Learn how to carry out basic safety checks, mend a puncture, adjust and replace brake blocks and cables, and adjust gears. Bikes and equipment are provided.
Session 1 Safety check, clean and lubricate
• Check your bike to find out what needs adjusting and tighten some nuts and bolts on the way
• How tight is tight?
• Are you sitting comfortably? Make sure your saddle is at the correct height
• I’ll name that part in one – what are the bits on your bike called
• Identify that scraping sound
• Keeping it clean – learn how to keep your bike clean and correctly lubricated
• Under pressure – how to make sure that your tyres are correctly inflated
Session 2 Wheel, tyre and tube removal. Mending a puncture
• Rear wheel removal
• Quick release skewers and how they work
• Feeling tyred? How to get that tyre off and on again
• What caused it? How to find out how you got the puncture
• Mending a puncture
• Refitting the wheel
Session 3 Brake adjustment cables and blocks
• Stop in the name of love
• Why aren’t those brakes working?
• Cleaning and lubricating cables
• Indentifying your brakes and buying the right parts.
• Changing a brake cable
• Changing brake blocks
• Setting up your brakes correctly
Session 4 Gear adjustment
• How a derailleur works
• What do those little screws do?
• Setting up gears
• Checking compatibility
• Changing a gear cable
• Gear hangers
Bradford - BikeRight Workshop
We’re around a 15 minute walk from Bradford Interchange and Bradford Forster Square Train Station. Our workshop is at Accent Business Centre on Barkerend Rd, we are based half way down the site on the left hand side in an industrual unit - opposite the entrance to the site is 'S H Dad Solicitors' it has a purple shop front and is a good landmark to lookout for. When on Barkerend Road heading away from the city centre, please note that if you have made it to the handcar wash or roundabout then you have gone too far.
Dates & Times
Sat 22 Jun 2019, 10:00-16:00
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By Humphrey Carter BRITAIN has told Spain that it is willing to help cover the costs of hosting the forthcoming United Nations' Alliance of Civilisations summit here in Majorca.
BRITAIN WANTS TO HELP FINANCE MAJORCA SUMMIT
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- "It is a grave error not to listen to our foreign residents," said Mayor of Andratx
- Andratx to spend almost five million euros on demolition of Monport apartments

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The EUROX® measurement system for extractive measurements on tin baths can detect smallest amounts of oxygen and determine several characteristic values like the dew point temperature. The gas to be investigated is heated up and catalytically decomposed. After reaction the oxygen content is measured at equilibrium and converted.
Up to 8 measuring points along the tin bath can be observed and analysed with one EUROX® TB-System.
EUROX® TB-System includes a solenoid valve unit for switching between the connected measuring points and a measuring unit including an OM-4 multifunctional unit for evaluation, controlling and visualisation. The measuring system can be connected with the PLC, so controlling and visualisation can also be done via PLC.
Visualisation of EUROX® TB-System is done via visualisation unit of OM-4 and via PLC. Evaluation is also done via OM-4 multifunctional unit.
Adapted to the application and number of observed measuring points, all evaluated values are presented.
The following evaluations can be offered:
Dew point measuring in tin bath
The dewpoint temperature – based on an equilibrium of oxygen, hydrogen and water steam in the tin bath atmosphere – is calculated after measuring the oxygen content in the atmosphere.
Oxygen partial pressure measuring in tin bath
Also a HORN created key figure of the atmosphere based on the tin, oxygen and tin oxide is defined. This gives the controller a quick and scientifically sound statement about the overall state of the atmosphere and its effect on the tin bath.
The oxygen partial pressure in the tin bath atmosphere is measured and related to temperature dependent tin/tin-oxide equilibrium curves. This indicates the degree of oxidation of the tin bath surface.
The oxidation – state is defined as 1 on the tetravalent tin / tin oxide equilibrium curve. When the measured oxygen partial pressure is higher than the tetravalent equilibrium curve, then also the oxidation state is higher than 1.
Hydrogen in the atmosphere does not only reduce the oxygen in the atmosphere, it can also reduce tin oxide to tin and water. The quotient water to hydrogen is a measure of the potential of this reaction.
The water content in the atmosphere can be calculated and related to the H 2 content. So the Hydro
– State is defined. This indicates a reasonable range of the H 2 content, but also gives an indication about the water content in the tin bath and thus also about the dissolved water content in the liquid tin.
If the measured quotient is equal to the temperature dependent maximum, the state is by definition equal to one. If it is less, then it is less than 1.
