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I polish the wood. Sally does not understand why.
“It’s not like we’ll be having company any time soon.” She scoffs. Before I met her I had never heard anyone scoff. If there is one thing I can say about her it is that Sally is a good scoffer.
Still, this is our home and I want it to be clean. Putting things in order and keeping things tidy gives me a sense of control… a feeling that at least this, I am on top of. And even though the cyclical repetitive nature of cleaning guarantees that the job will never be finished; I still feel as if I am achieving something, that I am making forward progress. It makes me feel good. And I will take whatever good I can get these days.
‘These Days’… a phrase used so often and yet, up until four months ago, a phrase perhaps used to the point of malaise. Not so now. These days were definitely different. There was definitely a life before and a life after… a new B.C. / A.D. if you will. Ha! Funny thought that.
So I polish the wood. The library has an amazing stock of cleaning supplies. I have Pledge for years… but I choose not to think about that. I just polish. It is enough to occupy my time for now. And ‘now’ is the only place I can let my mind dwell.
The child watches me as I move my rag in a circular motion. I am fairly certain she is not a “fucking tard” as Sally seems to think but merely traumatized. She has not spoken one word since we found her four months ago. Poor thing probably saw her parents eaten alive. I wink at her and she looks away.
We stay on the top level of the library so they won’t see us. Even though this building is mostly windows they can’t see us up here. They never look up. They mostly shuffle their feet and stare at the ground. If movement catches their eye they look straight at it and run as fast as their decaying body can towards it. I once saw a group of them in a feeding frenzy. The eaters and the eaten became confused and soon they were eating each other in their fervor… like chickens pecking at blood. But up here we are out of the range of their sight. Up here we are safe.
I watch one out the window as I work. I watch it shuffle up the sidewalk, then turn around and shuffle back only to repeat the pattern again. It is missing its nose… most likely eaten off its face as it screamed. I imagine it singing, ‘Oh where, oh where, has my little nose gone. Oh where oh where could it be?’ and I grin. I have to grin or I will scream myself.
It is lost. They are all lost and without purpose… unless there is a ready meal available. I feel sorry for them but I will never let on to Sally. She would only laugh at me and then I have nowhere to go to escape it. I do not like being laughed at. And I do not handle confrontation very well.
Sally is mean. I choose not to attribute that to her being a lesbian. I have not known many lesbians up close and personal in my day so I refuse to believe meanness in the entire lot. She was a student at this university when ‘He’ returned. She and I reached the library at the same time, our hands virtually landing on the entrance handle simultaneously. We rushed inside, locked it, and watched as the world we knew crumbled around us. I often wonder if I had arrived a moment later…
It wasn’t until a week had passed that we found the child cowering in a bathroom. She was starving and scared but had not cried out for help. We found her quite by chance and had we not, I believe she would have died of malnutrition. Of course, dying of malnutrition ‘these days’ was not the worst way one could go.
I look at my watch and stop my work. It is time for food. I walk into the room we call ‘Moe’s Diner’ and grab a slim Jim and some trail mix. The library had eight fully stocked food machines and five fully stocked beverage machines when we claimed it. This is odd considering the ‘NO FOOD OR DRINK’ signs peppering the building. I pried open the doors and carried all the food to one location where we could catalog and ration it. Even after four months we easily have enough for another four. We have everything we need.
I walk back and hand the trail mix to the girl. Sally and I haven’t bothered to name her yet. To us she is simply ‘girl’. I think naming her might denote ownership and neither of us wants that. We are all just waiting to see what will happen. I have to give ‘girl’ food or she won’t eat. She just sits in a chair with her knees held to her chest and stares out the window. Sometimes I wonder what she saw that made her this way. Other times I am glad I do not know. I walk over to my ‘bed’ and plop down. As library sofas go it is actually quite comfortable. We each have our own sleeping area and we bundle up at night with blankets from the first aid center. Sally and I attempted to share a bed a couple of nights after we claimed the building. The need for simple human touch overcame us. The experiment lasted one night.
Sally woke up screaming when my morning wood brushed her ass in the wee hours. I tried to explain to her that morning wood just sort of happens and that it is nothing personal. She didn’t buy it. Since then we keep our own company at night. I guess when an erect penis is involved, everything is personal. That night her hair lay on the pillow near my nose. It still had that freshly shampooed smell at that point. I remember that smell when I am alone in the bathroom. I remember that smell and I cum.
Sally walks by on her way to the Anne Rice section again. I don’t know how many times she can read the same books over and over.
“Finished cleaning yet Mary?”
This is her pet name for me… Mary Poppins.
“For the moment.”
“Well isn’t that just supercalifragilisticexpidalifanfuckintastic!”
I wave acknowledgement of her presence as she passes and dive into my own book. I am reading ‘Red Mantis Mother In-Law’ by some cat named Mathias Bledsoe. It is a quirky surreal serio-com in the vein of Vonnegut. I like what I have read so far. I think it is important to keep one’s sense of humor in tact. I used to read authors like King, Wilson, and Straub. But what’s the sense of reading horror when I live it every day? I read to escape… not to remember…
The Strubbins’ had much pain with smaller marsupials, so they were not strong for GINDOG which was still in the blueprint stage. Any choirboy or supply clerk above fifth grade will tell you that the mathematics of modern mammalian warfare is far beyond the prideful minds of mere townsfolk. The larger the ruckus, the larger the scientific solution needed to deliver. GINDOG was, as far as anyone in this parish knows, the largest coon dog in the known lands; too large, in fact, for even Van Hammerstein to completely wrap his eyes around. I won’t pour much molasses when it comes to the description of GINDOG save to say that you would release its genetically created perfection and soon your critter problem would be solved complete. It would smell the air with its genetically altered nostrils and soon the tendons in its near perfect haunches would lock and prepare. The ensuing spring would put every Lassie known to man to shame. You would turn to your dog after witnessing GINDOG in action and say “Bad Dog” in your sternest ‘I am the master – you are the cur.’ voice. The marsupials were as good as extinct.
Still, the Strubbins’ had much pain.)
I look over at the child. She is looking closer to the base of the building than usual. Sally walks between us and tousles her hair in passing. I don’t think the kid likes this, but Sally does it every time. Probably out of spite. She might be trying to get her to speak, I don’t know. Whatever the reason I don’t like it. We all have enough grief without piling on new aggravation. ‘Girl’ usually pulls her head away evoking a smirk from our resident lesbian, but something below has caught her attention. She lets this one slide.
“Later Mary.” Sally quips throwing me a wink as she saunters into Moe’s Diner with an extremely dog-eared copy of ‘The Witching Hour.’ I never know if her winks are acts of kindness or torment.
“Hey! Who ate the last of the trail mix?”
It is my turn to smirk. I look back at ‘Girl’, hoping for a shared smile. But something else has her glued to the window. Still, I smile for the both of us and pick up my other book. I try to read 2 books at once. It keeps me from getting bored and gives me the feeling of flipping channels. Up until 2 months ago the electricity held out. We could watch DVDs, even surf the internet. I watched YouTube until I couldn’t take the new posts anymore. Sally had more of a stomach for it but eventually she turned it off to.
