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TORONTO, Feb. 27, 2012 /CNW/ - Canuc Resources Corporation ("Canuc" or the "Company") (TSXV:CDA) is pleased to provide an update on exploration at the Mill Village gold property located outside of Liverpool, Nova Scotia. The property consists of 31 claims (496 hectares) covering the former historical Gold Eagle and Thompson Mines and several other reported gold occurrences associated with quartz veining within the Meguma Terrane of the north-eastern Appalachians.
Geochemical work, prospecting and mapping on the property has continued under the supervision of Hudgtec Consulting Limited ("Hudgtec") of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. To date, 464 B-horizon soils, 82 rock samples and 72 C-Horizon bulk till samples have been collected on the property. SGS Canada Inc. ("SGS") located in Toronto, Ontario is performing routine geochemical analyses on the soil and rock samples while Overburden Drilling Management Limited ("ODM") is conducting counts and descriptions on gold grains which have been recovered from the till samples.
To date, results have been received for 100% of the soil, 85 % of the rock samples and approximately 35 % of the bulk till samples.
Exploration work has been focused on the west end of the claim group around the Hornet Grid and the 667 Grid which hosts the reported high-grade Goddard gold occurrence. A diamond drill program is being planned for May or June of 2012 to test both of these targets.
Recent prospecting and bulk till sampling activities have also been carried out in the central portions of the property, north, south and west of the historic Gold Eagle Mine.
The Hornet Grid area is located approximately 600 and 1000 meters west-northwest of the historic Thompson and Gold Eagle Mines respectively. Results to date from the Hornet Grid indicate that the geology in this area may be conducive to the development of a bulk mineable, sediment-hosted or quartz fissure / stockwork style gold deposit. No drilling has been previously reported from this area.
Canuc's results show low to moderate levels of gold in soil to a maximum of 512 ppb covering an area of approximately 250 by 100 meters that appears to be associated with the intersection of a 50-100 meter wide VLF-EM conductor and a distinct NW-trending break that is best represented in the reprocessed, 1980's era VLF-EM data.
Soils near this intersection area are also enriched in tungsten (W) and arsenic (As) to a maximum of 127 W and 2370 ppm As, respectively. Patterns for all three of these elements are slightly different and appear to somewhat overlap each other, with the anomalous gold values occurring closer to the intersection area. Previous explorers have reported panning gold from the till as well as gold and tungsten values in quartz samples in the area up to 530 ppb and 2820 ppm respectively.
Limited bulk till samples (n=6) and rock analyses (n=8) by Canuc in the intersection area have yet to return any significant results although rock analyses are still pending from SGS on recently discovered, mineralized (arsenopyrite and pyrrhotite) argillite and quartz samples on the south side of the intersection area near the edge of a northeast-trending swamp. The angular, mineralized argillite sample is located just south of this area and therefore may be related to the target horizon defined by the VLF-EM conductor.
Future work planned for the Hornet Grid consists of IP Surveying on 50m spaced lines in order to refine the target area, and diamond drilling which is being planned for May or June of this year.
Results to date on the 667 Grid at the west end of the district indicate this area has the potential to host narrow vein, bedding-parallel and/or extensional quartz fissure veins typical of gold occurrences located further east on the property and in other gold districts within the South-western Meguma Terrane.
The 667 grid is located approximately 500 metres south of the Hornet grid and covers the Goddard occurrence, an area highlighted by extensive quartz boulders, historic pits and trenches all reportedly associated with native gold occurrences. No drilling has been previously reported from this area.
As with the Hornet grid, northwest trending fault (s) interpreted from a VLF-EM survey crosscut the stratigraphic northeast trend and appear to be associated with increased tungsten and arsenic levels in soils. Two 350 - 450 metre long, sporadic, gold in soil anomalies appear to follow weak, northeast trending VLF-EM conductors. The soil anomalies are locally bisected by an interpreted, main northwest trending fault. Southwest of this fault, quartz and old prospecting pits are associated with the anomalies while northeast of the fault, pits and quartz are noticeably absent near the gold in soil anomalies. Maximum gold values in soils along these two trends peak at 347 ppb Au. Elevated tungsten levels in soils to 13 ppm also occur a short distance northwest of the northern gold in soil trend immediately adjacent to the northwest fault. The best rock analyses from recent prospecting activities in this area returned 178 ppb Au and 319 ppm W.
The 2 main anomalous soil trends do not appear to be associated with the Goddard occurrence as most of the soils in this area are not anomalous. Two relatively isolated highs of 177 and 629 ppb Au, separate from the 2 trends noted above do, however, occur approximately 125m east-southeast of this occurrence. Overburden depths are reported to be in the 5-10 meter range at the Goddard occurrence.
Future work planned for the 667 Grid consists of IP Surveying on 50m spaced lines in order to better refine the target area, and diamond drilling which is planned for May or June of this year.
Seventy two bulk, 10kg till samples have been taken across the property to date to explore for new gold occurrences, to help characterise gold dispersion trains associated with the historic mines and to provide information for refining drill target selection at the Hornet and 667 Grids.
Results have been received for the first 25 samples, primarily from a line of tills running northwest to southeast through the Fairbanks and Gold Eagle Mines. Gold grain counts received to date are relatively low with 20 to 25 samples reporting total counts of between 0 and 5 grains. Two till samples appear to be anomalous with counts of 34 and 70 grains. The former till sample appears associated with the western extension of the known mines while the latter 70 grain count sample occurs approximately 300 meters down ice of the Gold Eagle Mine. This sample also contained 28 pristine gold grains and is located along a relatively unexplored, weak VLF-EM conductor that is within 100 meters of another apparent northwest break in the VLF-EM. Gold counts from 4 till samples, located up ice of this sample in the direction of the Gold Eagle only averaged 4 gold grains and preliminary interpretations indicate this is either dispersion coming to surface from the Gold Eagle or perhaps a new gold occurrence. Limited soil and rock analyses received from the Gold Eagle Area do not show similar levels of tungsten and arsenic as those seen or reported to date from the western areas of the property.
In addition to the work being conducted on the ground, a more detailed review of historical drill core from the Gold Eagle - Thompson Areas is underway at the provincial facility in Stellarton, Nova Scotia. The previous drill holes, completed from 1979 to 1984, are being examined and additional historic core samples will be analysed. Additional descriptive and compilation work related to rock types from the bulk till samples is also underway to help in further defining targets on the property.
"I am very pleased with the exploration results to date, especially in the unexplored western portion of the property where the Hornet and 667 grids are located. We look forward to drilling these recently identified anomalies in May or June of this year" said Gary Lohman, P. Geo., President & CEO of Canuc Resources Corporation.
Mr. Bruce Hudgins, P. Geo is the designated Qualified Person pursuant to National Instrument 43-101 of the Canadian Securities Administrators for this press release and has reviewed and approved the technical and scientific disclosure contained herein.
Canuc is a junior mining company with its principal exploration properties located in Ecuador and Nova Scotia. Canuc's main holding is an approximate 85% interest in the Nambija Gold deposit located in south-eastern Ecuador. According to records obtained from the Central Bank of Ecuador, it is estimated that, to date, nearly 3 million ounces of gold have been produced using the most primitive of mining and milling recovery processes from the Nambija area.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy of this release.
This news release contains forward-looking statements that include risks and uncertainties. When used in this news release, the words "estimate", "project", "anticipate", "expect", "intend", "believe", "hope", "may" and similar expressions, as well as "will", "shall" and other indications of future tense, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and apply only as of the date on which they were made. The factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in such forward-looking statements include changes in the prevailing price of gold, the Canadian-United States exchange rate, grade of ore mined and unforeseen difficulties in mining operations that could affect revenues and production costs. Other factors such as uncertainties regarding government regulations could also affect the results. Other risks may be set out in Annual Reports.
For further information:
Gary Lohman, President & CEO
Chris Chadder, CFO

