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by Lee Kirchhoff
Model railroading when your hands shake requires concessions. Among them for me was to quit using a pick to uncouple cars. On the majority of my HO scale Three Rivers Terminal switching layout I use electromagnets to uncouple cars, so the lack of a pick wasn't a problem. However, I struggled finding a way to uncouple cars on an open-deck trestle.
Because of its size, an electromagnet wouldn't work. Even Kadee's no. 308 magnet would be visible under the ties. After some thinking, it dawned on me. Why not make the ties magnetic?
A spot of England in Georgia
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Model railroaders from the United States can recall vividly their first Lionel train set. The English equivalent was a Hornby Dublo train set, but the house where I grew up in southern England, about 20 miles west of London, was small. With three boys, there was no room for a model railroad of any size.
Instead, I spent many hours "train-spotting" up a high embankment less than a mile from our house. It was close to the four-track main line from Waterloo Station in London to all parts of southwest England. I remember keeping track of the numbers of the many trains going up and down from London.
I became a mining engineer, working in Africa and the United States, and had little time for a hobby, so model railroading was the last thing on my mind. However, I was always fascinated by model railroads and was drawn to them whenever I encountered one.
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So, you've finally scored your layout room and are champing at the bit to get started. Out comes the graph paper and a rule, and you start the track plan sketches. It's understandable to want to jump right in, but if you don't take time to look at the big-picture issues first, you risk building an unsatisfying layout.
Why? A successful model railroad – that is, successful at meeting the owner's desired level of fun – is the result of two steps that must be performed in the right order. Those two steps are planning and design, and no, they don't mean the same thing.
First must come the planning. This step, which deals with addressing our true interests and the realities of our lifestyle, is often the more difficult because of its subjective nature and need for self-awareness. If you skip or give short shrift to this step, you run the risk of correctly designing the wrong layout – one that may be technically perfect, but doesn't take into account your lifestyle, skill level, and true interests.
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by Lou Sassi
Jack Parker's love of trains began in the 1930s. Back then, he and his dad would drive the family car to a spot between Charlotte and Pineville, N.C., to wait for the daily passenger train from Augusta, Ga., to pass. Then they would chase the fast train to Charlotte Station, where it would soon depart for Washington, D.C. "My Dad loved to watch those beautiful steam engines at work and smell the smoke," Jack said. "He was sure that I should learn to love them, too."
At Christmas in 1940, Jack got his first taste of model railroading when he and his brother received Lionel O gauge trains. The boys lost interest by their teenage years, but Jack returned to the hobby as an adult after a request from his mother. "My mom asked me to build a 4 x 8 Lionel layout as a Christmas gift for her grandchildren," Jack said. That experience reignited his interest in model trains.
Build a working overhead door
by Thomas Klimoski
Adding animation to my HO scale Georgia Northeastern is one of the facets of model railroading I most enjoy. As I was searching for a simple, manual solution to control an overhead door at a rail-served industry, I discovered a gear drive mechanism that's easily adaptable to a variety of situations. Lego's Technic line includes a gear reducer that has a worm gear on a drive shaft that operates a round gear that can be used to control many other devices. The gear reducer provided the drive mechanism that I needed. All I had to do was figure out a way to install it in the structure and connect it to the door.
How to model a modern bulkhead flatcar
by Pelle Søeborg
Eager to place my ExactRail Trenton Works 67'-11" bulkhead flatcars in service, I started weathering them immediately after I received them. The cars come with laser-cut wood bulkhead surfaces, which is great because nothing looks as much like wood as wood does, so it made it easier to give the bulkheads a realistic, weathered look. The deck on the prototype is made of steel planks, referred to as a nailable steel floor. These floors are often found in boxcars as well.
My basic weathering techniques are simple and straightforward, and consist of three steps. The first step is fading the model's original paint so it looks old, dusty, and sun-bleached. The second step is applying spots of rust and streaks of grime to the car. The third step is applying grime to the lower areas.
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and have posted on the letter 'P'. Today I want to talk about the letter 'U' for Unconditional Election.
This is the Calvinistic Biggie— Unconditional Election is really Predestination with a capital P.
Calvinism is so thoroughly associated with this doctrine that some think that Calvinism is only about predesitination, and that only Calvinists believe in predestination. In truth, virtually all Christian denominations, including Roman Catholicism, adhere to some form of predestination. They must—the scriptural references cannot be ignored.
If Calvinism means this particular (strong) view of predestination, then Calvin wasn't the greatest Calvinst. Luther, in this regard, was more of a Calvinist than Calvin, at least he dealt with predestination more than Calvin.
Who was the first Calvinist? Why the Apostle Paul, of course! All right, although I truly believe that to be the case I know you Arminians will not let me get away with it. (It's true, though!) Among theologians, Augustine is given credit (blame?) as the first to formulate the doctrine of predestination.
Okay, so What is It?Unconditional Election, or (Calvinistic) Predestination says:
Before the foundation of time, God chose certain (future) men (and women) to be saved. Not for anything that he foresaw that these particular individuals (the "elect") would do that was meritorious, but solely for His own pleasure in fulfillment of His perfect will. He decided to show mercy on some. The rest receive justice, i.e., the eternal damnation that all sinners deserve.
I am saved. I am one of the elect. It is something to be grateful for (what an understatement!) but it is not something to boast about. I did nothing to deserve it; I am as deserving of hell as anyone else. Amazing grace, amazing mystery, amazing amazing amazing.
Calvinism vs. ArminianismThe Calvinistic view is that many will receive the Gospel call, but only the elect will respond positively. (That is, only the elect receive an efficacious call). This call cannot be rejected (that's the 'I' in TULIP). Everything is by grace.
The Arminian view is that God will make an offer, through presentation of the Gospel, but the receiver of the offer must, at least at some minimal level, accept the offer of his own volition-- which means the offer can be rejected as well.
Calvinism says that if God knocks you will open the door. The Arminian view is you must choose to open the door.
Calvinism says that you are dead to sins, without a pulse, and can do nothing to please God, and are in such a depraved state you do not have the ability to accept him (apart from grace). The Arminian view is that the sinner is gravely ill but has enough reserve strength to choose whether to consume or spit out the medicine that God places in his mouth.
Calvinists say that, without election, no one would be saved because no one would make the choice to follow Christ.
Calvinists still witness because Christ commands them to and because it is a privilege to be an agent of the efficacious call to another believer. Arminians witness because Christ commands them to and because they feel a responsibility to give as many as possible the chance to accept, and to lead them to make the proper choice (while giving the credit and Glory to God). Calvinists do not feel as much personal responsibility as Arminians when someone doesn't respond positively. Arminians, to their great credit, are generally more zealous in their witnessing.
Calvinists who say "why bother to witness" are guilty of ignoring the Great Commission and in fact are not really Calvinists, they are practicing one form of Hyper-Calvinism. This is a serious problem that I will take up another time.
It is important to note that election does not mean that you have necessarily received salvation, only that it is inevitable that you will at some point, and that process is almost always carried out through evangelism.