A group of college kids somewhere in Ohio discovered that the creatures liked to eat hot poo. They would secure a camera over a stall and lure one of those things into the crapper where it would proceed to tear into whatever freshly laid feces lie floating in the water. Then the pranksters would shout until it looked up so the camera could catch its full shit stained face as it jumped up to get them. You could hear them giggling in the background. Several of these clips appeared. Then they suddenly stopped. The kids’ luck must have run out, probably eaten alive by lips smothered in steaming bowel droppings.
I shake off a chill and dive back into my second book… ‘Beverly Hills Attorney’ by DeLonda Gibbens… anywhere but here…
“He’ll see you soon,” Jantice volunteered. “Have a seat.”
“Of all things!” Candice muttered crossly. “I came over here specifically.”
“There’s a ‘People’ on the table,” Jantice tried to placate. “Why don’t we have a seat and take a load off?” .
Why don’t you shove it up your stinky cunt missy, Candice wanted to say, but she didn’t. That would have been rude and crude, and one thing she was always careful about was presenting a proper public image.
I’m nervous, she thought. I’m nervous because even though I know for certain that Frank is balling around town, it’s still difficult to deal with. At least Jarvon — big, black, reliable Jarvon — would have stroked her fingers and said, “Hey baby, this is something you’re not gonna want to hear, but hey it is what it is.”
Now she had to hear it from his gum chewing receptionist.
Candice sat down, picked up the ‘People’, and flipped the pages abstractly. Some woman prettier than her was being dumped by someone not as attractive as Frank. Happened every day in this town. She read the article getting madder and madder until suddenly the door was pushed open and a broad shouldered man strode in.
“Brandon,” Jantice said, jumping up. “Mrs. Karavello is here.”
He walked right over to Candice. “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” he said. “Jarvon insisted I shouldn’t make you wait, but it was unavoidable. I’m really sorry,” he added, giving her a long, sincere stare.)
The sound of shattering glass comes from below accompanied by a lunatic’s war cry.
“Die you fucking fuckers!”
I fall off my sofa.
Something sounding like a sawed off unleashes its load and the sound reverberates throughout the normally quiet building. Sally races around the corner. She is about to launch into a tirade so I hold my finger to my lips. I run over, and look out the window. Three of those things are racing across the courtyard towards the library fast. Our new guest has a following.
I hear the owner of the gun racing up the stairs. Before I can stop her Sally shouts,
The other barrel propels its shell of tiny lead pellets at breakneck speed down the shaft and in an ever spreading pattern straight at my lesbian. There is enough distance between the gun and her to not completely cut her in half but her body is peppered with buckshot and she flies back sliding on the freshly cleaned wood floor a good 3 feet. I race to her side.
“Well goddamn! Why didn’t y’all say somethin?”
I ignore the stranger with the big gun and drop down to Sally. Her face is extra white against the bright red stuff pulsing out of her mouth. Her eyes hold a wide expression of pure shock. She grabs my hand as I lean over her.
“He shoth me…”
“Shhhh, everything is going to be O.K…. shhhh.”
I hear those things crashing through the broken door below and swarming into the building.
“Everything’s going to be O.K.”
I stroke her hair… not so sweet now.
“Everything’s going to be just fine.”
I grab both of her arms tight and stand up with great effort. I drag her fast towards the banister. The things are barreling up the stairs.
Without second thought or inner voice; I reach down and, grabbing her by the waist, launch her over the side into the open space beyond.
“Poppiiiiiiiiiiiiiins” she shouts as she falls. I don’t wait for her to hit. I run over to ‘Girl’ and snatch her by the waist. She shuts her eyes tight. I am fairly certain she expects to be thrown over the railing as well. I hear the creatures racing back down toward Sally. I motion for the new stunned man to follow me into Mel’s Diner and together the three of us rush into the room. I set the child down and shut the door, locking it.
It is dark in the room with just a sliver of light coming in from under the crack. The door is the only way in or out. We sit in the dark and listen to the pandemonium below. I wish Sally had died upon hitting the floor but the sounds of her screams tell me otherwise. The screams come for a long time. It seems impossible to me that she still has air in her lungs… impossible that she still has lungs at all. The screams turn into whimpers. They are worse. The whimpers let me know that she is still alive, but has no strength to scream… alive and being eaten.
Soon though, I hear Sally no more. All I can hear is smacking. We all hold our breath.
Would she have done the same?
I remember the day four months ago. Everyone I knew was huddled around a television set somewhere. It had come to this. The grand reveal… the truth.
‘All this for the truth.’
Every major news network, every channel, turning the eyes of the world to one place… one room.
We all wanted to know.
We all needed to know.
The cameras were on as the tomb was opened. Would it be empty? Would there be a body?
Would it be Him?
I remember it being dark and the reporter on CNN, that’s the coverage I trusted, made some glib remark. Then, out of the darkness He came. And I could hear the world gasp as He came, remarkably well preserved after 2000 years…locked away from the world… hidden. And He came with a vengeance. We all would know his name.
For all I know he could be among them now, feasting on Sally’s corpse. He could be out there, thorny crown and all, squeezing the shit out of her intestines like a tube of toothpaste… squeezing it right down his throat. And if enough of Sally were left for her to rise again she would. She would stand, born again… a child of God.
I reach out in the darkness and find ‘Girl’s hand. She lets me hold it and gives me a little squeeze. She understands.
We sit in the darkness. The smacking stopped a while ago. As night comes the light under the crack diminishes. I want to talk to our new friend but I don’t dare. I hear shuffling outside, just beyond the door. How long must we wait? How long can we wait?
How long before we are saved?
Four months tops.
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Griffin launches new Threadless cases for iPhone
Griffin Technology, as part of its new Co-Op Initiative, has announced a partnership with community-based online apparel store Threadless to produce a new line of accessories. First in the series are the new Clouds within the Thunder and Birds of a Feather cases for the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS. Each single-piece thin polycarbonate case offers a thickness of less than 1mm, and open access to all ports, controls, and the camera. In addition, like the t-shirt designs on which they are based, each case design is made in limited quantities. Both new Griffin+Threadless cases for the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS are available now and sell for $35.
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Easy to throw together & addictive. This dip is loaded with bacon, cheddar cheese & ranch, all the fixings of awesomeness.
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 1/2 cups mayo I use Best Foods with olive oil
- 1 package 1 ounce Ranch salad dressing & seasoning mix packet
- 10 green onions chopped
- 2 cups grated cheddar cheese
- 1 cup cooked & crumbled bacon, you can also use bacon bits
- In a medium mixing bowl add sour cream, mayo and ranch packet, stir together until well combined.
- Add in green onion, grated cheddar cheese and bacon, stir together until well combined.
- Serve immediately with cracker, chips or veggies like celery and carrots. Or refrigerate until ready to use, you can make this a day or two in advance.

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Amnesty International has called on the outgoing Somali government to try Abdul Rashid Janan, the former security minister in Jubaland state who arrived on Wednesday, in the border town of Baladhawa after he reached an agreement with the government.
The human rights organization said: “Jinan is now in the hands of the Somali government and the authorities must achieve justice and hold him accountable for the human rights violations he committed in Gedo region, and that the victims and the affected families deserve justice.”
