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For the first time this year since I started my blog in 2008, total posts have dropped.
Here's a plot of the rate of net posts during the year since 2008, when Cara convinced me to start the blog:
I started a bit slowly this year, then rallied, catching my 2010 schedule. But then I started losing ground, finishing in a dead heat with 2009.
So what happened?
The answer is I started riding more. This is evident from the plot on my Strava page. Barely surviving through April, then my hours start to take off in May. Normal commute means I am in the train around 100 minutes with my laptop. SF2G means I leave home early, then have only my cell phone for my train ride home. More riding = less posting.
And that is a very good thing.
Here's another look at my SF2G schedule. I counted the number of Strava activities I had with SF2G in the title. Before the period of the plot I didn't have GPS so I'd need to check my old training logs. I may have been occasionally remiss in tagging my rides SF2G, so there may be a few not included here. But you can definitely see I started riding into work a lot more often.
Through September 2010, at a previous job, I was more readily able to combine both, since I was more able to squeeze in lunch rides and even the occasional post-commute morning ride. I was on flex time, and could often do actual work on the train since much of what I did didn't require an internet connection (Caltrain has none). Now I need to be on the secure network to do "work", and in any case "face time" is more important, so working on the train then blowing out to join one of the Wednesday morning groups simply doesn't work any more. Working on the train in the morning often meant I spent the evening commute on the blog, but now if I ride in both commutes are blogless.
It's all good: I try for quality, not quantity. What really runs up the numbers is when I get hooked onto a topic, as I did with the Metrigear Vector. Serial posts on a topic become more efficient to get out.
A bit more on the SF2G rate: my SF2G's peaked in August: good weather, plenty of daylight for early starts. September tailed off, in part because I needed train time to prepare for the upcoming Low-Key Hillclimbs (scoring code, web pages). Then October-November my SF2G's were suppressed by not wanting to go into Saturday's Low-Key Hillclimb fatigued. December included holidays, and was also off.
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I took part in an exercise last fall sponsored by the Perry County Local Emergency Planning Committee, a behind-the-scenes group that gathers information on potentially hazardous chemicals in the county. The group also prepares response plans to spills, explosions and other emergencies.
The group's fall exercise centered on the impacts of an earthquake and the local response that would follow. As we've all heard time and again, our area is susceptible to a major quake. The people at the session included paramedics and health-care providers, representatives of police and fire departments, elected officials and members of local industry.
The point I took away from the day was how many of us would have to be reliant upon each other and ourselves to cope for days or even weeks after a wide-scale disaster. We've all seen images from the quake a year ago in Haiti. I can't really imagine something like that happening here, but it's true that an earthquake could do serious damage to buildings, cut power and pretty much shut down ordinary life for a long time. Local, state and even federal governments would offer aid, but it might take days to arrive. How would we cope in the first hours and days? Tough decisions would have to be made.
The people handling medical emergencies would have to decide who they could treat and who they couldn't. None of likes to think that in a nation as mighty as ours, we wouldn't be able to give everyone the help they need, but in the wake of such a disaster there would not be enough help to go around. Those of us with minor injuries would have be left to cope on our own. Those with little or no chance of survival might not be helped at all.
In times of the most dire need, hard choices have to be made.
Many of us would be responsible for our own welfare as far as food and water.
Those of us with ties to the soil, farmers and gardeners, would be best able to cope. I suspect a good number of homes have emergency kits with bottled water and nonperishable food. Mine is not one of them and I'd be forced to rely on the charity of others.
We live in a community where people look after one another and I know that in the event of an earthquake or other calamity, we would share what we had. I've seen winter storms when people opened their doors to others or went to temporary shelters to deliver blankets and food.
Like you, I've grumbled at the lack of heat or hot water, but I wonder, how would I cope if power was cut for weeks instead of days?
Maybe none of us will see such a disaster in our lifetimes. I hope we don't. But we know calamities can befall us, whether natural disaster, some flu pandemic or some large accident.
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|2010-12-28, 10:27
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The Time loop travel discussion made my head hurt. After Kyon was stabbed then suddenly another Kyon it would be appear to be a younger version. How many now Kyon out there? Can anyone explain specifically my head hurts.
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Can plural same person exist in the same time axis?
What happens if you change the fact in the former time axis?
After all, nobody knows what happens.
IMO I think that in case those contradiction caused by time travel, the world branches off as the different world in fact.
In a word, I think the world is the parallel world originally. But I can't confirm of course.
Possibly, in the final analysis the time travel itself is a contradiction. I think this kind of dispute is senseless. You know, main plot of most of time travel movies are not SF just like this.
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My thoughts on a couple questions raised over the last few pages (I've got more, but these relate directly to the movie).
