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When the Universe decides what it wants, it's pointless to resist. With his family's life at stake, Joseph Steadman finds himself the unwilling test subject ...
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Lawrence English starts cassette label A Guide To Saints
Lawrence English has added a new cassette imprint to his Room40 family of labels, called A Guide To Saints. The label launched last week with the first batch of releases from Motion Sickness Of Time Travel (Rachel Evans of Hooker Vision), Heinz Riegler, and a submarine themed cassette by Tralala Blip.
English says that the next three releases are in the pipeline for around late July/August, and describes the label as being "about releasing music I feel passionate about that doesn't fit either the schedule or aesthetic of Room40 or Someone Good... I was a huge tape trader as a teenager, the very first release I ever made when I was 16 or 17 was a compilation tape, so I feel at least from a personal standpoint, I am reconnecting with some of the things that really made me love music in the first place."
Cassettes will be released in limited runs (usually of 100), and as MP3 or FLAC downloads. Listen to an edit of Side A from Motion Sickness Of Time Travel's Traces below.

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There are always plenty of rumours and speculation surrounding the release of a brand new smartphone (especially if that particular smartphone happens to be of the Apple descent!). There have been tons of different things being said regarding the specs, as well as the new features and stuff that will be implemented within this newer version. Apparently it's slated for release in September of this year, so it seems like we may not have to way as long as we were anticipating for this release! If you're the kind of techie who loves to get their hands on the latest Apple technology, this is probably going to be a great read for you. Although nothing is "set in stone", we can definitely hold high hopes regarding the new features and technology put into this version of the iPhone; the iPhone 6!
There were rumours regarding larger iPhones all the way back in December of 2012, but of course those went unanswered (this came on the heels of an analyst noting the fact that there were iPhones 6 prototypes with screen sizes of 4.8 inches). As if that wasn't enough, a more similar rumur regarding the iPhone Math release (which sported a 4.8 inch display) alongside the announcement of iPhone 5's, which lead people to believe that future releases would have the amount of screen we've been craving. It seems as if during the year of 2013 Apple was focusing on being less expensive, while 2014 seems like it's the year of development pertaining to display sizes.
The Details
One of the main things that have been getting looked at this year is the size of the phones screen, which is supposedly going to get bigger than it already is. The display of this year's version has increased from the original 3.5 inches to 4 inches with the introduction of the iPhone 5, so of course we can only expect to see the screen get a bit larger with the release of the iPhone 6. Apple, respectively, has been fiddling with the size of the screen to try and perfect it, but the most common rumour surrounding this topic would probably be the one that has these screens labelled at 4.7 inches (as well as 5.5 inches, respectively). This means that the new generation of iPhones may have larger screens, Apple even stated that consumers wanted larger display screens themselves.
The size of the phone is supposed to be relatively average, as the expected release in September is going to be the 4.7' display model (the larger version, 5.5", seems as if it's going to come later in the year). Another key rumour regarding iPhones would be the fact that they might include a durable sapphire display, which is a first time thing. There are also rumours that the larger types of the iPhone will adopt a thinner chassis.
It seems as if the two prevalent numbers that keep coming up when we talk about the screen sizes are 4.7 and 5.5". With these numbers, we can only expect that these are going to be the screen dimensions they decide to go with in the end. When Apple made the initial switch from the resolution of 960×640 for the iPhone 4 to a much larger resolution of 1136×640 with the iPhone 5. This would be the first change regarding the screens size on an iPhone since the year 2007!
When people started talking about lowering the costs of an iPhone any rumours of larger iPhone 6's died. If they were going to try and develop phones that weren't so expensive it would also seem like they wouldn't develop the larger screens; that is until June 2013. This is when Apple was said to be testing a 4.7 inch (as well as a 5.7 inch) display which were garnering a release in 2014. Another thing to look at would be the situation in November of 2013, where Bloomberg had stated two iPhone releases were slated for 2014. The first one would be the 4.7 inch display, while the second would be the 5.5 inch prototype. One of the most key components to these new screens would be the curved glass, as they "curve down at the edges". Although the curved display accusation was shot down, we still think that there is going to be "dual iPhone" release this year.
Display Technology
Display technology is actually quite important when it comes to implementation of iPhones, the current series of iPhones makes use of LTPS (Low Temperature Poly Silicon) technology, which is most likely going to make its return for the release of the iPhone 6. When it came to the usage of an iPad Air (as well as the Retina iPad mini), Apple decided to implement IGZO technology (Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide) in order to create a much more thin display (the display also doesn't use up as much power because of this). This would save a lot more power as opposed to a a-Si (amorphous silicon) display, which was used on previous models of equipment. LTPS has much better electron mobility when compared to the IGZO technology, so it would only seem logical for Apple to keep their eyes set on the LTPS. In the end, the rule "if it isn't broke, don't fix it!" would apply here.
The Glass
The glass is the main component of an iPhone, when you think about it. What is the most common thing you find yourself touching while using a smartphone? The glass that is covering the display. There have been many advances regarding glass concepts in phones, so it's not surprising to see that they may be using a nifty type of material this time around. At the moment Apple is making efficient use of Corning Gorilla Glass, which is not only incredibly durable but resists damaging like a charm. Although this is the case, it seems as if a few reports have Apple switching to sapphire crystal for their future releases. Sapphire crystal is used for smaller iPhone components, things like the camera lens and the home button the iPhone 5s. It has been rather expensive to produce in the quantities necessary for mass production, but Apple has recently become partners with GT Advanced in order to cut these costs. Not only that, but the production of sapphire crystal going to be rather steady at this point.
The combination of Apple's investment and GT Advance's technology is something that may change the world, as it will mean the company can produce much, much more sapphire crystal for only a fraction of the price. Apple would obviously have no problem integrating these materials in their new phones, especially since they have such a steady source of it now. Trial runs have already begun regarding iPhones fitted with sapphire crystal displays, as Apple has ordered about 100 of these particular devices from Foxconn (which is their assembly partner).
The Design
The design has always been an important part pertaining to iPhones, if it isn't designed properly it isn't going to be as effective (nor as useful) as you had originally intended it to be. There were rumours regarding the iPhone sporting a curved display early on, but as of recent they have stated that it has a flat display (much like its predecessor, the iPhone 5s). When it comes to backlighting with an iPhone, the LED is important to take into account. Advancements regarding this technology might allow for the iPhone to be lighter, as well as much thinner than usual. Apple is supposedly going to switch from a 0.6mm LED backlight down towards a much, much thinner model sporting 0.4mm. This should give people a little bit more room to work with, as you can never have enough room! Not only that, but the increased amount of room might allow Apple to implement some more components to upgrade the devices power (or simply just put more uses into it). Schematics pertaining to the 4.7 (as well as the 5.7 inch) iPhone were "leaked" in a sense during the month of March, this particular leak was from a Japanese magazine known as "MacFan". For the iPhone 6c, there was a schematic that showed us a flat device that had no bezels on it, but there were also plenty of questionable attributes regarding the design of the phone itself. Some of these attributes were a power button that was located to the left-top of the device, as well as a LED-flash that wasn't in line with the True Tone Flash.
There were actually images of a supposed "iPhone 6" released, although they were released on Chinese micro blogger site. The phone itself looked a little bitch sketchy, as it showed a protruding lens of a camera (which isn't very ideal in my opinion) and a rounded flash. Although nobody is sure if they are legitimate photos, it's still something to go on!
If the phone itself isn't powerful it isn't going to do very well on the market, but that isn't going to be a problem with the Phone 6 it seems. The iPhone 5s made use of a 64-bit A7 28-nanometer chip, which is manufactured by Samsung. The iPhone 6 is supposedly going to go a little bit further when it comes to processing power, as they plan on using a 10-nanomater A8 chip with the phone, these particular chips are from TSMC. Not only is this processor smaller and more efficient when it comes to energy, but it's an improvement from the previous version of iPhone released. Samsung isn't going to be completely cut out of the picture, as they are going to aid TSMC with the manufacturing of these processor chips (think of it as lessening the work load for your friend). The A7 chip showed that it was a lot better in comparison to the A6 within an iPhone 5, as there was a whopping 31 percent in favour of the A7. The leap being made towards a 20-nanometer A8 chip will definitely create a more powerful device, which, of course, is something everybody can enjoy!
The A8 chip supposedly sports a quad-core 64 bit processor, as well as quad-core graphics for those special iPhone games that were more demanding than you thought. Although the A8 is more powerful than the V7 chip, it seems as if it only sports the same amount of ram as its predecessor (which would be a measly 1GB of RAM). Apple currently makes use of the PowerVR graphics and video hardware with their devices, but it seems like they may make a switch for this new release. The newest addition to the series will probably make use of the Series6 graphics that are being used in iPhone 5's, but they may also implement the 6XT PowerVR GPU's (which happen to up the benchmark rate by around 50%).
All in all it seems as if Apple was really trying to bring this heat (so to speak!) this time around, these new additions are something to look forward to (and that is to say the least, in my opinion). There are plenty of other features to get into regarding the iPhone 6, but nothing is set in stone at this particular moment. One of the extra goodies you could think about would be the improvements regarding the camera. This version is supposedly going to make used of OIS, which is Optical Image Stabilization. This particular feature is said to be a way to improve the stability of your pictures you take with your phone, could this lead to a whole new generation "phone photographers"? One thing is for sure, these new features will definitely allow users to maximize the usage of their iPhones that is if they already haven't done so. My personal favourite would probably have to be the new sapphire crystal they're going to use for the display, if the display isn't smooth to the touch I don't want to use it.


