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I can just imagine the response this article will get from AIPAC and the rest of the neocon bestiary…
Why Iran Should Get the Bomb
Kenneth N. Waltz | Foreign Affairs | July 12
The past several months have witnessed a heated debate over the best way for the United States and Israel to respond to Iran’s nuclear activities. As the argument has raged, the United States has tightened its already robust sanctions regime against the Islamic Republic, and the European Union announced in January that it will begin an embargo on Iranian oil on July 1. Although the United States, the EU, and Iran have recently returned to the negotiating table, a palpable sense of crisis still looms.
It should not. Most U.S., European, and Israeli commentators and policymakers warn that a nuclear-armed Iran would be the worst possible outcome of the current standoff. In fact, it would probably be the best possible result: the one most likely to restore stability to the Middle East.
When President Obama spoke before Congress two years ago he criticized the members of the Supreme Court for their decision in the Citizens United case saying, “I can’t think of anything more devastating to the public interest.” Antonin Scalia sat there shaking his head. Now we know why…
What Sheldon Adelson Wants
Editorial | NYTimes | 23 June 12
No American is dedicating as much of his money to defeat President Obama as Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate who also happens to have made more money in the last three years than any other American. He is the perfect illustration of the squalid state of political money, spending sums greater than any political donation in history to advance his personal, ideological and financial agenda, which is wildly at odds with the nation’s needs.
Mr. Adelson spent $20 million to prop up Newt Gingrich’s failed candidacy for the Republican nomination. Now, he has given $10 million to a Mitt Romney super PAC, and has pledged at least $10 million to Crossroads GPS, the advocacy group founded by Karl Rove that is running attack ads against Mr. Obama and other Democrats. Another $10 million will probably go to a similar group founded by the Koch brothers, and $10 million more to Republican Congressional super PACs.
A fw days ago I got a email fm a frnd which i could hardly understand. It was sent fm a blkbry device which is how every1 speaks n rites nowdys. Gd help us!
This Embarrasses You and I
Sue Shellenbarger | Wall Street Journal | 19 Jun 12
When Caren Berg told colleagues at a recent staff meeting, “There’s new people you should meet,” her boss Don Silver broke in, says Ms. Berg, a senior vice president at a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., marketing and crisis-communications company.
“I cringe every time I hear” people misuse “is” for “are,” Mr. Silver says. The company’s chief operations officer, Mr. Silver also hammers interns to stop peppering sentences with “like.” For years, he imposed a 25-cent fine on new hires for each offense. “I am losing the battle,” he says.
Move over Eric Clapton. Step aside BB King. There is a 12-year old guitar playing phenom who is about to take over your world. Quinn Sullivan started playing at age 3. This video below shows him at 9 years old opening for Buddy Guy at the Gathering of the Vibes Festival in 2009. You can see more at his website or on YouTube. Mozart with a steel guitar…
This summer we will be hearing endless advertisements, speeches and political chatterboxes talking about the vast sums of money the US government spends on health care, entitlement programs and “welfare”. If you listen to the republicans you could easily think we live in some sort of socialist Sweden with everyone on the dole paid by your taxes. The truth, of course, is somewhat different. This video from Al Jazeera (the “terrorist” network) lays it out pretty clearly…
53¢ of Every $Dollar Goes to War
Dennis Bernstein and Dave Lindorff | Al Jazeera | 18 June 12
________________________________________________________________________________ Dennis Bernstein is an American producer and co-host of the radio news program, Flashpoints Radio on Pacifica Radio. Dave Lindorff is an American investigative reporter, a columnist for CounterPunch, and a contributor to Businessweek, The Nation, Extra! and Salon.com. He received two Project Censored awards in 2004 and 2011.
Listening to Richard Feynman is like listening to the Qracle at Delphi. It’s like getting plugged into the universe and actually understanding what’s going on. Indeed his passion and unique ability was explaining the inner workings of the physical universe in a way that mortals like me could understand and appreciate as he did. Explaining electromagnetic field theory, as he does here, his face lights up like a kid who just discovered a map to a long-buried treasure…
Richard Feynman on Light
Richard Feynman | YouTube | 2 Nov 07
________________________________________________________________________________ Richard Feynman was an American physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics (he proposed the parton model). For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman, jointly with Julian Schwinger and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. He developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. During his lifetime, Feynman became one of the best-known scientists in the world. In a 1999 poll of 130 leading physicists worldwide by the British journal Physics World he was ranked as one of the ten greatest physicists of all time.
Feynman assisted in the development of the atomic bomb and was a member of the panel that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. In addition to his work in theoretical physics, Feynman has been credited with pioneering the field of quantum computing, and introducing the concept of nanotechnology. He held the Richard Chace Tolman professorship in theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology.
If you read news reports about the European economic mess you probably think Greece is a giant ponzi scheme that got caught in the act. This view is understandable because the news media generally avoids pointing the finger at those who bankrolled Greece and the other schemers in Europe’s rapidly collapsing house of cards. Paul Krugman, however, doesn’t hesitate to call a spade a spade…
Greece as Victim
Paul Krugman | NYTimes | 17 Jun 12
Ever since Greece hit the skids, we’ve heard a lot about what’s wrong with everything Greek. Some of the accusations are true, some are false — but all of them are beside the point. Yes, there are big failings in Greece’s economy, its politics and no doubt its society. But those failings aren’t what caused the crisis that is tearing Greece apart, and threatens to spread across Europe.
No, the origins of this disaster lie farther north, in Brussels, Frankfurt and Berlin, where officials created a deeply — perhaps fatally — flawed monetary system, then compounded the problems of that system by substituting moralizing for analysis. And the solution to the crisis, if there is one, will have to come from the same places.
This may strike you as a bit esoteric but the idea that a robot can grip and pick up virtually any object by using ground coffee and a balloon is pretty remarkable. If you think I’m going bananas here, watch this video…
________________________________________________________________________________ ROBERT B. REICH, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, was Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration. Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the last century.


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Sometimes Blues fans enjoy pointing out the propensity of the organization to reward personnel based on a very small sample size of production - see Alexander Steen’s contract extension and Patrik Berglund’s. It might be tempting to consider Doug Armstrong’s just-announced four year contract extension as another case of that. This season the Blues have far exceeded expectations despite constant injuries to key players such as Robby Fabbri.
