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Swimming Pool Blog
by Rob Cox, March 27, 2011
12 principles of Green Chemistry in Pools
Warning: Geeky Chemical talk coming up! This post is a call to swimming pool manufacturers to work harder creating chemicals that are non-toxic, degradable and sustainable in their creation and use. Swimming pool can be hazardous chemicals to buy, transport, store and use - as well as being toxic to the environment.
We have the technology to create safer pool chemicals, created with less waste and fewer byproducts, and of natural, renewable resources. There is a movement afoot, among other industries outside of swimming pools, that is trying to align this technology with the needs of manufacturers and consumers.
It's called the 12 Principles of Green Chemisty, originally the brainchild of Paul Anastas, then of the EPA, and John C. Warner and it provides a framework for what chemistry would be - without toxicity.
12 principles of Green Chemistry
- Prevention
It is better to prevent waste than to treat or clean up waste after it has been created.
- Atom Economy
Synthetic methods should be designed to maximize the incorporation of all materials used in the process into the final product.
- Less Hazardous Chemical Syntheses
Wherever practicable, synthetic methods should be designed to use and generate substances that possess little or no toxicity to human health and the environment.
- Designing Safer Chemicals
Chemical products should be designed to effect their desired function while minimizing their toxicity.
- Safer Solvents and Auxiliaries
The use of auxiliary substances (e.g., solvents, separation agents, etc.) should be made unnecessary wherever possible and innocuous when used.
- Design for Energy Efficiency
Energy requirements of chemical processes should be recognized for their environmental and economic impacts and should be minimized.
- Use of Renewable Feedstocks
A raw material or feedstock should be renewable rather than depleting whenever technically and economically practicable.
- Reduce Derivatives
Unnecessary derivatization should be minimized or avoided if possible, because such steps require additional reagents and can generate waste.
- Catalysis
Catalytic reagents (as selective as possible) are superior to stoichiometric reagents.
- Design for Degradation
Chemical products should be designed so that at the end of their function they break down (degrade) and do not persist in the environment.
- Real-time analysis for Pollution Prevention
Analytical methods need to be further developed to allow for real-time, in-process monitoring and control prior to the formation of hazardous substances.
- Inherently Safer Chemistry for Accident Prevention
Substances and the form of a substance used in a chemical process should be chosen to minimize the potential for chemical accidents, including releases, explosions, and fires.
* Anastas, P. T.; Warner, J. C.; Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice, Oxford University Press: New York, 1998, p.30.
In practice, it can be difficult for manufacturers to meet most of the 12 principles - however those who adopt without fear are finding themselves discovering new, eco-friendly ways to achieve the same goals. Some chemical manufacturers such as Natural Chemistry and Great Lakes Bio-Chemicals rely on creating "green" pool chemicals, mostly in the area of enzyme products, but are they following the 12 principles as outline above?
Swimming pool chemicals, as a category of chemicals, are quite toxic to many types of life forms on this planet, it turns out. I am hopeful that manufactures will manufacture and consumers will consume - less toxic pool chemicals in our near future.


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I have a friend who says this piece reminds her of her mother, "the chocolate lady". I like that name for her, she seems to be smiling. It's good.
Many thanks to Dee. O at That GOOD GOOD blog for the Good Life feature. The feedback has been lovely; thanks also to those who've contact me with positive vibes. Much appreciated!
Walk good!
What is your definition of a "good life"? Do you feel as if that is what you are living?
A good life is, for me, when the things that make you smile are more powerful than those that don't; when what is gained through sharing with others and having them share with you vast outweighs what is taken by day to day living. It isn't about money or material possessions; it's about having love, respect, communion with people you want to share with, tasks you enjoy, having some kind of work to do and the option to just rest sometimes. It's fulfilling, I think, and so important. I think I do have a "good life", yes. With a lot of support I have that as a real possibility for which I am very grateful.
How important do you feel it is for people to follow their passions, even if doing so doesn't seem like a "secure" life choice?
It's critical I would say. Maybe not immediately but I, in deciding to practice art full time, just had to look around, to listen, to observe in order to see the impact of not following those innate passions – everywhere there are people who feel stunted, wasted, a little bitter because of that disconnect from what is essentially the thing that they're meant to do. I'm young, it's easy for me to say "Go for it!" but that's ok, that's a part of being young. It's something I hope never lose really and something I hope to pass on to my children when they come; take a few wise risks, believe, work hard, play hard, respect others and never give up. It's not always an easy decision to live with, not always easy to believe in myself but everyday I wake up with the anticipation of making something today, working on something today – knowing I have this freedom and being challenged to not waste it. That's the worst thing I feel I could do; waste this. So, as discouraging as it can sometimes be, I have a gift, I have a blessing, I have been given something, decided something – however you choose to see it – and I have to make the most of that.
If you could give someone a quote to live by, what would it be?
I have a few that speak to me. I can only go with what I have learnt myself; this one changed my life quite literally - "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself." -Abraham Maslow. Whatever it is you are; be it with discipline, with commitment and with love. I'm trying to do the same.

