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For a long time, hydropower was considered the original renewable energy resource. In many countries, hydropower represents a high percentage of energy production and an alternative to dirty coal or dangerous nuclear energy. But dams around the world also cause problems. Melinda Smith narrates.
Safe Harbor Water Power Dam is one of the largest non-government hydro plants in the United States. It was built in 1931, as the third main plant on the lower Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania.
Dick Johnson is the engineering Manager at Safe Harbor. "This unit is actually operating right now, the unit is running at full speed, this is a Kaplan turbine, but this is the shaft that we are looking at, the turbine is down below, and there is a cover there to protect the water from coming up here."
Hydropower has been used for centuries, harnessing the power of water flowing downward. That has often meant building dams.
But dams carry a number of drawbacks, including their impact on the environment, high construction cost, and displacement of people when artificial lakes are created.
David Hales, a counsel for sustainability at Worldwatch Institute in Washington, also adds that dams often use the most arable land. "Usually you are going to displace people. In the past 50 years some 40 to 80 million people have been displaced by the building of high dams. Those people become environmental refugees."
Marshall Kaiser, the president and Chief Executive Officer at Safe Harbor, says dams also have a significant impact on fish populations.
"The most notable is blockage of fish passage both upstream and downstream. Here at Safe harbor we have a fish lift for moving fish upstream, primarily in the springtime and then we also have means of getting them safely downstream."
In the U.S., where hydropower represents eight percent of the electricity for the country, there are no plans to build any large new dams in the future. However, there are plans to use more of the existing dams to generate electric power.
Linda Church Ciocci is the Executive Director for the National Hydropower Association. "Hydropower is only on two percent of all the dams of the U.S. That means there is 98 percent of the dams that are currently in the U.S. that have no power generation on them whatsoever. So there is a tremendous growth opportunity there in the existing facilities."
When Safe Harbor Dam was built it was dedicated only to the generation of electricity. The other two dams nearby, like nearly 98,000 other dams in the country, were built only for irrigation, water supply and flood control.
Church Ciocci says, "Even if you look at Hoover, as popular as the Hoover dam is, that dam was first built for water purposes beyond energy. They added energy to help pay for it."
There is another, more unconventional way of generating electricity through waterpower.
Trey Taylor is the co-founder and president of Verdant Power, a new project of underwater turbines that look like wind power turbines but work with underwater currents. "It has been tested extensively in Pakistan, Chesapeake Bay and in New York's East River. As a result of those test which exceeded our expectations, we are putting the world's first field of underwater turbines in New York City."
Taylor says the potential for the new technology in rivers and oceans around the world is extensive. Just in the U.S. the interest is increasing rapidly.
Taylor says one of the advantages is that it doesn't damage marine life. "There is lots of room to swim around, they can go through, not a problem. It would be like us walking through a revolving door."
Taylor says his major focus is in the developing world. His company is now looking at remote villages that run on polluting and expensive diesel generators. "Right now we have a team in Brazil, examining the Amazon basin. The Brazilian government is very interested in this types of technologies for the rural electrification of Brazil."
However, experts agree that while the underwater turbines are good, they could never replace the power capability of a dam or its durability. Marshall Kaiser, with Safe Harbor Dam, says, "At the end of our license we will be 100 years old and we have every expectation to be re-licensed another 30 years, and another 30, and 30 more."
Well over half of the planet is water and the use of tides and currents for the production of electricity could be endlessly renewable. The use of dams will remain more controversial.


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Today is one of the days in the church calendar that I most appreciate – the Slaughter of the Holy Innocents. During the 12 days of Christmas, there is a day to remember that the birth of the Prince of Peace threatened the Roman Empire so much that it resorted immediately to the tool that marks every empire – violence. With a lust for power and control, King Herod ushered a decree that baby boys under the age of two be massacred, in hopes of killing the one who was deemed to be the true King. It was a state-sponsored infanticide, thousands were murdered, and the Holy Family fled as refugees.
As I'm writing this my nieces and nephews are squealing with delight as they run around and play with each other. The two youngest are under two years of age, and I cannot imagine the horror of an army coming around and murdering them in cold blood. (Later, at the dinner table, I was discussing this article, and my dad asked why the "Holy Innocents" are so "Holy". My 9 year old nephew wondered if it was because being holy is being set apart for God, and these infants died instead of Jesus, so they were set apart in heaven. Genius.)
My appreciation of this awful day might seem a little masochistic, but after the peace and beauty and joy that we're all supposed to feel at Christmas (and I do often feel and love these things), I like being thrown back into the reality that for most people in the world, life is completely cruel and marked mostly by suffering. Because it's authentic.
As I speak, violence is rising in the South Sudan and the newly formed country is quickly deteriorating – with hundreds of innocents slaughtered in the past two weeks and a friend of mine having to evacuate the country.
The number of Syrian refugees continues to rise well over the million-mark.
Disaster is still wide-spread in the Philippines after the horrendous typhoon.
The empire of globalized capitalism consumes its slave-labour victims year by year.
In my own country of Canada, First Nations people were ruthlessly slaughtered and are still being perpetually thrown aside on their own land, their "reserves" more like majority-world countries, and their commitment to stewarding their land well by resisting the oil pipeline pushed by the settler state is ignored.
This day provides the opportunity to cut out all of the bullshit that sometimes comes with Christmas – the other-worldly angelic joy, the commercialism of it all, the pretending that Christmas has saved us all – because it hasn't…yet.
The Massacre was the introduction of what Christ was up against in his lifetime, and it is what we are up against in ours. For Christ there was a violent empire that when challenged, would not hesitate to kill and destroy all in its path, and the same is true for us. The penalty for following this Prince of Peace into the darkness and the suffering will ultimately threaten the empires that rule today (if we are doing it right), and hell hath no fury like a threatened empire.
So what to do?
As Anne Lamott says in her new book Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope, and Repair, "we are not served by getting away from the grubbiness of suffering." She continues, "we have to stand in the middle of the horror, at the foot of the cross [like Mary], and wait out another's suffering where that person can see us….To be honest, that sucks. It's the worst, even if you are the mother of God."
Presence and solidarity with those who are suffering, without any cute platitudes like "God's plan is perfect" — which only makes things worse — is hard, but it's so essential and a good place to start.
But then what? Lamott continues
Most of us have figured out that we have to do what's in front of us and keep doing it. We clean up beaches after oil spills. We rebuild towns after hurricanes and tornados. We return calls and library books. We get people water. Some of us even pray. Every time we choose the good action or response, the decent, the valuable, it builds, incrementally, to renewal, resurrection, the place of newness, freedom, justice. The equation is: life, death, resurrection, hope. The horror is real, and so you make casseroles for your neighbour, organize an overseas clothing drive, and do your laundry…we live stitch by stitch, when we're lucky.
Or, we can do something equally dramatic, and go be present with those most suffering in our world, and work with and for them in whatever way you are gifted and able.
For as my seminary professor of Ethics of Wealth and Poverty once said, every act of social justice (or simple kindness, in my opinion) is a foretaste and foreshadowing of the coming Kingdom of justice, peace, and flourishing for all.
So today, we remember. We educate ourselves, and others. We lament. We are present with the suffering. We get stitchin'.
