive benefits in the coping process of the individual. Empirical evidence for this prediction arises from research on resilient individuals who have a propensity for coping strategies that concretely elicit positive emotions, such as benefit-finding and cognitive reappraisal, humor, optimism, and goal-directed problem-focused coping. Individuals who tend to approach problems with these methods of coping may strengthen their resistance to stress by allocating more access to these positive emotional resources.Social support from caring adults encouraged resilience among participants by providing them with access to conventional activities.Positive emotions not only have physical outcomes but also physiological ones. Some physiological outcomes caused by humor include improvements in immune system functioning and increases in levels of salivary immunoglobulin A, a vital system antibody, which serves as the body’s first line of defense in respiratory illnesses. Moreover, other health outcomes include faster injury recovery rate and lower readmission rates to hospitals for the elderly, and reductions in a patient’s stay in the hospital, among many other benefits. A study was done on positive emotions in trait-resilient individuals and the cardiovascular recovery rate following negative emotions felt by those individuals. The results of the study showed that trait-resilient individuals experiencing positive emotions had an acceleration in the speed in rebounding from cardiovascular activation initially generated by negative emotional arousal, i.e. heart rate and the like.A study was conducted among high achieving professionals who seek challenging situations that require resilience. Research has examined 13 high achievers from various professions, all of whom had experienced challenges in the workplace and negative life events over the course of their careers but who had also been recognized for their great achievements in their respective fields. Participants were interviewed about everyday life in the workplace as well as their experiences with resilience and thriving. The study found six main predictors of resilience: positive and proactive personality, experience and learning, sense of control, flexibility and adaptability, balance and perspective, and perceived social support. High achievers were also found to engage in many activities unrelated to their work such as engaging in hobbies, exercising, and organizing meetups with friends and loved ones. Several factors are found to modify the negative effects of adverse life situations. Many studies show that the primary factor is to have relationships that provide care and support, create love and trust, and offer encouragement, both within and outside the family. Additional factors are also associated with resilience, like the capacity to make realistic plans, having self-confidence and a positive self image,developing communications skills, and the capacity to manage strong feelings and impulses. Temperamental and constitutional disposition is considered as a major factor in resilience. It is one of the necessary precursors of resilience along with warmth in family cohesion and accessibility of prosocial support systems. There are three kinds of temperamental systems that play part in resilience, they are the appetitive system, defensive system and attentional system. Another protective factor is related to moderating the negative effects of environmental hazards or a stressful situation in order to direct vulnerable individuals to optimistic paths, such as external social support. More specifically a 1995 study distinguished three contexts for protective factors:personal attributes, including outgoing, bright, and positive self-concepts; the family, such as having close bonds with at least one family member or an emotionally stable parent; and the community, such as receiving support or counsel from peers. Furthermore, a study of the elderly in Zurich, Switzerland, illuminated the role humor plays as a coping mechanism to maintain a state of happiness in the face of age-related adversity. Besides the above distinction on resilience, research has also been devoted to discovering the individual differences in resilience. Self-esteem, ego-control, and ego-resiliency are related to behavioral adaptation. For example, maltreated children who feel good about themselves may process risk situations differently by attributing different reasons to the environments they experience and, thereby, avoid producing negative internalized self-perceptions. Ego-control is "the threshold or operating characteristics of an individual with regard to the expression or containment"[49] of their impulses, feelings, and desires. Ego-resilience refers to "dynamic capacity, to modify his or her model level of ego-control, in either direction, as a function of the demand characteristics of the environmental context"Maltreated children who experienced some risk factors (e.g., single parenting, limited maternal education, or family unemployment), showed lower ego-resilience and intelligence than nonmaltreated children. Furthermore, maltreated children are more likely than nonmaltreated children to demonstrate disruptive-aggressive, withdraw, and internalized behavior problems. Finally, ego-resiliency, and positive self-esteem were predictors of competent adaptation in the maltreated children. Demographic information (e.g., gender) and resources (e.g., social support) are also used to predict resilience. Examining people's adaptation after disaster showed women were associated with less likelihood of resilience than men. Also, individuals who were less involved in affinity groups and organisations showed less resilience.

Certain aspects of religions and spirituality may, hypothetically, promote or hinder certain psychological virtues that increase resilience. Research has not established connection between spirituality and resilience. According to the 4th edition of Psychology of Religion by Hood, et al., the "study of positive psychology is a relatively new development...there has not yet been much direct empirical research looking specifically at the association of religion and ordinary strengths and virtues".In a review of the literature on the relationship between religiosity/spirituality and PTSD, amongst the significant findings, about half of the studies showed a positive relationship and half showed a negative relationship between measures of religiosity/spirituality and resilience. The United States Army has received criticism for promoting spirituality in its new [Comprehensive Soldier Fitness] program as a way to prevent PTSD, due to the lack of conclusive supporting data. In military studies it has been found that resilience is also dependent on group support: unit cohesion and morale is the best predictor of combat resiliency within a unit or organization. Resilience is highly correlated to peer support and group cohesion. Units with high cohesion tend to experience a lower rate of psychological breakdowns than units with low cohesion and morale. High cohesion and morale enhance adaptive stress reactions.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_resilience

I was too optimistic in planning M64 shot to that night. Strictly speaking the white nights have already arrived washing faint stuff away and this nonsence will last till the beginning of August. Hello Sun, Moon, planets and double stars!

 

This one is definitely not the best among the bunch of my recent shots of M globular clusters but here is a feature that I want to boast: Baader Planetarium MPCC MkIII coma corrector works!!

And it's fun to try coma corrector on the object in constellation Coma Berenices :D

 

Acquisition time (start of a session): JD2556802.389086 (25.05.2014, around 01:20:18 MSK)

Equipment:

Canon EOS 60D (unmodded) running Magic Lantern firmware override fitted with Baader Planetarium MPCC MkIII coma corrector on Celestron OMNI XLT 150 mm Newtonian riding on Skywatcher NEQ-6 Pro mount with counterweight shaft extention.

Aperture 150 mm

Focal length 750 mm

Tv = 30 seconds

Av = f/5

ISO 1600

Exposures: 66% of 60 (plus 50 dark frames plus respective master offset and master flatfield images from the library (old flatfield made without corrector works better than the "proper" one :)).

Processing: Images were converted into .DNG and fed to DSS. "Superpixel" color generation mode was used, so the final image is two times smaller than the original subs. Final touches were "creatively" done in Photoshop. I have tried to protocol the processing in order to adhere to it next time, so in gereral it looks like:

1) setting gamma to 2,75;

2) setting black level rougly 8-10 8-bit units below actual minimum;

3) applying higly assimmetric sigma-like curve (that's "creative" :);

4) fine-tuning the background to 1-2 8-bit units;

5) setting gamma to 1,2.

Boy, it was this kind of day when you look back at it, you think...oh yeah Inferno.

Despite the detailed manual (in german), we were pretty optimistic on our chances to complete the process.

Fools that we were ! I don't know why we decided to lunch at Interlaken with a couple of french pals, but from that point the race for the park was on...In Oberhofen (T1 road bike park, checking in), everything was going smoothly in this heavenly haven. we were kind of just amazed by the "swissness" of the place, clinical neatness, yeah... anything has a place and a place for anything. We are French don't forget, land of revolution and some endemic allergies to rules (especially littering).

While we were heading to the next park (T2 - Mountain bike, Grindelwald), I saw a women running, some frantic discussion with the staff that I did not hear however it was definitely not a small talk, her body gesture was suggesting a sort of emergency. We continue our recon of the water exit path when clearly people in front of us next to the shore were literally freezing, (hum...not moving). Something weird was happening, this kind of moment that your unconscious mind know before it hits the frontal lobes. I through a glance above the parapet and there was this French guy with his swim goggles on in the water asking loudly (in french) where ? And then he dived...F...k drowning situation here, I called my buddies, swimmer gear now !

 

Don't panic, everybody was calling the rescue services (kudo for mobile phone era), check.

everyone out of the water (except the french rescuers) check.

 

the first guy pulled out a man (80 kg minimum) from the blue, not an easy task especially if the drown man was down under 5 meters. It feels that he knew how to proceed, my friends Jean Francois, Cyril and Raphael helped him out to put

the poor guy next to the wall. Unfortunately, it was not on waterfree environment, a shallow water was enough to perform CPR.

The guy started to vomit, that is good, no water in the lungs, some pulses were even there. The crowd (ok only 10 people max, it was sort of strange to know that 50 meters away triathlete were unaware of this situation) was encouraging the guy, come on, hang in there, fight dammit, as if he was racing against ...death ?

Unfortunately they lost the pulse, and then we went silenced, just like if we were praying in our head. Cyril shouted at me, Where is that bloody oxygen ?

Ok, it should have been here (the mandatory equipment in Switzerland should include an oxygen tank, did the women explain properly the situation to the person in charge of the swimming pool ?) time to move, I ran to the swimming pool and gosh...where did my proficient English go ? Finally, the women in charge at the swimming pool was looking into it at...snail pace. Frustration, that was my state of mind.

I came back to the scene, and they were still performing CPR, then a person from the swimming pool came with a defibrillator...ok, no oxy, and you know what ? can't perform a defib in shallow water. So they have to drag the body 50 meters to a dry location. In the meantime, some people succeeded to have crucial info on the timing. 5 minutes that was the time his girlfriend realized he was missing, 2 more minutes the diver needed to find him. 7 minutes accrued, it was still worth a try but it was a lot of minutes for the brain without O2.

The defib said ...continue to CPR (thank you dude !), time is an elastic concept and this kind of situation proved it, where are the goddamn rescue ? They came by boat and road, and installed a security perimeter, started to CPR with a stronger stance, but still no recovery. We were sort of depressed I have to confess, nothing we can do at this point, the slight pre race pressure we could have was gone for sure. We were meditating on the fragile line of life of our existence. Of course we need to prove our mortality through all kind of stuff (Inferno triathlon is one of them) but just a simple lack of air reminds us our condition.

 

Inferno or paradisio ? We have to move on, leave the drama, persuading ourselves that we did our best.

Location: Ibsley in the New forest.

Camera: fujifilm X-T1 with 18-55mm f/2.8 lens.

Outside of the Town Hall theater on West 43rd Street in Manhattan, a crowd of smiling and optimistic people Friday overflowed into the one-way street. Delivery trucks and yellow taxi cabs creeped by, their engines engaged in a shouting match with Bennet Weiss, a man who bore a fleeting resemblance to the Democratic presidential candidate they were all there to support.

 

"We don't have billions of dollars! All we have are people wearing Bernie pins," Weiss yelled, a large black umbrella covered in Bernie Sanders campaign pins at his feet, catching drops of sweat from his brow. The Occupy Wall Street protester-turned-Sanders supporter urged the crowd to wear the pins at all times with no exception -- even in the shower -- and gave them away freely to anyone who said they didn't have enough cash to afford to pay the suggested donation.

 

That's the kind of populist support Sanders' campaign has steadily been attracting since the U.S. senator from Vermont formally announced his candidacy in late April. Friday was no exception, with passion-filled people who think Sanders has proved himself the worthy champion of causes they care about the most, such as income inequality, climate change, Wall Street reform and further healthcare reforms. But, perhaps most importantly, they also think he can win the White House.

 

"Absolutely" he can win, said Joe Trinolone, 30, a former finance industry worker from Long Island, New York, who is studying mathematics at St. Joseph's University. "I mean, he's winning right now."

 

Sanders, during a fundraising speech Friday, ticked through the policies he cares about and areas of change he wants to see in Washington should he become president. At each turn, his blend of outrage, optimism and sly sarcasm brought raucous cheers from the crowd of 1,100. He rejected recent Wall Street Journal criticism of the high price tag of his proposals, including making public colleges and universities free, lowering so-called real unemployment by pumping funding into infrastructure repairs for the nation’s roads and bridges and implementing a universal healthcare system.

 

Instead, he pointed to European nations that already have those programs. He implored the crowd to think about what many of them were already talking about: that taking on the big-money interests in the United States that impede those sorts of policy changes is a shared moral obligation.