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Emma Kate and the elephant are best friends that do everything together. Like sometimes they ride their bikes, play soccer, and they do a lot of other things together.
We recommend this book to younger kids because the book isn't very long and the pages only have about a sentence on them.
We liked Patricia Polacco's pictures because she uses all gray and black except for a little reddish color. We also like this book because she gives a lot of examples of why Emma Kate is her best friend. Even though the book says simple words, we still know that they have a great friendship, and we like the book because of that.
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I will give an introduction to the theory of Shape Dynamics, and then comment on recent advances, obstacles and future projects.
I review the main properties of the Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) as possible sources of high energy (E>TeV) neutrinos and confirmed sources of high energy (E>GeV) photons.
In this talk, I'll briefly review some possible observational consequences of loop quantum gravity. I will first address the issue of the closure of the algebra of constraints in holonomy-corrected effective loop quantum cosmology for tensor, vector, and scalar modes. I will underline some unexpected features like a possible change of signature. The associated primordial power spectrum and the basics of the related CMB analysis will be presented. The "asymptotic silence" hypothesis will be mentioned as a promising alternative.
Since the standard inflationary paradigm is based on quantum field theory on classical space-times, it excludes the Planck era. Using techniques from loop quantum gravity, the theory is extended to overcome this limitations. The new framework sharpens conceptual issues by distinguishing between the true and apparent trans-Planckian difficulties and provides sufficient conditions under which the true difficulties can be overcome within a quantum gravity theory, with interesting lessons for both theory and observations.


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This has been a week full of far too much bad news, so long time friend of Hot Air Andrew Malcolm rides to the rescue with something a bit more positive. Newly minted Senator Tim Scott was selected to deliver the GOP's weekly address this morning, and he chose to use his time to deliver a message of hope in the wake of the Boston attacks.
Hi, I'm Tim Scott, Senator from South Carolina.
This week, on Patriot's Day, a day that celebrates the beginning of our country's journey toward freedom, a horrific tragedy occurred.
The Boston Marathon bombing has left us all with a heavy heart and we pray for the victims and their families. (Scroll down for full video of these remarks.)
However, while the perpetrators of this act of terror hoped that they could shake the confidence of a city, they have instead only strengthened the resolve of our nation.
This became apparent immediately as first responders ran towards unknown dangers.
These amazing Americans, some of whom charged through fences and barricades, put their own lives on the line to help others.
We are so thankful for these women and men, who on a daily basis sacrifice for our nation—they are our friends, our family, our neighbors.
Join me in praying for them and the victims of this tragedy, the victims' families and their support systems.
To those who would attack America or our citizens, let me say this—there is no corner on Earth, no hiding place in America that will keep us from finding you.
The leaders of this country will do everything in our power to bring justice for the families and the communities impacted.
Our freedom is our most precious possession—any effort to take it away will only strengthen our determination.
Because the greatness of America is not seen during times of prosperity, but is crystallized by how we respond to challenges.
We will stand strong. We will stand united. And we will stand together for Boston.
Thank you and God bless America.
Becoming more and more impressed with this guy. Not much more to add to this, except to say that real leadership requires not only intelligence, force of will and the ability to do the right thing, but also the ability to inspire those who elected you and help maintain the spirit of the nation. This was a very good address and I'm glad Senator Scott was given the opportunity to deliver it.


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Are you:
- Missing speakers or internal mic in sound settings?
- Seeing a S/PDIF device show up for your USB device?
- Having no or extremely low sound from your internal microphone?
If so, I might need your help to be able to fix it for you!
In Ubuntu 12.04 – and very likely, other recent distribution releases as well – there are at least these three audio bugs that need manual quirking for every machine. This means that you submit your hardware info in the meta-bug, I will look in that info for some ID numbers and include them in a list of devices for which a specific workaround has to be applied. We can't apply the workaround for every device, as that could potentially cause problems for other devices.
So if you're suffering from one of the bugs I'm describing below, I could use your help to make sure they are fixed for future releases of Ubuntu and ALSA/PulseAudio.
Missing speakers or internal mic in sound settings
If you're suffering from one of the following problems:
1) In the sound settings dialog, when you plug your headphones into the designated 3.5 mm jack, there is a "Headphones" device correctly shown, but when you unplug it, there is no "Speaker" device shown, even though you have internal speakers on your computer.
2) In the sound settings dialog, when you plug your external microphone into the designated 3.5 mm jack, there is a "Microphone" (or similar) device correctly shown, but when you unplug it, there is no "Internal Mic" device shown, even though you have an internal mic on your computer.
Then you might be suffering from bug 946232. Please look in that bug for your device in that list, and if it is not there, try the workaround and if it's working, add your alsa-info as suggested in the bug. Thanks!
S/PDIF device showing up for your USB device
If you have a USB headset, or another USB device that does not have any S/PDIF output, but yet sometimes there is an extra device called "Digital Output (S/PDIF)" for that device in Sound Preferences. If so, you're likely suffering from bug 1002952. At the time of this writing there are also a few devices that are on their way to becoming fixed, if you have one of these, please help out with testing the proposed repository. There is more information in bug 1002952 about that.