But first, we let go of all of our sadness and meager attempts to God. From the Anglican Book of Common Prayer:
We remember today, O God, the slaughter of the holy innocents of Bethlehem by King Herod. Receive, we pray, into the arms of your mercy all innocent victims; and by your great might frustrate the designs of evil tyrants and establish your rule of justice, love and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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Acorn Squash Curry
This recipe can be used by itself as a soup or add tofu or chicken and rice for a delicious curried dish Submitted by MAGGIEMEI
Carbs: 24.5g | Fat: 2.8g | Fiber: 3.9g | Protein: 2.3g | Calories: 125.9
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Tofu with Thai Curry
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Carbs: 11g | Fat: 14.5g | Fiber: 2.6g | Protein: 12.9g | Calories: 210
Indian Cauliflower Stew
Submitted by USMAWIFE
Carbs: 21.9g | Fat: 2.7g | Fiber: 6g | Protein: 5.3g | Calories: 131.4
Vegetarian Curry
This dish never fails to delight vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike.Submitted by MISS_KITTY
Carbs: 30.8g | Fat: 7.2g | Fiber: 5.8g | Protein: 3.9g | Calories: 190.3
Coconut Curry with Lentils
This delicious curry can be served as a thick soup or poured over brown rice. It's healthy and it's Vegan! Submitted by JENNDSLP
Carbs: 32.9g | Fat: 13.1g | Fiber: 6.6g | Protein: 5.7g | Calories: 263.3
Coconut Red-Lentil Curry, Double-Spiced and Light
This is the Epicurious recipe with Light Coconut Milk and double the spices
This is the Epicurious recipe with Light Coconut Milk and double the spices
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Coconut-Red-Lentil-Curry-236684Submitted by LUTRONIC
Carbs: 35.2g | Fat: 9.8g | Fiber: 7.3g | Protein: 16g | Calories: 290
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Environmental Planning Engineer
Plan and implement building projects aimed at protecting the environment.
What does an Environmental Planning Engineer do?
If you enjoy solving problems and protecting the environment, consider a career as an Environmental Planning Engineer. Based on the principles of science, this job lets you develop solutions to problems created by human behavior.
If the problem is human waste, Environmental Planning Engineers solve it by designing a wastewater treatment system, as water and air pollution are issues solved by engineering filtration systems. Planning to prevent a potential problem is also part of your job. You work with state and federal agencies to provide advice on the treatment or containment of potentially dangerous materials.
Following National Environment Policy Act (NEPA) guidelines, you oversee engineering projects to ensure that they meet federal requirements. Also, you investigate and obtain necessary environmental permits, which means you spend time researching laws and talking on the telephone.
Additionally, it's your job as an Environmental Planning Engineer to oversee field studies and then draft environmental reports about the results. Attending meetings, presenting information to company executives, and answering questions from other departments also fill your days.
Be prepared to travel for this job, as you will need to visit jobsites quite often. Most employers expect you to travel up to 25 percent of the time. You should also be comfortable with computer operation, fully understanding the use of word processing, data collection, and presentation software. Proficiency in specialized engineering software may also be included in your skill set.
This is the perfect opportunity to combine a love for the environment and good, old-fashioned science. If you don't particularly like either one, or sitting behind a desk, maybe you should consider something else.


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Bacterial pneumonia is an important clinical problem and host defense mechanisms against pneumonia are not fully understood. Data from the prior funding period using a murine model of Klebsiella pneumonia infection has shown that bacterial deposition in the lung results in the release of the T-cell derived cytokines IL-17A and IL-17F, both of which can mediate neutrophil recruitment into the lung. Moreover, we have shown that signaling through the IL-17 receptor is critical for optimal granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) and both Gro-alpha and macrophage inflammatory protein 2 (MIP-2) production in the lung which are critical for granulopoeisis and neutrophil chemotaxis respectively in this model. Furthermore, we have shown that IL-22, a product of Th17 cells as well as NK cells is induced in the lung in this model and is critical for mucosal host defense and containment of bacteria within the lung in part by regulating the production of anti-microbial proteins in the lung. Moreover we demonstrated that TRL4 and IL-23 are critical in regulating IL-17 and IL-22 production. Preliminary data strongly implicate that the lung epithelium represent critical target cells of T-cell derived IL-17 and IL-22 and that G-CSF and anti-microbial genes represent critical effectors of these cytokines. These data allow us to propose an experimental hypothesis that IL-23 regulates IL-17 and IL- 22 production in lung T-cells and these cytokines regulate both G-CSF and antimicrobial proteins in lung epithelial cells to achieve mucosal immunity in the lung. We will test this hypothesis with the following Specific Aims:
Specific Aim 1. Determine the role of IL-23 and IL-1R signaling in regulating IL-17 and IL- 22 in lung T cells in response to K. pneumoniae and S. aureus.
Specific Aim 2. Determine the role of CXCR2 signaling and the antimicrobial protein lipocalin-2 as effector molecules downstream from IL-17 and IL-22.
Specific Aim 3. Determine the role of IL-17+ cell homing to the bone marrow in regulating granulopoeisis in response to K. pneumoniae infection. The series of proposed experiments should greatly increase our knowledge on how the IL-23-IL-17 axis coordinates G-CSF, IL-22, CXC chemokine production, and PMN recruitment into the lung. It is hoped that this knowledge will improve therapy for patients with bacterial pneumonia.
Bacterial pneumonia is an important clinical problem and host defense mechanisms against pneumonia are not fully understood. We have identified a novel T-cell population that plays a critical role in defense against pneumonia. This application will explore how these cells are generated and how they control host defense in the lung.
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An off-taste often observed in cups from weakly roasted coffees that have been stored for a long time in unsuitable conditions.
A taste and odor taint that gives the coffee brew a flat bouquet and insipid taste. The result of the roasting process proceeding with too little heat over too long a period. Generally unpleasant characteristic of having an over-baked taste in an over-heated coffee. Ranks in the following order of intensity: cooked, baked or burnt.
This is a difficult term. When tasting coffees for defects, professional tasters use the term to describe a coffee that does not localize at any one point on the palate; in other words, it is not imbalanced in the direction of some one (often undesirable) taste characteristic. As a term of general evaluation, balance appears to mean that no one quality overwhelms all others, but there is enough complexity in the coffee to arouse interest. It is a term that on occasion damns with faint praise. The Mexican sample should be most balanced, but it has less to balance than the other two coffees. If you tasted the Yemen Mocha against a standard Ethiopian Harrar you would probably sense how the Yemen coffee is similar to the Harrar, but much more balanced. A well-balanced coffee contains all the basic characteristics to the right extent.
basic tastes
Sweet, sour, salt, and bitter. Characterized respectively by sucrose, tartaric acid, sodium chloride, and quinine.
Specific aroma of an insufficiently roasted coffee that has not been able to develop its full aroma.
A basic taste characterized by solution of quinine, caffeine, and certain other alkaloids. Perceived primarily at the back of the tongue. Generally normal characteristics of coffees connected with their chemical constitution, influenced by degree of roasting and the method of preparing the brew. Canephora are more bitter than arabica coffees. A desirable characteristic at a certain level.
black beans
Dead coffee beans that have dropped from the trees before harvesting. Used as the basic unit for counting imperfections in grading coffee on the New York Coffee Exchange. Has a detrimental effect on coffee taste.
Lacking coffee flavor and characteristics. A primary coffee taste sensation created as the sugars in the coffee combine with the salts to reduce the overall saltiness of the coffee. Found most often in washed arabica coffees grown at elevations below 2,000 feet, such as a Guatemalan. Bland coffees range from soft to neutral.
