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Hello everyone, and welcome to the first post of a new section in my blog.
Blogging mostly about knitting, crochet, and crafts can be challenging, because finishing a project or pattern is very time consuming. And although I am working every day, some times even weekends, to have things done, I can't do it that fast, since the process includes the design, test the sample, edit the video, craft a blog post, oh and don't forget the photoographs.
Which leaves me feeling that I am not posting with the frequency I would like to, and even when I know my limits, and I know I am busy every day, the feeling still lingers.
I want to be able to share something every week, or at least every other week, which is still better than about a post every month or so.
So I am borrowing an idea from many beauty/fashion youtubers that I follow, and is to share a favorites of the week!
These youtubers focus on beauty, fashion and makeup (whic I am obseesed with), and I love to find out about new products with their favorite of the week or favorites of the month, so I though why not borrow the idea, and share MY favorites.
Of course you will see a lot of yarn, needles and hooks, DIY and recipes. But I might add some other stuff too. I know that what unites us all is our love for knitting and crochet, but I think everyone can appreciate a good recipe recomendation, and even when I know that not everyone is interested in knowing what book I am reaing and would recommend, some of you will, and if only one benefits from a recomendation, then is worth to mention it.
Any way, let's start this new series, and I hope you enjoy reading this post!
Favorite Articles, Blog Posts, and Poscasts
- The Minds of Plants – Amazing study showing that plants might indeed have memory, a must read!
- Getting Creative – Erin from stitchjunky.com writes about being creative even when following instructions for a knitting pattern.
- Dreaming of 2018 – Amanda talks about looking ahead for 2018 and planning too (with mention to a great FREE planning challenge)
- Colourful Creativity – Episode 57 – That time of the year again – Kralalien talks about yarn, patterns and different projects (My favorite where her mittens)
- 90 One Hour Gifts – FREE crochet patterns – The name says it all
I am getting ready for some Christmas baking, and this recipe is on my to-do-list. I found it on Pinterest here, but you can skip pinterest and find the Recipe Here.
I recently created a new colorway for Pixie Dust Yarns. Is called Snow Queen and presents speckles of teal and purple. I love where the colors overlap, producing a deeper purple that only appears in very limited sections, making it extra special! If you want to see more, you can find it here: Snow Queen Yarn
DIY & Crafts
Just look at this adorable unicorn pencil can! And recicled none the less!! The blog post is written in German (I think), but with the photos and video tutorial, is ery easy to follow and figure it out. Also, don't forget our good frien google translate. You can peek ath the Pin here, or go directly to the post here: Unicorn Pencil Storage
Subscribtion Box
I found this box in November and I subscribed right away! I received my December box this morning, and I LOVE it! so much inside and for a great value!
Besides that I love that is not a monthly box, but intead is a seasonal box, with only 4 boxes a year. That's right, only 4 boxes, one for Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. For me is just the right ammount, as I don't need new stuff every month, but I like to have a surprise each season, and I love the idea of having items specially cureated for the season ahead. For my winter box I receved a big and cozy poncho, a ceramig mug, eye masks, hand cream (amazing for the drying winter), a neutral tone eyeshadow palete, cozy socks, a necklace, and even an exercice ball (amazing to lose all those pounds gained during the holidays, and with your subscribtion you get access of free workout videos, that use the exercise ball sent with your box!)
And that is it for this week… Please let me know what you think of this kind of post so I can keep working on them!
Hope you have a wonderful weekend.
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I created this card about a year ago for a submission. I am kind of glad that it didn't get picked so I have something to share with you today. Sorry I have been so quiet lately. With the long labor day weekend followed by another bout of migraines (we had a rain front moving through), I didn't get much stamping done lately!
For this card I printed out Tiddly Inks Toasting Properly on Neenah Classic White cardstock. The image was cut and embossed with a Grand Rectangle die and colored with Copic Markers (Skin: E000, E00, E01, E11, BV00 Hair: Y26, E35, E37, E47 Dress: V04, V05, V06, V17, V09 Crown: Y13, Y15, Y17, W3 Bottle: YR21, YR23, YR23, W3, YG01, YG03, W3 Ground: W3, W5, W7, W10 Background: BV0000, BV000, BV00, BV01 Background spots: BV000, BV00, BV01, YR21, YG03) . The image was adhered to a piece of black cardstock, cut and embossed with a Grand Scallop Rectangle Nestabilities die and the edges were paper pierced. Some dots were added with Stardust Stickles around the girl to make the background sparkle.
A 3″ x 4 1/2″ piece of Phantom Pink Paislee patterned paper was adhered to a 4 1/2″ x 5 1/4″ piece of the same paper pack. The bottom corners were rounded and a border was stitched around the edge. White organdy Ribbon was colored with Copic Marker V06, tied around the horizontal strip and topped with a black button, tied on with Silver Curling Ribbon.
A sentiment from Whimsy's Friendship ticket sentiments was stamped in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink on a piece of white cardstock, cut and embossed with Spellbinders retired Five in one Tag die. The embossed part was colored with the markers I used for the image background. The sentiment was tied to the bow with the same curling ribbon that was used for tying on the button.
The layers were adhered to the card base, a 4 3/4″ x 11″ piece of white cardstock folded in half. Parts of a Finesse Rhinestone Swirl were adhered above and underneath the the bow and three Baby Bling Rhinestones on the lower left corner finish off the card.
Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!
Hugs and smiles

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It seems to me our correspondent had a sour experience during his/her PhD.
I happen to have a PhD; and a great career in industry. My experience could not be more different to the correspondent's: I have always felt privileged, and the PhD was the beginning of my beautiful journey. I have worked in areas which are exciting and beautiful. A good combination when added to a nice salary. It's true that some people get higher salaries, but very few of them love what they do as I do. This is the beauty of a PhD: you love what you do.
Very few people in life are as lucky as PhD students. The luxury to work on something they like, expanding the boundaries of knowledge and learning a set of skills which will make a difference in their careers. My advice for to-be-PhD students is to be aware of that, and enjoy the experience. If they do not, then quit.
Much of this problem could be solved if US universities actually hired faculty at a rate equal to the demand from students. American production of PhDs may have doubled since 1970, but there are also 100 million more Americans, many of whom are young and are increasingly told that they must get a quality university education to survive.
Yet somehow we live in a country where university students complain again and again that their classes are too big, too impersonal, and often performed by the hopeless, who may also be a poor speakers of English. Simultaneously, we are telling our PhD graduates they are not needed, once they have been working and possibly abused for years.
Students want more university professors. Graduate students want more university professors. Who is refusing to hire them and what are they gaining?
I got my Ph.D. a few months ago in a scientific field. I didn't want to stay in research, but I figured with my credentials, I could easily land a job. I applied for around 40 jobs, and I received exactly one offer.
Unless a person is prepared to spend one's life in academia, I'm afraid a Ph.D. is largely a waste of time. It does make you feel good about yourself, but that doesn't pay the bills or put food on the table.
"One Ivy-League president, asked recently about PhD oversupply, said that if the top universities cut back others will step in to offer them instead."
Maybe that Ivy-League president is right. One thing that this article fails to acknowledge is that not only 16 out of 100 Harvard PhDs are getting jobs. I'm confident that Harvard PhDs are in strong demand, as almost every university wants "PhD, Harvard University" to appear on their faculty roll as many times as possible. Additionally, those Harvard PhDs are presumably the strongest candidates, assuming that Harvard's admissions process is any good.
