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Having made a perfect start to its Europa League campaign, Arsenal can secure a place in the knockout phase with two group games to spare by beating Red Star Belgrade on Thursday.
The Gunners play host to the 1991 European Cup winner in north London a fortnight after Olivier Giroud's remarkable late goal secured a 1-0 win in Belgrade.
Having also got the better of Cologne and BATE Borisov, Arsene Wenger's side is top of Group H with maximum points and simply avoiding defeat against the Serbian league leader could be enough for it to progress to the last 32.
For a side growing in confidence after four straight wins in all competitions, another victory should not be too much to ask, even if Wenger will again rotate his squad with one eye on Sunday's Premier League clash with Manchester City.
Everton, the other English side in the competition, is in a rather less favourable position as it heads to France to take on Lyon.
Languishing in the relegation zone in the Premier League and without a permanent manager since the sacking of Ronald Koeman last week, the Toffees could be eliminated from Europe on Thursday.
Such a scenario will arise if it loses and Group E leader Atalanta avoids defeat in its game against Apollon Limassol in Cyprus.
It has been a miserable continental campaign so far for Everton, which was held at home by Apollon either side of a defeat to Atalanta and a 2-1 home loss to Lyon last month.
It has lost both games so far under caretaker manager David Unsworth, following a 2-1 reverse at Chelsea in the League Cup with a 2-0 Premier League defeat at Leicester City, but youngster Dominic Calvert-Lewin put a positive spin on things ahead of the trip to France.
"The match at Chelsea showed we have those good performances in us, then in the second half against Leicester they had a two-goal cushion but we were trying to break them down for the full 45 minutes and were the better side," he told the club's website.
"If we can keep bringing that intensity and standard of play to our performances, then we will win games."
However, unbeaten in seven and fresh from four straight wins, Lyon is in formidable form and is determined to go all the way to the final which will be held at its own Groupama Stadium.
Among the other clubs which could secure qualification for the last 32 with two games to spare on Thursday are Dynamo Kiev, Lazio and Zenit St Petersburg.
Surprise Swedish side Ostersund -- coached by Englishman Graham Potter -- will extend its run in Europe into the New Year with the right combination of results as it visits Athletic Bilbao.
Meanwhile, in the midst of a poor run of form in Serie A, AC Milan is also in a position to progress to the last 32 with a win against AEK Athens in Greece in Group D.
But it must do so without Argentina midfielder Lucas Biglia, who has been ruled out with a knee problem.
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The Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact
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04 the elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour;
05 the effective abolition of child labour; and
06 the elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.
07 Businesses should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges;
08 undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility; and
09 encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies.
10 Businesses should work against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery.
The German Global Compact Network (DGCN) currently comprises more than 800 participants - around 740 of which are companies from DAX to SMEs, as well as 60 representatives from civil society, academia and the public sector. With the aim of initiating change processes in companies and strategically anchoring sustainability, the DGCN focuses on the topics of human rights & labor standards, environment & climate, corruption prevention as well as reporting and the SDGs.
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This month and next, August/September 2021, we celebrate some of the great, local printmakers we have right here in Sussex.
The four Sussex Printmakers we want to highlight are:
Nick Bodimeade - etchings, dry points and woodcuts
Patrick Edgeley - Pop-Art screen prints
Tom Hammick - etchings, dry points and woodcuts
Phil Tyler - etchings, woodcuts and screen prints
Before we look at some of their work, let's explore the process of printmaking.
Why do artists create prints?
There are several reasons why:
Creating an original print (see below) makes an artist's work accessible to more people, and also those who may not be able to afford a painting. Generally an artist's editions are priced at 15-30% of the cost of an equivalent sized painting.
Artists use the various techniques as a challenge. Working in any one of the various printmaking techniques (etching, dry point, woodcut, lithography, screen print, etc) can be quite difficult, especially if you choose to create an 'edition variable' where each print in the series is slightly different from the others. (Tom Hammick often produces edition variables)
The particular print medium chosen can provide the result the artist is looking for in the final artwork: This could be the transparent inks chosen, the layering of tissue (chin colle) or the depth that can be achieved in etching. So even if the subject chosen is the same as a painting, the editions version can yield appreciably different results. (see Phil Tyler’s Downland paintings and prints)
As a consequence of (3) above, some artists choose to work with print techniques in parallel to painting so that the two mediums can benefit each other. (see Nick Bodimeade’s Beach series)
An artist may only produce original prints, see the work of Patrick Edgeley where he pushes the boundaries of screen printing with multiple layers, glazes and metallics.
Finally, it could be that the artist has found a print making studio or publisher that they enjoy working with. This relationship can be fruitful for all parties, especially when there is an interchange of ideas.
What is an Original Print?
An original print is a unique work of art created in an edition, series or multiple printed by hand, either by the artist or by a professional assistant (often called an artisan), from a plate, block, stone, or stencil that has been hand created by the artist for the sole purpose of producing the desired image. It is not a reproduction of another image.
Although there are a number of the same image in an edition, each numbered print is an individual part of the whole (and may vary to a greater or lesser extent from others), the whole series being the edition.
An 'Original Print' is thus actually one piece from a multiple work of art.
The artist traditionally keeps a separate group of prints aside from the edition marked as artist's proofs, normally about ten or less. These are marked AP, sometimes with an edition number after (such as: AP 2 / 5) to indicate how many AP's there are.
In addition when developing the image an artist may pull many experimental images before modifying the plates to achieve the finished product. These are referred to as state proofs, trial proofs, or color proofs. When the image is finally perfected the printer's proof or 'Bon-a-Tirer' (signed BAT or PP) is pulled. This is the image that the rest of the edition is matched to and there is only one of these. The artisan printer traditionally gets to keep the printer's proof.
Sometimes a print 'edition' is produced as a reproduction of a painting using a digital image of the original artwork. These are 'giclee' or digital prints, which although use good inks and are printed on archival paper are not what we would describe as an Original Print.
Reproduction editions are not considered 'Fine Art' and in fact many Art Fairs and galleries refuse to allow them. It should be noted that there is an exception: Where the artwork has been produced digitally, for example on a computer or iPad/iPhone (as by Hockney) then a digital or giclee print might be the only way the image can be printed as a limited edition.
The four printmakers we are looking at here all make Original Prints and have a hand in printing them themselves (completely in most cases).
How big should an edition be?
A limited edition series of prints has a value because of the quantity produced/published is fixed. Once that number have been made/sold then no more can be done and often the plate is destroyed or marked with a cross (in the case of a metal plate).
Artists can, and sometimes do, create an 'open' edition where the number is not limited.
This might be to produce a work that is cheaper than a normal edition, to make a work that is widely available or to promote the artist's limited edition work.
