Local Flagstaff Mom's story: Music Together® has been one of my fondest memories with each of my 5 children. I started going with my oldest, now 10, when he was 21 months old & we had newborn twins at home. It was a wonderful weekly outing for the two of us. He loved going every Saturday~ & his favorite songs were “Sticks” & the lullaby “Great Big Stars”. I sang that lullaby to him & his sisters for years~ still a favorite. We continued going and brought little sisters along when they got a little older. They loved the instruments & swaying to the music. I can see their sweet smiles. Everyone started enjoying cleaning up after being involved in Music Together~ I would sing out “thank you” to each child like we would do in class. Another favorite part of class was the end lullaby time~ turning on the star & moon and blowing out the lights. Beautiful repetition each time. We blew out the lights for bedtime at home too. Years later I began bringing my newest toddler~ he started at 15 months & was a fan of Music Together from the beginning. The first song he sang on his own was “Me You We.” By the time he was 2 1/2 & in music class he was singing full songs, especially loving “One Little Owl.” Instruments are a favorite for him as well. We had our last little one last Christmas & she has joined big brother at music class since the beginning- 5 weeks old! From watching intently to now shaking eggs and eating instruments she has an early love for Music Together. Music Together instills a love & understanding of music. It introduces new languages, cultures, & instruments. It brings happiness to stressful days and strengthens the bonds between children and their parents (or grandparents, or aunts and uncles- or whoever brings them!). I am so thankful it has been a part of our lives for so many years. I highly recommend to others in our community!!!
"Rhea, I think you are such an incredible teacher, mom, and friend, and the Flagstaff community in general is so lucky to have you. You have been so kind to our family and M's journey in music would never have been the same without you. I can't tell you how much I appreciate the times you've mellowed the class a little when he was having an overstimulated day or encouraged him to explore and play at his own speed. As for me, being a mom who has had to be so isolated at times due to M's health, you've always made me feel so welcome, even when my anxiety kicked into high gear and I was overwhelmed (like in our very first class). You are so kind and supportive and our appreciation to you can never be fully expressed." - Music Together Mom
This week my youngest child and I finished up a 7 year continuous run with Music Together. I was filled with sadness about it all ending because it has been such an amazing experience for both my children. I would not have committed to enroll three times a year if I didn't think the program was meaningful, fun, well designed and worth every penny. We always asked the grandparents for gift certificates instead of more toys we don't need. We would like to thank all the Music Together teachers for providing meaningful music instruction for little people. Our family will miss seeing all of you, but we will remember it forever and will continue to spread the word about the program and it's awesomeness. Thank you for all that you do. Liz Browne, Music Together Parent
"I know I told you before how much your classes have meant to us, but I want to repeat myself. We loved you and your classes and still sing a bunch of the songs. You helped form Raffi's little growing brain with such joyful musical memories and laid the foundation for a life of music making. Thank you so much, and you will be missed. You have such a positive, nurturing presence. We're so lucky to have spent time with you." -Claudine LoMonaco
“Coming to class is fun. As soon as we enter the building my daughter becomes VERY excited. It's such a pleasure to watch her develop musically and I've also recognized my own hidden musical talents surfacing! We both eagerly await the next session!” -Jennifer Spoelker
“Just a friendly note to thank all those involved in this wonderful music program for children. We have been attending this class for 2 semesters and will continue for many more to come."
“Music Together has made the car rides a pleasure. Before enrolling in Music Together we had few musical options which only appeased her for a short time. Now whether its' a trip to the mall or a visit to the grandparents, Valerie yells from her seat, "Class! Class!"...her request for the Music Together CD. The music keeps her happy for the whole trip."
“Thanks again Music Together for touching our daughter's life in such a wonderful way.” -Nancy M. Thorpe
“Rita, 6 months old, loves the music and rocks in time to certain favorites. At home we listen to all types of music frequently and interact in various ways. When she hears songs from Music Together, she smiles at me with gleeful anticipation. This is her signal that it is special time with Mommy."
“We enrolled in both gymnastics and Music Together when Kennedy was 18 months old. Our first day at gymnastics was filled with tears. Our first day at Music Together was unbelievable! Kennedy was hesitant at first, but by the end of the class she was moving around the room with the rest of the children. Kennedy is 2 years old now, and we have participated in two Music Together sessions. The effect your program has had on her is simply amazing; she is a completely different child. Singing and dancing are a large part of every day. Now, as we navigate the grocery store aisles, she sings just to get the attention of other people.”
“I would enthusiastically recommend this program to others because it's fun, it's well organized and it's aimed at the right level of toddlers and preschoolers. Also both the musical selections and the activities are varied enough to make each class different and exciting within a consistent structure.”
“I highly recommend the Music Together classes which I have been taking with my 14 month old daughter. Though I have been a musician, dancer and singer for years and started sharing these with my baby before she was born, I have learned a lot from these classes about how to bring these dimensions of the human adventure into her world in a way that is fun for both of us (and in a way that avoids the traumas of my own childhood music education).
“The things I particularly like about the Music Together program include, in no particular order:
1) The teacher is fun, down to earth, musically adept, welcoming, playful, respectful and inclusive of each person there.
2) The singing and playing of rhythm instruments is always done for joy and the adventure of it and is not associated IN ANY WAY with "performance" or doing it "right". We are making music together - no child (or adult!) is put on the spot to perform in front of others. I guess I would say that the atmosphere is one of celebration rather than performance.
3) The music making is almost always accompanied by movement- marching, dancing with beautiful scarves, shaking various rhythm instruments, etc. I've learned a lot about how to create such whole-body-music-expression for my child. The best musicians also dance, the best dancers are also musicians. I want not just her fingers and brain to hear and play music but for it to be part of her core sense of Self. I want her to both feel joy and to know how to express that fully and articulately, thus my delight in gaining tools at Music Together for sharing this with my daughter at home. This is where I learned how to translate what I wanted to share with her into toddler-ese.
4) The classes are both fun for me as an adult, and age appropriate for the toddlers in our class.
5) I like the variety of instruments, etc. that we all (kids and adults) play in each class and I like the variety of colors of things we use (scarves, music books, etc.).
6) I like the music as well as the variety. I am particularly fond of interesting rhythms, such as the Balkan music and crooked French Canadian tunes.
7) I like the other parents in the class and the location with easy parking.
8) I also like that if I miss class, I can make it up on another day, as there are classes offered several mornings each week.”
"This week my youngest child and I finished up a 7 year continuous run with Music Together. I was filled with sadness about it all ending because it has been such an amazing experience for both my children. I would not have committed 150$ three times a year if I didn't think the program was meaningful, fun, well designed and worth every penny. We always asked the grandparents for gift certificates instead of more toys we don't need. We would like to thank all the music together teachers for providing meaningful music instruction for little people. Our family will miss seeing all of you, but we will remember it forever and will continue to spread the word about the program and it's awesomeness. Thank you for all that you do."
Liz Browne, Parent


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Taylor Swift Received A Warm Welcome to Ireland From the Members of U2
They’re her “Irish fan club.”
U2 made Ireland proud and helped preserve the country’s superlative as the land of a thousand welcomes this week when the iconic Irish band delivered a surprise gift to Taylor Swift ahead of her performance at Croke Park stadium in their hometown of Dublin. As Swift shared with her followers on Instagram, when she arrived at the venue for the two Dublin shows of her worldwide stadium tour, she was surprised to find a thoughtful gift from fellow musicians Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr.
“Walked into my dressing room to find roses from @U2 and I WAS NOT READY FOR IT,” Swift captioned a photo of a gorgeous bouquet of red roses from the rockstars. “I LOVE U2. I LOVE IRELAND. LETS DO THIS CROKE PARK!!!” Along with the flowers, Swift also posted a picture of an accompanying handwritten note from the band, which reads “from your Irish fan club” and has all four of the U2 band members’ names signed below.