 

“Welcome to the revolution,” Sanders said, describing what he believes must happen to American politics. “We can accomplish all of this and more.” And the crowd ate it up.

 

When asked why they support Sanders, many described his candidacy as a movement. They love his policies, and have a hard time thinking of much they don’t like about him. They especially like that he has been a consistent voice during his time in Washington. That’s a big perceived difference between Sanders and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Those "feeling the Bern" were split on whether they would consider voting for her if she becomes the nominee. Many were newcomers to political action but felt compelled to join the fray when they heard Sanders and his message.

 

“I’ve never been excited about a politician my entire life,” said Meira Marom, 34, a Brooklyn third-grade teacher with a master's degree in creative writing. When Marom started seeing social media posts about Sanders and reading about him, she decided to stop focusing her personal time on writing for herself. She now writes and publishes something about Sanders every day -- Dr. Seuss themes every Sunday, poems and parodies. “I decided this is the most worthy cause to put my rhymes to use.”

 

Sanders has seen an unexpected rise in the polls since he joined the race for the Democratic nomination shortly after the current national front-runner Clinton announced her candidacy. While Sanders was trailing Clinton by 21.4 percent in national averages of polls compiled by Real Clear Politics, a look at early nominating states like Iowa and New Hampshire paints a different picture of vulnerability for Clinton and strength for Sanders.

 

The two candidates are tied in Iowa, which constitutes a dramatic drop for Clinton and an impressive surge for Sanders, who has been distancing himself from Clinton in New Hampshire at the top of the Democratic pack since Aug. 25, when he jumped past her in the state for the first time. He currently leads there by 10.5 points.

 

The candidates are noticeably different in many ways, from policy prescription to fundraising strategy.

 

Clinton has moved leftward since announcing her candidacy, but she is still threatened by the populist appeal of Sanders, who has long championed the causes that seem to be coming into grace for the Democratic Party. While the candidates currently hold some very similar positions on issues such as immigration reform, gay rights, gun control and campaign finance reform, Sanders has been able to stake out positions to the left of Clinton on other issues that excite some vocal voters.

 

Among them are his strong anti-war and anti-government surveillance positions as well as his distaste for President Barack Obama's Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal. Sanders also has been a vocal critic of Wall Street and champion of financial reforms, and his stance on those issues has drawn attention to Clinton's cozy relationship with Wall Street executives and the huge paychecks she has received for speeches to large banks since leaving the U.S. State Department. For some Sanders supporters, though, the perception that Sanders has been a consistent proponent of these liberal policies, and cares about them more than winning, is key.

 

“It’s the message that supporting Bernie Sanders is not just voting on a horse in the race” that attracts Brian Dillon, a 28-year-old self-employed Web designer and developer for e-commerce, said Friday. Dillon has voted just one time in his life, but he has been organizing meetings to drum up support for Sanders.

 

Sanders's fundraising portfolio also is the reverse of Clinton's. While the former secretary of state is expected to spend somewhere north of $1 billion should she win the primary and head into the general election for 2016, the same has not been said of Sanders. Currently, Clinton has raised, through her campaign committee and super PACs associated with the campaign, $47.5 million, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics. Sanders, on the other hand, has raised just shy of $16.5 million, according to CRP data.

 

Their most startling difference in fundraising, however, can be seen in the size of the donations they're receiving. The Clinton campaign received 82 percent of its donations from large contributors, and her top industry donors, not including retired people, so far have been lawyers, business services and the financial industry.

 

In contrast, Sanders relies much more on small donations, which are defined as donations totaling $200 or less. So far, 69 percent of his contributions have come from small donors, and the biggest industries that have given to his campaign have been from the education, legal and healthcare sectors.

 

Who are those small donors? The types of people who showed up Friday. Some said they donate $25 to $30 a month to Sanders. Some said they have donated several hundred dollars since he jumped into the presidential race. Nearly all of them mentioned they don't earn a ton of money personally. One in particular, Machumu Sakulira, said he donated $500 before attending Friday’s event.

 

There is “no way” he would support a Clinton ticket, said Sakulira, a 31-year-old senior political science student at the University at Buffalo. He got on a bus Thursday night at 11 p.m. and arrived in New York at 7 a.m. for the Sanders speech. He said he was going back Friday night. “Bernie represents my interest. My vote is a moral choice, I don’t give it to somebody who doesn’t deserve it.”

 

www.ibtimes.com/election-2016-bernie-sanders-nyc-fundrais...

Well, if you give up

You'll get what you deserve

Paramore

 

Mi único propósito para este año es ser más optmista

Outside of the Town Hall theater on West 43rd Street in Manhattan, a crowd of smiling and optimistic people Friday overflowed into the one-way street. Delivery trucks and yellow taxi cabs creeped by, their engines engaged in a shouting match with Bennet Weiss, a man who bore a fleeting resemblance to the Democratic presidential candidate they were all there to support.

 

"We don't have billions of dollars! All we have are people wearing Bernie pins," Weiss yelled, a large black umbrella covered in Bernie Sanders campaign pins at his feet, catching drops of sweat from his brow. The Occupy Wall Street protester-turned-Sanders supporter urged the crowd to wear the pins at all times with no exception -- even in the shower -- and gave them away freely to anyone who said they didn't have enough cash to afford to pay the suggested donation.

 

That's the kind of populist support Sanders' campaign has steadily been attracting since the U.S. senator from Vermont formally announced his candidacy in late April. Friday was no exception, with passion-filled people who think Sanders has proved himself the worthy champion of causes they care about the most, such as income inequality, climate change, Wall Street reform and further healthcare reforms. But, perhaps most importantly, they also think he can win the White House.

 

"Absolutely" he can win, said Joe Trinolone, 30, a former finance industry worker from Long Island, New York, who is studying mathematics at St. Joseph's University. "I mean, he's winning right now."

 

Sanders, during a fundraising speech Friday, ticked through the policies he cares about and areas of change he wants to see in Washington should he become president. At each turn, his blend of outrage, optimism and sly sarcasm brought raucous cheers from the crowd of 1,100. He rejected recent Wall Street Journal criticism of the high price tag of his proposals, including making public colleges and universities free, lowering so-called real unemployment by pumping funding into infrastructure repairs for the nation’s roads and bridges and implementing a universal healthcare system.

 

Instead, he pointed to European nations that already have those programs. He implored the crowd to think about what many of them were already talking about: that taking on the big-money interests in the United States that impede those sorts of policy changes is a shared moral obligation.

 

“Welcome to the revolution,” Sanders said, describing what he believes must happen to American politics. “We can accomplish all of this and more.” And the crowd ate it up.

 

When asked why they support Sanders, many described his candidacy as a movement. They love his policies, and have a hard time thinking of much they don’t like about him. They especially like that he has been a consistent voice during his time in Washington. That’s a big perceived difference between Sanders and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Those "feeling the Bern" were split on whether they would consider voting for her if she becomes the nominee. Many were newcomers to political action but felt compelled to join the fray when they heard Sanders and his message.

 

“I’ve never been excited about a politician my entire life,” said Meira Marom, 34, a Brooklyn third-grade teacher with a master's degree in creative writing. When Marom started seeing social media posts about Sanders and reading about him, she decided to stop focusing her personal time on writing for herself. She now writes and publishes something about Sanders every day -- Dr. Seuss themes every Sunday, poems and parodies. “I decided this is the most worthy cause to put my rhymes to use.”

 

Sanders has seen an unexpected rise in the polls since he joined the race for the Democratic nomination shortly after the current national front-runner Clinton announced her candidacy. While Sanders was trailing Clinton by 21.4 percent in national averages of polls compiled by Real Clear Politics, a look at early nominating states like Iowa and New Hampshire paints a different picture of vulnerability for Clinton and strength for Sanders.

 

The two candidates are tied in Iowa, which constitutes a dramatic drop for Clinton and an impressive surge for Sanders, who has been distancing himself from Clinton in New Hampshire at the top of the Democratic pack since Aug. 25, when he jumped past her in the state for the first time. He currently leads there by 10.5 points.

 

The candidates are noticeably different in many ways, from policy prescription to fundraising strategy.

 

Clinton has moved leftward since announcing her candidacy, but she is still threatened by the populist appeal of Sanders, who has long championed the causes that seem to be coming into grace for the Democratic Party. While the candidates currently hold some very similar positions on issues such as immigration reform, gay rights, gun control and campaign finance reform, Sanders has been able to stake out positions to the left of Clinton on other issues that excite some vocal voters.

 

Among them are his strong anti-war and anti-government surveillance positions as well as his distaste for President Barack Obama's Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal. Sanders also has been a vocal critic of Wall Street and champion of financial reforms, and his stance on those issues has drawn attention to Clinton's cozy relationship with Wall Street executives and the huge paychecks she has received for speeches to large banks since leaving the U.S. State Department. For some Sanders supporters, though, the perception that Sanders has been a consistent proponent of these liberal policies, and cares about them more than winning, is key.

 

“It’s the message that supporting Bernie Sanders is not just voting on a horse in the race” that attracts Brian Dillon, a 28-year-old self-employed Web designer and developer for e-commerce, said Friday. Dillon has voted just one time in his life, but he has been organizing meetings to drum up support for Sanders.

 

Sanders's fundraising portfolio also is the reverse of Clinton's. While the former secretary of state is expected to spend somewhere north of $1 billion should she win the primary and head into the general election for 2016, the same has not been said of Sanders. Currently, Clinton has raised, through her campaign committee and super PACs associated with the campaign, $47.5 million, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics. Sanders, on the other hand, has raised just shy of $16.5 million, according to CRP data.

 

Their most startling difference in fundraising, however, can be seen in the size of the donations they're receiving. The Clinton campaign received 82 percent of its donations from large contributors, and her top industry donors, not including retired people, so far have been lawyers, business services and the financial industry.

 

In contrast, Sanders relies much more on small donations, which are defined as donations totaling $200 or less. So far, 69 percent of his contributions have come from small donors, and the biggest industries that have given to his campaign have been from the education, legal and healthcare sectors.

 

Who are those small donors? The types of people who showed up Friday. Some said they donate $25 to $30 a month to Sanders. Some said they have donated several hundred dollars since he jumped into the presidential race. Nearly all of them mentioned they don't earn a ton of money personally. One in particular, Machumu Sakulira, said he donated $500 before attending Friday’s event.

 

There is “no way” he would support a Clinton ticket, said Sakulira, a 31-year-old senior political science student at the University at Buffalo. He got on a bus Thursday night at 11 p.m. and arrived in New York at 7 a.m. for the Sanders speech. He said he was going back Friday night. “Bernie represents my interest. My vote is a moral choice, I don’t give it to somebody who doesn’t deserve it.”

 

www.ibtimes.com/election-2016-bernie-sanders-nyc-fundrais...

Outside of the Town Hall theater on West 43rd Street in Manhattan, a crowd of smiling and optimistic people Friday overflowed into the one-way street. Delivery trucks and yellow taxi cabs creeped by, their engines engaged in a shouting match with Bennet Weiss, a man who bore a fleeting resemblance to the Democratic presidential candidate they were all there to support.

 

"We don't have billions of dollars! All we have are people wearing Bernie pins," Weiss yelled, a large black umbrella covered in Bernie Sanders campaign pins at his feet, catching drops of sweat from his brow. The Occupy Wall Street protester-turned-Sanders supporter urged the crowd to wear the pins at all times with no exception -- even in the shower -- and gave them away freely to anyone who said they didn't have enough cash to afford to pay the suggested donation.

 

That's the kind of populist support Sanders' campaign has steadily been attracting since the U.S. senator from Vermont formally announced his candidacy in late April. Friday was no exception, with passion-filled people who think Sanders has proved himself the worthy champion of causes they care about the most, such as income inequality, climate change, Wall Street reform and further healthcare reforms. But, perhaps most importantly, they also think he can win the White House.

 

"Absolutely" he can win, said Joe Trinolone, 30, a former finance industry worker from Long Island, New York, who is studying mathematics at St. Joseph's University. "I mean, he's winning right now."

