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The papers today -
Scotland on Sunday has a piece on page 7 - Lecturer sparks race row by linking absence of riots to lack of minorities. As soon as I saw this headline, I guessed who the lecturer would be - Dr. Stuart Waiton of the University of Abertay. A quote and a link will suffice -
"However, Waiton accused detractors of 'wallowing in bulls**t victimhood' and backed historian David Starkey, who said the riots had happened because too many white people had adopted 'black attitudes."
See an earlier blog of mine on Dr. Waiton. As for Starkey - nuff said … http://moridura.blogspot.com/2011/07/news-of-world-note-of-distinct-unease.html
Elsewhere in the paper, Duncan Hamilton has an article on page 15. I am an admirer of Duncan Hamilton, and he has a lot of pertinent things to say, including about negotiation, something I will return to later. But he does use a phrase I wish he hadn't - the silent majority.
This phrase, once used of the dead, has been subsequently utterly discredited by populist politicians, and notable by Richard Nixon. Anyone can claim the support of the silent majority because they are - well, silent. And that's all we know about them, Duncan - until they vote, and even then we have to rely on guesswork or some aspects. As for me, I know the silent majority always silently agrees with every word I say. My problems are with the sometimes all-too-vocal citizenry - but that's an inconvenient fact of democracy.
I do claim considerable expertise in negotiation, both as a practitioner and a teacher/trainer. In politics, a kind of primitive negotiation goes on within political institutions, and from what I have heard and seen of it, primitive is the word. This must be caused by the new generation of politicos, many of whom have never done and real commercial or industrial work in their lives, having entered fresh from the egg clutching their PPE degrees.
This all too often means that they have never received either formal training in negotiating skills or actual experience at the negotiating table itself. (It also leaves them wide open to the snake oil salesmen and women in motivational consulting - getting in touch with their inner selves, hugging trees and kissing daisies, and imbibing a load of dubious psychobabble about left brain/right brain. This has one - and only one - very tangible outcome - the enrichment of motivational consultants.)
So when politicians talk about negotiation, draw a long breath. (I exempt practitioners of diplomacy from these strictures - diplomacy is negotiation between sovereign states, and it is usually at least conducted by professionals.) If we leave aside the unionist nonsense about 'Scotland has two governments', the reality is that Scotland, in the capable hands of Alex Salmond, is to all intents and purposes negotiating with the UK government as if both were sovereign states, even though that status is aspirational only for Scotland. In a country seeking independence, this is the only possible posture.
Few journalists understand negotiation, but some do, like Duncan Hamilton. As a former politician, he uses the language of negotiation uncharacteristically well, and has grasped its core concepts, and in good analysis, he asks the question - a highly pertinent one - Is the desire for a Scottish Electoral Commission a deal breaker. He says no, I say, it probably should be, while perhaps just leaving a tiny possibility that it could be negotiable.
Elsewhere in SoS, Kenny Farquarson talks journalese about negotiation, and says nothing of value. I've gone off Kenny Farquarson, and doubtless he has gone off me. But the cartoon above his piece, by the mordant Brian Adcock says more about negotiation than Kenny does.
The Sunday Herald has a 13-page report, with good, solid journalism, the always balanced and relevant Iain Macwhirter, and I can only suggest that you read it - and do it by buying the paper, which needs the circulation. If you think you'll ever get this depth online if such a newspaper ceased to exist, dream on. A key medium, vital to our democracy would be lost for ever if print journalism went.
THE JOAN McALPINE SPAT
I have this to say - I stand squarely with Joan McAlpine in what she said. Regrettably, some misguided nat bloggers, in an attempt to defend her, have sunk to Labour's level in contemptible personal attacks on Douglas Alexander. In so doing, they have discredited our cause, and have been no help whatsoever to Joan, who as a journalist, always maintained the highest standards.
But here we have James MacMillan, Scottish composer, claiming that the SNP are anti-English, and of stoking up anti-English sentiment. This is the man who made all the running about sectarianism in Scottish society, which he appeared to confine to anti-Catholic sectarianism, which although it undoubtedly exists and has the highest number of recorded sectarian acts against the religion, is not the only sectarianism that disfigures aspects of Scottish life and sport.
His claims about the SNP are arrant nonsense, although no one would deny that every political movement has its nutcase fringe element, and that anti-Scottish remarks occur in England and anti-English in Scotland.
However, how can this man then permit himself to indulge in this disgraceful comment, without accusations a gross hypocrisy.
"Ayrshire-born MacMillan went on to claim that the SNP fuelled anti-English sentiment, citing McAlpine's remarks. He added that he had met McAlpine once, saying: 'All I can remember about Ms. McAlpine was her whiney Glaswegian accent, de rigueur for parish-pump-envy-and-grievance politics in these parts, and so beloved by the rest of the country. Not."
It's hard to know where to start with that offensive, class-based, dripping with contempt for ordinary Scots remark. I have been arguing that prominent Scots should come out and say where they stand on the great debate over Scotland's independence. James MacMillan is a distinguished composer and a great artist. But if he cannot find a better way than this to express his anti-SNP, Unionist position, perhaps he should remain silent. Great artistic talent is no guarantor of political maturity, or even good manners, as history show all too clearly.
This was a contemptible statement, James. I won't demand an apology - anyone who could frame such a remark is incapable of giving one. Can I just remind you that Joan McAlpine's remarks were directed at other Scots, not at the English? She said that the effect of their posture was damaging to Scotland. So are your remarks.
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By John Goralski
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Colin Murphy looked exhausted after his leg of the race, but it was his second event of the McGreavy Invitational. Dan Parzych, Damiaen Florian, and Sean Conway looked just as tired as they finished each leg of the 4x400m relay, but the event marked the end of a long day on the track.
On Friday, Jan. 10, the four boys passed a baton from one to the other as they scrambled to beat their personal best on the darkened Middletown track.
Only two teams finished faster, and all three will meet again in the state meet. With just one more regular season race, the 4x400m team joined a growing list of Southington athletes bound for the postseason.
"I know that they were really tired," said Blue Knight track coach Annie Groom. "But they just bit the bullet, went ahead and ran it, and made it with four seconds to spare. I thought it was a good lesson for the entire team. Even when you are tired or have your doubts, you can still find that little extra on a relay."
The indoor track season is already coming to a close even though it seems like they've hardly competed, but that's the name of the game in a sport that has limited venues.