The situation is similar to that for Law Schools. Law school is a great business so schools are producing JDs en masse with little regard for the job market. But that doesn't mean that a top student shouldn't go to Columbia Law. The top 14 law schools in the US News rankings are known to be better than their peers and their graduates will typically get great jobs. One of my friends in a top law school strongly advises others not to attend if they can't get into a better school than Fordham (ranked 34). Personally, I bet Fordham, and even Cardozo and Brooklyn Law (52 and 67), offer decent job prospects. But not only does US News have a list of the top *103* law schools, they have a further "Other Schools to consider" category, of over 80 schools that will bilk you of your money and leave you with nothing. These money mills may be a terrible prospect, but that shouldn't deter a Harvard Law student from pursuing his goals.
Its the exact same for PhD programs. Don't get a PhD because you don't have any better prospects (and certainly don't pay for one if you don't), it won't help you in the long run. Don't go to a school that would never hire its own graduates. But if you're good enough to get into a top program, go for it. And if you emerge from MIT with a degree in the hard sciences and no job, give me a call. I know some people who will gladly throw money at you.
Your correspondent writes:
"Since then America's annual output of PhDs has doubled, to 64,000."
Followed two paragraphs later by:
"In a recent book, Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, an academic and a journalist, report that America produced more than 100,000 doctoral degrees between 2005 and 2009."
I can see why you decided upon theoretical ecology rather than mathematics.
The author's two main contentions are somewhat flawed.
First, as already stated in the subtitle, she asserts that doing a PhD is a waste of time and cites salary statistics in support of her argument. This is besides the point; no sane person does a PhD for an increase in salary and the numbers toted by the author are well known. Perhaps a better indicator would be job satisfaction. University professors have a famously high job satisfaction rate (among the highest in the US) and higher echelon researchers at large companies (the sort that usually has PhDs) also do. Would these people (or society as a whole, for that matter) better off if they had instead chosen to follow a more pecuniarily rewarding career path, such as finance? I doubt it.
Second, the author contends that universities are overproducing PhDs. The mere fact that unemployment among PhDs is by far lower than for bachelor or high school graduates flies blatantly in the face of this assertion. Last figure I recall is that PhD unemployment has been steady below 2% for many years (Science & Engineering PhDs). While it is true that only a small fraction stays in academia and eventually becomes a professor, the overwhelming majority then pursues a great career elsewhere.
To add a tiny bit of anecdotal evidence -- all my graduate school classmates have fantastic careers, only a few of them in academia, but in so diverse fields as management consulting, high-tech, IP law, big pharma, finance etc.
The vast majority, including myself, sees graduate school as a for sure tough, but also very rewarding experience that enabled our later great careers. As for the author's degree in ecology, I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but it seems like things worked out for you. Perhaps you want to get rid of that chip on your shoulder, though.
I was in a biological PhD program after 2 years working as an electrical engineer. Six months ago, I quit the PhD program without finishing pretty much for all the reasons listed in this article.
I was putting in far too much work for the pay and abuse I was receiving and looking at jobs prospects in my small city (I wouldn't want to move since I am married and prize strong ties with my family) it was unlikely I would be able to get one making more than 32k with a PhD. I left with a masters, 4 publications and a more practical outlook on the world. I am now working in research and development at a small biotech company (~40 hours a week) for more than a post doc (at least 60 hours a week) would pay and getting much better job experience than if I had finished the final 18 months of my PhD (probably mainly kissing the behinds of my committee members.
Many of the comments say that the situation must not be that bad since intelligent students are still choosing that path. What they fail to mention is these are intelligent, idealistic 21-23 year olds who have never failed and who think they are they ones who will succeed.
When I started at age 23, I had worked for 2 years on boring circuit designs that didn't tax my brain at all and I was paid 60k a year. I took for granted that whatever career path I went down, I would be prized and able to make enough to support myself. I wasn't married or dating and saw late nights in the lab as 'fun'. One thing I see repeatedly in my classmates and the younger students is that in the beginning, they don't care about poor job prospects (they will be the one who will succeed), poor pay (who needs money) or a family life but as time goes on, students become more and more disgruntled as they see what the PhD is actually costing them in terms of career opportunities and family life.
Here's the solution: find an industry you want to work in, make contacts in that industry, ask them what questions they're thinking about. Make the answer your thesis.
And in addition to "soft skills", learn programming.
As someone with an MS in Electrical Engineering, I can attest that the PHD is a poor choice in my field unless you want to be a professor. Graduate education was required to be an integrated circuit design engineer, but the MS is adequate for that. The only difference (at least in my companies eyes) is that when they calculate your salary, they consider a MS-EE to be worth 2 years 'industry experience' and a PHD to be worth 5 years. This means an MS-EE with 3 years experience gets paid the same as a PHD straight out of school - but by that point the MSEE will have earned >$300k in industry (including salary, bonuses, stock incentives), while the PHD-EE will have earned maybe $60k teaching and doing research. They're paid the same after that, so the PHD has about a $250k net lifetime income loss.
As a PhD student of politics in the 'writing up' stage, this is utterly depressing. Merry Christmas The Economist :(
The article really misses the point in several ways: on the other hand, so do many students entering PhD programmes.
Unless you are really exceptional, your life as an academic will be hard work. You may not have all that much timetabled work, but you will get referee requests, requests to organise conferences, administrative duties and student problems on top of the timetabled teaching. You will not be judged on your performance in any of these (for promotion: but do them badly and your colleagues will hate you), and only to a fairly limited extent on your teaching performance. To get a promotion or another job, you must do research, and it has to be at least reasonably good and in some quantity. You will not be able to do this on 40 hours a week total. You will need to be thinking about your research at weekends, during your family holiday, over Christmas, and in the evenings as well as 9-5. What's more, you need to accept that maybe 95% of the time you spend thinking will simply consist of finding out that a certain attack does not work - that's valuable information but almost never publishable. You will not be paid well for this: you could almost certainly make twice as much money without working any harder in a finance job.
On the other hand, you are doing it because you enjoy it: it's rewarding to discover something new, it doesn't feel like a 'daily grind' to do research (though writing it up can, and especially rewriting it after the referee report comes back). You have a lot of freedom to choose your working hours, you can work with friends (usually), you can usually get paid two or three times a year to go to some interesting (though usually cheapish) place for a conference and combine it with a holiday.
This is how an academic also expects a PhD student to behave: but you can't really tell by interviewing if your prospective student will work hard enough. You might be lucky, and get hold of an obviously brilliant student who will do well even if they are lazy, but probably you won't. You have to gamble that you get a student who will actually help your research, who will be willing to put in the time making many failed attempts to solve their problem before they finally find a solution, instead of giving up and stopping working (that's common enough). If you get a student who isn't willing to put the time in - well, what can you do? You can be honest, and tell them to quit (but then they may well complain to your boss that you aren't trying). You can try to make them quit by dumping scut-work on them and making it obvious you don't rate them (some academics are not nice people). You can do all the hard work on their problem yourself, and tell them to do the final calculations and write-up (and they will never feel the reward that comes from actually solving something). Or you can let them run on until the funding runs out.
So - taking a PhD student is a gamble. It pays off more often than not, so academics will keep doing it. But if you start a PhD expecting it to be easy, or because you want to stay a student (which means: you don't want to work a 40 hour week, let alone a 60 hour week), or just because you didn't know what else to do - then you will probably be the academic's bad gamble, and there isn't much chance it will go well. At the end, what will your supervisor write for a reference? Either something bland, or something honest, and neither will go far to getting you a good job.
There are several common-sense issues the author seems to be ignorant of or unwilling to admit (although touched on).
All PhDs aren't the same. Sounds obvious, but by the title of this article, it isn't to everyone. The difficulty of acquiring them as well as their demand are all over the spectrum, as is the pay, which is often averaged into 1 figure, as in this article, which is inaccurate at best and worthless and misleading at worst. A History or Econ PhD isn't going to make nearly what a marketing professor is, for example. Ironically, Econ depts are the ones churning out armies of PhDs and lowering the value.