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Nebraska counties included in the tornado watch include: Burt, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Cuming, Dakota, Dodge, Douglas, Fillmore, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, Richardson, Saline, Sarpy, Saunders, Seward, Thayer, Thurston, and Washington.
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The autobox of my daughter's 3.6 shows signs of a dying A-clutch (lumpy take off from standstill). Two questions then:
1) Which years/models use the same box? (2.9, 3.2, 4.0, '87 trough '94?)
2) ZF boxes are not known for easy DYI overhaul and parts are often an issue. Have anybody successfully done any work on those?


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You gotta hand it to Arcade Fire. The hard-working indie rockers pretty much write their own playbook and their growing success has allowed them to work on their own terms with likeminded collaborators. Earlier this year they tapped Terry Gilliam to direct a webcast of their Madison Square Garden gig, but long before that, they were hard at work with Spike Jonze on a secretive short film based around the loose themes of their latest album "The Suburbs."
The band's frontman Win Butler told Pitchfork in August that the clip was "a short film" rather than a video, "a science-fiction B-movie companion piece for the record. Basically we played Spike some music from the album and the first images that came to his mind had the same feeling as this idea for a science fiction film I had when I was younger. My brother and I and Spike wrote it together, which was really fun—it was like total amateur hour. We shot it in Austin and a lot of kids are in the film, and it was great just hanging out with these 15-year-olds for a week." While a shortened version of the film/music video cut from the footage was released back in November, it looks like the full short film is now headed to the festival circuit and will make its debut at the Berlin Film Festival next month.
According to the press release the short, titled "Scenes From The Suburbs," "expands the music video into a film without abandoning the structure of a clip. The future has become reality. And the threat lies in the proximity of the military. Memories of a past summer." Sounds pretty exciting and if the full short is anywhere in the ballpark of Jonze's beautifully haunting robot love story "I'm Here" we're sure to be bowled over. No word yet on what kind of release the Arcade Fire and Spike Jonze plan for the piece, but we're sure they're cooking up something. Meanwhile, we'll just have to be patient. We used to wait, amirite? Check out the music video version below.
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SAN ANTONIO—One of the glaring deficiencies in Canada's senior men's basketball team in its failed bid last summer to qualify for the World Cup was its lack of experience.
Canada Basketball hopes to rectify that later this summer with an ambitious schedule of exhibition games during an extended trip to Europe.
"We're really good at training, we have to get better at playing the international game," head coach Jay Triano said in a telephone interview Friday.
Included in the trip are road exhibition games in Spain, Croatia and Slovenia, a three-team tournament in Italy and enough difficult competition to provide the much-needed adversity for a team whose next goal is to qualify for the 2016 Olympics.
"There's a stretch where we play six games in six nights in three different countries," said Triano. "We're going to go into hostile environments and see what it takes.
"This is going to get us ready to play international basketball."
The team will convene in Toronto in late July — right after the NBA summer league season is over — for a three-day training camp before embarking on the 11-game European tour.
Canada will face teams nearing the final stages of their preparations for the World Cup in Spain in late August through early September.
It could be seen as far better experience in the long term for a senior men's team that hasn't been at the Olympics since 2000 in Sydney and went winless at the 2010 world championships.
"Not qualifying (last summer) hurt but we're going to get 11 games against great teams in hostile environments and this could turn out to be a better year for us than if we went to the World Cup," said Triano. "These games will get us ready to play international basketball."
As always, however, the makeup of the roster is a moving target. Triano and Canada Basketball officials are in the process of working with NBA teams to see if they have issues with the country's best players taking part in the tour. Complicating the issue is that they don't know yet who to talk to about draft-eligible players like Andrew Wiggins, Tyler Ennis, Nik Stauskas, Melvin Ejim, Jordan Bachynski and Khem Birch, all of whom are waiting to see where they land after the June 26 NBA draft.
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There are not many times when a politician can genuinely, hand on heart, claim a victory, but this last week has been one such.
With the help of my six Lincolnshire colleagues, some £8m more is now coming from central government to the county council and to Boston Borough and East Lindsey District Council over the next couple of years.
It means the latter, for instance, can make the changes it was planning without the painful need to deplete its meagre reserves.
This is not to deny that the next few vital years of balancing the books will still require some tough choices – but it will now be that some of the very hardest decisions are slightly easier.
By presenting a sensible case to the Department for Communities and Local Government, a broad coalition of rural MPs was able to secure a real movement in policy, and for the future a commitment to look at how best to cope with the specific challenges around delivering services in big, sparsely populated rural counties.
The week has, however, been a reminder that while MPs can, working together, stand up for their local interests, central government must always seek to balance a never-ending stream of interests from, for instance, rural, metropolitan and suburban areas.
The effect is to ensure that only a constantly watching brief will mean the best outcomes are reached – and to remind me of the value of having the ear of the party of government.
Without that, this latest rural deal simply wouldn't exist.
Matt Warman is the Member of Parliament for Boston and Skegness.


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devout sex:Women collectively; womankind; the female sex . This humorous or sexist term for the female gender dates back to a time when specific qualities were attributed to each gender .
Synonyms: better-sex ; contrary-sex ; fair-sex ; fairer-sex ; gentle-sex ; gentler-sex ; softer-sex ; second-sex ; shrieker-sex ; sterner-sex ; unfair-sex ; weaker-sex .
Quote: Lawrence Paros, The Erotic Tongue (1984): ' 'Sex comes from the Latin secare, "to cut or divide," and we first used the word to designate the two major categories of humanity we have come to know and love as male and female. (...) We later used the word sex not only for dividing the sexes, but to refer to qualities of being male or female. Over time we assigned specific attributes to each category. These distinctions were dutifully recorded in the esteemed OED, making-it all very official. The male was described as "the better" and "the sterner" sex ; the female, as "the fairer," "the gentler," "the softer," and "the devout" sex . Women were also called "the second" sex . For a period of time between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when people spoke of "the sex ," they had women in mind .'
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The next facilitated course will start on July 18th and runs until November 11th. If you wish to be sent details about when the course will start or any other information about the course, please contact Sarah Stewart.
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In its third year, GreenNet focused on 'digital energy' and explored a bit beyond the high-tech business world as it brought together investors, innovators, Fortune 100 and thought leaders in a one-day, high-energy conference. Earth2Tech editor, Katie Fehrenbacher, led a panel on connected cars and the hosts also invited Greenpeace along with the Internet giants Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.
Saul Griffith started the day with a refreshing presentation on how to visualize energy usage and inspire a new generation of leaders. I connected after the speech with Saul who works with the DOE on energy litteracy. He encouraged the media to profile new 'heroes' and concluded that "Green should go Red Bull when it comes to marketing!" San Francisco is in an interesting position to do that by merging the 'American Dream' machine from Silicon Valley with the environment thought-leadership from Marin County and East Bay.
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Restorative Justice in Lamoille County
The Lamoille Restorative Center is a community-based agency established to address unlawful behaviors, support victims of crime, and promote healthy families and communities within the Lamoille Valley Region of Vermont.
This year, we are celebrating 39 years of the organization's history and look forward to continuing to serve the Lamoille Valley community.
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Ups and downs
More than two thousand years ago, the Chinese philosopher Confucius uttered the words "choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life".
These days, part of a dream job is having the perfect work status to fit an individual's wants and needs – whether that's part-time, full-time or working for themself. Each comes with pros and cons.
Lifestyle (such as whether the worker has dependents) and economic factors (such as the types of jobs available) will play a part.
A Gallup survey released at the end of last year found that entrepreneurs were more likely than other workers to have felt stress on the day before they were polled. But there were also more likely to replay that they had learned something new or felt enjoyment.
Work and be happy
People might complain about the "daily grind" but being in work has many spin-offs, with research from Germany showing workers tend to be more satisfied with their lives than the unemployed.
A study on entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom co-authored by former Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member Danny Blanchflower found the self-employed have "high levels of job satisfaction and happiness" – but median earnings were lower than for the employed and work hours were long.