Buy limiting the quantity, the artist can create a scarcity in the work. This can set the value when sold and help maintain or increase the value in the secondary market. Indeed, often when a print is first sold the price increases as the edition sells out.
They smaller the edition size the better (the more scarce the series is), and so in theory also the more valuable.
A quantity of 250 or more may be considered large, 100 or less is a better number. There may be reasons that the artist or publisher opt for a high number and this may be due to the artist's fame and the fact that they now demand will be high.
Many emerging contemporary artists like the ones above, produce editions of 50 or less, even as low as 5.
This might be because they prefer to keep to low edition numbers, but also because of the technique used.
Below we look at each of the artists in turn with a selection of their editions, to view ALL available works by all four go to Sussex Printmakers in our Editions Shop.
Nick Bodimeade is based near Lewes and creates paintings and some prints.
His painting subjects include landscapes and his popular Beach series of works. For his printmaking Nick Bodimeade likes to be more experimental as exemplified with his Beach, Chair & Lurcher series of editions. With these woodcuts he is pushing the boundaries to see how he can represent his subject in different ways.
He also produces some etchings and dry points some with chin colle.
See the small selection below, click on an image to find out more or view all of Nick Bodimeade's available editions here.
Patrick Edgeley creates limited edition Pop Art screen prints that employ bold, hand drawn text and imagery. Americana, signs, packaging and pop culture are a great influence in these hand printed works.
A love for all things typographical can be seen through out Edgeley's screen prints, something that stems from his many years work as a graphic designer. The screen prints are produced in short, limited edition runs.
Patrick Edgeley carefully creates is editions, with many layers including metals and glazes to complete each image.
See the small selection below, click on an image to find out more or view all of Patrick Edgeley's available editions here.
Tom Hammick is an award winning painter/printmaker who describes the landscape in his work as a metaphor to explore an “imaginary and mythological dreamscape.”
He draws from a wide range of sources, including Japanese woodblock prints & Northern European Romantic painting and contemporary cinema.
Tom Hammick’s ‘visionary’ images of isolated human dwellings grounded in uncanny dream-like settings summon the uneasy atmosphere of a psychologically-charged thriller, or a dystopian suburban nightmare.
His works is characterised by myth, woven together with personal memory, as well as his mesmeric use of colour, vivid outlines and expressive mark-making.
See the small selection below, click on an image to find out more or view all of Tom Hammick's available editions here.
Phil Tyler is a versatile painter/printmaker.
With thirty years of teaching experience, Phil Tyler is currently senior lecturer at the University of Brighton, School of Art and Media.
He has written several books on drawing and painting the nude and the landscape.
Phil Tyler has appeared on both Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year and also Portrait Artist of the Year.
On top of all that he is also a practising professional artist whose work covers the South Downs, Self Portraits and Still Life.
See the small selection below, click on an image to find out more or view all of Phil Tyler's available editions here.


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This lighthouse never was staffed by keepers; it was operated remotely from Poe Reef Light. On Sept. 30, 2017 the federal government sold the lighthouse at auction for $133,333 to a private individual.
Height of Focal Plane: 55
Description of Tower: White, cylindrical steel tower with red lantern, on roof of fog signal building.
This light is operational
Intergral fog signal building.
Date Established: 1930
Date Present Tower Built: 1930
Optics: 1930: Fourth order Fresnel lens; now 250 mm.
Fog Signal: Originally diaphone horn.
Current Use: Active aid to navigation.
Open To Public? No.
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08/27/2013 (Tuesday)- Win/Win (?)
Today my grandfather decided to give me tips on properly driving my car, which is stick shift. He tells me that I should be smoother shifting between gears, and then decides to show me how.
My grandfather is half-blind (macular degeneration), half-deaf, and more stubborn than a horny teenage bull.
“Fuck it,” I said as I slid into the passenger’s seat.
We stopped at every shadow cast by a tree/lamp/house on the street, we almost hit every trash can lining our neighborhood, and jumped at least three curbs.
He’s happy to finally drive again.
I’m happy we didn’t kill anyone.
07/15/2013 (Monday)- Norm
Each morning I stare in to my mirror, a masked face gazes back at me. It’s a simple mask: white, smooth porcelain, with two slits for the eyes. My guardians asked me to wear it, Society demanded that I make it a habit.
I’ve forgotten the face under it, I wonder if I truly even knew it. I can’t remember when I started wearing the mask, when I started hiding myself.
There are people that have taken it off: deviants, heretical freaks, aberrant perverts. Society mocks them every chance she gets.
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| Shourie: Reality check
Calcutta, Dec. 24: The target of raising Rs 12,000 crore from disinvestment in the current financial year will remain elusive.
“We have mobilised Rs 3,350 crore in the first nine months but do not expect to achieve the goal in the current financial year. The three-month delay in BPCL and HPCL sale has delayed the divestment process,” disinvestment minister Arun Shourie said here today.
He was in the city to address members of Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) on development in the north-east as the minister in-charge of the region’s affairs.
On a note of optimism, he said the next meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Disinvestment (CCD) would work out modalities of selling Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL).
Shourie said the meeting, to be held at the Prime Minister’s convenience, will take decisions on the appointment of global advisors for HPCL, and the quantum of shares to be sold in the planned BPCL floatation.
There is agreement within the ruling coalition that a part of the government’s stake in HPCL should be offered to a strategic partner. By contrast, BPCL would be privatised by issuing additional shares in the market.
The disinvestment ministry, Shourie said, has apprised the petroleum ministry — which holds the reins of the two companies — about its views on the selloff.
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“You’re a life worker,” my child recently said to me. We were jogging along a sidewalk when he said this, out for the hour of exercise that became our daily routine after the Covid-19 pandemic closed his elementary school. I asked what he meant and he said, “You make food for me and you go outside with me and you take care of my life. You’re a life worker, like a teacher or a doctor.” He had heard about “essential workers” in the news, I realized, and he was telling me that, from his point of view, I was an essential worker.
I would remember this term, life worker, months later when I saw video footage of the Wall of Moms in Portland, women who were leveraging the symbolic power of motherhood in support of Black Lives Matter protesters, chanting, “Feds stay clear, the moms are here!” In her 1986 introduction to Of Woman Born, Adrienne Rich warns of a tendency, particularly among white women, to idealize motherhood, to conflate motherhood with moral authority, and to participate in the kind of thinking once used to justify a “separate sphere” for women. But the mothers of the Wall of Moms were doing what some people once feared women would do if they were given the right to vote. And their protest suggests the potential of motherhood to radicalize mothers, which is what it did for Rich.