For this reason I endure all things for the sake of those who are chosen, so that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus and with it eternal glory. (2 Tim. 2:10, NASB)
That's not FairThere are almost always one of two responses from someone the first time they hear about Calvinistic predestination. One response is something like "cool, I can do whatever I want since I am either one of the elect or not. Might as well eat, drink, and be merry." To which I reply: "You bet, that's why we have so much fun at our church! You should come!" No, I don't really say that. Actually there is a serious heresy with that line of thinking called Antinomianism. Paul handles that in no uncertain terms in several places, for example in Romans:
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness? (Rom. 6:15-16, NASB)
The second, and more common criticism is that it's not fair that some are chosen and others are not.
You have to remember that everyone deserves hell, and God would be perfectly just and fair to send us all there. Those who are saved receive mercy, and mercy is a free gift, and gifts can be given to anyone at the giver's pleasure.
Even if we look at "fairness" in the sense that people want to apply it, well then Calvinism is unfairly singled out as being unfair. Both Calvinism and Arminianism are "unfair". In Calvinism, only some are of the elect, the rest are damned; it would have been better if they had not been born.
In Arminianism, some hear the Gospel and have a chance to respond, but millions die without hearing it and are damned. It would have better if they had not been born.
Calvinism says that God has guaranteed the salvation of some and the rest don't have a chance. Arminianism says that God has guaranteed the salvation of nobody, but anyone hearing the Gospel has a chance.
In Calvinism, it is not possible that Christ died in vain. In Arminianism, in principle everyone could reject the offer leaving Christ with no people to call His own. His death would have been for naught.
Calvinism can be viewed as a covenant among the three members of the Godhead, each of which then plays a critical role in salvation. The Father chose some to be saved and given to the Son. The Son did what was necessary to redeem the chosen. The Spirit works within the elect to bring about sanctification.
Problems, Everyone has ProblemsAs you might guess, the doctrine of predestination is very closely tied to the bigger issue of God's sovereignty. In Calvinism, God is totally sovereign. As R. C. Sproul likes to say, there is not even one maverick molecule running outside of God's control. This means that randomness and chance are illusions arising from our ignorance. Nothing happens that He hasn't ordained or at least permitted to happen, including 9/11 (Got that NRO?) This also means that Calvinism has a "problem" with free will. There are three things I will say about free will:
- Free will isn't what you think it is.
- Calvinism has an answer to the free will conundrum.
- I'm not going to talk about it now because it's too complicated. Another post.
[UPDATE: Dr. Byron posts on Calvinism and free will as an adjunct professor to the newly chartered (as yet without accreditation) University of Blogistan Theology Department. I respectfully do not agree with his view-- but have to limit my comments until I get my own free will to convince me to write a post of my own.]
Arminianism has no trouble with free will, but has a big problem with God's sovereignty: if whether or not you respond positively to the Gospel is up to you, then it's not up to God. God is not totally sovereign.
I actually do not know the Arminian solution to their sovereignty conundrum, but it must rival in complexity the Calvinist solution for free will.
Scriptural SupportIf there is no scriptural support for this, then I should be stoned. Fortunately that is not the case. You may say that I misinterpret some scripture, but if you are honest then I think the worst that can be said is that "I don't agree but I can see how someone might believe that."
I have listed them in the order that they appear. Some are "supportive", some are blockbusters. In the latter category I would certainly include Rom 8:28-30, and Eph. 1:4, so you may want to read those first.
And the Lord said, "I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord , in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. (Ex. 33:19, NASB) )
How blessed is the one whom You choose and bring near to You To dwell in Your courts. We will be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, Your holy temple. (Ps. 65:4, NASB)
"For many are called, but few are chosen." (Mat. 22:14, NASB)
"Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. (Mat. 24:22, NASB)
"For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect. (Mat. 24:24, NASB)
"And He will send forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other. (Mat. 24:31, NASB)
now, will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them? (Luke 18:7, NASB)
"No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day. ( John 6:44, NASB)
You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. (John 15:16, NASB)
And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified. (Rom. 8:28-30, NASB)
Who will bring a charge against God's elect? God is the one who justifies; (Rom. 8:33, NASB)
for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God's purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls, it was said to her, "THE OLDER WILL SERVE THE YOUNGER." Just as it is written, "JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED." (Rom 9:11-13, NASB)
So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy (Rom 9:16, NASB)
And Isaiah is very bold and says, " I WAS FOUND BY THOSE WHO DID NOT SEEK ME, I BECAME MANIFEST TO THOSE WHO DID NOT ASK FOR ME." (Rom. 10:20, NASB)
just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love (Eph. 1:4, NASB)
For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, (1 Th. 5:9, NASB)
But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth. It was for this He called you through our gospel, that you may gain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. (2 Th. 2:13-14 1:1, NASB)
Paul, a bond-servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of those chosen of God and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
(Titus 1:1, NASB)
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who reside as aliens, … who are chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be (sprinkled with His blood: …. (1 Pet. 1:1-2, NASB)
All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain. (Rev. 13:8, NASB)
… And those who dwell on the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder when they see the beast, that he was and is not and will come. (Rev. 17:8, NASB)
See also: Deu. 10:14-15, Ps. 33:12, Ps. 106:5, Hag. 2:23, Mat. 11:27, Mark 13:20, Rom. 11:28, 1 Cor. 1:27-29, Eph. 1:12, 2:10, Col. 3:12, 2 Tim. 1:9, 1 Pet. 2:8, Rev. 17:14 (not an exhaustive list).


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Wong, Chung
The focus of this thesis is on the measurement and collection of thermodynamic and physical property data, including vaporization, fusion, and sublimation enthalpies and vapor pressures of large n-alkanes, nitrogen heterocycles and related compounds by a technique developed in our laboratory referred to as correlation-gas chromatography (C-GC). These thermodynamic data are of importance to several disciplines that include chemical engineering, as well as the pharmaceutical and the petrochemical industries. Vapor pressures of large hydrocarbons are fundamental data required in the petroleum industry to develop thermodynamic models for dealing with crude oil. Environmental chemists and engineers use vapor pressures and vaporization enthalpies to model the dispersal of spills in the environment, such as the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and to design chemical reactors. Alkanes are important components of petroleum. In the present work we have evaluated the vaporization enthalpies and vapor pressures of large n-alkanes with carbon chains up to 92 carbons by C-GC. These are the largest hydrocarbons ever evaluated with vaporization enthalpies that exceed the carbon-carbon bond strength and are good models for crude oil. Polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are an important group of environmental contaminants that are produced by a variety of incomplete combustion processes. Polyaromatic nitrogen heterocycles (PANH's) are their heterocyclic relatives that are also found environmentally in heavy petroleum. This study has also focused on the evaluation of the vaporization enthalpies and vapor pressures of PANH's, most of which have not been previously reported. Finally, a study of aromatic diazines and diazoles (six- and five-membered heterocycles containing two nitrogen atoms, respectively), and related compounds has uncovered an interesting intermolecular interaction previously suspected but never measured. Our work has been able to assign a numerical value to this interaction. Since many biological molecules have similar structures, these interactions may be responsible for molecular association and signaling that occurs in such systems. The combination of planarity, polarity and extensive conjugation are common to all systems that appear to exhibit a higher degree of self-association.