Also, "Harvard" while seeming to be the average person's point of reference, isn't the de facto "best" when it comes to these degrees. Nor is any school just because it's an Ivy, Stanford, or the regional 'best' (especially only because USN&WR said so, and they don't even rank PhDs.) Again, it depends on your focus of interest. Many schools you would have never though offer some of the most respected programs and names in academia.
I have an MBA and my wife is about to wrap up her PhD in marketing. She is in a University of 30,000 students and is THE ONLY STUDENT in her graduating class. Other marketing PhD classes here have between 1-3 students, and by the time they're ready to defend, that # will probably be knocked down to one or two (historically)as well, due to the difficulty of the program. She'll have her dissertation done in March, graduate in May after 4 years, and an MBA on top of that. I won't say the name of the school because that isn't the focus, which it would certainly become, but it isn't a top 10. She has already signed a contract for a tenure-track position at a major US University for next fall. Her income will be over three times the local per capita, and her schedule is 'flexible' to say the least. She had 14 interviews for a tenure-track marketing position this fall.
Point is: don't listen to those that didn't do their research or plan before staying in school. Do your own research, set your own goals, and make it happen. Most of what you read is opinion and either very localized or genralized BS.
Also, someone commented to just keep collecting Masters degrees instead of focusing on a PhD. This makes you overqualified, off-focus, and less employable, not more. I have seen it.
While I do not like the overly negative account of the PhD degree in this article, it does raise some inconvenient facts. I second, in particular, the paying conditions. I got my PhD recently from a top university and right after graduation got a position as an assistant professor (tenure-track). It felt great at that time. But now I am growing disillusioned with the academic career. Don´t get me wrong. I love what I do and my research is getting slowly published. But what disappoints me the most is the pay. You work 6 days a week, 10h/day. And you make relatively good money that affords you a middle class type of life. But the effort/benefit ratio seems way too high in this career. I can´t help but think that I am doing a terrible use of my intelligence and effort. The outside options (own consultancy company) just seem so much better. Not only a less socially isolated type of work, but also way more financially rewarding. As a signal, a PhD degree is still great. But career-wise can really be a completely waste of time.
This is an interesting take on pursuing higher education...actually the highest level of education in most (if not all) disciplines! The fact that getting a PhD isn't financially rewarding enough, and yet students continue to join and pursue it over decades seems to suggest that landing up with a plush job isn't the sole reason behind pursuing a phd. An economist who believes in utilitarianism would quickly point out that unless there is some reward, an "irrational act" cannot persist over time! In fact, not only do the numbers (of students enrolling) not go down, they actually go up (if I take the figures in the article at face value)! Upshot: the correspondent is looking at the problem in an unbalanced fashion. I must say that I cannot help but agree with Mr. Albert Dutch. To be honest, I am a bit disappointed with economist letting this slide through! I wish the author took some time to evaluate his proposition better....in my opinion, clearly a bad thesis!
Anyone who pays out of his own pocket for an A&S doctoral program is either independently wealthy or out of his mind. That fellowship is your first job in a field; if you can't land it, you're barking up the wrong tree.
I quit a PhD program to take my computer skills into a business of my own. In five years, certainly less than it would have taken to get the degree and scrape up a tenure-track job, I was a free man.
The point of view expressed in this article is the total antithesis of my experience. I worked very hard (with long hours, as described) for my Ph.D. in chemistry. But I enjoyed the work, and I learned a great deal. I was impoverished for 4 years, but after a post-doc, it led to a very rewarding industrial job. I enjoyed understanding natural phenomena (that most others do not understand), it is a source of satisfaction and constant entertainment. I had an exciting career that never would have been available to me if I hadn't learned what I did during my academic training. I retired as a Director of Research in a Fortune 200 company with an excellent salary.
Most chemists earning a Ph.D. actually seek an industrial position rather than an academic one. So, trying to relate the number of new academic offerings to the number of PhD's being granted is simply meaningless (and misleading). The American Chemical Society does an annual review of salaries, and it clearly demonstrates that in chemistry at least, PhD's earn substantially more than MS or BS students, both in academia and industry. In fact, there are many positions and tasks that would simply be insurmountable for workers without the training they obtained as a PhD. Not to say that no one able to achieve that level of knowledge through work experience, but it is very, very rare.
You don't have to be a genius to earn a PhD. One does have to be smart, and what is most important is the ability and willingness to learn independently, apply oneself over a long time to a difficult problem, overcome complex and frustratingly difficult hurdles, and to stick with the program and to love your work. If you want to hire a person to conduct a multi-year project of a difficult and highly technical subject, what better selection criteria could there be than someone who has earned a PhD? If you want to work in such an environment, how better to learn and demonstrate your qualifications?
As a recent Ph.D. in Comparative Literature working as a full-time lecturer at a state university near my alma mater and on the tenure-track job market, I'd like to share some thoughts.
First, any career that many consider highly desirable--and tenured professorships are fantastic jobs in many ways--will attract more applicants than can be accommodated. Look at Hollywood, Nashville music scene, New York publishing industry, etc. Any industry like that will require years or even decades of hard work while earning extremely low pay in the equivalent of "apprenticeships"--opening acts, off-off-off-Broadway shows, unpaid open mics, street performing, publishing in unpaid literary journals: all analogous to Teaching Assistantships.
Sure, I vote to change things. That vote is a drop in a huge bucket. Until the bucket fills and tips--if it ever does--academics need to be prepared to compete. While in grad school, be sure that you're also building a resume/CV that looks presentable both to academic and professional sectors. Grad school is not only about archival research and teaching freshman: apply for opportunities to teach specialized classes, organize major conferences, present at conferences, design new courses, participate in the teacher-training programs on campus and teach their seminars to incoming grads, put together a research group and get it funded through a philanthropic or governmental institution, publish a journal, etc.
Who wouldn't consider hiring a Ph.D. who emerges from the grad school maelstrom with his/her shoes tied correctly, no tears and sniffles about the "slavery" (come on, seriously?) they endured, and who can say, "I have built a community of international researchers, I am articulate and convincing, I can master any new skill you throw my way, my writing is top-rate, I know how to manage a budget, AND if you want to talk transnational cultural politics over a martini, GIVE ME A CALL" ??
It can be done, but it's hard. It's not for everyone. You might fail. Don't these truisms apply to every career worth pursuing?
Look at the title of this article: The disposable academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time.
News flash: everyone is disposable in a capitalist economy, and we should ruminate on the notion of "waste" in an era of recycling. If you haven't secured a plush tenure-track job, consider recycling the many skills you should have been gaining in grad school and build a new career.
Paul Halmos, a famous mathematician, was often approached by undergraduates who asked him if he thought they should go to grad school. He gave all of them the same advice: "No."
Now mind you, he was extremely enthusiastic about academia, and he would cheerfully encourage students who didn't immediately walk away, but insisted that they really wanted to do academic research.
I quit a well-paying job to slog through a difficult, low-paying PhD program and it was the best decision of my life. It was not a "practical" decision, certainly not for my earning prospects, but I wanted to do advanced research more badly than I wanted to do anything else.
The Ph.D. is designed to introduce you to the world of academic research and prepare you for a career as a professor. Full stop. I have no problem whatsoever with anyone who enters a Ph.D. program for any other reason, but they should not come with illusions about what they are getting into.
Academia is surprisingly similar to the Mafia. As a PhD student, you're like a street soldier, doing all the dirty work and getting paid very little. Then you work up the ranks, and once you've got tenured, you've got made, nobody can touch you thereafter.
@AlbertDutch It sounds like your career has finished, meaning that you got a PhD when it was still a rarity.


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Ian Martin attends an extraordinary meeting of Space Invaders
MONDAY Honoured and delighted to be shortlisted in this year's Royal Institute for the Pop-Uption of British Architects Awards (London Housing category) for my innovative ventilated coal bunker.