Swift performs to an audience of well over 100,000 over two nights at Croke Park, on June 15 and 16. If there’s even a glimmer of hope that hometown heroes U2 will crash one or both of the concerts, T-Swift’s Irish fans just might go into a collective shock.
The last time U2 and Swift interacted in the public eye was in 2014, when they were up against each other for the Best Original Song award at the 71st Golden Globes for their songs in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and One Chance, respectively. U2 ended up leaving with the trophy, but for someone who now has 10 Grammys at home, it couldn’t have been too devastating of a loss for Swift.
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Returning to the red carpet, Taylor Swift poses at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards in a romantically messy up do and a rose-colored pout. Photo courtesy of Instagram.
With perfectly tousled hair, Kylie Jenner poses for a casual car selfie with a look that lets her shimmering gold eyeshadow standout. Photo courtesy of Instagram.
In the same week she released her new Card B collaboration “Dinero,” Jennifer Lopez poses backstage at the 2018 Billboard Awards. Photo courtesy of Instagram.
Cindy Crawford dons a face mask. Photo courtesy of Instagram.
Lais Ribeiro and Jasmine Tookes pose on set for Victoria’s Secret. Photo courtesy of Instagram.
Amber Heard shows off a bold red lip. Photo courtesy of Instagram.
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Sarah Paulson poses during press for Ocean’s 8. Photo courtesy of Instagram.
Lucy Hale poses for a selfie. Photo courtesy of Instagram.
Paris Jackson attends the Dior Cruise 2018 show. Photo courtesy of Instagram.


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Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) found that neighbourhood teams are being stretched with extra work that keeps them in the office, and revealed a third of people had seen fewer police officers on patrol in the past year.
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Turkey woes bake markets
A plunge in the Turkish lira rocked global equities and emerging markets on Friday and fears of more turmoil sent investors scurrying for safety in assets like the yen and US government bonds.
The lira fell as much as 20 per cent against the dollar, chalking up its worst day since Turkey's financial crisis of 2001. It came on the back of a deepening rift with the United States, worries about its own economy and lack of action from policymakers.
The currency is now down more than 36 per cent this year, and 17 per cent this month alone, fanning worries about a full-blown economic crisis.
Lira one-week implied volatility spiked to a record high of over 49 while the one- and three-month equivalents both surged to their highest since late 2008.
Bank shares across the continent fell and the euro slipped to its lowest since July 2017 as the Financial Times quoted sources as saying the European Central Bank was concerned about European lenders' exposure to Turkey. "You have a number of Spanish banks which effectively have very large stakes in banks operating in Turkey. If Turkey is going through economic and political turmoil - which it is - we could see non-performing loans increase there," said David Madden, markets analyst at CMC Markets in London.
"Many of these European banks have their own non-performing loans and liquidity issues to deal with themselves. Now all of a sudden a currency crisis in Turkey could trigger another dimension to their own financial problems."
Shares in France's BNP Paribas, Italy's UniCredit and Spain's BBVA, the banks seen as most exposed to Turkey, fell over four per cent.
That took eurozone bank shares down three per cent while the pan-European STOXX 600 index fell one per cent.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 200 points on Friday amid a widespread selloff in global stocks.
President Donald Trump doubled tariffs on aluminum and steel imports from Turkey, deepening the currency's losses and raising concerns that the crisis could weigh on other economies.
"Problems in emerging markets are more important than ever because of the global growth engine that emerging markets have become," Peter Cecchini, chief market strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald in New York, wrote in a note.
"This will eventually matter greatly to US markets."
Ten of the 11 major S&P sectors were lower, with bank stocks taking the biggest hit.
JPMorgan, Wells Fargo and Bank of America fell more than one per cent, weighing the most on the benchmark S&P 500.
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The MSCI All-Country World index, which tracks shares in 47 countries, was also down over 0.6 per cent on the day, having erased all its gains for the week.
As investors piled into "safe" bonds, German yields hit three-week lows and yields on US 10-year Treasuries fell to 2.8967 per cent.
The Australian dollar, often viewed as a gauge of global risk appetite due to its reliance on commodities, was the biggest faller among developed currencies, at one point down one per cent on the day. Going in the opposite direction was the safe-haven Japanese yen, which hit a one-month high against the dollar.
The dollar index, which measures the greenback's strength against a group of six major currencies, breached 96, taking it to its highest level since July 2017. It was last up half a per cent at 95.986.
Adding to emerging market currency woes was the Russian rouble, which weakened to 67.12 to the dollar. Overnight it had retreated to its lowest since November 2016 on threats of new US sanctions, weakening beyond the psychologically important 65-per-dollar threshold.
"Other EM currencies have held their ground against the dollar, having generally been weakening previously," said analysts at Capital Economics.
"In most cases though, we suspect that this resilience will prove temporary," they said, highlighting expectations of rising US interest rates and worries over growing US protectionism.

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COCOA IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA
The driving force behind commercial agriculture in Papua New Guinea has always been the export crops. This trend will no doubt continue to dominate the development of the sector in the future.
After coffee, cocoa is Papua New Guinea's second most important agricultural export crop. Existing plantings are highly concentrated geographically in the islands region. But many other areas in the country are highly suitable for cocoa production. Smallholder production has been increasing by about 5 per cent a year over the last 10 years, and the 70,000 producers now account for 70% of total output. Estate production has fallen steadily since 1975, mainly because of disease, but this trend has now been reversed and estates are rapidly replanting with high yielding and more disease resistant hybrids.
The introduction of high-yielding hybrids has greatly improved the projects in Papua New Guinea, and the country remains a competitive producer, even at low prices. Early results from their use are showing yields up to 2 tonnes per hectare while research continues to develop new varieties with even greater yield potential.
Future of Cocoa
The prospects for cocoa look good. In the longer term, the potential for further expansion is excellent, particularly through a further increase in smallholder productivity and a major expansion in upstream processing.
Post PNG would like to thank Koko Indastry, Kokopo for the images used in this brochure and NGIP Agmark for supplying us with the photos featured on the stamps. NGIP Agmark is the supplier for agricultural machinery and tools in NGI /PNG and is the main buyer/ exporter for the cocoa industry in Papua New Guinea.More information on Cocoa in Papua New Guinea can be obtained from the Cocoa Industry Office or NGIP Agmark.
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For our longtime valued customer Siam Glass we have already designed and commissioned several glass batch plants.
The scope of delivery of the recent order includes a recycling plant including metal and non-metal separation, organic separation, ceramic, stone,
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The capacity amounts to 30t/h whereby the plant can be extended up to
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Zippe designed and delivered the complete plant control systems, all main components such as the screen and magnet technology as well as the
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The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water is about aiming to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development. In honor of both SDG 14 and World Ocean Day this month, I spoke to Dr Sangeeta Mangubhai, principal consultant and research scientist at Talanoa Consulting. Sangeeta has a PhD in coral reef ecology with 25 years’ worth of experience working on environmental issues. Originally from Fiji, she has worked in Australia, East Africa, Indonesia, and the South Pacific on natural resource management, coastal fisheries, “blue foods”, payment for ecosystem services, value chains, gender, protected areas, environmental policy, disaster, and climate change. Sangeeta is a 2018 Pew Fellow working on mainstreaming gender and human rights-based approaches into coastal fisheries in Melanesia.
What was it like growing up in Fiji?