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When the world needs so much saving you can't move
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Martina was right, do it anyway
I wore mismatched socks to church last week. The rest of the fam was already in the car, and you know if the four-year-old is already buckled in his carseat then YOU are the holdup. So I grabbed my boots and two socks from our perpetually-snowballing clean sock basket and ran to the car. Turned out one … Continue reading Martina was right, do it anyway
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Christians: More than your vote
I realized today that in three weeks I will have to stop reading the news like it's my job and get back to my actual life. Having studied journalism and politics (back in olden days, when I had nary a smart phone nor child), I am often glued to the screen watching the slow-motion, ongoing pile-up of tweets, accusations, and threats … Continue reading Christians: More than your vote
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Nancy Vol. 1 by John Stanley with Dan Gormley
Drawn & Quarterly is one of the best comics-publishing outfits around. They're classy and sophisticated -- us schmucks down in the USA think that has something to do with being headquartered in Francophone, urbane Montreal, but they'd probably be smart and savvy even in Oshkosh -- and do a lot of both interesting historical reprints and modern works from European and North American creators. Their book design is also generally very sharp: the artist Seth has been doing all or most of it for a number of years, and has given especially their reprint projects a crisp, eye-catching look. (Look to your immediate right: isn't that a great cover?
But the most important thing a book cover needs to do is tell you what it is and who did it. And the book in front of me today seems to say it's Nancy by John Stanley. (That's according to the cover.) The title page, more expansively, calls it Nancy: From the Comic Strip by Ernie Bushmiller: Collected from Issue 146 to Issue 150 of the Dell Comic Book Series: 1957-58: The John Stanley Library and has similarly detailed credits: script and layout by John Stanley, finished art by Dan Gormley, edited by Rebecca Rosen. And there's a comic-book style indicia, on the first story page, that claims this is Nancy, Vol. 1, which finally tells us one of the most important things we wanted to know: where does this fall in the "John Stanley Library," or in the reprinting of the "Dell Comic Book Series?"
Perhaps the assumption was that the set of Bushmiller and Stanley fans was large enough that no civilians would be needed, anyway -- that every single person who might be interested in this book would already know what it is, where it falls in the Stanley oevure, and how badly they want it. Considering that I found this copy in a public library six years after it was published, that would not be a good or supportable assumption. It would not have damaged the book design in any way to get a classy, sophisticated "Volume One"somewhere on the cover, and if I were the marketer when this book was being published, I'd have pushed to make the author credit "The John Stanley Library" to unify the whole series -- yes, the design does a lot of that, but people read books, so the words are also important.
Once you finally find this book and get inside, you do get a lot of good, fun, zippy comics -- originally for kids, yes, but not limited just to them -- featuring Ernie Bushmiller's famous character and her friends. Stanley expands that world in his stories, as he needed to: Bushmiller was a minimalist, always in pursuit of a tighter gag for his four panels, while Stanley is writing dozen-page comics that need to have stories and action and funny stuff in every panel. So the first story introduces Oona Goosepimple, a creepy little girl who bears a lot less debt to Charles Addams than you'd expect, and Stanley goes on from there, ringing his own changes on the Bushmiller standards and making them work in longer stories.
(Fanatical devotees of Antick Musings will be surprised, since I was much more negative about this book when I read it in 2010. But I hadn't really clicked with Stanley's work at that point -- I still haven't gotten around to his Little Lulu comics, generally considered his best stuff -- and I was coming off two volumes of Melvin Monster, which were deeply uninspired. Since then, I've enjoyed Stanley's Thirteen "Going On Eighteen," a madcap mid-60s teen comic, so maybe I'm more in tune with his humor.)
This time around, I was particularly struck by Stanley's dialogue, which is pointed, almost spiky -- his people don't just say things, they verbally spar with each other, yelling or cajoling or whining or grumping or demanding, and the dialogue is both funny in itself and moves the stories forward. The art is still standard mid-century funnybook, but it's all rendered cleanly to let the gags work without interference. (Although I will keep grumping about the pages with their age-faded look; that's an affectation, to show off to the original readers how very old this stuff is now, and it's at best a distraction and at worst an obstacle for new, younger readers.)
So I'll contradict five-years-ago me, and say that it's entirely possible to be both Team Bushmiller and Team Stanley: they're different kinds of cartoonists, aiming for different effects in mediums that aren't as similar as they look. I still probably fall on the Bushmiller side most of the time, but there's a lot to love in Stanley as well.
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GENEVA — Want to know where to put your investment dollars while the global economy spins further into a dizzying nose dive? Take a look at information and communications technology, better known in the trade as ICT.
That's the message in a new report, "Confronting the Crisis," just published by the Geneva-based, International Telecommuncation Union (ITU), the UN agency that coordinates the worldwide communications industry.
While the overall communications industry is taking an economic battering like everyone else, the report suggests that canny investors will see potentially lucrative opportunities in select areas shining in contrast to the otherwise depressing financial debris. The thing to look for here is "disruptive technologies," in other words, new businesses that take advantage of what is likely to be a major paradigm shift.
Crises often provide a fertile environment for new technologies to gain a foothold, and past history has shown that can be an optimum time for companies that are tuned to innovative cost-cutting solutions that increase efficiency. Google was launched in 1998, right in the middle of the Asian financial crisis. Skype took off in 2003, at the height of the dot.com crash. Another market winner was Amazon, which used the net and the latest technological breakthroughs in logistics to speed up retail marketing while reducing prices.
In contrast to conventional equipment manufacturers, such as computer chip-maker Intel, which saw its revenues drop by 23 percent in the final quarter of 2008, Google's final quarter registered an 18 percent increase over the same period in 2007. Even more impressive, it actually gained 3 percent in revenue over the preceding quarter at the very moment the crisis was reaching a fever pitch.
The ITU report points out that both Google and Amazon complemented and improved the wider information technology ecosystem instead of trying to cannibalize it. It didn't hurt that both companies relied on business models with low start-up costs. An added advantage for market-changing companies is the fact that during economic downturns computer processing power and bandwidth costs tend to become cheaper.
A number of areas are likely to profit this time around. Lower-priced, higher-performance consumer broadband is a sure winner. "Netbooks" which are half the price of full-featured laptops are experiencing a surge. Cloud computing, which lets you rent net-based software instead of buying it outright is increasingly popular. Even digital television is likely to enable cost reductions by freeing up frequency spectrum that used to be reserved for preventing interference from noisy analog channels.
Some of the biggest growth, though, is likely to be in more basic, everyday technologies. Mobile phones and portable computer broadband access over cell phone networks are two leading candidates. Much of this growth is likely to be concentrated in the developing world, which has been shielded from the crisis precisely because it is on the margins of the global economy.
India, which passed the U.S. as the largest cell phone market in 2008, added 10 million new mobile customers last September, and then an additional 10.4 million in October.
It's not complete Nirvana. Indian mobile phone users have lower salaries so they pay less for subscriptions. For every customer that British phone operator Vodafone loses in England, it needs to connect 10 new customers in India to maintain its revenues.
But the growth is nevertheless staggering. The world's biggest mobile phone operator, China Mobile, added 74 million new subscribers in the first nine months of last year. That was compared to 55 million new subscribers for all of 2007.