The Somali government itself issued an arrest warrant for Abdul Rashid Jinan, after his escape from a prison in Mogadishu in the beginning of 2020 AD, and it asked the International Police to help them in his arrest and trial for the crimes he committed in the Gedo region.
Jinan, after announcing the defection from the state of Jubaland, whose security minister was widely welcomed in the Somali border city of “Baladhawa” by the Somali government, and it seems that the government will turn a blind eye to the accusations it directed against the man in the past as a reward for his defection from the Jubaland administration headed by Ahmed Madobe.


The night before the school district was scheduled to commence testing Buena Vista Horace Mann K-8 students for lead exposure, city officials appeared to pre-emptively sidestep responsibility.
On Thursday night, Buena Vista parents and teachers gathered in the school’s auditorium and on Zoom to learn how to access free lead testing offered on Friday and Saturday this week and next. The school district approved free testing after Buena Vista teachers, the Latino Task Force and Supervisor Hillary Ronen’s office advocated for it.
The decision came after lead was found in the school’s water and garden in December, prompting the forthcoming testing regimen and Thursday night’s meeting. But, throughout the hourlong gathering, city officials appeared to dance around the subject by repeatedly stating that any positive lead tests may have been caused by external environmental factors that have nothing to do with Buena Vista Horace Mann.
Dr. Susan Philip, the city’s health officer and a director of disease prevention at the Department of Public Health, said a result that “triggers reporting [to the state]” — i.e. a higher than normal amount of lead — “doesn’t exactly tell us, where did that child potentially get exposed to lead?” She continued, “Are we doing everything we can to remove any possible source in that child’s life?”
Throughout the community meeting, Philip repeatedly suggested that students may have been exposed to lead at “home,” a word she used at least seven times. At the onset, Philip listed multiple possible sources of lead exposure before once mentioning the lead found in the water or garden at Buena Vista.
“The home is the place where most exposure can occur, because that’s where children spend most of their time,” Philip said.
This is certainly true. Lead, just like asbestos exposure, can come from a variety of environmental factors: Lead is found in pipes, gasoline, paint. Any San Francisco building built before 1979 presents potential threats, thanks to the ubiquity of lead paint in construction, making the home a major potential exposure source. Generally, risk occurs after months or years of exposure.
Overexposure may “affect a child’s brain and nervous system, and contribute to problems in learning and behavior,” according to San Francisco’s Department of Public Health.
Health outcomes also depend on lead levels, Philip explained. Philip and the phlebotomists who will administer the tests did not immediately define what an unacceptable lead level was, calling lead tests “complicated” without “clear answer[s] in most cases.”
The statement was confusing, because multiple medical institutions offer explicit definitions of “abnormal” or elevated lead levels that require further monitoring. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is conservative, stating that more than 3.5 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood is unsafe. The California Department of Public Health defines it as above 4.5 micrograms, and the University of California, San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital defines it as above 5.
When pressed by this reporter to explain testing complications, Philip said, “It’s a longer conversation … to make sure that there’s no ongoing exposure, primarily in the home. It could be in other areas as well.” Low levels of lead may require follow-up months later and more investigation, she said.
The school district’s head of facilities, Dawn Kamalanathan, agreed. She said the district’s responsibility is to remediate exposure, which it has done, and doctors should determine the “full range” of possible sources.
The Public Utilities Commission is testing schools’ water for lead now, she added, but the district is in discussions about future testing. Potential state legislation eyed for 2024 would require a new round of lead testing, Kamalanathan said, and “it would not [be] the most impactful use of resources to test everyone, and then have to do it again in 2024.”
Meanwhile, parents and teachers in the auditorium expressed frustration and fear.
Todd Albert, a sixth-grade teacher, stood up to the microphone and introduced himself. “Thank you all for being here,” Albert said. “I have, unfortunately, apparently been drinking lead water for the past seven years, daily.”
Testing is on Friday, Jan. 20, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 21, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 24th and Capp streets. Testing will take place again the following weekend. Buena Vista teachers, students, families and alumni are welcome. Those without primary care doctors will be linked to the Mission Neighborhood Health Center.
Though teachers requested on-site lead testing for all, the district opted for 24th and Capp: “The L[atino Task Force] testing site is existing, and doesn’t require new mobilization, and the many activities ongoing at BVHM could make testing difficult to navigate and access,” stated Laura Dudnick, spokesperson for the school district, in an email to Mission Local.
However, Salu Ribeiro, founder of BayPLS, which will be conducting the tests, said his team would test teachers on-site at the school. Principal Claudia DeLarios Morán, present in the audience Thursday, estimated about 60 staff members would test.
Bernice Casey asked if leaking lead-contaminated water presented a risk to students, referring to a recent incident; her son is a student, and her son just graduated.
“Very young children tend to put more things into their mouths. So, for children who are elementary school age in a classroom, even if the water that’s surrounding them has lead in it, if they’re not ingesting it, which most children would not, they are safe from that lead source,” Philip said. “But again, our homes — all old buildings — are sources.”
What are the cumulative effects of drinking water over years on a regular basis, “especially for students that are more of a tender age — five, six, seven-year-olds drinking a lot of water at about that level of lead?” DeLarios Morán asked.
Health outcomes vary, though no level of lead is good, Philip said. Prevention is important, and the school district responded correctly by shutting off water fixtures with higher than acceptable lead levels and fencing off the garden, where high levels of arsenic and lead were found two feet below ground.
That did not appease parents, who are frustrated from years of neglect. Throughout the meeting, they scoffed at officials’ remarks, or could be heard saying “blah blah blah” quietly.
“The school district doesn’t care about the school,” Casey said at the mic.
“I’m shaking right now,” José Manriquez, a parent and ‘94 Buena Vista alum, complained. “I mean, when does it change?” Parents in the auditorium thumped the tables in assent.
When the meeting concluded, Maria Nuñez, who has two students at Buena Vista, grumbled in Spanish as she pushed her chair back. “All the time, nothing. We can’t trust them.”


Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
In the land of Mardi Gras, jambalaya, and zydeco, exists an engineering marvel called the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway that seems to go on forever. Two ribbons of concrete span the largest inland body of water in Louisiana, and at nearly 23.87 and 23.88 miles long, these two spans form the world’s longest automobile bridge. At midpoint–12 miles out–water surrounds travelers who are unable to see either shoreline. The bridge is so long, it actually transverses 1/1000th of the earth’s circumference!


Thermal mass is the ability of a material to absorb and store heat. It takes a lot of heat to raise the temperature of a dense material like concrete, so this has high thermal mass. It takes much less to raise the heat in light materials like timber, so these materials have low thermal mass.
For thermal mass to be effective it needs to absorb heat when it is available, store it until needed and release that heat when appropriate. This is when things can get complicated. Use the wrong materials or put them in the wrong place and they won’t help at all with heating or cooling.
How Can Thermal Mass Work for My Project?
There are two basic ways of dealing with thermal mass: you can design it into your scheme or you can simply let it happen.
Design in Thermal Mass
This involves, among other things:
- Y values (W/m2K)
- Psi-values (W/mK)
- thermal capacity of the materials
- the density of the materials
- thermal lag (the time it takes for that material to release its stored heat, usually measured in hours)
- orientation of the building
- glass-to-floor ratios.
