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What is a grande dame? A woman of courage. Of flexibility, who goes around obstacles. Of tenacity, who makes a path where none exists. She has a sense of duty, and of self. She is gracious, but decisive. And she is built tough enough for the long haul, for being a grande dame is about hanging in there and seeing things through. About a lot more than sugar and spice and everything nice. A grande dame is not always pleasant.
She is, after all, busy, creating so much that we take for granted from the law guaranteeing every child a public education to the Growth Management Act.
Sometimes, behind these extraordinary women, stands a man a father, a husband, a mentor or a son who urged them to reach for the next rung, then helped them succeed. Some had a husband who agreed, long before it was as common as it is today, to live apart for the sake of her career, to leave a job to join her in running a business, or forgo having children.
But when they had to, these women were not afraid to go it alone, undeterred by social conventions, bureaucracy, prejudice, indifference or a workload that would buckle a burro.
They vary in age, life experience and expertise. Some raised kids, some didn't. Some are easygoing, some crackle with blue sparks.
None suffers fools gladly. And all have this in common: their character, and accomplishments that have stood the test of time.
Dorothy Hollingsworth, 83
When Hollingsworth looked for work as a teacher in Seattle, "they said they had already hired one Negro and weren't too enthusiastic about hiring any more." The year was 1949.
When she wanted a job as a social worker, her husband said a woman's place was in the home. The year was 1950.
None of it stopped her. Instead, Hollingsworth thought of her mother, who raised three children on her own after her husband died.
"I decided my mother had invested too much in me to put aside any opportunity. When I decided to step up, she didn't pull me back. Whatever I did, she supported me. She would say, 'If that's what you want and you think you can do it, I will help you.' "
Hollingsworth, who's lived in Seattle since 1946, went on to become the first black woman president of the Seattle School Board. She was vice chairman of the Washington State Board of Education, and is still a member of the board of trustees of Seattle Community Colleges.
A mother of two, Hollingsworth also touched the lives of children all over the city as the first director of Seattle's Head Start program in 1965.
On the School Board from 1976 to 1981, Hollingsworth was a leading advocate for busing. She helped Seattle be the first and largest school district in the country to set a desegregation plan in motion without a court order, or the violence seen in other cities.
"It was always about helping people. I would see injustice being done to people, and that was something that tore at my heart. Even as a kid, I remember this kid next door who was a bully, and I would go over and say, 'Stop that.' I felt the need even then to intervene on behalf of people. I think it was just within me."
Hollingsworth was the first in her family to go to college, and she went back to school at 37 to get the master's degree in social work she always wanted. Her mother attended both graduations.
Success came at a price. When her mother was stricken on a Monday with an aneurysm, Hollingsworth could not immediately cross the country, leaving 40 employees and two children, to be by her side. She paid to send relatives in her place.
"She died Friday afternoon. I got there a few hours afterward.
"She was always there for me, and when she needed me, I was not there," says Hollingsworth, crying 37 years later at the memory. "But it was the social worker in me, too. I knew there truly was nothing I could do, so I just faced it and that was it: I focused on taking care of things here."
Hollingsworth says she never doubted her mother knew how much her support meant or how much her accomplishments meant to her mother.
Just before she died, her mother told her, " 'You did everything I hoped you would do,' " Hollingsworth says. "I told her, I never could have done it without you."
Anne Gould Hauberg, 86
Formerly married to timber heir John Hauberg, she helped boost the local arts community and culture with art commissioned for their homes. They gifted local museums with many works and commissioned the Mark Tobey mural at Seattle Center, paying for it with a gift to the city of 400 shares of Weyerhaeuser stock.
She co-founded the Pilchuck Glass School in 1971 with her husband and Dale Chihuly. Now internationally famous, the school is synonymous with craft elevated to fine art and with the Northwest.
Hauberg says her father, Carl Gould, founder of the University of Washington's School of Architecture and campus architect, helped kindle her passion for the arts. "Why the arts?" she says, surprised at the question. "Because as my father said, if you don't support them, you won't have them.
"Have you ever been out in those suburbs with no redeeming features? I go to a shopping center and I can't get out of there fast enough. There is nothing there with any life.
"The arts are handmade, not the assembly line. To be memorable, that's what's important."
A lifelong Seattleite, her activism is without boundaries.
When the city proposed a freeway through the heart of town, she led the fight to put a lid on what she called "The Ditch," organizing a parade of more than 100 protesters carrying branches of greenery she brought in a pickup truck. That was in 1961. Freeway Park was finally finished in 1976.
When her daughter Sue was born with developmental disabilities, Hauberg, wealthy enough to hire tutors for her daughter, also decided to create services and help for families facing similar challenges but lacking resources. "What about everyone around you in the same boat? I just believed it should be done," Hauberg says. "There was no help, zero. You were to put them in an institution and forget them. You were supposed to get rid of your mistakes."
With her husband she founded the Pilot School in 1960 so kids with disabilities could live at home and still get an education. The school blossomed in 1965 into what is now the Experimental Education Unit at the Center for Human Development and Disability at the University of Washington.
"Things happen, and you step up to the plate and see what you can do."
Maria Luz Lara Lopez, 76
For when Maria Luz Lara Lopez ran away from her tiny village of Cuautla to the U.S. in 1957, she broke a path, traveling to Seattle where she would later open Lucy's, the city's first authentic Mexican restaurant. It was an auspicious beginning:
Azteca, Tapatios, Acapulco, La Palma, Mexico Lindo, Guadalajara, Mazatlan, Las Margaritas. Name just about any Mexican-restaurant chain in this region, and its roots are in Cuautla. And Lopez known as Lucy helped them all get started.
For cousins, brothers or friends from her home town, she had ideas, contacts, recipes, advice, jobs, money. In all, Lopez estimates about 340 Mexican restaurants in the Pacific Northwest have connections to people from Cuautla, "and it all started with me."
After working as a cook, Lopez had an opportunity to open her own restaurant in 1970. When her husband said no, she said, "Let me try."
That first year Lopez did it all: the cooking, cleaning, waiting tables. "I am very determined; I know what I want, and when I make a decision, I make a goal, I say I'm going to do it, and I am going to do it. I'm very strong. I built up the business. I had to teach people about Mexican food; I would give it away for free."
Her husband left his job to join her in running the restaurant, by then successful. When they moved to a bigger location on Pike Street, "The customers helped us move the pots, the dishes, everything with their cars. By that time I was a little famous with my food."
The couple made five- and six-figure loans at below-market rates to newcomers from back home to help them get started in their own restaurants. "Every one of them paid us back. We were the bank. Back then the banks would not loan to us."
They eventually opened five more restaurants, never taking any partners.
Having kids was out of the question. "We were too busy in the business, and we don't want someone else to raise them, that's not our culture." It was a hard decision to explain back home: " 'You love the money more than the family,' Mom and Dad would say."
Actually, the couple built a different kind of family, people they helped on both sides of the border, who call them Godmother and Godfather.
And money sent back over the years to Cuautla by restaurant entrepreneurs has built a better school, church, town square, new homes, even the best bull-fighting arena around. Two Washington governors have traveled to Cuautla to see what Lucy hath wrought.
"I am not selfish," says Lopez. "Even as a child, the father in the church used to tell me, you give something with this hand, it comes back three times more in the other. And it works."
Jeannette C. Hayner, 85
In 1942, she was one of only two women to graduate from the University of Oregon with a law degree. In 1974, she was one of the first women appointed to a board of directors by a major company in the Pacific Northwest, and in 1979, she became the first woman elected by her peers to an important leadership post in the Legislature.
Yet Hayner eschewed the feminist movement and says she has never tried or wanted to be one of the boys. In 20 years of Olympia winter deluges, she says she never once wore pants to the office. And she forbade her male colleagues to swear in her presence.