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Do we have a good one for you today – the Lenovo Moto Z Force takes on the Honor 8. Two of China’s giants in electronics battle it out in our comparison test. The Moto Z Force is a solid, all-metal device that can add Moto Mods – a modular attachment that enhances the Z Force’s capabilities – and Moto’s attention to specifications. The Honor 8 is reminiscent of the Galaxy S6 lines and construction with 2.5D glass used on the front and back and all wrapped up with a metal frame. Both devices are the definition of a flagship device. Let’s look at just what these two devices have in common, if anything, and then we will take a closer look at each one in hopes that we can determine a winner of this comparison.
There are not many specifications these two devices have in common. The display on the Moto Z Force is slightly larger that makes the physical dimensions larger as well as adding 10 grams to its weight. They both use an AMOLED display, but the resolution is different. They both use top-notch processors but from a different company. They both pack 4GB of DDR4 RAM and 32GB of expandable memory. The camera areas are designed differently, yet each produces excellent photos. Both have a non-removable battery with rapid charge capabilities. They each have a fingerprint sensor for unlocking the device or authorizing mobile payments. The Moto Z Force and Honor 8 have the usual suspects – WiFi, Bluetooth (v4.1 on the Moto Z Force and v4.2 on the Honor 8,) GPS, NFC, and the new Type-C reversible port for charging and data transfer.
Please take a careful look at the detailed Specifications Comparison chart below and here you will see just how these two great devices stack up against one another – click on the “View Full Comparison” link at the end of the chart to expand the details. After that, we will look at each device in greater depth and point out some of its pros and cons. From all of this information, we will try to determine the winner based on specs and execution of design and functions.
Lenovo Moto Z Force
Many people were afraid when Lenovo purchased Motorola’s smartphone division from Google. They were worried what Lenovo would do with their precious Motorola brand. It seems that we can rest assured that Moto is in good hands based on their latest Moto Z offering. The prices are higher, but then Moto customers are just not used to seeing a Moto smartphone with such high specs and high camera quality. The higher end Moto Z Force has a large battery, the ShatterShield display, a terrific camera, and the ability to add Moto Mods. The Moto Z Force is an all-metal design with a solid build, and it gives you the choice of using it ‘as-is’ or with a Mod.
The Moto Z Force sports a 5.5-inch AMOLED QHD display with a resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels and 535 pixels-per-inch (PPI.) The screen uses Moto’s ShatterShield technology that is a 5-layer design that protects breakage of the screen. Lenovo used the best processor it could by incorporating the Snapdragon 820 quad-core with dual cores clocked at 1.6GHz and dual cores clocked at 2.15GHz. Qualcomm coupled this to an Adreno 530 GPU to handle the most intense graphics you can find. The Z Force packs 4GB of DDR4 RAM and offers 32GB of the faster UFS 2.0 internal memory that is expandable via a microSD card.
For its primary camera, Moto Z Force uses a 21MP sensor with a large aperture of f/1.8, laser and phase detection autofocus (PDAF), a dual-tone flash, and OIS. A 5MP front-facing camera (FFC) with an f/2.2 aperture and a LED flash is used for selfies and video chatting. A large 3500mAh non-removable battery provides the power, and the Moto Z Force comes with one of the fastest chargers available. It can charge the Moto Z Force battery up to 50-percent in only 20 minutes. A $90 Moto Mod will increase the battery by 2200mAh and can even add wireless charging capabilities as well.
Currently, the Moto Z Force is a Verizon exclusive, which will make some people happy and others wince. Another unusual point is that the Moto Z Force does not have a 3.5mm earphone jack. It handles headphones via an adapter (provided with the phone) that plugs into the USB Type-C reversible port to accept earphones. This setup does produce a better sound, but you have to remember to carry around an adapter or switch to using a Bluetooth headset. Another significant factor is that it can utilize Moto Mods that can add features to your device. It also serves to add custom covers for the back to help personalize its looks. It measures in at 155.9 x 75.8 x 7mm and weighs in at 163 grams. It comes in four colors – Black/Gray, Black/Rose Gold, Black/Gold, and White with pricing at $720 exclusively on Verizon.
Huawei is making quite a name for itself in the smartphone market, especially after its rendition of the Nexus 6P last year. The Honor 5 was introduced earlier this year and has sold quite well. The Honor 8 is its replacement, and by all accounts, it looks to be another winner. You can only purchase the Honor 8 online, through Best Buy, or at B&H Photo’s website, which is Huawei’s way of attracting the millennial market. The Honor 8 is a beauty and true flagship in every sense of the word. It has glass on the front and the back of the device with a metal frame holding it all together. It comes in a little small at 5.2-inches, but many still like that sweet spot for smartphones. Just how does this $400 flagship stand up to the new Moto Z Force?
The Honor 8 sports a 5.2-inch AMOLED Full HD display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and a very respectable 423 PPI. Huawei decided to use their HiSilicon Kirin 950 octa-core processor, with one quad-core clocked at 1.8GHz and the other quad-core clocked at 2.3GHz. It uses a powerful Mali-T880 MP4 GPU for graphics.
Huawei decided to use two 12MP sensors for its primary camera functions. They are supported with laser autofocus, a dual-toned LED flash, and an aperture of f/2.2. The FFC is a large 8MP with a f/2.4 aperture for taking selfies and video chatting. It packs a 3000mAh non-removable battery with their Smart Power 4.0 technology for fast battery charging.
The Honor 8 packs DTS sound for listening through the earphones. The rear-mounted fingerprint sensor also acts as a Smart Key that can be programmed to function with one or two pushes – it can open an app, or turn on your flashlight, among other things. The Honor 8 measures 145.5 x 71 x 7.5mm and weighs in at 153 grams. It is running Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow and can be purchased in Pearl White, Midnight Black, Sapphire Blue, and Gold. It will cost you about $400 online and is an excellent value for what you are receiving.
…And The Winner Is…
The Final Word
This is tough decision to make, but I am declaring the Moto Z Force as the winner in this comparison. The only place it loses is in pricing while excelling with a larger, QHD display, ShatterShield screen, nano-coating for water resistance, larger battery, Turbo Charging, and the addition of Moto Mods.
While the Moto Z Force is a Verizon exclusive, the Honor 8 only works on the AT&T or T-Mobile network – an advantage or disadvantage depending what network you prefer.
The Honor 8 is an excellent smartphone at a very competitive price, and it may be exactly what you are looking for in a smartphone. The Moto Z Force is as good or better in all areas and offers the flexibility of Moto Mods, but it does cost $300 more. Only you can determine if its extra features are worth it to you.


Common mini PC vendor Zotac has launched the ZBox PI430AJ, the primary gadget we’ve come throughout that makes use of the AirJet, a solid-state energetic cooler, from Frore Programs. The tiny PC, which was unveiled at Computex, has a retail worth of $499 and makes use of two AirJet Mini cooling chips to chill an Intel Core i3-N300MHz CPU with a 7W TDP (and eight effectivity cores), 8GB of LPDDR5 RAM however no SSD; this can be a barebone system aimed squarely at companies.
The chip shouldn’t endure from any throttling, the sudden drop in efficiency as a result of reducing speeds brought on by rising chip temperatures, regardless of the tiny measurement (115 x 76 x 22 mm) of the chassis. This makes it an excellent selection for edge-case eventualities (e.g. digital signage, electronics POS, embedded).
The Professional model can dissipate as much as 10.5W whereas consuming 1.75W whereas the Mini model presents a bit much less efficiency (which might be why Zotac wanted two of them). The ultimate product shouldn’t be solely close to silent (rated 25dbA at 50cm), additionally it is gentle and skinny (lower than 3mm thick), permitting for quicker processors to work with out throttling in thinner type elements. It’s also much less liable to mechanical failure as a result of mud as a result of its intrinsic properties.
Higher than a heatsink fan
Not like its predecessors, the PI430AJ resembles a conventional mini PC with loads of connectors (USB 3.2, USB-C, an audio jack, DisplayPort, HDMI and Ethernet port) plus a microSD card slot and a VESA mount. There’s no passive heatsink fins protruding; Zotac says that the gadget will be configured with as much as 16GB reminiscence and a 1TB NVMe SSD. Take a look at the additional protection at The Verge with footage of the AirJet mini in motion and this video from PCWorld’s Gordon Mah with a fast hands-on with the Zotac PI430AJ.
Frore Programs has acquired greater than $100 million from a flurry of expertise giants together with the likes of Intel and Qualcomm to assist develop cooling expertise for elements which are dissipating extra warmth than ever earlier than. There’s a fairly descriptive doc (PDF) that explains how the expertise – which has been explored for the reason that 1990’s – works. The floor of the chip basically vibrates at tremendous excessive frequencies in a single path in such a means that it strikes air from one path to a different.
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- Can acid reflux cause intestinal problems?
- Can acid reflux cause loose stools?
- How do you calm stomach acid?
- How can I harden my stool?
- Can omeprazole worsen IBS?
- What are the symptoms of too much acid in your stomach?
- What are the best things to drink when you have acid reflux?
- How do you cure GERD permanently?
- How can I make my stools firmer?
- Can acid reflux cause you not to poop?
- What foods neutralize stomach acid?
- What is the safest drug for acid reflux?
- What does acidic stool mean?
- When should I be concerned about loose stools?
Can acid reflux cause intestinal problems?
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are two very common disorders affecting the gastrointestinal tract.
About 10% of the population experience daily discomfort from reflux of gastric contents into the esophagus..
Can acid reflux cause loose stools?
It is usually due to gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), the rise of stomach acid back up into the esophagus. Fecal (stool) incontinence — the involuntary loss of stool (liquid or solid) sufficient enough to impair a person’s quality of life. Fecal incontinence has many causes and affects people of all ages.
How do you calm stomach acid?
9 ways to relieve acid reflux without medicationEat sparingly and slowly. When the stomach is very full, there can be more reflux into the esophagus. … Avoid certain foods. … Don’t drink carbonated beverages. … Stay up after eating. … Don’t move too fast. … Sleep on an incline. … Lose weight if it’s advised. … If you smoke, quit.More items…•
How can I harden my stool?
Fiber Regulates Digestion Fiber also absorbs water, softening stools so that they pass more easily. Diarrhea occurs when undigested food moves too fast, before the intestines can absorb water, resulting in loose stools. Fiber’s ability to absorb water helps make stools more solid.
Can omeprazole worsen IBS?
documented that omeprazole-related SIBO was associated with shorter intestinal transit times (37). These studies suggest that PPI-related SIBO could potentially lead to symptoms of IBS, such as diarrhea, as a result of an increased osmotic load from bile acids coupled with more rapid intestinal transit.
What are the symptoms of too much acid in your stomach?
Some signs that you may have high stomach acid include:abdominal discomfort, which may be worse on an empty stomach.nausea or vomiting.bloating.heartburn.diarrhea.decreased appetite.unexplained weight loss.
What are the best things to drink when you have acid reflux?
What to Drink for Acid RefluxHerbal tea.Low-fat milk.Plant-based milk.Fruit juice.Smoothies.Water.Coconut water.Drinks to avoid.More items…•
How do you cure GERD permanently?
Lifestyle and home remediesMaintain a healthy weight. … Stop smoking. … Elevate the head of your bed. … Don’t lie down after a meal. … Eat food slowly and chew thoroughly. … Avoid foods and drinks that trigger reflux. … Avoid tight-fitting clothing.
How can I make my stools firmer?
Tips to have a more comfortable bowel movementDrink water. Water and fiber: These are two major components of poop that are part of your diet. … Eat fruits, nuts, grains, and vegetables. … Add fiber foods slowly. … Cut out irritating foods. … Move more. … Change the angle you’re sitting in. … Keep your bowel movements in mind.
Can acid reflux cause you not to poop?
Your doctor may prescribe medications for GERD that cause digestive problems, including constipation. Implementing a few lifestyle changes and OTC medications may help relieve this condition. You can ease constipation by eating more fiber, staying hydrated, and exercising.
What foods neutralize stomach acid?
Foods that may help reduce your symptomsVegetables. Vegetables are naturally low in fat and sugar, and they help reduce stomach acid. … Ginger. … Oatmeal. … Noncitrus fruits. … Lean meats and seafood. … Egg whites. … Healthy fats.
What is the safest drug for acid reflux?
At this point, if you are concerned about taking Zantac there are alternative medications that are perfectly acceptable. Pepcid and Tagamet are both over the counter histamine blockers that can be used in place of Zantac.
What does acidic stool mean?
An acidic stool can indicate a digestive problem such as lactose intolerance, an infection such as E. coli or rotavirus, or overgrowth of acid-producing bacteria (such as lactic acid bacteria). The average pH for a healthy person is a pH of 6.6.
When should I be concerned about loose stools?
Notice overall changes in patterns. One loose stool is not a big deal, but if they recur over several days or are accompanied with other signs – such as weight loss, pain or discoloration of the stool – then it may be time to talk to your doctor.

