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In March 2019, the film was restored in 4K and released on DVD and Blu-ray by Vinegar Syndrome. |
Arjen Hoekstra |
Arjen Hoekstra (June 28, 1967 - November 18, 2019) was a professor at the University of Twente who pioneered the concept of the water footprint - a way of measuring the extent of water consumption. |
His work drew attention to the hidden water use associated with a range of activities, and continues to have a profound effect both on scholarship and on environmental policy and activism. |
He strongly supported open source science, and all his articles were published under a Creative Commons License. |
Hoekstra earned an MSc degree in Civil Engineering and a PhD in Policy Analysis from Delft University of Technology. |
At the University of Twente, Arjen Hoekstra was Professor of Water Management and Chair of the Department of Multidisciplinary Water Management. |
He worked on a variety of interdisciplinary research projects, and advised a range of organisations about water consumption, these included governments, UNESCO, the World Bank, and Compassion in World Farming. |
As a professor, Hoekstra taught subjects such as: sustainable development, hydrology, natural resource valuation, environmental systems, and policy analysis. |
Throughout his career, Hoekstra's work gained international media attention and he was consistently referred to as an expert on the topic of water resource issues. |
The water footprint shows the extent of water use in relation to consumption by people. |
The water footprint of an individual, community or business is defined as the total volume of fresh water used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual or community or produced by the business. |
Water use is measured in water volume consumed (evaporated) and/or polluted per unit of time. |
A water footprint can be calculated for any well-defined group of consumers (e.g., an individual, family, village, city, province, state or nation) or producers (e.g., a public organization, private enterprise or economic sector), for a single process (such as growing rice) or for any product or service. |
Traditionally, water use has been approached from the production side, by quantifying the following three columns of water use: water withdrawals in the agricultural, industrial, and domestic sector. |
While this does provide valuable data, it is a limited way of looking at water use in a globalised world, in which products are not always consumed in their country of origin. |
International trade of agricultural and industrial products in effect creates a global flow of virtual water, or "embodied water" (akin to the concept of embodied energy). |
In 2002, the water footprint concept was introduced in order to have a consumption-based indicator of water use, that could provide useful information in addition to the traditional production-sector-based indicators of water use. |
It is analogous to the ecological footprint concept introduced in the 1990s. |
The water footprint is a geographically explicit indicator, not only showing volumes of water use and pollution, but also the locations. |
Thus, it gives a grasp on how economic choices and processes influence the availability of adequate water resources and other ecological realities across the globe (and vice versa). |
Hoekstra died unexpectedly in November, 2019. |
He is survived by a wife and children. |
Cream City, Ohio |
Cream City is an unincorporated community in Saline Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, United States. |
It is located between Irondale and Hammondsville along Creek Street, at . |
Partners (1976 film) |
Partners is a Canadian thriller drama film, directed by Don Owen and released in 1976. |
The film stars Hollis McLaren as Heather Grey, the daughter of business magnate John Grey (Denholm Elliott); when she takes over leadership of the company after her father's death, she becomes a target for the romantic interests of Paul (Michael Margotta), a corporate spy for the American company. |
The Ontario Censor Board forced Owen to cut a 90-second sex scene from the film. |
The film has most commonly been analyzed as an allegory for Canadian nationalism. |
However, it was not well-received by critics, and Owen did not make another film until 1984's "Unfinished Business", which was billed as his "comeback". |
It was a Canadian Film Award nominee for Best Feature Film at the 27th Canadian Film Awards in 1976, but did not win. |
Genesis GV80 |
The Genesis GV80 () is an upcoming mid-size luxury crossover SUV manufactured by Korean luxury automaker Genesis, a division of Hyundai.<ref name=C/D></ref> |
It will be available with three engines: a turbocharged 2.5L unit with 300 horsepower,0~62mile is 6.9sec, a turbocharged 3.5L unit with 375 horsepower, 0~62mile is 5.5sec, and a turbocharged 3.0L diesel with 274 horsepower. |
0~62mile is 6.8sec. |
The diesel engine will only be available in select markets. |
The GV80 features a high level of equipment like Navigation-based Smart Cruise Control (ASCC), Remote Smart Parking Assist, NFC Digital Key, Around View Monitor (AVM), 22" Wheels, Nappa Leather Seats, 14.5" Touchscreen Infotainment display with 18 speakers Lexicon Audio System , Electric Side Curtains, Driver Controlled 2nd row and 3rd row seats. |
The safety system includes 10 airbags, Forward Collision-Avoidance Assist, Reverse Parking Collision-Avoidance Assist, Driver Attention Warning, Blind Spot Collision-Avoidance Assist, Automatic High Beam Assist and Lane Keep Assist System (LKAS). |
It's main competitors will be the Acura MDX, Audi Q7, BMW X5, Buick Enclave, Cadillac XT6, GMC Acadia Denali, Infiniti QX60, Lamborghini Urus, Land Rover Discovery, Lexus RX, Lincoln Aviator, Mercedes-Benz M-Class, Porsche Cayenne, Tesla Model X and the Volvo XC90. |
Lim Jong-hoon |
Lim Jong-hoon (, born 21 January 1997) is a South Korean table tennis player. |
Lim and Jang Woo-jin were the men's doubles winners at the 2016 Belarus Open, the 2018 Korea Open, and the 2018 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals. |
Lim also won men's singles at the 2018 Polish Open. |
Douglas Gilmore |