1) Why does the IDSE study Haruhi, if they can just control her power? A gross oversimplification of the situation, the kind which someone who revels in poking holes in everything Haruhi would naturally want to steer towards. If we had anyone like that here. Truth is, contrary to apparent popular thought, "scientific method" doesn't involve suborning control of a phenomenon and spamming the "on" button until you think you've figured said phenomenon out. This universe is filled with systems whose processes are affected by just observing them. Pretty much every system is affected wildly if the observer becomes directly involved. Avoiding as many outside contaminants as possible is a cornerstone of scientific method, as the IDSE seems to understand.
Sure, Yuki being able to effect a change by a method that involved Haruhi's power seems as first glance to imply that the IDSE (or at least its data/human hybrid interfaces) can "harness" Haruhi's power, but look closer. We have to remember that a fair bit of that power was already within Yuki's abilities (memory change, data manipulation, Asakura's resurrection, the entire Escape Program including the time travel, easily borrowed from Mikuru of the upper levels of the IDSE), so the line where Yuki's power ended and Haruhi's began is fuzzy at best, not to mention that the method by which Yuki enabled this use of power is pretty much unknown. Did she just yank out Haruhi's power and use it at whim? Or did she merely implant a complex, unavoidable suggestion in Haruhi's subconscious, and exercised no real control? Or is it somewhere in the middle, and the slapdash execution is due to her "control" being based upon a preliminary theory of how Haruhi's powers can be manipulated, which is likewise based upon her incomplete observation?
Put simply, observing Haruhi without interference might eventually tell you how her powers work, and when you're an omnipotent data race that lives outside of linear time, you do literally have all the time in the world to make that "might" a reality. Going in and stealing, then using those powers without a complete understanding to begin with will only ever tell you what happens when you use them incompletely. The IDSE is not going to suddenly figure out her powers after a using a flawed copy for a certain number of iterations. If they had that ability, they would have evolved past that level already.
2) Why is Mikuru afraid of Yuki? Perspective, from a couple of aspects. First and most obviously, Mikuru has to understand that as a time traveler from the future, in the pliant causality that surrounds the SOS Dan, her very existence, and that of her future comrades, can be ended by the slightest change to history. Itsuki is predictable, Kyon appears to be a magnet for "predetermined events" fortuitous to her existence, and Haruhi can't be helped. Yuki, however, has already acted unpredictably on her own in a way that jeopardized her future's existence, and who's to say that Asakura's faction might one day rise to power within the IDSE and give Yuki orders that will take history right off track?
Second, as someone from the future, she herself is bound to have access to "sufficiently advanced technology" that should make Kyon and Itsuki wary around her if they knew about it. But by comparison, Yuki makes her look like a Neanderthal wielding a sharp rock. Mikuru has a much better idea just what "nigh-omnipotent" actually can mean than Kyon or Itsuki, and just how bad that can be if turned awry.
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I'm just confused. If Kyon ends up talking to Yuki, and saving himself, and choosing that decision, then why the hell did he end up in the first place having to wait 2 days before confronting Yuki again if he already confronted Yuki the night of the change in the first place?
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Kyon also says that it feels as if he's seen this before, which implies that he is actually saved by a Kyon from the past. It would be fully possible for a time-traveler to experience Kyon's death, go back in time, grab the Kyon from that time frame and have him save stabbed Kyon. This would also implant some kind of memory of the fact this happened in the stabbed Kyon's head as it's experienced right that moment but by a past version of himself. Problem is the Kyon that picks up the gun says that it hurt for him as well which once again implies that he's from the future which would be completely impossible as any future version of himself would only be able to exist if the stabbed Kyon managed to survive without relying on this future version of himself. Paradox. I sure hope that I'm missing something here (and given how little I remember from the TV series I'm sure I am).
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Hm.... that means a past Kyon will need to have saved stabbed Kyon in the first iteration of events then, in order to ensure that a future Kyon will be able to exist in the first place. Once the existence of a future Kyon has been established, i guess future Kyon can continue saving stabbed Kyon from there on out, taking the duty away from past Kyon's hands?
|2010-12-30, 07:04
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Mind you, normally predestination paradox are told from the time traveller's perspective (in this case that's future-Kyon saving stabbed-Kyon) which I think is the cause of so much confusion.
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Why do you think Kyon needs to go back in time BEFORE he was stabbed?
That sentence makes no sense! You only need cause to happen before the effect, if you don't have time travel.
Let me explain it this way.
A Time traveller was born in 3000AD. He went into a time machine and appeared in 1000AD. There, he was killed and died.
But how could he have died? He wasn't born yet in 1000AD! How could someone die, if they weren't born "in the first place"?
