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Gas Leak in India at LG Factory Kills 11 and Sickens Hundreds

By www.nytimes.com
Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 04:01:32 GMT

Residents in eastern India woke up in the middle of the night surrounded by a cloud of styrene vapor. Many couldn’t breathe.


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Helping Migratory Bats with Agave Planting Event

By www.batcon.org
Published On :: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:36:00 -0500

BCI announced today the launch of an agave planting initiative throughout Southwest, Tucson area, and Mexico to support the lesser long-nosed bat


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Research Links Bats to Growth of Durian, the “World’s Stinkiest Fruit”

By www.batcon.org
Published On :: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 14:40:22 -0600


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Disney Conservation Fund Helps Bat Conservation International Support Wildlife and the Environment

By www.batcon.org
Published On :: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 10:58:06 -0600

Press Release:

Disney Conservation Fund Helps Bat Conservation International Support Wildlife and the Environment

[Austin, Texas, November 26, 2019] – Bat Conservation International (BCI) has been awarded a grant by the Disney Conservation Fund (DCF) to stop the rapid population decline of the endangered Mexican long-nosed bat in northern Mexico. As part of this work, BCI’s bi-national team of experts will lead a series of community-based conservation activities aimed at identifying, protecting, and restoring agave habitat – the key food source for this nectar feeding bat. By harnessing community support, this large-scale initiative will help save the Mexican long-nosed bat by establishing robust ‘nectar corridors’ that the bats can use during their annual migration from Central Mexico to the southwestern U.S.

The fund has been supporting local efforts around the world aimed at saving wildlife, inspiring action and protecting the planet with nearly $86 million distributed to nonprofit organizations since 1995.

Dr. Jon Flanders, Director, BCI’s Endangered Species Intervention Project explains the importance of this work: “This initiative builds on the success of previous work aimed at protecting important cave roosts for this endangered species of bat. Focusing our efforts on protecting and restoring agave habitat in northern Mexico marks a significant step in our conservation efforts to save this species from extinction, none of which would have been possible without the ongoing support of the Disney Conservation Fund.”

DCF grant recipients are selected based on their efforts to implement comprehensive community wildlife conservation programs, stabilize and increase populations of at-risk animals and engage communities in conservation in critical ecosystems around the world.

For information on Disney’s commitment to conserve nature and a complete list of grant recipients, visit www.disney.com/conservation.

About Bat Conservation International

The mission of Bat Conservation International is to conserve the world’s bats and their ecosystems to ensure a healthy planet. For more information visit batcon.org.

Media Contact: Javier Folgar
Bat Conservation International
Tel: 512.327.9721 ext. 410
Email: jfolgar@batcon.org

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Coronavirus and changes to BCI’s Operations

By www.batcon.org
Published On :: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 11:02:11 -0500

We're thinking a lot about our community and hope you are staying safe.

As we confront the challenge of the coronavirus pandemic, we're making the health and safety of our staff and our supporters our top priority. In line with CDC guidance and Federal & state orders, we are taking several important steps to our operations:

  • Public Events
    In response to CDC guidance regarding avoidance of large public gatherings, we are postponing the Bracken bat flight season. We will resume bat flight events when public health experts determine that large public gatherings are again safe.

Similarly, we have postponed or canceled all upcoming bat walk events at this time.

  • Merchandise & Gift Fulfillments
    Our Austin, Texas headquarters is currently subject to a city-wide “Stay Home, Work Safe” order. With our Austin-based employees working from home, please allow several weeks for delivery of merchandise and adopt-a-bat purchases ordered after March 24. Please also allow extra time for the processing of gifts made through U.S. mail. We are grateful for your patience and ask you to consider making your contribution to BCI online via credit card on our website or through PayPal.
  • Staff Operations & Field Work
    We’re taking the necessary steps to protect our staff while minimizing any disruptions to our mission. These precautions include:
    • Adhering to all state “stay-at-home” orders. At this time, most state orders consider BCI’s work as non-essential.
    • Adhering to Federal CDC guidance including:
      • Avoiding large gatherings such as events, trainings, and conferences
      • Avoiding/postponing non-essential domestic and international travel
      • Working remotely
    • Adhering to National Wildlife Health Center and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service guidance to avoid contact with bats to prevent a potential spillback of the novel coronavirus from humans to wildlife

As a result of these precautions, we have postponed all fieldwork during the coronavirus pandemic to comply with public policies. Also, due to the global shortage of PPE supplies, we have suspended bat survey activities that require PPE.