All three characteristic values are compared according to their measurement location. If the dew point at the beginning of the tin bath indicates an air ingress, the oxidation - state shows that no significant oxidation of the tin bath takes place due to the high temperature in this area.
At the other end of the tin bath, however, the degree of oxidation is increased, which is mainly due to the low temperature.
However, the fact that the hydro-state is far below 1 in the entire tin bath shows that the protection of the liquid tin is given and could even be reduced somewhat, which would have a positive effect on the operating costs.
To avoid oxidation of the liquid tin in tin baths of float plants what would cause glass defects it is important to analyse and control the atmosphere in the tin bath. With the EUROX® TB-system up to 8 selected measuring points per measuring system along the tin bath can be monitored with just one sensor.
EUROX® sensors measure even at very low oxygen partial pressure. The gas to be investigated is heated up and catalytically decomposed. After reaction the oxygen content is measured at equilibrium and converted.


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Nature-Based Shore Projects
Typhoon Lionrock in 2016 was the first typhoon which attacked Tohoku area of Japan from the Pacific Ocean side in the observation history of Japan. This typhoon event caused big damages in Tohoku area with accompanying heavy rain. In order to investigate its effect on the coastal area, field observations was conducted on Sendai Coast soon after the typhoon passing. And also aerial photographs taken several times before and after the typhoon were analyzed to see its effect on the beach processes. The results of the investigations will be reported in this presentation.

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In Madhya Pradesh, popular classical music festival ‘Tansen Samaroh’ began with traditional style in Gwalior with the recitations of Harikatha and Milad. The 5-day festival is celebrated every year in the memory of one of the most eminent singers of Indian history, ‘Mian Tansen’.
Tansen Samaroh, the oldest and esteemed classical music festival in India is organised by Ustad Alauddin Khan Kala Evam Sangeet Academy, under the Madhya Pradesh culture department attracts thousands of musicians and aspiring singers from all over the country. It is the 95th year of the festival. Artistes from Greece, USA, Iran and Belgium will perform in different sessions of Tansen festival.
Noted vocalist Pandit Vidyadhar Vyas will be presented the National Tansen Award for 2019 today on the first day of Tansen Festival. Instituted by the Madhya Pradesh government, Tansen award carries a cash prize of Rs 2 lakh and is given to outstanding exponents of Hindustani classical music.
Static/Current Takeaways Important For IBPS SO 2019:
- Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh: Kamal Nath.
- Governor of Madhya Pradesh: Lal Ji Tandon.
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Accu-Weather meteorologists are asking Is America facing yet another dust bowl?
Accu-Weather.com meteorologists have warned oceanic conditions similar to those that triggered the ruinous “Dust Bowl” drought again appear to be in place. Conditions similar to those that led to 1930s drought.
The exceptionally warm Atlantic waters that played a major role in the record-breaking 2005 hurricane season, coupled with cooler-than-normal Pacific waters, are weakening and changing the course of a low-level jet stream that normally channels moisture into the Great Plains.
Effects are starting to be felt in “America’s breadbasket,” as the southern Great Plains region is already suffering from higher temperatures and a prolonged lack of precipitation.
Why could a new Dust Bowl drought occur?
The low-level jet stream — a fast-moving current of winds close to the Earth’s surface — travels from east to west across the Atlantic, then typically curves northward as it crosses the Gulf of Mexico, bringing moisture to the Great Plains.
Abnormal sea-surface temperatures have caused this low-level jet stream to continue westward and to weaken, which is preventing much-needed moisture from reaching the agriculturally critical region.
The shift in the jet stream is also allowing a southerly flow from Mexico to bring much drier air northward into the Plains.
Besides dramatically reducing precipitation for the region, the changes brought about by the abnormal sea-surface temperatures will also result in higher surface temperatures in the Plains.
“When surfaces are wet, energy from solar radiation both evaporates moisture and heats the ground,” said AccuWeather.com Chief Meteorologist Elliot Abrams. “When no moisture is present, all that energy is channeled toward heating the ground, and the warm-er ground heats the lower atmosphere.
“The combination of low moisture and higher temperatures would be a crippling one-two punch for the Great Plains should these conditions persist, much like what occurred during the Dust Bowl drought.”
The Dust Bowl drought
The Dust Bowl, which lasted from 1931-1939, was a severe drought that struck a wide swath of the Great Plains.
It was a catastrophic blow to the U.S. economy, which was already staggering under the weight of the Great Depression.
The Dust Bowl was the worst drought in U.S. history, eventually covering more than 75 percent of the country.