“We spent a lot of time in nature, enjoying the outdoors with family and friends. It’s fascinating to think back to a time without TV or social media, when life was much simpler in Fiji. We spent a lot of time swimming in the sea. As a special treat, my dad would take us out snorkeling. We really got to appreciate the natural environment around us because that’s what we had and that was how we spent our family and leisure time together.”
What sparked your interest to get into marine science?
“My parents encouraged us to get out into the environment and enjoy it. We spent many Sundays at Suva Point, exploring the mangroves and mudflats looking for crabs, sea cucumbers, and shellfish. My aunt, who was a big part of our childhood, used to take us to her village and remote inland river areas. She taught us about things like fishing, natural resources, traditional medicines – and she still does because she’s generous with her knowledge. I didn’t really appreciate how much that time with so many different women who knew so much about nature taught me about the living environment until I was older. Those memories, stories, and information passed on have stayed with me and have been my foundation and early introduction into marine sciences and nature, through local and Indigenous knowledge.”
Can you tell us a little about your background and career?
“The first 25 years of my career had been largely working with international conservation NGOs. Prior to this job, I was the country director for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s program in Fiji. When you’re running an organization, there’s a lot of admin or fundraising and it’s harder to do more technical and hands-on work. I wanted to broaden my knowledge and skills because everything had been very conservation-oriented and I was keen to get into the development space and work across other sectors that I’ve not traditionally worked with. So, in 2022, I joined a local Fiji-based consultancy firm, Talanoa Consulting, which allowed me to pursue broader areas of interest.
“The move was an important one for me. The real world is so complex and multi-disciplinary. We need to get out of our own silos of what we’ve originally studied and start understanding different disciplines and the relationships between different sectors, and thinking more holistically. I think that is what is needed to solve some of the challenging issues around our natural environment and our balance of how we live with it.”
Could you highlight the importance of our oceans in today’s world?
“The ocean is absolutely critical to our wellbeing and survival on this planet; everything from the contributions it plays in terms of our climate, creating productive systems and food to livelihoods and cultural practices. It’s impossible to live without, but we still don’t understand it enough. Think about how much of the deep-sea ocean we have explored as opposed to the amount of money that gets invested into space exploration. However, we’re making huge decisions about the deep-sea ocean, where I don’t think we fully understand the consequences until it’s too late, just like with biodiversity and climate change. We seem to be a species that learns things far too late or not until we get to those critical tipping points. It is important that people better understand that our very existence is not possible without the ocean.”
One aspect of SDG 14 is sustainable fishing. What can we learn globally from small-scale and artisanal fisheries?
“There needs to be much more effort in terms of valuing small-scale fisheries as equally as big industrial-scale fisheries. When dealing with donors in the Pacific region (and elsewhere), there’s a skew towards funding work on industrial-scale fishing, despite in many cases, inshore fisheries being worth a lot more. This is because we only value fisheries if they’re economically valuable – meaning we can generate money from it. However, small-scale fisheries, and in particular subsistence fisheries in the Pacific, contribute to our food security and a high percentage of our basic protein needs.”
A lot of the work you do is involved with gender equality in the fisheries sector. What kind of inequalities do women face in fisheries and why is it so important to shed light on it?
“Women greatly contribute to the fisheries space. The wonderful work they do contributes to the critical roles they play in their families all the way up to the societal level. Yet, we recognize that those same women are not sitting at the table, sharing their thoughts and ideas, and bringing their own solutions when it comes to events and dialogues with policy- and decision-makers. There is a real gap and it’s challenging because some barriers are tied to cultural and social norms.
“A lot of my work is trying to get people to recognize that fisheries are gendered and understanding the different roles men and women each play is essential for the sustainable management and development of fisheries. Women also work in different spaces and environments, compared to men. There’s a misconception that when we talk about gender equality it’s all about women, but it’s actually about men and women and their relationships to each other, where there are imbalances. We really want to make sure we are being inclusive and fair, and that’s why we end up focusing a lot on women, because women and other marginalized groups are often the ones who have historically been left behind.
“At the end of the day, if women aren’t there to contribute their ideas, you’re essentially only using 50% of the brainpower to solve problems. You’re losing that opportunity for them to bring their knowledge, particularly traditional knowledge, to those spaces.”
Building on that, what is the significance of intersectionality in achieving the SDG?
“It is important because it cuts to the heart of equity in fisheries. To be more equitable in fisheries, we need to understand how things are fair or unfair to different people. We can’t group people as just men and women in such a binary way, because people are made up of so many different social identities, and those intersecting identities are what give certain people privileges and others disadvantages. The challenge is that if we don’t look through an intersectional lens, there’s a much greater chance of leaving people behind. Those are the people who are invisible and become marginalized. We can’t have a truly functioning society when we have a vast portion of the population being left behind or being rendered invisible.”
From your own personal point of view, what were challenges you faced along the way, and in particular, as a woman of color in science?
“Growing up in Fiji, our education system wasn’t strong, and when I moved to Australia for the end of high school and then university, I really struggled. While I was privileged to get that opportunity to study overseas, it did require hard work. There were periods when I felt I wasn’t good enough to be a scientist, or that I could not write to the international level of English that is required in science. With time, hard work, stubborn persistence, and more opportunity, I went on and did my PhD.
“When I then came back to Fiji after my PhD, there was less opportunity for me to pursue my passion for science. I also realized that peer-reviewed, published research in Fiji was largely done through foreign scientists flying in and out of my island home (a term known as ‘parachute science’). I saw over and over again Fijian scientists being left standing on the sidelines, made to feel like we can’t contribute or don’t know enough to share the same space as our international colleagues. It’s challenging to come out of that mindset, and not fall back into it since it gets reinforced in the world around us so much. Academia can be such a white, and more often male-dominated, space, so it can be very intimidating to want to pursue and stay in science unless you find allies in like-minded people who want to push back at unfair and unjust academic systems.”
Can you expand a bit more about ‘parachute science’?
“Since COVID-19, there’s been a surge in publications where people are looking at their disciplines through a gender, equity, and inclusion lens. Consistently, the message is that the whole academic system is very skewed to advantage certain groups and disadvantage others. I get frustrated reviewing articles about research in Fiji and the Pacific when you see that they are largely dominated by foreigners, and that the local scientists were treated like low-level research assistants, or worse, labor for the research. I have also noticed that many don’t make the effort to read and quote local scientists and our academic papers. This is problematic because Pacific Island scientists are likely to be more accurate in terms of interpretation of data, especially in the social sciences. If you don’t know the history of a place, or the nuances around social and cultural systems, you don’t know enough context and knowledge to interpret results. When you read the research of ‘parachute scientists,’ it’s obvious that there are misinterpretations about a place because authors haven’t valued local knowledge or our contributions to the scientific literature.”
On the flipside of this, how has being a woman in science felt empowering?
“I got a Pew Fellowship a few years ago which was life-changing and career-changing. Gender in fisheries wasn’t something I studied at university, being a biologist by training. I later moved strongly into the social sciences and am largely self-taught. The shift provided an opportunity for me to do a deep dive into mainstreaming gender and human rights-based approaches into fisheries. I found that life-changing because it allowed me to not just do research, but to think about how to create research that you can then use to inform trainings, materials, and guidance documents for practitioners, with the ultimate aim of being able to better integrate gender and human rights-based approaches into the way we do fisheries. Because this is still a space where little is written, I feel empowered as a woman from the Pacific to produce research that is pushing some of those ‘glass ceilings.’”
What are your hopes for the future?
“I’m in a really great place as a Fijian scientist because I spent a huge amount of time and investment in writing, and feel like I have colleagues who value my work and my contributions enough to be included in global collaborations. I want to do more collaborations with other people in the Global South because we have a lot of similarities in the challenge of our journeys and they have incredible passion and commitment for their countries, communities, and what they’re doing for the environment. There’s a lot we can learn from each other. I equally enjoy finding amazing allies in the Global North who are similarly committed to more fair and equitable science, and who treat you as their equal.”