We will continue to do all we can to respond to expert public health guidance, take the actions necessary to keep our staff and supporters safe and healthy, and update you on any changes.

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we confront this shared challenge.

 

 

 


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Atmospheric Science for Environmental Scientists, 2nd Edition

By www.wiley.com
Published On :: 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z


 

Enlightens readers on the realities of global atmospheric change, including global warming and poor air quality

Climate change and air pollution are two of the most pressing issues facing Mankind. This book gives undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and professionals working in the science and policy of pollution, climate change and air quality a broad and up-to-date account of the processes that occur in the atmosphere, how these are changing



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The World Today: Concepts and Regions in Geography, 8th Edition

By www.wiley.com
Published On :: 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z


 

In the 8th edition of this market-leading title, The World Today continues to break new ground in the interpretation and teaching of world regional geography. The text explains the contemporary world’s geographic realms in terms of their natural environments and human dimensions in a clear and concise fashion. The authors look at the ways people have organized their living space, adapted to changing social as well as environmental circumstances, and



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Geology For Dummies, 2nd Edition

By www.wiley.com
Published On :: 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z


 

Get a rock-solid grasp on geology

Geology For Dummies is ideal reading for anyonewith an interest in the fundamental concepts of geology, whether they're lifelong learners with a fascination for the subject or college students interested in pursuing geology or earth sciences.

Presented in a straightforward, trusted format—and tracking to a typical introductory geology course at the college level—this book features a thorough introduction to the study



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Resident Foreigners: A Philosophy of Migration

By www.wiley.com
Published On :: 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z


 

From the shores of Europe to the Mexican-US border, mass migration is one of the most pressing issues we face today. Yet at the same time, calls to defend national sovereignty are becoming ever more vitriolic, with those fleeing war, persecution, and famine vilified as a threat to our security as well as our social and economic order.

In this book, written amidst the dark resurgence of appeals to defend ‘blood and soil’, Donatella Di Cesare challenges



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Resident Foreigners: A Philosophy of Migration

By www.wiley.com
Published On :: 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z


 

From the shores of Europe to the Mexican-US border, mass migration is one of the most pressing issues we face today. Yet at the same time, calls to defend national sovereignty are becoming ever more vitriolic, with those fleeing war, persecution, and famine vilified as a threat to our security as well as our social and economic order.

In this book, written amidst the dark resurgence of appeals to defend ‘blood and soil’, Donatella Di Cesare challenges



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Exploring the Solar System, 2nd Edition

By www.wiley.com
Published On :: 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z


 

An Exciting and Authoritative Account of the Second Golden Age of Solar System Exploration Award-winning author Peter Bond provides an up-to-date, in-depth account of the sun and its family in the 2nd edition of Exploring the Solar System. This new edition brings together the discoveries and advances in scientific understanding made during the last 60 years of solar and planetary exploration, using research conducted by the world's leading geoscientists



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Gas Injection into Geological Formations and Related Topics, Volume 8

By www.wiley.com
Published On :: 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z


 
This is the eighth volume in the series, Advances in Natural Gas Engineering, focusing on gas injection into geological formations and other related topics, very important areas of natural gas engineering. This volume includes information for both upstream and downstream operations, including chapters detailing the most cutting-edge techniques in acid gas injection, carbon capture, chemical and thermodynamic models, and much more.


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Bringing SSL To Your Private Network

By webreflection.blogspot.com
Published On :: Sat, 08 Aug 2015 12:54:00 +0000

In this entry I will describe and provide how to run a HTTPS server in your home network, in order to test new HTML5 APIs.


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TinyCDN: a portable blazing fast CDN

By webreflection.blogspot.com
Published On :: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 09:34:00 +0000

In this blog post I am introducing tinyCDN, a middle-ware module and a standalone static file server that does much more than others, and it has been designed from the scratch to work on most constrained, Internet of Things, environments, as well as production server.


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On Ignored Users Spoken Language

By webreflection.blogspot.com
Published On :: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 09:43:00 +0000

I think I've talked already few times about this problems but I don't see anything happening ... actually, it's getting worst and worst.

