If the disposal is plugged in and doesn’t need to be reset, then you should check the circuit breaker. The breaker could be flipped, which would mean your disposal isn’t getting power. If that’s still not the problem, then either the outlet is dead, the circuit breaker is malfunctioning, or the disposal needs to be replaced. Check the outlet first by plugging something else into it. If the outlet works, try replacing the circuit breaker switch. If that isn’t it either, you have to replace the disposal.
Knowing the difference between what can go down the disposal and what should go into the trash can save you an emergency call to the plumber. This is especially pertinent during the holidays when the kitchen is filled with people and the sink with dirty dishes. Practice these three everyday maintenance tips to help you maximize the lifespan of your garbage disposal.
With the garbage disposal shopping, I quickly learned that the big brands are Waste King and Sinkerator and that those were the two best places to start. After going over several models and two trips to two separate best buys (who, by the way, really need to amp up their customer service model) I cheated and had my mom choose one for me. Sue me. So she chose this particular brand, and wow—it works really well, I can’t believe how easy it makes my life. I can put bones, and tough food products down the disposal, and it makes cooking really simple. Go figure.
The easiest way to apply that force is to squeeze them together using tongue-and-groove pliers, such as Channellocks. You’ll need medium or large pliers to do this. Unlike prying on the lower ring with a screwdriver or hex wrench-the method recommended in most instruction sheets-squeezing can’t disturb the position of the sink flange and cause it to leak. Plus, it’s easier on the wrists.
The hub of La Torre's UK empire, Pavarotti's restaurant, now under different ownership, was even feted at Italissima, a prestigious gastronomic fair held in Paris. The restaurant was even advertised on the city's local tourist guides. Saviano further claims to have gone to Aberdeen and worked in a restaurant run by Antonio La Torre. The Camorristas operated a system known as "scratch" where they used to step up illegal activities if their legitimate ventures were struggling. If cash was short they had counterfeit notes printed; if capital was needed in a hurry, they sold bogus treasury bonds. They annihilated the competition through extortions and imported merchandise tax-free. The Camorra were able to run all sort of deals because the local police had virtually no experience in dealing with organized crime. Although they broke the law, there were never any guns or serious violence, due to lack of rivals.
2. Can my septic tank handle the load? Septic tanks are essential in the general installation and use of garbage disposals. If your home is hooked up to a septic tank, then the municipality that you live in may require you to upgrade your septic tank system if you decide to install a garbage disposal. A local building inspector will be able to tell you if you’ll need too. Also, you must take into account that you will be required to empty your septic tank more often.
A garbage disposal unit (also known as a garbage disposal, waste disposal unit, garbage disposer, or in Canadian English a garburator) is a device, usually electrically powered, installed under a kitchen sink between the sink's drain and the trap. The disposal unit shreds food waste into pieces small enough—generally less than 2 mm (0.079 in)—to pass through plumbing.
Running the garbage disposal without water or accidentally dropping items, such as flat wear or jewelry, can cause the disposal to jam. Food items, such as corn husks and potato skins, can also cause your disposal to jam. When the disposal motor jams, it can overheat quickly and cause the red button to pop from the bottom of the disposal. This stops the flow of electricity to protect the motor. When the reset button doesn’t work, you need to free the grinding plate or wall to release the jam.
Hang the disposal by aligning the three mounting tabs with the slide-up ramps on the mounting ring. Holding the disposal in place, turn the lower mounting ring until all three tabs are locked into the mounting assembly. The disposal will now hang by itself. Tighten the three mounting screws, ultimately tightening each screw a few turns at a time until the mounting assembly is evenly and tightly seated against the bottom of the sink.
Connect the connector pipe to the elbow and the adjacent sink. Use the connector pipe to connect the elbow piece to the T-fitting on the adjacent sink. The connector piece might need to be cut down to the correct length depending on your sink. Use the nuts and washers provided with your pipes to secure the pieces together using the tongue-and-groove pliers.
Even the most trustworthy garbage disposal will develop a leak from time to time; however, just because your food waste disposer has developed a leak does not necessarily mean that it needs to be replaced. Doing a little bit of investigating and troubleshooting before deciding to run out and buy a new garbage disposal can mean the difference between spending $10.00 for a replacement and $100.00+ to replace the entire unit.
Another common cause for a leaking garbage disposal is the disposal flange. A leak at the very most upper area of the garbage disposal could be the garbage disposal flange which goes through the sink. A garbage disposal flange should be sealed with Plumber’s putty and then tightened from underneath the sink. If this is not tight enough or if it has managed to come loose (which can happen) then the garbage disposal will have to be taken down so the flange can be resealed and then the garbage disposal can be rehung.


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Luxeslim Promeal Taro Hearty Meal Diet is perfect for your healthy and balanced diet as it consists Instant Oats, Collagen, Glutathione, and Ashwagandha with real flavor coming from Taro Extract. This drink is high with protein and equivalent to one complete meal, it also consist of multivitamins that can strengthen our muscles, boost our immunity, are good for our heart's health, and can help us achieve glowing and radiant skin. Taro Hearty Meal Diet is a perfect, handy-on-the-go meal!
Ingredients: Almond Milk Creamer, Quinoa, Spinach, Whey Protein, Taro Extract, Instant Oats, Inulin Fiber, Psyllium Husk, Glutathione, Collagen, Ashwagandha, Basil, Asparagus, Gotu Kola, Stevia
Preparation: Pour one sachet of product into 150-120ml of hot or cold water and stir. Can be consumed as a meal replacement at any time of the day.
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Trio of 2-A slew-rate-controlled load switches fit TDFN4, SC70-6, and TDFN8 packages
April 14, 2011 // Paul Buckley
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., has released three new single and dual 2 A load switches designed for 1.1 V to 5.5 V operation. Offering low switch on-resistance at 1.2 V for increased efficiency, the SiP32411, SiP32413, and SiP32414 feature a controlled soft turn-on slew rate of 150 µs typical that limits the inrush current, providing a controlled smoother turn-on transition that minimizes switching noise.
The SiP32411 is a single switch available in both the 1.2 mm by 1.6 mm TDFN4 package and the SC70-6 package, while the SiP32413 and SiP32414 are dual switches available in the 2 mm x 2 mm TDFN8 package. The load switches released today guarantee low switch on-resistance of 66 mΩ at 1.2 V input (105 mΩ for the SiP32411 in the SC70-6 package), with each switch supporting over 2 A of continuous current.
The space-saving SiP32411, SiP32413, and SiP32414 feature a low-voltage control logic interface that eliminates the need for extra level shifting circuitry. The devices offer a low quiescent current of <1 µA when disabled and 6.7 µA at 1.2 V, allowing for longer on-times in battery-powered equipment. When disabled, the switches provide reverse blocking to prevent high current from flowing into the power source. The SiP32411 and SiP32414 integrate output discharge switches that enable rapid turn-off of a load circuit when the switch is disabled.
The two load switches in the SiP32413 feature reverse control logic. The device can easily be configured as a two-to-one power source, routing two power rails of different potentials to the common load point. The SiP32414 consists of two load switches of the same logic, and is ideal for loads with dual power rails.
The SiP32411, SiP32413, and SiP32414 will be used in USB, SIM, SDIO, POL, RF, and Wi-Fi module load applications in wireless modems and portable devices including, netbooks and notebook computers, cell phones, GPS products, digital cameras, and eBooks. The devices are compliant to RoHS Directive 2002/95/EC and halogen-free according to the IEC 61249-2-21 definition.
Samples of the new load switches are available now. Production quantities will be available in May 2011, with lead times of 10 weeks for larger orders.
Visit Vishay Intertechnology at www.vishay.com.
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Last week Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ in China. Just like Samsung’s home country, China also gets the Emperor Edition of the S8+ which has 6GB RAM and 128GB of storage. Now Samsung is including Japan in its list of countries that gets the Galaxy S8+ Emperor Edition.
Images from a store in Japan reveals that the Galaxy S8+ Emperor Edition will sell for ¥119,800 (~$1076/7377 Yuan). Although its more expensive than the price in China (6988 Yuan), those in Japan get three color variants: Orchid Gray, Coral Blue and Midnight Black. Only Midnight Black is sold in China.
The Galaxy S8+ Emperor Edition has a 6.2” QHD+ Super AMOLED display. There is 6GB of RAM, 128GB ROM and a Snapdragon 835 processor under the hood. The rear camera is a Dual Pixel 12MP sensor and the front facing camera is an 8MP Autofocus sensor.
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The Gift Shop Bear
A bear is for life, not just for Christmas!
For most of the year, the little gift shop bear lives inside a box, in a dusty attic, above the gift shop. Once a year, at Christmas time, Annie takes him out of the box, to join in the Christmas festivities in the shop. Annie and the Bear fill the shop with fun and laughter, they help decorate the shop, drink lots of cocoa and listen to the Christmas carol singers. All the children that visit the shop want to take the bear home, but this special little bear is not for sale. He takes pride of place underneath the Christmas tree in the shop window. But, on Christmas Eve, the bear overhears a conversation that the gift shop is closing, and the bear is worried he might never see Christmas, or Annie, again. But the bear receives the most wonderful Christmas gift, as he finds a new home where he belongs and can be loved and cuddled, all year round.
The Gift Shop Bear by author Phyllis Harris is a charming picture book for younger children about a little bear and his friendship with a little girl, Annie. The book will delight younger children, who will relate to the story, as they experience the joy of unpacking their favourite Christmas toys every year, and the sadness when they are all packed away. Beautifully written and illustrated by Phyllis Harris, this is a sweet, sentimental and nostalgic story, and I expect it will become a future Christmas classic.
This book is a wonderful festive treat and would make the perfect Christmas eve story or Christmas gift.
Star rating: 5 Stars
Summary: A sweet, sentimental and nostalgic story, about a little bear and his friendship with a little girl. Beautifully written and illustrated by Phyllis Harris.