Brazil added four million subscribers in 2008, double the preceding year. By the end of 2008, there were an estimated 4 billion mobile phone subscribers in the world — an increase of 650 million over 2007. By the end of 2008, mobile phone subscriptions added up to nearly one out of every two people in the developing world.
Will they continue to use mobile phones in the economic downturn? The answer is that they don't have much choice. The new mobile technology is increasingly vital to keeping the basic economy going in more and more countries. In Africa, for instance, payments and remittances in remote areas are regularly made by cell phone. Fishermen and farmers depend on current price information they get over their cell phones before deciding to go to market. With bankers in the leading industrialized countries acting like frightened deer frozen in the headlights of the financial crisis, the ITU suggests that much of the financing for this booming market may come from emerging markets in the south.
Broadband computer connections over cell phone networks is another area that is booming. The idea is to use a small thumb-drive-sized modem that plugs into the USB port of your computer to connect to broadband through your local cell phone operator. Introduced a year ago, the market has mushroomed to 30 million connections. Informa Telecoms and Media Group, an industry analyst, forecasts that it will increase by 50 percent in 2009. In several major European markets up to 15-30 percent of broadband subscriptions are now over cellular networks.
How does the U.S. fit into this picture? The current scenario is not good. As the ITU sees it, the U.S. is headed for a catastrophic internet traffic jam that will hit sometime in 2012. Upgrading the global internet is projected to cost $137 billion over the next five years. Network operators in North America are currently under spending by 60-70 percent. While U.S. investment in upgrading the net is projected at $72 billion over 2008-12, an additional $42-55 will be needed to keep the U.S. competitive. If commercial banks are still too traumatized to provide credit, Washington may have to step in or risk being bypassed by the global economy of the future.
The demands presented by climate change also need to be taken into account. The carbon footprint for the worldwide communications industry is currently 2 percent of the global total. But it is growing by 6 percent a year as developing countries come on line, and could double by 2020. On the other hand, advanced communications can reduce the world's carbon footprint by up to 15 percent by 2020 — roughly 7.8 gigatons of CO2 emissions a year — by substituting televised conference calls for the air travel needed for business meetings, and by improving the way it uses the electric grid. Since corporate social conscience is likely to be a major casualty of the crisis, the ITU recommends that communications be included as a significant part of stimulus packages.
Telecommunications can't make up for the global downturn, but it nevertheless plays a significant role, representing 7.5 percent of global GDP. The global information and communications technology market is currently worth roughly $1.6 trillion. Any country that fails to invest in this market is likely to be left in the dust by more agile competitors. Crises come and go, but people need to communicate wherever they are.
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I'm working on a project to push out configs to Juniper devices and upgrade them if necessary. Ultimately it will be vendor-independent. In the first instance I thought about writing it all in Python, but there's really no need because quite a lot of legwork has already been done for you in the form of 'PyEz' and the Junos Ansible core modules.
Juniper give you a few examples to get you started, but don't really explain what each of the lines in the YAML file does, but I guess they expect you to figure that out. Below are a few notes on things I discovered – perhaps obvious to some, but they might help someone else.
Ansible's agentless nature
Ansible has the upper hand over Chef and Puppet in that it is agentless. All you need is SSH. Or so they tell you.
Ansible actually needs the system it is making changes on to be running Python. So really, *that's* the agent that Ansible talks to. Since most network devices don't have Python (it is roadmapped for Junos soon), that means you've got a problem – you can't use most of the commands module of Ansible to execute remote commands.
With Junos you have two choices:
- Use the 'raw' module to send SSH commands to Junos: This opens up a channel, sends the command and closes it again. No error-checking, no frills.
- Use the Juniper Ansible modules: Used with a playbook you need 'connection: local' so that the Python part is done on the controlling node. Then the module uses Netconf to connect to the Junos device to issue commands.
There is no other way – since there's no Python on Junos and no way to get into a shell over SSH, these are your only options.
'No module named jnpr.junos' When Running Ansible
In the examples Juniper give, they don't tell you that the Ansible module 'Juniper.junos' relies on a Python module called 'jnpr.junos'. (It is mentioned elsewhere if you look for it.)
So if you've done an 'ansible-galaxy install Juniper.junos' you could be forgiven for thinking that you've downloaded the modules you need. You then gaily go on to have a crack at the example given above, but get this error:
$ ansible-playbook juniper-test.yml
PLAY [Get info] *********************************************************
TASK [Checking Netconf connection] **************************************
ok: [192.168.30.12]
TASK [Get info from Junos device] ***************************************
fatal: [192.168.30.12]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "ImportError: No module named jnpr.junos"}
to retry, use: --limit @/Users/amulheirn/Documents/scripts/softpush/juniper-test.retry
192.168.30.12 : ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1
To resolve this, you need to download the PyEz module for Python. On my Mac, I did this using 'sudo pip install junos-eznc'
I thought I'd be able to issue a command like 'ansible-playbook junipertest.yml -u UserName -k'. Ansible would then use the specified username and ask for the password interactively before it began – which it does. However I was persistently getting the following authentication error:
TASK [Get info from Junos device] ***************************************
fatal: [192.168.30.12]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "unable to connect to 192.168.30.12: ConnectAuthError(192.168.30.12)"}
This was a bit confusing for a while. It seems you can't use command-line switches to pass username and password to a playbook. Instead, the Juniper.junos module wants you to make a variables section in the YAML file, and then pass the variable contents to the tasks that are specified later in the file. The result is that you still interactively asked for a username and password, and can successfully authenticate.
My YAML file
My YAML file looks like this – it successfully retrieves the version running on the device. I have commented down the right-hand side of this to add explanations, so you will need to remove these:
--- - name: Get info # The name of the 'play' hosts: all # Run on all hosts in inventory file roles: - Juniper.junos # Invokes the Junos Ansible module connection: local # Tells it to run locally gather_facts: no vars_prompt: # Variable section - name: USERNAME # Name of the variable prompt: User name # Text presented to user private: no # Obscure input with stars = no - name: DEVICE_PASSWORD prompt: Device password private: yes # Obscure input with stars = yes tasks: # A series of tasks # Check a netconf connection can be made on port 830 - name: Checking Netconf connection wait_for: host={{ inventory_hostname }} port=830 timeout=5 # Retrieve the facts from the device using user/pass specified earlier - name: Get info from Junos device junos_get_facts: host={{ inventory_hostname }} user={{ USERNAME }} passwd={{ DEVICE_PASSWORD }} savedir=./ register: junos # Three tasks to print results to screen - name: Print model debug: msg="{{ junos.facts.model }}" - name: Print version debug: msg="{{ junos.facts.version }}" - name: Print serial debug: msg="{{ junos.facts.serialnumber }}" ~
The above seems to work ok. If you want to see all the facts that can be retrieved, change one of the last lines to just:
debug: msg="{{ junos.facts }}"
In doing this, you will get back all possible sub-facts that can be inspected – here's the output I receive from an EX2200 in our lab:
"msg": { "HOME": "/var/home/axians-prestage", "RE0": { "last_reboot_reason": "Router rebooted after a normal shutdown.", "mastership_state": "master", "model": "EX2200-24T-4G", "status": "OK", "up_time": "3 days, 23 hours, 38 seconds" }, "domain": null, "fqdn": "", "has_2RE": false, "hostname": "", "ifd_style": "SWITCH", "master": "RE0", "model": "EX2200-24T-4G", "personality": "SWITCH", "serialnumber": "CW02122xxx91", "switch_style": "VLAN", "vc_capable": true, "vc_mode": "Enabled", "version": "12.2R9.3", "version_RE0": "12.2R9.3", "version_info": { "build": 3, "major": [ 12, 2 ], "minor": "9", "type": "R" } } }
As you can see from the previous YAML file, you can retrieve junos.facts.version in order to get just that one 'sub-fact'. Replace 'version' with any of the above facts and see what you get – e.g. junos.facts.hostname
Ansible files
I wanted my work to be portable to a colleague's computer with minimal fuss. Ansible looks for a config file in /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg I believe, but it looks for a config file in the current directory first. That is nice – it means you can override the system's settings on a per playbook basis.