 

Sanders, during a fundraising speech Friday, ticked through the policies he cares about and areas of change he wants to see in Washington should he become president. At each turn, his blend of outrage, optimism and sly sarcasm brought raucous cheers from the crowd of 1,100. He rejected recent Wall Street Journal criticism of the high price tag of his proposals, including making public colleges and universities free, lowering so-called real unemployment by pumping funding into infrastructure repairs for the nation’s roads and bridges and implementing a universal healthcare system.

 

Instead, he pointed to European nations that already have those programs. He implored the crowd to think about what many of them were already talking about: that taking on the big-money interests in the United States that impede those sorts of policy changes is a shared moral obligation.

 

“Welcome to the revolution,” Sanders said, describing what he believes must happen to American politics. “We can accomplish all of this and more.” And the crowd ate it up.

 

When asked why they support Sanders, many described his candidacy as a movement. They love his policies, and have a hard time thinking of much they don’t like about him. They especially like that he has been a consistent voice during his time in Washington. That’s a big perceived difference between Sanders and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Those "feeling the Bern" were split on whether they would consider voting for her if she becomes the nominee. Many were newcomers to political action but felt compelled to join the fray when they heard Sanders and his message.

 

“I’ve never been excited about a politician my entire life,” said Meira Marom, 34, a Brooklyn third-grade teacher with a master's degree in creative writing. When Marom started seeing social media posts about Sanders and reading about him, she decided to stop focusing her personal time on writing for herself. She now writes and publishes something about Sanders every day -- Dr. Seuss themes every Sunday, poems and parodies. “I decided this is the most worthy cause to put my rhymes to use.”

 

Sanders has seen an unexpected rise in the polls since he joined the race for the Democratic nomination shortly after the current national front-runner Clinton announced her candidacy. While Sanders was trailing Clinton by 21.4 percent in national averages of polls compiled by Real Clear Politics, a look at early nominating states like Iowa and New Hampshire paints a different picture of vulnerability for Clinton and strength for Sanders.

 

The two candidates are tied in Iowa, which constitutes a dramatic drop for Clinton and an impressive surge for Sanders, who has been distancing himself from Clinton in New Hampshire at the top of the Democratic pack since Aug. 25, when he jumped past her in the state for the first time. He currently leads there by 10.5 points.

 

The candidates are noticeably different in many ways, from policy prescription to fundraising strategy.

 

Clinton has moved leftward since announcing her candidacy, but she is still threatened by the populist appeal of Sanders, who has long championed the causes that seem to be coming into grace for the Democratic Party. While the candidates currently hold some very similar positions on issues such as immigration reform, gay rights, gun control and campaign finance reform, Sanders has been able to stake out positions to the left of Clinton on other issues that excite some vocal voters.

 

Among them are his strong anti-war and anti-government surveillance positions as well as his distaste for President Barack Obama's Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal. Sanders also has been a vocal critic of Wall Street and champion of financial reforms, and his stance on those issues has drawn attention to Clinton's cozy relationship with Wall Street executives and the huge paychecks she has received for speeches to large banks since leaving the U.S. State Department. For some Sanders supporters, though, the perception that Sanders has been a consistent proponent of these liberal policies, and cares about them more than winning, is key.

 

“It’s the message that supporting Bernie Sanders is not just voting on a horse in the race” that attracts Brian Dillon, a 28-year-old self-employed Web designer and developer for e-commerce, said Friday. Dillon has voted just one time in his life, but he has been organizing meetings to drum up support for Sanders.

 

Sanders's fundraising portfolio also is the reverse of Clinton's. While the former secretary of state is expected to spend somewhere north of $1 billion should she win the primary and head into the general election for 2016, the same has not been said of Sanders. Currently, Clinton has raised, through her campaign committee and super PACs associated with the campaign, $47.5 million, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics. Sanders, on the other hand, has raised just shy of $16.5 million, according to CRP data.

 

Their most startling difference in fundraising, however, can be seen in the size of the donations they're receiving. The Clinton campaign received 82 percent of its donations from large contributors, and her top industry donors, not including retired people, so far have been lawyers, business services and the financial industry.

 

In contrast, Sanders relies much more on small donations, which are defined as donations totaling $200 or less. So far, 69 percent of his contributions have come from small donors, and the biggest industries that have given to his campaign have been from the education, legal and healthcare sectors.

 

Who are those small donors? The types of people who showed up Friday. Some said they donate $25 to $30 a month to Sanders. Some said they have donated several hundred dollars since he jumped into the presidential race. Nearly all of them mentioned they don't earn a ton of money personally. One in particular, Machumu Sakulira, said he donated $500 before attending Friday’s event.

 

There is “no way” he would support a Clinton ticket, said Sakulira, a 31-year-old senior political science student at the University at Buffalo. He got on a bus Thursday night at 11 p.m. and arrived in New York at 7 a.m. for the Sanders speech. He said he was going back Friday night. “Bernie represents my interest. My vote is a moral choice, I don’t give it to somebody who doesn’t deserve it.”

 

www.ibtimes.com/election-2016-bernie-sanders-nyc-fundrais...

Outside of the Town Hall theater on West 43rd Street in Manhattan, a crowd of smiling and optimistic people Friday overflowed into the one-way street. Delivery trucks and yellow taxi cabs creeped by, their engines engaged in a shouting match with Bennet Weiss, a man who bore a fleeting resemblance to the Democratic presidential candidate they were all there to support.

 

"We don't have billions of dollars! All we have are people wearing Bernie pins," Weiss yelled, a large black umbrella covered in Bernie Sanders campaign pins at his feet, catching drops of sweat from his brow. The Occupy Wall Street protester-turned-Sanders supporter urged the crowd to wear the pins at all times with no exception -- even in the shower -- and gave them away freely to anyone who said they didn't have enough cash to afford to pay the suggested donation.

 

That's the kind of populist support Sanders' campaign has steadily been attracting since the U.S. senator from Vermont formally announced his candidacy in late April. Friday was no exception, with passion-filled people who think Sanders has proved himself the worthy champion of causes they care about the most, such as income inequality, climate change, Wall Street reform and further healthcare reforms. But, perhaps most importantly, they also think he can win the White House.

 

"Absolutely" he can win, said Joe Trinolone, 30, a former finance industry worker from Long Island, New York, who is studying mathematics at St. Joseph's University. "I mean, he's winning right now."

 

Sanders, during a fundraising speech Friday, ticked through the policies he cares about and areas of change he wants to see in Washington should he become president. At each turn, his blend of outrage, optimism and sly sarcasm brought raucous cheers from the crowd of 1,100. He rejected recent Wall Street Journal criticism of the high price tag of his proposals, including making public colleges and universities free, lowering so-called real unemployment by pumping funding into infrastructure repairs for the nation’s roads and bridges and implementing a universal healthcare system.

 

Instead, he pointed to European nations that already have those programs. He implored the crowd to think about what many of them were already talking about: that taking on the big-money interests in the United States that impede those sorts of policy changes is a shared moral obligation.

 

“Welcome to the revolution,” Sanders said, describing what he believes must happen to American politics. “We can accomplish all of this and more.” And the crowd ate it up.

 

When asked why they support Sanders, many described his candidacy as a movement. They love his policies, and have a hard time thinking of much they don’t like about him. They especially like that he has been a consistent voice during his time in Washington. That’s a big perceived difference between Sanders and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Those "feeling the Bern" were split on whether they would consider voting for her if she becomes the nominee. Many were newcomers to political action but felt compelled to join the fray when they heard Sanders and his message.

 

“I’ve never been excited about a politician my entire life,” said Meira Marom, 34, a Brooklyn third-grade teacher with a master's degree in creative writing. When Marom started seeing social media posts about Sanders and reading about him, she decided to stop focusing her personal time on writing for herself. She now writes and publishes something about Sanders every day -- Dr. Seuss themes every Sunday, poems and parodies. “I decided this is the most worthy cause to put my rhymes to use.”

 

Sanders has seen an unexpected rise in the polls since he joined the race for the Democratic nomination shortly after the current national front-runner Clinton announced her candidacy. While Sanders was trailing Clinton by 21.4 percent in national averages of polls compiled by Real Clear Politics, a look at early nominating states like Iowa and New Hampshire paints a different picture of vulnerability for Clinton and strength for Sanders.

 

The two candidates are tied in Iowa, which constitutes a dramatic drop for Clinton and an impressive surge for Sanders, who has been distancing himself from Clinton in New Hampshire at the top of the Democratic pack since Aug. 25, when he jumped past her in the state for the first time. He currently leads there by 10.5 points.

 

The candidates are noticeably different in many ways, from policy prescription to fundraising strategy.

 

Clinton has moved leftward since announcing her candidacy, but she is still threatened by the populist appeal of Sanders, who has long championed the causes that seem to be coming into grace for the Democratic Party. While the candidates currently hold some very similar positions on issues such as immigration reform, gay rights, gun control and campaign finance reform, Sanders has been able to stake out positions to the left of Clinton on other issues that excite some vocal voters.

 

Among them are his strong anti-war and anti-government surveillance positions as well as his distaste for President Barack Obama's Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal. Sanders also has been a vocal critic of Wall Street and champion of financial reforms, and his stance on those issues has drawn attention to Clinton's cozy relationship with Wall Street executives and the huge paychecks she has received for speeches to large banks since leaving the U.S. State Department. For some Sanders supporters, though, the perception that Sanders has been a consistent proponent of these liberal policies, and cares about them more than winning, is key.

 

“It’s the message that supporting Bernie Sanders is not just voting on a horse in the race” that attracts Brian Dillon, a 28-year-old self-employed Web designer and developer for e-commerce, said Friday. Dillon has voted just one time in his life, but he has been organizing meetings to drum up support for Sanders.

 

Sanders's fundraising portfolio also is the reverse of Clinton's. While the former secretary of state is expected to spend somewhere north of $1 billion should she win the primary and head into the general election for 2016, the same has not been said of Sanders. Currently, Clinton has raised, through her campaign committee and super PACs associated with the campaign, $47.5 million, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics. Sanders, on the other hand, has raised just shy of $16.5 million, according to CRP data.

 

Their most startling difference in fundraising, however, can be seen in the size of the donations they're receiving. The Clinton campaign received 82 percent of its donations from large contributors, and her top industry donors, not including retired people, so far have been lawyers, business services and the financial industry.

 

In contrast, Sanders relies much more on small donations, which are defined as donations totaling $200 or less. So far, 69 percent of his contributions have come from small donors, and the biggest industries that have given to his campaign have been from the education, legal and healthcare sectors.

 

Who are those small donors? The types of people who showed up Friday. Some said they donate $25 to $30 a month to Sanders. Some said they have donated several hundred dollars since he jumped into the presidential race. Nearly all of them mentioned they don't earn a ton of money personally. One in particular, Machumu Sakulira, said he donated $500 before attending Friday’s event.

 

There is “no way” he would support a Clinton ticket, said Sakulira, a 31-year-old senior political science student at the University at Buffalo. He got on a bus Thursday night at 11 p.m. and arrived in New York at 7 a.m. for the Sanders speech. He said he was going back Friday night. “Bernie represents my interest. My vote is a moral choice, I don’t give it to somebody who doesn’t deserve it.”

 

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#projectlife365 #optimistic I'm optimistic about my MIL making a full recovery & being able to go back to her home.

Outside of the Town Hall theater on West 43rd Street in Manhattan, a crowd of smiling and optimistic people Friday overflowed into the one-way street. Delivery trucks and yellow taxi cabs creeped by, their engines engaged in a shouting match with Bennet Weiss, a man who bore a fleeting resemblance to the Democratic presidential candidate they were all there to support.

 

"We don't have billions of dollars! All we have are people wearing Bernie pins," Weiss yelled, a large black umbrella covered in Bernie Sanders campaign pins at his feet, catching drops of sweat from his brow. The Occupy Wall Street protester-turned-Sanders supporter urged the crowd to wear the pins at all times with no exception -- even in the shower -- and gave them away freely to anyone who said they didn't have enough cash to afford to pay the suggested donation.

 

That's the kind of populist support Sanders' campaign has steadily been attracting since the U.S. senator from Vermont formally announced his candidacy in late April. Friday was no exception, with passion-filled people who think Sanders has proved himself the worthy champion of causes they care about the most, such as income inequality, climate change, Wall Street reform and further healthcare reforms. But, perhaps most importantly, they also think he can win the White House.