The 4x400m relay was the only one to crack through with a state qualifying time, but Southington athletes battled for three more conference meet entries as they prepare to make their final dash at the postseason.
"We did really well considering that we were coming off what I call a two-week vacation with the holidays and snow days," said Groom. "I was using this meet to figure out the condition that we're in, and I think it really helped me out."
It wasn't all good news. Southington failed to qualify for the state meet in either of their sprint medley relays. They both came close, but there will be no more chances to run the race.
Jami Pliego, Katie Semmel, Kali Pliego, amd Erin Angelillo scored a top 10 finish in the girls race (4:54.44), but they fell just four seconds short of their goal. Murphy, Parzych, Florian, and Peter Majchrzak (4:02.65) finished 7th overall but fell just over two seconds from a qualifying mark.
"I really think that they should have qualified," said Groom. "I think we can attribute it to our lack of speedwork over the vacation. I really do think that, if we had another week, we would have been able to get there. We definitely would have qualified. It's too bad."
On the other hand, Southington scored a few surprises.
Sean Garrison, a two-miler, was forced to run the 1600m, and his seventh place finish (4:49.34) came within one second of a state time. Jack Myers (5:02.1), Lauren Perkowski (5:56.62), and Garrison each qualified for the conference meet with their times in the 1600m.
Southington scored four relays and one individual in the top six. Majcrzak, Dan Williams, Noah Violette, and Liam Scafariello partnered for a fourth place finish in the 4x200m (1:41.75).
The 4x800m had already qualified for a state berth, and Dylan Sperry, Andrew Bielecki, Myers, and Garrison rallied for a fourth place finish (9:26.69).
Erin Angelillo is already bound for the posteason, and she matched Southington's top finish with third place in the 1600m (5:37.01).
Scafariello reached the finals in the 55m but just missed the top six (7.07).
"I think it was a good meet for us," said Groom. "It was a good field. I would even call it a respectable field. We didn't have some of the key teams that we'll face like Simsbury or Glastonbury, but there was some good competition."
The Knights will have one more chance to qualify for postseason times before the conference meet on Jan. 25. This weekend, Southington will send a good group of 3,000m and 300m runners to the annual Yale Invitational.
"We're going both nights, and we don't normally do that," said Groom. This is our last meet and our last chance."
The pressure is on.
Glastonbury Invite
It's known as the 9th and 10th grade state championships. For years, Glastonbury has enjoyed dominance as host team in their underclassman event, but on Saturday, Jan. 11, the Knights turned the tables.
Southington athletes dominated the individual events. Even though some of the Knights competed at the Wesleyan University meet just a few hours before, Southington rallied for the overall title at the annual Glastonbury Invite.
"What I came back with was that we have a varsity level JV team," said Groom. "They were incredible. We placed first in almost every event I put them in, including some co-ed relays."
To comment on this story or to contact sports writer John Goralski, email him at jgoralski@ southingtonobserver.com.

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11:37 At gas station filling up. Two morons in matching Brent Vikings jerseys and a loaded car. Looks like they may be heading to the game. I hope they get lost, like lost in the U.P. lost. Hmm...1 bag of road trip jerky for the ride or two? Two. Always two. You'll never regret having more than you need.
12:09 At Town Hall Brewery in Minneapolis, last stop before I hit the road. Gotta grab a growler of Masala Mama India Pale Ale for Robert. He may hate Minnesota, but he loves the IPA. (I tell him I order it online from Banglapur, India, he pretends to believe me) Regardless, he won't be drinking it this weekend.
12:14 3...2...1...we have lift-off! Hit play on the iPod, a little Ram Jam, is a great way to start a road trip.
12:31 Good to know Wisconsin still welcomes me, wayward son that I am. Good to be back.
12:57 "Private Pleasures Next Exit" That's the one, the intersection of Highway 29 and Interstate 94, consisting of an adult book store, Shooter's Showgirls gentlemens club, Country Nights Saloon, and a gas station. I stopped at one of those...for cheese curds.
1:06 Saw the following bumper stickers on a truck: "Keep honking, I'm reloading." and "I still miss my ex-wife, but my aim is getting better." I've got nothing.
1:11 Bumper sticker #3: "Bad-Ass Ladies Don't Drive Mercedes" on a giant purple truck driven by a 300 lb man with a handlebar mustache. Again, I've got nothing.
1:16 Eating a banana and smiling realizing that this is the last food I will be eating that isn't fried, grilled... or cheese for the next 72 hours. NIIIIICE.
1:20 "Boyd: The Friendly Town. "Y" go by?" Okay, I won't. Coffee and beef sticks from Boyd. Not bad, Boyd, you're definitely a friendly town. Thanks.
2:22 Rib Mountain, slowly but surely I'm making my way to Green Bay. Side note: Rib Mountain is the only distinguishing landmark on the entirety of Highway 29. It really is a mind-numbingly boring ride.
2:31 Rothschild still smells the same...gotta love a paper mill right in the middle of town. Or maybe the smell is DC Everest High School. I could never truly tell and still can't today.
2:34 86 miles and counting...just got the nod and wave from a car full of Packer fans. That will power me through the next hour, that and the thought of ice gold New Glarus Spotted Cow.
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Bride-to-be Coley got engaged in Hershey Park, so for her bridal shower her friends thought it would be fun to have a giant Hershey Kiss cake. Cool idea, right? Especially since, as far as shaped cakes go, a kiss shouldn't be that hard - I mean, it's not like it's a football helmet or anything.
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So just imagine this, only bigger. That's what they wanted for Coley's shower.
