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Belanoadia Ndayizgiye's Story
Bela's smile lights up the room! She is enthusiastic and articulate on the cold, winter day. Her story is not a painless one to tell, but she is forthright and positive about her experience.
Born in Burundi to poor, illiterate farmers, she was the fifth of 12 children and the first to attend school. She recalls those mornings when she left for school without breakfast because there was no food, but her gratitude is profuse for the gift of education that her parents gave her. As others of her siblings attended school, the parents often bought pencils rather than food to "feed" their children.
War came to Burundi after Bela completed 7th grade. Encouraged by her mother to flee to Congo after her uncle was brutally murdered, Bela escaped alone, but was soon on the run again. This time her mother had sent several of her younger siblings to Congo to join her, and Bela, at 15, became the parent for both her siblings and other young refugees. They fled to Tanzania and were given shelter by a family there. A man from this family offered to take the younger children back to Burundi, and ultimately Bela received word that they had arrived safely. She also received a warning, however, to stay out of Burundi and not to return because of the danger involved.
Bela's journey was far from over. She found herself in a refugee camp in Tanzania. Life in the camp was not easy, but Bela continued her education. She received her high school diploma in the camp, was married there, and birthed her first child there. At 20 years of age, Bela had been in the camp for five years. And her life was about to take a very different path.
Bela and her immediate family arrived in Atlanta, Georgia in July of 2001. The three years of their life in Atlanta was an experience of pain and joy. The pain came from the violence of the city, the confusion of the new culture, and the great misconceptions of life around them. Bela recalls how when they first arrived, they interpreted the sound of fireworks as gunshots, and they cowered in their apartment for hours, fearing the worst. She says that when 9/11 happened, they "...just sat inside the house and waited for death." They felt that "Everywhere we tried to go, death was following us." Now, firmly established in Maine, since 2004, she says, "I feel more relaxed, like I can breathe, like I'm in a safe place." The joy of their time in Atlanta came in the form of a very helpful church group that provided all the daily necessities, the birth of another child, and the beginning of her English study. She studied formally in a classroom and with a tutor, and she studied informally with Barney and other children's show and cartoon characters.
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The Pure Pursuit of Health & Fitness {Part 2}
Let's see what just a couple familiar Scriptures say about being healthy and strong:
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 says, "Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body."
Bringing glory to God with my body is not using my body for sinful endeavors, but taking care of it, keeping it in good condition, nourishing it with good food and doing my best to keep it free from disease. If my body is not really mine, then I am merely a steward and must treat it well. This is our instruction to take care of it.
It is also important to not just be free from disease, but to be truly, physically strong. One of my favorite passages in Scripture is that of the excellent wife, in Proverbs 31:10-31. Twice it applauds this amazing woman for being strong. "She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong" (v. 17), and "Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come" (v. 25). I love how she practically wears her strength like a wardrobe. It's beautiful. Being strong is excellent and worthy of honor.
Scripture says that taking care of our bodies and pursuing strength is important. Why? To glorify God, not myself.
When you fully realize and internalize this as your reason to workout and eat well, the game totally changes. You begin to challenge and compete with yourself, and stop comparing yourself with other women. You can start thinking, "I'm supposed to take care of this body, so I'm going to give it my absolute best!"
Your mindset and motivation to be fit and strong can be pure. Ask yourself how strong can you get? How many pull-ups can you do? How fast can you run? Where is your own body's upper limit? The measure of success is no longer a number on the scale or a pants size, but what your body can DO. When this is your focus, you will WANT to eat better and you will WANT to do every single workout. And slowly you will feel the aesthetic entrapment begin to release its grip. You just won't care anymore what your body looks like, but will care a lot more about what it is capable of.
My passion for you as a woman is to feel liberated from body-obsession and body-worship, to be able to pursue fitness from a pure standpoint. Let go of trying to look good and measure up to the fitness level of other women. Take care of your body, make it stronger and more capable, and feed it really well. This is your responsibility and your opportunity to bring God glory with your body. When you dive in and embrace this challenge, you never know what you might discover you can do!
What is your body image right now? What can you start doing differently? How can you begin to bring God glory with your body? Let us know and leave a comment!
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Crystals 2015, 5(3), 355-375; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst5030355
Dendrite Growth Kinetics in Undercooled Melts of Intermetallic Compounds
Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR, Köln 51147, Germany
Academic Editor: Duc Nguyen-Manh
Received: 2 June 2015 / Revised: 6 August 2015 / Accepted: 27 August 2015 / Published: 7 September 2015
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intermetallics)
AbstractSolidification needs an undercooling to drive the solidification front. If large undercoolings are achieved, metastable solid materials are solidified from the undercooled melt. Containerless processing provides the conditions to achieve large undercoolings since heterogeneous nucleation on container walls is completely avoided. In the present contribution both electromagnetic and electrostatic levitation are applied. The velocity of rapidly advancing dendrites is measured as a function of undercooling by a High-Speed-Camera. The dendrite growth dynamics is investigated in undercooled melts of intermetallic compounds. The Al50Ni50 alloy is studied with respect to disorder trapping that leads to a disordered superlattice structure if the melt is undercooled beyond a critical undercooling. Disorder trapping is evidenced by in situ energy dispersive diffraction using synchrotron radiation of high intensity to record full diffraction pattern on levitated samples within a short time interval. Experiments on Ni2B using different processing techniques of varying the level of convection reveal convection-induced faceting of rapidly growing dendrites. Eventually, the growth velocity is measured in an undercooled melt of glass forming Cu50Zr50 alloy. A maximum in the growth velocity–undercooling relation is proved. This is understood by the fact that the temperature dependent diffusion coefficient counteracts the thermodynamic driving force for rapid growth if the temperature of the undercooled melt is approaching the temperature regime above the glass transition temperature. The analysis of this result allows for determining the activation energy of atomic attachment kinetics at the solid–liquid interface that is comparable to the activation energy of atomic diffusion as determined by independent measurements of the atomic diffusion in undercooled Cu50Zr50 alloy melt. View Full-Text
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These pictures were taken over a period of several months from May to July 2011. Earlier, I had shown pictures of the Punggol Waterway near the Punggol Reservoir. This time around are pictures taken at the Serangoon Reservoir end, where the red bridge leads to Lorong Halus Wetland.
There are barricades at the Punggol Promenade next to the red bridge. So there is no close up pictures of the inner works progression just yet. Hopefully things are progressing up to speed. Even on Sundays, I see construction works going on.
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Punggol Waterway at Serangoon Reservoir
The circular bridge here is of similar design to the one at Punggol Reservoir. There is another bridge as seen in the photo below – still under construction.
Sunset viewed from Lorong Halus Wetland
Punggol Promenade near Serangoon Reservoir Dam Opposite Coney Island
The whitish column on the left frame is the Punggol Promenade. Great view for a nature walk and a cycling track. Opposite is Coney Island. The danger signs on the boays are wonderful resting places for birds. In this picture, there is a bird perching there.
Sunset at Serangoon Reservoir Dam
The red streaks will appear from 7.15pm onwards. So don't be in a hurry to leave just yet. Even after 7.30pm, the sunset lingers and twilight appears. On that particular day, there is almost an aurora like appearance to that sunset. Those two streaks in the above picture I am too sure what they are, certainly not dust. Could be birds streaking by. Those pictures are taken at the water's edge. If you are there, don't be surprise to hear sudden loud splashing sounds – there are fishes in the water.
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'Straight Outta Compton' Tops Box Office for Second Week!
Straight Outta Compton soared to $26.7 million at the box office, making it the top movie for the second weekend in a row!
According to THR, the biographical drama has earned a whopping $111.5 million domestically so far.
Coming in at No. 2 once again was Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation, which brought in an additional $11.7 million, for a domestic total of $157.8 million.