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New Miles Standish Book follows highly successful debut….
Whitman Publishing announces the release of Morgan Dollar: America’s Love Affair With a Legendary Coin, by Michael “Miles” Standish. The 160-page hardcover book will be available May 27, 2014, from booksellers and hobby shops nationwide, and online (including at www.Whitman.com), for $29.95.
Miles Standish is vice president and senior grader of PCGS. His new book presents an engaging history and coin-by-coin study of the famous Morgan silver dollar. Morgan Dollar: America’s Love Affair With a Legendary Coin features the recollections of famous dollar dealer John B. Love, beautiful high-resolution photographs of the Coronet Collection (ranked by PCGS as the “Number One Finest Morgan Dollar Set of All Time”), certified-coin populations, retail prices in multiple grades, and other valuable contents for collectors, investors, and students of American history.
“I predict that this will be the ‘go to’ book on the Morgan dollar,” said John Mercanti, 12th chief engraver of the U.S. Mint, who wrote the foreword. “It’s informative, easy to read, and perfect for the experienced Morgan collector or for the new collector just starting out.”
Various sections discuss America during the Morgan dollar era; the anatomy of the coin’s design; a market study going back to 1946; a year-by-year analysis of the series, including Philadelphia, New Orleans, Carson City, Denver, and San Francisco coins; and Morgan dollar Proofs. For further research the book is rounded out with end notes, a bibliography, and an index.
Morgan Dollar: America’s Love Affair With a Legendary Coin can also be borrowed for free as a benefit of membership in the American Numismatic Association, through the Dwight N. Manley Numismatic Library.
Morgan Dollar: America’s Love Affair With a Legendary Coin
By Michael “Miles” Standish; foreword by John M. Mercanti
Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 inches
160 pages, Full color
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Buying a classic car is an expensive business and mistakes can prove costly financially and in time, effort and stress. Wouldn't it be great if you could take an expert with you? With the aid of this book's step-by-step guidance from a marque specialist, you can! You'll discover all you need to know about the car you want to buy. The unique points system will help you to place the car's value in relation to condition, while extensive photographs illustrate the problems to look out for. This is an important investment - don't buy a Mini without this book's help.
The Inside Story of the Little Team Which Took on the Giants of F1
Author: Simon Vigar
Publisher: Veloce Publishing Ltd
Category: Biography & Autobiography
After 20 years of glorious ‘failure’, the best-loved team in Formula One is consigned to the history books, and it deserves one of its own. Minardi had a successful time in Formula Two until the tiny Italian outfit was ready to hit the big time in 1985. It somehow survived in F1’s shark-infested waters as bigger teams (Lotus, Arrows, Tyrrell) were dragged under. They have a truly international fan-base and are the ‘second team’ of most F1 devotees. Minardi is held in such affection as everyone loves the plucky underdog – Minardi’s annual budget would have lasted one month at the other Italian team up the road. Yet, from its plant in Faenza near Bologna, Minardi has produced cars that qualify, sometimes score points and often lead the way in their technology. Gian Carlo Minardi also developed a reputation as a fabulous talent-spotter – Fisichella, Trulli, Webber and the youngest ever World Champion Alonso all started their F1 careers with Minardi. For the last five years, Minardi was owned by controversial Australian tycoon Paul Stoddart. Cast as David against the Goliath of F1’s governing body, Stoddart constantly hit the headlines as he tried to get a more equal share of the sport’s billions. Ultimately, he failed and Red Bull has now bought the team. Despite a petition of 15,000 names, the Minardi name has vanished from the F1 grid and true motorheads miss it. This is the one and only inside account, with exclusive, comprehensive interviews with bosses, drivers and engineers. 140 unique photos complete this revalationary tale.
Now in its second edition, the little book of smart is newly updated, with extra pages and more illustrations to expand the story of the world's most innovative car brand. It's a fascinating tale, told succinctly and in an entertaining style, complemented by full-color photography throughout. And as the most up-to-date smart book on today's scene.
It took a great deal of determination on the part of women to sweep aside male resistance from the inner circles of the motoring world. A veritable saga with a wealth of illustrations spanning almost a century of motor racing. Over forty unique portraits of daring, brave women who took part in speed records events, rallies and Grand Prix races.
This book is the biography of Cliff Allison who started motor racing over fifty years ago with a little Cooper 500. Very much a countryman at heart Allison was not one of the party-going racing drivers but a driver with a huge ambition to race in Formula 1. With 100 photos, full history and complete race results this is a fascinating piece of motor sport history.
Recent auction results indicate a growing interest among collectors in plastic toy cars made during the 1950's and 1960's in Britain, mainland Europe, the USA and Hong Kong. This book is the first to take a systematic approach to a neglected area of toy collecting, providing valuable background information on the companies that made these toys and enabling collectors to identify many previously unknown items. Among the many famous toy companies examined are Tri-ang and Brimtoy (Great Britain); Norev and Minialuxe (France); Gama and Siku (Germany); Ingap and Politoys (Italy); Rico and Paya (Spain). In addition, light is shed for the first time on the history of many smaller and more obscure brands of plastic toy cars. More than 250 photographs of rare and unusual plastic toy cars are included, together with an indication of the prices these items are currently fetching on the antique toy market.
BMW's GS series is one of the world's milestone motorcycles and has been in production for over 25 years. It pioneered the 'adventure sport' category and in many ways, it's the Range Rover of motorcycling.
This book is a must for enthusiasts of outstanding high-performance automobiles. It examines in detail all the great Chrysler 300 models from 1955 to the latest versions including the 425 horsepower 2005 300C SRT-8 model and the 300's running-mate, the 2005 Dodge Magnum. With hundreds of color and black and white photos, a carefully researched text, production and sales data, and a year-by-year study of each Chrysler 300, this is a high-quality book celebrating the origin and return to glory of one of America's most respected high-performance automobiles. Three eras of the Chrysler 300 are covered: the first spans of the years 1955-1965; the second 1998-2004, when Chrysler revived the 300 name as the front wheel drive 300M; the third age began in 2004 when four all-new rear wheel drive Chrysler 300 models were introduced for the 2005 model year.

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text: Doug and everyone else , was thinking about the Ashtabula (which means all the characters) and found this site. Its been such a long time but a lot of the memories are clear. Although I’m sure nobody looks the same. I’m living near Boulder, Colorado now after many years in of all places Long Beach Ca. Ended up working many years at the Port of Los Angeles and watched Todd Shipyards close and the area developed into a container terminal. It would be great to hear from you and tell tall tales from the “old days”. Mike Lemke , p.s. I did hear from Riley in the early 1970’s and he had re-enlisted and that was the last I heard.

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Decision support intervention prompts clinicians to update patients' problem lists in their medical records
Research Activities, April 2011, No. 368
Every patient's medical record contains what is known as a "problem list," where everything the patient suffers from is listed. Both paper and electronic medical records require the constant updating of this list. However, physicians may be slow to keep this documentation current. A new study has looked at how physician order entry and decision support in electronic medical records (EMRs) can help keep the problem list current and complete. It found that alerts issued during medication order entry prompted physicians to add accurate diagnoses to the list.
Physicians at a 450-bed teaching hospital used an EMR that included clinical decision support and computerized physician order entry. Any time a physician entered an order for a study medication, a pop-up screen alert would appear, prompting the physician to enter one or more diagnoses for each medication ordered. The physician could also cancel or ignore the alert. Alerts were designed around six target diagnosis groups containing related diagnoses and their medication triggers. Each alert that was created for the system was studied for a 2-month period after being available for physicians to use.
A total of 1,011 alerts appeared for the 6 target diagnosis groups. The most alerts popped up for the diagnosis group consisting of high cholesterol and coronary artery disease. Diabetes came in second. When alerts did appear, additions to the problem list were made 76 percent of the time, with an accuracy rate of 95 percent. Both the HIV and diabetes diagnostic groups had 100 percent accurate problem list additions. According to the researchers, additional work is needed to expand the system in order to include more medications and all variations of clinician order entry. The study was supported in part by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (HS16973).
See "Computerized physician order entry of medications and clinical decision support can improve problem list documentation compliance," by William L. Galanter, M.D., Ph.D., Daniel B. Hier, M.D., M.B.A., Chiang Jao, Ph.D., and David Sarne, M.D., in the International Journal of Medical Informatics 79, 332-338, 2010.
Current as of April 2011
Internet Citation: Decision support intervention prompts clinicians to update patients' problem lists in their medical records: Research Activities, April 2011, No. 368.
April 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. https://archive.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/research-activities/apr11/0411RA21.html