Hayner says she was comfortable in the formerly man's world of Olympia. "I treated everyone as individuals, not as male or female." She credits her father, in part. "He encouraged me to do the things I was interested in." Law school? Run for office? "I was confident I could do it; it never occurred to me that I couldn't."
Elected Republican caucus leader as a freshman senator in 1979, she held the post until her retirement in 1993, sometimes working with a GOP majority in the Senate of only one vote.
To make the most of it, she instituted her so-called Rule of 13: If a majority of GOP members favored a bill, all 25 members of the caucus would have to support it. "I decided we were never going to be an important voice in the Legislature unless we stuck together."
A resident of Walla Walla County since 1947, Hayner also credits her husband of 61 years with making her career on the other side of the state possible. "I attribute that to his patience. There were times when I couldn't get home for weeks at a time. He did everything he could to make it easier."
Hayner calls herself a conservative, but she is not easily typecast: Her support made passage of the landmark Growth Management Act possible.
Asked if she was ever discriminated against, Hayner answers a quick "no."
When none of the large firms in Portland would hire her out of law school, she got a job at the Bonneville Power Administration. "It didn't bother me. That's the way life was then, you accept some things you can't change at the moment. You do something else. One door closes, you open another.
"Any more questions?"
Luth Tenorio, 68
Former dean of the School of Nursing at Seattle University, Tenorio has spent much of her career as the only woman or person of color working at her level. She retired from SU in 2000 after serving seven years as one of only two Filipino-American nursing deans in the country.
One of nine children, all but one with a master's or Ph.D., Tenorio earned her doctorate at 50. She was always drawn to challenges: trained as a nurse, Tenorio chose to specialize in the care of cancer patients with psychological problems.
"What impressed me was the technical aspects of nursing were very easy to learn, but it was much more of a challenge to learn the psychological care of patients. It's a harder science. That appeals to me, and I liked the need to use yourself as a medium to make them better."
In rural Minnesota, where Tenorio taught nursing for 24 years, she was the only woman on the governing body of the state's health-care policy board, its only minority and the only voice for nurses.
"This was a rural area, and at the time it was not popular to speak up," she says. "But I was fascinated by having a voice in a larger organization on health policy. And I was going to make sure a voice for nurses was heard."
After getting her Ph.D., Tenorio felt she needed a new challenge. She and her husband agreed Tenorio would move alone to Oxford, Ohio, to take a new job as chairman of the department of nursing at Miami University. "It was very difficult for my friends to accept that I would leave my husband to go work in Ohio. For six years we flew to see each other every two weeks. I really valued the challenge, and we made it happen. Our marriage was not sacrificed.
"Many doors opened for me there. It was stimulating and satisfying for me, and he was happy for me. I needed that support."
Their decision not to have children was also mutual. "We came here as graduate students and said we would wait until we got back." But by the time they were ready, there was too much political turmoil in the Philippines. "So we re-evaluated."
Of her marriage of 42 years she says, "That is my proudest accomplishment: The maintenance of a mutually respectful marriage, especially in a very demanding career like mine."
Katie Dolan, 79
Since her son, Patrick, was born with autism 53 years ago, Dolan and parents she helps galvanize have taken the fight for people with disabilities anywhere and everywhere: to Olympia; to Washington, D.C.; to editorial boards, to anyone who would listen and lots who didn't want to.
"We are there to kick start and to kick ass," says Dolan.
A former model, actress and TV news personality, Dolan uses drama, humor or just sheer cussed persistence to dent indifference.
When families found going to agency offices for help too daunting, she brought the bureaucracy to them, organizing what she called "disability parties" all over the state. Families would gather to share cake and food at community centers with agency staff who signed people up by the dozen for help they were entitled to but never knew existed.
In 1972, she helped found The Troubleshooters, a statewide protection and advocacy program for people with developmental disabilities and their families. And in 1975, she started the state chapter of the Autism Society of America.
Dolan was also on the front lines of Education for All, four parents at Seattle's Northwest Center who with two law students pushed the Legislature in 1971 to enact House Bill 90, the landmark legislation guaranteeing a public education to children with disabilities.
The law was enacted too late for her own son to benefit from it. But the measure later became a model for national legislation.
Sugar coating is not in her repertoire. Dolan is not afraid to say, for instance, that it's important for parents of a child with disabilities to go through a grief process for the child they didn't have and the child they were expecting.
"People say you've been chosen, that's so fabulous, so wonderful, such a blessing, he's an angel. If I had a choice to do over again, would I rather have had a kid that didn't have autism? Of course. I don't believe God only gives you what you can take because I have seen people totally destroyed by having too much to bear.
"You put a barrier in front of me, I just jump higher."
A typical day finds her calling every member of the Legislature to scold them for bottling up a disabilities bill without a hearing and filling out forms indecipherable for people who cannot write or use a telephone.
She calls her advocacy work for people with disabilities "the ultimate civil-rights cause, because the basic instinct is genocide." And she knows where her inspiration comes from: "Our heroes are our sons and daughters who taught us what it really means to be human and to care for each other."
Lynda V. Mapes is a Pacific Northwest magazine staff writer. Benjamin Benschneider is a magazine staff photographer.
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Throughout the whole day economists, sociologists, trade unionists, politicians of the Party of the European Left (EL) and members of social movements of over 20 different countries analyse the causes and consequences of the policy of austerity and the pressure that the payment of debt is causing on the peoples of Europe. The president of the EL, Pierre Laurent, called this big event "an act of democratic construction" which will open an alternative debate with real solutions. He talked about how to face the debt problem in Europe and "how restructuring it to lighten it".
8 years in prison for each accused person are demanded, something that did not happened since Franco's dictatorship
A delegation of leaders of the Party of the European Left (EL) travelled yesterday to Madrid to join the nearly two million people, according to the organizers, which staged one of the most massive and protest demonstrations in recent times.
One million and nine hundred thousand Europeans have supported the European Citizens' Initiative which claims the "implementation of the human right to water and sanitation in the European legislation". This great citizen mobilization that must lead to action !
The right to water and sanitation is a fundamental human right, vital, which should be guaranteed to everyone within public services and not subject to market rules in Europe and around the world. This is not a commercial product but a public good of humanity.
Erdogan´s police attacked the offices of the Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP) and Turkish Communist Party (TKP)
The Secretariat of the Party of the European Left will take part in the demonstration
Only a few days after the fiesta of the European People's Party in Dublin, which "celebrated" both the affirmation of austerity and the political proposals of the European Right, including the cynical jokes made by Bono, the European Left gave its own response.
The Party of the European Left welcomes the victory of Salvador Sánchez Ceren, candidate of the Frente Farabundo Marti de Liberación Nacional in the presidential elections of this March 9. The elections were carried out with all the transparency, and in the presence of a large number of international observers. The EL Party was present in these elections with an observer.
We are experiencing a serious attack against women's rights all over Europe which is developing at different paces in our countries. Financial and political powers are threatening our rights, liberties, and our personal autonomy. More and more, they are limiting women's access to the most basic goods and services and thus preventing to reach the equality among all human beings. The outcome is a greater inequality and a growing lack of democracy in Europe.
Today, the Turkish Cypriot activist, conscientious objector and member of the Executive Board of the Party of the European Left, Murat Kanatli, was sentenced to 10 days in jail for refusing to participate in annual military mandatory exercises in the northern part of Cyprus.


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When the old battery bank gave out, it was back to diesel for a time at this significant conservation site in the Mallee. But an innovative off-grid upgrade has changed that and led to a significant improvement over the old system, as Trust for Nature's Chris Lindorff and Tiffany Inglis explain.
UP IN the Mallee, along the River Murray in far north-west Victoria, lies Neds Corner Station, a former sheep property now being restored as a significant natural habitat by the not-for-profit Trust for Nature.
With an extreme climate—temperatures soar close to 50 °C in summer and frosts occur in winter—and no grid connection, this 30,000 hectare (300 km2) property presents challenges not only for habitat restoration, but also for the off-grid energy system needed to support the on-site rangers and visitors.