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text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Syria Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Syria Goto page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ... 27, 28, 29 Next Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Current Events Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message TitusJoined: 19 May 2012 Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 7:05 am Post subject: This again. Who are the "rebels"? Why are the rebel groups of governments we don't like always based in an apartment in London or norther Virginia? Where'd the rebels get their money and guns from. How come CNN can find the rebels but the Syrian government apparently shells cities (according to the rebels) looking for them. It's a big mystery. Back to top TitusJoined: 19 May 2012 Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 11:33 am Post subject: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2173718/Russia-ready-showdown-UK-arms-transported-Syria-cargo-ship.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Quote: Russia ready for showdown with UK over arms being transported to Syria in cargo ship Daily Mail Will Stewart: July 14th, 2012 Russia is heading for a diplomatic stand-off with Britain over a cargo ship carrying helicopter gunships destined for Syria, which is accompanied by the Russian navy. The Russian MV Alaed, which is transporting three Mi-25 attack helicopters and air defence systems, is sailing south of Norway followed at a distance of 50 nautical miles by the four navy ships. Last month, Britain dramatically halted the Alaed off the coast of Scotland by withdrawing its London-based insurance cover, citing an EU ban on arms deliveries to the government in Damascus. Foreign Secretary William Hague protested to Moscow and Prime Minister David Cameron is understood to have considered storming the ship before it returned to the Arctic port of Murmansk. But the Alaed set sail again last week, this time under a Russian flag rather than one from the Caribbean island of Curacao, which means any attempt to board it could trigger an international incident. In order to reach Syria, the vessel will have to skirt round British waters. A top Russian naval source yesterday confirmed that a formal order was expected soon for the Russian naval ships to provide a close escort for the Alaed. The source at the Russian Navy Main Staff said: �I hope that no one will be unleashing World War Three because of it. We have not yet been ordered to escort the ship, but understand such an order can come at any time. The operation has already been planned.� He refused to give further details of the operation. Norwegian defence officials have confirmed that the Alaed is sailing along its coastline with the Russian ships behind. �They are sailing in the same direction,� said one. Officially, the Alaed is now bound for the Russian naval port of Baltiysk in the Baltic, and then to St Petersburg before sailing to Vladivostok on the Pacific coast. But Russian officials have repeatedly made clear that the final destination of the cargo is Syria. Some experts suspect the vessel may now sail close to the British Isles this week, sparking a tense showdown. Others believe the cargo may be transferred to another ship before being taken to Syria. Vyacheslav Dzirkaln, the deputy head of Russia�s military technical co-operation agency, warned at the Farnborough Airshow last week: �The fleet will be sent on task to guarantee the safety of our ships, to prevent anyone interfering with them in the event of a blockade.� Moscow has insisted that it is not bound by EU restrictions and that, in any case, the helicopters would not be used against civilians. It insists the ship has every right within international law to deliver the cargo, fulfilling a 2009 contract to repair the attack helicopters. Last night, a Foreign Office spokesman said: �We�re aware of reports that the MV Alaed is on the move, but its final destination is not clear.� Interesting times. Russia is putting an end to the American/UK "Anglo-American Banking Establishment" use of covert regime change, both by clamping down on NGO's in Russia and working to stop the more aggressive regime change machine in Syria and Iran. I'm with the Axis on this. Back to top ersatzreduxJoined: 15 Dec 2007Location: Same as it ever was, same as it ever was Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 3:38 pm Post subject: Titus wrote: This again. Who are the "rebels"? Why are the rebel groups of governments we don't like always based in an apartment in London or norther Virginia? Where'd the rebels get their money and guns from. How come CNN can find the rebels but the Syrian government apparently shells cities (according to the rebels) looking for them. It's a big mystery. Some very good questions. Back to top Ya-ta BoyJoined: 16 Jan 2003Location: Established in 1994 Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 6:27 am Post subject: Quote: So basically you've become an apologist for dictators. Awesome. As is often the case, bb is right. While it is grusome to watch, countries have a right to work out their own political arrangements. Some countries were lucky in history and foreigners stayed out of their internal affairs. Others were not so lucky. GENERALLY speaking, it is better when others stay out and let the locals work it out on their own. It is odd (and rather disturbing) that so many Westerners lately have turned against democracy and decided that dictatorship for others is the way forward. It makes me wonder when they will decide that dictatorship at home is the way 'forward'. Back to top bigverneJoined: 12 May 2004 Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:06 pm Post subject: Quote: It is odd (and rather disturbing) that so many Westerners lately have turned against democracy The 'rebels' in Syria are fighting for 'democracy'? Back to top KurosJoined: 27 Apr 2004 Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 6:13 pm Post subject: bigverne wrote: Quote: It is odd (and rather disturbing) that so many Westerners lately have turned against democracy The 'rebels' in Syria are fighting for 'democracy'? Who knows? The Syrian rebels have blood on their hands. Back to top JuniorJoined: 18 Nov 2005Location: the eye Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 6:55 am Post subject: Titus wrote: Where'd the rebels get their money and guns from. I thought it was all kind of well known that the Syrian rebels get their arms and money from Turkey and Saudi Arabia , just like the Syrian army is being supplied by Russia , China and Iran. This was also the case with Libya. Since there all the borders of every arab nation except for Egypt were created by European powers. It is not at all suprising that when one revolts started in one arab country it qucky spread to others. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3g_2_5VEGro/TV3fkpytp6I/AAAAAAAAAA0/EFKeaoVXRkw/s1600/ottoman+empire.jpg Back to top Dave ChanceJoined: 30 May 2011 Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:53 am Post subject: People nowadays aren't as naive and easy to fool- http://theweek.com/article/index/228069/americas-increasing-support-for-syrias-rebels-5-takeaways the U.S. is reportedly playing a significant role in the arrangement, too, broadening its contacts with the rebels to better coordinate the weapons transfers. "In other words, America is the go-between, the crucial link ensuring that the most useful weaponry goes through to where the rebels need it most" Back to top bucheon bumJoined: 16 Jan 2003 Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 11:24 am Post subject: 3 Top Aides Killed I wonder if Assad still thinks he can hold onto power. He's toast. Quote: BEIRUT �A bombing in Damascus on Wednesday killed at least three key members of President Bashar al-Assad�s inner circle, a devastating strike that came hours before a U.N. Security Council debate on the Syria conflict and added to mounting evidence that Assad�s security forces may be losing control of the capital. Back to top KurosJoined: 27 Apr 2004 Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:29 am Post subject: Russia and China have vetoed a UN Security Council resolution proposing further sanctions on Syria Quote: Russia and China have used their vetoes twice before over Syria and UK