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My Three Ingredient Lucky Charms Ice Cream Bread Recipe is the most magical bread you can make! If you are looking for a bread recipe that doesn’t require special skills and no kneading, this fun Ice Cream Bread is exactly it. This Lucky Charms bread is great for St. Patrick’s Day or any time of year!
- 2 cups of vanilla ice cream (full-fat ice cream)
- 1.5 cups of self-rising flour
- 1-2 cups of Lucky Charms marshmallows
Other Supplies Needed:
- 8.5″x4.5″ bread loaf pan (anything from 8×4-9×5 will work)
- Non-Stick spray
- Preheat oven to 350°
- Prepare a loaf pan with non-stick spray
- Combine melted ice cream with self-rising flower
- Pour the batter into the loaf pan
- Top with marshmallows
- Bake for 40 minutes
- Allow the bread to cool completely before removing it from the loaf pan
- Cut into thick slices and enjoy!
enjoy with Lucky Charms Ice Cream Bread

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TAME BUT POINIANT
This week’s episode of Wentworth titled Bleed Out was tamer than episode 1 and 2. However, it sets up a lot of things to happen throughout season 6.
Bridgette was caught for helping Franky. Ruby (Mitchell) has a chance to become a professional boxer if she can $20,000 to fight in Singapore. Liz is going to confess that she lied on the stand, but will the detective buy her story and Kaz finds out about Fight Club.


Q: Does the arrow on my submersible pump refer to direction of impeller rotation or kick direction?
A: Usually, a red arrow on the pump refers to direction of kick, a green arrow refers to direction of impeller rotation. However, it is advisable to check the operation manual whilst wiring up a submersible pump.
Q: Can I use recycled water through my high pressure pump for wash down applications?
A: It’s not best practice as high pressure pumps are designed for clean water only. It depends how clean the water is, sharp grains of sand and the likes will mean regular seal and lining replacements and/or pumps to be replaced regularly. Centrifugal end suction pumps are generally recommended as easier to maintain than vertical multistage pumps.
Grey water recycling for wash-down and other processes is now possible with EnviroHub, meaning you can reduce site water discharge needs and fresh water abstraction costs.
Q: Can cavitation be an issue with centrifugal pumps even if I have a far greater NPSHa than NPSHr?
A: Yes, you can still have discharge cavitation if the required differential pressure is greater than the pump can provide.
Q: The pump isn’t giving me the pressure/flow I need, compared to what you specified it to do. Why would this be?
Q: What approximate flow of water is required for a typical 4mm dust suppression nozzle?
A: It depends on the pressure, but at a typical 3 bar, they use approximately 1 cubic meter of water per hour each.
Q: Why is my pump giving reduced flow?
A: This could be caused by a number of things:
- Worn impeller: As the impeller wears out it become less and less efficient and the flow rate will drop.
- Blocked discharge lines: If you have a long discharge line a drop in flow rate due to a worn impeller could allow solids to settle out in the line.
- Rubber pipe lining collapsed: If the rubber liner in steel pipework becomes unstuck from the pipe wall it can partically block the suction line and reduce flow rate.
- Cyclone liner collapsed: A worn cyclone liner can become unstuck from the cyclone and restrict the flow into the cyclone which limits pump flow.
Q: Why is the pump discharge surging?
A: This could be due to a number of reasons:
1) The pump could be losing its prime. Check suction pipework and the level in the feed tank if pump is flooded suction.
2) Solids could be settling out in the discharge pipeline causing it to surge.
3) The pump impeller could be worn and struggling to get up to pressure.
Q: Why is water spewing out of the throat?
A: This happens on rubber lined pumps when the discharge pipework isn’t straight. The throatbush can get pushed out of line, which leaves a gap between the cover plate liner and the throatbush. Water then comes out where the cotter pins are.
Q: Why is my slurry pump steaming?
A: This happens where the pump is running too much to the left of the curve. Power is constantly going into the pump, so if it can’t pump as fast as it would like, the energy turns into heat. When left for a long time, the water actually boils, and the pump cavitates and steams.
Q: Why is the bearing housing on my slurry pump extremely hot?
A: This can indicate a few potential issues.
1) The bearings have been incorrectly shimmed which causes them to run hot.
2) The bearings have not been greased for an extended period of time.
3) The pump is running faster than the maximum recommended speed.
New built-up SlurryPro pumps include provision for an automatic greasing system as standard. Once fitted, this ensures consistent reliable lubrication of the bearings and seals for maximum service life.
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Q: Why does my slurry pump sound like it’s pumping marbles?
A: This is a sure sign of cavitation and there can be a few reasons for this:
1) The discharge heads too great for the pump. This could be due to a valve on the discharge being closed or the wrong pump for the application.
2) The suction heads too great. This is when you’re trying to draw the fluid up too far or the suction pipe has blocked.
3) If you are pumping from a tank, ensure the fluid level is not dropping below the level of the inlet pipe as it will start to draw in air.
All of the above will result in damage to the pump, especially the impeller.
Q: Why does the impeller is pitted around the outside
A: This will be due to cavitation, and the fact it is around the outside means it is discharge cavitation rather than suction cavitation. This is almost exclusively a high chrome issue. To resolve the problem, check for blockages, closed valves and check the application.
Q: Why does our rubber impeller / liners look melted?
A: This can be due to a number of reasons:
1. Cavitation with a rubber impeller. Rubber does not pit in the same way that high chrome does.
2. The pump is turning too fast which makes the tip speed too high. When the max tip speed is exceeded, the rubber starts to delaminate and disintegrate.
3. The discharge head is too great or a valve is closed. The fluid thrashes around inside the pump which causes a build-up of heat and can lead to the rubber melting.
4. If the impeller is incorrectly adjusted, it can rub against the liner which causes both to heat up and disintegrate.


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RiskMetrics Group Introduces First-Ever Online Community for Investors, Board of Directors and Company Management
Jun 10, 2008 (10:06 AM EDT)
NEW YORK, June 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- RiskMetrics Group, a leading provider of risk management and corporate governance services to the global financial community, today launched Governance Exchange, an innovative online platform designed exclusively for board members, corporate executives and institutional investors to enable interaction on corporate governance issues. An industry first, Governance Exchange bridges the communications gap between these market constituents, enhancing their understanding of various market viewpoints and ultimately helping them achieve real market solutions. To foster member dialogue, Governance Exchange also provides a wealth of content and expert analysis.