And here lies your logic flaw. That something has to happen in a fixed order. If you have a time machine, you can die at a time before you are born. The argument that "Kyon can't save himself" is the same one as "You can't die before you are born". And the argument boils down to "it is not possible unless you have a time machine".
Thus, if you HAVE a time machine, you can save your younger self from death if that was factored in the time loop. "When" something happened, does not matter, when you can manipulate time itself.
Without a time machine, we are trapped in the timestream like a quadriplegic is trapped on his bed. Someone who can walk, would have no problem walking out of the hospital. But for a quadriplegic the exit of the hospital might as well be in another galaxy. If you have the right tools, you can manipulate time. That's all.
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Well I waited to watch this, and I'm glad I did. It needed the quality to be appreciated.
And for the Asakura stab scene.
Holy ^#$&%*#$!
%*^%, @#$^! and #!@$@#@% for good measure.
Yuki's face.
Kyon's face.
I'm speechless.
She truly is the epic villain of the Haruhi universe.
This was extremely well done.
On, and for those complaining about future Kyon saving past Kyon being a paradox, it actually is not, because he had already done it.
You are falling into linear time thinking. This is because time is linear in reality (for humans anyway). If however, if time is no longer linear, then there is no paradox in a future self acting in the past, thus creating the possibility for the future self to exist.
In fact God claims to Moses that He is this very type of being. "I am that I am", or in other words "I am the self-existent one", or "I exist because I exist".
Wow... I just had a semi-blasphemous thought. Does creating the conditions for his own future existence make Kyon a "Self-Existent One"?
|2010-12-30, 21:02
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Then, here's the kicker; you realised there was more money on the table than you originally had put there. So You get a job a decade in the future, earn the extra money, go back in time between the gap when you put money on the table and when you went shopping, and put in the remainder of the cash so timeline would be consistent.
When you have a time machine, it no longer matter WHEN something happened. It just had to happen, but in any order you wish.
|2010-12-31, 04:29
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Mikuru says that there's no continuity between time planes, and I'm sure this is where you're getting your "time isn't linear" notion. The problem is that this is simply ridiculous to say. First of all, time travel would NOT be a simple insertion into a particular time plane, but rather the start of a series of insertions into the destination time plane and all those following it. If Mikuru thinks of herself as an extra drawing in a flipbook, that drawing would need to be made on every subsequent page as well. That has some serious implications for the power and scope of a TPDD.
Adding to that, if time truly isn't continuous or linear, then EVERY SINGLE INSTANCE of time travel in the Haruhi series SHOULD be utterly futile. Kyon goes back in time and inspires young Haruhi to go to North High? So what? Time isn't linear, right? Those changes don't carry through. In fact, Mikuru herself says, "Even if I attempted to change history in this age it would not affect the future, because there is no continuity between time frames. Everything would stay in this temporal plane."
So yeah. If that's true, Kyon shouldn't have been able to do all the things he did in Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody and Disappearance. If it's false, then there IS continuity, and time is linear after all (meaning that once again, Kyon shouldn't have been able to do much of what he did). Someone tried to explain it by saying that Haruhi breaks time travel, but that can't be the case. Time travel only exists BECAUSE Haruhi wants it to. They follow the rules that she sets up. Besides, she's not even tangentially related to any of the time traveling that goes on, so it's not like she breaks it in specific instances. So far, the only influence Haruhi has exerted on time travel (besides its inception) is that she sets the boundaries on when time be traveled (only after three years ago, or, in the case of E8, only within that two week span).
Furthermore, unless somebody knows something to the contrary, the time travelers have only ever been shown to go back in time to set events in motion as they remember them. In other words, their WHOLE POINT is to do the one thing that Mikuru says can't be done. Now, don't misunderstand me here; I'm not blindly trusting in Mikuru's explanation. It just seems that if she's wrong (and time IS linear), much bigger problems arise (paradoxes, etc.).
Also, "I exist because I exist" is distinct from "At some point in time, I performed an action that resulted in my current existence." Heck, everyone does the second one whenever they eat, breathe, or do some other self-sustaining action. "I exist because I exist," simply means, "The point of my existence is the existence itself." Kyon, on the other hand, fulfills the alternate interpretation of, "My current existence would not be possible if not for another existence of mine." That's a very different concept from self-existence.
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Very interesting views there Vallen Chaos Valiant, to think that you are moving on a timeplane that has been estabilished until the end of time which would allow for fluent movement back and forth in time is somewhat daunting.
In fact apon further reflection of this anime, that may very well be the theory they used, and it certainly makes understanding time travel much easier not to mention it makes understanding this anime much easier.
Everything you think, say, and do is determined before you are even born. And even if you travel through time, no matter what you do, it was already taken into account in the future.
Ofcourse because this theory is very depressing when put into our reality i choose reject it, i prefer to travel back in time to the known, and travel forward in time into the completely unknown.