Purchased by conservation organisation Trust for Nature in 2002, the site is now home to two rangers and up to 30 visitors at a time: researchers and students studying the flora and fauna; bird groups conducting site surveys; works crews working on neighbouring public land; volunteers assisting with site restoration tasks such as reducing rabbit numbers, replanting local species and installing fences to keep out foxes; and the occasional corporate days and camping trips.
The site includes a homestead, shearer's huts (used as accommodation), kitchens and conference/workshop rooms, with associated energy needs for heating/cooling, lighting, water pumping, refrigeration and gas cooking.
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When the property was first bought by Trust for Nature, the site ran solely on a diesel generator. Then, in 2012, philanthropic donations enabled the installation of a solar power system with a lead-acid battery bank. The system was designed to cater for an average of 25 kWh/day energy use, with a 25 kVA diesel generator as backup.
Over the following years, however, more people came to Neds Corner and energy demand increased, which led to the generator running more often than not.
Frequent, heavy cycling of the flooded lead-acid battery bank meant it performed poorly and reduced its lifespan. Following the failure of multiple battery cells in 2016, the battery bank was disconnected and the diesel generator again became the sole source of electricity.
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An 'extraordinary meeting' will be held at City Hall this morning to decide whether Travelwatch Chairman Brian Cooke's endorsement of Boris Johnson, breached his contract. A quick look at the rules suggest that it may well have done -UPDATE- Brian Cooke had his contract terminated with immediate effect. Full report here.
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And...he's out! Blimey!
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Aye, I didn't think they'd get the votes, since Jenny Jones was fairly obviously against sacking him. I think there was a Tory missing, though, Victoria Borwick. Watching online I did keep having to flick back and forth to mugshots, not being over-familiar with the cast list (apart from James Cleverly, whom I've met).
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Korea 6 of 9 - Korean War Museum
It took me about seven tries of exporting and uploading to youtube, to finally get it right. All of the stress has finally been lifted. I was getting pretty frustrated with the whole process.
I've already begun working on the Busan episode and should have it done sometime around next Wednesday (Nov. 3rd).
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Attempting to Finish My Korean Videos
It's been almost two months since I last posted a video on Korea. Two months! Can you believe that? Well, a lot has happened to me since I last posted a video. I moved into a new apartment, got hit by a car while riding a bicycle, started up school, and had to practice for the speech contest. I'm hoping that if I have the time, I will talk about each of these incidents. For now, I'm just trying to finish up the last few videos I have about Korea.
I don't know if you remember or not but all of these videos are from when I was in Korea last year. It's taken me the longest time to get around editing these pieces. I really enjoy putting them together but it's hard to balance a hobby with my free time.
I really wish that putting these kind of videos was my full time job. Alas, it's not. There is a little revenue that I get from it but it's not much. Better than nothing right? It all really depends on how many people are watch or reading my content. At the moment, not so much. That's ok though! :)
At the moment, I am attempting to upload part six of nine, of my Korean series. It's a video about the National War Museum of Korea. Youtube is kind of being a pain and not processing the videos. I've tried about six times so far and am getting really frustrated in the process. It would be nice to get it up now but if not, I'll try and get it up by this Wednesday. Remember, the video is finished, it's just youtube that isn't co-operating.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Bizarre Dream
Last night I had a dream in which I was forced to leave Japan and go back to America. I've had this dream a few times before. There have never been a reason to 'why' I had to move back. The problem I've had in each of these dreams is that, I've never been able to find work. I love Cascadia but I have a very stable life in Japan. Let's hope it doesn't come true.
(Japanese forest nearby my house)
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Sunday, October 9, 2011
Japanese Customer Service
I was at my school the other day, just sitting down at my desk. There wasn't much work for me to do, so I was scribbling some kanji on blank pieces of paper. Class didn't start for an hour anyway and I had some time to kill. While in the midst of practicing a mechanic showed up at school. He was there to pick up one of the teachers cars. I glanced out the window and saw his car in the parking lot. He grabbed the keys to the teachers car and drove off, leaving his car in the parking lot. A few hours later, the mechanic returned with the teachers keys and a bill for the work done to his car. This isn't the first time I've seen customer service taking to that level.
Since many employees in Japan work long hours, it can be difficult for them to get normal errands done. I've once seen travel agents come to the school, sit down, and talk with the teachers planning to get away during summer break. This level of customer service is super rare in America.
I think there are a few reasons for this, not all of which I want to get into. The main point I want to get to is most Japanese take their job seriously or take extreme pride in their work. Rarely is anything done sloppy here in Japan. Let me give you an example.
If you walked into a 7/11 in Japan, you'll see at least three people working. They'll great you immediately. You head over to the chips section and pull a bag off the shelf, leaving an 'empty' space. Then you grab a coke and head to the front to pay. While at the front of the store, you decide you want a corn dog. You tell the clerk and before you can finish your sentence, another employee or the clerk themselves quickly head over to the corn dogs and pulls one off the shelf for you. Puts it nicely in a bag and hands it too you. When you're walking out of the store, all of the workers yell 'thank you' (in Japanese of course) and you're on you're way. What you won't see is that one of the employees will go back to where you bought your bag of chips and 're-face' the brand, making sure that the shelves don't look empty.
The level of detail and pride the Japanese take in their work is insane. Sometimes I think it's a little to much but I have grown accustomed to it. I have a feeling that when I go back to visit in America, I might be a little discouraged.
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text: Senegal's economy is driven by mining, construction, tourism, fisheries and agriculture which is the primary source of employment in rural areas. The country's key export industries include phosphate mining, fertilizer production, agricultural products and commercial fishing and it is also working on oil exploration projects. Senegal relies heavily on donor assistance, remittances and foreign direct investment. President Macky SALL, who was elected in March 2012 under a reformist policy agenda, inherited an economy with high energy costs, a challenging business environment, and a culture of overspending. Senegal received technical support from the IMF in 2010-2014 under a Policy Support Instrument to assist economic reform through sound macroeconomic and fiscal policies to reduce the fiscal deficit, increase transparency and facilitate private investment. President SALL unveiled an ambitious economic plan, the Emerging Senegal Plan, which aims to implement priority economic reforms and investment projects to increase economic growth. Bureaucratic bottlenecks and a challenging business climate are among the perennial challenges that may slow the implementation of this plan. Investors have signaled confidence in the country through Senegal's successful Eurobond issuances in recent years, including in 2014..


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There is a lot of love on social media for furries in the pet brigade - dont get me wrong I do love my 4 cats and the dog but other pets are often over looked especially in the comping world - there's always things like tummy tuesday or caturday or sundaysnoozeday and so on where people can enter their usually very cute furry pets to win prizes. But hey - not all pets are furry :) We are very fond of our corns and corn snakes are the ideal pet for newbies to the non furry pet stakes. They generally have a pleasant temperament, are easy to handle and easy to look after in general. Most corn snakes are captive bred and come in a range of stunning colours. Some colour and pattern combos are highly sought after too!
My family have always had all sorts of pets - my sister currently has a dog and a tarantula, my niece has 7 or 8 different species of lizard - in the past we have had everything from tropical fish to birds to rodents to stick insects
So in honour of all those non furry pets out there I give you Emi and Morfa our beautiful corn snakes


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The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses on Wall Street even among the professionals, who feel that they must take home some money every day, as though they were working for regular wages.
Professional traders have always had some system or other based upon their experience and governed either by their attitude towards speculation or by their desires.