Foreign Secretary William Hague condemned their latest action as "inexcusable and indefensible". "They have turned their back on the people of Syria in their darkest hour," he said. Under the Western-backed plan, the Damascus government would have been threatened with non-military sanctions under Chapter Seven of the UN Charter if it failed to move troops and heavy weapons from populated areas. It was the use of Chapter Seven that stirred Moscow's objections. It opened the path to "external military involvement in Syrian domestic affairs", Russia's UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin argued. US ambassador Susan Rice said that any suggestion of military force was "paranoid if not disingenuous". Susan could just as well be talking about the prevailing PoV of Dave's CE. Of course, Chapter 7 does open the door to military involvement, but Western legal trickery hardly makes Asiatic autocratic complicity any more defensible. Back to top Ya-ta BoyJoined: 16 Jan 2003Location: Established in 1994 Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 10:22 am Post subject: bigverne wrote: Quote: It is odd (and rather disturbing) that so many Westerners lately have turned against democracy The 'rebels' in Syria are fighting for 'democracy'? I was refering to Egypt and Libya, hence 'lately'. So far as I can tell, Syria is a mess and it could just be one minority slaughtering its way to the top to replace another minority. It's hard to tell with the reports we've been getting out of the place. It looks to me like sanctions are about all anyone outside can do at this point. Clearly someone is sending in supplies. I would not be at all surprised if we are doing it, too. Beyond that, (it always happens in a civil war), for now, I say keep hands off. Back to top TitusJoined: 19 May 2012 Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 6:37 pm Post subject: A vibrant democracy is right around the corner: http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/07/14/226290.html Quote: Earlier this year, a debate on how to foster reading habits among Arab youth was prompted after the Arab Thought Foundation�s Fikr released its fourth annual cultural development report in January, saying that the average Arab child reads �six minutes� a year in comparison to 12,000 minutes its Western counterpart spends. It also reported that an Arab individual on average reads a quarter of a page a year compared to the 11 books read by an American and seven books by a British person. They'll wing it. Build a new society by gut feeling. Isn't the unemployment/underemployment rate there high? What do they do all day? Here's a surprising article from UK Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/12/syrian-opposition-doing-the-talking It is well worth the time. Though it suffers from Orwellian obfuscation: Quote: It's a tale about some of the most quoted members of the Syrian opposition and their connection to the Anglo-American opposition creation business. The mainstream news media have, in the main, been remarkably passive when it comes to Syrian sources: billing them simply as "official spokesmen" or "pro-democracy campaigners" without, for the most part, scrutinising their statements, their backgrounds or their political connections. Anglo-American. It's like a standup routine that is hilarious but almost nobody gets. http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/07/19/the-mccarthyite-conundrum/ http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/07/17/the-lies-we-tell/ Quote: Everybody knows the US is backing the rebels to the hilt: they might as well rename themselves Hillary�s Hellions. No, what�s significant here is the floating of the ridiculous idea the Obamaites are afraid of the political consequences of arming the rebels, and openly intervening, because this is a presidential election year. The assumption is that Obama and the Democrats will have to pay a political price for intervening in Syria�s civil war � but to whom will the price be paid? Republican hawks, led by John McCain and Lindsay Graham, are harrying the administration for not intervening more strenuously and openly, while Mitt Romney � while not yet calling for airstrikes, per McCain and Graham � criticizes the White House�s �paralysis� and calls for openly arming the rebels, rather than doing it under the table. As for the prospect of Obama alienating some of his supporters on the left-wing of the Democratic party: this didn�t happen when it came to Libya, and I doubt intervening in Syria would deflate the President�s enormous credibility in those quarters, where identity politics long ago displaced anti-imperialism as an ideological priority. �Humanitarian� interventionism is today the default foreign policy agenda of the liberal-left, with only old-fashioned Marxists dissenting. This presidential election season will not differ from any others in recent history when it comes to foreign policy issues. As Garet Garret, a conservative journalist of libertarian leanings, put it in 1952: �Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity. Either one must forbid the other or one will destroy the other. That we know. Yet never has the choice been put to a vote of the people.� While there are some in both parties who question some aspects of our globalist foreign policy, the interventionists control the leadership. Indeed, that is one of the main benefits of having two state-privileged parties and draconian ballot access laws that exclude all others � it�s far easier to establish and maintain a stranglehold on just two parties than on multiple competitors in the electoral arena. I�ve often referred to the �burden of empire� in this space, and this is usually calculated in terms of the cost in blood and treasure. But get a load of what Abdulbaset Sieda, who heads up the Syrian National Council, has to say: �We want for America and the Western countries to carry out their responsibilities. With regard to America, specifically, we would like to say to President Obama that waiting for election day to make the right decision on Syria is unacceptable for the Syrians. �We cannot understand that a superpower ignores the killing of tens of thousands of Syrian civilians because of an election campaign that a president may win or lose. That�s why we are saying there is work that must take place at the Security Council.� Americans have no right to think of themselves: this is �unacceptable for the Syrians.� As for what the American people think � well, they don�t matter. The US and its allies must �carry out their responsibilities.� Responsibility � to whom, and for what? The implication is clear enough: we must bear moral responsibility for anything that happens anywhere on earth. The burden of empire is not just material, it is also ethical � a �responsibility to protect,� as the lefty-internationalist apologists for the Libyan debacle would have it. Lost in all this, of course, is the US government�s responsibility to protect the people of their own country, whose interests � and very lives � are needlessly endangered by our reckless foreign policy. Floating a story about how the administration is resisting increasing pressure to intervene in Syria is a good way to deflect attention from what they are in fact doing right at this moment to overthrow a foreign government. That they are mounting this increasingly overt effort to benefit a movement with clear connections to our supposed Enemy Number One, Al Qaeda, may rile some conservatives, but probably not enough to the point of making a big deal about it. So Senor Sieda needn�t worry: thanks to our �democratic� system, this administration will pay no political price for meddling in the Syrian mess. If the rebels did indeed present the administration with a wish list of weapons, and it isn�t being delivered in a timely manner � well, pieces like the Telegraph story may speed up the process. One interesting aspect of the Telegraph piece is that it cites at least three separate anonymous �Syrian lobbyists� as saying this and that, but one wonders: who is paying all these lobbyists? And how much money is changing hands in Washington in the effort to push us into war? The Obama reelection campaign�s decision to �globalize� their fundraising efforts puts the question front and center: will foreign interests � the Saudis, the Qataris, the Israelis � buy themselves another