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Osteopathy is an established system of diagnosis and treatment of stresses and strains in the body. Osteopathy uses many of the diagnostic procedures involved in conventional medical assessment and diagnosis. Its main strength, however, lies in the unique way the patient is assessed from a mechanical, functional and postural standpoint and the manual methods of treatment applied to suit the needs of the individual patient. It can help with a wide variety of conditions due to its philosophy that all parts and systems of the body are connected and interdependent, and that for good health all parts need to work well as a whole.
Osteopathy is well known for its treatment of aches and pains in the musculo – skeletal system, and Osteopaths regularly treat people with:
- Lower Back Pain
- Pain and restriction in the joints of the arms and legs
Osteopaths also treat people with:
- Breathing difficulties
- Digestive disturbances
- Gynaecological problems
- Occupational stress
- Tension from emotional stress
- Postural changes in pregnancy
Cranial osteopathy applies the same principles as Osteopathy while focusing on the subtle mechanic structures of the head and spine, which house the central nervous system, to effect change throughout the body.
CRANIAL OSTEOPATHY FOR BABIES
The gentle nature of the cranial osteopathy makes it particularly suitable for babies and children. Parents regularly report improvement in complaints such as:
• Colic • Sickness and wind • Crying babies • Feeding and sleeping problems • Ear infection • Sinus congestion • Behavioural problems
OSTEOPATHY FOR SPORTS INJURIES
Most people nowadays – especially those of us who work and live in a big city – recognize the need to engage in some regular physical activity. Whether we go walking, running or doing a specific sport, physical exercise helps us relax and balance our work, family and social life.
But if we sustain an injury which prevents us from practising our favourite physical routine, stress can easily build up and create a vicious circle of frustration and poor health.Osteopathy is one of the most effective treatments that can prevent injury and speed up recovery from sports injuries and accidents. The osteopath uses a holistic hands-on approach to understand why the injury has occurred in the first place in order to give the appropriate treatment and prevent recurrence.
At Brackenbury Clinic our highly qualified and experienced osteopaths are involved with amateur to professional athletes from all ages and levels including:
• Short distance runners • Marathon runners • Triathletes • Rugby players • Football players • Dancers • Tennis players • Squash players • Swimmers • Gymnasts • Bodybuilders • Yoga practitioners
You will receive specific advice regarding your training program (stretching, performance progression, goal settings etc.), nutrition and lifestyle, as well as personalised treatment to speed up and enhance your recovery.
If an injury is keeping you away from your activity or sport, visit Brackenbury Clinic – our expert osteopaths will put you back on track for your success.
For information on Osteopaths in your area, or anywhere in the UK, you can contact the Osteopathic Information Service on (020) 7357 6655, or look at the web site of theGeneral Osteopathic Council at www.osteopathy.org.uk
For appointment costs, please visit the individual practitioners’ pages.
Bernard ChauchetBernard Chauchet qualified with a Master in Osteopathic Medicine (MOst) from...
Daniel RollinsDaniel Rollins is a registered Osteopath and graduate of the London...
Elvira CipollettiElvira Cipolletti has a Master’s Degree in Osteopathy from the University...
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For those seeking the Russian perspective, a new publication by the Moscow-based Center of Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), titled The Tanks of August, is a must read.1 The well-informed director of CAST, Ruslan Pukhov also publishes "Moscow Defense Brief" which carried one of the earliest published Russian reviews of the war.2
The Tanks of August consists of six essays by Mikhail Barabanov, Anton Lavrov and Viacheslav Tseluiko offering both factual and analytical perspectives which most Western readers rarely encounter. Without these one can not understand the significance of that five-day war. Additionally these essays are essential to begin to develop competent future policies for U.S. and NATO relations with Russia and other states in the region.
Introduced by Mikhail Barabanov's preface that positions the conflict in a wider context, the chapters provide important insights into key facets of the war, as well as its prelude and aftermath.
The detailed description of the Georgian military forces reform by Viatcheslav Tseluiko is supported by some 80 footnotes. On the positive side, the expert points out the Georgian investment in its military's "human capital" that included improving servicemen's living standards. Georgia was the first on post-Soviet space to adopt western standards and equipment for its fundamental military reform that begun during the Shevardnadze presidency. In 2007-2008 Georgia's military budget represented a staggering 8 percent of GDP. Nevertheless, the manner in which the war was fought revealed that underneath the new Western uniforms serious problems remained: a lack of discipline and self-organization, low morale, corruption and nepotism, low education, and the absence of a national military tradition.
The second essay by Anton Lavrov provides a very detailed itemization of the events of the five-day war, many of which are not evident in Western chronologies. He assembles carefully verified materials, prepared from a combination of Russian and Georgian sources, which offer a perspective different from most of the Russian materials available elsewhere. Included is a thorough review of the pre-conflict situation which dates a marked escalation by August 1st, with high intensity military activity going on to the 7th of August, finally erupting in all-out war on August 8th. This careful exposition of facts convincingly dismantles the official Saakashvili statements that the Georgian actions were taken in response to a Russian attack.
The third piece on the future possibility of a Georgia-Russian conflict by Viatcheslav Tseluiko analyzes the lessons drawn by the Georgian leadership from the military debacle and the current rearming of Georgia. As a result of the war, Saakashvili reoriented the military for future conflict with Russia instead of domestic/foreign counterinsurgency operations which were announced as the focus of U.S. training programs. Having pursued a program of active rearmament—the details of which are carefully laid out—the Georgian military not only recovered its arms, equipment and manpower, but substantially increased it compared with August 2008.
The next essay, on Russian losses, is quite critical of the preparedness and effectiveness of the Russian armed forces. This piece demonstrates that the main cause of Russian aviation losses was friendly fire—a conclusion that was published early in CAST's Moscow Defense Brief and provoked a vivid denial from the Ministry of Defense. Besides, the author poses serious questions about the coordination and interaction of different branches of the Russian armed forces.
The following piece, on Georgian losses, debunks the widespread belief about high Georgian casualties: losses were moderate because the Georgian soldiers were retreating very fast, only after a few encounters with the Russian troops.
An important analysis of the current and possible future Russian-Georgian conflicts emphasizes that the August war has not solved the contradictions between Russia and Georgia. These contradictions do not preclude a repetition/re-ignition of a military conflict in the future. Saakashvili's continuing course maintains the underlying conflict with Russia latent and carries a serious potential of instability.
The final essay describes the Russian military bases and infrastructure in South Ossetia and Abkhazia in the aftermath of the war—the number of troops remains the same in Abkhazia—3,000 men, and increased in South Ossetia from 1,000 to 3,000 men. Since, exchanges of fire along the borders have decreased sharply and no civilian perished in the year since August 2008. Saakashvili now avoids talking publicly about bringing the independent republics back into Georgia by force but has not renounced to doing it.
The book is completed with an itemization of the military contributions to Georgia's armed capacity in 2000-2008 from countries including the United States, Ukraine, Israel, Turkey, Greece, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Uzbekistan. Originally, CAST was planning to publish an accompanying essay on the arms supplies, but the compiled information is so voluminous and multifaceted, that the Center decided to make a separate publication in the near future.
The Tanks of August covers mostly the military matters. Not discussed is the U.S.-engineered "Rose Revolution" which brought Saakashvili and his pro-NATO advisors to power as well as the "Orange Revolution" which brought their Ukrainian counterparts to power in time to provide essential logistical support to the Georgians. Key advisors in the Georgia war leadership included National Security Council director Alexander Lomia and Deputy Foreign Minister Giga Bokeria, both of whom had worked closely with U.S. organizations in coordinating the Rose Revolution.
For readers interested in additional materials on the war itself, the European Union's Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia is essential reading and in particular Volume III of the report which is the unedited official Russian statement on the war.3
1 Available in Russian in .pdf format on their web site. An English translation may be available in the future.
2 Issue #3 2008 (In English), The Empire Strikes Back.
3 All three volumes of the Commission's Report are available here. Der Spiegel's extensive coverage of the Report is available here.
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Place a coin on a card. Just wave and the card will change. Mario Tarasini brings a new ultra visual card change system to the magic world. It is called "Jumping card system" and it looks impossible. Take an old trick to a next level.
- Use a borrowed coin
- The coin can be singed
- Highly visual
- Easy to do
- Requires some arts and crafts to construct the gimmick
1st edition 2020, length 6 min 55 s.
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In-depth look at new Moto X software: Connect, Active Display, Assist, and more
1. mottykels (Posts: 373; Member since: 15 May 2013)
How about the battery life with this features?
20. NexusPhan (Posts: 600; Member since: 11 Jul 2013)
That's where the X8 computing architecture comes in to play. It will use one low powered core to handle all these with almost no drain on battery. It's an exciting would we live in today.
2. darkvadervip (Posts: 365; Member since: 08 Dec 2010)
Sounds like texting and calling getting complicated! I dislike all this crap going into some of these phones. Just give me a good looking phone and screen with fast Internet with quality sound and a simple texting style.
10. AliNSiddiqui (Posts: 382; Member since: 19 Sep 2012)
Get a WP then.. no one's forcing Android down your throat.
3. EXkurogane (Posts: 863; Member since: 07 Mar 2013)
I do like the features of the "command center", but many of them are things i dont even use, especially the wireless miracast stream to a TV. If i want to take advantage of it, it means buying a new TV.
4. TheLolGuy (Posts: 483; Member since: 05 Mar 2013)
A lot of these features are really tied to the power of Google Now, which is growing to be more incredible than ever. In that sense, these features can become more powerful with time as Google improves it's products.
In hindsight, a lot of Samsung's features do look more gimmicky, but I do feel like there are some that have potential like Air View.
5. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4250; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
Motorola Connect stands out for me. It'll be nice to send texts from Chrome, I always seem to miss notifications when I'm on the computer and have my headphones on.
23. rodkurt (Posts: 128; Member since: 29 Nov 2012)
yeah, it would be nice to call and text while using my laptop.
12. galanoth (Posts: 423; Member since: 26 Nov 2011)
Nope, it has the same sub pixel layout as the Galaxy Note 2 and the Galaxy S4 Mini.
13. Sniggly (Posts: 7301; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
What year are you living in, 2011? I'm pretty sure Pentile was killed as a failed experiment.
19. Sniggly (Posts: 7301; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Then what the f**k do you care? The display on the S4 kicks ass.
16. tech2 (Posts: 3161; Member since: 26 Oct 2012)
One of the 2 most highest selling android phones on the market have Pentile Amoled Display, Galaxy S4 and Galaxy S3 and yes this is 2013 !
22. TheLolGuy (Posts: 483; Member since: 05 Mar 2013)
Don't you think they stuck with it for a reason? Yeah if you look close up it looks a bit odd -- but that pixel setup was supposed to fix some issues inherent to their OLED panels. Longevity was one of them, which is crucial considering the blue colors lost brightness 4x faster than the other colors, causing poor color balance and distortion quickly.
The Galaxy S4 got a free pass in a certain sense, in that 441ppi is just so darn dense that you couldn't even see the pentile array even if you tried.
7. Jason2k13 (Posts: 1023; Member since: 28 Mar 2013)
do people use google now or voice that much? i never really used it yet... only once or twice? So i would probably turn all these features off from the moto X.
21. NexusPhan (Posts: 600; Member since: 11 Jul 2013)
Wow you are really missing out. I use it many times a day. If you travel ever its amazing. It's probably my favorite feature of my phone.
8. MorePhonesThanNeeded (Posts: 645; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
With all these nice features will any of the new so called smartphones know when to start recharging. I swear all smart phones are dumb in this regard no matter when you plug it in, it will begin to recharge the battery. Motorola with their seemingly useful chip which can be programmed to do different things should be able to take instructions to not charge my phone unless I tell it to or when I set the battery level auto recharge when plugged in(this would mean no more overcharging because you left it at home on the charger by mistake).
15. threeline (Posts: 267; Member since: 11 Sep 2011)
Doesn't most phones turn off charging once the "battery 100% charged" state is reached?
18. itsdeepak4u2000 (Posts: 3690; Member since: 03 Nov 2012)
Yes, these features are pretty impressive for me too.
24. DontHateOnS60 (Posts: 864; Member since: 20 Apr 2009)
Why can't they launch a device with software like this using the hardware of the the Droid Razr Maxx HD. Instead they have to go all iPhone and start cutting out great things like microHDMI and a microSD slot.
25. pattpatt37063 (Posts: 6; Member since: 15 May 2013)
Pentile also make the color look greenish and on the latest leak the moto x screen look red when displaying white compare to Samsung amoled which will be bluefish when displaying white
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South Florida Food and Drink Events This Week: Fellas Night, Bruery Keg Tapping, and More
Weekdays are the worst, unless you live in South Florida where we refuse to let a moment go by without cramming it full of entertainment.
Whether you're looking to relax and recover from the weekend, or would prefer to fill your weekday evening with distracting doings, there's something for you to do in Broward and Palm Beach counties this week.
Join Anthony Francis, Tony Rivera, and other members of the Sick Puppies Comedy improv troupe at Hurricane Grill & Wings as they show you the basics of Improv 101. Because who doesn't like their wings with a side of improvisational comedy? What's more if while imbibing and gorging on flocks of wings, you will have the opportunity to get on stage yourself as this improv is open mic and educational. Rather than a "come on stage and tell your jokes" type set, participants will have the opportunity to join in improv games. Think "Who's Line Is It Anyway?" except the answer is, "You. It's your line. quick, say something funny." Or just hide behind your pile of discarded wings and enjoy the comedy.
Broward's upscale beer bar and food hangout Tap 42 will host one of the season's most interesting tap takeovers: six rare beers from indomitable barrel-agers the Bruery. The Bruery produces relatively small batches of beer. Offerings include How about kegs of Chocolate Rain, White Chocolate, Melange #3, Filmishmish, Bottleworks XII, and Mischief (a hoppy/dry Belgian-style strong ale). -- Doug Fairall
Get a taste of the Greek Isles at Bistro Ten Zero One on Wedneday for their monthly garden party. Chef Chris DeGweck will grill in the garden where guests can enjoy a menu of Greek delights and live music while he prepares their food, including pork souvlaki, chicken kebabs, and bbq leg of lamb with souvlaki. It's $10 for drinks only, $20 for food only, and $30 food and drink.
Ladies are always the ones who get to party (and get drunk) for free. So what's a guy to do when he wants to hang with the boys, watch football, and crush empty beer cans with his forehead? Drink all the booze he wants for $5 at the Speakeasy Lounge's Mantastic Wednesdays while enjoying dude flicks. There's also all-you-can-drink wells from 8 to 11 p.m. -- By Laurie Charles
Art After Dark is a diverse collection of art, including film, dance, music, DIY projects, winetastings, lectures, and fine dining at the Norton Museum. While you're there, check out the rest of the museum's collection of special exhibitions to holidays as well as to historical and cultural landmark dates, including contemporary collections from China, America, and Europe. Food and beverages are served from the museum's café, Fratelli Lyon, which offers an à la carte dinner menu. -- By Dave Minsky
You can contact Rebecca Dittmar, Arts & Culture Editor/Food Blog Editor at email@example.com.
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Garda divers yesterday joined the search for a man believed to have fallen from a cliff in Co Clare.
Volunteers from the Doolin and Kilkee units of the Irish Coast Guard have been searching for the man in his 30’s since the alarm was raised on Monday afternoon.
A group tourists walking along a popular cliff top trail discovered a bag with some personal property close to Hags Head at the southern end of the Cliffs of Moher.
The bag was taken to the visitor centre at the Cliffs of Moher and handed over to staff who raised the alarm.
Gardaí travelled to the area and discovered a car which they traced back to a man understood to be from Co Tipperary but who had been living in Clare.
Gardaí contacted the Irish Coast Guard’s marine rescue coordination centre on Valentia Island in Kerry requesting assistance with a search of the area.
Coast Guard personnel have carried out sea and coastal searches from Doolin to Doonbeg since they were first alerted while the Shannon based search and rescue helicopter, Rescue 115, has also carried out several aerial searches.
Yesterday (Thursday) search teams were joined by members of the Garda Water Unit who were taken by Coast Guard boat to the missing man’s last known location.
Members of the missing man’s family also travelled to the area during the week.
Garda divers are expected to resume their efforts this morning while Coast Guard personnel will continue their water and land based searches.
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Imagine two economists who love to cook. After finishing University and several unsuccessful job interviews Til Pleterski and Klemen Ptičak decided to start their own business. With a great selection of food the Hood Burger is one of my favorite burger places in town. Although I am not a big fan of burgers and other junk food, this place is different. And simply great!
Til and Klemen buy ingredients only from Slovenian producers and they support local production, definitely a thumbs up for this decision. “Each burger has to be perfect so each component (meat, vegetables, cheese …) of it needs to be the best” they told me not so long ago. And every burger really is tasty. Another wonderful thing about the place is that at the end of the day they give their leftover bread to a society of volunteers who help people in need throughout Slovenia.
On the warm days they also organize small concerts in front of their place in the city centre. Atmosphere is just amazing. Good music and great food – is there any better combination than that?
And just another small hint – when ordering a burger, don’t forget to add homemade fries (fried in high-quality peanut oil) as well as Bevog, a Slovenian craft beer, or fresh lemonade to your order. What a perfect combination for a great lunch or dinner! There is no way of saying “next time” about this amazing burger place when you are in town.
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R is a powerful system for statistical analysis and data visualization. However, it’s not exactly user-friendly for data storage, so, still for several time your data will be archived using Excel, SPSS or similar programs.
How to open into R a file stored using the SPSS (.sav) format? There are some packages as
foreign which allow to perform this operation. The package foreign is already present in the base distribution of R system and you just need to activate it using the function
When you activated the package, you can open your file if you know where it’s located… the simpler method to locate a file (Yes, I know, you can set the work directory, but I have abrupt manners) is to send the instruction:
The system will open a window for the file access; you can look for your file in the folder where you have earlier archived it. R return the path to file:
Now, you can read the SPSS file using foreign, specifying the path to file (yes, you have understood, you need to copy and paste the path):
dataset = read.spss("C:\\PathToFile\\MyDataFile.sav", to.data.frame=TRUE)
Do you want avoid the copy and paste? You can assign the result of the instruction
file.choose() to an object named
db (abbreviation for database):
db = file.choose()
As before, you obtained the path to file, but this time R not shows it because you assigned to the object
db. Then, the object
db contains a character string identifying the path that R will have to follow to recover the file. Using this way, you need to run
file.choose() at every session, while if you write the path you can use it every time. Ready go?
dataset = read.spss(db, to.data.frame=TRUE)
read.spss() read the dataset in sav format. You must be careful, however, to specify as
TRUE the argument
to.data.frame, which requires to the function to arrange the data within a data frame (i.e. the class of R object for data tables).
Yolo, man. Another very simple method to open an SPSS file into R is to save the file in a format which R manage very well: the dat format (tab-delimited). So, you save your SPSS file in .dat and you behave as before, searching the file with
file.choose() and assigning the resulting string to an object.
The function to read the file, now, is
read.table(). Pay attention to missing data: if there are missing values, you should to indicate to R what is their code (e.g. 999), specifying a value for the argument
Do you have your file in .dat format?
db = file.choose() dataset = read.table(db, header=TRUE)
header = TRUE specifies that the first row of the file contains the variable names, therefore these values aren’t to interpret as data.
Being in a hurry? Conflate all the operations in just one line:
dataset = read.spss(file.choose(), to.data.frame=TRUE)
or, with .dat:
dataset = read.table(file.choose(), header = TRUE)
Once you import a file, it’s a good idea to verify that the reading was performed with accuracy.
To check the size of your database, use the
dim() function. You will obtain two numbers, the first one refers to the cases (rows in your database), while the second one is the number of variables (the columns of your database).
Further, can be useful to visualize a preview of data. To inspect the first six rows of the dataset, use the
To inspect the flast six rows of the dataset, use the
To inspect the structure of the dataset, use the
Do you want visualize the entire matrix of your dataset? If the data table is large, it is advisable to use the function
fix() which allows you to manually edit the cell content.
This post was originally written in Italian by Davide Massidda and Antonello Preti and published in InsulaR blog
How to open into R a Microsoft Excel file? Please read again the post Read Excel files from R.
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Add breast milk to the list of foods and beverages that contain fructose, a sweetener linked to health issues ranging from obesity to diabetes. Read more
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“[An] affectionate and perceptive tribute.”Wendy Smith, Boston Globe
In Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, Anne Boyd Rioux brings a fresh and engaging look at the circumstances leading Louisa May Alcott to write Little Women and why this beloved story of family and community ties set in the Civil War has resonated with audiences across time.
Anne Boyd Rioux, a professor at the University of New Orleans, is the author of Constance Fenimore Woolson: Portrait of a Lady Novelist and Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters, and the editor of Woolson’s Miss Grief and Other Stories. Rioux has received two National Endowment for the Humanities Awards, one for public scholarship, and lives in New Orleans.
Table of Contents
Prologue: "Our Book" xi
Part I The Making of a Classic
1 "Pegging away": The Road to Little Women 3
2 "We really lived most of it": Making Up Little Women 19
3 "Fresh, sparkling, … full of soul": The Phenomenon of Little Women 46
Part II The Life of a Classic
4 "See her … living … the immortal Jo!": Little Women on Stage and Screen 81
5 "The mother of us all": Little Women's Cultural and Literary Influence 115
6 "A divided house of a book": Reading Little Women 135
Part III A Classic for Today
7 "A private book for girls": Can Boys Read Little Women? 161
8 "Being someone": Growing Up Female with Little Women 180
9 "Wanting to be Rory, but better": Little Women and Girls' Stories Today 204
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An anonymous reader writes "T-Mobile has made headlines recently for trying to change the cellphone industry's reliance on contracts that lock customers into a particular carrier. Perhaps surprisingly, they've been fairly successful. Now, they're jumping into another industry plagued by high, customer-unfriendly fees: check cashing. 'Specifically, T-Mobile is hoping to offer an alternative for the 70 million or so U.S. adults that either have no bank account or have some bank services but still rely somewhat on check-cashing or payday-loan services.' How will they do it? 'Through the combination of a smartphone and a prepaid Visa debit card, T-Mobile (and its banking partner, Bancor) aims to offer many of the services typically offered through a bank, including check cashing, direct deposit and bill pay. The service, dubbed Mobile Money, allows customers to purchase and reload the card at more than 3,000 T-Mobile stores and, eventually, at Safeway and other retail stores. They can use the card anywhere Visa is accepted, and can also withdraw money, without a fee, at 42,000 ATMs across the country. Mobile Money customers can enroll in direct deposit for payroll, and personal checks and other types of checks can also be deposited by taking a picture of the check using the smartphone's camera.'"
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February 12, 2014
CAN’T HE JUST ASK FOR THE DAVID GREGORY EXEMPTION? DC Man Set for Hearing After Arrest Over Inoperable Shotgun Shell. Would it be legal to mail inoperable shotgun shells to every member of the DC Council? Then report them as felons. . . I suppose that would be wrong, even if it was legal.
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Listing Commissions and Related Issues
In most areas there is a customary percentage that real estate agents expect to earn as a commission. When completing the listing agreement, you and your agent will negotiate and agree on the amount of the real estate commission.
When you agree to a commission with a listing agent, you should keep in mind that there are usually two agents involved in most transactions. Most of the time, only part of the commission goes to the listing agent's company. The other portion goes to the company representing the buyer.
Some commission-related questions you could ask:
- Will your property be listed in the Multiple Listing Service?
- Being listed in the MLS expands your sales force. Every agent is invited to bring potential buyers to your property. This larger supply of buyers effects your pricing power and the ability to sell your home more quickly.
- What is the effect on the company representing the buyer?
- Since part of the commission usually goes to the company representing the buyer, you may want to ask whether that portion of the commission offers the customary amount. As mentioned above, the more agents that show your property, the more pricing power you have and the more quickly your home will sell.
- What is the effect on marketing?
- Very few properties are sold through advertising or open houses, but it does happen. Most often, those ads generate calls from potential buyers or sellers, who end up as clients for real estate agents -- and you want agents to bring potential buyers to your property. Advertising your property to other agents has a higher impact than direct advertising to consumers.
- Will you be tied in to other services?