Solar radiation heating the parch-ed and blighted land caused temperatures in the region to rise to record-breaking levels.
“1936 was the hottest summer ever recorded across much of the Midwest and East,” said Abrams. “Many of the single-day and monthly record-high temperatures across the eastern two-thirds of the country are from that year.”
The Dust Bowl was also noted for the huge dust storms that billowed across the Great Plains and swallowed millions of acres of farmland at a time. While a Dust Bowl-level drought could occur again, it is highly unlikely that the nation will see a return of the dust storms.
“The dust storms fed off the over-plowed and over-grazed lands of the Great Plains,” said Dale Mohler, AccuWeather.com expert senior meteorologist and a forecaster for the agricultural industry.
“The agricultural practices at the time, combined with a long period of drought, caused severe damage to farmland in the region. Eventually the topsoil dried up to the point where it was swept away as great clouds of choking dust that stretched for miles.”
Continued Mohler, “Today’s agricultural practices, such as crop rotation and improved irrigation, as well as drought-resistant hybrid crops, would likely prevent the landscape from being as ruined as it was during the 1930s.
For example, Illinois endured a terrible drought in 2005, but the state’s corn yield was close to normal. However, a multiyear drought in the Great Plains would still be devastating for the nation.”
The hurricane connection
“It is not a coincidence that the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s were marked by years of tremendous hurricane activity,” said AccuWeather.com Hur-ricane Center Chief Forecaster Joe Bastardi.
“For example, the record-shattering 2005 hurricane season was the first to eclipse 1933 in number of tropical cyclones, and that may only have been because we didn’t have satellites in the 1930s to identify the major storms that failed to reach the U.S. coast.”
Hurricanes are fed by warm waters. This year’s warm Atlantic waters — which are now setting up a possible major drought in the U.S. — played a major role in the 2005 season’s numerous and powerful storms.
Conversely, because the Pacific has been relatively cool — another prerequisite for the return of a Dust Bowl-like drought — this year’s Pacific hurricane season was tame from historical perspective.
Added Bastardi, “While we cannot yet tell how long this current pattern will last, if you trust history, then the 2005 hurricane season just may portend the return of a major drought to the Great Plains.”
Drought Resistant Corn
Today’s corn and soybean crops however, are far more drought resistant than varieties even as recent as 10 years ago. Currently corn inventories are near record levels even in the face of last years’ mild drought.
An October 30th 2005 article in the DesMoines Register called Corn crop liked it hot states high yields prove today’s seeds tolerate drought far better than farmers ever expected.
Across the Corn Belt, farmers are finding that last year’s exceptional yields were no fluke. As they finish the fall harvest, many are reporting high-yielding corn and soybean crops — even in areas where excessive heat and prolonged dryness last summer diminished yield expectations.
View looking straight down on a huge corn pile in Jefferson.
Crop experts credit farm management practices, timely rains and luck for the production of what are expected to be the second-largest U.S. corn and soybean crops ever. For instance, farmers do far less tillage, which helps preserve soil moisture.
But growers, agronomists and market analysts also point to crop genetic improvements, particularly increased drought tolerance, as a key to this year’s unexpected bounty.
“There is no doubt that we have to thank the corn breeders for getting the kind of corn yields we have gotten this year, despite the drought,” said Palle Pedersen, an Iowa State University Extension agronomist.
Kan Wang, a plant molecular biologist at Iowa State in Ames, agreed that genetic improvements are the main contributor to increased yields. But she also said that corn’s full potential is much higher than today’s highest yields. One of the biggest barriers is environmental stress.
“The potential is there, but we are hampered by all of these factors we have no way to control,” said Wang, whose research includes the study of abiotic stresses, such as drought, on crops.
This fall, many farmers in eastern and southeastern Iowa, areas hit hard by drought last summer, have harvested dismal yields. But many also have seen wide variation, with some reporting corn yields of more than 150 bushels per acre. In Illinois, the epicenter of this year’s drought, the harvest has yielded similar reports. In addition, 2005 soybean yields surged past previous projections throughout the Midwest, especially in Iowa, where farmers have harvested their largest soybean crop ever, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Mark Carlton is an Iowa State Extension field crop specialist whose territory covers eight southeastern Iowa counties.
“I was totally surprised at the yields that were coming in, both corn and soybeans,” Carlton said. “I think corn hybrids are just bred to stand more stress than they were 15, 20 years ago.”
He had predicted that Henderson could expect to harvest 125 bushels per acre. But that was before early August, when rain fell on the farmer’s fields — about six inches over 10 days.