Inverted Internal Mic
In this case, you have an internal mic showing up, but it seems not to work: it's either completely silent, or you can possibly pick a very small sound, with much background noise, even though you have set gain to maximum.
There is something you could try. Install the pavucontrol application, start it and go to the "Input Devices" tab. Unlock the channels (click the keylock icon), then mute the right channel while keeping the left channel at the volume you want.
If the internal mic is now working correctly, you have an inverted internal mic, so that your right channel cancels out the left one. (Why the hardware is constructed that way is beyond me.)
This seems to be most common on Acer Aspire laptops, but I've seen them on other laptops as well, and fixing these are more of a long term project as they are non-trivial kernel patches. So far I've created a patch for Thinkpad U300s. Anyway, I would like to track the remaining ones in bug 1002978, so please add your system there according to the instructions.
Last but not least – thanks in advance for helping Ubuntu, as well as the greater Linux ecosystem (I'll make sure that the patches pushed into Ubuntu gets upstream as well)!


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But people tend to lose sight of the value of their work, getting so caught up in the details that they forget what they are doing or why they are doing it. Complaints are rife: too much pressure, too boring, the boss is impossible. Whatever the problem, the outcome is the same—job dissatisfaction leading to complete burnout and the feeling that you can't face another day on the job.
Most people spend a third or more of their lives in the workplace. It is very important, then, that work fully supports our wellbeing—physically, emotionally, relationally, intellectually, and spiritually. Your body can put up with abuse in the short run, but over years those abuses will take their toll.
A Few Steps toward Healthier Work
There are many ways to practice initiative and self-responsibility in the workplace without having to quit your job. You can make changes in your relationship to your job so it will satisfy you more deeply.
First, assess your relationship to your job in the light of the factors below.
Imagine that you are a journalist doing a story on the healthiness of your workplace. Make a list of things that could be improved. Even though you may feel sure many things cannot be changed, list them anyway. Here are a few things to consider:


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I submit that KM systems which have failed have had little to do with Knowledge. In other words the systems which so comprehensively failed were not KM systems at all. They were re-branded ordinary data, information and document management systems. What has failed is the populist KM thinking paradigm. To squeeze more sales out of their ordinary data & document management systems, some vendors stick such "sexy" tags on their ordinary offerings like:
Information Knowledge System – IKS, which resembles more a plain, flat or hierarchical repository of outdated information, which should be labeled as junk information. Why? Because it consumes a lot of resources, it does not stimulate seriously creative thinking; in short, from useful Knowledge perspective its usefulness is limited. In fact it would be more profitable not having such system at all.
Knowledge Management Tools - KMT. A tool set which promises to decide for the user what is relevant for the user. Its decision is based on the user's query or worst; user's profile. Implicitly these tools are promising to relive users from thinking; an attractive proposition for the simpleton and the mediocre for whom thinking is torment. The same grandiose "benefits" were promoted and promised for years by now discredited CASE tools and DSS/EIS systems. Now these things are called KMT.
Dynamic Knowledge Systems - DKS - little more than intranet based glorified electronic discussion boards or portals facilitating broad discussions, topics and interests. It is this "dynamism" of many participants with broadest topics and interests that promise to elicit on-demand tacit knowledge and convert it into an explicit knowledge and then codify and organize this knowledge into a repository of explicit knowledge. In reality most – not all - DK Systems are just feeders of more low grade information to IKS and KMT.
The list is endless. Sadly, KM label has become a fashionable fad and a corruption of knowledge application practice.
The fundamental problem with various so called KM systems is that they are implying that thinking is a difficult and daunting process, whilst suggesting that managers have more important things to do than think or could spend their corporate time on better things than "wrecking" their grey matter. The prompters of KM systems are offering a relief from such "torturous" pursuits as thinking; such elixir does appeal to the mediocrity.
Few are blessed with serious, specifically relevant knowledge or know-how. Any system which facilitates overly broad participation will inextricably bury any expert knowledge under a pile of low value chatter. I am persuaded that for valuable ideas & thoughts to produce innovation there need to be a highly afferent and efferent system capable of synthesizing powerful multidimensional analytical databases with the know-how of subject matter experts, the imagination of visionaries and the creative mind of innovators who do not fret from the challenge of thinking.
So is there such thing as successful KM and can it ever reach a consistent and higher rate of successful implementation? Yes to both questions for as long as the cognitive dimension of knowledge, which steams from the cognitive faculty of the mind, is at the core of Knowledge System. I'm reluctant to use the KM term for obvious reasons, so instead I'm using Knowledge Systems (KS), and where system does not mean technology only.
The fundamental pre-conditions to successful knowledge diffusion are:
- Do not manage knowledge; manage knowledgeable people.
- Sophisticated database technology is a critical component of a working KS, however, only if it is synthesized with human knowledge.