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The CN News page brings you vital technology trends and new developments from Computing Now and IEEE Computer Society magazines. The Computing Now Weekly News Podcast covers vital and fascinating matters from trade and research. They should be feeling strain from potential college students, who want to get into the growing and effectively-paying discipline of computer science. Students are even capable of take their examination exams or try their grades by the use of the computer. All software program programmes installed on your pc should be usually up to date in order that they will work effectively. U.S.-certain passengers at Rome's Fiumicino Airport advised NBC News they'd waited more than an hour to test in.
A universal quantum laptop will be programmed to carry out any computing job and will be exponentially faster than classical computers for quite a lot of essential functions for science and enterprise. A information science spinout from UCL Computer Science has obtained the UCLB One-to-Watch award 2016. SCS's Yuvraj Agarwal and Srinivasan Seshan have joined with Vyas Sekar of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department on a National Science Foundation-funded challenge to develop a software program-based mostly resolution to the problem of safety for the Internet of Things. And if administration approves the upgrades, pc programs analysts will oversee the set up of the brand new techniques. Connecting choice makers to a dynamic network of knowledge, individuals and ideas, Bloomberg shortly and precisely delivers enterprise and financial information, news and perception world wide.
Lukasz Olejnik , Research Associate at UCL Computer Science, has contributed to a debate on how battery status indicators is likely to be used to track units, resulting in privacy exposure. The community of quantum pc scientists and theorists is working to harness this power, and applications in optimization and chemistry will possible be the primary to display quantum speed-up. It's a 'Mad Men'-period pc system," says Henry Harteveldt, an analyst with the travel industry firm Atmosphere Research Group.
To stop, detect and fight these hardware Trojans, laptop scientists from UC San Diego, together with their collaborators, have devised a new method that tracks information stream via a circuit's logic gates, a lot the way one would track traffic because it flows through an intersection while obeying a sequence of traffic signals.
A program to empower students with know-how by leveraging Carnegie Mellon University's robotics and pc science expertise with education expertise at partner universities is expanding beyond the Western Pennsylvania/West Virginia region to include satellite labs in Atlanta and Salt Lake City. Each month ACN supplies its readers with in-depth particulars of the latest Middle East IT tasks and analysis of the most well liked world technology points. Computer science is particularly affected; it accounts for almost three-quarters of progress in graduate scholar candidates on the complete campus.


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The Charlotte Bridge Home (CBH) helps local Veterans successfully transition home after military service by identifying their education, employment, and healthcare needs and connecting them to available community, state, and federal resources.
After the regimen and sacrifice of military duty, transition to civilian life can be challenging as veterans reunite with their families, pursue a new profession, locate services which were previously on base, and build a new social network. In some cases they also work to recover from mental and physical wounds.
Charlotte Bridge Home serves as an entry point for veterans who don't know where to turn to access support and services. They provide multi-faceted support that includes employment assistance, mental healthcare, housing services, and other holistic resources.
How DVNF's funding will help
The generous grant from DVNF will be used to support Charlotte Bridge Home's free counseling services through The Center for Mindful Transitions. The funds will be used to create new resources, specifically a publishable Veteran Mind Health Toolkit and a female veterans' Processing Group. There is a definite need in the military community for mental health support, and we are working to overcome the stigma around seeking assistance.
The transition from military to civilian life can be challenging. Every veteran will face their own set of obstacles. Navigating the resources and benefits available to service members can be stressful, and unique cases of transitions can manifest in unhealthy physical and emotional behaviors.
CBH's Center for Mindful Transitions works with individual veterans and their families to provide support. They are using DVNF's generous grant to build new tools for clients, allowing them to increase the reach of their services.
They also plan to develop new Resource Kits for transitioning veterans, a Female Processing Group, community education opportunities, and a tracking mechanism to determine how their services can best support clients.
In addition to therapy, these resources will help veterans re-integrate to their communities and become our best citizens.
"We are thrilled to receive this generous support from DVNF. Their support will allow us to better serve the military and veteran families in our region with best-in-class mental health counseling as well as transition services and social support. We believe that it is a community's responsibility to welcome and integrate our veterans and their families, and DVNF's support of our program makes that possible" – Blake Bourne, Army, Executive Director, Charlotte Bridge Home
How CBH helped Robert
After serving in the US Navy (1986 – 1989), Robert D. was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis resulting in physical and emotional wounds that deeply impacted his family. In the midst of this battle, he became wheelchair bound, immersed in the idea of failure in providing, supporting, and protecting his family.
His family relocated to Charlotte soon after his diagnosis searching for a better quality of life. His wife struggled to balance being a mother, wife, caretaker, and homeschool teacher. As she searched for employment and housing, the family's stress level heightened, resulting in financial hardship.
The family knew it was time to redefine Robert's mission, strengthen their family unit, and create a support system. They made the decision to call Charlotte Bridge Home. CBH restored the family's hope by connecting them to CBH's services and a network of community resources.
Robert's wife proudly said, "We're in our own home, I'm able to care for Robert, and he's helping in the schooling of our daughter, which helps him feel that he still has value. We are so grateful… none of that would have been possible without organizations like Charlotte Bridge Home that stepped up in our time of need."