But to be frank, you could say that about nearly every year Doug Armstrong has been GM.
While not every decision has been perfect (Ryan Miller, anyone?), Armstrong has consistently found a way to keep the Blues firmly in the “exceeds expectations camp.” He’s assembled a front office and scouting staff who has drafted very, very well. He doesn’t make splashy, big deals, but when he does turn a deal, it’s often solid. I don’t think that anyone is upset about Jori Lehtera being gone and Brayden Schenn being here, are you? Was anyone sad about losing Lars Eller for Jaroslav Halak?
The former General Manager of the year has consistently guided the Blues through strong regular seasons. Playoff performance could be better, but an appearance in the Western Conference Finals for the first time in ages isn’t anything to shake a stick at.
Armstrong has been here for a decade, and overall it has been a successful one. I can’t think of any justification for not offering him a contract extension. I’ve had my quibbles, just like many of you, with individual decisions, but in the business world you don’t fire someone with that track record of success - especially not in the NHL, when finding a new GM with a proven track record is difficult.
Here is the Blues’ official statement:
(Dec. 27, 2017) – St. Louis Blues Chairman Tom Stillman announced today the Blues have signed President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Doug Armstrong to a four-year contract extension. Armstrong’s contract also includes a club option for a fifth year. Tom Stillman and Doug Armstrong will be available to the media today, at 11:30 a.m., in the Scottrade Center Media Room at Scottrade Center.
Armstrong, currently in his 10th season with the club, originally joined the Blues as the Vice President of Player Personnel in 2008 and was named the 11th General Manager in Blues history during the 2010 off-season. Since taking the reins, Armstrong has led the Blues to a 337-185-56 regular season record which serves as the fourth-best mark in the NHL since the 2010-11 campaign. He has also guided the team to six consecutive postseason berths, making the Blues one of only four teams to have accomplished that.
In his second season as General Manager, Armstrong captured the NHL’s 2012 General Manager of the Year Award after leading the club to a 49-22-11 record and its first Central Division title in 12 seasons. During his tenure, Armstrong has extended the contracts of core players such as Jake Allen, Patrik Berglund, Colton Parayko, Alex Pietrangelo, Jaden Schwartz, Alexander Steen and Vladimir Tarasenko. He has also orchestrated the acquisitions of Jay Bouwmeester and Brayden Schenn, signed free agents such as Paul Stastny and overseen the drafts of several prospects, including Vince Dunn and Tage Thompson.
Prior to joining the Blues, Armstrong spent 17 years with the Dallas Stars, including his final six as the team's General Manager. While with the Stars, Armstrong helped lead the franchise to two Presidents' Trophies, two Western Conference titles and the 1999 Stanley Cup.
Internationally, the Sarnia, Ontario, native has served Team Canada in numerous capacities, including Assistant General Manager at the 2002 and 2008 World Championships and General Manager at the 2009 World Championship. Armstrong also captured an Olympic gold medal as the Associate Director of Player Personnel in 2010 and as a member of the management group in 2014. Most recently, he served as General Manager of the gold medal-winning team at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey. Armstrong is a member of the "Triple Gold Club," having been on the management staff for a Stanley Cup, Olympic gold medal and World Championship gold medal.

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Listen: Julia Holter Covers Fleetwood Mac’s “Gold Dust Woman”
Off Rumours Compilation
Celebrating the legacy of Fleetwood Mac UK music pub Mojo put together a special covers compilation tackling the band's 1977 classic Rumours. Alongside fellow contributors as Yeasayer, Liars and The Besnard Lakes, singer/songwriter Julia Holter provided her own unique inclusion to the effort with a rendition of the album's closing track "Gold Dust Woman." Available to stream below, you can get the track with the newest issue of Mojo.
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42-seed Bill Haas upended 14-seed Phil Mickelson 2-and-1 in quarterfinal action of the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play and advances to the Final Four against 21-seed Jon Rahm, while Mickelson departs his 13th Match Play with a 4-1-0 record and a T5, tying his previous best in 2004.
42-seed Bill Haas outlasted 46-seed Kevin Na 1 UP in Round of 16 action at the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play and will face 14-seed Phil Mickelson (4-0-0) in the quarterfinals later this afternoon, while Na departs with a 2-2-0 overall record.
Every scenario fell perfectly into place for Bill Haas, as he defeated K.T. Kim, first in regular play (4-and-2), and then in a play-off, to qualify for the second round of the World Golf Championship-Dell Technologies Match Play at Austin CC.
Bill Haas coasted to a 6-and-5 victory over Danny Willett during round two of the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play, earning his first point of the week.
Past champ and World No. 43 Bill Haas twirled a season-low 7-under-par 33-31=64 in the two-day third round of the Genesis Open to reach 7-under 206, up 51 places on the live leaderboard to T11 with third- and final-round play in progress.
Bill Haas' bogey-free 4-under-par 32-36=68 was the low round on the Stadium Course in Saturday's third-round action at the CareerBuilder Challenge. Adam Hadwin (59) was the low at La Quinta CC while Webb Simpson (66) had the low lap on the Nicklaus Tournament Course. UPDATE: Haas finished up with a 4-under-par 33-35=68 on the Stadium Course, currently up 14 spots to T18.
Following a seven-year hiatus, World No. 41 Bill Haas returns for his sixth Sony Open in Hawaii.
Bill Haas registered his best finish in a world golf championship event after securing T4 at the WGC-HSBC Champions in China with a final-round 3-under-par 34-35=69.
Bill Haas dropped two spots on the leaderboard to T4 with a stuttering 2-under-par 34-36=70 in round three of the World Golf Championship-HSBC Champions in Shanghai to post 12-under 204 after 54 holes.
Bill Haas nudged two spots up the leaderboard to T2 after compiling a 5-under-par 33-34=67 in round two of the WGC-HSBC Champions in China to post 10-under 134 at the midpoint.
Bill Haas crafted a 5-under-par 34-33=67 first lap of Sheshan International GC in the WGC-HSBC Champions.
Bill Haas claimed the early clubhouse lead at the Safeway Open following a 2-under-par 34-36=70 to reach 8-under 136 at the midpoint.
Bill Haas ripped through Silverado Resort and Spa's North Course on his way to a 6-under-par 34-32=66 during the opening round of the Safeway Open, positioning himself four strokes off the early pace set by Scott Piercy.
