![]() ![]() Seafood faces a similar fate, with 11 percent lost during production, 5 percent lost during processing and packaging, 9.5 percent lost at the distribution and retail level, and a further 33 percent lost at the consumer level. The causes of food waste in America go far beyond just tossing our leftovers in the trash, and they are crucial to understand in order to reduce our nation’s collective food waste going forward.įrom production and supply, to our tendency to overpurchase, to the unrealistic aesthetic standards we have come to expect from our fruits and vegetables, these are the three main causes of food waste in America: Production and Supply Chainįood wastage occurs at every step of the supply chain, with different types of foods being more or less likely to be lost at each step.Īccording to data from the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand that was collected by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), 20 percent of fruit and vegetables are lost during production, 12 percent are lost at the distribution and retail level, and a further 28 percent are lost at the consumer level. (For more food waste statistics, scroll down to the “Food Waste Facts and Statistics” section below.) What Causes Food Waste in America? These numbers are up from 37 million and 11 million, respectively, in 2019, with the sharp rise in food insecurity due to the effects of the COVID-19 public health emergency and the subsequent economic downturn. The reality of food waste in America is that we live in a country in which more than 54 million people are food insecure (18 million of which are children) according to 2020 data collected by Feeding America. How did we get here? Knowing how much food is wasted in America each year is only the first step toward tackling a problem that is bigger than the simple monetary loss. ![]() In fact, food waste is the number one material in American landfills, accounting for 24.1 percent of all municipal solid waste (MSW) according to the EPA. is the worldwide leader in food waste generation, with the majority of wasted food being sent to landfills. The annual food waste in America has an approximate value of $161 billion, while the average American family of four throws out $1,500 in wasted food per year.Īs it stands, the U.S. can be seen directly through its monetary losses. This equates to 103 million tons (206 billion pounds) of food waste generated in America in 2017, or between 30-40 percent of the food supply, according to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). How Much Food is Wasted in America?Įach day in the United States approximately one pound of food per person is wasted. Keep reading to learn more about food waste in America. ![]() And we’re going to uncover the most interesting food waste statistics out there. We’re going to look at what causes food waste at every level of the food supply chain and how to reduce it. In this article, we’re going to look at the issues surrounding food waste in the U.S. Rubicon’s mission is to end waste, in all of its forms. ![]()
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![]() ![]() So I wrote this little rock and roll song to commemorate the occasion. It was my first time there and I was only there for two days which was kind of a bummer, I wish I could’ve really seen more of the island and I arrived there at 11 o’clock at night and the next morning I ran to the window and threw back the curtains and sure enough, there it was, paradise, you know, green, lush hills, old Sugarloaf Mountain up there, white birds flying low, Myna birds all over the place, and, right in the middle of it all, was a big parking lot. Joni introduced the song this way on November 29, 1969: ![]() DDT is still used in several other areas of the world. At the time Joni wrote this lyric (1967-68), the continued use of DDT was quite controversial. Because of DDT's effects on birds, the chemical has not been used in the United States since 1972, and can no longer be used except in cases of public health emergency. $3.00 - Resident of Hawaii, 13 years and older with IDįREE - Child, 5 years old and under (must be with adult)ĭDT is a persistent organochlorine pesticide and is largely responsible for the great decrease in the reproductive capabilities and consequently in the populations of fish-eating birds, such as the bald eagle, brown pelican, and osprey. Museum" she sang about where they charged you to see the trees was Foster Botanical Garden" Us that: "'Big Yellow Taxi', by the way, was written about Hawaii and the "tree Tree Museum: Dave Donelly, reporter for Honolulu's Star-Bulletin, informs The Royal Hawaiian has 526 beautifully appointed rooms, located in either the elegant Historic Building or the modern Tower Wing. Here, amidst serene gardens behind the coral-colored facade, you can still find the special ambiance of old Hawaii and its gracious island hospitality. The romantic and legendary Pink Palace, built in 1927 is the landmark hotel on Waikiki Beach. Pink Hotel: Although Joni's own words (below) suggest she wrote this on Maui, the Pink Hotel in this song is most likely the Royal Hawaiian in Honolulu. ![]() ![]() Stir together wet ingredients in a separate mixing bowl. Whisk together dry ingredients in a large bowl. So while cooking time is only a few minutes per batch, the total time will likely be closer to 45 minutes or so. This is a pretty simple recipe, but you’ll want to be sure to allow time for the oil to heat up.