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UII: Leadership Boot Camp
Our flagship program is our annual summer Leadership Boot Camp. Now in our 5th consecutive year, the Leadership Boot Camp is a collaborative community partnership program in which every summer, students enrolled in Essex County College, regional colleges, and local Newark high schools are given summer employment and, in turn, learn comprehensive civic and leadership development skills in a safe, innovative and "out the box" learning environment. Here are the present Boot Camp stipulations:
- Must be between 16 and 24 years old
- Must be currently enrolled in high school or college, or registered to begin college in the approaching academic year
- Must be a Newark resident
- 6 weeks of paid summer work
- 16 total hours of employment, Monday-Thursday schedule
What do we do at the summer Leadership Boot Camp? The Boot Camp curriculum is designed to offer an out the box, innovative curriculum that every student wishes their school would offer on a daily basis. Our goal is to provide the kind of educational experience that every student wishes they had! Our main areas of focus are: Financial Literacy and Economic Empowerment; Civics, Cultural and Historical Awareness; New Media Technology and Computer Literacy; and Physical and Emotional Health and Wellness. In other words, at the Boot Camp students can expect to:
- Create and pitch their own business ideas
- Exercise…sweat and learn skills in meditation and holistic living
- Engage local government officials and become civically aware about questions of policy, business and take trips like to the local City Hall and County facilities
- Use social media in creative ways to enhance their academic or professional goals (like starting their own websites or blogs to market an online business)
By the end of the six weeks, students have been through a life-changing experience and come out as better people. See our photo gallery from the past 5 years of boot camp programming
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As a global leader in voice biometrics, AGNITIO brings new authentication solutions for call centers. When deployed as part of the contact center infrastructure, AGNITIO Voice ID helps reduce call center fraud. Fraud detection is not only about securing authentication. The main tool to fight against sophisticated fraudsters is to analyze as many interactions as possible and generate an alert when suspicious activities are detected. Between 75% and 95% of the cases detected are repeated attacks. Being able to spot the voices of those professional fraudsters can have a tremendous impact in fraud reduction.
Any call to a contact center can be compared to a black list of fraudsters' voices. Even when a person is not conducting a transaction, but simply asking for information (the first step in many fraud schemes), their voice will automatically be compared to a black list of over up to 1000 known fraudsters so that illegitimate callers can be detected and transferred to a more secure protocol. And this process is completely transparent to legitimate customers with no impact on transaction time. With AGNTIO KIVOX Passive Detection, the authentication process is completely seamless for transactions performed with call center agents. No enrollment process is needed. Customers´ voiceprints are simply created by using historical recordings. And the customer is identified using natural speech. Our accurate free speech technology together with multiple speaker separation capabilities allows a secure multifactor authentication using natural speech in transactions with an agent. The KIVOX Passive Detection API can be integrated into CTI, Workforce optimization or other call center Software, providing the seamless customer authentication that only voice can achieve. Based on the results obtained by our partners, fraud can be reduced by 75% in just months by using our voice detection technology.


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Professor Long joined Stetson after having taught legal research and writing for nine years at J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, and at the University of Oregon School of Law. Before teaching, Professor Long practiced with Morrison & Foerster in Orange County, California and Hill, Johnson & Schmutz in Provo, Utah. His practice is primarily focused on appellate and motion practice in the areas of intellectual property, contract, and construction law. Professor Long's scholarship currently focuses on the efficacy of various types of environmental advocacy and empirical analyses of language patterns in appellate briefs and opinions. His most recent article, When Justices (Subconsciously) Attack: The Theory of Argumentative Threat and the Supreme Court, 91 Oregon Law Review 933 (2013) (with William F. Christensen) analyzes differences between the language used by Supreme Court Justices in majority and dissenting opinions and has received national media attention. He presents his research regularly at national and regional legal writing conferences.
Professor Long graduated with a J.D. from Brigham Young University in 1986. While at BYU, Professor Long was a member of the BYU Journal of Legal Studies, a member of the BYU Comparative Law Journal, and a member of the Jessup International Moot Court Competition team.
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Augmented Reality: Enabling the future
The first three parts of our series on augmented reality have showcased current solutions that make Industry 4.0 possible. This final article will focus on how the field of AR will develop in the future. A future made possible by advancing technology and an ever-growing adoption of augmented reality.
The next generation of smart glasses
Most current AR applications are made for a phone or tablet. Smart Glasses will be the next big step forward for these apps. Smart head mounted displays let you look through a clear lens at your work, but can also show augmentations. Google Glass was one of the first, but new devices such as Microsoft's Hololens or the Meta 2 are in a completely different league. Next-gen Smart Glasses offer an immersive field of view and powerful computing. Because they are mounted to your head they leave your hands free to do whatever you want. You simply control the devices via gestures or your voice. This enables you to do complex maintenance tasks whilst seeing clear instructions superimposed over your work.
First industrial application for Hololens
Industry is the best place to combine the strengths of augmented reality with the potential of Smart Glasses. This year WEMO, specialist in machine building and machine components, rolled out the first industrial application for Hololens: WEMOlens. This app lets a single operator run a full production line in a mobile hands-free way. Traditionally an operator can only control a machine at a single fixed console. But since some production lines can be over 100 meters long the operator loses a lot of time walking around. So instead of forcing you to walk to a console WEMOlens brings everything you need to you.
A flexible solution
An operator can use WEMOlens to operate the production line, and view the line status and OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) data. The application also lets you see and change your production schedule as well as offer a direct remote assistance link to WEMO itself. The app can use IoT sensor data to push information to the user only when he needs it. The result is a flexible solution that lets an operator focus on what he does best: making reliable and high-quality products!
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WEMO expects to be 35% faster, and to make 90% fewer mistakes by using the Hololens.It serves as the perfect finale for this series on how augmented reality forms the driving force behind Industry 4.0. AR empowers workers via smarter working environments, and lets them focus on creating value in a safe and reliable way. Think of how augmented reality can help your business and join the new Industrial Revolution!


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I took my son for a bike ride to one of the newest pieces of bike infrastructure in Toronto: the Sunnyside Bike Park. I've known about the park for a while. I saw it being built from the vantage point of the Lakeshore West GO line. The park is set up for four levels of difficulty. Easy, intermediate, experienced and expert (I might be wrong on the names of the categories, but you get the jist).
The facilities are spartan (so far) but the ramps and jumps are fantastic. My son had a blast riding around the undulating tracks and banked turns.
While we were there another father/son pairing rode up. Dad was on a very rare bird: A 1960s era F-framed Moulton. The green Moulton was not only special for its pedigree, but it had at one point been rebuilt by none other than Mariposa Bicycle builder Mike Barry.
On the way back I saw – but could not capture on my camera – a space frame model Moulton.
It was, in short, a fantastic cycling day.


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Monday, October 30, 2017
Lorain County's Catholic and Lutheran churches will hold a joint service to mark the 500th anniversary of the event that sparked the Protestant Reformation.
St. Peter Parish will host the service at 3 p.m., Nov. 5, at the church, 3655 Oberlin Ave. in Lorain. The event is free and open to the public.
The Rev. Rosalina Rivera, pastor of First Lutheran Church of Lorain, and the Rev. William Thaden, pastor of Sacred Heart Chapel Catholic church in South Lorain, will officiate.
The date Oct. 31, 2017, marks the 500th anniversary of the day Martin Luther posted his "95 Theses" on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church.
It became the foundation of the Protestant Reformation.
The events are known to students of theology and history.
But people may not know Lutherans and Catholics have spent 50 years in dialogue about their beliefs, said Rivera and the Rev. Jimmy Madsen, who will retire this year as pastor of First Lutheran Church.
In 1999, the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church published the "Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification," a statement that "shows that a consensus in basic truths of the doctrine of justification exists between Lutherans and Catholics."
Last year, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Catholic Church published "Declaration on the Way: Church, Ministry and Eucharist," a statement of agreements of both churches.
The event is a chance not to highlight differences, but to look for reconciliation, Madsen said.
The Reformation is not a theme of celebration for Catholics, Thaden said.
At all times, there is no argument reform is needed in the church, he said.