 

"Absolutely" he can win, said Joe Trinolone, 30, a former finance industry worker from Long Island, New York, who is studying mathematics at St. Joseph's University. "I mean, he's winning right now."

 

Sanders, during a fundraising speech Friday, ticked through the policies he cares about and areas of change he wants to see in Washington should he become president. At each turn, his blend of outrage, optimism and sly sarcasm brought raucous cheers from the crowd of 1,100. He rejected recent Wall Street Journal criticism of the high price tag of his proposals, including making public colleges and universities free, lowering so-called real unemployment by pumping funding into infrastructure repairs for the nation’s roads and bridges and implementing a universal healthcare system.

 

Instead, he pointed to European nations that already have those programs. He implored the crowd to think about what many of them were already talking about: that taking on the big-money interests in the United States that impede those sorts of policy changes is a shared moral obligation.

 

“Welcome to the revolution,” Sanders said, describing what he believes must happen to American politics. “We can accomplish all of this and more.” And the crowd ate it up.

 

When asked why they support Sanders, many described his candidacy as a movement. They love his policies, and have a hard time thinking of much they don’t like about him. They especially like that he has been a consistent voice during his time in Washington. That’s a big perceived difference between Sanders and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Those "feeling the Bern" were split on whether they would consider voting for her if she becomes the nominee. Many were newcomers to political action but felt compelled to join the fray when they heard Sanders and his message.

 

“I’ve never been excited about a politician my entire life,” said Meira Marom, 34, a Brooklyn third-grade teacher with a master's degree in creative writing. When Marom started seeing social media posts about Sanders and reading about him, she decided to stop focusing her personal time on writing for herself. She now writes and publishes something about Sanders every day -- Dr. Seuss themes every Sunday, poems and parodies. “I decided this is the most worthy cause to put my rhymes to use.”

 

Sanders has seen an unexpected rise in the polls since he joined the race for the Democratic nomination shortly after the current national front-runner Clinton announced her candidacy. While Sanders was trailing Clinton by 21.4 percent in national averages of polls compiled by Real Clear Politics, a look at early nominating states like Iowa and New Hampshire paints a different picture of vulnerability for Clinton and strength for Sanders.

 

The two candidates are tied in Iowa, which constitutes a dramatic drop for Clinton and an impressive surge for Sanders, who has been distancing himself from Clinton in New Hampshire at the top of the Democratic pack since Aug. 25, when he jumped past her in the state for the first time. He currently leads there by 10.5 points.

 

The candidates are noticeably different in many ways, from policy prescription to fundraising strategy.

 

Clinton has moved leftward since announcing her candidacy, but she is still threatened by the populist appeal of Sanders, who has long championed the causes that seem to be coming into grace for the Democratic Party. While the candidates currently hold some very similar positions on issues such as immigration reform, gay rights, gun control and campaign finance reform, Sanders has been able to stake out positions to the left of Clinton on other issues that excite some vocal voters.

 

Among them are his strong anti-war and anti-government surveillance positions as well as his distaste for President Barack Obama's Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal. Sanders also has been a vocal critic of Wall Street and champion of financial reforms, and his stance on those issues has drawn attention to Clinton's cozy relationship with Wall Street executives and the huge paychecks she has received for speeches to large banks since leaving the U.S. State Department. For some Sanders supporters, though, the perception that Sanders has been a consistent proponent of these liberal policies, and cares about them more than winning, is key.

 

“It’s the message that supporting Bernie Sanders is not just voting on a horse in the race” that attracts Brian Dillon, a 28-year-old self-employed Web designer and developer for e-commerce, said Friday. Dillon has voted just one time in his life, but he has been organizing meetings to drum up support for Sanders.

 

Sanders's fundraising portfolio also is the reverse of Clinton's. While the former secretary of state is expected to spend somewhere north of $1 billion should she win the primary and head into the general election for 2016, the same has not been said of Sanders. Currently, Clinton has raised, through her campaign committee and super PACs associated with the campaign, $47.5 million, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics. Sanders, on the other hand, has raised just shy of $16.5 million, according to CRP data.

 

Their most startling difference in fundraising, however, can be seen in the size of the donations they're receiving. The Clinton campaign received 82 percent of its donations from large contributors, and her top industry donors, not including retired people, so far have been lawyers, business services and the financial industry.

 

In contrast, Sanders relies much more on small donations, which are defined as donations totaling $200 or less. So far, 69 percent of his contributions have come from small donors, and the biggest industries that have given to his campaign have been from the education, legal and healthcare sectors.

 

Who are those small donors? The types of people who showed up Friday. Some said they donate $25 to $30 a month to Sanders. Some said they have donated several hundred dollars since he jumped into the presidential race. Nearly all of them mentioned they don't earn a ton of money personally. One in particular, Machumu Sakulira, said he donated $500 before attending Friday’s event.

 

There is “no way” he would support a Clinton ticket, said Sakulira, a 31-year-old senior political science student at the University at Buffalo. He got on a bus Thursday night at 11 p.m. and arrived in New York at 7 a.m. for the Sanders speech. He said he was going back Friday night. “Bernie represents my interest. My vote is a moral choice, I don’t give it to somebody who doesn’t deserve it.”

 

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Outside of the Town Hall theater on West 43rd Street in Manhattan, a crowd of smiling and optimistic people Friday overflowed into the one-way street. Delivery trucks and yellow taxi cabs creeped by, their engines engaged in a shouting match with Bennet Weiss, a man who bore a fleeting resemblance to the Democratic presidential candidate they were all there to support.

 

"We don't have billions of dollars! All we have are people wearing Bernie pins," Weiss yelled, a large black umbrella covered in Bernie Sanders campaign pins at his feet, catching drops of sweat from his brow. The Occupy Wall Street protester-turned-Sanders supporter urged the crowd to wear the pins at all times with no exception -- even in the shower -- and gave them away freely to anyone who said they didn't have enough cash to afford to pay the suggested donation.

 

That's the kind of populist support Sanders' campaign has steadily been attracting since the U.S. senator from Vermont formally announced his candidacy in late April. Friday was no exception, with passion-filled people who think Sanders has proved himself the worthy champion of causes they care about the most, such as income inequality, climate change, Wall Street reform and further healthcare reforms. But, perhaps most importantly, they also think he can win the White House.

 

"Absolutely" he can win, said Joe Trinolone, 30, a former finance industry worker from Long Island, New York, who is studying mathematics at St. Joseph's University. "I mean, he's winning right now."

 

Sanders, during a fundraising speech Friday, ticked through the policies he cares about and areas of change he wants to see in Washington should he become president. At each turn, his blend of outrage, optimism and sly sarcasm brought raucous cheers from the crowd of 1,100. He rejected recent Wall Street Journal criticism of the high price tag of his proposals, including making public colleges and universities free, lowering so-called real unemployment by pumping funding into infrastructure repairs for the nation’s roads and bridges and implementing a universal healthcare system.

 

Instead, he pointed to European nations that already have those programs. He implored the crowd to think about what many of them were already talking about: that taking on the big-money interests in the United States that impede those sorts of policy changes is a shared moral obligation.

 

“Welcome to the revolution,” Sanders said, describing what he believes must happen to American politics. “We can accomplish all of this and more.” And the crowd ate it up.

 

When asked why they support Sanders, many described his candidacy as a movement. They love his policies, and have a hard time thinking of much they don’t like about him. They especially like that he has been a consistent voice during his time in Washington. That’s a big perceived difference between Sanders and his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Those "feeling the Bern" were split on whether they would consider voting for her if she becomes the nominee. Many were newcomers to political action but felt compelled to join the fray when they heard Sanders and his message.

 

“I’ve never been excited about a politician my entire life,” said Meira Marom, 34, a Brooklyn third-grade teacher with a master's degree in creative writing. When Marom started seeing social media posts about Sanders and reading about him, she decided to stop focusing her personal time on writing for herself. She now writes and publishes something about Sanders every day -- Dr. Seuss themes every Sunday, poems and parodies. “I decided this is the most worthy cause to put my rhymes to use.”

 

Sanders has seen an unexpected rise in the polls since he joined the race for the Democratic nomination shortly after the current national front-runner Clinton announced her candidacy. While Sanders was trailing Clinton by 21.4 percent in national averages of polls compiled by Real Clear Politics, a look at early nominating states like Iowa and New Hampshire paints a different picture of vulnerability for Clinton and strength for Sanders.

 

The two candidates are tied in Iowa, which constitutes a dramatic drop for Clinton and an impressive surge for Sanders, who has been distancing himself from Clinton in New Hampshire at the top of the Democratic pack since Aug. 25, when he jumped past her in the state for the first time. He currently leads there by 10.5 points.

 

The candidates are noticeably different in many ways, from policy prescription to fundraising strategy.

 

Clinton has moved leftward since announcing her candidacy, but she is still threatened by the populist appeal of Sanders, who has long championed the causes that seem to be coming into grace for the Democratic Party. While the candidates currently hold some very similar positions on issues such as immigration reform, gay rights, gun control and campaign finance reform, Sanders has been able to stake out positions to the left of Clinton on other issues that excite some vocal voters.

 

Among them are his strong anti-war and anti-government surveillance positions as well as his distaste for President Barack Obama's Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal. Sanders also has been a vocal critic of Wall Street and champion of financial reforms, and his stance on those issues has drawn attention to Clinton's cozy relationship with Wall Street executives and the huge paychecks she has received for speeches to large banks since leaving the U.S. State Department. For some Sanders supporters, though, the perception that Sanders has been a consistent proponent of these liberal policies, and cares about them more than winning, is key.

 

“It’s the message that supporting Bernie Sanders is not just voting on a horse in the race” that attracts Brian Dillon, a 28-year-old self-employed Web designer and developer for e-commerce, said Friday. Dillon has voted just one time in his life, but he has been organizing meetings to drum up support for Sanders.

 

Sanders's fundraising portfolio also is the reverse of Clinton's. While the former secretary of state is expected to spend somewhere north of $1 billion should she win the primary and head into the general election for 2016, the same has not been said of Sanders. Currently, Clinton has raised, through her campaign committee and super PACs associated with the campaign, $47.5 million, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics. Sanders, on the other hand, has raised just shy of $16.5 million, according to CRP data.

 

Their most startling difference in fundraising, however, can be seen in the size of the donations they're receiving. The Clinton campaign received 82 percent of its donations from large contributors, and her top industry donors, not including retired people, so far have been lawyers, business services and the financial industry.

 

In contrast, Sanders relies much more on small donations, which are defined as donations totaling $200 or less. So far, 69 percent of his contributions have come from small donors, and the biggest industries that have given to his campaign have been from the education, legal and healthcare sectors.

 

Who are those small donors? The types of people who showed up Friday. Some said they donate $25 to $30 a month to Sanders. Some said they have donated several hundred dollars since he jumped into the presidential race. Nearly all of them mentioned they don't earn a ton of money personally. One in particular, Machumu Sakulira, said he donated $500 before attending Friday’s event.

 

There is “no way” he would support a Clinton ticket, said Sakulira, a 31-year-old senior political science student at the University at Buffalo. He got on a bus Thursday night at 11 p.m. and arrived in New York at 7 a.m. for the Sanders speech. He said he was going back Friday night. “Bernie represents my interest. My vote is a moral choice, I don’t give it to somebody who doesn’t deserve it.”

 

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Tweaked a zine cover I drew. Loved the #perfectionist title.

 

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Still from CCS: a 2 degree solution, a film by Carbon Visuals for WBCSD available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RejAjfRkVuc

 

In this scene we see one day's carbon dioxide emissions (107 million metric tons) in a huge pile 4,242 metres high (2.6 miles).

 

The film reveals how significant fossil fuel use is today, and will continue to be for decades to come and so makes a case for carbon capture and storage. All the quantities represented in the film are 'real'; the film shows the actual volume and rate of emissions, it is not merely indicative.