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The median age of diagnosis of lung cancer is in the mid 60's. This means that half of the people who get lung cancer are above this age and half are below it. This does not mean that only older people get lung cancer. The youngest patient that I have seen with smoking-related lung cancer was in her early 30's, and we are seeing increasing numbers of cases in people in their 40's. I have also seen lung cancer in patients in their 20's who were never-smokers. In the majority of cases, lung cancer is caused by years or decades of smoking. The risk of developing lung cancer increases with the duration of smoking and the amount smoked. However, there is no threshold of cigarette exposure above which one is at increased risk for getting lung cancer but below which there is very little risk. Even a small amount of cigarette exposure can cause permanent genetic damage to the lungs that could lead to lung cancer. The risk of getting lung cancer in someone who has ever smoked, even a small amount, will always be at least slightly higher than for someone who has never smoked. Even non-smokers who are exposed to cigarette smoke at home or at work (secondhand smoke) are at increased risk for lung cancer, although certainly nowhere near as great a risk as for those who smoke heavily.
What happens to the risk of getting lung cancer in people who have quit smoking? This question has been carefully addressed in a study by Halpern, et al (1). Surprisingly, the risk of developing lung cancer does not go down to zero after smoking cessation. It is interesting that about half of lung cancer patients who are diagnosed at the present time are former smokers. Some of them quit smoking decades before diagnosis. There is no "safe" level of cigarette exposure.
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Subject: [SCA-AS] Links: Medieval Metal Casting (Silver, Pewter, Bronze, Gold, Iron, Steel) and Smelting
Greetings. This week's Links List comes to you via a request from Phlip for metal casting information. Since we haven't covered that subject before, Here You Go! You'll find info. on Silver, Pewter, Iron, Bronze, Gold and Steel. many sites cover several metals. This is not a smithing Links List (we've covered that subject in the past), but is all about smelting and casting.
As always, please share this list with those who will welcome the information.
Dame Aoife Finn of Ynos Mon, OL
Medieval Sourcebook:
Accounts of Tin Mining in Cornwall,
Stanner Charters of 1198 & 1201
(Site Excerpt) All miners and buyers of black tin, and first smelters of tin and merchants of tin of the first smelting have just and ancient customs and liberties established in Devon and Cornwall. Likewise just and ancient weights of the first and second smelting of tin, determined by the oath of the above-mentioned jurors, and marked with the stamp of the Lord King, shall be kept....Also all men have the common right of buying tin by just, ancient, and free customs, as they are accustomed to have and ought to have, by the mark from any thousand weight of the second smelting.
Regia Anglorum: Charcoal Burning
(Site Excerpt) Firstly, why make charcoal? The simple answer is that no other combustible substance generates the heat necessary for the forging of metals (by the definition above, 20th century coke is "coal charcoal"). The process basically consists of Burning - or literally charring - wood at a very slow, controlled rate so that the combustion is never allowed to complete and thus turn the raw materials to ash. This is achieved by controlling the amount of air involved in the reaction - basically, covering the whole caboose in earth. The process takes about 24 - 30 hours for 3 - 4 tons of wood (the amount we had available in the lakes) and produces, in ideal conditions, about a ton of charcoal. See Also: Iron Working http://www.regia.org/ironwork.htm
A Home-Built Charcoal Fired Foundry
by Gene Elliott (c) 2000 (edited by Steve Kaehler)
(Site Excerpt) Since I've always wanted a small, portable foundry set-up that I could take along for field demos and other special projects, building this furnace gave me the perfect excuse to provide my very own portable small parts casting foundry. The picture shows the main apparatus involved.From left to right, the molding flasks, foundry, the blower hose....
Iron Production-Techiniques and History by Bo Justusson
(Site Excerpt) Old times. There have been hundreds of iron mines and blast-furnaces, and around thousand iron mills. Most of them in Bergslagen (far north-west of Stockholm, see map on Early Railways-page). This reduction has of course meant enormous changes for the people working in the Bergslag region.
(Site Excerpt) The archaeological excavations at Kestel and Göltepe in the Taurus Mountains of Turkey, led by Professor Aslihan Yener of the Oriental Institute, have disclosed an early Bronze Age tin mining and processing operation. There is at least one ancient mine in the area of the excavations, now named Kestel Mine, but there are undoubtedly more yet to be found. The experiments aimed at establishing production techniques and were designed to determine the magnitude of tin production at the site of Göltepe.