The new horror flick Sinister 2, starring Shannyn Sossamon and James Ransone, took third place with a debut of $10.6 million.
Rounding out the top five were Rupert Friend's Hitman: Agent 47 and The Man from U.N.C.L.E., bringing in $8.2 million and $7.4 million, respectively.
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Hardcore Mariners fans are dooming and glooming over two pieces of news:
One, via Geoff Baker of the Seattle Times:
Big news out of camp. Moments ago, I spoke to Brandon Morrow after he'd thrown a bullpen session and he told me (and Shannon Drayer and Tim Booth of AP) that he plans to be a full-time closer from now on. Not just this month, not just this season. For good.
"I feel good about it," he said. "I feel back home."
Wow. This is a major development. As if to hammer that home, the M's just released relief pitcher Tyler Walker. Walker had been one of the guys vying for the closer's job.
Apparently, Morrow made the decision more than a week ago.
Two, also via Geoff Baker:
We've been hinting at this for a while now and today, it became official. Mariners catcher Jeff Clement will start this season in Class AAA. He has some defensive issues to work on, notably, his throws to second base. But also his all-around game-calling. He'll get that chance playing every day down in Tacoma. Should spur some season-ticket sales there.
The Mariners bloggers are practically howling over this. After months of verbal fellatio for the job new GM Jack Zduriencik has done to recompose the Mariners roster, making astute pickups and the like... now they have angrily dismissed these two decisions as grave mistakes, with the classic (and at times hysterical) despair of diehard Mariners fans.
However, consider the following:
- Despite some impressive flashes as a starting pitcher, including a no hitter he took into the 8th inning of his first major league start, Brandon Morrow has yet to show that he can handle a regular starting pitcher's workload over a full season, let alone pitch effectively over a full season. Even among the starts he made, Morrow peppered his outings with walks and stretches of hard-hit frustration, plus he frequently struggled to go deep into ballgames and tended to fade quickly as he tired.
- Brandon Morrow is a diabetic. MLB does have a few diabetics, but diabetics who have successfully managed careers as regular starting pitchers include Jason Johnson... and... well, that's it. Yes, the Mariners drafted Morrow with the #5 pick in 2006 knowing he was a diabetic, and knowing he hadn't pitched more than once a week as a starter in college with Cal. The jury was out on whether Brandon Morrow could pitch every five days in MLB without being a liability in any significant way, such as only being a 5 inning starter (overtaxing the bullpen), or a season long workload eventually causing him health problems....
- ... or, to a more game-related extent, being able to keep his walks down and mix his pitches enough not to consistently fool MLB batters. As a reliever, he only had to throw hard and hit the strike zone enough times to get 3-4 batters out, but a starter has to be able to withstand an entire lineup at least three times, without telegraphing his next pitch or tiring to the point of becoming too hittable.
- Morrow's value as a starter is a question mark as a result. However, we know his value as a reliever: he is a lights out flamethrower that most times is unhittable, and a perfect candidate to close. Morrow and the team may have made this decision to maximize his potential value. Yes, top SPs get paid more than top closers, but you also have to consider expected value. Morrow's chances of becoming a quality starter are at this stage fairly remote for all the reasons stated. However, his chances of being a star closer are far higher.
As Brandon Morrow, do you take a longshot at a 10 out of 10 payout, or do you take a very high chance at a 6-8 out of 10 payout?
As the Seattle Mariners, do you take a longshot at developing a guy at a position where he is a huge question mark, or do you put him in a key position where you know he helps you win tight ballgames right now and likely for years to come? Let's say the M's consider dealing him down the road: do you take the risk of diminishing his current value and perhaps seeing a dim chance at ever maximizing his potential trade value... or do you take his current high value as a reliever and try to maximize that?
- Blogger and fan anger stems not so much from the prospects themselves, as many top prospects never reach their absolute ceiling, but from the fact that these were the team's top domestic draft picks in 2005 and 2006. Clement was picked 3rd overall in 2005 and Morrow was selected 5th overall in 2006. Compounding Morrow's selection is the fact that the Mariners passed on local UW star Tim Lincecum, who would go out to become arguably the top pitcher in the NL for the San Francisco Giants... and on North Carolina product Andrew Miller, who was arguably the top prospect in the 2006 draft but was passed over due to signability concerns.
Jeff Clement still has a long way to go with his defensive mechanics and game calling as a catcher. He has hit fairly well in AAA, though his hot bat has yet to translate to the big league level, and word on the street is that he has yet to make some necessary adjustments as a hitter that the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League has allowed him to overlook. His demotion to AAA isn't necessarily to work on his hitting (though he can certainly learn a few things), but to work on his defense, which presumably he'll get a chance to do full time for the first time since the low minors (he has shared catching duties with Rob Johnson the last couple season in Tacoma).
Many fans inflated their expectations for these guys and how the team has handled them, because they were top picks and because top picks such as Evan Longoria, Justin Upton, Ryan Zimmerman, Ryan Braun and Justin Verlander panned out and quickly became top contributors for their teams. There's a bit of fan-related envy of those other top picks, and fans want to see the Mariners top picks materialize into similar stars. Thus, outrage results when personnel moves that otherwise may be for the best indicate that they won't become those stars.
Bill Bavasi and his top assistants made a lot of personnel mistakes. But scouting director Bob Fontaine worked magic in the middle rounds to draft several potentially useful parts, plus international scouting director Bob Engle has brought in hordes of Latin American talent such as Felix Hernandez, Jose Lopez, Yuniesky Betancourt (well, before he got lazy) and many other top prospects currently working their way up the system.
The Bavasi era is over, and the healthy thing to do would be to make peace with the fact that some of the team's previous personnel moves and draft picks just aren't going to pan out as hoped. But Mariners fans were bred on misanthropy, with 22 losing seasons in 32 years, and since misanthropy comes most comfortably, the reaction is understandable.
But nothing has been destroyed. Jack Zduriencik has made many smart decisions in rebuilding this team, and the new front office didn't suddenly turn stupid before they made these moves.
Jeff Clement could still become a regular catcher, or a contributor at a different position. He could be traded for contributing talent. Brandon Morrow can be a lights out closer, and even if you say he has no future here, many teams still place significant value in a 98 mph flamethrower that can mow down hitters in the 9th and could offer the Mariners contributing talent. And that belies the point that, once his forearm strain heals, Brandon Morrow can help the Mariners right now. As a starter, there was doubt he could have helped the team in that role at all over the long term.
You may not like these two personnel moves, but they are neither inherently horrible moves given the context, nor have they ruined any serious long term prospects for the team's future. The team is on the same track to rebuilding for the future as they have always been... and as they are currently composed, given the AL West's weakness they could even contend this season with a little good fortune. Relax.


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Refinishing your laminate dresser and night stands can be a cost-effective way to change their style. Solid wood furniture only needs sanding, restaining, and resealing to gain a completely new character, but laminate furniture can be a bit more complicated to refinish. Laminate furniture is often composed of a wood veneer outer layer over high-density particleboard or chip board. The usual staining methods do not work because furniture with wood laminate over particleboard doesn't absorb wood stain as easily as normal wood, and the veneer layer is thin and delicate. It can be stained with a little care and the proper technique.
Step 1
Scrub the dresser or night stand vigorously with a wet kitchen scrubber sprinkled with trisodium phosphate. This will remove the clear-coat sealer and stain, and roughen the surface so that it can better absorb the new stain.
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Clean off dust and grime with a clean, wet cloth, then allow the laminate surface to air-dry completely.
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Paint on the wood stain with a fine-bristled paintbrush. The number of coats will depend on how dark you want the stain. Allow to dry overnight.