Beginning on No. 10 tee, past FedExCup champion Bill Haas painted a 5-under-par 35-32=67 in the third round of the BMW Championship to post 4-under 212, up 31 places on the live leaderboard to T26 and matching Billy Horschel and Adam Scott for the low rounds in the clubhouse.


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Amodei returns unspent portion of office budget
January 10, 2014
Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., says he didn't spend all of his allotted office budget and will be returning about $104,000 to the federal treasury.
He said the money, about 8 percent of his 2013 budget, should be applied to deficit reduction.
"In the face of a $17.3 trillion federal debt, I think it is a sign of basic respect to Nevadans and Americans to run a fiscally conservative office while offering the greatest possible service to my constituents at the lowest possible cost to taxpayers," he said in a statement.
He said that amount is on top of the $167,080 that was cut from his budget as part of the sequester and other changes. He said he supported provisions to cut congressional office budgets by 11.4 percent and, in his staff, eliminated two vacant positions to reduce costs.
Last year, he returned a total of $172,144 in unspent office funding. Since his election in September 2011, he said that brings the total he has turned back to the treasury to about $370,000.
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|Application number||US 08/839,540|
|Publication date||Jul 18, 2000|
|Filing date||Apr 14, 1997|
|Priority date||Mar 2, 1992|
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|Original Assignee||Howmedica Gmbh|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (13), Referenced by (106), Classifications (16), Legal Events (8)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/384,639, filed on Feb. 6, 1995abandoned Apr. 14, 1999 which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/025,196, filed on Mar. 2, 1993, abandoned Feb. 6, 1995.
The present invention relates to an apparatus for bracing a plurality of vertebrae of the human spine.
Known supporting means operate with so-called lamina hooks which are disposed on a threaded rod. A compressing means is disclosed in British patent 2 131 300. A distracting means is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,383,438. The threaded rod bridges a plurality of vertebrae and is not suited to act on vertebrae which are disposed between the lamina hooks. The thread of the rod is used to fix the lamina hooks. Before using the supporting means a distraction or, respectively, compression has to be provided by means of an additional device.
German 90 06 646 U1 discloses an apparatus in which a lamina hook is replaced by a clamp-shaped holding member having a pair of legs of which one can be bent with respect to the other. Thereby the giapophysis of the vertebrae may be used as anchoring points for the compressing and distracting apparatus.
German 88 02 112 U1 teaches a supporting device for the human spine, according to which the so-called pedicle screws are screwed into the pedicle body of the vertebrae. The pedicle screws cooperate with tensioning means which bridge across one or more vertebrae to introduce forces between the vertebrae. The known device affords a primary stabilization of the vertebrae with respect to all degrees of freedom. However, when a number of vertebrae of a non-traumatic spine for example, are to be repositioned, separate means necessary to perform the repositioning before the known supporting device may be effectively used.
WO 91/01691 discloses an apparatus for bracing vertebrae of the human spine, comprising pedicle screws having slotted heads to receive a rod. The legs of the slotted screw heads include an outer thread on which a nut is screwed which contacts the rod to fix a predetermined position.
EP 0 443 892 discloses a similar device comprising a pedicle screw, the slotted head thereof including internal threaded portions for receiving a fixing screw which is brought into engagement with a serrated or similarly roughened rod to fix the relative position of the rod and the individual pedicle screw. A ring disposed around the head of a pedicle screw is provided so that the legs of the screw head do not spread apart while fixing the rod, as otherwise the engagement between the fixing screw and the screw head may be lost. A similar apparatus is disclosed in WO 90/09156.
Again, the devices last mentioned require separate means for repositioning, thus being suited to maintain a repositioned condition, but not suited to perform repositioning.
It is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus which is suited to reposition the vertebrae of the human spine as well as to support the vertebrae in the repositioned position thereafter.
The objects are solved by the apparatus of the invention.
According to the invention, the apparatus uses a threaded rod (i.e., a distracting rod) in combination with lamina hooks. The thread of the rod, however, is not only used to fix the pedicle screws, but further is used to reposition the vertebrae in that an adjusting nut sitting on the threaded rod is turned with respect to the head of the pedicle screw and thus the vertebra has obtained the desired position. By means of the apparatus according to the invention a spine portion is not only distracted or compressed, but individual vertebrae can be effectively positioned with respect to each other. To this end the threaded rod is designed to be relatively stiff and has a diameter between 7 to 8 mm, for example. On the other hand the rod must be bent to be implanted close to the spine along a bent spine portion. This is facilitated by the design of the pedicle screw heads having slots for receiving the threaded rod. To hold the rod in the slot, a securing screw is provided. Whereas the screw in the pedicle screw head according to EP 0 443 892, for example, axially fixes the rod, the securing screw of the present invention is merely used to prevent a deflection of the rod out of the receiving slot.
After resetting, the adjusting nut must be fixed on the threaded rod. This can be obtained by means of a suitable counter-nut. Still further, it is possible, to provide the adjusting nut and the front faces of the pedicle screw head with a rotary safety means in form of a toothing or another irregularity cooperating in a clamping fashion. In both cases the nuts are merely fixed by a frictional force. According to a further embodiment of the invention, however, the head of the pedicle screw has a width smaller than the diameter of the securing screw, whereas at least one front face of the adjusting nut has a recess cooperating with the securing screw. Preferably, the adjusting nut includes a plurality of peripherally spaced indentations, wherein the final rotary position of the nut is such that the securing screw cooperates with the indentation. This affords a positive locking of the adjusting nut resulting in a precise rotary locking which cannot be loosened.