And finally, what advice would you give to someone struggling to get into the marine science field?
“Be very selective of which voices you listen to. We live in a very patriarchal, Global North-dominated global community, so be careful not to listen too much to the voices stopping you from pursuing those dreams of being a scientist. Find good networks of local support to mentor you, uplift you, provide advice, and be a steadfast sounding board for your career.
“If you can’t find mentors, perhaps create a support network with others who are going through the same struggles. See how you can work together to help pursue your dreams. It is hard, there are lots of glass ceilings, and many people who will try to keep those glass ceilings in place – but just try to persist and push through them because we need to break those glass ceilings permanently. So, my parting words are to find allies and create a movement of change.”
Frontiers is a signatory of the United Nations Publishers COMPACT. This interview has been published in support of United Nations Sustainable Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls and United Nations Sustainable Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.

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Concord watch was founded in the beginning of last century, whose goal was to design and make timepieces with high quality. Besides complicated technique, Concord watches adopt diamonds and gems, producing jewelry watches have made this watch brand connected with high taste closely. Although Concord watches have this characteristic, they are also available to ordinary customers. You can find discount Concord Watches in real shops or in online shops.
No.1 Concord Delirium
In the 1930s and 1940s, Concord started to pursue small watch with thin and cute body and movement. Finally it issued the thinnest watch in the world—Concord Delirium. And this style of watch was the biggest focus in the reports of watch. The thickness of this watch is less than 2mm, which can prove technique of Concord can not be matched. Take a look at this Concord Delirium Rose Gold Watch. This Delirium watch with rose gold case is spreading splendid charm, though the price is not high.
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Please pay a little attention to the dial of this series of Concord. The numbers of 3, 6, 9 and 12 are used in Roman numbers, but other numbers are replaced by diamonds. Thus the Veneto watch is always shining anywhere. No matter in evening parties or on streets, Veneto can add your magnificence.
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In the year of 1995, Concord lifted the veil of Saratoga Exor, which combines the artistic of making watch and brilliant gems. And this style has many functions which have made it unique with high quality. Besides, the watch is inlayed with platinum and D-class clean diamonds.
No.4 Concord Mariner
In the year of 1992, Concord issued the Mariner series in jewelry watches exhibition, which shocked the watch field again. This series is equipped with complicated movement with various kinds of characteristics for each watch. And the polygon design is quite popular in the markets now.
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Applying for a small business loan to help fund your business can be intimidating without knowing all that lenders look for when approving a loan. There are also many different types of small business loans to choose from, which can be overwhelming.
Therefore, we offer this short tutorial on the qualifications lenders look for when granting a business a loan, as well as a brief breakdown of the most common types of loans to help take the guesswork out of which loan to apply for to help make it easier for you to qualify.
Types of Small Business Loans Available
There are many types of small business loans offered by lenders; however, knowing exactly how you will use the funds can help make it easier to choose the best type of loan for you.
Some of the most common types of small business loans include:
- A Startup Loan – is designed to help small businesses with the various costs associated with starting a new business and without the extensive business history required by other types of loans. However, lenders may require a source of collateral to secure your loan.
- A Commercial Mortgage – is an asset-based loan that helps both established as well as new businesses purchase a business location, such as an office, retail space, and more. It can also be used to fund construction costs for a new build or to expand or update an existing property.
- SBA Loans – are mainly designed to help disadvantaged small businesses find the funding they need that they may fail to qualify for via traditional loan services. They do so by guaranteeing the bulk of the loan to help lower the lender’s risk, thus making them more open to granting the loan.
What can Impact Terms and Rates
The terms and rates and SBA loan terms and rates you receive for your loan varies by lender and are typically based on various factors, including your credit history and credit score, as well as how risky your business is perceived by lenders.
Most lenders also reward businesses with at least 3 years of proven history with lower interest rates.
How to Qualify for Small Business Loans
Lenders and the SBA have their own specific conditions you must meet in order to get a loan. However, some of the basic qualifications for a small business loan include:
- A personal credit score of at least 680 or higher.
- Bank statements that show consistent income, as well as your tax obligations.
- Balance sheets/revenue that shows positive owner equity over liabilities.
- Debt to income ratio/cash flow that shows your debt is less than 1.35 times your monthly expenses.
- 2 or more years in the business if you are applying for an SBA loan.
- Your industry fits the SBA’s definition of a small business when applying for an SBA loan.
Overall, any small business can apply for a loan. Just be sure you are profitable, you have an appropriate credit score, and your paperwork is organized to help increase your chances of qualifying.


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Effective interventions for osteoarthritis (OA) are limited, and innovative research approaches are needed to advance the detection, prevention, and treatment of this common and disabling disease. Injury-mediated OA provides a unique model of OA, one in which the onset of joint metabolism changes can be clearly identified (the time of injury) and where progression to OA is faster than via non-injury pathways. Abnormal human movement biomechanics and biochemical marker levels may be critical identifiers of individuals at high risk for injury-mediated OA who would benefit from interventions such as neuromuscular training programs preor post-injury. We have the remarkable opportunity to examine the course of OA among large existing cohort with Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury. The proposed study will advance our understanding of key markers (biochemical and biomechanical) associated with OA and ofthe role of injury in accelerafing the onset of OA. This proposal benefits from: 1) existing serum samples and epidemiological, injury, and biomechanical data from a large cohort of young military cadets, and 2) well-established collaborations between prolific epidemiologic, biomechanics, biomarker, and osteoarthritis investigators.
Specific Aims of the project are: 1) Determine whether serum biomarkers of joint metabolism are associated cross-sectionally with movement biomechanics in subjects with no ACL injury; 2) Determine longitudinally whether serum biomarkers of joint metabolism are altered following incident ACL injury, relative to pre-injury levels in the same subjects, and in comparison to non-injured participants; 3) Quantify the increase in the risk of radiographic ipsilateral knee OA following incident ACL injury; 4) Determine whether longitudinal changes in serum biomarkers associated with ACL injury predict risk of ipsilateral knee OA (in subjects with incident ACL injury). This study is timely, innovative, cost-efficient, and of great signficance in the quest to understand mechanisms underiying the development of OA in response to joint injury.
Osteoarthrifis (OA) is a painful and disabling condition. Some OA is linked to knee injuries. To learn about this relafionship, we will follow a group of military cadets from a previous study, some whom have had severe knee injuries. We will determine who has developed post-injury OA, and will relate the presence of OA to data on their human movement patterns (biomechanics) and biological chemicals present in their blood (biomarkers).
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|Raveendran, Reshmi; Nelson, Amanda E (2017) Lower Extremity Osteoarthritis: Management and Challenges. N C Med J 78:332-336|
|Allen, Kelli D (2017) Musculoskeletal Health: Addressing the Leading Causes of Disability. N C Med J 78:306-309|
|Qin, Jin; Barbour, Kamil E; Murphy, Louise B et al. (2017) Lifetime Risk of Symptomatic Hand Osteoarthritis: The Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. Arthritis Rheumatol 69:1204-1212|
|Lateef, Shahmeer; Golightly, Yvonne M; Renner, Jordan B et al. (2017) A Cross-sectional Analysis of Radiographic Ankle Osteoarthritis Frequency and Associated Factors: The Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. J Rheumatol 44:499-504|
|Loeser, R F; Beavers, D P; Bay-Jensen, A C et al. (2017) Effects of dietary weight loss with and without exercise on interstitial matrix turnover and tissue inflammation biomarkers in adults with knee osteoarthritis: the Intensive Diet and Exercise for Arthritis trial (IDEA). Osteoarthritis Cartilage 25:1822-1828|
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Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughter is an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, poetry, or self-revelation, expresses a provocative, impish drive to burst free from external constraints. Taking laughter’s revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir’s experience as a poet and psychoanalyst, Animal Joy seeks to recover the sensation of feeling alive and embodied.