Mideast war? Sure, only American citizens can donate to our election campaigns, but it is easy to enough to get around these restrictions by utilizing American stand-ins and indirect payments to nonprofit �advocacy� groups. If war with Iran would mean a regional or even a new world war � World War III � then Syria is a 21st century version of the Spanish civil war. The Spanish conflict was a dress rehearsal for the main event, in the course of which various �militias� fought one another for control of the Spanish Republic, while the Axis-backed forces of Gen. Francisco Franco and his Falangist party eventually prevailed. There were those in this country who wanted to support the Loyalists, as supporters of the pro-Communist Spanish Republican government were called, but in that event we might very well have wound up with Spain behind the Iron Curtain after the end of World War II. Likewise, in Syria today, in our effort to ally with radical Sunnis in a holy war against Shi�ite Iran, we risk handing power to those who would be more than happy to bite off the hand that fed them. It's almost as if there is a determined effort to destroy every nation in the region. Less one. Though I didn't watch Toure (he's going by one name now? Is a symbol next?) today on TV. Maybe he will set me straight. Back to top GENO123Joined: 28 Jan 2010 Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 6:50 pm Post subject: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/exclusive-arab-states-arm-rebels-as-un-talks-of-syrian-civil-war-7845026.html Quote: The Turkish government helped us to be armed," said one member of the FSA living in the Turkey-Syria border area. He claimed that the weapons had arrived at a Turkish port via ship and were then driven to the border without interference from Turkish authorities. Saudi officials have in the past made clear their feeling that the rebels should be armed, with Saudi King Abdullah saying dialogue was "futile". Syrian rebels �using Turkish refugee camps as base� http://www.rt.com/news/rebels-refugee-camp-attack-665/ Turkey's hands are tied in Syria by its disingenuous Nato allies http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/turkeys-hands-are-tied-in-syria-by-its-disingenuous-nato-allies. Complaining by gulf states that NATO isn't helping . Turkey to push NATO to consider Syria's downing of Turkish jet as attack on military alliance Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/06/25/syria-fires-at-second-turkish-plane-deputy-prime-minister-says/#ixzz21DqdaF2h http://gulfnews.com/news/region/syria/rebels-seek-money-and-arms-on-border-1.1051547 Quote: Turkey�s Hatay province has become a logistics base, arms bazaar and convalescence centre for Syrian rebels and their supporters - not to mention a hub of intrigue over Islamist funding and squabbling among rebel militias that seem to agree on little else beyond the need to oust Syrian President Bashar Al Assad Quote: Turkey�s Hatay province has become a logistics base, arms bazaar and convalescence centre for Syrian rebels and their supporters - not to mention a hub of intrigue over Islamist funding and squabbling among rebel militias that seem to agree on little else beyond the need to oust Syrian President Bashar Al Assad http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/06/22/12362044-report-saudis-will-pay-salaries-of-rebel-syria-army?lite Report: Saudis will pay salaries of rebel Syria army Saudi, Qatar paying salaries to Syria rebels: diplomat Quote: JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia and Qatar are paying salaries to rebel forces fighting in the Syrian revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, an Arab diplomat said on Saturday. "The payment has been going on for months and the agreement was made on April 2 by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, with logistical organization from Turkey where some Free Syrian Army factions are based," said the official, who requested anonymity. "The point of this is to encourage as many factions of the Syrian army to defect and to organize the FSA, control it and prevent any extremist organizations from joining it." http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/23/us-syria-crisis-saudi-idUSBRE85M04J20120623 http://counterpsyops.com/2012/06/13/independent-saudi-arabia-qatar-ignite-crisis-arm-syrian-rebels/ Quote: Independent: Saudi Arabia, Qatar Ignite Crisis, Arm Syrian Rebels The UK-based Independent has learnt that Arab countries; Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are funding and arming the rebel groups in Syria. In an exclusive report entitled, �Arab states arm rebels as UN talks of Syrian civil war�, The Independent stated on Wednesday, according to a Western diplomat in Ankara, that the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) has received weapons from the both said countries into Syria, via Turkey�s intelligence agency (MIT) aid. Saudi Arabia, the gulf states snd Turkey are (by far) main supporters of the Syrian rebels. as they were the Libyan rebels and they have their own reasons unrelated to the US or NATO for doing so. Back to top TitusJoined: 19 May 2012 Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 7:58 am Post subject: Quote: Russia and China have vetoed the latest Western-backed draft resolution on Syria at the UN Security Council. RT exclusively talks to one of the men who raised his hand in that 'NO' vote - Moscow's envoy to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTQyCODgyjU&feature=player_embedded#! The stoic Russian and Chinese old style national interest foreign policy makes the Americans look like retarded children who can't stop destroying nations and killing people and destabilizing entire regions for exactly zero national benefit. Back to top Dave ChanceJoined: 30 May 2011 Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 10:34 am Post subject: [/quote] Saudi Arabia, the gulf states snd Turkey are (by far) main supporters of the Syrian rebels. as they were the Libyan rebels and they have their own reasons unrelated to the US or NATO for doing so.[/quote] Even if you only believe what the mainstream media feeds you, you are still woefully uninformed- http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/world/middleeast/cia-said-to-aid-in-steering-arms-to-syrian-rebels.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all WASHINGTON � A small number of C.I.A. officers are operating secretly in southern Turkey, helping allies decide which Syrian opposition fighters across the border will receive arms to fight the Syrian government, according to American officials and Arab intelligence officers. And the CIA, my friend, aren't interested in charity, so even if your Libyan rebels are the ones raising hell, they (or whoever ultimately makes up the core of the Syrian 'rebels') are very much related to deals cut with the CIA/NATO/US. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Current Events Forum All times are GMT - 8 HoursGoto page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ... 27, 28, 29 Next Page 4 of 29 Jump to: Select a forum Forums:----------------FAQJob-related Discussion ForumGeneral Discussion ForumOff-Topic ForumTravel ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumBuy/Sell/Trade Forum You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. 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THERE will be no increase in taxis on Southampton's city streets – after cabbies said more competition would ruin their livelihoods.
Cabbies, who complained to councillors about already overflowing ranks from a lack of work, feared even more taxis will make it even harder for them to make ends meet.
Councillors agreed to follow the recommendations of a once in three-year review by transport consultants and keep the number of hail and ride cabs in the city capped at 283.
Clive Johnson, chairman of the Southampton Trade Association, which has around 450 members including 100 Hackney Carriage drivers, welcomed the decision.
"It was inevitable really. At the present moment in time we've got taxi drivers being booked for parking at the end of ranks because we've nowhere to go. There is no work out there."
Consultants Halcrow, who were paid £15,000 to carry out the survey, found sufficient taxis were "generally available" in the city although there was a need for more wheelchair friendly cabs.