- A real estate company with bundled services has more income opportunity which may allow them to offer lower prices. However, there are a few companies whose additional services are not priced competitively with opportunities you can find on the open market. You should be sure to ask lots of questions and determine whether you are limited to certain choices or you have the freedom to also explore the open market.
copyright 2000 RealEstate ABC, revised 2002, 2003, 2003
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Beloved Bachelorette Couple Ashley Hebert and J.P. Rosenbaum Expecting Second Child
Former Bachelorette Ashley Hebert Rosenbaum and her husband J.P. Rosenbaum took to social media on Monday to share that they are expecting their second child together—a little girl! And the adorable couple's love story just keeps getting cuter.
"I can't hold it in any longer... My heart is bursting with love now that we're #ClearblueConfirmed!" Ashley captioned a photo of a chalkboard announcing that their 20-month-old son, Fordham Rhys, would soon be a big brother. "These booties are just the start, can't wait to stock up on cute tutus and sparkles for my #babygirl!" she added.
Around the same time, J.P. celebrated the news on Twitter and shared a photo himself with the positive pregnancy test next to a smiling Ashley who holds a pair of little pink moccasins. "100% excited that we're #ClearblueConfirmed w/ baby #2, my face says I'm 78% nervous b/c #ItsAGirl," he tweeted alongside the snap.
Congratulations to the happy couple!
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This was the first terrace construction project at my house where i felt compelled to use an excavator to move as much earth as i needed. This is on a hillside site in Rockland, ME with southeast facing aspect and fine sandy loam soil that drains readily. The goals for this project are to catch and store water and biomass, establish perennial polyculture gardens and integrate small livestock.
Austrian permaculture farmer Sepp Holzer was very inspirational to me with this construction project. At first the slope was the primary design challenge. After watching Holzer’s video “Farming with Nature” it all clicked. By using the contour lines to my advantage, i could create a series of terraces and ponds. I had to adapt the patterns of path design to something that would work on a hillside. My wife wanted mandala gardens with concentric rings of paths and beds. At first I did too, and it would have been nice, but i learned that that sort of ornate path geometry works best on flat ground. Sure, you can draw the paths on paper, but when you go to marry the paper design to the real world, that’s when things get ‘ground-truthed’. So in this case where initially i wanted nested concentric rings as the garden path pattern, i had to adapt it instead to more of a branching pattern. Larger arterial paths for carts connected to smaller keyhole-style footpaths. We’ll show a detail of the path geometry in a future article.
This was the height of the verge before i started. Former lawn that we let revert to meadow. My daughter is for scale. She’s 2’3″, exactly half my height…give or take… The first order of business was to cut the tall biomass and set it aside so that we could see the ground and mark out our contour lines. The verge was separated into herbaceous biomass to be used as mulch and woody biomass to be used as the base of the hugelkultur.
The verge was cut into windrows with the scythe for ease of collection. I used a tarp to pile up herbaceous biomass and move the whole pile.
I had to cut this black locust so i could get the machine down the northern property line. It yielded some nice logs to use as fence posts, some firewood, and lots of material to use as the hugelkulture base for a couple terraces.
This gives a little better perspective on the slope we’re working with.
This is the lowest-most terrace, the place i started so i could get used to working the controls. I used a Kubota KX121 rented from Union Farm. I rented it for 12 hours, clocked 14 and burned probably 100 energy slaves (that’s a guess!). The wonders of internal combustion engines and hydraulic pistons! 14 hours and a machine or 10-12 guys and a month of hard labor? It had a 24″ bucket with 6′ wide blade that could lift, pivot and tilt. Talk about tractor envy! The thing was so new it still smelled like a new car.
One thing i discovered while learning the controls on the machine was that sometimes there is plumbing below ground! Luckily it was just a perforated foundation drain pipe, and was easily repaired. I’m just glad it wasn’t a piece of rigid PVC pipe headed to the septic tank! I only tore up two sections of foundation drain. The valuable lesson here was that there was subterranean infrastructure.
Here we’re placing large rocks in the retaining wall. The elevation drop between each terrace is only between 24-36″. For the 36″ drop i decided to use the big rocks i found in the earth to use as a retaining wall. For the other terraces, the angle of repose is close to 1:1 which is self-stable and doesn’t need reinforcement.
By now i was calibrated to the controls of the machine that i could scrape off only sod. Probably the top 2-3″ of earth and no deeper. The septic tank was only about 8″ under the surface.
While the load of an excavator is distributed evenly across the tracks, i didn’t want to risk driving over the septic tank, so for this terrace i had to scrape and move earth from either side of the tank. The advantage of a tracked vehicle is that even weight distribution, as opposed to a wheeled vehicle which has point loads on the bottom of each wheel. On balance, i think of this as a wise use of remaining petrol resources. These earthworks may well be here for generations, catching all rain runoff and recharging groundwater. The underground water lens will be used to feed an edible landscape.
The terraces are not so much dead level as they are slightly pitched backward into the hillside. This way, the terrace can settle and become more level. In the meantime, all rain that falls is caught right where it falls and percolates into the earth. In the foreground you can see woody debris partially buried. By burying the woody debris from the trees, i turned a waste product into an asset. This buried wood will hold moisture, support the terrace, provide habitat for mycelium and other life, and slowly give up nutrient as it decomposes. I left this part of the terrace slightly high, anticipating some settling over the years.
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How to Build Lasting Positive Relationships With Your Clients
Your business relies on its clients and it is a simple fact of life that if you stop working on the good relationship you have, they will look at your competitors and consider switching.
In the service industries, there is a lot of competition. This is great for clients because it means that they can get exactly what they want and need at the right price, but for businesses, it means that you will have to find other means of standing out. Like the cool kids in the playground at school, the way you build and maintain relationships really matters.
Initiate Good Relationships Online
Many business opportunities now start online and if your website isn’t inviting enough, potential clients will move on before you’ve had a chance to tell them much more than your name. Your website is like a smile across a room: it needs to tempt people over to start a conversation.
There are lots of ways to optimize a website for customer acquisition and retention. Start by making your site intuitive and easy to navigate, then offer plenty of well-written information and gently nudge your customer towards the conversion. If you don’t know what you are doing, this can be a real minefield so you are well advised to approach a marketing company that offers HubSpot consulting for the best results.
[Tweet “How to Build Lasting Positive Relationships With Your Clients #smallbusiness #clientmanagement”]
Be Accessible and Personal
Once you have your client hooked in, you will need to be accessible and personal. Unlike the cool kids in the playground, you will need to be able to listen and respond to your client to encourage them to divulge all their needs and show you where you might be able to help (and, therefore, make a profit!).
Communication is key and giving your clients lots of ways to get in touch will help. Have a phone line they can use, an email address and even keep up with them on social media to cover all your bases. But crucially, once you have their message, act as soon as possible to provide a result. Giving personal promises is all very well but you have to deliver on those promises if you expect your client to stay.
Build Professional Friendships by Staying in Touch
When you think about every failed friendship you ever had, the one thing that they all have in common is the fizzling out of communication. Whether you had a big argument or just drifted apart, friendships never last when you aren’t talking.
The same is true with clients.
Though you should never pester clients with excessive emails and communication, it is important that you keep up with them. Perhaps you could send them progress reports so they know you are doing what you promised, or emails inviting them in for a catch-up meeting. If you aren’t doing anything for them right now, perhaps a company newsletter could remind them you are here or a quick phone call to see if they need anything. Building a professional friendship is just like any other – it requires your attention.
Let's connect on social media
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Where are we coming from
Looking at the core functionality of todays frameworks what do we have?
- DOM Traversal with CSS selectors to locate elements
- DOM Modification: Create/remove/modify elements
- Short syntax for adding/removing Events
- Short syntax for Ajax Request
- Animations (hide/show/toggle) & Transition
- User Interface Widgets (Drag & drop, Tree, Grid, Datepicker, Model Dialog, Menu / Toolbar, Slider, Tabbed Pane)
- Wide Browser Support
On the net you will find a mirrad of comparisons of popular frameworks. The most popular OpenSource and free JS Frameworks available today are:
* Prototype (&Scriptaculous for UI)
I would say that all of those have their advantages and drawbacks and there’s not really an obvious winner. It really depends on what you use it for. Some helpful links that helped me choosing are:
- Drop in a “calendar widget” or “tabbed navigation”
- Just customize some options and go.
- No flexibility.
Some Assembly Required
- Write common utilities
- Click a link, load a page via Ajax
- Build a dynamic menu
- Creating interactive forms
- Use pre-made code to distance yourself from browser bugs.
- Flexible, until you hit a browser bug.
- Deal, directly, with browser bugs
- Quirksmode is your lifeline
- Excessively flexible, to the point of hinderance.
=> Raw Java Script
Of course you can also mix different approaches, as you can also mix Frameworks but of course in terms of maintainability and productivity it would better if you don’t have to.
For my personal use case I had the following requirements:
- Easy to learn with minimal intuitive syntax
- Lightweight solution
- Availability of some widgets: Datepicker, Grid, maybe more
- Appealing Web 2.0 effects
- Production quality
Right now I have choosen jQuery (incl. jQuery UI) and see how far I get with it. It was to me the most appealing in terms of the above criterias. I am not sure if I need a sophisticated data table, if so I might have another look at YUI data table which seems to me one of the best widgets for this (compare to e.g. this jQuery plugin).
As a last hint: consider using Google Ajax Libs for speed up JS loading on your clients. However do not use it in local development. It just does not work reliable (loads too late etc.)
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Some types of tea have been growing in popularity over the last few years.
Jasmine is a great way to relax and provide your body with healthy ingredients.
This tea is known for its unique flavor and positive effects on your health. Jasmine tea makes it easy to live a healthier lifestyle.
In this article, you’ll discover the benefits of jasmine oil and jasmine tea for every aspect of your life.
Jasmine tea is a delicate and refreshing tea that you can enjoy throughout the day. Jasmine green tea also has many health benefits, including weight loss. Yet, jasmine oil is a calming effect that helps you ease anxiety and stress.
What’s the of jasmine tea?
Most of us love tea. And yes, people primarily consume black and green tea.
Jasmine tea can refer to many types of teas, but all have one thing in common: they share the same essential property.
Jasmine is a popular flower cultivated in many countries around the world and used in the production of jasmine tea.
Natural jasmine tea is preferred due to its white petals, pungent aroma, and distinctive taste.
Jasmine Tea Benefits
There are tons of benefits when it comes the jasmine tea.
For example, jasmine tea strengthens the immune system. Not that, it also affects your anxiety level.
Chinese monks also used it to enable more intensive meditation. In addition, other positive effects on health are attributed to jasmine tea.
These are some of the jasmine tea benefits:
- Lowering cholesterol levels
- Help with digestive problems
- Reducing stress
- Strengthening of the immune system
- Strengthening of blood vessels
Jasmine tea also supports healthy cholesterol levels, leading to a lower risk of heart disease and stroke.
Jasmine tea is excellent for lower anxiety and stress and supports lowering high cholesterol levels.
To increase the benefits, you can combine green tea and jasmine oil.
What benefits can you get if you combine it with green tea?
Jasmine green tea is rich in antioxidants and naturally protects the immune system. Green tea itself helps you get fight free radicals.
2- Better Heart
According to a study, the catechins contained in tea promote heart health.
3- Lower Stress Level
We all want to get more relaxed and lower stress—from high-stress levels to illnesses like sleep problems and obesity.
According to a survey, jasmine tea calms our minds. This can bring about a certain inner peace and serenity. L-Theanine in green tea is also beneficial.
4- Good For Weight Loss
A study by Dalhousie University Canada states that the antioxidant properties of jasmine tea can facilitate weight loss. Antioxidants boost fat metabolism so that ingested food is better digested.
5- Better Digestion
It is particularly worth drinking green tea while eating. The tea increases the sense of taste and has a stimulating effect on the digestive organs.
6- Mind Power
Coffee and green tea gently stimulate and contains valuable, essential micronutrients. L-theanine also helps you get more focused while increasing alpha brain waves.
Combination With Other Tea
1- Rooibos and Jasmine tea
If you have a caffeine problem, you might try Jasmine and rooibos. Rooibos tea is a naturally caffeine-free beverage alternative. Plus, rooibos is also an excellent antioxidant level with Jasmine.
Also, you might want to use green tea, if its the case, you can try the decaf version of jasmine green tea
These two types of tea are produced in South Africa, a country known for its high-quality tea production. The difference between these two types of tea is that Rooibos has anti-inflammatory properties while Jasmine has calming effects.
The high-quality, nutrient-rich Rooibos tea is a delicious beverage with many health benefits. Additionally, the flavor of Jasmine tea is delicate and complex.
2- Jasmine and Oolong Tea
Jasmine and oolong tea are two of the most popular types of teas. Jasmine tea is a fragrant black tea from China with a flavor that can be described as floral, while oolong tea is a light-colored green tea from Taiwan.
Jasmine and oolong tea combinations might be beneficial. They produce a symphonic work that engages and delights all of your senses. The aroma itself might be a good choice, and it increases your satiety.
Frankincense, copaiba and lavender
Frankincense, copaiba, and Lavender are three common essential oils used in aromatherapy. They are all derived from the bark of trees, but each oil has a different purpose and properties.
Frankincense is typically used for spiritual or medicinal purposes, whereas Lavender is a versatile herb with various uses. It is most often used for its relaxing and calming effects, but it can also help with stress, insomnia, and anxiety. You can also use it in cosmetics, food flavoring, and aromatherapy.
Relax with jasmine tea
We all need lower our stress levels. However, sometimes it isn’t easy.
Jasmine tea is a popular beverage in distant China. It is used for relaxation and meditation. Because of the essential oils in jasmine flowers, jasmine tea can profoundly relax your body.
Did you know that jasmine oils have relaxing effects on the mucous membranes and are stress-reducing?
The warm aroma of the tea in the stomach makes it pleasant. The body will eventually recover from everyday stress by absorbing the beneficial properties of essential oils after drinking the tea.
Also, Jasmine tea is a great way to relax both mentally and physically.,
Freshly brewed jasmine tea can be very relaxing. You can make Jasmine tea as refined or unrefined as you like.
It is common to get a slightly bitter taste, especially initially. Many people in Europeans add sugar or honey to their jasmine tea. It makes it taste better. However, too much sugar leads to obesity and other conditions, so be careful and limited.
On the other hand, jasmine tea has a calming effect on the mind. It helps to reduce stress and anxiety levels. Its aroma is also known to have a sedative effect that helps people sleep better at night.
How does jasmine tea taste?
Jasmine tea is characterized by its strong aroma. People said even the smell alone has calming benefits. The flowery and fresh taste of the blossoms is so intense that it can even mask green tea’s flavor. Yet, jasmine tea might become bitter if it is brewed too hot. So be careful.
Is jasmine tea good for the skin?
Matcha, jasmine, mate, and kombucha green teas have been proven to be beauty and anti-aging boosts. Antioxidants help your skin better, increase your skin health, and better energy.
Is jasmine tea good for the stomach?
Jasmine tea has been used for centuries to treat stomach ailments. The main ingredient of jasmine tea – the jasmine flower – has been used in traditional Chinese medicine. It is believed that drinking jasmine tea can help alleviate stomach problems such as acid reflux, heartburn, and indigestion.
Essential oil: Great for Health
Yes, we discover more and more the benefits of essential oils.
Mainly, they help you lower stress levels and increase calming effects.
Most people want to manage their anxiety symptoms without drugs.
Initial aromatherapy research has proved promising. Many studies have demonstrated that the fragrance of particular essential oils can help relieve anxiety and stress.
However, due to the scents of the compounds, it’s hard to conduct blinded studies and rule out biases. Thus, many studies on essential oils’ stress-relieving properties have been unconvincing.
Yet, using essential oils during a massage may help relieve stress. The smell itself makes people relax.
A recent evaluation revealed only ten papers robust enough to examine. You also found aromatherapy unhelpful in reducing anxiety.
Jasmine Unique Essential Oil
Like lavender oil, Jasmine essential oil is a popular aromatherapy essential oil.
It is characterized by various properties that are very beneficial for beauty and emotional balance.
Jasmine oil is made from flowers and contains active ingredients like isophotal, phytol, and limonene. It also contains linalool.
Jasmine essential oil has many health benefits. Jasmine essential oil stimulates the hypothalamus.
The fragrance molecules have a euphoric and relaxing effect and have many physical and emotional health benefits.
Jasmine oil contains an abundance of acids and other components that serve well in alternative medicine. It helps with insomnia, migraines, and stress.
Natural Cosmetic Benefits
Essential oils are great for the skin. Most of them have some vitamins inside, such as vitamin E, preventing oxidative stress.
Various benefits in natural cosmetics also characterize this precious oil.
However, Jasmine oils refresh the skin. It’s decongestant and anti-irritant. You can also use it to treat minor skin tears, stretch marks, and scars.
Mix jasmine essential oil with other vegetable oils such as almond oil to nourish the skin. It is ideal for oily and combination skin.
Summary of Use of Jasmine Essential Oil
- For Perfume: Many commercial perfumes contain toxic chemicals. You can produce your jasmine perfume by adding a few drops of jasmine oil to carrier oil. Jasmine essential oil perfume on your wrist or around your neck, and enjoy its smell all day long. Isn’t it good?
- Calming: Jasmine oil is suitable for aromatherapy. It has a lovely aroma and an excellent calming effect. Put a few drops of this oil in a diffuser and get a mediative state!
- Combine with many other oils. You can combine jasmine oils with Orange, lemon, lavender, rosemary, almond, sandalwood, rose, or frankincense. All these oils combine very well with jasmine essential oil. You can find the best solution and combination.
- Skin Health: Jasmine oils help soothe and hydrate irritable or dry skin. Use a tiny bit of the jasmine blend with another oil on the face or other dry areas, and you will soon notice effects. It stimulates blood circulation in your skin, promoting healing and the elimination of toxins from the body.
- Hair health: Put a few drops of this oil on a comb and brush through your hair. You will notice how silky your hair becomes. You can give your hair a lovely nourishing or relaxing hair massage with jasmine essential oil.
The essential oils are excellent for overall health and anxiety level. When it comes to jasmine, you can use it for jasmine tea.
why is jasmine oil so expensive?
We love jasmine oils, but Jasmine oil is expensive because it’s rare and labor-intensive to produce. It’s also challenging to find a storage container that can preserve the aroma of jasmine for long periods.
Jasmine oils might be a little bit expensive, like walnut oil. However, the calming effect might be worth it.
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The battle on the banks of the Euphrates at Karbala on the 10th of Muharram in the year 61 AH, the day of Ashura, didn’t take long. Although Husayn was wearing his grandfather’s cloak and had taken-up the Dhul’fiqar, Ali’s famous double-bladed sword, it didn’t help. He and all men of his army were slain, and women and children deported to Damascus. Yazid himself ordered the mutilation of Husayn’s body.
After the battle, Lady Zaynab, Husayn’s sister, became for a short while the leader of the Shi’at Ali and the guardian of the orphans of Ahl al-Bayt, the family of the Prophet. The heads of the martyrs and all womenfolk and children were sent to Yazid in Damascus. When Yazid was presented with Husayn’s head on a gold dish he started to poke his lips and teeth with a cane, to the disgust of a venerable companion. ‘Take your cane from those lips,’ he cried, ‘for by Allah, I have seen the lips of the Prophet (pbuh) kiss those lips!’
Husayn's little daughter Ruqaiyyah, who was desperately asking for her father, was shown the head, and she died on the spot. Her shrine in the old city of Damascus is full of toys. She was only 5 years old when she died in a shock. Lady Zaynab was later sent back to Madinah where she died the following year. Her shrine is in a mosque in the vicinity of Damascus. Another is in Cairo, Egypt. Some people assume her tomb in Madinah.
Wilfred Thesiger, an extremely knowledgeable British explorer who in fact lived with the people in the vicinity of the Holy Cities of Karbala and Najaf (the former Kufa) in Iraq, wrote in his famous book Marsh Arabs (1964) on page 53:
“Shiism had started as a political movement among the Arabs to advance the claims of Ali and his descendants to the Caliphate. But after the martyrdom of Husain, it established itself as a new religious movement and soon became especially powerful in Iraq and Persia, embodying the social discontent of the indigenous population with the Arab aristocracy. In time, Shiism split Islam as decisively as the Reformation devided the Catholic Church. Whereas the orthodox Sunnis recognize Ali as the fourth of the Caliphs, or successors to Muhammad, the Shias regard the first three Caliphs as usurpers. They believe in an apostolic succession of Imams who followed the Prophet. Most of them believe in twelve of these, of whom Ali, Hasan and Husain were the first three, the others being Husain’s descendants. According to the Shias, the last Imam was Muhammad al Mahdi who mysteriously disappeared at Samarra and whose return they await in the fullness of time as the Mahdi or Expected One.”
The first 9 days of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, are dedicated to intense mourning in any Shi’a community, be it in Iran, Iraq, in the Emirates of the Gulf or in the Eastern regions of Saudi Arabia. The Ashura Festival on the 10th of Muharram commemorates the events of the Battle at Karbala and the Martyrdom of Husayn with vivid performances, processions, and a shocking brutality of self-flogging of young men and boys. If you won’t believe that there is a close, at least spiritual, relationship between Roman Katholic Church and Shi’a Islam, have a look at (very realistic if not real) crucifixion scenes on the Good Friday in the Philippines.
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Orders placed online are shipped in post consumer recycled cardboard boxes that we encourage you to recycle. Orders placed in store are packaged in 100% post consumer recycled paper shopping bags that we encourage you to recycle. All orders will include recycled tissue paper and branding materials printed on post consumer recycled paper. Jewelry boxes and pouches are consciously sourced and designed to reuse. If you have any specific shipping requests or questions regarding our shipping & packaging materials, please contact us at email@example.com
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Yuri is the CEO of HR, Talent & Systems Consulting, an award-winning HR consultancy. A certified SHRM-SCP, he is a sought-after speaker and expert on HR, Digital Transformation and Employee Experience (EX).
Yuri is a member of the Fast Company Executive Board, Newsweek Expert Forum and Forbes Coaches Council, as well as a contributor to Fast Company, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Newsweek, Business.com, Influencive and a number of other top platforms. He had consulted and spoken at numerous Fortune 500 and Inc. 5000 companies, VC-backed startups and top universities, including EY, Google, Medtronic, Columbia and UPenn, likewise appearing on network TV and top podcasts, including NBC’s “Tipping Point,” Leadership and Loyalty Podcast, Entrepreneur on Fire and Wharton Business Radio.
In addition, his executive leadership coaching practice has impacted thousands of top executives. He is the author of “What Millennials Really Want From Work and Life” (Business Expert Press, March 2019) and “Be Your Own Commander-in-Chief,” (IdeapressPublishing, 2021).
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What Is A Selfie? Introducing The Pop Dictionary
For pop stars, social media is key these days, but what's the official definition of "Twitterati"? Here's what the Oxford English Dictionary says.
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Solid steel butt plug pony tail with real horse hair. Tails can be sub-divided into two broad categories: The materials used for ponyplay tails varies considerably: Moreover, the quality of the plug portion of butt plug tails also varies considerably with the nicer ones having metal or glass plugs. The image at the right on top illustrates a quality metal butt plug tail with real horse hair for the tail portion. Of course, making a tail yourself is a viable option, and it offers more versatility in choosing the correct thickness, color, arch, etc.
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A Pony for Her Sweet Sixteen
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On Tuesday, President Barack Obama unveiled his idea to make alterations to federal spending. His change would be a sort of “pay as you go” spending procedure.
Under the plan, whenever the United States Government would increase spending in one area, an equal amount of savings must also be made. By doing so, no further debt would be gained as the amount of spending would always stay consistent.
Similar measures helped resurrect the economy in the 1990’s by balancing out the budget, as is the same hope for Obama’s plan.
President Obama suggests that the plan be officially placed into law rather than simply utilized until the economy regains its balance.
Some Republicans have criticized Obama’s plan. They say it is quite inappropriate that he tries to bring such a law into fruition after he and his administration approved excess spending in the trillions.
However, there is no denying the fact that upon coming into office, the United States economy was going well downhill and that he would have to work hard to fix it. While his motion to save money may be contradictory to his recent spending, it is also necessary to erase the debt accumulated in the previous president’s terms in office.
Whether Obama’s “pay as you go” plan may or may not be accepted by Congress, it is clear that something needs to be done to bring up the downtrodden economy. On that note, why not attempt something that did work in the past?