The pedicle screws must take up relatively large forces. There is the danger that a pedicle screw may break out of the bone, primarily when the available bony substance does not provide a sufficiently rigid seat in the vertebra. According to an embodiment of the invention, a mounting strap is attached to the shaft of the pedicle screw laterally extending therefrom, which strap includes an opening for receiving a spongiose screw. The strap has, for example, a pair of openings, wherein one opening receives the shaft of the pedicle screw, while the other opening disposed at the other end of the strap, for example, receives a spongiose screw which is screwed into the vertebra. In this manner, the pedicle screw is laterally stabilized and can receive substantial forces. According to an alternate embodiment of the invention, a mounting strap may be provided to the shaft of the pedicle screw extending therefrom, which strap has a blade or the like to be mounted in the vertebra. The blade is preferably integral with the strap. The blade is beaten into the vertebra wherein the strap may additionally include a hole for receiving a spongiose screw which is screwed into the vertebra. In some cases, a vertebra is displaced with respect to the adjacent vertebra. When the pedicle screw is completely screwed in, it cannot be connected any more with the threaded rod. To accomplish a connection, the pedicle screw is partly screwed into the vertebra bone. According to an embodiment of the invention, the head of the pedicle screw is then rotatably mounted on the screw shaft so that by rotating the shaft the vertebra can be pulled up to the threaded rod for resetting. Preferably the shaft includes tool engaging faces adjacent the head to rotate the shaft of the screw in the desired manner.
In case of very specially displaced individual vertebrae, not even the features referred to above are suffient. According to a further embodiment of the invention, the upper end of the pedicle screw shaft is ball-shaped, while the pedicle screw head is defined by a ball-engaging cage including a slot for the rod. The cage can be arbitrarily positioned with respect to the shaft of the screw, but can exert a tensioning force to the screw shaft when being screwed into the vertebra. According to both embodiments just referred to, the threaded rod is inserted through a slot of the pedicle screw head, wherein a securing screw referred to several times prevents the rod from sliding out of the slot. Alternatively a closed passage may be provided in the head of the pedicle screw as it is known per se.
Instead of or in addition to the pedicle screw the apparatus of the present invention provides a hook cooperating with a lamina of a vertebra. Those lamina hooks are generally known. According to the invention, however, the lamina hook is provided with a slotted receiving portion to insert the threaded rod. The slot has threaded portions again to secure the rod in the receiving slot.
Preferred embodiments of the invention will now be described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawing.
FIG. 1 schematically shows an apparatus according to the invention to be used as a distracting system,
FIG. 2 schematically shows an apparatus according to the invention used as a compressing system,
FIG. 3 shows a pedicle screw for the apparatuses according to FIGS. 1 and 2,
FIG. 4 shows the pedicle screw of FIG. 3 cooperating with a threaded rod,
FIG. 5 schematically shows a side view of a further embodiment of a pedicle screw for the apparatuses of FIGS. 1 and 2,
FIG. 6 shows a side view of the pedicle screw of FIG. 5 rotated about 90°,
FIG. 7 shows a plan view of the pedicle screw of FIG. 5,
FIG. 8 shows a side view of an adjusting nut of the apparatus of FIGS. 1 and 2,
FIG. 9 shows a stabilizing strap for the apparatus of FIGS. 1 and 2,
FIG. 10 shows a further embodiment of a stabilizing strap of the apparatus of FIGS. 1 and 2,
FIG. 11 shows a section of a lamina hook for the apparatus of FIGS. 1 and 2,
FIG. 12 shows a plan view of the hook of FIG. 11,
FIG. 13 shows a side view of a further embodiment of a pedicle screw for an apparatus according to the invention,
FIG. 14 shows a side view of the pedicle screw of FIG. 13 turned about 90°,
FIG. 15 shows a side view partly in section of a further embodiment of a pedicle screw for an apparatus according to the invention and
FIG. 16 shows a side view of the pedicle screw of FIG. 15 turned around 90°.
FIG. 1 shows a bent spine portion 10 wherein the individual vertebrae are to be distracted by means of a distracting system 12. The system comprises a relatively stiff threaded rod 14 having a diameter of 6 to 9 mm, preferably 7 to 8 mm. It cooperates with an individual pedicle screw 16 screwed in the vertebrae. Details of the screws are shown in the following figures. The threaded rod 14 is received in slots of the pedicle screw heads 16 and a plurality of adjusting nuts 18 is disposed on the rod 14, at least one nut each for a pedicle screw 16. Stabilizing latches 20 cooperate with the pedicle screws, which latches include a hole 22 in a distance from the pedicle screw to receive a spongiose screw screwed in the vertebra. By means of the adjusting nut 18 a pedicle screw screwed in the vertebra may be displaced relative to the rod 14 and thus with respect to the vertebra receiving the screw. By means of the adjusting nuts 18 the vertebrae of the portion 10 may be thus adjusted to accomplish a distraction.
The spine portion 30 shown in FIG. 2 comprises a compressing means including components identical with those shown in the system 12 so that identical components carry identical reference numerals. To reduce the bending of the spine portion 30 a tension force must be exerted on the vertebras to straighten the bent threaded rod 14. This is accomplished by adjusting the individual pedicle screws 16 as described in FIG. 1. In the following the components of the system referred to are described in more detail. FIG. 3 shows a pedicle screw 16a having a shaft 32 and an annular head 34. The head 34 includes a slot 36 in which the rod 14 is inserted. A securing screw 38a cooperating with threaded portions in the slot 36 holds the threaded rod 14 in the slot 36. FIG. 4 shows adjusting nuts 18a located on either side of the head 34 to displace the screw 16a along the rod 14.
In the embodiment of FIGS. 5 and 6 the pedicle screw 16b has a relatively narrow head 34b so that the securing screw 38b laterally projects. This is shown by the dashed line in FIG. 7. When an adjusting nut 40 according to FIG. 8 is used, which nut is provided with indentations 42 on the opposite front faces thereof, the nut 40 can be secured to the rod 14 when an indentation 42 of the screw 38b cooperates with the adjusting nut 38b .
FIG. 9 shows a mounting strap or latch or flap. The plate-shaped strap 20 includes a first hole 44 receiving the shaft of a pedicle screw. A second hole 22 receives a spongiose screw as mentioned before.
FIG. 10 shows an alternate embodiment 20a of a stabilizing strap or flap or latch, again comprising a hole 44a for a pedicle screw and a hole 22a located substantially in the center for receiving a spongiose screw. FIG. 10 further shows a blade 46 integrally shaped on the end opposite the hole 44a which blade is driven home in the vertebra.
FIGS. 11 and 12 show a lamina hook 50 comprising a hook portion 52 and a receiving portion 54 including a slot 56. The slot 56 receives a threaded rod such as the rod 14 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. Threaded portions as indicated at 58 in FIG. 11 are provided inside the slot 56 to receive a securing screw (not shown) to hold the rod in the slot 56. The position of the rod in the slot 56 is determined by the position of the securing screw (not shown), wherein a relative position between the hook 50 and the rod is possible to a limited extent.