- Knowledgeable people love technology. Without it knowledge diffusion would be inefficient and less effective and ultimately would compel high value knowledge workers to gravitate to places with high concentration of high quality technology.
- The creators of knowledge are the best diffusors of knowledge and emanate from the same mind. The role of management and Knowledge Manager in particular is to encourage this dual process of knowledge creation and diffusion.
- Focus on elicitation of USEFUL / EXPERT Knowledge only!
- Match technology's sophistication level to people's cognition level. If people's cognition is low, question leaders' ability; if need be replace them with capable people & begin building a viable Knowledge System.
- Elevate cognitive excellence above mediocrity.
Those enterprises, which are not captive to the mediocre leadership, will excel spectacularly.
Bill Ives: "I have found the key differentiator in KM success to be the quality of leadership and not the quality of KM solution design or technology. I have seen implementations with acceptable designs flourish under the right leadership and brilliant "next generation" KM designs flounder under poor leadership." - Portals and KM
Knowledge should be organisation's most potent assets in its assets portfolio. Those organisations where knowledge isn't the most valued asset are facing a bleak future; they'll become either an easy takeover "prey", or they'll die a cruel death.


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I stopped reading The Wall Street Journal editorial page when it soared off into wingnuttery, writing tomes on the imaginary conspiracy to off Vince Foster and other fantasies. The news pages remain useful; the editorial page hasn't improved much.
But as they say, even a monkey at a typewriter eventually will write something interesting. And on Tuesday, the lead editorial of the Journal, "Making Failure an Option," made a strong argument.
The big banks are lining up to pay back the money Treasury gave them under TARP, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, after passing the Treasury's softball "stress test." Eager to avoid any restrictions on pay, bonuses or activities, they are rushing to declare their health and independence.
The Wall Street Journal would allow them to get out from under the Federal thumb and go free, so long as they give up all the other guarantees and subsidies provided by the government (with the exception of deposit insurance).
Economist Simon Johnson explains why banks should get the same treatment as nuclear power plants and spells out the goals of a Capitol Hill meeting he will be speaking at Thursday sponsored by a coalition that aims to "break up the banks." Learn more.
But this raises the fundamental question of what economists call "moral hazard," only multiplied many times over. These banks have been deemed officially as "too big to fail." When they operate, it is with the implicit backing of the U.S. Treasury. They will be able to borrow money more cheaply as a result, and will be tempted, big time, to take greater risks. Risk and leverage create the potential of bigger bonuses for bankers. But they can gamble with their losses implicitly covered by taxpayers. This is a recipe for renewed catastrophe.
There are different ways out of this box. Some, like Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo, suggest that "too big to fail" should mean too big to exist, and that the Congress should break up the big banks into smaller, simpler, more transparent entities. Others, like Nobel Prize winner Joe Stiglitz suggest treating banks like public utilities, regulating their activities and fees strictly. Isolate the venture capital function to operate separately, but turn banks back into a version of the savings and loans of the old days. Others, like Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, suggest that the big banks should be treated like we treat any banks that are insolvent: take them over, strip away the bad assets, fire the management, reorganize them, merge them or sell the sound bank off at the end of the process.
The Treasury Departments under both Bush and Obama decided against taking over and reorganizing the big banks. Instead both chose to subsidize them and nurse them back to health. Congress and the administration are turning their attention to new regulations for finance, but congressional action won't take place for a while—and initial proposals don't include either a lid on size or turning the big banks into public utilities.
Just telling them they are on their own won't work, the Journal rightly concludes. The markets won't believe it. So the Journal suggests, why not let one of them fail? And then it nominates Citigroup to be thrown under the bus.
"Resolving Citi—by either forcing it into a strategic partnership, if anyone will have it, or selling off its assets and breaking it up—wouldn't be cheap," the WSJ editorialist writes. But it would eliminate one of the leading "zombie" banks, end the "slow bleeding of taxpayer money into the bank," and send the banks a message: You are on your own and we really do mean it.
Citibank is essentially already owned by the Federal Government. As the paper notes, it has received insurance on $300 billion in deposits, some $63 billion in FDIC-guaranteed debt, and another $300 billion or so in taxpayer guarantees of its toxic assets, $45 billion in direct capital injections, and more. It is, along with Bank of America, the weakest of the major banks. And Citibank has a checkered history of needing bailouts from huge bad bets—from the time it speculated on Russian bonds on the eve of the Russian revolution to betting on loans to Latin American governments in the 1980s, to needing bailouts twice in the most recent crisis.
Treasury has joined with the banks in peddling confidence, so it is unlikely that the editorial writer's advice will be taken. But that leaves the question: If the banks are free of the TARP but officially too big to fail, what is to keep them from taking larger and larger gambles with other people's money, knowing that they pocket the profits and taxpayers will cover their losses? You don't have to believe in Vince Foster conspiracies to think this is a question that deserves a straight answer.


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|19th December 2007, 11:58
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England's fielding woes
This topic is cropping up a lot lately on match threads so I thought it was worth a thread of its own.