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Most of the forest here consists of Ponderosa Pine and Douglas Fir, intermixed with some scrubby areas with only occasional trees. Eagle Lake is very large, surrounded by wooded forests, and elevation is 5,200' so it is cool up here. It is really a beautiful place, but I will take more photos tomorrow to show you the lake and the bike path.
This fire was referred to as the Whaleback Fire, and it burned 18,000 acres o f Lassen County and Lassen National Forest in July and August of 2018. All four campgrounds in the south end of the lake and several small communities in the northern end of the lake were evacuated for several days. The fire came very close to the campgrounds and the communities, but luckily the area has few homes and almost no businesses. (Don't miss the interactive map link at the end of this posting. It shows a current fire east of this area.)
So here are some photos I took. This is the road leading west from Merrill campground. Very nice and green with big trees.
In the distance, you can see that this whole mountain has been burned. Note that the trees closest are only partly burned, meaning the fire singed the lower branches and the trunk of the trees but did not burn the crown and kill the trees.
Not all of this area is dense forest. In this photo you can see the lightly burned grassy areas. The lake is a few hundred feet to the right in this photo.
This area was mostly scrub, with a few trees.
Notice how the earth itself has been burned off these rocks. This area is highly volcanic, so I don't think the soil is very thick anywhere around here.
The fire must have been hot here because these smaller trees are black and dead, all the way to their crowns.
These bigger trees will not survive either. I noticed that they have been cutting some of the lesser damaged, but dead bigger trees and hauling them away for lumber. These larger trees might have good lumber in the middle, but the smaller ones in the previous are toast, literally.
Not sure what these shrubs were, but all of their bark has been burned off.
I used this forest road as a turnaround. The little sign points to a lookout about 9 miles down the road. On the tree just in front of the sign, there is a symbol for a snowmobile trail.
Here is what a "good" forest fire remnant should look like--lower trunks of big trees burned, but crowns green and trees survived the fire. Many of the older trees around here, by the way, have blackened trunks from old fires.
I am heading back to the campground now. This area is on the opposite side of the highway from the lake, and you can see where someone has cut and removed some of the trees that are salvageable for lumber. This was obviously the edge of the fire when it was put out.
A stump that has been cut and removed from this area. You can see that the center of the tree has unburned wood.
A few trees have been removed from this area across the highway, but the lack of stumps shows it did not have many trees in any case.
Another area right on the edge of the burned lands.
The next two photos show a shrubby area on the lake side of the road where it was mostly burned. No stumps from big trees here.
This is a similar area, but with very little burning having taken place. Green, unburned trees are in the distance.
Directly across the highway is an area showing no burning, but a variety of trees and a lot of scrub growth.
Photos of the campground in a couple of days! In the meantime, here is a website that shows the location of Whaleback fire and current conditions: https://www.fireweatheravalanche.org/wildfire/incident/50640/california/whaleback-fire
Merrill Campground is at the far south end of the lake, about three miles from the edge of the fire. Temps are very pleasant here with daytime temps in the 70s and nights dropping to 49 degrees, as it did last night.
If you click the link that says "Back to fire map," you will see a map with all fires in the U.S. Clicking on the menu link in the upper right will allow you to select a time frame and other parameters. If you zoom in to northeastern California, you will see a green icon showing a fast-growing fire north of Susanville and east of Eagle Lake. Neat!!! I did see a Cal Fire truck in a hurry today go past the campground with lights flashing.

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Solar for air conditioner is divided into solar cooling and solar heating. Solar cooling refers to the use of solar energy to provide power to drive the refrigeration mechanism to extract cold energy, and ultimately achieve air conditioning in the buildings. While, solar heating uses solar energy to collect heat and directly or indirectly provides heat for the buildings.
There are two ways to realize solar for aircon:
(1) Solar photoelectric conversion, cooling by electric energy;
(2) Solar photothermal conversion, cooling by heat energy.
The cost of the former method is too high,based on the current price of photovoltaic cells, under the same cooling power, the cost is about 4 to 5 times higher than that of the latter. In addition to cooling, the second method can also provide heat at the same time, and the utilization rate of solar energy is higher. The application of solar air conditioner in the world is mainly the latter method.
There are two main types of thermal refrigeration products: one is absorption refrigeration, and the other is adsorption refrigeration. At present, these two types of products have been better integrated in scientific research and application. The COP of absorption refrigeration has reached more than 0.7, and the adsorption type has also reached more than 0.4.
(1) Solar absorption air conditioner
The system mainly includes absorption refrigerator, air conditioning box (or fan coil), solar collector, water storage tank, automatic control system and auxiliary heating system.
Principle description: The solar collector absorbs the heat of the sun to heat the water in the water tank, which is supplied to the refrigerator after the water in the water tank reaching the set temperature, and provides heat to the regenerator of the refrigerator to heat the dilute lithium bromide solution, so that the water in the dilute lithium bromide solution evaporates and changes back to the concentrated lithium bromide solution, then enters the absorber to absorb the evaporated water in the refrigeration process of the evaporator again, thus realizing continuous refrigeration through such a cycle.
(2) Solar adsorption air conditioner
1) Using natural working fluid water instead of freon, which will not produce greenhouse gases and will not destroy the ozone layer;
2) Using solar energy or low-grade waste heat to drive without electric energy, which is saving energy;
3) During normal operation, only water pump is needed, and the power performance coefficient can exceed 10;
4) It has few moving parts, no compressor, as well as reliable operation.