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Final Fantasy XIV. Well, all right, that's a a bit debatable, what with the differing launch times for the collector's edition and the general retail edition, but for the purposes of this article and my own memory, I'm going to go ahead and focus on that one-year anniversary right now. I remember driving down to pick the game up a year ago on Thursday. That's close enough.
And there's a lot that's changed since the game was released. It's a well-known fact that I liked the game even in its initial state, but it had some pretty major issues and some points of lacking implementation. And it doesn't feel like we're a year out from launch as a result of all the things that the game has changed since launch, with each patch bringing not just new content but major overhauls to the existing game. So was there even a point to launching the game right then, considering both the reception and the fact that we're still without a subscription charge?
I'm going to go ahead and say yes, and not just because I like the game. I think that if you're pleased with the work that Yoshida has been doing on the game for the past nine months, you should be happy that the game launched when it did because it wouldn't have happened otherwise.
Why did the game launch when it did? I couldn't tell you that without knowing a lot more about the internal politics at Square-Enix. Certainly I'd bet that there was pressure to aim the launch at a dead zone when there was nothing coming out, and 2010 was a pretty darn quiet year for launches as a whole. But more than anything else, I think it launched because Hiromichi Tanaka, a man whom I greatly respect for the work he's done on the series over the years, stood up and confirmed that yes, it was ready for launch.
Was it? That's a debate that can go back and forth for ages, and has. It's so far past the point of being relevant that even bringing it up is annoying. (The short answer is that it doesn't matter because it did launch and we're here now. The long answer is the same as the short answer but with more cursing.) What we can all agree upon, however, was that the game in its launch state basically didn't adhere to any MMO conventions that were previously in place, and I have little doubt that as long as Tanaka was at the helm, some things would remain perpetually off the priority list.
Tanaka is like any other designer. He has his priorities, he has the things he likes and doesn't like, and he doesn't always listen to player feedback in those areas. And Tanaka likes baroque design and hates RMT.
Final Fantasy XIV's design, in many ways, was set up as a pre-emptive answer to a lot of problems that Final Fantasy XI had experienced over the years. The emphasis on crafting classes meant that players no longer felt like they had to fire and hope on important crafts, which had been a longstanding problem. Leve restrictions and server-side UI adjustments ensured that cheating and RMT didn't have the same hold over the game. Fatigue kept people from buying into powerleveling services and the like.
It's not like fixing these problems is a bad idea. The issue is that these problems were being fixed before they were, in fact, problems. It's like installing a million-dollar alarm system in your home before you confirm that the locks work. At best, the fixes were transparent to players, and at worst they were impeding people who were trying to play the game legitimately.
What caused the direction on the game to shift -- including most of those impediment to be discarded -- was the fact that the game was released. As long as Tanaka was in charge, these elements weren't going to be changed, and until the game went live to negative critical reception, he was going to remain in charge. So there were really no two ways around it.
The net result is where we are now. The game hasn't been charging players, it's been getting changed in major ways, and next week is the target launch for a patch that should see another big change to the way the game functions. Getting from place to place is much more viable, and while I'm sad to see physical levels go (it was neat that leveling other classes made a real difference across all classes), there are definitely advantages to the new way of doing things.
But will it matter? Can the game make up for lost ground? Clearly Square thinks it can. You don't keep running a game for free for a year unless you're fairly confident that it's worth the extra time, and while you may not like certain aspects of Square's approach to games (this is why do I have about a million Final Fantasy VII revivals around me and no love for Final Fantasy VI), you can't deny that the company tends to be pretty good about the business side of things. Running an MMO is a marathon, not a sprint, and there's always time to recover over the game's next year of operation.
Right now, the game is significantly improving. And if you haven't played since launch, it's worth taking a look again. Fair warning: Yes, it still takes a while to grow accustomed to the game and feel comfortable within it. But there's more to do than you might have thought and clear signs of how much more is just around the corner. If you got tired of the guildleve cycle, you're not the only one, and you're not still stuck in the rut. Sometimes things have to be bad in order to get better.
Of course, I'm sure this week's column will bring out plenty of people cheering for the game's demise in the comments. And your feedback is welcome, if not entirely productive. Everyone else can also use the comments to sound off or as always mail things along to firstname.lastname@example.org. Next week, while I would really like to be able to devour all of the new patch in a day, the reality is that I'm just not going to be able to have a column on that. What do you say we talk about beastmen again?
From Eorzea to Vana'diel, there is a constant: the moogles. And for analysis and opinions about the online portions of the Final Fantasy series, there is also a constant: The Mog Log. Longtime series fan Eliot Lefebvre serves up a new installment of the log every Saturday, covering almost anything related to Square-Enix's vibrant online worlds.
The Mog Log: A year that wasn't
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The name plate on her desk identified the circulation desk librarian as Dorothy Wormel. She was fifty-ish, with greying hair cut unflatteringly short and straight, dressed in typical Pacific northwest fashion: layers of natural fibers, finished out in wool socks and Birkenstocks. The aimed-at effect may have been natural and woodsy; in her case it was pugnaciously frumpy. She was studying a computer printout, accordion-folded into a stack about three inches thick on her desk. If she was remotely aware of Maggie's presence at the desk, she shouldered that distraction aside like a pro.
Maggie waited for what felt like a decent interval, then cleared her throat.
Dorothy Wormel remained precisely as she had been sitting, except that her eyes snapped upward to meet Maggie's over the rims of her reading glasses. Maggie actually made a slight yipping noise and stepped back. The regard behind that glance had hit her like a concentrated blast of arctic air. She fought down the reflexive impulse to shiver.
"I'm trying to locate a book that's in the catalog but not on the shelves. Can you tell me if it's been checked out?" She tried to give one of her pleasant, business-like smiles. The librarian briefly strafed the printout with her gaze, then stood and walked toward the counter. Mercifully, she was looking at the list in Maggie's hand, not at Maggie. Maggie didn't feel quite ready to stand up to one of her glances again, especially at point-blank range. Maggie turned her list around and tapped her finger next to Jaeger and Prinz's book.
"Just a moment," said the librarian, not quite concealing her disdain, although whether it was for Maggie personally or simply for anyone who would interrupt her pure contemplation of the Dewey Decimal System, Maggie could not have said.
She moved to a computer terminal at the end of a counter. As she entered the book's catalog number, Maggie stepped cautiously nearer, surreptitiously watching the woman's stare, so intent that even the computer screen seemed to flicker in a cowed way before her.