TUESDAY Blue sky drinkathon down the pub with the fixer, Rock Steady Eddie. I really value these freestyle discussions where, unshackled from our usual business agenda, we can roam freely over a range of subjects and get pissed.
Items discussed today: if 'all design is redesign' does that mean that 'all payment is repayment'? In which case who's the creditor? And how can a building have 'fluid geometry' without risking collapse in a world of apparently arbitrary mathematics?
I say discussed, it's really me thinking aloud while Eddie reads a newspaper and talks through a mouthful of my chips. 'Stone me, you seen this? It says here China's used more cement in the last three years than the USA did in the whole of the 20th century! Do WHAT?'
That is incredible, I have to admit. It's not just the sun that's setting on the American Empire, clearly. And once a cement race is started, there's no stopping it.
Soon India will use more cement in an afternoon than China does in a week. Then Nigeria will use more cement in a minute than India does in a lunchtime. Israel will entirely concretise in the time it takes Nigeria to open a bag of Ordinary Portland…
'It's a mad world chief, no question,' sighs Eddie, now fully carbohydrated. 'Cemental. Ha ha, your round son'.
WEDNESDAY British Values Charts Day. Always exciting to hear David 'Fluff' Cameron counting down the Top 40 at Prime Minister's Question Time.
As expected, Property Equity remains the Number One British Value for the 8,662nd week. Up seven places this week at Number Two, it's Shareholders' Dividend, while Close Ties With Saudi Arabia stays exactly where it is - frozen in fear at Number Three.
THURSDAY Lunch with Loaf, my old friend the mayor of London. As is customary, he wears his trademark privatised cycling helmet which this week is sponsored by an investment management company (slogan: Your Future, Head First).
As usual, we converse in Latin.
At first of course I get the usual jowl-wobbling small talk. Branson's in on Mudbank Airport, as long as it's badged Boris Virgin International. The Ajerbaijani mafia want to buy the National Portrait Gallery. Heston's curating a 'scoffhub' on the South Bank this summer and the menu's just an anthology of atomised starters 'in those nitrous oxide balloon thingies you get at Henley Regatta…'
Then Loaf casually mentions that 'a spook pal' has got wind of some harebrained scheme to remove the Shard from the London skyline.
He doesn't make eye contact, but would like to think this is the sort of nonsense I'd run a mile from. 'Just casually enquiring whether anyone's invited you, let us say, to join some rag tag and bobtail anarchist group of total bloody nutters sworn to blow up everything bigger than the Gherkin …'
It's at this point he fixes me with his famous 'Homerian baleful stare'.
I go extravagantly wide-eyed and express the sort of theatrical outrage and hurt you'd get from a senior policeman at a select committee meeting. 'I can't believe you asked me that, Loaf! Good God!' And with that I flounce from the restaurant. The only way I could look guiltier would be to accidentally drop a kilo of Semtex and a map of the Shard with all the stress points marked.
Memo to self: avoid Loaf for a while.
FRIDAY Extraordinary meeting of Space Invaders, the group convened by a mystery billionaire anarchist to destroy the Shard. Of which I'm plausibly not a member.
We need to get a wiggle on. This tottering excrescence of barren, sequestered wealth is actually up for a DESIGN AWARD. Once it wins formal acclaim from the humourless dickheads in brightly coloured trousers, it's within spitting distance of National Treasure status.
It must be destroyed before it becomes part of our cultural heritage. If Alan Bennett starts liking it we're stuffed.
SATURDAY Talking of cultural heritage, I bloody resent how our five-a-zeitgeist theoretical football has been Russianised. The final score was Oligarchitectural Capitalism 3, Patriarchitectural Sexism 2, but then the Orthodox Church bounced in during extra time like Conchita Wurst and overturned it.
SUNDAY Longlistlessness in the recliner.
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The Maryville College men's basketball squad used a strong second-half surge to defeat Worcester Polytechnic Institute 67-60 in the Tampa Bay Shootout in Tampa Bay, Florida on Saturday evening.
Maryville's Dante Hoppa paced all scorers at the half with a dozen points on 5-of-9 shooting including a 2-for-4 effort from beyond the arc. The Engineers capitalized on a 7-2 run at the 10-minute mark to take a 19-14 advantage. The Scots closed with seven Hoppa points and a Kaleb Estes basket to finish the first half trailing 29-26.
After shooting only 33% in the first half, Maryville had three players (Calvin Songster, Emier Bowman, and Joshua Brooks) post double-digit scoring while shooting 44% from the floor (12-for-27). The Scots earned their first lead at the 10:52 mark. Following a WPI 10-2 run, MC's Calvin Songster dropped a three-pointer capping a 10-2 run by Maryville for a 45-44 advantage. The Scots took the lead for good at the 3:04 mark with key baskets by Songster, Brooks, and Bowman. Brooks and Songster sealed the victory with key free throw conversions late.
WPI (9-1) was paced by Jake Wisniewski's double-double effort of 19 points and 10 rebounds. Reid Walker added 15 points and nine boards while Kahleb Downing tossed in 13 points.
Maryville (5-4) had four players post double digits in scoring. Dante Hoppa finished with 16 points and a team-high six rebounds. Joshua Brooks was 11-for-14 from the free throw line for 15 points while Calvin Songster added 13 points. Emier Bowman recorded 11 points on a trio of dunks while also added three blocked shots and a steal on defense. Kaleb Estes added five points and six rebounds off the bench to help the Scots to a fourth straight victory.
Maryville will face Otterbein University on Sunday to complete the Tampa Bay Shootout challenge. Tip-off for the championship game is slated for 3:00 p.m.


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Eighty-two percent of people prefer to talk to great listeners, not great speakers.
– Ten3 Global Internet Pol
Being an engaged listener is one of the most important communication skills you can have.
Think of one person who you feel doesn't listen to you. How do they make you feel?
We've all had that experience, but are we creating that experience for others? To take a quick listening quiz to see how you are doing.
Now, check out these 5 strategies you can practice that will improve your listening skills.
1. Slow your listening down. Take a minute to breathe and think about listening and to be aware and present. Listen from your head to your toes. Listen as if what you are hearing could change your life.
Factoid: We speak an average of 120 words per minute, but listen four times faster. Your mind fills the gap by thinking of other things and wandering off. Stay focused. Slow down your listening and listen more than you talk.
2. Pay attention. Watch out for shiny objects!
Stay focused. Don't get distracted, but rather offer a statement of observation. For example: say, "It sounds like you're angry" (or sad/upset/frustrated, etc.). Listen and watch for the tone of voice, body language, and facial expressions of the person you're talking to.
3. Get clarification. Listen first, then, ask questions. Find a way to understand their story – their facts, their feelings, and their perceptions.
Say, "Tell me more," or clarify by saying, "help me understand," or "do you mean to say that…?"
If you still don't understand, ask again in a different way. Sometimes you may need to ask for different words. My daughter may say something like, "the thing didn't work and it's just not fair!" I may have to ask her to find a different word to use for "thing" to understand what she is trying to communicate.
4. Validate the speaker. Show some compassion for how they are feeling.
Say things like: "It sounds like you are feeling left out," or, "It sounds like you are feeling tired and don't want to go."
5. Paraphrase. Repeat in your own words what was said to make sure you understand. Try this paraphrasing technique: "What I hear you saying is…" or "So you are saying that…" And then check for understanding. Say, "Is that right?"
After listening carefully, respond genuinely. Don't fake it. An insincere response is worse than no response. Give non-verbal communication. Use eye contact and head nods to show your concern and interest. And, here's a tip: a response that demonstrates you really weren't listening is not a good response.
A simple change in the way we listen will change the way we understand and how we respond. Active listening will increase the odds of success at understanding what the real issue is. This may take some practice, but you will get better at it, and it may even transform a relationship or two.