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WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY safety/field operations, Jim Lematta; forestry, Pete Barendregt; finance, Mike Fahey; chief pilot, George Warren; public relations, Ted Veal; operations administrator, Jon Lazzaretti. Employees: 400. Fleet: ten Boeing Vertol BV107, one Chinook LR, two Sikorsky S-76B, one JetRanger, five Hiller/Soloy UH-12E, one King Air 200. Comair Inc, a Cincinnati-based US regional airline, was co-founded by David Mueller and his father Raymond Mueller in 1977. Comair has become one of the largest regional airlines and currently operates scheduled passenger services to Indianapolis (Indiana), Fort Wayne, Lexington and Louisville (Kentucky), Detroit (Michigan), Cincinnati, Cleve land, Columbus, Dayton and Toledo (Ohio), Knox- ville and Nashville (Tennessee), Richmond and Roanoke (Virginia), Charleston and Huntington (West Virginia), and Milwaukee (Wisconsin). Comair is a Delta Connector. Head Office: PO Box 75021, Greater Cincinnati Airport, Cincinnati, Ohio 45275, USA. Executives: chairman, Raymond Mueller; president and CEO, David R. Mueller; executive v-p and CFO, John S. Durking; v-ps: operations, K. Michael Stuart; marketing, Charles Curran; maintenance, Richard Elliot. Employees: 480. Fleet: seven Saab-Fairchild 340, five Shorts 330, five Metro III, 10 Bandeirante. On order: five SF.340. Comair of South Africa commenced its first sched uled service in 1948 and currently operates from Johannesburg to Skukuza, Phalaborwa, Pieter- martizburg, and Margate. Comair also undertakes flights to Richards Bay on behalf of South African Airways and operates Safari tours to the Kruger National Park. Head Office: PO Box 7015, Bonearo Park, 1622, Transvaal, South Africa. ^^< 42-8878/9255. Executives: managing director, P. van Hoven; commercial director, B. van der Linden. Employees: 150. Fleet: four Fokker F.27-200, two DC-3, one Cessna 404, one Cessna 206. Combs Airways filed for Chapter 11 protection and ceased operations in April 1984. The company was originally formed in 1957, and operated as Montana Aircraft Company until 1964. The company was then acquired by H. B. Combs and its name changed to Combs Airways. Contract mail services began in 1967, and by 1975 the airline was fully established as a freight carrier. Part 418 authority was received in February 1978, followed by FAA airline operation certification in October 1978. Combs Freightair oper ated scheduled cargo services from Chicago, Kansas City, Wichita, Detroit, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Hartford, and Boston. Combs also operated scheduled contract charter services for the US Postal Service, United Parcel Service, Emery Air Freight, and Pony Express throughout the central and Western United States. In October 1983 Combs Airways established a subsidiary, Frontier Commuter, to provide commuter services primarily in the mountain States with CV- 580 aircraft. Head Office: PO Box 38627, 3980 Quebec Street, Denver, Colorado 80238, USA. Executives: president, H. B. Combs; chief executive officer, Dan Love; vice-president corporate oper ations, Jack Gehrke; directors: operations, George Spettigue; marketing, Robert Larkin; maintenance, Aale Hemming. Fleet: ten Convair CV-440 freighter, nine CV-580, 14 Aero Commander 680, one Turbo Commander 690, eight Aero Commander 500, one Cessna 421. Compagnie Aeromaritime d'Affretement—see Aeromaritime. Compagnie de Transport Aerien (CTA) was formed in September 1978 as a partly owned subsidiary of Swissair to succeed the privately owned charter airline SATA, which ceased operations during the latter half of 1978. CTA operates passenger and cargo charter flights to points in Europe and the Mediterranean area. Operations began on November 2, 1978. Head Office: Case Postale 110, CH-1215, Aeroport de Geneve 15, Switzerland. ^^28406. Executives: president, Rolf Krahenbuhl; vice- president, Jaques Vernet; managing director, Rolf Kressig; managers: operations, Ernest Vez; technical, Marcel Favre; marketing, Angelo Rageth; financial, George Roggli. Employees: 140. Fleet: four Caravelle 10R. Compania de Aviacion Faucett was founded in September 1928 by Elmer J. Faucett, a US citizen. Stockholding is now in the hands of Peruvian inter ests, with Aeronaves del Peru acquiring a 59 per cent interest in the airline during 1982. An extensive network of scheduled passenger and cargo services links Lima with 14 domestic points, together with an all-cargo route to Miami via Panama City. Passenger and cargo charters are also undertaken. Head Office: Aeropuerto International Jorge Chavez, Rampa Norte, Lima Callao, Peru. ^-^^20085. Executives: president, Luis Leon Rupp; vice- president, Dr Victor Montori Alfaro. Employees: 1,300. Fleet: four DC-8-50, one DC-8-40F, one Boeing 727-100, two Islander. Compania Panamena de Aviacion (Copa) was founded in June 1944 by Pan American, but is now totally Panamanian-owned. Scheduled passenger and cargo services began in 1947 and now link Panama City with San Jose (Costa Rica), Managua (Nicaragua), San Salvador (El Salvador), Guatemala City (Guatemala), Medellin, Barranquilla, Cartagena and Cali (Colombia), and Kingston (Jamaica). Head Office: PO Box 1572, Avenida Justo Arosemena and Street 39, Panama City 1, Panama. Executives: chairman/president, Dr Mariano J. Oteiza; vice-president, Ricardo M. Arias; treasurer, Roberto Heurtematte; general manager, Enrique Escala; managers: maintenance, Pedro Simpson; commercial/marketing, Moises Veliz; purchasing, James Cosaraquis; finance, Sebastian Chavez; airport services, Roberto Ilorente; chief pilot, Capt Anel Wong. Employees: 383. Fleet: one Boeing 737-100, one Electra. Conair A/S (Consolidated Aircraft Corporation) was formed in October 1964, and in 1965 began charter and inclusive-tour flights to points in the Mediterranean and Africa exclusively for the Spies travel organisation, owner of the airline. Head Office: Hangar 276, Copenhagen Airport, DK 2791, Dragoer, Denmark. 31423. Executives: chairman, Robert Koch-Nielsen; direc tors: managing/technical, Verner Moller; assistant,H Erling Brodersen; financial, Holger Damm; prod- " uction, E. H. Jensen; managers: operations, Odd Mollerud; purchasing, John Dalsgaard; engineering, r Oscar Thomsen; planning: Jorgen V. Pedersen. Employees: 250. * Fleet: one Boeing 720, five 720B. Condor Flugdienst is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa, formed in 1961 by the merger of Deutsche Flugdienst (founded in 1955 as a Lufthansa T subsidiary) and Condor Luftreederei (founded in 1957 and acquired by Lufthansa in 1959). Condor concen- < trates on charter and inclusive-tour operations to destinations in Spain, the Mediterranean, the Canary * Islands, East Africa, the Black Sea area, the Far East, and North America. Head Office: Hans-Bocklerstrasse 7, Hessen, D- r 6078 Neu-Isenburg 1, Federal Republic of Germany. ^^^0417679. * Executives: executive managing directors: Dr Malte Bischoff; Dr Claus Gillmann; Capt Stefan Hess; chief 4 engineer, Reinhard Kipke. Employees: 996. Fleet: three DC-10-30, three Airbus A310-200, eight Boeing 727-200, four 737-200. Connie Kalitta Services, established as a passenger and cargo air-taxi operator at Ypsilanti, Michigan, received authority in 1984 to operate inter national cargo charters with DC-8 aircraft acquired through the purchase of Jet Way. Head Office: PO Box 842, Willow Run Airport, Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197, USA. Fleet: one DC-8-63, one DC-8-20, one DC-6A, four Learjet 23, two Learjet 24, one Beech TC-45J, eight *' Volpar Turboliner, one Hamilton Westwind IV, one Mitsubishi Mu-2B. Continental Airlines' foundation dates from July 15, 1934, when Varney Speed Lines began a service from El Paso to Albuquerque (New Mexico) and Pueblo (Colorado). In May 1937 Varney purchased the Denver-Pueblo route of Wyoming Air Service and moved its headquarters to Denver. Later the same year the name Continental Airlines was adopted. Development continued for a number of years until the 1955 award of the Chicago-Los Angeles route (via Kansas City and Denver) marked the company's full transition to a mainline trunk carrier. In October 1981 Texas Air, parent company of Texas Inter national Airlines, acquired a controlling interest in Continental and on October 31, 1982, after several months of operating co-ordinated schedules, Continental and Texas International began to oper ate as a single carrier under the name of Continental. Texas International, known until 1969 as Trans- Texas Airways, and formed originally in 1940 as Aviation Enterprises, commenced scheduled services in October 1947. The combined network serves 44 v:'^M^^^^S^^k^^& 11 1A«| «*•*.»* ^j^^ftawS tt^fl"**'*-!*-' --»**< **»*•*••-' ^•sftrtk w*iw» •• •mm* §siiiiipfi: 9HMNM '^:^^f!$^iHmkmiiiiim$ WgHgauam-~MU Continental, which initiated Chapter 11 reorganisation on September 24, 1983, and which has since resumed service on most of its former network, operates 13 DC-lOs 70 FLIGHT International, 30 March 1985
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Brendan Schaub got the better of his fellow TUF 10 heavyweight competitor Matt Mitrione tonight at UFC 165, putting him to sleep in the first round with a d'arce choke submission.
Round One
Cautious start from the two men as they keep their distance. Schaub ventures forward and Mitrione throws a couple of punches at him. Schaub returns fire.
Schaub tries a takedown, but it's not happening. He tries to rush in again with another and then comes upstairs with punches instead, and the two men appear to clash heads which leaves them both with some blood high to Schaub's scalp and on Mitrione's face.
Schaub runs forward with a long flurry of punches that forces Mitrione into reverse gear, but afterwards he just smiles at his opponent. Schaub's not finished yet though and grabs Mitrione and takes him to the mat.
Mitrione tries to get up and immedaitely take Schaub down, but it doesn't work out for him at all as Schaub smoothly sinks in a d'arce choke and locks it in tight.
Mitrione gives the referee the thumbs up, but that appears to be bravado more than anything as he looks trapped and indeed just seconds later the referee realizes that Mitrione's unconscious and calls an end to the fight to the delight of Schaub.


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Amazing work as ever man - please do divulge where he head is from? It's such a nice fit to the Warlord plactic mini!
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Thank you
The head is from Statuesque Miniatures statuesqueminiatures.co.uk/p/8…c-scale-female-heads.html
Cheers buddy - is it the 'fine' scale ones you used? Damn that they are out of stock - I'll need to keep my eyes peeled for them.
I'm not happy that I didn't build up all of some Warlord Games Landsknechts I got a while back - I can now use these heads to add some variation across the army. Think I will need to get another box though to buff up those ranks even more!
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No, I used their heroic version. I hadn't thought about the Warlord Landsknecht when I bought the head and used them on GW minis first. It worked well enough but I often did some conversion work to slim down the bodies. Then I found Warlord and figured their fine scale would be perfect for women bodies in an otherwise heroic scale army, and I think it worked really well.
Man, the heroic fits so well as it is - I'll be sure to pick up those over the 'fine' variant.