FIGS. 13 and 14 show a pedicle screw 16c comprising a shaft 32c and an annularly closed head 34b through which a rod 14 extends. A fixing screw 60 in the head 34b is used to fix the threaded rod 14. However, adjusting nuts may be used as mentioned before. According to the embodiment of FIGS. 13, 14 the shaft 32c is rotatably mounted in the head 34b. Accordingly, a circular blind bore 62 holds a ring 64 cooperating with an annular groove 66 in the shaft 32. Tool faces 68 facilitate a rotation of the shaft 32c relative to the head 34c when it fixedly sits on the rod 14 for example. It should be understood that the head 34c may provide a slot as shown in FIGS. 3 to 7 for example.
In the embodiment of FIGS. 15 and 16 a pedicle screw 16d is provided comprising a shaft 32d which upper end is formed as a ball. A cage 72 cooperates with the ball, the cage further having an opening passage 74 to receive a threaded rod 14. Furthermore, the cage 72 has threaded portions to receive a securing screw 38c. This allows to rotate the shaft 32, wherein tool faces 68d are provided. Furthermore, the shaft 32d may be pivoted relative to the cage 72 in a limited angle.
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【AT】 Team Vorarlberg stabilizes its position as second best in Cycling Bundes Leage
Andreas Hofer comes in second at „GP Niederösterreich Schneebergland“ – Team Vorarlberg stabilizes its position as second best in Cycling Bundes League.
After rank 5 at the GP Vorarlberg in Nenzing at the first of May Andreas Hofer showed extremely good performance last sunday. Finally won the race the Austrian rider Stefan Rabitsch from Team Gourmetfein Wels. But Andreas Hofer sprinted for the second position and extended his lead in the U 23 valuation.
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I love watching the fluttering flight of a butterfly. I am mesmerized by their colorful, delicate wings, amazed that they are so resilient. Monarch butterflies, for instance, possess a mind-boggling skill. Without any guidance, they inherently know how, when and where to migrate across continents—and it takes four generations to make the yearlong trek.
The monarch butterfly’s migration begins in the spring, with the first generation making its debut into the world. Born in March and April, these tiny insects pick up where their predecessors left off, traveling farther north on a generational journey that totals 1,200 to 2,500 miles. That’s quite the feat for creatures with wing spans of only 3.5 to 4 inches.
We could learn a lesson from the butterfly. It emerges from a lifeless cocoon, develops beautiful wings, and embarks on amazing migrations. I like the migration story told by Annie Dillard in her book, “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.” She writes that the monarch butterfly flies across Lake Superior and makes it all the way without a rest. That is a distance of about 500 miles! We don’t understand how those delicate butterflies do that. But thousands make their way across that mighty lake every single year during their migration.
None of them arrive without being wind-battered, snatched at from behind, hind legs torn off by the birds that pecked at them along the way. Our life journeys are just as challenging. Like the butterfly’s wings, we can be delicate. But even though we may be battered and broken along the way, we take risks, we keep flying, we persevere. We move forward. We survive!

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Throughout his distinguished and influential career, David Harvey has defined and redefined the relationship between politics, capitalism, and the social aspects of geographical theory. Laying out Harvey’s position that geography could not remain objective in the face of urban poverty and associated ills, Social Justice and the City is perhaps the most widely cited work in the field.
Harvey analyzes core issues in city planning and policy―employment and housing location, zoning, transport costs, concentrations of poverty―asking in each case about the relationship between social justice and space. How, for example, do built-in assumptions about planning reinforce existing distributions of income? Rather than leading him to liberal, technocratic solutions, Harvey’s line of inquiry pushes him in the direction of a “revolutionary geography,” one that transcends the structural limitations of existing approaches to space. Harvey’s emphasis on rigorous thought and theoretical innovation gives the volume an enduring appeal. This is a book that raises big questions, and for that reason geographers and other social scientists regularly return to it.
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David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His many books include A Brief History of Neoliberalism and Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development.Review:
A penetrating analysis of contemporary urbanism which may indeed be the signal for a change of direction, if not a revolution, in geographic thought. The time is certainly ripe for this. But it will appeal to and stimulate many other disciplines and professions. It will be controversial for it brings into question concepts and values that are fundamental to our way of life.(Times Higher Education Supplement)
One of the most influential books in human geography, Social Justice and the City is a generative work that has influenced decades of urban studies scholars. Harvey skillfully demonstrates the material forces that produce cities, urban geographies, and the problems that are often associated with them. In so doing, he opened up new territory for understanding some of the fundamental and enduring problems of the city.(Laura Pulido author of Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles)
This book, in fact, provides the dimension that is almost entirely missing from the work of most critics, journalists, or historians who describe and discuss the contemporary city or the development of the modern movement in architecture.(Architects Journal)
A good book, by any standards, and it is to be hoped that even those many of the author's colleagues in geography, economics, and sociology, who may suspect that the dose of theoretical Marxism which we are offered here is too undiluted, may nonetheless ask themselves whether they can, either through some type of revisionism, or by starting elsewhere, offer a better or more comprehensive theory of the city.(Times Literary Supplement)
A solid and much-needed achievement.(George W. Carey Geographical Review)
Social Justice and the City has rightfully been an influential work, particularly among geographers. It is admirable not only in its systematic questioning of the traditional explanations of urban problems, but in insisting on a comprehensive view in explaining social phenomena. It is a refreshing work because of the paradigmatic change that is mapped in the course of the essays.(James L. Greer Ethics)
Establishes David Harvey as one of the most fertile and fruitful scholars working in the field of urban studies at the present time. It also makes quite clear that urban geography and non-Marxist urban economics can never be quite the same again.(Urban Studies)
The adage that we become more conservative as we grow older is but one of several comfortable notions that are profoundly shaken in this extraordinary book. . . . Social Justice and the City contains a wealth of convincing and unconvincing, disturbing and reinforcing, but usually provocative ideas.(Richard L. Morrill Annals of the Association of American Geographers)
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Descripción Edward Arnold, 1975. Hardcover. Estado de conservación: Good. Small annotations in pen/pencil to some of the pages. Good condition with small signs of use. Good condition is defined as: a copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. Nº de ref. de la librería mon0008302310
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Descripción Edward Arnold, 1976. Couverture souple. Estado de conservación: bon. RO60105218: 336 pages. Pages légèrement jaunies. Liberal formulations. Social processes and spatial form. Socialist formulations. In-8 Broché. Bon état. Couv. convenable. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon. Nº de ref. de la librería RO60105218
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Descripción Edward Arnold, London, 1979. Soft Cover. Estado de conservación: VG-. 336 pages in very good, clean condition, but slightly yellowed. White card covers with illustration and black titles. Front cover has a crease and a tiny rub. VG-. Nº de ref. de la librería 204736
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About 50 boats from six nations are ready to race for the H-Boat World Championship in Struer in the coming week.