Body or mouth feel is the sense of heaviness, richness, and thickness at the back of the tongue when you swish the coffee around your mouth. The coffee is not actually heavy; it just tastes that way. To follow a wine analogy again, burgundies and certain other red wines are heavier in body than clarets and most white wines. In this case wine and coffee tasters use the same term for a similar phenomenon. The Mexican coffee should have the lightest body and the Sumatran the heaviest, with the Yemen Mocha somewhere in the middle. If you can't distinguish body, try pouring milk into each coffee. Note how the flavor of the heavy-bodied Sumatran carries through the milk, whereas the flavor of the Mexican dies away. If you drink coffee with milk, you should buy a heavy-bodied coffee. If you drink black coffee, you may prefer a lighter-bodied variety. The physical properties of the beverage resulting in the tactile sensations perceived in the mouth during and after ingestion. Used to describe the mouthfeel of a drink, corresponding to a certain consistency.
The total aromatic profile created by the sensations of gases and vapors on the olfactory membranes as a result of the volatile organic compounds present in the fragrance, aroma, nose, and aftertaste of coffee.
A taste fault giving the coffee brew a salty and alkaline sensation. The result of salts and alkaline inorganic material left after evaporation of water from the brew due to excessive heat after brewing.
Bready taste manifests in coffees that have not been roasted long enough or at a high enough temperature to bring out the flavor oils.
Specific taste of a good home brew prepared properly.
Applies to a coffee that has been over-roasted.
A relatively high level of oily material suspended in the coffee beverage. The result of substantial amounts of fat present in the beans. Most often a characteristic of high coffee-to-water ratio brews.


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Demand for tickets for the prelude to the Games is expected to be extreme, but Telegraph Sport can reveal organisers have had to hold back significant swathes of tickets – about 30,000 to 40,000 – for the July 27 event.
It is because the creative director, Oscar winner Danny Boyle, is yet to finalise the ceremony's content and some ongoing issues around the placement of the cauldron, which will burn throughout the Games.
As a result of those issues, along with unknown demand from international dignitaries and seat-kill issues in relation to television camera placements, all of the potential seats could not be made available in the ballot.
Yesterday the Locog chairman Sebastian Coe would not be drawn on whether there will be a second ballot later in the year when opening ceremony tickets are unblocked, nor would he detail how many ceremony tickets would go on sale.
But he did confirm that there would be as many cheap tickets at £20.12 as there are expensive at £2012.
Coe said the Locog ticket sales system – from which the organisation hopes to raise £500 million – is the third largest online retail website in the world, behind only Ebay and Amazon. Despite the scale of the operation, Coe said he was confident the website would stand up to the inevitable surge of demand.


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It's dog eat dog as the fight over scarce road money gets uglier in Texas. At today's Senate Select Committee on Transportation Funding, the Senate Transportation Committee Chair Robert Nichols took issue with DeWitt County Judge Daryl Fowler's comments that urban areas of the state are 'pillaging' road funds he believes are largely being provided by rural areas where the oil shale boom has swelled the state's coffers of oil and gas severance taxes to windfall levels.
Nichols was quick to point out that eighty percent of all transportation dollars come from urban areas of the state and that urban areas, in fact, subsidize the rural areas, not the other way around. Fowler quickly retreated, but it reveals a very deep divide shaping up around the state as tax revenues pour in from rural areas yet fail to solve the perpetual road funding shortage.
The biggest development, a surprise to many, was the Select Committee Chairman (also Senate Finance Committee Chair), Tommy Williams', seemingly unilateral decision to allocate the $250 million in surplus vehicle registration fees (above the forecasted amount) to energy sector roads, largely deflating the rising tension in the room. But this new money still won't address the 83 miles of proposed roadways slated to be converted to gravel by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) in the rural areas hard hit by oil exploration. And it still doesn't solve the long-term road funding crisis or the long-standing urban-rural divide where rurals believe they lack sufficient representation for the land mass they represent compared with the more populous and heavily congested urban areas of the state that they feel carry all the votes and clout and hence the dollars follow.
It's no secret that the oil shale boom has produced not only a boost in state tax revenues, but also exponential damage to Texas roads, particularly county and farm-to-market roads that aren't designed to handle the heavy weight of 18-wheelers loaded up with water for fracking and/or oil being delivered to market. TxDOT recently announced its plans to convert many of these roads being pulverized from heavyweight trucks from paved back to gravel, igniting the ire of many rural communities. So the Committee heard testimony from TxDOT about its decision that caught many lawmakers off-guard, and from the Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) about overweight permits and the challenges with enforcement.
DPS Director Steve McGraw confessed the Department only has 12 full-time officers policing that area of the state, and since they lack the resources to hire more officers, they handle enforcement through what he dubs 'surge operations.' Surge operations involve taking officers from other parts of the state and re-assign them to these shale areas for temporary boosts in enforcement. The problem areas are enforcing speed and weight limits. DPS did about 53 surge operations last year and have done approximately 75 so far this year. DPS also taps some local law enforcement partners who are trained to enforce commercial vehicles.
The DMV gave the Committee a report on the overweight truck permits it issues, and noted that some of these penalties are being dumped into General Revenue, not going to roads. This touches on a yet unsolved sore spot with taxpayers. Huge sums of public money related to transportation and road repair are collected that aren't getting allocated to roads. Whether it's the vehicle sales tax, the tax on auto parts and tires, or overweight truck penalties, it all adds up to more than $3 billion a year in diverted funds. It begs the question, would we even be discussing downgrading paved roads to gravel if these funds were going to roads as they should be? Likely not.
Add to that the twenty-five percent of gas taxes diverted to public education (which amounts to approximately $750 million a year) and the non-education diversions from the gas tax (approximately $650-$750 million a year) to non-road purposes, and it amounts to pure theft of road funds. Clearly there's not a revenue problem as lawmakers prefer to call it, it's a spending and priority problem. Let's not forget that lawmakers spent 26% more this biennium than last and that it frittered away an $8 billion surplus in revenues that they enjoyed coming into the 83rd legislative session that began in January.
The Governor, Lt. Governor, and Speaker all promised to make water and transportation infrastructure a priority in the 83rd and neither was addressed in the base budget. Instead, lawmakers chose to punt by tapping the state's emergency fund known as the Rainy Day Fund (capitalized with the oil and gas severance tax) and kicking the decision down to the voters to give them permission to raid the emergency fund, and in the case of water, issue more debt, rather than discipline the use of existing taxes to fund priorities out of the regular budget. They're not giving voters that choice — the only choice before voters is to raid the Rainy Day Fund or they get nothing more to fund these core functions of government we all need for daily living.
Big government surveillance state – Round II
Yet another surprise that surfaced at the Committee hearing was the Department of Public Safety's (DPS) lobbying for a license plate camera program to detect overweight trucks while the carriers are in motion (versus inspection and weigh stations). Williams quickly bristled at the suggestion saying he still has scars on his back from carrying such a bill in 2011 for which grassroots groups accused him of gestapo-style checkpoints, Constitutional-rights busting surveillance and awarded him with a certificate for being a good Nazi.
Yet within minutes Williams requested a comprehensive study from the Texas Transportation Institute as to how the legislature could implement such a program through DPS, not only citing the benefit of detecting overweight trucks, but also of checking for car insurance on all vehicles. We all know from other states' experience that the surveillance and government uses won't stop there — speeding tickets and other violations will soon follow criminalizing ordinary citizens for going about their daily lives.