"The book is checked out," she said shortly. Her eyes slowly turned toward Maggie. Maggie braced herself.
"Can you tell me when it's due back?"
The librarian focused her lasers on the terminal again. "It was due July 19th."
Maggie's jaw dropped. "But it's March!" The librarian offered no response.
Maggie tried again. "It's been overdue for"--pause for some quick mental arithmetic--"eight months?" The librarian apparently regarded this as a rhetorical question. "Who checked it out?"
The librarian stared unblinking. "We do not release that information. If you like, I can put an R. C. on the book."
"An R. C.?"
"Yes, a return call. We send the person a notice that the book has been requested. That person then has seven days to return the book to us. When it arrives, we notify you."
"Do you think a person who's already kept the book eight months too long will find this notice compelling?" The librarian seemed to treat this question as rhetorical, too.
Maggie shrugged. "Okay, fine. Please put a call on the book for me." The librarian took Maggie's name and address from her student I.D.
"Thank you for your help," said Maggie, as she lifted her book bag off the counter. The librarian apparently chose not to consider this sarcasm. She was already back at her desk, studying the printout. Maggie turned to go, then stopped and turned back toward the counter.
"Excuse me, but could you answer one more question?" The librarian turned her dissecting-probe gaze back on Maggie. "Can you tell me roughly how much eight months in overdue book fines would add up to?" Then the librarian gave Maggie a look even more alarming than her reptilian gaze: she smiled faintly. "It doesn't matter. It's university policy that faculty members are not charged fines for overdue books." She returned her attention to the printout. Maggie waited for the chill to pass over her body, then took her book bag and headed for the library lounge in the basement. This was too much to take on an empty stomach.
She took a seat at a table and looked over her list again. Wormel had let it slip that it was a faculty member who was holding onto her book. The odds were good that only one professor was both theoretically interested in postmodern critique and relentlessly self-centered enough to keep a library book for almost a year: Emile Thoreau. Maggie felt her spirits slip slightly lower. Emile Thoreau, self-conscious "bad boy" of the art history faculty; Emile Thoreau, whose French accent came and went according to the number of sophomore coeds present in the class; Emile Thoreau, tenured champion of the masses, and ass-grabber extraordinaire. Maggie groaned to herself. Emile Thoreau, Volvo Marxist, who believed that, after The Revolution, he would still be entitled to drive an import and nail his grad students. Still, if he had the Jaeger and Prinz book, maybe she could borrow it from him. She fished a quarter out of her copy machine bag and walked over to the pay phone. His number was listed, and she dialed it. Thoreau's answering machine took the call. She hesitated, then hung up. If he did have the book, leaving him a message would only give him time to move the book into the bedroom and dim the lights. Maggie shuddered.
She sat down again and pondered her list. If she couldn't get the Jaeger and Prinz book, she could still get the MacReady article through the interlibrary loan service. Since she had all the bibliographic information, it should be easy to obtain a photocopy from another university library in two or three days. She picked up her book bag and returned to the main floor.
At the information desk, she held up the maimed journal like a specimen of road kill. "Is this where I report mutilated books?" she asked. The student worker nodded. Maggie showed him where the missing pages of the MacReady article had been excised. He dutifully recorded the information and took the book, or what was left of it, to a rolling cart. Maggie thanked him and crossed the main floor to the interlibrary loan office.
Clearly, interlibrary loan was not where the big players were to be found. It was a small and windowless cubicle, little more than a desk, a computer terminal, and a phone. The man behind the desk looked faintly surprised that anyone had found him. Unlike Dorothy Wormel, he had no name plate on his little desk to identify himself.
"I'd like to order a copy of a journal article," said Maggie as she sat down across the desk from him. The anonymous little man nodded shyly and pushed a pen and a form toward her.
"Fill this in with as much information as you can, please." Maggie scanned the form and quickly recopied the information from her list onto it. The man seemed startled when she finished so soon, and he ran a suspicious eye over the form, but it was clearly complete. He smiled briefly and turned to his computer. He tapped in an entry, looked at the screen with vague surprise, compared the information there with Maggie's form, and then looked at Maggie. He seemed faintly disappointed, not so much for her as for himself; he was a fisherman who at last had a nibble on his line, only to find his bait gone.
"There's no need to order this article," he said, almost wistfully. "We have that journal here in Anderson in the stacks."
"Well, actually," said Maggie, "someone cut that article out of our copy of the journal." The poor man looked genuinely shocked. It took him a moment to recover. Then he frowned.
"But the journal's still listed as being in circulation by the main library computer." He nodded toward the screen. "I can't order it for you if the computer says we already have it." He smiled apologetically.
"So how do I get to see this article?"
"You have to report it to circulation. Once circulation declares the book missing or damaged, and I get that confirmed here"--he tapped the screen--"we can order the article for you whenever you want."
Maggie felt her blood run cold. "Circulation?" She drew a little closer and lowered her voice. "Is there any way of doing this without going through Ms. Wormel?"
The nameless man shook his head gravely, in deep and sympathetic disappointment. "And she pronounces it 'Wor-mel,' not 'Worm-el,'" he added sadly.
With powerful misgivings, Maggie retraced her steps to the circulation desk. Dorothy Wormel had apparently not moved since their last interview. Maggie hesitated at the counter, mustering her resolve. She arranged her face into a smile.
"Excuse me, I'd like to report a damaged book."
The librarian silently turned her gaze toward Maggie, like gun turrets swiveled toward their target. She said nothing for a moment while they computed strike trajectories.
"Do you have the book here?"
"Well, no, he has it over at the information desk." Maggie turned and nodded toward the desk, and noticed to her dismay that there was no one there now. "But I have the catalog number and the citation," she added, turning back to Wormel. "And I can tell you which pages have been cut out."
The librarian shook her head slightly. Coming from her, it seemed like a hysterical outburst. "We have to process the physical book here before it can be listed as damaged." Maggie felt her blood pressure going back up again. Wormel went on. "In the meantime, I suggest you order the missing material through interlibrary loan."
"But they won't order the article there until you list the book as out of circulation here!"
For the second time that day--and perhaps, thought Maggie, the second time in the decade--Dorothy Wormel smiled. It was not the easy smile of someone practiced at smiling, but it was all the more effective for that.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Scenes from a failed novel: The adversary
(The following pages were found among several hundred sheets of print-out spilled in and around a dumpster near the one-time offices of St. Martin's Press in the storied Flatiron Building in Manhattan, in the early 1990s. The decision to release these materials now was inspired by Lance Mannion's recent meditation on writerly discipline and inspiration. For other excerpts from this doomed work, go here.)