But the Reformation caused a schism with a great deal of hurt to the churches and the faithful, Thaden said.
Without trivializing the history, it is possible now to examine and consider the Lutheran-Catholic dialogue about faith in Jesus as savior, he said.
"The message of our savior is reconciliation," Thaden said. "He came to reconcile all of creation to the Father. Certainly, that includes us to one another."
Division does not come from God, Thaden said.
But God can work in spite of human rivalry and reaction, he said.
"There's extremely much more than unites us, rather than divides us," Thaden said about the churches. "I would say the growing unity is a sign of true reform. Hopefully, one day it leads us to full communion."
The service will be based on the service held by Pope Francis with Lutheran leaders on Oct. 31, 2016, in Lund, Sweden, Madsen said.
The service also has personal connections for those involved.
After First Lutheran Church burned in August 2014, members of St. Peter Parish helped the members of the Lutheran congregation, including organizing a benefit concert, Madsen said.
Rivera said she was raised Catholic but converted at age 12, based upon her mother's marriage, "so it's deeply personal to me."
She also was present for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's 2016 national conference when Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton presented the "Declaration on the Way."
It will be a privilege to preach at St. Peter Church, Rivera said, because it is not often that a woman gets to preach from the pulpit of a Catholic church.


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We own and manage forests in Colombia and Venezuela.
In Colombia 31% of the total forest area of 69,500 hectares is protected natural forest; while in Venezuela 37% of the 35,000 hectares is protected natural forest.
These protected parts of our forests are kept as natural forest thus maintaining:
- Biodiversity
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- Helping to conserve natural habitats
The guiding principles of our forestry policy in Latin America are to:
- Develop research programmes to preserve and enhance soil productivity
- Identify appropriate species and forestry systems, enabling an increase in plantation yields while protecting the environment
- Preserve natural forests located on company lands to ensure the sustainability of forest diversity and the protection of water sources and habitats of plants and wildlife
Smurfit Kappa in Colombia is in cooperation with other research institutes and is continuously investing in research.
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Some of our operations are situated within or are adjacent to legally protected area or to areas of high biodiversity value.
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It's arguably the biggest news story of the past century — the case of a single U.S. dairy cow of Canadian origin infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Overnight it shut down 95% of a $3.5-billion export market for U.S. beef and left thousands of beef producers wondering what would happen to their livelihood.
Late afternoon on Dec. 23, 2003, USDA Secretary Ann Veneman made the announcement that a cow in Washington state had tested presumptive positive for the fatal brain-wasting disease. Almost 40 countries shut their borders to U.S. beef exports over the next few days.
Within 15 minutes of Veneman's announcement, the president of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA), Eric Davis, and several staff members, including CEO Terry Stokes and Chandler Keys, vice president of government affairs, held a media teleconference to respond to the news and to answer questions.
"As I recall, there were more than 100 media representatives on that call following the secretary's announcement," says Davis, a cattle producer from Bruneau, ID.
Because of the holidays, NCBA offices were understaffed. Scheduled to be closed for a week, NCBA's offices, unlike those of some other industry organizations, remained open as people scrapped holiday plans and headed back to work.
"I was at the grocery store around 1 or 2 p.m. when I got the call saying, 'We have a situation? Where are you? Can you come to the office?'" says Kim Essex, NCBA executive director of public relations. "Shortly after that, we gathered to discuss the next steps needed to be taken. Then, we got on the USDA call to hear the news."
Crisis Management
U.S. beef is safe to eat. That's the message NCBA and its state affiliates worked overtime to deliver to U.S. consumers. It wasn't a hollow message. The science proved it.
"We felt we had to be very visible early in the process by talking to the media. We wanted to be very open, transparent and make sure the beef industry was out there with an accurate message before the anti-meat groups could jump all over it," says Rick McCarty, NCBA executive director of issues management.
The crisis response was funded by checkoff dollars. NCBA is contracted with the Cattlemen's Beef Board (see sidebar on page 28) to handle crisis management.
A total of eight media teleconferences followed important USDA announcements on the BSE issue. From 50 to 90 media participated in each call.
Their questions ranged from the simple "Where did the cow come from?" to the more complex "Why should American consumers be confident in U.S. beef?"
On Dec. 31, NCBA's Executive Committee passed two interim resolutions. The first directed elected officers to use their best judgment in response to the facts of the ongoing BSE investigation. The second offered support for USDA's actions.
"We stressed the need to base our response on facts and science, to support our producers with the best information we could give them, and to support government agencies in the investigation and the rules that would result," Davis says.
It wasn't easy to keep up with all the media requests for interviews, says Sara Goodwin, NCBA associate director of public relations. But, officers and staff worked overtime to accommodate as many requests as possible.
"We had people on call on Christmas and New Year's days, and we got a few calls on those days," Goodwin says. "We even got a media call from The Wall Street Journal on Christmas Day."
Beef industry leaders worked 14- to 16-hour days to keep up with the volume of requests. This included every weekend for the first month after the announcement.
Essex estimates NCBA offices in Denver and Washington, D.C., handled more than 200 media calls each week in the 14 days following USDA's announcement. Those numbers don't include similar efforts by state beef councils and state associations.
For the Washington D.C., office, handling all the interview requests was a challenge as there were only four people in the office between Christmas and New Year's Day.
"We'd lost about half our staff to holiday plans before the announcement was made, and Chandler (Keys) decided he wasn't going to ask people to change their holiday plans," says Karen Batra, NCBA director of public affairs. Instead, Batra says she took interview requests and coordinated three senior staff people — Keys; Gregg Doud, NCBA chief economist; and Gary Weber, executive director of regulatory affairs — for interviews.
"We have all the bureaus and major networks here in Washington," Batra says. "A big focus of what we were doing in those early days was network news."
Using The Internet
But, teleconferences and media interviews weren't the only tools used to communicate with the public. NCBA's Joint Information Committee has built crisis plans over time to handle major issues such as BSE, foot-and-mouth disease and E. coli O157:H7.
McCarty says NCBA staff, at membership's direction, had been gathering scientific information on BSE for years. That archived information served as the basis of content for the checkoff-funded Web site — www.BSEinfo.org. A panel of leading scientists reviews the Web site periodically to confirm the content's scientific validity.
The site was a major component of the NCBA's crisis communications effort.
"We knew we wouldn't be able to fill every media interview, but on that site there was a statement from CEO Stokes, and lots of live information," McCarty adds.
One Voice
The BSE crisis proved the wisdom of the single, beef-industry voice created some eight years ago by the merger of the National Cattlemen's Association and the National Livestock and Meat Board into NCBA.
"Before the merger, the industry was fragmented; we had no single voice. We didn't have the infrastructure or the coordination 20 years ago to address a BSE episode," says Walt Barnhart, NCBA director of trade media.
"It points out the wisdom of the long-range plan and the merger, which was to have one voice, one plan and one budget focused on an industry long-range plan," Davis adds. "Producers have themselves to thank for it. They built it, not only with their dues and checkoff dollars, but with their moral support and offers to help in the time of crisis."
Checkoff Pays Off
It's ironic that, with the beef checkoff's future very much in question these days, it served as the industry's major tool in minimizing BSE's impact on consumer demand and confidence in beef.
Shortly after the USDA announcement of BSE in Washington state, the Cattlemen's Beef Board (CBB) activated $1 million from its issues-management crisis fund. An additional $320,000 was also approved from unused funds.
The money beefed up efforts in beef promotion, public relations and issues management to reassure beef consumers.
"The loss of export markets meant we had extra tonnage to work through domestically," says Nelson Curry, CBB chairman and a Paris, KY, producer. "We used some of the dollars to increase promotion, specifically print, radio and television advertising, primarily around the week preceding the Super Bowl."
NCBA also surveyed consumer confidence to track consumer awareness of the BSE issue and its effect on consumer confidence in U.S. beef products.