A trucking industry representative invited to testify also lobbied for the license plate camera/tracking program. So expect the industry to line-up behind big government Orwellian lawmakers to push the legislation through next session. Williams even requested their help in 'educating' the public on the need for the program using the argument that there are hidden costs to taxpayers from uninsured drivers and overweight trucks not paying for permits. Well, there are also not so hidden threats to our freedoms and Constitutional rights for government to track its citizens and go fishing for violations on every vehicle, not just those actually committing the violations.
The dialogue and study for long-term road funding solutions will continue during the interim, yet these committees rarely accept public testimony or feedback. It's only government bureaucrats, politicians, and special interests who have a seat at the table. Once they come up with their pre-determined game plan, they tap the special interests to fund slick PR campaigns to convince taxpayers to back 'their' plan or taxpayers get no solution (or relief). It's the very sort of politics as usual that the junior senator from Texas, Ted Cruz, is working so hard to change in Washington. We sorely need his kind of leadership in Texas state government — and fast.


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Top 5 Plant Engineering articles, November 10-16: Determining a motor's load, maintenance manufacturing traits, innovation as management, more
Articles about determining a motor's load, 10 traits of high maintenance manufacturing organizations, innovation as a management process, automation controllers for real-time monitoring and efficiency, and the four tiers of growth in Lean manufacturing were Plant Engineering's five most-clicked articles from last week, November 10-16. Were you out last week? Miss something? You can catch up here.
Plant Engineering Top 5 most read articles online, for Nov. 10-16, covered determining a motor's load, 10 traits of high maintenance manufacturing organizations, innovation as a management process, automation controllers for real-time monitoring and efficiency, and the four tiers of growth in Lean manufacturing. Link to each article below.
1. Keeping it simple: Steps to determine motor's actual load
Oversized motors cost more to operate-sometimes a lot more. Fortunately, there's a simple procedure for determining the actual hp required by a load, without expensive equipment or engineering.
2. The 10 traits of high maintenance manufacturing organizations
What are the traits of a high maintenance manufacturing organization or facilities? Let's look at 10 of the 13 categories from the article but in the context of manufacturing and reliability.
3. Innovation as a formal management process
Want light bulbs to go off? Create a way to encourage, act on new ideas.
4. New automation controllers allow for real-time monitoring and increased system efficiency
Parker Hannifin displayed more than 15 product lines appropriate to the packaging markets, at the Pack Expo in Chicago.
5. Four tiers of growth in Lean journey
Manufacturer builds daily management into continuous improvement process.
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Before the calendar turned, 2016 already had the makings of a pivotal year for manufacturing, and for the world.
There were the big events for the year, including the United States as Partner Country at Hannover Messe in April and the 2016 International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago in September. There's also the matter of the U.S. presidential elections in November, which promise to shape policy in manufacturing for years to come.
But the year started with global economic turmoil, as a slowdown in Chinese manufacturing triggered a worldwide stock hiccup that sent values plummeting. The continued plunge in world oil prices has resulted in a slowdown in exploration and, by extension, the manufacture of exploration equipment.
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Tesla shares fall 20% after 2 top engineers resign
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2 Tesla engineers resign - shares fall
Palo Alto electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors said both its chief engineer and director of chassis engineering for the Model S luxury car have left the company just months before the rechargeable sedan goes on sale. Tesla shares fell as much 20 percent after the announcement.
Peter Rawlinson, Tesla's vice president and chief engineer, and Nick Sampson, who supervised vehicle and chassis engineering, departed this month, Ricardo Reyes, a company spokesman, said.
Jerome Guillen, formerly an engineer with Daimler, will assume Rawlinson's duties, and Tesla hired a former Volkswagen executive, Eric Bach, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said.
Apple loses patent suit against Motorola
Apple lost a ruling in a case where it accused phone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings of patent infringement, a setback for efforts to prove that devices running Google's Android operating system copy the iPhone.
Motorola Mobility, a maker of Android smart phones that agreed to be bought by Google for $12.5 billion, didn't violate Apple's rights on three patents, U.S. International Trade Commission Judge Theodore Essex in Washington said in an initial determination Friday without elaborating on his findings. Two of the patents relate to touch-screen technology.
The case has been part of a broader battle that Apple is waging across four continents against makers of phones that run on Android, which the company claims copies features of the iPhone. Apple received a mixed ruling in a trade commission case against HTC last month, and is awaiting decisions on additional complaints against HTC and Samsung Electronics.
Touch-panel upgrade possible for iPhone 5
Apple may use new touch-panel technology for an iPhone 5 with a thinner body than previous models and might introduce the product in the quarter ending in June, Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty said.
The Cupertino company is also considering new casing materials for the iPhone, its best-selling product, according to Huberty, who has an "overweight" rating on Apple.
The new iPhone may use Qualcomm's quad mode chip with the capability to run on all 3G and long-term evolution networks, Huberty said. With a thinner body and the Qualcomm chip, the next iPhone may represent more of a change than the 4S model introduced last year as users look to upgrade.
Apple and its supply chain are "surprised by the demand for the iPhone 4S, which increases confidence in strong sales for iPhone 5 later this year," Huberty said in the report.
Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray Cos., said in a research note on Jan. 11 that most iPhone users, according to his survey work, were looking to purchase a new model, and that with a different design, an iPhone 5 could be "a monster upgrade." Munster also has an "overweight" rating on Apple.
HD in works for iPad 3
Apple's next iPad tablet, due in March, will sport a high-definition screen, run a faster processor and work with long-term evolution wireless networks, according to three people familiar with the product.
The company's manufacturing partners in Asia started ramping up production of the iPad 3 this month and plan to reach full volumes by February, said one of the people, who asked not to be named because the details aren't public. The tablet will use a quad-core chip, an enhancement that lets users more quickly jump between applications, two of the people said.


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The stripping queen, who had the nation by their eyes with her semi-nude pictures and raunchy videos, is ecstatic to join the Bollywood bandwagon with a bold film in her kitty. Away from her bikini-clad image, Poonam Pandey visited the office of Dailybhaskar.com dressed in a blazer over her brown dress to spill beans on her Bollywood debut, stripping, cricket and much more.
While her contemporary Sunny Leone might be hogging the limelight with her dare-to-bare stint in Jism 2, but Poonam seems unperturbed. There is no competition between Sunny and me. She is doing her work and I am doing mine.
Sunny might have bagged the role with her stint on reality show, but the journey into Bollywood hasnt been a smooth one for Poonam as she rejected quite a few films before signing her first Bollywood flick. I have rejected around 30-40 films. Since, none of them interested me much. I wanted a great start to Bollywood and my film gives me that platform, claims the model.
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Is Washington Capitals captain Alexander Ovechkin the NHL's most enigmatic Russian?
Earlier this week, a mainstream publication ran an article that referred to three-time NHL MVP and eight-time (including twice this season) All-Star Alexander Ovechkin as "enigmatic." Actually, it described him as "enigmatic" in the title, followed it up with "maddeningly enigmatic" and "moody" said he had "tuned out" former coach Bruce Boudreau, that Boudreau's replacement Dale Hunter "never had the ear of his star" and described Ovechkin as a player "dogged by questions of maturity and work ethic."
Understandably, it didn't go over well with many fans. The first objection is the hackneyed and irritating "enigmatic" label that seems to get attached at some point to every Russian player in the NHL – it's an unfortunate habit that many otherwise excellent writers can fall into by rote, and one that deserves all the snark and criticism it gets. The other issue is that there's only so many nasty labels a writer can stick on the guy who was the best player in the league last year before he starts looking ridiculous. Ovechkin might be a frustrating and mercurial coach-killer, but the attacks lose some relevance when he's outperforming every other player in the NHL.
