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Episode 005 of the international open podcast: Horst JENS meets Derek BREEN in Moscow at the international education fair Moscow 2016 and gets a chance to speak with Pavel FROLOV, editor of Linux Format magazine Russia.
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Horst, Pavel, Derek at international education fair Moscow, 15 April 2016. See complete Album
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0:00:00intro (Horst) 0:00:16Moscow, first day: Horst and Derek chatting about Derek's live in Moscow and his areas of work for Russian education TV, Scratch workshops etc. 0:01:00Derek referencing our trip to Maker Fair Rome 2015 0:01:45What Derek does in Moscow 0:51:48Moscow, last day: Horst and Derek chatting about the international education fair Moscow, his talk about teaching with open source, wild speculation why russian ladys are so beautiful, Soviet arcarde game Museum and Horst's impression about Moscow 1:36:05Interview: Pavel asking Horst about the situation of FOSS (free and open source Software) in Austria. Warning: loud background noise! 2:09:13Inverview: Horst asking Pavel about situation of FOSS in Russia, especially goverments and schools. See full transcript below: Warning: loude background noise at the start, less background noise later
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- date: 2016-04-15
- location: international education fair moscow
- H: Horst JENS email@example.com @horstjens http://spielend-programmieren.at
- P: Pavel FROLOV email@example.com @Binocle http://www.linuxcenter.ru
- D: Derek BREEN email@example.com @breenworks http://www.derekbreen.com/
H: This is international open podcast issue 5, part II, I'm Horst JENS, next to me sits Derek BREEN and...
P: Pavel FROLOV. I'm the general director of GNU LINUX Center and the publisher of LINUX FORMAT RUSSIA magazine.
H: impressed Wow! Pavel, you work a lot with promoting and making possible Free Open Source Software (FOSS) education for Russian schools.
P: Yes.
H: Can you say how did you come to this line of business? What was the reason you got into this area?
P: About 15 years ago, we held an internet shop with CDs and DVDs with software. We found out (that there was) high demand of CDs with Linux and FreeBSD operation systems. The demand was so huge that we decided to do a separate project, so we established an internet shop named Linuxcenter.ru and we made an offer that you can order Linux CDs and we will send them to you by mail. This was a very big business for us for several years.
H: So you had a mail-order Linux distro distribution service...
P: Yeah.
H: What is Linuxcenter.ru doing now, what is the main activity?
P: The next step of our developement was publishing books and some educational materials. Then we started to publish a Linux magazine. We do that since 2005. Last year was the tenth year of Linux Format Russia magazine. Then we started to provide services for the governement, for customers and for business customers. Consulting, migration, development based on FOSS systems.
H: So you are selling know-how and expertise.
P: And developers' work also! Now, the Linux distribution bussines is not doing good because everyone can download everything, but we do some services and solutions like FOSS hardware and software bundles. Like robotic kits, internet radio boxes, internet security like firewalls and so on, ... And solutions for internet TV and internet radio.
H: I will follow up with some generic questions regarding the FOSS situation in Russia, I hope they are not offensive, because of little wisdom (about Russia) from Austria...
First question: What is the situation about FOSS, specially Linux, in Russia. Historically, I had the impression that the need (for FOSS) was not so big some years ago because you can for next-to-nothing get a pirated version of Windows and there would have been no American law firms that could harm you for doing that (illegal copying), so there was not so much need for having Linux because you can basically have a Windows copy for free. What is the truth?
P: The GNU/Linux and FreeBSD operation systems are really popular on web servers for more than 15 years. Totally dominating. Also total domination (of FOSS) on supercomputers - not only in Russia, all over the world. They (FOSS systems) almost kill(ed) the marked for (non-free) operation systems. As for desktops, I think we have now one or two percents of desktops that are using Linux. That's if we do not factor in the Android devices. Android is very popular on the mobile phones and on tablets. Also very many people (are) using OpenOffice, FireFox, ...
H: So on top of a proprietary OS they use FOSS Software.
P: Yes. Also Google Chrome, Blender and so on... So we have several organisations... using FOSS Systems (Software). For example, [a huge chain of] food stores. We have one named Magnit (Magnet), it's one of the largest vendors, maybe worldwide top 5, they have over five thousands of stores, and they use Open Source.
H: The question was about how the Russian government is reacting toward FOSS.
P: The Russian government is very hard to understand... because it's 25 ministries and several secretaries... minister of finances, minister of transport, minister of communication and so on. And of course the ministry of finance and [or] transportation does not know anything about free software.
But in fact we have our prime minister, Dmitriy MEDVEDEV, and he is very good at understanding of FOSS and Linux. I don't know if it's true for 100% but I have heard that he tried to install different [various] Linux distributions on his laptop by himself.
H: impressed That is a story in itself, he must be the first prime minister worldwide to do so...
P: He was president of Russia and he was personally responsible for the modernisation of the education system in Russia and also for installing Linux operation system in Russian schools.
H: So, every Russian school has now a Linux operation system?
P: No. It was a plan, but this plan failed. There was a pilot project in three regions. Russia is a huge country, so each region is as big as a European country. The regions were: Perm Region, Tatarstan, and Tomsk Region. The plan was to (implement in these regions) migrating all schools toward Linux. There were many methological and educational materials developed to help teachers to migrate. There was a big program of improving qualification of teachers to use FOSS in schools. It (the program) was not very good because of (lack of) time - [the program was being made in hurry]: They tried to do it very fast and it was a kind of mistake. It would have been better to do this kind of project in three years, but they tried to do it in one year, so the quality of education was bad. They tried to make education for ten or twenty thousands teachers - how to use FOSS. Then they sent CDs with Linux to each school in Russia and said: "OK, you can use it". And then they said that the Russian government will not give money anymore to the schools for buying software. So the (schools) have now two options: They can ask the regional government to pay for sofware, for example, from Microsoft, or they can use free software. Some regions bought licenses from Microsoft but Microsoft had to lower the prices... very low. Ten times lower than before, for the whole region, because in other case...
H: So they (regions) used FOSS as leverage to get lower prices from Microsoft?
P: Some regions, yes. Some regions are going to use FOSS. There are several regions that've made a decision to get rid of Microsoft.
H: They are still using Linux?
P: Yes. Also, this process moved things (forward) in little steps, many teachers have now heard about Linux, so some teachers and enthusiasts and early adopters are now using Linux, there are whole schools in different regions which are using GNU/Linux.
This beautiful girl coming to you and asking who you are is the government member of St. Petersburg. She has etablished the whole group of FOSS users in St. Petersburg. They do conferences twice a year and share experience and invite companies whose business is doing service in Open Source. In St. Petersburg, we have about 700 schools. Of those, 100-200 are using Linux and free and open source. There was also one guy with moustaches, he is the vice director of one school which is the pilot school of St. Petersburg, using FOSS in every aspect of teaching (Geography, English and so on) and they made methodological papers. Other schools share this papers so that other schools can learn from their experience.
I'm sure this not only one case, so (I think) it's kind of the first project of using Linux and Open source, like throwing seeds everywhere and some seeds... are now growing. I think this process will grow. But now, no one is speeding it up and no one is helping. It's a kind of plant that is growing (all) by itself. In the jungle. So, this is the situation in schools.