 

The world gets through a lot of fossil fuels:

 

• 7,896.4 million metric tons of coal in 2013 (21.6 million metric tons per day, 250 metric tons per second)

 

• 91,330,895 barrels of oil per day in 2013 (168 m3 per second)

 

• 3,347.63 billion m3 of natural gas in 2013 (9.2 km3 per day, 106,082 m3 per second)

 

This film tries to make those numbers physically meaningful – to make the quantities ‘real’; more than ‘just numbers’. All the graphics in the film are based on real quantities.

 

• The coal we use each day would form a pile 236 metres high and 673 metres across. We could fill a volume the size of the UN Secretariat Building with coal every 17 minutes.

 

• At the rate we use oil, we could fill an Olympic swimming pool every 15 seconds. We could fill a volume the size of the UN Secretariat Building with oil every 30 minutes.

 

• The rate at which we use natural gas is equivalent to gas travelling along a pipe with an internal diameter of 60 metres at hurricane speeds (135 km/h / 84 mph). We could fill a volume the size of the UN Secretariat Building with natural gas in under 3 seconds. We use a cubic kilometre of gas every 2 hours 37 minutes and a cubic mile of the stuff every 10 hours 54 minutes.

 

The world’s use of fossil fuels is increasing, not decreasing. Renewable energy will help, but it cannot keep up with the demand for energy. The International Renewable Energy Agency’s most optimistic road-map suggests that renewables will not displace fossil fuels for decades, which is a problem because we are adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere at an increasing rate.

 

• In 2012 we added over 39 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. That’s 1,237 metric tons a second. It is like a ‘bubble’ of carbon dioxide gas 108 metres across entering the atmosphere every second of every day. We could fill a volume the size of the UN Secretariat Building with our carbon dioxide emissions in less than half a second. We could fill it 133 times a minute. The pile of one metric ton spheres in the film, which represents one day’s emissions, is 3.7 km high (2.3 miles) and 7.4 km across (4.6 miles).

 

To keep global warming below 2 °C we can afford to emit no more than 1 trillion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere (3.66 trillion metric tons of carbon dioxide).

 

2 °C is a significant figure because if warming is more than this ‘positive feedback’ effects will make it increasingly hard to control the temperature. For instance, beyond 2 °C, there will be considerably less ice on Earth. Because it is white, ice reflects energy from the sun back out to space. If the ice goes, more energy from the sun will be absorbed by the Earth.

 

We have already added more than half the threshold quantity of 1 trillion metric tons of carbon (up to mid-2014, we have emitted about 582 billion metric tons). If carbon dioxide from fossil fuels continues to enter the atmosphere we will reach 2 °C threshold in a few years. The projected emissions illustrated in the film are based on RCP 4.5, which is one of the four ‘Representative Concentration Pathways’ used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report.

 

Carbon capture and storage means we can use the energy of fossil fuels without adding carbon to the atmosphere. Because fossil fuels will remain a significant part of the world’s energy economy for decades to come, carbon capture and storage is an essential part of any plan to keep global warming below 2 °C.

 

Details, calculations and sources for all the numbers in the film are available in a methodology document: www.carbonvisuals.com/media/item/735/559/Methodology-CCS_...

 

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Between 2014 and 2018 Australia will commemorate the Anzac Centenary, marking 100 years since our nation's involvement in the First World War.

These photos are almost 10 years old to the day (7 days away) as it will soon be Anzac day 2015.

 

I have attended quite a few dawn services but none quite as sobering as being a foreigner, walking fields where Australian soldiers died during wartime, and were burried.

 

I thought it was time to post my photos from Kranji.

I got up at 4 am along with many other of my Australian Microsoft and MVP friends. Bleary eyed, fighting the fog, we found our way to the bus.

We were in a daze as we were bumped about making our way to the killing fields of Kranji.

 

Kranji is a suburb in northwestern Singapore, located about 22 kilometres (14 mi) from the city centre.

The Kranji War Memorial in Singapore honours the men and women from the Commonwealth who died in the line of duty during World War II.

 

A very appropropriate and solem place for Anzac Day 2005.

 

Back then I was not interested in Photography and my cameras were not that great. Still, that is not the reason for the photos. I did want to try for a perfect shot. I just wanted memories.

It was humid, dark and very quiet as the service started. Bagpipes from overhead and marching in front.

 

Deep within this quiet neighbourhood, lies the Kranji War Memorial, a hillside cemetery that is quite beautiful in its serenity once you get there.

Every year, a memorial service is held to pay tribute to those who gave their lives.

The memorial honours the men and women from Britain, Australia, Canada, Sri Lanka, India, Malaya, the Netherlands and New Zealand who died in the line of duty during World War II.

 

Here, we see more than 4,400 white gravestones lined up in rows on the cemetery’s gentle slope. Many graves hold unknown soldiers.

The Chinese Memorial in plot 44 marks a mass grave for 69 Chinese servicemen who were killed by the Japanese when Singapore fell in February 1942.

 

Next to the Kranji War Memorial are the Kranji Military Cemetery and the Singapore State Cemetery, where Singapore’s first and second presidents are buried.

As we walked the short flight of steps to the hilltop terrace, we saw four memorials.

 

The largest is the Singapore Memorial, with its huge star-topped central pylon that rises to a height of 24 metres.

This memorial bears the names of more than 24,346 Allied soldiers and airmen killed in Southeast Asia who have no known grave. You can find the register, kept by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, at the entrance.

 

Every year, on the Sunday closest to Remembrance Day on 11 November, a memorial service is held to pay tribute to those who gave their lives.

 

Next to the Kranji War Memorial is the Kranji Military Cemetery, a non-world war site of more than 1,400 burials, as well as the Singapore State Cemetery, where the country’s first and second presidents, Encik Yusof Ishak and Dr Benjamin Henry

 

Sheares, are buried.

 

The Battle of Kranji was the second stage of the Empire of Japan's plan for the invasion of Singapore during the Second World War. On 9 February 1942 the Imperial Japanese Army assaulted the north-western front of the British colony of

 

Singapore. Their primary objective was to secure a second beachhead after their successful assault at Sarimbun Beach on 8 February, in order to breach the Jurong-Kranji defence line as part of their southward thrust towards the heart of

 

Singapore City. Defending the shoreline between the Kranji River and the Johor–Singapore Causeway was the Australian 27th Brigade, led by Brigadier Duncan Maxwell, and one irregular company.

 

On 10 February the Japanese forces suffered their heaviest losses while moving up the Kranji River, which caused them to panic and nearly aborted the operation. However, a series of miscommunications and withdrawals by Allied forces in the

 

ensuing battles allowed the Japanese to swiftly gain strategic footholds, which eventually led to the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942.

 

The terrain around Kranji was primarily mangrove swamps and tropical forest intersected by streams and inlets. The shoreline between the Kranji River and the Johor–Singapore Causeway, nearly four kilometers long, was defended by the

 

Australian 27th Brigade, led by Australian Brigadier Duncan Maxwell. The 27th Infantry Brigade consisted of three battalions—the 2/30th, 2/29th, and 2/26th and was supported by the 2/10th Field Artillery Regiment, as well as one platoon from the

 

2/4th Machine Gun Battalion.

 

They were supported by one company from Dalforce (named after its commander, Lieutenant-Colonel John Dalley of the Malayan Police Special Branch), a local Chinese militia consisting of Communists, Nationalist supporters, and other

 

volunteers. As the war intensified, the Dalforce volunteers were given only three to four days of training and sent to the war front with elementary weapons. Lacking uniforms, the volunteers improvised by wearing a red triangle on their blue shirts to

 

avoid being mistaken for Japanese by the Australians.

 

The Allied forces at Kranji were to be assaulted by the Imperial Guards Division led by Major General Takuma Nishimura. 400 Imperial Guards had landed and taken Pulau Ubin, an island in the north-east of Singapore, in a feint attack on 7

 

February, where they encountered minimal resistance.

 

On 9 February, two divisions of the Japanese Twenty Fifth Army, led by Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashita, landed on the northwestern coast of Singapore, in the Sarimbun area. Yamashita's headquarters (HQ) was in the Sultan of Johor's

 

palace on Istana Bukit Serene, which offered him and his officers a bird's eye view of virtually every key target in the northern sector of Singapore Island, only 1.6 kilometres (one mile) across the Straits of Johor. Sultan Ibrahim's palace was not fired

 

upon by the British because any damage caused would have extensive repercussions for British-Johor ties.

 

The primary objective of the Japanese at Kranji was to capture Kranji village; this would let them repair the demolished Causeway in order to facilitate easy flow of reinforcements and supplies down the roads of Woodlands and Mandai, and to the

 

rest of the island for their vanguard force. Once the leading wave of Japanese was safely ashore, the massed Japanese artillery switched their fire to the defensive positions at Kranji. Telegraph and telephone communications were destroyed in the

 

bombardment and communications between the front line and command HQ were broken. At 8:30pm that night, the men of the Imperial Guards Division began the crossing from Johor in special armoured landing-crafts, collapsible boats and by

 

swimming.

 

In the early hours of 10 February, Japanese forces suffered their heaviest losses during the Battle of Singapore. While moving up the Kranji River, advance landing parties from the 4th Regiment of the Imperial Guard Division found themselves

 

under heavy fire from Australian machine gunners and mortar teams. They also found themselves surrounded by oil slicks, which had been created by Allied personnel emptying the nearby Woodlands oil depot, to prevent its capture. A scenario

 

feared by Yamashita came to pass by accident; the oil was set alight by Allied small arms fire, causing many Japanese soldiers to be burnt alive. Sustaining heavy losses, Nishimura requested permission to abandon the operation. However,

 

Yamashita denied the request.

 

Maxwell, who had limited communications with his division headquarters, was concerned that his force would be cut off by fierce and chaotic fighting at Sarimbun and Jurong to the south west, involving the Australian 22nd Brigade. Maxwell's

 

force consequently withdrew from the seafront. This allowed the Japanese to land in increasing strength and take control of Kranji village. They also captured Woodlands, and began repairing the causeway, without encountering any Allied attacks.

 

Japanese light tanks, which had good buoyancy, were towed across the straits to Lim Chu Kang Road where they joined the battle at dusk. With reinforced troops and tanks advancing down Choa Chua Kang Road, the Australian troops were no

 

match for the tanks and fled to the hills of Bukit Panjang. The 5th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) captured Bukit Timah village by the evening of 11 February.

 

Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival, General Officer Commanding of HQ Malaya Command, drew a defence perimeter covering Kallang aerodrome, MacRitchie and Peirce reservoirs and the Bukit Timah supply depot area to ensure the integrity

 

of the city's defence. One line of the north-western defence perimeter was the Jurong-Kranji defence line, a narrow ridge connecting the sources of the Jurong and the Kranji Rivers, forming a natural defence line protecting the north-west

 

approach to the Singapore City. (Its counterpart was the Serangoon Line, which was sited between Kallang Airfield and Paya Lebar village on the eastern part of Singapore). The troops were to defend this Line strongly against the invading

 

Japanese force. The Line was defended by the 44th Indian Infantry Brigade which covered milestone 12 on Jurong Road, the 12th Indian Infantry Brigade and the reinforced 22nd Australian Brigade which guarded the northern part of the Line and

 

maintained contact with the 44th Indian Brigade. The 15th Indian Infantry Brigade was re-positioned near Bukit Timah Road to guard the island's vital food and petrol supplies. A secret instruction to protect this area was issued to Percival's

 

generals.

 

Percival's secret orders to withdraw to the last defence line around the city only if necessary were misunderstood by Maxwell, who took this to be an order for an immediate withdrawal to the Line. As a result, the 44th Indian Infantry Brigade, the 12th

 

Indian Infantry Brigade and the 22nd Australian Brigade, reinforced after their withdrawal from Sarimbun beach in the north-west, abandoned the Line on 10 February. Fearing that the large supplies depot would fall into Japanese hands should

 

they make a rush for Bukit Timah too soon, General Archibald Wavell, Allied commander-in-chief of the Far East sent an urgent message to Percival:

 

It is certain that our troops in Singapore Island heavily outnumber any Japanese who have crossed the Straits. We must destroy them. Our whole fighting reputation is at stake and the honour of the British Empire. The Americans have held out in the

 

Bataan Peninsula against a far heavier odds, the Russians are turning back the picked strength of the Germans. The Chinese with an almost lack of modern equipment have held the Japanese for four and a half years. It will be disgraceful if we

 

yield our boasted fortress of Singapore to inferior enemy forces.