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Roughen the laminate surface again gently with fine steel wool so that the polyurethane finish can stick to the laminate.
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Clean off dust and grime with a clean, wet cloth, then allow the laminate surface to air-dry completely.
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The European Central Bank, as expected, left interest rates unchanged Thursday. The focus now turns to ECB President Mario Draghi's news conference. The ECB chief is likely to play down any suggestion of a potential tapering of the bank's 80 billion-euro-a-month bond buying program but is also likely to hold off on announcing any extension of the purchases beyond its scheduled March 2017 end date. In a statement, the ECB said the Governing Council "confirms that the monthly asset purchases of 80 billion euros are intended to run until the end of March 2017, or beyond, if necessary, and in any case until it sees a sustained adjustment in the path of inflation consistent with its inflation aim."
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Read closely, the Bible itself critiques conventional religion, including Christianity. The arguments in my new release, Religion Turned Upside Down, build on these, especially as they shape the early Quaker movement as it arises in a period in English history known as "the world turned upside down." What emerges is a continuing outline for a revolutionary alternative Christianity that springs from the interlocking spiritual metaphors of Light, Seed, and Truth, which frequently appear in both the New Testament and early Quaker writings.
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Wei, Lu, Improving the performance of optical feedback self-mixing interferometry sensing, Doctor of Phylosophy thesis, School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Wollongong, 2011. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/3256
This thesis explores two measurement applications of optical feedback self-mixing system with semiconductor lasers. One is the displacement measurement of a remote target; the other is the measurement of the linewidth enhancement factor which is a characteristic specification of a semiconductor laser.
The above mentioned two types of measurements are performed based on the self-mixing signals acquired with an optical feedback system set-up. Apparently better signal quality will facilitate the proposed algorithms and yield improved accuracies. Hence, the issue of signal pre-processing is addressed before the measurements are conducted by means of digital signal processing techniques. The experimental signals are firstly processed with median filter to achieve basic level of data smoothing and the elimination of the impulsive noises. A high level of data smoothing is achieved by the employment of an artificial neural network. A good accordance is found between the pre-processed noisy self-mixing signal and its clean counterpart in computer simulations.
In order to investigate the displacement measurement with the laser self-mixing system, the analytical solution for the displacement of an external moving target is firstly examined with the Lang-Kobayashi theory. One difficulty that is associated with direct utilization of this solution is the wrapped phase values between 0 and π as a result of the inverse cosine function that is involved in recovering the phases of the reflected light. The basic idea of the phase unwrapping algorithm is to locate the points where the phase is wrapped and thus recover it to its real value by adding or subtract multiple numbers of 2π for the target movement away and towards the laser respectively. The accuracy of this phase unwrapping algorithm under difference levels of laser feedback was then investigated by computer simulations. It was shown that the target displacement can be reconstructed with the accuracy λ/25 under weak feedback regime λ/20 under moderate feedback regime.
The measurement of the linewidth enhancement factor is based on the data-to-model fitting paradigm. That is, the experimental self-mixing data is applied to the theoretical model of the feedback interferometry system and a few model parameters are identified accordingly so that a pre-defined cost function is minimized. In order for the method to be applicable under a universal situation, a genetic searching approach is proposed to locate the global minimum so as to yield the estimation of a set of parameters in the theoretical model including the linewidth enhancement factor. The thorough investigation on the error surface revealed multiple local minima in the cost function and uneven sensitivities of the cost function with respect to different parameters. Thus a global searching procedure is proposed by performing multiple rounds of genetic algorithm with the later round concentrating the searching within the areas that is obtained from the previous round of running the algorithm. It is shown with computer simulations and experiments that the proposed algorithm achieves the accuracy of 3.8% for the measurement of the linewidth enhancement factor.


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Shop Safety & Safety for Retail Outlets
With our increasingly litigious society, shops and retail outlets are all too aware that overlooking safety could end up with a trip to court and a hefty settlement.
The HSE (Health and Safety Executive) have identified the following areas as the most common accident causes for the retail industry:
- Slips and trips
- Manual handling (lifting heavy objects)
- Falls from heights
Even small shops have a legal duty to ensure that its employees have a safe working environment.
Tips on retail safety – protecting staff and visitors
Conducting a shop safety risk assessment should identify likely hazards and risks. Prevention is better (and cheaper) than cure!
Preventing slips, trips and falls
- Keep your retail outlet clean and tidy to prevent these most common accidents
- Monitor the physical state of your flooring – loose carpet tiles, torn vinyl flooring and flooring that has been cleaned with substances that make it slippery are all common accident causes
- Clear up any spills straight away and use warning notices
- Pay special attention to stairways – these are high risk for staff and general public alike
Electrical Safety in Shops
Ensure your portable electrical appliances are tested by a qualified electrician specific for this purpose. Mains circuit testing is also required every 5 years. A common fire hazard is an overloaded electrical point (overuse of extension leads) so this should be avoided.
When were your electrical appliances last inspected?
Fire Safety
Fire risk assessments are a legal requirement for all businesses (even one-person operations). These must be done for EACH shop location. This aids fire prevention and ensures swift evacuation of the premises by employees and the public in the event of a fire.
When was your last shop fire risk assessment carried out?
Once it has been conducted, it is necessary to review it on a regular basis – ideally annually. If a shop has had a recent refit, this may have impacted on your fire safety measurements.
- Ensure you have clear escape route signs. Escape routes must be kept clear of obstructions and that your staff are aware of the evacuation procedure. Arrange regular practices to reinforce this.
- Ensure that you make a specific member of your staff responsible for customers' and visitors' safety in the event of an emergency.
Manual handling for shops and retail outlets
Preventing injuries caused by manual lifting of heavy items is also the subject of regulations and solutions to this problem can easily be achieved.
- If loads must be manually lifted, ensure they are carried by at least two people and that training in lifting techniques is provided.
- Provide mechanical equipment e.g. trolleys to assist staff in unloading and moving deliveries. In addition, ensure deliveries are as close as possible to the location where they will be stored or used.
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First-aid kits need to be accessible at all times – do staff know where it is and who the first aiders are?
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When an employee is injured or suffers an illness as the result of an occupational-related hazard, accident, or some other cause, it's important for the safety and HR teams to evaluate whether, when, and in what capacity the worker can return to work, whether to full duty or with light-duty restrictions or other accommodations. On the one hand, by returning the worker to duty sooner, you may reduce exposure to workers' compensation liability in the event that the employee's condition is due to an industrial injury or occupational exposure to a harmful agent. But, on the other, if an employee returns to work too soon, he or she may be at risk for re-injury. Plus, it's important to balance your organization's practical considerations with your legal obligations and rights under California and federal law.
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Hello, I'm Curt.
You may have seen me out and about with my camera in Southwest Virginia. I am an "enthusiastic amateur" photographer and an organizer for one of Virginia's largest photography groups: Exposure Roanoke. There I lead workshops on learning photography, portraits, Strobist style lighting, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and other fun photography stuff. In addition, I teach a series of live photography workshops through WeTeachPhotography.com.
For me, photography is a craft that I take very seriously. I am constantly seeking to increase my knowledge and improve my skills. I love sharing what I know, and learning from other photographers. At this point, I have no interest in becoming a "professional" photographer, but have worked very hard on these skills and like to stay sharp by taking the occasional assignment.
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Market Lane Cemetery, Wells
A monument list gives all the names showed on each monument.
A surname list gives all the names for a particular surname and links to the grave monument where it is listed
Market Lane Cemetery, Wells
The GPR holds 786 grave and 1316 person records for the cemetery.
There have been 221 requests for photographs from the cemetery.