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Affirmative Action Attitudes of Whites: Evidence from a List Experiment Survey in Brazil
Recently in Brazil, public policies have begun to be implemented to reduce discrimination and promote the inclusion of excluded social groups based on a specific individual characteristic: race. However, there is little public consensus about such policies, especially among whites. In this work, I look at the racial attitudes towards affirmative action among white college students. I make use of new research methods for the empirical study of socially sensitive issues and ask whether these attitudes stem from prejudice, conflicts […]
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If the reflex response to reform in France is often protest, just imagine tackling the issues that last fall provoked the worst rioting the country had seen since the upheavals of May 1968. But after nearly four decades of neglect, a major offensive is under way to transform the banlieues, the blighted suburban ghettos that ring many French cities. Leading the drive is the French Minister of Employment, Social Cohesion and Housing, Jean-Louis Borloo. "When you have all of society's difficulties, failings and hardships so concentrated in the same places, you need an audacious, comprehensive plan to address them all," says...


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Zucchini Squash Fritters
What is a girl to do when she buys a Costco sized bag of zucchini and summer squash? I mean, I can only eat zoodles so many meals in a row. Baking zucchini bread seemed to defeat the purpose of buying the zucchini in the first place (not to stuff my face with carbs). So I thought I would try something a little different: zucchini squash fritters!
Not only did I now have a healthy and delicious lunch option that wasn't a bowl of zoodles, but was finally able to use the one attachment I have never used on my food processor! The grater!
Let me tell you, that was almost more satisfying than actually eating the fritters.
Start by grating your zucchini (and in my case, also some summer squash) in whatever way you prefer. If you have a food processor, break out that grater attachment and have some fun!
Then dump your grated squash into a colander and set it in the sink or over some paper towels. Sprinkle in some salt to extract the moisture a bit more quickly.
After about 15 minutes, transfer the zucchini to a couple layers of paper towels and then squeeze out as much moisture as possible. Add it to a bowl and mix in the rest of the ingredients, including two different types of cheese, garlic, turmeric, and black pepper.
I have been on this kick of adding turmeric to a lot of my food just for all the health benefits. (Don't believe me? Just Google "turmeric" and you would have to dig pretty deep past all the healthy articles before you got to any recipes.) But it also adds a nice subtle flavor that goes really well with the zucchini.
Finally, mix the zucchini in with the rest of the ingredients and form into ball. Place the balls into a hot, oiled pan and press them flat into their fritter shape. Once the first side starts to brown, they should be easily lifted off the pan. If you meet any resistance, they may not be fully cooked, or you don't have enough oil.
I guarantee you will be pleased with these little zucchini squash fritters. They are a little crunchy on the outside, and soft on the inside. Since there is a little cheese hidden in there, every once and a while you will get a little of that melted goodness.
These made for the perfect light lunch and the second most delicious way to use up some extra zucchini (first if obviously this way).
- 4 medium zucchini squash, about 1 1/2 lbs, grated
- 3 cloves of garlic, minced
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 tbsp Mozzarella
- 1 tbsp Parmesan
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 tsp pepper
- 1-2 tbsp oil
- Dump grated zucchini in a colander placed in the sink or over paper towels. Sprinkle over salt. Let sit for 10 to 15 minutes to draw out the moisture. Transfer zucchini to 2 layers of paper towels. Wrap towels around the zucchini and press out as much moisture as possible.
- Add zucchini, garlic, flour, cheeses, egg, and spices to a large bowl and mix until combined.
- Heat a pan over medium high heat. Pour in half of the oil. Form zucchini mixture into golf ball sized balls or spoon directly into the pan. Press flat with the back of a spatula.
- Cook for about 2 minutes, until browned and then flip to the other side. Cook for another 2 minutes. Repeat with remaining batter.
- Transfer to a place lined with a paper towel. Keep warm in a warm oven (less than 200 degrees), until ready to serve.


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July 3, 2013
Healthy Cream of Broccoli Soup
One of my goals when cooking for my family is to make as much as possible from scratch. I try to avoid all those chemical filled store bought foods when possible, but of course there are occasions when I just don't have time to make the alternative "from scratch" option. Add my own gluten sensitivity to the mix....and well, let's just say that life in the kitchen has gotten even more complicated.
For myself, I have had to alter the way I eat severely over the last few months. One thing I turn to often for lunch these days is soup. Soup of all kinds, and no, I don't care that it's summer! I came across this recipe for cream of broccoli soup and immediately thought "Come on....there's just no way that's going to be good." However, curiosity got the better of me and I whipped up a batch of it to try. Even though I was doubtful this would be any good, I was also hopeful because one of my favorite meals is broccoli chicken divan (click here for recipe). The recipe I've used for years, and love dearly I might add, uses store bought cream of broccoli soup which I can no longer consume. The thought of never having that meal again is actually quite depressing, but I am determined to figure out a substitute.
Amazingly, I found this soup to be quite good! I ate it for lunch three days in a row, then froze the rest. It's tasty, thick and filling. I was very satisfied with how this soup turned out......actually, truth be told - I was shocked at how good this soup was. I plan to use it in my broccoli chicken divan recipe soon. Fingers crossed it will be just the substitute I've been looking for!
Healthy Cream of Broccoli Soup (adapted from Lyn Genet)
3 tbsp butter
1/2 medium onion, chopped
1 celery stalk, chopped
2 cups low sodium chicken stock
1 cup water
1 can coco milk, full fat
4 cups broccoli, chopped
3 cups zucchini, chopped
Salt & Pepper to taste
Optional: cumin, tumeric, cayenne
I added a pinch of red pepper fakes
In a large pot, saute the onion, celery and spices in the butter until softened - about 10 minutes. Add the coconut milk, water and chicken broth along with the broccoli and zucchini and cook until vegetables are tender. Using an immersion blender, blend until smooth or until you reach your desired consistency. Serves 6-8.
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Some of My Favorite Yerushalayim Songs
In honor of the 50th anniversary of Yom Yerushalayim, here are some of my favorite Yerushalayim songs in no particular order.
I may add to the playlist if I find more.
I see that Kikar had the same idea and picked its list - some of the same songs and some new ones. Thanks for reminding me about שבחי ירושלים, which I added.