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Wondering how your programming should change to accommodate the physical needs of an older client? You might be surprised at how your senior members can perform when it comes to high intensity, low impact boot camp classes.
Urge your active aging members to slip off their "Silver Sneakers" and join in on a small group training session instead, like an active aging boot camp.
When it comes to training your "Baby Boomer" clients, your first instinct may be to tone down vigorous, high cardio classes and offer sessions filled with gentle stretching and light weights. However, if you focus on developing smarter functional fitness programs that effectively mix elevated cardiovascular with balance safety, your active aging members will experience a healthier, well-rounded workout.
Cardiovascular Health is Important at Any Age
Your older members are focusing on muscle retention and healthy heart levels like your younger members and can benefit from full body functional movements (like jumping jacks and burpees) that eliminate the high-impact force. As you design specific programming for your active aging audience, remember that strength training and intense cardio are important components of any senior health plan.
In today's fitness market, your 55 and up members make up 20% of your total membership pool—that's a market segment that's continually growing and should not be ignored. The Functional Aging Institute, the fitness industry's "go-to" center for mature adult programming and workout techniques, was created in 2013 to better serve trainers and fitness facilities across the country with appropriate class programming that challenges and engages active aging clients.
Led by Dan Ritchie, PhD and Cody Sipe, PhD, these seasoned trainers used their experience with clients and science-based training initiatives to develop effective training programs that benefit personal trainers and facilities without a lot of experience with older clients. Dan Ritchie, Co-Founder and President of the FAI, shares some valuable training advice for personal trainers interested in better serving older clientele.
Determining Past Workout History Lends a Clear Training Future
When it comes to the initial meeting with a new client, trainers should gather as much background information as possible concerning past injuries, fitness history, and current pain points. "A better, consistent health history—joint pain, any sort of underlying issue—should be heard before starting a program," Ritchie advises. Listening and observing how a client moves should also be top priorities for trainers meeting mature clients for the first time.
Ritchie notes that traditional functional fitness tests, including the 1 rep max with squats and bench presses, should be skipped when evaluating active aging members for physical strength limits. Because their personal goals tend to be lifestyle-oriented rather than body-oriented, Ritchie urges trainers to create programming that will boost energy and endurance as well as retain muscle mass.
Low-Impact, High-Intensity Workouts are a Winning Combination
Boot camp for active aging members can combine all of the elements needed to reach achievable fitness goals. Traditional programming, which focuses on easy, gentle and light workouts, operates on the incorrect notion that mature members cannot handle increased cardio or quick movements. While these ideas are not based on scientific research, Ritchie does note that some considerations need to be taken into account before hosting your first mature group training session.
"Limit high-impact movements that will cause excess stress on joints through modification," Ritchie says, adding, "coach personal trainers to curb the yelling and screaming in the class setting, cut out the loud, blaring music and shorten the rep count when it comes to circuit training." With these modifications, Ritchie advises, your mature members will be comfortable training and more engaged with the workout program.
For basic active aging boot camp training, Ritchie stresses that trainers should "challenge seniors in all 3 planes of motion and avoid too much focus on floor exercises." By adding moves that force members to go up and down while utilizing body weight, the workout targets all major muscle groups without undue stress. Avoiding ballistic impact should be a standard all trainers follow with mature clients.
Modify Movement for Maximized Training Results
Modification is key when it comes to moves used in boot camp programming: jumping jacks become step jacks with overhead arm movement; jump squats can be substituted with total body extensions. You can even include burpees in your routine if you take out the jump forward movement following the push up and instead instruct clients to step forward. These movements will successfully elevate the heart rate without sacrificing balance or safety.
When looking for equipment to use in your active aging boot camps, don't put your battling ropes or kettlebells aside. Incorporate medicine balls with handles, step risers, core balls and resistance bands into boot camp to further challenge members while increasing the strength-training component. Ritchie adds that the FAI teaches anchor point training as another exercise method in senior programming.
The biggest equipment modification concerning mature boot camp classes will be number of reps per move—make sure to keep the rep count lower than you would with a younger boot camp class.
"We don't train individuals based on chronological age," Ritchie says, summing up the Functional Aging Institute's overall philosophy. "We train based on physical ability to move. We have high expectations for our clients (even in their 80s), so we train relative to each person's ability."
To be best prepared to train active aging clients, remember to listen carefully about past fitness history and injuries before creating any programming. Balancing healthy lifestyle goals with physical capability is crucial when it comes to training mature members, but don't assume that light, gentle movements are the best tactic for complete health.
Have you created a boot camp for active aging members before? Share your experience with us in the comments.
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Sunday, 23 November 2008 05:40 PM
The mainstream media's support for Barack Obama's presidential campaign was so biased that even major insiders are now admitting they were shocked by its depth and depravity.
Last week, Time magazine's Mark Halperin called the media's performance during the campaign simply "disgusting."
Halperin told a panel of media analysts at the Politico/USC conference on the 2008 election, "It's the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war."
He added, "It was extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage."
According to the Web site Politico, Halperin, who edits Time's political site "The Page," zeroed in on two New York Times articles near the end of the campaign that profiled both Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama.
"The story about Cindy McCain was vicious," Halperin said. "It looked for every negative thing they could find about her and it cast her in an extraordinarily negative light. It didn't talk about her work, for instance, as a mother for her children, and they cherry-picked every negative thing that's ever been written about her."
But the Times gave Michelle Obama red carpet treatment, "like a front-page endorsement of what a great person Michelle Obama is."
Halperin, a former ABC News political director, allowed that some of the press coverage simply reflected the extreme efficiency of Obama's presidential campaign.
"You do have to take into account the fact that this was a remarkable candidacy," Halperin said. "There were a lot of good stories. He was new."
Obama also had a lot of money and outspent Republican John McCain by more than 2 to 1.
The press never bothered to hold Obama accountable for reneging on his promise to use public financing. McCain kept his promise to do so.
During the campaign, conservatives criticized the pro-Obama coverage, but it had little effect.
Columnist David Limbaugh noted: "Never has that been clearer than in the 2008 presidential election, during which they are covering up rather than covering Barack Obama's shady past and alliances, his knee-deep involvement in corrupt practices threatening the very core of our democratic system, and his many policy misrepresentations."
Limbaugh noted that the press went into a tizzy over Sarah Palin's wardrobe, but ignored extravagances like Obama's "obscenely idolatrous million-dollar Greek coliseum mirage."
Now that the election is over, Halperin is not alone in admitting the bias. The Washington Post's ombudsman recently conceded that the paper's coverage was skewed strongly in favor of Obama and against the McCain-Palin ticket.
[Editor's Note: See "Washington Post Admits Bias for Obama, Against McCain, Palin."]
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The Tortoise Garden
You might think that the lack of a decent composting system was the least of the Palestinian people's troubles. But you'd be wrong. For those involved in Bustan Quraaqa ("the Tortoise Garden"), a permaculture farm set up last year in the West Bank town of Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem, composting has become about dignity, self-reliance and rescuing the environment.
The Palestinian environment is taking a battering. Sewage flows into streams and the underground aquifer that is the sole source of drinking water for the Palestinian population; solid waste is burned, creating air pollution and contaminating the soil, making it useless for crops. The farming economy, so successful in Israel, is being crushed through prevention of access to farms by the separation wall, checkpoints and the off-limit roads that lead to Israeli settlements. With all these obstacles farmers are leaving their land, leading to neglect of terraces and so to soil erosion, which leaves hillsides stripped of their soil and good for nothing.
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The AlleyBAR in downtown Montgomery recently hosted a private party for Vintage 1951 with the amazing band, The Swinging Medallions. This was a performance to behold, but regretfully—I was unable to stay the night. I did however manage to grab several shots for RSVP Montgomery and the AlleyBAR, one of which is shown here. For more, keep your eye out on the AlleyBAR website and/or the next issue of RSVP.