Douglas Gilmore (June 25, 1903 - July 26, 1950) was an actor in the United States. |
He appeared in numerous films and theater productions. |
The University of Washington has a photograph of him from 1927. |
Land defender |
A Land defender is an activist and individual who works to protect the earth's land. |
They are also referred to as land protectors or earth defenders. |
Land defenders are primarily members of Indigenous communities in North America and are not considered to be protesters, but performing a sacred duty through non-violent resistance to activities which endanger the land. |
Land defenders reject the term "protestor" because of its links to colonialism and its negative connotations. |
Land is considered sacred by Indigenous peoples and caring for and protecting land is considered a duty to honour ancestors, to current peoples, and future generations. |
Land defenders play an active and increasingly visible role in actions intended to protect, honour, and make visible the importance of land. |
There are strong connections between the water protector movement land defender movement and Indigenous environmental activism. |
Land defenders resist the installation of pipelines, fossil fuel industries, destruction of territory for development such as agriculture and resource extraction activities such as fracking because these actions can lead to the degredation of land, destruction of forest, and disruption of habitat. |
Land defenders resist activities that harm land, especially across Indigenous territories and their work is tied to human rights. |
Activism can come in the form of the erection of blockades on reserve lands or traditional territories to block corporations from resource extraction activities. |
Water and land protectors also erect camps as a way to occupy traditional territories and strengthen cultural ties. |
Land defenders also work through legal frameworks such as government court systems in effort to keep control of traditional territories. |
Land defenders often face perilous conditions in the face of state powers, resource corporations such as gas or mining corporations, others seeking to develop land or extinguish Indigenous land rights. |
For example, it was revealed that the Canadian national police force, the RCMP, were prepared to use deadly force against land defenders in a 2019 protest in British Columbia. |
The human rights organization Global Witness reported that 164 land defenders were killed in 2018 in countries such as the Philippines, Brazil, India, and Guatemala. |
This same report stated a significant number of the people killed, injured, and threatened were Indigenous. |
The UN has reported that many land protectors are labelled as terrorists by state governments in an effort to discredit their claims. |
Such labelling can create dangerous conditions for those working to protect land rights. |
Amnesty International has called attention to the dangers facing those seeking to protect the earth, water, and communities, calling Latin America the most dangerous location for land defenders. |
The Environmental Defence Fund has reported that over 1700 defenders have been killed with less than 10% of those responsible brought to justice. |
The Extinction Rebellion (XR) has worked to bring attention to the situation of land defenders and have honoured those who have been killed. |
Annette Thomas |
Annette Thomas (born 1965) is an American-born publishing executive specializing in science publishing, who lives in the United Kingdom. |
In 2020 she was named chief executive of the Guardian Media Group. |
Thomas was born in Washington, D.C. in 1965, and grew up near Washington. |
Her African-American father worked as a pharmacist at the Food and Drug Administration, and her mother is German. |
She attended the Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Greenbelt, Maryland. |
She has a degree in biochemistry and biophysics from Harvard University and a PhD in cell biology and neuroscience from Yale University. |
In 1993, immediately after finishing her graduate work, Thomas moved to London to start her career in publishing as a cell biology editor at "Nature". |
She served as the founding editor of "Nature Cell Biology". |
She became publisher (1999) and then managing director of the Nature Publishing Group in 2000. |
She was responsible for founding the "Nature Reviews" series. |
Other positions that she has held include chief executive of Macmillan Science and Education, as well as leadership roles at Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science citation and abstract search database. |
Thomas is a trustee and member of the governing board of Yale University. |
She is also a past recipient of the prestigious Wilbur Cross Medal, awarded to distinguished Yale Graduate School alumni. |
She has previously served on various boards, including the Creative Commons Board of Directors. |
Thomas was named chief executive of the Guardian Media Group on 14 January 2020. |
She begins the role in March 2020. |
Thomas has lived in the United Kingdom since about 1995, most recently in Cambridge. |
She is married to a scientist. |
They have three sons and a daughter. |
Mount Almagosa |
Mount Almagosa is the fourth highest peak on island of the United States territory of Guam. |
It is west of the Fena Valley Reservoir. |
It is above sea level. |
Breviary of Eleanor of Portugal |
The Breviary of Eleanor of Portugal is an early 16th-century Flemish illuminated manuscript Breviary, providing the divine office according to the Roman ordinal and calendar. |
It contains the work of several leading miniaturists of the Ghent-Bruges school of Flemish illumination. |
The "Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximilian" seems to have led the team of artists that produced the codex, which included the Master of James IV of Scotland (who some scholars identify with Gerard Horenbout, court artist to Margaret of Austria), who painted many of the historiated borders, the calendar, as well as the small miniatures in the Ferial Psalter, and the Master of the Prayerbooks of c. 1500 or an artist in his circle. |
Lesser hands, probably assistants to the Maximilian Master, can also be identified. |
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