Who Is Directly Affected And Is Wasting Money

  • Companies paying for Online Advertisement
  • Companies selling online
  • Companies providing online services

Who Is Responsible

  • every service that is addressing users through their current IP address, without asking permission, and assuming if you travel to any country in this world you automatically speak that country language
  • every service that completely ignores Accept-Language on the server side, and navigator.language on the client side
This is an extract from the Accept-Language used for locale setting post directly from W3C website:
For a first contact, using the Accept-Language value to infer regional settings may be a good starting point, but be sure to allow them to change the language as needed and specify their cultural settings more exactly if necessary. Store the results in a database or a cookie for later visits.
...
By the way
Using the Accept-Language header is also a good starting point for determining the language of the user, rather than the locale ...
Accordingly, instead using users IP location to define their language, I'd rather prefer them to use my daily language of choice, which comes most likely from the fact that my entire Operating System speaks English, as example, so PLEASE, give me English content whenever I am!

It feels so straightforward simple thing, right? Wondering who is doing it right?

Nobody Is Doing It Right

I am in Germany these days, and suddenly I don't understand anything. I cannot even be "victim" of Ads, I'm rather disturbed by them.

Google

Before even asking to use my detailed location provided through the browser, if I type google.com in the URL bar I'm redirected to google.de. Why does that happen? Simple, they know by my IP I am in Germany ^_^.
If I choose the English language and I search for O2 DSL, imagining I'd like to sign for a contract, or need some help, this is the result:
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Exporting modules in JavaScript

By webreflection.blogspot.com
Published On :: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 07:37:00 +0000

In my latest entry I explain the difference about exporting a module between server side or CLI environments such Nashorn, SpiderMonkey, JSC, or micro controller and embedded engines such Duktape, Espruino, KinomaJS, and Desktop UI space via GJS.
Using this is a universal way to attach and export properties but when it comes to ES2015 modules, incompatible with CommonJS and with an undefined execution context.
Enjoy


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December 2015 ... Spaces or Tabs ?

By webreflection.blogspot.com
Published On :: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 17:32:00 +0000

TL;DR this post tries to explain why a compact solution based on a NON visually configurable predefined amount of spaces wins through facts and not personal style choices. If you'd like to argue please have the decency to read this post top to bottom before that. Thank you!


I've got 99 problems and "spaces VS tabs" actually is one of them!
I find it embarrassing for the entirety of the programming, developers, and designers worldwide industry and community to still have these kind of debates in year 2015!
We laugh about medieval people thoughts, modern bigotry, or how stupid is from time to time the rest of the world around us ... and yet we cannot stop whining about spaces or tabs.
Moreover, the untold story about this debate is that everyone is simply being selfish and every rationale behind is made of opinionated and volatile fluff that does not match current real-world scenarios (yeah, maybe me too, but before that, please keep reading 'till the end, thanks!).

Defining a Standard

There are few standards and protocols universally implemented in the programming world and JSON, as well as XML, are just a few and rare examples.
There is no "my XML is better than yours" or "my JSON looks nicer" discussion there, as soon as you write something not conforming with the standard you are causing troubles either to your own code and yourself or to whoever needs to consume your code!
There's not "but ..." or "because my style ..." here, there is only one way everyone understands which is the only compatible way and the best way to move forward.
Unfortunately, in the history of Computer Science (funny it's called Science in this case) there's still no agreement on the "spaces VS tabs" matter.

Fact 1: Nobody wants horizontal scroll

Not only books are read vertically since ever, "technological mouses" are not even created to simplify such task and on top of that: if you don't set yourself a limit to the amount of columns your code should actually warn you, usually 80 up to 120 chars, it doesn't actually matter what choice you made to your indentation because "'yo column is so wide I though you were a code cruncher instead of a human being".
We don't like to scroll horizontally and we would like to be able to put 2 or more different files beside each other to compare diffs and lines in a single screen ... right?
In other words, it's OK to have 80 to 120 chars column width limit because we all agree it's needed!
Then we have either developers that connect via SSH, those that use daily vi or vim, and people on Smart Phones that maybe are surfing online, studying some piece of code where they also have to scroll every single pre tag because by default each browser uses 4 or 8 spaces to represent a tab ... you say no?
This is something standard to show to you, it doesn't have any special parsing behind, it's just plain code. 