It’s a complicated process that is particularly important when thermal mass is a feature of a lightweight construction such as timber frame.
Let Thermal Mass Happen
Thermal mass has been an integral part of housebuilding for centuries, and still is in many parts of the world.
In southern Europe and other hot regions of the world, thermal mass in the form of large volumes of masonry, concrete and adobe is still the ‘go-to’ building option. Because it absorbs heat, it maintains a lower internal temperature and evens out temperature differences, day to night. In these instances, thermal mass is not designed in, it just happens.
In this country, the material of choice for many old cottages is stone. It is a good, robust, cheap material and, by chance, provides thermal mass. Here, the problem is not so much keeping heat out (but in warm weather it has that effect) and more to do with storing and releasing the heat produced naturally inside. In previous centuries there would have been a fire going day and night (for cooking and boiling water as well as heating) that allowed the walls and floor to be warmed by the fire all day (all year) and kept the house warm overnight.
We no longer live in that way, and relying on heat from our boiler to warm the thermal mass may not be the best idea. The thermal mass will even out the peaks and troughs of the heating cycle, but does little else.
The Importance of the Heat Source
Thermal mass needs to absorb heat to be effective. If that heat is free or cheap from solar energy coming through a window or a woodburning stove, for example, then all is well.
If we rely on a boiler to provide the heat, then that heat has to be paid for and the requirement is to heat the house and the thermal mass. This will smooth the peaks and troughs in the heating cycle and help with summer overheating, but there is no evidence that it will reduce the overall energy consumption or the fuel bill.
Does Thermal Mass Equal Heavyweight Buildings?
In recent years, thermal mass has been taken up as a way of ‘improving’ energy efficiency. In 2005 Arups published the report UK Housing and Climate Change. The report argued that rising temperatures could bring a Mediterranean climate to the UK, and that the inclusion of thermal mass was a way of countering this possible future problem.
The argument was taken up by the manufacturing sector to justify heavyweight construction. However, this ignored the fact that timber frame and SIPs (structural insulated panels) can also effectively incorporate thermal mass.
Thermal mass is not a ‘one-size-fits-all’ idea, although the housebuilding industry still uses it to justify brick and block construction.
Thermal Mass Materials
The thermal mass performance – or volumetric heat capacity (VHC) – of materials varies widely. In this list, concrete has four times as much thermal mass as aerated concrete blocks:
- Concrete 2,060
- Sandstone 1,800
- Compressed earth blocks 1,740
- Rammed earth 1,673
- Brick 1,360
- Adobe 1,300
- Aerated concrete block 550
The VHC of any material is reduced or even eliminated if the material is covered with linings such as carpets, plasterboard and timber. Some manufactured materials, such as concrete, bricks and blocks, have high embodied energy and you could say that the lifetime energy impact of the material outweighs the savings in heating energy that it brings.
In addition, thermal mass materials are inherently cool (which is why they are so common in hot climates) and in our climate need heating. Poor design of thermal mass can result in increased heating energy demand to maintain a comfortable internal temperature, as the need is then to heat the house and the thermal mass.
Phase Change Materials
There is a growing interest in phase change materials (PCMs) as a lightweight thermal mass substitute in construction. Phase change refers to materials changing their state with the application of heat. For example, when water is heated it changes from solid (ice) to liquid (water) to gas (water vapour).
Companies like DuPont Energain, Knauf and BASF offer plasterboard-like products incorporating PCM microcapsules. There are more products coming forward with PCM microcapsules in them, including:
- aerated concrete blocks
- floor screeds
- gypsum plaster
Manufacturers suggest that a 13mm plasterboard with 30 per cent PCM content has the equivalent heat capacity of a 150mm thick masonry wall.
Climate change and the increasing use of glazing means that overheating is becoming a real issue and we know that thermal mass is an effective solution.
We all understand that a dark, matt surface in front of a window will absorb more heat than a white shiny surface. We also understand that cooler air falls, pushing the warm air up.
At its most basic level, thermal mass is no more complicated than that. PCM boards on the ceiling of a room with lots of south-facing glazing will be effective, as will a matt stone floor in front of that glazing and a stone chimney on the wall opposite the glazing.
‘Designed-in’ thermal mass requires a deep understanding of the materials and what can realistically be achieved. In our climate, it also requires the house to be designed around the concept of thermal mass. This means designing to introduce large quantities of passive solar heat and using thermal mass to store and release that heat at the appropriate times.
The ‘let-it-happen’ approach to thermal mass can have a negative impact if it is done poorly. But if thermal mass is not the main design criterion, using a little intelligence makes it very difficult to get wrong.


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ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT (ADU). A second dwelling subordinate in size to the principal dwelling unit located in either the principal dwelling or an accessory structure. The ADU is constructed so as to maintain the appearance and essential character of a single family dwelling and/or any accessory structures.
ACCESSORY USE. A use or structure on the same lot with, and of a nature, customarily associated with and clearly subordinate to the principal use or structure.
ADULT ESTABLISHMENTS. As defined in G.S. § 14-202.10, except for massage therapists that meet the provisions of G.S. §§ 90-620 through 90-636.
ALLEY. A service way providing only a secondary means of access to abutting property.
ANTENNA. A device, dish, or array used to transmit or receive telecommunications signals.
BASE FLOOD. A flood having a 1% chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. Also referred to as the 100-year flood.
BED AND BREAKFAST. An owner-occupied structure that is residential in character and offers overnight lodging and meals for a fee.
BERM. A mound of earth.
BUFFER. A fence, wall, hedges, landscaped area, additional setbacks, or combination of the above, designed for the purpose of screening or to set apart one land use from another
BUILDABLE AREA. The portion of a lot remaining after setbacks have been satisfied.
BUILDING. Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls and intended for shelter, housing, or enclosure of persons, process, equipment, or goods.
BUILDING HEIGHT. The vertical distance measured from the mean elevation of the finished grade along the side of the building or structure to the highest point of the building or structure.
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL. A building in which is conducted the main or principal use of the lot on which said building is situated.
CANOPY. A roof-like cover, often of fabric, metal, plastic, fiberglass or glass on a support, which is supported in total or in part, from the ground and providing shelter over, for example, a doorway, outside walk, interior access drive or parking area.
CLUB OR LODGE. An establishment operated by an association or corporation for social, recreational, fraternal, or charitable purposes, but which is not operated for profit or otherwise conducted as a business.
CONDITIONAL USE. A use which would not be appropriate generally through the zoning district, but which, if permitted only upon issuance of a conditional use permit and subject to the limitations and conditions specified therein would be allowed.
CONDOMINIUM. A residential development of two or more buildings designed and built for unit ownership according to the North Carolina Unit Ownership Act.
CONGREGATE CARE FACILITY. A facility composed of residential and congregate areas and affording health-sustaining services to assist the residents. The residential components shall be considered as self-contained dwelling units as defined in the NC Building Code. The facility shall also have congregate areas for use by or service to the residents which may include dining, recreation and medical areas. In addition, services may be provided such as custodial care, physical therapy, and social and recreation coordination.
CORNICE. An architectural decorative horizontal projecting crown of an exterior building wall.