In the government, the situation is quite the same. We have federal government structures. Different ministries, different agencies. About sixty or eighty organisations. About six years ago, the (Russian) government made a plan of total migrations toward FOSS for all federal ministries. Our group was involved into this plan. In our first version of this idea it was a 3-year plan. Then they said this is too fast [to adopt], we need a 5-year plan or even more time. It was a very good plan [The plan was very good anyway]. There was a very strange situation because buerocrats decided not to do anything. There was this plan, signed by (president) PUTIN, but almost anyone in federal structures decided to not migrate to FOSS. There was one organisation doing everything for this plan, it's the Федеральная служба судебных приставов - Russian Federal Service of Bailiffs. There are services of officers who takes [withdraw] debts from the people. Some kind of a department of police.
H: Finance police?
P: No.
P: It's if someone is owing money...
D: Like the U.S. internal revenue service. Collect taxes.
P: Maybe. They collect penalties.
H: An important branch of the government?
P: Yes. They do everything. They do their own Linux distribution, they make certifications for security, they make education and they have about 50,000 computers and servers. They migrated all servers and 10 thousands computers.
D: Wow!
P: This is [Such was] the situation in fall [autumn] of 2015, it's maybe more by now. They do everything and share their solution with other ministries. Now every ministry, every local government of a region can take this Linux. The name is GOS Linux, where GOS means government. It's government[al] Linux, everyone can download it from the government's [web]site and use it for migrating. So this is a very good [use] case.
H: But that is only one branch of government? Not all branches of government are using it?
P: Other structures of the government are using (FOSS) servers or OpenOffice but this total migration like it was described in the big plan, only one organisation of the government did it. We are trying to find out why this's happened. We found out the key issue here is education. If the people who were told to migrate does not know anything about Linux, anything about free software, if they have no images in their mind (about FOSS) and only use Windows, then it's almost impossible for this people to do something with Linux. You need to re-educate them.
H: Do you know from any cities or towns who made the complete switch toward Linux?
P: Yes. There are several cities in Russia who made the migration toward Linux and FOSS.
H: And that worked?
P: Yes. Everything was good.
H: Can you give one example of such a city?
P: Example... In the Primorskiy Region, near Vladivostok, there is a small city [town] named Chernigovka, they made a complete migration (toward FOSS) seven years ago.
H: And do you think they will continue of doing that (using FOSS) or do you think that with the next shift of government they will change back (to Windows)?
P: It depends on the chief. I know very big projects of migration, for example (organisation of) [Federal Fund of] social insurance, it's about 25,000 computers, and they made total migration toward OpenOffice and the free software on several servers, and they made their own databases and FOSS engines. They do this for 5 years. It was a very sucessfull project. Then, their chief officer goes to another work and then a new chief officer comes and says: "What are you doing here? Where is my Microsoft Office? Where is my Oracle Database?"
H: laughs This seems to be an international problem... I know this same story from my country and from several countries...
H: Do you know something of the military? I suppose the Russian military is one of the few militaries in the world not using happily Microsoft Software...
P: Yes. The military has several Linux distributions, self developed.
H: Those are not used by the civilian branches of government?
P: They have the option of selling several distributions to the government too, but those are not very cheap, it's an expensive solution.
H: Can I also ask: What do you think about the level of education, especially of computer science education in Russia, in view of a global playing field? Do you think Russian engineers are competitive against American, or Indian, or Chinese...
P: If you ask about coding, I think that Indian coders can be more competitive because India has more people. About a billion people in India and only 140 millions in Russia. But if you ask about software architects and some big-minded people, the key issue here is mathematics. Mathematic education in high schools and secondary schools in Russia is very good. Some universities have the best mathematical educational programs [curriculums] in the world and our mathematicians are very good. These guys win very often world[wide] mathematical Olympic games. They are really cool. If you look carefully into American companies like Microsoft, or Intel, you may find many Russians doing programming. They do many jobs - important jobs. If you talk about simple coding, then, our guys are not so cool like other countries'. Because plain coding is boring. And Russians do not like boring tasks.
H: laughs
P: If you need to solve unsolved problems, call a Russian guy.
P: If you need to code for 5 years [following the] instructions coming from the head office, a Russian guy will fail at this. Another difference in education is different roles, not in computer science but in computer bussiness. In computer business we need to have good marketing, we need to [have] really good understand[ing] which market sector we want to target for our solution, and we need to have very good usability. We need to have very good focusing on local markets, because in different countries you have different demand on the functions, usability, and even service. Our education system now is not good in this [these areas]. We have different projects in the education system, like in the Innopolis [=Innovation City] University in Kazan, Tatarstan Region, we are going to build - we've already built this big university to teach computer science. So to find out how to teach these (topics), we need to send people to learn and take experiences of the good and large universities of the world, good at this, for example, Carnegie-Mellon. We sent our ambassadors [envoys] to Carnegie-Mellon, and they studied there and later came back and teached the Russian students the things they had studied. But we have a gap here: Very good mathematicians but not very good marketing people, not good UX designers, and not good coders because coding is more about the discipline than about creativity. You just need to do some tasks in good methodology, like SCRUM or AGILE or ... We [in Russia] have a strong outsourcing company, one of the top 100 world-largest software companies, they have thousands of employees who do many things both in coding and in creating new solutions for many customers, even for the government of your country. Some projects in medicine or so. Many times, you can find a situation when a big project is being done by a company from Russia with two or three thousand programmers who have know-how to do everything right. They studied this for about twenty years. They are really good... in everything.
H: What is your opinion on the level of internet infrastructure in Russia? Is there a big difference between [urban] centers like Moscow / St. Petersburg and the rural areas? Or can you say that you have equally good quality of teachers, internet connection and universities across the country?
P: The Russian government, and it was also Dmitriy Medvedev who was responsible for that, spent a lot of time, money and resources to make sure that every school of Russia has very good internet connection. Now, nearly every place has also good internet connection. But we have several villages that are located very far away from big cities, far from the big transport pipes [thoroughfares]. We have also 3G and 4G Internet. For example for my phone all over Russia I can have internet connection ranging from 10 to 80 MBps. In my phone. It's very fast.
H: So you say you have good internet connection, apart from some small villages who are hard to reach.
P: Everyone who wants to have good internet connection can have it. It's not much expensive.
D: Yes, it's so much less expensive then in the USA!
P: I pay for my phone internet connection about 4 US$ per month.
D: Fantastic.
H: And every school has good internet connection, every university?
P: Yes. Except for some small villages, but the government is giving money, the idea is that everyone should have good internet connection in Russia.
H: What is your opinion about the attractivity of the economy of Russia? For good educated coders and mathematicians, as you said before, lot of those Russian educated mathematicians are ending up working in America, in Silicon Valley companies, do you think the Russian economy is attractive enough to hold enough good educated people? Or do you basically invest in them (their education) and then they leave the country?
P: I know some people who come back from USA, now they live in Russia. And the other way around. It's free migration from country to country. The most... bad thing in Russia now is the climate. The most complaining, to discuss with people. "Oh, I get sick in winter, so much rain, I like to move somewhere warmer where the sun is shining every day". This, very often, is a reason to migrate. In terms of money or security, the situation is quite the same. In terms of kind of startups, in the USA it's a lot harder to go into the market, there are a lot of patents, it's very expensive... it's hard. In terms of ability [opportunities], in Russia now you have more abilities [opportunities] than in other countries. There are now lot of peoples living in sunny countries but they earn money in Russia. They go to Russia for (taking) the salaries (only). Then they go back to their families in the sunny countries.