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A vanilla cookie crust is host to a heavenly, yet sinful creamy filling, made with butter, chocolate, cherries and whipped eggs. Please note: this recipe contains raw eggs. We recommend that pregnant women, young children, the elderly and the infirm do no
INGREDIENTS (for 8 servings):
- 1 1/3 cups vanilla wafer crumbs
- 1/4 cup butter, softened
- 1 (1 ounce) square unsweetened chocolate, chopped
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons chopped maraschino cherries
- 2 cups whipped cream, garnish
- 8 maraschino cherries, garnish
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C.) In a medium bowl, combine crumbs, and 1/4 cup softened butter. Press onto the bottom and sides of an 8 inch pie pan. Bake in preheated oven for 8 minutes. Cool.
In a microwave-safe bowl, microwave chocolate until melted. Stir occasionally until chocolate is smooth. Set aside. In a large bowl, cream 1/2 cup butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Blend in melted chocolate, salt and vanilla. Add eggs, one at a time, beating 5 minutes for each egg. Stir in chopped cherries. Spread into cooled crust. Chill 4 hours.
Before serving, garnish pie with whipped cream and maraschino cherries.


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On Wednesday, Oct. 7, the State Finance Council approved Governor Laura Kelly's request to extend her state of disaster declaration. It was set to expire on Oct. 15. The declaration has now been extended to Nov. 15.
The declaration is needed for the state to receive federal support to deliver personal protective equipment, transport testing kits and specimens, establish and maintain COVID-19 housing and more.
The declaration is also tied to a number of executive orders, including the mask mandate that the Board of County Commissioners has affirmed. If no additional action is taken by the board, the mandate will remain in effect as long as the disaster declaration is active or until it is rescinded.

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Ghana's first lady Dr Lordina Mahama is using Mothers' Day to urge mothers through Africa to ensure they vaccinate their children.
In a statement released for Mothers' Day, Dr Mahama used the occasion to encourage mothers to participate in the Annual Vaccination Week by ensuring that infants and children receive the requisite free vaccination.
“We need to collectively prioritise immunisation as a key intervention to reduce child mortality. As President of the Organisation of African First Ladies Against HIV & AIDS (OAFLA), and together with my colleague First Ladies, we have joined hands to strive to achieve our common vision of 'making Africa a continent free from HIV and AIDS, Maternal and Child Mortality, and a place where women and girls are empowered to enjoy equal rights and opportunities',” she wrote.
On Thursday, the Sixth African Vaccination and Child Health Promotion Week was launched in Accra, the week comes on the theme: “Good Life, Start Right; Close the Immunization Gap” with the slogan “Stay Polio Free”, and runs from May 9 until May 13.
In a speech at the launch, Dr Mahama said "Worldwide, 1.5 million children under five still lose their lives annually to diseases that could be prevented by vaccines; this is unacceptable...we need, collectively, to prioritise immunisation as a key intervention to reduce child mortality.”
The annual event aims at strengthening immunisation programmes in the Africa Region by increasing public awareness on the importance of every person’s right to be protected from vaccine-preventable diseases.
In her Mothers' Day statement, she also wrote about President Mahama's campaign to end child marriage.
“As a mother, the practice of child marriage breaks my heart and so must it be to all Mothers. It also negatively affects the future of thousands of young girls across Ghana and beyond. I urge all Mothers to support the ‘End Child Marriage’ Campaign and join forces with Governments to end child marriage. Keep your children in school and allow them to climb the educational ladder rather than marrying them off.”


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Weight 258 gr
Carbon content is 75%
Shungite with a silvery tint
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Petrovsky shungite is a special offer for our customers. Petrovsky he named because even under Peter I was discovered by the magic properties of this mineral, and the king ordered all soldiers and workers to carry a piece of shungite with them to disinfect the water. Petrovsky schungite features a special porous structure that adsorbs all harmful impurities contained in the water - heavy metals, salts, organic compounds. You can use it in personal sweeming pool, for disign and protect your home and also like collector's item.
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Charles S. Roberts was arguably the founder of the modern war games, and indirectly the founder of role playing games and probably every other modern board game to some degree. His first games, Tactics and Tactics II, introduced the ubiquitous CRT, and his next game, Gettysburg, was probably the first simulation war game. He founded the company Avalon Hill to sell these …
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Anti-Semitic Anaheim Ducks: Jason Bailey, a Jewish hockey player is suing the Anaheim Ducks, the team that drafted him. “The lawsuit contends that Bailey was the victim of religious discrimination, harassment based on religion, intentional infliction of emotional distress and retaliation. It claims he lost income, benefits and suffered humiliation.” Bailey is now with the Senators’ organization. [CNN]
Johnny Football doing work ahead of the NFL Draft.
When Clay Matthews re-fractured his right thumb sacking Ben Roethlisberger in Week 16, my first thousand thoughts were variations (…)
The folks at MLB Fan Cave cooked up the idea for Cubs slugger Anthony Rizzo to take batting practice with actual meatballs.
Somebody has to take a stand against B-bombs.