![]() Also I can’t really describe how awesome it is to be able to wear your nice comfy bed in the morning when you wake up like you can with the HPG Serape. I wish I could have gotten a better full length picture of it on me but it was just me out there so this will have to do. The raincoat tent made in the USSR is made of tarpaulin. I’d have no problem running around in the woods like this and I much rather prefer it to having a larger bag with all my normal bedding and shelter in it. Russian Army Plash Palatka 5.00 (votes: 1 ) 28.55 Total Description Army raincoat khaki. I used a lightly loaded HPG Tarahumara for my day bag and had no issues hiking around with the whole set up.Īdding the wool blanket to the Plash Palatkas did make for a heavy bundle, but using a wider roll made the whole thing very manageable and I was happy to find the added bulk wasn’t a big deal. I don’t really think it would work well for the two of us so I’ll probably end up using a plow point, but for one person this shelter works fine.Ĭarrying it as a bedroll over the shoulder works really well. This was a trial run to see if it would be viable for me and my son to make a shelter out of. I think a taller person would have some issues and I don’t think two adults could fit. I slept more or less diagonally and had plenty of space, but I’m also 5’9. The only downside is that the whole arrangement is a tight fit. I ended up in a tangle giving up and simply unhooking one of my corners (super easy to do if you slip it of the tent pole real fast) getting everything right and then hooking it all back up from my warm little bundle. Trying to shimmy on in without messing your bedding all up is quite the feat. Overall it worked well, one issue I had was getting into it. Originally I was going to be really traditional and only use a wool blanket at the last second I added my HPG Serape and let me tell you around 3 or 4 when the temperature dropped down to the mid 40s I was really happy to not be a starving conscript with just a wool blanket and fear of the NKVD to keep me warm. Now I cheated and used two Plash Palatkas because I wanted my shelter to have a floor so I wouldn’t be sleeping directly in the dirt because I’m a delicate little Nancy. With some added vegetation it would be really hard to spot I suspect. Now days they just come with the twine so I improvised and used my Cold Steel shovel as a tent pole.Īs you can see we end up with a very low profile shelter.įifteen feet away and it’s already wanting to disappear. So I made one and spent the night in it.Īs issued the Plash Palatka comes with two tent poles, some twine, and some stakes. I suspected a low profile shelter like the one in the link above using a single tent pole would be easy to hide out in and I was curious how useable it would be. If you’ve ever read German accounts of the eastern front during WWII one issue they constantly run into are well camouflaged Russians. So instead for my latest outing I wanted to try out the shelter method outlined in the Russian manual. I’ve been really wanting to test out a Plash Palatka shelter in the rain but all the forecasted rain recently hasn’t materialized. ![]() ![]() Though there is no problem with algorithm but it is well established fact that “ Maximum Likelihood” estimation of Logistic model suffers from small sample bias. Most probable algorithm proposed would be “Logistic Regression”. When difference in proportion between classes is small most of the machine learning or statistical algorithms work fine but as this difference grows most of the algorithms tends to predicts majority class.įor Example, let us suppose we are trying to predict Loan Defaulters based on historical data. each class does not make up to equal proportion within the data. If the decision to put a model into production is based on how it performs on a validation set, it’s critical that oversampling is done correctly.SMOTE: In most of the real world classification problem, data tends to display some degree of imbalance i.e. The main point of model validation is to estimate how the model will generalize to new data. When the model is in production, it’s predicting on unseen data. Random forests are great because the model architecture reduces overfitting (see Brieman 2001 for a proof), but poor sampling practices can still lead to false conclusions about the quality of a model. But it’s important to remember that oversampling incorrectly can lead to thinking a model will generalize better than it actually does. Oversampling is a well-known way to potentially improve models trained on imbalanced data. The validation results closely match the unseen test data results, which is exactly what I would want to see after putting a model into production. Now I’ll go through the right way: oversampling on only the training data. Okay, so I’ve gone through the wrong way to oversample. As a result, the model will be better able to predict validation set values than completely new data. Since I’m splitting the data randomly, we’d expect to have this happen. If the nearest neighbors of minority class observations in the training set end up in the validation set, their information is partially captured by the synthetic data in the training set. However, because the SMOTE algorithm uses the nearest neighbors of observations to create synthetic data, it still bleeds information. When upsampling using SMOTE, I don’t create duplicate observations. As a result, a complex enough model will be able to perfectly predict the value for those observations when predicting on the validation set, inflating the accuracy and recall. If I upsample a dataset before splitting it into a train and validation set, I could end up with the same observation in both datasets. To see how this works, think about the case of simple oversampling (where I just duplicate observations). That’s a huge difference! What Happened?īy oversampling before splitting into training and validation datasets, I “bleed” information from the validation set into the training of the model. Only 80% accuracy and 13% recall on the test data. I’ll start by importing some modules and loading the data. ![]() I’m going to try to predict whether someone will default on or a creditor will have to charge off a loan, using data from Lending Club. Since one of the primary goals of model validation is to estimate how it will perform on unseen data, oversampling correctly is critical. Instead, it’s about how the timing of oversampling can affect the generalization ability of a model. However, this post isn’t about how this can improve modeling. By oversampling, models are sometimes better able to learn patterns that differentiate classes. Recently, oversampling the minority class observations has become a common approach to improve the quality of predictive modeling. I’d guess that only 1 in 10,000 credit card charges are fraudulent, at most. In each of these cases, only a small fraction