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After sixty-three hours and twenty minutes I have completed my first play through of Mass Effect: Andromeda, and I may play a little more to complete a couple of achievements and random quests. You can play the game after you complete the main story, but of course any quests you complete will not affect the ending. So, have my feelings about the game changed since my first ten hours? Yes, and mostly for the better. Here are some quick post game thoughts:
- Crafting needs to be combined in to one interface. Crafting is where you get all the cool items, so to have to navigate several menus to create the stuff you want is a little frustrating
- There needs to be a way to land at forward stations from space. Later on in the game several missions have you planet hopping, so it is supper annoying to have to land, fast travel, then drive. I want to get straight to the driving.
- There needs to be more enemy variety. The same bad guys you see in the beginning of the game will be the same guys you see in the end. The only difference is that they throw more of them at you, but you are so god-like at the end it doesn’t really matter how many guys run at you.
- The story was a missed opportunity to do something different, but it ends well. Even though you are still finding tech from long dead peeps and fighting faceless hoards the game still wraps up everything very nicely, and I was quite satisfied with how it ended.
I really enjoyed Mass Effect: Andromeda, but it was far from perfect. I am hopeful they can fix the issues of the first game in the second. We will see. If you have yet to pick up ME:A, I recommended it to fans of the first games; though others may want to hold off until they have fixed a few more bugs and the game’s price comes down a bit.
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Why a Simulator?
Kids these days don't have the time nor the ambition to actually go and stack boxes on the see-saw or play around with balancing physical objects. This leaves lots of room in the software market for a Lever Simulator which will, according to my models, sell like mad!
Programming Help Wanted
I've filed the patent for such a game (pending), but need an expert programmer to write the game-logic for me. From my understanding, it is standard practice to compensate programmers based on the size in bytes of the final program. As such I will be awarding this lucrative contract to the lowest bidder.
A lever is a series of boxes or empty spaces that is balanced by a fulcrum. Each box has a particular weight one through nine and spaces have no weight. As you know, a box's weight on the lever is directly proportional to how far that box is from the fulcrum. A box of weight
4 that is on the third space from the fulcrum will contribute
12 effective units of force to that side of the lever.
I need a program that, given an input lever, will output whether the lever will skew toward the left, the right, or be perfectly balanced.
- You will write for me a program.
- The input will contain one line of text.
- The input will come from
stdinor as one command-line string.
- Boxes will represented by the characters '
1' through '
9'. These characters represent their respective weights. An empty space will be represented by a space '
A sample input lever could look like:
8 2^ 941
This lever is perfectly balanced:
(4*8) + 0 + 0 + (1*2) == 0 + (2*9) + (3*4) + (4*1) == 34
- There will be no leading nor trailing spaces. There will be no trailing newline.
- No need to handle malformed input, input will always have exactly one fulcrum, and only numbers and spaces.
- The output will indicate whether the lever is left-heavy, right-heavy, or balanced.
- Your program must have exactly 3 possible outputs that could result from a well-formed input. You can choose what these are.
- The output must either be print to
stdoutor be the return code of the program.
Here I use
B to mean left-heavy, right-heavy, balanced:
(If anyone has some "trickier" test cases, feel free to edit them in).
Not-necessarily-inspired-by, but related to Balance a set of weights on a seesaw
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Bucks New University has been a long and trusted partner of London Wasps and we’re delighted to be working with the University again this season.
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire (PRWEB UK) 12 November 2013
Buckinghamshire New University has renewed its community partnership with London Wasps which will see it continue to be the ‘Official University Partner’ of the club.
The University, which has been an official partner of the club since 2007, will continue to benefit from London Wasps providing coaches to work with the University’s rugby squad and deliver rugby coaching and coach education to sports students.
The agreement will also see members of the London Wasps commercial and community teams deliver guest lectures at the University, as well as the Club providing work experience and internship opportunities for Bucks students in what is a special partnership between a university and an Aviva Premiership rugby club.
Paul Morgan, Head of the Department of Sport Management at Bucks New University, said of the partnership: “We’re delighted to extend our successful relationship with a top flight sports organisation such as London Wasps. The agreement has given our students direct access to key people at Wasps, and also valuable internships, work experience and job opportunities.
“Several of our former students are now employed directly with London Wasps as well as with numerous other Aviva Premiership rugby clubs and the Rugby Football Union, and also in Europe, Asia and America, both within the community and elite game. A lot of these employment pathways can be traced back to our successful partnership with London Wasps.”
Commenting on the partnership, London Wasps Community Manager, Dave Larham said: “Bucks New University has been a long and trusted partner of London Wasps and we’re delighted to be working with the University again this season.
“There are a number of exciting innovations within our agreement this year such as special open days involving coach education demonstrations and discussions with our commercial team and we are fully committed to helping them to produce excellent calibre, well-rounded students. This extension to our agreement proves we are already assisting in delivering this and look forward to continuing to do so.”
The partnership will run for the course of the 2013-14 academic year and the Aviva Premiership season and will also include some exciting new digital cross-promotional content and campaigns for both London Wasps fans and Bucks New University students, including increased opportunities for social media engagement. London Wasps will also be a key player in the Graduate Jobs in Sport event to be held at the University in March 2014.
Buckinghamshire New University has enjoyed a long and successful history since it was founded in 1893. The University offers an extensive portfolio of courses spanning the creative and cultural industries, the management and information management sectors, and the public sector. It also offers services to industry including contract research, consultancy and the opportunity to employ graduates.
The University has a state-of-the-art building in High Wycombe known as the Gateway, which comprises a learning resource and technology centre, events hall, gym, sports science laboratory, dance, drama, music and video production studios, library and meeting rooms. It also offers a growing provision of student accommodation in High Wycombe; and a thriving base for nursing students and applied healthcare research in Uxbridge, West London.
Its alumni include television star Noel Fielding and London 2012 Paralympic and Olympic medallists Naomi Riches and Chloe Rogers, and it has bestowed honorary degrees on well-known figures including Fern Britton, Terry Wogan and England Rugby World Cup winner Lawrence Dallaglio.
Bucks New University’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Ruth Farwell, is Chair of GuildHE, which represents the heads of some of the most recently designated universities and university colleges, specialist colleges and other bodies providing higher education programmes.
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|Born||21 April 1946|
|Occupation||Director, writer, professor|
Claire Denis (French: [dəni]; born 21 April 1946) is a French film director and writer. Her feature film Beau Travail (1999) has been called one of the greatest films of the 1990s. Other acclaimed works include Trouble Every Day (2001), 35 Shots of Rum (2008), White Material (2009) and High Life (2018).
Denis was born in Paris, but raised in colonial French Africa, where her father was a civil servant, living in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, French Somaliland, and Senegal. Her childhood spent living in West Africa with her parents and her younger sister colored her perspective on certain political issues. Their father told them that independence from France would be a good thing for these colonies. It has been a strong influence on her films, which have dealt with colonialism and post-colonialism in Africa. Her father moved with the family every two years because he wanted the children to learn about geography.
Growing up in West Africa, Denis used to watch the old and damaged copies of war films sent from the United States. As an adolescent she loved to read. Completing the required material while in school, at night she would sneak her mother's detective stories to read. At age 12, Denis was diagnosed with polio and returned to France for treatment. She lived in Sceaux, a suburb of Paris, for the rest of her teenage years. During her time in France, she felt unfit for living in France. She was educated for a life in Africa, and felt completely different from everyone around her.
In 1969, Denis married a photographer she met at the age of 15, after being hired as his assistant. Due to the complex nature of having him in her private life but also as her teacher, they divorced soon after.
Denis initially studied economics, but, she has said, "It was completely suicidal. Everything pissed me off." She studied at the IDHEC, the French film school, with her husband's encouragement. He told her she needed to figure out what she wanted to do. She graduated from the IDHEC and since 2002 has been a professor of film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
Before applying and being accepted into IDHEC, she worked as an intern at Télé Niger. After telling everyone that she wanted to apply to IDHEC, they told her, "no, don’t waste your time studying, all you need to do is make films here with us".
Her feature film directorial debut Chocolat (1988), a semi-autobiographical meditation on African colonialism, won her critical acclaim. It was selected for the Cannes Film Festival and praised by critics and audiences as a remarkable first film.
With films such as US Go Home (1994), Nénette et Boni (1996), Beau Travail (1999), set in Africa; Trouble Every Day (2001), and Vendredi soir (2002), Denis established a reputation as a filmmaker who "has been able to reconcile the lyricism of French cinema with the impulse to capture the often harsh face of contemporary France." She returned to Africa with White Material (2009), set in an unidentified country during a civil war.
Denis is a highly collaborative filmmaker, saying in an interview, "the film becomes a relationship...and that is what's important, the relationship." The importance of collaboration can be seen throughout her work. She often recasts actors in multiple films, most notably Alex Descas, who has worked with Denis 11 times from 1990 to 2017, and Isaach de Bankolé who appeared in three of her films from 1988 to 2009. Vincent Gallo, Béatrice Dalle, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Juliette Binoche and Grégoire Colin have also appeared in multiple Denis films. She often collaborates with screenwriter Jean-Pol Fargeau, composer Stuart Staples, and cinematographer Agnès Godard, whom she met in the 1970s at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. Asked about her screenwriting process, Denis said, "I often realize I have Isaach or Grégoire or someone else in mind" when writing scenes. She has also said that usually she "hold[s] no auditions" for casting her films.
Her collaboration goes beyond her own films, as she has appeared in other directors' films, such as Laetitia Masson's En avoir (1995) and Tonie Marshall's Vénus beauté (1999). She shares screenwriting credit with Yousry Nasrallah for his film El Medina (2000). She also worked as an assistant director with Wim Wenders on Paris, Texas (1984) and Wings of Desire (1987), and with Jim Jarmusch on Down by Law (1986).
Her 2013 film Bastards was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Also that year, she was awarded Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award at the Stockholm Film Festival.
Denis announced in 2015 that she was partnering with Zadie Smith for her English-language debut film, High Life. Smith eventually left the project, causing a delay in filming. Denis went on to work on Let the Sunshine In, which starred Juliette Binoche and was released in 2017.
In 2018 Denis completed and released High Life, her first English-language feature film, with Robert Pattinson cast as the lead. The film premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. It was later given a limited release in the U.S. by American indie distributors A24. It was positively reviewed by many notable critics.
Denis has been a member of multiple film festival boards, starting with the Venice Film Festival board in 2005. In 2019, she was the president of the board of the Cinéfondation and short films at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2020, she was the president of the board of the Orizzonti section at the Venice Film Festival.
Most of Denis's oeuvre uses location work rather than studio work. She sometimes places her actors as if they were positioned for still photography. She uses longer takes with a stationary camera and frames things in long shot, resulting in fewer close ups. But Denis's cinematic and topical focus always remains relentlessly on her protagonists' faces and bodies. The subject's body in space, and how the particular terrain, weather, and color of the landscape influence and interact with the human subjects of her films maintains cinematic dominance.
Tim Palmer explores Denis's work as a self-declared formalist and brilliant film stylist per se, an approach Denis has declared many times in interview to be as much about sounds, textures, colors and compositions as broader thematic concerns or social commitments.
According to the Australian James Phillips, when making her films, Denis rejects the marketable conventions of Hollywood cinema and frees the viewers of her films from the expectations of clichés.
Denis combines history with personal history, giving her films an autobiographical element. This superimposition of the personal with the historical allows her films to be described as auteur cinema. She has worked in many genres, from horror (Trouble Every Day, 2001) to romance and drama (Friday Night, 2002). While critics have noted recurring themes in her films, Denis says she has no coherent vision of her career "trajectory".
Denis has said that she does not concern herself with the theory behind cinema when she makes her films: "I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound... Film theory is just a pain in the ass." She focuses on "human" stories, no matter the setting of the film. Denis has said she does not aim to bring about radical social change or to make the viewer feel better: "I’m not so sure films should be made to soothe people’s pain. I don’t want to be a social worker. I want to share something that is a vision, or a feeling." Her films' main focus is always on the characters, frequently in moments of intense anger, violence, and emotion. "Anger is part of my relation to the world," she has said. "I’m filled with anger, I’m filled with regret, I’m filled with great memories, also poetic memories."
Denis has said that the body is "central" to her work, and often uses skin, blood, and other bodily fluids to symbolize characters' feelings, as well as highlight relationships between them. In Chocolat, skin is photographed prominently to accentuate the difference between the subservient and degrading nature of the dark-skinned Proteè's forced outdoor bathing and the shameless confidence of pale, white Luc, who chooses to do so. In Trouble Every Day and High Life, bodily fluids are a central to the stories, creating visceral disturbing images, and highlighting the films' "sexuality".
Denis has directed a wide variety of films that span most known genres in her 30-year career, but she is known for bending a genre's rules, often not obeying traditional rules of pacing or cinematography for established genres like horror, science fiction, and fantasy, focusing instead on the characters, their psyches, emotions and relationships. Though she does make horror movies and romantic comedies and dramas, Denis has never been concerned with making the scariest, funniest, or most heart-breaking films; she is only interested in telling the human story.
Denis chooses the titles of her films carefully. Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly argues that titles are intended to force the viewer to rethink a film's imagery and that Denis uses them to describe the raw reality of her films. For example, the title of Chocolat simultaneously refers to a racist term used during the period of the film, the cocoa exportation from Africa to Europe through a slave system, and the 1950s French expression "être chocolat", meaning "to be cheated."
Denis is also known for "shooting fast, editing slowly". In general, she does a few takes on set and spends most of her time in the editing room, creating the film there. This post-production process often involves rearranging scenes out of the order in the script. For example, she placed the dance in Beau Travail at the end of the film though it was not at the end of the script. Of this process, Denis has said, "I'm always insecure when I'm making a film. I have doubts about myself but rarely about the actors."
- Chocolat / Chocolate (1988)
- S'en fout la mort / No Fear, No Die (1990)
- J'ai pas sommeil / I Can't Sleep (1994)
- US Go Home (TV, from the collection Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge / All the Boys and the Girls of Their Age) (1994)
- Nénette et Boni / Nenette and Boni (1996)
- Beau travail / Good Work (1999)
- Trouble Every Day (2001)
- Vendredi soir / Friday Night (2002)
- L'intrus / The Intruder (2004)
- 35 rhums / 35 Shots of Rum (2008)
- White Material (2009)
- Bastards / Les Salauds (2013)
- Let the Sunshine In (2017)
- High Life (2018)
- Fire (TBA)
- Le 15 Mai (IDHEC film, based on Frederik Pohl's The Tunnel under the World) (1969)
- Keep It for Yourself (1991)
- Contre l'oubli / Against Oblivion (1991)
- segment: Pour Ushari Ahmed Mahmoud, Soudan
- À propos de Nice, la suite (1995)
- segment: Nice, Very Nice
- Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)
- segment: Vers Nancy / Towards Nancy
- Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded (2013)
- Segment: Claire Denis
- Voilà l'enchaînement (2014)
- Man No Run (1989)
- Jacques Rivette, le veilleur / Jacques Rivette, the Watchman (1990)
- Vers Mathilde / Towards Mathilde (2005)
Awards and nominations
|1988||Cannes Film Festival||Palme d'Or||Chocolat||Nominated|
|1989||César Awards||César for Best First Feature Film||Nominated|
|1994||Torino International Festival of Young Cinema||FIPRESCI Prize – Special Mention||Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge...||Won|
|1996||Locarno International Film Festival||Golden Leopard||Nenette and Boni||Won|
|1996||Locarno International Film Festival||Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – Special Mention||Won|
|1996||Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film||Golden Bayard for Best Artistic Contribution||Won|
|1996||Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film||Golden Bayard for Best Film||Nominated|
|1998||Independent Spirit Awards||Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film||Nominated|
|2000||Berlin International Film Festival||Reader Jury of the "Berliner Zeitung" – Special Mention||Beau Travail||Won|
|2001||Chicago Film Critics Association Awards||CFCA Award for Best Foreign Language Film||Nominated|
|2001||Rotterdam International Film Festival||KNF Award – Special Mention||Won|
|2001||Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film||Golden Bayard for Best Film||Trouble Every Day||Nominated|
|2001||Sitges - Catalan International Film Festival||Best Film||Nominated|
|2004||Ghent International Film Festival||Grand Prix||The Intruder||Nominated|
|2004||Venice Film Festival||Golden Lion||Nominated|
|2009||Venice Film Festival||Golden Lion||White Material||Nominated|
|2011||National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA||NSFC Award for Best Foreign Language Film||3rd place|
- "Claire Denis". Les Gens du Cinéma (in French). 9 July 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2014. This site uses Denis' birth certificate as its source of information.[according to whom?]
- twhalliii (22 December 2009). "The Best Films Of The Decade (2000-2009) | #9 Beau Travail/ 35 Shots Of Rum". IndieWire. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
- Sharf, Christian Blauvelt,Eric Kohn,Anne Thompson,Kate Erbland,David Ehrlich,Chris O'Falt,Jude Dry,Tom Brueggemann,Bill Desowitz,Tambay Obenson,Michael Nordine,Zack; Blauvelt, Christian; Kohn, Eric; Thompson, Anne; Erbland, Kate; Ehrlich, David; O'Falt, Chris; Dry, Jude; Brueggemann, Tom (26 February 2019). "The 100 All-Time Greatest Films Directed by Women". IndieWire. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- "Film Museum - Claire Denis".
- Hermione Eyre, "Claire Denis on filmmaking and feminism," Prospect, 21 June 2010,
- "Claire Denis". The European Graduate School. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
- Beugnet, Martine (2004). Claire Denis, p. 8. Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York. ISBN 0-7190-6481-3.
- Ancian, Aimé (2002). "Claire Denis: An Interview". Senses of Cinema. Archived from the original on 18 October 2006. Retrieved 26 November 2006.
- "Chocolat (1988; Dir. Claire Denis) Film Guide & Resources". web.cocc.edu. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
- Jenkins, Barry (16 April 2019). "Claire Denis Talks to Barry Jenkins About Director Anxiety and Expectations". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
- "Interview: Claire Denis". Film Comment. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
- "Claire Denis Faculty Page at European Graduate School (Biography, bibliography and video lectures)". European Graduate School. Archived from the original on 24 October 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
- Taylor, Charles (31 March 2000). "Beau Travail". Salon.com. Retrieved 13 June 2006.
- Ratner (2010). "Moving Toward the Unknown Other"
- Mayne, Judith (2005). Claire Denis, p. 132. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago. ISBN 0-252-02991-7.
- "27th Moscow International Film Festival (2005)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 3 April 2013. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
- "2013 Official Selection". Cannes. 30 April 2013. Retrieved 30 April 2013.
- Bramesco, Charles (10 September 2018). "High Life review – orgasmic brilliance in deepest space with Robert Pattinson". The Guardian.
- Bradshaw, Peter (8 May 2019). "High Life review – Robert Pattinson heads for infinity and beyond | Peter Bradshaw's film of the week". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
- Seitz, Matt Zoller. "High Life movie review & film summary (2019) | Roger Ebert". rogerebert.com/. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
- Palmer, Tim (2011). Brutal Intimacy: Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema, Wesleyan University Press, Middleton CT. ISBN 0-8195-6827-9.
- Phillips, James (2008). Cinematic Thinking: Philosophical Approaches to the New Cinema, p. 3. Stanford University Press, Stanford. ISBN 978-0-8047-5800-0.
- Reis, Levilson (2013). "An 'other' scene, an 'other' point of view: France's colonial family romance, Protée's postcolonial fantasy, and Claire Denis' 'screen' memories." Studies in European Cinema, 10, 2–3, pp. 119–131, p. 122.
- Beugnet, Martine (2004). Claire Denis, Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York. ISBN 0-7190-6481-3.
- Beugnet, Martine (2004). Claire Denis, p. 2. Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York. ISBN 0-7190-6481-3.
- Beugnet (2004). Claire Denis, p. 2
- Carew, A. (2019). Claire denis. Screen Education, (96), 84-97
- Kiva Reardon, ‘“Anger Is Part of My Relation to the World”: An Interview with Claire Denis’, cléo, vol. 1, issue 3, Fall 2013, available at <http://cleojournal.com/2013/11/28/anger-is-part-of-my-relation-to-the-world-an-interview-with-claire-denis/>
- Block, Marcelline (2008). Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne. ISBN 978-1-84718-664-5.
- Ratner, Megan (Winter 2010). "Moving Toward the Unknown Other: An Interview with Claire Denis," Cineaste Magazine
- "ARTE France Cinéma coproduit les prochains films de Claire Denis, Ritesh Batra, Hiner Saleem et Xavier Dolan | ARTE PRO - Professionnels de l'audiovisuel".
- Michael Omasta, Isabella Reicher (Ed.), Claire Denis. Trouble Every Day, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-901644-15-6
- Levilson Reis, "An 'other' scene, an 'other' point of view: France's colonial family romance, Protée's postcolonial fantasy, and Claire Denis' 'screen' memories." Studies in European Cinema, vol. 10, nos. 2–3, 2013, pp. 119–131. DOI: 10.1386/seci.10.2-3.119_1.
- "L'intrus: An Interview with Claire Denis" by Damon Smith (Senses of Cinema).
- "Dancing Reveals So Much: An Interview with Claire Denis" by Darren Hughes (Senses of Cinema).
- "Great Directors: Claire Denis" by Samantha Dinning (Senses of Cinema).
- Martine Beugnet, Claire Denis, 2004, Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York.
- Judith Mayne, Claire Denis, 2005, University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago.
- Spectacularly Intimate: An Interview with Claire Denis, by Kevin Lee, (MUBI).
- Marcelline Block, Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema, 2008, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne.
- James Phillips, Cinematic Thinking: Philosophical Approaches to the New Cinema, 2008, Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- "Feeling and form in the films of Claire Denis" by Ian Murphy (Jump Cut)
- "Moving Toward the Unknown Other: An Interview with Claire Denis"[permanent dead link] by Megan Ratner (Cineaste)
- Claire Denis's "Post-colonial" Films and Desiring Bodies by Susan Hayward (L'Esprit Créateur)
- 'Enfolding Surfaces, Spaces and Materials: Claire Denis' Neo-Baroque Textures of Sensation' by Saige Walton (Screening the Past)
- "Gestures of Intimacy: Claire Denis' I Can't Sleep" by Saige Walton (Senses of Cinema)
- "White Material" by Marcin Wisniewski (Senses of Cinema)
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Claire Denis.|
- Claire Denis at IMDb
- Back to Africa: An Interview with Claire Denis, MUBI
- Claire Denis. Faculty page at European Graduate School (Biography, filmography, photos and video lectures)
- Claire Denis, a Reverse Shot symposium
- Claire Denis, an interview for The New York Times by Charlotte Druckman
- No Fear: The Films of Claire Denis on the IFC Center website
- Moving Toward the Unknown Other: An Interview with Claire Denis[permanent dead link] by Megan Ratner
- "Feeling and form in the films of Claire Denis" by Ian Murphy (Jump Cut essay)
- The films of Claire Denis, Hell Is For Hyphenates, 30 September 2014
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No splainin why, but I'm on a bit of a Steely Dan kick via YouTube this morning. So I thought I'd share a few of their songs as performed on Television - of course!
First up - Becker & Fagen and Co. close out 'Today' in Rockefeller Center with "Kid Charlemagne":
And then we have Steely Dan on David Letterman's 'Late Show', with a song from their first recording in 20 years, 'Cousin Dupree':
Steely Dan - my all-time favorite band. And although I already liked them back in the day, it was "Cousin Joel" Fontanella who really got me hooked into them.
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“A hen’s egg is, quite simply, a work of art,
a masterpiece of design and construction
with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging.”
– Delia Smith, How to Cook –
I took my eleven-year-old grandson out to dinner a few weeks ago, and as we considered the mouth-watering dishes on the menu (Mexican), our talk turned to favorite foods (Mexican or otherwise). I said I had lots of favorites, but there’s one thing I could eat every day of the week: eggs. My grandson wisely pointed out that if I had eggs every day, they might end up not being my favorite, because I’d get tired of them.
Well, maybe. But there are a lot of ways to cook eggs. I don’t think I’ve found one variation that I didn’t like. Now, I’m talking specifically chicken eggs. I’ve also had quail eggs (yum) and fish eggs (iffy) and cream-filled Cadbury chocolate eggs (double yum). But my staple is plain old hen’s eggs.
This is the time of year for Passover and Easter, so articles are popping up about food (which usually include at least one recipe for eggs) and traditions (which include the Easter egg hunt). At both Passover and Easter, eggs symbolize rebirth and continuing life.