Early Smelting and Metallurgy
(Site Excerpt---and page down for a period illustrationof a smelting furnace) Smelting was accomplished initially in an open fire. A hole one to two feet in diameter was dug in the ground. The hole was lined with fire-resistant clay or stone. Charcoal was placed in a layer on top of the clay, then was covered by copper ore. Charcoal burns particularly hot, raising temperatures enough to melt the copper. The charcoal also releases gases that react with the copper minerals to reduce them to copper metal. A molten mass of the dense copper formed, topped by lighter waste products, or slag. When the mass was cool, the brittle, glassy slag could be broken off, leaving a cake of refined copper behind. The furnace in this method is called an open hearth. Remnants of open hearths have been found in Sumerian ruins.
Smelting, Casting, Smithing
(Site Excerpt) During the summer 2000 field season at Scatness, some experimental archaeology was carried out near the excavated Broch. A bloomery shaft furnace was constructed from clay, and local bog iron ore was smelted. The furnace filled with charcoal: bellows and tuyere at left, and thermocouple built into furnace wall at front.
The North Yorkshire Moors Ironworking Project
(Site Excerpt) The North Yorkshire Moors have a history of iron working which extends back to the Iron Age. Although modern industry has been studied in detail for Rosedale and the Cleveland area, very little research has been undertaken into the industry's origins. The western side of the North Yorkshire Moors has several important sites linked to the different phases/periods of English iron-smelting technology, focused around Rievaulx Abbey.
Old Rookhope Archive: History of Iron Mining
(Site Excerpt) Iron mining and smelting started in Weardale and Teesdale at least as early as Roman times, as shown by the slag found on small native British settlements. The earliest documented iron working in the Rookhope Valley is a reference to iron mines in 1154 AD. Both Weardale and Teesdale have abundant evidence for medieval iron smelting. Medieval smelting sites called bloomeries left distinctive heaps of slag, many of which can be found in the Durham Dales.
See also Smelting video:
This site provides a video of a medieval style smelting furnace complete with bellows work. If you access the page, you will either see the video automatically or get an error message. There is nothing else on the page. If you computer loads slowly you may wish to avoid this page as there is no choice given for viewing the video.
Smelting Silver
An Excellent article in Adobe Acrobat on the subject.
Pewter Casting in Stone Molds
(Site Excerpt) The majority of jewelry objects remaining from the Viking Age are either made of silver or bronze. Silver is commonly found in massed hordes, with coins, ingots, fragments forming the largest portion rather than finished jewelry. These hordes are obviously collected wealth, hidden in times of peril by owners who never returned. The common medium of exchange was obviously silver, gold objects are relatively uncommon throughout Scandinavia. Although simple sliver objects are found, many show a very high degree of craftsmanship. Complex forming and assembling techniques are commonly seen with silver.
Sources for Pewterers in these Current Middle Ages
Being a list of sources compiled by the Honourable Sergeant Avery Austringer
(Site Excerpt) The following is a slightly revised version of a handout which I prepared for, Pewter Casting To Go, a class which Charles Oakley and I have taught at Pennsic, in which we teach people how to make small pewter castings and venerate Joe L'Erario and Ed Feldman. While I am one to encourage people to try new things, please try them safely - liquid pewter is hotter than the hottest thing you want to touch. It will bring water to a boil and much popping and splattering will occur. Carving soapstone generates a lot of silicon rich dust. The vapor over molten lead (if you use leaded pewter) is both toxic and bioavailable. You can work with these materials safely or you can do yourself grievous harm - it's up to you.
Stefan's Florilegium casting-msg
(Site Excerpt from one message) Beginning Pewter Casting by Lady Nicolaa de Bracton of Leicester
Materials needed:
--Pewter (bar or chip form).
--heat source (propane torch, stovetop element, casting pot, campfire)
--Container to heat pewter in (small pot, ladle, etc.)
--material for mold (preferably soapstone)
--rubber bands
--carving tools (dental or woodcarving tools are best, but virtually
anything will carve soapstone)
--files (microfiles are most useful)
--tongs or clamps
--bowl of cold water
--towels or oven mitts
A note on pewter: Pewter sold today in craft stores for jewellery-making is usually lead free; it is an alloy of copper, tin, and antimony. A number of companies also sell pewter for miniature casting; this may not be lead-free. If in doubt, ask. Current going price for one pound of lead-free pewter in the Toronto area is $10-$17 CDN. Craft stores are often overpriced; ask your local SCA jewellery - and metalworkers for sources.
(Site Excerpt) Each of our money saving Introductory Casting Set offers contain the following:
(the sets differ from each other only in size of the melting pot)
*Melting Pot
*Figure Mold (your choice of a Medieval Knight, Civil War (figure can be painted as either a Union or Confederate soldier), American Indian, Coldstream Guard silicone rubber mold, or a 3 figure American Infantry WW2 action mold
*Ingot of casting metal (composition 10% Tin, 11% Antimony, 79% Lead). This ingot will make 5 to 6 54mm (21/4") figures. You may substitute an ingot of lead-free pewter for an additional $3.50.