I felt the first stirrings of that potential over a decade ago, when my child was an infant. Shortly after he was born, I was walking in a park when a passing jogger stopped to ask me, “Are you a mother?”
It was a strange question, and one I had never been asked before. For most of my life until then, I had not wanted to be a mother. I had always feared what becoming a mother might do to me, and even after having a baby, I feared losing myself to motherhood. Matrophobia is not a fear of mothers, as Rich observes, nor is it a fear of your own mother. Tellingly, matrophobia is a fear of becoming your own mother.I didn’t want to enter the institution of motherhood. But I was already in it, and I had been raised within it.
“Are you a mother?” the jogger asked again. He was a graduate student, I would learn later, who was working on a theory that involved comparing motherhood to the hospitality industry, a theory that reduced mothers to hotels. I had no interest in being a hotel. I didn’t want to be a mother, either, but I wanted a baby. And there he was, the evidence that I was a mother, in the stroller that I was pushing through the park. The jogger changed his tack. “Is that your baby?” he asked. “Yes,” I answered, in relief.
Back then, I didn’t fully understand my resistance to calling myself a mother, but I understand it now, and all the more clearly after reading Of Woman Born. What I was resisting was becoming a role, rather than a person. I didn’t want to enter the institution of motherhood. But I was already in it, and I had been raised within it. Day to day, what I felt then about caring for my baby was exactly what Rich recorded in her journal when her children were young: “A sense of insufficiency to the moment and to eternity.” I was overwhelmed by the enormity of the task. Within the institution of motherhood, I felt every emotion Rich noted feeling fifty years before I became a mother—ambivalence, weariness, demoralization, powerlessness, and rage.
“I became a mother in the family-centered, consumer-oriented, Freudian-American world of the 1950s,” Rich writes. By the age of thirty, she had published two books of poetry and given birth to three children. Her husband was willing to “help,” but it was understood between them that the work of caring for the children was her work, and that his work as a professor was the only “real” work in the household. “I understood that my struggles as a writer were a kind of luxury, a peculiarity of mine,” Rich writes. “My work brought in almost no money: it even cost money, when I hired a household helper to allow me a few hours a week to write.”
I am two generations removed from Rich’s experience, and my understanding with my husband is that my work is as real as his. Still, as a new mother I struggled to do the unpaid work of mothering and the mostly unpaid work of writing while also doing the paid work of teaching, which subsidized my other work. And now, with childcare unavailable during the pandemic, I am once again struggling to do my work as an artist while doing the work of mothering. Rich’s predicament, as a mother who was also an artist, remains a predicament today. And what she did with that predicament, what she did with her rage and frustration, remains deeply instructive. Of Woman Born lays bare the cultural and medical and economic practices that define motherhood, and exposes how our everyday experience of mothering is shaped by this enduring institution.
The institution of motherhood, Rich writes, is superimposed over the potential of motherhood. This is the potential relationship women might have to our reproductive powers and to children. The institution of motherhood limits the full range of possibilities, and limits our ability to imagine them. “There are ways of thinking that we don’t yet know about,” Rich writes, quoting Susan Sontag. And so it is difficult to conceive of mothering outside of motherhood.
Motherhood, Rich writes, has no symbolic architecture. Other institutions—including the government, the military, the church, and the academy—are embodied in buildings like the White House, the Pentagon, the Vatican, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But motherhood has no central location. “Motherhood calls to mind the home,” Rich writes, “and we like to believe that the home is a private place.” But the home is shaped by public policies that govern housing costs and access to abortion and welfare payments and maternity leaves and child support. The home is sometimes dangerous, sometimes crowded, and sometimes full of discord. With offices and businesses closed around the world, the home is now a workplace for many people. But the home has always been a workplace, particularly for women.
The conditions of that workplace are determined in part by the institution of motherhood, which is upheld by an economic system where the work of caring for children is almost always unpaid or low-paid. The institution is upheld by traditional gender roles in which housework and the work of caring for other people is women’s work. By laws that restrict access to birth control and abortion. And by social expectations that burden mothers with the primary responsibility for the education, health, nutrition, safety, and overall well-being of their children.
Women’s lives are defined by motherhood whether or not we have children. This is not true for men. But men who have children find themselves illegible within the institution of motherhood. In an essay about raising a child with his husband in Berlin, the writer Ben Fergusson notes that most people who see them out in public assume that they are helping an absent mother. “How do we know?” he writes. “People tell us all the time.” Both men are caring for the child, but neither man is understood as fulfilling the role we reserve for mothers. Within the intertwined institutions of motherhood and heterosexuality, men are not expected to do “real” parenting, only to play a supporting role. This hurts fathers, but it also helps them. When Fergusson adopted an infant, he expected to receive a barrage of criticism and unsolicited advice that never arrived. “What I hadn’t realised,” he wrote, “was that it isn’t parents who are on the receiving end of this opprobrium, but mothers.”
Motherhood is policed, both informally and formally, by mothers as well as people who are not mothers—by joggers and judges and bystanders and actual police officers. I was once threatened with arrest while walking my child home from first grade. He was six years old and walking half a block ahead of me, a distance that a passing police officer considered unsafe. “This is neglect,” the officer said, pointing his finger in my face. My son began to cry as the officer shouted at me, and I was afraid. My certainty that I had not committed neglect was undermined by my certainty that I was guilty, in myriad ways, of failing the expectations of motherhood. When I asked, “Am I under arrest?” the officer said, “You could be.”
He was right, as my research into the question later revealed. In the state of Illinois, a child under the age of fourteen was considered “unattended” and potentially neglected if they were out of the sight of someone over fourteen, and my son was briefly out of my sight when he turned the corner onto our block. Such laws allow ample room for interpretation. And, given a police force prone to racial bias and excessive force, such laws are particularly dangerous for Black parents. I am white and middle-class, and the officer who threatened me with arrest walked away after I asked him for his name and badge number. I was free to return to my desk, where I then read newspaper reports about Black women in Chicago who had been arrested for similar offenses and had lost custody of their children in the process.
The institution of motherhood affects everyone, Rich argues, though it affects us differently. Black and white, gay and straight. Nobody escapes it, even those who do not have children. And everyone who cares for children, their own or others’, does work that is devalued by the institution.
Motherhood, when looked at as a set of laws, traditions, religious practices, and economic structures, appears to be designed to produce the highest number of new humans at the lowest cost. “The labor of childbirth has been a form of forced labor,” Rich writes of the centuries during which European women had no means of preventing pregnancy. Childbirth remains a form of forced labor anywhere where birth control is unavailable, unaffordable, or restricted by the state or the church. This “anywhere” is increasingly here, as state after state passes restrictions on abortion and a long-standing federal policy prevents Medicaid from covering abortion.
