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|Title||Predicting the Force Needed to Create a Compression Seal in an Ultrathin Elastoviscoplastic Membrane|
|Publication Type||Journal Article|
|Year of Publication||2017|
|Authors||McNeff, PS, Paul, BK|
|Journal||Journal of Micro and Nano-Manufacturing|
In this paper, a finite element model is developed, and experimentally validated, for predicting the force required to produce a compression seal between a polycarbonate sealing boss and a 25-μm thick elastoviscoplastic hemodialysis membrane. This work leverages previous efforts to determine the conditions for hermetic sealing in a microchannel hemodialyzer fabricated using hot-embossed polycarbonate microchannel laminae containing sealing boss features. Methods are developed for mechanically characterizing the thin elastoviscoplastic hemodialysis membrane. The experimental data for assessing the depth of penetration into the membrane as a function of force show an R2 value of 0.85 showing good repeatability. The average percent error was found to be −8.0% with a range between −21.9% and 4.4% error in the strain region of interest.


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Mr Kitchen declined to comment. Asked whether he would accept the job if the salary was increased to the Government’s higher cap of €500,000 for senior bankers, he said: “It is what it is.”
A spokesman for Irish Nationwide said he had no comment.
A former director of IBI Corporate Finance and finance director of Green Property, Mr Kitchen recently joined the board of Cavan building materials firm Kingspan.
It was reported yesterday that a replacement chief executive, who had agreed to succeed Mr Fingleton, has told the society that he has decided not to take the job due to the Government’s salary cap."
"The Green Party increased the pressure on Mr Fingleton to resign yesterday over the payment of a €1 million bonus last November, just weeks after the Government moved to protect the Irish banks with the €440 billion guarantee.
The party also criticised Mr Fingleton’s pension arrangements through which he is the sole beneficiary of a €27.6 million pension scheme transferred out of the society to another retirement benefit scheme in January 2007.
Senator Dan Boyle, Green Party finance spokesman, said Mr Fingleton had come to personify all that was wrong with Irish banking.
“His conduct shows little care for savers and homeowners who have placed considerable faith – and in some cases placed their life’s chances and the fortunes of their families – in the care of that institution,” said Mr Boyle."
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Sittingbourne is packed with activities for kids and families. You won’t miss out on it. Even on rainy days, there are so many things to do that your loved ones and kids won’t get bored! Estate agents in Sittingbourne say you can literally spend a listless day and still not run out of local attractions in Sittingbourne. Kids and toddlers are always on the lookout for new things to explore and discover. Things to do with kids in Sittingbourne should be carefully picked. Activities need to be carefully considered from a child’s perspective. It also needs to take into account the total cost of doing it. Here you will find a list of things that you can do with kids in Sittingbourne – fun, interesting and educational as well!
Old Forge Wartime House
The Old Forge Wartime House is open from April to October every year, so step back in time and experience a day to remember. A visit to this 1940s house will give your children the chance to experience life during wartime and learn about the history of the Second World War. They can even explore a replica Anderson shelter! The Old Forge is a great museum that you should definitely visit if you are in Sittingbourne with children. You’ll find this gem on the High Street and it’s always great fun for both kids and adults. The staff are very friendly, welcoming and willing to answer any questions you may have. There are many rooms that have been recreated to show what life was like growing up in the 1940s, including an air raid shelter, an authentic wartime kitchen and living room, a bedroom with all original furniture from the era, as well as a fully functioning 1940s style bathroom. The house has also been decorated with memorabilia from those times such as ration books or old toys which makes for quite an interesting experience!
Sittingbourne letting agents say this is a great place for children with all kinds of interests. There are car boot sales, live music events and even dog racing on evenings and weekends! Kids will love seeing the dogs race around the track and if you’re lucky, you might even win a few pounds!
Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway
A favourite with families, this full-size steam railway runs from Sittingbourne to Kemsley Down Station. The steam train stops at various locations on its journey where you can get off at and explore the area before jumping back on to complete your journey.
St Michael’s Church
This church has stood in Sittingbourne since the 14th Century and was built as a chapel of ease for those who lived further away from other churches in the area. It has stood through many wars including World War I where it was used as an aid station for wounded soldiers.
Kent Science Park – There are lots of fun attractions for children at Kent Science Park, including the Discover Centre and Playbarn.
Swallows Leisure Centre – Swallows Leisure Centre is great for children looking to keep fit and play sports, with football pitches and swimming pools available.
Museum of Kent Life – Children can learn about history at the Museum of Kent Life, where there are activities arranged throughout the year.
Milton Creek Country Park
Milton Creek Country Park is a huge open space with loads to do for families. There are large grassy areas for picnics and kicking a ball about, plus a great playground with heaps of climbing equipment, slides, trampolines and swings. The park also has two lakes, which are popular with fishermen! In addition to all this, there are also miles of walking and cycling routes through the park.
Swale Outdoor Education Centre
Swale Outdoor Education Centre is located on the outskirts of Sittingbourne, on the edge of the Swale Estuarine Wetland Site. It offers a wide range of outdoor activities for children looking to get active in natural surroundings. From guided tours of the nature reserve to water sports activities such as kayaking and canoeing on the nearby Swale River, there are plenty of options here. And if you don’t fancy getting wet, why not hire an archery or mountain bike instead?
There are lots of things to do in Sittingbourne for kids. Whether you live in the area full time or you’re just visiting for a few days, you’re going to find that there’s plenty to do. Not only does the town have a lot of places to go and see, but it also has lots of activities as well. Some of these activities may be seasonal, but most of them are going to be available year-round.

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Patriots expecting Thomas
Pats meet with Brady, Morris; say goodbye to Dillon
March 2, 2007
The Patriots are on the cusp of making a major free agent splash, as linebacker Adalius Thomas is scheduled to arrive in town tomorrow. Assuming he passes a physical and there are no unexpected hitches, the sides are expected to finalize an agreement to make Thomas a Patriot, according to a source familiar with the negotiations.
Breaking News Alerts Thomas, 29, is widely considered one of the top players in free agency. Earlier today, his agent, James "Bus" Cook, indicated that things were moving quickly.
"I'm hoping that in the next day or two we get it all figured out, and that we get it knocked out over the weekend," Cook said of general negotiations, not those specifically with the Patriots. "Stay tuned and we'll see what happens. As one would imagine, it's been real, real crazy."
The 6-foot-2-inch, 270-pound Thomas, who has spent the first seven years of his career with the Ravens, totaled a career-high 11 sacks last season. He is a versatile, athletic defender who would likely line up at outside linebacker in the Patriots' 3-4 defense, and can rush the passer as a down lineman. Linebacker is arguably the Patriots' most pressing need, and Thomas would provide an unquestioned boost.
Free agency began this morning at 12:01, and while the Patriots have usually avoided the initial rush, when salaries are often sky-high, this year is different. Thomas could command as much as $18 million in bonuses, with the aggressive Patriots vying against the 49ers, and perhaps others.
One factor that might have helped the Patriots in their pursuit was that Thomas got to know coach Bill Belichick at the Pro Bowl in February.
"I never really met Belichick before, and you always hear about how he's a mean guy, but it's real interesting to see how he reacts with different players, how he gets comfortable over here," Thomas told the Associated Press at the time. "He's actually a really nice guy. I was surprised."
While the team's courting of Thomas generated a significant buzz, the Patriots also hosted veteran tight end Kyle Brady and running back Sammy Morris, and officially released running back Corey Dillon.
The 6-6, 280-pound Brady, who is entering his 13th season, is known for his blocking and durability (missing only nine games in his career). His receiving numbers have dipped in recent years, as he had five catches in 16 games last season.
Brady, 35, is likely seeking a short-term deal, and barring a contract agreement with the Patriots last night, he was scheduled to meet with the Broncos tomorrow. Brady's presence in Foxborough was likely tied to the Patriots' belief that free agent Daniel Graham will be signing elsewhere, and that Brady is the best player on the market to fill the void.Continued...
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It seems as though for the last couple of years the sale of multimillion dollar homes has been like a runaway bride. GONE. Even Houston, one of the strongest cities during the economic downturn, had somewhat of a stand still in sales of multimillion dollar homes. Things can change.
My expectation for the next couple of years will be a comeback market for these homes.
Although mainstream American is not looking at multimillion dollar listings, people in certain parts of the country are. Although there is plenty of inventory, I believe Houston will see an uptick in sales of these homes.
We have seen sales of homes that make up the luxury market—priced from $500K and up—consistently strong all year – and rose 23.2 percent in November. This tells me that if sales of these homes rose that high by 2010 year-end, then we will probably see a continuation of this through 2011. Also, since the luxury market (500k and up) has been relatively strong, I think there will be an overflow of sales into higher priced homes.
Over the last few years, people have been cautious with their money, expenses and investments. The stock market has finally made its way back above 11,000 points. Cash has played an important part to people’s lives, money-flow has a new meaning and putting cash back into real estate is becoming an attractive commodity again. Historically low rates and deflated prices are encouragements to want to buy real estate. Also, the public is beginning to understand new lending guidelines and a level of comfort enables people to relax when it comes to making big purchases in real estate.
This past year, I saw many large deals go through, even though the lending laws were undetermined, foreclosures were still rampant, and people were hesitant about their jobs. This year, I suspect there will be many more deals in the luxury market and even in the multimillion dollar luxury market.
There is definitely a sense of direction for real estate working in luxury markets at Beth Wolff Realtors. Every day seems to be a busy day here.
Michele Marano specializes in Luxury Real Estate.
If you would like to meet with Michele Marano about selling your luxury home, please schedule an appointment at Beth Wolff Realtors, 713-622-9339.