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‘[…] in the lobbying of this House and the upper House we have had an army of lawyers advancing behind a front of women and children—vulnerable claimants who they say would not be represented if they are not paid as much as they are now. I am afraid I do not believe that.’
Those were the provocative words of the secretary of state for justice, the Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP, during November’s Commons Report Stage debate on the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill. After over 10 months of negotiation, 14 Government defeats and numerous concessions, the Bill received its Royal Assent on May 1st. Unfortunately, despite the concerted efforts of a wide range of lobbyists, interest groups and a large number of peers (described by Lord Alton as ‘the awkward squad’) the Bill in its final, albeit amended, form will lead to the wholesale denial of access to justice for some of the most vulnerable members of society.
Contrary to the frankly disingenuous remarks of the secretary of state, it is precisely for those individuals for whom the Bar has lobbied so hard on this measure. Many of the amendments eventually accepted by the Government, including the scrapping of provisions to bring in means testing for legal advice at the police station, the reinstatement of legal aid for domestic child abduction and the widening of the Bill’s definition of domestic abuse, were proposed by the Bar Council, in the public interest, when the Bill was first published, and we campaigned vociferously to ensure that they were included in the final Bill.
It is not for the sake of family barristers that we urged the Government to think again about the removal, almost in its entirety, of private family law from the scope of legal aid. Many have stood alongside us to argue that these short-sighted cuts are likely to cost the Government more in the long term, as self-representing litigants, struggling under the emotional strain of relationship breakdown and child access battles, prolong cases and clog up the courts. Our primary concern is for those who will struggle to represent themselves in court without proper representation, and for the many other individuals who will be deterred from seeking justice at all.
Of course, we remain aware of the Bill’s inevitable impact on the legal profession too, coming as it does alongside yet more cuts to the fees of publicly funded practitioners. So what is the future of the publicly funded Bar? In family law, public law cases will continue to receive public funds, but not private family law cases. In social welfare law, only cases at the higher tribunals in which a point of law is at issue will receive legal aid. And legal aid has been removed from almost all of clinical negligence, with the exception of pre- and peri-natal brain injury cases. Some clinical negligence cases will be brought forward under conditional fee agreements instead, but thanks to reforms to civil litigation funding confined elsewhere within the Bill, the risks of taking on uncertain cases will be far higher. Some individuals will receive legal help pro bono from the many lawyers who give up their time for free, subject to the cuts being imposed on law centres and CABx across the country and the eventual de-skilling of social welfare law. There is no point in denying that the future looks bleak.
This is not just the concern of the publicly funded Bar and those tasked with representing the profession. What will be the impact of these reforms on the demographic makeup of the Bar as a whole?
As the Government looks at ways to improve the diversity of the judiciary, it is simultaneously cutting at the umbilical cord of so many of the exceptional female and BME practitioners who take on a disproportionate amount of publicly funded work, and do so with the skill and expertise which will eventually make them excellent candidates for the Bench.
Some will look to take on better remunerated private work instead, whilst others will leave the profession altogether, to the detriment of the public.
Despite this harsh reality, there remains a place in society for the publicly-funded civil barrister, albeit one for which they must fight even harder. I come across many young barristers with a passion for civil and criminal legal aid work, and a desire to continue this work in the future, who are diversifying their practices in innovative ways. By supplementing it with direct access work, privately-funded legal work, a variety of advisory services and regulatory work, they have been able to develop a varied, flexible and sustainable career. Our unique skills as advocates remain of great value to the public and, believe it or not, to the Government. Today more than ever, the Bar must adapt in order to thrive.

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Knights take Riverton tourney, schedule set for home tournament
The Green River Knights fared well in the Roy Peck Memorial Wood Bat Tournament in Riverton over the weekend.
The Knights’ A Team took first after defeating the Riverton Raiders in the championship match, while the B Team took third.
The A Team initially faced Riverton’s B Team, defeating them 7-1, and later took on Douglas, winning that game 6-3. During the championship game, the Knights showed their superiority over the Raiders 18-1.
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- How the influx of sensors in today’s connected vehicles makes links more susceptible to EMI.
- The limitations of current approaches to EMI.
- Why a digital connectivity standard is vital to the future of ADAS and infotainment systems.
In early 1979, Ralph Liuzzi installed a mobile transmitter in his customer’s Cadillac Seville. However, Mr. Liuzzi found that whenever he attempted to transmit, the car’s engine would stall, resulting in a serious safety hazard for both driver and pedestrians.
At the time, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) cited a “lack of documentation on the effects of Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) on automobile electronic engine control systems,” but reviewed the case and eventually found that indeed EMI played a key role in the system malfunction. “The problem of EMI is a relatively new one in automotive technology since electronics have only recently been introduced into usage in automobiles,” the NHTSA said in its report.
Now, more than 40 years later, the problem of EMI has only grown. As recently as 2020, more than 2.8 million vehicles were recalled by a single OEM due to an electronic control unit (ECU) having inadequate protection against certain electrical noise, which could lead to incomplete or nondeployment of the airbags in the case of a crash.
The NHTSA has since investigated airbags installed in more than 12 million cars, all equipped with the airbag control unit that could fail to deploy due to EMI. The investigation has led to further recalls of more than 2 million additional vehicles from various OEMs.
The electrification of today’s connected vehicles has resulted in more sources of EMI in the modern car, coming from both inside and outside the car. This interference can lead to the degradation or corruption of signals, which are distributed via various connectivity solutions, and can lead to critical sensor and advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS) failures.
EMI will affect components all around the vehicle, but the most susceptible are the links—wires connecting sensors to ECUs, ECUs to ECUs, and more. Current in-vehicle connectivity solutions that utilize legacy technologies have traditionally diminished the effects of electronic noise by reducing bandwidth, limiting cable length, increasing frequency, and adding expensive shielding to cables.
OEMs have worked hard to protect these links from EMI, but reviewing these methods reveals that they’re not optimal:
- Shielded cables: Shielding has long been considered a key solution to guard against EMI, but there’s a growing understanding within the industry that shielding degrades over time and stress, leaving links susceptible to interference. The problem is particularly acute in dynamic installations, such as doors, side mirrors, and trunk lids.