For many women, the forced labor of childbirth is followed by years of unpaid work, which is nothing new. In Britain in 1915, the Women’s Cooperative Guild published a collection of letters written by the wives of manual laborers. These women had five to eleven children, along with several miscarriages. “The women were not only pregnant for much of their lives, but doing heavy labor: scrubbing floors, hauling basins of wash, ironing, cooking over coal and wood fires which had to be fed and tended,” Rich writes. These women wrote of feeling depleted by childbearing, of struggling to care for their families, of finding that sex was becoming an unwelcome chore, and of wanting desperately to limit the size of their families.
“Procreative choice is for women an equivalent of the demand for the legally limited working day which Marx saw as the great watershed for factory workers in the nineteenth century,” Rich argues. In the United States today, where the right to a legal limit on the forced labor of childbearing is not guaranteed, women routinely face inadequate maternity leaves and the economic necessity of returning to paid employment after giving birth. A woman caring for a newborn infant at home is still not understood as being “at work.”
The work of motherhood remains largely invisible as work, and the economic contribution women make to society also remains invisible. “If American women earned minimum wage for the unpaid work they do around the house and caring for relatives, they would have made $1.5 trillion last year,” Gus Wezerek and Kristen R. Ghodsee wrote in the New York Times this year. Globally, women would have made $10.9 trillion, which is more than all the money made in 2018 by the fifty biggest companies in the world.
That was before the pandemic. Now, data from eighteen countries shows that women are doing even more unpaid work at home while many women are losing or leaving their paid employment. This is in a world where women were already spending, on average, three times as many hours as men doing unpaid care and domestic work. “Across the globe, women earn less, save less, hold less secure jobs, and are more likely to be employed in the informal sector,” the United Nations reports. “They have less access to social protections and are the majority of single-parent households.” This is the lasting legacy of the institution of motherhood.
In her 1986 introduction to Of Woman Born, Rich writes, “I would not end this book today, as I did in 1976, with the statement ‘The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.’ ” Women are workers and workers are women, after all. And our claim to our bodies, Rich writes, must be made hand in hand with other claims that have been denied for centuries: “the claim to personhood; the claim to share justly in the products of our labor, not to be used merely as an instrument, a role, a womb, a pair of hands or a back or a set of fingers; to participate fully in the decisions of our workplace, our community; to speak for ourselves, in our own right.”
By 1986 she had arrived at an understanding, informed by the Combahee River Collective, that sexism and racism and classism were all interconnected. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes that the women of the Combahee River Collective were “inspired by the national liberation and anti-colonial movements, from the Algerian struggle against the French occupation to the Vietnamese resistance to the American war. The C.R.C. saw themselves as revolutionaries whose aspirations far exceeded women’s rights: they aspired to the overthrow of capitalism.” Their struggle was, and is, the struggle.
In conversation with Black feminists, Rich’s grasp of the dimensions of feminism expanded. Rich wrote Of Woman Born at midlife, and it is the document of someone still in the process of learning and changing, the document of someone who was, as Rich put it, giving birth to herself. The book offers a remarkable portrait of self-interrogation, of an older woman correcting the assumptions and expectations that she accepted when she was younger. “I did not then understand,” she writes of her early years performing the duties of an academic wife, “that we—the women of that academic community—as in so many middle-class communities of the period—were expected to fill both the part of the Victorian Lady of Leisure, the Angel in the House, and also of the Victorian cook, scullery maid, laundress, governess, and nurse.”I recognize how easy it is to blame a mother for what motherhood has done to her.
Sexist hierarchies, as Rich observes, are akin to class structures. “Engels is correct in his famous statement that in the patriarchal family the husband is the bourgeois and the wife and children the proletariat,” she writes. “But each is something more to each, something which both cements and can outlast economic bondage.” Mothers are more to our families than just workers, and that is the bind. We are lashed to this institution by our own attachments and our own desires. The emotional experience of mothering is among the richest possibilities that motherhood offers. But everything we feel for our children—the tenderness, the awe and delight—can become entangled with everything we feel about the institution of motherhood. That institution is so diffuse, so widespread, so lacking a central office, so without an identifiable authority, that the rage we feel about being trapped within it is sometimes directed, for lack of another outlet, at our own children.
“Every mother has known overwhelming, unacceptable anger at her children,” Rich writes. I’m grateful to her for recognizing this anger, and for knowing that it is shared. What Rich gives us, as mothers, is a model for understanding our own anger in context. Once we understand this anger, it can become useful. “Every woman has a well-stocked arsenal of anger potentially useful against those oppressions, personal and institutional, which brought that anger into being,” Audre Lorde says. One of the uses of anger, she suggests, is undoing the conditions that produced that anger.
“When I think of the conditions under which my mother became a mother,” Rich writes, “the impossible expectations . . . my anger at her dissolves into grief and anger for her.” Here I recognize my own anger and grief, my mother and myself. And I recognize how easy it is to blame a mother for what motherhood has done to her. “Easier by far,” Rich writes, “to hate and reject a mother outright than to see beyond her to the forces acting upon her.”
I have, as a mother, hated myself. I’ve hated my own barely suppressed desire to perform the role perfectly, to outdo my own mother, to somehow transcend my real limitations as a real person. I’ve hated my anger and frustration. I’ve feared that I will burst into flames, and that my rage will burn my family or scar my child. I’ve been ashamed of my rage, and I’ve regarded it as something that I must dampen and stifle, or at least limit to a controlled burn.
“Most women have not developed tools for facing anger constructively,” Lorde observes. This might be particularly true for white women. Lorde speaks of the symphony of anger that women of color are raised within and how “we have had to learn to orchestrate those furies so that they do not tear us apart.” Anger, like any other instrument, must be practiced and mastered if it is to be played well.
Rich’s embrace of rage, like Lorde’s, is liberating. She writes openly about the violence women are capable of doing, of mothers who have taken butcher knives to their own children, but she does not condemn our anger as mothers. She insists, instead, that we follow our anger back to its source, so that we can harness its transformative power. “Female anger,” Rich writes, “is a threat to the institution of motherhood.” If we want to destroy the institution, we cannot deny ourselves this anger.
“To destroy the institution is not to abolish motherhood,” Rich clarifies. “It is to release the creation and sustenance of life into the same realm of decision, struggle, surprise, imagination, and conscious intelligence, as any other difficult, but freely chosen work.” In Of Woman Born, Rich reveals how fundamental this struggle is. We want, as mothers, to be real people, with real choices. And we want our work to be real work. It may be dispiriting that this struggle, undertaken by our grandmothers and women before them, is still ongoing. But Rich encourages us to remember “all that we have managed to salvage, of ourselves, for our children, even within the destructiveness of the institution.” We are, after all, life workers.
From Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich, with an introduction by Eula Biss, available via W. W. Norton.


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The novel, originally titled Tony and Susan, that inspired the major motion picture Nocturnal Animals, directed by Tom Ford and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams.
Many years after their divorce, Susan Morrow receives a strange gift from her ex-husband. A manuscript that tells the story of a terrible crime: an ambush on the highway, a secluded cabin in the woods; a thrilling chiller of death and corruption. How could such a harrowing story be told by the man she once loved? And why, after so long, has he sent her such a disturbing and personal message ...?
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Throughout the fall, Target said it will be looking for talented Canadians to fill a variety of store positions at its first 24 stores across Ontario, scheduled to open in March/April 2013.
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Specifically, Target will be hiring team members for a variety of in-store positions including sales floor, front end, assets protection, facilities management and human resources. Target has also begun seeking out pharmacy franchise owners to own and operate pharmacy businesses within as many stores in Canada as possible.
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WALES will get next year’s Six Nations under way against Scotland in Cardiff before bringing the curtain down on the championship when France visit the Principality Stadium.
The fixtures for both the 2018 and 2019 tournaments have been announced, with organisers keeping Europe’s premier international rugby extravaganza a seven-week competition.
There were calls from Aviva Premiership clubs to shorten the championship to a five-week block, but there will still be rest weeks after rounds two and three.
After hosting the Scots on February 3 next year, Wales travel to Twickenham for the big one against England a week later, as they look to end a run of four straight Six Nations defeats to the old enemy.
It is then Ireland in Dublin for Warren Gatland’s men on February 24, Italy back in Cardiff on March 11, before Wales round off the tournament on Super Saturday, March 17, against the French.
Wales will also open up the 2019 championship with a game in Paris on Friday, February 1 – the Welsh Rugby Union decided against hosting Friday night matches after the 2017 championship.
From Paris, Wales go to Rome to face Italy on February 9, while on February 23 England are in the Welsh capital bidding to make it a hat-trick of Six Nations wins in Cardiff.
The penultimate weekend sees Wales travel to Murrayfield on March 9, seven days before the Irish fly to the principality for the second of the three Super Saturday clashes.
“We are delighted to confirm the fixture dates for the 2018 championship, coming shortly after a record breaking 2017 edition,” said Six Nations Rugby chairman Pat Whelan.
“We enjoyed record figures across TV and digital and look forward to continuing that trend over the next two seasons.”
England, champions for the last two years, start their quest for a third successive title away to Italy on February 4 next year.
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The National Center for Scientific Research (Cnrs) of France paid a contact visit to the Institute of Geological and Mining Research (Irgm) on Wednesday March 16, 2022.
Scientists from one of the largest research centers in the world, based in France, plan to strengthen ties with those in Cameroon. A delegation from the Cnrs, considered the largest scientific research center in Europe, is in Cameroon. She is studying the contours of the creation of an annex of Cnrs France in Cameroon, which will serve as a focal point in Africa. It is thus a question of identifying the axes of cooperation in order to formalize the links.
In this perspective, the members of this delegation criss-cross the reference institutions and structures in charge of scientific research in Cameroon. To this end, under the leadership of the Deputy Director General for Science Alain Schuhl, the mission paid a contact visit this Wednesday, March 16, 2022 to the Institute of Geological and Mining Research (Irgm) located in the Nkolbisson district in Yaoundé .


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A Pakistani pretending to be a refugee in Germany who committed a vicious rape—and repeatedly bit his victim to try and infect her with hepatitis C—cannot be deported back home because Pakistan refuses to take him.
Criminal violence perpetrated by massed gangs of African invaders in Paris and Marseilles is driving foreign tourists away from France, with the number of Chinese tourists dropping by over half a million in one year, it has emerged.
Five more armed nonwhite invaders—all apparently legal immigrants—with European citizenships were arrested last week in Spain and Portugal while undertaking ISIS-related activities, authorities have reported.
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At least 25,800 nonwhite invaders pretending to be refugees and claiming to be “unaccompanied children” landed in Italy by sea in 2016—with the majority coming from Eritrea, Egypt, the Gambia, and Nigeria.
The United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM) has announced that over 10,000 invaders who landed in Greece and Italy have been airlifted to other European Union (EU) member states through the EU “relocation program” agreed to by the European Commission.
The Greek Minister for Migration, Yannis Mouzalas, has finally admitted in public that the vast majority of Third World invaders pouring into Europe via his country are not refugees, but “economic migrants.”
Third World invaders pretending to be asylum seekers in Hungary will from now on be locked up and not allowed to roam free while their applications are processed.
The Pakistani government has accepted back at least 266,412 of its nationals deported home from other nonwhite nations—but refuses to take back those being deported from Europe, it has emerged.…
Three Afghan invaders who pretended to be underage asylum seekers have been jailed by a Salzburg, Austria, court, after being found guilty of swindling the state out of more than…
At least 1.17 million Third World invaders pretending to be refugees—a population twice the size of Luxembourg—invaded Germany in 2015 and 2016, official figures released by the government have revealed.
George Soros Open Society Institute-funded organizations in Hungary which have been promoting the Third World invasion of Europe will soon be fully audited and their activities exposed in public.
More than 1.1 million nonwhite invaders pretending to be refugees lodged claims for “asylum” in Europe during the first eleven months of 2016, just 130,000 less than for the same period in 2015, according to new figures released by the European Asylum Support Office (EASO).
Austrian police have identified six Afghan invaders pretending to be refugees and living in invader centers in the city, as some of the culprits for the sex attacks on white women during New Year’s Eve festivities in the city.
A boatload of Africans who last week set sail from Sabratha in western Libya in an attempt to invade Europe, have had their hopes dashed by their extremely poor navigational skills—as after a three-day journey, they only succeeded in landing back on the Libyan coast.
A new case of an invader who used a fake passport to enter and claim “refuge” in Britain—and who is now being given thousands in cash by the state as…
The now annual New Year’s Eve car arson rampage in France’s major cities—carried out by gangs of nonwhite invaders for “fun”—saw at least 945 vehicles burned out, a 17 percent increase over the previous year’s “festivities.”


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Kimberly-Clark trimmed its adjusted profit outlook to $4.80 to $4.90 a share. It previously said earnings would come in toward the lower end of the range of $4.80 to $5.05 a share.
The company said it expects revenue in 2011 to rise 4% to 6%. It previously expected a revenue increase of 5% to 7%.