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Edward L. Ayers
Edward Lynn Ayers
|President of the University of Richmond|
July 1, 2007 – July 1, 2015
|Preceded by||William E. Cooper|
|Succeeded by||Ronald Crutcher|
|Born||January 22, 1953|
Asheville, North Carolina
|Alma mater||University of Tennessee (B.A., 1973)|
Yale University (M.A., 1977; Ph.D., 1980)
|Profession||Educator and historian|
Edward Lynn "Ed" Ayers (born January 22, 1953; Asheville, North Carolina) is an American historian, professor, administrator, and university president. In July 2013, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony for Ayers's commitment “to making our history as widely available and accessible as possible." He served as the president of the Organization of American Historians in 2017–18.
Ayers is the author of six and editor of seven books on the history of nineteenth-century America. The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. His book, In the Presence of Mine Enemies, Civil War in the Heart of America, won the Bancroft Prize for distinguished writing in American history and the Beveridge Award for the best book in English on the history of the Americas since 1492. The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America, was awarded the Lincoln Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Institute and the Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians. Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790-2020, narrates the evolution of southern history through the migration of indigenous, white, Black, and immigrant people, with maps created by Justin Madron and Nathaniel Ayers. What Caused the Civil War is a collection of original essays. Edward Ayers co-edited The Oxford Book of the American South and edited America’s War for the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Ayers received a Bachelor of Arts degree in American studies from the University of Tennessee in 1974, summa cum laude, and a doctorate in American studies from Yale University in 1980. He taught at the University of Virginia from 1980 to 2007, where he became the Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History and the Buckner W. Clay Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 2001 through 2007. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.
At Virginia, Ayers won several teaching prizes, including U.S. Professor of the Year for Doctoral and Research Universities, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Council for Advancement and Support of Education in 2003, and the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award in 1991. The university awarded Ayers its highest honor, the Thomas Jefferson Award, in 2006.
Ayers directed the dissertations of more than forty doctoral students at Virginia, most of them in the history of the American South.
Elected president of the University of Richmond in 2007, Ayers developed The Richmond Promise, a five-year strategic plan to guide University priorities. During his term, the university increased students of color from 11 percent to 28 percent, doubled the percentage of students receiving Pell Grants, covered the full cost of attendance for all Virginia students with family income below $60,000, and created the Richmond Guarantee, a paid summer fellowship for all undergraduate students. Ayers completed his term as president in 2015, when he was named the Tucker-Boatwright Professor of the Humanities.
New American History
In 2015, Ayers founded New American History, an initiative to enable engaged and innovative learning in history at all grade levels. It is based at the University of Richmond and funded through philanthropic support.
The project integrates Bunk, a daily curation of representations of the American past in multiple media; American Panorama, a digital atlas of United States history produced at the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond; BackStory, a radio show and podcast; and The Future of America’s Past, a video series created by Field Studio. New American History provides Learning Resources tailored to different grade levels, and partners with organizations devoted to supporting teachers and students of United States history.
Ayers pioneered in digital history, overseeing the Valley of the Shadow project at the University of Virginia from 1991 through 2007. The project presented an interactive archive dedicated to two communities in the American Civil War, produced in collaboration with William G. Thomas III and Anne Sarah Rubin. The project won the Lincoln Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Institute in 2001 and the James Harvey Robinson Prize for Outstanding Aid to Teaching History, American Historical Association (AHA) in 2002. The project was named one of the fifty most important efforts sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities in its first fifty years.
In 2007, Ayers founded the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond, where he now serves as a senior research fellow. The Lab received the 2019 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History for a freely available new media project, American Panorama: An Atlas of United States History. In 2021, Edward Ayers, Justin Madron, and Nathaniel Ayers received accolades for the Digital Scholarship Lab project Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790–2020, at the prestigious ESRI User Conference. Southern Journey earned third place in the "Spatial Analysis ArcGIS StoryMaps" category and received the top prize overall in both "Best Cartography" and "ICA and IMIA Recognition of Excellence in Cartography."
Ayers has been active in public history. From 2008 through 2020 he served as one of the founding co-hosts of BackStory, based at Virginia Humanities, alongside Peter Onuf, Brian Balogh, Joanne B. Freeman, and N. D. B. Connolly from 2008 to 2020. BackStory was broadcast on more than 200 stations around the country and was downloaded millions of times as a podcast. The program selected topics from current headlines and examined each in a historical context. Archived episodes continue to be made available by the Virginia Humanities and the American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB).
Ayers is the host of The Future of America’s Past, a program produced for Virginia Public Media by Field Studio Films and distributed nationally. The show received multiple awards for its first two seasons. The pilot episode, "Freedom’s Fortress", received a 2019 Capital Region Emmy Award for its directors and producers, Hannah Ayers and Lance Warren. Two additional episodes received recognition at the 2020 Capital Region Emmy Awards. “A Public Calamity” received a Capital Region Emmy Award for Historical/Cultural Short Form Content, and “School Interrupted” received an Emmy for Magazine Program (Single Program).
Ayers has served on the boards of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council for Education, the Organization of American Historians, the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia Humanities, and the Valentine Museum. Ayers was founding chair of the board of the American Civil War Museum from 2013 through 2019. He has also served Richmond and the state of Virginia on the Monument Avenue Commission, the Fort Monroe Authority, the African American History Education Commission, and the Commission for Historical Statues in the United States Capitol.
- Organization of American Historians, president (2017–2018); executive board officer (2017–2020)
- American Council for Education, executive committee and co-chair of accreditation committee, 2008–2012
- National Humanities Center, board member, 2007–2011
- National Council for the Humanities, 2000–2004, appointed by the president of the United States to advise the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Southern Journey: The Migrations of the American South, 1790–2020, (Louisiana State University Press, 2020. ISBN 9780807173015.)
- The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America, (W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. ISBN 0393292630, 978-0393292633.)
- America's War: Talking about the Civil War and Emancipation on their 150th Anniversaries, (co-published by the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8389-9308-8.)
- America on the Eve of the Civil War, edited with Carolyn R. Martin, (University of Virginia Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8139-3063-3.)
- The Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration, edited with Gary Gallagher and Andrew Torget, (University of Virginia Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8139-2552-3.)
- What Caused the Civil War? Reflections on the South and Southern History, (W.W. Norton & Company, 2005. ISBN 978-0-393-05947-2.)
- In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859–1863, (W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. ISBN 978-0-393-32601-7.)
- The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War – The Eve of War, CD-ROM and book co-authored with Anne S. Rubin, (W.W. Norton & Company, 2000. ISBN 978-0-393-04604-5.)
- The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony, Memory, and Fiction, edited with Bradley Mittendorf, (Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-19-512493-4.)
- All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions, co-editor and co-author, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-8018-5392-0.)
- The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction, (Oxford University Press, 1992; paperback edition, 1993; abridged edition, 1995; 15th Anniversary Edition, 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-532688-8.)
- The Edge of the South: Life in Nineteenth-Century Virginia, co-edited with John C. Willis, [University Press of Virginia, 1991. ISBN 978-0-8139-1298-1.)
- Vengeance and Justice: Crime and Punishment in the Nineteenth-Century American South, (Oxford University Press, 1984; paperback edition, 1986. ISBN 978-0-19-503988-7.)
- Lincoln Prize (2018), for The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America
- National Humanities Medal (2012), "for his commitment to making our history as widely available and accessible as possible." (2012)
- Bancroft Prize, In The Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 (2004)
- National Council on the Humanities, Presidential Appointee (2000–2004)
- U.S. Professor of the Year for Doctoral and Research Universities, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Council for Advancement and Support of Education (2003)
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2001)
- Lincoln Prize (2001), with Anne S. Rubin, and William G. Thomas, for Valley of the Shadow: The Eve of War (CD-ROM)
- James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians (1993), for The Promise of the New South
- Pulitzer Prize Finalist – History (1993), for The Promise of the New South
- National Book Award Finalist – Nonfiction (1992), for The Promise of the New South
- Distinguished Fellow of the Georgia Historical Society
- In his podcast, Backstory, Ayers introduces himself as "Ed Ayers."
- "Edward L. Ayers: National Humanities Medal". National Endowment for the Humanities. 2012. Archived from the original on August 26, 2013. Retrieved September 3, 2013.
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- "National Book Awards – 1992". National Book Foundation. Retrieved September 3, 2013.
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- "Columbia Announces 2004 Bancroft Prize Winners: Ayers, Hahn, Marsden". columbia.edu. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved September 11, 2021.
- "Albert J. Beveridge Award". American Historical Association. Archived from the original on October 24, 2013. Retrieved September 11, 2021.
- "2018 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize recipient announced". Gettysburg College. Archived from the original on April 20, 2018. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
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- "Map Gallery Award Winners | 2021 Esri User Conference". www.esri.com. Retrieved September 11, 2021.
- "BackStory". SoundCloud. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
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- Holzinger, Kim. "For Abby Ayers, public life means keeping some things close to heart," The Collegian, November 8, 2007. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
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- 2003 Professor of the Year National Winner: Edward Ayers