CURB-CUTS. An opening cut in a curb allowing for the construction of a driveway to a single or multi-retail establishment off a major thoroughfare.
CUSTOMARY HOME OCCUPATION. Any use conducted entirely within a dwelling and carried on by the occupants thereof, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling for residence purposes and does not change the character thereof; and in connection with which there is not display and not person, not a resident on the premises, is employed specifically in connection with the customary home occupation. Provided further, that no mechanical equipment is installed or used except such that is normally used for domestic or professional purposes, and that not over 25% of the total floor space of any structure is used for home occupations.
DWELLING. A building designed, arranged, or used for permanent living quarters for one or more persons.
DWELLING, DUPLEX. A detached building with two dwelling units which may be attached side by side or one above the other. The two dwelling units shall be roughly equal in floor area.
DWELLING, MANUFACTURED HOME. A dwelling unit that is composed of one or more components, each of which was substantially assembled in a manufacturing plant and designed to be installed or joined on the building site and which meets or exceeds the United States Housing and Urban Development standards for manufactured homes that went into effect June 15, 1976.
DWELLING, MOBILE HOME. A dwelling unit that was fabricated before June 15, 1976 in one or more modules at a location other than the home site, by assembly line type production techniques or by other construction methods unique to an off-site manufacturing process and designed for occupancy by one family.
DWELLING, MODULAR HOME. A dwelling unit consisting of one or more components constructed in compliance with the North Carolina Uniform Residential Building Code for One or Two-Family Dwelling Units and comprised of components substantially assembled in a manufacturing plant and transported to the building site for final assembly on a permanent foundation.
DWELLING, MULTI-FAMILY. A building arranged to be occupied by three or more families living independently of each other.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY, ATTACHED. A one-family dwelling attached to two or more one-family dwellings by common vertical walls. No dwelling unit may be located above another unit.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY, DETACHED. A dwelling which is designed for and occupied by not more than one family and surrounded by open space or yards and which is not attached to any other dwelling by any means.
DWELLING, TOWNHOUSE. A single-family dwelling unit in a row of at least three such units in which each unit has its own front and rear access to the outside, no unit is located over another unit, and each unit is separated from any other unit by one or more common fire resistant walls.
DWELLING UNIT. A room or group of rooms forming a single independent habitable unit with facilities used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking, and eating by one family; for owner occupancy or rental, lease or other occupancy on a weekly or longer basis, and containing independent cooking, sanitary, and sleeping facilities. Units otherwise meeting this definition but occupied by transients on a rental or lease basis for periods of less than one week shall be construed to be lodging units.
EASEMENT. A grant of rights by a property owner to another individual, group, or governmental unit to make limited use of a portion of real property for a specified purpose.
EAVE. The overhanging lower edge created by the intersection of the of the roof and wall planes.
ELECTRONIC GAMING OPERATION. Any business enterprise, whether as a principal or an accessory use, where persons utilize electronic machines, including but not limited to computers and gaming terminals, to conduct games of chance, including sweepstakes, and where cash, merchandise or other items of value are redeemed or otherwise distributed, whether or not the value of such distribution is determined by electronic games played or by predetermined odds. This term includes, but is not limited to internet cafes, internet sweepstakes, beach sweepstakes or cybercafés. This does not include any lottery approved by the State of North Carolina.
ENTRANCE. The front door(s) established as the primary customer access point. The area of an entrance shall include the area on either side of the door for a distance of at least ten feet.
EXTERIOR WALLS. The vertical or nearly-vertical planes which form the exterior envelope of a building
FAÇADE. The portion of any exterior building elevation extending from grade to the top of the parapet, wall or eaves and extending the entire length of the building. The FAÇADE includes any artificial or structural elevation which is primarily visible to the general public.
FAMILY. An individual or two or more persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption living together in a dwelling unit; or a group of not more than three persons who are not related by blood, marriage, or adoption living together in a dwelling unit. A FAMILY may include five or fewer foster children.
FAMILY CARE HOME. A facility licensed by the appropriate state agency as a family care home for one to six unrelated individuals, together with support and supervisory personnel. FAMILY CARE HOMES shall not be located less that one-half (½) mile from each other. See also definitions in G.S. § 168-20.
FARM, BONA-FIDE. One used for purposes that include the production and activities relating or incidental to the production of crops, fruits, vegetables, flowering or ornamental plants, dairy, livestock, poultry, and all other forms of agricultural products having a domestic or foreign market.
FASCIA. A horizontal band or board, often used to conceal the ends of rafters; the front of an object or other structural roof components.
FREESTANDING SIGN. A sign that is attached to, erected on, or supported by some structure (such as a pole, mast, frame, or other structure) that is not itself an integral part of or attached to a building or other structure whose principal function is something other than the support of a sign. A sign that stands without supporting elements, such as a "sandwich sign," is a FREESTANDING SIGN. If the message is moved from the structure that was originally designed and used as a freestanding sign, this structure shall still be considered a sign.
FULL-CUTOFF LIGHT FIXTURE. A light fixture that allows no emission of light above a horizontal plane through the fixture.
GROSS FLOOR AREA. The total area of a building measured by taking the outside dimensions of the building at each floor level intended for occupancy or storage.
GROUP PROJECT. Two or more buildings constructed on the same zoning lot of at least two acres not subdivided into the customary streets and lots.
JUNK. (G.S. § 136-143(3)) Old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber, debris, waste, or junked, dismantled or wrecked automobiles, or parts thereof, iron, steel, and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material.
JUNKYARD. An establishment or place of business which is maintained, operated, or used for storing, keeping, buying, or selling junk, or for maintenance or operation of a motor vehicle graveyard, and the term shall include garbage dumps and sanitary fills. An establishment or place of business which stores or keeps for a period of 15 days or more materials within the meaning of "junk" as defined in G.S. § 136-143(3) which has been created as a result of industrial activity shall be deemed to be a JUNKYARD within the meaning of this definition.
KENNEL. Any facility used for the purpose of boarding animals, excluding horses, cattle, swine, sheep, goats, geese or peafowl. KENNELS may conduct other such incidental activities, such as the sale of animals, treatment of the animals, grooming or cleaning, and the sale of pet supplies.
LARGE RETAIL ESTABLISHMENTS. Any single or multi-tenant retail establishment with a gross floor area greater than or equal to 30,000 square feet.
LOT. A parcel of land occupied or capable of being occupied by a building or group of buildings devoted to a common use, together with the customary accessories and open spaces belonging to the same.
LOT AREA. The total horizontal area within the boundary lines of a lot exclusive of street or highway rights-of-way and easements or access to other property.
LOT, CORNER. A lot abutting two or more streets at their intersection, or upon two parts of the same street, forming an interior angle of less than 135 degrees as measured at the centerline of the street. The point of intersection of the street right-of-way lines, or of the street right-of-way lines as extended, is the corner.
LOT COVERAGE. That portion of the lot area, expressed as a percent, that is covered by impervious surface cover.
LOT DEPTH. The depth of a lot is the mean distance of the side lines of the lot measured from the mid-point of the front lot line to the midpoint of the rear lot line.
LOT, INTERIOR. A lot other than a corner lot.
LOT LINE. A line or series of connected line segments bounding a lot.