- Forward error correction (FEC): Used to identify and rectify errors caused by EMI, FEC can be very effective in certain restricted noise categories, such as constant and consistent low amplitudes or additive Gaussian white noise (AGWN). However, the harsh automotive environment includes many common noise classifications that FEC proves ineffective against, such as narrowband interference (NBI), alien crosstalk (Xtalk), and transients on line (TOL).
- Limiting cable length: Restricting cable length is an effective solution to EMI. But the drawback is that it limits the flexibility of in-car architectures, forcing the placement of ECUs in sub-optimal locations within the vehicle. This hampers the industry’s advance toward zonal and centralized E/E architectures, where increasing cable length is becoming necessary.
- Reducing bandwidth: One of the easiest and most effective ways to mitigate EMI is to reduce bandwidth, but the industry is moving in the opposite direction. Bandwidth demands will only continue to grow amid the shift toward sensor fusion, centralized processing, and software-defined vehicle (SDV) features, all of which require innovations in cameras, radar, LiDAR, and more powerful ECUs.
These existing solutions impose limitations on in-vehicle connectivity infrastructure. They also erect significant barriers to deploying next-generation vehicles on the road.
EMI Meets MIPI
To address these challenges, automakers must adopt a digital connectivity standard. One of the leading candidates is the MIPI A-PHY standard for in-vehicle connectivity.
The EMC performance of MIPI A-PHY is unprecedented in the industry, with chipsets able to reach a Packet Error Rate of 10-19—orders of magnitude better than existing solutions on the market (see figure). Such large margins are important as the problem of EMI worsens over time. The latest innovations in ADAS and infotainment systems demand ever-increasing bandwidths, inevitably leaving links more susceptible to interference.
MIPI A-PHY addresses EMI with a DSP-based approach that includes mechanisms such as just-in-time noise cancellation (JITNC) and dynamically modulated PHY level retransmission:
- Just-in-time noise cancellation: JITNC is a fast and adaptive way of removing noise to reduce the effects of EMI, and it’s particularly good at handling NBI, the sharp and sudden noises that legacy in-vehicle connectivity solutions find difficult to deal with.
- Dynamic PHY level retransmission: There are occasions when the environment suffers from so much noise that data packets can fail due to interference. When this occurs, the MIPI A-PHY standard calls for retransmission of the data packet using a lower pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) than what was originally sent, which decreases the chances of the transmission failing again.
Due to its EMI resilience, a large ecosystem is emerging to back the MIPI A-PHY standard for in-vehicle sensor connectivity. Everyone from leading Tier-1 suppliers such as Aptiv and Denso; camera and sensor manufacturers such as Leopard Imaging, Sony, and Sunny Optical; Mobileye and other chip companies; system-in-package (SiP) vendors such as LG Innotek; connector and cable manufacturers such as Hosiden and Sumitomo; and foundries like Intel are all lining up behind it. Other backers include EDA companies such as Cadence Design Systems and test equipment experts like Keysight.
These companies recognize the growing importance of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), as higher bandwidth systems continue to be integrated into next-generation cars.
The Road Ahead
The effect of EMI has led to severe consequences in critical systems in the past and will only prove a greater challenge in the future. With more safety-critical high-bandwidth links than ever before, the modern vehicle is becoming increasingly vulnerable to EMI attacks. To address these challenges and ensure link integrity over a vehicle’s lifespan, the industry is at a stage where it needs to take digital connectivity standards like A-PHY more seriously.
Limiting the consequences of EMI in every area should be one of the industry’s top priorities. OEMs that fail to properly address this issue will find themselves unable to facilitate the latest innovations in ADAS, V2X communications, infotainment, and other areas, into their offerings.


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- Further progress has been made in all production areas at the 'ieFactory' as FF marches to start of production
- Continued production-intent vehicle builds along with testing and validation of these vehicles help ensure the FF 91 program remains on schedule to launch in Q3/Q4 2022
- FF’s Hanford, Calif. manufacturing facility will officially be named ‘FF ieFactory California’ and will produce the FF 91 luxury EV for North America and China markets
Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. (“FF”) (NASDAQ: FFIE), a California-based global shared intelligent electric mobility ecosystem company, today gave further progress updates at its North American manufacturing facility and unveiled the official name of the production plant located in Hanford, California which will now be identified as ‘FF ieFactory California.’ This state-of-the-art facility will lead the production of the all new TechLuxury FF 91 EV, arriving later this year.
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Faraday Future today gave further progress updates at its North American manufacturing facility and unveiled the official name of the production plant located in Hanford, California which will now be identified as ‘FF ieFactory California.’ This state-of-the-art facility will lead the production of the all new TechLuxury FF 91 EV, arriving later this year. (Photo: Business Wire)
The name ‘FF ieFactory California’ is synonymous with a new class of production facilities where intelligent, connected, and electrified products are created, and become part of a larger connected, shared user ecosystem. It is where the Ultimate Intelligent TechLuxury FF 91 is being built and will be just the beginning of FF’s global production platform.
“We continue to make exceptional progress on construction and development in our Hanford manufacturing plant, and we are getting closer to our start of production (SOP) later this year,” said Dr. Carsten Breitfeld, Global CEO of Faraday Future. “Main body lines, e-coat systems and paint ovens and conveyance are all in place for start of production and we continue to build production-intent vehicles that will be used for further testing and validation.”
FF is utilizing a sophisticated electrocoating process in its paint shop which will help ensure noticeably superior paint finish and durability. The team at the 'FF ieFactory California' is in the final stages of commissioning the tanks used in this process.
In the Body Shop, FF is nearing the accomplishment of the 6th milestone, which is the completion of construction and equipment installation in the final vehicle manufacturing areas. Robots in the Body Shop are undergoing final commissioning and validation to support production activity. This area, like the balance of the factory, focuses on quality and precision manufacturing processes and will help to ensure the FF 91 is built to the highest standards. This facility will adopt a customized, high-quality, luxury-focused production setup for the flagship FF 91 EV.
'FF ieFactory California' is about more than just making an EV product. FF is creating a larger “intelligent ecosystem,” hence the “ie” in the name. While this plant is very meaningful to FF, it’s equally as meaningful to the Hanford community. Faraday Future will hire upwards of 350 new employees at this facility as FF ramps up production.
FF is building out its facility focused on world class craftsmanship and state-of-the-art manufacturing technology and automation to rival the top luxury automakers of the world. Since going public last July, FF has accomplished five manufacturing milestones and is in the process of the sixth and final milestone prior to Start of Production.