 

By 11 February, the Jurong-Kranji Defence Line was left undefended which allowed the Japanese forces to sweep through the Line to attack Bukit Timah. On the same day, Percival finally moved his Combined Operations Headquarters in Sime

 

Road to the underground bunker, The Battle Box at Fort Canning.

 

Despite their fighting spirit, the Dalforce fighters suffered from poor training and the lack of equipment. A further blow was delivered when the 27th Australian Brigade withdrew southwards. As a result, the Japanese established a stronghold in the

 

northern Woodlands area and secured a relatively easy passage into the island. General Wavell left Singapore for Java early on 11 February and sent a cable to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in London on his assessment of the war front

 

in Singapore:

  

Battle for Singapore is not going well... I ordered Percival to stage counter-attack with all troops possible... Morale of some troops is not good and none is as high as I should like to see... The chief troubles are lack of sufficient training in some

 

reinforcing troops and an inferior complex which bold Japanese tactics and their command of the air have caused. Everything possible is being done to produce more offensive spirit and optimistic outlook. But I cannot pretend that these efforts

 

have been entirely successful up to date. I have given the most categorical orders that there is to be no thought of surrender and that all troops are to continue fighting to the end...

 

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1983 (part 2 of 3)

 

May 2, 1983

A new van, valued at $17,000, was donated to the City of Kanata by Kanata Realty Limited. The vehicle would be used by small non-profit groups within the City. Kanata Standard, May 5, 1983:23.

 

May 2, 1983

The Dunrobin Community Association held a well attended Annual Meeting. Officers for 1983 were Dale Murphy, John McDonald, Lou Armitage, Wayne Kilrea, Jean Azulay, Ruth Kennedy, and Dorothy Stanton. A motion was passed directing the DCA to take the necessary steps to become incorporated as a non-profit organization. Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:14.

 

May 3, 1983

It was announced that the Parks and Recreation Department received a federal grant to support their Children’s Summer Workshops. Kanata Standard, May 5, 1983:7.

 

May 5, 1983

Trustee Hal Hansen stated that he was optimistic that the addition to Katimavik School would proceed, despite the lack of decisive action by the Carleton Board of Education the previous week. Kanata Standard, May 5, 1983:1.

 

May 5, 1983

John Harkness, the new City of Kanata engineer, announced that he intended to make Kanata his permanent home. Kanata Standard, May 5, 1983:1.

 

May 5, 1983

The largest inter-city competition ever held in Canada was well under way. The Great Canadian Participaction Challenge was a highlight of National Physical Activity Week. Kanata had already accepted a participation challenge from the City of Saskatoon. Kanata Standard, May 5, 1983:1.

 

May 5, 1983

In his weekly column, Alderman Des Adam explained recent fraud allegations and an investigation by the City auditor and solicitor. He later defended the role of Kanata City Council in a letter to the Editor, and particularly questioned a previous Kanata Standard editorial criticizing Council’s reaction to the issue. Kanata Standard, April 28, 1983:3; Kanata Standard, May 5, 1983:2.

 

May 5, 1983

The Kanata Theatre announced its 1983-4 season, which included Hayfever by Noel Coward, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, Dangerous Corner by J.B Priestly, and The White Liars and Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer. Kanata Standard, May 5, 1983:8.

 

May 5, 1983

The Kanata Library proclaimed May 16-21 as Amnesty Week. This provided for the return of overdue library books, “no questions asked” and at no cost. Books worth $3,309.75 were outstanding at the time. Kanata Standard, May 5, 1983:8; Kanata Standard, May 12, 1983:6.

 

May 5, 1983

The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 593, Bells Corners, sponsored a campaign to raise over $8,000 for physiotherapy equipment for the Geriatric Day Hospital at the Queensway-Carleton Hospital. Kanata Standard, May 5, 1983:9.

 

May 5, 1983

The new executive for the Glen Cairn Co-op Nursery School was announced. Serving on the executive were Jan Caldwall, Suzanne Mercier, Jan Lockhart, Dawn Carrick, Lynda Healy, June Corie, Debbie Shuto, Marlene Boersma, Janice Merryweather, Marie Brownell, Paul Brownell, Sandra May, and Kathryn Jeffries. Kanata Standard, May 5, 1983:12.

 

May 5, 1983

In response the Earl of March’s seminars during their Nuclear Awareness week, Toronto Mayor John Hasek flew to Kanata and spoke to the students at the Earl of March. T. James Stark, president of Operation Dismantle, also attended. Hasek felt obliged to convey his concern over anti-cruise missile positions, and pointed out in his speech that unilateral disarmament would “destabilize” the world. Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:6,14.

 

May 8, 1983

City representatives, including the Mayor, marked the installation of signs giving Old Highway 17 the new name of “March Road.” Kanata Standard, May 12, 1983:5.

 

May 9, 1983

Stan Katz was announced as the new Superintendent of Personnel for the Carleton Board of Education. He had been Acting Director of Education since 1980. Kanata Standard, May 12:31.

 

May 10, 1983

Kanata City Council rejected a request from the Carleton Roman Catholic School Board to share the cost of construction of a bus bay at Georges Vanier School. The estimated cost was $10,000. Kanata Standard, May 12, 1983:1.

 

May 11, 1983

Three Carleton Board of Education officials spoke to parents regarding post-nursery school French options. Kanata Standard, May 12, 1983:1,40.

 

May 11, 1983

A Kanata Esso station worker was robbed by three or four people after he was forced off Regional Road 12 near Fallowfield Road. The men, who were armed and fired shots, made off with the day’s receipts. Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:1.

 

May 11, 1983

Regional Council adopted a Planning Committee report on the conservation lands, indicating that the South March Highlands and the Constance Creek area would be designated as a marginal resource category. Des Adam explained in his column that this would allow for development following an environmental impact study. Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:3.

 

May 11, 1983

The staff and students of W. Erskine Johnston opened their production of Oliver to a full house. Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:10.

 

May 12, 1983

Several Kanata residents were honoured at a patents award dinner for Bell-Northern Research scientists. Kanata winners were Len Charlebois, Sorin Cohn-Sfetcu, Jack Dyment, Ernst Munter, Brian Osborne and Bill Trumble. Kanata Standard, May 12, 1983:1.

 

May 12, 1983

Tridel Corporation withdrew its application for rezoning of the area west of Young Road near Highway 7 to permit an apartment complex on the site. Paul Niebergall stated that it was “understood that Tridel is now developing new plans for the site which will hopefully be more acceptable to the locals.” Kanata Standard, May 12, 1983:3.

 

May 12, 1983

Seven-year-old Kanata Beaver Dave Brooks won a provincial poster contest. Kanata Standard, May 12, 1983:20.

 

May 12, 1983

The Kanata Sailing Club announced that it would sponsor a recreational sailing program for 9-16 year olds. Kanata Standard, May 12, 1983:29.

 

May 12, 1983

Laurie McDonald Savoie wrote on the building boom in Kanata, and explained that a combination of low interest rates and an improving economy were important factors contributing to a large increase in housing starts expected for Kanata in 1983. Kanata Standard, May 12, 1983:36-7.

 

May 13, 1983

The Kanata Theatre Group ended its season with A Romantic Comedy. Wendy Doyle wrote that this production “was a fitting end to another season of excellent entertainment by the Kanata Theatre Group.” Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:9.

 

May 13, 1983

The Kanata Teen Centre held its first Parents’ Night in the Glen Cairn Community Centre. Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:11.

 

May 16, 1983

Earl of March High School students began an archaeological search of BhFx-1, The Nathaniel Scharfe site north of the overpass in Kanata. The site was originally the home of Nathaniel Scharfe, and included a home, barn and dump. Kanata Standard, May 26, 1983:4.

 

May 17, 1983

Kanata City Council revealed that taxes in 1983 for most residents of Kanata would rise 11.57 percent. Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:1.

 

May 17, 1983

City staff presented an initial report on video arcades to Kanata City Council, which concluded that a video recreation centre was not a permitted use in the General Commercial Zone of Glen Cairn Community Zoning By-law. Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:1.

 

May 18, 1983

Eleven thousand Kanata residents, about 57 percent of the population, took part in the Participation Challenge. Kanata placed fourth in the Challenge against cities of similar size. Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:1; Kanata Standard, May

26, 1983:1.

 

May 19, 1983

The Beaverbrook Branch of the Kanata Library displayed March heritage items loaned from Audrey Richardson, Wilfred and Lena Ives, and members of the March Historical Society. Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:7.

 

May 19, 1983

Lumonics Inc. announced a net profit for the three months ended March 31, 1983 of $505,000, a 28 percent increase from the previous year. Kanata Standard, May 19, 1983:19.

 

May 19, 1983

Kanata students fared well at the Ottawa Valley Track Meet at Mooney’s Bay. Competitors included Earl of March and A.Y. Jackson students Joey Barnabe, Brett Hodel, Cathy Murphy, Phil Hughes, Scott Henna, Marc Olesen, and Kevin Waller.

 

May 20, 1983

The Hazeldean Lions Club was given an official City flag by Mayor Marianne Wilkinson. Kanata Standard, June 2, 1983:21.

 

May 24, 1983

Deciding on the configuration of pathways near the Town Centre was a contentious issue in a Kanata City Council meeting. The issue was deferred to staff for further study. Kanata Standard, May

26, 1983:1.

 

May 26, 1983

The scheduled events for the upcoming annual Mayfair celebration were announced. Mayfair began in 1966. Kanata Standard, May 26, 1983:9.

 

May 26, 1986

Hazeldean/Bridlewood District Commissioner Phyllis More was honored at a dinner for the work she had done for the local Guides. Guide Leader Beryl Morris took over the position. Kanata Standard, June 2, 1983:23.

 

May 27, 1983

Four scouts from A Troop achieved the highest level in Boy Scouts, the Chief Scout Award. They were Christopher Hickman, Peter Tomashewski, Murray Westmore, and Patrick van Abbema. Kanata Standard, June 23, 1983:6.

 

May 28, 1983

The 17th annual Mayfair parade ran through the streets of Kanata. Ivan Percy stated that the 20-float parade was bigger than the previous year. Kanata Standard, June 2, 1983:1.

 

May 31, 1983

The Kanata Indoor Pool Committee gave a slide presentation to Kanata City Council and the public, where it was related that there was growth in leisure pool development in other areas. Kanata Standard, June 2, 1983:1.

 

June 1, 1983

The Kanata Beaverbrook Community Association awarded Ron Maslin and Chris Lowrie with Man and Women of the year. A new Executive was also elected, which included Barbara Farmer, Hillel Kaslove, Larry Demchuk, and Tom Rimmer. Kanata Standard, June 2, 1983:1,9; Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:5.

 

June 1, 1983

The Kinsmen Club of Kanata elected a new executive for 1983. This included Lloyd Bowler, Ken Sharland, Gerry Umbach, John Whalen, Greg Moloney, and Jim Coulas. Kanata Standard, June 2, 1983:21.

 

June 1, 1983

Representing the City of Kanata, Sheila McKee unveiled a plaque to mark the official opening of Phase II of the Kanata Software Centre. Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:1.

 

June 2, 1983

Des Adam warned against overspending by Kanata City Council. He stated in his regular column that the city “should not be spending money on the expectation of future growth.” Kanata Standard, June 2, 1983:2.

 

June 2, 1983

It was announced that Kanata City Council had renewed a contract with the Youth Services Bureau for another year. This municipally funded program worked with children between the ages of eight and fifteen. Kanata Standard, June 2, 1983:3.

 

June 2, 1983

Stan Rogers, 33, nephew of Alderman Charlie Rogers died in an Air Canada DC 9 fire. Rogers was a well-known folk singer. Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:20.

 

June 5, 1983

The Kanata Golf and Country Club hosted the first Pro/Am tournament of the 1983 Ottawa Valley Professional Golf Association. Host Professional Gerry McKee had a clean sweep of the event, shooting a 68 to win top Professional honours. Kanata Standard, June 2, 1983:15.