So here is my ansible.cfg file:
$ more ansible.cfg # Ansible config file for softpush [defaults] inventory = ./hosts log_path = ./ansible.log
My hosts file is pretty basic – it only contains a single IP address at the moment. According to docs.ansible.com you should be able to alias a host using this:
jumper ansible_port=5555 ansible_host=192.0.2.50
'jumper' in this example is a host alias – apparently it doesn't even have to be a real hostname.
However I found that this did not work for me – it tried to use the alias to connect to the host, rather than the IP address specified by ansible_host. The error was:
$ ansible-playbook juniper-test.yml User name: prestage Device password: PLAY [Get info] ********************************************************* TASK [Checking Netconf connection] ************************************** fatal: [test]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "elapsed": 5, "failed": true, "msg": "Timeout when waiting for test:830"} NO MORE HOSTS LEFT ****************************************************** to retry, use: --limit @/Users/username/Documents/scripts/softpush/juniper-test.retry PLAY RECAP ************************************************************** test : ok=0 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1 I edited the /etc/hosts file on my machine to include the same alias, and that now works fine. Not sure this is intended behaviour – why specify an ansible_host value in the ansible hosts file if your /etc/hosts file contains the IP address as well?
Update on 27th Oct: I've discovered the above does actually work – not entirely sure what I was doing wrong last time, but with this in the inventory it works fine:
[Devices] line2001 ansible_host=192.168.30.20
SSH Public Key Authentication
There are a few ways that authentication can be achieved. The most preferred way is to use an SSH public key, so no password is required. This means generating a public/private key for the user and then transferring the public key to the Junos host's config. Since my script is for pre-staging lots of devices, I felt that was overkill – if I was going to use Ansible for daily management of these devices, then it would be worthwhile, but that won't be the case here.
Interactive Authentication
An alternative is the method described above, where the credentials are requested interactively. The 'vars_prompt:' section of the YAML file is what makes this happen.
The Juniper.junos module pays no attention to the '-u <USERNAME>' command-line argument, nor does it observe the -k argument, which prompts for a password. I'm not sure why that is, but it is documented here. If you put those command-line switches in, they are accepted and ignored – instead, the $USER environment variable from your computer is sent, resulting (probably) in an auth failure.
'Insecure' Authentication
Instead of using 'vars_prompt:', you can write the username and password into a 'vars:' section of the YAML file. Obviously this isn't secure, but since my script is for lab purposes, security of this information isn't a concern. Just replace the 'vars_prompt:' section shown above with something like this:
vars: - USERNAME: someusername - DEVICE_PASSWORD: yourpassword
An alternative to doing this is to put the usernames/passwords in the hosts file, though again this is not recommended:
$ more hosts [Devices] 192.168.30.20 ansible_user=MyUsername ansible_ssh_pass=MyPassword
Vault Authentication
The proper way to store usernames and passwords is in the Ansible vault. This is a file that is automatically encrypted with AES256 encryption. You can pull in just the password, or a variety of variables as per the example on this Juniper page. Quite cool, but too complex for my basic lab setup.
Formatting The Output
Instead of calling each fact one after the other, it is possible to do this and create a comma-separated list of facts:
- name: Print model debug: msg="{{ junos.facts.serialnumber }},{{ junos.facts.model }},{{ junos.facts.version }}"
The result is:
TASK [Print model] *************************************************************
ok: [test] => {
"msg": "CW0212xxx591,EX2200-24T-4G,12.2R9.3"
That's all very well, but maybe you want to write this to a text file in that format? Simply create another task that uses the copy module to write the output to a file. Here's the 'Print model' task again, followed by a new task called 'Write details':
# Print results to screen, then write a CSV file - name: Print model debug: msg="{{ junos.facts.serialnumber }},{{ junos.facts.model }},{{ junos.facts.version }}" - name: Write details copy: content="{{ junos.facts.serialnumber }},{{ junos.facts.model }},{{ junos.facts.version }}" dest=./{{ inventory_hostname }}.txt
This results in a file in the current directory in the format <hostname>.txt:
$ more 192.168.30.12.txt CW0212286591,EX2200-24T-4G,12.2R9.3 $
When running this playbook, the Juniper.junos module is supposed to write output to a file in the location specified by 'savedir=' in the YAML file. It does do this, but fails to pre-pend the hostname on the file, so you get a file called '-facts.json'. This is a problem because the filename begins with a '-' and it is therefore interpreted as a command-line switch by vi, cat and more.
Opening this file in the GUI reveals it to be a JSON formatted file containing all of the 'facts', just missing the hostname:
{"domain": null, "hostname": "", "ifd_style": "SWITCH", "version_info": {"major": [12, 2], "type": "R", "build": 3, "minor": "9"}, "version_RE0": "12.2R9.3", "serialnumber": "CW0212xxx591", "fqdn": "", "RE0": {"status": "OK", "last_reboot_reason": "Router rebooted after a normal shutdown.", "model": "EX2200-24T-4G", "up_time": "4 days, 18 minutes, 55 seconds", "mastership_state": "master"}, "has_2RE": false, "switch_style": "VLAN", "version": "12.2R9.3", "master": "RE0", "HOME": "/var/home/axians-prestage", "vc_mode": "Enabled", "model": "EX2200-24T-4G", "vc_capable": true, "personality": "SWITCH"}
It occurred to me that it isn't the hostname on my Ansible control machine that should be in the filename – it should be the hostname of the device I am configuring. As you can see above, the hostname is an empty string. That's because my device is new – all it has on it is an IP address and username/password.
I used the 'set system host-name <name>' command to give the device a name. Re-ran the playbook and this time got the hostname on the file as expected:
$ more line1-facts.json {"domain": null, "hostname": "line1", "ifd_style": "SWITCH", "version_info": {"major": [12, 2], "type": "R", "build": 3, "minor": "9"}, "version_RE0": "12.2R9.3", "serialnumber": "CW0212xxx591", "fqdn": "line1", "RE0": {"status": "OK", "last_reboot_reason": "Router rebooted after a normal shutdown.", "model": "EX2200-24T-4G", "up_time": "4 days, 29 minutes, 33 seconds", "mastership_state": "master"}, "has_2RE": false, "switch_style": "VLAN", "version": "12.2R9.3", "master": "RE0", "HOME": "/var/home/axians-prestage", "vc_mode": "Enabled", "model": "EX2200-24T-4G", "vc_capable": true, "personality": "SWITCH"} $


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Shorthanded Rams struggle at Howell Invitational
by TIM COOPER
The Rams wrestling team started the new year on a good note by shutting out Muskegon on Wednesday, Jan. 4. Though the Rams were missing three seniors, they showed depth by defeating the Big Reds 76-0.