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Gloucester Home Modification Project Inc.
Assisting elderly and disabled people to remain in their own homes in safety and comfort. Funded by grants from the Commonwealth Government and managed by a local community based management committee. An approved NDIS provider.
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Our Promise to you.
Being in the business of assisting the elderly and disabled to remain in their own homes is extremely rewarding for us. Its' more than a job, its' helping someones' father or mother stay near family and friends in a comfortable and safe enviroment. Thats' reward enough for us. We like to think that providing a service to you makes you more than just clients and after over 25 years in the business we guarentee our work and the work of our sub-contractors. Every invoice that we send has a feedback form to assist us to keep our standards high and our prices low. You can ask us for a free referral to a occupational therapist with no obligation to proceed with the work. So if you need your bed raised, your kitchen lowered or your lightbulb changed give us a ring. We're here to help.
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NCUA Office of Small Credit Unions to Hold Local CEO Boot Camps
Calling all CEO's at credit unions with $50M or less in assets. The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) Office of Small Credit Union Initiatives (OSCUI) is coming to Collinsville, IL on June 11 to hold one of its CEO Boot Camps.
The CEO Boot Camps are a new feature that NCUA hopes will promote positive results for attendees. The one-day intensive training session is geared towards new CEOs, successors, or a CEO that would like a refresher course on pertinent issues that impact credit unions as well as related resources and industry assistance available. The session features networking opportunities to allow attendees to pick the brains of industry professionals and help jump start your credit union's operations!
DoubleTree by Hilton
1000 Eastport Plaza Drive
Collinsville, IL 62234
Hotel Rate $99 – Guest Room Block ends 5/15
OSCUI'S Training Division is committed to bringing timely, free financial education to credit union communities. Our goal is to serve as a conduit of operational and strategic management topics and training, and to provide "value-added" services that strengthen credit unions' ability to thrive in our ever changing economy.
Information on session registration will be forthcoming, but mark your calendars now. If you have questions about the Boot Camp, email Kevin Shaw or call 314.542.1336.
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Heishiro Mitsurugi, a young samurai known for his fierce fighting, was born a farmer's son in Bizen, Japan. Heishiro, a strong young boy, enjoyed farming. However, after many years of seeing his beloved farm ravaged by war, he became angry and discouraged. He decided that it was better to raid than be raided, so in the winter of his fourteenth year he threw down his hoe and took up the sword. Studying swordsmanship under a powerful Irakani clan lord, he was eventually hired as a mercenary. It was then that he took the name Mitsurugi, but he also came to be known by many others, such as the "Great Swordsman" and "The Guardian in this age of Civil War." His original fighting style and powerful attacks made him quite feared during battle. It was said of him that he mowed through foes "as if they were a field of wheat." His spectacular battlefield record earned him several commendations to the rank of officer.
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Counteracting Corrosion
This article will discuss the effects of corrosion, not only on the metal surfaces of a pulse jet dust collector, but how it is effecting environmental compliance. The methods available for use to reduce, control, or minimise corrosion will also be discussed.
Corrosion is defined as a natural process, which converts a refined metal to a more chemically-stable form, such as an oxide, hydroxide, or sulfide. It is the gradual destruction of material (usually metal) by chemical and/or electrochemical reaction with their environment.
In the most common use of the word, this means electrochemical oxidation of metal in reaction with an oxidant, such as oxygen or sulfur. Rusting, the formation of iron oxides, is a well-known example of electrochemical corrosion. This type of damage typically produces oxides or salts of the original metal, and results in a distinctive orange colouration. Corrosion degrades the useful properties of materials and structures, including strength, appearance, and permeability to liquids and gases.
Cement kiln baghouses
All of the ingredients are present in a cement kiln dust collector to corrode mild steel surfaces. Until recently, the major concern with corrosion was the damage to the metal surfaces, requiring corrective action. These actions ranged from patching damaged areas, to complete replacement of tube sheets, blow pipes, housing walls, roofs, hoppers, and access doors. With today's stricter environmental particulate regulations, corrosion is causing many cement kiln dust collectors to be over their particulate limits. The rust flakes that are produced get into the air stream and are carried out of the stack by the emission monitors. Even when no filter bags are leaking, the rust flakes are enough to exceed most plants' particulate limits. Emission monitors read particles going by; they do not analyse them to determine their origin. So, a kiln dust collector with 5000 filter bags all doing their job, with no leaks, could still be over the allowable limit for particulate emissions, if there is enough rust scale and flakes on the clean side of the dust collector.
Based on the above information, what are the options to eliminate the effects of the corrosion?
- From an emissions standpoint, the rust scale and dust could be removed from the clean side of the baghouse daily. This is not a realistic option. In addition, this will do nothing to slow down the damage to the metal surfaces.
- Limiting dew point exposure will slow the corrosion in some kiln baghouses, but not all. Some of the newer kiln systems operate with inlet temperatures very close to, if not in, the dew point range.
- Sandblasting and coating the metal surfaces in the clean air plenum will control corrosion for longer periods of time.
- Existing dust collectors, constructed of mild steel, can have the clean air plenum lined with a light gauge stainless steel. This is a longer-term solution.
- The dust collector can be constructed of stainless steel from the tube sheets up. This is the best option, with the lowest cost of ownership, but is the most expensive up front.
Examining the options
Daily maintenance
Most will agree this is not a viable option. It may not be required daily, but even weekly would not work. It would require each compartment to be isolated, the tube sheet to be covered, the walls and ceiling scraped, and all material removed from the tarp, allowing as little as possible to fall down the filter bags. This option has a high labour price and, in most cases, the plant will not be able to maintain the schedule. In addition, production will not be at optimum levels during this weekly procedure. Using this method will require major metal patching or the replacement of the entire clean air plenum every ten years or less.
Limit dew point exposure
During kiln start-up, the dust collector can operate for as long as 36 hours in or around the dew point. This means, at a minimum, you are manufacturing sulfuric acid and, even worse, if chlorides are present, hydrochloric acid. To minimise metal surfaces to prolonged dew point exposure, only start up with a minimum number of compartments online. All compartments are not needed to reduce air volume and temperature. Usually only two compartments are needed during initial start-up. Start with the back two compartments online. This reduces the area that will be exposed to the initial gas stream, allowing it to get above the dew point quicker, as well as heating the entire length of the inlet duct. Start the dust collector with the cleaning system off. As the inlet temperature increases to 300˚F (149˚C) and the overall differential pressure reaches 150 mm, bring the next compartment into service. Repeat this, going from side to side, until all compartments are online. Activate the cleaning system once feed is introduced to the kiln. This method will isolate the worst damage to the back compartments, or sacrificial compartments. Even the sacrificial compartments will not experience the dew point exposure that the entire dust collector would be subjected to, if the kiln was started with all compartments online. Again, this will not eliminate the corrosion; it will just slow it down. This method will extend the time that major metal replacement will need to take place by a couple of years.
Sand blasting and coating
Sand blasting and coating the metal surfaces in the clean air plenum can be an effective method for controlling corrosion. But several things have to happen in order for this method to perform for extended periods of time. First, the metal surfaces have to be clean and sandblasted to a white metal finish. Next, the coating must be applied to the correct thickness and cured at the proper temperature. Selecting a coating is another important step in the process. There are numerous coatings available. It is important to sufficiently research the coating during selection. Gas stream chemistry, now and in the future, and operating temperature must be considered. References from other plants that have already gone through the process are advised. Under the best conditions in the field, the application of high-temperature coatings is a challenge. Coating in the shop, as a dust collector is being fabricated, is ideal. In most cases, the coating will have to be touched up yearly because of cracking, blistering, or flaking. The entire job will most likely have to be repeated every five to ten years.
Lining with stainless steel
This is a more permanent fix compared to the above options. Several plants in the US have used this option with great success. The tube sheets cannot use this method; they will have to be replaced with new stainless steel tube sheets or coated. The walls, ceilings, and the inside of the access doors are lined with thin sheets of stainless steel, usually 17-7 stainless steel. All seams are seal welded to prevent gases from passing through and reaching the mild steel surfaces. The current market price of stainless steel will have a big impact on the price of the project. The labour cost is another factor, considering almost all of it will be field labour. Some of the stainless steel sheets can be precut ahead of time, saving time in the field. With over two years run time, the oldest installation looks like it did the day it was completed. If done correctly, there is no annual maintenance other than inspection.
Stainless steel construction
The best option is to fabricate the tube sheet and the clean air plenum out of stainless steel from the beginning. If this option had been used in the US in all kiln dust collectors installed in the last 15 years, the savings would be in the millions of dollars. Cost savings in a full replacement of clean air plenums, tube sheet replacement, repeated metal repair, sand blasting and coating, short filter bag life, and unplanned outages would have been realised. Not to mention the annoyance of being over particulate emissions limits, because of rust scale going out the stack, would have been avoided. As stated earlier, the initial cost is higher, but the cost of ownership is the lowest. There have been several new dust collectors supplied in the last fifteen years that use the stainless steel option, and the plants where they are installed are enjoying low emissions and low maintenance costs.
With the ever changing gas stream chemistry in kiln dust collectors and the lower particulate emission limits, corrosion has to be controlled for financial and environmental reasons. It is up to each plant to decide the option to take, but addressing corrosion early will save a considerable amount of money. Obviously the first two options are just delaying the inevitable and will result in expensive projects in the future. Sand blasting, and coating and lining the clean air plenum in stainless steel, both have merits and doing research up front is advisable. A dust collector with a stainless steel tube sheet and clean air plenum should be seriously considered.
This article dealt strictly with pulse jet dust collectors, but all the information discussed would hold true for reverse air kiln dust collectors too.
World Cement Magazine / May 2017
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3 Palestinians killed in Israeli air strike
Three Palestinian militants including the local head of an armed group were killed in an Israeli air strike on a refugee camp of Gaza City, medics and security sources said. They said an air-to-ground missile struck their car in Shati camp, killing Nidal al-Amudi, a head of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which is loosely linked to the Fatah group of moderate Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas.
Maher al-Mabhuh, belonging to another group, was also killed along with a third militant who died of his injuries.
An Israeli military spokesman confirmed the raid, without specifying what type of aircraft was used, and said it targeted militants involved in rocket or other attacks on Israel. Earlier, eight mortar shells crashed onto Netiv Haassara village on the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip, without causing casualties, the spokesman said. The latest deaths raised to 6,049 the number of people killed since the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising in 2000, the vast majority of them Palestinian.—The Nation, January 14, 2008
As if in a dream, I was falling asleep in my warm bed in Gaza around midnight when I heard a loud boom—an explosion near my home. What was it? Gas explosion? From Israel? A rocket? Bomb? Missile? A bomb planted by Palestinians to punish other Palestinians? How long would this last? Gunshots followed—rat a tat tat. From whom? About what? Would Ibrahem who was sleeping overnight with me for protection tell me we had to evacuate?
The phone rang. Ibrahem answered. I listened for the quality of his voice since I can't understand Arabic. Would he sound alarmed? Excited? Fearful? Or would he sound calm, secure, pleasant—maybe just a call from a friend?
Ah, his voice was low and soft, delicate. I relaxed and finally slipped into a dreamless sleep.
Next morning I asked him, "Ibrahem, what was that boom?"
He said, "The Israelis just made 3 new shaheeds, martyrs from the armed resistance, assassinated by an Apache helicopter rocket attack. "
The helicopter and rockets were made in my country, the United States, with my tax money, murdering people without any judicial process. No trial, no evidence, no plea-bargaining, no publicity, and no appeal process. No accountability. The world barely noticed.
Where did this happen, Ibrahem?" I asked.
"In Shati, the Beach camp for refugees, 3 km from here, where you were photographing just a few days ago."
I'd been in Shati photographing kids playing marbles. Were they among the dead?
And the call, Ibrahem, who was that?"
"My brother, to make sure I was alright."
Two days later Israel attacked again, this time a section of the old city of Gaza City, killing 18 and injuring over 40 others. Some call it a massacre. Palestinians fire Qassam rockets into Israel, occasionally injuring and killing civilians. Israel claims it is protecting itself. Is it? Are the Palestinians ending the occupation by armed resistance? To what end? How stop the cycle of violence and foster justice?
Woman who had witnessed the killing at the site shown above, her car had been near the destroyed car
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.