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A super regional center in Alpine is a collection of retail services and retail stores surrounded by parking areas and is maintained by a management company. This type of gigantic Alpine shopping center mall is surrounded by a vast area of parking lots.
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The annual lists of Set Tunes for the big piobaireachd competitions are important to maybe a hundred people in the world. When you’re not competing in the Gold or Silver medals or one of the dozen or so elite competitors in the Senior events, the Set Tunes are, if anything, just a curiosity. I doubt anyone not in the current crop of hard core contestants is on the edge of their pipe box anxiously wondering what will be the chosen few.
I’ve been back at playing regularly these past months with the intention to have a walk around the boards this summer – just for fun. And “fun” is the operative word. Between the ages 19 and 40 I spent maybe 15 of those years playing at the tunes set for either the Silver or Gold medals. There were the very occasional own-choice years, and rare seasons when the lists were populated completely by melodic classics. By and large, though, these set tune lists featured two or three piobaireachds that I enjoyed playing and obvious choices, and the rest informed a process of deciding which was the easiest to memorize, get through accurately, and then hope for better options in next year’s list.
I remember Captain John MacLellan at a lesson saying “Abercairney’s Salute” must have been written by a personal piper who thought, “Hmmm, Abercairney’s birthday is tomorrow, so I’d better write a piobaireachd.” I would try to convince myself that dreary things like “The MacRaes’ March” and “Sobieski’s Salute” were great pieces of music, for why else would an esteemed organization like the Piobaireachd Society prescribe them for the Gold Medal? But in my heart I knew they sucked.
It seemed inevitable that I’d have things like that picked for me on the big days, while the one or two great classics I submitted went to someone else. Despite trying to convince myself that I didn’t care what they picked, it was always deflating. I always did better with tunes that were actually good music. But many were the times when I’d be puffed up, awaiting to know what tune they’d picked, thinking along the lines of, “Please be ‘Lord Lovat’s Lament,’ please be ‘Lord Lovat’s Lament,’ please be . . .” only to be punctured with some obtuse “Weighing From Land” type of thing.
I suppose it’s all part of the test, musical or psychological or a combination of the two. I don’t know how many times over the years I’ve heard pipers talk about “trying to make something musical” out of a set piece of dreck, and there’s a sense of celebration when someone popular deservedly wins big with a great tune.
Perhaps sadly, every piper I know would be perfectly happy playing “Stairway to Heaven” if it meant winning a Highland Society of London Gold Medal.
It’s all to say that now without (as the great Hugh MacCallum described it) “the treadmill” of the set tunes, playing only piobaireachd that I really like to play is a new and liberating experience. I find that with each practice session, rather than having a mental checklist of tunes I must run another lap around, I can pick from 10 or so piobaireachds currently on the go. And then I’ll think of another tune I’d like to brush up and have a go at that. It’s long-forgotten fun.
Sometimes the lists look like they were put together by a preservation society rather than a music organization. For sure the piper who wins a big prize with “The Battle of Bealach nam Brog” (or “The Beelin’ Brogues,” as a friend calls it) will convince him or herself that it’s a musical masterpiece beyond reproach.
It’s all part of the mind game we agree to play, and the “test” we create for ourselves to bring life to the monotonous, all for the thrill of victory.

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It was only few days ago filmmaker Karan Johar revealed he has learnt a lot about life from Shahrukh Khan. But if you think it was just KJo, who has got the Bollywood’s superstar’s lessons, then we’re afraid that you might be wrong.
Well, we all know that Karan has helped his newcomers of Student of the Year a lot with the acting lessons and has worked really hard on them. But you must not know that Karan wasn’t the only teacher as sources recently found out that SRK also doled out some special tips to a new bunch of students in B-town.
Yeah, we’re talking about KJo’s discoveries — Varun Dhawan and Sidharth Malhotra, who are making a debut this year. In a candid chat with a source, they revealed, “SRK might not have been on the sets, but he was there emotionally. Besides, he had given us so many acting tips when we were assisting Karan during My Name Is Khan. He knew we wanted to be actors, so he would take us aside after every scene and explain the nuances of the scene. It was great; he’s our mentor, in a way.”


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Aung San Suu Kyi has spent much of the past few decades as a political prisoner fighting for human rights and against military atrocities from behind bars. She is now free and campaigning for a parliament seat in Burma. Suu Kyi’s story is inspirational and worth knowing. The atrocities that have been happening to ethnic minorities in Burma for the past several decades are disturbing. This piece was created to help raise awareness for the democracy movement in Burma.
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Twist-bend instability for toroidal DNA condensatesI. M. Kulic, D. Andrienko and M. Deserno
Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung - Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
(Received 17 March 2004; accepted in final form 19 May 2004)
We propose that semiflexible polymers in poor solvent collapse in two stages. The first stage is the well-known formation of a dense toroidal aggregate. However, if the solvent is sufficiently poor, the condensate will undergo a second structural transition to a twisted entangled state, in which individual filaments lower their bending energy by additionally orbiting around the mean path along which they wind. This "topological ripening" is consistent with known simulations and experimental results. It connects and rationalizes various experimental observations ranging from strong DNA entanglement in viral capsids to the unusually short pitch of the cholesteric phase of DNA in sperm heads. We propose that topological ripening of DNA toroids could improve the efficiency and stability of gene delivery.
64.70.Nd - Structural transitions in nanoscale materials.
87.15.He - Dynamics and conformational changes.
61.30.Pq - Microconfined liquid crystals: droplets, cylinders, randomly confined liquid crystals, polymer dispersed liquid crystals, and porous systems.
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The Hebrew University Institute For Traumatic Stress and Recovery (ITSR)
“The trauma of what happened on Oct. 7 shifted Israeli society. It made them question the most basic tenets of whether they were safe in their homes,” said Tal Schneider, a political columnist for The Times of Israel.
New York Times, Dec 19, 2023
The horrific October 7th attack on Israel and the ensuing war have focused national attention on trauma. Statistics vary, but it is assumed that most Israelis have been affected by trauma by the events of October 7th or its aftermath – whether the trauma is direct, indirect, or compounded; whether individual or collective. Of the almost 3,000 soldiers who have begun rehabilitation treatment since the war broke out, 18% have been diagnosed with mental health difficulties and PTSD (Haaretz, Dec 19).
However, Israel’s ability to promote resilience (the capacity to robustly prepare for, respond to, and recover from traumatic events) and prevent and treat trauma-related mental health difficulties is limited. Even before October 7th, events in recent years, such as the case of IDF veteran Itzik Saidyan who set himself on fire in protest over not getting care he’d requested for PTSD, have shown that whether in civilian life or the military, Israel does not have sufficient resources to deal effectively with traumatic stress and post-traumatic disorders. Given the tremendous need for such resources in the wake of the current crisis, this is a serious problem for Israeli society.
Israel and Trauma
Traumatic events (i.e., natural and man-made disasters, such as earthquakes, war, terror, and rape) can jeopardize survivors’ physical and mental health and cause dire economic consequences, depleting community and national resources. Ten to 60 percent of those who experience trauma are likely to develop mental health problems, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, complex grief, and difficulties in marital, social, and occupational adjustment. And 25-50% need mental health services to recover. As a result, the promotion of resilience at the individual and community level and the provision of effective care for trauma survivors are critical means for maintaining a nation’s longevity and strength.
While the need for trauma research is universal, Israel has been and continues to be at particular risk of mass trauma and is considered a unique “natural laboratory” for research on stress and coping. The Israeli population has been exposed to the repeated trauma of multiple wars and terror attacks for more than 80 years, resulting in many physical injuries and deaths, as well as adverse psychopathological implications. Large sections of the Israeli population are conscripted into the army during war, which has an impact not only on these individuals but also on their families and friends. Moreover, Israel’s wars have not taken place only in remote locations, far removed from everyday life. Rather, battles and terror attacks often occur on the home front, leading to a sense that there is no haven and that the battlefield is everywhere. Unfortunately, these traumatic events do not appear to be abating as illustrated by the massacre on October 7th and the war that followed.
Israel is among the world leaders in many fields of medicine, science, and technology. The country’s healthcare system is a source of pride, as was most recently demonstrated in the highly effective rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination. However, in the areas of trauma-related research, training, prevention, and treatment as well as resilience promotion at the individual and community level, the Israeli system is sorely lacking.
Despite the years of war and conflict in Israel, there has not been sufficient training of mental health professionals in recommended, evidence-based practices for promoting resilience and treating responses to trauma in children, adolescents, and adults. As a result, Israeli trauma survivors are not being treated with the most effective treatments for reducing traumatic stress disorders and improving their quality of life. This has now come to the forefront as an emergency given the massacre on October 7. A shortage of well-trained professionals exacerbates the problem. Further, the public at large is not sufficiently aware of the most effective ways of maintaining resilience in the face of traumatic events and coping with traumatic stress. In addition, the field suffers from a lack of integration between research and practice. These gaps can only be addressed by combining evidence, knowledge, and conceptual approaches from different research domains and designing evidence-based interventions that are socially relevant, and context-specific, and by training increased numbers of professionals in such interventions, especially those who can bridge the academy and the field.
Hebrew University: Meeting the Challenge
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s new Israel Center for Addiction and Mental Health (ICAMH) is seeking to disrupt this entrenched paradigm and build a first-in-kind university-based institute (the Institute for Traumatic Stress and Recovery, ITSR) that will serve as a multidisciplinary academic-clinical hub to address trauma-related research, training, prevention, treatment, and resilience promotion in Israel. ICAMH was created to help transform the lives of people affected by mental illness and addictions by conducting basic and translational research on these issues, training therapists in evidence-based practices, promoting effective prevention and intervention programs, and providing patient-centered, comprehensive, coordinated care.
The proposed Institute for Traumatic Stress and Recovery (ITSR) is aligned with the ICAMH’s strategic goals of improving care for patients of today and innovating care for patients of tomorrow. It will promote academic and clinical excellence in the field of traumatic stress and recovery with the aims of (a) finding innovative solutions to solve major challenges in the prevention and treatment of mental illness in children, adolescents, and adults affected by traumatic events, and (b) increasing educational and training opportunities in this field for students and mental health professionals.
Why Hebrew University?
The Hebrew University is well-positioned to lead Israeli efforts in trauma-related research, clinical innovation, and training:
Programs at the University can draw from a wide breadth of faculties, institutes, departments, and centers, and Hebrew University faculty are experienced in interdisciplinary initiatives.
Multidisciplinary core expertise
Hebrew University has faculty with trauma-related expertise who will help to drive this project, such in-house expertise ranges from CBT to violence to psychoanalysis to children’s protection and is based in psychology, social work, occupational therapy, education, and more.
The new Institute will be able to use the resources and infrastructure of ICAMH, which similarly has research, clinical, educational, and policy elements, as well as myriad other Hebrew University institutes and programs.
A Unique Model
In this initiative, research will be combined with clinical practice, training, and even advocacy – a rare combination in academia.
In-house target population
Hebrew University is home to some 5200 returning reservists, as well as countless other students, faculty, and staff who have lived through horrors, lost loved ones, lost homes, or had loved ones captured, injured, or killed in the events on and since October 7th. Some of the interventions developed can be tested and used to help these populations.
The Work Has Already Begun
HU faculty is already on the ground, creating resilience centers within and outside the Hebrew University, advising the government on the treatment of children returning from captivity, heading volunteer efforts to provide counseling, training therapists, and more.