H: Final question, what is your opinion about mandatory coding in schools? Like little Estonia I think made a curriculum that every thirteen-year-old need to learn coding, in the school. They learn to code in school, everyone. Do you have some regions in Russia...
P: In Russia, everyone learns to code in schools, too.
H: Really? What age?
P: Yes. About 12 or 14 years old.
H: So this is for every child in Russia?
P: Yes. But the problem is, they are teaching Pascal. So we need to change this to teaching Scratch first, for example, and then C++. Because Pascal is now useless. And there is a big problem with school kids graduating from school: "Do you know programming? - Yes! - Which language? - Pascal" laughs.
D: It also makes me suspect that the curriculum would be a very old-model of a curriculum if they still teach focusing on Pascal. Using lessons from the 1980? Since when was this program set in place that all students learn to code?
P: They started (teaching) coding for one hour per week, and it lasted for several years, about since 5 years.
D: How long have the schools been that consistent with coding? I sounds like Russia is way ahead of most of the western world, were a lot of countries, including the USA, are just starting to make coding a requirement.
P: I don't know. I can not predict this. I hope it will last forever! It's the right thing, to study programming in school.
H: A personal question, do you think the FOSS movement in Russia is strong enough to survive a government shift, let say some other prime minister says "We don't have money for that, we don't want to support free software anymore, you have to use this or that version of Windows"?
P: In fact, money for supporting FOSS movement were not spent. Only a small amount of money was spent on this, and FOSS development was independent of government support. This means that they develop slowly, sometimes there are problems and developers leave to do something else. But also the FOSS movement is very strong, because it developed without support, so it will be very hard to stop.
H: So you think it's strong enough?
P: It is strong enough, but really small. It could be much more big. But maybe that would be a bad solution too because if the (developers) think every time he wants money someone will come and give him money they would become weak. As it is now, our Free and Open Source guys are really cool. It's a kind of digital JEDIS of the future.
H: One extra question: Do you see an ecosphere of independent hackerspaces, makerspaces, little startups, students' projects growing out of the universities? Or is this hard for political and other reasons?
P: This is a very funny questions: Because this movements are really supported by the government. The (government) spends a huge amount of money to open Fablabs.
H: Let me repeat it: The Russian government is paying to open Fablabs and hackerspaces?
P: Yeah. They pay for.
H: I'm speechless.
D: He wants to move to Russia now!
P: They spent money to open 200 new Fablabs during the last 4 years. In Moscow, we have more than 20 Fablabs now. In each district of Moscow, kids can come for free into Fablab and find 3d printers, digital fabrication machines like laser cutters and so on. The Russian government is working very hard to activate creativity of kids to make them innovative, to fund startups. It's a big government program and they don't seem to stop this.
H: Cool! And how is it, if students want to make their own thing. Do they get into difficulties like having hard time to find a space to rent, allowance?
P: We have also Independent Hackerspaces.
H: They are not discriminated? This is really cool. From all that, I hear that you are looking very optimistic into the future of Russia, as a free software producing country. Is that true?
P: Yes.
H: Do you already feel that you are attracting programmers and nerds from other countries?
P: Only Derek (BREEN).
D: laughs
H: laughs
P: laughs. But some guys are attracted for Innopolis. It offers some grants for professors to come there and hold Computer science works. And I think some guys are attracted for Skolkovo [innovation center].
H: Thanks a lot for this interview! I'd like us to see each other again. до свидания!
P: Auf Wiedersehen!
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He is an ex racer called Goldfinger, Chestnut TB Gelding 16.1HH, he would be about 13 years old now. His father was Giants Causeway and mother was Daryla. He has a very distinctive white blaze on his head looks like a Diamond at the top then from that a thin line down his nose, one white sock on back left cant attach photos but i can email them to you if you wish of when she had him. He was always a very kind and sensible TB used to help my friend brush his stable out by grabbing the brush
My friend sold him in 2011 to a lady called Lara Hellyer based in the Braunston Area by Coventry. Lara schools ex racers and rehomes them, she then sold him on probably the same year but she cannot remember who to
If anyone can help or point us in the right direction of how to find him we would be so so greatful! Really dont know where to start


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Thanks for posting! Beautiful work as always.
Thanks for posting! Beautiful work as always.
As always. Crazy ideas.
Looks like you're building a real spacecraft.
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Oh, Scot-san
Thanks for the comment and how are you?
I hope you are alright with your family.
I guess you earned many mileage as you can reach the moon.
Since this is a battleship, I'm assuming it will be outfitted with some pretty cool firepower, cannons, lasers, etc ?
And I see the Beefeater in the background...lol
This is true...what was I thinking, lol
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Oh man! Lovely profile. Looks like it means business. Great work Katsu-san!
Thank you, Strobe san.
So wonderful to see you back. WOW more awesome work.
Loving the build.
I'm not sure the totemo kawaii! method will work on Katsu-san, but it's certainly worth a try...
Wow, 30 days without any news from Katsu-san..
Please, please, please, give us an update...
Oh, sorry for no updates so long time my friends.
Last October, my wife had a surgery if you remember.
This October, my 84 years old mother got a strained back.
She is living alone and doing everything on her own.
So I had to go to her residence and help her every holiday.
Shopping, cooking, house cleaning, that sort of things.
Maybe she should be in hospital but she wanted to stay home.
Now she is OK.
And a few days ago, I get back to my work shack and wasted whole 6 hours doing nothing but thinking.
I couldn't fix the design of the mid section. That was so painful.
Ok I will give another try on next week hoping that I can put up some updates.
Thank you very much rubble-san
And I'm so sorry for the late reply.
I can't resist that eyes of the kitty.
OK I will try my best, Mikeee-san
Give me few more days please.
All the best,
you had very good reason not to give us an update.. Family comes first!!!
Good to hear your mother is ok now...
We know you are always busy..
Don't overthink the design too much. Keep it simple ...
Best regards,
Sometimes life gets in the way....Hope all is well with you and your family
"And a few days ago, I get back to my work shack and wasted whole 6 hours doing nothing but thinking.
I couldn't fix the design of the mid section. That was so painful."
This happened to me a few times over the last month, just stuck and couldn't seem to come up with anything.
But I decided that even if I'm just thinking its still progress, you have to have at lease a vague direction to move forward and if you go in the
wrong direction it can cause problems down the line.
So, don't be too hard on yourself mate
Thinking is still working
And as the old saying goes "The Death star wasn't built in a day"
Hope you mother is feeling better and the family are well.
Loving your progress
Some times you have to let things 'cook'. Work on other projects and come back to it at a later time. By then you mind will have worked out what to do and see things in a fresh light.
" Keep it simple " That's a good words for me now.
We are all fine now.
I'm really relieved by your words.
I realized, as you say, you also had a hard time making something new.
You can take it so positive. That's one of the things makes you distinguished creator.
Death Star?? I thought it's Rome.... Never mined..
I'm too much stucked on the same thing.
May be I should think about the other part of the model.
Thank you very much my friends.
May be I can get over this somehow.
I had been facing this on each model I built.
And everytime you guys made me get up.
All the best,
I'm glad your family is doing well, or getting better.
Sometimes you have to wait for inspiration. We realize - despite some evidence to the contrary - that you're not a machine. Don't work on the ship just to be working on it - wait until you know what you need to do. We'll be here...
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I like it!!!


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Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren — November 13, 09:25PM
All the photos in our checklists have disappeared. What's happened?