This match is littered with dropped catches and sloppy fielding. What has gone wrong? We've never been the best fielding side in the world but we have usually been able to field at least competently. Actually there are so many problem areas it's hard to know where to start. The outfielding, the in-fielding, the pointless throws to keeper and unnecessary overthrows.
The root of the problem seems to be the new slip cordon. We have lost some excellent slip fielders in Trescothick, Strauss and Flintoff. Vaughan and Moores evidently thought the answer was to replace them with England's best fielders, Collingwood and Bell, but so far it's not working. Both of them have dropped straightforward slip catches in this series. Someone has pointed out that Collingwood didn't have his hands cupped together like Flintoff does - but Flintoff does have huge bucket hands - so maybe it's just a technical thing. I'm sure they are capable of adapting to fielding in these positions, especially when the new fielding coach rolls up, but meanwhile things are going wrong elsewhere.
Alastair Cook dropped a catch under the helmet today and frankly has never looked comfortable as a close fielder. He is too tall and his reactions are a bit slow. Ian Bell is our best close fielder, has quick reactions and is agile in the field. When not at short leg or silly point he is effective in the covers. Standing at slip is just not the best place for him, even if he could sort out where to stand in relation to Matt Prior - and the wicket-keeping is yet another problem in this match; best leave that to the appropriate thread. Collingwood likewise is much more effective at backward point where he can take brilliant catches or run outs.
Cook briefly looked as if he was improving as a fielder, and he did effect a run out, but I'm not convinced, he looks a bit ordinary to me, and sometimes a bit vacant. Bopara is pretty good, but a bit of an exaggeration by CMJ to say he is England's best. Poor old Colly would be mortified. Pietersen is quick and athletic and can take catches, but he needs more responsibility. Why isn't he in the slips?
I'm also a bit unhappy about attitudes to Monty's fielding. He took a straightforward catch yesterday very competently, holding on to the ball rather than casually throwing it into the air - much better in my opinion than risking the view that you haven't got control of the catch. But the way we react is to say, look, Monty held on to a catch. I think we're past that with Panesar by now. He has taken a number of catches and I only recall one important drop. The attitude of the commentators and the public is one of patronising amusement, which I think is misplaced. He's not the world's best fielder but neither is he the worst in the side, he at least does his best with every fielding manoeuvre and doesn't go to sleep in the field.
The England fielders' habit of throwing the ball at the stumps or to the wicket-keeper after every delivery has now lost whatever point it had. What's the point of trying to be aggressive when the batsmen are not remotely intimidated, given our bowlers' and fielders' inability to dismiss them? All that's happening is that time is wasted (we're trying to win this match, aren't we?) and extra runs are given away pointlessly.
This is a bit of a ramble through some of the problems that have been thrown up in this series. I hope Vaughan and Moores have some ideas about addressing them.
|19th December 2007, 12:01
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Everyone needs to go on the intense fielding course they sent Monty on. We need to train up (assuming that our side is going to remain consistant) people for the slips and have our best fielders in their best positions. Also Matt Prior needs to work out how to keep to Sidebottom.
|19th December 2007, 12:07
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Too few real athletes in the team - maybe 4? - no slips, a batting keeper, three at least very slow in the field. Etc..The new fielding coach, who starts in April, has his work cut out.
I dont think we are anywhere past it with Monty either.
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Good post, Michelle.
As I said on the match thread, I do wonder if it is anything to do with using fielders out of place, having now lost our first choice slip cordon.
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|19th December 2007, 15:57
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Hope the new fielding coach does the trick. If not, we should make Jonty Rhodes an offer he cannot refuse!
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|19th December 2007, 16:04
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Im sure he will improve us - but with this personnel I dont see how we can ever become very good in the field.
|19th December 2007, 16:26
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|19th December 2007, 17:47
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|19th December 2007, 18:20
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His fielding again is poor by international standards, but I don't think he's quite as bad as you make out FS. You make it sound like his fielding is utterly laughable, when it's not. He doesn't make that many errors when the ball comes to him, but he's hidden in the field for obvious reasons. His arm is also reasonably accurate. He's just not a natural fielder, and not everyone is, so all you can ask them to be is as good as their ability will let them to be and I think Panesar has done a reasonable job with his fielding. He certainly wouldn't be the worst fielder in the Pakistan side.
Cook has taken some good catches under the lid, but has also dropped some, but he's not the best candidate for being in that position. Bell is a good fielder in close, but when you want a silly point and a short leg, it's hard to pick anyone else really.
Like I've said, you can't include players for their fielding, all you can do is have them work on it so they become the best fielders they can become, but even then mistakes will happen, and sometimes a few in a day like has happened today. It's unfortunate, but I fail to see there is much that can be done about it other than training harder on it, which might actually be a waste of time.