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TWU highlights Free Speech on Constitution Day
Sept. 8, 2021 — DENTON — Each year on Sept. 17, Constitution Day is celebrated as the day the United States Constitution was signed by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
Central to the Constitution is the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment, which protects the freedom of speech. In part it states, “Congress shall make no law...abridging freedom of speech.”
This year in celebration of Constitution Day at Texas Woman’s, the Student Government Association, Residence Hall Association, the Civic Engagement Task Force and the Social Change Peer Educators have teamed up to host “Make a Sign, Stake a Sign!” on Sept. 16, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on the Hubbard Hall Lawn.
The event is designed to give students an opportunity to express their thoughts, concerns and beliefs while exercising their First Amendment right to free speech. All supplies needed to make a sign and make a statement will be provided. Signs will be displayed until National Voter Registration Day (Sept. 28).
“We want to help students understand and celebrate the freedoms we have,” said Stephanie Krauth, Ed.D., vice president for student engagement. “And what better way to do that than to help them find their voice on Constitution Day.”
To learn more about the U.S. Constitution and Constitution Day visit constitutionday.com or visit the National Constitution Center’s Constitution Hall Pass and explore their online exhibits and webcasts.
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Howdy. I see that the Interior department declared oil-drilling off-limits within ~100 miles of the FL shore. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010702/pl/energy_oil_leasing_dc_1.html
This got me thinking: there’s quite a lot of drilling (or possible drilling in FL’s case) for oil just offshore of FL, along the entire Gulf coast, in the Pacific offshore of southern CA, in the North Sea near the British Isles, and so forth.
Question: Is oil more common, or easier to get to, over continental shelves or other shallow seas than under the mainland?
(Or perhaps oil drilling is easier there because there aren’t all those pesky houses and such in the way…?)
I am not a geologist (IANAG?), but I used to work in a company that designs offshore oil drilling equipment.
Lemme tell ya, offshore oil drilling is WAY more expensive than onshore. A few years ago, it cost over five billion (yes, nine zeros) Canadian dollars to put ONE oil rig off the coast of Newfoundland. That amount of money would drill an awful lot of holes in Texas.
Nowadays, drilling can be directed underground: a hole can start out vertical and can be driven off-vertical - even horizontal. Drill strings can be miles long, so things like houses are not usually a problem. That one rig off Newfoundland will be able to drill about fifty holes fanning out for miles around, efficiently exploiting the oilfield.
Offshore drilling used to be done from piers build out from the shore. They only reached a few hundred yards from shore. Now oil derricks are mounted on barges, platforms standing on the sea bottom, ships and on purpose-built semi-submersible drill rigs. These can drill almost anywhere, but water depth is restricted to less than a thousand feet or so (that was a wild-assed guess). Most of the ocean floor is far too deep to drill.
It’s not that oil is necessarily more abundant in shallow coastal areas, it’s that that’s the frontier of oil drilling technology. Most onshore areas are already developed, and deep water areas are inaccessible - for now.
So I think what I’m hearing is:
Offshore oil is more common now, because onshore oil is less common now, because we’ve already pumped a lot of the onshore oil, which is why there is so much interest in offshore drilling even though its fairly expensive.
Is that a decent summary (as well as a fantastic run-on sentence)?
Great run-on sentence, and yeah, basically you got it. Oil companies will only dig up oil that they can make a profit on. There’s still lots of oil left onshore (in tapped-out holes and weird formations like oil sands, for example, and let’s not forget forbidden areas like the ANWR in northern Alaska), it’s just not currently profitable to get it. Heck, it’ not currently possible to get at a lot of it. But wait 'till oil hits $100 per barrel…
Hydrocarbons are primarily sourced by microbial marine life (and plants), so part of the answer is that we tend to look for oil and gas in places where there were oceans. A lot of those places are still oceans. That’s very simplistic; nevertheless, marine paleoenvironments are our primary hunting grounds.
Let me interject here that your run-on sentence, squeegee, was a pretty decent summation of the other part of the answer. The onshore locations were drilled first and, as such, the easier to identify targets there were exploited long before offshore drilling became economically feasible. So, for a long period when the offshore opened up, onshore exploration was more difficult; but still very much less expensive. The late '70s and '80s saw the development of the “easy” offshore properties.
But there’s still more to be drilled offshore, as we go further out, the data improves, new ideas (both geological and technological) develop and demand remains unceasing.
I work exclusively onshore these days. Our targets are generally smaller than they were ten years ago, but advances in techniques have allowed us to pursue quarry that were economically unpursuable (I think that may be the first time I’ve ever used that word) just a few years ago.
Seismic data is the primary data source for hunting, and, while offshore drilling is very much more expensive than onshore (which isn’t cheap - land rig day rates are almost 2.5 times what they were 2 years ago), marine data is much cheaper to acquire, and is usually (sigh) of much better quality.
So, yes, there’s a reason to look in the oceans and part of it is that the onshore U.S. reserves were the first to be exploited.
Hope this helps.
(Kamandi, I’m guessing you’re thinking of tar sands or oil shales.)
So beatle, when you’re hunting for oil, do you get to wear a safari hat? Or is it all done by looking at computer-generated maps in an office cubicle with a Dilbert calendar on the wall?
Nah, Arnold, that’d be old hat. Nowadays, when I con the workstation I wear a helmet with a flame paint job while the safety harness holds me in the chair (got a dead man’s switch on the mouse).
I’ve yet to spot Dilbert in the neighborhood.
Thanks, beatle, great information.
Why is the offshore data cheaper to acquire and of higher quality?
My WAGs would be:
- again, no intervening populations under the water who might object to some seismic thumping;
- other groups than oil geologists may also be acquiring data for other (scientific?) purposes, and the data is made available to the public, including the oil folk;
- There’s still low-hanging fruit in the offshore area for data gathering, where on-shore areas that haven’t yet been analyzed are less accessible.
Are any of these guesses correct, or am I wildly off-target?
Thanks again for your insights.
This may be getting off-topic, but what the heck, we’re already talking about geology and oil:
And of the places that are no longer oceans, some are now on or somewhat under continents, and some former oceans areas have been subducted back into the mantle.
Question: the land above/around a rich oil field is subducted: what happens to the oil? Does it stay with the continental plate (to return someday as what? Diamonds? Coal? Roof sealant?) or burble up to the surface somehow and stick around? Is a plate subducted in it’s entirety or are volatiles such as oil and gases released during the subducting ?
Sorry if this hijacking my own thread, but I’m curious…
You’re generally on the right beam. There’s a few reasons that include (for the U.S.):
• No surface damages to pay (makes a big difference).
- Onshore shooting (industry jargon for acquiring seismic data) often involves drilling holes for explosives or 'dozing senderos for vibrators, and you pay the landowners recompense; lumber companies make you buy the trees you have to cut down, but you don’t actually get the lumber, farmers you pay for their crops;
• Offshore permitting is not a problem while land permitting often is - that is to say that a land seismic acquisition program can be held up by recalcitrant surface or mineral owners while you can generally shoot anywhere you want in the water (which is all federal or state owned - no lumber companies or farmers to deal with);
• Offshore acquisition has far less culture to deal with - you might have to gap the occasional drilling rig or production platform, but cultural impediments to shooting are far less frequent than the onshore plethora of shopping malls, highways, farmhouses (oh, did I mention cities?)
• Attaining denser source and receiver coverage is cheaper offshore.
- The more inputs and samples you have, the better the data;
- The preferred source onshore would be explosives, and each shothole loaded with dynamite, pentolite, C5, whatever, adds significant cost to your program; offshore you just fire that airgun array again;
- Each receiver for an onshore survey must be physically planted in the ground by a paid human being; moving that array of receivers requires much human labor; offshore that array of receivers, once out, just follows your boat around and is on station whenever you fire the source;
So, improving data quality by increasing the number of source points and receiver points has a miniscule marginal cost offshore (typically an airgun source) compared to that of onshore.
• For a long time the primary targets offshore were shallower Pliocene and Miocene targets that were shallower than a lot of the onshore targets and, with the higher density of data as well as an often higher frequency content in the recovered data, it was easier to discern details in an offshore remote image than in onshore such.
• The higher density of data samples allows iterative processes, such as velocity analyses, a better chance of getting closer to the solution.
Good question. I’ve never worked active subduction zones and I don’t know the answer, but I’ll hazard a stab at it.
One of the hardest issues to grasp, I’ve found, for someone who doesn’t have some background in geology, is just how much time we’re talking about. The mechanical movements my colleagues and I discuss every day in whodunit scenarios took millions of years to come about. And some truly significant events took place in the small part of a day. A jagged timeline. You get used to it.
Well, the subduction of oceanic crust proceeds at a geologic (I think the common term is glacial) pace. And as that happens, whatever existing reservoir trapping geometry that might have existed will be breached as oil or gas sands are bent, broken, rubbed up against each other, etc. during the subduction process. While I’ve lived with the slow processes of geology, let me be the first to tell you that when given an opportunity, a methane molecule that’s been parked on a dead-end street for 65 million years can still get up and go. And will. Now. Today.
So I suspect late migration of hydrocarbons would occur around a subduction zone, charging whatever younger potential reservoir rocks are in the feed zone. As for the hydrocarbons that don’t manage to escape, well, I don’t know. Let me think about it.