It's no coincidence this happened today during your server outage. Will I get my photos back?
Griffin Richards — November 13, 04:51PM
Temporary service outage. The below is copied and pasted from the error page. See specifically the last paragraph; Macaulay Library is still down, all photos are safe and will return.
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text: 2018-08-19T12:40:51Z http://ijmf.shirazu.ac.ir/?_action=export&rf=summon&issue=548 2015-04-01 10.22099 Iranian Journal of Materials Forming IJMF 2015 2 1 Pattern of Residual Stress in Rail by FEM Analysis and Strain Gage Sectioning Technique M. A. Moazam A. Ghasemi M. Moradi H. Monajatizadeh Final step of rail manufacturing is cold rolling straightening process and it hassignificant effects on mechanical properties, straightness, flatness and development of residualstresses. Measurement of residual stresses after straightening process is obligated by railmanufacturing standards. In the present investigation, an attempt has been made to evaluateresidual stresses after straightening process by finite element method and strain gage sectioningtechnique. The straightening process has been simulated here using the FE package ABAQUS. Allthe input data were extracted from experimental tests according to rail manufacturing standard andhomogenous and isotropic behavior of material were considered. Moreover, initial camber of therail was measured after hot rolling and cooling process. Obtained results of numerical calculationhas been validated by strain gage sectioning technique and compressive residual stresses in headand web and tension residual stress in foot of the rail has been observed. The roller arrangementused in this investigation could reduce the amount of residual stresses comparing with the previousresults. Furthermore, straightness of the rail after straightening was satisfactory. Rail Straightening process Camber Numerical calculation Strain gage 2015 04 01 1 10 http://ijmf.shirazu.ac.ir/article_2910_8dca375da90403cabbf6d5e7836cc50a.pdf 2015-04-01 10.22099 Iranian Journal of Materials Forming IJMF 2015 2 1 Evaluation of Effective Paramters on Formability of TWB A. Nayebi A.H. Khosravi Formability of automotive friction stir welded TWB (tailor welded blank) sheets isnumerically investigated in biaxial stretching based on hemispherical dome stretch (HDS) test infour automotive sheets of Aluminum alloy 6111-T4, 5083-H18, 5083-O and DP590 steel, havingdifferent thicknesses. The effects of the weld zone modeling and the thickness ratio on formabilityare evaluated. In order to carry out the numerical simulations, mechanical properties areconsidered according to Chung et al. [11] experimental results. von-Mises and Hill'48 quadraticyield functions are used to compare the isotropic and anisotropic behaviors of the used sheets. Inorder to simplify the problem, the anisotropy of the weld zone is ignored. The FEM results arecompared with experimental results of [11]. Anisotropic assumption for base materials and varyingthickness for the weld zone give more accurate prediction. Numerical results are in goodagreement with the experimental results. Failure onset locations and patterns are accurate. Sincethe formability is dependent on the stress concentration, asymmetric distribution of strength andcomplexity of weld zone properties, the thickness ratio in TWB affect formability. TWB HDS, Anisotropic, Forming, FSW 2015 04 01 11 17 http://ijmf.shirazu.ac.ir/article_2911_55427f7aba17262e911fe70c6b8510e0.pdf 2015-04-01 10.22099 Iranian Journal of Materials Forming IJMF 2015 2 1 Hot Deformation Behavior of Ni80A Superalloy During Non-Isothermal Side Pressing M. Seyed Salehi N. Anjabin R. Mansoori In the present study, the microstructural changes of a Nickel based superalloy Nimonic80A during a non-isothermal deformation were studied. Therefore, microstructure evolutionduring hot side pressing test was predicted with combined methods of finite element analysis andprocessing map of the material. The predicted results were validated through experimentalmicrostructural studies. The results show that the distribution of deformation parameters (i.e.strain, strain rate, and temperature) is non-uniform in the deformed samples. The severity of thisnon-uniformity depends on the amount of sample reduction. High reduction value at one stepforging can cause flow localization and non-uniform dynamic recrystallization, which results theformation of adiabatic shear bands, while using the lower reduction value at each forging step,leads to more uniformly distribution of the deformation parameters and thus uniform the dynamicrecrystallization with the stable flow. Hence the workability and microstructure of the Nimonic80A alloy are mainly depends on the deformation path. Hot deformation Nimonic 80A Processing map Microstructure finite element analysis 2015 04 01 18 29 http://ijmf.shirazu.ac.ir/article_2912_a611e89a3e6895cb3b70ca68597d7d6f.pdf 2015-04-01 10.22099 Iranian Journal of Materials Forming IJMF 2015 2 1 Hot and Cold Tensile Behavior of Al 6061 Produced by Equal Channel Angular Pressing and Subsequent Cold Rolling A.A. Khamei K. Dehghani S. Bakhshi K. Kalayeh The full annealing AA6061 aluminum alloy was subjected to severe plastic deformationvia the combination of equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) and cold rolling (CR) in order torefine its microstructure and to improve its mechanical properties. According to the results of hotand cold tensile tests, the combination of ECAP and CR significantly affected the final strengthand ductility of studied AA6061. Four passes of ECAP followed by 90% reduction in rolling led toabout 5.4 and 3.15 times increase in the yield and ultimate tensile strengths, respectively. Inaddition, the hot ductility and strain rate sensitivity were increased by applying ECAP plus CR.The changes in mechanical properties were attributed to the enhanced dislocation density and tothe reduced grain size. The results show that a decrease in grains/subgrains size (0.37 μm) and anincrease in the fraction of high angle grain boundaries, exhibited significant effect on the hotductility of higher severe plastic deformed sample. Severe plastic deformation Ultrafine-Grained (UFG) 6061 Al alloy Rolling Hot ductility 2015 04 01 30 42 http://ijmf.shirazu.ac.ir/article_2913_beec88126108ad78d4953398d9866bb8.pdf 2015-04-01 10.22099 Iranian Journal of Materials Forming IJMF 2015 2 1 Interaction Between Precipitation and Dynamic Recrystallization in HSLA-100 Microalloyed Steel G. R. Ebrahimi A. Momeni H. Eskandari Strain induced precipitation in HSLA-100 steel was investigated by conducting hotcompression and relaxation tests at temperature range of 850°C to 1100°C and strain rate of 0.001s-1 to 1s-1. The absence of dynamic recrystallization at temperatures below 1000°C was attributedto the influence of dynamic precipitation. The stress relaxation tests showed that strain inducedprecipitation is possible over a wide range of temperatures from 850°C to 1050°C. The startingand finishing times of precipitation were sensitive to temperature than strain rate. At temperaturerange of 950-1000°C and strain rate of 0.1s-1 the lowest times for precipitation were observed. Thecombination of precipitation-time-temperature and recrystallization-time temperature diagramsshowed that at high temperatures and low strain rates, precipitation precedes dynamicrecrystallization, whereas at the opposite condition, dynamic recrystallization goes in advance. Thestarting and finishing times for dynamic precipitation were approximated about 40 percent lowerthat those for strain induced precipitation. Hot deformation Cu-bearing HSLA steel Dynamic recrystallization Hot compression Stress relaxation 2015 04 01 43 50 http://ijmf.shirazu.ac.ir/article_2914_c27c2fa1b56c6c556244f2da63ef2da0.pdf 2015-04-01 10.22099 Iranian Journal of Materials Forming IJMF 2015 2 1 Stacking Fault Energy and Microstructural Insight into the Dynamic Deformation of High-Manganese TRIP and TWIP Steels A. Khosravifard M. M. Moshksar R. Ebrahimi The dynamic behavior of three high manganese steels with very different stacking faultenergy (SFE) values (4-30 mJ/m2) were studied using high strain rate torsional tests. The hotrolledmicrostructure of the steel with the lowest SFE of 4 mJ/m2 consisted of a duplex mixture ofaustenite and ε-martensite, but those of the other two steels were fully austenitic. The deformedmicrostructures were studied by optical and electron microscopy. The quasi-static deformation ofthe low-SFE steel was accompanied with profuse martensitic transformation. However, when thissteel was deformed at high strain rates (> 500 /s), martensite formation was reduced due to theadiabatic temperature rise and the increased SFE of the steel. The deformation of the steel withmoderate SFE of 18 mJ/m2 at all the tested strain rates was mainly controlled by the formation ofmechanical twins that was leading to an excellent ductility of about 55% even at the highest strainrate of ~1700 /s. In contrast, dynamic deformation of the steel with the highest SFE of 30 mJ/m2led to the appearance of some shear bands. This was ascribed to the decreased twinning and workhardening rate in this steel. Finally, the topographic studies showed that the fracture surface of thelow-SFE steel contained relatively larger cleavage areas and smaller dimples suggesting arelatively more brittle fracture. This was related to the presence of brittle ε and α` martensitephases in this steel. Stacking fault energy High Manganese TRIP TWIP High strain rate 2015 04 01 51 61 http://ijmf.shirazu.ac.ir/article_2915_c6526b91aa5665c40b817e5d378836ef.pdf


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My other huge phobia has always been flying. It is something I never did and for some weird reason it got really bad the first time I was pregnant. I would hear one fly overhead and have a serious panic attack. Then 9/11 happened (I was pregnant with Noah then) and it was like forget about it!!