The Rams pinned 10 of the Big Reds' 11 wrestlers, with only one of the matches going the full six minutes.
Nate Rojas, wrestling up two weight classes at 135 pounds, defeated his opponent 14-3, in what was the closest match of the evening.
"This is a nice kick coming out after the break. A real nice start to 2012," Coach Brian Richardson said. "We set three goals for January. We want to be better hand control, be better in the down position, and pin more people. We did a great job at all three of those tonight."
A depleted Ram squad traveled to Howell on Saturday, Jan. 7. Wrestling with 10 underclassmen in the lineup, the Rams struggled in three of the five dual meets. The Rams fell to Stevensville Lakeshore 49-16 in the first round, 45-10 to Howell in the second, and 49-25 to seventh-ranked Rochester in the fifth round.
The lone victory for Rockford was a 51-18 win over Plymouth.
"We had great leadership from our seniors today," Richardson said of the Rams on Saturday. "The freshmen and sophomores responded well to the challenge. It was nice for them to gain the varsity experience."


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Scabies (from Latin: scabere, "to scratch"),[1] also known colloquially as the seven-year itch,[2] is a contagious skin infection caused by the mite Sarcoptes scabiei. The mite is a tiny, and usually not directly visible, parasite which burrows under the host's skin, which in most people causes an intense itching sensation caused by an allergic response. The infection in animals other than humans is caused by a different but related mite species, and is called sarcoptic mange.
Scabies is classified by the [3] The disease may be transmitted from objects, but is most often transmitted by direct skin-to-skin contact, with a higher risk with prolonged contact. Initial infections require four to six weeks to become symptomatic. Reinfection, however, may manifest symptoms within as few as 24 hours. Because the symptoms are allergic, their delay in onset is often mirrored by a significant delay in relief after the parasites have been eradicated. Crusted scabies, formerly known as Norwegian scabies, is a more severe form of the infection often associated with immunosuppression. Scabies is one of the three most common skin disorders in children, along with tinea and pyoderma.[4] As of 2010 it affects approximately 100 million people (1.5% of the world population) and is equally common in both sexes.[5]
The characteristic symptoms of a scabies infection include intense itching and superficial burrows.[6] The burrow tracks are often linear, to the point that a neat "line" of four or more closely placed and equally developed mosquito-like "bites" is almost diagnostic of the disease.
In the classic scenario, the itch is made worse by warmth, and is usually experienced as being worse at night, possibly because there are fewer distractions.[6] As a symptom, it is less common in the elderly.[6]
The superficial burrows of scabies usually occur in the area of the hands, feet, wrists, elbows, back, buttocks, and external genitals.[6] Except in infants and the immunosuppressed, infection generally does not occur in the skin of the face or scalp. The burrows are created by excavation of the adult mite in the epidermis.[6]
In most people, the trails of the burrowing mites are linear or s-shaped tracks in the skin often accompanied by rows of small, pimple-like mosquito or insect bites. These signs are often found in crevices of the body, such as on the webs of fingers and toes, around the genital area, and under the breasts of women.[8]
Symptoms typically appear two to six weeks after infestation for individuals never before exposed to scabies. For those having been previously exposed, the symptoms can appear within several days after infestation. However, it is not unknown for symptoms to appear after several months or years.[9] Acropustulosis, or blisters and pustules on the palms and soles of the feet, are characteristic symptoms of scabies in infants.[8]
Scabies of the foot
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The elderly and people with an impaired immune system, such as HIV, cancer, or those on immunosuppressive medications, are susceptible to crusted scabies (formerly called Norwegian scabies).[6][9][10] On those with weaker immune systems, the host becomes a more fertile breeding ground for the mites, which spread over the host's body, except the face. Sufferers of crusted scabies exhibit scaly rashes, slight itching, and thick crusts of skin that contain thousands of mites.[11] Such areas make eradication of mites particularly difficult, as the crusts protect the mites from topical miticides, necessitating prolonged treatment of these areas.
In the 18th century, Italian biologist Arachnida) as spiders and ticks.
Sarcoptes scabiei mites are under 0.5 mm in size but are sometimes visible as pinpoints of white. Pregnant females tunnel into the dead, outermost layer (stratum corneum) of a host's skin and deposit eggs in the shallow burrows. The eggs hatch into larvae in three to ten days. These young mites move about on the skin and molt into a "nymphal" stage, before maturing as adults, which live three to four weeks in the host's skin. Males roam on top of the skin, occasionally burrowing into the skin. In general, few mites usually occur on a healthy hygienic person infested with noncrusted scabies; about 11 females in burrows can be found on such a person.[12]
The movement of mites within and on the skin produces an intense itch, which has the characteristics of a delayed cell-mediated inflammatory response to allergens. IgE antibodies are present in the serum and the site of infection, which react to multiple protein allergens in the body of the mite. Some of these cross-react to allergens from house-dust mites. Immediate antibody-mediated allergic reactions (wheals) have been elicited in infected persons, but not in healthy persons; immediate hypersensitivity of this type is thought to explain the observed far more rapid allergic skin response to reinfection seen in persons having been previously infected (especially having been infected within the previous year or two).[13] Because the host develops the symptoms as a reaction to the mites' presence over time, usually a four- to six-week incubation period after the onset of infestation is found. As noted, those previously infected with scabies and cured may exhibit the symptoms of a new infection in a much shorter period, as little as one to four days.[14]
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The symptoms are caused by an allergic reaction of the host's body to mite proteins, though exactly which proteins remains a topic of study. The mite proteins are also present from the gut, in mite feces, which are deposited under the skin. The allergic reaction is both of the delayed (cell-mediated) and immediate (antibody-mediated) type, and involves IgE (antibodies, it is presumed, mediate the very rapid symptoms on reinfection).[12] The allergy-type symptoms (itching) continue for some days, and even several weeks, after all mites are killed. New lesions may appear for a few days after mites are eradicated. Nodular lesions from scabies may continue to be symptomatic for weeks after the mites have been killed.[12]
Scabies may be diagnosed clinically in geographical areas where it is common when diffuse itching presents along with either lesions in two typical spots or there is itchiness of another household member.[4] The classical sign of scabies is the burrows made by the mites within the skin.[4] To detect the burrow, the suspected area is rubbed with ink from a fountain pen or a topical tetracycline solution, which glows under a special light. The skin is then wiped with an alcohol pad. If the person is infected with scabies, the characteristic zigzag or S pattern of the burrow will appear across the skin; however, interpreting this test may be difficult, as the burrows are scarce and may be obscured by scratch marks.[4] A definitive diagnosis is made by finding either the scabies mites or their eggs and fecal pellets.[4] Searches for these signs involve either scraping a suspected area, mounting the sample in potassium hydroxide and examining it under a microscope, or using dermoscopy to examine the skin directly.[6]
Symptoms of early scabies infestation mirror other skin diseases, including dermatitis, syphilis, various urticaria-related syndromes, allergic reactions, and other ectoparasites such as lice and fleas.[19]