“That corn turned green after it rained,” Henderson said. “I don’t think I’d ever seen that — corn turning green after it had turned brown.”
Like many growers, Henderson credits genetic improvements with the crop’s performance.
“I think the genetics are the main thing,” he said. “If we were planting the same genetics we planted years ago, we probably wouldn’t have anything.”
Then again a one year drought that received some timely rain and a prolonged 5-6 drought just might be another thing altogether. If this is indeed the start of prolonged weather shift it will affect the hurricane states, gulf of Mexico gas and oil capacity, and it certainly will not help the drawdown of the water table in the central plains, Arizona, and Nevada.
Because farming practices are different, however, out and out dust bowl storms may not be likely. Nonetheless the economic consequences of a prolonged drought would no doubt increase tensions over water rights as well as call to question our practice of foolishly watering the desert to grow crops and golf courses where neither really belongs.
Hurricane Damage Predictions
MSNBC is reporting U.S. storm forecasters raise damage predictions.
Burned in 2005, modelers expect higher costs in coming years. After failing to predict how costly Hurricane Katrina would be last year, companies forecasting catastrophes are now saying U.S. damage from large storms will rise as much as 60 percent in some regions in coming years.
This boost in anticipated hurricane losses could also push the cost of insuring coastal areas much higher and have serious implications for the insurance industry.
“Some companies (buying insurance) may be stunned by how much rates will go up,” said James Auden, an insurance analyst with Fitch Ratings. Insurers are also seeking to raise premiums for home owners.
Storm modeler Risk Management Solutions said hurricanes could cause 50 percent more damage in the future.
Eqecat, another catastrophe forecaster, expects the storm loss potential for the Atlantic and Gulf coasts to rise by 20 percent to 30 percent and costs in Florida could surge 50 percent to 60 percent.
As expectations for losses rise, insurers will have to retain more capital to pay for them, said industry analysts.
Higher water temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere are expected to increase the number and size of storms for the next 10 or 15 years. At the same time, increased development of coastal areas is magnifying the damage when storms hit.
“We are increasing our view of the likelihood of severe hurricanes and the severity of the loss in the event of those hurricanes,” said Hemant Shah, chief executive of RMS.
Catastrophe ‘twice as likely’
Tom Larsen, senior vice president of Eqecat, said: “There’s no guarantee of a catastrophic event, but it is twice as risky as it was a year ago,” he said.
Hurricane Katrina, which caused the inundation of New Orleans, was the nation’s most costly disaster ever, with more than $40 billion of insured losses.
Prepare for Hurricanes
The US hurricane center chief says Prepare now for coming storms.
Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center, is warning coastal residents to prepare right now for the hurricane season that begins June 1.
The next season may be worse than the past two, which resulted in an increase in the number and intensity of hurricanes that hit U.S. shores. The reasons: a historic cycle, the advent of La Nina — unusually cold Pacific Ocean temperatures that spawn more hurricanes in the Atlantic — and, possibly, global warming or other environmental causes.
Mayfield’s team and the National Weather Service were the only federal agencies praised by a recent congressional report on the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina. “Many who escaped the storm’s wrath owe their lives to these agencies’ accuracy,” the report said.
Mayfield, 57, discusses the tragedy of Katrina and other extreme weather that may be coming.
Question: Hurricane Katrina has been called a 100-year storm, something so rare that it would only occur once a century. But could another Katrina develop soon?
Answer: Absolutely yes. And the message from the National Hurricane Center is very consistent. We are urging every individual, every business, every community to have a hurricane plan and have it in place now before the hurricane season gets here. Everybody on the Atlantic Coast, the Gulf Coast and the Caribbean.
Q: What about La Nina?
A: We don’t know yet. It’s too early to tell. La Nina means that we have more and stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic. We don’t know if (La Nina) is going to last into peak hurricane season yet.
Q: What happens if another hurricane hits the Gulf Coast?
A: There’s special concern now with the people living in Mississippi and southeast Louisiana. Many are living in trailers and tents. They’re going to need a longer lead time to evacuate. They need to know, those people who are in temporary housing, they need to know right now where they would go because another hurricane is very, very possible.
Are Hurricanes Related to Global Warming?
Environmental Magazine is asking Stormy Weather: Can We Link it to Global Warming?