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Beyond the national horse race and Nate Silver's excellent forecasts, here are some key numbers to watch over the next few weeks.
Obama's lead among registered voters: If this number, which tends to be around 4 to 5 percent now, holds, it means that his electorate has room to grow. But if that number holds too long, it means that these potential voters are going to sit out the election.
Obama's lead among Hispanics/Hispanic enthusiasm: Right now, Obama is on track to get 7 out of every 10 voters from those who identify as Hispanic. And enthusiasm among that group, while lower than others, is sufficient to give Obama the number of voters he needs in states like Colorado and Nevada.
Mitt Romney's share of working-class white votes in the Midwestern battlegrounds: The closer Mitt Romney is to 60 percent (or more) among working-class white men, and over 55 percent of working-class white women, the closer he'll come toward blasting through Obama's firewalls.
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Feb 23, 2018
Assam's demographic mess engineered from outside and within: Bipin Rawat has just stated the obviousGeneral Bipin Rawat is right to say that it will be problematic to segregate illegal immigrants in Assam, especially since a corrupt machinery has been providing documentation to illegal migrants for decades now
Aug 20, 2017
Assassination plot against Sheikh Hasina: Ten militants sentenced to deathThe convicts had hatched the plot to kill Hasina in 2000 by planting a high-powered explosive device in an open ground at her village home in southwestern Gopalganj where she was scheduled to address a public rally
Jun 28, 2017
Congress slams Modi govt over not objecting to US reference to J&K as 'Indian-administered Kashmir'Congress criticised the government for not objecting to the US reference to "Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir" in designating Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin as a global terrorist.
Apr 13, 2017
2004 Dhaka grenade attacks: Bangladesh executes HuJI chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, two associatesBangladesh on Wednesday night executed banned Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and his two associates for the 2004 Dhaka grenade attack on a shrine that killed three people and wounded the British high commissioner at the time.
Mar 21, 2017
Bangladesh warns India of increased terrorist infiltration through eastern border statesAccording to The Times of India, Bangladesh has submitted a report to the Indian government highlighting a recent surge in the infiltration of terrorists into India.
Mar 19, 2017
Bangladesh SC upholds death penalty of HuJI militant involved in 2004 attack on UK envoyBangladesh Supreme Court on Sunday upheld the death sentence of banned Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami's former leader and two of his accomplices for a grenade attack in 2004 on Britain's then envoy in Dhaka.
Dec 08, 2016
Bangladesh cracks down on HuJI, nabs 5 militants for planning attacksFive members of a banned Islamist extremist group were nabbed in Bangladesh on Thursday, as they were regrouping in a bid to free their arrested leaders.
Nov 30, 2014
The pathology of prejudice: True lies of counterrorism in IndiaKafkaland, written by Manisha Sethi, throws up unsettling questions on counterterrorism in India. Here are excerpts from the book and an interview with Sethi
May 10, 2013
UP govt will appeal against court's decision on HuJI operatives: Azam Khan"This is not the last court. An appeal would be filed against the Barabanki court decision of today," UP Minister Azam Khan said on the sidelines of a programme in Lucknow.
Aug 31, 2012
Journalist among 11 arrested for terror links in BangaloreThe 11, six from Bangalore and five from Hubli, were "handled" by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Harkat-ul Jehad-e-Islami (Huji) operators based in Saudi Arabia.


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Peat mosses of the genus Sphagnum play a major role in global carbon storage and predominate over photosynthetic production in many northern peatland ecosystems, which are currently being subjected to some of the most rapid climate change on Earth.
The oceanic DOC pool is comparable to the carbon inventory in both atmospheric CO2 and in the total biomass on earth.
ABSTRACT: Previous work on the Georgia, USA coast revealed consistent mid-summer peaks in the abundance of Thaumarchaeota accompanied by spikes in nitrite concentration. We collected data on the distribution of Thaumarchaeota, ammonia-oxidizing Betaproteobacteria (AOB), nitrite-oxidizing Nitrospina, environmental variables and rates of ammonia oxidation during 6 cruises in the South Atlantic Bight from April to November 2014 to evaluate the areal extent and timing of the bloom. The abundance of Thaumarchaeota marker genes (16S rRNA and amoA) increased at inshore and nearshore stations st
Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) is a process defined as any and all input of water into a surface water body through the sediment - water interface, independent of the driving force, and the fluid source and composition.
Please join us for the 2017 Research Symposium on June 1-2 at the Graduate Hotel in Athens, Ga. The symposium will highlight Georgia Sea Grant’s research program, where Sea Grant-funded scientists from across the state will share their research findings. A reception will follow.
On day two, prospective researchers are invited to a workshop where we will provide an overview of our FY2018-2020 call of proposals and give tips and advice about preparing a strong application. Registration is required.
Please email Angela Llewllayn at firstname.lastname@example.org by May 25 to RSVP.
The purpose of this seminar is to begin with a general overview of the shelf and end with the carbonate reefs.
Developing Acoustic Instruments for Measuring Flow velocity and Sediment Concentration in Rivers and Coastal Waters
About the presentation: "The presentation is organized as follows. At first, the experimental works I carried out during my PhD studies to explore tide-driven influential parameters on sediment transport in Ota Diversion Channel, Hiroshima, Japan, are briefly described. This part mainly discusses the application of conventional acoustic systems, their abilities, and challenges that inspired me to start working on Shallow Acoustic Tomography technique.


MILK PRICE cuts have prompted more farmers than expected to quit over the past two years, including those running the larger, more profitable herds, according to a DEFRA-funded study.
The report, published in the same week as dairy producers stage a series of price protests, found 45 of 363 herds surveyed back in April 2003 had since ceased milk production.
Of the 45, eight of the herds had between 100 and 149 cows and five of the herds had more than 150 cows.
The report suggested that the scale of the exodus was sufficient so that by 2007/08 it is likely the UK will fall 1bn litres below quota.
“This report reinforces our view that milk price cuts and general volatility have seriously eroded the confidence of all producers, threatening the future viability of domestic milk supply,” said NFU dairy board chairman Gwyn Jones.
“If a sustainable future is to be achieved for the dairy industry a profitable supply base is vital.
“That simply will not happen if short-sighted pricing decisions from those further up the dairy chain continue to drive even the largest, most efficient herds from production, as evidenced by this report.”


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Often when we are learning a new craft, theres a lot to take in. With needle felting, for example, you are learning how to judge what fibre and needles you have. How to know what the right amount of fibre would be for each part. You'll be learning how to shape the limbs and to thread joint them all together! So yet another thing you need to learn is making a nice, simple nose.
Often it's these things that we neglect to learn more about. We just muddle through when we get to this part and hope for the best. But the nose is just as important as the eyes and ears, the balance of the face really effects how your little character will turn out, and whether he is stern, cute, lovable, sad etc.
For this tutorial I'm going to take you through making a basic nose, this is how I make most of my noses, I rarely get more technical unless I've made something larger or more deserving of something extra special. Why get super complicated if you don't have to right?
Here you can see me taking the needle into what would be the top of the nose, above where the thread is coming out. We will be doing a running kind of stitch, making loops in and out along the nose.