LOT LINE, FRONT. The line which separates the lot from a street right-of-way. Corner lots shall have only one FRONT LOT LINE.
LOT LINE, INTERIOR. A side lot line that separates the lot from another lot.
LOT LINE, REAR. That lot line which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line, except in the case of a triangular lot, a line ten feet in length, entirely within the lot, parallel to, and at the maximum distance from the front lot line, or a chord thereof if the front lot line is curved, shall be considered as the rear lot line for purposes of determining the required rear yard. In cases where neither of these conditions is applicable, the Zoning Officer shall designate the rear lot line.
LOT LINE, SIDE. A lot line other than a front or rear lot line.
LOT OF RECORD. A lot which is part of a subdivision, a plat of which has been recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Wilkes County, or a lot described by metes and bounds, the description of which has been so recorded.
LOT WIDTH. The horizontal distance between side lines measured along a line that is parallel to the front lot line and located the minimum exterior setback distance from the front line.
MANUFACTURED HOME. A dwelling unit that is composed of one or more components, each of which was substantially assembled in a manufacturing plant and designed to be installed or joined on the building site and which meets or exceeds the United States Housing and Urban Development standards for manufactured homes that went into effect June 15, 1976.
MANUFACTURED HOME PARK. A contiguous parcel of land under single ownership which has been developed for the placement of manufactured homes for non-transient use. This definition shall not include manufactured home sales lots on which unoccupied manufactured/mobile homes are parking for purposed of inspection and sale.
MANUFACTURED HOME SPACE. The land in a manufactured housing development allotted to or designed for the accommodation of one manufactured home.
MATERIALS. Finish materials used on publicly visible walls, freestanding signage, and pedestrian walkways.
MOTOR VEHICLE GRAVEYARD. Any establishment or place of business which is maintained, used, or operated for storing, keeping, buying or selling wrecked, scrapped, ruined, or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts. Any establishment or place of business upon which three or more unlicensed, used motor vehicles which cannot be operated under their own power are kept or stored for a period of 15 days or more shall be deemed to be a MOTOR VEHICLE GRAVEYARD within the meaning of this definition (boats and/or parts of boats are to be included within this definition).
NONCONFORMITY, LEGAL. A legal use of a building and/or land that antedates the adoption or future amendments of these regulations and does not conform to the regulations for the district in which it is located.
NURSING HOME. A facility for chronic or convalescent patients that is designed to provide long-term care for persons who require medical or nursing care. NURSING HOMES require skilled nursing personnel and life-support systems and are licensed by the State of North Carolina.
OPEN SPACE. The total gross land area on a development site which is not covered by buildings or vehicular use areas.
OUTPARCEL. A freestanding lot developed separately but linked functionally to a shopping center.
PARAPET. A portion of a vertical wall or architectural railing of a building that extends above the roofline.
PEDESTRIAN SITE PLAN. A plan submitted with a large retail establishment (over 30,000 square feet) that denotes the location of certain pedestrian requirements.
PERSONAL SERVICES. Establishments primarily engaged in providing services generally to individuals, such as dry-cleaning and laundry pick-up facilities, portrait photographic studios, beauty and barber shops, seamstress shops, shoe repair shops, and clothing rental shops.
PILASTER. A vertical projection from a wall generally used for architectural support, esthetic effect, or ornamental purposes.
PREFABRICATED METAL BUILDINGS. A building constructed from metal components manufactured and fabricated off site and assembled on the building site.
PROJECTION. A portion of the building that extends or juts out from the main wall to add architectural interest to the façade.
PUBLIC UTILITY FACILITY. Any structure or facility transmitting a service provided by a government or public utility, including, without limitation, fire stations, emergency medical service centers, telephone and repeater stations, pumping substations, and water towers, but not including telecommunication towers, antennas, and other telecommunication devices.
RAFTER. Any of a number of structural components that support a roof (includes roof trusses).
RECESSION. A depression in a building facade for the purpose of architectural detail or plan functionality.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE. A vehicular type portable structure without permanent foundation that can be towed, hauled, or driven and primarily designed as a temporary living accommodation for recreational, camping and travel use, including, but not limited to: travel trailers, truck campers, camping trailers, self-propelled motor homes, personal watercrafts and boats.
REST HOMES. A facility for the care of the aged and infirm whose principal need is a home with such sheltered and custodial care as their age and infirmities require. Medical care is only occasional, such as may be required in the home of any individual. The residents of such homes will not, as a rule, have remedial ailments for which continuing skilled planned medical and nursing care is indicated.
REVEALS. The side faces of a window or door opening (often known as side lights and transoms).
ROOF BOOT. A special piece of flashing designed for installation over a vent protruding through the roof.
SALVAGE YARD. A non-residential property used for the storage, collection, and/or recycling of any type of equipment, and including but not limited to vehicles, appliances and related machinery.
SETBACK. The minimum required horizontal distance between a structure, including any projection thereof, and a lot line or street right-of-way line, the measurement to whichever is less.
SPECIAL USE PERMIT. A document that may be granted by the Wilkesboro Town Council for a specified land use that is permitted in a given zoning district under an ordinance provision that authorizes the use when the Council makes specified findings. The Council is also authorized to attach other reasonable and appropriate conditions to its permission for the protection of both neighboring properties and larger public interests.
STREET. A dedicated and accepted public right-of-way for vehicular traffic that affords the principal means of access to abutting properties.
STREET, ARTERIAL. A street used or designed to be used for through traffic, usually on a continuous route, commonly referred to as a thoroughfare.
STREET, COLLECTOR. A street whose function consists of both carrying traffic from local residential streets to thoroughfares and providing access to abutting properties.
STREET, LOCAL. A street used primarily for providing direct access to abutting property.
STREET, PRIVATE. One that is privately maintained.
STREET, PUBLIC. One that has been accepted for maintenance by the State of North Carolina or the Town of Wilkesboro.
STRUCTURE. Anything constructed or erected above grade, the use of which requires more or less permanent location on the ground or which is attached to something having more or less permanent location on the ground (excluding swimming pools, fences, walkways, and patios).
TEXTURED CONCRETE MASONRY UNITS. Architectural concrete masonry is made up of various face textures known to the industry as Split Face Block, Split Scored, Fluted or Ribbed and Ground Face Masonry Units. These units are manufactured under controlled conditions in a variety of materials, colors and texture combination.
THOROUGHFARE. See STREET, ARTERIAL.
TOWNHOUSE. A single-family dwelling unit on its own lot that is attached to one or more similar units by a party wall. Each unit has its own front and rear access and is not located over another unit.
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS/PLAN. A plan that addresses the existing and current traffic problems with a site and provides solutions to address adverse traffic conditions.
VACATED BUILDING(S) OR ABANDONED DEVELOPMENT. A building and/or site vacated for at least six months without an active renovation/rehabilitation building permit for either the site or structures.
VARIANCE. A departure from any provisions of the zoning requirements for a specific parcel, except use, without changing the zoning ordinance or the underlying zoning of the parcel. A VARIANCE usually is granted only upon demonstration of hardship based on the peculiarity of the property in relation to other properties in the same zone district.
VENEER. Various non structural exterior finishes that are attached to the exterior of a building for improved aesthetics.