The Covid-19 pandemic has been a large challenge for the organisers of the world championship, which is held in Struer in the coming week. Additionally, the new Delta-variant have had a crucial influence on the number of registrations for the event.
Those are the words from Otto G. Jensen from Struer Sejlklub, who along with Struer Municipality, is the main organiser of this large yachting event in Struer.
– We did, among others, expect several participants from Norway, but the quarantine rules have been tightened drastically, which unfortunately means that there will be no Norwegian participants, states Otto G. Jensen.
The hope was also up for more participants from Germany and Sweden, but the Covid-19 pandemic has also been working against the potential participants here. But, seen from the organiser’s viewpoint, it is extremely positive that the world championship can be held in 2021, given the cancellation in 2020.
– The insecurity regarding Covid-19 have complicated the preparations, and a lot of energy has been put into informing each country of the risk of infection with Covid-19, as well as the spread of the virus in Denmark over time. We have seen other international events be cancelled, so we are fortunate that the world championship can be held, despite all this, Otto G. Jensen continues.
About 50 boats on the water
About 50 boats from six nations will be racing for the world championship trophy in the waters just outside Struer. Apart from Denmark, the participants come from Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany.
The event starts Wednesday 11 August with two races. Thursday, Friday and Saturday will consist of three races, before the final winner can be found.
The event will be officially opened on Tuesday afternoon and evening by the city hall in Struer. The mayor of Struer, Niels Viggo Lynghøj, will greet the many participants welcome, after they have walked in procession from the yachting harbour, with Struer Jernbaneorkester (orchestra) in the lead.
A number of initiatives and events will be possible to make use for the audiences and other interested. Among other things, it will be possible to see the races from the old Venø-Ferry up close on the water, as this ferry will act as a floating tribune during the event.
Live TV from the world championship
– There will be streamed live TV from every day at the event. Additionally, we have an agreement with TV2 MidtVest (the local TV station), which makes it possible for us to show images from the races and thus, showcase the highlights every night, concludes Otto G. Jensen.
It will also be possible to follow the sailings via the so-called Trac-Trac-system, which can be seen on either your PC or smartphone. Simultaneous to this, as mentioned above, there will be live-streamed from parts of the event, the organisers’ states.
- The H-Boat world championship is held from August 9th to August 14th, 2021
- The regatta is organised by Struer Sejlklub in cooperation with Struer Municipality.
- Besides Danish contestants, there will be participating boats from Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Finland.
- It is expected there will be 150 elite-sailors in Struer during the WC, divided on about 50 boats
- The H-boat is among one of the most widespread yachting-race-classes in the world.
- The keelboat in fibreglass was designed by Hans Groop from Finland in 1967.


SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4 News)- Former U.S. Senate candidate Jenny Wilson announced her candidacy for Salt Lake County Mayor on Friday.
Current Mayor Ben McAdams will be making a move to Congress in January. The vacancy will be filled by the Salt Lake County Democratic Party Central Committee. Right now that election is expected to happen on February 2, 2019.
This winner of that race will finish McAdams’ term through 2020.
Wilson, who lost to Mitt Romney in the Senate race, made the formal announcement during a press conference Friday morning.


Petoskey surpasses renewable energy goals for last year
Pacing will be key in achieving future goals, consultant says
PETOSKEY — Petoskey is nearing the two-year mark since officials committed transition to fully renewable resources by 2035.
Since then, city leaders say they’re ahead of schedule for where they need to be to reaching that goal. Meanwhile, they’re making progress on some of the local projects eventually intended to supplement the increasingly diversified supply of energy they’re sourcing from elsewhere throughout the state.
“I’m happy to report the city is utilizing approximately 22.7 percent renewable in our portfolio, surpassing our goal of 20 percent renewable by the year 2020,” said city manager Rob Straebel at a city council meeting this week.
The energy goals, set in June 2019, called for 30 percent renewable energy by 2025 and 70 percent renewable by 2030 before reaching the final 15-year goal. Prior to that, city staff members had been talking with the Michigan Public Power Agency, which distributes electricity to municipal utilities, for several months on how they could tap into more alternative power sources. Those conversations were in full thrust at this time two years ago.
Patrick Bowland, CEO of the Michigan Public Power Agency, was a part of those early discussions.
“They’ve been pretty aggressive at participating on a lot of very large-scale projects,” he said in an interview. “We’ve done a couple of wind projects and we’ve done three large solar projects ... and Petoskey, I believe, has participated in most or all of those. It’s really been their commitment to participating in these larger projects that’s got them to where they need to get to.”
He did, however, note that for a community that’s just starting out, there are a lot of options ripe for the picking that will yield impressive results quickly.
“I’m not suggesting it’s easy, because it’s not,” he said. “But it gets harder and harder as those percentages get bigger, and the reason for that is very technical.”
Essentially, Petoskey initially had the opportunity to swap out any number of its non-renewable sources with a renewable source that fit that same need. But, as more and more of those puzzle pieces are put into place, the harder it becomes to find comparable alternatives to fill in the remaining gaps. That’s due, in part, because resources like wind and solar power can only be generated at certain times or under certain conditions — for example, during daylight hours for solar, Bowland said.
Improved technologies, like innovations in battery technology, can help bridge that gap over time.
“Patience is required here, even though people don’t like to hear that,” Bowland said. “Layering in things in over time allows you participate in new technology, which inevitably will be more efficient than the technology of old. It’s about pace, and I think Petoskey has done a good job of saying ‘Hey, we’re not going to do this overnight. We’re going to do it over time.’”
Bowland will be presenting to council members later this month, March 15, on the city’s progress and next steps.