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The Civil War in Kansas City
My high school textbook that showed Missouri in blue? Well, consider:
- Across Jackson County, Missouri, only 6 percent of voters chose Lincoln in the 1860 presidential vote. It is not that the region was overrun with proslavery forces – most residents owned no slaves. Yet for businessmen such as Van Horn, Lincoln's rise and the threat of war chilled hopes that railroads, trade, and westward expansion would favor Kansas City's prospects. Van Horn's vote and Missouri's electoral votes instead went to candidate Stephen A. Douglas, the Illinois Democratic senator who had promoted the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act in hopes of clearing a path for the development of the Transcontinental Railroad.
- A week after cannons fired at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, signaling the start of the Civil War, 200 armed and mounted secessionists seized the federal arsenal at Liberty, just to the northeast of Kansas City in Clay County, Missouri. They occupied the place for a week and stole three or four cannons, between 1,000 and 1,500 muskets, and 419 cavalry sabers. A seemingly incredulous Nathaniel Grant, in charge of the arms depot, wrote to a federal ordnance chief in Washington: "The Union feeling had been so strong in Missouri, and particularly this county, that I had no apprehension that the post would be disturbed." However, Grant continued, news dispatches from other states "produced much excitement among the people," which resulted in "secession flags raised in almost every town during the past week."
- Missouri Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson urged the legislature to join the Confederacy, but his plans were foiled when Union troops captured Jefferson City and other major communities. The state's secessionist officials fled with armed forces for the southwest part of the state and continued a government in exile, and the Confederacy actually accepted the admission of Missouri and represented the state with an extra star to represent Missouri on its various flags. Other politicians argued that their slaveholding rights would be better protected by remaining in the Union, and for a time they were correct, as President Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in seceded states, mostly outside of Union control. In addition, runaways to places such as Illinois or the Underground Railroad port of Quindaro, in present-day Kansas City, Kansas, might, after all, be returned.
- Early in the war, at least one Confederate flag shot up in Kansas City. Federal forces from Leavenworth, Kansas moved in at Mayor Van Horn's request and occupied the town for the war's duration. Van Horn would oversee a U.S. battalion of Volunteer Reserves from Camp Union at Broadway and 9th Street. On the fort's grounds, the foundation of developer Kersey Coates's planned hotel stretched idle until hostilities ceased.
All around Camp Union, "the cannon was constantly repeating the signals of alarm given by the pickets stationed on the outskirts of the city; the heart of every inhabitant quickened by the sound," wrote the Coates' daughter, Laura, in her memoirs. She recalled townsfolk gathered to see a rebel "spy" hanged from a scaffold, and how later, spooked children hurried past his grave near a ravine.
The First Baptist Church held together, unlike other congregations in town that split along pro- and antislavery lines. But the First Baptist's bonds were so fragile that Pastor Jonathan Fuller, a Union man, had to closely monitor the choir's selection of hymns so as not to offend Southern loyalties.
Near today's gleaming Sprint Center, the tenuous strands of community ripped apart on August 13, 1863. A makeshift Union prison there collapsed on top of the female Southern-siding kin of Missouri guerrillas. Among the five women who perished was the sister of William T. "Bloody Bill" Anderson. He was one of the so-called bushwhackers, referring to bands of Missourians stalking the countryside for the rebel cause. Southern loyalists believed the jail collapse to be no accident: the Yankees, and Ewing specifically because he happened to own the building, killed those women.
Several days later, hundreds galloped west to Lawrence with Anderson and their guerrilla leader, Quantrill, to eradicate the Union town of its male population. The massacre prompted General Ewing, headquartered in Kansas City, to issue his infamous General Order No. 11, evicting the rural bulk of four Missouri border counties of their entire populations in an ultimately effective but persistently controversial attempt to remove sources of shelter and comfort for the guerrillas. Kansas City and other urban areas were exempted, and some of the refugees were able to move in, provided they swore loyalty to the Union, but the rural areas of Jackson, Cass, Bates, and northern Vernon Counties would long be known as the "Burnt District."
Border War events would soon serve as an exclamation point to the South's defeat in the Western theater. In the fall of 1864, armies clashed in a final Confederate campaign to capture Missouri and spoil Lincoln's reelection. In his "Missouri Expedition," Major General Sterling Price lost at least 1,000 men in an ill-conceived assault on Pilot Knob, found Union defenses too strong to proceed to St. Louis or Jefferson City, and then in October led his troops west and north to Independence and Kansas City.
At Byram's Ford over the Big Blue River, and in prior skirmishes at the Little Blue River, Lexington, and Independence, the rebel troops found some traction in pushing back the Union forces under overall command of Major Generals Samuel R. Curtis and James G. Blunt. But then the federals retreated to a rural expanse near present-day Loose Park and virtually surrounded Price's Army of Missouri.
Imagine a landscape of brush, crops, snaking ravines, and abandoned armaments where some of Kansas City's finest homes now stand.
And this is where the mind's eye really goes wild. Imagine a landscape of brush, crops, snaking ravines, and abandoned armaments where some of Kansas City's finest homes now stand. There, at the Battle of Westport, the Union delivered a fatal blow to Price's army. "What now is the Country Club Plaza was peppered with cannon balls," a soldier named W.S. Shepherd recalled decades later.
The rebels retreated south and lost again – their supply wagons stuck on the muddy banks of Mine Creek, Kansas. Meanwhile, the Northern states re-elected Lincoln and waited for the American Civil War to grind to an end.
It did end, less than six months after Price's army backed out of Westport.
Kansas City's Postwar Miracle
With cannons across the country falling silent, Van Horn's newspaper declared in April 1865, "we have held on as a community." But little else about Kansas City's condition at war's end was worth celebrating.
The once starry-eyed City of Kansas staggered out of the conflict star-crossed. Though no official census was taken at mid-decade, contemporary scholars suspect the population was back down to 3,000 – a third less than the tally of 1860. Nearly all of the businesses had changed hands, turned belly up, or were shut down by Union troops.
Publisher and ex-mayor Van Horn headed to Washington, D.C. that year to begin serving the first of three terms as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives. His wife, Adela, stayed back, writing him letters bemoaning the "horrid" state of the town that he was still trumpeting as a future metropolis.
"Mud about a foot deep" outside their home, she wrote, "and no prospect of clearing up." She later relayed the tragic news of "Doc," a physician friend shot on his way to a house call. In one especially dreary letter, she told her husband: "This [place] would be a desert to me without your love."
Civic desperation, a lucky location, and the critical timing of two industries poised for peacetime growth—railroads and meatpacking—would spin Kansas City's fortunes around within a few fateful years.
Local plans to bridge the Missouri River and hammer down a rail spur going north had collected dust during the fighting, as had other railroad projects around the region.
Van Horn emerged the craftiest of boosters. Together with fellow Northerner Kersey Coates and local dealmakers of Southern persuasion, Van Horn was perched in the right place—the United States Congress—when railroad investors in Boston were ready to gamble on Kansas City. In short, our "horrid" town's elite was happy to set aside dueling wartime passions to make some serious wealth in peacetime. They locked arms and convinced out-of-town railroad interests to finance the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad Bridge, or simply "Hannibal Bridge." In 1886 Van Horn sped through Congress the authorizing bill, and Kansas City's luck soared after its completion in 1869.
The prewar census of 1860: 4,418 people. The 1870 census: 32,260. This count is thought to be inflated, but the sentiment was accurate. By 1890, when cattle carried by rail were butchered in the West Bottoms, some 133,000 people called Kansas City home. Civic leaders who emphasized the "City of the Future," as they called it, could dismiss as birth pains the horrific beginnings of their budding metropolis. Yet the state line would forever divide.
Books that continue to fly from regional presses have not yet agreed on whose suffering was justified or whose plundering was most crazed. As summed up to me by Grady Atwater of the John Brown Museum in Osawatomie, Kansas: "Both sides were equally monstrous." He said this inside a cabin where some of Brown's zealous abolitionists, responsible for a massacre at Pottawatomi Creek and numerous other killings, had met.
The museum that Atwater maintains is mesmerizing and worth a visit – yet my first visit was not made until a quarter of a century after I arrived in Kansas City. I blame that, partly, on my high-school textbooks, which placed Brown at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, but not in Kansas. I also confess to being lackadaisical in challenging the conventions that set the Civil War in the East – not here in the middle of the nation. Today, my advice to anyone who is starting from scratch to understand the passions that culminated in that epic, horrific struggle? Begin by learning what happened in the Kansas City area. It's as good of a microcosm of the war as any around.
Everyone needs a place to start. And for me, the learning began not out of a fascination for the Civil War or the lawless frontier, and not even out of interest in the history of our divisive state line.
Rather, I was curious about a fellow newspaper man, Van Horn.
"I am again a loser," he wrote to his parents in 1855 upon leaving for Kansas City from Ohio, where his previous paper collapsed.
Damned if that Yankee didn't save Kansas City.
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Miller, Patricia Cleary. Westport, Missouri's Port of Many Returns. Kansas City, MO: Lowell Press, 1983.
Montgomery, Rick and Shirl Kasper. Kansas City: An American Story. Kansas City, MO: Kansas City Star Books, 1999.
Neely, Jeremy. The Border Between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line. Columbia London: University of Missouri Press, 2007.