*2 Mold Clamps ((when a rubber mold is selected or one metal clamp and a pair of wood mold handles, when the metal mold is selected).
*Heavy Duty Gloves
*Complete Instructions
Midrealm Order of the Laurel Medieval Arts and Sciences Database: Casting
Site lists several other sites and references for the art, and ranks them according to reliability.
Pewter Casting Alloys: CARN METALS
Manufacturers of High Quality Tin Casting Alloys and Solders
This page loads to a menu (farther down the page, otherwise it's almost blank) that had the following options: Casting alloys, mould making, schools, help with casting problemsasting alloys, mould making, schools, help with casting problems; Stained glass work, electronics general jointing and construction of pewter and whitemetals; Alloys, casting using, cleaning general info; properties and uses, tin mining, early technology.
Blowing new life in old technology - Viking Age Metal-casting.
By Anders Söderberg.
(Site excerpt) Early medieval founders cast using technology with roots deep in the Bronze Age. The process looked almost the same as it had done for a couple thousand years. If the Bronze Age was the golden age of bronze casting, the craft didn't die with the coming of iron. Casting in bronze and silver still played an improtant social part through the production of jewellery and prestige objects, a production of social codes expressing identity and belonging; sworn fidelity and social ranking. All confirmed by a system of gifts, sometimes almost strong enough to give each object a life of it's own; at least this may have been the way contempory man regarded it. I have devoted the last three years to examining some of these crafts in detail. I have worked particularly with reconstructed bronze and silver casting, supportedby excavation publications and earlier experimental projects. There have been many of them in recent decades, with varying ambitions and results, but the most extensive are probably the Danish and English. These projects are also the best documented.
Swedish Silver - Silver In The Middle Ages (circa 1050-1520) (An older Book for Sale circa 1951)
(Site excerpt) In periods of strife, people buried silver, and many a rightful owner did not live to unearth his fortune, which remained for centuries until plow or spade happened to strike the treasure. A famous example is the Lohe fortune, which lay hidden in the double floor of a Stockholm house for almost two centuries, and came to light only when the house was razed in 1937. The role of silver as heirloom and investment involved a strict system of guarantees as to purity. In countries outside Sweden, hallmarks were issued as early as the thirteenth century. In Sweden it was decreed in 1485 that gold- and silversmiths should "put their mark on whatsoever they made." Duke Karl IX in 1596 proclaimed that along with their marks, smiths should imprint the insignia of their city arms on each piece.
Silver smithing Supplies--Silver Casting Grains and Cheap Clean Scrap Silver (Retail Merchant/supplier)
SRS Lost Wax and Stone Casting Supplies (Retail Merchant)
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Cire Perdue: Lost Wax Casting (mainly about GOLD in Indonesia)
(Site excerpt) Gold has always been an important medium of expression for Javanese craftsmen. In prehistoric times, gold-foil masks were used to cover the faces of the dead. These gold pieces were made by beating the gold with a hammer. While this technique was widely used in various parts of Indonesia and Southeast Asia, a more effective technique was adopted in Java during the early centuries AD, whereby heat was used to work gold. This new method not only cuts down the time spent in making gold objects, but is also responsible for the creation of more intricate designs. The technique is known as lost wax casting. Click on the red buttons to see an illustration of each stage of the lostwax casting process.....
Scandinavian bronzecasting in Viking Age and Early Middle Ages
Anders Söderberg
(Site Excerpt) Bronze casting is an elegant play with a couple of cubic-decimeters of borrowed hell. It´s quite handy as it´s limited to a small pit, but deceptive as you easily could be seduced to think you´re its master. Who´s terms you´re working under is obvious each time you accidently put your thumb too close to the hearth, or when you in distraction almost grips the crucible with your fingers. These things bite, and they bite bad... Early medieval casting had deep traditions since Bronze Age. The Viking Age process probably looked quite the same as it already had done for a couple of thousand years. If Bronze Age was the golden age of bronze casting, the craft didn´t die with the coming of iron. Metal casting still played an important social part by the production of jewellery and prestige objects, a production of social codes telling about identity and belonging, of sworn fidelity and of alliances. All confirmed by a system of giftgiving, almost strong enough to give each object a life of its own; at least this may have been the way contemporary man regarded it.
Viking Bronze: Blowing new life into Ancient and Early Medieval Metalcraft
(Site Excerpt) This page deals with ancient metalcraft and research mainly from a reconstructional and experimental basis. The page will provide texts, resources and links related to the archaeology of ancient and early historic metalcrafts. The Iron Age/early Middle Age founders cast in techniques with roots deep down in Bronze Age and the methods presented here could, with slight adjustments, be said to be relevant for all the Scandinavian Iron Age and up into the Middle Ages.