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|19th December 2007, 19:43
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|19th December 2007, 20:32
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If we'd chosen the bowling attack on the basis of fielding ability it would be Anderson, Broad, Swann and one of the other three playing. I think it has to be a consideration. If a bowler is expected to contribute in at least 2 disciplines then why is it ok that a batsman contributes just one a la Cook? Vaughan gets a let off since he can bowl spin and Strauss since he is a good slip fielder.
|19th December 2007, 23:49
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Your point about fielders retiring to the slips as they age a bit is an interesting one. As you point out, the old men of the England side don't appear to be in the England side. Vaughan is the only cover fielder who might have retired to slip and frankly his catching couldn't possibly justify a position there. Having not a single specialist slip is a pretty poor state of affairs. I think you've mentioned the irony that Shah wasn't picked, perhaps partly on Bopara's superior fielding, when a slip fielder would have been more use than even the most dynamic cover / backward point in the world. Bopara did drop one today too, albeit a tough one.
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|20th December 2007, 09:19
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|20th December 2007, 09:50
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I really cant think of past examples of wise old heads retiring to the slips as their reactions slow (let alone many). The decent slips are slips most of their career.
Pringle made a simple point about slip practice for novices like Bell. Expecting a catch every three seconds isnt the same as getting one, maybe, every three hours.
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|20th December 2007, 10:05
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Fielding is something that has been discussed at length out here.
There seems to be no real thought gone into it by management. At one stage yesterday, Bopara was at mid-on and Monty in the covers - why?
Monty may have improved, but you can still knock the ball straight at him and ease through for a single.
Why the hell isn't Ian Bell under the lid? Cook has missed about half a dozen half chances under at forward short leg, he doesn't look a natural one whilst Bell actually excelled there and has been dropping them in the slips.
Its difficult to know what to do, but I tihnk Cook must be converted into a slip. He lacks the athleticism elsewhere but should as an opener have the hand-eye coordination.
I'd rather KP was kept out of the slip cordon, I don't think he has good hands and is far superior in the outfield. Vaughan has awful hands and must be kept out of the slips as well. All in all it creates a few problems.
Bopara has fielded 3rd a bit, as has Anderson, but ANderson isn't going to get into the team unless we suffer a lot of injuries.
I don't have the solutions, but I know very few inferior fielding teams win series
|20th December 2007, 10:10
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5 tablespoons (90g) kosher salt
Place in the bottom of each of two sterilized, 1/2-gallon mason jars or in the bottom of a crock:
Peeled cloves from 1 head garlic (2 heads of garlic total)
4 to 5 grape leaves (8 to 10 total)
4 to 5 dill sprigs (8 to 10 total)
1 teaspoon black peppercorns (2 teaspoons total)
Wedge the cucumbers into the jars tightly, starting with larger cucumbers and filling in with smaller ones. Wedge small cucumbers in at the top so that the curve of the jars will hold them under the brine.
Fill the jars with enough brine to cover the cucumbers completely. If using airlock lids, fill the airlock with water, and screw on the lid. If using a crock, use a plate or a doubled zip-top plastic bag filled with water to keep the cucumbers under the brine, then cover the crock either with a lid or a piece of cloth tied tightly to keep out dust and flies.
Check the progress of the fermentation daily. The brine will start to get cloudy and smell slightly sour, and the cucumbers will begin to soften. You can taste the cucumbers as they ferment to see how sour you want them. Remember that in warmer weather fermentation tends to happen faster than in cooler weather. Half sour pickles may be done in as few as 5 days, or they may take weeks.
When fermentation is done (or the pickles are as sour as you want them), replace the airlock lids with normal lids, and transfer the jars to the refrigerator. If you used a crock, transfer the pickles to jars, cover with brine, and refrigerate.


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Pickup broom loader LLB-32" diameter brush 7ft(33 cu ft)Front Mounted Hydraulic Drive Pick-Up Type Dual motor -32 inch diameter brush Pin and/or quick attach mountings for most popular applications. Most quick attach units require the customer to provide female quick attach. Consult factory. Driven from loader hydraulic system. Requires 2-30 gpm & 2000 psi. Brush is driven by dual hydraulic motors coupled directly to the core by splined shafts. Hoses are provided from the motor to bulkhead at the rear of broom. Customer to provide hoses and couplers to connect loader hydraulics to bulkhead. Price does not include hydraulic valve(s). Brush on/off with loader valve. Two (2) 4.80x8.00 pneumatic casters are provided. 32 inch diameter sectional brush, with choice of polypropylene or combination poly and wire segments. Adjustable internal baffle allows maximum hopper capacity and compensates for brush wear. Estimated hopper capacity: 28.5 cu ft (6 ft), 33 Cu ft (7 ft), 37.5 cu ft (8 ft). Reversing direction of auxiliary hydraulic flow lifts front of broom, by two hydraulic cylinders mounted to sides of unit. Hopper may then be dumped using loader bucket dump function. Estimated shipping weight: 2000 lbs (6 ft), 2200 lbs (7 ft), 2400 lbs (8 ft).