Mass treatment programs that use topical permethrin or oral ivermectin have been effective in reducing the prevalence of scabies in a number of populations.[4] No vaccine is available for scabies. The simultaneous treatment of all close contacts is recommended, even if they show no symptoms of infection (asymptomatic), to reduce rates of recurrence.[4][4] Since mites can survive for only two to three days without a host, objects in the environment pose little risk of transmission except in the case of crusted scabies, thus cleaning is of little importance.[4] Rooms used by those with crusted scabies require thorough cleaning.[20]
A number of medications are effective in treating scabies; however, treatment must often involve the entire household or community to prevent reinfection.[4] Options to control itchiness include antihistamines.[21]
Permethrin is the most effective treatment for scabies,[22] and is the treatment of choice.[4][23] It is applied from the neck down, usually before bedtime, and left on for about eight to 14 hours, then washed off in the morning.[4] One application is normally sufficient for mild infections. For moderate to severe cases, another dose is typically applied seven to 14 days later.[4][23][24] Permethrin causes slight irritation of the skin, but the sensation is tolerable.[6] The medication, however, is the most costly of topical treatments.[6]
Ivermectin is an oral medication shown by many clinical studies to be effective in eradicating scabies, often in a single dose.[3][4] It is the treatment of choice for crusted scabies, and is often used in combination with a topical agent.[4][6] It has not been tested on infants and is not recommended for children under six years of age.[6]
Topical ivermectin preparations have been found to be effective for scabies in adults, and are attractive due to their low cost, ease of preparation, and low toxicity.[25] It has also been useful for sarcoptic mange (the veterinary analog of human scabies).[26]
Other treatments include lindane, benzyl benzoate, crotamiton, malathion, and sulfur preparations.[4][6] Lindane is effective, but concerns over potential neurotoxicity has limited its availability in many countries.[6] It is approved in the United States for use as a second-line treatment.[27] Sulfur ointments or benzyl benzoate are often used in the developing world due to their low cost;[6] 10% sulfur solutions have been shown to be effective,[28] and sulfur ointments are typically used for at least a week.[6] Crotamiton has been found to be less effective than permethrin in limited studies.[6] Crotamiton or a sulfur preparation is often recommended instead of permethrin for children, due to concerns over dermal absorption of permethrin.[4]
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Anne Frank was infected with scabies at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp,[29] and scabies is endemic in many developing countries,[30] where it tends to be particularly problematic in rural and remote areas. In such settings community wide control strategies are required to reduce the rate of disease, as treatment of only individuals is ineffective due to the high rate of reinfection. Large-scale mass drug administration strategies may be required where coordinated interventions aim to treat whole communities in one concerted effort.[31] Although such strategies have shown to be able to reduce the burden of scabies in these kinds of communities, debate remains about the best strategy to adopt, including the choice of drug.[31][32]
The resources required to implement such large-scale interventions in a cost-effective and sustainable way are significant. Furthermore, since endemic scabies is largely restricted to poor and remote areas, it is a public health issue that has not attracted much attention from policy makers and international donors.[31][32]
Scabies is one of the three most common skin disorders in children, along with tinea and pyoderma.[4] As of 2010 it affects approximately 100 million people (1.5% of the population) and is equally common in both genders.[5] The mites are distributed around the world and equally infect all ages, races, and socioeconomic classes in different climates.[11] Scabies is more often seen in crowded areas with unhygienic living conditions.[33] Globally as of 2009, an estimated 300 million cases of scabies occur each year, although various parties claim the figure is either over- or underestimated.[9][34] About 1–10% of the global population is estimated to be infected with scabies, but in certain populations, the infection rate may be as high as 50–80%.[4]
Scabies has been seen in humans since ancient time. Archeological evidence from Egypt and the Middle East suggests scabies was present as early as 494 BC.[14][35] The first recorded reference to scabies is believed to be from the Bible – it may be a type of "leprosy" mentioned in Leviticus circa 1200 BC[36] or be mentioned among the curses of Deuteronomy 28.[37] Later, in the fourth century BC, the ancient Greek philosopher and naturalist Aristotle reported on "lice" that "escape from little pimples if they are pricked";[38] scholars believe this was actually a reference to scabies.
Nevertheless, Greek physician Celsus is credited with naming the disease "scabies" and describing its characteristic features.[38] The parasitic etiology of scabies was later documented by the Italian physician Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo (1663–99 AD) in his famous 1687 letter, "Observations concerning the fleshworms of the human body".[38] With this discovery, scabies became one of the first diseases with a known cause.[14][35]
The International Alliance for the Control of Scabies was started in 2012,[32][39][40] and brings together over 70 researchers, clinicians and public health experts from more than 15 different countries. It has managed to bring the global health implications of scabies to the attention of the [32] Consequently, the WHO has included scabies on its official list of neglected tropical diseases and other neglected conditions.[41]
Scabies may occur in a number of domestic and wild animals; the mites that cause these infestations are of different subspecies.[6] These subspecies can infest animals or humans that are not their usual hosts, but such infections do not last long.[6] Scabies-infected animals suffer severe itching and secondary skin infections. They often lose weight and become frail.[12]
The most frequently diagnosed form of scabies in domestic animals is sarcoptic mange, which is found on dogs. This disease is caused by the subspecies Sarcoptes scabiei canis. Scabies-infected domestic fowl suffer what is known as "scaly leg". Domestic animals that have gone feral and have no veterinary care are frequently afflicted with scabies and a host of other ailments.[42] Nondomestic animals have also been observed to suffer from scabies. Gorillas, for instance, are known to be susceptible to infection via contact with items used by humans.[43]
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Seeds in Spring – Open Call Selection for Exhibition at Ox Warehouse
mǎorganic-Works by Alan Ieon, TKH, Jack Wong and Rusty Fox
展覽開幕 Exhibition Opening:2/4/2017 16:00
展覽日期 Exhibition Period:2-22/4/2017
駐場日期 Residence Period:7-9/4/2017
地點 Venue:牛房倉庫地下展廳 GF Gallery of Ox Warehouse
展覽簡介 Introduction
mǎorganic 是一個由四位參展人共同創作的系列作,源於兩詞──mǎ
Mǎorganic = mǎo + organic. A collaboration project by four artists, where "mǎo" is the pronounciation of the Chinese word "冇", which means "nothing" or "negativeness". Indeed, "mǎorganic" connotes "not-organic" or "inorganic". The production of man-made landscape is an attempt to reshape the "natural" through emulation, simulation, zoning and control, which in turn influences or even dominates our understanding of natural landscapes. In the end, man-made landscape becomes our definition for "Nature".
Our works explore the relation between man-made and natural objects in order to discover how they change or rectify people's perception to what Nature is, trying to seek what foundation modern city dwellers define Nature. The four exhibitors express their own understanding of Nature through a dialectical dialogue and discussion in photography. In addition, the exhibition resembles the form of a field report; therefore there are documents and written texts in reserved spaces for viewers' reflection.