The latest details for the cemetery were added on 12 January 2013
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Hi there,
How was your weekend? Mine was chock full of good things including my 30th High School Reunion! Yep, letting the world know I'm that old! You never know how these things are going to go but since I was one of the women running it, I had some control and it was awesome! Here's a shot of me and my committee members! A great bunch of girls who I am proud to call friends!
Other than that I spent Friday night hanging out with some girlfriends watching a movie, visiting a college with my middle daughter who is a Senior (yep, A year later I'm doing it again) attending a benefit Art show where my husband work was selected as a Top Pic and enjoyed watching the series finale of Breaking Bad! Not a bad weekend!
So my apologies for the light posts but as you can see I'm been a bit busy..
Although, no matter how busy I am, I do mange to find time to Pin away! This is usually done when I get in bed at night with my iPad..
As a Certified Color Consultant a normal week usually has me meeting with a client who still has white walls and is ready for color! Which I love but then again I find myself find myself pinning a lot of photos of rooms like this…
And this…
There is just something about a white room that is so serene and eye catching, especially when there are pops of color here and there, don't you think? I didn't always think so but I do now!
Do you agree or are you more of a wall color person?
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READING, Pa. (WPVI) --A backup quarterback for Division III Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania has been cut for kneeling during the national anthem.
Sophomore Gyree Durante took a knee before Saturday's game. He says he was "taught you fight for what you believe in and you don't bow to anyone."
Professional and college football players and athletes in other sports have been kneeling or protesting during the anthem. The movement was started by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick last season over his view of police mistreatment of black males.
The school says Durante was cut because he violated a team decision to show unity by kneeling during the coin toss, but standing during the anthem.
The school says the players understood there could be consequences for anyone that didn't support the team's decision.
Statement from Albright College
At Albright College, we celebrate and value the rights of all students and community members to express their thoughts and opinions civilly, respectfully, and non-violently. Within our college community, student organizations, clubs and teams can establish and uphold their own unique practices to enhance College-stated values. Prior to the football game against Delaware Valley University on Saturday, Oct. 7, and upon the recommendation of the team's leadership council, which is comprised of 24 student-athletes selected annually by team members, the football team made a team-wide decision to both kneel during the coin toss and stand during the National Anthem. This action, which was supported by the coaching staff, was created as an expression of team unity and out of the mutual respect team members have for one another and the value they place on their differences. It was established as a way to find common ground in a world with many differing views.
The team agreed to uphold the council decision, with the understanding that there may be consequences for those who choose not to support the team. One football player, unbeknownst to the coach and the team, chose not to support the decision of the leadership council and team. He has been dismissed from the team, but remains a valued member of the Albright College student body.
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Rated: PG-13 for war action violence and some sexual content Reviewed by: Chris Release date: September 29, 2006 Released by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.
During World War I prior to America joining in the fray, some brave and adventurous young American men traveled to France to enlist with the French so they could be fighter pilots.
It's not that they were eager to fight, but the excitement of being biplane pilots and soaring in the air was the draw. When they actually meet their Commander, played by Jean Reno, and are told they have a chance of being in a plane that will catch fire, or crash, that the reality of war hits home.
Based on true stories, the idea was to get the new pilots up in the air to fight Germans as quickly as possible. Their planes appear to be made of cardboard and glue, and besides worrying about being shot down, they must worry about guns jamming, gears sticking and perhaps the wings falling off the planes.
The men left home for various reasons, one to escape his demanding father, one to continue his family 's military background, one, a black man, to even the field by having the opportunity to be a pilot. The star played by James Franco leaves behind trouble in his home state of Texas.
A sweet romance between Franco and a French country girl, and the air of respect that more seasoned pilots were shown, give the film a real old fashioned feel.
Some of the dialogue doesn't ring true and there are many cookie cutter characters, but the exciting aerial fights make this an adventure better than most, and worthy of the admission price. The planes just missing one another over the lush green landscape, the near misses, rat-a-tat of gunfire piercing the veneer and the great flying skill add up to a pretty good film.


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Sweater weather? Cool, crisp air? Stay healthy and warm by drinking Yerba Mate when cold weather hits!
Howdy, friends! Today, I want to tell y'all about a little secret drink that isn't well known in the States. While I was an undergrad, I studied abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Even though it was summer here in the U.S., it was winter there. Something I noticed very quickly was that people were drinking this unusual tea/coffee drink constantly. This herbal drink is known as Yerba Mate (pronounced yer-buh mā-teh), mate for short. Yerba Mate is an Argentine staple, and it is also their national drink (mate argentino). They drink it independently, socially, and share it. In fact, it is considered rude if you don't offer to share your Yerba Mate with close friends. That's actually how I tried it. The family I was staying with offered me some, and the rest is history.
Now, I know you're thinking, what makes Yerba Mate different than regular tea or coffee? There are a few reasons, actually! According to guayaki.com, Yerba Mate is made from the "naturally caffeinated and nourishing leaves of the celebrated South American rainforest holly tree." It comes in different varieties, sweet/unsweet, and is used to combat different ailments because it contains many essential vitamins and amino acids. It is different than tea because it contains a high amount of caffeine, but unlike coffee it won't give you the jitters. It's also very healthy and nourishing (I don't know about you, but one of my goals is to become healthier as a whole, so this is a win for me!). Now let me explain why you need Yerba Mate in your life!
But first... how do you prepare it?
Yerba Mate preparation isn't hard! What really makes it different from tea and coffee is that it is served in a yerba mate gourd with a mate bombilla. A bombilla is essentially a metal straw. To drink mate, you put as many yerba mate leaves into your mate gourd as you'd like (usually fill it at least three-fourths full). From there, you pour hot water (not boiling) onto the leaves until you see them become condensed and flat. Then, stick your bombilla into the mate by slowly sliding it down the side of the gourd. Whatever you do - do not stir it! Yerba Mate is not meant to be stirred. Once, you've placed the bombilla into the gourd, you've successfully made yourself a cup of mate and are ready to enjoy!
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I know it may seem like a lot of work compared to making a cup of coffee or tea, but mate is so worth it. Here are some reasons why you should be drinking Yerba Mate, especially in the cooler months!
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1. Yerba Mate is extremely healthy!
One super cool thing about mate is that it is associated with reducing your risk of cardiovascular diseases and cancer and boosting your immune system. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it is also used to "promote perspiration, immunity, digestion, memory, and weight loss." The study the CDC conducted concluded that mate contained potent antioxidants and "DNA-protective activity," which are properties that are natural to anti-cancer agents. Isn't that awesome? I kept drinking mate to help maintain a healthy weight, but once I learned I was getting all these extra health benefits, it was one of those yay me for being healthy moments. So, as the weather gets colder and cold and flu season emerges, drink a cup of mate to boost your immune system and be healthy! Be healthy - drink mate!
2. Yerba Mate comes in many varieties!
I bet you're wondering what Yerba Mate tastes like (don't worry, I did, too). My first impression was that it was very similar to green tea, just slightly more bitter. Personally, I don't mind its bitterness, but I do have some friends that didn't like it. Well, no worries! Yerba Mate comes in many varieties, and there is a mate flavor out there for you! There are flavored samples, such as peppermint Yerba Mate, which is perfect starting in November/December, and other types such as mate tea and organic Yerba Mate. I'm all about seasonal fall and winter drinks, so this is just perfect if you also enjoy them.
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One thing I also learned while studying abroad was that in the summer time Argentinians sometimes use lemonade instead of hot water as both a sweetener and a way to stay cool (which is somewhat irrelevant in this blog post, but just a FYI comment). I've never actually tried it prepared that way, but it sounds delicious! You should be able to find a variety that works best for you to help you feel cozy during the colder weather!
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3. Yerba Mate is relaxing and meant to be shared!