Medieval Iron and Steel -- Simplified by Bert Hall
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto
(Site Excerpt) Pure, unadulterated iron is only moderately hard, as anyone who has bent a nail with a hammer can attest. When it becomes red hot, say at about 700 degrees Celsius, it can be easily bent and formed into whatever shape the artisan wishes -- straps, hinges, horseshoes. For this reason we speak of "wrought iron," (wrought, from wreak, to bend or twist). Unfortunately, it is also only moderately tough; it can easily be bent when being used. It also loses any sharp edge very quickly under the pressure of work or abrasion.Cast iron, on the other hand, is enormously strong. Cast iron takes its name from the fact that it emerges from the smelter in liquid form (see below) and can be cast into moulds rather like bronze or silver. Unfortunately, it is rather brittle, and worse, it can't be bent or shaped in any way once it has solidified. Hammering on red hot, even white hot, cast iron will simply break it. Steel, iron with a small amount of carbon dissolved inside its structure, combines the best of both worlds. It can be cast into moulds from the furnace, shaped when red hot, and it holds an edge when it has been sharpened, even under fairly heavy use. Steel is clearly the prince of ferric metals, but it's not easy to make.
Cauldrons and the Development of Cast Iron for Domestic Use
By: Jacob Selmer
Last revised: 10/31/2003
(Site Excerpt) The study of early metallurgy and metalworking often focuses on military and industrial applications. However, the everyday uses of metals are sometimes overlooked. In particular, the cauldron played an essential role in day-to-day life. Modernly, manufacturers make these out of cast iron, but Europeans did not begin using this material until early in the fifteenth century and mass production of cast iron did not happen until the eighteenth century. This report discusses some of the history and importance of cauldrons and focuses on the development of cast iron for everyday use.Celtic cauldrons: Cauldrons in Celtic life played an important role. More than just essential cooking vessels, they could also have magical qualities attributed to them. Cauldrons and chalices appear in many Celtic tales and rituals. Early Celtic metalworkers generally crafted these cauldrons from brass or bronze, which they either cast into a single piece or forged in multiple pieces and joined with rivets and solder. Archaeologists found one such cauldron at Gundstrup, Denmark (Figure 1). This highly decorated vessel from the first century B.C. consists of thirteen silver gilt panels, combining to create a 27-inch diameter cauldron (Lang, 83-85, Eluere, 116-117). The expense of Celtic cauldrons made them unaffordable for most people and consequently, the craftsmen often took great care to make them works of art.
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Dato' Seri Ir. Dr. Zaini bin Ujang
Independent Non-Executive Director
Age: 53 years
Nationality: Malaysian
- Bachelor of Chemical Engineering (Hons.) Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
- Master of Science (Environmental Engineering), University of Newcastle, United Kingdom
- Doctor of Philosophy (Environmental Engineering), University of Newcastle, United Kingdom
- Advanced Management Program, Harvard Business School, Harvard University
- Professional Engineer, Malaysia
- Chartered Engineer, United Kingdom
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Independent Non-Executive Director
Date of Appointment to The Board
10 January 2011
Working Experience and Occupation
Dato' Seri Ir. Dr. Zaini is a professional environmental engineeer cum scientist who integrates studies on water ecology with engineering systems towards pollution control and sustainability, especially with reference to river rehabilitation in developing countries. His interest in the field leads him to collaborate with leading scholars worldwide, particularly in membrane bioreactor, granulation process and biofouling control.
He was Vice Chancellor of the oldest technical university in Malaysia and South East Asia, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. For his remarkable contribution to the nation, he became the first recipient of the prestigious Malaysia Merdeka Award 2009 for the category of Outstanding Scholastic Achievement in environmental and sustainability water. He has been conferred the Darjah Seri Setia Tuanku Muhriz Yang Amat Terbilang ("SSTM") and Panglima Jasa Negara ("PJN"). He was the 'Tokoh Maal Hijrah 1433H' of Negeri Sembilan 2011, a Fellow of the Academy of Science Malaysia, Senior Advisor to the Prince Khalid bin Sultan Chair on Water Research, King Saud University, Chairman of the Environmental Quality Council, Malaysia and Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineers, United Kingdom. He is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London (UK) and Research Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has registered more than 20 intellectual property rights and published more than 250 technical papers and 33 books.
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As a compassionate non-profit organization since 1983, Chapters Health System is committed to enhancing the lives of those affected by advancing age or illness. Through our comprehensive system of healthcare choices, we deliver expert care and heartfelt support to guide the community during the aging and end-of-life journey. From hospice and palliative care for adults and children suffering with life-limiting illnesses to in-home and community-based services for frail but independent seniors, Chapters Health offers a wide range of support services along life's ever-changing landscape. As we continue to grow throughout our serivce areas, we are seeking:
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The Palliative Care Physician has the responsibility of providing high quality care and treatment of palliative care patients served by the company. S/he provides comprehensive and efficient consultative patient care and utilizes clinical expertise in decision making while promoting maximization of quality of life for the company's patients and caregivers. S/he provides physician direction and guidance to the company's palliative staff while assisting in maximizing access to care for eligible palliative care patients.