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Queenie is a 6-8 year old female Pug mix. She is kennel trained and good with dogs. Sutter is an adult male Shar Pei/lab mix. He is kennel trained and good with dogs. Sutter has a deformed front leg due to a break that was never set. The shelter is trying to raise the funds to have his leg amputated. For more information about Queenie or Sutter or any of the other animals ready for adoption contact the Washington County/Johnson City Animal Shelter at 926-8769 from 12-5 seven days a week.
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NSW PT PROTESTS GET SECOND WIND
FOLLOWING THE FEBRUARY FIXNSWTRANSPORT protest rally in the Sydney CBD, the next stage of related public displays against recent changes to the NSW toll roads, train and bus services are set for Saturday April 14 and Sunday May 6, according to organisers.
Actioned in response to perceived problematic and incorrect changes to key sections of the NSW public transport system, as well as an alleged misuse of public funds for projects like the multi-billion-dollar WestConnex, the protest events are seeing many union groups and angry residents affected by such Government moves uniting to illustrate their cause, spokespeople say.
Speaking exclusively to ABC, former independent candidate for the Inner West Council, Leichhardt Ward, and now current spokesperson for transport-activist organisation NoWPT, John Lozano says ‘enough is enough’ and that these protests will continue and grow in size until big changes are made to fix the State’s transport system before billions more dollars are wasted on flawed ideas.
“The FIXNSWTRANSPORT rally was organised as a way for our community to voice their deep concerns over the aggressive privatisation agenda of the NSW government,” Lozano explained.
“Whilst the Government sings its praises on community consultation and engagement, nothing could be further from the truth. That rally and, the more that will follow, is the only way left for the community to be heard. Our message is loud and unified: ‘Not Happy, Gladys!’ [in reference to NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian MP].
At the time of print, the Rage Against WestConnex rally was to be held at King George Park, Rozelle, in Sydney on April 14.
The May Day Rally and Family Fun Day – a Public Service Association of NSW and Unions NSW event – was scheduled for 6 May at Hyde Park North, Sydney.
“... protests will continue and grow in size until big changes are made.”
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Emmy Blotnick is a New York-based stand-up comedian and writer. She’s appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, CONAN, Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show, and her own Comedy Central half-hour special. Emmy was featured as a “New Face” at Just For Laughs in Montreal and was named one of Comedy Central’s Comics to Watch.
Emmy Blotnick worked as a staff writer on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show, as well as as a head writer on Comedy Central’s The President Show and as a co-executive producer on HBO’s Pause with Sam Jay.
Emmy Blotnick is a popular twitterati and is followed by more than 20k people on twitter. Her account was created in February 2010. She is following 881 people on twitter as of 2021.
Her Instagram account is followed by more than 5k people and she is not very active on Instagram. She has posted only one picture of a toilet seat and wrote ‘leave a comment on the toilet’ on her bio.
Stand up Comedy of Emmy Blotnick
Stand-up comedy is a type of comedy that is performed in front of a live audience and is delivered directly from the stage.
A comic, comedian, or simply stand-up is the term used to describe the performer.
One-liners, stories, observations, or shtick are used in stand-up comedy, which may include props, music, magic tricks, or ventriloquism.
Stand-up comedy can be done in a variety of venues, including clubs, festivals, bars, nightclubs, colleges, and theaters.
Stand-up as a western art form has roots in vaudeville, burlesque, and English music hall traditions from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The earliest confirmed use of the term “stand-up” as a term was in The Stage in 1911, when it described Miss Nellie Perrier doing “‘stand up’ comic ditties in a fashionable and charming manner,” referring to a performance of comedy songs rather than actual stand-up comedy.
The career of Finlay Dunn was chronicled in the Yorkshire Evening Post’s “Stage Gossip” section on November 10, 1917. According to the report, Dunn acted “as what he refers to as a stand-up comedian.” This usage is more convincing than the 1911 review of Nellie Perrier because, despite performing as a comedy piano act for the majority of his career, a favorite strand included joking about his large physical size, described as “good buffoonery in evening dress, with no accessories whatever,” and the article, while published in 1917, refers to an earlier phase of his career.