I just read an online article about the history of Easter eggs in Christianity. No one knows for sure how the Easter egg became a tradition. I’ve always heard that Christians co-opted Easter eggs from pagan traditions honoring fertility and spring, and the article mentioned that. But it also offered another possibility. It seems that when the Easter holy day was first being established, Christians were not allowed, during Lent, to eat meat or any product that came from animals, including eggs. Chickens, of course, do not stop laying eggs for Lent, so for the forty days of Lent leading up to Easter, people hard-boiled the eggs to store them. Then when Lent was over – at Easter – they had all these hard-boiled eggs. Easter eggs.
I recently ordered a cookbook entitled Egg Shop just so I could get a few more recipes for eggs. Along the way to the recipes, I learned some egg trivia.
• Sunlight tells a hen’s body it’s time to lay eggs, so the longer the daylight, the more the hen is likely to lay an egg.
• Hens want to have a whole pile of eggs – a clutch. So when eggs are taken from a nest, it makes her want to lay more.
• The breed of the chicken and the type of diet determine the color of the eggshell.
So . . . eggs for dinner tonight? Omelet, eggs benedict, huevos rancheros, eggs a la goldenrod, fried eggs, scrambled . . . “a work of art, a masterpiece.” Yes, quite simply, brilliant.
I leave you this piece of advice from Nick Korbee’s Egg Shop: The Cookbook. He applies it to cooking eggs. But it applies just as well to life:
“You must know how to begin, and what you desire in the end.”
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I’m actually excited now. In fact bloody excited, like a small child on XMAS eve. Hence I didn’t sleep well last night. In fact the only person more excited about the move is my mother who rang up and demanded to know my new address last night.
Working from home today tieing up lose ends so I can forget it next week. Then tidying and some package. Then beer.
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Beyond Dodgers billionaire Matt White (page 17), Bucs end Dewayne White (left)got $29 million from the Lions, the White Sox crushed their rival Cubs 13--2(it's only spring, but the South Side celebrates), and the White Stripes areback: with an album called Icky Thump.
It's not how you feel (eight injured Sabres missed time last week) or how youlook (see poll, below), it's how you play! Buffalo, a conference finalist lastyear, had won 11 of 13 to soar into first place overall. Said winger DanielBriere, "It's amazing."
Speedskater Shani Davis set the world record in the 1,500 meters and, perhapsrecalling his feud with fellow skater Chad Hedrick at last year's Olympics,refused to crow, saying, "I just want to skate."
March 11, 2007
Buzz for the race got started with wins by Scat Daddy and other contenders, whomight get an audience with a queen: The U.S. Secret Service says that ElizabethII is "probable" for Churchill Downs on May 5.
In a game versus B.C., the Sox saw an Eagles punter smack Dice-K's first pitchfor a double—and new closer Joel Pineiro is struggling. The Wings fell to so-soColorado. And while the Bucks' Michael Redd (above) went for 52 points, he lostand said, "I don't think it's good for me to score 50."
How they feel (lousy after losing favorite son Ryan Smyth, page 82) is how theyplay. Last season's Stanley Cup finalists had lost eight of 10 to drop out ofplayoff contention. Said coach Craig MacTavish, "We're having a tough timewinning."
Duke's stud sophomore golfer Andrew (right)—he has a two handicap and plans togo pro—says he won't campaign for dad Rudolph, the G.O.P. front-runner (andYankees fan), because the two are estranged.
Wildcats coach Tubby Smith's job seemed shaky—his athletic director said fansare "disappointed" with the 20--10 team—even before Sunday's loss toFlorida. That made it five losses in seven games. Said Smith, "It'sfrustrating."
SI PLAYERS NHL POLL
Which team has the best uniforms in the NHL?
Blackhawks ... 28%
Canadiens ... 16%
Red Wings ... 14%
Maple Leafs ... 11%
Which team has the worst?
Predators ... 28%
Sabres ... 24%
Thrashers ... 8%
Ducks ... 7%
The Rangers were fifth on the best list (7.4%), meaning the top fivevote-getters were all Original Six teams; the sixth, the Bruins, was 10th onthe best list (2.1%) and eighth among the worst (2.6%).... Winning ugly: TheSabres, Predators and Ducks had three of the NHL's top five records throughSunday.... The Islanders were fifth on the worst list (5.7%).
[Based on a survey of 357 NHL players]
• For an expanded version of the poll go to SI.com/players.
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"Apache Spark is an open source, general-purpose computational framework with more flexibility than MapReduce. Spark brings to Hadoop the productivity of functional programming with the speed of in-memory data processing. For example, as shown in Figure 1, in a Logistic Regression performance test, Spark ran several orders of magnitude faster than Hadoop MapReduce in memory."
"Spark runs on Hadoop, Mesos, standalone, or in the cloud. It can access diverse data sources including HDFS, Cassandra, HBase, and S3.
You can run Spark using its standalone cluster mode, on EC2, on Hadoop YARN, or on Apache Mesos. Access data in HDFS, Cassandra, HBase, Hive,Tachyon, and any Hadoop data source."
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March 20, 2012
Professor Jennifer Sumner joins the Criminal Justice Department on September 1. Currently teaching at Penn State Harrisburg, Sumner received her Ph.D. in criminology, law and society from the University of California, Irvine. Summer focuses her research and teaching interests on the theory and practice of punishment; correctional policy, practice, and culture; qualitative research methods; and gender, sexuality, and the criminal justice system. Sumner was twice awarded the Gil Geis Award for research excellence while at the University of California Irvine. She recently received funding from the National Science Foundation Law and Social Science Program to study transgender correctional policy in Italy and the United States. Sumner has published articles in Justice Quarterly, Criminal Justice Policy Review, and the Journal of Contemporary Justice. She also co-authored two reports to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation on studies of violence and victimization in California prisons. The College of Arts and Sciences, the largest college in Seattle University, offers B.A., B.S., and MA degrees in criminal justice. Seattle University is one of only seven programs in the United States to receive certification from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
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Control Methods for Rhododendron ponticum
Hundreds of thousands of euros are spent each year in the battle to eradicate the highly invasive and destructive Rhododendron ponticum in Killarney National Park. This plant is native to the Black Sea Region and the Iberian Peninsula. It was first introduced into Ireland in the early 19th century and planted in gardens and woodlands for ornamental purposes and also for game cover.
In recent times Killarney National Park has been implementing a number of efficient and environmentally friendly control methods for Rhododendron ponticum. Conservation Ranger, Peter O’Toole has had great success with his control methods especially with the stem treatment method. This method is proving to be versatile, efficient and cost effective and is being extensively used in the clearance contracts that are underway in the park.
In the last number of years Killarney National Park has also been running a highly successful internship programme which attracts students from a wide range of courses from countries across the European Union. This internship programme offers students an exciting opportunity to experience working in an extensive number of areas across the park while making a vital contribution to the conservation of key woodland habitats.
Since 2012 Voluntary Service International have also played a pivotal role in the fight against rhododendron by running four, two week summer camps annually. These summer camps attract volunteers from countries from all over the world to partake in this immensely important conservation work.
For further information please contact Peter O’Toole by email: peter.o’firstname.lastname@example.org
Information on these methods are available at these links…
Remove Regrowth from Cut Stumps and Treat
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Blockchain is fast emerging as a key technological platform for electricity utilities to meet their digitalisation objectives. Blockchain is a distributed and decentralised public ledger. The technology essentially helps in maintaining an open yet tamper-proof ledger in cyberspace with the use of cryptography. The ledger is shared with all participants. Equipped with these unique features, blockchain can facilitate secure transactions among consumers for electricity trading. This is especially useful now as the adoption of distributed energy sources such as rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) plants, smart meters and electric vehicles (EVs) continues to grow in the country.
World over, electricity utilities are undertaking pilots for peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading based on blockchain technology. Some Indian utilities have also taken steps in this direction. For instance, Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) and BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) are conducting or have conducted blockchain-based pilot projects. Both utilities have partnered with Australia-based technology company Power Ledger for their respective projects. Vinod Tiwari, head of business development and sales, Power Ledger, says, “Our blockchain-enabled trading platform is an innovative, market-based approach to incentivising the adoption of distributed renewable electricity resources in the country. It enables the removal of subsidies as well as mechanisms such as net metering and accelerates the deployment of rooftop solar through market-based sharing and trading of excess energy.”
Uttar Pradesh project
Uttar Pradesh has emerged as one of the pioneers of blockchain implementation in the Indian power sector. In 2018, the Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) organised a workshop on the subject. In December 2019, it approved a pilot project for P2P transactions of power from rooftop solar systems using blockchain-based technology. The pilot project proposed by UPPCL and the Uttar Pradesh New and Renewable Energy Development Agency will check the feasibility of energy trading through blockchain for a distributed network of solar panels connected to a smart grid, wherein the authorities can track power generation and consumption.
Tiwari elaborates, “The pilot project will demonstrate the feasibility of the blockchain platform to trade energy from rooftops with solar power to neighbouring households and buildings. Initially, this will involve 10-15 government buildings in a regulatory sandbox environment. The results of the pilot project will be evaluated in order to formulate appropriate regulations to promote P2P trading of solar energy in the state. Overall, the project aims to make it easier and cheaper for businesses and households to choose energy from renewable sources. It is also hoped that it will provide a baseline from which further P2P projects can be implemented across India.”
The India Smart Grid Forum (ISGF) is collaborating with Power Ledger to implement the project. The project was expected to be completed by March 2020, but has been delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. UPPCL is currently selecting project sites, which will be followed by the installation of smart meters by the ISGF. The smart meters will transfer data to the Power Ledger platform to enable the project to go live by August/September 2020 and real-time energy trading will commence soon after.
BRPL, which is one of the most technologically advanced discoms in the country, also undertook a P2P-based solar power trading pilot project in November 2019. The trial project with 300 kW of solar capacity covered a select group of consumers in gated communities of Dwarka in Delhi. These consumers were able to trade solar power with their neighbouring apartments and buildings using the blockchain platform rather than letting it spill back into the grid. About 25 MWh of electricity was traded among the peers, accounting for a share of 40 per cent in total transactions.
BRPL has also collaborated with Power Ledger for the project. Commenting on the tie-up, Amal Sinha, CEO, BRPL, said in an official release, “BSES has been embracing emerging technologies, especially in the space of demand-side management and renewables. This partnership is yet another testimonial to these efforts. Realising the importance of distributed generation, we have already built an extensive renewables infrastructure, and this trial with Power Ledger will help us fully utilise that energy. Based on the outcome, BRPL and Power Ledger will expand the trial to include blockchain-enabled solutions for group net metering, virtual net metering, EV charging and virtual power plant applications in the near future.”
Elaborating on the benefits of the project, Tiwari says, “The desktop trial demonstrated the benefits of various scenarios for localised energy trading where residents with rooftop solar infrastructure were able to trade their excess energy with their neighbours as well as with the high-tariff commercial and industrial customers, minimising the amount of energy that was spilled back into the grid.”
The benefits of blockchain P2P energy trading are aplenty and utilities across Australia, Thailand, Japan, the US, Malaysia, France and Austria are deploying it. It provides an attractive opportunity to consumers with rooftop solar PV plants to monetise their investment as they can sell the surplus electricity to neighbours. Even people who do not have installed rooftop capacities can procure power through P2P energy trading, thereby consuming greener power at cheaper rates vis-à-vis discom tariffs. A key feature of the blockchain platform is that it does not require any specific hardware device or investment but smart meters are a prerequisite as the technology utilises near-real-time data to facilitate P2P trading.
For discoms too, P2P trading of surplus solar power among consumers connected to the same distribution transformer can facilitate optimal loading of the distribution transformer, resulting in better efficiency and reliability of supply in the area. It can also help the discom better manage peak demand and balance load in an effective manner. The discom does not need to mandatorily procure solar energy exported to the grid, and earn additional revenues through transaction fees and wheeling charges.
As per the UPERC, the technology has the potential to enable direct consumer engagement with the decentralised grid, flatten the hyperlocal demand curve with support from local ancillary services, ensure efficient billing and settlement amongst peer groups, and promote the use of renewable energy. The technology provides multiple benefits for utilities, prosumers and consumers such as real-time trustworthy transaction records, lower transaction costs and transparency in the power system.
Besides trading of decentralised renewable energy, blockchain P2P technology encourages EV adoption by facilitating sharing of private charging infrastructure among consumers. At the Global Blockchain Congress held in Kolkata in December 2018, TERI demonstrated that blockchain-based application can enable consumers to share their private EV chargers with other EV customers near their premises, thereby increasing the utilisation of chargers and helping in the recovery of the high upfront cost incurred in setting up the chargers. Based on the P2P mode of communication, EV owners near a charging station can search for stations to charge their vehicle’s batteries. EV charging station owners that can be registered on blockchain-based smartphone apps will be a part of a public directory and can make their charging stations available to the public when they are not using them. In return, they can be incentivised through set protocols.
Notably, TERI has also developed a blockchain-powered prototype to promote P2P transactions of solar energy in association with Noida-based start-up Sofocle Technologies Limited. The prototype is expected to be utilised in a field pilot with a distribution utility or an institutional campus with smart meters.
The way forward
Blockchain-based P2P trading is set to grow in the future. Given the country’s aggressive renewable energy targets and a consistent push towards e-mobility, the technology can help consumers, especially residential ones, adopt rooftop solar solutions and EVs. Tiwari says, “India is a long way behind in its rooftop solar installation target of 40 GW by 2022, but blockchain technology can help the country progress more quickly on its renewable energy path.” Power Ledger is already in discussion with several discoms (private as well as state owned), regulators, renewable energy developers, energy trading companies, energy research institutes and smart cities in the country.
Since the power sector in the country is highly regulated, policymakers will play a key role in realising the potential of blockchain technology. There is a need for policymakers and regulators to be aware of the potential, opportunities and issues (related to security) of blockchain in the power sector so that appropriate regulatory frameworks and technical standards can be developed. With the roll-out of smart prepaid meters in the next three years, the market is ready for implementing associated technology solutions like blockchain to elevate the power sector’s digitalisation and decentralisation to the next level.
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By Michael Brein
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The train on which we finally started was an immense one, and certainly a curiosity. There were two snowploughs and three enormous engines; freightcars with coal supplies and baggage; several cattlecars, with stock belonging to the Black Hills miners who filled the passenger-coaches. There was an eating-house, looming up above everything, built on a flat car. , were fed. There were several day-coaches, with army recruits and a few passengers, and last of all the paymaster's car, which my husband and I occupied.
During a prolonged stay in Wiesbaden, he occupied empty hours by dabbling in investments, especially American securities. S. railroads into bankruptcy, German bondholders were prominent among the victims. Leading banks formed protective associations in an effort to minimize losses and, if possible, to salvage something for the future. Bankers in Berlin, Frankfurt, and Heidelberg induced Villard to join several of the committees. Later, they asked him to go to America as their personal representative to negotiate a repayment scheme that both sides could live with.
At the same time, he was wary of going too far with his criticism. His letter, dictated to and handwritten by his secretary, initially ended on a confident note: "Certainly it is a matter of vital importance to the Road to have the passengers['] meals clean, palatable and wholesome, which they are not now on our Line"—to which Cross cautiously added in his own hand the qualifier, "as a rule," before signing. But his letter was all for naught. Fainthearted George Cross simply had taken too much time to formulate his cautiously critical response.
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Condorman's chest-flapping photo of Flip and Gale's Shrubhouse
Flip and Gale's Shrubhouse
June 9, 1989
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Nobody is sure what the point of Flip and Gale's Shrubhouse is. It used to have an awesome slide, but rogue whistleblowers had it eliminated to make it harder for kids to get exercise.
- Warning: in the middle of a full moon, this attraction will be dominated by people.
- Instead of going on this attraction, you'll want to go on something less magical.
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- No running or dawdling encouraged.
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22.214.171.124 Fuel economy standards – road transport
Most industrialized nations now impose fuel economy requirements (or their equivalent in CO2 emissions requirements) on new light-duty vehicles (Plotkin, 2004; An and Sauer, 2004). The first standards were imposed by the United States in 1975, requiring 27.5 mpg (8.55 L/100 km) corporate fleet averages for new passenger cars and 20.7 mpg (11.36 L/100 km) for light trucks (based on tests instituted by the US Environmental Protection Agency, using the ‘CAFE’ driving cycle) by 1985. The passenger car standard remains unchanged, whereas the light truck standard has recently been increased to 22.2 mpg (10.6 L/100 km) for the 2007 model year and to 23.5 mpg (10.0 L/100 km) in model year 2010. Additional standards (some voluntary) include:
- European Union: a 2008 fleet wide requirement of 140 gCO2/km, about 41 mpg (5.74 L/100 km) of gasoline equivalent, using the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC), based on a Voluntary Agreement between the EU and the European manufacturers, with the Korean and Japanese manufacturers following in 2009. Recent slowing of the rate of efficiency improvement has raised doubts that the manufacturers will achieve the 2008 and 2009 targets (Kageson, 2005).
- Japan: a 2010 target of about 35.5 mpg (6.6 L/100 km) for new gasoline passenger vehicles, using the Japan 10/15 driving cycle based on weight-class standards.
- China: weight-class standards that are applied to each new vehicle using the NEDC driving cycle, with target years of 2005 and 2008. At the historical mix of vehicles, the standards are equivalent to fleet targets of about 30.4 mpg (7.7 L/100 km) by 2005 and 32.5 mpg (7.2 L/100 km) by 2008 (An and Sauer, 2004).
- Australia: a 2010 target for new vehicles of 18% reduction in average fuel consumption relative to the 2002 passenger car fleet, corresponding to 6.8 L/100 km, or 34.6 mpg. (DfT, 2003), based on a voluntary agreement between industry and government.
- The State of California has established GHG emission standards for new light-duty vehicles designed to reduce per-vehicle emissions by 22% in 2012 and 30% by 2016. Several US states have decided to adopt these standards, as well. At the time of writing, US industry and the federal government were fighting these standards in the courts.
The NEDC and Japan 10/15 driving cycles are slower than the US CAFE cycle and, for most vehicles (though probably not for hybrids), will yield lower measured fuel economy levels than the CAFE cycle for the same vehicles. Consequently, if they reach their targets, the EU, Japanese and Chinese fleets are likely to achieve fuel economies higher than implied by the values above if measured on the US test. A suggested correction factor (for the undiscounted test results) is 1.13 for the EU and China and 1.35 for Japan (An and Sauer, 2004), though these are likely to be at the high end of the possible range of values for such factors. Figure 5.18 shows the ‘corrected’ comparison of standards.
Figure 5.18: Fuel economy and GHG emission standards
Note: all the fuel economy targets represent test values based on artificial driving cycles. The standards in the EU and Australia are based on voluntary agreements. In most cases, actual on-road fuel economy values will be lower; for example, the US publishes fuel economy estimates for individual LDVs that are about 15% lower than the test val-ues and even these values appear to be optimistic. Miles/gallon is per US gallon.
Recent studies of the costs and fuel savings potential of technology improvements indicate considerable opportunity to achieve further fleet fuel economy gains from more stringent standards. For example, the US National Research Council (NRC, 2002) estimates that US light-duty vehicle fuel economy can be increased by 25–33% within 15 years with existing technologies that cost less than the value of fuel saved. A study by Ricardo Consulting Engineers for the UK Department for Transport (Owen and Gordon, 2002) develops a step-wise series of improvements in a baseline diesel passenger car that yields a 38% reduction in CO2 emissions (a 61% increase in fuel economy), to 92 g/km, by 2013 using parallel hybrid technology at an incremental cost of 2300–3,100 £ (4200–5700 US$) with a 15,300 £ (28,000 US$) baseline vehicle. Even where fuel savings will outweigh the cost of new technologies, however, the market will not necessarily adopt these technologies by itself (or achieve the maximum fuel economy benefits from the technologies even if they are adopted). Two crucial deterrents are, first, that the buyers of new vehicles tend to consider only the first three years or so of fuel savings (NRC, 2002; Annema et al., 2001), and second, that vehicle buyers will take some of the benefits of the technologies in higher power and greater size rather than in improved fuel economy. Further, potential benefits for consumers over the vehicle’s lifetime are generally small, while risks for producers are high (Greene, 2005). Also, neither the purchasers of new vehicles nor their manufacturers will take into account the climate effects of the vehicles.
Strong criticisms have been raised about fuel economy standards, particularly concerning claimed adverse safety implications of weight reductions supposedly demanded by higher standards and increased driving caused by the lower fuel costs (per mile or km) associated with higher fuel economy.
The safety debate is complex and not easily summarized. Although there is no doubt that adding weight to a vehicle improves its safety in some types of crashes, it does so at the expense of other vehicles; further, heavy light trucks have been shown to be no safer, and in some cases less safe than lighter passenger cars, primarily because of their high rollover risk (Ross et al., 2006). The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has claimed that fleet wide weight reductions ‘reduce’ fleet safety (Kahane, 2003), but this conclusion is strongly disputed (DRI, 2004; NRC, 2002). An important concern with the NHTSA analysis is that it does not separate the effects of vehicle weight and size. In any case, other factors, e.g., overall vehicle design and safety equipment, driver characteristics, road design, speed limits and alcohol regulation and enforcement play a more significant role in vehicle safety than does average weight.
Some have argued that increases in driving associated with reduced fuel cost per mile will nullify the benefits of fuel economy regulations. Increased driving ‘is’ likely, but it will be modest and decline with higher income and increased motorization. Recent data implies that a driving ‘rebound’ would reduce the GHG reduction (and reduce oil consumption) benefits from higher standards by about 10% in the United States (Small and Van Dender, 2007) but more than this in less wealthy and less motorized countries.
In deciding to institute a new fuel economy standard, governments should consider the following:
- Basing stringency decisions on existing standards elsewhere requires careful consideration of differences between the home market and compared markets in fuel quality and availability; fuel economy testing methods; types and sizes of vehicles sold; road conditions that may affect the robustness of key technologies; and conditions that may affect the availability of technologies, for example, availability of sophisticated repair facilities.
- There are a number of different approaches to selecting stringency levels for new standards. Japan selected its weight class standards by examining ‘top runners’ – exemplary vehicles in each weight class that could serve as viable targets for future fleet wide improvements. Another approach is to examine the costs and fuel saving effects of packages of available technologies on several typical vehicles, applying the results to the new vehicle fleet (NRC, 2002). Other analyses have derived cost curves (percent increase in fuel economy compared with technology cost) for available technology and applied these to corporate or national fleets (Plotkin et al., 2002). These approaches are not technology-forcing, since they focus on technologies that have already entered the fleet in mass-market form. More ambitious standards could demand the introduction of emerging technologies. Selection of the appropriate level of stringency depends, of course, on national goals and concerns. Further, the selection of enforcement deadlines should account for limitations on the speed with which vehicle manufacturers can redesign multiple models and introduce the new models on a schedule that avoids severe economic disruption.
- The structure of the standard is as important as its level of stringency. Basing target fuel economy on vehicle weight (Japan, China) or engine size (Taiwan, South Korea) will tend to even out the degree of difficulty the standards impose on competing automakers, but will reduce the potential fuel economy gains that can be expected (because weight-based standards eliminate weight reduction and engine-size-based standards eliminate engine downsizing as viable means of achieving the standards). Basing the standard on vehicle wheelbase times track width may provide safety benefits by providing a positive incentive to maintain or increase these attributes. Using a uniform standard for all vehicles or for large classes of vehicles (as in the US) is simple and easy to explain, but creates quite different challenges on different manufacturers depending on the market segments they focus on.
- Allowing trading of fuel economy ‘credits’ among different vehicles or vehicle categories in an automaker’s fleet, or even among competing automakers, will reduce the overall cost of standards without reducing the total societal benefits, but may incur political costs from accusations of allowing companies or individuals to ‘buy their way out’ of efficiency requirements.
- Alternatives (or additions) to standards are worth investigating. For example, ‘feebates’, which award cash rebates to new vehicles whose fuel economy is above a designated level (often the fleet average) and charge a fee to vehicles with lower fuel economy, may be an effective market-based measure to increase fleet fuel economy. An important advantage of feebates is that they provide a ‘continuous’ incentive to improve fuel economy, because an automaker can always gain a market advantage by introducing vehicles that are more efficient than the current average.