Perhaps that's why Alexander Ovechkin doesn't take the crown as the NHL's most enigmatic Russian – even once non-Russians are disqualified. The following is a count of total search results on google.ca for a player's last name plus the phrase "enigmatic Russian." Also included is a list of prominent mainstream publications that appear on the first page of the Google search results applying that descriptor to the individual player.
Because the search includes last name only, brothers are considered together.
Our apparent winners might be disqualified in some minds given that they are actually Belarusian. Andrei and Sergei Kostitsyn have both been prominent members of their country's national team, but given that Belarus was part of the Soviet Union, it's perhaps understandable the label sticks to them. Playing in Montreal didn't help –little items were big news – and neither did stories like this and this and this.
The real winner has to be Alexander Semin. In six seasons since the 2004-05 NHL lockout, he's averaged 36 goals 41 assists and 77 points per 82 games. He can thank a couple of difficult playoff performances for his reputation, but more than that he can thank former teammates Matt Bradley and Troy Brouwer (though Bradley later apologized). Brouwer, rarely cited as a coach killer, ripped the "very lackadaisical" culture and lack of accountability under former coach Bruce Boudreau and framed Semin's departure from the Capitals this way:
It was tough to lose his scoring ability, when he wanted to play. But all in all, I think we've been doing well without him… Some nights you didn't even know if he was going to come to the rink. It's tough to play alongside guys like those because you don't know what you're going to get out of 'em.
Brower's probably lucky he was born in British Columbia; given his comments on Boudreau and his sharp drop in scoring once the playoffs roll around, he'd probably be joining Ovechkin and Semin on this list if he'd been born in Russia – particularly since playing with other enigmatic Russians is a great way to bolster a reputation as an enigmatic Russian.
Other items that stand out:
– It's amazing, even in this cursory look, how prevalent the "enigmatic Russian" narrative is in major media outlets. CBC, TSN, Sportsnet and ESPN represent the broadcasters, and there's a nice mix of local papers and big national chains, too (including Postmedia papers). Everybody seems to do it – whether simply by running wire service pieces with the phrase or through the work of their own columnists and beat reporters. It's understandable in one way – I've likely used the phrase unthinkingly myself at some point – but it's tired and meaningless and more reflects the inability of the media as a class to cover Russian players fairly than it does faults in those players as a class.
– There are lots of familiar names placed highly on the list. Alexei Kovalev was a key contributor (23GP, 9G-12A-21PTS) on a Stanley Cup winner, had good playoff numbers over his career, and scored 1000+ points in the dead puck era, but was never able to shake the reputation. Evgeni Malkin is a three time first-team All-Star, won both league MVP awards in 2011-12, was the playoff MVP in 2009 and somehow still finds himself on this list. Also: Pavel Datsyuk makes this list, but seemingly because he's repeatedly cited as an "exception to the rule."
– The enigmatic status of some of the players here is no enigma. Nikolai Zherdev probably gets the enigmatic label back home. Alexander Radulov skipped out on the final year of his entry-level deal for more money overseas. Ilya Bryzgalov – despite some superb seasons – might lead the league in weird statements to microphones, making him just plain enigmatic without any need to attach "Russian."
– Edmonton Oilers' Nail Yakupov finds himself on this list likely thanks to two incidents in particular. He failed to speak to reporters after a World Juniors game in Russia, and was harshly criticized as a result. Also, there was that celebration which rubbed the league's most antediluvian commentators the wrong way. Being visibly happy on the ice is a surefire way to earn the label in a hurry.
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Okay, maybe not every one, maybe there are people in this world who's hobbies include hating fluffy kittens and Nutella, but assuming you're not one of them, I bet you're going to loooove this Choies t-shirt.
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MORAINE — A 3-year-old boy who was found unresponsive in a hot car outside a relative's home later died at a southwest Ohio hospital, police say. SENT: 225 words.
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The state Racing & Wagering Board plans to move its headquarters and 61 jobs in March from Albany to One Broadway Center in Schenectady, home of the Division of Lottery. But who will lead the board is still a question.
Gov. George Pataki continues to push for Parks Commissioner Bernadette Castro, who last week made an unusual visit to the New York Racing Association for a tour of Aqueduct.
But the Senate needs to confirm her, and so far Pataki's fellow Republicans in the chamber are unhappy about his ouster of Michael J. Hoblock from the chairman's post after he refused to resign. With one seat on the board already open, Pataki wanted Hoblock out so that a Senate appointee could fill Hoblock's seat and Castro could fill the other, which carries a longer term than the one Hoblock holds.


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Former Juventus and Fiorentina Coach Giovanni Trapattoni says one incident or set piece could be enough to decide tonight's match between the sides.
The Europa League tie is finely poised with the score at 1-1 following the first leg at Juventus Stadium and the 75-year-old believes fine margins will be decisive.
"It's an open tie and any result is possible," Trapattoni told Radio Blu. "The two teams are both capable of getting a result.
"Fiorentina play well and Juventus are one of the most solid and organised team around.
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Pitbull argues that the First Amendment protects the lyrics in his songs. Documents of Pitbull's defense team states, "Sustaining Ms. Lohan's allegations would lead to absurd results: the use of a celebrity's name in any work of art -- such as a song, poem or painting -- would trigger liability." We think they have a good point. Do you think Pitbull has a chance of winning this case? Fill out the poll below!
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McCutchen spurs Pirates' home-field advantage
The man promising to bring the NL batting crown "home" has barreled-up on that contradiction. Andrew McCutchen returns to PNC Park on Friday night accompanied by the rest of the first-place Pirates and enough flashing numbers to make Elias' head spin.
McCutchen's .369 average puts him in position to add to the Pirates' 25 historical batting titles, the most for any Major League team (St. Louis is runner-up in the NL with 22 crowns, while Red Sox players have won 24 AL titles).
Amazing enough that average is 153 points above what McCutchen produced in the second half of the 2011 season. It has a lot to do with Pirates ownership's reaction to that swoon: A six-year, $51.5 million contract extension agreed to during Spring Training.
"That freed up Andrew," manager Clint Hurdle said. "His attitude became, 'I can just go and play now.' Sometimes something like that can lock up a guy, worried about living up to it. Not him."
McCutchen is also contending for the NL home run crown. His 22 are second to Ryan Braun's 26, after McCutchen waited until the Bucs' 29th game to hit No. 1.
The future Home Run Derby participant did not connect for his first homer until May 8, a game he had also begun with an average of .298. In 61 games since McCutchen is batting .404, with 22 home runs and 58 RBIs.
"The thing is, those first five weeks he was getting pitches to hit, but wasn't hitting them," Hurdle recalled. "He's not missing them now. He's playing the game the best he's ever played."
All this makes the center fielder the embodiment of Pittsburgh's strange journey along the National League Central's yellow brick road. For he has built, and will try to maintain, those incredible numbers in a home park that was designed to be pitcher-friendly and has lived up to that blueprint.
Wait, you say, haven't the Bucs led the Majors in scoring since the start of June? That they have, and it is a contradiction that leads to the most confounding part of the Pirates' contention for the division title.
Good thing that Hurdle keeps saying that the season's outcome will define this team because, at the moment, it defies definition. Throw all of the team's stats into a numbers-crunching machine and it would sputter, emit sparks and finally just blow up.