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Another Safe Day
By Bradley Lloyd
She was the hottest woman that had ever liked him. Looking at her now, with her hair wet against her bare shoulders, he wondered why he had never done anything about it.
“I win,” he said, as she removed her goggles and made a quarter turn to face him. “A very appropriate ending to seven years, all things considering.” He smiled, noticing the red indents around her eyes left by the goggles, and submerged his hands, bringing them back to his face to try and rinse away the raccoon circles that he knew still lingered around his own eyes.
She let out an audible breath of air, as if she were annoyed. “I wasn’t racing.”
“How far did you go?”
“A mile and a half.”
She let out another huff of air, much the same as the first, but she didn’t speak.
Overhead, the street light was humming, while underneath it, their breathing was hard and fast. He submerged for a moment, and the hum of the street lamp was replaced by the soft, muffled rhythm of the pool pump. Over this came the intense, inward beating of his own heart, pulsing through to his ears. He felt the cool of the water washing away the heat of the miles he had swum. This was his favorite moment of the day, when all work was done, when he still had the high of physical exertion, when he was floating, completely weightless, enshrouded by the quiet and dark of the water. It was a joy of extended brevity. He would miss this.
His chest tightened–a kind of constricting from his neck to his torso–and he knew he would have to breathe. He moved to the surface very slowly, first feeling his wet hair press against his head, then the odd sensation of the water receding from his ears as the sound of his heartbeat died away. Finally, he took a long, slow, conscious breath as his mouth found air again, but he rose no further, preferring to remain in the water habitat as much as possible. He rubbed his eyes and then opened them to the blurry but familiar turquoise color of the pool edge, and the darker blue of the night sky beyond. Somehow he had gotten turned around. It was easy to forget that up here, direction mattered.
It was the sound of her voice calling his name that at last made him rise more fully from the water, and he turned to look at her.
“This is sad.” Her face and her voice better described how he was feeling than her words did.
He splayed his tired arms along the pool edge, and rested the back of his head against the wet cement, looking upward. The chlorine gave the steet lamp above a rainbow halo, and far beyond were the tiny, eternal glows of a million stars. What words could he say? “Seven years . . . “ he began, but didn’t say any more.
She, too, stretched her arms spread-eagle along the edge, her fingertips so close that if he had pressed his hand flat, they could have touched. He now tried to expose as much of his body to the cooling night air as possible, as the sounds of their brisk breathing began to subside. It seemed as though their bodies radiated heat like an invisible steam rising from the water. Sweating in this environment was a singular sensation, simultaneously hot and cold, free of the stench and stickiness of the real world.
“No more bets,” she said in melancholy tones.
“You never made good on your bets, anyway,”
She opened her eyes wide and feigned offense. “I never did? You never did, buddy.” He noticed how her eyes seemed even larger than usual with her head wet and her hair pressed down against her.
“You never ran naked around the pool.”
“You never jumped naked off the diving board.”
He smiled. “Sarah, I have a confession to make.”
“What is it?” Her voice had a hard, skeptical edge to it.
“Remember about four years ago when we agreed to go skinny dipping, and we both went to opposite ends of the pool and held our swimsuits over our heads to prove that we had done it.”
“Yeah . . . “
“I was wearing underwear.”
“What?” He recognized the familiar sound of shock in her voice. He liked shocking her. She turned towards him, raising a clenched fist as if too hit him, but she just opened her mouth, the corners turned upwards in a half smile, miffed, yet probably not completely surprised. She didn’t hit him. She had ceased any physical flirtation years ago, and he now wondered why.
“OK then, lets do it now,” she challenged, her eyes wide again.
He looked around the pool, the light from the street lamp above suddenly seeming to lose its translucent, fuzzy halo and become stark. He looked beyond the chain linked fence surrounding the pool to the row of residential houses across the street. Driveways were illuminated in white halogen circles, and a filtered dimness escaped from some of the drawn shades in living room windows. He listened hard for the sound of any children that might be lingering behind him in the park, but heard only the chirping of fat September crickets and the hum of the light. Even the parking lot was empty save for two cars, his and Sarah’s. All was solitude.
“Nah,” he said, dismissing it casually, as if it were something lesser than his years permitted.
“Fine then, I win.” He could tell by her deliberate tone that she was trying to get a rise out of him.
“Yep, you win.”
“Uh,”–she did that thing again with her breath, and he noticed as if for the first time how she would dip her head down and roll her eyes while making the familiar sound– “You’re no fun.”
“You can do it if you like. I’ll watch.”
“Yeah, I bet you will.”
“OK then, I won’t watch.”
He was looking across the pool, across the twenty five meters, towards the darker blue water of the deeper end, focusing on the twin diving boards hovering a few feet off the water. Still, he knew without even glancing to the side that she was daring him with her half-smile and half-smirk, her wide eyes a little narrowed. He peered only ahead, and spoke firmly. “OK, then. Let’s do it. Let’s jump off the diving boards naked.”
“Let’s take off our suits, swim naked to the other end, and jump off.”
“Yeah Sarah, let’s go.” But he made no move to leave the wall, his arms still spread out and clutching the turquoise edge of the pool, his eyes still focused ahead, looking at the diving boards and the halogen-lit houses beyond them across the street. As a kid, he had delivered papers to a lot of those houses. The house directly ahead was the gray one, where the autistic boy lived, with his Australian-accent dad and English-accent mom.
“What if the cops come by?” Her voice had taken on a more timid tone. He liked playing with her like this.
“What’re they gonna do? Fire us? We finished our last day. We won’t be back next summer.”
“Arrest us.” That thought made him laugh. It would be silly to see their names in the local paper in the police beat, arrested or cited for indecent exposure. There, in print, for all the kids to read–all the kids that he had called the cops on in the last seven years, for underage smoking or vandalism or stealing or fighting. He read that section every week, just to see how they’d be written up, those nameless juveniles that for him, had faces. Or maybe the city’s crop of fourth grade girls would read it there in black and white, and all their girlish cooing about him and Sarah would take on a new not-so-innocent tone, something whispered rather than giggled loudly across the pool, giggles he had always pretended to ignore. Giggles were easier to ignore than earnest whispers.
He removed his arm from the ledge, and turned to look at her. She still clutched the side of the pool, her tanned and toned arms out of the water, stretched flat and turned slightly behind her, so that he could see every muscle. She had nice triceps for a girl; none of that under-arm waddle. The arm hairs were bleached white from the sun and chlorine. They were like spun glass, and lay flat and wet against her skin, parting to form a large, bare line—a crease from the water.
She, too, moved her furthest arm from the ledge and turned to look at him, but slowly. Time was different in the water at night. Motion was orchestrated. Every movement became a deliberate one, and included its own sound–a small splash or a light rippling–small drops of water falling from wet hair and chiming on the crystal surface of a calm pool.
She was looking at him, and her eyes suddenly lit up. “Oh, look at that.” She was looking past him. “Look at the moon. Isn’t it cool?”
He turned to the opposite horizon. Across the dark and empty baseball diamonds, above a dark line of pine trees in the distance, the moon hung large and low, a subdued orange. “A harvest moon.”
“It’s beautiful. It’s like a sign or something. It’s so nice out. I can’t believe I won’t be back here. Do you realize how many hours we must have sat in these chairs?” She motioned to a raised chair at the corner of the pool, about ten feet away. It was the same maroon color as the locker room doors on the wall of the pool house behind them. Seven hours a day, six days a week, three months a year, his ass had sat in that maroon chair, or one of the three others exactly identical at every corner of the pool.
“We should carve our names in it, or something.” It seemed the appropriate thing to say, but the action felt too trite.
“I think my butt print is permanently etched into it.”
He turned back to her, smiling. “Well, see. It’s your chair, now. That means you have to come back next summer.”
Her voice took on a more raw edge. “There’s no way. I’ll have school next summer. It’s gonna suck. I won’t even have time for a job, let alone this one, in this town. Besides, we’re college graduates. It’s pretty sad that we came back this summer.” She crouched down low into the water, and hugged herself, as if she were growing cold. “You can come back next summer. You’ll be manager all alone.”
“No. I’m not coming back.”
He took a step toward her, and she took a step backwards. They were moving, doing a strange sort of ballet, walking on tiptoe and moving their arms to push the water aside as they cut through it. The water level gradually dropped a foot, so that it was at his chest. She crouched low and stopped moving. He stopped, still one step away.
She cocked one arm along the ledge and looked at him with a friendly grin. “What’s your best feature?”
“What’s your best feature? People get uncomfortable when they have to compliment themselves–why is that? We shouldn’t be afraid to say something good about ourselves. I bet people would be happier and more confident if we did it more often.”
“What’s your best feature.”
“I don’t know. What do you think it is?”
She smiled to reveal her top row of teeth. Her lips weren’t incredibly voluptuous, but she did have a nice smile and straight teeth. He wondered if she had braces as a kid. “That’s not the point! C’mon. What’s you’re best feature.”
“I don’t know. Um . . .” He tried to think of a safe answer. He liked his eyes. He liked dark features with blue eyes. His eyes weren’t incredibly blue . . . more of a gray, really, but he knew that other people found his eyes rather striking. His dark brows had a nice slant to them. It was one of the reasons he made sure to take his sunglasses off at every break. It was a safe answer.
“What do you like about them?” She was being rather relentless.
“I like that I have blue eyes. I like that I have darker hair. I think it’s a good combo. What about you? What’s your best feature.”
“Umm. . .” She turned her eyes up as if she were thinking. An appropriately modest move, he thought. She was a beautiful woman. He had always liked her legs. She had slender legs, yet they also had muscle. Her calf muscle bent out and back without being too large, giving her shape without thickness.
“My smile.” She was always smiling. She had many different smiles. “What else do you like?”
“I’ve always thought you had nice legs.”
She laughed genuinely and slapped the water. “Not about me–about you.”
He thought again. Even though they were farther away from the street light, it still seemed too bright. What would he give as an answer now? He wasn’t particularly buff, although he was certainly in great shape. Still, he couldn’t say his arms. He liked his stomach. He liked the way men’s stomachs had shape to them, unlike a woman’s stomach. Sarah’s stomach was not her best feature. She was thin, but it was still rather doughy. He liked a hard stomach. He liked the way a guy’s stomach sort of came in waves, starting under the breast bone. The ripples gave way to that spot on either side of the hip bone, where two lines started to converge, pointing down and to the center as they would disappear under a swim suit, pointing the way to something more substantial, and not shapeless. If a guy was really in shape, the top of the swim suit between these lines would be slightly off of the lower stomach–the slight bulge in muscle would bring it away from the skin. You could always tell a nice stomach on a sunny day, because in this little space, the swim suit would cast the smallest of shadows.
“My stomach. Twenty minutes of crunches a day, and it better look half-way decent.”
Suddenly they were bathed in blackness. The street lamps around the pool turned off, as they always did at nine at night. He looked up, and saw more stars than had previously been there. He was also very aware of the silence. Around him, the water took on a more frightening color, looking more green than blue without the light. He hated opening his eyes under water in the dark, being suddenly surrounded by an unfamiliar murkiness. When the lights went out, that’s when you’d shut your eyes under water.
“Oh, it’s dark. Hey–there’s the cops.” Sarah was looking off to the left. A block away, under the nearest lighted street lamp and by the entrance to the parking lot, drove the familiar squad car, also right on time. They watched, still and quiet, as it made a slow pass on the street across from them. In his periphery he could also see Sarah, her silhouette hunched low beside him, hair hanging down in damp, shadowy strings. She seemed to be hugging herself again. He was hugging himself, too. He felt a chill, and suddenly became aware of the hair on his arms.
She turned to him. “Good thing we weren’t naked, eh?”
“Yeah, good thing.” He looked down beneath the water at his stomach and the dim shapes beneath. He could barely make out the red hem of his swim suit through the obscure green. Even across the pool, it was difficult to discern the familiar details of the diving boards. They were vague shadows.
He turned to her. “OK. Let’s do it.”
“Are you serious?”
“Yeah. This is our last chance. Let’s go off the diving boards.”
Through the darkness he could see her white teeth near the surface of the water. She was laughing, wearing her mischievous smile. “OK. I will if you will.”
He took a few steps back, towards his side of the pool. She, too, began stepping back. His hands were already beneath the surface of the water, fumbling with the tie on his suit. He was shaking a little. Of course he had to be cold at a time like this.
With the knot loosened, he slid his hands against his stomach, beneath the suit and beneath the briefs he was wearing. He hoisted his legs up and in one quick motion slid out of the suit and the briefs together. He looked down beneath the surface of the water, and was surprised that he could actually make out the whiteness of his own skin. He hadn’t taken into account his tan–or, in the case of what would now be visible, lack thereof. Still, he didn’t think it would matter, as long as they stayed apart.
“Are you doing it?”
He held his suit above his head, offering proof.
“Oh my gosh!” Now she crouched low in the water, only her head visible. “Hey–you’re wearing underwear!”
He pulled the briefs out of the suit, and held them up in separate hands. “Nope.”
“Oh my gosh! What if we get caught?”
He looked around. Behind was the pool house, which offered an effective barrier to anyone who would be in the park, which, at this hour, wasn’t likely anyway. To his right, the baseball diamonds were still dark and empty. Across the street, the houses were lit but the shades still drawn. To the left was the parking lot and it’s street light, illuminating nothing but pavement and the two cars.
He took a step towards the diving boards, moving deeper, and suddenly became acutely aware of the water on his body. It was a feeling that started at his thighs and genitals and spread to the tips of his fingers and the top of his head. The water was everywhere, a soft, cool tickle on his skin. He took a breath and submerged, still moving slowly through the water. Above the rhythm of the pool pumps was the sound of his heart in his ears, a steady beat still accelerating with the thrill of the forbidden and the freedom of the water. It was dangerous, being naked and blind in this dark water.
She was calling him again. He came quickly to the surface, a slight roar in his ears as the air replaced the water. Opening his eyes, he saw that Sarah was swimming twenty feet away, parallel to him, her swimsuit held proudly over her head.
“Oh my gosh. I can’t believe we’re doing this.” She was laughing, and he could see her whiteness. Her teeth seemed almost iridescent in the dark. Her shoulders rose and fell slightly in the water as she kicked, exposing and then hiding the partially tanned lines on her shoulders. Below the surface of the water, he could see the pale outline of her figure. As she bobbed up, he noticed the whiteness between her breasts and how it seemed to accentuate the expanse there. He had always wondered what it would be like to perform CPR on a woman—whether the breasts would get in the way, and now he thought that they wouldn’t.
She was still swimming with only one arm, the other displaying the red guard suit. He realized that he was holding his swimsuit overhead as well, held high and tight like a red banner of courage. They were half way across the pool, and he could easily make out the silhouettes of the diving boards against the halogen lights of the houses across the street. The gray house in particular had a bright security light shining from the garage which now seemed to spotlight the diving boards, even though it was at least 30 yards away. Thoughts seemed to pulse in his head with the quickened beating of his heart. What if the autistic boy is peaking out through that crack between the window shade? What if the cops are even now getting a call from a bewildered or angry parent with an Australian or English accent? Who’s going to go off the boards first? What if they both went together? What if Sarah looked, because man, it sure was cold. He smiled. “I can’t believe we’re doing this.”
“I can’t believe your doing this!”
Having her here, hearing her laugh made him want to laugh, too. He felt like he was laughing, even though he didn’t think he was. “Hey—stop tryin’ to look down underneath the water!”
“What? I’m not!”
“I saw you peeking!”
He couldn’t see them clearly, but he knew her eyes got big again. He could hear it in her voice: “What? I can’t see anything. It’s too dark . . . Why? Can you see me?”
It looked for a moment like she was going to hurl the red ball of swimsuit at him. “You can-not! Can you?”
“Let’s just say that I can see your best feature.”
She laughed again, and it seemed to echo on the water and become something ethereal. There was a moment of half-silence where the sound seemed to linger just above the surface of the water like a light mist. “Yeah. Well, I’m still looking for yours.”
“Hey! Gimme a break. It’s cold out.”
“Yes. Trust me. I’m well aware of that, too.”
“Oh. Sure enough. You are, aren’t you?”
“Hey!” And she lowered her arm and sunk down in the water.
He was the first to reach the edge of the pool, coming in right between the diving boards. “I won.”
“I wasn’t racing.” She was 20 feet away, in the corner of the pool.
He plopped his wet suit down on the cement ledge. “Loser goes first.”
“Fine. But no peeking.”
“Of course not.”
“I don’t trust you.”
“Are you sure about this? What if someone sees?”
“Fine. I’ll go first.”
“Turn around. I’m shy.” He placed his hands on the edge of the pool, preparing to lift himself out of the water.
“Oh my gosh!” She dutifully turned away, facing towards the parking lot.
“I’m watching you. Just remember, you’re next. If you look, then so do I.”
She just laughed again. What did that mean? He wondered if she would look. He wondered what it would mean if she did.
He took a last look around—at the parking lot, the houses, the baseball fields, the pool house. It wasn’t a real look, though, because at last he didn’t care who saw. He didn’t even look at Sarah. He merely heard her “oh my gosh” blended in with the sloshing of the water as he exited the pool. For a brief moment, the world seemed like a fuzzy, halogen, chlorinated, adrenalized dream. He made it to the ladder on the diving board before the harsh reality of the night air hit him, a shiver that shriveled his balls and traveled out in a wave to the ends of his fingertips and the top of his head. The world sped up. He didn’t feel the metal steps of the ladder. He seemed to traverse the sandpaper surface of the diving board in two steps. His last thought before hitting the water was, “What sort of diving board maneuver would be most appropriate for this occasion?” It was almost like he was watching himself from the house across the street. He saw his legs flail up, his body torn between a jump and a cannon ball, and then a grand entry as he hit the water, ass first.
For a moment he saw the black lines painted on the pool bottom filtered through the murky green of night-time water, and then he shut his eyes, returning quickly to the surface. Sarah was smiling with an open mouth, looking at him.
“Hey, you were looking.”
“I can’t believe you just did that.” He started swimming towards her. “And I wasn’t looking. I waited for the splash!” She started moving backward along the pool edge, under the first diving board and towards the second, the same board he had gone off. She kept her eyes on his.
He smiled, wondering if she had looked. “You better do this.”
“I am. Don’t look.”
He reached the wall. “Fine. I won’t look.” He wondered if he should look. He wondered what it would mean if he did.
He heard her grunt as she lifted herself up over the pool edge, and heard the water splashing on the cement.
“Oh my gosh. It’s cold.” He could hear the exhileration in her voice, and he knew she was wearing her mischevious smile. What if someone sees?” He could hear her feet on the cement, splashing slightly in the water that ran down the length of a body exited from the pool. “OK,” she said as he heard her step onto the board. He could hear her feet on the board, the familiar creaks of the board bending as she planted her feet and jumped.
He didn’t look.
He heard the splash, and wondered what she had done. He turned to look, and saw her rise from the water, her back arched and her head tilted backwards so her hair wouldn’t go in her eyes. She dove.
“Good job, Sarah. Five point eight.”
“Did you look?”
She let out the familiar huff of air. “Uh. I don’t care.” She was swimming towards the corner, and now he was backing along the wall, towards the far diving board where he had left his suit. Sarah reached hers first, and he laughed as she contorted herself trying to put it back on. She stopped for a moment to look at him. “Yeah. You laugh. You’ve never had to put on a wet women’s suit before.”
He grabbed his own suit, putting it on with one fairly easy motion, skipping the briefs. Tying the suit was more difficult. His hands were shaking. Even so, he had to wait several minutes for Sarah to finish. No words were spoken. They silently began swimming back towards the other end of the pool, away from the diving boards.
“I guess we finally did it,” he said at last.
“Yeah. Finally.” He could detect the sadness in her voice. Wordlessly they swam, listening to the sounds of their bodies moving through the water. They reached the edge of the pool, and she propped her elbow up on the ledge. The straps of her swimsuit were twisted, and he could see ivory lines of skin on her shoulders. “I’m gonna miss this. We have some good memories, you and I.”
“Seven years . . .”
“Yeah. Seven years.” She turned and backed out of the pool, sitting on the ledge, looking out across the water. He did the same, sitting directly by her side, leaving his feet in the water. It was late. The moon was gone. He was freezing. Still, he didn’t want to leave.
She stood up, and looked down at him. “Do you want to say it, or should I?”
He leaned forward to stand up, wishing he could always dangle his toes in the water like a little kid. “You can say it,” he said.
“No, I want you to say it.”
He rose and looked at her. “Another safe day at the pool.”
“The last one.”
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Using the delayed feedback control and saturation control to suppress the vibration of the dynamical system
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In the present paper, the delayed feedback control is applied to suppress or stabilize the vibration of the primary system in a two degree-of-freedom dynamical system with parametrically excited pendulum. The case of a 1:2 internal resonance between pendulum and primary system is studied. The method of multiple scales is applied to obtain second-order approximations of the response of the system. The system stability and bifurcations of equilibrium point of the averaged equations are computed. It is shown that the delayed feedback control can be used to suppress the vibration or stabilize the system when the saturation control is invalid. The vibration of the primary system can be suppressed by the delayed feedback control when the original system is in the single-mode motion. The effect of gain and delay on the vibration suppression is discussed. As the delay varies at a fixed value of the gain, the vibration of the primary system can be suppressed at some values of the delay. The vibration suppression performance of the system is improved at a large value of the gain. The vibration of the primary system could be suppressed about 56% compared with the original system by choosing the appropriate values of gain and delay. The delayed feedback control also can be used to stabilize the system when the original system is unstable. The gain and delay could be chosen as the controlling parameters. Numerical simulation is agreement with the analytical solutions well.
KeywordsVibration suppression Delay Dynamical vibration absorber Delayed feedback control
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A mass spectrometer can help you locate unknown ions in the mass spectrum so that you can identify them. When charged particles move through the magnetic field of a mass spectrometer, they're deflected (pulled off course) by the magnetic field; they then hit the detector, as the first figure shows.
The number of ions that bend the right amount at a particular magnetic field strength to hit the detector is measured. On a mass spectrum, the molecular weight of the fragment (m/z) is shown on the x-axis versus the relative number of fragments that hit the detector on the y-axis (the intensity). The most intense peak on the mass spectrum is arbitrarily assigned an intensity value of 100. The next figure shows the mass spectrum for pentane.
It's actually not the weight of the fragment that's measured on the x-axis of the mass spectrum, but the mass (m) to charge (z) ratio (called the m/z value). A fragment that has a +2 charge will require a smaller magnetic field to deflect it toward the detector than a fragment that has a +1 charge, and will therefore show up on the mass spectrum at half the m/z value. However, since most fragments simply have charges of +1 (and since the vast majority of undergraduate classes will not discuss fragments with more than one charge), the m/z axis is often simply said to represent the molecular weight of the fragment. That is, given that the mass-to-charge ratio is m/z, and the charge (z) equals +1, in most cases, m/z = m/1 = m.
Referring again to the mass spectrum for the molecule pentane (C5H12), this spectrum contains several peaks that are worth pointing out. The molecular ion peak, or M+ peak, is the peak at m/z 72, which represents the molecular weight of the molecule (72 amu). The tallest peak in the spectrum, which is always given a value on the y-axis of 100, is called the base peak. The base peak represents the most abundant fragment that hits the detector. In some spectra, the base peak is also the M+ peak, although in this case it's not.
The mass spectrum for pentane is fairly simple, but it still contains a lot of peaks, each of which represents a different fragment that was formed by electron ionization. Usually, you can't expect to be able to identify all the peaks in a mass spectrum (or even most of them).