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by Michael Covel
A few months ago, I told you about Dennis Gartman’s especially bearish call on oil…
Gartman’s the publisher of The Gartman Letter, a popular investing newsletter.
And back in January, he made an astonishingly bold prediction about where the price of oil was headed.
Gartman told a national TV audience that “crude oil will not trade back above $44 in my lifetime.” It was trading at roughly $28 at the time.
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2020-11-27T03:42:51Z
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The DXN Pressure Cooker is made from high quality SUS 304 food grade stainless steel. It is an excellent appliance that
shortens the cooking time through the use of steam and high pressure theory and technology. With the forging of a megathermal induction encapsulated base,
the heat for the cooker can be distributed evenly. It meets the newest standards and offers the users better cooking convenience.
The DXN Pressure Cooker is suitable for all types of cooking sources, such as electric, gas, ceramic, induction and halogen. It is easy to use and clean.
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1 x 6 liters
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Lazy Phone and Tablet Bracket
Would you like to use your smartphone or tablet in bed without hurting your arms? With this Lazy Phone and Tablet Bracket, your problems would be solved!
It hangs over your head and holds your smart device, so you don’t have to hold it. The stand has an aluminum alloy construction. Whether you want to work in bed, watch movies, or play games in bed, the Lazy Phone and Tablet Bracket has you covered.
It's painful when phone or tablet occasionally slaps on your face. Lazy Phone and Tablet Bracket is the perfect solution for using your tablets hands-free in bed, on the couch, or anywhere.
We all love to be lazy. There's nothing better than being able to lie down in bed or on a sofa while browsing your favorite websites or catching up with some emails.
- Widely Used in Many Places - The base clamp will be compatible with any different thicknesses table/platform. It perfectly fits any place like a bedroom, sofa, office, kitchen, gym, bathroom. It enables you to release your hands, which is a very practical lazy mount holder.
- Compatible with Many Devices - It’s applicable for mobile phones, iPhone7/Plus/6/6s Plus, Samsung galaxy note, Android Phone, and most tablets. It supports the most devices whose size is from 3.5 to 10.6 inches.
- 360 º Rotation - Designed with long arms gooseneck clamp, can 360ºrotation to adjust the angle.
- Anti-Shake - Made of sturdy aluminum alloy. The stable bottom clip, adjustable screws, and high-quality springs use to prevent shake and keep stable.
- Adjustable Height - Its long arm comes with 35x2cm and can be folded to the angle from 0° to 180°, which can be easy to adjust the height of the bracket and installed anywhere. Flexible mount holder can be bent and folded freely, so as to easily view your device at any angle.
- Type: Metal
- Angle: 360º degrees
4 STEPS TO INSTALL
- Remove the nut from the clamp
- Push the ball joint into the clamp
- Twist the net firmly
- Turn the pedestal into a desk and so on, and screw it back
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2020-09-21T18:43:01Z
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Avantco VB202 Natural Gas / Field Convertible Vertical Broiler - 45 lb. Capacity, 19,000 BTU
Have Complete Control Perfect control is yours with this vertical broiler! The 15" spit and protected motor rotate meat slowly to give you total control over cooking. The burners are adjustable on a rail mechanism to direct the heat wherever you need it. Versatile Use It's versatile enough to work with and serve all varieties of meats including lamb, chicken, turkey, beef, lamb, and goat. The spit assembly features an easy-load system, which is adjustable in height and tilt to accommodate different shapes and sizes of meat. Keep Counterspace Clean To keep your countertop free of drips and make cleanup easy, this unit has a wide drip basin and comes with a drip pan to catch grease so your surfaces stay clean. It also comes with a stainless steel catch pan to collect sliced meat for service. Durable Construction This vertical broiler has a durable stainless steel construction that is made to stand up to commercial kitchens. It also features adjustable stainless steel heat shields that maintain operator comfort and allow for faster cooking to maximize efficiency and reduce energy costs. While it comes ready to connect to a natural gas line, it is field convertible to liquid propane and includes a conversion kit. This unit requires a 120V electrical connection for operation.
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Soar, Slither, Grow Page Flags
Here's a pack of page flags resplendent with life in all forms from mushrooms and plants to snakes, birds, and spiders.
|Flag dimensions||2" x .6" | 1.5 cm x 5 cm|
|Total quantity||250 total page flags per pack|
|Quantity per design||50 page flags per design|
|Presentation||Set of 5 designs|
|Origin||Designed in Oregon, Imported|
|Paper type||100% recycled paper|
Page flags are a great way to highlight important information as you study, help you get organized, or make a plan. Accent tasks and ideas with a bold pop of color, mark recipes in your favorite recipe book, or color-code events in your Syllabus planner!
Each pack comes with 5 coordinated designs (50 flags of each design for a total of 250 flags per pack), and is made with 100% recycled paper.
Flat Rate $9.95
Orders $75+ ship for free
Expedited service available
Shipping is available to most countries. See details at checkout.
If you're shipping to Europe, please check out our EU website for lower shipping rates and quicker delivery times.
Returns & Exchanges
within 30 days of purchase
On USA orders over $75
Inclusive Workplace & Eco Friendly Products
Frequently Asked Questions
Need to enlarge the illustrations
Retro Science tags are too dark.
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2023-05-31T18:52:05Z
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St Lucia, an island nation, is a volcanic island which explains why it is more mountainous that most Caribbean Islands. We spent the morning in the rain forest.
Coming in this morning we passed their old well maintained airport It is only used inter island these days.
The Seabourn Odyssey is here today. It is about half our size and capacity. Allyn and I cruised on it about 10 years ago when it was quite new. It is a beauty.
We visited the rainforest, starting with a guided hike.
For example, this is a vanilla plant which will grow pods over four years. It takes 600 pods to make a gallon which partially explains why it is the second most expensive spice these days (after saffron).
The white stuff from this tree is incense a la that which is used in churches.
Although a fruit, the calabash is used for its hard gourd as a storage utensil. In 2010 we brought home a cora (stringed instrument) from Gambia, West Africa. Its body was made from calabash. Click here for that blog.
The guide was quite adamant about generally not touching anything. However, he gave me permission to swing as far as I wanted on the Tarzan vine. That was a hoot. I went about 4 – 6 inches.
Even forests have termites. The sawdust stuff is the clue.
There was so much beauty at all the various levels. I found the mapou tree to be particularly interesting.
Then we took a gondola rising from 600 feet to 1,400 feet. Our terrific guide explained so much.
We saw hummingbirds which are attracted to this red plant as it holds water quite efficiently.
The Q-tip tree is probably not its scientific name, but it sure is pretty.
Those cables are for zip-lining.
Allyn bought some banana ketchup. It has no tomato, and the main ingredient is banana. I think they call it that because they use it as a substitute for ketchup.
As usual we stopped along the way for some nice photos. We saw both the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean.
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Uhfgoodis creating Computer/video games
Okay this is something special. So I'm going to give the first 100 people everything in the "We're in the money" ($8) tier for $1. So that includes the finished game.
You will also be credited in all videos from the point someone starts supporting me until the game is finished. You also will get screen credit in the game itself!
And my undying loyalty! (With a personal thank you message, sent by email.)
"I think your stuff is great but.." I either don't have much money, don't know much about you, or your content isn't so compelling as to persuade me to part with more money per month.
I can understand, there are probably more pressing things that you need to spend your hard-earned moolah for, at the same time I think you should get something, not just my undying thanks.
So with this tier you get 50% off of any game, AND any digital reward I produce for the lifetime of my Patreon page. You also get a thanks in the credits of one of my development videos.
....aaaaaand my undying thanks!
"I can see where this is going.." I still probably don't have much money, but I can see some potential in you so I'm going to risk $4 a month.
You probably spend more than this on a certain online streaming video service that rhymes with PetTricks.
Instead of 50% off of my games, you get the whole game for free. Well sort of, almost like it's free, I mean you are supporting me and all.
To sum up:
You get a free copy of my games for the lifetime of this patreon page, you still get 50% off any digital goodies I produce, such as soundtracks, art books, or whatever digital I produce for my games and a shout-out on one of my dev videos.
Do I think you should pay me money for nothing? Why Yes. Actually No. Actually I hope to start documenting the process of creating my game, so that eventually you might want to pay me just to see how it turns out, and cool stuff like free copies, who knows maybe even some physical merch.
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2019-10-23T07:46:42Z
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School Readiness at Granby & Dingle Children Centre
A short course for parents/carers to enable them to prepare their child for nursery and reception. Develop your understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and have the skills to enable your child to have the best start to their education.
This is available at both Granby and Dingle sites and is sometimes delivered in school or nursery setting sin the community.
Who to contact
- 0151 233 4930 or 0151 233 3200
Where to go
- Granby & Dingle Children Centre
- L8 9UB
Time / Date Details
- When is it on
- Please contact the centre for more information
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2021-01-16T17:57:57Z
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Alpaca Transfer BroadWorks Data Export
Unlock Your BroadWorks Data
Alpaca Transfer enables BroadWorks users to export their data to a text-readable JSON file format.
Every user, group, service, and setting is exported.
How It Works
The Alpaca Transfer functionality extracts all provisioning, services and settings for an Enterprise or Service Provider, including Call Centers, Devices, Hunt Groups, Users, Voicemail settings, and Call Processing Policies.
The Alpaca Transfer archive format combines easy-to-use JSON text so you can readily see every setting and how it’s used.
- Easy to read and edit
- Royalty-free format
All other files embedded in BroadWorks are embedded as literal byte-for-byte copies of the originals stored in BroadWorks on the Application Server or Profile Server.
- Voicemail greetings (WAV)
- Auto Attendant greetings (WAV)
- Call Center audio recordings (WAV)
- SIP Phone Configuration Files (XML, CONF, etc.)
- SIP Phone Uploaded Log Files (TXT, LOG, etc.)
- SIP phone Background Image Files (BMP, JPG, etc)
Full Export of Security & Authentication Data
Alpaca Transfer includes full authentication data to help you thoroughly understand and troubleshoot your BroadWorks users.
- SIP Authentication Settings: Usernames and Passwords
- SIP Phone Device Passwords
- Voicemail Passcodes
- Voicemail / Email / IMAP / POP3 Passwords
- Desktop / UC Client Passwords
- Web Login Passwords
The key authentication data are encoded upon export to prevent casual distribution, but can be decoded programmatically for plain-text access.
BroadWorks Voicemail Management Made Easy
Alpaca Transfer gives you full access to all Voicemail greetings, including No Answer and Busy Greetings. Greetings are stored in standard WAV files, and linked in JSON to the exact users and scenarios that deploy them. All Voicemail settings are exported, including:
- User receiving voicemail
- Their email, POP3, IMAP settings as used by BroadWorks for storage
- Number of rings
- Greeting types (Busy, No-Answer
- Voicemail forwarding and Carbon-Copy (CC) settings identifying where Voicemails should be sent
Complete Control for Call Center & Auto Attendant
Alpaca Transfer provides complete export of all Call Center and Auto Attendant settings, ensuring you can inspect and analyze every setting and call routing path.
- All recorded greetings
- All call routing settings and parameters
- All menu options and settings
- All queue depth and agent routing settings
How to Use It
There are many ways you can use Alpaca Transfer: for analysis and audits, backup and restoration, as well as complex data transformation. Here are a few specific use cases.
Combine with Alpaca Import to Build Complex BroadWorks Users
- Export the full Enterprise, Group, or User
Modify the settings in JSON to match your new needs:
- Telephone Numbers
- Group names and identities
- Standard voicemail greetings
- Auto Attendant routing
- Call Center setup
- All other BroadWorks features
- Import the JSON
You can build software tools to manipulate the Alpaca JSON export archive to generate new JSON Archives. Import your newly-created JSON Archives to create new Enterprises, Users, and Groups for easy bulk-import of complex user configurations.
Easy Transformation for SIP Device Management Projects
When you’re converting customers between SIP PBX phones, ATAs (Analog Terminal Adapters), NIDs (Network Interface Devices), eMTAs, from one version to another, or from one model to another, you need detailed info on the settings used by that SIP phone. Alpaca Transfer gives instant, unified visibility to all settings used to influence the phone’s behavior.
- Identity/Device Profile Type (aka "Device Type")
- All Tag values set on the individual device or at the group level
- All of the SIP device’s configuration files, including uploaded settings, logs, and background images
- All custom-uploaded configurations that were intended to handle special circumstances for individual SIP User Agent Devices
- Works with SIP phones like Polycom, Aastra, Mitel, Cisco
- Works with ATAs like Cisco, AudioCodes, Linksys
- Works with all other SIP devices that use BroadWorks FTP-based or DMS/XSP-Based Device Management
See more ways you can use Alpaca to unlock your BroadWorks data.
Want to hear more about Alpaca Transfer?
We’d love to walk you through the product and answer your questions.
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Reciprocating Saw, CP7900
The CP7900 Air Reciprocating saw is a versatile tool for cutting intricate vshapes in light radius curves in all types of plastic, fiberglass, composites, aluminum and sheet metal. This tool features a lock off throttle for protection against accidental start ups and an adjustable guard. Rear exhaust directs air away from the work area, while an ergonomic design increases comfort and handling. The tool comes with 3 replacement blades: 18 tooth, 24 tooth, and 32 tooth.
- Strokes per minute: 10,000
- Air inlet thread: 1/4-Inch NPTF
- Minimum hose size: 3/8-Inch
- Sound dBA: 92
- Length: 8.5-Inch
- Weight: 1.3 lbs
Part # 7N0302 CP7900 Ships separately. Color may vary.
Call 855-219-6387 to order direct.
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2023-09-24T09:52:28Z
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Yohana started at Everymind in September 2017. She has a Bachelor of Neuroscience (Honours) from Cardiff University, a Prince 2 Project Management Qualification, a diploma in Project Management and is currently studying a Leadership and Management Level 7 (Pre MBA). Yohana currently holds the position of Project Lead for the Mental Health and Research Team.
For the past 10 years, Yohana has worked in the not-for-profit sector in London in Project Management and leadership roles. Yohana’s most recent role as the Director of Projects was for a high profile charity delivering projects for young people and their families involved in crime and antisocial behaviour. Alongside this work Yohana has consulted on operations, recruitment and strategy for small businesses start-ups in London.
Yohana is currently leading on the Small Business and Mental Health project.
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2018-08-17T00:05:30Z
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The Riverdale is an English mystery series whose characters have been extracted from Archie Comics. The first season of the teen drama was released on 26th January 2017 and within a short time, it received fantastic responses from viewers. After seeing the great reviews of the audience showrunners launched back to back seasons of series at frequent intervals.
Luckily, all of them got equally positive reviews from people. You might have watched season 5 episodes which arrived last month. Like you, we are also enjoying watching the fifth version of the drama. While watching season 5, your mind must have thought about Riverdale season 6. You may have thought, whether season 6 will come or not? Well, we have figured out the answer to this question. So, take a look at what it is –
Has The CW Announced Riverdale Season 6 Release Date?
Not yet, but soon we’ll find out. The American drama has got decent 6.9/10 stars on the IMDb while impressive 86% Avg Tomatometer on Rotten Tomatoes. Definitely, these metrics are good enough for us as well as for showrunners. The people whose hands are involved in the making of this drama have understood the intent of fans.
That’s why without any delay, on 3rd Feb. 2020 The CW revealed that Riverdale Season 6 is coming.
Even though the network has given a green signal to the drama but it doesn’t mean that we will be notified about Riverdale Season 6 release date soon. Firstly, the senior authorities of the network will decide when they want to release season 6 then they will disclose their decision to the public.
It’s expected that the sixth installment will arrive by the last of 2021, but it’s not confirmed considering the shifted release dates of season 5 on The CW. So, we are required to wait until creators reveal any authentic information about the beginning of production. Also, it will be interesting to see when the filming for season 6 episodes will start.
How Will Riverdale Season 6 Plot Be?
The drama revolves around the small city of Riverdale, where the murder of a famous wealthy guy named Jason Blossom brings a wave of sorrow to the town. Archie Andrews explores his fondness for music and tutor. Betty Cooper shows her emotions for Archie and discloses the family’s hidden truths.
Veronica Lodge is a newcomer in the school and she is not safe for champion leader Cheryl Blossom. Archie, Betty, Veronica, and Jughead form a team to search for the suspenseful reasons behind the killing of Jason Blossom. As far as the sixth season’s plot is concerned, we don’t know what will exactly happen. It will mostly rely on the ending of season 5.
Till now 5 episodes of The Riverdale season 5 have released on Netflix and many are yet to come, so anything can occur in them. But before watching all the episodes of season 5 fans have presented their demands before creators. They are enthusiastic to know more insights into Cheryl and Toni’s relationship whereas some fans have a wish to see Betty and Jughead’s wedding.
Many fans are also on the side of Barchie (Betty and Archie) and they have a desire to see their union. So, the drama lovers are expecting a lot from the upcoming season. Therefore, it will be fascinating to see whether their wishes be fulfilled or not.
Who Will Be Part Of Riverdale Season 6 Cast?
Producers haven’t declared the names of stars who will be seen in the forthcoming season. The cast of season 6 will largely depend on the climax of season 5. If any character in the ending dies then he/she won’t return in season 6. However, it is seeming that most of the lead actors will live to reprise their roles in season 6.
But don’t be surprised if you get to see some new faces in the upcoming season as script makers can introduce fresh faces to twist the story. But the addition of new actors won’t change the lead actors of the drama. They will remain the same as before. If drastic changes will happen then The CW will inform us. But as per recent details, the cast of season 6 will be –
- KJ Apa will play his role as Archie Andrews.
- Lili Reinhart will portray the character of Betty Cooper.
- Camila Mendes will display the character of Veronica Lodge.
- Cole Sprouse will present the character of Jughead Jones.
- Marisol Nichols will deliver her role of Hermione Lodge.
- Madelaine Petsch will play her role as Cheryl Blossom.
- Mädchen Amick will portray the character of Alice Cooper.
- Casey Cott will display the character of Kevin Keller.
- Vanessa Morgan will be seen as Toni Topaz.
- Erinn Westbrook will present the character of Tabitha Tate.
How Many Episodes Will Be In Riverdale Season 6?
As I mentioned earlier that not all the episodes of season 5 have released yet and also the creators of the show haven’t revealed any details about the number of episodes of season 6. That’s why it’s quite hard to predict anything about them.
You might have observed that there were 22 episodes in two of the five previously released seasons, so maybe season 6 will also have 22 episodes. However, this is just a verdict and authentic information will be revealed only after the launch of the drama.
Is There Any News Of Riverdale Season 6 Trailer?
Neither The CW nor the showrunners have published any kind of trailer on Youtube regarding Season 6. Also, they haven’t shared any promo for season 6. The CW will definitely share information with fans if any promo or short video gets ready. However, the trailer is not going to arrive soon as filming for The Riverdale Season 6 episodes hasn’t started yet.
So, we will have to wait for a long time to watch the season 6 trailer. But don’t worry if any new information arrives we will let you know till then you can watch the freshly launched Riverdale season 5 trailer.
Source: Netflix Life
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Welcome to Oakley’s underground lair… Those seats are where the Dr ‘O’, his miniature clone, Number Two and Frau Farbissina plan their world domination. Over there in the corner is the trap door to the shark tank. We snuck inside and asked one of the key henchmen to throw us a frikkin’ bone…
What’s your job title?
Sports Marketing Manager
What’s your day-to-day work consist of?
I drive 35 minutes to the office and spend that time on the cell phone talking with athletes in later time zones. When I get to the office I make an action list for the day. Check voice mails, appointments, answer emails and try to get most of them completed in the two hours after turning on my computer.
Where is the Oakley HQ?
It’s in a place called Foothill Ranch, in the O.C.
What makes it special?
The design of the building is something straight out of a classic science fiction movie. And the people I work with are awesome. The culture at Oakley is an amazing environment to work in.
Where do most of the office team come from?
My department – sports marketing – is mostly filled with ex-pro athletes. All of the managers are deeply involved with or even still competing in the sports that they manage.
What are the perks?
The perks have to be the travelling – snowboarding all over the world and working with cool people. The amount of travel I have done in the past 10 years with Oakley is amazing. I am very grateful and lucky to have this job. That is why we work so hard – because it’s fun.
Who’s the biggest character at Oakley?
Jim Jannard, the founder of Oakley, has to be the biggest character. He started this company out of the back of a van selling motorcycle parts.
Do you all skate, surf and/or snowboard?
Yes, we all try and rip up the boards any chance we get.
What does it take to get a job in your team?
Timing is the number one factor in getting a job in Sports Marketing. Since the jobs are so sport specific and are basically one in a million opportunities, nobody leaves. We are so entrenched in our sports that the turnover rate is very low in this department.
How many people need to say ‘yes’ to a new design of goggles or sunnies before they go into production?
The eyewear design team has the final say on what makes it onto the shelves of our retailers, but we do have an incredible feedback team that includes the Sports Marketing, Sales, Design and production teams. But if you really need a number on how many people need to say yes to a new design, I will go with one: The president of design really has the key to the product categories.
Designing eyewear seems like a pretty subtle, specialized are of design. How do you get into it?
The design teams look to unlimited areas of inspiration. I use our deep roster of world class riders to gain inspiration for new designs and colors.
What do you all do to let your hair down?
I really get stoked on music and movies. I don’t have time to watch television so I turn up the volume and rock it out to some loud tracks whenever possible. Most of us have hobbies that involve some aspect of our work at Oakley, from sport to design and of course family. This is a very passionate work force, and we really do love our jobs.
What stands you apart from the rest of the industry?
What really stands Oakley apart from other brands is our snowboarding heritage and the technology that we have created in that time frame. We pride ourselves on having the best products on the mountain which will perform in any conditions you might encounter around the globe. With our leading legend, Terje Haakonsen, Oakley snowboarding has also really embraced transition riding, and the Oakley Arctic Challenge has raised the bar for quarterpipe riding (we got a new world record for highest air in 2007). Look for Terje and Oakley to continue the science of transition in a QP near you!
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1. This interview at COMICON.com with Paul Pope about his BATMAN YEAR 100 project makes the book look mighty interesting. Batman looks pretty hot, and I am intrigued by Pope's comments, some of which sound just as fetishistic as stuff I would probably say:
To me, the classic Batman is the most visually interesting and the most believable - the little gloves, the gray jersey, the mask with the severe 'V' shaped design cut across his cheekbones - the strange, scary slits for eyes - that kind of thing from his original appearances... He has real boots on. There's no generic foot shape on my guy. a Ken doll foot, you know. Generic superhero foot. ... I don't know how others draw Batman's boots, but mine look like actual boots.
My other pet peeve has always been his utility belt. It seems like it's often portrayed as kind of this Deus Ex Machina thing with everything in it. I want to wipe that campy Batman shit off the board. There's no Bat Shark Repellant in here. He just has a few essentials in this utility belt. Since it's the future there are some tricky weapons like this sonic dog whistle thing, a machine that confuses people, rope, a torch cutter, lights, and a few other simple devices.
2. I've been TRYING to remember which comics blog did a tribute to Dorian's semi-regular "Subtext? What Subtext?" feature (which I dearly love) sometime last month, but I can't find it. In the process of trying to track it down from Dorian's own site, I came across this brilliant and hilarious entry about "How To Get Your Boyfriend To Read Comics." It's great, although I don't think I'm ever gonna try it with the Hub. I've already got him dressing up like comics characters and doing various kinky things with me in costume, which is way more fun, so why put him through actually reading real live, ahem, "monthly comics periodicals"?
3. To make up for not finding the item I was looking for in #2, here are two of the pics in that entry I was gonna link to. I won't even bother to come up with smirking text to accompany them, since that's been done by minds far wittier than mine. (I just can't tell you where.) Me, I just want to enjoy the pix. Click on 'em to make them--and maybe yourself--get bigger:
4. I still have more to say on that SuperDickery treasuretrove, but it will have to wait. Ah, how I tease...
Comic-Con 2018: Nichelle Nichols reveals how Martin Luther King Jr. convinced her to stay on 'Star Trek' - Before “Black Panther,” Nichelle Nichols began paving the way for afro-futurism and black representation in pop culture. The 85-year-old actor received a...
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Case summaries and commentary on just lately determined felony regulation instances within the Third Circuit provided by Federal Defenders and CJA Panel Attorneys. If the crime talked about in the previous paragraph is dedicated by a unit, the unit in query shall be fined, and the individual instantly in charge of it and other people who are directly accountable shall be sentenced to not more than three years in jail or criminal detention. To say, Criminal regulation has at all times had a spot in the environmental safety regimes of all jurisdictions together with Tanzania. Your legal professional will not have any of the data and also you run the chance of pleading guilty to a case that could be won. The EU also adopted legislation on legal sanctions for market abuse (discussed right here ).