"We found that consumer confidence rose over that timeframe to almost 87% from the previous survey conducted," Curry says. "That response is almost unheard of in the midst of a food safety crisis. It means consumers, after hearing the industry's message, actually increased their confidence in our product."
Such confidence hasn't occurred overnight, however, Curry points out. The groundwork was laid, using checkoff dollars days, weeks, even years before.
"The checkoff does so many things on a day-to-day basis. Part of it is marketing, part is research and part is issues management," says Chandler Keys, NCBA vice president of public policy in Washington, D.C. "The checkoff is like an insurance policy. You pay the premium and when you need it, the investment comes back to you in spades."
Keys adds that NCBA members' dues dollars, in addition to checkoff dollars, help ensure that programs are in place and ready to activate when appropriate.
"That calls for coordination, collaboration and cooperation to hold these entities together," Keys adds. "If you don't have a checkoff program, if you don't have a national program with dues money coming in on a daily basis to keep that infrastructure together, it will be very difficult to handle a crisis because you won't have a vehicle to jump on when you need a ride."


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WASHINGTON — Tourists shuffle past the doorway whispering in awe the names of famous members of Congress they have just seen inside the U.S. Capitol.
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A New Jersey investment partnership with a reputation for forcing companies to buy back their own stock has increased its stake in Orlando-based Hughes Supply Inc. to 13.1 percent of Hughes' common stock. Hughes' president said Tuesday he does not know the partnership's motive.
Shamrock Associates of Far Hills, N.J., revealed in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it bought 108,600 shares of Hughes stock between June 10 and July 26 at prices ranging from $21.25 to $23 a share. That increased its holdings to 418,000 shares.


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"I have Deed Calls & Stakeout for iPad and have successfully created a plat with property lines. I have walked my property and found the corners. It's a really great app. What I'd like to do next is walk my property and draw features such as tree lines, roads/paths, rock outcroppings, springs, etc. How do I do that?"
The Deed Calls & Stakeout app was designed to help you create a plat by entering the deed calls then walk the property line. It does not provide the functions for digitizing Features such as tree lines, roads/paths, houses, etc.
The Deed Calls Pro app for iPad has the deed calls functionality as well as the digitizing functions. This app can convert a deed plot that you have entered into a Feature. This will allow you to draw a deed plot, save it as a Feature then draw another deed plot. You will also be able to manually drop GPS points or draw lines and areas in this app and assign different symbols/colors to the Features that represent roads, houses, trees, springs, etc.
If you wish to use GPS to map Point, Line and Area Features to represent tree lines, houses, etc., these tasks are better performed using one of our GPS/GIS data collection apps, such as Forester GPS GIS II, Forester GPSGIS III, iCMTGIS III or iCMTGIS PRO. These apps will let you record many GPS fixes at one location and average the data to obtain a more accurate position record. Thy also provide the ability to create a deed plot and convert it to a Feature.


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No, you are right. In the long run, the number of CO2 molecules left in the bottle when you close it is all that matters. Those molecules will drift in and out of the liquid and gas phases until they reach equilibrium. At the equilibrium point, there will be enough molecules in the gas phase to pressurize the bottle and enough in the liquid phase to give the beverage a reasonable amount of bite.
By giving the sealed bottle a shake, your mother-in-law is simply speeding up the approach to equilibrium. She is helping the CO2 molecules leave the beverage and enter the gas phase. The bottle then pressurizes faster, but at the expense of dissolved molecules in the beverage itself. If there is any chance that you'll drink more before equilibrium has been reached, you do best not to shake the bottle. That way, the equilibration process will be delayed as much as possible and you may still be able to drink a few more of those CO2 molecules rather than breathing them.
Incidentally, shaking a new bottle of soda just before you open it also speeds up the equilibration process. For an open bottle, equilibrium is reached when essentially all the CO2 molecules have left and are in the gas phase (since the gas phase extends over the whole atmosphere). That's not what you want at all. Instead, you try not to shake the beverage so that it stays away from equilibrium (and flatness) as long as possible. For most opened beverages, equilibrium is not a tasty situation.
As the snow settles and becomes denser, it may feel "heavier", but its total weight doesn't change much. The same water molecules are simply packing themselves into a smaller space. So while each shovel-full of the dense stuff really does weigh more than a shovel-full of the light stuff, the total number of water molecules present on your deck and their associated weight is still the same.
In actually, some of the water molecules have almost certainly left via a form of solid-to-gas evaporation known technically as "sublimation." You have seen this conversion of ice into gas when you have noticed that old ice cubes in your freezer are smaller than they used to be or when you see that the snow outside during a cold spell seems to vanish gradually without ever melting. Sublimation is also the cause of "freezer burn" for frozen foods left without proper wrapping.
Despite the freezer's low temperature and the motionlessness of all the frozen foods inside it, there is still plenty of microscopic motion going on. Every surface inside the freezer is active, with individual molecules landing and leaving all the time. Whenever a molecule on the surface of a piece of food manages to gather enough thermal energy from its neighbors, it will break free of the surface and zip off into the air as a vapor molecule. And whenever a vapor molecule in the air collides with the surface of another piece of food, it may stick to that surface and remain there indefinitely.
Since the freezer has a nearly airtight seal, the air it contains remains inside it for a long time. That means that the odor molecules that occasionally break free of a pungent casserole at one end of the freezer have every opportunity to land on and stick to an ice cube at the other end. With time, the ice cube acquires the scent of the casserole and becomes unappealing.
To stop this migration of molecules, you should seal each item in the freezer in its own container. That way, any molecules that leave the food's surface will eventually return to it. Since ice cubes are normally exposed to the air in the freezer, keeping the odor molecules trapped in their own sealed containers keeps the freezer air fresh and the ice cubes odor-free.
What thrills me about your question is that while we've all noticed this effect, we're never taught why it happens. Let me ask your question in another way: we know that opening a window makes the clothes dry faster, but how do the clothes know that the window is open? Who tells them?
The explanation is both simple and interesting: the rate at which water molecules leave the cloths doesn't depend on whether the window is open or closed, but the rate at which water molecules return to the cloths certainly does. That return rate depends on the air's moisture content and can range from zero in dry air to extremely fast in damp air. Air's moisture content is usually characterized by its relative humidity, with 100% relative humidity meaning that air's water molecules land on surfaces exactly as fast as water molecules in liquid water leave its surface. When you expose a glass of water to air at 100% relative humidity, the glass will neither lose nor gain water molecules because the rates at which water molecules leave the water and land on the water are equal. Below 100% relative humidity, the glass will gradually empty due to evaporation because leaving will outpace landing. Above 100% relative humidity, the glass will gradually fill due to condensation because landing will outpace leaving.
The same story holds true for wet clothes. The higher the air's relative humidity, the harder it becomes for water to evaporate from the cloths. Landing is just too frequent in the humid air. At 100% relative humidity the clothes won't dry at all, and above 100% relative humidity they'll actually become damper with time.
When you dry clothes in a room with the window open and the relative humidity of the outdoor air is less than 100%, water molecules will leave the clothes more often than they'll return, so the clothes will dry. But when the window is closed, the leaving water molecules will remain trapped in the room and will gradually increase the room air's relative humidity. The drying process will slow down as the water-molecule return rate increases. When the room air's relative humidity reaches 100%, drying will cease altogether.
During wine making, the amount of dissolved carbon dioxide (and possibly oxygen gas) can easily exceed its equilibrium concentration. That means that the liquid contains more dissolved gas than it would have if exposed to the atmosphere for a long period of time and had thereby reached its equilibrium concentration of the gas. Having too much dissolved gas does not, however, mean that this gas will leave quickly. For example, when you open a bottle of carbonated beverage the carbon dioxide is out of equilibrium. Although the gas was in equilibrium at the high pressure of the sealed bottle, it instantly became out of equilibrium when the bottle was opened and the density of gaseous carbon dioxide suddenly decreased. Nonetheless, it can take days for the excess carbon dioxide to come out of solution and leave. You've probably noticed that carbonated beverages take hours or days to "go flat."