Writing in a poetic, associative style, blending the personal with the theoretical, Alsadir ranges from her experience in clown school, Anna Karenina’s morphine addiction, Freud’s unfreudian behaviors, marriage brokers and war brokers to ‘Not Jokes’, Abu Ghraib, Fanon’s negrophobia, smut, the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, laugh tracks, the problem with adjectives, to how poetry can wake us up. At the centre of the book, though, is the author’s relationship with her daughters, who erupt into the text like sudden, unexpected laughter. These interventions – frank, tender, and always a challenge to the writer and her thinking – are like tiny revolutions, pointedly showing the dangers of being severed from our True Self and hinting at ways we might be called back to it. A bold and insatiably curious prose debut, Animal Joy is an ode to spontaneity and feeling alive.


White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs seems to have a real problem with Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Either that or Gibbs is so dim that he doesn't realize that when he misrepresents Afghanistan troop requests at the end of the Bush administration he's trashing Gates -- President Obama's top defense policymaker.
On Tuesday night, President Obama made the following claim: "Commanders in Afghanistan repeatedly asked for support to deal with the reemergence of the Taliban, but these reinforcements did not arrive. That’s why, shortly after taking office, I approved a long-standing request for more troops."
At the White House briefing yesterday, ABC's Jake Tapper pressed Robert Gibbs about the claim and asked him to specify when such requests took place.
Gibbs: "Again, what President Obama was talking about were additional resource requests that came in during 2008, which we've discussed in here."
Robert Gates was Defense Secretary in 2008. Barack Obama kept him in that job and, according to numerous accounts of his decision to sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, relied heavily on advice from Gates in coming up with his new strategy. So is Gates to blame for these resource requests that did not arrive?
Gibbs is right about one thing. Those requests from 2008 had been discussed at the briefings before. What he failed to mention is that he was wrong back then, too. A Pentagon official close to Gates, speaking of the WH claims, told TWS, "on the facts, they're wrong."
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Gibb's on Prez Obama's SecDef Gates
Somebody's gotta tell Gibbs which team he's on. Gates's Obama's SecDef. Quit slamming a teammate Mr. Gibbs! Via The Weekly Standard Blog.


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Can green firms grow in today's downturn?
A monthly discussion with notable experts.
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Makower: Well, it's never been easy. Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called "The Green Consumer" and looked at this notion that there was a growing market for green products and that there were, more importantly, millions of consumers – 90 percent of Americans – who said that they wanted to buy green products from good companies. Well, guess what? That never really materialized.... The irony is that we're a lot greener consumers than we used to be – in spite of ourselves – because a [beverage] manufacturer, for example, has squeezed out the aluminum, tens of millions of pounds cumulatively over the course of a year, from aluminum cans without reducing the volume.Skip to next paragraph
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Is there a green product that really stands out to you?
Makower: Gosh, I don't know. I see what's coming and some of that's very exciting. But it has much more to do with the convergence ... of energy, information technology, buildings, and transportation. We're going to see some confluences of technologies where our cars and our homes and offices talk to one another through computing technology. And that's going to create a whole new world where we're thinking less about owning cars and more about door-to-door mobility and how we get to places; less about where we fill up than the demands of that [energy] coming from the grid.
Even automakers are using a green argument, among others, for a bailout. Do you buy that?
Makower: The irony is that the automakers are facing the challenges that they are just at the time that they are finally starting to understand the potential of the green technologies. General Motors has a very exciting technology in a vehicle called the GM Volt, which allows you to drive a battery-only vehicle for up to 40 miles. So if you have a 15-mile commute, you'll never use any gas. Then there's a little engine that kicks in to recharge the battery that's powered by gasoline, where you can go several hundreds of miles and get the equivalent of over 100 miles per gallon. We need them to be around to bring that to market. Or we need someone to be around.
Where should the average investor look for tomorrow's winners?
Makower: Computers certainly took off, but not all those companies made it. Some of those companies were too early or too late. Some of them weren't well-run. Some of them had other problems or were just swallowed up by bigger companies. So at the end of the day, this is really about finding companies that are well-run. Now, what we're finding, and what a lot of research shows, is that environmental performance is a proxy for good management. The companies that are well-run have good environmental policies and practices in place and have a strategy for how to succeed in a world where carbon is a constraint, where carbon taxes or cap-and-trade or any of those other geeky policy kinds of things begin taxing the amount of energy that companies use.
Are there any companies that you particularly like?
Makower: I do but I don't name them. They're both big companies – many of them have other problems, but I know they're really thinking about this in serious ways – ... and early stage companies. There are hundreds maybe even thousands of early stage companies that are thinking about some of the new technologies.... Those new technologies for the new energy economy and this convergence of energy, IT, and buildings and transportation, those are now starting to be built and there's a whole range of companies that I'm very excited about.
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I played hockey because I loved the game. In college I started working summer hockey camps where I started to learn how to coach, and learned that I enjoyed that too, so when my playing career was over I knew I wanted to get into coaching.
I was working at a small weekly paper in the Twin Cities suburbs when I meet the local boy’s high school hockey coach. In conversation I mentioned I’d be more than happy to help out with the goalies. He accepted my offer, and told me when to show up to the rink for tryouts.
I wanted to coach as a way to give back to the game that had given me so much. I was excited that first day of tryouts. Skating around, getting to know the different goalie, helping with drills. I learned who the two returning upperclassman goalies were. The starter was a senior who went on to play junior hockey, at Ohio State, and in the ECHL. I was smart enough to not do much with him.
When the season started I was working with the JV goalies as they were both sophomores. In Minnesota you usually play your first year of high school hockey as a sophomore. Both goalies needed work, but were eager to listen and learn. I was also learning as a coach. It’s funny how you see the game differently when you are standing on the bench, versus sitting on it. I learned how to better read an opponents system, how to match lines, etc. I was a sponge that first year.
The next year I was working with the JV goalies again, but this year I was also tasked with running the defense. It was a fun season for me as I felt more focused on the game as I had to keep an eye on what was happening at both ends of the ice, and read the flow of the game to know when to keep some players off the ice. I also learned how to read different personalities.
One of my goalies that second year coaching appeared to be a real goof-off to an outsider, but I took the time to talk to the kid to learn what was going on at home. It turned out there were some pretty big things going on at home in terms of a custody battle that would make any kid act out. Knowing this I knew the way to get through to him wasn’t to yell, but put my arm around him and say, “hey, it’s ok, but…”
It was also during that second year that we were playing Stillwater high school whose varsity team was then coached by NHL hall of famer, and current Bufflo Sabers coach Phil Housely. It was late in the second period when Stillwater took a penalty. We were down by one at that point in the game, and there were 0:08 to play in the period. Me and the other coach looked at each other and agreed. We’d pull the goalie for a 6-4 faceoff opportunity in the offensive zone. We called a time-out to go over the plan. We let the center know that if he lost the face-off all he had to do was tie up and the buzzer would sound. We lost the face-off, the center didn’t tie up, and they shot the puck down for a goal. We couldn’t believe it. As we walked back to our locker room while the Zamboni cleaned the ice Housely caught up to us to let us know it took a lot of guts to make that call – a call that was the right one. He commented that you just couldn’t bet on everything going right for Stillwater in that situation.