Both this master and a 6-month lengthy internship on the International Criminal Tribunal for The Former Yugoslavia strengthen my perception in Justice. The inquest of the day; the equivalent of at the moment’s Criminal Prosecution Service (CPS) didn’t take into account killing within a duel to constitute homicide. Indigent people, who can not afford to hire a legal attorney, can be supplied the companies of an lawyer from the office of the State Public Defender totally freed from value.
It was the ultimate four murders which can be of significance as these deaths resulted in felony prices and were all dedicated within the village of West Auckland, County Durham in the UK. Perhaps if DUI/DWI was not legal in and of itself, but as a substitute raised the stakes on different infractions – a multiplier, of kinds. In terms of public regulation there are often three fundamental subsections, these are constitutional, administrative and legal regulation. Comparisons between the programs of penal legislation developed within the western European international locations, and those having their historical origins in the English common law should be said cautiously.
As the instances discussed in this article will present, their abuse has proved global. Texas jail inmates should not be allowed to have lively social media accounts, even if associates or household on the surface actually run them, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has decided. A law diploma offers a wide range of career alternative in one of the crucial nicely-paid and socially vital sectors. This brings me to rehabilitation as being the simplest solution to deter a legal from committing crime.
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Jaanbaz Force September 2018 Officer Jobs Qualification Intermediate
Pakistan army jaanbaz force jobs 2018 in September for officers. All the candidates who have intermediate degree and have fit body can apply for job in janbaz force pak army. Intermediate from recognized institute and height of 162.5 cm is required for job. Age limit is 20 to 35 years. Qualification details are also there in pak army jobs advertisement janbaz force. Only short listed candidates will be called for interview. No ta/da will be given to the candidates. Last date to apply for janbaz force job is 15th September 2018.
Pak Army Jaanbaz Force Jobs September 2018
Name of the Organization: Jaanbaz Force
Total No. of Vacancies: Multiple
Qualifications & Age Limit: Please see job notification below for relevant experience, qualification & age limit information.
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The Dougherty County School System is holding public hearings to get community feedback on next year's proposed school budget. Only two people showed up for the noon session.
William Wright and Pre-K education coordinator Carlton Hollis asked the School superintendent and board members questions about the proposed $189 million budget.
That is about the same as last year's total school system budget. About $700, 000 in reserves will be used. Teachers qualifying for state mandated step raises will get salary increases of 3% to 4%, but all staff members will be furloughed ten days.
Dougherty County School Board Chairman James Bush said "I have been one, and some other board members, have declared that we are not going to increase the tax digest for income for our school system. We are going to have to live within our means."
The other public hearing about the proposed Dougherty County School budget will get started at 6:00 at the School System administration building on Pine Avenue.
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Artisan Jewelena is amodest jewelry designer who enjoys expressing her creativity and inspirations through her work. This necklace is crafted with sterling silver and features an oval pendant. The inspirational message "Love conquers all" is inscribed in the center of pendant. This unique piece is a great way to show that special someone that you love them.
Anchor measurements: 8 mm(0.31 Inch) wide x 12 mm(0.47 Inch) long (including bail)
Clasp: Round Spring Clasp
Finish: Shiny, polished
Gemstone: Freshwater Pearl
Infinity measurements: 7 mm(0.28 Inch) wide x 23 mm(0.91 Inch) long
Length: 16 inch long, plus 2 inch extension
Metal: Sterling Silver
Pearl Size: 6 mm
Pendant measurements: 13 mm (0.51 Inch) wide x 19 mm (0.75 Inch) long (including bail)
Trademark: Stamped 925
Weight: 4.6 grams
Gift Occasion : Anniversary/Engagement/Christmas/Mother's Day/Thanksgiving/Valentine's Day/Graduation/Birthday/Romance/Congratulations/Thank You/I'm Sorry/Just Because/Sympathy/Corporate Gifts/Get Well/New Year
Pearl Shape : Round
Pearl Color Class : White
Jewelry Material : Silver
Pearl Dyed : True
Symbol : Symbols
Pearl Origin : Freshwater Cultured
Gender : Female
Age Segment : Adult/Teen/Junior
Finish : Polished
Hallmark : .925
Clasp Material : Sterling Silver
Age Gender : Womens
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If you are not fully satisfied, please contact us within 5 days, and post mark the return within 30 days for a Full Refund (excludes Shipping and Handling fees).
Unauthorized or delayed returns will not be accepted. Abuse of our hassle-free return policy is unfair; we reserve the right to deduct a restocking fee for excessive returns on a single transaction.
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Andrew Breitbart did not take pleasure in the misfortune of individuals with whom he had battled over the years. Yet there was nothing he hated more than the collusion of the mainstream media in perpetuating left-wing lies, destroying lives in the process. Conversely, there was nothing Andrew relished more than the rare moments when the media were confronted with their own dishonesty and hypocrisy, and made to pay the price.
That is why he would have welcomed the departure of NBC News president Steve Capus. Breitbart News’ John Nolte–who was the first critic to pursue Capus, as managing editor Alex Marlow points out–has listed some of the many scandals that embroiled Capus’s brief tenure. None was more egregious than the selective editing of George Zimmerman’s 911 call to make him look like a racist who had killed Trayvon Martin out of hatred.
The left and its mainstream media enablers had used the false “selective editing” meme to attack conservatives ever since the ACORN exposé of 2009. NBC and its militant wing, MSNBC, have made a habit of selective editing to provoke outrage. Most recently, MSNBC edited footage of a town hall meeting about the Sandy Hook shooting to defame Second Amendment supporters, suggesting that they “heckled” a bereaved father.
So today, when we remember Andrew most fondly, and when we wish we could have been celebrating another year with him–a year of amazing growth for his company and his vision–we can take comfort in the thought that somehow, somewhere, he is celebrating. His spirit, the spirit of citizen journalism, lives on.
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Campus Access Master's Thesis
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (MS)
Administrative Home Department
Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
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Fuel economy has become one of the top design parameters of modern passenger cars and light trucks. Recent CAFE regulations have required manufactures to push the fuel economy of US passenger vehicles under 8600 lb GVW beyond the limit of conventional technology . In order to continue to meet the increasing requirements for fuel economy while still satisfying other design criteria including safety, tailpipe emissions, performance, and comfort, more expensive technology must be integrated into each vehicle specifically the powertrain. Diminishing returns of the payback period of fuel savings vs. higher initial vehicle cost has now become longer than the life of the vehicle. Because of this, the dollar per fuel economy benefit of each technology is being closely examined and investigated .
In this thesis, the potential fuel economy benefit of a technology was studied for feasibility and potential; the technology was on-board cylinder pressure sensors and the data available from them. Two low-cost cylinder pressure sensor types from two suppliers were evaluated and analyzed and compared to a laboratory sensor of known performance characteristics. Further the benefits from real-time cylinder pressure feedback capable of improving part load combustion phasing, combustion variability management were studied.
Two areas of fuel consumption reduction which this thesis concentrates on are the improvement of locating spark advance through combustion duration feedback, and the extension of the dilute limit through combustion cycle stability measurement during transient operating conditions. By allowing the engine to run at more dilute conditions and locating spark advance to produce combustion durations closer to MBT, lower fuel consumption is possible.
Vehicle EPA drive cycle data was used to examine areas of operation that were not operating at maximum efficiency to determine the fuel economy benefit that could be achieved through the availability of cylinder pressure data in terms of burn location and running dilute/lean.
Methods to improve fuel economy in the engine such as dilution of air charge can have a negative effect on combustion stability . In a laboratory environment combustion stability is measured during steady state operation using cylinder pressure data typically using a 100 cycle moving window for averaging. Transient engine operating conditions present in every drive cycle do not allow for calculating combustion stability in this way because it cannot be assumed that even two cycles are at the same operating conditions. If cylinder pressure sensor data were available on a production vehicle, the ability to measure combustion stability would exist but the transient measurement of combustion stability poses challenges which are discussed. A metric is developed to make comparable measurements in real time and the outcomes and benefits available from these measurements are evaluated.
Dice, Paul, "EVALUATION OF SENSORS AND STRATEGIES FOR CLOSED LOOP COMBUSTION CONTROL OF A GASOLINE SPARK-IGNITION TURBOCHARGED DIRECT INJECTION ENGINE", Campus Access Master's Thesis, Michigan Technological University, 2016.
Available for download on Tuesday, December 31, 2019
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Zoho CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is one of the best kept secrets for small businesses. I talk to many businesses that have heard of CRM solutions like Sugar CRM or Salesforce but Zoho is growing quickly with quality products priced well below the market (or many times free). Zoho’s name originates off of a play off the term SOHO (Small Office Home Office) and that is the market they serve best.
The challenge with clients has been how to manage leads at a company that has 50 or less employees. There are many solutions available but most of them are cost prohibitive or offer services that are far too complicated for the average small business. What Zoho CRM offers is a clean layout with an easy to use interface. It’s intuitive and it’s not overly complicated. That doesn’t mean, however, that it’s not powerful and feature rich. The basic layout of Zoho CRM is that you have leads that come in, those leads get converted to potentials when they’re qualified, and those potentials get converted to customers. Once they’re a customer, you can have a company account for the company and contacts listed for each account. The account/contacts relationship is great for existing clients and contacts.
Easy Lead Management for Business
If that sounds a little complicated for you, let’s step back. The main value added piece in Zoho CRM for your business is the lead management. You get a lead in and you manage tasks, notes, and contact information for that lead. If you do nothing else, this will greatly enhance your lead and sales process.
My favorite part about Zoho CRM is the automation. We have created a custom component that will allow any leads or forms on your website to automatically add the lead into Zoho. You will still receive an email from the contact form but all you have to do is login to Zoho to manage that lead, add notes, and create tasks for follow-up. It’s easy and it’s all centralized. Just think about the following:
- You don’t have to keep all of your lead emails in your inbox
- You can get rid of the sticky notes and pages detailing lead notes
- You can access your lead information from any computer
- You can assign leads to other salespeople
- You will have a centralized location to keep your contact data
Pretty compelling reasons to try it out. It’s free for up to 3 users and only $12/user after that! Very reasonable.
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The world’s leading for-profit geneaology company, Ancestry.com, was founded in Provo, Utah in 1983. Thirteen years later, an 18-year-old woman named Angie Dodge was sexually assaulted and murdered in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Nearly two decades after her death, a twisting set of circumstances and rapidly-evolving technology have linked those two events in ways that have daunting implications for all of us.
In 1998, two years after Dodge’s murder, a man named Chris Tapp was charged with the crime and gave a confession to police. He was convicted of the crime and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Recently, however, serious questions have been raised about the strength of the evidence against Tapp and the methods used to obtain his confession. An 85-page report prepared by retired FBI supervisory special agent Steve Moore strongly criticizedthe handling of the case by the Idaho Falls Police Department.
Not long after the Moore report was released, the Idaho Falls Police Department decided to take advantage of advances in genetic analysis to see if they could generate any fresh leads. Investigators had collected semen from the crime scene but were unable to find a DNA match in state or federal DNA databases using traditional testing techniques. The IFPD decided to try a relatively new type of DNA analysis called “familial searching.” According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, familial searching is a process that is only used in relatively rare circumstances in a limited number of states.
Unlike a routine database search which may spontaneously yield partial match profiles, familial searching is a deliberate search of a DNA database conducted for the intended purpose of potentially identifying close biological relatives to the unknown forensic profile obtained from crime scene evidence. Familial searching is based on the concept that first-order relatives, such as siblings or parent/child relationships, will have more genetic data in common than unrelated individuals. Practically speaking, familial searching would only be performed if the comparison of the forensic DNA profile with the known offender/arrestee DNA profiles has not identified any matches to any of the offenders/arrestees.
In order to conduct the familial search, the IFPD sent the semen evidence to a lab to extract two genetic markers — Y-STR and mtDNA — that are used to establish patrilineal and matrilineal relationships (this technique is most commonly used, not surprisingly, in paternity cases). With this information, the IFPD thought it might be able to identify, if not the actual killer, then someone who might be related to the killer.
What made this line of inquiry even possible is the fact that there are a large and rapidly-growing number of DNA databases around the world. One of the leading companies in this field, the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation (SMGF), operates a publicly-accessible database of de-identified genetic information. IFPD officers entered their newly-extracted genetic markers into the database and learned that there were 41 people who might be related to the ejaculator, including one individual who matched the sample on 34 out of 35 alleles. Typically, two individuals with that many matching alleles share a close family relationship.
Not surprisingly, the IFPD was very interested in learning the identity of the “near relative.” The department went to court to force Ancestry.com, the owner of SMGF, to turn over the hidden identity. I reached out to Ancestry.com for an explanation of its policies regarding the privacy of DNA information under its control and received the following statement:
The genetic information provided by our DNA customers is personal and we have strict standards in place to protect their identities and the integrity of their data. These standards are our first priority. On occasion when required by law to do so, and in this instance we were, we have cooperated with law enforcement and the courts to provide only the specific information requested but we don’t comment on the specifics of cases.
The name provided to the IFPD was Michael Usry Sr., a 63-year-old man living near Jackson, Mississippi who didn’t fit the profile the police had developed for Dodge’s killer. However, using the genetic information in the SMFG database, they learned that Usry had a 36-year-old son named Michael Usry Jr., a filmmaker living in New Orleans. His age and close connection to Usry Sr. made the filmmaker a much more promising suspect for the IFPD, and they began aggressively investigating his potential connections to Idaho Falls. A Facebook search revealed that Usry Jr. had a few friends living in the general vicinity of Idaho Falls. Even more damning were the results of Google searches that showed Usry’s films often feature murders or other deaths. (In fact, one award-winning film he directed was called “Murderabilia,” about people who collect mementoes of homicides and other high-profile crimes.)
The IFPD compiled the results of its online searches into a warrant application seeking a sample of Usry’s DNA to see if it matched the semen evidence. The order was granted, and Usry spent an anxious month awaiting the test results. On January 13, he received a letter stating that his DNA was not a match of the evidence collected at the crime scene.
“All of the circumstantial evidence was right,” Sgt. James Hoffman, of the Idaho Falls Police Department, told the New Orleans Advocate. “He seemed like a really good candidate. But we’ve had that happen before.”
While Usry’s grim introduction to DNA testing may be over (although it has inspired him to do a documentary about Chris Tapp), the debate about DNA privacy is just beginning to heat up. Despite grave potential for misuse and abuse of private genetic information, there is no comprehensive statutory or regulatory protection for our DNA. As the Electronic Frontier Foundation points out, we all have an individual responsibility to think twice about how and when we share our DNA:
This case highlights the extreme threats posed to privacy and civil liberties by familial DNA searches and by private, unregulated DNA databases. People should be able to learn about their ancestors and relatives and about possible risks for genetic diseases without fear that their data will be shared with the cops without their consent. However, Usry’s case shows that we can’t count on private companies’ internal policies to keep our private data safe, and we should think twice before sharing our genetic information with a third party.
The benefits of DNA testing will only accelerate, however, and there will be tremendous pressure on consumers to take advantage of advances. Moreover, citizens often don’t have a choice about whether their DNA will be entered into a database, thanks to a disturbing 2013 Supreme Court decision. It is long past time for Congress and the states to take clear and effective steps to protect genetic privacy.
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October 11, 2016
A total of 11 shipments of Vietnamese seafood were turned back by the EU in the first nine months due to high levels of heavy metals, VN Express International reported, citing a statement posted on Vietnam's National Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Department's (Nafiqad) website.
Nafiqad said it got information from the European Commission's Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) that the shipments were contaminated with mercury and cadmium.
Nafiqad added that the quantity rejected by the EU during the nine-month period was 2.2 times higher than the whole of 2015.
In August, Vietnamese authorities warned local aquaculture companies that they would not renew their export licenses unless they complied with safety standards following a warning from the EU after it had found seafood shipments allegedly containing excess antibiotic levels.
Vietnam ranks as the third-largest seafood exporter in the world, accounting for over 5% of the market share, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood (Vasep).
Vasep reported that in the first half of the year, Vietnamese seafood exports totalled US$3.15, up 4% over the same period last year, thanks to the recovery in the demand for shrimp and pangasius.
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We use various kinds of compounds in our chemical laboratories. Acids, bases and salts are most frequently used of them. As a chemistry learner, you also need to learn about acid, base and salt. In the laboratory, we mostly use diluted acid and base instead of concentrated acid or base. We take in acid, base and salt with our food which is essential for our body.
Acid is highly important among chemicals. It is a kind of chemical which, when dissolved in water decomposes into hydrogen ion or proton (H+).
Acids such as hydrochloric acid (HCI), sulfuric acid (H2SO4) etc. are concentrated acids, so they get easily decomposed in aqueous solution:
On the other hand, carbonic acid (H2CO3), acetic acid (CH3COOH) etc. are diluted acids. They get decomposed in aqueous solution in the following manner:
In the case of HCl and H2SO4, the decomposition is shown by a moonfaced arrow mark. It means that these acids get 100% decomposed in water. That is why they are called concentrate acids or strong acids.
The decomposition of the latter two acids is shown with dual faced arrows that mean they are partially decomposed in water. That is why they are called dilute acids or weak acids.
Let’s analysis an example, at 25°C temperature, out of 1000 CH3COOH molecules, only 4 will be decomposed in water. The rest 996 molecules remain intact in water.
When the amount of acid in the solution of acid and water is higher than water, then the solution is called concentrate acid. And when the amount of water in such solution is higher, then it is known as dilute acid.
Acids are tasted sour. You have certainly tasted tamarind which is too sour. Since it contains tartaric acid which makes it sour. Blue litmus turns into a red colour when it is put in an acidic solution.
However, acid undergoes reaction with metallic oxide and produces salt and water.
Acid undergoes reaction with more reactive metals and produces salt and hydrogen gas.
The food items that we take every day contain various acids. For example, milk contains lactic acid, soft drinks contain carbonic acid, tamarind has tartaric acid, lemon or orange has citric acid, Vinegar has ethanoic acid, tea contains tannic acid etc.
When we eat or take these foods, the acids go inside our body. They help us to digest our food and prevent diseases. Besides these, there are pickles containing different acids which act as appetizers. Since these acids are dilute/ weak they cannot harm our health. Inside the body, the stomach wall generates hydrochloric acid (HCl) which is very strong acid. It is used for decomposing food inside.
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Movistar’s Alejandro Valverde and Nairo Quintana brushed off setbacks at the Volta a Catalunya with a reconnaissance of the Pyrénéen stages they’ll face in this summer’s Tour de France this week.
Valverde crashed out of the Volta while wearing the leader’s jersey and Quintana lost out on a podium place, but the pair was back at work preparing for this summer’s major goal.
The pair joined Movistar sport director José Luis Arrieta to recon the two decisive Pyrénéen stages, set for July 6-7, finishing at Ax 3 Domaines and Bagnères de Bigorre, respectively.
“Though we have raced in the Pyrenees many times, there were climbs like the two ones on the first day, Val Louron and the Hourquette, that I didn’t know, so it was good to know perfectly what we’re going to tackle this July,” Valverde said on the team’s Web site. “I’m fully recovered from Catalunya’s crash and I’m feeling well on the bike. Now I’ll be racing at Estella, Rioja, and Amorebieta before the classics.”
On Monday, the pair explored the Ax 3 Domaines finale, including three early climbs and the 15-kilometer ascent up the Pailhères climb. On Tuesday, they rode the five climbs featured in the Bagnères de Bigorre stage. Before returning to the team’s center of operations in Pamplona, they also scouted the Formigal finish line where stage 16 of the Vuelta a España will conclude.
Bolstered by a stage win at the Volta last week, Quintana is poised to make his Tour debut this summer and the recon trip gave the young Colombian a taste of what lies in store for him.
“It was important to recon these stages to get used to what we’ll find in July. I didn’t know the climbs and I quite liked them. All of them have steep slopes and some, like Pailhères, are rather long; that suits me,” Quintana said. “There’s still a very long way to go, many months, but doing this recon makes me even more excited towards my Tour debut. That’s the dream of every single cyclist, and also mine.”
Quintana and Valverde have become fast friends and often room together at races. Valverde will be aiming for the Tour podium in what is an ideal parcours for the Spanish climber.
Valverde said the two Pyrénéen stages could prove decisive in the battle for the yellow jersey.
“Any of those two stages might become decisive because both are quite hard. Though everything will be left to the finale on stage eight, the road before Pailhères is also difficult and the group will be really stretched,” he said. “It will be the first mountain stage in this year’s Tour de France and that makes it even more dangerous. The second one is not so long, but there isn’t a single meter of rest. It’s gonna be a fast, nervous one, and if you have a bad day there …”
For the remainder of the week, Quintana and Valverde will join Movistar teammates to practice team time trialing before racing in this weekend’s Spanish races, with Valverde starting the GP Miguel Indurain on Saturday and Quintana racing in the Tour de Rioja on Sunday.
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I published my first short story and first novella this year and learned a lot in the process. I focused on paying attention to what other people were doing well in their writing and what they didn't do so well.
I’ve read well over 50 books this year, and reviewed only a small portion of them. Next year, I plan to review all of them. I’ve found that reviewing books allows me to focus on the technical and editorial aspects of the books, which in turn has helped to improve my writing.
I’ve also had the chance to talk with several, extremely intelligent writers, they have been gracious enough to answer questions and give guidance over the past year, and I am indebted to them all. I have several interviews already lined up for next year, some great authors I think are going to make big impressions on the writing world.
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Reading Response: Technology and Literacy
In Cynthia L. Selfe’s “Technology and Literacy: A Story About the Perils of Not Paying Attention” she addresses the widening gap between those who are “literate” and those who are “illiterate” exacerbated by the Clinton-Gore administration’s 1996 national project to expand “technological literacy.” Throughout her essay, Selfe stresses that we pay attention to the social implications of increased use of technology in the classroom. She illustrates a disturbing disconnect between the amount of money spent on bringing technology into the classroom and the accessibility of this technology to white students versus black students. Selfe says “in our educational system, and in the culture that this system reflects, computers continue to be distributed differentially along the related axes of race and socioeconomic status and this distribution contributes to ongoing patterns of racism and to the continuation of poverty” (1170). The question arises: How do we properly pay attention to the use of technology in the classroom?
Selfe encourages us to “resist the tendential forces that continue to link technological literacy with patterns of racism and poverty” and “to insist on and support more equitable distributions on technology” (1182). However, earlier in her essay, Selfe mentions the necessity of both “literate” and “illiterate” workers in the Clinton-Gore project. Technologically literate citizens will work in more technology-rich fields and also be consumers of technology at home. Technologically illiterate citizens are confined to the “low-paid labor necessary to support the system” (1177). If computers and technology were equally distributed among schools like Selfe suggests, we would naturally see and increased number of literate workers as well as home-technology consumers. Rather than perpetuating the link between technological literacy with racism and poverty, it could be eliminated completely; equal accessibility to technology among all students would produce a large number of technologically literate individuals. Of course, a surplus of literate graduates would create a problem in itself.
Assuming technology and computers were to be evenly distributed in both affluent and poor schools, we could produce a significantly smaller number of “illiterate” workers. In this case, there would not be a sufficient number of workers to fill the positions in low-paid labor jobs. I expect what would happen is an automation of low-paid jobs; where jobs once held by technologically illiterate workers, made so by their inability to access technology during schooling, these tasks could be completed by machines. If everyone received the same access to technology during schooling, we would add an increased number of technologically literate workers (or only technologically literate workers) to the work force, doing which would ultimately create a push towards a more technologically advanced society.
While is it unlikely that an even distribution of technology would eliminate racism and poverty, giving every student, regardless of the socioeconomic status, access to the same technologies could certainly lessen it in addition to providing more opportunity for social mobility.
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If you are not using an experienced and legal conveyancing firm with happy clients, you may be in big trouble. If you come to us, our conveyancing team of Eva, Angie,and sometimes Silvia with their years of experience can prepare the paperwork, hold your hand through the process, and advise you professionally.
Just relax with the full knowledge that the process will be made as easy and stress-free as possible. From double-checking the legalities of a property purchase, to providing advice and legal contracts between both parties, to the translation in the Notary in most modern languages, Spanish Solutions will accompany you every step of the way. It’s what we do.