Third-quarter earnings fell 8% from a year earlier to $432 million, or $1.09 a share. Adjusted earnings were $1.26 a share, in line with analysts' estimates. Revenue increased 8% to $5.38 billion as the company was forced to raise prices to help offset a rise in commodities costs."Our focus on targeted growth initiatives, revenue realization and cost reduction allowed us to overcome significant input cost inflation and softer-than-expected demand in portions of the developed markets," said Chairman and CEO Thomas Falk, in a statement. The company said it expects key cost inputs of $575 million to $625 million compared to a previous assumption of $650 to $750 million, primarily because of lower pulp costs. But the costs are still higher than a year earlier, and Kimberly-Clark said it still expects to raise prices through the fourth quarter. Shares of Kimberly-Clark fell 5%, or $3.64, to $69.36. The stock year to date is up almost 16%. -- Written by Joseph Woelfel
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Bill Gates says ending COVID-19 pandemic 'easier' than solving climate change
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions takes the collective effort of governments around the world, Gates said.
Microsoft co-founder and billionaire climate activist Bill Gates on Sunday claimed that eradicating climate change would be harder than ending the coronavirus pandemic.
Gates, who has funneled millions into coronavirus relief efforts over the past year, told the BBC that ending the pandemic is "very, very easy" in comparison to the climate crisis, which will get worse unless governments worldwide aid in this effort.
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In fact, Gates said that funding a solution to climate change would "the most amazing thing humanity has ever done."
Currently, the world emits about 50 billion tonnes of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere each year. The goal is to lower emissions net zero, which means attaining an equal balance between the greenhouse gases that are put into the atmosphere and the greenhouse gases that are taken out.
Cutting these emissions takes the collective effort of governments around the world, he argued.
"We need to have price signals to tell the private sector that we want green products," Gates said.
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Governments will not only have to heavily invest in the research and development of new green products but they will also have to allow for these products and technologies to grow in the market, the outlet reported.
Although this effort takes more than just one person, Gates said during an interview on CBS' "60 minutes" that he is paying $7 million a year to offset his own carbon footprint.
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Aside from his own efforts, Gates is encouraging others -- if they can afford to do so -- to buy carbon offsets and green products which may get move the world closer to net-zero emissions. His hope is that in doing so, the production cost for reducing carbon emissions will decline while the quality of products will increase.
Although it will be hard, Gates said it isn't impossible.
"There are days when it looks very hard," he said. "If people think it's easy, they're wrong. If people think it's impossible they're wrong."


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Welcome to the Oulipo-Lab!
Calling all writers! We are looking for experimenters to work in our lab. We don’t, however, test with chemicals or dissect frogs. We use words. Language. Inspired by the Oulipo group of French writers and mathematicians founded in 1960, our mission is to bring poetic constraints and techniques to a wider audience. To show that playing with the written (or typed) word can be fun, inventive, and oftentimes surprising.
There is a guide for some of the more popular Oulipian techniques further down. Each issue will also feature explanations and how-to guides for the most popular techniques, in the hope that this will encourage more writers to submit for future issues. We are not looking just for works strictly inspired by Oulipo. We accept anything that follows specific rules or formal constraints. Interesting variations on the Oulipo techniques outlined are also welcome. We encourage you to submit an explanation of the technique(s) you have used or your writing process, but if you wish to keep it a mystery then we have no problem with that either.
The spirit of Oulipo is playful and dynamic, so your work does not have to be polished or pretty. The important thing is to have fun and an open mind to be surprised by the results.
Oulipian and other techniques
Here is a quick how-to guide for a selection of Oulipo techniques for any writers who would like a prompt to start writing. For a full list of all Oulipo techniques, check out https://www.oulipo.net/fr/contraintes (just remember to translate the page into English).
These are just a guide. You can follow them exactly, but we also welcome and encourage variation on each technique. Think outside the box in order to change its parameters!
Although this is the Oulipo technique that requires the minimal amount of creative effort, it is often the one that yields the most hilarious and surprising results. It can be done by anyone - as long as you have a dictionary - even if you don't consider yourself a writer (though of course you are!). You can use online dictionaries and even online N+7 generators, but there's something special in holding a dictionary in your hands and the thill of discovery as you flick through its pages. The smaller the dictionary, the more variety in noun replacements you will get, as they are less likely to have derivates of certain words e.g. 'land', 'land-crab', 'landfill', 'landlady', 'landline'.
Method: Choose a text; it can be a famous piece of fiction, or any kind of non-fiction (political speeches, adverts, emails, etc.). Or start writing a piece of non-fiction: a blog entry, a 'To do' list, a letter or message to someone, etc. Find the first noun in it. Get a dictionary and find the noun that is 7 places ahead of it. Replace the previous noun with the new 7 ahead one. Repeat for all the nouns in the text.
This attitude, by way of excess, replaces the naming worms you would ordinarily say that would usually make sentimentality.
(attitude = attempt, excess = example, worms = words, sentimentality = sense)


A new puppet, object, and music spectacle about the politics of global healthcare in Haiti premieres at MIT's Kresge Little Theater for a two-week run from April 9 to 17. "Antiretrovirals and Water Refugees: A Living Newspaper on Haiti" looks at the past, present, and future of Haiti in terms of the politics of global healthcare, as refracted through the work of Paul Farmer's Partners in Health organization and its fight against AIDS. An updating of the 1930s activist docudramas called Living Newspapers, this show combines bunraku-style puppets, shadow theater, giant puppets, toy theater, video and audio sampling, and live brass music to consider the compelling global nexus of culture and history that is Haiti. The production will also feature a series of post-show discussions about Haiti, healthcare, and the history of American political theater.
Directed by MIT guest artist and puppeteer John Bell, "Antiretrovirals and Water Refugees" is produced by MIT's Dramashop, and features puppets designed by Boston puppeteer Sara Peattie of the acclaimed Puppeteers Cooperative. The production's wide-ranging collective of designers and performers includes MIT theater and visual arts students and staff, as well as musicians, artists, and performers from the Boston area.
Just as the 1930s Living Newspapers were an innovative American theater technique that allowed performers and audiences to consider the serious challenges of the Depression in a thoughtful and highly entertaining manner, "Antiretrovirals and Water Refugees" will examine the story of AIDS in Haiti in terms of the larger contexts of Haitian history and international politics, from the stunning complexities of the Haitian Revolution (the only successful slave rebellion in history) to the development of post-plantation agriculture, the United States invasion of 1915 (and its celebrated anti-hero, Smedley Butler), the accession of "Papa Doc" Duvalier, and the violent upheavals of the 1980s -- all of which, as Paul Farmer has pointed out, have had an effect on healthcare. The success of Partners in Health's antiretroviral program in helping Haitians with AIDS survive emerges as a positive sign for the future possibilities of global healthcare; but the persistence of the Haitian spirit, as evidenced in the stories of a Haitian family from the Central Plateau region, is the true hero of the play.