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Your planet probably can not stay together if if rotates as fast as you request.
I am unable to calculate the correct ratation rate to maintain a specific shape for a panet of a specified mass, nor the correct rotation rate to reduce the surface gravity at the equator to 1 g. So of course I cannot design a planet where those two rotation rates would be the same rate, thus making it possible for such a planet to exist. Perhaps someone else can do it for you.
Howevery, I have been able to calculate that it is probably impossible for a planet to stay together if it had a half hour long rotation period. Any large and oblate planet would have an equatorial rotatin speed greater than its escape velocity if it rotated that fast.
You didn't say that the planet had to be habitable for humans. But you did require that the planet had to: 1) have a surface gravity at the equator which was survivable for humans, and 2) be as large as possible, - Jupiter mass was mentioned.
Okay, I now notice that the question requires 1 g of surface gravity at the equator. So I don't have to consider what is the highest surface gravity humans can tolerate.
The mass of Jupiter is about 317.8 times the mass of Earth, so we should make the mass of the planet 300 times the mass of Earth for simplicity.
Assume for the moment that the planet somehow has an average surface density equal to that of the Earth, 5.514 grams per cubic centimeter. Assume that it is shaped like a very flat cylinder. Assume that its thickness is approximately equal to the diameter of Earth, 12,742 kilometers.
To have 300 times the mass of Earth and the same average density as Earth, the planet would have to have 300 times the volume of Earth.
A sphere with the radius of Earth has a volume of 4.18879 cubic Earth radii.
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A cylinder with the radius of Earth and a height of 2 Earth radii has a volume of about 6.28 cubic Earth radii, about 1.499 times the volume of a sphere with the radius of Earth.
300 divided by 1.499 is about 200.13342. The square root of 200.13342 is about 14.146581. So a flat cylinder with a radius of 14.146581 Earth radii and a height of 2 Earth radii (I Earth diameter) should have a volume of 300 Earth volumes.
The cylinder volume calculator gives such a cylinder a volume of 1,257.43 cubic Earth radii, or 300.18931 times Earth's volume. So such a cylinder would be 2 Earth radii or 12,742 kilometers "high" and have a radius of 90,127.867 kilometers and diameter of 180,255.73 kilometers.
The average radius of the Earth is 6,371 kilometers, but it varies between 6,356.752 kilometers at the poles to 6,378.137 kilometers at the equator, a difference of 21.385 kilometers. The Earth is oblate because it rotates, and the faster movement at he equator lifts up the surface of the Earth and reduces the surface gravity there a tiny bit.
The pancake shaped world would have to rotate rapidly to maintain its shape. Othewise its gravity would pull it into a sphere with a radius of about 6.69573724 Earth radii.
But assume that it wasn't rotating. What would be the surface gravity at the edge of fhe cylinder - equivaent to the equator of a pancake shaped planet - be?
According to my rough calculations, the surface gravity of a world with 300 times the mass of Earth at a distance of 14.146581 Earth radii would be about 300 divided by 200.12575, the square of 14.146581, and thus about 1.4990574 g which is about 14.705 meters per second per second.
Possibly some people wouldn't mind walking around in 1.499 g. though possibly the weight of space suits or other environmental protection would be too much for them. But maybe it turns out that nobody can stand to walking around for long in more than 1.25 g.
Anyway, the problem is to get the surface gravity down to 1 g at the rim of the cylinder that corresponds to the equator of the pancake planet.
I don't know how to calculate the proper rotational speed to bring the surface gravity of the pancake planet down to 1 g at the equator.
But it should be possible to calculate a maximum possible ratational speed of such a pancake planet.
The escape velocity at the rim of the cylinder roughly corresponding to the pancake planet equator can be calculated. The planet would have 300 times the mass of Earth, so the escape velocity at a distance of 14.146581 Earth radii would be 51.51 kilometers per second.
Since the pancake planet would 14.146581 times the radius of Earth it would also have 14.146581 times the circumference of Earth. So the cylinder would have a circumference of 566,924.47 kilometers. The traveling at 51.51 kilometers per secondit would take 11,006.105 seconds, or 3.057 hours, to travel 566,924.47 kilometers. So if the pancake planet rotated faster than once every 3.057 hours material at its equator would be taravelling faster than escape velocity and wuld escape into outer space.
The question asks for a planet rotating about once every half hour, which is about 6 times as fast as the maximum speed that a planet with the above mass and dimensions could rotate at before starting to break up.
So this example of a pancake planet has to be rotating very fast to maintain its oblate shape, but also has to rotate at the proper speed to have a surface gravity of only 1 g at its equator, and also has to rotate less than once every 3.057 hours to avoid breaking up. And I don't know if the proper speed to maintain its shape would be equal to the proper speed to have a surface gravity of 1 g on the equator.
The question asked how large such a planet could get in mass and radius.
And the easy - though possibly not correct - answer is that a pancake shaped planet could get as massive as any planet can get. The dividing line in mass between the most massive planets and the least massive brown dwarfs is believed to be about 13 times the mass of Jupiter, and thus about 4,131.4 times the mass of Earth. Brown dwarfs are neither planets nor stars, but rather intermediate types of objects.
So we can assume that a pancake shaped planet might possibly have as much as 4,000 times the mass of Earth. How it would form is another question. Explorers from Earth might believe that such a massive planet without much light elements was impossible to form naturally and theorize that a very advanced civilization actually built that planet, perhaps while experimenting to build an Alderson disc. But that is another story.
And this time I will make the planet several times as "thick" in my crude cylinderical model. I will try making it 10 Earth radii or 5 Earth diameters thick.
A cylinder with a radius of 1 Earth radius and a height of 10 Earth radii would have a volume of 320.44 cubic Earth radii or 76.499418 times the volume of Earth. A world with the density of Earth and 4,000 times the mass would need a volume 4,000 times the volume of Earth.
A clyindrical planet with a polar diameter of 10 Earth radii (63,710 kilomeers)) and an equatorial radius of 23.09401 Earth radii (147,131.93 kilometers) and diameter of 46.18802 Earth radii (294,263.86 kilometers) would have 4,000 times the volume of Earth.
Such a planet would have a surface gravity of about 7.5000046 g at the equator, and would have to rotate rapidly to reduce it to 1 g at the equator. And it would also have to spin fast enough to have such an oblate shape.
It would have an escape velocity of 147.2 kilometers per second at the equator.
With a radius of 147,131.93 kilometers it would have a circumference of about 924,456.39 kilometers at the equator. So a full rotation of the planet at 147.2 kilometers per second, escape velocity, would take about 6,280.2743 seconds, or 1.74452 hours. That 3.489 times as long as the half hour per rotation requested in the OP.
Let's try to see how fast perfectly spherical planets with 300 times the mass of Earth and 4,000 times the mass of Earth could rotate without starting to lose mass - ignoring of course that they would become oblate if they rotated even a small fraction as fast as that.
A perfectly spherical planet with a radius of 6.69573724 Earth radii would have a volume 300 times that of Earth. If it had the same average density as Earth it would have 300 times the mass of Earth.
And it would have an escape velocity of 74.87 kilometers per second. With a radius of 6.69573724 Earth radii it would have a circumference of about 268,031.29 kilometers. Turning at 74.87 kilometers per second, it would take 3,579.9557 seconds, or 0.9944321 hours to rotate, about 1.9888 times as long as the requested half hour rotation.
If a perfectly spherical planet has the same average density as Earth it should have about 4,000 times the mass of Earth if it has 4,000 times the volume of Earth. Since the cube root of 3,999.9995 is 15.87401, a spherical planet with 15.8741 times the radius of Earth and the same average density a s Earthwould have a mass of 3,999.9995 Earths.
Such a planet would have an escape velocity of 17.756 kilometers per second, With a radius 15.87401 times that of Earth, it would have a circumference of 636,151.22 kilometers. Rotating at 17.756 kilometers per second it would take 35,827.394 seconds, or 9.9520 hours, for a full rotation, about 19.9 times as long as the requested rotation time.
My rough calculations show that it might not be possible to design a planet that could rotate in about half an hour witoout breaking up.
And I think that designing a planet where the right rotation rate to reduce equatorial gravity to one g was also the right rotation rate to maintain the shape of the planet would be hard enough to do.