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A few years back, I wrote a post about encouraging your child’s sense of personal commerce — mostly because my own daughter was a semi-hustler growing up and ended up starting an eCommerce business at a young age. When kids get used to the idea of creating their own income, whether that’s by pursuing outside forms of it or earning it from parents, it’s a great exercise for learning what life will eventually expect of them when their parents aren’t around to pay their way.
As a kid, the merits of calling most of your own (parents should have some say about it) shots while earning is a completely different feeling from a mom browbeating you to clean your room, do dishes, and take out the trash. It’s about resourcefulness and taking pride in a job well done while stashing away the cash or trading it for something special.
While the use of technology was burgeoning as my daughter grew up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, there were no mobile apps for keeping track of things. But times change. And while the debate rages on about whether or not screen time is the best way to let your child spend their youth, there is no denying that if we do permit a degree of it, a good middle ground approach might be to offer them apps that can teach them a thing or two they can use later in life.
Recently I became fascinated by a product (no, I’m not representing it or hawking it in any way). BusyKid is a mobile app and website that allows children to earn allowance and use it to spend, donate, invest or save, teaching them about modern money management. The app was created by Gregg Murset, a father of six. Once you buy the application, participation includes issuing your kids a prepaid debit card loaded with allowance payments placed there by you. Like us, kids can make purchases in stores or online with the card. But parents can also require that they save some of their money, donate a portion of it to charity or even invest it in the stock market — apart from the cash they might have fun with. In an increasingly cash-free society, it’s something they’re going to have to learn how to do anyway.
Within the app, parents use their own portal to list household tasks — from folding laundry to unloading the dishwasher to bonus allowance payments for getting good grades. And for jobs no one really wants to do, like picking up dog poop? Perhaps assign a juicier carrot to it. Parents list the amount of allowance each chore is worth and kids now have options of deciding how much they want to earn, perhaps within a certain dollar amount per week with some kind of minimum attached. Parents get to set up paydays, approve chores that kids have done (there WILL be do-overs, forcing kids to realize doing it right the first time has its benefits) and seeing when and where kids are using their money.
But here is the kicker. All this aside, the most interesting news about the BusyKid app was a study the company did to see how their brainchild was being used. Their research on an (informed) group of users found that girls were not being treated financially equally to boys by the parents who use it. In a world where researchers are reporting that women earn 82% of what men earn and would have to work an additional 47 days to make up the difference, how is it that pay discrimination starts this young and starts with us?
BusyKid discovered that on average, boys earned twice as much per week for doing chores than girls and were awarded larger bonuses by parents. Were these stereotypes perpetuated by their own parents, just as teachers traditionally tend to make a bigger deal out of boys’ accomplishments at school than often dutiful, studious girls?
Technology is great. To a point. But parents, their practices, and their attitudes are the drivers here. So how can parents discuss personal finance topics with their children and take steps to ensure they are providing fair financial opportunities for each one, regardless of gender?
I contacted BusyKid creator (father of six) and CEO Gregg Murset for his take on the study. “Ensuring fair compensation for your daughters and sons while they are at home should be easy, however it’s becoming evident that some parents didn’t get the memo. We don’t believe there is an overwhelming conspiracy against girls, but we think parents let the size of the job or the age of the child have too much influence on how much allowance a child gets for a chore. Whether your kids are making a bed, doing the dishes, taking out trash or mowing the grass, if you pay based on the chore and not based on the child, it will be fair. If the child does an exceptional job, give a bonus or a tip just like you would in the real world.”
He adds, “There has never been a more critical time for parents to talk with their children about personal finance. You don’t need to be an expert. You just need to be engaged to address the key topics of managing invisible money, building savings, student loans and equal pay in the workplace. Use current news headlines or family examples to help start the conversations, and parents shouldn’t be afraid to use their personal successes or failures to drive home the message.”
Original version first published in Psychology Today.
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Committed to the culture of innovation and the use of technology in government work, Two of Portugal's largest cities have launched projects to improve waste management. Braga adopted an electronic truck management system and Lisbon began using the Internet of Things to monitor container levels of fullness. This is to develop a more effective and efficient process.
In cities, Especially the major ones, Waste management goes beyond being a routine municipal task, It has environmental and health implications, and regulated by financial and economic criteria, and two political and legal frameworks, as well as social and cultural aspects, Especially with the global trend towards sustainability.
In Portugal, Municipalities spend millions annually managing the waste of each and every member of their inhabitants in highly complex and resource-intensive operations, Citizens throw garbage bags on the street for municipal employees to collect on specific dates. They often come across unfilled boxes, They waste time and money checking it manually. Despite the partial dependence of high-income cities on their citizens to pay fees to cover expenses, It's not enough, This necessitates the use of tax revenues to compensate for the shortfall, It turns waste management into a financial burden on municipalities.
To address these challenges, Two pioneering innovations were launched in Lisbon and Braga, To use modern technologies in creating a smoother and more efficient process.
In Braga, The Municipality's Water, Wastewater and Waste Company, Known by the acronym "Ager", an improved network for urban waste management, It is a new system based on a fleet of 23 waste trucks, And a smart board managed by an integrated automated system characterized by environmental responsibility programmed and loaded on modern trucks. In 2018, Aghir launched a project to adopt a more efficient logistics process. It has invested approximately €6.2 million. to install 4,400 waste containers above and below ground, It was distributed according to a map that ensures the presence of a garbage dump at a distance not exceeding 100 meters from any dwelling in the city.
In practice, Vehicles use infrared technology to detect, empty and wash containers directly without the driver having to get off the truck. The network also tracks the time it takes to unload garbage bins. To ensure that the work is carried out according to the plans set in advance. The technical team has developed an advanced analytics suite that uses artificial intelligence to monitor the efficiency of operations at any time. across a wide range of KPIs.
In addition, The network allows reporting of any malfunction that may lead to environmental impacts or health problems, Or for any case of misuse, damage or filling of containers. The idea is to create data sets remotely and send them to the Control and Analysis Center. This data is not limited to vehicles, It even includes the road condition, driver information, nature and quantity of the cargo. The system also analyzes driving patterns and drivers' habits to guide them to optimal behaviors and faster routes.
The management panel adapts intermediate measurements and representations, It is a type of equation that defines mathematical relationships in terms of arguments that make them simpler, Such as using a time medium to determine the location or speed of a moving object. By providing this data, The system assesses driving style and collects data showing the challenges faced by drivers, To develop training programs to overcome them.
The company has allocated part of the funding to complementary systems, As a biodegradable urban waste separation system. This serves the ambitious environmental goals that Braga intends to achieve by 2030, Having signed with 12 other European cities the Green City Agreement, which is committed to intensifying action to reduce pollution in all its forms, protect the environment and biodiversity, and promote a circular economy. Although the Braga authorities do not have a clear innovation strategy, It allocates a large part of its budget to launching joint ventures with public institutions.
In the Lisbon experience, The municipality has implemented an IoT solution to manage urban waste collection operations, It chose to install sensors that monitor the level of fullness of the container and send its readings to management 3 times a day to an application that adopts a mathematical algorithm, It analyzes the data it receives to predict future container filling behaviors and come up with the best ways to collect waste.
Using this solution, General hygiene teams can monitor containers across the city and respond effectively to unexpected fullnesses. Collect information on the quantities and types of waste, And update them on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. The Municipality of Lisbon has so far succeeded in supplying 1,500 containers with smart sensors. It plans to double this number, It looked forward to increasing the efficiency of operations and improving the investment of material and human resources.
In Braga, The smart system helps preserve vehicles and reduce wear and tear rates, It also allows for the reduction of waste collection circles, This means saving finance and fuel consumed and reducing emissions. Besides, Permanent follow-up increases the levels of safety, comfort and efficiency of waste collection workers, Most importantly, direct control of the workflow helps save cost and increase productivity. As innovation fosters partnership between city authorities and their local community, By enabling citizens to report observations and problems.