I've been missing out on some great things because I won't step on an airplane. I've always wanted to see the country and go on a cruise (oddly enough no big ship phobia!!). So when Tim got this new job he was there but 2 weeks and announced that they would be sending him to Las Vegas for a conference in June. What? He was going to step on a plane?(he'd never been either) and leave me here for 6 days without a way around? With 4 kids at that!!
So what bothered me the most? That he was leaving me for a week to have fun in Vegas without me? That he was going on a plane and I feared for his safety? That the thought of being home all that time with the kids seemed a little overwhelming to me? It was that he was going to have fun without me. In the nearly 13 years we've been together we only went away together once. Well without the kids. We've never even been on a honeymoon. So a few days later he was told I could go with him. So I am. Yes. I'm going on a plane and I'm totally ok with it. My faith in God is way bigger than my fear. I'm here to live a good life here on earth before my eternal life and I need this time with my love. Plus I need to let my kids know it's ok for Mama and Daddy to go on a vacation and it's ok to get on a plane. (Especially when missions opportunities arise in high school and college!!)
|vintage vega$
So Vegas huh? Are you getting a picture of seedy nightclubs,drunk men playing poker and show girls? Not my scene I know! There's tons of other stuff to do there. I'll be lounging around the resort while Tim is in classes and conferences. In the evening we'll be dining well and taking in some shows. We have a whole slew of sitters eager to help out while we are gone. I'm actually very excited. Once I get over this I think more doors will open helping to me live this life to it's fullest!


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Adverbial grammaticalization
Paolo Ramat
This article examines the grammaticalisation of adverbs. It surveys ways in which adverbs can come into existence: via affixation, via case suffixes, and with true grammaticalised derivators. It argues that not every process that produces an adverb is per se a grammaticalization process since adverb is a linguistic category which shows very different morphological behaviours. In addition, there are languages which have no morphological expression for such a category.
American Descriptivism ('Structuralism')
James P. Blevins
Although the heyday of the American Descriptivist school was short, spanning the time between Bloomfield and Chomsky, this period was decisive for the development of modern linguistics. It was in this time that a distinctive American school emerged with an explicit focus on synchronic analysis. The challenge of interpreting Bloomfield led the Descriptivists to define many notions that are commonly identified as "Bloomfieldian," from the structuralist phoneme (Hockett 1942) and morpheme (Harris 1942), to models of immediate constituent analysis (Wells 1947). In the course of assembling these notions into a new science of linguistics, the Descriptivists came to focus on the techniques and devices employed to construct linguistic analyses. This shift in orientation marked the advent of a recognizably modern approach to linguistics, one in which formal tools and analytic methods are primary objects of study. Descriptivists' interest in statistical, information-theoretic, and corpus-based methods likewise has a strong contemporary resonance.
Amphichronic Explanation and the Life Cycle of Phonological Processes
Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero
In amphichronic phonology, synchronic and diachronic explanation feed each other. The architecture of grammar predicts the possible modes of implementation of phonological change (including neogrammarian regularity) and the life cycle of sound patterns. In turn, the life cycle accounts for synchronic phenomena such as scattered rules and the relative stratal affiliation of cognate processes.
Analogy and Morphophonological Change
David Fertig
This chapter presents a critical overview of traditional and current approaches to analogical change, focusing on those aspects that are most directly relevant to historical phonology, including: the levelling and extension of morphophonological alternations; the interaction of sound change and analogy; morphologization and demorphologization; contamination; folk etymology; and phonetic analogy.
Analyticity and syntheticity in the history of English
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
The article adopts terminology, concepts, and ideas developed in quantitative morphological typology (cf. Greenberg 1960) to investigate the coding of grammatical information in English diachrony. Specifically, we utilize a quantitative, language-internal measure of overt grammatical analyticity, defined as the text frequency of free grammatical markers, and a measure of overt grammatical syntheticity, defined as the text frequency of bound grammatical markers. We subsequently apply these measures to the Penn Parsed Corpora of Historical English series, which covers the period between circa 1100 and 1900, and demonstrate that this time slice does not exhibit a steady drift from synthetic to analytic.
Analyzing the ONZE data as evidence for sound change
Jennifer Hay
Launched in 1989, when Elizabeth Gordon became aware of the existence of a set of recordings of early New Zealand English, the Origins of New Zealand English Project (ONZE) provides a unique opportunity to investigate sound change. These "Mobile Unit" (MU) recordings were made in the 1940s for radio broadcast, and included reminiscences from speakers born as early as the 1850s. The recordings are significant because they date to the first stages of large-scale immigration to New Zealand from the British Isles, representing the first generation of English speakers born in New Zealand. These recordings, which are in the possession of the University of Canterbury, form the core of the ONZE project. Interviews with more than 100 of these early speakers have now been compiled, digitized, transcribed, time-aligned, and then automatically segmented at the phoneme level. The Mobile Unit recordings have been a valuable tool for testing theories of the formation of new dialects.
The areal dimension of grammaticalization
Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva
This article describes the areal dimension of grammaticalisation resulting from language contact. It shows that grammaticalisation is a ubiquitous process in language contact which may affect any part of language structure and exhibits the same format in all of its manifestations. It provides some examples of how languages have been influenced by other languages in developing new grammatical use patterns and categories. It investigates how grammaticalisation leads to a real relationship among languages by highlighting the notion of grammaticalization area.