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What it takes to win a Golden Quill Award
BY Chief Judge Gerald Perschbacher, LLD & Old Cars Staff
An outstanding array of car club publications are in the list of Golden Quill Award winners for calendar year 2018, according to Chief Judge Gerald Perschbacher and the Old Cars editorial staff. The winners reflect a serious yet fun and educational approach to the collector car hobby. In effect, the winning editors clearly enjoy making their publications professional and personable, all the while advancing the hobby through understanding of automotive history.
“The energy and dynamic of being good editors truly is evident,” says Dr. Gerald Perschbacher, who served as chief judge in the initial process. His findings were reviewed and confirmed by the editorial department.
“The improved writing, layout and preparation of club publications may be attributed to electronic helps and options, but it still remains a very human effort to be a successful editor and please the necessities of a local, regional or national club, regardless of membership size,” said Perschbacher.
Perschbacher’s own editorial experience includes serving more than three decades as the editor of a large publication with worldwide circulation. He notes that car club members may not fully appreciate what it takes to meet the task of editor.
“First, there is the matter of obtaining and selecting articles, then come edits, revisions, testing the facts, stylistic formats, selection of visuals, occasionally the securing of legal permission and a rafter of other steps leading to design and layout,”’ Perschbacher said. The work of an editor is time-consuming but the reward of accomplishment and reader enjoyment fuel many editors to keep up the level of enthusiasm necessary for a good publication.
Many club editors work within a budget and have guidelines to follow for his or her club. Editors must balance content that educates and entertains club members while binding those club members together. The editor has keen responsibilities to carry the torch for the club in image, reporting accomplishments, schedules and pending matters for a club.
No editor is perfect, but the best of them strive to do better with each issue. This year’s winners show the best balances of content and the best presentation of the club through its publication. Winners were selected based on a multitude of specific factors: balanced content, visual interest, good historic articles, print quality, member and member car features, technical information, solid club news and reports, and a sounding board for members to present ideas and discoveries and ads. Other items may be added but should not overpower the main content or detract from important space. Among the greatest challenges for editors in the final hours leading to printing are accuracy and visual integrity. Technical articles may vary in depth but should not be beyond the understanding of most readers.
“Tell your editor that the work is not taken for granted,” said Angelo Van Bogart, Old Cars editor. “If your club’s publication is on the winners’ list, share a word of cheer and congratulate them. For those in ‘honorable mention,’ give extra encouragement by submitting articles or ideas for articles. Tell them what you do and do not like about your club publication and perhaps offer a helping hand — many editors are overwhelmed and under-assisted volunteers. The competition never is quite the same, so who knows how many of those ‘honorable mentions’ may inch up to being a winner next time, especially with your help.”
To be eligible for award consideration for 2019, copies of club publications are to be sent to Dr. Gerald Perschbacher and the Old Cars office at the addresses below. Submission of publications allows for potential consideration and inclusion in an installment of the “Club Clips” column that regularly appears in Old Cars. Because format is one of the factors in categorizing winners, digital submissions cannot be fairly judged.
Dr. Gerald Perschbacher
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Golden Quill Award Winners for 2018
- Air Cooled News, Alex Huppe & Jeryl Schriever, co-editors, H.H. Franklin Club, Inc.
- American Motoring, Cheryl Samuel & Mike Spangler, editors, American Motors Owners Association
- Antique Automobile, West Peterson, editor, The Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA)
- At The Sign Of The Cat, Thierry Frisch, editor, Cougar Club of America
- The Auburn Cord Duesenburg Club Newsletter, Shannon Olson, editor, Auburn Cord Duesenberg Club
- Avanti, Lewis Schucart, editor, Avanti Owners Association Int.
- The Brickline, Randy Wyrick, editor, Bricklin International Owners Club, Inc.
- Buick Bugle, Pete Phillips, editor, Buick Club of America
- The Bulb Horn, Dennis Holland, editor, The Veteran Motor Car Club of America
- The Corvette Restorer, Vinnie Peters, editor, National Corvette Restorers Society
- Generator & Distributor, Vince Taliano, editor, Vintage Chevrolet Club of America, Inc.
- Horseless Carriage Gazette, Tracy Lesher, editor, Horseless Carriage Club of America
- The Ignitor, John Teel, editor, Spark Plug Collectors of America
- Impala News, Don Keefe, editor, National Impala Association
- Journey with Olds, Shannon Olson, editor, Oldsmobile Club of America
- The Legend, Tom Szymczyk, editor, GTO Association of America
- Lincoln & Continental Comments, Jeff Shively editor, Lincoln & Continental Owners Club
- Lincoln Owners’ Club Newsletter, Greg Bilpuch, editor, Lincoln Owners Club
- Model A News, Helen Ehrenhofer, editor, Model “A” Restorers Club
- Model T Times, Natalie Weaver, editor, The Model T Ford Club Int.
- On Solid Ground, Ken Amrick, editor, Solid Axle Corvette Club
- The Packard Cormorant, Stuart R. Blond, editor, Packard Automobile Classics
- Packards International Magazine, Don Hull, editor, Packards International
- Plymouth Bulletin, Lanny D. Knutson, editor, Plymouth Owners Club
- Porsche Panorama, Ron Sass editor, The Porsche Club of America
- The Professional Car, Walt McCall, editor, The Professional Car Society
- Pur Sang, Tim Clifford, editor, American Bugatti Club
- Quicksilver, Todd Haefer, editor, International Mercury Owners Association
- The Riview, Ray Knott, editor, Riviera Owners Association
- The Self-Starter, Stephen E. “Steve” Stewart, editor, Cadillac & LaSalle Club, Inc.
- Smoke Signals, Tim Dye, editor, Pontiac-Oakland Club International
- Thunderbird Scoop, Terri McNeill, editor, Vintage Thunderbird Club Int.
- Turning Wheels, Ann Turner, editor, The Studebaker Drivers Club
- V8 Times, Jerry Windle, editor, Early Ford V8 Club of America
- White Triangle News, Sam Jackson, editor, Hudson-Essex-Terraplane Club, Inc.
- The Arrow, Roger J. Sherman, editor, Pierce-Arrow Society
- The Cormorant News Bulletin, Craig Handley, editor, The Packard Club
- The Crosley Quarterly, Abigayle & Joyce Morgan, co-editors, Crosley Automobile Club
- DeSoto Adventures, Geoff Overley, editor, National DeSoto Club, Inc.
- Fomoco Times, Travis B. Sheaffer, editor, Crown Victoria Association
- The Fork & Blade, David Schultz, editor, Lincoln Owners Club
- The Nomad Post, John Lee, editor, The Chevrolet Nomad Association
- Reo Echo, Stan (Butch) & Lois Pream and Martin & Joyce Moody, editors, The Reo Club of America, Inc.
- Runabouts to Rockets, Paul Hartlieb, Jim Schultz, Rick Winn & Blythe Thimsen, editors, National Antique Oldsmobile Club
- Stutz News, Carl Jensen, editor, The Stutz Club, Inc.
- Torque Tube II, Matthew Hinson, editor, 1936-1938 Buick Club
- The Vintage Ford, Aleesa Drennen, editor, Model T Ford Club of America
- Woodie Times, John Lee, editor, The National Woodie Club
- WPC News, Richard Bowman, editor, Chrysler Product Restorers Club
- Airflow Newsletter, Frank Daly, editor, Airflow Club of America
- American Austin Bantam Club News, Bob & Cathy Cunningham, editor, The American Austin Bantam Club
- Cross Flags, Jeff Butz, editor, ’65-66 Full Size Chevrolet Club
- Durant Partner, Carol Fogarazzo, editor, Durant Motors Automobile Club
- Front Wheel Driver, Steve & Lucy Blakey, editors, Toronado Owners Association
- Jeepster News, Peter G. Mozzone, editor, Willys Overland Jeepster Club
- Kaiser Frazier Owners Club International Quarterly, Jack Mueller, editor, Kaiser-Frazer Owners Club Int.
- The Marmon News, George Bradley, editor, The Marmon Club
- Professional Car Collector, Louis C. Farah, editor, Professional Cars International
- The Silver Shell, Jeff Buckley, editor, Moon Car Club
- Silver Trumpet, Bill Blunden, editor, SPAAMFAA
- Supercharger, Dale Robbins, editor, Graham Owners Club International, Inc.
- Talegate, Chuck Snyder, editor, Int. Station Wagon Club
- TC America Newsletter, B.Karleen Tarola, president, TC America, Inc.
- Thunder & Lightning, Judy Badgley, editor, Hurst/Olds Club of America
- Thunderbird Script, Nicholle Colwell, editor, International Thunderbird Club
- Tucker Topics, Steve Lehto, editor, Tucker Automobile Club of America, Inc.
- Vintage Triumph, Mike Cook, editor, The Vintage Triumph Register
- Viva Carrera!, Mike Denney, editor, The Road Race Lincoln Register Club
- VSA, Jim Bates, editor, Volvo Sports America/1800 Register, Inc.
- Wheels & Waves, Larry DePasquale, editor, Int. Amphicar Owners Club
- The Accelerator, Jon Bill, Curator, Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum
- Braking News, Jeff Lane, director, Lane Motor Museum
- The EMMR Times, Eastern Museum of Motor Racing
- The Ford Legend, Frank Scheidt, editor, Henry Ford Heritage Association
- Special Category
- (Supportive of the Hobby)
- Driving Force, Colby Martin, editor, SEMA Action Network
- The Elegance at Hershey, West Peterson, program editor/graphic design
- Finz, Ron Melville, editor, The Cadillac LaSalle Club of New Zealand
- Foundation News, Frank Scheidt, editor, Early Ford V-8 Foundation
- LaCad, Andrew & Rachel Rees, editors, Cadillac LaSalle Club of Australia
- Mercedes-Benz Classic, Jochen Fischer, editor, Mercedes-Benz
- The Packard Proving Grounds News Report, Bud Juneau, editor, The Packard Motor Car Foundation
QUILL REGIONS/CHAPTERS 2018
- AM Spirit, Z. Chris Kaszuba, editor, Northern Ramblers Car Club, Inc.
- Bird’s Nest, Don Seymour, editor, New England’s Vintage Thunderbirds
- The Dashboard, Maureen Blevins, editor, Greater Illinois Region-Classic Car Club of America
- Driven, Bill Fulk, editor, Shelby American Automobile Club of Northern California
- Hoosier Horn, Jeff Shively, editor, Indiana Region-Classic Car Club of America
- Northern Lights, Donna & Bill Dirnberger, editors, Minnesota Region-AACA
- Overhead Cammer, Jim Black, editor, Overhead Cammers Chapter-Pontiac-Oakland Club
- The Pious Pelican, Bud Juneau, editor, Northern California Packards
- The Pittsburgh Tri-State Chapter NCRS Newsletter, Jim Patitucci, editor, Top Flight Chapter-National Corvette Restorers Society
- The Redline Times, Reba Whittington, editor, Carolinas Chapter-National Corvette Restorers Society
- The Skyline, Ken Bechtle, editor, The Metro Region-Classic Car Club of America
- The Vette Signal, Jim Santoro, editor, Michigan Chapter-National Corvette Restorers Society
- Wheels “A” Rolling, David Young, editor, Mid-Atlantic Region-Vintage Motor Car Club of America
- Arizona Bird Chatter, Mike Woods, editor, Arizona Classic Thunderbird Club
- Boomtimes, William C. Anderson, editor, Buick Owners of Maryland
- The Chatter, Kim Gardner, editor, AACA Capitol City Chapter
- Ford Lines, Mike Denney, editor, Tulsa Early Ford V8
- The Gas Buggy Gazette, John E. Sayler, Jr., editor, Gettysburg Region-AACA
- Henney Program of Progress, George Hamlin, editor, Henney Chapter-Professional Car Society
- Hoosier Views, Bruce & Carol Gable, editors, Indiana Regional Group #56-Early Ford V8 Club of America
- The Hub Cap, Joyce Edfors, editor, Wisconsin Region-Classic Car Club of America
- Northstar News, Dave Gustafson, editor, Northstar Region-Lincoln & Continental Owners Club
- Planetary News, Mike Zahorik, editor, Model T Ford Club of Milwaukee
- Phantom News, Arlene Roth, editor, Phantoms Motor/Model Club
- Rocket Recorder, Irma Benedek, editor, Delaware Valley Oldsmobile Club
- Rocket Review, Judy Badgley, editor, R.E. Olds Chapter-Oldsmobile Club of America
- Snic Braaapp, Jack Gleason/Tom Morgan, editors, Illinois Sports Owners Association
- Studebaker Spokesman, Claude Chmielewski, Wisconsin Region-Studebaker Drivers Club
- Thunderbird News, Ed Raabe, editor, Classic Thunderbird Club of South Florida
- Triangle Chapter News, Annie Goldman, editor, Triangle Chapter-AACA
- Alabama Packards Newsletter, Dale Baker, editor, Alabama Packards Club
- The AM-xcentric, Joshua Greenplate, editor, Great Lakes Classic AMC Club
- Arc and Spark, John McLellan, editor, Kalamazoo Antique Auto Restores Club
- Borgward, Borgward-Owners Club
- Exhaust Valve, Jim Jaeger, editor, Fireball Chapter-Buick Club of America
- Mass Cruisers Auto Club, John Buchanan, editor, Mass Cruisers Auto Club
- Packardgram, Duane Gunn, editor, Arizona Region-Packards International
- PMD Excitement, Chuck Catalano, editor, South Jersey Pontiac Chapter, Pontiac-Oakland Club Int.
- The Pushrod, Pam Scherer, editor, Milwaukee Corvair Society of America (CORSA)
- The Rope Shaft Reader, Gary Stoiber, editor, Little Indians Chapter-Pontiac-Oakland Club Int.
- Sidelights, Jean Hawa, editor, South Florida Region-AACA
- The Starterator, Rich Gibbs, editor, Sunflower Region-Contemporary Historical Vehicle Association
- The Steering Column, Betty E. Fisher, editor, The Greater Baltimore Model A Ford Club
- Steering Wheel Newsletter, Ed Meyer, editor, Missouri-Illinois “Gateway” Chapter-Studebaker Drivers Club
- Thunderbird Flyer, Tom Przedwojewski, editor, Northwest Vintage Thunderbird Club
- Tomahawk, Paul Bergstrom, editor, Minnesota Chapter 13-Pontiac-Oakland Club Int.
- Trail Bird News, David Tulowitzky, editor, Trail Birds of Southwest Florida, Chapter 113-Classic Thunderbird Club Int. (CTCI)
- Willys Overland Words, Joy Heidal, editor, Northwest Chapter-Willys-Overland-Knight Registry
- The Ah-OOO-Gah Bulletin, Bruce Burke, editor, Mohican Model A Ford Club
- Airhorn, Chris Biddle, editor, Chicagoland Corvair Enthusiasts CORSA Chapter
- The Autograf, Gary Wright, editor, Mississippi Valley Region-AACA
- The Belltown Bulletin, Dan David, editor, Belltown Antique Car Club
- Bird Talk, Art Fleming, editor, VTCI Long Island Thunderbird Club
- The Bonding Strip, Jamie Fiffles, editor, Southern California Chapter-National Corvette Restorers Society
- Bow Tie Bulletin, Ron Panicucci, editor, Jersey Lakeland Region-Vintage Chevrolet Club of America
- Caddy Chatter, Tony Albarella, editor, Cadillac Club of North Jersey
- Carolina Plymouth Power, Dean Yates, editor, Plymouth Owners Club-Carolina Region
- Chrysler Tonic, Carol Morice, editor, Northern Illinois Region-WPC Club, Inc.
- Classic Olds Journal, Mary Degler, editor, Olds Club of Florida-Oldsmobile Club of America
- Cloisonne Calendar, Bill Heptig, editor, Minnesota Packards Inc.-Packard Automobile Classics
- Clutch Chatter, Larry R. Huffman, editor, Tri-County Region-AACA
- Cormorant Flier, Stan Ruesch, editor, Wisconsin Packard Automobile Classics, Inc.
- Dairyland Digest, Helen Gellert, editor, Dairyland Region-Plymouth Owners Club
- Dynaflash, Jim Jaeger, editor, Hawkeye Chapter-Buick Club of America
- East Coast Chapter Newsletter, Pat & Dan Kasten, editors, East Coast Chapter-International Ford Retractable Club
- The Echo, Chris Collins, editor, Grand Canyon State Chapter-Studebaker Drivers Club
- The Egbert Express, Roberta Helpap, editor, Northeaster Michigan Chapter-Studebaker Drivers Club
- The Enlightener, Dan Cress, editor, The Badger Region-CLC Cadillac & LaSalle Club
- The Fordist, Judy Dildine, interim editor, Southern California R.G. #11-Early Ford V8 Club of America
- From The Corral, Bill Krieger, Northern Mustang Corral
- Gateway Gazette, Ted Baker, editor, St. Louis Gateway Chapter-Buick Club of America
- The GMC Times, Paul Bergstrom, editor, GMC Truck Chapter of Pontiac-Oakland Club Int.
- Good Olds Days, Michelle Petersen, editor, Illinois Valley Olds Chapter
- Gray Goose News, Terry Ernest, editor, The Wills Museum
- Great Arrow News, David Coco, editor, Pierce-Arrow Foundation
- The Great Plains Terraplane Hudson Gazette, Ramona Dittrich, editor, Hudson-Essex-Terraplane Club
- The Hexagon, Jim Vines, Asst. editor, Mid Atlantic Packards
- The Horseless Page, Donna Dirnberger, editor, The Twin Cities Regional Group-Horseless Carriage Club of America
- The Hudson-Aire, Lynn P. Horn, editor, Chesapeake Bay Chapter-Hudson-Essex-Terraplane Club
- Hudsonnews, Richard Low, editor, Dixie Chapter-Hudson-Essex-Terraplane Club
- Illinois Chapter of POCI Newsletter, Shelley Condon, editor, Illinois Chapter-Pontiac-Oakland Club Int.
- Kaiser Frazer Owners Club International Monthly News Bulletin, Barbara Mueller, editor
- The Livery, Eileen Schoenecker, editor,Tri-State Chapter-Professional Car Society
- Mass Cruisers Auto Club, John Buchanan, editor, Mass Cruisers Auto Club
- News-Flite, Andy Mikonis, editor, Chrysler 300 Club International, Inc.
- News-Notes, Duane Gunn, editor, Packards of Arizona
- 1915-1918 Buick & McLaughlin-Buick Owners, Dean G. Tyron, editor, 1915-1918 Buick & McLaughlin-Buick Owners Group
- Nuts and Bolts, Joe Pinson, editor, Cape Canaveral Region-AACA
- The Old Crank, Brenna Olwine & Chuck Riblett/Carolyn Taylor, co-editors, Northern Colorado Chapter-Vintage Motor Car Club of America
- Packard Profiles, Ken Dunning, editor, Peachstate Packards-Packard Automobile Classics
- Pajarito Post, Lloyd Powell, editor, Pajarito Thunderbird Club of New Mexico
- Pan Siftings, Ray Maier, editor, St. Cloud Antique Auto Club, Inc.
- PCPV Newsletter, Paul Bergstrom, editor, Pontiac Commercial & Professional Vehicle Chapter-Pontiac-Oakland Club Int.
- Pelican Papers, Drusilla Carter, editor, North Atlantic Packards
- Plymouth Power, Dean Yates, newsletter, Plymouth Owners Club-Carolina Region
- Porthole, Fred Syrdal, editor, Gopher State Chapter-Buick Club of America
- Red Cap Review II, Charles E. Wilson, editor
- Redline Times, Jason Baird, editor, Goat Herd GTO Club of Oregon
- Rumble Sheet, Bill Gillies, editor, Twin Cities Regional Group #46-Early Ford V8 Club of America
- Sidelights, Jean Hawa, editor, South Florida Region-AACA
- Silver Dome Gazette, Stuart Ryce, editor, California Chrysler Products Club
- The Standard, Tim Pawl, editor, Motor City Region-Cadillac & LaSalle Club
- The Standard Of The World, Bill Levy, editor, West of the Lake Region-Cadillac $ LaSalle Club
- Up to Speed, Maureen Blevins, editor, Greater Illinois Region-Classic Car Club of America
- Voice, Steve Fox, editor, Iowa CrossRoads Region-Cadillac & LaSalle Club