YARD. An open space, unobstructed from the ground upward, extending fully across the lot while situated between the front lot line, side lot line or rear lot line and the established front building line, side building line or rear building line.
YARD, FRONT. An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a principal building, extending the full width of the lot and situated between the street right-of-way line and the front line of the building, projected to the sidelines of the lot.
YARD, REAR. An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a principal building, extending the full width of the lot and situated between the rear line of the lot and the rear line of the building, projected to the sidelines of the lot.
YARD, SIDE. An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a principal building, situated between the side line of the building and the side line of the lot, and extending from the rear line of the front yard to the front line of the rear yard.
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Thanks for the replies . The tractor does in any and all gears . I detached the bush hog and (with help) flip the mower over and inspect the blade to check for wire or rope/vines ect. I can get the blade to turn at full speed , After a long wait and the tractor full throttle , As soon as I slowly let the mower down and start to cut it stops the blade.What Iam cutting is very green small weeds.Ive cut 1 1/2 trees down with no problem. Now , Mark777..I can hook my cultivator up and the tractor seems to work OK , As the box blade. ?????? Thanks again for the help !!!
BTW...The RPMs on the tractor stay up when the blade stops. The tractor does not bog down .The tractor stops moving also.. but the RPM stay up ??
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Safety regulation approved to promise most safe and reliable CO2 storage and supply.
All seamless aluminum alloy compressed gas cylinder.
With special coating to limit damage from scratch.
Works greatly in a water plant tank or with a calcium reactor.
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To evaluate accurately the imaging characteristics of positron emission tomography (PET), a realistic computer-simulated brain phantom was developed. A cross-sectional slice from a human cadaver brain was chosen for its combination of gray matter, white matter, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) regions. The slice was photographed and digitized into a gray-level image with a video digitizer, boundary edges were located around cerebral structures in the digitized image, and each structural region was assigned a uniform pixel value dependent on both the cerebral parameter (e.g., blood flow, oxygen uptake, metabolic rate) under investigation and the type of structure (gray matter, white matter, CSF). Line integrals through the regions were generated at various angular and transverse positions according to specific physical characteristics (such as detector line-spread function) of a tomographic scanner configuration to create a set of simulated but realistic projection measurements. The set of projection measurements can be processed with any standard reconstruction program to create a tomographic image to reveal the effects of various PET characteristics. Investigations with this computer-simulated brain phantom have demonstrated its usefulness for examining the interrelations among neuroanatomical structure volume, tomographic spatial resolution, partial volume effect, and nonlinear parameter estimation. Transportability of the simulated phantom and the procedure to other medical imaging environments is described, and limitations of this simulation procedure are discussed.


text: Ghanian Laing's second novel (Search Sweet Country, 1987) is stunningly original and often stylistically brilliant--but the brilliance and originality too often founder in a bewildering profusion of characters, ideas, and events. Set in Ghana and Scotland, the tale is as much an adventure-filled epic journey as a search for the meaning of life. The inhabitants of Tukwan, a town invisible to the rest of the country, are immortal, living lives rich in contradiction and absurdity. To be able to live there, ""everyone has to have one element of originality before he or she could continue to stay in the town."" But like those in their sister town, Levensvale, in the ""nonmango"" country of Scotland--a town as magical as Tukwan--some of the townspeople feel the need for new ideas and experiences, even if it means losing their immortality. When Pokuaa, a contractress--""a kind buy-and-sell woman""--comes back from Levensvale with two airplanes, and contracts for several business ventures there, the leading men and women of the town decide to fly back with her to Levensdale--""a journey they hoped would lead to prosperity."" The planes--perfumed every morning with frangipani lavender--take off with the good and bad twins, the keeper of the Shrine and his vulture, the ""superbumptious"" seller of crabs, and others as colorful. Sacred ducks fly alongside to help with the navigation on the enchanted flight. Both Tukwan and Levensvale are irrevocably altered by the visit: both lose their invisibility and immortality, but ""an amazing joy held most of them together."" As in any great myth, the search for knowledge and change has a price, but there is the compensating ""joy of multi-centered dimensions,"" the freedom to choose to live or die. Rich in incident, African mythology, vivid characters--sometimes a dozen appear on one page--and wordplay, the novel demands close reading. No easy read, but Laing is a promising talent.

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Hey I'm Heather. I go to Tech. I'm from the beautiful city of Austin. I have an amazing boyfriend, Brandon. I'm 21. I have been through a lot but I can get through anything. <3
I tried deleting my tumblr today…. But it wouldn’t let me. It was the closet thing internet “offing myself”. But, as i just said it wouldn’t. It was almost like, old friend, don’t go… But the truth of the matter this blog…. this blog was created for one purpose and one purpose only. And well, that part of my life is very much over. Now, I really don’t want a part of that life anymore. But there has got to be a reason it will not let me say goodbye. Tumblr is like that friend that you know who you grew up with. You both were close at one point, but as for our friendship, it was tainted from the beginning when my ploy was to use it for a specific not positive reason. Now you and your friend touch base once and a bit and those old past reminiscent times still linger. Like a lifeless dreaded carcass laying out in the sun that you keep wondering about over and over. Until, well it’s like beating a dead horse…. for months; virtually. And quite frankly, I am over this now I know. I want to blot this all out. I am very much happy with the life I started for myself 8 months ago, with a man who has been everything to me. I plan to be a better woman for him. So, this is my intent old friend…. Since you will not let me leave you to die. I will just leave you remain. Like a book waiting to be opened again, full of colorful memories of my darkened past. I do not think or hope to see you again. And I apologize to my small amount of followers who have seen my ups and downs and well., very confused/ distraught posts through this long year of when I started this. If you wish to unfollow, go ahead. My goal is to never come to this ever again.
As for the person who made me start this… Well, have a good life. I do not think it be wise to hangout anymore, which I know you will have zero problem with that. I am no longer angry, sad, mad, regretful, etc. with the way our lives went along with our relationship. I just want us to live separate lives. You will always be a part of me, but I think its for the best to not be close, at all.
Lastly, I love Brandon Alot. Whether he loves me equally as I do, I do not know, but he is my future for how I see it and I want to continue down this path with him.
goodbye old friend.
I must have a crazy affect on people. We don’t talk for months and then you try to come back into my life. They all try to come back. I have six words for you all.
“No thank you, don’t come back.”
Why did I attract the creepiest people.
I really don’t feel like you will miss me at all.
God received an angel today.
Today I met a Heather, from Austin, and I thought about my bestfriend and all that stuff… Ugh. /: then she texted me: “she passed”. I kept my composure until I got home. But now I just feel like a mess. I wish I was home right now instead of in lubbock worrying about finals. :( you will be forever missed. Xoxo
I got in a bath. I was feeling like a dirty terrible person due to events that occurred. I filled it with soap, as the hot water filled, I put my head on the back of the tub, I looked at my body, I felt my face, what a terrible person I am; terrible I have become. As I was in there I could feel my breathing keeping my buoyancy, every breath I rose, and every exhale I sank. I thought about drowning myself, cutting myself, hurting myself physically for what I have done. I started to cry, I cried and cried out to god, please help me. Please. I won’t do it again. Show me the way. I am depressed and want you to wash away all the pain. I stopped crying and sat up. I looked down and the soap formed into the shape of a serpents head slithering to my wrist like it was going to bite me, in alarm I moved my wrist as I thought no. The head broke off the body, but a know a snake can still be poisonous even when you cut off the head. So I blew the soap away from me as it dissolved away. I started to worry, but when I looked in front of me, there in the middle, plain as sight, soap in the shape of a heart. Tears of joy collected in my eyes. And I knew. God will protect me, God loves me, and I love him. Thank you for always protecting me even when I don’t think I deserve it. When I feel like a retch and I do not even deserve to love myself. But even when I don’t love me, you still do.