Articulatory Processing and Frequency of Use in Sound Change
Joan L. Bybee
This chapter discusses the role of articulatory processing in sound change, emphasizing the tendency towards reduction and overlap of articulatory gestures, as well as explanations proposed for this tendency. The pattern of lexical diffusion proceeding from most to least frequent words and phrases is discussed as evidence for the important role of articulation in sound change.
Assessing the role of contact in the history of English
Raymond Hickey
Language contact has long been the subject of extensive research in linguistics, but has recently been the object of increased attention by scholars working on both the history of English and varieties of English worldwide. Most language contact studies that have appeared in recent years rely on databases that differ from those typically used in histories of the English language. Assuming that code-switching refers to instances where bilingual speakers alternate between codes within the same speech event, this process can be hypothesized to be the source of borrowing when the code-switching occurs repeatedly with the same lexical items or sentence structures such that these are no longer felt to be foreign in the receiving code. Both the degree of bilingualism necessary for code-switching and the number of individuals who engage in code-switching are a matter of debate. This article discusses language contact, language ecology, and grammaticalization.
Attitudes, prescriptivism, and standardization
Carol Percy
The prescriptive dictum that some linguistic variants are superior to others has strong roots in the eighteenth-century grammatical tradition. Synthesizing contemporary research on prescriptivism, this chapter uses the grammarian Robert Lowth as a lens for reinvestigating its linguistic and social dynamics. Eventually elevated to a bishopric, Lowth is popularly stereotyped as imposing latinate rules on English usage. Yet recent corpus-based studies suggest that prescriptive rules sometimes reflected rather than triggered standardization of such variants as adjective comparison, negative concord, preposition placement, and the subjunctive. Such studies also confirm that when tracking prescriptive traditions we need to consider media other than grammars and codifiers earlier than Lowth, such as James Greenwood. Indeed, linguistic variation in a corpus of Lowth's own correspondence reminds us of the social distinctions and dynamics that can be correlated with prescriptivism. Though many professional linguists have traditionally dismissed prescriptivism, others are redirecting this attention into research and public outreach.


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Weight is something most people (especially women) find insulting to their person, be it a slim, chubby or overweight individual. No one likes to be referred to using his or her weight to describe him or her, it's so derogatory! It kills ones happiness at that moment and even confidence.
As a child growing up, I got teased about my feeble weight, most times I didn't know how to react but I would always wish I was a bit fleshy or plump like my friends. I didn't like my stature at all, never… They made me felt I was odd or probably not eating good food. One annoying thing i experienced back then was; any time on the playground with other young girls and boys in the neighbourhood and the issue of weight comes up, I would be the topic of that discussion and i couldn't wait for such topic to get over with.
While that happened, there was this cute little boy who was same age like me and was from a very wealthy home. He was plump in size and bigger than most his age mates. I got shocked when he was also being referred to as ''fatty bum bum'', a three worded statement used by kids in referring to someone on the bigger side. Within me, I was confused because here I was being referred to as "thin", while someone is being referred to as fat, so what's the normal size of an individual? I wondered.
I have always been a slim lady and always the slimmest in any gathering with my friends at any age grade. Sometimes, even up till present day, I still get teased for my slimness especially at my place of work, but the only change between now and my childhood teasing is that, I always smile back at my colleagues and reply them of how proud I am with myself. Yes, I have to love myself first before the world does. In countries like USA, the UK, Canada and other advanced nations of the world, I know ladies would commend me for being a natural size seven, at least for now.
According to Vanessa Traquiar, who got bullied for being naturally skinny her whole life; picking on someone because they are slim should be as socially unacceptable as being rude about someone who is fat.
Can you imagine saying to someone who is overweight and tucking into a burger: "Yeah you look like you REALLY need that!" Or calling a stranger or even a friend "fatty", "lardy", "chubby" or any other derogatory term used to describe those who are overweight?
Well, "skeleton", "Twiggy", "stick insect" – I've had them all. And I hate it. Yet people seem to think it's acceptable to tell me I should eat more or comment on how lucky I am as I have a slice of chocolate cake.
One thing most women all over the world is conscious of is WEIGHT size. We are so sensitive about lots of things around us but the weight thing is something that has its own weight on us. We are always, always conscious of it. We want to look good and have that perfect body sizes like the models we see on billboards and television adverts, forgetting the fact that most of these pictures we admire have been doctored and filtered to give that idea of perfection and look. Of course, what do you expect a brand to do when putting on a product for advert and needs patronage?
People come in all shapes and sizes. The human body has a tremendous capacity for variation, which is why everyone looks different. Someone may not be happy with how they look, they may feel they need some serious changes, or somewhere in between, but all things being equal the only opinion that should matter is your very own opinion and not PEOPLE. You can heed to the advice of someone who cares about you for the need to make some life style changes that should be purely on your health needs and not because they want you to be like this or that.
There is this deep seated need by women to be accepted in everything or anywhere we find ourselves. In our desperation to meet our body goals, we result to so many unhealthy habits like skipping meals or regulating all edible food and these sometimes result or lead us to develop eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia, all because we fight to be like someone in an advert we have seen.
We compound our woes when we let other people's opinion override ours. If you have seen no reason to be bothered about yourself, then you should see no reason to be bothered too when someone says your weight isn't perfect. Learn to see yourself as the very ideal of perfection and people will see you as one.
Yes, I have also fought these weight demons while growing up to be the lady I am today, but after an 18-year-old young Nigerian, Agbani Darego, in 2001 got crowned as Miss World at the 51st Miss World pageant held in Sun City, South Africa, I told myself she is just like me in size (not height) and the whole wide world is celebrating her. She was chosen from 93 contestants from all over the world.
I asked myself some questions about this weight shaming thing as I discovered it's their own insecurities they try to project on me. I was finally free and the weight was lifted from my shoulders. I constantly tell myself I am beautiful and perfect, yes I am!
Agbani Darego
I am so proud of plus size women who are models and not so introverted about their weight. Each time I see adverts about plus size women, walking the walkaways of fashion shows or posing for a photo shoot for a particular clothing line for their sizes, I get excited watching them. These are the type of women that motivate me because they know something most people don't know and that is- your size shouldn't limit you in pursuing your goals in life. There is no reason for other people to make me feel ashamed of myself until I do so.
I read somewhere concerning a lady, she narrated how she was constantly reminded of her weight by her mother and grandmother. Funny enough, these women were moderately overweight but they kept telling her of how fat she was, not just fat but horribly fat. What kind of mother and grandmother does that to a young child? According to her, these women were the most important people in her life and for that reason she believed them.
But the reality was that she was just an average sized child, not thin, not fat, just healthy and average. After a while, "I'm so fat" started playing in her head and before she knew it, it eventually took over and she did become horribly fat. At the age of 51, she was pushing up against 400 lbs.
''What I would say to those who point fingers and shout, "Fat!" including my late mother and grandmother, is, "Shut up''. Stop putting your own body image issues onto others. We know if we weigh more than 120 lbs. We get it that you think we're fat. Fat is not the worst thing that can happen to a person. Your bullying isn't acceptable. We'll lose weight when and if we are ready." She concluded.
''The ability to pursue your goals in life is a function and readiness of your mind and not by size. Beauty isn't between a size zero and a size eight. It is not a number at all and it is not physical''.
So, let me read your thoughts on this and also add yours.
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The Top 10 K-Pop covers of classic Christmas songs
These festive performances by your favorite K-Pop artists are sure to get you into the holiday spirit!