He said the specific topics for discussion later this month are still being worked out, and will be based on the direction he receives from the city over next week. Straebel told council members this week that topics could include how a future solar array project in the city would fit in to the city’s overall energy portfolio, and new technologies available in wind and solar energy.
The city has been eyeing the former landfill at River and Howard roads for that array. The Petoskey capital improvements plan outlines a schedule that would seek to complete a study into the costs and engineering of the project, with construction tentatively to begin in 2022.
Petoskey has been working with partners including the Groundworks Center on that longterm objective. A localized solar array is often less cost-effective than obtaining solar energy from a larger site with greater economies of scale, but if it were to move forward, the Michigan Public Power Agency’s role would be to help the city figure out how to fit the energy it generates into its overall power supply, Bowland said.
The city expects to complete its months-long solar panel installation on the roof of city hall soon. That project will serve as something of a pilot program for the Howard Road array.
“We’re just doing the final wiring on that, so we should have that up and running in a few weeks,” Straebel said.


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Beef and Blue Cheese Crostini
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 30 min.
- 1 French bread baguette (10-1/2 ounces)
- Cooking spray
- 1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground pepper
- 1/2 cup reduced-fat sour cream
- 2 tablespoons minced chives
- 1 tablespoon horseradish
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1-1/4 pounds shaved deli roast beef
- 1/3 cup crumbled blue cheese
- Additional minced chives
- Preheat oven to 400°. Cut baguette into 36 slices. Place on ungreased baking sheets. Spritz with cooking spray. Sprinkle with pepper. Bake until lightly browned, 4-6 minutes.
- Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine sour cream, chives, horseradish and salt. Top toasts with beef; dollop with sour cream mixture. Sprinkle with cheese and additional chives.
Nutrition Facts1 appetizer: 48 calories, 1g fat (1g saturated fat), 11mg cholesterol, 176mg sodium, 5g carbohydrate (0 sugars, 0 fiber), 4g protein.
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Apr 29, 2016
Excellent. Easy. Impressive. Cannot go wrong with this appetizer. I made it exactly as the recipe stated, and it was perfect!
Dec 15, 2012
I've made these twice this past week. They are easy to make. Second time I left out the chives and bleu cheese since I only had freeze-dried chives and my hubby doesn't like bleu cheese, and substituted fresh onion and a bit of dill. I liked those as well. I suspect you can't go wrong if you have nice roast beef! Oh, it only took me about 3/4 of a pound of roast beef to make them..

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This plant contains small quantities of a toxic alkaloid which can have a cumulative effect upon the liver. Largest concentrations are found in the roots, leaves contain higher quantities of the alkaloid as they grow older and young leaves contain almost none. Most people would have to consume very large quantities of the plant in order to do any harm, though anyone with liver problems should obviously be more cautious. In general, the health-promoting properties of the plant probably far outweigh any possible disbenefits, especially if only the younger leaves are used.
Young leaves - cooked or raw
. The leaf is hairy and the texture is mucilaginous. It may be full of minerals but it is not pleasant eating for most tastes. It can be chopped up finely and added to salads, in this way the hairiness is not so obvious
Young shoots can be used as an asparagus substitute. The blanched stalks are used.
Older leaves can be dried and used as a tea.
The peeled roots are cut up and added to soups.
A tea is made from the dried leaves and roots.
The roasted roots are used with dandelion and chicory roots for making coffee
The plant grows very quickly, producing a lot of bulk. It is tolerant of being cut several times a year and can be used to provide 'instant compost' for crops such as potatoes. Simply layer the wilted leaves at the bottom of the potato trench or apply them as a mulch in no-dig gardens. A liquid feed can be obtained by soaking the leaves in a small amount of water for a week, excellent for potassium demanding crops such as tomatoes. The leaves are also a very valuable addition to the compost heap
A gum obtained from the roots was at one time used in the treatment of wool before it was spun.
Plants can be grown as a ground cover when planted about 1.2 metres apart each way
Comfrey is a commonly used herbal medicine with a long and proven history in the treatment of various complaints. The root and the leaves are used, the root being more active, and they can be taken internally or used externally as a poultice
. Comfrey is especially useful in the external treatment of cuts, bruises, sprains, sores, eczema, varicose veins, broken bones etc, internally it is used in the treatment of a wide range of pulmonary complaints, internal bleeding etc[4, 238, K]. The plant contains a substance called 'allantoin', a cell proliferant that speeds up the healing process
. This substance is now synthesized in the pharmaceutical industry and used in healing creams
. The root and leaves are anodyne, astringent (mild), demulcent, emollient, expectorant, haemostatic, refrigerant, vulnerary
. Some caution is advised, however, especially in the internal use of the herb. External applications and internally taken teas or tinctures of the leaves are considered to be completely safe, but internal applications of tablets or capsules are felt to have too many drawbacks for safe usage
. See also the notes above on toxicity. The leaves are harvested in early summer before the plant flowers, the roots are harvested in the autumn. Both are dried for later use
A homeopathic remedy is made from the fresh root, harvested before the plant flowers
. This has a very limited range of application, but is of great benefit in the treatment of broken bones and eye injuries
Seed - sow spring or autumn in a cold frame. When they are large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and grow them on in the greenhouse for their first winter. Plant them out into their permanent positions in late spring or early summer, after the last expected frosts. This is a hybrid species that does not usually produce seed.
If you have sufficient seed you can try an outdoor sowing in situ in the spring.
Division succeeds at almost any time of the year. Simply use a spade to chop off the top 7cm of root just below the soil level. The original root will regrow and you will have a number of root tops, each of which will make a new plant. These can either be potted up or planted out straight into their permanent positions.
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Tolerates most soils and situations but prefers a moist soil and some shade
. Grows well in heavy clay soils. Best grown in an open sunny site in a deep rich soil if it is being grown for compost material
Hardy to about -20°c.
A naturally occurring hybrid species (S. asperum x S. officinale), it does not set viable seed and so is not aggressive. The root system is very deep, fragments of root left in the soil can produce new plants. A number of named forms have been selected for their higher production of leaves.