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White House Might Be Open to Progressive Drug Price Proposal: Report
How Trump Could Win on Obamacare — and Still Lose
Trump Administration Plans Kidney Care Overhaul That Could Save Billions: Reports
Drugmakers Are 'Winning in Washington,' New Report Says
The pharmaceutical industry has been the focus of intense political criticism, with President Trump targeting drugmakers on Twitter and lawmakers taking aim at lowering prescription prices through...
Why Obama's 'Cadillac Tax' May Be Headed to the Junkyard
The House is expected to deliver a blow to Obamacare Wednesday evening by voting to repeal the so-called Cadillac tax, the law's yet-to-be-enacted levy on high-cost health insurance plans. The...
Kamala Harris Takes Aim at 'Price-Gouging' Drug CompaniesBy Michael Rainey
Presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) rolled out a proposal Tuesday to lower drug prices by cracking down on pharmaceutical firms. The plan is similar to proposals from both fellow...
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Joe Biden on Monday unveiled a health care plan intended to shore up and expand the Affordable Care Act, sharpening the contrast with other 2020 Democratic presidential candidates who are backing a...
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American voters aren't quite sure what to make of the latest lawsuit seeking to strike down the Affordable Care Act. While legal experts have largely dismissed the lawsuit, now before a federal...
Trump Scraps Key Part of Plan to Lower Drug PricesBy Michael Rainey
The Trump administration has abandoned a key part of its plan to lower prescription drug prices, withdrawing its proposal to eliminate the rebates drugmakers give to pharmacy middlemen. The...
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A federal appeals court in New Orleans heard oral arguments on Tuesday in the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act now that Congress has zeroed out the law's penalty...
GOP Disagreements Could Make It Harder to Tackle Surprise Medical BillsBy Michael Rainey
Lawmakers had hoped they could agree on a plan this summer that would curb surprise medical bills, but intense lobbying by interested groups and disagreements among Republicans are making it...
Trump Administration Plans Kidney Care Overhaul That Could Save Billions: Reports
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Drug Giants Score a Win Against the Trump Administration
A federal judge on Monday blocked a Trump administration rule requiring pharmaceutical companies to disclose the wholesale prices of their drugs in television ads. The new policy, which would have...
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Ethical woes — The state Ethics Board has handed down a decision that should bring an end to the cloud hanging over Lafourche Parish.
Ethical woes — The state Ethics Board has handed down a decision that should bring an end to the cloud hanging over Lafourche Parish.
The board ruled that Parish President Charlotte Randolph violated state law by renting her personal camp in Grand Isle to BP while the oil company had a $1 million contract with the parish.
As punishment, the board ruled that Randolph must repay the $50,000 the company paid her and must pay a $10,000 fine. Randolph said she is contemplating her next move. She could request a rehearing of the case or could appeal the board's decision to the courts.
She should pay the fine, repay the company's lease and move on, allowing the parish to do the same.
State ethics laws don't only exist to prevent improper relationships between public officials and the companies doing business with the government. They are also intended to prevent even the appearance of impropriety, which is what should have happened here.
Randolph should chalk this up as a lesson learned rather than prolonging the case any more than necessary.
Swamp Stomp — If you are looking for something to do this weekend, look no farther.
Nicholls State University in Thibodaux is hosting the fifth-annual Swamp Stomp, which celebrates local culture through food, music, fun and games.
The festival began Friday but runs through today and Sunday and costs $10 per day to attend. Kids 11 and under are free.
This year's Swamp Stomp will even offer something extra for the kids in the form of carnival rides, which have been set up in front of the football stadium.
Organizers and participants alike are keeping their fingers crossed, hoping for pleasant weather. Don't miss out on a great chance to go out and have a good time.
See you at the Swamp Stomp.
Nice recognition — Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre has been named Public Official of the Year by the Houma-Thibodaux Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.
That is a good recognition and a valuable sign that our local sheriff is taking an active approach to helping out the many families who might need the services.
Robert Gorman, who nominated Webre for the award, is executive director of the Houma-Thibodaux Diocese Catholic Charities. He said Webre has enacted "reforms that exemplify social work values and ethics, from accountability to protecting people from harm and helping them recover from trauma."
He used examples such as the Sheriff's Office's participation in the DARE program and its implementation of a Parents And Children Together center for families that have been affected by divorces.
This is good work and a fitting award. Congratulations.
Healthy locals — South Louisiana might not be known for its excellent health record.
With a famous love of good food and fun, our people sometimes suffer the health consequences. But a recent survey put Lafourche at 11th in the state and Terrebonne at 27th in its health ranking.
That's pretty good. It is also evidence that we are finding ways to stay active and healthy.
The ranking looked at criteria such as smoking, drinking and obesity, and determined that our local folks are better off than many others across the state.
Let's keep up the good work.
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From its inception, the web has always had appeal as an educational resource. Recognising the potential for remote learning, in 2002, the launch of OpenCourseWare at MIT helped propel the initiative into the spotlight, with many universities following suit and providing quality educational material available through the web. No longer is there an excuse for anyone with access to the web to say that education is outside of their reach.