My third year coaching was my last. The program was on the rise as some of our youth was getting older, and gaining experience, but we just had talent that could play together as a team too. From a goaltending standpoint I was now working with the JV and varsity goalies. It helped that I had worked with the varsity goalies from when they started at the high school level. I was still running the defense at the JV level too. This year though, the head JV coach had played D1 hockey, and in the ECHL during the NHL lockout season (meaning he skated with some good players at that level), and was a defensemen so I was able to learn a lot from him.
I was enjoying coaching, even starting to work on putting together my own playbook for maybe the day I was a varsity head coach myself, but towards the end of the season my daughter was born. High school hockey in Minnesota means skating six days a week. Practices are right after school. With a baby at home I let the other coaches know I’d be stepping away from hockey because my family was my focus.
I put my hockey bag in the garage, and didn’t touch it other than to move it for almost two years. I went from skating almost every day most of the year for over a decade, to not even putting my skates on for two years, but I couldn’t have been happier because I was home with my kids.

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Frustrated by an ungainly system, more Valley physicians turn to the “concierge” model. Translation: couture health care.
For much of her career as a practicing cardiologist, Dr. Anne-Marie Feyrer-Melk essentially kept one hand on the doorknob during patient visits. She had to. Falling fee reimbursements from insurance companies had forced her to reduce patient appointment times from 30 minutes to 15 minutes. It was a matter of livelihood.
“When we were looking at having to reduce what’s called the patient encounter down to eight minutes, I threw up my hands,” says the Scottsdale doctor, playfully known to her patients as Dr. AM/FM.
The frenzy of patient visits stymied Feyrer-Melk’s efforts to practice preventive care, which involves discussions about nutrition and exercise, along with disease screening. There wasn’t enough time. After one of Feyrer-Melk’s patients survived a heart attack, the patient grabbed the doctor’s arm, asking, “Why is it now that I’ve had my first heart attack that everyone is warning me about the next one?” The patient wanted hope and instead received dire warnings to stay alert for part two.
“I couldn’t afford to maintain the current practice,” Feyrer-Melk says. She began contemplating alternative careers, but first, she attended an American Academy of Private Physicians conference. There, she learned about concierge medicine, which allows patients to contract directly with doctors.
Three years ago, Feyrer-Melk decided to try it. “I had nothing to lose.”
Adopting the concierge medicine model allows physicians to opt out of insurance networks and limit the number of patients they see. Patients pay an annual membership fee that varies by practice, typically ranging from $1,500 to $10,000 or more. Services include unfettered doctor access through email, text and phone, lengthy office visits and same- or next-day appointments. Concierge patients maintain their health plans to pay for laboratory testing, hospital procedures and specialist visits, but the membership fee covers annual physicals and other basic services. While patients who can afford the care welcome the model’s emergence, skeptics consider it elitist and worry it could reduce the number of physicians available to see low-income and middle-class families. Although data are limited, early studies show the model could reduce health care costs and improve outcomes.

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Just getting into airsoft, bought a gun, picked it up aimed it and discovered I'm left eye dominant and right handed.
If you're unfamiliar with what this means, from what I've gathered: My left eye is what does most of my peeping, but since I'm right handed and my right eye looks down the sight, it's waaaayyy off since my left eye is the one tracking objects.
Has anyone dealt with this? What's the easiest way to get around this? Learn to shoot with my left? Would a different sight further down the scope make it easier for me to aim accurately? Eye exercises? Fire from the hip shirtless while screaming obscenities?


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GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA)– Forty is the new fifty when it comes to breast cancer screening for women.
A couple of months ago, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force lowered the age recommendation for mammograms to save more lives.
As part of our “Ask the Expert” series, we spoke to a nurse practitioner, about when to start other critical screenings for women and when to stop.
Gynecological exams can be lifesaving–catching cancers and other problems early on.
Lynnette Beyerle, a nurse practitioner, says your well-woman visit at the OB/GYN office should include three different types of exams.
“We start with a breast exam, to check for any abnormalities that we may feel, any lumps any masses, any abnormal nipple discharge. We also do a pelvic exam, which includes just checking the outer area to make sure that there are no abnormalities that can be seen… Check the ovaries for any masses or other abnormalities we could feel on the exam. And then there’s also the pap smear test that we include in and that is to screen for cervical cancer if that’s indicated,” said Nurse Beyerle.
For most women, pap smears will start at age 21.
But, some may choose to start their routine exams sooner, and that’s okay!
“Annual or routine exams, they can really start at any age… If anybody has any concerns, any issues, any, you know, if they’re wanting to start birth control, if they want any, you know, if they want to talk about vaccinations, it really can start at any age,” said Nurse Beyerle.
You may be able to wait longer between pap smears now since the American Cancer Society no longer recommends them every year.
Nurse Beyerle says, “Of course, that is dependent on previous testing and any abnormality seen on previous testing. But, there are some patients that can go three to five years in between having pap smears.”
Beyerle says pap smears can stop at a certain age for some patients.
“If you’re older than the age of 65, and you’ve had adequate testing and normal results, then we can consider discontinuing paps nears at that age”Lynnette Beyerle, Nurse practitioner, Bon Secours St. Francis
However, for most patients, Beyerle recommends keeping up with the well-woman visits for life.
“If the patient still has not had a hysterectomy and still has a cervix and the uterus and ovaries, it’s still recommended that you come in annually for a OB/GYN exam.”
Lynnette Beyerle, Nurse practitioner, Bon Secours St. Francis
Beyerle says it’s important to note that it’s recommended girls get the HPV vaccine at age 11, well before their first well-woman visit. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also recommends boys get the HPV vaccine at the same age.
To submit a health topic for our ‘Ask the Expert’ series, click here.


Portable trailer tongue weight scale
A portable scale is provided, to be used in conjunction with the jack tube on a trailer hitch, to provide trailer tongue weight. The tongue weight scale is constructed to accept the trailer tongue support and guide it directly onto a weighing device. The scale is formed with an elongated housing surrounding the jack tube guide and a weighing device. The jack tube guide receives the trailer jack tube and guides it onto the weighing device. The jack tube guide is formed to have an inner dimension just slightly larger than the outer dimension of the jack tube so that during a weighing operation when a load is applied from the jack tube to the weighing device, the jack tube guide sleeve functions to maintain alignment and keep the scale and jack tube together. A scale, disposed on the outside of the elongated housing, operates in conjunction with an indicator connected to the weighing device, to provide a visual indication of the trailer tongue weight.
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to scales and more particularly to a portable scale for indicating the dead weight supported by a trailer tongue.
2. Description of the Prior Art
It has been recognized that it is desirable to measure the tongue weight on trailers when loaded. Improper tongue weight can cause problems with the towing vehicle. Too little tongue weight will cause traction problems with the tow vehicle, while too much tongue weight can cause steering problems in the tow vehicle.
A method of determining trailer tongue weight often described in trailer literature utilizes a bathroom scale, a brick and a board. The board is placed so that it is supported on one end by the bathroom scale and on the other end by a brick located at approximately the same height as the bathroom scale. The trailer tongue is located midway between the bathroom scale and the supporting brick. The trailer hitch jack is then positioned on the approximate center of the board to support the trailer. The bathroom scale then indicates approximately one-half of the total tongue weight. That is, the bathroom scale reading is doubled to obtain the tongue weight. If the hitch jack is supported at a position other than the center of the board the scale reading must be multiplied by the ratio of the total board length divided by distance from the brick to the hitch jack to obtain the tongue weight. This is a recommended procedure and trailer manufacturers suggest it be carried out every time the load in the trailer is changed.