A special feature of the "Antiretrovirals and Water Refugees" performances will be post-show discussions about Haiti, global healthcare, and the 1930s Federal Theater Project. These include the following:
Thursday, April 9: Dr. Sonya Shin, physician volunteer at Partners in Health since 1996, including work in Haiti, Peru and Russia. Dr. Shin will talk about her work with PIH in Haiti's Central Plateau.
Friday, April 10: Professor Hanna Rose Shell, of MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society; and the director (with Vanessa Bertozzi) of "Secondhand (Pepe)": a 24-minute tri-lingual film about the materiality of recycled clothes that flow from the United States to Haiti. The film will be shown in its entirety, after which Professor Shell will lead a question and answer session.
Saturday, April 11: Members of RESPE: Ayiti (Research and Engagement Supporting Poverty Elimination in Haiti), who will speak about their partnership with the rural community of Balan, Haiti and the launch of the grassroots community health clinic in Balan this summer.
Wednesday, April 15: Kate Greene, Haiti Finance Manager, Partners in Health.
Thursday, April 16: Susan Quinn, author of "Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times," a presentation and discussion of historic film and slides from the Federal Theatre Project (sponsored by the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT).
John Bell is a member of the Obie-Award-winning Brooklyn-based theater company Great Small Works, a Fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and Director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut. Sara Peattie's designs for Puppeteers' Cooperative puppet spectacles large and small have been a feature of Boston's First Night Parades for many years, and a central element in the creation of community-based spectacles across the United States from Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival to the Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival.


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A temperature monitoring arrangement for an electro-thermal ice protection system is provided for a slat of an aircraft wing, incorporating heater mats of composite material, wherein, in order to avoid or at least substantially reduce some of the problems associated with use of discrete temperature sensing elements, one or more optical fiber temperature sensors are embedded within the heater mats for sensing an overheating condition of each mat. Advantageously, a control system is used to monitor the temperature of the mats, and adjusts power supplied, or switches off power, in response to detection of an overheating condition.
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This is the U.S. National Phase of PCT/GB2008/051133, filed Nov. 28, 2008, which claims priority to British Application No. 0723440.4, filed Nov. 30, 2007, and European Application No. 07270068.5, filed Nov. 30, 2007, the entire contents of all of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention concerns improvements relating to temperature monitoring for detecting overheating conditions in electro-thermal ice protection systems for aircraft.
Large commercial transport aircraft have traditionally utilised hot-air ice protection systems. The hot-air is supplied via bleed from the engines. Commonly hot-air systems do not employ temperature monitoring equipment. Electro-thermal heater systems previously have been widely used to provide ice protection to areas such as engine inlets and helicopter rotors. It has been proposed to use electrically powered heater mats integrated into the wing structure to provide electro-thermal ice protection in the Boeing 787 Airliner. Temperature monitoring of such heater mats is necessary.
Wing structures have been traditionally of metallic construction but there is an increasing trend towards the use of composite materials. Electro-thermal heater mats are either bonded onto a metallic structure or are built directly into a composite structure. Composite structures typically comprise many individual layers of differing materials and properties. It is vital to monitor the temperature of structures incorporating electro-thermal ice protection systems to ensure overheat does not occur leading to potential structural failure, particularly in composite structures. In current systems, this is performed by embedding discrete sensors (e.g. thermo-couples, etc.) into the composite structure during manufacture or bonding them onto the surface of the structure.
Integration of discrete sensors into composite structures may cause many problems during the manufacturing process. Ensuring they are located at the correct location throughout the lay-up and cure process is problematic. Their physical size can compromise the structural integrity and their lack of robustness is such that there are often significant numbers of inoperable sensors after the cure process. The electrical connection to the sensors can be problematic with the added issue of electro-magnetic compatibility and interference. Additionally, during test and development (either full-scale or wind-tunnel) many more temperature sensing points are required to validate the design, which compound these problems. Given the problems associated with integrating each discrete sensor, known systems generally only monitor the structural temperature at what is perceived to be the single most critical location. However other locations, where temperature-related problems may occur, may be significant.
It is an object of the present invention to overcome or at least substantially reduce some of the above mentioned drawbacks.
The present invention provides in a first aspect a method of monitoring temperature for an electro-thermal ice protection apparatus of an aircraft, which apparatus includes a plurality of heater elements, each formed as a mat, and mounted in an aircraft part, the method comprising providing at least one optical fibre temperature sensor mounted within said part and sensing the respective temperature of each said mat, and determining an overheating condition of a said mat in the event of such overheating.
In a second aspect, the invention provides an electro-thermal ice protection apparatus for an aircraft, comprising a plurality of heater elements, each formed as a mat, mounted in an aircraft part, and including at least one optical fibre temperature sensor mounted within said part and positioned in or adjacent said mats for sensing the respective temperature of each said mat, for determining an overheating condition of a said mat.
The ice protection apparatus may advantageously be installed in any appropriate part of an aircraft, but a preferred location is the aircraft wing, especially the leading edge, which is vulnerable to icing problems. It will be appreciated that the invention has particular application to a slat positioned along the leading edge.
The use of fibre-optics and their immunity to electro-magnetic interference effects and lightning strike provide considerable advantage over traditional metallic connections for standard discrete temperature sensors. Additionally, many temperature measurements can be made at multiple locations using a single optical fibre with a single connection. This drastically reduces the weight, complexity and component count when compared with the equivalent electrical measurement methods which comprise multiple thermocouples, each requiring individual cables and connections.
Where a plurality of heater mats are positioned adjacent one another, a continuous optical fibre strand may extend through and between each mat. In some circumstances, it may be desirable to connect together with appropriate connector elements shorter lengths of fibre to provide a single continuous fibre length. The continuous fibre sensor can then be used to determine temperature at arbitrary locations along its length and within the heater mats, thereby giving temperature distribution information across the heater mats. This temperature information is used to monitor potential overheat problems within the aircraft part or structure. This distributed sensing capability not only provides potential safety improvements (by monitoring a greater extent of the heater system than possible using discrete sensor technology) but also may assist in optimising heater mat power distributions.
Typically, using known discrete sensor technology, structural temperatures are monitored at only one heater mat location (this mat having been estimated as being the most critical) due to the expense and complication of installing many sensor devices. Using the fibre-optic sensing approach in accordance with embodiments of the invention enables the temperatures of all of the mats to be monitored. Overheat problems in any of the mats may then be detected and appropriate action taken. For example, power could be reduced only to mats in an overheating condition, whereas, with a single discrete sensor, power to the entire set of heater mats would typically have to be reduced since it would have to be assumed that the whole array may be suffering a problem.