 

June 5, 1983

Bonnie Joe Loewen, 13, of Glen Cairn fell out of the back of a van and suffered a fractured skull. She was taken off of the serious injury list the next day. Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:1.

 

June 5, 1983

At a regional track meet in Oshawa on May 10, 10 of 13 Earl of March students qualified for the OFSSA in Kitchener. The Earl of March track team was quite successful at the OFSAA meet. Among the competitors were Kanata’s Cathy Murphy, Joey Barnabe, Phil Hughes, Scott Hanna, Kelly Armitage, Elyse Chan, and Brett Hodel. Kanata Standard, June 2, 1983:1; Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:1.

 

June 6, 1983

Two Kanata residents, Dave Conway for Mitel Corporation and Martha Webber, were presented with Environmental Awareness Awards at the York Street Theatre. Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:4.

 

June 7, 1983

Aldermen Eva James and Paul Niebergall attempted to link problems on Rothesay Drive and Dorey Court with a new development by Iber Homes in Glen Cairn. James moved that lights on Rothesay Drive be repaired before the site plan agreement for condominiums on Castlefrank could be signed. Niebergall tried to link problems in Dorey Court to the proposed condominium project, based on the complaints of some of those homeowners and unfinished work by Iber. Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:1.

 

June 7, 1983

Kanata City Council proposed modifications for its Official Plan for Conservation Lands in Rural Kanata to fit with a new Amendment 12 to the Regional Official Plan. Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:1.

 

June 8, 1983

At a March Rural Association meeting, it was announced that some renovations to the Old Town Hall may have to wait until 1984. However, as June Gibbs pointed out, the South March Women’s Institute hoped to hold meetings in the hall by September. Kanata Standard, June 16, 1983:1.Kanata Standard, June 16, 1983:

 

June 9, 1983

The Carleton Board of Education announced that it may have to give up another parcel of land in Kanata due to lack of funding from the Ministry of Education. Trustee Hal Hansen stated that the CBE staff were going to do a feasibility study on the growth problems in Kanata. Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:1.

 

June 9, 1983

Alderman Des Adam suggested in his column that Kanata City Council, the City Treasurer, and other department heads begin work on the 1984 capital budgets. Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:3.

 

June 9, 1983

Mayor Marianne Wilkinson announced that it was the 10th anniversary of Kanata’s Mitel Corporation. She stated that Mitel was the largest single employer in the City of Kanata, and had “played a major role in making this area Canada’s ‘Silicon Valley.’” Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:3.

 

June 9, 1983

It was reported that Earl of March mathematics teams for Grades 12 and 13 did very well in math contests sponsored by the University of Waterloo. Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:4.

 

June 9, 1983

Laurie McDonald Savoie wrote about the rapid development in the Kanata area. She emphasized that the City of Kanata was always committed to good planning and developed along the residential community theme. She added: “While it is apparent that growth is not only inevitable but planned and desired, and that the municipality will never be like Topsy who just grew, the best laid plans, as they say, have a way of seldom being foolproof.” Kanata Standard, June 9, 1983:21.

 

June 14, 1983

A public hearing was held regarding a proposed golf course by Metcalfe Realty along the Old Carp Road and the Huntley Townline. There seemed to be general approval of the project. Kanata Standard, June 16, 1983:1.

 

June 14, 1983

Kanata residents attended a Kanata City Council meeting to support the staff recommendation for Natural Environment Areas. Kanata Standard, June 16, 1983:1.

 

June 16, 1983

The Kanata Standard announced that Dennis Finlay and Janice Forbes would join the newspaper as editors of the paper. Kanata Standard, June 16, 1983:3.

 

June 16, 1983

Twenty-two Guides from the 2nd Hazeldean Guide Company were presented with their Citizen badge on the Floor of the House of Commons. They were the second Guide Company to receive this honour. Kanata Standard, June 16, 1983:11.

 

June 16, 1983

A new board of Directors was elected at the Kanata Standard Annual General Meeting, including Ron Andoff, Fred Boyd, Maureen Locherer, Gordon Marwood, Ivan Percy, Sandra Racine and John Tweedie. The company Officers for 1983-4 were Ivan Percy, Gordon Marwood, Paul Whitlock, Sandra Racine, Judy Findlay, and Alan Sewards.

 

June 21, 1983

Approximately 50 Bridlewood residents attended a Kanata City Council meeting to express their concerns regarding accidents at Eagleson Road and Cadence Gate. Kanata Standard, June 23, 1983:1.

 

June 21, 1983

A main issue at a Kanata City Council meeting was the proposal for the development of Huntsman Park. The plan was that the park would contain a scrub ball diamond and children’s play area. Kanata Standard, June 23, 1983:1.

 

June 22, 1983

In the middle of the afternoon, a fire struck a Dunrobin stable, owned by James and Susan Davies of Cotswold Stables. Firemen arrived in time to rescue a horse from a burning building. Kanata Standard, June 30, 1983:1.

 

June 23, 1983

Mayor Marianne Wilkinson announced that Campeau Corporation had “indicated that they would like to expedite development of industry in the Kanata area following the general theme presently found in California [Silicon Valley].” Wilkinson stated that she and Alderman Lund would visit California to gain first-hand knowledge of the region. Kanata Standard, June 23, 1983:3.

 

June 23, 1983

It was announced that Kanata student Scott Simser won $300 in the 1983 Alexander Graham Bell Scholarship Awards. Kanata Standard, June 23, 1983:9.

 

June 23, 1983

Mario and Mike Borsato and Peter and Tom Bouzanis opened the March House Restaurant, located at the corner of Klondike and March Roads. Kanata Standard, June 23, 1983:19.

 

June 23 1983

A public meeting was held in an attempt to deal with a rezoning issue in Katimavik and discuss Campeau’s proposed zoning changes in Blocks Q, R, and S of the Katimavik-Hazeldean Community. Residents attending the meeting were concerned with the possible increase in density and increased probability of rental units being built. No consensus was reached at this gathering. Kanata Standard, June 30, 1983:1.

 

June 23, 1983

Kanata City Council received and accepted the resignation of Jim O’Leary, Treasurer of the City of Kanata. O’Leary left to take a position in Ottawa. Kanata Standard, June 30, 1983:1.

 

June 23, 1983

Reverend Frank Stiles was awarded the Royal Windsor Cross, given for his 20 continuous years of outstanding and meritorious service, far beyond the call of duty, to Canadian veterans and their families. Kanata Standard, July 14, 1983:13.

 

June 24, 1983

Kanata resident Keith Woleston was awarded a Bravery Decoration by the Governor General, on the recommendation of the Canadian Decorations Advisory Committee. Woleston was involved in a violent struggle in his taxi with a man holding him at gunpoint. He received the Star of Courage at an Investiture at Rideau Hall, Ottawa. Kanata Standard, February 3, 1983:9; Kanata Standard, July 7, 1983:2.

 

June 25, 1983

The Kanata March Horticultural Society held its first flower show of the year. Lenore Fentiman won the B.J. Roberts Cup for the second time. Kanata Standard, June 30, 1983:7.

 

June 26, 1983

Kanata youth, 13-year old Kevin Chiswell, was named Most Promising Student at the Canadian Annual Music Pageant Festival. Kevin played the Spanish guitar. Kanata Standard, July 21, 1983:9.

 

June 28, 1983

Kanata City Council approved a $78,000 upgrading project for Pumphouse Park in Glen Cairn, which would include receiving grading, topsoil, new grass seed and a variety of trees. Kanata Standard, June 30, 1983:9.

 

June 28, 1983

Kanata City Council denied J. Perez Construction an excavation foundation permit for the corner of McCurdy and Castlefrank for 144 apartment units. Kanata Standard, July 7, 1983:1.

 

June 30, 1983

Alan Sewards wrote in an article in the Standard about Kanata creating its own police force due to its increase in population. Sewards stated that Kanata was currently well above the size of community normally policed for free by the Ontario Provincial Police. Kanata Standard, June 30, 1983:1.

 

June 30, 1983

Des Adam, in his weekly column, expressed his opinion on the need for a Chief Administrative Officer in Kanata and wrote: “I had hoped that Kanata could have done without the need of a Chief Administrative Officer. What I have observed lately at council reinforces the need for such a position.” Kanata Standard, June 30, 1983:3.

 

June 30, 1983

Paul Niebergall, in his weekly column, stated that he had received a number of calls from people in the Hazeldean Ridge area concerned about the manner in which Del Corporation was commencing work in the subdivision around the connecting link of McCurdy Drive. This bordered a pond that was a local landmark and environmental site. Wendy Doyle reported that Kanata residents lobbying had ensured that Young Pond on Young Road would be maintained and not “swallowed up by a subdivision planned by Del Corporation.” City Planner David Krajaefski said that Del decided to include the pond as a feature in their plans. Kanata Standard, June 30, 1983:3.

 

June 30, 1983

It was announced that a Bridlewood park would be “Pony Park,” a name suggested by three different contestants in a Name the Park Contest. The three winners were Erin Brown, Lorraine Gardner and Jennifer Hunter. Kanata Standard, June 30, 1983:4.

 

June 30, 1983

The Kanata Public Library received six new Polaroid Cameras for loan to library cardholders. Kanata Standard, June 30, 1983:8.

 

July 3, 1983

Harold Craig, former Reeve of March Township, died at the age of 68. Kanata Standard, July 7, 1983:7.

 

July 4, 1983

The Kanata Hydro Electric Commission appointed Guy Cluff as General Manager of Kanata Hydro. Kanata Standard, September 15, 1983:1.

 

July 5, 1983

In a Kanata City Council meeting, Des Adam chastised Mayor Wilkinson for taking on too much. He also questioned information provided to Council by the Mayor, claiming that she sometimes used “misleading and manipulative” information. Des Adam later stated, in March Notebook, that in his opinion Kanata could not afford to be without a Chief Administrative Officer. Part of his concern was in the Mayor taking control of too many areas and spreading herself thin. He also stated: “There is a frequent complaint that the mayor is interfering in the day-to-day operation of the administration of the city. Before the CAO left, he requested that Council ask the mayor not to attend department head meetings because of her constant interference. Since the CAO has left, the department heads have requested that the mayor not head the meetings. The mayor insists on attending. Is everyone wrong but Madam Mayor?” Kanata Standard, July 7, 1983:1,23; Kanata Standard, July 14, 1983:2.

 

July 7, 1983

Leslie Jones reported that Kanata’s three-year-old pedestrian overpass would need $70,000 worth of repairs. Kanata Standard, July 7, 1983:1.

 

July 7, 1983

On behalf of the March Historical Society, a letter to the Editor was written emphasizing the need to foster the name of “March” in the community. He wrote: “We propose that for historic reasons the geographical area of what was March Township, excluding the city proper, should be referred to simply as March.” Kanata Standard, July 7, 1983:2.

 

July 7, 1983

John Allen reported that the Canada Day celebrations were an “unqualified success,” and that particular thanks should be given to Sheila Silver for her efforts as coordinator. Kanata Standard, July 7, 1983:7.

 

July 7, 1983

It was reported that Kanata resident John Bennett, 17, won a silver and bronze medal in the 1982 Shell Cup Canadian Cross Country Ski Championships. Kanata Standard, July 7, 1983:15.

 

July 7, 1983

The Ontario Minister of Labour appointed a conciliation officer to help with negotiations between the City of Kanata and inside workers. The main stumbling block was the membership of the newly formed local. Kanata Standard, July 7, 1983:15.

 

July 7, 1983

Lismer Crescent residents gave their consent for the City to begin park upgrades behind their homes; $10,000 was allocated for the work. Kanata Standard, July 14, 1983:1.

 

July 8, 1983

Crain Real Estate opened in Kanata. It was the 7th real estate firm in the area. Kanata Standard, July 14, 1983:6.

 

July 14, 1983

Wendy Doyle reported that the Ontario Municipal Board was close to issuing its decision regarding Amendment 12 to the Regional Official Plan. Doyle stated: A decision by the OMB will end a four-year saga of public information meetings and bickering between landowners, City Council and Regional Council.” The difficulty arose when landowners voiced concerns of the designation of conservation lands. Kanata Standard, July 14, 1983:1.