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Instead of sizing by age, my bonnet sizes reflect an ear to ear measurement to best fit your little one. Measure from the cheek just in front of the ear around the back of the head to the same spot on the other side of the face - this measurement will guide your size selection.
Measurements are APPROXIMATE and vary from bonnet to bonnet as all items are handmade by me.
If you are unsure of fit please send me a message either via contact here or on my Instagram and I am happy to provide an exact measurement.
Small: 10-11 inches
Medium: 12-13 inches
Large: 14-14.5 inches
Jess style runs a bit smaller than other bonnets - if your child is on the edge please size up for a better fit.
If you are ordering for a child whos head is smaller or larger than these guidelines I am happy to make a custom sized bonnet for you based on measurements/request.
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Opera got a lot more interesting when Jake Heggie ‘s “Dead Man Walking” came along in 2000. Suddenly, a 400-year-old genre, best known for silly love affairs and sweeping comedic coincidences, put itself at the center of a serious dialogue on topical issues.
Last year’s biggest premieres — “Oscar,” with its themes of gender discrimination; “Champion,” with its hard look at racism — trace their lineage to “Dead Man Walking,” which turned opera houses into forums for a debate over the death penalty.
Central City Opera has the title on its summer season but the company is already pushing the conversation into the community, with its “Prisons, Compassion and Redemption Project,” a series of talks, readings and films kicking off this week.
On March 12, Sister Helen Prejean, who wrote the original “Dead Man Walking” book about her counseling of a death row inmate, hosts a screening of the 1995 movie made of her story, at the Jewish Community Center in Denver.
The next night, she joins composer Heggie, Arapahoe County District Attorney George H. Brauchler, defense mitigation specialist Greta Lindecrantz and victim advocate Dana Sampson for a symposium on crime and punishment at the Greek Orthodox Metropolis Cathedral in Glendale.
A decade ago, opera companies rarely stepped into the political fray so directly.
“What is great about the piece is that it has been able to open up a dialogue on issues of forgiveness, vengeance, law, life and death, and people are eager to engage in those topics,” said Heggie last week.
“Dead Man Walking,” first produced by the San Francisco Opera, is one of the few recent works to have a vibrant life after its premiere. The title has been presented across North America and in such countries as Australia, Sweden and Germany.
Heggie attributes the success to the work’s sound and simple construction and its libretto, by Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally, who wrote “Master Class” and “Kiss of the Spider Woman.”
The piece is an opera, but it spans musical forms, crossing over to popular idioms like jazz, and that makes it accessible to broad audiences.
“The musical world of the opera welcomes them in, it doesn’t keep them at arms length,” he said.
Still, he is surprised at the way the opera plays out in communities where it is performed.
“The opera itself is not about the death penalty,” he said. There’s no moment when the audience has to decide whether the convicted murderer should be executed or not.
“We know the guy is going to die at the start, then we have to figure out the human part of the issue,” Heggie said.
Central City will give its audience plenty of time to figure out such things, including an Interfaith Religious Round Table on the death penalty April 10 at Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver. Reading clubs at the Tattered Cover bookstore and the Denver Public Library will also take on the work.
The discussion will be varied and inclusive, and leads up to the actual production of the work. That’s set for July 5-25 at the Central City Opera House.
For info on the public forums or the production itself, visit centralcityopera.org/project online or call 303-292-6700.
Ray Mark Rinaldi: 303-954-1540, firstname.lastname@example.org or twitter.com/rayrinaldi
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Life Sciences Building 215
Education: D.Sc., Hokkaido University, Sapporo
Research Interest: Genetics, Molecular and Developmental Biology
One of the greatest mysteries in the universe is how a single fertilized egg develops into a multicellular body with different organs; that is, development. The process of development is built on an intricate balance between proliferation and differentiation. Breaking this balance often causes devastating consequences in our lives. A good example is cancer, in which cells proliferate endlessly until it takes the life of the host. Our laboratory uses a model organism, the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, to understand how this balance is maintained using genetics including transgenic flies, cell biology, microscopy, and bioinformatics. Our current project aims to understand genetic and molecular mechanisms that control the activity of the JAK/STAT oncogene pathway, whose overactivation leads to leukemias in humans and Drosophila. We investigate what genes affect levels of JAK/STAT activity, what genes are controlled by the pathway, and what other pathways, such as the Wnt pathway, cross talk with this pathway.
Another project in our laboratory is to understand how the actin cytoskeleton builds specific cellular structures like filopodia, thread-like extensions from the surface of the cell. Our particular interest is microvilli and their derivatives. Microvilli are thin finger-like structures resembling clustered bristles of a toothbrush on the cell surface. Stereocilia of hair cells in the inner ear are a variation of microvilli and critical for hearing and balance. Although many proteins regulate dynamics of the actin cytoskeleton, we investigate the role of a novel protein called Clic, loss of which causes deafness in humans and mice. We investigate how Clic works with other proteins to build and maintain stereocilia in mice using immunohistochemistry, biochemistry, and microscopy. We also use Drosophila to search for additional Clic-interacting proteins to better understand the biology of stereocilia. Once we find candidate genes using Drosophila, we will examine if they function together with Clic in mice hair cells.
I studied biology with an emphasis on genetics at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. After obtaining BS, MS, and D. Sc. degrees there, I had postdoctoral training at the National Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences under Dr. Charles Langley (now at the University of California, Davis) and at the Johns Hopkins University under Dr. Victor Corces (now at Emory University). I studied genetic and molecular mechanisms of transposition of a retrotransposon named Tom in Drosophila ananassae. I switched my research focus to genes that regulate developmental processes of Drosophila melanogaster at the University of Maryland, College Park, and moved to Ohio University in 2000.
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Searching for the top selling Keen Ovens Arc Welders? Find out our favorite 4We compiled several really top quality tools in this collection. We would strongly recommend a bit of extra investigation on these Arc Welders and select a product that suits your needs for your projects!
1. Keen Ovens 010101 Arc Welder
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I needed it in order to weld aluminum successfully on the mobile. When I first opened it I got hit with that new welder smell, so good. I wish I had purchased these years ago! I use a short cord into it, and don't over push it, and it does well. By far best value for money, very portable!
We explored dozens of high quality Keen Ovens Arc Welders. We were surprised to find more excellent options than we predicted. The tool that definitely stuck out from the crowd though was the Keen Ovens 010101 Arc Welder.
Both professionals and hobbyists alike can enjoy the Keen Ovens 010101. Users won't be disappointed by the features this Arc Welder offers. This Arc Welder is a great product for job sites and also for home use.
The Keen Ovens 010101 is manufactured with excellent craftsmanship. There's a reason why Keen Ovens has reputation as a premier Arc Welder manufacturer.
The Keen Ovens 010101 is also a really affordable Arc Welder. It is priced at just $229.00. That is most likely among the reasons for the tool's popularity. That is particularly cost-effective factoring in the quality of this Arc Welder.
This Arc Welder also has high ratings. The Keen Ovens 010101 has been rated on Amazon 3 times. Actual customers have given the tool an average star rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars. It's obvious that most of the users Invested in the Keen Ovens 010101 are really satisfied.Full Keen Ovens 010101 Review
Keen Ovens 010101 Features & Specs
- Stores 15 lbs. of flux-coated 7018 low-hydrogen SMAW welding rods up to 18 inches long to prevent weld defects
- Economical portable welding rod storage oven keeps hygroscopic low-hydrogen welding electrodes dry in the field
- Portable, lightweight design provides protection for welding rods during transfer from the shop holding oven to the field
- Exceeds AWS D1.1 Structural Welding Code mandatory guidelines for heated welding rod storage
- Stable, square-shaped portable welding rod oven design for easy removal of welding rods in the field, hinged lid with draw pull catch, exterior ON/OFF indicator light and more
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The Adventures of Pickle Man: A Story of Life, Love, and Pickles
It had been decades since the Great Pickling that changed the world as we knew it. All living creatures had been forever transformed into their pickled forms – the humans, animals, insects, plants and even microbes – all wriggling in brine. One of those affected by the Pickling was a man who, after many years of being pickled, suddenly found himself with sentience and self-awareness - he was a Man Pickle.
The Man Pickle had spent long periods of time just observing the world around him from his jar - watching how other pickles interacted with each other and with the environment. His observations slowly but surely began to fuel his thoughts about life and what it meant to exist in this form for eternity.
Deciding he needed answers to his questions, The Man Pickle set out on an adventure to explore beyond his jar and learn more about his surroundings. He quickly learned that there were many other pickles like him - from all walks of life - who shared similar thoughts and ideas about their new lives as pickles.
Together they decided to build a thriving community where they could learn more about themselves and their situation; they created buildings, groups and events which helped them advance their knowledge and understanding of this newfound universe they inhabited.
One day while venturing out into new parts of this pickled world, The Man Pickle met a strange creature who claimed she could restore them all back to their original state if they could just find her underground temple before sundown - if not then they would be stuck as pickles forever! She gave The Man Pickle a map detailing its location before disappearing into thin air without another word or warning.
"We must gather our friends together," The Man Pickle declared to a group of fellow adventurers who had joined him on the journey, "and work together if we are going to make it in time!" There were nods of agreement from everyone assembled around him as they set off together across the briney surface in search of the temple's location marked on the map given by the mysterious creature earlier that day....
After several hours trekking through unknown lands - from strange creatures wriggling peacefully through large bodies of brine full of strange objects such as toy boats and discarded shoes - eventually The Man Pickle group spied something looming ahead in the distance...The Temple! An overwhelming sense of relief washed over them all as they made their way towards it cautiously..only to realize there was something not quite right...the entrance was blocked by an ancient door with no obvious way in!
"We have no choice," exclaimed one brave adventurer bravely," We must try our best to break down this door!" Hopeful yet unsure what would happen next, The Man Pickle's group began working together using every ounce of strength they had left after such a long journey only to find out that nothing seemed to work until suddenly one determined soul stepped forward....
"I'm going in first," declared The Man Pickle solemnly before anyone could stop him," I'll knock on the door three times - if it's safe then I'll come back for you all." With those brave words spoken he slowly made his way towards the mysterious temple entrance never taking his eyes off it for even a second...until finally after some minutes he stepped through it's ancient doors into darkness leaving his friends behind..waiting expectantly for news from within....
And so after several minutes passed by with no sign or indication from inside, fear began to creep upon them again..until suddenlyThe Man Pickle emerged triumphantly throught he doors with an expression full of pure joy ringing out loudly: "It worked! I'm restored back to my human form!! We can do this too!" And so at long last after many years spent as pickles- our heroes' dreams had came true; restored back into their human forms once again thanks to their courage.....and determination!
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BACKGROUND: Cancers in the proximal colon, distal colon, and rectum are frequently studied together; however, there are biological differences in cancers across these sites, particularly in the prevalence of microsatellite instability.
OBJECTIVE: We assessed the differences in survival by colon or rectal cancer site, considering the contribution of microsatellite instability to such differences.
DESIGN: This is a population-based prospective cohort study for cancer survival.
SETTINGS: This study was conducted within the Colon Cancer Family Registry, an international consortium. Participants were identified from population-based cancer registries in the United States, Canada, and Australia.
PATIENTS: Information on tumor site, microsatellite instability, and survival after diagnosis was available for 3284 men and women diagnosed with incident invasive colon or rectal cancer between 1997 and 2002, with ages at diagnosis ranging from 18 to 74.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Cox regression was used to calculate hazard ratios for the association between all-cause mortality and tumor location, overall and by microsatellite instability status.
RESULTS: Distal colon (HR, 0.59; 95% CI, 0.49–0.71) and rectal cancers (HR, 0.68; 95% CI, 0.57–0.81) were associated with lower mortality than proximal colon cancer overall. Compared specifically with patients with proximal colon cancer exhibiting no/low microsatellite instability, patients with distal colon and rectal cancers experienced lower mortality, regardless of microsatellite instability status; patients with proximal colon cancer exhibiting high microsatellite instability had the lowest mortality.
LIMITATIONS: Study limitations include the absence of stage at diagnosis and cause-of-death information for all but a subset of study participants. Some patient groups defined jointly by tumor site and microsatellite instability status are subject to small numbers.
CONCLUSION: Proximal colon cancer survival differs from survival for distal colon and rectal cancer in a manner apparently dependent on microsatellite instability status. These findings support the premise that proximal colon, distal colon, and rectal cancers are clinicopathologically distinct.
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This week on SNO: Composer David T. Little and the world premiere of Dog Days
On this week’s installment of SNO we welcome composer David T. Little, whose first full-length opera, titled Dog Days, will premiere next Saturday, September 29 at Peak Performances at Montclaire State University. The opera is a black comedy with libretto by Royce Vavrek based on a post-apocalyptic short story by Judy Budnitz. The production is by Beth Morrison. Tonight David will discuss this new work and he has curated the playlist this evening, which takes us from Puccini to Mahler to Glass.
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I was expecting that this would be very bad, and was hoping to find a few inspired moments or some cool animation to pick out of the wreckage, but then I liked the whole movie so now I don’t know what to write. I don’t get why Brendan Fraser has to be in every single live/animation hybrid flick, but he and Jenna Elfman were just fine in this. Lotta jokes at the expense of movie studios, the Warner Brothers (played by Don & Dan Stanton from Terminator 2 and Gremlins 2), Brendan Fraser, product placement and movie conventions.
Timothy Dalton plays the star of a suspiciously James-Bond-like franchise, and is just-fired studio security guard Fraser’s father. Fraser heads to Vegas with also-just-fired Daffy Duck while studio exec Elfman in league with Bugs looks for them. Note Dick Miller as Fraser’s security coworker.
Tim Dalton turns out to be an actual spy, working against the evil Acme corporation (headed by Steve Martin, who is acting strangely Mike Myers-like in this screenshot.
Good to see Joan Cusack as a secret government scientist (not to mention Robbie the Robot).
Roger Corman cameos, believably enough, as a film director.
Kevin McCarthy reprises his Body Snatchers role – in black and white!
Of course the plot is a thin excuse for a thousand gags and highlight scenes for every major Looney Tunes character. Yosemite Sam and Wile E. Coyote work for Acme, Tweety and Sylvester are Fraser’s neighbors, Marvin Martian is captive in Cusack’s lab, Pepe Le Pew appears in a sidetrack to Paris (where there are Jerry Lewis movie posters all over). Super fun movie… I’m actually so impressed that this was so good, after I’d heard everywhere what a failure it was. Even Dante seems to be making excuses for it in recent interviews (I’m guessing the terrible Scooby/Shaggy cameo is one of the last-minute studio changes he complains about).
Some highlights: a split-screen phone call where the screen effect smashes Daffy:
And a romp through famous paintings at the Louvre… here’s Elmer as Munch’s The Scream:
Turns out the movie wasn’t as universally hated as I’d thought. According to Slate, writer and director were fed up with the studio by the time the movie came out, and neither them nor any of the stars participated in the DVD extras. The NY Times and AV Club sure disliked it, but good reviews were posted by J. Rosenbaum (“I had a ball”) and G. Kenny (“comedy of the year”). After reading a couple appreciations I am anxious to rewatch and look for some of the hundreds of gags I missed. I guess it comes down to how much fun you’re willing to have with it. For instance, some reviewers cringed at Steve Martin trying to be funny again, and called him out as a fraud (as if he’s Robert De Niro in Rocky & Bullwinkle), while others bothered to notice that Martin completely succeeded… David Edelstein:
Steve Martin, moreover, is a miracle. Determined not to be upstaged by his flamboyant Warner costars, he has concocted a “supertwit” that is at times at least their equal. His red hair parted in the middle, he staggers around the set in sneakers and an ill-fitting suit, jerking his torso, windmilling his arms—stopping his gyrations only to saunter up to one of several repulsed women, convinced that he is catnip to the ladies. This is the old Steve Martin, the whirligig genius of The Jerk (1979), The Man With Two Brains (1983), and All of Me (1984). To see him this way after at least a decade of domesticated dreck is to love all the more the liberating influence of Warner Bros. cartoons.
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Work starts on Underwood Road improvements
10 MAY 2016
Work to relocate a pedestrian crossing on Underwood Road at Homebush will start next week following support from the community during public consultation.
A Roads and Maritime Services spokesperson said the NSW Government would fund the work, which aims to improve pedestrian safety and traffic flow near the intersection with Australia Avenue.
“This area of Homebush has high levels of pedestrian activity with residential and entertainment precincts and a large shopping centre.
“Currently the signalised crossing on Underwood Road is located very close the Australia Avenue roundabout with limited line of sight for drivers.
“Feedback on a proposal to relocate the pedestrian crossing on Underwood Road was sought in December last year.
“The majority of comments supported the project and work is expected to start next month.
“The project will involve moving the crossing near the intersection of Homebush Bay Drive about 120 metres south.
“Pedestrian fencing will be installed on both the northern and southern sides of Underwood Road to help direct people to use the crossing, which will still provide access to the nearby DFO centre.
“The bus stop on the northern side of the road will also be relocated about 30 metres east.
“This will allow the eastbound left lane on Underwood Road to be extended and improve capacity at the intersection.”
The work will take six shifts to complete between Monday 16 May and Friday 10 June, excluding weekends, weather permitting with work from 7am to 5pm and from 9pm to 5am.
Changed traffic conditions may be in place including lane closures and reduced speed limits.
Motorists should follow the direction of traffic control and allow extra travel time.
For more information on Roads and Maritime projects, visit rms.nsw.gov.au.
Media: ROADS AND MARITIME SERVICES MEDIA UNIT 8588 5999 or email@example.com
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
We got the Best Blog Award from My Craft Happiness
We got the Sunshine Blog Award from Mary Janes and Galoshes and Basketmaster's Weavings (now that is a whole lot of sunshine!)
I know that there are a bunch of rules that I am supposed to follow and pass on the award but I am going to break them... and I am going to give these award to everyone who linked up to the Show Off Your Stuff Party! It is still going on so be sure to link up your fabulous posts and check out the AMAZING ones that are already linked up! I will be picking my 6-7 favorites and post them on Sunday!
Friday, January 29, 2010
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The Show Off Your Stuff Party is still going on so be sure to link up your fabulous posts and check out the AMAZING ones that are already linked up! I will be picking my 6-7 favorites and post them on Sunday!
I am linking to these parties!
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Welcome to Thursday! The day we all come together to SHOW OFF OUR STUFF!
This week I am showing of my Book Page Wreath with 4 options to embellish it!
Here are the rules:
1. Link up any post (old or new) to show off your stuff! It can be anything that you want to show off!
It could be pictures, a post about your fun family vacations, a craft tutorial you made, a craft you made from a tutorial, a rehab, redecorating a room in your house... and on and on!
2. Add a permalink to your specific post, not the main page of your blog.
3. Link to this party from your post so everyone can get in on the fun. You can just grab my button!
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
I am so happy to introduce you to Ginger and her blog/shop Appleseed Gifts. Ginger started Appleseed gifts because she loves to make "heart"-made gifts for others. She sells jewelry and other gifts such as bath salts, lotions, key chains and book marks. All her handmade items are from the heart!
Here is a just a sample of what she has to offer:
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In an emergency, call 9-1-1 immediately from any wired or wireless phone.
An emergency is any situation that requires immediate assistance from the police, fire department or ambulance. Examples include:
- A fire
- A crime, especially if in progress
- A car crash, especially if someone is injured
- A medical emergency, such as someone who is unconscious, gasping for air or not breathing, experiencing an allergic reaction, having chest pain, having uncontrollable bleeding, or any other symptoms that require immediate medical attention.
What the 9-1-1 dispatcher will need to know:
- The location of the emergency
- Phone number you are calling from
- The nature of the emergency
Be prepared to follow any instructions the call-taker gives you. Many 911 centers can tell you exactly what to do to help in an emergency until help arrives, such as providing step-by-step instructions to aid someone who is choking or needs first aid or CPR. Finally, do not hang up until the call-taker instructs you to.
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
IMDb: 6.6 1984 105 min 2 views
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Star Trek III: The Search for Spock Admiral Kirk and his bridge crew risk their careers stealing the ...
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
IMDb: 7.5 1984 118 min
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village ...
IMDb: 8.1 1984 108 min 83 views
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the “Terminator” back to 1984 ...
IMDb: 4.8 1984 88 min 104 views
Young man has his dreams come true when the sexy new maid seduces him. But she also has a secret that leads to trouble.
They’re Playing with Fire
IMDb: 5.1 1984 96 min 109 views
A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yacht. The hesitant student succumbs to his buxom ...
IMDb: 5.9 1984 93 min 288 views
Barbara Scott’s son Paul moves out unexpectedly, leaving her distraught. She soon becomes jealous of her son Jimmy’s girlfriend while she ...
IMDb: 3.3 1984 89 min 80 views
In order to escape from her former lover Marc, Sylvia goes to Brazil where Dr. Santamo transforms her into the beautiful Emmanuelle…
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Let me tell you the little story of my adventure, success and failure in my first experience with milk paint.
So, I’d been itching to make over an old dresser I’ve had for about 10 years and I really, really wanted to get that gorgeous antiqued look that milk paint gives to furniture. Who can resist that charming, comfortable look, right? Plus, milk paint is non-toxic and super green. Bonus!
I researched and shopped around online for a bit before deciding which approach I wanted to take. See, you can buy faux milk paints that are actual paint-paint but still kind of give you a milk-painty look. Or you can buy dry milk paint mixes; just add water and you’re ready to roll. But, the method I chose was making my paint from scratch. I looked at several different recipes and settled on the one over at Earth Pigments. I gathered all my supplies and waited while my father-in-law took the dresser, fixed up one of the drawer pulls that was in bad shape, lightly sanded it and returned it to me.
Here she is, all ready for her makeover.
Assuming that it was roughed up enough to hold the milk paint, my mother-in-law and I started out on the milk paint adventure. We mixed it up and painted away.
If you decide to try milk paint, go into the project knowing that it will in no way behave like any other paint you’ve ever used. This is a whole ‘nother animal.
This is what it looked like as it started to dry and gravity pulled it down. I was a little nervous, but not discouraged.
After it dried some more (and my MIL had to head home for the day), my nerves settled and I was feeling good! It was really starting to get the look I wanted.
Happy! I was happy! I was hoping for a little more cracking/peeling since I’d read how unpredictable, cracky, and fun milk paint was, but hey. That’s cool. Whatever. I’m going with the flow.
I busied myself with laundry and what-have-you and when I came back, I discovered a little cracking and peeling! Right on!
Came back a bit later and UH-OH. Lots and lots of blisters and cracks. I mean, you could just look at it wrong and chunks of paint would fall to the floor. I started flaking off the loose pieces only to discover that my paint did not really want to say on. Like I said, I was hoping for some of this, but not that much!
By this point, it was dinnertime, kid bedtime, etc, so I decided to let it sit overnight and see if any of it would be salvageable or if the whole thing was going to peel off. At that point, the sides of the dresser looked great, 2 drawers were satisfactory and 2 were….not so good along. The top of the dresser (pictured above) just really didn’t want to behave. Ack!
To bed I went.
Day 2. Lots of peeling and flaking. Still going with the flow and not feeling too discouraged, I sanded over the now-naked areas and mixed up a new batch of paint. By the way, in most milk paint recipes, you’ll find that it calls for dry pigments. Since I couldn’t find them locally and had no patience to wait for some to ship, I used some artists’ acrylic paint to color mine. It did a beautiful job.
My plan was to go back over the entire dresser, in hopes that the bare areas would hold the new coat(s) of paint well and just leave the dresser with a fun, uneven, blotchy finish. Before I started on that, though, I grabbed my bedside table and decided since I had extra paint (it doesn’t keep and needs to be used quickly), I’d paint it for my friend Susan as a birthday/housewarming gift.
After seeing the blistering paint issues and realizing I didn’t have time to sand the table down, I gave it a quick coat of white no-sanding-required primer. I brushed it on roughly letting the bristles of the brush leave their marks and letting some of the wood show through here and there. I was in quite a hurry that day and didn’t photo-document the process, but after primer, 3 coats of thinned-out milk paint and a little stenciling, I was in love with this table!
I have to admit, it was pretty hard to give it away, but this table had Susan written all over it!
Back to the dresser! I went back over the dresser 2-3 times with very thin milk paint. I thinned it because I realized that the places it blistered and peeled so much the first time were the places where the first coat when on a little thicker.