Cut off the serpent of the devil, overcome the powers of evil. You will find everlasting love from Jesus Christ, our protector and savior.
I then began to scrub myself clean and I promised to god that I will fight for salvation. That I will be a better person.
My friends decided to take a lovely pic for the Westboro Baptist Church. They’re not gay but they support gay rights
This is the most gangsta shit I have ever seen on tumblr
Not even a little bit sorry for posting color to my uncolored blog. This is amazing.
you are a saint ^
omfg this is perfect
It is estimated that 10% of young people struggle with self harm. Imagine that. In a classroom of 30 pupils, 3 will be hiding their cuts and scars. It’s not a little phase; it’s a serious and potentially dangerous coping strategy. Spread the word, raise awareness, reach out, hang in there.
She is 6 years old.
Most of you wont reblog this, but this girl is beautiful in every way.
I hope she gets better soon.
I’m not just saying this because she is sick but I really think she is pretty.
^ she is really pretty, she is also beautiful.
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High-Power Silicon Switches for Massive MIMO Front-Ends
MIMO transceiver architectures are becoming widely used in the design of high-power RF wireless communication systems. As a step into the 5G era, massive MIMO (mMIMO) system covering the cellular bands are now being deployed in urban areas to meet the emerging demand for high data throughput and new services. The availability of highly integrated, single chip, baseband transceiver solutions, such as ADI’s new ADRV9008/9 family of products, made this achievement possible. Similar integration is needed at the RF front-end of these systems to reduce power consumption for thermal management, shrink size, reduce cost and accommodate more MIMO channels.
MIMO architectures allow the RF output power and power handling requirements for amplifiers and switches to be relaxed. However, as the number of parallel transceiver channels increases, the complexity of peripheral circuits and total power consumption scales accordingly. ADI’s new high-power switches, fabricated in silicon, are designed to simplify the RF front-end design, eliminating the need for peripheral circuits and reducing power consumption to a negligible level. ADI’s high-power silicon switches offer RF designers and system architects the flexibility to increase system complexity without the RF front-end becoming a bottleneck in the design.
In time-division duplex (TDD) systems, a switch function is used at the antenna interface to isolate and protect the receiver input from the power of the transmitted signal. This switch can either be used directly at the antenna interface in relatively lower power systems (see Figure 1) or placed on the receive path for higher power applications, to ensure proper termination to the duplexer (see Figure 2). In both architectures, having a shunt arm on one of the switch outputs helps improve isolation.
PIN diode switches have been the preferred solution, offering low insertion loss and high-power handling. However, they need high bias voltages, to reverse bias for isolation, and high current, to forward bias for low insertion loss, which are shortcomings in mMIMO systems. Figure 3 shows a typical application circuit for a PIN diode switch, including the peripheral circuitry, where three discrete PIN diodes are biased through bias-tees and controlled with a high voltage interface circuit.
ADI’s new high-power silicon switches are better suited to mMIMO designs. They are biased with a single 5 V supply, draw less than 1 mA current and do not need external components or interface circuits. The FET circuit architecture (see Figure 4) operates on low supply voltages and draws low bias currents, making the power consumption negligible and aiding system thermal management. Additionally, the FET architecture yields better isolation, as more shunt arms are incorporated on the RF signal path. ADI’s silicon switches handle RF peak power up to 80 W, adequate margin to cover the peak-to-average power requirements for mMIMO systems.
Figure 5 shows a side-by-side comparison of the PCB artwork on a single-layer design for a PIN diode switch and ADI’s new silicon switch. The footprint of the silicon switch is more than 10× smaller than the PIN diode switch footprint.
Table 1 shows ADI’s family of high-power silicon switches, which are optimized for various power levels and package options. These devices reflect the intrinsic advantages of silicon technology: better ESD robustness and less part-to-part variation compared to alternative solutions.
As mMIMO systems evolve, they will need even higher levels of integration. ADI’s new high-power silicon switch technology is well-suited for multi-chip module designs, enabling integration with LNAs to offer a complete single chip solution for TDD receiver front-ends. ADI plans to scale new designs to cover higher frequencies, leading to similar solutions for 5G mmWave systems. Other applications such as phased array radars will benefit from the advantages of the silicon switch architecture as ADI expands its product portfolio to X-Band and higher.
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Swoop, the WestJet-owned ULCC, begins operations from its first base at Hamilton.
The FTWA competition is continuing to hot up with another 21 entries received this week. There’s strong representation from Europe, plus examples from North America and the Caribbean. This week’s result sees a previous 2018 winner extend a remarkable winning run. Find out more here.
It has been another record-breaking seven days in the Arch of Triumph competition, with last week’s tally of 23 entries being matched by this week’s haul. As a result, the 250 FTWA mark has been passed a month earlier than in 2017.
Air Italy begins its second US route from its Milan Malpensa base.
Air Canada adds Vancouver to Paris CDG and Zurich – joins London Heathrow and Frankfurt offerings.
Winners don’t get prouder than this, as 15 members of last week’s victors from Lisbon Airport’s fire crew take centre stage – including Miguel Moreira with the certificate. It is a record week of entries, with 23 FTWAs battling it out to get that little piece of paper on their airport’s fire station walls.
13 airports do battle for Week 21 Arch of Triumph glory, with entries from Europe, plus North and South America. With an average score of 30.2 out of 40, it has certainly been a week of high-standard FTWAs. However, a past champion has clinched pole position for its sublime efforts in welcoming yet another transatlantic service. Find out more.
Icelandair makes Kansas City and Baltimore/Washington its 15th and 16th US destinations.
Qatar Airways returns to London Gatwick with twice-daily flights – goes 16 times weekly in peak summer.
The summer keeps moving on and so does the number of water arches that we receive, with another 17 sent in this week. Another seven days like that and we will pass the 200-mark of FTWAs three weeks sooner than last year.
Airline adds US routes from Montreal, Toronto Pearson and Vancouver – all previous unserved sectors.
Eurowings starts services to ‘You Vote, We Fly’ destination.


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The Southeast Raiders received the brunt of the Gilmer Lady Cats’ frustrations last Tuesday in Dalton.
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The 11U Bobcats were the only Gilmer team in action last Saturday, and they continued their undefeated season.
The Gilmer Lady Cats played in their second volleyball tournament of the season last weekend and posted a 3-2 record to finish in the top four.
The Clear Creek Middle School cross-country team raced last Tuesday at home versus Dawson, Fannin and Union.
The Clear Creek Lady Cats picked up four more softball wins over the past two weeks to remain atop the league standings.

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