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The flagship FF 91 will be the first high-end, high-performance, luxury, intelligent EV and will reset customer expectations for both driver and passenger experience. The FF 91 was designed in the company’s headquarters in Los Angeles, engineered in Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, and China, and is being produced in the Hanford, Calif. manufacturing plant. The FF 91’s “Global DNA” reflects the talent at FF and across the globe, with support from top-tier suppliers from countries such as Italy, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, China, Belgium, Switzerland and more.
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An engineer wants to assess the capability of a process that coats large rolls of paper with a thin film. The engineer collects three measurements of coating thickness from 25 consecutive rolls. Because the machine is reset for each new roll, the engineer needs to consider variation between rolls in addition to variation within a roll. The film thickness must be 50 ± 3 microns to meet engineering specifications.
The engineer performs between/within capability sixpack to check the assumptions for between/within capability analysis and to evaluate how well the coating thickness meets customer requirements.
The Individuals, Moving Range, and Range charts indicate that the process is stable, with no points beyond the control limits. The normal probability plot indicates that data are normally distributed. Therefore, the assumptions for between/within capability analysis are satisfied and the capability of the process can be analyzed.
The capability histogram shows that the process is approximately centered and the measurements are within the specification limits. For between/within capability, Cp is 1.26, which indicates that the specification spread is 1.26 times greater than the 6-σ spread in the process. Cp (1.26) and Cpk (1.21) are very close to each other, indicating that the process is approximately centered. For overall capability, Pp (1.19), Ppk (1.15), and Cpm (1.18) are very close to each other, indicating that the process is centered and on target. However, Ppk is slightly less than 1.33, which is a generally accepted minimum value for a capable process. The engineer concludes that the process is almost capable of applying coating that conforms to specifications; however, its capability could be improved.


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There are tons of characters that we all love in Stardew Valley and it seems like Abigail is one of the most popular. She’s known for her gorgeous purple hair, her love of video games and the fact that she loves to hangout in a cemetery.
She may be a bit of a weird character in the game but she is loved, but she can be even better depending on which Stardew Valley Abigail mods you add to your game!
You can change her aesthetic, turn her into a ghost or add new storylines and interactions. It will really make the game so much more fun!
1. Abigail’s New Style
Although Abigail really is known for her fun purple hair but there are definitely some players out there that wish it wasn’t purple. With this Abigail’s New Style mod you can have a pink-haired Abigail in your game.
This is a very vibrant hair colour and will change both her portrait image and her sprite to make sure she always has pink hair.
Thankfully, having pink hair does keep her in line with her personality and storyline and she can be the pink haired gamer girl of your dreams!
2. Ghost Abigail Sprites and Portraits
I’m not entirely sure why you’d want to have Abigail be a ghost, but with the Ghost Abigail Mod it is definitely an option.
This mod will change both Abigail’s portrait and sprite to have a very dead looking skin tone so she looks like a ghost which really adds to her storyline and makes her an even more interesting character.
3. Sebastian, Abigail and Farmer Polyamory
Are you wanting to have your cake and eat it too? I guess, have your Abigail and eat your Sebastian too? Wow, that was weird.
Well, with the Sebastian, Abigail and Farmer Polyamory mod you can add some heart events to the game when you’re dating both Sebastian and Abigail at the same time.
Pair this with a polyamory mod and you’ll be able to enjoy the love of both of these characters forever!
4. Abigail Replacement Portrait
Every person who uses Stardew Valley mods has a preference for how they like to have their characters look. There are dozens of portrait mods out there and a lot of them feature entirely different versions of Abigail.
This Abigail Replacement Portrait adds a bit of weight to Abigail by rounding out her face and showing off some cleavage, she has a more rounded nose and a cute smile. The creator even went and changed the style of her hair giving her more personality and modifying her accessories!
5. Abigail Spanish Wedding Dress
When you marry any of the female characters in the game they are going to be wearing a very basic white dress. The only issue is that Abigail doesn’t seem like the type to wear white on their wedding day.
She’s definitely a black wedding dress type of lady.
The Abigail Spanish Wedding Dress mod is going to give you a more traditional Spanish wedding dress for your big day.
This mod even has specific head pieces that change depending on the season, which is so fun!
6. Vanilla Gothic Abigail
When we’re downloading mods for our favourite games we don’t always need them to be making wild, sweeping changes. Sometimes the best changes are the subtle ones that just make things more fun.
The vanilla gothic Abigail mod is a simple one that just changes Abigail’s portrait and sprite to be a bit more gothic.
With this she’s going to have a black chocker with an upside down cross hanging from it, black lipstick and some cute bat clips in her hair. It really makes her look match her personality.
7. Girls into Boys – Male Abigail
There are so many mods out there for you to change the gender of characters in the game and this one turns Abigail into a male character.
This character’s name isn’t Abigail however, it is now Abaddon.
The dialogue is all changed to work for a male character and now you can have the purple-haired gamer boy of your dreams in the game.
8. Maid Dress for Abigail
Our next mod adds a maid dress for abigail turning her into many people’s fantasies. This is a great mod for once you’re married to Abigail to make it feel like you and your new wife are trying to mix things up.
For many players this mod may be a slippery slope to adding a bunch of 18+ Mods to Stardew and there’s no shame in that!
9. Abigail and Juliet Prank Jojamart
If you’re looking to add a bit more fun to your game with some funny dialogue between Abigail and the cashier at Joja, you need Abigail and Juliet Prank Jojamart!
This mod adds 4 unique dialogues from Abigail, some of which include Juliet. These are going to have you thinking that Abigail is a bit more of a criminal than ever before.
We all know that Jojamart deserves whatever they get so this is a must download.
10. Abigail Revised – Seasonal
One small thing that has always annoyed me in the game is that characters are wearing the same outfits in the heat of the summer that they are wearing in the middle of winter.
With this Abigail Revised – Seasonal mod you’ll have a whole new appreciation for the seasons in game.
This mod not only gives Abigail a shorter and cuter hair cut, and even an up-do in the summer time, it also gives you all new outfits.
You’ll see Abigail’s style be so extremely interesting with scarfs and hats in the winter, and cute tank tops in the summer time. It really adds some realism to the game.
11. Abigail Centaur Horse Replacement
Have you ever gotten to the point in the game when you can get yourself a horse to zoom around the valley more quickly but you wished it was a centaur that was half Abigail?