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I’ve been holidaying in West Cornwall during a really beautiful week of weather, walking over 55 miles of coastal paths and local trails, exploring the local area, eating all the seaside holiday faves: pasties, fish and chips, cream tea and loving trying the local ciders. Rattler (apple) cider is definitely my favourite.
There was so much to see and photograph: particularly the spectacular coastline from all angles on the peninsula. As you headed away from the sea over a hill, or around a bend you would see it again. We were based only 8 miles from Lands End and wild flowers, butterflies, rabbits, birds and fish abounded.
Then it was time to come home and I found my plants had grown inches (the dahlias are a foot taller – really) my porch pot has taken off, as you see, compared to the mere 3 flowers it had when I last saw it. There were juicy strawberries to eat, chillies had appeared in abundance and the herbs are bursting out of their pots. We have a very good neighbour who waters while we are away!
Although I took all my crochet kit away, to work on the border of the motif blanket, I didn’t do any. In the evenings it was too hot, or we were eating at a local pubs or sipping wine on the terrace looking out on the 180 degree view of the sea (taking far too many photos of the sunsets), or we were walking by the sea in the evening breeze. All I’ve done, since coming back, is a few rows of knitting of my Hitchhiker shawl. It’s really a scarf isn’t it? I’m not sure where/when calling everything a shawl started.
Now it’s far too hot to have a wooly blanket on my lap! Today it’s 32 0c and reportedly the hottest day in 9 years. I was in Australia and missed the last one, but remember seeing news reports of tarmac on roads bubbling and railway lines buckling; much to the Aussies amusement.
Like many I have reeled on reading about the death of Wink, there are no words to express my sadness. She will be missed by so many. XX

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38 Special Performing On Halloween In Pocatello
One of the biggest rock bands to form in the seventies and achieve multiple top 10 hits on the U.S. charts is coming to southern Idaho in October.
38 Special, who formed in Florida in 1974, are coming to Idaho. They are best known for singles like, "Second Chance," "Caught Up In You," and "Hold On Loosley." All three songs were top 30 hits for the group between 1981 and 1989; they've also sold more than 20 million albums worldwide.
38 Special's founding lead vocalist and guitarist was Donnie Van Zant, brother of late Lynyrd Skynyrd vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, who died in a plane crash while touring in 1977. Donnie remains a writer and contributor for the band, but hearing issues have prevented him from performing for the better part of the last seven years. He is currently 67 years old.
Don Barnes has taken over as the primary lead singer, with guitarist Barry Dunaway also sharing vocal duties The group also added veteran guitarist Jerry Riggs recently.
The band has 19 dates throughout the United States scheduled through November 23, 2019. One of those performances will be on October 31 (Halloween), at the Stephens Performing Arts Center in Pocatello. The venue is located on the campus of Idaho State University.
The band has had a busy 2019 so far, having began the year as performers on the Rock Legends Cruise in February. Idaho State University, the site of the October 31 performance, is located 115 miles east of Twin Falls.
Tickets for 38 Special range from $45 to $55. They can be purchased by calling 208-282-3595. You can visit the university box office by clicking here.