of observations are actually positives. Amazon wants to classify fake reviews, banks want to predict fraudulent credit card charges, and, as of this November, Facebook researchers are probably wondering if they can predict which news articles are fake. Imbalanced datasets spring up everywhere. The Right Way to Oversample in Predictive Modeling ![]() ![]() ![]() There is often some processing time before a refund is posted. Then contact your credit card company, it may take some time before your refund is officially posted. If you haven’t received a refund yet, first check your bank account again. If you are approved, then your refund will be processed, and a credit will automatically be applied to your credit card or original method of payment, within a certain amount of days. We will also notify you of the approval or rejection of your refund. Once your return is received and inspected, we will send you an email to notify you that we have received your returned item. There are certain situations where only partial refunds are granted (if applicable)ĬD, DVD, VHS tape, software, video game, cassette tape, or vinyl record that has been openedĪny item not in its original condition, is damaged or missing parts for reasons not due to our errorĪny item that is returned more than 30 days after delivery Please do not send your purchase back to the manufacturer. ![]() To complete your return, we require a receipt or proof of purchase. We also do not accept products that are intimate or sanitary goods, hazardous materials, or flammable liquids or gases. Perishable goods such as food, flowers, newspapers or magazines cannot be returned. Several types of goods are exempt from being returned. It must also be in the original packaging. ![]() To be eligible for a return, your item must be unused and in the same condition that you received it. If 30 days have gone by since your purchase, unfortunately we can’t offer you a refund or exchange. ![]() it opened the project as you are seeing it in the first image. zip file to the program files directory and also didn't work.Īny guess? the project was created from the ESP-IDF extension for vs code using "arduino as a component". do you recommend reinstalling all arduino versions? (when i downloaded the 1.18, after alredy having the rc version, it didn't generate any new directories, just launched directly. Watch in awe as your LEDs turn on and off in a mixed sequence. Make sure there is an empty line above and below your code. The button will turn orange and then blue when finished. Im trying to send two int vectors from Processing to Arduino but when i run processing and. I also have the latest rc build of arduino IDE. The button will turn orange and then blue once finished. ![]() ![]() I tried with that route but the problem "not detecting arduino.h" persist. ![]() ![]() This SQLite browser will help you to see the content of the exported database file. You can download SQLite Browser from here and can install it. (This process is like downloading the database from the mobile application to your PC/Laptop) ![]() Please save the database on a known location. ![]() After finding the database right click on that and save it to any directory. You can see the database you have created. Select the device and expand the data option.įind the package name of your application in the list.Įxpand the application package directory and expand the database directory under that. Select the device from which you want to see the Realm database. At the top of that window, you can see a dropdown with a list of devices connected with your development machine (also includes emulators). Here you will see the “Device File Explorer” option just click on it.Īfter clicking on it, you will see a window. If you are unable to find the Device File Explorer then try to find view option in the top menu and hover over “Tool Windows”. If you have successfully found the option then you can click on it. Find Device File ExplorerĪfter opening the Android Studio you need to find the “Device File Explorer” which you can generally find at the right bottom of the Android Studio. Launch Android Studio and open File > Open > “Your project”/android directory. ![]() If you are working with the Real Device, you can connect it with the development machine or if you are using emulator then you are ready for the next point. So for the safer side insert the data in the application’s database using your app. I know it’s not a point to mention but believe me, I got some queries in which people forgot to insert the data in the database but still, they want to see the data. Open SQLite Database Stored in Device using Android Studio 1. Note: You can only see the database of the debug app, not of the release app. So here are the steps to see the SQLite database of the app installed in a particular device: Now the question comes in everybody’s mind is How to See SQLite Database Data Saved in Device. When you are providing the database while developing the application, app builder takes the database from the reference location and copy it to the APK and after deploying that APK into the device the database will be managed in the device only so the database that you have provided on your PC/laptop is just for the starting, it is not the same database that device modifies. In the second case, they provide the database from as a reference in the asset /www directory and that database will be used by the application and after modifying the data in the database they look for the change in the same database which is confusion point. If we talk about the database that we make in runtime then we can understand that but most people get confused in the second case when we use the pre-populated database. While developing the application either we provide the pre-populated database or make the database at runtime but in both cases, we can not see the database of the device directly. There are lots of confusion in people related to How to see the SQLite database? and that is the main reason behind writing this post. This is an extended post of our previous post Example of SQLite Database in React Native and Example to Load Pre Populated SQLite Database in React Native. This post has