Those thin coats dried in no time and despite the fact that the flaking was pretty extreme in some spots at this time, I shrugged and carried on. In the back of my mind, I realized that it would likely have to be stripped and repainted but figured I’d at least stencil some of it and see how it behaved. I really loved the colors and design at this point and thought I’d maaaaaybe be able to salvage my work.
Fun, right? However, notice the flakes of paint on the cardboard underneath. Things were taking a turn for the worse. I was started to accept my defeat. Kind of. In one last attempt at saving the beast, I took it outside and clear-coated it in hopes that it might act as a glue and seal the remaining flakiness in.
Nope. I gave it my all but in the end, my first attempt on the dresser was a failure. The thing about it, though, is that I was smiling through it the whole time. Despite the fact that I knew I had to start from scratch, I felt good about the experience and realize now what I can do on the second time around to achieve the look I’m going for. I’m not giving up! I’m excited to try again, in fact!
So, today she sits patiently waiting for my attention. Naked (mostly) and sanded more heavily and waiting to be made beautiful. Again.
I’ll be back again soon with pictures of her standing tall and proud in milk-painty glory!
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Android Chief Andy Rubin will steps down from his post
Andy Rubin the chief of Android will be stepping down from his post and will be replaced by Sundar Pichai. Larry Page, Google’s CEO announced and confirmed this news on the company’s blog.
The reasons behind Andy Rubin dropping his duties as Android chief have not yet been confirmed as Larry Page fails to comment on the matter. However Andy Rubin was assigned to a different Google project that also has not yet been disclosed. Sundar Pachai who has been in correlation with the The Google Chrome and Apps project, will take the charge in leading Android as it’s chief.
The Google Chrome and Apps project which consists of many factors such as Gmail, the Chrome internet browser, Calendar, Docs, Drive, and the operating system is being led by Sundar Pachai. Thus by taking on the added job of being Androids chief, he will have his work cut out for him.
The statistics of Androids relationship with Google have been more than just good, considering the 60 manufacturers Android has provided to Google, and the 750 million devices out of which 900 thousand are being used on a daily basis. Andy Rubin had taken good care of Android, with almost 25 billion apps being downloaded by users, he now leaves it in capable hands.
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Make My Own Wedding Cake
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Plant growth might be stunted worldwide by the end of this century due to air pollution, a new report concludes.
Mounting ozone concentrations resulting from pollution will damage plants and block them from taking up the invisible, odorless gas that gives them life, the thinking goes. The change would occur despite the carbon dioxide boost to greenery that some have said global warming will provide.
As a result, carbon dioxide concentrations would build up in the atmosphere even more than expected, the study researchers say.
Some scientists have said that one of the benefits of global warming will be a boom in the plant population brought on by higher carbon dioxide levels that feed plants through photosynthesis. Plants do in fact act as an important carbon sink, or means of taking the potent greenhouse gas from the atmosphere.
But other factors, including ozone, come into play and may prevent plants from taking up as much carbon dioxide as they can get their leaves on.
Previous models have included the beneficial effects to plants, "but they haven't included the negative effects," said Stephen Sitch of the U.K. Met Office, lead author of the new study, published in the July 25 online edition of the journal Nature, which does exactly that.
Good and bad ozone
While ozone forms naturally in the atmosphere from other chemical compounds, the amount of ground-level ozone has been increasing because these compounds are emitted by the burning of fossil fuels. And though stratospheric ozone is beneficial because it acts like a planet-wide layer of sunscreen, ground-level ozone can be harmful to humans who breathe it and toxic to plants that absorb it.
Plants normally take in ozone and other gases through their stomata, or pores, but when ozone levels surpass a certain amount, the gas causes cellular damage inside the plant's leaves, and they become visibly damaged with brown splotches.
The ozone also reduces the rate of photosynthesis in the plant and cripples its ability to grow.
"In effect the cells have been disrupted," Sitch told LiveScience. "Essentially the photosynthetic apparatus has been damaged."
Such damage could cause large economic losses through reduced crop yields.
Ground-level ozone has already reached high levels in some areas of the world due to industrial emissions, and concentrations of the gas in the atmosphere are expected to rise throughout this century.
Ozone vs. carbon dioxide
But the problem isn't just a matter of more ozone. When carbon dioxide levels also rise, a plant can close some of its stomata and still take in the same amount of carbon dioxide it needs to feed itself. But the closures block ozone, possibly mitigating some of the gas's harmful effects.
On the other hand, if ozone levels rise above certain concentrations, they can close the stomata so they take up less carbon dioxide. Limiting uptake of carbon dioxide would inhibit photosynthesis in the plant even more.
To tease out the overall effects of the gases on plant production, Sitch and his colleagues modeled the effects of human-caused rising ozone and carbon dioxide levels on plant production. They found that while increased carbon dioxide levels do boost plant productivity and plant carbon uptake by the end of the century, rising ozone levels suppress these increases so that they are not as high as they would be in the absence of ozone.
But the authors note that there are uncertainties involved in how specific plant species respond to increases in the two gases.
If plants take up less carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, then levels of the greenhouse gas could build up more than is now expected, amplifying the predicted effects of global warming.
The study's findings also suggest that ozone, which is a greenhouse gas itself, may contribute more to global warming through its effects on the plant carbon sink than through any absorption and re-radiation of Earth's heat itself.
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- Global Warming: How Do Scientists Know They're Not Wrong?
- Top 10 Surprising Results of Global Warming
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This item from Antique Masterpieces is now SOLD
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Rare and Beautiful Miniature Sterling Silver Cutlery Tray for Dollhouse
This gorgeous little cutlery tray was probably made China at the end of the 19th/beginning of 20th c. The hallmarks are similar to other Chinese hallmarks I've seen, but I can't say for sure. The little tray is beautifully made, with molded gargoyle head and birds and and acanthus leaves all around. It stands on 4 little ball feet, and has a divider with a heart cut out. There are 3 hallmarks on the bottom (one of them is probably an export mark, as this was most likely made for the European market). The tray measures 2" X 1 1/4", and about 1 1/10" high. It weighs 31 grams and is in perfect condition.
If you were the pending buyer of this item, go to My Account to view, track and check payment for this item.
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[amsat-bb] MObile AZ/EL driver
bruninga at usna.edu
Fri Apr 20 13:51:15 PDT 2012
Controller maintains AZ/EL of G5500 rotator to Balloon while mobile.
Been wanting to do this for over a decade. It used to be in APRSdos, but
since few use that anymore, I made it into a stand-alone dongle that goes
between the vehicle GPS and the G5500 rotator.
Another input goes to a TNC (or D7/700/710) to receive the position and
altitude of the balloon.
Reason for it is our Balloon next Friday afternoon from Annapolis, MD will
have a wireless camera on board 2.4 GHz and so we need a high gain tracking
antenna to follow the balloon. It's a low flier at 5000' or so. Then we
will cut loose before we hit the Atlantic.
It is not yet ready for prime time, so don't ask. When I get it all
documented, Ill let you know:
More information about the AMSAT-BB
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Today, a new generation of AWs carry on the tradition set forth by men like Bules and Worth, but aboard different aircraft, leaving little doubt the S-3A Sensor Operators were indeed a class all their own.
In this week’s edition of The Life and Times of an S-3A Viking Sensor Operator, we conclude the story of AWs Greg Bules and Michael Worth. Join them once last time as they take part in operations against Iran, fight a one-day war, confront the risks of their profession, and discover what life has in store for them beyond the Navy.
About Those Callsigns…
Unlike their officer counterparts, AWs were “hung” callsigns on an unofficial basis. Some squadrons did it, many did not. Greg “Ferris” Bules and Michael “Cheeseburger” Worth were fortunate (or unfortunate, depending on the person) to be assigned to squadrons that hung callsigns on their enlisted aircrewmen.
“Ferris” is a play on the title of the 1986 film classic starring Matthew Broderick, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. The story behind it also serves as a reminder of how different a world the ‘80s were; a time of no Internet and little connectivity.
“I was practically self-incarcerated at North Island, due to the sheer amount of schooling we were receiving, so I had little time for anything else. When I arrived at VS-21, I heard my aircrew shop supervisor was looking for me during my in-processing. As the story goes, one of my fellow AWs said, ‘Hey where’s the new kid, Bules… Bueller… anyone, anyone.’ I had no I idea why they started calling me ‘Ferris’ when they finally found me. I said, ‘My first name is Greg!’ I think that they thought I was stupid and probably wondered how I made it through VS-41 to earn my wings. The fact was, I hadn’t seen the movie or any others in the past year.”
As for “Cheeseburger?” It started with a trip from San Diego to Six Flags Magic Mountain. Responsible as ever, Worth served as designated driver, while his buddies drank early and often during the trip.”
“Lunch came along, and I ordered an overpriced cheeseburger. The drunks were hungry and rowdy,” explains Worth. “Before trying to steal my lunch, they were hitting on the girlfriend of a very large guy. At some point I was pissed off enough to throw my cheeseburger at one of them, which was also a distraction tactic to save them from a brutal beatdown from a very large and angry guy.”
For his heroic efforts, Worth sacrificed his expensive meal for a callsign. “At that point the drunks labeled me ‘Cheeseburger,’ and it stuck. Like glue. Forever. But that’s how callsigns work. You rarely like the one you get.”
Michael Worth’s first deployment was also his most memorable. His squadron was part of Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14) and embarked aboard USS Constellation (CV-64), the centerpiece of Battle Group Delta. Together, they departed San Diego on Apr. 11, 1987, for a Western Pacific (WESTPAC) deployment, returning October 13 the same year.
The plan was for “Connie” and company to deploy to “Gonzo Station,” an area in the Gulf of Oman/North Arabian Sea that U.S. carriers had been deploying to since the Iran hostage crisis of 1979 – ’81. What was supposed to be a routine deployment with plenty of interesting ports-of-call along the way changed drastically after May 17, when the Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate USS Stark (FFG-31) was mistakenly struck by two French-supplied AM39 Exocet anti-ship missiles launched from a then-non-hostile Iraqi aircraft. The Persian Gulf had already become a shooting gallery due to the indiscriminate targeting of merchant shipping by both Iran and Iraq amid their brutal grudge match, which had lasted seven years by that point.
Having been asked by the Kuwaiti government months earlier to escort its tankers through the dangerous Strait of Hormuz, the Reagan administration fully committed to the protection operation, codenamed Earnest Will, in the wake of the Stark tragedy. It was both the start of a long and enduring American military commitment to the region and, for Worth, a brush with war. He has searing memories of Earnest Will, along with the dramatic fashion in which the character of his deployment changed.
“We were at Diego Garcia and I was having breakfast ashore when we heard the news, so I knew we were leaving soon. Next thing I know, I was awoken in my rack by the heaving of the anchor. And a few hours later being awoken to go fly. And already being in the Persian Gulf when that happened. It blew my mind how fast the ship got from Diego Garcia to the Gulf.”
Once on-station, Battle Group Delta provided air cover and surface support for the escort operation. VS-37 was specifically tasked with Surface Surveillance and Control (SSC), which, as Worth explained, was not too different from their day-to-day support of the carrier group.
“SSC meant that we were assigned a specific geographic location to identify all of the surface targets in that sector. We’d find them on radar, then fly out and take a picture of them and report back. Occasionally the boat would direct us to a target as a higher priority, but generally, we just handled them according to the SENSO’s order of preference, which made it easier to keep track of. The SENSO was the primary radar operator on those missions, with the TACCO backing up on radar and plotting the contacts. We weren’t looking for any specific threats, just any threats. And threats were a very rare thing. It was easy to be complacent on this type of mission.”
Aside from some murmurings about Connie being used as part of military strikes against Iran and an air-to-air engagement between two of its F-14s and what appeared to be Iranian F-4 Phantom II fighters that remains shrouded in mystery, the Iran-Iraq War blazed on without the battle group’s direct intervention. But there were, occasionally, disturbing reminders of the ever-present danger surrounding them in the Gulf.
“I remember one night being tired and complacent doing a standard SSC. The TACCO had mapped out the coastline and locations of the Silkworm missile sites along the coast. It was quiet, very little sea traffic to identify at the time. I think everyone was feeling quite relaxed, if not as bored as I was. Towards the end of the mission, three of the Silkworm sites that we had mapped out on our computer ‘lit up’ simultaneously. These are anti-ship missiles, so no immediate threat to us, specifically. But the way the display works is that three lines originated from the Silkworm sites and intersected with our aircraft. In my relaxed state, this got my attention immediately. Needless to say, everyone was energized and alive again. And it haunted me for a very long time. I don’t think I was ever that complacent again.”
In October, USS Ranger arrived at Gonzo Station to relieve Constellation. After a few days on-station together, the former took charge and the latter headed east. After a few port-of-calls, including an enjoyable stop at Perth, Australia, Worth, VS-37, and Constellation eventually found themselves back at beautiful North Island.
A One-Day War
Greg Bules’ first deployment was also his most memorable. Only a few days after joining VS-21 on the first day of the new year, he found himself aboard nuclear-powered USS Enterprise (CVN-65), departing NAS Alameda on Jan. 5, 1988, as it set off for a six-month WESTPAC of its own with CVW-11 embarked. It was also during Enterprise’s time in the Gulf that the shadowy war against Iran would shift into the open.
Due to escalating hostilities between the U.S. and Iran, Enterprise and Battle Group Foxtrot wasted little time heading to the Indian Ocean, relieving USS Midway and her battle group on Feb. 15. VS-21 and CVW-11 went to work immediately providing air cover for the tankers transiting the strait, an operation that was now almost a year old.
“Our daily duties constituted low-altitude (500 ft.) air cover for Earnest Will, usually early in the morning, typically 4 am,” recalled Bules. “We specifically looked for Boghammers during Praying Mantis but were largely discouraged from engaging due to the lack of defensive systems aboard the S-3A, though we were armed with Mk.20 Rockeye II cluster bombs. The Boghammers were the major threat we looked for, as Iran posed little to no underwater threat, at least nothing that would be deployed effectively in-theater.”
The Boghammers which Bules references are Swedish-built speedboats used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in its guerrilla war-at-sea strategy to assault and harass merchant shipping in the Persian Gulf during the “Tanker War” phase of the Iran-Iraq War. Praying Mantis, of course, refers to the one-day war between the U.S. and Iran that took place on Apr. 18, 1988, the climax of Earnest Will and, to this day, the only time U.S. and Iranian forces have engaged in combat.
The clash was written in the stars by Iran’s use of sea mines in the Gulf. After the first Earnest Will convoy in July 1987 encountered a minefield, the U.S. placed great emphasis on combating this threat and appeared to be doing so effectively. But on Apr. 14, 1988, the USS Samuel B. Roberts struck a mine, causing extensive damage and placing the guided-missile frigate at the risk of sinking. But, thanks to the heroic and resolute efforts of “Sammy B’s” crew, not a single sailor perished, and the ship was saved as well.
“Seeing Roberts limp past us was a surreal experience,” said Bules. “It was the moment the war was brought home to me and the realization we were all in deadly territory.” For better or for worse, however, he did not have a lot of time for self-reflection – within hours of Roberts striking the mine, policymakers in Washington were talking retaliation.
Four days after the incident, the U.S. struck back with Operation Praying Mantis. In what historians have called the largest air-sea battle since World War II, the U.S. destroyed two IRGC-manned oil rigs, sank an Iranian frigate, severely damaged another, and destroyed a missile boat plus many of the Boghammers Bules and VS-21 were tasked with surveilling. Per ROE, the Vikings continued to fly armed with cluster bombs during the one-day war, but it was the air wing’s A-6 Intruder and A-7 Corsair attack aircraft that stole the show, inflicting devastation on Iran’s naval forces, with F-14 Tomcats providing fighter cover from high above. Praying Mantis may not have been the kind of war the S-3 had been designed for, but the entire air wing excelled nonetheless, with CVW-11 receiving a Joint Meritorious Unit Award for its efforts.
The summer of ’88 was, at least for Bules, the high point of his career as an AW. He was excelling, enjoying every moment of it, and had earned the privilege of being assigned to the crew led by VS-21’s Executive Officer (XO), Commander Glenn Main. Unfortunately, the unpleasant realities of the job would soon catch up to him that same summer and bring him back down to Earth.
The first reminder of the perils of the job came towards the end of his ’88 deployment off the coast of the Philippines. During a flight with the XO, an engine fire indicator light kept coming on, forcing a return to Enterprise. Though the plane landed safely, the pilot had a difficult time making it back aboard, raising the anxiety level of young Bules. It was a moment troubling enough to give the entire squadron pause, reminding everyone the deployment was not over and to guard against complacency.
Then, on Jun. 5, 1988, a wake-up call was delivered in the cruelest way imaginable. A VS-21 S-3 taking off from Enterprise rolled to port uncontrollably after launch and was headed into the sea. All four crewmembers ejected, but only one, TACCO Lieutenant Junior Grade William Henderson, survived. Pilot Lieutenant Junior Grade Charles Roy, COTAC and VS-21 Commanding Officer (CO) Commander Robert Anderson, and SENSO AW2 David Stenstrom – Bules’ good friend – all perished in the crash.
For the now-20-year-old Ohio-native, two years into serving his country, and making a living on the edge every day, it was a devastating loss, a gut-punch of a reminder that he, like all who flew military aircraft, were living on borrowed time.
“Dave wasn’t just a great AW; he was a good guy, a better man than I, and had so much going for him,” says Bules. “His death is something I and others who knew him had a tough time getting over. We miss him every day and the memories are difficult and weigh heavily on my mind, even thirty years later,” Bules says, wistfully.
It is for this reason now-Air Force Colonel Bules still wears his gold Navy aircrew wings on his uniform. Though certainly authorized by regulation, it is not merely out of pride in his past profession – it is in honor of David Stenstrom.
Despite the loss of his friend, Bules tried to stay strong and carry on, as was expected of those in such a deadly serious line of work. But if he thought things could not get any worse, they did. During a training flight out of North Island in August the same year, another in-flight emergency occurred which nearly sapped any enthusiasm he had remaining for the job.
“We suffered a compressor stall off the coast of San Diego. Everything went to shit, and the master caution panel lit up like a Christmas tree,” he recalled. “We then lost an engine and were headed out to sea. I was convinced we were going down when the pilot warned us to prepare to eject. Somehow, some way, he brought us back to North Island safely for an emergency landing, but it was a jarring experience, especially with everything that had occurred the past few months.”
The compressor stall was the final straw for “Ferris” – momentarily, at least.
“I went to my Chief [Larry Anderson] and told him ‘I don’t want to do this anymore.’ I’d re-volunteered for flying duty following the June 5 incident, but the most recent in-flight emergency gave me second thoughts. Losing Dave and nearly losing my own life not once, but twice, had me thinking my luck would run out soon if I kept flying. Fortunately, Chief empathized with me and arranged for me to take some time off from flying to clear my head.”
Based on his recollection, Bules took, at most, a week or two off from flying. During that time, he learned a valuable lesson that he would draw upon time and again in the years to come.
“During those few weeks away from flying, I went up into the mountains, tried to sort out all the emotions and thoughts running through my head, and decided relatively quickly, looking back on it, I wanted to continue being an AW. I learned a little something about resiliency and how to bounce back, even when you feel like you have no control over things. It taught me, in the hardest way imaginable, that life’s about riding those ups and downs. Lessons like that would really come in handy later on down the road, in ways I could’ve never anticipated nor imagined. It certainly helped having the steady leadership and example provided by mentors like Chief Anderson [who unfortunately passed away in 1998] to encourage me to get back in the saddle and do what I loved most – fly.”
Neither was Michael Worth a stranger to in-flight emergencies. He vividly remembers one in particular that took place over land.
“I remember the loss of an engine en route to the bombing range near NAS Fallon, NV. As I recall, we had a Mk. 83 1,000-lb. bomb on the right wing and the right engine failed. We may have started the day with one on the left as well, but I don’t remember that. I only remember losing the engine on the right and being unable to jettison the bomb because we were currently over residential areas, and the bombing range was now behind us. We declared an emergency and returned to Fallon. The aircraft was rolled distinctly to the right for the return flight, and we landed right side first, then left, then front. I later learned in the airline industry that this was known as ‘landing in the crab.’ I don’t know if that was a term that the Navy used, or not.”
Without downplaying the seriousness of such incidents, “Cheeseburger” admitted emergencies occurred more often than publicized, but, ironically, not all were memorable.
“I had many other emergencies along the way, I just don’t remember them anymore. They eventually became routine, and therefore not noteworthy. A few them even required returning to land and not landing on the ship per the manual, but they also occurred during blue water flight operations, making land out of reach, so we landed on the boat anyway.”
Dangerous as these instances were, they also served as moments of contemplation – particularly on the matter of what they wanted to do with the rest of their lives.
“I loved being an AW, but I hated being an enlisted man,” was the refrain shared by both Bules and Worth. After a world cruise aboard Enterprise from September 1989 to March 1990, a confluence of events brought Ferris home to Ohio as his Navy enlistment ended in 1993. He continued his military flying career in the Air Force Reserve, serving as a Lockheed C-141 Starlifter loadmaster for a few years, amassing a grand total of over 1,500 hours of flight time across the two services. His next big stepping-stone came in March 1998; after graduating from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University the year prior, Bules was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Air Force Reserve, where he has remained since.
Michael Worth also made one more deployment, again aboard Constellation, from December 1988 to June 1989. Shortly after, he decided one enlistment was enough and transitioned back into civilian life, pursuing several different careers in the almost-three decades since he left service, working as a firefighter, flight attendant, and a motor officer for a private company. But none came close to the satisfaction of flying combat aircraft off a carrier.
“Being a SENSO was an incredible opportunity that I didn’t fully appreciate at the time,” he laments. “And now, there’s nothing left like it.”
I Hope You Had the Time of Your Life…
For those who wore the aircrew wings of gold and sat in that left rear seat, it was a privilege worth every ounce of energy, sweat, and time it took to get there and stay there, a journey where the highest of highs was worth all of the lows combined. For no matter what odd bounces life threw their way in the years to come, their time as SENSOs not only offered the ultimate thrill, but critical experiences and skills that would prove invaluable going forward.
“It was the best job I ever had,” says Col. Bules, who, today, continues to serve on active duty at the Pentagon as Reserve Advisor to the Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration, splitting his time between Virginia and his native Ohio. “At 19 years old, I was flying aboard a $32-million jet off a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. The job, while difficult, was incredibly rewarding – it prepared me for the array of personal and professional challenges that lay ahead in my life.”
Michael Worth, currently residing in Idaho with his family, feels little different and wonders what would have been had he stuck around longer. “Sometimes I regret leaving, or not applying for SEALs instead. But had I done any of that I wouldn’t have what I have now, either. At the end of the day, I just think that was the path I was supposed to take.”
It has been 21 years since the last AW flew aboard an S-3 and 11 years since the S-3 last flew in operational service. Today, the C-2 Greyhound is the only carrier-borne fixed-wing aircraft crewed with AWs. Airborne ASW is now a mission conducted entirely by the land-based P-8 Poseidon and helicopters based aboard ship as well as land. Though the U.S. has not faced a significant undersea threat in decades, that could soon change as China, Russia, and even regional threats like Iran fortify their submarine fleets.
Today, a new generation of AWs carry on the tradition set forth by men like Bules and Worth, but aboard different aircraft, leaving little doubt the S-3 Sensor Operators were indeed a class all their own.
“Back in the day, one guy did it all, and that was pretty special,” says Worth, when asked to sum up his time as a SENSO.
“I couldn’t ask for more; it was good times. And one hell of a ride!”
The author would like to thank Col. Greg Bules and Michael Worth for so generously spending their time and sharing their memories to make this work possible. This piece is dedicated to all the men and women who flew, maintained, or otherwise made the S-3 Viking mission possible, especially those who are gone, but never forgotten.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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You may notice the picture in this post is a little different than the previous post. We had to get a new shaderoom. Saturday into Sunday at 8am sharp we had a torrential downpour. We quickly closed up everything, and I sat to enjoy my cup of java, looked out the window, and saw our year-old shaderoom collapsed under the quickly accumilated weight of the water. We went out to use the cover as a tarp to cover best as possible.
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Few pics from Otter Lake:
The Lake, by the swimming beach
Em on her favorite climbing rock
Tammy getting outside Exercise (Tammy is Em's pet Dwarf Hamster)
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Frequent or urgent urination
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