Oh yeah, totally, me too.
This Abigail centaur horse replacement mod is hilarious and changes it so your character is able to ride a centaur version of this character.
The horse half of the body is a very dark purple with a purple mane to match Abigail’s purple hair and of course the top half is Abigail in a bikini top.
12. Plump Abigail
Why is every single character in this game super skinny? There should really be more representation in both race and body types to make the town feel more like real life.
With the plump Abigail mod you’ll get to have a super beautiful version of Abigail that has a chubbier portrait.
She honestly looks so beautiful in these images and her facial expressions end up being a whole lot cuter this way!
13. Abigail Sprites Remastered
There are two things about Abigail visually that often annoy players in the game. The first thing is the fact that she has bow legs that are super far apart and weird looking, and the second is her bow which makes her feel super young compared to her personality.
The Abigail sprites remastered mod is going to remove these two visual annoyances and make Abigail a more visually appealing character for you to marry in the game.
Those bow legs are super annoying there’s a mod to remove them from every single character!
14. Abigail’s Real Dad
Did you know that there is lore in the Stardew Valley universe that makes many players believe that Pierre isn’t really Abigail’s dad?
Yup, you heard that right! Many players believe that The Wizard is Abigail’s real dad because of the purple hair and some of Caroline’s dialogue.
The Abigail’s Real Dad mod will change Pierre’s look so he has purple hair to match his daughter and will change it so The Wizard has white hair instead so there is no question of who is the real father.
15. Brunette Abigail
Another way to eliminate the questions about Abigail’s real dad is to use brunette Abigail to change her hair colour to make it look like Pierre really is her dad!
If you don’t care about that bit of lore you may just want to change the hair colour for Abigail because you prefer a brunette look to her purple. Whatever your reason, this is a great mod!
16. Taller Abigail
There is a huge portion of the Stardew Valley fan community that believe that Abigail exudes tall girl energy.
You can definitely achieve this with the taller abigail mod and it will satisfy all of the tall girl Abigail desires.
17. Turn Abigail Into Chicken
The second I saw this stardew valley Abigail mod it immediately had to make the list. Who would’ve thought it would be extremely fun to turn Abigail into a chicken?
Do you realize that turn Abigail into a chicken allows you to actually marry a chicken!
This completely replaces Abigail including when she’s playing instruments in the dark, when she’s playing video games in her room, and all interactions you’d have when married! Definitely a must have if you want a silly version of Stardew Valley.
Abigail is definitely one of the more popular characters in Stardew Valley, probably because of her purple hair. Even if she’s perfect there are still different things we can do to change her up with these stardew valley abigail mods that will totally make her even better. Happy Playing!

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SafeNet (News - Alert), a provider of data protection solutions has just introduced the company's Type 1-certified Ethernet Encryptor (TEE), designed to provide advanced Ethernet security and increased bandwidth management solutions.
The TEE, according to company officials, is designed for the protection of classified data and is the first solution of its kind. The solution secures classified information at Layer 2 up to 10Gbps, the Ethernet transport layer, and can be transparently overlaid onto existing networks, allowing a smooth transition from HAIPE to Ethernet.
Furthermore, TEE delivers enhanced performance compared to IP-based solutions, latency-sensitive and bandwidth-intensive applications, company officials added. The Ethernet Encryptor reduces the burden of network security and simplifies network architectures.
By streamlining security policy management, the bandwidth management solution also eliminates the data throughput inefficiencies associated with conventional Layer 3 security management.
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This is his description of the process in Java where both the external economic demands inbolution the Dutch rulers and the internal pressures due to population growth led to intensification rather than change. Agricultural Involution is one of the earlier works of a very influential writer: What this amounted was increasing the labour intensity in the paddies, increasing output per area but not increasing output per head.
Of Approximate Truths and Moral Judgments ” “. But this work is still necessary reading for anyone interested in Indonesian agriculture, as well as being a good introduction to the economic history of Indonesia. The geographical location of these different types is important. Geertz’s thesis is that this process was tied up with the development of sugar as a smallholder cash crop complementary with rice production.
Sawah is the dominant form zgricultural both Java and Bali where nearly three quarters of Indonesia’s population live and swidden more common in the less central regions.
Agricultural Involution (Clifford Geertz) – book review
This page was last edited on 3 Octoberat It principal thesis is that many centuries of intensifying wet-rice cultivation in Indonesia had produced greater social complexity without significant technological or political change, a agriculturzl Geertz terms “involution”. Swidden is also known as slash and burn and sawah is irrigated rice paddy. If nothing else, it will be remembered for the coining of the term “agricultural involution”.
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This involved putting even more labour into paddy gesrtz cultivation, increasing per hectare output while maintaining per capita output. Written for a particular US-funded project on the local developments  and following the modernisation theory of Walt Whitman RostowGeertz examines in this book the agricultural system in Indonesia.
Critics have attacked Geertz’s ideas in a number of places, and some of his conclusions are now considered doubtful. Having looked at the agricultural system the book turns to an examination of the systems historical development. Agricultjral then looks at the historical development of Indonesian agriculture, and in particular the process of “agricultural involution”, where the Javanese economy, faced with external pressure from the economic demands of the Dutch colonial regime and internal pressure from rapidly increasing population, intensified existing forms of agriculture rather than changing.
Of particular note is Geertz’s discussion of what he famously describes as the process of involutino involution”.

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The mission of Sarah’s Inn is “to improve the lives of families impacted by domestic violence, and to break the cycle of violence for future generations.”
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The building has been completely renovated on the inside to include individual and group counseling rooms as well as outdoor therapeutic spaces.
“In the old space, we could fit a maximum of 10 to 12 people in our largest space. Now, we can hold up to 50 or 60 people,” said Gall. “This will also give us the opportunity to partner with other service groups and organizations or hold community-based training for larger groups of people. And we have multiple group rooms, so we can hold sessions or training concurrently.”
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Nature in the Wadden region is under pressure, but the exact consequences of climate change, tourism, environmental pollution, and rising sea levels are unknown. The University of Groningen, the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), and the University of Amsterdam want to find out what is going wrong and what protective measures are effective, by studying six bird species. Artists also play a role in this process.