Only one third of those surveyed felt the taxi service could be improved, but nearly half thought fares should be cheaper. Nearly half the cabbies surveyed said they would leave the trade if more licences were issued, and 84 per cent said they wanted additional and longer ranks.
Ian Hall, chairman of the Southampton Hackney Association, told councillors there were only 15 24-hour taxi ranks in the city with spaces for 73 taxis, leaving a shortfall of 210 spaces. He added the council had shortened the ranks in recent years.
Despite opposition from the trade, three years ago the council agreed to issue 20 more lucrative taxi licences - worth up to £35,000 on the open market – in a controversial secret lottery exposed by the Daily Echo.
Perry McMillan, from the Southampton taxi section of the Unite union, said: "This survey confirms what we've been saying all along. We feel the decision three years ago to ignore our pleas has caused a lot of hardship for the trade. And the timing of the (latest) survey, before the last eight new plates went on in December, shows we didn't need them."
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But the decision could be challenged as under Government guidelines Southampton City Council must show that retaining a limit on the number of taxis in the city benefits customers.
One Conservative councillor, Brian Parnell, questioned whether the city should remain closed shop to new cabbies.
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I've long been disturbed by how so many people-- truckers included-- still do not wear seatbelts when in a vehicle. Maybe I am a hopeless Safety Sam but I even tell my kids to stay buckled up when we pull into a gas station or wherever on the off chance that someone may plow into our car while we are assumably safely parked.
Why might I think so? Well, one of many reasons leaps right to mind. Back in my college days, several of my friends and I spent a pleasant if Scotch-soaked evening in our hometown's Safari Pub (I think every burg worth its salt had such an establishment in the '70s but I digress). Things got interesting after last call when we all left and headed for our separate cars.
It was raining cats and dogs and foggy to boot and partly due to that and partly due to the ample time he'd just spent with Johnnie Walker, my friend Jim (just like in A.A., no surnames here!) fairly promptly drove the front of his late-model Pinto into a rather high parking-lot curb. His speed was low enough for the little car to look hardly damaged.
But he was not wearing his seat belt and upon impact, his body travelled forward unimpeded and-- not being the tallest guy around-- his mouth slammed into the steering wheel. That led to a trip to the emergency room where a plastic surgeon was called in (wisely) to sew up the insides of his cheeks, which were cut to ribbons by the orthodontic braces on his teeth.
Lesson learned: Could it be any easier? Just wear the seatbelt and save yourself all sorts of pain and suffering if not worse. As for me, the only place you'll catch me in a vehicle without being buckled up is in my own driveway.
No wonder I am thrilled to report that Lifeguard Technologies-- by far the biggest supplier of seatbelts to trucking-- has launched its "Click, Tug and Snug" (CTS) safety campaign to help drive up the use of seatbelts by truck drivers.
If you click below, you can see a sample clip of the nine-minute CTS training video right from here:
If you click here, you will go directly to Lifeguard's CTS site where you can view four clips from the video to get a fuller sense of its content.
You can order free copies of the video for training purposes from Lifeguard at the CTS site by clicking on the "Contact" tab.
According to Lifeguard, the video is intended to be generic but does include instructions on how to use their Komfort Latch and Sliding Komfort Latch to make wearing seatbelts more comfortable. The company also urges fleets to equip cabs with high-visibility (typically orange) seatbelts to encourage consistent use as they make it is easy to see who's buckled up at a glance.
And if you-- or your drivers-- still need convincing as to why everyone should wear seatbelts in every vehicle, take a look at what someone who really should have known better has to say on this topic:


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Jira Software is an agile project management tool that supports any agile methodology, be it scrum, kanban, or your own unique flavor. From agile boards to reports, you can plan, track, and manage all your agile software development projects from a single tool. Pick a framework to see how Jira Software can help your team release higher quality software, faster.
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See the cycle time for your product or version. This helps you identify whether data from the current process can be used to determine future performance.
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Some agile teams have adopted mixed methodologies to support how their team works. For example, scrumban takes fixed length sprints and roles from scrum and the focus on WIP (work in progress) limits and cycle time from kanban. Or kanplan, which is kanban with a backlog. Jira Software features can be mixed up to help these teams without constraints of their tools.
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Michelle Obama Hilariously Breaks Down Why Melania Trump's Inauguration Gift Exchange Appeared So Awkward
The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
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Beyoncé is coming back guns blazing in 2013, and it looks like she won't be doing it alone. In a surprise announcement this morning, Bey revealed that Destiny's Child will release their first new music in nearly a decade.
"I am so proud to announce the first original Destiny's Child music in eight years!" she wrote in a Facebook post.
DC have recorded a new Pharell-produced track titled "Nuclear" for the upcoming compilation album, Love Songs. The compilation is set for release on January 22 on Sony Legacy and is currently available for pre-order from Amazon.
In addition to "Nuclear," Love Songs will feature Destiny's Child classics recorded between 1997 and 2004, including "Now That She's Gone" and "Cater 2 U."
DC announced their breakup in 2005 while touring in support of their fourth album, Destiny Fulfilled. Bey, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams have released three, two and one solo albums in the interim, respectively.
After taking a step back from music in 2012 following the birth of her first child, Beyoncé has been announced as the halftime performer for this year's Super Bowl. She will also be the focus of a documentary to be released in February on HBO. Yesterday, Bey made headlines for a sexy cover shoot in GQ magazine as one of the "Sexiest Women of the 21st Century."
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In my company, there is a web service that serves geographic data stored in a remote dababase through an URL. This service makes queries to the database and encodes the required data in XML format. So, to query data from a table (for example User), I do something like:
So the service returns back to the client's browser a XML with all users stored in that table. Now, I would like to do the same from ArcGIS software: The thing would be connect this desktop application to that remote service, retrieve that XML file and parse it but all inside ArcGIS environment, not using other scripts or programs outside it. Is it possible? :S
Just in case it is not possible to do what I said, what is the best approach to handle and manage traffic in XML using ArcGIS?
It is a good idea and I like the way of retrieving the parameters like this long link you pasted. Didn't know about that module since I am pretty new with ESRI software.
But there is another constraint I did not mention in my first post. As the company is big, there is another "handicap" or problem: At this beginning stage I will have no control over the remote service, another developers group will "decide" how to encode the data. I mean, I think I cannot decide if the remote service is SOAP or not, REST or not and therefore, I don't know the XML tags they will use for the encoding. Maybe I can use the module you mention to connect to the service but I am not sure how data will be served on the other counterpart...