E’s Jennifer Vogel took on the subject of global warming and hurricanes in the May/June issue this year: “’There are a number of factors that go into making hurricanes,’ says Ruth Curry, research specialist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Those factors include El Niño cycles, upper stratospheric circulation patterns and the amount of rainfall in the Sahel region of Africa. Sometimes they combine to create conditions ripe for hurricanes and sometimes they work against each other. The 2004 hurricane season is primarily attributed to alignment of these three critical elements.
“The general scientific consensus on climate change and hurricanes is this: Hurricanes won’t necessarily become more frequent, but they will become more intense. While ocean and atmospheric circulation is the engine of a hurricane, heat is the fuel. ‘In order to form, a hurricane must have ocean temperature of at least 80 degrees down to a depth of 164 feet,’ says Curry. ‘Sea surface temperatures all over the tropics are running 1.8 to 3.6 degrees above normal. This is due to global warming.’ Thus, when other factors line up to form a storm, a warmer ocean means it will be all the more powerful and destructive.”
And that is indeed what some scientists are now saying (though others remain skeptical). Katrina was one of the strongest hurricanes ever encountered in the Gulf of Mexico, and it wasn’t alone. A study in the July issue of Nature reported that large tropical storms have increased by 50 percent in both the Atlantic and Pacific over the past 30 years. “These have been linked to rises in the temperatures of the ocean surfaces and warmer air temperatures,” said the Times of London’s online edition.
Kerry Emmanuel, an atmospheric researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the author of the Nature paper, told Scripps Howard News Service this week, “The intensity of hurricanes depends both on how much heat can be transferred from the ocean to the atmosphere—which depends on the temperature of the ocean—and on how high air rising in the eyewall can go. This depends on the temperature profile of the atmosphere.” Emmanual added, “Future warming may lead to an upward trend in tropical cyclone destructive potential, and, taking into account an increasing coastal population [also] lead to a substantial increase in hurricane-related losses in the 21st century.”
NOAA simulations indicate that global warming over the next 80 years could increase hurricane wind speeds an average of five to 10 percent, which means a jump of half a category in hurricane-intensity measurement. According to the Los Angeles Times, “Hurricane activity in the Atlantic has been higher than normal in nine of the last 11 years, said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. [In August], the agency raised its already-high hurricane forecast for this year to 18 to 21 tropical storms, including as many as 11 that would become hurricanes and five to seven that would reach major-hurricane status. That could make 2005 one of the most violent hurricane seasons ever recorded. A typical storm year in the Atlantic results in six hurricanes.”
The behavior of the jet stream is also seen as a key factor in exacerbating the effects of storms. Wayne Elliott, a forecaster in the Meteorological Office in Exeter, England, notes that the stream did not come as far south as it was expected to do last fall, resulting in drought in Iberia and an unsettled northern Europe. “Such behavior is consistent with predictions by scientists who argue the climate is changing,” Elliott said. “Global warming could be the key.”
There have been a series of unusual weather events in the U.S., too. In a Boston Globe op-ed piece, Boiling Point author Ross Gelbspan wrote that anomalies this year included a two-foot snowfall in Los Angeles, a severe drought in the Midwest that dropped water levels in the Missouri River to their lowest on record, and a lethal heat wave in Arizona that killed more than 20 people in one week with temperatures over 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
“The hurricane that struck Louisiana yesterday was nicknamed Katrina by the National Weather Service,” Gelbspan wrote. “Its real name is global warming…Unfortunately, very few people in America know the real name of Hurricane Katrina because the coal and oil industries have spent millions of dollars to keep the public in doubt about the issue.”
Space Daily reports Envisat Detects La Nina Beginning
The Pacific as observed by ESA’s satellite Envisat on 19th February 2006.
Shifts [in global atmospheric circulation patterns] will affect the position and weaken the intensity of the global jet streams and the behavior of storms occurring beyond the tropics in both hemispheres. There should be a summer decrease in hurricane activity in the eastern tropical North Pacific, and a corresponding increase in the number of hurricanes in the tropical North Atlantic.
Whether or not one chooses to believe global warming is the culprit, there is a reasonable amount of evidence to suggest that another bad hurricane season is coming up along with a summer drought in the crop belt. Insurance rates seem to be headed higher in the Florida condo belt. That will certainly not help the horrendous negative cash flows on rental properties in the hurricane zone, nor will dust bowls or drought help real estate values in the desert. Most of the public it seems does not like golfing in a continuous sand trap. How well crop yields hold up is another factor.
Then again predictions are one thing what happens is another.
I leave you with Mark Twain: On Weather and Climate.
Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) has often been quoted as saying: “Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.” (although it appears his collaborator on The Gilded Age, Charles Dudley Warner, actually wrote the statement).