K-Pop Christmas special performances put a great spin on some classic Christmas songs! K-Pop never fails to take things to a whole new level whether it be with amazing dances or amazing vocals. Check out these covers, old and new, by various K-Pop artists and Happy Holidays!
1. K.Will and IU's rendition of Let It Snow will give you the chills
2. Davichi's amazing vocals sing Santa Clause is Coming To Town with a full on orchestra
3. In this throwback performance, DBSK harmonizes perfectly as they sing O Holy Night together with BoA
4. SNSD gives a dazzling performance of Santa Baby
5. AOA's Choa and Jimin perform a short and sweet cover of Last Christmas
6. Shinee and Kara join together to give a cute performance of Silent Night and Jingle Bell Rock
7. BoA gives a rockin' performance of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, in 3 different languages!
8. BTOB sings an amazing a capella medley of Christmas carols
9. Christmas isn't complete without All I Want for Christmas is You. So I had to include it twice. First is Mamamoo's great cover that is much too short.
10. Lee Hi and Bom's All I Want for Christmas is You is truly amazing.
Did you enjoy these covers of classic Christmas songs? What were your favorite covers of Christmas songs by K-Pop artists?


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A city slicker wanted to buy a farm. He found just what he was looking for. During an inspection of the property, however, he found a hive of bees.
He told the owner that he was deathly afraid of bees, and there was no way he could consider this piece of land.
The landowner assured him that the bees were completely harmless, but the buyer would have no part of it.
Finally, the landowner made an offer. The buyer would allow himself to be tied to a tree for an hour, nude, under the nest. So sure of the friendliness of his bees was the farmer that if ONE bee were to sting him, the farm would be his for free. The buyer thought it over and decided it was worth the risk.
An hour later, the farmer walked out to the tree and saw the poor guy slumped over in his bindings. Fearing the worst, he ran up to him and asked if he had been stung.
The city fella looked up and weakly said, "No... the bees never touched me - but doesn't that calf have a mother!?!"
Q: Why did the pig have ink all over his face?
A: Because it came out of the pen.
Little Red Riding Hood is skipping down the road when she sees the Big Bad Wolf crouched down behind a log.
"My what big eyes you have, Mr. Wolf." , says Little Red Riding Hood.
The surprised wolf jumps up and runs away!!!
Further down the road Little Red Riding Hood sees the wolf again, this time he is crouched behind a tree stump.
"My what big ears you have Mr. Wolf." , says Little Red Riding Hood.
Again the foiled wolf jumps up and runs away.
About 2 miles down the track, Little Red Riding Hood sees the wolf again, this time crouched down behind a road sign.
"My what big teeth you have Mr. Wolf." , taunts Little Red Riding Hood.
With that the Big Bad Wolf jumps up and screams...
"Will you fuck off, I'm trying to take a shit"!
An old maid wanted to travel by bus to the pet cemetery with the remains of her cat.
As she boarded the bus, she whispered to the driver, "I have a dead pussy."
The driver pointed to the woman in the seat behind him and said, "Sit with my wife. You two have alot in common."
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Japanese car manufacturer, Mazda and Toyota have collaborated up to build a $1.6bn car plant in the United States.
The new car factory is expected to produce over 300,000 cars every year, with over 4000 people employed.
The decision was well received by President Trump who called it a great investment on Twitter.
The two automobile manufacturers also revealed that they will be working together to build electric cars and this deal comes with 5 percent stake for Toyota in Mazda.
President Trump had earlier stated that he will impose huge tariffs on Toyota cars that are not made in the United States especially Mexico.
His campaign was based on promises that he would improve the industry and increase the employment rate in the industry.
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Fire Prevention Week 2017
National Fire Prevention Week begins Oct. 8, 2017, and runs through Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017.
Each year National Fire Prevention Week is observed around the anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 that killed more than 250 people, left 100,000 homeless, destroyed more than 17,400 structures, and left Chicago in ruins.
Though there have been many changes in building practices and city planning since the Great Chicago Fire to prevent that kind of widespread devastation from happening again, individual homes and structures are still routinely destroyed by fires that all too often could have been prevented. And though these fires don't cause widespread misery, losing a home to fire can be devastating to an individual family.
To help prevent needless tragedies, the Melbourne Fire Department is joining with the National Fire Prevention Association and communities all across the country to educate residents about things that they can do to prevent fires in their homes — and how to safely escape a fire should one happen.
Learn More:
- Check this page each day during Fire Prevention Week for a new fire safety tip. Or you can follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
- Get more information about the annual campaign on the National Fire Prevention Association's Fire Prevention Week website.
- For fire prevention and safety tips, see the Prepare, Prevent & Practice page on the City of Melbourne website.
Some information on this page reproduced from NFPA's website, www.nfpa.org/publiceducation. © NFPA
Fire Prevention Week: Every Second Counts — Plan 2 Ways Out!
This year's Fire Prevention Week theme, "Every Second Counts: Plan 2 Ways Out!" emphasizes the critical importance of developing a home escape plan and practicing it. In a typical home fire, you may have as little as one to two minutes to escape safely from the time the smoke alarm sounds. That's why home escape planning is so critical in a fire situation. It ensures that everyone in the household knows how to use that short amount of time wisely.
"Developing and practicing a home escape plan is like building muscle memory," said Chuck Bogle, Fire Chief of the Melbourne Fire Department. "That pre-planning is what everyone will draw upon to snap into action and escape as quickly as possible in the event of a fire."
A home escape plan includes:
- Working smoke alarms on every level of the home, in every bedroom, and near all sleeping areas; and
- Two ways out of every room, usually a door and a window, with a clear path to an outside meeting place (like a tree, light pole, or mailbox) that's a safe distance from the home.
NFPA and the Melbourne Fire Department offer these additional tips and recommendations for developing and practicing a home escape plan:
- Draw a map of your home with all members of your household, marking two exits from each room and a path to the outside from each exit.
- Practice your home fire drill twice a year. Conduct one at night and one during the day with everyone in your home, and practice using different ways out.
- Teach children how to escape on their own in case you can't help them.
- Make sure your house number is clearly marked and easy for the fire department to find. Close doors behind you as you leave — this may slow the spread of smoke, heat, and fire.
- Once you get outside, stay outside. Never go back inside a burning building.
For more information:
View this fire prevention week video.
Test your knowledge about home fire escape planning and other fire safety topics with this interactive quiz.
Visit the National Fire Prevention Week website.
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So, we all know that 2016 was a massive bucket of shit generally, in terms of politics especially. A tangerine twat is the President of America and Britain is leaving Europe (personally I wonder if it's because those low scores at Eurovision have been taken too much to heart by the majority of the British public).
But you know, we've been plagued by headlines and posts about those for too bloody long, so I'm instead going to bore you with *my* 2016. Not going to lie, it started out a bit shit. Well, very shit actually. I was forced to "suspend my studies" at university – which is a nice way of saying that I wasn't doing any work and spent most of my time crying about how pathetic I'd become.
Depression isn't a fun thing, and I held on at uni as long as I could, until the welfare officer and my therapist (who were both so caring and supportive), sat me down and basically said "please, for your own health, stop." So, I did. It wasn't easy – I spent lots of time crying, feeling like a complete failure and thinking that my illness had "won". But if I'm honest, it had "won" far before I'd suspended my studies. It had won the moment I couldn't sleep, hated every inch of myself and who I was, lost all confidence in my abilities to do things, and lacked the will to get up. And that had begun to happen years before, but especially from December 2014.