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By Brandon Moseley
Alabama Political Reporter
How to pay for college is one of the most vexing issues facing American families. You get a college degree so that you can get a better job, so that you can afford to send your children to college, so that they can get a better job, so that they can afford to send their sons and daughters to college. We all know HOW to pay for college: set $100 to $150 a month aside every month from the day of the child’s birth in conservatively invested accounts.
Actually, doing that given medical bills, insurance costs, car repairs, the mortgage, school activities, clothes, rising energy prices, career setbacks, low wages, paying off our own student loans, etc. often proves more difficult. Politicians recognize the stress that college produces and many will promise anything…..including government paid for scholarships to get elected…..and since this is an election year several Alabama politicians from both political parties have proposed education lotteries to send kids to school for free.
A new study by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) by Daniel J. Hurley, PhD, looked deeply at how other states (including Georgia, Tennessee, and Florida) lottery paid for scholarships were working and found a mixed track record.
Alabama State Senator Bryan Taylor (R) from Prattville said on Facebook. “So much for that lottery idea! According to new report from American Association of State Colleges and Universities, in states that have lottery funds earmarked for education, state spending on education actually declines over time. Compare that with states that DON’T have lotteries — they spend 10 percent more of their budgets on education.” “I think the problem is that it can’t, in practical terms, be executed to work. You would have to have a legislature uninfluenced by the people who will actually make money from the thing, you’d have to have a legislature that wouldn’t supplant existing funding, etc.”
Graduate Student Kati Lebioda actually wrote the paper based on Dr. Hurley’s work wrote: “An Overview of Lottery-Funded Scholarship Programs Among the potential policy alternatives for improving college affordability, state-run lotteries with revenues dedicated to education have stood out as a popular solution. In fact, despite the slow economic recovery after the Great Recession, non-tax revenue sources to support higher education—a category which includes lottery funds—has increased by nearly one-third to $2.9 billion in 2013 from $2.2 billion in 2008.” “44 states have established lottery programs, 26 of which have earmarked proceeds for education—either K-12, higher education or both. Only six states (Alabama, Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi, Nevada and Utah) do not currently operate lotteries, with Wyoming being the most recent to approve legislation in 2013 creating a lottery that commenced in August 2014.”
Leboida wrote, “…the trend began with the Georgia HOPE (Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally) scholarship program was established in 199. The Georgia HOPE program initially provided scholarships for students with a minimum high school GPA of 3.0 to cover the full tuition at an in- state public institution or a set amount to be applied to a private college or university in the state. The Georgia HOPE program increased the number of students who stayed in-state for college, it also drastically increased the average competitiveness—or increased ACT/SAT scores and GPAs—of students attending public institutions in Georgia.”
According to the report, Florida’s plan served the largest number of students (162,980) and spent the second highest amount of any state—$312 million. Georgia, near the top of the list in terms of both reach and expenditures, served 117,085 students at a cost of $463 million. On the opposite end, West Virginia has the smallest program, serving 9,954 students at a cost of $48 million. The average award ranged from $1,500 (Kentucky) to over $5,000 (South Carolina), with six of eight lottery-funded scholarship programs covering between one-third and one-half of the average cost of published tuition and fees at that state’s public institutions. The Kentucky scholarship only covered 17.2 percent of the actual cost to attend while the West Virginia scholarship was the highest at 76.7 percent of the cost. Georgia’s HOPE program, lottery-funded scholarships have acted as a lever to encourage the best and brightest students to remain in-state.
Leboida writes, however, that, “While lotteries appear to create a new source of non-tax revenue, actual proceeds rarely match projections. When a state first establishes a new lottery, it does draw funds previously lost to neighboring states’ lotteries, but these initial gains tend to decay or drop off after about five years…A large part of this is the cost associated with running and promoting a lottery in the first place. The largest contributing factor, however, may be the inherently inefficient profit margin of lotteries: after payments to winners, sales commissions to vendors, and lottery administration expenses, only about 34 cents of every dollar generated by lotteries ends up in the state budget (Bowden & Elrod, 2004; Covert, 2014). For comparison purposes, states typically spend less than 1 percent of the amount collected to acquire traditional tax revenues. Moreover, some researchers argue that when considering their high administration costs, lotteries affect state economies negatively, not positively, because dollars spent gambling could have otherwise been spent on consumer goods and services and could be subject to less wasteful collection methods of sales tax (Bowden & Elrod, 2004).”
Leboida continues, “Not only are lottery revenues more expensive to collect than traditional tax revenues, but they also tend to supplant, rather than supplement, general state appropriations for education. In fact, when lottery funds are earmarked for education, the risk of supplanting over supplementing actually increases. Numerous studies in the past three decades have found that while educational expenditures tend to increase immediately in states that enact lotteries, overall spending tends to decrease over time. States without lotteries, on the other hand, end up spending approximately 10 percent more of their budget on education than states with lottery funds earmarked for education (Covert, 2014; Heberling, 2002). This trend is particularly indicative of the unintended, counter-intuitive, negative consequences of employing lottery programs to support education.”
Despite the hype, Leboida writes that lottery revenues are actually a fairly small revenue stream, generally comprising less than 2 percent of state appropriations to education and citizens in lottery states tend to vote against ballot initiatives intended to increase educational expenditures because the lottery proceeds and education are so visibly linked.
Meanwhile legislators in lottery states have used the lottery as an excuse to move other educational expenditures to other high-need areas like corrections or healthcare.
The poor typically do not gain by their state having a lottery, because typically for every dollar of scholarship assistance they receive they lose federal Pell Grant dollars they otherwise would have qualified for. Because scholarship dollars typically only cover outstanding tuition and fees once all other financial aid has been accounted for, low-income students do not receive grant or scholarship dollars above and beyond tuition costs, leaving them to struggle to pay for books, transportation, housing, childcare, and other non-tuition expenses involved in pursuing a post-secondary education. Scholarships like Georgia’s typically are awarded based on merit not need. Upper middle class children (who would have gone to college anyway) get the scholarships because typically they typically score higher on the standardized testing.
It pays to be smart. According to Leboida in the lottery-funded scholarship states, $301 million in grants were awarded based on financial need, but $1.6 billion in grants were based on academic merit.
Leboida writes, “Part of this shift away from need-based aid can be attributed to underlying ideologies: merit- based scholarship programs play into American values of democracy and the theoretical success of those individuals who work hardest. Additionally, unlike need-based grant programs, which inherently benefit only the poorest students, non-need-based programs can also support middle- and upper- income households—populations that tend to vote at higher percentages. Yet there is significant evidence that rewarding the notion of ‘merit’ only presents an illusion of fairness among student populations…Research shows that merit-based programs disproportionately benefit white and higher income families. These programs’ eligibility standards are designed to limit the pool of students who qualify for award dollars, but in doing so, they often restrict funds to those students with greater financial resources.”
According to Leboida, only 52 percent of high school graduates from the lowest 20 percent of income households enroll in college within one year after graduation, while 82 percent of students at the highest fifth in family income do. However only 26 percent of the lowest fifth get a bachelor’s degree in five years versus 58 percent of those in the highest fifth of income finish with a degree.
Leboida writes that since lower income people are much more likely to play the lottery, “In essence, poor families are helping send wealthy students to college. Moreover, due to the aggressive nature of lottery advertising and the addictive nature of gambling in general, some critics even argue that the lottery is considerably less voluntary than a traditional economic model typically allows.”
Since State-run lotteries, as an arm of the government, are not subject to the Federal Trade Commission’s truth-in-advertising regulations, Leboida writes, “Many lottery advertising campaigns exploit the addictive nature of gambling to prey on especially vulnerable populations like minorities, low-income families, the elderly, and high school drop-outs (Heberling, 2002). Furthermore, as lottery revenues decay over time, states must invest in more aggressive ad campaigns and create new, more addicting games in order to keep revenues flowing. It is paradoxical for a state government to exploit public ignorance involving the detrimental consequences of gambling in order to help fund public enlightenment through a college education (Selingo, 1999). This ethical ambiguity is particularly salient given the unequally regressive nature of lotteries, and the pattern of decreased state appropriations from the general budget when states earmark lottery revenues for education.”
Democratic candidate for Governor of Alabama, Parker Griffith, has made a lottery one of his campaign promises. Republican incumbent Robert Bentley has said he will not oppose efforts by legislators to pass lottery legislation, but has said that revenues from a lottery should at least partially go to the State’s troubled general fund, where corrections and Medicaid are facing critical funding challenges.