I guess I will be told the general schema of the files, and then I have to try to connect ArcGIS to that remote service and prepare some scripts to parse the incoming XML and allow non-IT users to use it in their layers...
Does it make sense? What do you think? It is a bit difficult to explain!


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The Philadelphia District Attorney's office said Kenneth Richard Mazik, 24, of Chadds Ford, was charged on Monday with DUI, simple assault, aggravated assault, resisting arrest and other charges - not only for the incident at the airport, but for also allegedly assaulting officers during his arrest.
D.A. Seth Williams says Mazik's next court appearance is scheduled for March 12th.
Mazik has also been federally charged for disrupting the services of Philadelphia International Airport and, in so doing, endangering the safety at that airport.
Mazik was charged on the state level with Driving Under the Influence, Recklessly Endangering another Person, Resisting Arrest and related offenses.
If convicted, Mazik faces a maximum possible sentence of 20 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.
The incident happened just after 10:00 a.m. Thursday.
That statement alleges that Mazik crashed his black Jeep Grand Cherokee through a locked gate at Gate 25 near Hog Island Road at the west end of the airport - as a plane was approaching for a landing.
Authorities say that after entering the airfield, Mazik turned onto runway 9R, the same runway that incoming aircraft was approaching.
Witnesses told Action News on Thursday that Mazik was parked outside the gate apparently waiting for one of the planes to come in for a landing. As an incoming plane approached he then allegedly accelerated - blasting through the gate and onto airport property.
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Investigators say Mazik then drove down the runway at speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour, with the plane approaching from the rear. The plane was diverted and placed into a holding pattern.
In an affidavit, airport personnel estimated that the plane was only about 500 feet above the runway when it was diverted.
Mazik continued to drive, investigators say, even after Philadelphia police began pursuing him. His vehicle finally came to a stop near runway 27R.
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During that time, officials say, 75 planes were kept in a holding pattern and another 80 flights were grounded.
The statement goes on to say that while police were trying to put Mazik in a holding cell he resisted, causing injury to two officers.
This isn't the first time Mazik has had a run-in with the law.
Three state troopers showed up on Mazik's doorstep in Chadds Ford the night of October 18th. They had been called by his former girlfriend.
According to the court documents, she said Mazik told her that he was going to kill himself and blow his chest out.
The police were concerned, because she also told them that Mazik owns numerous firearms kept throughout the house. The woman told police she was the mother of Mazik's 14 month old son.
According to the police report, she said Mazik's mental health had been deteriorating lately to the point she was in fear of him.
When police tried to talk to Mazik, they say he became violent and struggled with them. He was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
Mazik had another run in with police last November when he was charged with defiant trespassing at the Chester County Hospital.


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The BLM project is in an isolated area west of Comb Wash and known as Little Baullie Mesa. The area is home to a large number of Anasazi ruins.
For most people in arid southeastern Utah, a stand of pinyon and juniper trees looks like a good thing. But as we all know, looks can be deceiving.
Growing where they don't belong, like they were on Little Baullie Mesa, about 15 miles west of Blanding, dense pinyon and juniper woodlands displace existing native plant communities, create the potential for high intensity wildfires, reduce wildlife forage and habitat and increase soil loss due to erosion.
In 2009, the Canyon Country Fire Zone, working with the Utah Watershed Restoration Initiative, took action to improve the unhealthy environment on Little Baullie Mesa.
Before the treatment began, a visitor to Little Baullie Mesa would have seen a vast expanse of pinyon and juniper woodlands as well as dead jumbled logs from a 1960's era chaining.
The unnatural and overly dense pinyon juniper woodlands were bad for the ecosystem's health and were a fire hazard. Over the past decade, thousands of acres on mesas in the area burned intensely.
These intense fires have been extremely dangerous to firefighters and have caused extensive resource damage. BLM personnel thinned the dense pinyon and juniper trees with equipment designed to "masticate," or chip, the trees and then reseeded the area with native grasses.
Their goals were to decrease potential resource damage from wildfires, improve the diversity and abundance of wildlife habitat and forage, reduce heavy dead woody debris from 1960's era chaining and protect cultural resources.
Healthy plant communities in our desert ecosystems are diverse. When pinyon and juniper dominate the environment, other native vegetation, such as native grasses, forbs and shrubs, is choked out.
This loss of diversity enables wind and rain to carry away soil and its nutrients, further damaging ecosystem health, degrading wildlife habitat and placing cultural resources at risk.
Mastication has proven to be a very effective treatment. After mastication the landscape may look disturbed for a few years as new grasses, forbs and shrubs grow back. Within several years, new growth helps the area return to a more vibrant, natural vegetative community that represents the historic ecological condition of the landscape.
These treatments are also easier on biological soils and cultural resources than older treatment methods such as chaining. Recent studies by universities in Utah and Colorado have validated the effectiveness of similar fuel restoration projects and the results have been impressive.
Fuel treatments increase firefighter safety in the event of a fire by providing open space that can be used as safety zones. They also provide tactical advantages during wildfire suppression.
Wildfires that rage through pinyon and juniper trees drop to the ground when they enter a treatment area, which makes it easier for fire crews to safely extinguish them.
In Utah, fuels treatments have been effective in reducing the negative consequences of wildfires. When fires burn into fuels projects, their intensity is reduced, and the vegetation recovers faster than on adjacent, non-treated land.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
A Summers Meal on a Rainy Day....