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[March 16, 2007] CHAMPAIGN -- A controversial Catholic theologian and priest will deliver the 2007 Thulin Lecture at the University of Illinois.
Charles E. Curran, the Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, will speak at 8 p.m. on March 29 in the Knight Auditorium of the Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana.
The title of Curran's talk, which is free and open to the public, is "The Church and Politics." He said he plans to discuss various roles of the church -- as teacher and motivator, provider of direct services to the poor, moral model, and advocate for the poor.
He also will be a guest on "Focus 580" on WILL-AM 580 on March 29.
Over a nearly 50-year career, Curran has disagreed with official church teachings on a wide variety of issues, including abortion, contraception, divorce, homosexuality and moral norms.
In 1986, after years of clashes with church authorities, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, headed by then-Cardinal Josef Ratzinger, decided that Curran was unsuitable to be a professor of Catholic theology. As a result of Curran's condemnation by the Vatican, he was fired from his teaching post at Catholic University of America. No Catholic university since that time has hired him.
Curran, a Roman Catholic priest of the Diocese of Rochester, N.Y., is the author, co-author or editor of more than 40 books, the most recent of which, "Loyal Dissent: Memoir of a Catholic Theologian," was published last year.
In its review of the book, the magazine America wrote: "As this newly released memoir recounts, at a relatively young age Curran became, by choice and circumstance, the most infamous American Catholic theologian of his time."
Curran also is the author of "The Moral Theology of Pope John Paul II" and of "Catholic Social Teaching, 1891-Present."
In 2005, Curran received the leadership award from Call to Action, a reform movement of 25,000 Catholics.
In 2003, he received the Presidential Award of the College Theology Society for a lifetime of scholarly achievements in moral theology.
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Breast-Feeding After Implants: Your Questions Answered
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Whether you already have beautiful, flattering breast implants or are just considering them, you may wonder whether it’s safe — or even possible — to breastfeed after your surgery. In general, the majority of women who undergo breast augmentation through one of the three standard approaches (under the breast “inframammary”, under the arm “transaxillary”, or under the areola “periareolar”) will be able to breastfeed after breast augmentation if they had the potential to breastfeed before breast augmentation. However, every case is different and there are many variables involved. While you should ultimately have this conversation with the surgeon performing your procedure, board-certified plastic surgeon Darren M. Smith, MD — one of New York City’s top experts in aesthetic surgery — will answer frequently asked questions about implants and breastfeeding here to offer a starting point in your information gathering.
Is breastfeeding with implants safe for my baby?
You can choose from a variety of types of breast implants, including saline implants, “structured” saline implants, and silicone breast implants. Even saline and structured saline implants have a shell that is made of medical-grade silicone.
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Does it matter where my breast implants are placed?
Breast implants can be placed under the breast tissue (the “subglandular” position) or under the muscles of the chest (the “subpectoral or “submusclular” position). Dr. Smith generally prefers to place breast implants in the subpectoral position for several reasons, including a more natural look and feel, a decreased risk of capsular contracture (abnormal hardening of the pocket around the breast implant), and improved visibility on mammograms. Additionally, since less dissection of the breast tissue is necessary when the implants are placed in the submuscular position, it stands to reason that there will be less damage to the milk ducts when breast implants are placed under the muscles than when that is placed under the breast tissue itself. Therefore, there may be a reduced risk of difficulty breastfeeding after breast augmentation when the implants are placed in the subpectoral position.
Does it matter where my incisions are?
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BOSTON — The small green bottles marched smartly off the conveyor belt at the rate of 70 a minute, their mud-colored contents partially hidden behind bright orange labels. Edwin White watched their progress, slightly bemused, looking like a man who is on the safe side of a practical joke.
``There isn`t a week that goes by in my life,`` he shouted above the clatter of the machinery, ``that someone doesn`t say to me, `You mean they still bottle that stuff?` ``
Moxie. Coke may change its formula and Pepsi may chortle at its gains, but Moxie simply carries on. Officially speaking, it is flavor No. 012033, shipped from Georgia in 5-gallon plastic containers that, when combined with pure Yankee water at seven New England independent bottling plants, each year provides half a million cases of a bitter, century-old concoction that usually makes first-time drinkers wonder just what went wrong back at the well.
``What This Country Needs Is Plenty of Moxie,`` the old advertisement proclaimed. If so, America is in deep trouble: Moxie, once the Ford of soft drinks, now accounts for roughly one one-hundredth of 1 percent of the market. White`s 107-year-old Simpson Spring Co., in an ancient, shingled three-story plant in South Easton, Mass., is the smallest of the remaining franchises that bottle Moxie from concentrate sold by the Monarch-NuGrape Co., of suburban Atlanta. He says each container costs about $350 and makes approximately 600 cases of Moxie. His own output is some 10,000 cases a year, which ties up his bottling line for all of five or six hours every month. (The company also produces its own line of soft drinks.)
Some of his lesser customers order only a case of Moxie at a time, and occasionally one of them cuts the cord completely.
``When that happens,`` White explained, ``he usually says, `Oh, the customer died.` ``
Still, this is a soda pop world--American per capita consumption has more than doubled over the last 20 years, despite inroads made by juices and bottled waters--and Moxie hangs in.
Its ancient history is as wacky as its flavor, from its first years as 19th-Century ``Nerve Food`` to its onetime home in Boston at a vast utopian bottling plant called ``Moxieland.``
Moxie production departed New England in 1968, but enough hardcore imbibers have remained behind to preserve its singular, isolated, regional audience.
``Moxie has persevered, but it hasn`t flourished,`` conceded Edward Clark, proprieter of Clark`s Trading Post in Lincoln, N.H., where tourists swill several cases of Moxie a week amid all manner of pre-1930s Moxieabilia. Clark is one of the organizers of Moxie Day, a celebration that will take place in Lincoln on July 14, commemorating the centennial of the drink`s trademark. This puts him in competition with something other than Bastille Day. It also places him in competition with the 5th (or so) annual Moxie Party, to be held at the Kennebec Fruit Store in Lisbon Falls, Me., one day earlier.
The organizer of this Moxie tribute is Frank Anicetti II, who also makes Moxie ice cream and has been known to mention the dark drink as a cure for alcoholism. (Maine is said to contain Moxie`s strongest supporters, although it is not known if there is a connection between this fact and Anicetti`s theory.)
At least one book already has been written about Moxie, and David Bowers, a New Hampshire author, says he is finishing a two-volume Moxie Encyclopedia, to be published later this year.
``Moxie is part of American culture,`` said Bowers, trying gamely to explain this major interest in a minor soft drink, or ``tonic`` to New Englanders, that many people assume expired along with the New Deal.
``It`s like the Model T: It wasn`t just an old car, it was part of the American idiom.``
The difference is no one buys Model Ts off the showroom floor anymore. Moxie drinkers, on the other hand, usually can find a few lonely bottles of their drink tucked away on supermarket shelves that are laden with Coke and Pepsi. In a business in which the heaviest consumers are under 40, Moxie tends to make its living off an older crowd.
``But there have to be some younger drinkers,`` argued Edward Crowley, president of the Polar Corp., Worcester, Mass., which bottles some 250,000 cases of Moxie annually.
``After all, a lot of the older ones have died by now. Actually, we figure we should have been out of business 10 years ago.``
Fan mail arrives from unlikely points. Antone Mendes, president of Manhattan Bottling Co., New Bedford, Mass., recently received a request from Alaska for a single case of Moxie. He regularly receives orders from retirees in Florida.
Said Polar`s Crowley, who once shipped two cases of concentrate to a government researcher who was setting up shop at the South Pole: ``These people are the most dedicated drinkers in the world. They`d stop a train to get the stuff.``