2 thoughts on "Vintage 1951 with the Swinging Medallions"
Lyn Spencer Shoults
Oh, I loved the Swinging Medallions. Takes me back to high school. I even have a little story about them when they came to Brundidge.
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I really enjoyed the short time I was able to hear them perform. If I had not had other obligations… I would have stayed until last call. From what I understand, they've performed several times at the AlleyBAR.


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Deconstructing the Angry West Hollywood ElectionFiled by Karen Ocamb | March 07, 2011 | 7:00 PM |
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As The Advocate and other news outlets have reported, President Obama - who I often refer to as our faux fierce advocate in the White House - will be holding an anti-bullying conference on March 10, 2011. The Advocate notes...Read More
Rhode Island Congressman Now Supports Marriage EqualityFiled by Bil Browning | March 07, 2011 | 5:00 PM |
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The stories she tells are often dramatic, sometimes violent, sometimes passionate, but it's the writing here that is the most stunning. Bright has an eye for the telling and often detail (a dominatrix friend tells her, "I'm not spanking Republicans anymore. I've had it," which Bright uses to riff on the divisive sexual politics within the lesbian feminist movement at the time), and her vivid characters (herself included) leap from the page, whether she's a waitress being observed as a possible agent of the revolution to The Mitchell Brothers and John Preston.
Bright does far more than simply recount her life, she contextualizes it amidst the greater happenings in American culture, and does so with heart, vibrancy and compassion, from the drama of falling for her first girlfriend, the power of selling someone their first vibrator, and what pregnancy and motherhood taught her about herself. I emailed Bright in the middle of her nationwide book tour to find out about feminist disharmony, the politics of publishing and why she doesn't plan to stop "sticking it to the squares."
I was asked to the dance. There's nothing like a deadline and a check to light a fire under your ass.
I've always had an autobiography on my mind. If you've read my books over the years, you could say it's been one long saga in progress! Mommy's Little Girl was about my first years as a parent, Susie Sexpert's Lesbian Sex World was about the dyke orgy era, How to Write a Dirty Story was my professional memoir and how-to, etc.
Once I committed with Seal Press to do BSLD, the reason to nail it, to sprint to the finish line, was because, today, the rewriting of the feminist and queer sexual revolution by conservatives, centrists, and shame-gloaters is REVOLTING. It's Revisionism Uber Alles.
Someone has to set the record right...More than one someone, actually. I want every woman who's had an abortion without falling to pieces, who has no regrets in her sexual imagination, who's raised strong capable children without superstition, who's shared comradeship with lovers and relished the poetry of erotic illumination — I want all these women to start typing NOW.
What struck me while reading the book was how early you came to your convictions and activism. You dropped out of high school to live on your own and be an organizer and had a very full life, working, having sexual relationships and getting involved in activism that at times was extremely dangerous.
At times I had to pause and think to myself, "Wait, she was only 17!" Did that feel natural to you to be taking a route that was very much off the beaten path?
The crucible of Vietnam and civil rights movements — on every front — made my path more than natural, it was fundamental. Besides, 17-year-olds are capable of anything, they can stay up all night…I am perplexed by the infantilization of the leisure class.
I thought some of the most interesting parts were about the death threats and hate mail you got while at On Our Backs. They reminded me of the Dorothy Allison poem "The Women Who Hate Me."
Ha! That's funny, I had Allison's poem on my night table for many years, as did many dyke-outliers.
When I started my memoir I wrote Dorothy and told her I was thinking of quoting her poem. But it was really her title that most unsettled and captivated me. I ended up just letting it work on my dream life, and it did its best work there.
The vitriol you faced seemed, at first, more unexpected than some of the opposition you got as a socialist organizer and like it took you by surprise. Was it more painful to face that kind of hostility from women you'd expected to be on your side?
I had never had a reasonable expectation that the monied, court-side feminist establishment would be on my side. Since when, historically, has there ever been any illusions about peace, love, and harmony in feminist movement? As a group, we've been fighting about "free love" since DAY ONE.
But, yes, it was still shocking to be the target of their infantry's violence. The sex war scene was all very "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," where the charismatic professor gins her "special girls" up into a frenzy to go off and join Mussolini.
I wouldn't compare it as being worse or less than what I faced in the labor movement, or as a red. There were too many guns, knives, heavy objects and red-faced freakouts all the way around. I remember well the psycho in Kentucky who pulled up in his car as I handed out a flyer about frickin "maternity leave contract issues" — so wholesome! — in front of an auto plant employee parking lot. He pulled up close, lowered the window, and I drew near, 'cause he had a big grin in his face. When I was right up next to him, he drew a pistol, stuck it in my stomach, and said, "Get your nigger-loving communist ass off this lot."
Different style than the bomb-making, knife-wielding women's studies students. Everybody's got their personal nut on.
Similarly, a theme I noticed is this casting out, whether by your mother, the IS or the women you started On Our Backs with, and it all happened very painful ways, with you being accused of being the betrayer. Do you see a connection between those actions?
"Everybody's out to get me!" Mwah ha ha ha!
My mom isn't the same as Gloria Steinem or Andrea Dworkin — she loved me unconditionally. The dangers she placed me in were only the same as she put herself.
Even though Gloria and I share the same birthdate, I don't think she loves me! ; -)
Politics is a different matter. The struggle to name a solution, to lead, is fierce. Plus, every group who's been marginalized by oppression has a nasty cannibalistic streak. We scrounge over crumbs. We always tell ourselves, "Stay tight, don't let The Man divide us," but the internalized madness is quite daunting.
You know, everyone's history has bitter stings, everyone gets thrown out of paradise. They are formative experiences, and certainly part of any narrative. But they aren't the only climaxes. The embraces, the deep loves and kinships are just as powerful. I hope that comes across in my story!
Why did you choose Big Sex Little Death as the title? I've been puzzling over it, because the deaths, literal and figurative, in the book loom very large.
Because I'm a poet; that's how I started writing in the first place. The title is an allusion. It's like a song in your head. If you love Beat-era poetry as I do, that title's right in the thick of it.
You've just started your book tour, and I'm curious about your audiences. Is there a typical Susie Bright fan? Is there a type of person you think will most relate to the book? Do you feel this book is more geared toward those who lived through the seventies and eighties along with you?
An enthusiastic reader just wrote on my FB Wall, "Keep stickin' it to the squares, Susie!" That cracked me up.
It's amazing how untypical my readers are; I never know who's walking through the door. It's anyone who's ever had a searing moment of self-contemplation, who's ever laughed in bed, who's ever sat down in street and said "ENOUGH!"
As for generations, of course if you were "there," it's one thing, but young people are always looking at the primary sources of history, particularly those revolutionary times which are freighted with mythology, like the cultural revolution of my generation. I always have looked into the past for answers, myself.
What advice would you have for those who want to go into the field of sexuality, whether as educators, writers, sex workers, etc.? Is there a certain personality type that's best suited to facing the kinds of sex-negative slings and arrows that come with it?
Well, I'm so ridiculously over-sensitive that I'd say the door is wide open for all kinds. Big crybabies and people who pee in their pants laughing are welcome. Empathy is all you need.
As a society, has American culture gotten more knowledgeable and open-minded about sex? It seems like in some ways we have, but in others we are regressing. Are you optimistic?
Better? Yes. Worse? Yes. To quote my favorite Roland Barthes exclamation:
"I am reduced to endurance.... I suffer without adjustment, I persist without intensity, always bewildered, never discouraged. I am a Daruma doll, a legless toy endlessly poked and pushed, but finally regaining its balance, assured by an inner balancing pin.