Mike Shedlock / Mish/


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There's no doubt nurses work long hours doing challenging work. And based on a recent survey, this scheduling is starting to take its toll on nurses, patients and the healthcare system. A new survey titled "Nurse Staffing Strategy," commissioned by Kronos Inc. and conducted by HealthLeaders Media, revealed nurse fatigue is pervasive in the healthcare industry and may negatively impact quality care delivery, patient and employee satisfaction and operational costs.
Sixty-nine percent of healthcare professionals surveyed said fatigue had caused them to feel concern over their ability to perform during work hours. Even more alarming, nearly 65% of participants reported they had almost made an error at work because of fatigue and more than 27% acknowledged they had actually made an error resulting from fatigue.
And a study in the January/February 2011 issue of Nursing Research even linked nurses' work schedules with patient mortality.
This is obviously a big problem. So, how can nurses and healthcare systems address this fatigue problem? Perhaps one thing that should be examined is the 12-hour shift. Shorter time doing demanding work could reduce the amount of nursing fatigue and all that might come with it.
The ANA has created a position statement for employers to consider when addressing the challenge of nursing fatigue.
As it's noted, "it is the position of the American Nurses Association that all employers of registered nurses should ensure sufficient system resources to provide the individual registered nurse in all roles and settings with:
"1. a work schedule that provides for adequate rest and recuperation between scheduled work; and
"2. sufficient compensation and appropriate staffing systems that foster a safe and healthful environment in which the registered nurse does not feel compelled to seek supplemental income through overtime, extra shifts, and other practices that contribute to worker fatigue."
As reimbursement from public and private sources increasingly hinges on quality of care, nurses' work environment should not continue to be overlooked as a key factor in patient outcomes.
How does your facility address nurse fatigue in the workplace?

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GLOBAL ONE NEWS — India has launched its newest and what it called the “most powerful” satellite-carrying rocket into space.
The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mk III made its orbital flight on Nov. 14 from a space center in Sriharikota.
Carrying a 3,423 kg (7,546 pounds) GSAT-29 communication satellite, the GSLV Mk III successfully placed the spacecraft into orbit.
The satellite features telescope and other specialized devices that will help investigate and monitor future geostationary missions. It is designed to work for 10 years.
Compared to its previous version, the 43.4 meters and 640 tons GSLV Mk III rocket boasts the ability to haul double payloads.
After the successful liftoff, India is set to launch another spacecraft – the Chandrayaan-2 lunar lander — for its second robotic mission in January 2019.


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I mean. Celebs have so much money that they could retire now even if they are young and not to worry about working again, they have enough money to live well with theri families even in anotehr country if they desire, unless the celeb is very disorganized with their own money that they spend the money too fast too soon and end up with nothing.
So a friend of mine asked me this one day thta we were talking about the huge ridiculous salaries some celebs earn (even if some do nto deserve to earn thAt much cause they are not even good actors). So she was saying. These actors acting is theri job their profession what they do to bring money and food to them and to theri families, unless they have a second job but who knows. So if they always have a lot of money on their pockets accumulated for years, why the heck they want to keep acting, they are already millionaires. I mean unless they have so much LOVE (not love for the $$) for acting they will keep doing it for many years, even if they do nto get paid.
I mean some celebs has so much money that it is common knowledge they spend it sometimes in the most ridiculous, lame things out there because they do not even know how to spend their money on, like they dont think throughly or in a smart way. But there are others who spend wisely theri money and invest.

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Billy Bragg - Bloke On Bloke
NME.COM feature on Billy Bragg - Bloke On Bloke album including album review, artwork, tracks, listen now, tour dates, discography and more.
Release date: 30 November 1996
Tracklisting click track to read more
- Smokey Gets In Your Ears Mix /
- Never Had No One Ever
- Rule nor Reason
- The Boy Done Good
Pinko veteran's cosy rants ...
- Mar 26, 2002
Inevitably, it seems a bit like a Socialist Worker's conference...
- Dec 4, 2000
Reclaiming the protest song from the clammy paws of po-faced obsolescence, [a]Billy Bragg[/a] has proven Britain's most consistently relevant social soundtracker....
- Sep 27, 1999
'Handyman Blues' features Phill Jupitus, Stewart Lee, Neil Morrissey, Ross Noble, Kevin Eldon and more
Bragg is the latest figure to criticise Di Canio's appointment
100 acts added to the Brighton festival line-up today
Artist/Album artwork images hosted by Last.fm. For copyright enquiries please see here.