// 2 spaces indentation random code
class View {
  constructor(options) {
    this.model = options.model;
    this.template = options.template;
  }

  render() {
    return _.template(
      this.template, this.model.toObject()
    );
  }
}

// its tabs based equivalent
class View {
        constructor(options) {
                this.model = options.model;
                this.template = options.template;
        }

        render() {
                return _.template(
                        this.template, this.model.toObject()
                );
        }
}
Before asking ourselves which piece of code looks universally better, I just would like to show you a couple of cases different from your editor of choice scenario:

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module.import(async)

By webreflection.blogspot.com
Published On :: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 15:16:00 +0000

Using a de-facto standard like CommonJS is for modules, I've implemented a Promise based import after TC39 proposal, which also accepts promises based module.exports.

Backward compatible and deadly simple, this proposal needs some adoption in order to push it further at TC39 or NodeJS.

Don't miss the post!


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Surviving the Essex: the afterlife of America's most storied shipwreck / David O. Dowling

By library.mit.edu
Published On :: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 06:32:31 EDT

Hayden Library - G530.E77 D68 2016


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Mapping the country of regions: the Chorographic Commission of nineteenth-century Colombia / Nancy P. Appelbaum, the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

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Published On :: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 06:32:31 EDT

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The world and all the things upon it: native Hawaiian geographies of exploration / David A. Chang

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Published On :: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 06:32:31 EDT

Hayden Library - G222.C53 2016


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Wildlife tourism, environmental learning and ethical encounters: ecological and conservation aspects / edited by Ismar Borges de Lima, Ronda J. Green

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Frederick de Wit and the first concise reference atlas / George Carhart

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Published On :: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 06:33:28 EDT

Hayden Library - GA923.6.W57 C37 2016


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GIS and environmental monitoring: applications in the marine, atmospheric and geomagnetic fields / Stavros Kolios, Andrei V. Vorobev, Gulnara R. Vorobeva, Chrysostomos Stylios

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The ArcGIS book: 10 big ideas about applying geography to your world / Christian Harder, editor

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Geographical information systems theory, applications and management: second International Conference, GISTAM 2016, Rome, Italy, April 26-27, 2016, Revised selected papers / Cédric Grueau, Robert Laurini, Jorge Gustavo Rocha (eds.)

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Picturing America: the golden age of pictorial maps / Stephen J. Hornsby

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Hayden Library - G1201.A5 H67 2017


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Ecotourism's promise and peril: a biological evaluation / Daniel T. Blumstein, Benjamin Geffroy, Diogo S. M. Samia, Eduardo Bessa, editors

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Comprehensive remote sensing / editor in chief: Shunlin Liang

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Exploring Greenland: cold war science and technology on ice / Ronald E. Doel, Kristine C. Harper, Matthias Heymann, editors

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The Oxford handbook of the prehistoric Arctic / edited by T. Max Friesen and Owen K. Mason

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Endeavouring Banks: exploring collections from the Endeavour voyage, 1768-1771 / Neil Chambers, with contributions by Anna Agnarsdottir, Sir David Attenborough, Jeremy Coote, Philip J. Hatfield and John Gascoigne

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Published On :: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 06:57:47 EST

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Spatio-temporal graph data analytics / Venkata M. V. Gunturi, Shashi Shekhar

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Atlas Obscura / Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras & Ella Morton

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Introduction to GIS programming and fundamentals with Python and ArcGIS / Chaowei Yang ; with the collaboration of Manzhu Yu [and seven others]

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Published On :: Sun, 11 Mar 2018 06:53:06 EDT

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Making maps: a visual guide to map design for GIS / John Krygier and Denis Wood

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Published On :: Sun, 11 Mar 2018 06:53:06 EDT

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The Palgrave handbook of dark tourism studies / Philip R. Stone, Rudi Hartmann, Tony Seaton, Richard Sharpley, Leanne White, editors

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Report on China's cruise industry / Hong Wang, editor

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Spatial Techniques for Soil Erosion Estimation: Remote Sensing and GIS Approach / by Rupesh Jayaram Patil

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Tourism, Territory and Sustainable Development: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Applications in Japan and Europe / João Romão

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Exploration of subsurface Antarctica: uncovering past changes and modern processes / edited by M.J. Siegert, S.S.R. Jamieson and D.A. White

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