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If Len Brown had any integrity left, he would resign. He is a disgrace. I am all for forgiveness and restoration, and Len can have both, but that doesn't mean he should be mayor. He can join the rest of us in the struggles of everyday life, forgiven, but paying the consequences.
First, it is old news now that he engaged in a salacious affair for two years including having sex in his office and other council contexts including the Town Hall. At that time, I thought he should resign. After all, when the story broke, he had just been voted in as mayor for the second time, and the voting public did not have this information when they voted. It rendered the vote meaningless. I personally voted for him, and I would most certainly not have had I known. I felt robbed.
For me it is a matter of trust. Supposedly, and I am probably naive here, leadership is based on trust. I can never trust a man who betrayed his family in this way. The affair indicates two years of lying to his wife and family. If he can lie to them that he supposedly loves as his flesh and blood, I assume he will lie to me and Auckland without thought. Further, his wife in that time had been dealing with cancer. All this should what a vile man Len Brown is.
Secondly, now the report of his behaviour has come out. He made 1,400 personal calls and texts to Bevan Chuang. He failed to declare $39,000 of hotel deals. He only reimbursed $263 dollars. Bevan Chuang also attended council meetings as a translator, when not a translator—shades of the sign language fiasco at the Mandela memorial! He used his mayoral vehicle to take Ms Chuang home—I am sure there was no hanky panky on the way. He also received NRL Grand Final tickets and an ipad, which were undeclared. Come on Len. Not only are you a self-confessed philanderer, all indications are that you are a crook (allegedly, yeah right).
Of course Brown's response denies misusing council resources nor that his mistress received preferential treatment. That just digs the hole further for Len as far as I am concerned; were their others Len? Who else received this same favourable treatment? Ironically, after declaring his innocence, in his response he admits he should have disclosed the free rooms—you can't have it both ways Len. He (again) apologises to the people of Auckland. Bla bla bla. This person of Auckland accepts the apology and grants you forgiveness, but also believes that he should resign forthwith. Len Brown is not indispensable—grave yards are full of indispensable people. Go and play golf or something. You can join the Tiger Woods supporters club and tour with him.


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Key populations
Ending the AIDS epidemic will depend on greater efforts to reduce new HIV infections and prevent AIDS-related deaths among key populations at highest HIV risk. These groups are disproportionately affected by HIV, even in high prevalence settings, and they experience higher rates of mental health issues, substance use and suicide as a result of chronic stress, estrangement (actual or feared) from families and lack of social support, and disconnection from health and support services.
Key populations are 'key' to both the dynamics of and the response to the epidemic, yet few programmes have focused on these groups, resulting in low coverage of HIV prevention interventions. Data on adolescent members of key populations in particular are extremely limited; either existing data on these groups are not disaggregated by age, or the research has not been done on adolescent populations, often due to concerns about consent issues or other barriers related to social and legal environments.
However, what is clear is that adolescent members of key populations are more vulnerable than adults in the same groups, with many risks and vulnerabilities overlapping across specific group delineations. They share many of the same characteristics of adolescents who are not living with HIV, such as evolving capacities, higher risk-taking behaviour – which can be particularly dangerous for adolescents who inject drugs and share needles – lower condom use and lower levels of awareness about HIV and other health risks. As they begin to establish intimate relationships, adolescents are still acquiring negotiation skills and learning how to manage unequal power dynamics in sexual decision-making.
Most adolescents are also less experienced in navigating the health system, and they are less willing to seek services; when they do, they may find health workers have unhelpful or judgmental attitudes. Adolescent members of key populations face many additional, rights-related socioeconomic challenges such as lack of adequate housing, education, employment and psychosocial support. At the same time, adolescent members of key populations may not identify themselves as such, leading to a range of denial-associated vulnerabilities.
Key populations, and especially adolescents in these groups, often face significant challenges in accessing care and treatment due to stigma and discrimination from health providers, and ignorance within health systems about gender variance. In many countries where certain sexual identifications and practices are criminalized, additional barriers are created by individuals' own fears of stigma, abuse, harassment and legal consequences.
With the growing evidence that ART reduces the risk of HIV transmission and has a dramatic impact on quality of life and survival, it is urgent that health services in all epidemic settings prioritize key populations, including adolescents in those groups, for much greater attention and support. Effective interventions that ensure confidentiality will protect the members of these marginalized groups and improve their health and quality of life, while making a major contribution to reducing HIV transmission.
For adolescents, who are often not aware of their rights, policies and laws specifying age-related restrictions and stipulating consent by parents/guardians or spouses add to their fears and deter adolescents who might otherwise seek services. At the same time, such official restrictions create complex dilemmas for providers who want to act in the best interest of their clients but who may have concerns about their own legal liability as well as the safety of their young clients. Until such policies and laws are changed, many adolescents living with HIV in key populations may need legal support following HIV testing and counselling services.
More specifically, for adolescent males who have sex with men and for transgender adolescents, the normal exploration of sexuality that takes place during adolescence may be more complex. This may expose them to additional risks, due to a transitional stage during which sexual questioning and experimentation with partners of both sexes is not uncommon and may take place before consistent sexual identification as gay or bi-sexual. Additional pressures of 'coming out' or disclosing their emerging, possibly confusing or upsetting sexual identification to family members and peers can add to an adolescent's vulnerability; 'sexual silence', when one's sexual orientation is not discussed with partners, friends or providers, also increases the risk for HIV and sexually transmitted infections.
Interventions and services for adolescents in key populations should be based on adolescent-friendly principles (as previously addressed in this tool), with particular attention to accessibility issues and the attitudes of staff members. Services that prioritize building trust with young, highly marginalized and stigmatized groups can more effectively reach adolescents in key populations, optimizing the impact on individual lives and on broader HIV prevention, care and treatment efforts. Community-based services are especially well-positioned to break down some of the barriers that exist for adolescents in key populations; creative use of peer outreach and support as well as social media can promote services that are easy to access and provide safe, impartial settings where confidentiality and respect for individuals and their autonomy are assured.
In many communities, adolescents from key populations will feel safer seeking services from organizations that have a special focus on their particular psychosocial and legal needs, along with their health needs. These 'one-stop shop' services can provide comprehensive HIV/STI risk reduction and treatment options, as well as services that address the range of other issues key populations face. In some settings where adolescent-friendly services are already established, it may be possible to add services for adolescent members of key populations. Similarly, services for adult members of key populations may consider ways to accommodate the particular needs of adolescents. In either case, it is vital that adolescent members of key populations not feel singled out, set apart or marginalized in any way.
Health providers need support and training to develop a more sensitive and robust understanding of the lives and circumstances of adolescent key populations. They also need to be better prepared to meet the needs of four main groups of adolescent key populations: adolescent males who have sex with men; adolescents under the age of 18 who are being sexually exploited or sex workers 18–19 years of age; adolescents who use injecting drugs; and transgender individuals. Health providers need to make sure that they work in a multidisciplinary way, and that linkage to community-based providers is established to ensure referrals and adequate follow-up care are available for these adolescents.