The Bucs' well-chronicled offensive turnaround has had less to do with adjusted swings than with the schedule. Through May, which they ended with a ridiculous team average of .218, the Pirates played 29 of 50 games at home. Since then they have played 25 of 41 games on the road.
The Pirates have hit 64 of their 101 home runs on the road, where they average 4.5 runs compared to 3.7 at home. Despite this their 29-14 record in PNC Park is the Majors' best home mark.
It doesn't make sense until the spotlight shines on their collective 2.39 ERA in those 43 home games, more than two runs lower than the road mark (4.68).
"Our pitchers love pitching at home. It's a pitcher-friendly ballpark," Hurdle reiterated. "When you develop a home-field mentality, you build your club to your home field. What we tried to do is get the personnel in place we need to have success.
"But," Hurdle added, "our guys have gotten over the mentality that left field is too deep, that it is not a hitter's park. It is -- if you hit line drives and keep the ball low and hit it hard, good things will happen. There's a lot of grass out there."
There was also a lot of grass around the 457-foot center field sign in Forbes Field -- where 13 of the Pirates' batting titles were won between 1909-1970. Before that, Exposition Park hosted seven bat kings. Three Rivers Stadium produced four titles, while Freddy Sanchez's 2006 title was the only one in PNC Park's first 12 seasons.
McCutchen thrives among those grass blades, although his wrists can generate the bat-speed and power to send balls soaring over them. His 10 home runs at PNC Park account for 27 percent of the team's home total. He also is hitting 30 points higher at home (.386) than on the road (.356).
He shouldn't count on those MVP chants subsiding during the upcoming six games against the Marlins and Cubs.
McCutchen's version of his breakthrough is as monotonous as the two, three hits he seems to be getting daily.
"[I'm] just going up there trying to hit the ball hard, without trying to do too much," McCutchen keeps saying. His modesty belies all the hard offseason work the All-Star put in to get to this point.
"He worked on things he had to do to be the best player he can be and he hasn't varied from that for one day," Hurdle said. "It's a very special time and place for him. And the other thing is, he's having fun with it. Too many times, we get that head-down-and-grind mentality of, 'I've got to do well' and falling to pieces if things don't go right. Andrew is enjoying this ride."
He enjoys it the most of any of the Pirates hitters when the ride pulls into PNC Park. On a personal level that is. Everyone is stoked by the wins, but when it comes to maintaining offensive equilibrium, no one is as balanced as McCutchen.
Go down the line: Pedro Alvarez has 13 road homers among his 19 (a total which pairs with McCutchen to form the NL's second-best one-two punch, behind only the Milwaukee twosome of Braun and Corey Hart). Casey McGehee has hit seven of his eight on the road and Neil Walker is hitting 59 points higher on the road (.324) than at home (.265).
The Pirates' chief home-field advantage is knowing what to expect and how to prepare for it. Hurdle's lineup often reflects the defensive needs of the day's pitcher, whether his tendency is to get grounders or get to the ball in the air.
By the time a visiting team might have figured it out, it has to move on.
"Our confidence level spikes at home," Hurdle said. "It's not like we aren't confident on the road, but at our place and in front of our fans, it's just different."


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She was born today March 16, 2013 at 3:21 pm. Shes 5lbs 5oz and 18 1/4 inches :)
She was out in 3 pushes after having my labor induced due to decreased fetal movement. I labored for about 10 hrs & shes nursing like a champ :)
Happy born day to my new little princess :)
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I am working on my PhD in automatic speech recognition in the Speech, Vision and Robotics Group of the Cambridge University Engineering Department. My supervisor is Phil Woodland. Currently I spend most of my time writing a large vocabulary decoder and working on the HTK3 and the HTK Rich Audio Transcription projects. See my HTK homepage for details.
I will be joining VoiceSignal Technologies in Boston later this year to work on embedded speech recognition like voice dialing on mobile phones.
2002-now Research Associate in the HTK Rich Audio Transcription project (part of the DARPA EARS programme).
1999-now PhD student in the SVR group at CUED working on large vocabulary decoding
1998-1999 M.Phil. in 'Computer Speech and Language Processing' at Cambridge University
1993-1998 Baccalaureus Scientiae in Computer Science at University of Hamburg
1992-1993 service in the German Navy
G. Evermann, H.Y. Chan, M.J.F. Gales, T. Hain, X. Liu, D. Mrva, L. Wang, P.C. Woodland Development of the 2003 CU-HTK Conversational Telephone Speech Transcription System Proceedings ICASSP 2004, Montreal.
G. Evermann, P. C. Woodland Design of fast LVCSR Systems Proceedings IEEE ASRU, 2003, St. Thomas.
D.Y. Kim, G. Evermann, T. Hain, D. Mrva, S.E. Tranter, L. Wang, P.C. Woodland Recent Advances in Broadcast News Transcription Proceedings IEEE ASRU, 2003, St. Thomas.
G. Evermann, D. Y. Kim, L. Wang, P. C. Woodland 2003 CU-HTK Fast System Description Rich Transcription Workshop, May 2003, Boston, MA.
D. Y. Kim, G. Evermann, T. Hain, D. Mrva, S. E. Tranter, L. Wang and P. C. Woodland 2003 CU-HTK Broadcast News English System Development Rich Transcription Workshop, May 2003, Boston, MA.
P. C. Woodland, H. Y. Chan, G. Evermann, M. J. F. Gales, T. Hain, D. Y. Kim, X. Liu, D. Mrva, D. Povey, S. E. Tranter, L. Wang and K. Yu 2003 CU-HTK English CTS System Rich Transcription Workshop, May 2003, Boston, MA.
P.C. Woodland, G. Evermann, M.J.F. Gales, T. Hain, A. Liu, G. Moore, D. Povey, L. Wang CU-HTK April 2002 Switchboard System Rich Transcription Workshop, 2002, Vienna, VA
P.C. Woodland, T. Hain, G. Evermann, D. Povey CU-HTK March 2001 Hub5 System LVCSR Hub5 Workshop 2001, Linthicum Heights
T Hain, P C Woodland, G Evermann and D Povey New Features in the CU-HTK System for Transcription of Conversational Telephone Speech Proceedings ICASSP 2001, Salt Lake City
G Evermann, P C Woodland Posterior Probability Decoding, Confidence Estimation and System Combination Proceedings Speech Transcription Workshop 2000
T Hain, P C Woodland, G Evermann and D Povey The CU-HTK March 2000 Hub5E Transcription System Proceedings Speech Transcription Workshop 2000
G Evermann, P C Woodland Large Vocabulary Decoding and Confidence Estimation using Word Posterior Probabilities Proceedings ICASSP 2000, Istanbul
Gunnar Evermann Minimum Word Error Rate Decoding MPhil Thesis, Cambridge University Engineering Department, 1999
Gunnar Evermann Gewichtung von Aussprachevarianten in der automatischen Erkennung von Spontansprache (in German) Studienarbeit Uni Hamburg (in collaboration with DaimlerBenz Research), 1998
Henrik Heine, Gunnar Evermann, and Uwe Jost An HMM-based probabilistic lexicon ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on modeling pronunciation variation for automatic speech recognition, Rolduc 1998
Uwe Jost, Henrik Heine, and Gunnar Evermann What's wrong with the lexicon? -- An attempt to model pronunciations probabilistically Proceedings of Eurospeech 1997
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The benefit of a fish oil supplement
- an easy way to healthier living?
Here's a look at the benefit of a fish oil supplement to your health.
One easy and quick way to help yourself to a measure of good health is to take a fish oil supplement daily - or nearly daily.