Part of the reason why it takes so long for the dissolved gases to come out of solution is that the gas can only leave through the exposed surface of the liquid. In an open bottle of carbonated beverage that may be only a few square inches or a few dozen square centimeters. The dissolved gas has to find its way to that exposed surface and break free of the liquid. That's a slow process. The same thing is happening in your wine: the dissolve carbon dioxide and oxygen gases must normally find their way to the top of the tank and then break free to enter the gaseous region at the top of the tank � another slow processes. To speed the escape of dissolved gases, you can enlarge the exposed surface of the liquid by bubbling an inert gas through the liquid. Here, inert gas is any gas that doesn't dissolve significantly in the liquid and that doesn't affect the liquid if it does dissolve. Nitrogen is great for wine because it doesn't interact chemically with the wine. As you let bubbles of nitrogen float upward through the wine, you provide exposed surface within the body of the liquid wine and allow carbon dioxide and oxygen to break free of the liquid and enter those bubbles.
The spherical interface between the gas bubble and the surrounding liquid is a busy, active place � gas molecules are moving between the gas and liquid in both directions. Because carbon dioxide is over-concentrated in the liquid, it is statistically more likely for a carbon dioxide molecule to leave the liquid and enter the bubble's gas than the other way around. It takes a little energy to break those carbon dioxide molecules free of the liquid and that need for energy affects the balance between dissolved carbon dioxide and gaseous carbon dioxide at equilibrium. The harder it is for the carbon dioxide molecules to obtain the energy they need to escape from the liquid, the greater the equilibrium concentration of dissolved carbon dioxide � the saturated concentration. But your wine is supersaturated, containing more than the equilibrium concentration of dissolved carbon dioxide, so carbon dioxide molecules go from liquid to gas more often than the other way around.
When the degree of supersaturation (excess gas concentration) is high, the transfer of gas molecules from liquid to gas bubble can be fast enough to make the bubbles grow in size significantly as they float up through the wine. You can see this type of rapid bubble growth in a glass of freshly poured soda, beer, or champagne. In beer, champagne, and your wine, however, the liquid surface of the bubble contains various natural chemicals that alter the interface with the gas and affect bubble growth. The "tiny bubbles" of good champagne reflect that influence.
Another way to provide the extra exposed surface in the wine and thereby allow the supersaturated dissolved gases to come out of solution would be to agitate the wine so violently that empty cavities open up within the wine. Although that approach would provide lots of extra surface, it would probably not be good for the wine. Bubbling gas through the wine is a much more gentle.
The exact choice of gas barely matters as long as it is chemically inert in the wine. Argon or helium would be just as effective, but they're more expensive (and in the case of helium, precious). The temperature of the gas doesn't matter significantly, but the temperature of the wine does. The cooler the wine, the higher the concentration of dissolved carbon dioxide and oxygen it will contain at equilibrium so you'll remove more of those gases if you do your bubbling while the wine is relatively warm.
The problem for planes isn't the temperature, it's the humidity. When the air reaches 100% relative humidity, moisture in that air begins to condense on objects such as plane wings. The moisture can also condense into rain, snow, or sleet and then fall onto those plane wings.
If the temperature of overly moist air is 32 F or below, planes preparing for takeoff can accumulate heavy burdens of ice. When water vapor condenses as ice directly onto the wings themselves, that condensation process is called deposition and is familiar to you as frost. Deposition is a relatively slow process, so most of the trouble for planes occurs when it is actually snowing or sleeting. Removing the ice then requires either heat or chemicals.
When the plane is flying at high altitudes, however, the air is extremely dry. Even though the air temperature is far below the freezing temperature of water, the fraction of water molecules in the air is nearly zero and the relative humidity is much less than 100%. That means that an ice cube suspended in that dry air would actually evaporate away to nothing. Technically, that "evaporation" of ice directly into water vapor is call sublimation and you've seen it before. Think of all the foods that have experienced freezer burn in your frost-free (i.e., extremely dry air) refrigerator or the snow that has mysteriously disappeared from the ground during a dry spell even though the temperature has never risen above freezing. Both are cases of sublimation � where water molecules left the ice to become moisture in the air.
Solid ice is less dense than liquid water, meaning that a liter of ice has less mass (and weighs less) than a liter of water. Any object that is less dense than water will float at the surface of water, so ice floats.
That lower-density objects float on water is a consequence of Archimedes' principle: when an object displaces a fluid, it experiences an upward buoyant force equal in amount to the weight of the displaced fluid. If you submerge a piece of ice completely in water, that piece of ice will experience an upward buoyant force that exceeds the ice's weight because the water it displaces weighs more than the ice itself. The ice then experiences two forces: its downward weight and the upward buoyant force from the water. Since the upward force is stronger than the downward force, the ice accelerates upward. It rises to the surface of the water, bobs up and down a couple of times, and then settles at equilibrium.
At that equilibrium, the ice is displacing a mixture of water and air. Amazingly enough, that mixture weighs exactly as much as the ice itself, so the ice now experiences zero net force. That's why its at equilibrium and why it can remain stationary. It has settled at just the right height to displace its weight in water and air.
As for why ice is less dense than water, that has to do with the crystal structure of solid ice and the more complicated structure of liquid water. Ice's crystal structure is unusually spacious and it gives the ice crystals their surprisingly low density. Water's structure is more compact and dense. This arrangement, with solid water less dense than liquid water, is almost unique in nature. Most solids are denser than their liquids, so that they sink in their liquids.
Liquid water can evaporate to form gaseous water (i.e., steam) at any temperature, not just at its boiling temperature of 212 F. The difference between normal evaporation and boiling is that, below water's boiling temperature, evaporation occurs primarily at the surface of the liquid water whereas at or above water's boiling temperature, bubbles of pure steam become stable within the liquid and water can evaporate especially rapidly into those bubbles. So boiling is a just a rapid form of evaporation.
What you are actually seeing when raindrops land on warm surfaces is tiny water droplets in the air, a mist of condensation. Those droplets happen in a couple of steps. First, the surface warms a raindrop and speeds up its evaporation. Second, a small portion of warm, especially moist air rises upward from the evaporating raindrop. Third, that portion of warm moist air cools as it encounters air well above the warmed surface. The sudden drop in temperature causes the moist air to become supersaturated with moisture�it now contains more water vapor than it can retain at equilibrium. The excess moisture condenses to form tiny water droplets that you see as a mist.
This effect is particularly noticeable when it's raining because the humidity in the air is already very near 100%. The extra humidity added when the warmed raindrops evaporate is able to remain gaseous only in warmed air. Once that air cools back to the ambient temperature, the moisture must condense back out of it, producing the mist.
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Canberra: Embattled Ricky Ponting received support from an unexpected quarter in the form of Harbhajan Singh who said it is a big mistake to write off the former Aussie skipper.
The out-of-favour Indian off-spinner, who had plenty of fiery exchanges with Ponting over the years, especially after the "Monkeygate" scandal in the 2008 Sydney Test, surprisingly put his weight behind the Australian and asked him to defy his growing band of critics.
"I do not think Ponting is finished and I think people are making a big mistake by writing him off," he said.
"Two years ago, people were saying the same things about Rahul Dravid (who averages 60 from 11 Tests this year) as what they are saying about Ponting now. Look what Dravid has done, he is a great player who has found his greatness again. I am sure Ponting will do the same," Harbhajan, who has dismissed Ponting more number of times than anyone else, added.
The 31-year-old spinner also said that cricketers of Ponting`s stature should be given due respect.
"Guys like Ponting, Dravid and (Sachin) Tendulkar know what they are doing and people should stop questioning them.They should respect them for what they have done for the game and they should respect them if they think they can bat on and contribute to cricket."