the steps to see the data stored in the SQLite database in the device. Here is How to See SQLite Database Data Saved in Device using Android Studio. ![]() ![]() ![]() FASCINATING AND SATISFYING GRAPHICSĭead Trigger 2’s graphics are perfectly optimized and use the latest 3D engine to give players the most refreshing feeling when killing zombies. The characteristics of each mission are different, so its gameplay is diverse and suitable for many different types of players, and the game will even hide many secrets in the environment for the player to earn extra money. Depending on the content available, the player will have to kill everything, defend the position, supply run, and mount the gun. The player’s entire campaign is spread worldwide, so its mission system is diverse and abundant for the player to progress. Players can also use gadgets assistive kill zombies artistically and immerse themselves in the excitement of killing zombies. It also features an auto-fire mode for all weapons, optimizing the player’s combat performance in all distances or unique circumstances. IMMERSIVE AND ENTERTAINMENT GAMEPLAYĭead Trigger 2’s pacing and controls are simple, so players can have more fun than hard work while killing zombies or completing quests. Thus, the endless campaign mode always opens up new possibilities for players to entertain in a post-apocalyptic zombie world. Besides, it has many interesting contents to create competition between players, such as rewards or new weapons. ![]() Dead Trigger 2 is one of the best zombie action-packed content as its content is vast, along with the feeling of euphoria when players bash a zombie’s head with a weird weapon. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Salvation Army's fundraising shops in the United Kingdom participate in the UK government's Work Programme, a workfare programme in which benefit claimants must work for no compensation for 20 to 40 hours per week over periods that can be as long as six months. Salvation Army store in Victoria, Australia (See also § Stance on LGBT issues section.) See also LGBT clergy in Christianity. Such officer-couples are assigned together to act as co- pastors and to administer corps, Adult Rehabilitation Centres, and such.Īs of 2001, the organisation will not appoint homosexual people to posts as ministers, preferring individuals "whose values are consistent with the church's philosophy". Husbands and wives usually share the same rank and have the same or similar assignments. Salvation Army officers were previously allowed to marry only other officers (this rule varied in different countries) but this rule has been relaxed in recent years. The Salvation Army permits the ordination of women. Usually, officers are given new marching orders every two to five years and reassigned to different posts, sometimes moving great distances. Officers are given Marching Orders to change ministries within the Salvation Army. Promotion in rank from Lieutenant to Major depends primarily on years of service. Officer ranks include Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel, Commissioner, and General. The epaulettes have the letter " S" embroidered on them in white. When they are acting in their official capacities, they can often be recognised by the colour-coded epaulettes on their white uniform dress shirts. The Salvation Army refers to its ministers as "officers". ![]() Main article: Officer (The Salvation Army) It is a member of the American organisation Christian Churches Together. The Salvation Army is the fourth largest charity in the United States, with private donations in excess of US$2 billion in 2022. In the United Kingdom, the Salvation Army is no longer the largest non-governmental provider of social services however, it still provides a significant service to people in need. ![]() In addition to community centres and disaster relief, the organisation works in refugee camps, especially among displaced people in Africa. The Salvation Army is one of the world's largest providers of social aid, with expenditures including operating costs of US$2.6 billion in 2004, helping more than 32 million people in the U.S. The Salvation Army received an A- rating from the American Institute of Philanthropy. In 2011, Charity Watch rated the Salvation Army an "A−" to an "A", indicating a high level of financial efficiency and organisational transparency. ![]() As of 2023 the international leader of The Salvation Army and chief executive officer (CEO) is General Brian Peddle, who was elected by the High Council of The Salvation Army on 3 August 2018. Its highest priority is its Christian principles. In 1878, Booth reorganised the mission, becoming its first general and introducing the military structure which it has retained as a matter of tradition. It can trace its origins to the Blind Beggar tavern. The Army was founded in 1865 as the "East London Christian Mission" in London by one-time Methodist preacher William Booth and his wife Catherine. of education, the relief of poverty, and other charitable objects beneficial to society or the community of mankind as a whole". The Army's purposes are "the advancement of the Christian religion. The Army's doctrine is aligned with the Wesleyan–Arminian tradition, particularly the holiness movement. It does not celebrate the rites of Baptism and Holy Communion. A distinctive characteristic of the Salvation Army is its use of titles derived from military ranks, such as "lieutenant" or "major". The theology of the Salvation Army derives from Methodism, although it differs in institution and practice. It is present in 133 countries, running charity shops, operating shelters for the homeless, and disaster relief and humanitarian aid to developing countries. Its founders sought to bring salvation to the poor, destitute, and hungry by meeting both their "physical and spiritual needs". The organisation reports a worldwide membership of over 1.7 million, comprising soldiers, officers, and adherents who are collectively known as Salvationists. It is aligned with the Wesleyan-Holiness movement. The Salvation Army ( TSA) is a Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organization headquartered in London, England. ![]() |