After class let out, I would walk home and pass by a small park. One thing that was super cool about it was that there were always groups of people lying on blankets, chilling, and drinking their mate. This leads me to my next reason why you should drink mate: it is a relaxing beverage that allows you to unwind while spending time with your friends. Fall and winter are all about getting together with your friends and family, and Yerba Mate is perfect for helping you bond! Typically, you share your mate, and that's why I would see people enjoying their mate together while relaxing. Sharing mate is a sign of friendship, trust and acceptance; what better way to relax than with your friends and family while drinking a hot Yerba Mate on a cool day?
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Now that I've (hopefully) convinced you to join Team Yerba Mate, do a Google search and figure out what brands you'd like to try first. Yerba Mate is incredibly healthy, relaxing, and there is a brand out there for everybody! Let your friends know that you want to try Yerba Mate with them by sharing this post, and leave a comment about how excited you are to taste mate!
**Thank you to the following websites, which provided some of the information used in this blog post: Guayaki, Organic Facts, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Wikipedia, and Mi Yerba Mate. Featured image via Eat This Not That


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We are three star luxury hotel Salalah, situated on Sultan Qaboos Hospital Road in the heart of Salalah city, (10 mts drive from Airport & 5 mts drive to City centre and Salalah Port) offering 79 well appointed rooms with different categories and 12 furnished luxury flats, International restaurant, round the clock room service, Television with multi-digital satellite channels, refrigerator, telephone, night club, business centre, 24 hours front desk, Laundry services, multi-purpose hall with capacity of 250 persons, and 750 persons capacity of open air place, rent a car, airport transfers and swimming pool with 1.5 acre garden.
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Professor Youngs is the Director of Nottingham Trent University's Centre for Travel Writing Studies. He is also Postgraduate Tutor for the School of Arts and Humanities, and Coordinator of the English Research Seminar series. He undertakes teaching and research in the areas of African-American Writing, Literature of the United States, and Travel Writing. Find the Centre for Travel Writing Studies on Twitter.
Career overview
Professor Youngs is widely regarded as a pioneer in the development of travel writing studies, a field in which he has researched for more than a quarter of a century, helping (with former and current colleagues) make NTU an internationally recognised centre of expert activity in the subject. Besides his many publications, including nine authored or edited books, with three more contracted, his initiatives and contributions include:
- The founding in 1997 of the journal Studies in Travel Writing (now published four times a year by Routledge), which he continues to edit
- The launching of the Borders and Crossings series of international conferences (inaugurated with Glenn Hooper in 1998)
- The creation in 2002 of NTU's Centre for Travel Writing Studies
- The establishment with Peter Hulme of the monograph series Routledge Research in Travel Writing
- His co-organisation of, and invited participation in, many seminars, conferences and workshops across the world
Such activities have helped secure him an international reputation as a key facilitator and innovator in the field. He has given keynote papers and other invited talks in more than 20 countries on five continents and has acted as external examiner for 30 PhDs for universities in the UK, Ireland, Australia, Sweden, Spain and Hungary. He is frequently called upon as a peer reviewer and has been a reader for over 30 academic journals and book publishers. He has also advised promotion committees for several universities, in Asia and the US as well as in the UK. He has taught across all periods and genres of English Literature, including postcolonial. Besides travel writing, his current teaching and research continue to focus in the main on United States Literature (especially African American). He is also a poet. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in several magazines, including Staple, The Interpreter's House, The Journal, Lighthouse, The Nightwatchman: The Wisden Cricket Quarterly, Message in a Bottle, London Grip, Raceme and Poetry Salzburg Review. He is currently putting together a pamphlet of his work.
During his time at NTU he has sat on many departmental, School, College and University-level committees, and has served in several roles, including, for several years, as Postgraduate Research Tutor for the School of Arts and Humanities and as the Programme Leader for the MRes in English Literary Studies. He has also been Acting Research Unit Coordinator for English.
Research areas
Professor Youngs is a member of
Current projects:
- a collection of travel-themed poems
- Ashgate Research Companion to Travel Writing (ed.with Alasdair Pettinger)
- Series Editor, Routledge Research in Travel Writing, with Professor Peter Hulme (2007-present)
- The Cambridge History of Travel Writing (ed. with Nandini Das)
- Founding Editor of Studies in Travel Writing, published four times a year by Routledge (1997-present).
- Commissioned essays on African American travel writing, 1930s British Travel Writing, and Herman Melville and travel (all for Cambridge UP) and on British and North American Travel Writing and the Diary (Indiana UP)
Opportunities to carry out postgraduate research towards an MPhil/PhD exist. Professor Youngs welcomes enquiries from prospective research students in travel writing studies, African-American writing, and in other areas of post-1850 Anglophone literature (including late nineteenth-century British and US literature, modernist and postcolonial writing, as well as from those interested in writing creative-critical theses). Students he has recently supervised or continues to supervise as Director of Studies include Esme Coulbert, funded by an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award scheme, working with Coventry Transport Museum on early narratives of travel by automobile; Glen Winfield on contemporary African American travel writing; Mark Sullivan on Richard Harding Davis; Mara Sprengel on Palestine and travel; and Tony Robinson-Smith, writing a travelogue of Bhutan for a creative writing PhD. Further information may be obtained from the NTU Graduate School.
Please visit Professor Young's personal website.
External activity
- Visiting Scholar, Centre for Colonialism and its Aftermath, University of Tasmania (February 2014)
- Helen and John S. Best Fellowship, American Geographical Society/University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (2010)
- Associate Editor for The Oxford Companion to English Literature (seventh edition, 2010)
- President of the International Society for Travel Writing (2009-present)
- Member of the International Association of University Professors in English (elected 2008)
- Visiting Fellow (non-stipendiary), Institute of English Studies, School for Advanced Studies, University of London (2007-2008)
- Fellow of the English Association (elected 2007)
- External examiner for MA in English Literary Studies since 1900, Liverpool Hope University College (2005-2009)
- Everett Helms Visiting Fellowship, Lilly Library, Indiana University (2005)
- Member of Council of the Hakluyt Society (2004-2009)
- External examiner and advisor for BA Hons English Studies, Grimsby College (2003-2007)
- External examiner for MA courses in Comparative Literature and African Literatures, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (2000-2003)
- Founding Editor of Studies in Travel Writing (1997-present)
- Member of Editorial Board of Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations (from 1997)
- External Examiner for more than 30 PhDs from universities in Australia, Ireland, Spain, Sweden and the UK
- Refereeing for several journals and publishers, including Cambridge University Press, Manchester University Press, Oxford University Press, Palgrave, Routledge/Taylor and Francis
- Frequent guest lectures and invited keynote talks at universities in the UK and abroad
- Co-organiser of many international conferences on travel writing, most recently the ISTW's 2010 conference at the University of South Carolina.
Sponsors and collaborators
Recently funded projects:
- British Academy Small Research Grant for work on motorcycle narratives (February 2011), £1455.15
- AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award in partnership with Coventry Transport Museum (2009-2012).
Professor Youngs' speaking engagements and editorial work see him regularly collaborate with colleagues from around the world. Current collaborative projects include the co-editorship of The Cambridge History of Travel Writing with Professor Nandini Das (University of Liverpool) and of The Ashgate Research Companion to Travel Writing with Dr. Alasdair Pettinger (Independent Scholar), each with international contributors.
Beastly Journeys: Travel and Transformation at the fin de Siècle. Youngs T, 2013, Liverpool University Press
Underground Travels: Powers Hapgood and the Miners of the World. Youngs T, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2013, 49 (4), 472
The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing (Cambridge Introductions). Youngs T, 2013, Cambridge University Press
Pushing Against the Black / White Limits of Maps: African American Writings of Travel. Youngs T, English Studies in Africa, 2010, 53 (2), 71-85
Travelling Modernists. Youngs T in (eds) Brooker P, Gasiorek A, Longworth D and Thacker A, The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms, 2010, Oxford University Press, 267-280
The Pacifist Traveller: Kate Crane-Gartz . Youngs T in (eds) Castillo S and Seed D, American Travel and Empire, 2009, Liverpool University Press, 200-216See all of Tim Youngs's publications...