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film in her publicity campaigns rather than 'only' brood about her broken
relationships and accuse her ex-flames on various counts?
Or did the Hrithik Roshan-Adhyayan Suman-Hrithik Roshan juicy talk really pay dividends since it made people realise that Simran was round the corner? But then, why only Rs 12.06 crore over four days?
Kangana Ranaut And Hrithik Roshan In Krrish 3
Yes, that's barely the collection of the first 3 days of Simran.
So, this would be a never-ending debate---- but the point to be made here is that the film also let Kangana down. Most film critics didn't find anything worth praising except Kangana's performance. In fact, Kangana's ex Aditya Pancholi who has been at a big war with her recently even could not help appreciating her histrionics.
Hence, let's find out from distributors and exhibitors what they feel about this hypothesis. Was Kangana right in shifting her focus on her past affairs or not?
Did her marketing strategy on the film (if one may call that) work?
Exhibitor Akshay Rathi says, "I strongly feel that Kangana did a big disservice to the producers of Simran. She went out to promote the film and spoke everything but the film. What sense does that make in today's times when people come to the theatres to watch content and you don't send out messages about your content?"
Aditya And Zarina Exit The Theatre After Watching Simran
However Amod Mehra points out that, irrespective of her loud and brazen quotes on Hrithik-Adhyayan-Suman, Simran has already been sold to Amazon and T-series has recovered 75 per cent of their inventory.
"On the contrary, I think that Kangana's methods to publicise the film by talking about her personal life helped the film. There is a big section in the audiences which compromises of ladies. They loved whatever she spoke in the media prior to the film and they are going out in groups to see the product now. And I know for a fact that most women who have seenSimrant have showered only praises on it."
But Rathi disagrees with Mehra. He says, "Look, I don't think Amazon has given T-Series 75 per cent of their inventory. While a good amount may have come in, it is yet to be ascertained where Simran ends up in terms of life time earnings, At the moment, it doesn't look a big hit for sure. At best, Rs 20 crore in totality. Does that speak really very high about a film whose making including P & A is almost double of that?"
Ravi of PVR Juhu opines, "Why only Simran? We are not doing well with Lucknow Central either, this week. Frankly, we had no hope from these two films, so we are not taken aback or disappointed. As for the exact numbers of Simran at my end, I registered 22 per cent occupancy over the weekend- and that is certainly not great."
"If you are also going to ask me whether Kangana's personal life publicity misfired, I would again say that it hardly mattered to us. We were never looking at Simran as a revenue model," Ravi adds.
What do you think? Did Ms Ranaut downsize Simran? Tell us in the "Comments' section below
Image Source: Manav Manglani
Image Source: Manav Manglani


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September 3-9, 2018
Ladyfest Montreal is a celebration of funny people. Born out of a desire to showcase the hilarious and talented female comedians in Montreal and beyond. In two short years our festival has grown into a week-long comedy love-in. Ladyfest 2018 will bring together stand-up comics, improvisers, sketch comedians, and storytellers ready to take you by storm!
We include acts of all ilks, backgrounds and perspectives in our seven-day bash of merriment. In the spirit of inclusivity, Ladyfest 2018 will feature fellow celebrators of ladies and allies to the cause.
Our pal and mascot Narnie the Narwhal is a noble beast of comedy. Only 15% of female narwhals are able to grow tusks, which is comparable to the percentage of female headlining comedians in Canada, making Narnie our ideal host. We invite all funny ladies to sharpen their tusks on our stage and pierce the ice ceiling. Come cry laughter tears with us and bring out your inner bodacious sea creature!
Ladyfest wishes it went without saying, but we would like to explicitly state that we insist on a warm welcoming environment to all. One love. No jerks.


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The Energy Department's inspector general reached this conclusion after conducting a four-month investigation into allegations of misconduct by a senior official in the department's Office of Environmental Management, which supervises the Savannah River Site. While investigators did not discover specific wrongdoing -- the five allegations either could not be substantiated or witnesses provided conflicting testimony -- the IG did find a facility rife with tension and infighting.
"We encountered witnesses who testified that there was confusion as to lines of authority, responsibility and accountability; poor internal communications; a lack of coordination; failure to share essential information among key officials; and, insufficient follow-up on critically important issues and decisions," the report stated. "These factors appeared to have contributed to an unusual level of distrust and acrimony. Some witnesses described their colleagues and the actions of their colleagues in highly personal and often derogatory terms."
The three-page summary also cited concerns about racism and reverse discrimination, although the inspector general did not elaborate on those issues. The full report will not be made public, the IG said.
"Testimony provided by many of the officials we interviewed portrayed an operating atmosphere inconsistent with the objective of maintaining the credibility of, and public confidence in, Environmental Management activities and the Savannah River Site," the report stated.
The IG recommended that Energy develop a plan to improve relations and collaboration between Environmental Management headquarters officials and Savannah River Site representatives.
In a statement, Undersecretary for Energy Kristina Johnson agreed that "tensions have risen to an unacceptable and highly personal level and must be addressed. Moving forward, we all need to work even harder to promote an atmosphere of mutual respect among co-workers -- an environment of collaboration, cooperation and better communication."
An anonymous Savannah River Site employee complaint about a senior official in Environmental Management sparked the investigation. The whistleblower alleged the official engaged in prohibited political and personnel activities, including directing a $9 million Recovery Act payment to certain Historically Black Colleges and Universities "in return for something of value on behalf of a member of Congress." Investigators concluded the complaint was unfounded.
The Savannah River Site is of the largest federal beneficiaries of Recovery Act funds; it received $1.6 billion for nuclear cleanup and job creation.
The report did not name the Environmental Management official or the member of Congress. But The State, a South Carolina newspaper, said it obtained a copy of the complaint and subsequent allegations, which each named Cynthia Anderson, the head of stimulus work for Environmental Management. The member of Congress in question is Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., according to the newspaper.
The IG also investigated allegations that Savannah River Site officials were inappropriately asked to arrange meetings with contractor employee union representatives and to access subcontractor personnel files for data mining of demographic information.
Witnesses offered different accounts of the charges and of their potential ethical improprieties. The IG said Energy's Office of General Counsel should resolve the matter.
The final two complaints suggested Savannah River contractor officials were pressured to hire three specific individuals and to hold Recovery Act job fairs in certain congressional districts. The IG found inconsistent evidence regarding those allegations.
"Witnesses' testimony was conflicting and irreconcilable," the report said. "Perceptions, interpretations and recollections of these events as well as views on the intent of the individuals involved varied dramatically."
The IG interviewed more than 80 contractor and federal employees in South Carolina and Washington as part of the investigation and analyzed about 150,000 e-mails, the report said.