Subject to attacks by the rust fungus, this can be alleviated by giving the plants a high potash feed, wood ashes are often used
Problems, pests & diseases
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Ayr State High School facts for kids
|Ayr State High School|
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|Location||82-90 Wickham Street, Ayr, Shire of Burdekin, Queensland, Australia|
|Design period||1919 - 1930s (interwar period)|
|Built||1935 - 1937|
|Architect||Department of Public Works (Queensland)|
|Official name: Ayr State High School, Ayr State High and Intermediate School|
|Type||state heritage (built)|
|Designated||13 January 1995|
|Significant period||1930s (historical)
1935 ongoing (social)
|Significant components||flagpole/flagstaff, roof/ridge ventilator/s / fleche/s, school/school room|
Ayr State High School is a heritage-listed state secondary school at 82-90 Wickham Street, Ayr, Shire of Burdekin, Queensland, Australia. It is one of two high schools in Ayr, the other being Burdekin Catholic High School. Ayr State High School was designed by Department of Public Works (Queensland) and built from 1935 to 1937. It was also known as Ayr State High and Intermediate School. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 13 January 1995.
The school has eleven buildings, including a fifty-seat auditorium and a multi-purpose shelter with a capacity of well over seven hundred for the school's 500 students.
In 2012 all students were given the chance to be issued with a take home laptop.
The school is run by Principal Craig Whitred and Deputy Principals Lesley Olsen and Andrea Aleksic. There are 67 full-time staff. The region the school operates in is run by Richard English.
Each year students compete in a wide variety of sporting competitions including a swimming and athletics competition. Because of the influx of students from year 7 the school has chosen to introduce a new sporting house. Sports houses include Banks (red), Macquarie (yellow), Philip (blue) and Cook (green), named after famous explorers in the region.
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The earliest building at Ayr State High School was erected in 1934-36 as the Ayr State High and Intermediate School, with an enrolment drawn from the wider Burdekin region. It was constructed during a period of unprecedented economic growth in Ayr, and ranks with the 1935 Court House, 1935 Masonic Hall and 1939 Tropix Theatre, as one of the more important interwar buildings in the town.
The Burdekin was first settled in the 1860s, and the town of Ayr was surveyed in 1882. The town grew in support of the increasing number of sugar plantations and small sugar growers establishing themselves in the Burdekin River region, and by the 1920s was the principal town in the district.
A primary school was established at Ayr in 1886, but until the late 1920s Burdekin children had no local access to secondary education. In 1913 the Ayr State School committee requested the provision of high school courses at the primary school, and in 1920 promoted the idea of a separate high school for Ayr. A secondary department, offering academic, commercial, domestic science and manual training subjects, was finally attached to Ayr State School in 1928.
In the early 1930s the local state school committee, encouraged by Ayr's unprecedented interwar growth and prosperity as a result of the expansion of the sugar industry, continued to put pressure on the Department of Public Instruction for the establishment of a high school. When the Department finally acquiesced, however, it was for a combined high and intermediate school, and there is some indication that an intermediate school only was considered at first. In fact, from 1925 until the late 1930s, Ayr State High School was the only new high school in the state, although several new secondary departments were established.
Intermediate schools, equipped with workshops, laboratories, and domestic science rooms, were established in principal Queensland towns after 1928. They reflected a fundamental change in Queensland education policy in the late 1920s, focussing on syllabus revision and the education of children over 11 years of age. In Brisbane, intermediate schools were established as separate institutions, but in country areas, they generally formed part of existing high schools. Intermediate schools catered for children 12–13 years of age, offering a two-year course as a link between primary and secondary education. Setting up new schools for a two-year course proved expensive, and the intermediate school concept was replaced in the 1940s and 1950s by multilateral high schools offering a variety of courses.
Plans for the Ayr Intermediate School (which opened as the Ayr State High and Intermediate School) were prepared in the Queensland Government Architect's office of the Department of Public Works in late 1934. The Chief Architect at this time was Andrew Baxter Leven (1885-1966). Leven was born, educated and worked as an Inspector of Works in Scotland before migrating to Australia. From 1910 to 1951 he was employed by the Queensland Government Works Department and was Chief Architect and Quantity Surveyor from 1933 to 1951. Other members of the office involved in the design were Frederick Thomas Jellett and Harold James Parr.
During the 1930s Depression a government initiated works scheme was established to create employment. This involved the employment of architects, foremen and day labourers, and the use of local materials in the design and construction of government buildings such as court houses, government offices and state schools. This scheme, under which the Ayr State High and Intermediate School was constructed, was instigated by Labor Premier Forgan Smith.
A site on the southern side of the town, a former Showground Reserve which was set aside as a high school reserve in 1921, was selected for the new high and intermediate school. The two-storeyed brick building was in progress by mid-1935, and was opened on 1 March 1937 with an enrolment of 77 students in the high school and 203 in the intermediate section. Construction had cost approximately £16,000, and when completed provided for a manual training section, store rooms, and a large concreted play area on the ground floor, and 8 classrooms, head teacher's office, staffrooms, entrance hall, cloakrooms, and domestic science section on the first floor.
The intermediate section ceased as such at the end of 1963, and since 1964 the school has functioned as the Ayr State High School.
Ayr State High School is an elevated brick school building with a corrugated iron roof which is topped with a ventilator and flagpole. The central entrance projects forward and on either side the classroom wings are connected by verandahs. The wings are one classroom wide so as to provide cross ventilation. The verandahs have arched arcading, which forms open play areas underneath. The detailing around arches is highlighted with stucco.
The grounds include large expanses of lawn and substantial shade trees.
Ayr State High School was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 13 January 1995 having satisfied the following criteria.
The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history.
Ayr State High School, erected in 1934-36, is significant as one of a group of substantial interwar buildings in Ayr, which illustrate the unprecedented era of prosperity accompanying the expansion of the sugar industry in the Burdekin region. The building also reflects the State Government's commitment to Ayr as a major regional centre in the interwar years.
Ayr State High School is evidence of the implementation of the Intermediate School system, experimented with by the Queensland Department of Public Instruction during the interwar years.
The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.
Ayr State High School is significant as an excellent regional example of a school building following the tradition of fine buildings erected by the Queensland Public Works Department. The use of brick and restrained classical detailing is typical for government buildings of the period.
It is also a good example of a building designed to accommodate the tropical North Queensland climate, being raised above an open undercroft; with wide verandahs and ventilators.
The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.
Ayr State High School is significant for its aesthetic quality in design and classical-inspired detailing, including the arched entrance and symmetrical layout with projecting central bay.
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