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This soup does remind me of summer, yum! Live the bruschetta too!ReplyDelete
Beautiful! I would utterly love a bowl of this wonderful soup :)ReplyDelete
Thank you! I just had yet another bowl of it for lunch and even though it is pouring outside it made me happy!! : )ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 25, 2012 at 2:32 PM
I've been looking for a great asparagus soup recipe, and this one looks like it packs loads of flavor. Thanks!ReplyDelete
That is the perfect soup for a rainy day! The bruschetta looks fabulous too. Yum!ReplyDelete
It looks amazing I must try this! Thanks for the recpieReplyDelete
I'm not a great lover of Asparagus but I love basil,and this looks and sounds really good especially when it is asparagus season now I really must try this. The Bruchetta looks really good as well boursin is to die for.ReplyDelete
I get like that too. Last night I could not think of what to make for dinner. I feel like a bad foodie some days. Your brushetta is gorgeous and that soup is wicked. Looks wonderful.ReplyDelete
I love asparagus in soups... and I want to try that bruschetta now - looks so good! Great post :)ReplyDelete
Wow! Not too bad at all considering you were lacking inspiration. This has turned out to be a wee gem of a meal :-)ReplyDelete
What a fab recipe, I love asparagus soup.ReplyDelete
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I haven't had asparagus soup in forever! Such a beautiful and bright mealReplyDelete


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LighthouseCentre necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 43 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
Lighthouse and its co-sponsors will be running a Start Up Camp in Australia's national capital, Canberra. These 'boot camp' events are being held all over the world--typically over the course of a Friday, Sat. Sun.
What happens is that a bunch of web start-up company enthusiasts (programmers, marketing, sales people) get together and formulate and execute an internet business idea in about 54 hours. At the end, they pitch to venture capital and receive feedback on their ideas.
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To keep bolted connections tight, we can choose from several methods. The most common is the insertion of a locking device between the rotating part (nut) and the parts being fastened (i.e., bus bars). That locking device often is a split-ring lockwasher. Such a device does not meet all locking device requirements, however. Enter, the Belleville washer.
The Belleville is a disk spring that applies pressure to the connection once you clamp down on it with the proper amount of force. The advantage of this washer is that it applies clamping pressure along a continuous arc pattern, instead of concentrating it at one point the way a split-ring lockwasher does. While you should use a split-ring washer only at the nut end of the connection (normally), you can use Belleville washers in tandem. One at the nut end and one at the bolt head end. This is a common way to use these washers, especially when assembling bus bar.
Most often, you'll find Belleville washers in applications where you have to connect bare, soft aluminum to aluminum or copper, or where you have conditions of high current loading or cycling. These washers do wonders for accommodating thermal cycling, but they can't eliminate all the problems resulting from poor workmanship. You must prepare the joint properly (as with any connection), but the key is selecting the proper design and size of Belleville washer for the fasteners and conditions of your application.
Selecting the right Belleville washer You have to deal with three parameters here: torque, diameter, and finish. Vendors publish the specification data you need in various media, such as booklets, CD-ROMs, and websites. These are high-end fasteners for electrical applications, so your source would most likely be your electrical supply house you normally deal with. Let's look at these three parameters.
Torque. This is the force you need to place on the bolt to flatten the washer to its optimum shape for proper clamping. Remember, the way a bolt makes a tight connection is by your tightening it to the point where its threads just start to deform. Bolts of various hardness, diameter, and material configurations require varying amounts of torque to reach that tightness. This is the same with Belleville washers. So that the bolt and Belleville washers work together, make sure the torque for your Belleville washers matches that of your bolts.
If you exceed a locking washer's torque by more than a few percent during assembly, you destroy the locking washer. Again, Belleville washers are no exception. If you undertorque, you won't make use of the washer's abilities to provide a reliable connection.
Diameter. A Belleville washer generates a clamping force along the tip of its cup perimeter. If the cup overhangs the connection (e.g., it's too big), you'll have much less clamping force than you thought you had.
One misguided solution to an overhanging Belleville washer is to put an oversized flat washer underneath it. What happens? The flat washer deflects (bends) away from the Belleville washer, instead of transmitting clamping force to the connection. So, except for special cases, it's pointless to apply a Belleville washer whose diameter exceeds that of the connection pad you're going to use it on. If you can't find a Belleville washer that fits your application, a product applications engineer may design a custom setup that includes an oversized flat washer.
Finish. In most cases, you can select a standard finish. However, if you have any process fumes or solvents present in your environment, you should talk to a manufacturer's product applications engineer. The wrong finish can result in a connection that literally falls apart. For example, electroplated Belleville washers become brittle in the presence of hydrogen. If you subject a hydrogen-exposed electroplated washer to impact or severe vibration, that washer will break into pieces.
Tips for correct Belleville washer installations For some materials, you use a flat washer under the Belleville washer, and for some you can't. The softer the material, the more likely you'll require a flat washer. If you find the Belleville is too large, do not try to compensate by placing a flat washer underneath it.
Mount the washer so its cup points toward the connection (away from the bolt head or nut). Mounting it upside down (reversed), adds little clamping force to the connection. The number of reversed Belleville washers in existing installations is staggering, so it is an important consideration.
Though the illustrations (on page 53) show a pronounced dish, most Bellevilles actually have shallow dishes. Sometimes, it's hard to tell which end is up. If that happens to you, lay the washer on a flat surface and look at it from the side, as shown in Fig. 1.
Assemble the joint as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, using flat washers only as appropriate. If you have more than one bolt in the joint you are assembling, use a torquing pattern (as opposed to tightening each bolt from zero to maximum torque one at a time), and use multiple stages of tightening. Let's say you have a four-bolt assembly, and each Belleville washer requires 55 ft-lb of torque. You might tighten the upper left bolt to 30 ft-lb, then do the same to the lower right, lower left, and upper right, in that order. Then repeat at 45 ft-lbs and finally at 55 ft-lbs.
Don't assume the washer in your hand is the correct one. Check the first one or two with a torque wrench. When the washer goes flat, you'll notice an abrupt change in the feel of the wrench. Once you can see these deform properly (flatten) at the specified torque, you can do the rest without the torque wrench; you may want to go more than three levels of tightening in your torque sequence to prevent warping the clamped part. Make sure you repeat the torque-wrench procedure if you change bolt sizes or pick up a box of Belleville washers you weren't using before. Of course, if you're using powered wrenches, you'll need to insert a torque limiter and use it each time.
Belleville washers cannot substitute for good workmanship. No matter how secure your connection is, unclean contact surfaces will give you a resistance at the point of contact. That resistance will cause a voltage drop and heat, and the connection will eventually work itself loose. Always use the proper joint compound, not just what's handy.
Tighten the connection to the recommended torque and no more.
In a Belleville washer application, the manufacturer may say to flatten the washer and then back off slightly. Make sure you don't back off too far, because when you flatten the washer a second time, it will have less clamping force than it was designed to have.
Before energizing the system, check each connection to see if the Belleville washers are flat and not cracked.
After the system has had some load cycling, give the bolted connections another visual check. If you assembled them properly, they will be secure.