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Welcome back to this week’s countdown. If you missed the first 10 songs, you can still check them out. Now, let’s Return to the week ending August 27, 1988, and continue the countdown.
30. “Love Bites” by Def Leppard
This ballad by Def Leppard is probably my least favorite song by them. But, it was the band’s only song that became a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, so what do I know?
29. “Missed Opportunity” by Daryl Hall & John Oates
This song is OK. I much prefer their hits from the early ’80s.
28. “Please Don’t Go Girl” by New Kids On The Block
Today’s songs aren’t exactly starting out strong. This was The New Kids’ breakout hit. The lead vocals og this ballad was sung by Joey McIntyre, Jordan Knight, and spoken by Danny Wood.
27. “Just Got Paid” by Johnny Kemp
This was a fun dance song. However, I think that at the time that this came out, I got paid on Thursdays, so I couldn’t relate to this song.
26. “I Hate Myself For Loving You” by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Joan Jett just plain rocks.
25. “Don’t Worry Be Happy” by Bobby McFerrin
Ugh. Just when things were starting to get good, one of my most hated songs of the ’80s gets thrown in the mix!
24. “Here With Me” by REO Speedwagon
OK, now I’m happy. I always liked REO Speedwagon. I think it’s funny and presumptuous when new songs get introduced on a greatest hits album, as is the case with “Here With Me.” Well, this song proved that it was worthy to be on REO’s greatest hit album, The Hits.
23. “Rag Doll” by Aerosmith
This would have been a good song if it wasn’t played to death.
22. “One Good Woman” by Peter Cetera
I’m loving this countdown again! This is one of my favorite Peter Cetera songs.
21. “Hold On to the Nights” by Richard Marx
Good. Today’s songs end on a good note. This is one of those songs that got played a lot, but I still liked it anyway. I still like it a lot. This was the fourth and final single released from Richard Marx’s self-titled debut album.
Wow, that was a schizophrenic list of songs for me today! I loved some songs and hated (or am totally sick of) others. What do you think of this countdown so far? This countdown will get better. So come back and see for yourself as we continue tomorrow.Follow @returntothe80s