Here's a page about the benefits of fish oil - and its limitations.
Picture, right, of fish oil capsules with thanks to Zimpenfish
Why take fish oil supplements?Because fish oil is one of nature's best resources for health. It contains Omega 3 fatty acids which tend to be otherwise deficient in some modern diets.
Of course you can eat fresh fish too, but there are some environmental and health concerns you might want to be aware of.
The main benefit of a fish oil supplements for our healthThe chief benefit of a fish oil supplement is the Omega 3 fatty acids which it supplies.
Omega three fatty acids have been shown by recent research to help a whole range of conditions including premature ageing, arthritis and atherosclerosis.
Fish oil supplements are generally well tolerated, although some people may notice a fishy after-taste. It is worth checking with your physician before adding fish oil to your diet, as fish oil supplements may react with some prescription medicines. A few people may experience allergic reactions from fish oil.
Here are some of the many benefits of fish oil supplements.
What does Omega 3 do for us?
Heart disease
Studies have shown that patients given fish oil after a heart attack show far better rates of recovery and are less likely to suffer further attacks. Atherosclerosis, the hardening of the arteries which is often part of the cause of heart attacks, is also helped by the use of fish oil as a supplement.
There is good evidence that a lot of chronic disease is caused by low-level inflammation, which is caused by a poor balance of nutrients. Many many people on standard western diets with a high fat and sugar profile are opening themselves up to long-term health problems. An adequate supply of Omega-3 rich fish oil can be part of the solution. See Barry Sears' excellent book for a detailed understanding of what is going on with this type of chronic inflammation.
Muscles and joints
Fish oil has a long standing reputation for helping to maintain flexibility and suppleness of joints and muscles as we get older. Arthritic and rheumatic pains can also be alleviated by its use. This is just one example of the inflammation mentioned above.
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Fish oil has also been used with some success in cases of Alzheimer's and to treat memory loss in elderly people.
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Fish oil can help relieve acne and other skin conditions such as eczema. It can also help keep your skin supple and young for longer.
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We are analysing reports of visitors and need to filter out repeat visits that may have occurred over the previous 5 days. The visits are stored in a table along with a visit date, visitor id, report date and reporter id. This is quite easy to do with a subquery. However, we would also like to be selective on which visits to filter based on a reporter rank. In the simplified example below the rank can be determined from the ReporterId, i.e. id 0 is of higher rank than 1 that is again higher in rank than 2. For example in the data below we wish those visits with ids 6 and 11 to actually be 7 and 12 respectively as there have been later visits reported by reporters of a higher rank. I've considered many approaches but haven't had any success.
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IT IS not very often that you get the opportunity to experience guilt-free spending, especially when it comes to concerts or shows.
However, at the Ropetackle Arts Centre in Shoreham, people can treat themselves to an evening of opera or music, knowing the money is going to a good cause.
"We are a charity almost entirely run by volunteers. All the bar staff, stewards, and programming team are voluntary," explains Hermione Harper, who is in charge of admin and finances.
While charity events may conjure up images of village halls or fêtes, Ropetackle breaks the mould by attracting the heavy hitters of the entertainment world.
"We have had an amazing range of artists from all genres appear, including Grayson Perry, Will Self, Jonathan Miller, Jo Brand, Alan Carr, Michael McIntyre, Midge Ure and Seth Lakeman, the list is endless," reveals Anne Hodgson, trustee and venue manager.
"There was one night which stands out as being particularly magical and was a real turning point for the centre.
"We had just had our big appeal which saved the centre from closure and had booked Simon Townshend and his band to appear.
"The night before their appearance, I was told Roger Daltrey was to make a guest appearance, we sold a further 300 tickets overnight and Ropetackle was on the map."
Martin Allen, chair of trustees, has been involved with the centre since it opened in 2007.
"I had previously been involved with Adur Festival for about 15 years and was, therefore, closely involved in the local arts scene," he says. "When we had the opportunity of our own arts centre, we – a number of like minded local people – seized it and set up the charitable trust that runs it."
Although it is popular, it hasn't all been plain sailing.
"As a charity, funding is always a concern and in 2011 we reached crisis point and were threatened by closure," Martin Phillips, who looks after marketing and exhibitions, recalls.
"The community however stood up and showed their unanimous support, saving the centre with their generous donations. Since then, we've gone from strength to strength, regularly selling-out events, continuing to put on a quality programme, and strengthening our reputation as leading arts venue."
Volunteers are the life-blood of the centre, doing almost everything –programming, box office, bar and stewarding.
Mr Phillips said: "Ropetackle is unique in this respect and being run by volunteers has contributed to our ethos of community engagement, and of running the venue professionally, but with a welcoming atmosphere."
Visit the website ropetacklecentre.co.uk for full listings and to find out about activities at Ropetackle Arts Centre, Little High Street, Shoreham.


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Andy Hardy, Warner Bros. pre-Code films: Kenneth Turan's DVD pick
Hollywood was not a one-size-fits-all entity in its glory days; movies catered to the widest variety of tastes, as two new groups of DVD releases from Warner Bros. emphasizes.
On the wholesome end of the spectrum, "The Andy Hardy Collection" showcases six films made in the durable Andy Hardy series, wherein youthful Andy, played with unstoppable energy by Mickey Rooney, got into all kinds of juvenile scrapes that demanded the sage advice of his ever-wise father Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone). Those were the days.
On the dark end of the street, five new double-bill releases from the Warner Archive Collection revel in the racy glories of pre-Code Hollywood.
The twin bills include "Loose Ankles" and "The Naughty Flirt," "Road to Paradise" and "Week-End Marriage," "I've Got Your Number" and "Havana Widows," "The Right of Way" and "The Truth About Youth" and "The Office Wife" and "Party Husband."
These are all on-demand discs and have to be specifically ordered at www.WarnerArchive.com.
Buster Keaton's classic films return
Laurel & Hardy and Ernie Kovacs on DVD
'The Artist,' despite slams, deserves Oscar front-runner status
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O.O holy jesus do you just have to spam that thing with venators to kill it or is there some hidden weakness?
Republic at War is a total conversion modification for Star Wars Empire at War Forces of Corruption. The mod replaces the Empire with the Galactic Republic and the Rebel Alliance with the Confederacy. Republic at War focuses heavily on the theatrical films but also contains content from the Clone Wars cartoon series as well as the expanded universe. Players can re-enact various Clone War campaigns such as the Outer Rim Sieges. Players will have the choice to fight as either the CIS or the Republic and wage war for control of the galaxy. Realism is key and players will have unprecedented control over how and where they fight. Push forward with an entire clone legion such as the 501st or 212th or overwhelm your opponent with a seemingly endless number of B1 battledroids. The choice is yours. There are also a number of expansions planned that will add new (as well as polish existing) content.
O.O holy jesus do you just have to spam that thing with venators to kill it or is there some hidden weakness?
I would suggest bomber spam
Doesnt Work...
how about fighter/bomber strike with capital ship support?
So...... you're telling us that we're basically screwed if we find it... or rather it finds us.....
Yep. I hope z3r0x did not spend much time on the destroyed model.... No one is gonna see it!
Hahaha soo true, but what if I use a hypervelocity gun on it?
I'm looking forward to it's destruction at the hands of my fleet, and superior strategy of course.