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Professor of Migratory Bird Ecology Theunis Piersma has been investigating birds that migrate through the Wadden Sea his entire life. From West Africa to Greenland or Siberia, he has followed knots and other species. He is currently one of the driving forces behind the Waakvogels project, which will collect information on six bird species that frequent the Wadden Sea over a span of five years. In doing so, Piersma and his colleagues will continue work that started in 2012—and for some species even earlier.
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‘The migratory birds tell us something about the state of the Wad,’ explains Piersma. By accurately measuring how these birds fare year in, year out, it is possible to study, for instance, the impact of climate change. ‘The sanderling, for example, did surprisingly well over the last few years. Our research showed that shrimp—an important food source for sanderlings—appear earlier on the tidal flats as a result of climate change.'
In order to uncover such trends, long-term measurements of all sorts of factors are needed. Those measurements were taken before as part of the Metawad project (2012–2016). ‘After that, the funding for such work stopped, so the project came to a halt for about seven years. Of course, we did try to continue a number of measurement series. The expensive processing and publishing, however, were no longer feasible.’ With the Waakvogels project, the work is now continuing and catching up.'
Bird species that each inhabit a different biotope in the Wadden region were selected for the study. Five of them had previously been monitored as part of the Metawad project: the brent goose, which eats sea grass off the tidal flats and normal grass in polders and on the salt marshes; the sanderling, which searches for food on the tidal flats but also along the beach; the bar-tailed godwit, which mainly feeds on worms on the open Wad; the knot, which eats shellfish, and finally the spoonbill, which breeds here and forages in gullies on the Wad, but also in fresh water. The godwit has been added as a sixth species—a meadow bird that was chosen as the ‘national bird’ of the Netherlands in 2015.
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Monitoring these birds is too big of a job for a normal research group. On top of that, they are migratory birds, so the areas where they spend the winter and breed also play a role. For that reason, Piersma set up the BirdEyes research centre in Leeuwarden, as an inter-faculty bridge between the Faculty of Science and Engineering and Campus Fryslân. At the centre, the UG collaborates with the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), the University of Amsterdam, and the Fryske Akademy.
‘The location is very central—easy to reach from Amsterdam and from Texel, where the NIOZ is based, and close to the Wadden region,’ says Piersma. ‘And the province, the Wadden Academy, and the Wadden Fund are just around the corner. This creates a wonderful dynamic.’ BirdEyes partners are also driving the Waakvogel programme. ‘Everyone agreed that it was important for our work to continue. We now have funding for five years, and we hope to continue receiving funding after that; we aim to make our study of the population part of the Basismonitoring Waddengebied [Basic Monitoring in the Wadden region]. Almost half of the ten million euros has been designated for UG researchers.
An important part of the research takes place through transmitters: satellite transmitters that follow birds as they trek, but also temporary adhesive transmitters that are picked up by a network of antennae on the Wad, in order to monitor the daily movements. The satellite transmitters have been used for years within the Global Flyway Network programme. The adhesive ones come from the WATLAS programme initiated by the NIOZ.
The aim is not only to conduct good research—Piersma also wants to share the results in the best possible way. ‘To do this, we want to collaborate with narrative artists.’ He has done this before, for example during Oerol in 2017, where he performed together with composer and sound artist Sytze Pruiksma. ‘Within Waakvogels, we are going to organize a summer school, during which young researchers will collaborate with artists to tell the stories of their work.’ In addition, Piersma believes that artists improve the research: ‘They help us in unexpected ways to find the important questions and the main thread.’
‘On the contrary, it is inspiring to see how birds manage to adapt.’
‘On the contrary, it is inspiring to see how birds manage to adapt.’
The study focuses on the threats to the Wadden region. That sounds heavy, but Piersma sees things differently. ‘It is in fact inspiring to see how the birds are able to adapt. They can do this because they observe the world well.’ It was initially thought that the bar-tailed godwit, for example, which breeds in Siberia, would not be able to adapt well. ‘But we witnessed a continuous adaptation—the birds learned from each other, truly as a community.’
Although we know they have much to tell us, we hardly listened—far too little, in any case, to make any substantiated claims about what was actually going on in and around the Wad. ‘That’s the challenge for our project.’ The six bird species are to show what is really going on, and whether measures to protect nature are actually effective. Piersma says: ‘We want to voice the best research in the best possible way, with dynamic stories, which enrich the worlds of both human and non-human visitors to this region.’
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When Sugni was getting engaged to Aditya, how come NO-ONE in the family asked, hey didn't you just get engaged to Amrita and weren't you, TVS getting married to Sugni? I mean NO-ONE said anything. And no-one said, hey, that girl Sugni, is a bedni and that's her mother? I mean, this is a village where everyone knows everyone and no-one said anything? I am stunned!!!!
And when mom shows up from the dead, doesn't she even ponder - where the heck were you Reva for a year and why doesn't the mother even question about Sugni's family? Orphans don't have parents but they have other family. I mean where was she raised, where did she go to school? You don't just allow your grandchild to marry someone without asking these relevant questions.
And then, why doesn't Adiya's mom have a fit with all of this? She never once tells Aditya to honor his engagement to Amrita. She hated the idea of TVS getting married to one but has no problem with Aditya? Is she so in love with her sister-in-law that she will stand there and watch her son get married to Sugni to save her marriage? I would have slapped my son and kicked his behind, then thrown Sugni and her mom out of the house.
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text: I assumed for a long time that you weren't allowed to camp on the TVA trails, because while there are many hikers and birdwatchers who enjoy the trails, you rarely see anyone camping out there. I learned recently, and confirmed through their website, that you can camp for free on TVA land. It just isn't well advertised. This particular trail is a great area, and there are many little side trails to explore. Plenty of places to make a primitive campsite. Many of the side trails lead to the river. There is even a small beach area down the one that leads along the river to the old train bridge. This trail is rich in history, and there are a lot of plaques telling about certain natural and man made features along the trails. The trails are clean, well-kept, and well-marked. At the trail head and parking area, there is a nice well-kept, clean restroom building with flush toilets. Behind that building, they recently put in a very nice playground and a pavilion with picnic tables. There are not really any ready made campsites with tables or firepits or trash cans, but there are plenty of benches and trash cans along the trails. I highly recommend going to the train bridge. There are also small plaques around some of the plants telling what they are and a little about them. If you want a beautiful, primitive camping area, with nice, fairly modern facilities nearby, this is a great place to go. Also, keep in mind there are several trail heads along this road, and you could potentially start out at any of them, but the particular trail head I mentioned has the best restroom facilities and a wonderful playground. Most of the others only have a parking area.

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