The fibre-optic sensor arrangement in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention passes heater mat temperature information back to an ice protection system (IPS) control unit via a direct connection within the system wiring loom or through a sensor system data bus. The IPS control unit is able to control the electrical power distribution to the individual heater mats. The temperature information from the heaters enables the IPS control unit to monitor for overheat problems and react by managing the power distribution to the individual mats. The ability of the ice protection apparatus/system in accordance with embodiments of the invention to monitor efficiently all of the heater mat temperatures is likely to enhance the safety of the platforms in which it is installed as compared to known single sensor systems, and allow a measured response to any identified problems. The IPS control unit additionally has the potential, with the more extensive heater mat temperature monitoring of the invention, to adjust the power being distributed to each mat to obtain optimal performance in terms of minimum power consumption for achieving a given level of protection.
In accordance with embodiments of the invention, added safety benefits of monitoring the structure at many locations may be realised, together with the possibility of using temperature information to optimise the heater power distribution. Conveniently, the invention may be readily employed in test and development (either full-scale or wind-tunnel), where many more temperature sensing points are required to validate the design.
It is to be understood that the precise form of optical fibre sensor may take a variety of forms. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, Bragg gratings are formed at intervals along the length of the fibre, so that reflection from each grating at a particular wavelength gives an indication of temperature at the grating. Alternatively, continuous sensing may be employed along the entire length of the sensor, monitoring light scattered from within the fibre.
Optionally, a fibre-optic (FO) based sensor is incorporated in a heater mat formed of composite material. The FO sensor is embedded into the pre-form composite material, comprising either one of the layers of a composite structure incorporating electro-thermal heater mats prior to the curing process or into the composite based heater mat bonded to a metallic based structure. The ability to incorporate the fibre optic sensor into a composite lay-up greatly simplifies the manufacturing process, as compared to using discrete sensors, with the consistency of location being ensured and minimal compromise to the structural integrity. Further, because the robustness of optical fibres through the curing process has been effectively demonstrated with fibres being able to withstand the mechanical, chemical and thermal environments which can entail typical pressures and temperatures of 80 psi and 200° C. for autoclave cured carbon composites, the problem of sensors going inoperable during the manufacturing process is minimised.
There is no standardised approach to fibre embedding in composite structures, with individual suppliers evolving their own proprietary approaches based on manufacturing trials for specific applications. In general, optical fibres are packaged in some way so that they may be easily handled by non-specialist fabricators. The packaging typically consists of a protective sleeve over the length of fibre. The sleeve must be compatible with the material into which it is to be embedded and ideally is made from the same structural fibre as the composite (e.g. glass/carbon fibre braid sleeving). Some suppliers will provide optical fibres ready incorporated into dry or resin pre-impregnated ‘Tows’ of fibre. The packaged fibres are then laid into the composite as it is laid up ply-by-ply.
Connection to the fibre-optic (FO) sensors can be performed at a convenient location using embedded FO connector technology, if required (see I. Read's paper on “Development and testing of connectors for optical fibres embedded into high strength composite materials”: International workshop on structural health monitoring, Stanford, September 2005). Optical fibres can be packaged with their connectors so that the whole assembly may be placed as one into the composite during lay-up. The end result is a composite item with an embedded optical fibre complete with semi-embedded connector. Other methods for dealing with the connection to the embedded fibre use trailing leads where the embedded fibre exits the composite material through the surface or at a suitable edge.
The above and further features of the invention are set forth in the appended claims and will be explained in the following by reference to a preferred embodiment which is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:
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The temperature of the mats as sensed by the optical fibres 14 is fed back to the control system to monitor and control potential overheating problems. As mentioned above, each fibre may sense the temperature continuously along the length of the fibre, or at specific locations along the length of the fibre by means of Bragg gratings. Commonly, sensing at a single central location for each mat will be sufficient, as indicated at 16. However, for initial testing purposes, it may be desirable to sample temperature at a large number of locations. Further fibres or further Bragg gratings may be incorporated to permit such testing.
As indicated above, detection of an overheating condition may cause the IPS control unit to selectively switch off power to the appropriate heater mat, and to nearby mats as required, or to reduce the power supplied. The system is completely flexible and any appropriate response may be made to the determination of an overheating condition. In a common configuration, as shown in
Fibre-optic (FO) sensing enables temperatures at all heater mats to be monitored. In the case of the detection of a single mat overheat event, power can be reduced to that particular mat. Depending on the location of the problematic mat, power to other mats can be adjusted to attempt to negate any impact on the level of ice protection. For example, upstream mats could assume an evaporative mode, or de-icing cycles could be modified to ensure ice is built up only on forward mats from which it can be subsequently shed. This mode of operation would be sub-optimal in terms of consumed power but would ensure continued levels of ice protection.
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It is to be understood that any feature described in relation to any one embodiment may be used alone, or in combination with other features described, and may also be used in combination with one or more features of any other of the embodiments or, any combination of any other of the embodiments. Further, equivalents and modifications not described above may also be employed without departing from the scope of the invention, which is defined in the accompanying claims.


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This paper discusses the structure parameters and the optical and luminescence properties of Cd1−xZnxS phosphor—a solid solution based on zinc and cadmium sulfides—that contains one of the following pairs of dopant ions: copper and silver, manganese and silver, or manganese and copper. The synthesis and simultaneous doping of the phosphor are carried out by colloid chemistry. It is shown that doping with two ions in combination decreases the crystallographic symmetry of the cubic lattice of the matrix solid solution. Broadening of the photoluminescence spectrum of the doped solid solutions is observed in the long-wavelength region. Doping the phosphor with copper paired with silver makes it possible to obtain white luminescence and to increase its emission intensity by a factor of 2 at wavelength 500 nm by comparison with the undoped solid solution.
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Dr. Janhavi Shah is a Pain Management Specialist and Palliative Care Physician in Malabar Hill, Mumbai and has an experience of 16 years in these fields. Dr. Janhavi Shah practices at St Elizabeth Hospital in Malabar Hill, Mumbai,Shah Clinic in Gamdevi, Mumbai and Godbole Hospital in Thane West, Thane. She completed MBBS from Maharashtra Universtity of Health Sciences, Nashik in 2004 and DNB - Anaesthesia from National Board Of Examination in 2009. Some of the services provided by the doctor are: Cancer Pain Management,palliative care,Sympathectomy and Diabetic peripheral neuropathy etc.
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All this incoming water will have devastating consequences for the area, where pricey real estate developments and clusters of billion-dollar tech companies may be forced to relocate.