"But WHAT is my balancing pin? The force of love?
"...Such is life, falling over seven times and getting up eight."
Obviously, "optimism" isn't what's required. Activism is.
What's next for you?
I'm writing a book which only has a nickname so far: Mom's Sex Diary. It's about how parents evolve sexually from their own pregnancies to witnessing their children's puberty. Raising kids changes your sex life…and foretells their future love lives. Lots of ground to cover!
But then, of course there's a second memoir, more dirt. I'll call it, Sticking it to the Squares, The Sequel!
Susie Bright is currently on a book tour for Big Sex Little Death; find out more at susiebright.com and follow her @susiebright on Twitter. Big Sex Little Death is available in bookstores now.


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HyCentA - Hydrogen Center Austria
Österreichisches Forschungszentrum für Wasserstoff
Inffeldgasse 15
Graz / AUSTRIA
HyCentA focuses exclusively on research and development of hydrogen and shows a wide range of expertise on production, storage and application issues. Furthermore, the HyCentA has specific know-how in security and approval matters of hydrogen applications and was a consultant for the European Commission for the approval of hydrogen-powered vehicles.
HyCentA has an outstanding and well-equipped testing infrastructure and acts as a focal point and information platform for hydrogen-related research and development activities. The research facility of the hydrogen test center consists of: a refueling station for 350 bar gaseous hydrogen (Austria's first hydrogen filling station), the most advanced fuel cell system integration test bed in Europe, a 1000 bar high-pressure test bed for gaseous hydrogen and two test rooms for gaseous and liquid hydrogen for experiments with components and systems.
Customer-specific hydrogen test setups and experiments with hydrogen
Expertise in questions of safety, standards and regulations
Economic and environmental analyses Thermodynamic analysis of processes and systems
Research and development of PEM fuel cell systems and electrolysers
Conceptual design of compressed hydrogen gas-systems
Conceptual design, development and construction of power-to-gas plants with different electrolysis technologies
Scientific research, lectures and publications
HyCentA facilitates the use of hydrogen as a renewable energy source and the development of electrochemical systems and peripherals, both as independent research projects, as well as in cooperative projects with academic institutions, industrial companies and international partners.
New product development:
Highly integrated fuel cell analysis infrastructure: HIFAI
Highly Integrated Fuel Cell Analysis Infrastructure (2014-2018)
Funded by the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy. Project partners: HyCentA Research GmbH and AVL List GmbH
Conversion of renewable electricity into hydrogen for storing and transportation in the natural gas grid (2014-2018)
Funded by the Austrian Klima- und Energiefonds in Vienna. Project Partners: OMV Refining & Marketing, EVN AG, Fronius International GmbH, HyCentA Research GmbH, Energy Institute at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz
Development of an electrically powered shuttles people using a fuel cell for zero-emission range increase (2013-2016). Funded by the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology. Project Partners: MAGNA Steyr Engineering AG & Co KG, Proton Motor Fuel Cell GmbH, Institute for Powertrains and Automotive Technology at the Technical University of Vienna and HyCentA Research GmbH.
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Dynamic gas conditioning and flow measurement for fuel cell test beds (2014-2016). Funded by the Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology. Project Partners: HyCentA Research GmbH, AVL List GmbH and the Institute of Mechanics and Mechatronics at the Technical University of Vienna.
Fuel Cell Range Extender
Application in Bio-Hydrogen Powered Warehouse Truck Fleet (2010-2013). Funded by the Austrian Klima- und Energiefonds in the Electromobility's Technical Beacons program. Project partners: Fronius International GmbH, HyCentA Research GmbH, Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Linde Fördertechnik GmbH and OMV Refining & Marketing.
References:Striednig M.; Brandstätter S.; Sartory M.; Klell M.: Thermodynamic real gas analysis of a tank filling process. in Int J of Hydrogen Energy 39 (2014), pp 8495-8509
HyCar1::Modification of a CNG vehicle (Mercedes Benz E 200 NGT) for the operation with mixtures of methane and hydrogen (2009-2010)
Klell, M.; Eichlseder, H.; Sartory, M.: Variable Mixtures of Hydrogen and Methane in the Internal Combustion Engine of a Prototype Vehicle - Regulations, Safety and Potential. International Journal of Vehicle Design, Vol. 54, No. 2, S. 137 - 155, 2010ScienceDirektEichlseder, H.; Klell, M.; Schaffer, K.; Leitner, D.; Sartory, M.: Potential of Synergies in a Vehicle for Variable Mixtures of CNG and Hydrogen. SAE paper 2009-01-1420 in: Hydrogen IC Engines, SP-2251, SAE International 2009
Fully automated functional testing of cryogenic tank systems for liquid hydrogen, designed by MAGNA STEYR Fahrzeugtechnik for the BMW Hydrogen 7 (2006-2008)
Eichlseder, H.; Klell, M.:
Wasserstoff in der Fahrzeugtechnik. Erzeugung, Speicherung, Anwendung
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published by Springer Vieweg Wiesbaden, 2012
Custom-specific test bed setups and experiments
Example: RSA-HIFAI, a Highly Integrated Fuel Cell System Analysis Infrastructure
Engineering services for PEM-electrolyser, power-to-gas plants, fuel cell systems and hydrogen infrastructure
Example: Power-to-gas plant wind2hydrogen in Auersthal for production and storage of hydrogen in the natural gas grid
Refueling of hydrogen powered vehicles up to 350 bar (planned expansion to 700 bar)


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How do I send email to my coaches, referees or parents?
You compose and send email to your coaches and parents using your regional email account, and get the email addresses from our system. Login to your regional email account and start/create a new email. Then, in another window, login and click on 'Div Coord/Email' in the menu. This will open a new page with two drop down boxes, the first drop down is used to select the category of persons you want to email; Parents, Players, Team Parents, Coaches or Referees. For the second drop down, choose 'No, I will use cut and paste to move addresses'. Click submit. You will see a list of email addresses in blocks. You can copy the addresses to your mail message. WARNING: put the email addresses in the BCC column, so that you are not sharing peoples private email addresses to everyone on your list.
You may see that some people do not have an email address. This is usually because the parent did not enter one, or the email address they entered is invalid. Try to get your coaches to urge those people to fix their email address.
How do I send email to other Commissioners?
Use your regional email account to send mail to other commissioners. Login to your regional email account and start a new email. To address email to an individual commissioner, use the abbreviation similar to your own login, ie firstname.lastname@example.com is the Under 7 Boys Commissioner. There is an alias that you can use, email@example.com will get all the commissioners.
What is the process for getting practice field information?
Our Permit Administrator gets permits from the city for the practice fields, roughly in keeping with past numbers and needs. Once obtained, the list of field permits is given to our regional Practice Field Coordinator. Our Practice Field Coordinator sorts out the needs and enters the information into our system. Once done, our Practice Field Coordinator then informs the Division Commissioners that the available fields are in the system for their use.
What training is offered to a Division Commissioner?
The Division Commissioner takes a 30 minute webinar, Safe Haven, since the Division Commissioner will have access to children's private data. There is a 60-90 minute in person orientation and training offered to Division Commissioner, to help them understand and perform the tasks.
How are teams formed?
This depends on the age group. For kinder, U7 and U8 the teams are formed strictly by neighborhood (as indicated by school) and parent requests. For older age groups, players skill levels are used to form BALANCED teams, and the software will moderate this assignment by neighborhoods. The Division Commissioner must ensure each team has a coach and an assistant coach. The Division Commissioner will generate complete team rosters and distribute uniforms and sweatshirts.
How can the Division Commissioners participate during Registration?
Division Coordinators should recruit coaches and assistant coaches for the division they are responsible for. They are also responsible for making sure that all volunteers within their division are Safe HavenTM certified.