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Today is the Great American Smokeout and Marion County Public Health Tobacco Education and Prevention Coordinator Jess Clark wants to encourage smokers to think about ways to quit.
Last year, smokers made up 18 percent of the Marion County population. Clark says there’s a large number of students in Marion County middle schools who are using tobacco products, including vape pens and e-cigarettes.
Clark encourages smokers of all ages to go to the Quitline Iowa website or call 1-800-QUIT-NOW for smoking cessation tools and tips. The program is free. Students between the ages of 13 and 18 also can participate in the program for free and anonymously.

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HipHop Karaoke DC
Friday, September 4, 2015 from 5:30 PM to 10:00 PM (EDT)
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
When the word "karaoke" is mentioned, most people think "tv monitors, bouncing balls, and corny music.” THIS IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL KARAOKE
Instead it is a celebration of classic hip-hop that allows music lovers to express themselves in a unique way and most importantly- HAVE FUN!!!
We supply the stage, original instrumentals, dj, and even a hype man. All thats left is for you to come up and rock the mic!!!!
COVER: Free before 7:00 w/ RSVP / $5 After
NO DRESS CODE
SIGN UP AT 9pm
Hosted by: P-Moon
Music by: DJ Reets, DJ 2-Tone Jones

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KUALA LUMPUR, AUG 19: DAP Parliamentary Leader Lim Kit Siang has called for a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into claims that there was a coup to topple the top leadership of the nation.
Lim at a press conference here today said an RCI of what he termed Malaysian elders should probe whether there was really an attempted coup to topple Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, which was a claim made by BN Strategic Communications Director Abdul Rahman Dahlan in a recent interview.
“I call for an RCI on whether there was an attempted ‘coup’ to topple Najib as Prime Minister, the sacking of Gani Patail as Attorney General, the sacking of the Deputy Prime Minister, the arrest and harassment of top government officials and whether they were related to the twin scandals of 1Malaysia Development Berhad and RM2.6 billion in Najib’s personal accounts,” said Lim.
Lim proposed the RCI to comprise of former Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Badawi, former Chief Justice Tun Dzaiddin, former Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Tun Hanif Omar, former Attorney-General (AG) Abu Talib Othman, and other top civil servants.
Lim’s call comes om the heels of a contentious article published on The Star Online on Sunday, which reported allegations made by Abdul Rahman that the government had to employ “pre-emptive steps” to protect Najib from being “criminalised”.
The “pre-emptive” measures were used to justify the recent cabinet reshuffle that impeded the investigation of Public Accounts Committee (PAC), removal of Gani, and the arrest of Malaysia Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officials.
Rahman Dahlan, however, later defended himself by saying that he was merely enumerating the “conspiracy theories” shrouding the1MDB scandal and Najib.
He also added that the story had been “twisted” and urged the opposition to “re-read” it.
Najib has come under intense scrutiny in the aftermath of revelations that some RM2.6 billion were channeled into his personal accounts prior to the general elections in 2013. An investigation by a special task force was set up, which was derailed when Gani was removed.
Lim said Abdul Rahman has put on an “outstanding performance as a strategic communications director”, stating that so far the latter had committed several public relation mistakes, such as using “discredited tales” told by Sarawakian editor Lester Melanyi, coining the term “criminalise Najib” and the disastrous The Star interview.
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PRANAYAMA = Prana (breath/life force) + Ayama (extention).
Pranayama is the fourth of Ashtanga Yoga, also known as The Eight Limbs of Yoga. Pranayama is an ancient breath technique that originates from yogic practices in India. It involves controlling your breath in different styles and lengths. Pranayama is regarded as a science. It’s believed that you can control the power of your mind by regulating your breath.
Three phases. A pranayama cycle has three phases: Puraka, or inhalation, Kumbhaka, or retention, Rechaka, or exhalation
When we are able to extend our Prana/life force, we will be able to extend our life span. How do we control our Prana? Through our breaths.
Normal respiration rates for an adult person at rest range from 12 to 16 breaths per minute. But when we are being mindful with our breaths, we only need to breathe 4 to 10 breaths per min, which is defined as slow breathing.