Some trailer couplings have been provided with weight indicating devices formed as a permanent part thereof. Exemplary of such trailer hitches or couplings are U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,700,053 and 3,797,594. The type of construction disclosed in these patents requires modification of the basic trailer hitch or coupling in order to accommodate the weighing device. These weighing devices can only be used to provide the tongue weight of the trailer on which they are formed. Existing trailers would require an expensive modification to have such devices formed as a part thereof.SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
A portable scale is provided which receives the jack tube of a trailer and provides a direct indication of tongue load of a trailer. The scale has an opening or cavity formed therein which receives the trailer jack tube and guides it directly onto a weighing device. The cavity which is of a dimension only slightly larger than the jack tube secures the jack tube onto the weighing scale device when a load is applied. The disclosed scale is of a simple, rugged, relatively lightweight construction. It is portable and can easily be stored.
The disclosed scale provides for easy measurement of tongue weight on travel trailers. It can be utilized when loading the trailer to obtain the desired tongue weight which is necessary for proper towing. It can also be utilized after the vehicle is towed or moved to assure the load distribution is proper and the tongue weight is within the prescribed limits. The disclosed tongue weight scale consists of a housing having a guide formed therein whose inner diameter is sized to internally accept the jack tube of a trailer. As the trailer jack tube is received into the device, it is contacted by and ultimately rests on a pressure plate. The pressure plate serves to transfer the weight of the trailer jack tube to a weighing device which is subsequently connected to an indicator which indicates trailer hitch weight. The weighing device may be of any standard type such as mechanical, hydraulic, electro-mechanical or the like.
In one embodiment, the weighing device is a compressible spring which is compressed as a load is applied. A recessed opening is formed in the end of the scale for receiving the jack tube of a trailer. The pressure plate is disposed between the spring and the inner end of the recessed opening. The recessed opening can form a sleeve guide for the jack tube. As a load is applied, the spring is compressed. A slotted opening formed in the side of the outer housing can be calibrated to indicate various hitch weights. An indicator, which can either be inside or outside of the housing, is rigidly connected to the pressure plate for relative movement with respect to the calibrated scale as a load is applied. When the trailer is loaded, and the tongue weight is within the desired tolerances the hitch can be made to the towing vehicle, the jack tube retracted, and the portable scale stored.
It is an object of this invention to teach a portable trailer tongue weight scale which engages the jack tube of a trailer for determining trailer tongue weight.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
For a better understanding of the invention, reference may be had to the preferred embodiment of the invention shown in the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a view of a portion of a trailer utilizing a scale constructed according to the teaching of the present invention for determining trailer tongue weight;
FIG. 2 is a front view of a trailer tongue weight scale utilizing the teaching of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a top view of the scale shown in FIG. 2; and,
FIG. 4 is a section view of the scale shown in FIG. 3 along the lines IV--IV.DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
Referring now to the drawings, there is shown a portable tongue weight scale 10 utilizing the teaching of the present invention. Scale 10 is formed from a tubular housing 12 which has a closed end 14. A sleeve guide 16 is rigidly connected in the open end of tubular member 12. Elongated tubular cylinder sleeve guide 16 serves to guide jack tube 18 within the scale 10. A pressure plate 20 is disposed within the tongue weight scale below the sleeve guide 16. The weighing device utilized is a compressible spring 22 disposed between closed end 14 and pressure plate 20. As a load is applied to pressure plate 20, spring 22 is controllably compressed. Pressure plate 20 transmits the load on jack tube 18 to the weighing device disposed within scale 10.
Tubular member 12 has a slotted opening 24 formed therein. Calibrated weight indications are provided along the sides of elongated slot 24. An indicator is attached to the pressure plate 20 through slot 24. The indicator could also be formed inside of slot 24 as an integral part of pressure plate 20. Alternately a tubular member could depend from pressure plate 20 and be marked to provide the indicator. As pressure plate 20 moves downward under the weight applied through the trailer jack tube 18, the applied weight is indicated. Spring 22 is selected to provide linear compressability with respect to the weight applied thereto over the selected range.
Guide sleeve 16 is selected to be of a slightly larger inner diameter than the outer diameter of jack tube 18. Guide sleeve 16 is preferably formed from a material, such as polyethylene to allow the jack tube to slide easily therethrough. Sleeve 16 is also selected to be of sufficient length so that when weight is applied through jack tube 18 to pressure plate 20, portable scale 10 is essentially secured to jack tube 18 during the weighing measurement of the trailer tongue load. This provides safety by preventing accidental dislodging of jack tube 18 from scale 10. Sleeve 16 also guides the jack tube directly onto the weighing device.
In the preferred embodiment scale 10 is between 8 and 9 inches long and around 25/8 inches in diameter. Scale 10 weighs about 4 pounds. The exact weight and dimensions of scale 10 is determined by its weighing capacity and the material used in its construction.
Typically jack tube 18 has a 2 inch outer diameter. The inner diameter of guide sleeve 16 is selected to be slightly larger than 2 inches. Thus a controlled tolerance fit is assured between jack tube 18 and the mating sleeve 16 of scale 10. Sleeve 16 also positions pressure plate 20. Although in the preferred embodiment sleeve 16 and housing tube 12 are formed from separate pieces which are rigidly joined it is to be understood that they could be formed from an integral piece if so desired. Pressure plate 20 abuts the inner end of sleeve 16 under the influence of spring 22.
During a normal weighing operation scale 10 is positioned on a relatively flat spot beneath jack tube 18. Jack tube 18 is then screwed or moved down to engage scale 10. The supporting end of jack tube 18 extends through sleeve 16 engaging and depressing pressure plate 20. The load applied to pressure plate 20 compresses spring 22 allowing pressure plate 20 to be depressed. Any other supports, such as the hitch to a towing vehicle, are removed so that the trailer tongue is supported from jack tube 18 through scale 10. The scale now indicates the tongue weight. The scale disclosed in the preferred embodiment has a relatively large capacity of 800 pounds. The desired tongue support weight is set by the trailer manufacturer and is usually in the range of 10 to 15 percent of the trailer gross weight. A typical desired trailer tongue weight would be 300 .+-. 45 pound. The trailer tongue weight could be checked after the trailer is loaded, or alternately the scale could be placed in position to indicate tongue weight and as the trailer is loaded the load could be distributed to maintain the desired tongue weight.
The disclosed scale is simple, compact and easy to store. It is portable so that it can be used with a number of trailers, or carried with one trailer on a trip. Direct mating of the jack tube to the scale 10 provides for a safe, stable weighing device. The disclosed scale 10 can be used on existing trailers without modification of the trailer tongue or hitch. The simple, rugged, relatively inexpensive, portable construction makes the disclosed scale 10 usable with a single trailer or to be retained at an area where various trailers traffic to check their weight. That is, this trailer tongue weight scale could easily be maintained at a service station, park station, etc. for checking tongue weight on a loaded trailer as a safety service.
Since numerous changes may be made in the above described apparatus and different embodiments of the invention may be made without departing from the spirit and scope thereof, it is intended that all the matter contained in the foregoing description and shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.
1. A portable scale for receiving the jack tube of a trailer tongue to provide trailer tongue load weight comprising:
- a cylindrical tubular housing having a closed end and an open end which receives the jack tube of a trailer tongue;
- a weight sensitive device disposed within said tubular housing and being recessed from the open end of said tubular housing;
- a sleeve secured to the inner diameter of said housing and extending between the open end of said housing and said weight sensitive device;
- a weight scale disposed on the outside circumference of said tubular housing; and,
- indicator means connected to said weight sensitive device for movement relative to said weight scale whereby the applied load weight is indicated.
2. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein said weight sensitive device comprises:
- a compressible spring disposed within said tubular housing;
- a retainer plate having a diameter greater than said compressible spring and being engaged by said compressible spring; and,
- means for restricting the movement of said retainer plate toward the open end of said tubular member while permitting movement under load towards the closed end of said tubular member.
3. Apparatus as claimed in claim 2 wherein said means for restricting movement of said retainer plate comprises:
- said sleeve which is constructed from a non-metallic low friction material having with the same shape as said jack tube and being of sufficient length to guide the jack tube onto said retainer plate and to restrict movement when a load is applied thereto.
4. Apparatus as claimed in claim 3 comprising:
- a longitudinal slot formed in the side of said tubular member;
- an indicator connected to said retainer plate through said longitudinal slot; and,
- weight indicating means formed along said tubular member at the outside of said slot in proximity to the outer diameter of said housing.
5. A trailer tongue weight scale which receives the trailer tongue jack support tube comprising:
- weight responsive means for predetermined deflection when weight is applied thereto;
- an elongated sleeve disposed above said weight responsive means having an inner diameter slightly greater than the outer diameter of the jack tube and being disposed to guide the jack tube onto said weight responsive means;
- a circular housing disposed around said weight responsive means and said elongated sleeve; and,
- weight indicating means, formed in proximity to the outside of said housing, disposed to be visible on the outside of said housing and being connected to said weight responsive means for indicating trailer tongue weight.
6. A trailer tongue weight scale as claimed in claim 5 wherein said weight responsive means comprises: pg,16
- a movable pressure plate; and,
- a compressable spring disposed between the bottom of said housing and said movable pressure plate supporting said movable pressure plate in engagement with the bottom of said elongated sleeve.
7. A trailer tongue weight scale as claimed in claim 6 wherein said housing is tubular shaped with one open end and a bottom closed end;
- a calibrated slot formed through the wall of said tubular housing; and,
- an indicator extending through said slot and connected to said movable pressure plate.


It actually wasn’t as shocking to see the Philadelphia Phillies beat the struggling Marlins. It was just how they did it and who were the biggest contributors.
Behind a pair of two-run homers by Freddy Galvis – yes, Freddy Galvis – and Ryan Howard – yes, Ryan Howard – the Phillies quickly buried a dismal road trip with a 7-3 victory on Tuesday against Miami in the first game of a six-home stand.
They had hit just eight home runs entering the contest and the two were the first for the Phillies since belting four in a loss to the Mets last Tuesday, which was also the last time anyone in red pinstripes went yard.
Both home runs put the Phils in the lead, too. Galvis’ shot gave them a 2-0 jolt in the second, while Howard put the Phils in front for good at 4-3 in the sixth.
They were the first homers of the year for both players.
Galvis, not exactly known for his long ball prowess, had four home runs last year in 119 at bats. However, the shortstop is heated up as he is 5-for-18 and seven RBIs in his last five games. Galvis, who hit .176 last year, has a .319 batting average.
Howard, obviously known for his long ball prowess, went 42 at bats without a homer to begin the year. He was demoted to the No. 7 slot in the batting order – the lowest he’d hit since 2006 – last week before being bumped to the No. 5 spot over the weekend at hit No. 6 against the Marlins. However, he drilled the first pitch he saw – with two outs – from Dan Haren just over the fence in center and finished 2-for-3 with a walk and two runs scored.
The slugger thinks the home run and good hit at the plate could be the turnaround he’s been looking for so far this season.
“It feels good,” Howard told reporters after the game. “I’m going up there trying to have good at-bats. Hopefully it does turn it on, but we’ll see. I’m just going to continue to try to have the same approach I had tonight and go from there.”
Also at the plate, Ben Revere lined a two-run triple in the eighth to pad the lead. Chase Utley, mirred in one of the worst slumps of his career, went 0-for-3 with an RBI on a sacrifice fly. The second baseman doesn’t have a hit in his last 24 at bats and is batting a woeful .109.
Jerome Williams took advantage of the rare display of pop from the sticks and was solid on the hill to earn his first win of the year. He allowed two earned runs on eight hits and struck out six. Ken Giles and Jonathan Papelbon pitched the eighth and ninth inning, respectively, to close out the evening.
Giancarlo Stanton hit home run to center that traveled 453 feet for the Marlins, who are 3-11 and have lost five straight.
Looking ahead, Cole Hamels faces Jared Cosart in Wednesday’s clash. Hamels has had a rough start to the year, especially with serving up seven homers in three starts. Cosart, a former Phillies farmhand who was traded to the Giants in the Hunter Pence deal and dealt to Miami last season, is 0-1 with a 4.76 ERA in two starts.


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I personally feel that an image hanging on a wall needs to be able to withstand three different viewing distances fairly well
(1) too far (i.e. way past ideal--like 5 feet for a 4"x5" print)
(3) with a magnifying glass.
probably most images will handle 1 and 2 fine. Nearly anything hung in a gallery looks freaking awseome when lit up and surrounded by beautiful people. That's the function of a gallery, right? That and to confer the laurels of respect and therefore price. #1 and #2 have a lot of 'atmosphere' lent by the white walls, super cool concrete warehouse space, second glass of wine, etc. #1 in particular has a lot to do with just not messing up (i.e. hang the image straight on the wall) more than doing anything special.
I personally can't stand when supposedly 'professional' images can't deal with #3. I'm being a bit bombastic by saying magnifier close, but I am dead serious when I mean, really, really seriously looking at the physicality of the pigment on the paper close. I mean, you are a serious photographer right? Now we are talking about galleries here, not billboards or some other commercial application where it's understood that the image is there to pimp something else and you as photographer don't get the final say so corners might be cut for the man. In a gallery, it's 'art'--photographer in complete control. No cutting corners. Full on 100% integrety to the 'work'. Sacred space, etc.
To me, if you are on a gallery wall, you are saying you are a pro, like the real thing and you take it seriously and sweat the details--like "please, viewer, take a moment and really look, 'cos I worked really long and hard on this and thought about all the details and sweated mightly on this effort." So say you actually get someone who isn't just there as a pretense to pick up chicks, someone who is really engaging the work, who is willing to concentrate for like over a millisecond to really look at it. Well, you gotta meet that engagement all the way. And that to me means you gotta make the print quaility super mega high--magnifying glass close. It's just not meeting your end of the bargain to say it's only in bounds to stay 20" away. That's just not fair to those who are actually willing to focus. I mean, really? Diagonal of the print and no closer?
Back in the ol' film days when it was unheard of for people to 'send out for prints', there was a lot of emphasis on really honing the print quality craft. Not easy. It doesn't seem like a lot of folks raised digitally are very aware of what it means to actually take an image to pigment on substrate. It's much harder to work that end of the craft when it just goes to a black box (the print house) and comes out the other side done. Not that I'm dissing on digital--just that there seems to be generally a lack of appreciation for the physical print quality given that a majority of images never make it onto paper. In other words, back in the bad old days of film and darkrooms, you basically only had a 'photograph' when you had a print (ok--some people worked in chromes so I'm cheating a bit here). So it was a significant part of becoming a photographer of any sort to actually get pigment deposited on a ground. Now that Photoshop has overtaken (mercifully) photochemestry, a lot of really good photographers haven't a clue what 'a fine print' actually looks like & what it takes to make one. Printing is sort of an afterthought at best.
Oh, to answer the question: you need to print at an LPI that can withstand the magnifying glass, which, in turn, will dictate the maximum size a particular image can go before it falls to pieces. This site has some great threads on printing and LPI. I personally do not enlarge so my native uncropped 18MP file at 360 lpi to match my epson printer ends up with something like 11x15 prints, just as an example.