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Performance of prayer at their due times is referred to as "qadha" ; while performing them after their due times is called "Qadha".
Only the obligatory of the missed daily prayers including the Old-Numbered Prayers (Salat al Witr) is performed. That is the sunnah parts of the scheduled-time prayers are not performed. However, the sunnah rakats of the missed Morning Prayer (Salat al Fajr) are performed along with the obligatory rakats up until the midday of the very same day.
Qadha prayers can be performed at any time of the day other day the disapproved times. Not performing the prayer at their due times deliberately, without any real excuse and missing them is major sin. Nevertheless, although our indeptedness towards Allah is removed by the late performance of missed prayers, the sin of the late performance remains. For this resaon, we must not only perform the missed prayers, but we also must ask Allah forgiveness.


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High School Chemistry Teacher Arrested After Posing as XXX Star
He's the talk of the school.
We are all familiar with the term "Catfish" thanks to the MTV show that follows people who are in online relationships and want to meet their internet lover in real life for the first time. Sometimes they turn out to be who they say they are, and sometimes they don't. 25-year-old chemistry teacher Douglas Le knows a thing or two about catfishing. He had been posing as an adult film actress online to attract young boys for nearly two years.
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The Czech Republic's REF Company and European Safe Glass Joint Stock Company will build a glass packaging plant in Trieu Phong district, Quang Tri province.
REF General Director Jan Strunc told Deputy Minister of Industry Trade Ho Thi Kim Thoa on December 17 that the company will use around 400-500 tonnes of sand per day and generate jobs for around 500 local people.
The plant will operate in 50 years with a design capacity of 220 tones of products per day in the first phase and 500 tonnes of products per day in the second phase.
The plant will apply modern technology in producing glass bottles of different shapes and sizes.
The Czech Republic is famous for producing high quality crystal and glass products. So its new products made in Vietnam will be not only for domestic use but also for export to regional countries.


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The launch of this year's 'flagship killer', OnePlus 5, is hogging all the limelight right now with its launch inching closer. OnePlus will launch its flagship device on June 20, which will then arrive in India on June 22. What's confirmed is that the OnePlus 5 will be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 SoC, feature a full HD display, front fingerprint sensor and dual rear cameras. The leaks and reports don't stop here for the OnePlus 5 as the smartphone has now been spotted on Geekbench with 8GB of RAM.
This listing coincides with yesterday's image shared by Evan Blass of the source code used in Amazon India's ad about the OnePlus 5. The source code revealed that the OnePlus 5 will be powered a 2.35GHz octa-core Snapdragon 835 SoC paired with 8GB of RAM. The Geekbench listing shows 8GB of RAM, which is a near confirmation for the OnePlus 5 and also complements the numerous leaks and rumors seen in the past. The Geekbench listing further shows the Snapdragon 835 SoC but with a lesser clock speed of 1.90GHz.
In terms of scoring, the OnePlus 5 achieves a single core score of 1,917 and multi-core score of 6,562. These scores are slightly lower than its previous scores of 1,963 and 6,687 on Geekbench itself. However, it still keeps the OnePlus 5 at par with the Samsung Galaxy S8 and the Sony Xperia XZ Premium. Powered by the same chipset, the Galaxy S8 had a 1,929 single-core score and 6,084 multi-core score. As for the Xperia XZ Premium, it logged a 1,943 single core score and 5,824 multi-core score. ALSO READ: OnePlus 5 shatters Samsung Galaxy S8, Sony Xperia XZ Premium in leaked benchmark scores
The OnePlus 5 will surely be a powerful smartphone but what'll set it apart from the existing flagships would be its reasonable pricing. OnePlus is known to give affordable pricing to its power-packed flagships. Although not confirmed till now, the OnePlus 5 had its prices leaked starting at Rs 32,999 for the 6GB RAM plus 64GB storage variant. The higher variant of the two with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage is said to be priced at Rs 37,999 which would make it the most expensive OnePlus smartphone till date. ALSO READ: OnePlus 5 India prices leaked ahead of June 22 launch, 8GB RAM variant to cost Rs 37,999
OnePlus had confirmed the dual rear cameras on the OnePlus 5 today, and shared an official image of the smartphone as well. The OnePlus 5 does sport an iPhone 7 Plus-like look with the placing of the dual rear cameras and antenna bands. While we're confirmed on the key specifications for the OnePlus 5, there are still some details under speculation. These include a 5.5-inch display size and a 3,300mAh battery on the OnePlus 5. ALSO READ: OnePlus 5 with 8GB of RAM rumored to launch exclusively on Amazon.in; camera sample teased by CEO Pete Lau
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Eli Haydel is excited, and that can mean only one of two things is getting ready to happen.
Either he's getting ready to play music or there's some sensational news about duck hunting.
If you've never heard Haydel play a sax or hit a lick on a clarinet, then there's a small void in your life that must be filled.
But, Wednesday, that's not what had the 70-something-year-old, game-call maker jump and jive.
"Did you hear the news? They're talking about a great duck season, maybe the best we've had in a long time. Did you see the numbers?" he said from his Bossier City home.
The response is that standard, "Yes, the numbers are terrific, but we're going to need a lot of cold weather to push the ducks down. There's a lot of water in the Midwest with all that flooding and the water is going to hold ducks."
What Eli said next shows he's doing more than reading website postings: "Yeah, but the ducks are going to need food to keep them up there. I've talked with friends up North, and they said the farmers can't plant. The fields are too wet. There might not be enough food to keep them having to head down here."
That's the hope for Haydel and some of the folks who had poor hunting the past two seasons.
True, the numbers are terrific — 45.55 million ducks — in the Federal Duck Breeding Population Survey. It's the highest May breeding count estimate since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service teamed with the Canadian Wildlife Service in 1955 to estimate ducks on breeding grounds in Canada and the northern U.S.
The individual counts of the 10 most studied species show the most mallards since 1999, the most blue-wing teal, shovelers (spoonbills) and redhead ducks, the highest count of pintails since 1980 and what could be a reserve in the downward trend for scaup (the most since 1999).
Even better is that habitat conditions on the breeding grounds appear in great shape: The 8.13 million breeding ponds are the second-most since 1955, which bodes well for next year's breeding period, too.
There's more to reading and digesting the survey's numbers for Louisiana hunters.
Come Thursday, the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission will approve duck and goose seasons dates and bag limits for the state's two waterfowl zones.
There are proposed changes: East Zone hunters will give up seven days from what has been usual three-weekend (16 days) first split. Those days will be added to the start of second split to give East Zone hunters a 51-day straight shot to the last Sunday in January end of the season.
The second major proposal will move the youth-only waterfowl-hunt weekends to the middle of the splits in both East and West zones instead of the more recent move to allow hunters 16 and younger to get into blinds the weekend before the zones' opening days.
The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries' proposed 60-day season dates — announced at the LWFC's July meeting — include:
??West Zone: Nov. 12–Dec. 4; Dec. 17–Jan. 22. Youth weekend, Dec. 10-11.
??East Zone: Nov. 19–27; Dec. 10–Jan. 29. Youth weekend, Dec. 3-4.
State Waterfowl Study leader Larry Reynolds will take public comment on these proposed dates through Wednesday. Reynolds can be reached at (225) 765-0456. His email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
The video
The USFWS has posted its annual Breeding Count Survey video on its website.