藝術家簡介 Artist Biography
楊俊榮 Alan Ieon
Born in 1987. A graduate from the Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan, Alan takes photos that are inspired by the various changes occurred after Macao handover to China. His works focus on such themes as city landscapes, urban/national regime and personal identity, in an attempt to register those scattered and invisible fragments in order to present the actual city, revealing some absurd aspects of the system, and eventually exploring the very purpose of our existence.
鄧國豪 Tang Kuok Hou
Born in Macau in 1989 with a BA in sociology from the University of Macau, Tang has participated in more than 30 arts exhibitions in Macao and overseas besides two solo shows. He takes on such themes as identity, time, memory and local culture to explore, through man-made landscape, the interconnection among urbanites, landscapes and human existence versus Nature, as well as their respective meaning.
黃卓銘 Wong Cheok Meng
Born in Macau in 1990, with a BA in software engineering from the University of Macau, Wong focuses on such themes as city, space and symbols to probe the meaning of existence and the essence of things.
黃霐雴 Rusty Fox
Born in Macau in 1991, Rusty got a BA in photography and a MA in documentary photography in Newport, U.K. and he believes documentary photography has no expressional limits. He likes to observe urban balances and imbalances, being especially interested in the often neglected relations between organic and inorganic things, i.e. living things, human beings and inanimate objects. He tries to reveal common traits in unusual things, facilitating dialogue with viewers through his/her images.
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Bike on bike actionAugust 24, 2010 at 22:30 | Posted in bicycles | Leave a comment
Tags: aldi, bicycle, bicycles, bike, folder, radish
I went away two weekends ago weekend (I was playing at the Dubbo Jazz Festival, which was lots of fun), so went to the airport directly from work on Friday night. This meant my bike stayed in the office all weekend. I of course road to work on Monday on a different machine, and then ended up with two bikes at work.
This continued for a whole week; I rotated the bikes around (including having a fun day where I rode the fixie to work, then later in the day rode the tourer to North Ryde and back for a meeting, commuted home on the fixie and then went shopping on the radish), but it was still all very unsatisfactory. At some point I was going to have to get to work on public transport in order to ride home on the bike that remained in the office – either making for a horrendous morning commute, or taking up a chunk of valuable Baby Chillikebab time at the weekend. Surely there was another solution?
Then it came to me. Ride the folder to work, ride home on the tourer (which by this time was back at the office), then the next day, take the Radish – and strap the folder to the back of it for the ride home. Excellent! Where there's a bike there's a way…
So that's the plan I put into action on Monday. I wheeled the folder out of the shed, dusted it down (poor neglected thing!) and rode it in. Either it's grown, or since I've been riding the Radish I've become more tolerant of small bikes, as it was less uncomfortable than I remember. It was actually kind of fun to ride, albeit hard work on the hills. Monday evening I rode home on the tourer (via an orchestra rehearsal in Crows Nest), and this morning took the Radish to work. Man, I really have to get the gears sorted on the Radish. They are horrific; they jump around all over the place. Another trip to the LBS may be in order. The gears on the folder are superb by comparison – and that's a $200 bike from Aldi…
I ducked out of work at lunchtime, and bought a couple of tie-down straps and some bungy cords, and then come home-time folded up the folder and strapped it to the back of the Radish. It went on quite easily, although added a lot of weight – and width! I didn't cut through the queues of traffic for fear of putting a large scrape along someone's door, and that amount of weight fairly high up did make the bike a trifle unsteady. Not badly though; the Radish really does handle big loads with aplomb.
I got several comments from fellow commuters on the way home – one guy really seemed quite interested in the Radish. My stock line was an airy 'Oh, I always carry a spare bike, in case the main one breaks down…'
So my list of things I have carried on the Radish is growing:
#1 Two weeks worth of shopping
#2 Trombone and associated bits and bobs
#3 Folding bicycle
Any ideas as to what I should carry next?
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Final conference COST Action "Women Writers In History" 19-21 June 2013
at Huygens ING The Hague, Tesselschade room.
About 50 Action members will present outcomes of collaborative research, and projects for further cooperation, in which Digital Humanities play an important part.
Please find here the link to the program: <http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/European_Female_Authorship:_Networks_and_Obstacles>.
Within limitations related to the possibilities of the room, colleagues, students and others interested are invited to attend the conference (please inform the organizers).
You will notice that on this occasion there will be several related – non-digital – activities:
1. The Museum of Dutch Literary History will present a number of additional Dutch women authors in its "Writers' Gallery";
2. The Royal Library will show a (small) number of its (large) collection of 19th- and 20th-century women's books (either originally Dutch or translated into Dutch);
3. The National Archives contribute some of the recently re-discovered manuscripts of Belle de Zuylen/Isabelle de Charrière (which are in the process of being digitized and made available online).
At the end of the last day, three Utrecht musicians will present a performance based on Belle van Zuylen/Isabelle de Charrière's correspondence with James Boswell (correspondence which in the process of being digitized and made available on-line at Huygens ING).
All those interested are invited to join us (please notify the organisers if you intend to attend).
We plan to have an interesting and fruitful conference, closing this Action which for all the Action members has been and continues to be an important and enriching experience – which we are happy to be able to continue during the upcoming years.


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Innovative and flexible environment has produced ICT and game industry hub to the Southeast Finland region.
The game industry is booming in Southeast Finland.
The game industry in Southeast Finland has seen extremely positive development in recent years. It has become a nationally significant field with over 90% of the turnover attributable to export. The local game industry is an international competitive advantage is strengthening the brand of the Kymenlaakso region and the entire country, as the field employs a wide variety of experts (programmers, business developers, artists) and appeals to young people in particular. The technology used in game development has always been state of the art, and the field in general is exceptionally creative.
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Natural gas is stored at the TAQA-operated Peak Gas Installation (PGI), and delivered to the Dutch national grid (GTS) to meet peak demand.
PGI uses the Alkmaar gas reservoir located in the centre of the Bergen Concession near the city of Alkmaar and is situated approximately 2,200 metres underground. The installation has a contractual peak capacity of 36 million cubic metres per day and a working gas inventory of 500 million cubic metres.
TAQA holds a 36 percent stake in Peak Gas Installation and is the operator of the storage facility.
The other partners include the Dutch state-owned energy company, EBN (40 per cent), DANA Petroleum Netherlands BV (12 per cent) and Dyas BV (12 per cent). These parties have the right to exploit hydrocarbon resources within the boundaries of the Alkmaar Storage License.
|Total gas ( when "full")
|35.2 TWh (3.6 BCM)
|Working gas volume
|4.9 TWh (0.5 BCM)
|Cushion gas volume
|30.3 TWh (3.1 BCM)
|Maximum injection capacity
|1.5 GWh/hr (150.000 Nm3/hr)
|Minimum withdrawal capacity
(set by technical constraints)
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|Maximum withdrawal capacity
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|Injection period
|from 1 April to 1 November
|Withdrawal period
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|Connection to Gas Transport Services' G-Gas grid
|Physically the facility is connected to Gas Transport Services' G-Gas system upstream of the Beverwijk compression station on the Wieringermeer to Beverwijk section.
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text: Here are some more stills, most of which go back a fair way. All of the ones on this page are old 35mm stills that have been scanned, which is why the quality is a bit lacking in places. Interesting to see how some of the places have changed in the intervening years.