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Kauai Humane Society has launched an investigation after receiving disturbing photos of a chicken killed by what appears to be a blowgun dart.
KHON2 has learned that other chickens have been targeted as well, and it’s happening in an area frequented by locals and tourists.
Last week Wednesday around noon, Kai Morrighan went to get lunch from one of the food trucks parked in Kapaa, near Otsuka’s.
She sat down at one of the picnic tables.
“In between the next table, over in between two peoples legs, this hen gets shot in the head and she runs and hits a tree. And we’re like, why did that chicken run into a tree? And we went over there and there’s a blow dart sticking through his skull,” said Morrighan.
She says she didn’t see who did it. But she did see another chicken with a dart sticking out of its neck.
“We just couldn’t believe they were shooting these at chickens in the parking lot, right in between tourists feet,” Morrighan said. “If the wind blew, it would’ve gone 12 inches to the left; it would’ve gone through someone’s ankle,” Morrighan said.
Morrighan’s friend called police.
“And they kind of laughed at her and said they would be there, but if people are shooting chickens it’s not a high priority. And we were like, um, they’re shooting four inch needles at peoples feet, in between peoples legs,” Morrighan said.
She says they waited for a half hour, but police never showed up.
Kauai Humane Society learned about the incident on Friday, and they’re now investigating.
KHON2 asked Kauai Humane Society’s Executive Director Penny Cistaro what kind of penalty the suspect or suspects would face.
Cistaro replied: “Well, they would have to be convicted of cruelty to animals.”
A Kauai County spokesperson told KHON2 that most cruelty to animals cases are misdemeanors, but very serious cases can be charged as a class C felony.
And that can result in not only a fine, but also jail time.
KHON2 also learned that a similar incident recently happened in Wailua, just a few miles away from Kapaa.
“We had a situation a few weeks ago where a chicken in Wailua had been shot through the beak with something similar and we were able to pull it out,” Cistaro said.
And even more disturbing — Morrighan went back to the food truck area on Monday, and was shocked by what she saw.
“There’s like six or seven chickens walking around with needles in their necks,” Morrighan said.
If you know who’s hurting and killing the chickens, Kauai Humane Society wants to hear from you. Call (808) 632-0610.


Sounds like a haldex system...which is rather poor indeeed. The older Highlanders had a 3 diff system with a center planetary diff. I'll agree to most of what he wrote. HangFire, The Subaru's act the same way, never fully disengaging the clutch to the rear and based on the incline sensor, throttle etc...send more power to the rear as needed. You can feel it when driving a little harder, adding more throttle pushes the car through the corner. I guess his beef is just the clutches in general. He would rather have center diffs on everything and done mechanically I bet. That is how my old Forester was and you could tell. It drove like a mostly RWD vehicle unless you pushed it.
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how does the toyota highlander awd work? - says it (2 rear wheel drive) comes on when needed???????


The Like A Virgin hitmaker stepped behind the camera for the lavish royal drama, which documents the scandalous relationship between King Edward VIII and American divorcee Wallis Simpson. The monarch abdicated in 1936 after his love affair with the socialite became public.
The film, Madonna's second time in the director's chair but her first on a major release, was slammed by critics when it premiered at the Venice Film Festival in Italy earlier this month (Sep11), with many dismissing it as style over substance.
But the Material Girl told the press at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday (12Sep11) that she was prepared for a rough time from the film experts.
She says, "Of course I do (get nervous). Because it's new. I had the same pressure when I began my music career, and I was nervous and I didn't know what to expect and people didn't know what to expect, and I had to earn my way in being taken seriously in the music department, and now I have to do that in film."


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'a quick and easy to attach pair of bike lights'
this was a short project in which I explored creating a quick and easy to use bicycle light. it was inspired by some of my own frustration's with bike lights and other bicycle accessories as well as observations of friend's using theirs. the core theme of speed and ease of use was important because I felt in addressing both it would help to remove some of the frustrations people had and encourage people to use their lights.
one of the ideas that helped focus my work at the beginning was removing the need for a pre-attached mount in order to attach your lights. this would likely be replaced by a spring-based mechanism, similar to a clothes peg. this would allow the bike lights to be easily clipped to the bicycle, simplifying the experience.
research into other products helped to clarify the attributes that might help in making the bike light an interesting product. the three areas that I chose to focus on were: playfulness, tactility and simplicity, for both form and function.
my ideation began gravitating towards a design in which the bottom half of the 'clip' was the body and the top half a metal component that opened and closed on a spring. this was chosen as an approach as it meant that the centre of gravity would help to stop the bike light tilting forward or backwards when in use, it also meant there didn't have to be an exposed junctions to get cables to and from the bottom half, if I went with a more clothes peg like design.
the idea of giving the bike light a 'face' was to personify it as an object, giving it a character that might add to someone's attachment to it. this was also why more durable but expensive materials were used, as it is designed to last and not diminish in the process. the led's are surrounded by polished steel rings that help to focus the light forwards, as well as adding to the personification of the bike light.
these are the twelve parts that make up the external assembly of the bike light. the parts are as follows; 1. clip, 2. clip grip, 3. clip pivot pin, 4. clip pivot housing, 5. body grip, 6. port cover, 7. m3 hex bolts, 8. back face, 9. body, 10. grip and on/off button, 11. light cover outer, 12. light cover inner. the materials used were chosen to create something long lasting and easy to recycle/ reuse at the end of its life. The clip and body are both made of aluminium, sandblasted and anodized. the grips and port cover are made from a biobased tpe, the port cover being slightly harder. the back face is made from a recycled and biobased pp blend with a matte finish. the light cover components are made up of a translucent polypropylene outer that helps protect the clear polycarbonate inner.
designed to fit
the space where the handlebars or seatpost go while the light is attached is slightly elliptical. this helps it suit a wide variety of tube diameters, ensuring as large a contact point as possible for maximum grip.
easy to charge + repair
the bike light is charged using usb c, I felt the higher pricepoint of usb c was justified due to the fit with the other electronic devices people own. the internals are easily removable by unscrewing the two hex bolts, allowing you to replace possible points of failure should the need arise.
the on/off button is recessed behind the finger grip, the location helps simplify the process of turning it on and off, as your finger is already there when removing or attaching the bike light. having it slightly recessed makes it harder to press by accident. the button can also be pressed in quick succession to cycle between, constant or flashing light settings.

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As Covid-19’s grip tightened around the UK and many workplaces were forced into lockdown, engineers at Tharsus had the foresight to plan a social-distancing system that could be quickly deployed to give people the confidence to return to work safely when the time came.
The system, named Bump, was developed in just nine weeks thanks to a multidisciplinary task force assembled by Tharsus, including businesses from across the UK, Switzerland, Greece and New Zealand, who worked together under lockdown conditions to make the idea a reality.
The Bump system comprises a number of devices on an innovative Bluetooth network, linked to a central hub. The units are designed to be worn by workers, with each emitting a discreet warning in real time if its wearer moves within two metres of another employee, ensuring that everyone is practicing social distancing effectively.
The devices work by announcing their presence and looking for others nearby in a continually evolving, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) network. This network is the first to use fellow British engineering company Dialog Semiconductor’s WiRa technology, which utilises a Bluetooth radio operating in a unique way during active BLE connections to deliver reliable results. When two devices make contact, they cooperatively activate on-board wireless ranging technology, measuring separation distance to within 10cm accuracy.
The peer-to-peer system seeks to change and improve personal-distance behaviour by recording the interactions between devices every time someone moves into another Bump zone. The wearable device will alert them if contact is made, with each interaction recorded and made available for the individual wearer to review.
Bump was developed as a preventative measure to help businesses enforce personal-distance standards, measure effectiveness, minimise aerosol transmission, and support the implementation of contact transmission policies. As well as alerting wearers, the Bump system can be used by employers to monitor the interactions taking place, providing additional insight into movement throughout the workplace and the intelligence to inform social-distancing measures.
The data produced by Bump is limited to the time, severity and frequency of interactions, fully encrypted, and only available to individual wearers and their employers.
The data picture that this creates allows businesses to stress test the safety measures they have in place and identifies where they need adapting.
Its ability to track when, for how long and where people ‘bump’ one another is proving crucial for continued workplace safety. This has the potential to be crucial in the event an employee develops symptoms of Covid-19. Bump’s ability to clearly show who has been in contact with who provides clear insight should a localised outbreak occur in the workplace and helps identify those most at risk, and indeed whether the outbreak is internal or external.
This data-led approach from Bump allows employers to make quick decisions about what to do next, ensuring factories, offices, warehouses, or laboratories can continue running at highest possible capacity – and that their employees continue to feel safe within the workplace.
Since the first devices were despatched from Tharsus’ Northumberland factory for use by its beta-trial partners in logistics, construction and retail, production has scaled significantly to 1,000 units per day. Bump has been implemented by a host of global businesses – including several FTSE 100 companies – and has been validated by the Manufacturing Technology Centre as a key technology to enable social distancing in the workplace.
Even before lockdown lifted, global businesses had expressed interest in the first commercial release of Bump, with Tharsus estimating that its system could help more than one million people return to work with confidence.
“Bump is a complete social distancing system designed to help a broad range of businesses get people bac to work quickly and safety, helping with the prompt recovery of our economy. It is a truly amazing innovation in such extraordinary times,” says Ian Levy, MP for Blyth Valley.
Brian Palmer FREng, CEO of Tharsus, says: “This is the first time in living memory that people have been told to socially distance for their own safety. At the same time, the pandemic has forced businesses to re-consider their responsibility as employers, with the health of workforces now more than ever one of the most important metrics facing leadership teams.
“We have created Bump to solve these two issues – to give people the help they need to stay distanced and safe and provide employers with the assurances they need so they can operate responsibly.”