This collection of links and applications highlights just the tip of the iceberg of educational resources that are available on the web. If you are interested in teaching yourself a new skill or learning a new topic indepth in your spare time, hopefully some of these will be of use.
University Material
Open Yale – Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University.
Open Courseware – Notre Dame University contribution to open courseware.
Open Courseware – MIT – Free lectures, exams and course material from MIT.
Open Courseware – University of California
Open Courseware – John Hopkins School of Public Health
Open Courseware – Utah State University.
Open Courseware – Carnegie Melon University
Open Courseware – University of Edinburgh School of Informatics
Free Online Courses from Brigham Young University
UK Based University Search – All UK universities added to a custom search. Try a few queries such as Second World War, Games Programming – OER
Oxford University Mathematics OpenCourseWare: This project focuses on topics that range from introductions to pure mathematics and complex numbers to algebra, geometry and logic.
University of Nottingham: the University of Nottingham provides lectures on a variety of topics as well as learning resources.
Western Governors University: This project contains various courses listed under information technology and liberal arts.
University of Leicester OER – A collection of various open educational resources from the university of
Comp Science, notable courses
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence – Stanford
Machine Learning Class – Stanford
Introduction to Databases – Stanford
Computer Games Programming with XNA– Queens University Belfast
Building Mobile Apps – Open Courseware from Harvard
Introduction to Robotics – Stanford
Stanford – Open Classroom
Google Code University – Curriculum Search.
Video Material
Webcasts from Berkley University. Recorded lecture material on the web from Berkley Uni. also Berkley University on YouTube
Stanford University on YouTube – Everything from Quantum physics to Humanities.
TED – ideas worth spreading
Khan Academy – With a library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 180 practice exercises, learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.
Open Video Project – A shared digital video collection that includes lots of educational material.
Free Video Lectures – more than 19k video lectures, and free online resources.
Vidipedia – YouTube videos organised by educational subject.
VideoJug – 60,000 free, professionally-produced 'how to' videos and guides.
YouTube University – Youtube curation of its own educational university content.
Open Courseware Finder – Find any course on any topic inside the Open Courseware Consortium.
MIT Courses Finder – Opencourseware classes at MIT.
Open Content Online – Further resources for finding opencourseware material.
iBerry – provides information and resources for learners, educators, researchers and anyone else with an interest in adult education.
PEOI – On-line course content to upgrade the skills of aspiring professionals, serving businesses that employ them, universities that award degrees, and faculty that offer instruction.
Open Courseware Podcasts, merged together using Yahoo Pipes.
Online Learning Projects
Project Gutenberg – Free e-books on a wide collection of topics.
Academic Earth – Online courses from the world's top scholars.
WikiBooks – the open-content textbooks collection that anyone can edit.
Einztein – Find free university courses, and browse hundreds of topic areas.
Computer Science Unplugged – Free activities and tasks useful for learning all aspects of Computer Science.
UDemy – build and take online courses in a variety of different subjects.
Code academy – Resources for learning to write computer software.
Connexions – Connexions is a dynamic digital educational ecosystem consisting of an educational content repository and a content management system optimized for the delivery of educational content.
Wikiversity – Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university.
Open Study – A collaborative educational environment where you can get help from other students in real time.
UReddit – University of Reddit, a selection of skills available taught by members of the Reddit community.
Open Educational Resources – Open Commons Learning. Free-to-Use Teaching and Learning Content from Around the World
Sofia – The Sofia initiative was launched by Foothill-De Anza Community College District in March of 2004. The goal of Sofia is to publish community college-level course content and make it freely accessible on the web to support teaching and learning.
BBC Online Learning – Some good resources for basic languages learning.
Directory of Open Access Journals – Free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages
Merlot – Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials.
Nixty – learning management platform that supports open education resources where teachers can earn an additional income through collaboration with student. Take courses from top instructors, schools, and universities. Study with other students.
OER Glue – a browser-based tool that allow students and teachers to collaborate together to create fully functional course material from around the web. Think of it as a curation tool for educators.
Peer to Peer University – Where people work together to learn a particular topic by completing tasks, assessing individual and group work, and providing constructive feedback.
Flat World Knowledge – This is a university textbook publisher whose books are published under an open license, giving the ability to remix, edit and redistribute the content.
Tes Teaching resources – An online space for teachers to share free learning materials including lesson plans, activities, games, teaching ideas and worksheets.
Technology Academy (FTA) – a joint initiative from several educational institutes in various countries. It aims to contribute to a society that permits all users to study, participate and build upon existing knowledge without restrictions.
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Garden Angel acrylic print by Garry Gay. Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of an acrylic print. Your image gets printed directly onto the back of a 1/4" thick sheet of clear acrylic. The high gloss of the acrylic sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results. Two different mounting options are available, see below.
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Recommended and Tested by Leading Pediatricians! The Award‐Winning, Patented, BreathableBaby® Breathable Liner reduces the risks of suffocation and entanglement. BreathableBaby's exclusive fabric promotes airflow and helps maintain air access.
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