How does AYSO protect its volunteers and athletes?
What are AYSO's Supervision Protocols?
While performing duties related to an AYSO volunteer position, the volunteer is:
How can I see who a player was coached by in previous years?
Div Coord/Select Division/Team Formation/Adjust player ratings/View-Alter all player evals
This will show each player in the division along with all previous coaches and assistants that input evaluations in prior years.


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Mesut Özil to miss fifth game in a row
The Evening Standard claim Mesut Özil will miss a fifth consecutive Gunners game on Saturday, having been ruled out of his side's match with Huddersfield.
The 30-year-old has been struggling with a back injury in recent weeks, and hasn't appeared for Arsenal since the 1-1 draw with Wolves on Remembrance Weekend.
Manager Unai Emery revealed that the German had been training away from the first-team and would continue to do so for the immediate future.
Özil has made 12 appearances in all competitions so far this season, and has scored four goals in those opportunities. Adding four assists, the midfielder had started to look more comfortable in Emery's setup, after some rather obvious teething problems at the beginning of the Spaniard's reign.
Arsenal could also be without Aaron Ramsey at the weekend, after twisting his ankle against Manchester United in Wednesday evening's 2-2 draw.


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The world was reminded of the cozy relationship between The Fed and The Treasury again today as Janet sent Jack $92.0 billion of freshly ponzi'd net income for 2016 providing the federal government with an important source of funding. This, however, is down almost 6% from 2015 and despite a considerably larger balance sheet is the lowest remittance since 2013 due to doubling the handouts to the major banks to $12 billion last year.
As Reuters reports, part of the decline is due to a drop of about $2.6 billion in what the Fed earns on its holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities accumulated in fighting the 2007 to 2009 financial crisis.
But most of it is a result of the interest paid on excess reserves held by commercial banks at the 12 regional Federal Reserve institutions. Banks are required to hold some reserves, but are allowed to deposit more if they choose.
Between more cautious lending and weak economic growth, total reserves have been at historically high levels since the financial crisis -- roughly $2 trillion as of the end of the last year compared with a few billions of dollars in more typical times.
When the Fed increased its target interest rate in Dec. 2015 by a quarter of a percentage point, to a range of between 0.25 and 0.5, it increased the rate paid to banks as well - and pushed its overall reserve interest costs from $6.9 billion in 2015 to $12 billion last year.
The increase may draw attention from lawmakers who have been critical of the Fed paying money to large commercial institutions. The central bank argues that the payments are its most effective way to push rates higher: by offering interest on excess reserves, the Fed forces banks to raise the rate at which they are willing to lend to each other.
In the last 15 years, The Fed has handed over $880 billion to The Treasury...
As is clear in the chart above, a decade ago, back when the Fed was a smaller size, Fed remittances were fairly steady, in the neighborhood of $20 billion a year. This all changed after 2008 as the Fed's Quantitative Easing programs increased the amount of interest-earning assets that would generate funds to transfer back to the Treasury.
Big Bucks for the US Treasury
For the US Treasury, Fed remittances are something of a free lunch. When someone buys a Treasury bond, the government must pay them interest. This applies to the Fed as well, but then at year-end the Fed remits the interest back to the Treasury.
As we noted previously, in more "normal" times (i.e., prior to 2008) around 7 percent of the Treasury's interest payments were paid back to it by the Fed. This figure has grown to over three times that amount over the past few years...
Implications for Fed "Independence"
As much as economists talk about the independence that the Fed holds from Congress, these remittances represent a strong link. In fact, since they enable federal spending they create a form of quasi-fiscal policy for the Fed to use, in addition to its more common monetary policy options.
Consider that since Treasury debt is almost never repaid in net terms (old issues are retired but replaced with new debt issuances), the true cost of financing the US government's borrowing is not the gross amount of debt outstanding but the annual interest expense it faces. Viewed this way, nearly half of the Treasury's borrowing was financed by the Fed last year. Absent these Fed remittances, Congress would need to look at either an alternative funding source (though I am not sure how many takers there are for the Fed's $2.5 trillion Treasury holdings) or make some serious cuts.
How serious? NASA's operating budget was roughly $18 billion last year, so a lack of Fed remittances would cause the Treasury to cut around five NASA-sized programs. Alternatively, the governments Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (previously known as "food stamps") cost $70 billion in 2014. Without the Fed's remittances, Congress would have to stop paying out all food stamp recipients plus it would be forced to defund almost two NASAs.
More important in many Americans' hearts is their monthly social security check. In 2014, $830 billion of social security checks were mailed out. Without Fed remittances, retirees might see their monthly check cut by about 12 percent.
For those concerned with the burgeoning size of the federal government, putting a stop to Fed remittances would put a serious dent in public finances and force some serious thought as to what programs need to be cut.


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ACER's missions and tasks are defined by the Directives and Regulations of the Third Energy Package, especially Regulation (EC) 713/2009 establishing the Agency in 2011, repealed in 2019 by Regulation (EU) 2019/942 (recast). In 2011, ACER received additional tasks under Regulation (EU) No 1227/2011 on wholesale energy market integrity and transparency (REMIT) and in 2013 under Regulation (EU) No 347/2013 on guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure.
The Agency's overall mission, as stated in its founding regulation, is to complement and coordinate the work of national energy regulators at EU level, and to work towards the completion of the single EU energy market for electricity and natural gas.
ACER plays a central role in the development of EU-wide network and market rules with a view to enhancing competition. The Agency coordinates regional and cross-regional initiatives, which favour market integration. It monitors the work of European networks of transmission system operators (ENTSOs), and notably, their EU-wide network development plans. Finally, ACER monitors the functioning of gas and electricity markets in general, and of wholesale energy trading in particular.
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Elderly Northland residents are being warned to be vigilant against intruders following a spate of vicious attacks on pensioners and targeted burglaries.
Whangarei Grey Power chairman Jim Beniston said the organisation was concerned many elderly were still taking risks when it came to home safety, with elderly widows often too trusting of strangers.
An 83-year-old Whangarei pensioner was assaulted by two teenage 'trick or treaters' on November 2 when he let the offenders into his home.
The man was taken to hospital with a broken nose and severe bruising.
Police warn that elderly appear to have been targeted in a recent spate of intruder burglaries, with teenage offenders breaking into homes while the occupants slept.
Three youths have been arrested and appeared in court on Saturday.
Mr Beniston, who works with Whangarei Community Patrol, said Northland elderly frequently opened their door to him without checking - putting themselves at risk.
"So many people out there have got a bit of style about themselves and a bit of blarney and they can talk themselves past some of these [pensioners] and this is how the trouble can start," he said.
He said he had come across elderly widows living alone who were too trusting of strangers. They sometimes left their garage doors open, which meant passersby could not only steal contents, but possibly access the house through an internal door.
Grey Power was working with the Whangarei District Council to get security doors installed at council flats.
Police Community Services manager Inspector Glyn Rowland said the decreasing crime rate meant a reduced risk of attack. However, elderly were more at risk of long-term effects from home invasions.


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The Innovation at UCLan team provides an institution-wide service for the protection and exploitation of intellectual property (IP) via licensing, joint ventures and spin-out company formation.
The team offers a range of services to external organisations, including opportunities to exploit university owned IP, as well as providing investment towards the cost of collaborating with us. All of these opportunities are designed to help your business innovate and grow by tapping into the expertise at the University of Central Lancashire.
We do this through the following programs:
Providing up to £20,000 of investment to enable your organisation to collaborate with our experts as well as access to specialist infrastructure and equipment to turn your ideas into reality.
The world class research that takes place at UCLan has led to a wide range of intellectual property available for licensing. To find available technologies please view our IP portfolio.
Water-purifying composite material for use in the photocatalytic destruction of pollutants in water