 

July 14, 1983

Kanata resident Jack Donohue coached the Canadian Men’s Basketball Team that won a gold medal in the World University Games in Edmonton. Kanata Standard, July 14, 1983:1.

 

July 14, 1983

Paul Niebergall, in the Katimavik-Hazeldean Report, first reported that the promise by Del Corporation to protect Young Pond during development was not kept. He commented: “I was down to look at the pond last Monday night and I can assure you that all that remains is a very small mud puddle and a complete loss of whatever wildlife might have been in the area.” Wendy Doyle later reported that Set Corporation, hired by Del, had prematurely “pulled the plug” on Young Pond. It was previously determined, due to lobbying by residents, that the Pond was to be a feature of the subdivision. Kanata Standard, July 14, 1983:3; Kanata Standard, July 21, 1983:1.

 

July 14, 1983

The Atomic Energy Control Board announced that it granted a license to Atomic Energy of Canada Limited for the operation of its new radioisotope processing facility in Kanata. Kanata Standard, July 21, 1983:1.

 

July 19, 1983

Caroline McIntyre presented Kanata City Council with a petition to end the use of 2,4-D, a herbicide used in the control of weeds. Council accepted the petition without comment, and later referred it to staff for further study. Kanata Standard, July 28, 1983:1.

 

July 19, 1983

Kanata City Council approved money for a Leisure Centre Study. Kanata Standard, July 28, 1983:1.

 

July 19, 1983

Kanata City Council gave J. Perez Construction approval for a 144-apartment complex at Castlefrank and McCurdy. Kanata Standard, July 28, 1983:1.

 

July 19, 1983

Several residents attended a Kanata City Council meeting to confront representatives of Del Corporation over the issue of Young Pond. The pond was prematurely drained after assurances that it would remain a feature of the new subdivision. Many were concerned with the effect of wildlife in the pond. A public meeting to further deal with the issue was set for August 10. Kanata Standard, July 28, 1983:1-2.

 

July 21, 1983

Mayor Marianne Wilkinson, in her Commentary, discussed her trip to California’s Silicon Valley. She stated that she hoped that new developments by Campeau Corporation in the Kanata North Business Park could integrate some of the ideas they saw in California to “ensure that the businesses in Kanata benefit from the type of beautiful surroundings that we saw in California.” Kanata Standard, July 21, 1983:2.

 

July 21, 1983

Digital Corporation landed two major contracts, valued at $20 million. Kanata Standard, July 21, 1983:3.

 

July 21, 1983

Mitel Corporation announced that sales for the 13 weeks ending May 27 showed a loss of $4,496,000, or 12 cents per share. Kanata Standard, July 21, 1983:3.

 

July 26, 1983

A rather enthusiastic meeting was held to discuss the possibility of creating a Kanata Arts Council. Kanata Standard, August 4, 1983:1.

 

July 28, 1983

Wendy Doyle reported that construction for a new Co-op housing project began, which entailed building 64 two, three and four bedroom garden homes on Castlefrank Road. Kanata Standard, July 28, 1983:1.

 

July 28, 1983

Wendy Doyle reported that Louise Reynolds was leaving the community. Reynolds, one of Kanata’s “hardest working and most active community volunteers,” moved to Mississauga to be closer to family. Kanata Standard, July 28, 1983:5.

 

July 28, 1983

It was reported that Kanata residents Barb Saberton and Rob Weiler brought home a medal from the Canadian National Roller Skating Championships. Kanata Standard, July 28, 1983:10.

 

July 29, 1983

Two Earl of March students, Yvonne Scorupinski and Mary Lynn Nyenhuis, were aboard a train to Paris when it derailed. They were uninjured. However, four Ottawa girls were killed in the accident. Kanata Standard, August 4, 1983:1.

 

July 31, 1983

Reverend Douglas Heard gave his last sermon in Kanata before relocating to Cobourg, Ontario. Kanata Standard, July 28, 1983:13.

 

August 2, 1983

During a Kanata City Council meeting Mayor Marianne Wilkinson stated: “I’m fed up, and I’ll be actively seeking other employment.” Earlier in the meeting the Mayor and Alderman Adam had a series of battles that came to a head over the issue of purchasing a car for the Mayor’s use. Ron Boyd reported that the Mayor said that she was continually being stabbed in the back by Council and exclaimed “especially this guy,” as she pointed accusingly at Alderman Adam. Adam responded: “I’ve never stabbed you in the back; I’ve always stabbed you in the front and I will continue to do so.” The Mayor said it was the most difficult Council she had experienced in 14 years, that she would seek other levels of government for work, but that it would take time and they would just have to put up with her awhile longer. Kanata Standard, August 4, 1983:1,3.

 

August 2, 1983

A subdivision plan proposed by Cadillac-Fairview that would significantly increase the size of Bridlewood was submitted to Kanata City Council. Kanata Standard, August 11, 1983:1.

 

August 2, 1983

Some Kanata residents participated in the Canadian Pony Club National Tetrathlon Championships. Carol Stamper and Meredith Curren were on the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Valley Region team, which placed 4th overall. Rob Stamper placed 7th in the individual competition. Kanata Standard, September 15, 1983:23.

 

August 3, 1983

It was announced at a Carleton Board of Education meeting that construction would begin on a $1.9 million extension of Katimavik Elementary School. This followed seven months of negotiations with the Ministry of Education, which had earlier rejected the Board’s request due to lack of funds. Kanata Standard, August 11, 1983:1.

 

August 4, 1983

Gordon B. Thompson was awarded the first Fellow Emeritus by Bell-Northern Research Ltd. Thompson was internationally recognized as a communications philosopher, a provocative thinker on the nature and future of communications, and on its impact on economic and social structures. Kanata Standard, August 4, 1983:11.

 

August 5, 1983

Kanata residents Bill and Emily Harris celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Kanata Standard, July 21, 1983:4.

 

August 10, 1983

Approximately 30 people attended a meeting to deal with the issue of Young Pond. Alderman Niebergall agreed that a misunderstanding led to the premature draining of the Pond, which was to be a feature of a new subdivision development. Biologist Bill Thoreau stated that wildlife would return to the Pond if it was lined and refilled, though the numbers would depend on the type of park development that followed. Kanata Standard, August 18, 1983:1.

 

August 11, 1983

An open letter to Kanata residents from Mayor Marianne Wilkinson was published in the Standard. The letter dealt with an earlier statement by the Mayor in a Kanata City Council meeting of her intent to resign and seek other employment. Wilkinson wrote: “It was with great sadness that last week I announced to Council that I would be resigning as Mayor of Kanata as soon as I could find alternative employment. The statement was made out of complete frustration and with deep regret, as I do not wish to resign.” Kanata Standard, August 11, 1983:1.

 

August 11, 1983

Bob Kingham, in his As I See It column, commented on recent problems in Kanata City Council and stated: “What we have been witnessing in recent months, however, is NOT HEALTHY - not for Council or the City of Kanata.” He further urged the Mayor to complete her term and not resign as she had indicated was her intent. Kanata Standard, August 11, 1983:3.

 

August 11, 1983

Paul Niebergall, in his Katimavik-Hazeldean Report, commented on the recent problems in Kanata City Council. He felt that the participants in this type of behavior succeeded in bringing Kanata’s public affairs “unfavorable attention of all the Ottawa - Carleton region and created a significant discomfort to city staff which could only view with dismay this public demonstration of colic by those who pretend to provide mature policy direction.” He added: “Personally I feel that Marianne Wilkinson has much to contribute to the progress of our City in the balance of her term, but to act effectively she will have to earn the trust of all members of Council.” Kanata Standard, August 11, 1983:3,16.

 

August 11, 1983

Eva James, in her Glen Cairn-Bridlewood Report, commented on recent problems of Kanata City Council and wrote: “it is rather unfortunate that personality clashes and struggles for power have gotten so out of hand” and that “I cannot believe that the resignation of the Mayor will solve the City’s problems and I hope she will reconsider.” Kanata Standard, August 11, 1983:3.

 

August 11, 1983

Nearly 100 local teenagers attended the Kanata Teen Centre’s Coffee House in the Glen Cairn Community Centre. As Leslie Jones stated, the result was “an entertaining melange of local talent.” Kanata Standard, August 25, 1983:23.

 

August 16, 1983

Mayor Marianne Wilkinson made a statement in a Kanata City Council meeting and informed Council that she would fulfill her obligations made to the residents of Kanata and reconsider a previous statement of resignation as Mayor. Kanata Standard, August 18, 1983:1,13.

 

August 16, 1983

Kanata City Council was presented with the terms of reference for a Management Study of the structure of the municipal bureaucracy, including the Chief Administrative Officer position. Alderman Lund was concerned that the study would delay dealing with the CAO issue. Aldermen commented that the CAO position should be removed from the study, as Council could decide on that issue without the aid of a study. Council passed amendments to speed up the timetable of the study. Kanata Standard, August 25, 1983:1.

 

August 16, 1983

Kanata City Council approved the naming of several parks in the Katimavik area. Many were based on recommendations of the Katimavik-Hazeldean Community Association. Kanata Standard, August 25, 1983:1,25.

 

August 16, 1983

The Heritage Club sponsored one-day trip to Kingston for Kanata Seniors. Kanata Standard, August 25, 1983:4.

 

August 18, 1983

Paul Niebergall, in the Katimavik-Hazeldean Report, stated: “In my mind, the Young’s Pond incident demonstrated another instance in which Council’s control of the developer proved to be illusory.” Niebergall expressed his concern that the Young Pond issue was indicative of the lack of policy and the granting of foundation permits before the final details of the builders’ plans were made available to the City’s planning department for review and revision. Kanata Standard, August 18, 1983:3.

 

August 19, 1983

The City of Kanata and its unionized public employees signed their first contract. The employees became unionized and gained membership in the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) in December, 1982. The new contract standardized working hours, gave employee flexibility, and replaced a sick leave program with an Income Protection Program. Kanata Standard, August 25, 1983:1.

 

August 21, 1983

Two Kanata men, Blair Medynski and Mike Azulay, were injured in a car accident at the intersection of March Road and Klondike Road. Both men suffered minor injuries. Kanata Standard, August 25, 1983:1.

 

August 22, 1983

The Ontario Municipal Board passed Amendment 12 to the Regional Official Plan after four years of controversy over land designation. The Amendment substantially reduced the amount of land designated as conservation in 1979, which was when the Regional Official Plan was passed. Kanata Standard, September 8, 1983:1.

 

August 27, 1983

The heritage of Kanata and surrounding areas was celebrated in the Central Canada Exhibition’s Heritage Village program. Kanata’s display was organized by Alderman Sheila McKee. Kanata Standard, September 1, 1983:1,23.

 

August 30, 1983

Tom Carroll of the March Rural Association appeared before Kanata City Council to protest a proposed upgrade to the 2nd Line Road, based on the fact that the 5th Line Road was in more urgent need of repair. Council agreed on further study. Kanata Standard, September 8, 1983:1.

 

August 30, 1983

Kanata City Council approved the Kanata Indoor Leisure Pool Feasibility Study terms of reference and decided to seek a consultant for the study. Kanata Standard, September 8, 1983:1.

 

August 30, 1983

Kanata City Council agreed to allow a Council meeting to be shown on television once a month on the Ottawa Cablevision station. Kanata Standard, September 8, 1983:3.

 

August 30, 1983

Mayor Wilkinson gave her report to Kanata City Council on a meeting with the minister regarding policing in Kanata. It was estimated that establishing a police force would cost $1.2 - 1.3 million along with a $300,000 provincial grant. Kanata Standard, September 15, 1983:1.

 

Spitalgate Level, Grantham. The bypass, or Grantham Southern Relief Road, is years behind schedule and way over budget. Due to open in 2023, the date is now optimistically stated to be "TBC 2025*: Relief road fully built/project complete". Only 3.5kms in length, planning permission was granted in 2010.

 

Grantham, Lincolnshire, East Midlands, England - Southern Relief Road construction, phase 3

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