 as carbon dioxide, that trap heat above the Earth and lead to a global-warming effect. Through global warming, it’s possible to have more flooding events, severe weather and an increased risk of famine and plagues from the resulting climate changes.
Green Infrastructure
Reducing air pollution emissions isn’t easy because it requires a balance between demanding consumers and capital-seeking commercial businesses. Alternative energy sources that are renewable, such as wind-turbine farms, hydroelectric underwater propeller systems, solar panel rooftops and geothermal energy from inside the Earth offer great long-term infrastructure solutions to clean power generation. Mass transportation powered by bio-fuels like corn and fish oil could also significantly reduce pollution. Promising futuristic solutions to pollution include designing walkable cities where human interactions are favored over carbon-emitting cars.
Living Green
Living green is a lifestyle requiring a combined individual and community effort to promote a healthy natural environment that can sustain future generations. By using Energy Star-efficient appliances, planting trees, buying local organic produce, creating community gardens and parks, reusing materials, participating in recycling programs and using green energy such as hydro, solar and wind power, pollution can be significantly reduced. Homeowners who install Energy Star-efficient appliances can save between 20 to 30 percent of the energy used by the typical home. Individual actions, such as properly insulating a home, walking or riding a bike, car pooling and turning off lights in rooms that aren’t in use, will also reduce air pollution.
References
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Air Pollution and Early Deaths in the United States. Part I: Quantifying the Impact of Major Sectors in 2005
- National Academy of Sciences: What You Need to Know About Energy
- Environmental Protection Agency: Air and Radiation
- Environmental Protection Agency: Reducing Energy Use
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- Digital Vision./Photodisc/Getty ImagesTo celebrate both Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day Unison’s Sally George led a talk on Equal Pay for Women and The Gender Pay Gap.
To celebrate both Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day Unison’s Sally George led a talk on Equal Pay for Women and The Gender Pay Gap.
Mary Lauchline McNeill was born on the 27th of September 1874 to Janet Jean Dewar and Daniel McNeill.
The meeting at the St Magnus Centre, Kirkwall is on from 6pm and is open to all.
As part of the events to celebrate International Women’s Day, The Orkney News’ short Animation ‘A Gude Cause Maks A Strong Erm’ will be showing at the Phoenix Cinema, Pickaquoy Centre, Kirkwall.
Silent Divas: ASSUNTA SPINA (12A) is at West Side Cinema, Stromness Town Hall, 09 March. Tickets on the door.
I was very proud to be working with a fantastic group women to mark International Women’s Day (8th of March) this year in Shetland
let’s look at the ‘progress’ being made for and by women in Scotland in 2018.
Orkney Rape Crisis is having an open door event where multi-agency staff, volunteers and supporters can visit their premises at 4 Gunn Close, Kirkwall.
“For our girls growing up today, it is important that we give them good role models – not only in STEM subjects, but in politics too.”
“remember those women of daring and do
Who were courageous and strong in the past.”The real reason is that BP already bought a warehouse full of Corexit, which got dirt cheap after several countries banned it for toxicity, so, they have no interest in buying or using anything else, no matter who tells them to do it.
GRAND ISLE, La. — The first wave of oil swept onto the beach. The tourists swept out.
The few people who bothered to visit Grand Isle Beach Friday came out of morbid curiosity, to see the proliferating drips and blotches and puddles and pools the color of Coca-Cola.
The gooey, adhesive stuff portended an economic disaster for Grand Isle, the only inhabited island on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast. Tourists keep this beach town alive. The tourists had vanished.
A town of 1500 that needs the summer tourists to survive, and their beach is covered in oil just before the season begins. It will take years to clean the beach, and the locals can’t wait years. If you get hit with a hurricane, you can come back, but not pollution.
Rick of the Independent News said that people in Destin have heard that BP and the state are talking to charter boat captains about job retraining. I think that what they heard about was the program that hires local boats for use in the operation, which does require some training. I’ll wait a few days, and if the shark-gnawed bodies of BP representatives start coming on-shore, I’ll accept that it was about job retraining.
No matter what happens, Southern Republcans are as predictable as buzzards returning to Hinckley, Ohio.
WASHINGTON — Gulf Coast senators are pressing federal regulators to resume processing permits for off-shore drilling in shallow waters, saying that a moratorium imposed earlier this month is too broad.
If the moratorium, which was imposed earlier this month in response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, is not lifted soon, most of the approximately 57 shallow-water rigs in the gulf “will be unable to work,” the letter states.
The letter was released late this afternoon by Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Oxford, who signed it along with the state’s other senator, Roger Wicker, R-Tupelo. The remaining eight signers include Alabama Sens. Jeff Sessions, R-Mobile, and Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa, according to an accompanying news release.
 They just don’t care that oil companies have destroyed the economy of the Gulf Coast, once bought, they stay bought.
BP’s announcement implicitly criticized Werely’s higher estimates. BP said that the riser, the pipe between the wellhead and the drilling platform, is 19.5 inches in diameter, but the accident damaged it and reduced its diameter by 30 percent, and a drill pipe trapped inside it reduced the flow by 10 percent more, the company said. “Thus, some third party estimates of flow, which assume a 19.5 inch diameter, are inaccurate,” it said.
The only way they would know that damage had cause a “30% reduction” would be if they knew what the actual flow was and compared that to the flow of an undamaged riser. They have maintained that they are too busy to actually measure the flow. BP just throws around numbers to confuse the issue.
These days, we hardly have the time or the space to set up our very own garden. Meet “Grasslamp”, a stunning desktop hydroponic garden that offers you the chance to grow your own micro-greens, while also illuminating your work or home space with its bright LED light. Designed by Los Angeles-based innovators, this lamp is also a spectacular home decor accessory.
The concept, behind the Grasslamp, was conceived back in 2009, when it won the famed “Design and Design” award. Crafted roughly in the shape of an egg, this innovative desk lamp includes a miniature greenhouse, with a flat foundation for seedlings, and an LED-fitted light fixture. It requires no soil or fertilizer, and relies only on water for the plants’ growth. One only needs to soak a small batch of seeds in water for around 8 hours, place them on the built-in lid and spray them once or twice each day. In about four to five days, you’ll have an entire garden of fresh, organic micro-greens.
The lamp’s bright LED light actually facilitates the plants’ growth. According to the designers, the Grasslamp can be used to grow nearly 40 different types of microgreens, including edible flowers, micro-salads and even wheatgrass. Wheatgrass, for instance, is loaded with vital nutrients and vitamins, and also serves as the perfect snack for your feline pets.
The Grasslamp is built using 100-percent recyclable plastic. It is carefully crafted inside a steel mold, via a process called injection molding. Following this, it is assembled manually, before being shipped. The product retails for around $399, but is currently available on Kickstarter at a discounted price of $99.<filename>Homework/2019/Task8/11/code/cut/process.py
import os
import time
import numpy
from PIL import Image
from os.path import join
from itertools import groupby

img_path = "/Users/dqy/My/captcha/checkcode/"
pic_path = "/Users/dqy/My/captcha/crop_img/"

def get_bin_table(threshold=190):
    """
    获取灰度转二值的映射table
    :param threshold:
    :return:
    """
    table = []
    for i in range(256):
        if i < threshold:
            table.append(0)
        else:
            table.append(1)

    return table

def depoint(img):
    """
    去噪
    对于像素值>245的邻域像素，判别为属于背景色，如果一个像素上下左右4各像素值有超过2