It's a can't miss for avid waterfowlers.
You can find it at: http://flyways.us/status-of-waterfowl/video-report.


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Wheelchair trainer
A wheelchair trainer or wheelchair treadmill is an apparatus that allows a manual wheelchair user to simulate linear (translational) travel while remaining stationary in a manner similar to an ambulatory person walking or running on a treadmill or a cyclist pedaling a bicycle on a bicycle trainer. The rear wheelchair wheels are placed in contact with vertical or horizontal rollers which may also be attached to flywheels, mechanical resistance or braking mechanisms, motors and various speed and force sensors.[1] Flywheels may be sized to provide a user of a certain mass with a rotational inertia equivalent to their translational (linear) inertia in order to more realistically approximate actual wheelchair propulsion.
Wheelchair trainers having independent contact rollers permit simulated directional travel (omnidirectional treadmill). Trainers may also incorporate rotary encoders, accelerometers and torque sensors to enable interface with computer data acquisition systems (DAQ) for analysis of propulsion kinematics. A quadrature rotary encoder or hall effect sensor can be implemented to provide sufficient speed and direction information to enable virtual navigation interface with video games in a manner similar to using a joystick or gaming console. Calculation of rolling resistance between the tire & contact roller interface, axle friction, and inertial characteristics of wheelchair wheels and flywheels may be used in determination of stationary propulsion dynamics.[dynamics]
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has substantially invested in decades long research and development for two wheelchair trainer devices: the Wheelchair Aerobic Fitness Trainer (WAFT),[2][3] and GameWheels.[4] The history of wheelchair trainer development may be summarized from the 10 patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for stationary wheelchair trainers/treadmills/ergometers/dynamometer/simulators issued from 1980 to 2009.[5]
|US Patent Number
|Issue Date
|Key Features
|November 18, 1980
|introduces variable inertial flywheels to approximate user mass with speed & torque sensors
|March 27, 1990
|WAFT (early model) implements independent adjustable wheel resistance
|October 30, 1990
|incorporates forward or reverse unidirectional wheel rotation
|December 19, 1995
|WAFT (later model) introduces cardio exercise with active electrical controls, DAQ and video gaming interface
|July 1, 1997
|implements positioning over two rollers
|July 22, 1997
|minimizes rolling resistance for 3 wheeled wheelchair race chairs
|January 6, 1998
|implements bicycle trainer eddy current braking resistance and active computer control interface
|January 20, 1998
|implements lateral wheel guides to prevent side sway
|September 5, 2000
|utilizes electrically controlled resistance and camber adjustment for clinical applications
|October 20, 2009
|implements horizontal rollers with passive variable inertia & resistance, clinical DAQ and video gaming interface
The last patent is being commercialized under the trademark Trekease, designed to serve as an acronym for Translational & Rotational Equivalent Kinetic Energy Aerobic Stationary Exertainment and as a homonym for Trekkies – fans of Star Trek.[6][7][8] None of the other cited patents, including the experimental prototypes developed by the VA, are currently being commercialized; however simple unidirectional ramp and roller systems similar in design to patent #4,966,362 are being marketed by others.[9] (See also External links).
Arcade game software and clinical data acquisition use were first introduced by the Veterans Administration's WAFT as a means of promoting stationary wheelchair propulsion as a beneficial aerobic exercise. Clinical professionals are not currently in agreement regarding the cardiovascular health benefits associated with manual wheelchair propulsion and the possible long term repetitive use injuries attributed to manual wheelchair operation.[aerobics] These debates have encouraged developments to enhance wheelchair seating,[10] back support, frame, wheel, and hand-rim designs. Innovative lever styled mechanisms add a new level to improve the overall efficiency, posture and ergonomics of manual wheelchair propulsion.[ergonomics] Utilizing lever propulsion technologies on a wheelchair trainer equipped with flywheel and resistance enables one to engage in an activity similar to rowing with all its associated health benefits and risks.[11][12]
- ^ Stanford 2006.
- ^ Langbein & Fehr 1993.
- ^ "WAFT – Wheelchair Aerobic Fitness Trainer". Janus Development. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
- ^ O'Connor et al. 2002.
- ^ Patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office:
- ^ "Aerobic Exercise For The Wheelchair-Bound". Science Daily. September 15, 2008. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
- ^ The Daily Texan.
- ^ "Research and theory". Trekease. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
- ^ Cooper 2006.
- ^ Kotajarvi et al. 2004.
- ^ McLaurin 2005.
- ^ "Benefits of Rowing". Tacoma, Washington: Foss Rowing. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
- Beekman, Claire E.; Miller-Porter, Leslie; Schoneberger, Marion (1999). "Energy Cost of Propulsion in Standard and Ultralight Wheelchairs in People With Spinal Cord Injuries". Phys. Ther. 79: 146–158. Retrieved October 15, 2014.
- Cerny, Kay; Waters, Robert; Hislop, Helen; Perry, Jacquelin (1980). "Walking and Wheelchair Energetics in Persons with Paraplegia". Phys. Ther. 60: 1133–1139. Retrieved October 15, 2014.
- Cooper, Rory A.; Boninger, Michael L.; Robertson, Rick N. (February 1998). "Heavy handed: Repetitive Strain Injury Among Manual Wheelchair Users" (PDF). TeamRehab Reports: 36–36, 38. Retrieved 16 October 2014 – via wheelchairnet.org.
- Cooper, Rory (May 30, 2006). New Exercise Equipment Engineering & Design: GameCycle & GameWheels (PDF). Rectech conference. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
- Cooper, Rory A.; Robertson, Rick N.; VanSickle, David P.; Boninger, Michael L.; Shimada, Sean D. (1997). "Methods for determining three-dimensional wheelchair pushrim forces and moments: A technical note" (PDF). JRRD. 34 (2): 162–170. ISSN 0748-7711. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
- Gil-Agudo, A.; Del Ama-Espinosa, A.; Pérez-Rizo, E.; Pérez-Nombela, S.; Crespo-Ruiz, B. (2010). "Shoulder joint kinetics during wheelchair propulsion on a treadmill at two different speeds in spinal cord injury patients". Spinal Cord. 48 (4): 290–296. doi:10.1038/sc.2009.126. ISSN 1362-4393. PMID 19773798. Retrieved August 24, 2011. (Subscription required (help)).