Just as I'd suspended my studies in March this year and started on my medication of antidepressants, my grandfather passed away at the beginning of April. I've always been a lot closer to my mother's side of the family. My dad's parents had already passed away (his dad when I was quite young, and my grandma passed away while I was in first year at university). But when we lost grandad, it felt like a chunk of me left. I tried to be strong, for my family, though I guess we were all trying to do that. It's hard though, when someone so pivotal passes away. April was difficult. And awful. The rest of the year has been spent trying to heal from losing him.
I've always lived in Birmingham, and my grandparents on my mum's side reside in Lincolnshire, so we've always been far away. Which has possibly felt like more than a hinder than a help to healing as well, because being with family is important when you've lost someone. Just after he passed away, I got my first tattoo in remembrance of him. I think I'll do a post about the whole weird story next week, but that definitely helped me deal with my grandad's death. Whenever I look at my tattoo, it makes me feel warm inside and I remember him.
But as the year progressed, so did I. Grief takes a long time to heal, but my depression has been entirely separate, and it's definitely improved. Therapy and my miracle anti-depressants have helped me get my life back of track. Some days aren't as good, but they are so much rarer now than they used to be, and that's amazing. I can do so much in a day now, and I am so proud of myself.
This year, since I've been so much better, some amazing things have happened. I've started my Masters year again at the University of Nottingham, in Biochemistry and Biological Chemistry, and I think I might actually graduate now (finally). I've helped to set up Blog Soc, with the most amazing group of people that I've been fortunate enough to meet and work with. I've done a bit more with Her Campus Nottingham, the online magazine which I am so fond of and which does great charity work over the year as well. I've reconnected with old friends, made more fabulous memories with my besties and gained some amazing new friends too. You guys are the shizzle.
Obviously, this blog and all my social medias – Instagram (which I am utterly obsessed with), Youtube and Twitter – have all been born this year, and I feel like they have also really helped me become more confident in myself. Bonus points for all the extra photos I've been taking too, which are always great to look back on.
I've also started my very first job this year – just this month in fact – at the wonderfully tacky and sparkly Claire's Accessories (though genuinely, the best place to get body jewellery from, they have a huuuuge selection). The people who work there are very friendly and many have really cool hair (that's important). But the fact that I had an interview and didn't completely break down with anxiety and then got the job?! Last year's Sarah, or even April 2016 Sarah, would not have been able to do that. (Go me!)
I've also been lucky enough to have been in a relationship with the best man in the world for over two years now (blimey). And okay, I'm kinda biased, and I'll try to spare you the soppy feels, of which I have many, and just say that I am impossibly in love with him. He's helped me so much getting over this depression and just respects me so much. I also had the pleasure of meeting his massive family this year, who are so welcoming, and also a bit batty, but lovely. Between them, they also have four dogs, which is a definite plus!
I have had a topsy turvy year all in all, and it's had it's ups and downs, as everyone's have had I'm sure. But overall, I am proud of where I am now, and who I've become. And that's not only down to myself, but to my supportive family, amazing friends, gorgeous boyfriend, therapist, doctors, tutors, crazy doggies and the wonder pill Citalopram (gawd bless). I am excited to see what 2017 brings for us all, and hope you have a lovely year ahead!


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A few years ago we were given a beautiful Advent "calendar", made up of 24 little woollen hats on a ribbon.
I'm ashamed to say that I always remembered it too late to think of 24 little presents, but I was determined that this year would be different.
As I saw, it there were two challenges –
- Given the size of the little "hats", what can you put in there? Chocolates, hair grips…and then is it the sort of little plasticky* things that always end up getting broken but somehow still don't get thrown away?
- If you do find a source of charming, non-plasticky little things, how do you avoid effectively paying for the contents of a second Christmas stocking, and so trying to stretch the Christmas budget even further?
*it's a word, honest
So of course I turned to the internet and came across two great suggestions on a Mumsnet thread –
- for bigger mini-presents that won't fit, put a note in the calendar and have the presents wrapped in a little basket;
- the mini-presents can be an activity rather than a "thing" – just write what the activity will be on a note and pop it in the calendar.
And all of a sudden a previously daunting task seemed much simpler. So, safe in the knowledge that the little one involved can't yet read, our Advent calendar this year will include:
– Nativity story sticker book (from the Book People last year, and recently rediscovered at the back of a drawer)
– Christmas scratch art decoration (on at least three days, from a pack of twelve bought from the wonderful Baker Ross)
– chocolate/chocolate coins (again on several days)
– pack of pocket tissues with a holly design
– little pot of bubbles with a Christmas wrapper
– flower hair band
– making Christmas biscuits (Christmas biscuits on account of being flavoured with cinnamon and cut out with a reindeer cutter)
– decorating the Christmas tree
– visit to our local garden centre to see the Christmas displays, have a hot chocolate and (yet to decide on the wisdom of this) go skating
– making marzipan fruits (and then eating marzipan fruits)
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My mom came to KL a week after Hari Raya Puasa and stayed with my sisters in Bangi and Puchong. I picked her up from Puchong on Monday 3rd Dec for a week's stay at my house.
A few days ago, Mimi (my youngest daughter) spoke to her all the way from Dublin, and spoke for quite a considerable length of time, inspite of the distance (and cost). My mom was grinning from ear to ear after that conversation with her cucu. She was very proud of this cucu of hers who incidentally, possesses some resemblance with my mom's mother! And that's my late grandmother (Mok Bidoh), Mimi's great grandmother.
My mom could not stop talking about her phone conversation with Mimi. And as she now likes to do, she repeats most of her conversation and I was enjoying the repeated stories, sometimes twice a day!
She talked about giving Mimi a "doa" to recite when meeting difficult people. Mimi had one in the office and she did mentioned this to us several times before. Mimi had applied the doa. The difficult lady had turned "easy". I told my mom and she was overjoyed that Mimi had indeed applied the doa.
Mimi plans to return for a short holiday in March and had told my mom she missed the real Nasi Kerabu. My mom will be returning back to Kota Bharu in a week's time and will most likely remained there for sometimes.
As all mothers (and grandmothers) are, my mom will now wait for Mimi's return in March. She will cook the Nasi Kerabu and Mimi shall take the trip back to KB for her Nasi Kerabu. Of course, I need to chaperon Mimi back to KB, to make sure she has her fill......


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OneSignal's 15 first-party Mobile and Javascript SDKs are installed into nearly 100,000 websites and applications that reach 900 Million unique users a month. Our SDKs must remain easy to install, work alongside other services and consistently improve as we add new features.
This is no small feat, but the effort is well worth it: Our clients rave about the quality, documentation, and ease of use of our service.
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OneSignal is the most popular Push Notification service in the world, used by over 450,000 developers and marketers to send over 2.8 Billion notifications per day.
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A 31-year-old man was found shot to death late Monday afternoon in the Englewood neighborhood on the city's South Side, police said.
Police were notified just before 6 p.m. that the victim had been discovered on the 6900 block of South Wallace Street, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Darryl Baety.
Police investigate on the 6900 block of South Wallace Street this evening (Judie Garcia / WGN-TV)
Neighbors near the shooting scene said they heard as many as 19 gunshots.
Several men, including the victim, were hanging out under a viaduct near the intersection trying to take refuge from the heat when a vehicle rolled up and someone inside it opened fire, the neighbors said.


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