Pranayama uses the simple science of “conscious breathing”. Our body has its own way of dealing with stress (both emotional and physical). Stressful situations tend to trigger our body’s stress reactions which, in turn, affect our mind and body in different ways. The system of ‘Fight or Flight Responses’ is automatically triggered when we are faced with emotional or physical stressors. Our bodies can't differentiate when we are being chased by a tiger, or when we are being late to get to the office. Our first line of defense against stressors from the environment is the process that is initiated by the Parasympathetic Nervous System. The stressors stimulate the vagus nerve in the parasympathetic nervous system that runs from the base of the brain all the way to the abdomen. Two of the most important things that this nerve does is – manage the nervous system responses and reduce the heart rate. A neurotransmitter called acetylcholine is released from the vagus nerve that plays an important role in lowering anxiety by increasing focus and calmness. Therefore, the more you are able to stimulate the vagus nerve, the more acetylcholine is released, which in turn lowers the anxiety levels. According to the ancient Yogic text, there is an intimate relationship between breathing and brain function. Both functions are, in a way, mutually dependent.
Here’s a simpler way to understand this process. When we are stressed, nervous, anxious, or scared, our body dives into survival mode also known as the Flight or Fight Response and diverts all our physical and mental activities toward the stressful situation and the corresponding reactions to make sure that we get out of the threatful situation unharmed. In these times you may experience an increased heart rate, faster breathing, and a sudden release of stress hormones. These are the body’s natural way of reacting to stressors or stressful situations and it also has their own way of calming the nerves as well. Now, these changes or bodily responses are survival instincts and are crucial in times of life-threatening situations. They determine how well-adapted we are to deal with the problems that we face in our daily lives and also make sure that once learned, we can do so the next time.
However, these responses can occur even during minor stressful situations where it is simply unnecessary, but we as humans, have the capacity to initiate an opposite response to help us calm down when we don’t need unnecessary stress, and that can be established with the help of Pranayams. As mentioned earlier, it links the brain to the breathing process and hands us the leash to control the production and excretion of the hormone that is associated with stress.
Benefits of Pranayama
Cognitive function (multiple mental abilities, including learning, thinking, reasoning, remembering, problem-solving, decision making, and attention). Both slow and fast kinds of pranayama can help improve your cognitive functions. Studies show that fast pranayama in particular can help to improve auditory and sensory-motor skills.
Lung capacity. Practicing pranayama can help improve lung function. This includes helping you hold your breath longer and increasing strength in your respiratory muscles. Pranayama has the potential to help with all sorts of lung issues. It may aid recovery from pneumonia and strengthen lungs that suffer from asthma.
Quit smoking. Speaking of lung health, the breathing techniques in pranayama can help to cut cravings if you want to quit smoking.
Mindfulness. Much like the more popular forms of yoga, pranayama can increase mindfulness. Its meditative method of breath focus and awareness can aid your ability to live in the present moment.
Stress and emotional regulation. Pranayama’s ability to improve mindfulness has also been found to lower stress and aggression among students taking particularly stressful exams. Pranayama’s focus on breathing and relaxation may alter the levels of stress molecules.
Anxiety. Pranayama can significantly lower anxiety levels and any negative feelings associated with it. Regular pranayama practice can help with anxiety. It can also improve areas of mental focus that are often affected by it such as awareness and attention. Just one session can help you noticeably reduce anxiety.
Reduce hypertension. Bee breath pranayama and chanting may help reduce hypertension or high blood pressure. The benefits of such stress reduction include reducing the chance of various conditions, such as strokes, peripheral vascular disease, and coronary heart disease.
Psychosomatic disorders. Psychosomatic disorders are diseases involving both the body and mind. Some psychosomatic diseases include migraine headaches, ulcers, and psoriasis. By joining the body and mind through the breath, pranayama may help manage these.
The practice of Pranayama is to be done on an empty stomach, ideally 3-3.5 hours after your last meal, also to be done after Asana, and before Meditation.

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SVM-based Transfer of Visual Knowledge Across Robotic Platforms
2007 (English)In: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS’07), Applied Computer Science Group, Bielefeld University, Germany , 2007Conference paper (Refereed)
This paper presents an SVM-based algorithm for the transfer of knowledge across robot platforms aiming to perform the same task. Our method exploits efficiently the transferred knowledge while updating incrementally the internal representation as new information is available. The algorithm is adaptive and tends to privilege new data when building the SV solution. This prevents the old knowledge to nest into the model and eventually become a possible source of misleading information. We tested our approach in the domain of vision-based place recognition. Extensive experiments show that using transferred knowledge clearly pays off in terms of performance and stability of the solution.
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Applied Computer Science Group, Bielefeld University, Germany , 2007.
Computer and Information Science
IdentifiersURN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-66430ISBN: 978-3-00-020933-8OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-66430DiVA: diva2:484006
QC 201201312012-01-312012-01-262012-01-31Bibliographically approved


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