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Telangana: NBW issued against MLA for not attending court
Hyderabad: A non-bailable warrant was issued against Nagarkurnool MLA Nagam Janardhan Reddy and ten others on Monday for not attending court proceedings in connection with a 2011 case of stopping trains during Telangana agitation.
Reddy, who was with TDP before joining BJP recently, along with leaders of various political parties, had resorted to `rail roko` in Mahabubnagar district as part of the pro-Telangana agitation and was subsequently booked by Secunderabad Railway Police Force (RPF) for disrupting rail traffic among other charges.
Subsequently, summons were issued against them by a railway court in Secunderabad. The court today issued the warrant against Reddy and 10 others for their failure to attend the proceedings, Secunderabad RPF Inspector Ashwani Kumar told a news agency.
In a related development, the court disposed of cases against Andhra Pradesh Samajwadi Party MLA Manoj Kumar Singh, TRS MLA Harish Rao and Telangana Joint Action Committee (T-JAC) leader Kodandaram among others by issuing a warning and imposing fine of Rs 1,500 on each of them, Kumar said.
Kodandram had also spearheaded `rail roko` agitation in different districts of Telangana region.
The court had earlier issued NBWs against Kodandram and others but later cancelled them as they attended the court and on the occasions told the court about their cause of absence through their counsels.
The cases were lodged by RPF.
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Nonpharmacological interventions appear to benefit many patients and do not have the side effects commonly associated with medications. Music-based experiences may benefit critical care patients.
To examine the effect of an active music therapy intervention on physiological parameters and self-reported pain and anxiety levels of patients in the intensive care unit.
A study was conducted using a pretest-posttest, within-subject, single-group design. The study population consisted of a convenience sample of 52 patients. Study participants received a 30-minute music therapy session consisting of either a relaxation intervention or a “song choice” intervention. The music therapist recorded the patients’ vital signs before and after the intervention, and patients completed self-assessments of their pain and anxiety levels before and after the intervention.
After the intervention, significant decreases (all P < .001) were found in respiratory rate (mean difference, 3.7 [95% CI, 2.6–4.7] breaths per minute), heart rate (5.9 [4.0–7.8] beats per minute), and self-reported pain (1.2 [0.8–1.6] points) and anxiety levels (2.7 [2.2–3.3] points). No significant change in oxygen saturation level was observed. Outcomes differed between the 2 intervention groups: patients receiving the relaxation intervention often fell asleep.
The results of this study support active music therapy as a nonpharmacological intervention in intensive care units. This study may lay the groundwork for future research on music therapy in critical care units using larger, more diverse samples.

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By Martin Poulsen, Partner, The Moringa Partnership
One of the underlying issues of land use in Latin America is that huge areas of natural forest, converted over a few decades into pasture land, have failed to produce income that is sustainable over the longer term. This issue, combined with a growing local population, means that residents are trapped in a vicious poverty circle. New thinking is needed to break this trend and revive local economies.
“Cattle grazing has always been the main source of income here,” explains Baudelino Gonzalez, whose father owns a ranch in the municipality of San Vincente del Caguan, on the Colombian Amazon Basin. “With one cow on every ten hectares, a family needs at least 100 hectares to live. But yields and market prices are falling. People understand that they will need to change their approach to land use.”
This creates an opportunity for investors with the vision and necessary technical skills to invest in projects that deal with environmental and social challenges. One such vehicle, the Moringa Fund, believes that partnerships with local people to implement carefully designed agroforestry projects will produce profitable investments, increased incomes for local smallholders, and significant environmental and social benefits.
Although no investments have been made to date by the Moringa Fund in Latin America, the first transaction (in Central America) will be presented to the Moringa Investment Committee imminently. With a pipeline of additional opportunities across the region, Moringa plans to leverage their four local offices and experience in private equity, forestry, agriculture, and operations to make one to two investments during the course of 2014 and a total of 10-15 during the five year investment period of the Fund.
When the father of Gonzalez settled down, his ranch was completely covered by native tropical forest. The finest trees had been harvested a decade ago and today, the edge of the Amazon forest has receded to over 25 kilometres away. This loss of forest cover has led to increasing soil erosion and a decrease in soil fertility.
Jean-Guénolé Cornet, Director of ONF Andina, a specialist forestry and agroforestry consulting group with offices in Colombia, Chile, Brazil, and Peru, and the technical partner of the Moringa Fund comments: “This part of Colombia has great agro-ecological potential, with steady rain, high sunshine levels, and huge pieces of land suitable to agriculture or forestry.”
A few years ago, Gonzalez joined the local association of latex producers, which promotes the growth of rubber trees, supported by ONF Andina. Cornet said, “We confirmed that San Vicente del Caguan has a clear competitive advantage for rubber tree production and decided to assist in the promotion of this sector, alongside the local community and local government.”
Gonzalez confirmed: “We believe that conditions exist to make a profitable business and create strong social and environmental benefits. Associating rubber trees with cattle in a classical agroforestry model will help this community break out of the poverty trap.”
A family with only five hectares of rubber tree plantations can live better than with 100 hectares of cattle managed in the traditional way, deriving higher incomes from more sustainable land use.
However, a significant issue for rubber tree plantation development comes from the high investment cost and the 6 to 7 year period local farmers have to wait before getting first revenues. This is where private equity funds like the Moringa Fund operate, offering equity investment focused on this kind of agroforestry project.
Hervé Bourguignon, partner at the Moringa Partnership, the investment advisor of the Moringa Fund, said: “Other forms of agroforestry also have great potential in Latin America, most notably coffee or cocoa grown under tree shade. Through more effective land-use, agroforestry has the potential to produce increased long-term income for investors and local people. We see a compelling investment opportunity and the potential to deliver attractive financial returns as well as strongly positive environmental and social impact via our investments.”
Moringa sees opportunity beyond Latin America as well. The Fund is also active and at a similar stage of maturity in sub-Saharan Africa, where the context is clearly different, but where agroforestry has a major role to play in developing sustainable, climate-appropriate approaches to land use.


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Andy Murray's father-in-law Nigel Sears has been taken to hospital for tests after collapsing at the Australian Open.Read the full story ›
Second seed Andy Murray advanced into the second round of the Australian Open after a comfortable 6-1 6-2 6-3 victory over Germany's Alexander Zverev.
The world number two took the first two sets in 71 minutes but found the tall 18-year-old more difficult to overcome in the third when he saved two match points before the Brit completed the victory in just over two hours.
Novak Djokovic believes Andy Murray would be right to quit the Australian Open and fly home for the birth of his first childRead the full story ›
Scottish tennis star Andy Murray has been named the 2015 Sports Personality of the Year, at the BBC ceremony in Belfast.Read the full story ›
Andy Murray will quit the Australian Open early if necessary to attend the birth of his first child.Read the full story ›
Prime minister David Cameron has met Great Britain's triumphant Davis Cup team at 10 Downing Street.
Team captain Leon Smith paraded the trophy alongside his team and Cameron after beating Belgian over the weekend.
British No.1 Andy Murray won his two single matches in Gent, as well as teaming up with brother Jamie for a victorious doubles match, as Great Britain won the trophy for the first time in 79 years.
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Andy Murray says fatherhood will become his primary focus over tennis once his child is born next year.Read the full story ›
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Presentation #232.04 in the session Instrumentation II.
The next-generation of RApid Telescopes for Optical Response (RAPTOR) is currently undergoing commissioning at Los Alamos National Laboratory for the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA O4 observing run. The network consists of three wide-field, fast-slewing optical telescopes with two instruments located at Fenton Hill Observatory in the Jemez mountains (38km West of Los Alamos) and one instrument located at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center. The design of the telescopes represents a confluence of commercially available technologies: cooled, back-side illuminated, full-frame CMOS cameras; fast (36cm aperture, F#2.2), wide field-of-view (FOV) Rowe-Ackermann-Schmidt Astrographs; and fast-slewing direct drive mounts. With >4 sq. degree FOV and roughly 1 arcsec resolution, the RAPTOR instruments can search over 100 sq. degrees per hour per instrument. This poster will overview design, commissioning efforts, and initial operation for the O4 observing run.