- Keyser, Randall E.; Rasch, Elizabeth K.; Finley, Margaret; Rodgers, Mary M. (2003). "Improved upper-body endurance following a 12-week home exercise program for manual wheelchair users" (PDF). JRRD. 40 (6): 501–510. doi:10.1682/JRRD.2003.11.0501. ISSN 0748-7711. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
- Keyser, Randall E.; Rodgers, Mary M.; Rasch, Elizabeth R. (2001). "Reliability of cardiorespiratory measurements during wheelchair ergometry". JRRD. 38 (4). ISSN 0748-7711. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
- Koontz, Alicia M.; Yang, Yusheng; Price, Robert; Tolerico, Michelle L.; DiGiovine, Carmen P.; Sisto, Sue Ann; Cooper, Rory A.; Boninger, Michael L. (2007). "Multisite comparison of wheelchair propulsion kinetics in persons with paraplegia". JRRD. 44 (3): 449–458. doi:10.1682/JRRD.2006.05.0048. ISSN 0748-7711. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
- Kotajarvi, Brian R.; Sabick, Michelle B.; An, Kai-Nan; Zhao, Kristin D.; Kaufman, Kenton R.; Basford, Jeffrey R. (2004). "The effect of seat position on wheelchair propulsion biomechanics" (PDF). JRRD. 41 (3B): 403–414. doi:10.1682/JRRD.2003.01.0008. ISSN 0748-7711. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
- Kwarciak, Andrew M.; Yarossi, Mathew; Ramanujam, Arvind; Dyson-Hudson, Trevor A.; Sisto, Sue Ann (2009). "Evaluation of wheelchair tire rolling resistance using dynamometer-based coast-down tests" (PDF). JRRD. 46 (7): 931–938. doi:10.1682/JRRD.2008.10.0137. ISSN 0748-7711. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
- Langbein, W. Edwin; Fehr, Linda (1993). "Research Device to Preproduction Prototype: A Chronology" (PDF). JRRD. 30 (4): 436–442. ISSN 0748-7711. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
- Lemaire, Edward D.; Lamontagne, Mario; Barclay, Hugh W.; John, Thomas; Martel, Guy (1991). "A technique for the determination of center of gravity and rolling resistance for tilt-seat wheelchairs" (PDF). JRRD. 28 (3): 51–58. doi:10.1682/JRRD.1991.07.0051. ISSN 0748-7711. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
- McLaurin, Colin A. (2005). "Current Directions in Wheelchair Research" (PDF). JRRD. Clinical Supplement #2: 88–99. ISSN 0748-7711. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
- Morrow, Melissa M. B.; Hurd, Wendy J.; Kaufman, Kenton R.; An, Kai-Nan (2009). "Upper-limb joint kinetics expression during wheelchair propulsion". JRRD. 46 (7): 939–944. doi:10.1682/JRRD.2008.12.0165. ISSN 0748-7711. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
- O'Connor, Thomas; Fitzgerald, Shirley G.; Cooper, Rory A.; Thorman, Tricia A.; Boninger, Michael L. (2002). "Kinetic and physiological analysis of the GameWheels system". JRRD. 39 (6): 627–634. ISSN 0748-7711. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
- Requejo, P. S.; Lee, S. E.; Mulroy, S. J.; Haubert, L. L.; Bontrager, E. L.; Gronley, J. K.; Perry, J. (2008). "Shoulder Muscular Demand During Lever-Activated Vs Pushrim Wheelchair Propulsion in Persons With Spinal Cord Injury". Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine. 31 (5): 568–77. PMC 2607130 . PMID 19086715.
- Sasaki, Makoto; Kimura, Takumi; Matsuo, Kiyomi; Obinata, Goro; Iwami, Takehiro; Miyawaki, Kazuto; Kiguchi, Kazuo (2008). "Simulator for Optimal Wheelchair Design". J Robot Mechatron. 20 (6): 854–862. ISSN 0915-3934. Retrieved August 22, 2011. (Subscription required (help)), preview: first two pages.
- Stanford, Christopher (May 30, 2006). Current Strategies for Wheelchair Design (PDF). Rectech conference. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
- Conference presentations. RERC Rectech State of the Science Conference on Exercise and Recreational Technologies for People with Disabilities. Denver, Colorado. May 30, 2006. Retrieved August 23, 2011.
- Discussion Preparation for: Manual Wheelchair Propulsion (PDF). The Stakeholders Forum: Wheeled Mobility. Pittsburgh, PA: Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology Transfer. May 26, 1999. Retrieved October 17, 2014 – via wheelchairnet.org.
Web pages
"University of Texas-Austin adds wheelchair-accessible equipment to gym". The Daily Texan. Retrieved August 22, 2011 – via Media dis&dat. Blog entry posted by the University of Texas student newspaper.
External links[edit]
- Typical US made ramp and roller wheelchair trainer with frictional resistance and without directionality
- British made low profile ramp & roller trainer with frictional resistance and without directionality
- High end motorized French made research wheelchair trainer/ergometer with directionality and camber adjustment


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Finnish heavy duty industrial valve and pump manufacturer Flowrox Oy has a new CEO. Mr Jukka Koskela started in his new post on 15 May 2015.
According to Flowrox, one of the strengths of Koskela is his strong experience in market-driven product management.
"I believe that a systematically developed process structure will greatly benefit Flowrox when the company wants to take its production volume to the next level," Koskela says.
When discussing Flowrox's goals of future success and growth, Koskela emphasizes the importance of sales.
"Our sales tools must be developed in a way that they become more user-friendly and support the targets of people working closest to the customer," says Koskela. "It is through these people that our customers see how we serve them and what Flowrox really is all about."
In addition, Koskela says that Flowrox should try to discover new market segments, products and solutions that could create new opportunities and additional value for the company in the future.
Next week, Koskela will join the Flowrox exhibition team and head to Frankfurt, Germany to attend the Achema 2015, the world leading exhibition for the process industries held between 15–19 June.
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New Record Price for the Mesa Table
When British-born, American tastemaker T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings began designing furniture for the Michigan manufacturer Widdicomb Furniture Company in 1956, he sought to redefine the postwar American home and to transform the taste of middle America. Acting as an industrial designer for the first time in his life, he announced: "standardization of design has already given us the most beautiful bathrooms and kitchens, the best automobiles, the best planes, the best-dressed women, and now is going to do the same thing for your entire house and make your life a better one to live." The furniture Robsjohn-Gibbings designed for Widdicomb came to offer an alternative to the plastic, tubular chromium, plywood, and metal furniture, which he disliked and which had flooded the country. Only two pieces of the line produced by Widdicomb took organic forms, and one of them, the Mesa Table, has been favorite among collectors for several years. In the recent design sale at Wright, the Mesa Table fetched a record price of $106,250.
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Throughout The Car Industry
Video: Jay Leno Drives the Jaguar C-X75 Concept
There are few if any high-end cars that haven't made their way through Jay Leno's Garage. Because when he's not making stupid one-liners about Bill Clinton, he's out driving some of the most exclusive cars on the planet. Case in point: the Jaguar C-X75. An incredible but fantastical concept, the C-X75 is based largely on future technology. Yet Jay Leno has already driven it.
"It still looks like a Jag. But it doesn't look anything like a Jag." Those are some of the words Leno uses to introduce Jaguar's latest concept.
Somewhat of a surprise at a 2010 Paris Motor Show already stocked to the rafters with heavy-hitting supercar concepts (see Lotus, Lamborghini Sesto Elemento), the Jaguar C-X75 was still able to steal the show, earning honors like Autoweek's "Best of Show". That was partly because of its Jag/un-Jag looks and partly because of the high-tech hybrid powertrain that provides a glimpse at the possibilities of future, high-performance hybrids, a combination that leaves Jay Leno "speechless." (Maybe Jag should come out with supercar concepts more often.)
Instead of your typical motor(s)/engine combination, Jaguar uses four 180-hp electric motors—one at each wheel—and two flex-fuel jet turbines to deliver range above and beyond the 68 miles worth of all-electric capability—560 miles of range by initial indications. It's those turbines that call the C-X75's future into question; they're still in the rough experimental stages so any possible production version may look quite different.
The hybrid nature of the C-X75 is certainly not an impediment to its supercar status. The car tears to 62 mph in 3.4 seconds and 100 mph in 5.5 seconds. It has a top speed of 205 mph.
Jay gives us the best look at the car that we've seen with an exterior walkaround and interior analysis. Not surprisingly, Jag has a tight leash on him, and he doesn't exactly push the thing to the limits, but it's a nice look that includes a conversation with lead designer Ian Cullum.
As much as I'm not a fan of Leno on The Tonight Show, the auto world is better off for having such a recognizeable celebrity car fan. Jay always gives us a much more intimate look at the hottest limited editions and concepts.
As for the C-X75, Jaguar is reportedly doing a production feasibility study on it, so lets hope that there's a sufficient case for a market launch.
Mr. Leno takes care of the rest:
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Peggy Hickman | 12:40PM (Mon, Nov 29, 2010)
I would love to spend the day in Jay's Garage looking at and maybe driving a few of his cars.
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