Drawing super!=)
i got an idea if u can have bombers and fighters spawn out of venators you firstly send the fighters to distract it when it starts firing on them uu go in with the bombers and shoot the shield generator then u come with the venator and the rest of the fleend and enihilte the ship or u coud come with that ig ship in the other screen shots
Why so complicated... just take every single Venator you have, then fire at the field-generator, then at the engine .... and finally it's shields are down and it can't move anywhere.. (okay it can move but only as fast as a planet around a sun) so destroy it or just fly around it... it won't go anywhere ;) always works with every monster huge killer capital ship!
the sad thing is, a planet actually revolves around it's sun at a surprisingly fast rate. it doesnt seem like it cuz its such a large distance. if a malevolence could move like that with its sublight engines, esp in a game, id be beyond impressed
or...planetary turbolaser :P
That definitely seems like a viable solution, although only if you are defending.
Or we could sneak a few jedi aboard to sabotage the ship
That could be arranged *calls yoda*
Do you think that the malevolance is too small?
go you good Malevolence
when i saw this ship coming from hyperspeed i just WAAAAAA!!! WTF IS THAT???!!!
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Bill Belleville. Losing It All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape. FL: University Press of Florida, 2006. xx + 199 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-2928-3.
Reviewed by Joshua C. Youngblood (Department of History, Florida State University)
Published on H-Florida (July, 2006)
A "Shard of the Real" amidst All the Sprawl
In Losing it All to Sprawl, acclaimed journalist, documentary filmmaker, and environmental activist Bill Belleville chronicles his experiences living in a Cracker farmhouse in Seminole County, Florida. Part of the University of Florida's Florida History and Culture Series, Belleville's work sweeps together the last two centuries of Florida's past with the millennia of Native American occupation, capped by his personal fifteen-year history of life among the plants and animals on Sewell Road and the memories of the Crackers who came before him. Part environmental history, part memoir, and part muckraker journalism, Losing it All to Sprawl illustrates how, although others had successfully coexisted with the harsh and delicate Florida environment before the 1960s, the present short-sighted reliance on land development as Florida's economic engine and a lack of political will make any moves toward greater sustainability and reversing negative environmental impact as the Sunshine State grows nearly impossible.
Belleville offers less an analysis of the ecological or sociological impact of sprawl in central Florida than a first-person observation of sprawl in action. Drawing inspiration from the writings of naturalist William Bartram and novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Belleville seeks to provide an updated description of central Florida that is both a naturalist's log and a focused and sympathetic celebration of locality. As a journalist, Belleville has traveled the world, and in this work he describes his many adventures with like-minded friends visiting nature preserves and National Forest areas to explore the tangled, beautiful, and unique drainage basins of the Wekiva and St. John's Rivers. He expresses a zealot's passion for the environment and a child's wonder for discovery through stories of seeking new and uncharted springs deep in the woods and at times diving into their depths. Coupled with this exploration of wild central Florida ecosystems is his own intimate observations of life from a house that was intentionally built to be adaptive to the subtropical climate.
In a style that moves back and forth between daily journal and narrative, Belleville shares each detail of his Cracker home built in 1928 and the yard that evolved over generations of loving care--his little preserve of old Florida landscape, complete with cochina fish pond and sabal palms pock-marked with woodpecker holes. The Sewell Road neighborhood lies between rapidly expanding Orlando and Sanford, the former agricultural center that long resisted, though ultimately unsuccessfully, the suburbanization taking place in the rest of central and southern Florida. With only a few Cracker houses on the street, the neighborhood was still basically rural when Belleville bought the home in 1990 from a family that had lived there for nearly six decades. Soon after he moved in, however, the first shopping mall in the area was built near his new home and before long most of the neighborhood fell into slums, and the fields that used to graze cattle or grow celery and the overgrown citrus groves were replaced with chain restaurants and gas stations. "Nonetheless," Belleville states, revealing one of his intents in writing, "there is still a shard of the real alive here, and I find an increasingly urgent need to capture all of it I can" (p. 74).
Once development began, Belleville and his neighbors became spectators as the inescapable process of sprawl engulfed them. Most of the original homeowners left the area as gradually more itinerant renters moved in and all of the trees disappeared, while Belleville and a few other holdouts resisted the attempts by speculators and landlords to buy them out. He witnessed outside his own front window how sprawl is changing all of Florida, encouraged by political and civic leaders. Operating through tax subsidies to land developers, de facto taxpayer underwriting through lax enforcement of environmental statutes and government funding of infrastructure construction, and opaque rezoning procedures and frequent ordinance amendments, Florida's "pro-growth" approach at the local, county, and state levels has depleted or polluted the once abundant fresh water and permanently altered the natural and cultural landscape of the state. Belleville seeks both to decry the corruption and ineptness of the government-sponsored, unsustainable growth and lament the destruction of the places he has grown to love under the crush of development whose momentum is now irreversible after years of political giveaways and the warping of the state's economy.
Belleville's recollections are poignant, and his research, combining numerous ecological and economic studies of sprawl with past writings of historians, naturalists, and devoted citizens, while not original, thoroughly grounds his own anecdotal evidence and provides an unobtrusive factual framework for the brief and deeply personal text. However, the timeline of the narrative is confusing, as it vacillates between present-day prose and a chronological account of his stay in the house that employs both reminiscences and in-the-moment, diary-like entries, and chapter divisions seem chosen more as prominent positions for particularly good quotes than for any overarching structural or thematic reasons. Whether intentional or not, the construction of the book echoes the "haphazard development" of sprawl as defined by one Orlando reporter Belleville cites (p. 105). Belleville's impressions and emotional connections with the house and its natural surroundings are effective and essential to the work, but in the instances that they veer into other areas such as musings on personal relationships, they become cumbersome.
An attuned sense for irony, which if Belleville did not have before moving to Florida, he certainly acquired afterwards, seems helpful when seeking to understand how sprawl happens and to convey why its impact can be so tragic, whether looking at economic growth models that actually cause long-term depression or green-spaces mandated by local ordinance which can only be affordably implemented by developers through clearing all the existing trees and planting new ones to fulfill a quota of replacement. One of the starkest examples of the irony of sprawl Belleville relates is his description of Altamonte Springs, the nineteenth-century tourist spot and lumber center turned suburban boom town where Belleville first lived when he moved to Florida (himself one of the millions of yearly immigrants who have helped fuel the state's exponential growth). The city's namesake spring was paved over years ago, but now that the groundwater has dropped so precipitously throughout central Florida, new sinkholes--windows into the aquifer below like the springs before them--open frequently, destroying the very structures that replaced the springs.
That sprawl is pervasive in Florida and destroys both ecosystems and vernacular culture is nothing new. And Belleville does not need to convince ecologists and historic preservationists of sprawl's impact, but what he suggests with his observations is both more compelling and more dire: that the situation is intractable. Indeed, by the end of the book Belleville has sold his own beloved "Cracker landscape." Recognizing a discomforting parallel between himself and the homeless panhandlers who had camped in the woods behind his home for several years before the tract was bulldozed for an apartment complex, Belleville sees that his own attempt at forming a permanent connection to place has been unsuccessful and he becomes yet another itinerant Floridian. The sprawl "obliterated the temporary place" where the homeless lived. But then that's true of everyone in Florida, he realizes: everyone is homeless "because all of the landscape in central Florida [is] temporary, no permanent sanctuary to be had" (p. 144).
If there is additional discussion of this review, you may access it through the network, at: https://networks.h-net.org/h-florida.
Joshua C. Youngblood. Review of Belleville, Bill, Losing It All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape.
H-Florida, H-Net Reviews.
July, 2006.
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