"The fans in Australia should not put pressure on Ponting, they should just accept he has been given a chance to keep playing and they should get right behind him and support him. Ponting is only one innings away from finding his top form," insisted the bowler.
Harbhajan, who has been left out of the touring Indian Test squad, predicted that India would dominate in the four-Test series against Australia, starting on December 26.
"This Australian side is a lot weaker than sides of the past. There is no Adam Gilchrist or Shane Warne or Glenn McGrath. India have definitely got a very good chance to beat them on their home soil. I don`t want to predict a scoreline but I am sure India will do very well," he said.


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With just three weeks left in the season, time is growing short for David Wright's comeback bid. But the Mets' hamstrung star — who flew back to New York from Florida on Monday afternoon — insisted he'll beat the clock and return to the field before the 2013 campaign ends.
"I don't think the clock is going to run out. I think I'll be back at least for a larger chunk of the remainder of the games,'' Wright said before the Mets opened an 11-game homestand Monday night against the Nationals. "That's kind of the goal, and I haven't really even thought about not playing [this season]. That hasn't really crossed my mind.''
Wright has been on the disabled list since Aug. 3 with a Grade 2 strain of his right hamstring. The third baseman flew from Port St. Lucie to New York where he plans to continue his rehabilitation and pursue his goal of returning to the lineup. And manager Terry Collins, for one, isn't betting against him.
"David Wright's a pro, and he knows that we need him, and the one thing about him is he loves to play,'' Collins said. "That's why when he shows up every day, he's in the lineup, because to get him out of the lineup is not that easy.''
Wright acknowledged the rehab has not taken longer than he would like, but not necessarily longer than he expected.
"They originally told me six weeks and I'm at five weeks now, so I think I'm pretty close to that timeline,'' Wright said. "It's been frustrating, but every time I've gotten hurt, I've always wanted to rush back. But originally they told me it was a six-week injury, two weeks in they told me it was a six-week injury. Nothing's changed.''
With Wright having played through a tight hamstring and then straining it within a week, caution appears the wise approach. And after going to Florida on Aug. 29, he has returned because all activity at the Port St. Lucie complex has been shut down.
"I'm back here because there was nothing else for me to do in Florida," said Wright, who has done just about every baseball activity except run the bases. "There's nobody really down there, and they're a little short-staffed. Hopefully I can stand in on some bullpens and continue the running program, and be back sooner.
"I'm doing everything else — I'm doing fielding, throwing, hitting. I'm doing all that stuff. I'm working on doing some cuts, running at different angles to simulate running the bases. I assume bases will be one of the next hurdles … but running and everything feels good so far.''
Whenever Wright is finally fit to play, he'll almost certainly have to do it in a major league game without the benefit of a rehab assignment. Low-A Savannah, the only Mets affiliate still playing, starts its playoffs but the series is slated to go no further than this weekend. Even the optimistic Wright was highly doubtful he'd be ready to play by then.
"I think that'd be optimistic. I'm not sure if that's possible,'' said Wright, who also expressed reservations about being a distraction to a team trying to win a title. "Plus, they've worked really hard to get to this point. I remember what it was like in the minor leagues. They want to try to win their championship, not have some guy rehabbing.''
Either way, whenever Wright is ready, Collins said the Mets will find a way to make it work.
"One thing I do know is he's on schedule to continue to rehab, running progression,'' Collins said. "When we get to the stage where that's playable, we'll make sure he gets some live batting practice he needs before he gets back in the lineup.''


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Times-Picayune editor Jim Amoss appeared on PBS' "NewsHour" Thursday night and spoke out about the major staff cuts that hit the New Orleans paper earlier this week.
Layoffs began at the T-P on Tuesday, when the paper reported that it was cutting a third of its staff, a total of 202 employees. The news came weeks after the paper's parent company, Advance Publications, announced that the daily paper would cut back to printing only three editions per week in the fall, sending a shockwave throughout the news operation.
The paper and its parent company have said that both decisions were made in a greater effort to push the paper towards its digital future, by investing more in its website and lowering its commitment to the daily print edition. Amoss wrote an essay that ran on the T-P's front page on Thursday, further stressing the need for the news operation to "adapt" to the digital world.
In a discussion with Amoss and the New York Times' David Carr, "NewsHour" host Judy Woodruff asked the editor if it was possible to report the same quality of news with roughly half the people.
"Oh, that's a misleading figure," Amoss said. "We had severances, layoffs yesterday. And we are losing somewhere in the 40 percent-plus realm, but we also will be rehiring. So that when all is said and done, we will have a news operation that overall is about 14 percent to 15 percent smaller than now."
Amoss added that the T-P will continue its strong commitment to reporting strength in the field and investigative journalism, which he referred to as the paper's hallmark.
Though Amoss stressed that the news operation would only be a fraction smaller after its reorganization, Carr spoke about what he called the institutional memory loss the paper faces with such dramatic cuts.
"[Amoss is] losing a lot of institutional memory, a lot of reporters who have relationships out into the community," Carr told Woodruff. "It's not print that is disappearing. It's expertise."
Carr complimented Amoss' strength in publishing and circulating a daily paper, but said that the T-P has digital drawbacks. "I and others find their website a lot less impressive," Carr said. "And maybe some of these hires are going to help him turn it around, but it isn't really what they're good at. And so I — not in economic terms, but in terms of their skills — I think they're pivoting from their strength to their weakness."
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Skip to comments.Heres how a Typhoon multirole aircraft can hit two targets at the same time
Posted on 04/29/2013 4:05:58 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Heres how a Typhoon multirole aircraft can hit two targets at the same time with a single targeting pod
The recent article about the Typhoon fighter jet performing first laser guided, self designating, simultaneous guided bomb drops sparked some debate.
Although other aircraft are known to have similar capabilities, some readers asked how a combat plane could hit two targets at same time with only a single laser designator of the Litening pod.
I asked Andrea Kay, Senior Communications Advisor at BAE Systems, one of the companies of the Eurofighter consortium, to shed some light on the matter.
Andrea inquired his colleague Bob Smith, Engineering Director for Combat Air and here is Smiths response:
The Litening Pod is capable of illuminating/tracking multiple targets at any point in time, however, the implementation on the RAF Tranche 1 Aircraft was an austere implementation, limiting the system to a single target attack at any one time . So the answer to the specific question below is yes it does switch between targets at a high rate. The Laser does not need to change frequency for each target because the bomb is assigned to a target and just follows the Laser beam.
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Sounds like it depends upon your definition of 'same time.'
Bombs landing within a fraction of a second is close enough to 'same time' for me. YMMV.
While I'm not going to go into specifics for obvious reasons, there is plenty of unused bandwidth in the lasing schema (Information assigend pre-flight to each bomb about the designator.) for a single laser to be used to designate multiple targets.
The actual number is lasing system dependent.
For a Paveway system, as shown in the picture, there are tactical requirements that are also involved in the number of simultanious target which can be hit.
It sounds like they have eliminated this requirement and have added a more advanced stores management system where the targeting pod is able to pull the correct laser code for the particular weapon automatically.
That would be the logical thing to do.
The pilot and/or navigator-bombardier is probably quite busy enough without having to manually enter a 27 digit weapons specific alphanumeric ID code while being shot at...
Not that type of code. I can remember, but it is either 4 or 5 digits. Still, there have been plenty of weapons released on the wrong code.
Ah, the benefits of unbridled ignorance, I just guessed 27 characters and alphanumeric for absurdity's sake.
I figured there was a FReeper who actually knew The Truth!
You hit closer to the truth than you know. I used to have a 15 character, at least one cap, one lower case, one numeral, one special character, rotating every ninety day password ......drumroll please.........just to get my weather forecast to fly.
*forehead slap* I forgot case sensitive!
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Two St John ambulances attended the accident, which was called in at 2.14pm.
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