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Chapters Health System brings a great deal to the benefit "table." Whether you join our organization in a clinical, administrative or corporate role, the Chapters Health comprehensive benefits package allows you to customize your plan to meet your needs. Our team members receive a competitive salary and an outstanding benefits package. You'll find our comprehensive benefits package truly rewarding, with the following:
Discover how rewarding a career in non-profit healthcare can be. When you become a member of the Chapters Health team, you'll realized that it's more than a job. It's a mission. Come be part of something special and make a positive difference in the lives of patients and families every day.
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Thanks to researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, you may never have to gingerly sip a hot cup of coffee again to avoid burns. Because they've developed a dissolvable strip that numbs the pain of a bad burn in your mouth, instead of freshening your breath.
The strip is placed directly onto the part of the mouth that's burned — whether it's the tongue, cheek, or roof — and as it dissolves it delivers a controlled dosage of a local anesthetic called benzocaine. The pain reliever is already used in products designed to relive discomfort from dental work and sore throats, so it already has the FDA's blessing for use by consumers.
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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - Brimming with hope following a thilling marathon fourth set victory and a furious comeback in the fifth set, the UC Santa Barbara women's volleyball team ultimately lost to Cal Poly on Wednesday night.
The Gauchos, who had been in first place in the Big West entering the match, fell 25-13, 17-25, 25-16, 29-31, 15-13 and fall to 11-8 overall and 4-2 in the Big West. Cal Poly remained undefeated in Mott Gym and improves to 8-11, 3-3.
Four Cal Poly players finished with double-digit kills led by Jennifer Keddy who had a match-best 21 kills.
Leah Sully led the Gauchos with 16 kills and 25 digs - her 14th double-double in 18 matches this season. Kara Sherrard tallied her fifth double-double in a row with 14 kills and 17 digs.
Stacey Schmidt had 11 kills and Lily Lopez added 10 for Santa Barbara.
Needing a win to force a deciding fifth game, the Gauchos had an 18-14 lead and looked to be in control. However, the Mustangs took a 20-19 lead on one of the Gauchos' 33 hitting errors on the night.
UCSB and Cal Poly then played a see-saw affair with the Mustangs holding match point at 29-28. But Schmidt had a kill which led to putaways from Sherrard and Jenna Wilson to close things out.
In the fifth set UCSB trailed 4-0, 7-2 and 8-3 and looked to be in peril. But a Cal Poly error and kills from Wilson and Haley Uhland brought it to 9-6, forcing Cal Poly to call a timeout.
It didn't thwart the Gauchos who then rattled off four more points to take a 10-9 lead on a Mustangs attack error. This time, though, a Mustangs timeout quelled the run.
The teams traded points and things were knotted at 12-12 before a Molly Pon kill, an attack error by the Gauchos and a kill from Kristina Graven ended the Gauchos' hope of a comeback victory.
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The European Commission's draft changes to the existing EU Directive on Data Protection are likely to "drive business away from Europe" and not fully work in a cloud environment, according to cloud legal experts.
The Commission says the proposals will "make it easier to operate a cloud across the EU, with a single point of contact", as well as to "operate outside the EU, with simplified and more consistent rules".
But the Cloud Legal Project at Queen Mary, University of London disagrees. Professor Christopher Millard, leader of the Project, said: "Unless further changes are made to clarify and harmonise data protection rules across the EU, the draft regulation may drive business away from Europe, and still fail to deliver effective protection for individuals."
He said "uncertainty" will persist as to whether particular non-European cloud providers and cloud users are regulated in the EU, and, if so, which laws apply to them. "This may discourage the development of EU data centres and the use of EU cloud services generally," said Millard.
Millard added that the draft regulation fails to close a loophole which may undermine protection for some EU residents when they use services provided by non-EU cloud providers.
Millard said privacy and data security were now more important than the location of the data storage infrastructure.
"In our recommendations we proposed a more radical solution, namely abolishing the restriction on data export, focusing instead on appropriate measures to ensure security, transparency and accountability, regardless of the geographical location of personal data," Millard said.
He said the draft regulation will impose "substantial" new compliance obligations on businesses, as well as greatly expanding the roles of the European Commission and national regulators, all of whom will need extra resources to police the new regime.
The European Commission recently announced a first £8 million tranche of funding for its European Cloud Computing Strategy.


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