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FOLLOWING the death of four people in Madrid, the health authorities are looking for the source of the latest Legionnaires outbreak.
Traces of the bacteria, which has been spreading across central Madrid since mid-October, were found in contaminated cooling facilities belonging to the pizzeria ‘Danieli’.
And the Ministry of Health has confirmed it has sealed two cooling towers in the capital which had “high contamination” of Legionnaires.
But the next step is to compare the bacteria found in the towers with those who have been affected.
The ministry has also ordered the cleaning of five towers spread across Torrespaña, the Gregorio Maranon hospital and the headquarters of the Navy.
And to date 677 inspections have been carried out to determine the source and 137 samples have been sent to the Laboratory of Public Health.
There are now 44 reported cases of the disease which is caused by a bacteriological build-up in air-conditioning units.
The latest victim, an 82 year old woman died on November 2 at the Fundación Jiménez Díaz hospital.
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Senior leadership of the Shiromani Akali Dal on Thursday questioned the move of SAD legislators led by party president Sukhbir Singh Badal to boycott the debate on Justice Ranjit Singh (retd) Commission in Vidhan Sabha on Tuesday. The issue was raised in the SAD core committee meeting in Chandigarh on Thursday. A SAD core committee member present in the meeting said that senior leadership of the party, including Tota Singh and Prem Singh Chandumajra, were among those who questioned the move and said that SAD legislators should have remained in the House during the debate to counter the Congress.
After SAD boycotted the debate, Congress legislators, especially Cabinet ministers and Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, made scathing attacks on SAD patron Parkash Singh Badal, SAD president Sukhbir Badal and SAD legislator Bikram Singh Majithia in the debate which was telecast live and which continued till late on Tuesday.
“A number of core committee members raised the issue, but were told in the meeting that debate was boycotted because 14 minutes allocated to party were too little,” said a SAD leader. Meanwhile, the core committee decided that SAD would hold a ‘pol khol’ rally in Abohar, the home town of the Congress president Sunil Jakhar, and “it would show to them where the people of Punjab really stand”.
SAD spokesperson Harcharan Bains said that the core committee reiterated its outright rejection of Justice Ranjit Singh (retd) report. The party also reiterated its demand for “an inquiry into the entire issue sacrilege and related events by a sitting judge of the Supreme Court”.
The core committee meeting described the criticism of former CM Parkash Singh Badal as “cheap and vulgar” and warned the government to check those challenging the Akalis. “It is their responsibility to stop hoodlums from daring the Akali warriors. If they don’t perform their duty, then we will stop these goons and show to them where they stand. They are challenging the Akali heritage and they will know what they are up against,” said the SAD.
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Ferne Etta Sutton
b. 27 October 1890, Perry Township, Indiana, to John Ethelbert and Kitty Wells (Paddock) Sutton
d. 12 June 1971, Gibson City, Ford County, Illinois
m. 23 September 1912, Noblesville, Hamilton County, Indiana
b. 25 May 1886, Illinois, to Andrew and Katrina Maria (Thompson) Olson
d. 20 November 1953, rural Lyman Township, Ford County, Illinois
Children with Peter Olson:
• Vernon Arvid (1914-1991) married Pearl Ione Giroux
• LaVaun (1919-1993) married Joseph Demers
• Estol (b. 1921) married Mabel Henrichs
• Delores (b. 1929) married Richard Morrison
Ferne’s great-grandparents came to Indiana between 1802 and 1824. Ferne’s father, John Ethelbert, moved Ferne and the rest of the family to Lyman Township, Ford County, Illinois, and they were listed there in the 1910 census. When her family returned to Indiana, Ferne remained behind.
Ferne married a third generation American and they lived their lives in Iroquois County, Illinois, as farmers. She was extremely active in the Thawville Congregational Church. Her granddaughter got her love of walking cemeteries from Ferne, who traced her family history to the Mayflower.
Betty Jean Olson Heideman
Gibson City IL

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Panopticon, Kentucky, Pagan Flames, CD (2012)
My loyal, faithful fans – they probably number no more than a few misguided and socially maladjusted souls in desperate need of a more fulfilling life – who’ve been following my blatherings on TSP for many years will know that sometimes I get quite political and go off on rants totally unrelated to the music under review. Here at last is a recording over which I can now wax lyrical over politics and social justice; into the bargain also is the fact that it’s a black metal album! Yessiree, that most “apolitical” and socially apathetic of music genres has yielded an inspired and impassioned recording that comes down squarely on the side of one of the most marginalised, impoverished, embattled and least celebrated groups in modern America: the people, in particular the coal-miners, of the Appalachian mountain region in the eastern US. USBM one-man band Panopticon’s “Kentucky” revolves around the history of the struggles of the coal-miners of eastern Kentucky against their employers, the state and federal governments, and established religion for the right to form trade unions, improve their wages and working and living conditions, and give their families and communities a decent life.
The music is a splendid mix of aggressive and pile-driving black metal, stirring bluegrass music performed on banjo and violin, melodic post-rock and spoken voice and found sound recordings. Together with its subject matter, “Kentucky” comes close to being something a more fired-up Godspeed You Black Emperor could have produced if that band had incorporated some black metal aspects. Particular highlights of the album include Panopticon leader A. Lunn’s adaptation of “Come All Ye Coal Miners” which finishes with brief coal-mine work ambience and a brief speech on the history of the exploitation of mine workers and the land alike; “Black Soot and Red Blood” which details the battles the miners fought against a formidable multi-headed enemy; and the instrumental outro track “Kentucky”, a beautiful homage on banjo, resonator and mandolin to the mountains and forests of Kentucky state and the ghosts of people who died defending their lands and communities.
Songs on the album are arranged in a historical time-line form the early history of native Americans to the present and the music proceeds from the personal – two locations in rural Kentucky dear to A Lunn’s heart – to the historical and general.
Admittedly this is not a perfect work – some of the black metal can be repetitive and bombastic and the vocal on “Black Waters” is so distant and blurry that the lyrics can hardly be heard – but the sentiment behind the music is a deeply felt one and powers it all the way through the album. “Kentucky” is a clarion call to all decent-minded people to remember the history of the coal miners in Appalachia and their fight for a decent life, and to support present efforts of community and environmental groups to preserve the lands and natural resources of southeastern Kentucky.
Some of the profits from sales of this album are being donated to fight the use of mountain-top removal as a mining method in Kentucky. Mountain-top removal is a particularly hideous and devastating form of large-scale mining: it involves using dynamite or other explosives to blast away forest, top soil and hundreds of vertical metres of rock to expose coal seams. The debris is dumped into nearby valleys and river-beds, causing silt-up and disrupting the natural flow of streams and rivers. The consequences of this form of mining, while it dispenses with the expense and hazards involved in sending miners underground, can be imagined: air pollution including toxic aerial chemicals, increased soil erosion in affected areas, increased risks of flash-flooding and mudslides threatening homes and communities, pollution of groundwater to name a few.
In addition, the areas affected by mountain-top removal in both Kentucky and neighbouring parts of West Virginia state have historic, cultural and archaeological significance as several of them were the scenes of bitter fighting in the Battle of Blair Mountain, fought by 10,000 coal-miners and supporters against mining companies, local law enforcement and eventually the US Army, in West Virginia in 1921. Several thousand coal-miners who took part in this battle, the largest armed civil uprising in US history after the American Civil War, came over from Kentucky; the miners also received support from local communities, in particular from returned WW1 veterans and medical people who treated wounded miners. The uprising was crushed severely and miners were forced back into the mines on pay and working conditions made worse than before. However the battle also raised public awareness of and sympathy for the appalling working conditions that coal-miners had to face, and eventually in the 1930s the miners benefited from political, social and economic changes brought about by President Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal policies.
However as the fight to preserve Blair Mountain from mining demonstrates, the battle for worker rights and to preserve the memory of this battle continues.
Contact: Pagan Flames


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Levels of six proteins in the blood can be used to gauge a person’s risk for cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD), a brain disease affecting an estimated 11 million older adults in the United States, a UCLA-led study has found. CSVD can lead to dementia and stroke, but currently it can be diagnosed only with an MRI scan of the brain.
“The hope is that this will spawn a novel diagnostic test that clinicians can start to use as a quantitative measure of brain health in people who are at risk of developing cerebral small vessel disease,” says Jason Hinman, MD (RES ’11, FEL ’13), PhD, assistant professor of neurology.
CSVD is characterized by changes to the brain’s white matter — the areas of the brain that have a high concentration of myelin, a fatty tissue that insulates and protects the long extensions of brain cells. In CSVD, small blood vessels that snake through the white matter become damaged over time, and the myelin begins to break down. This slows the communication between cells in the brain and can lead to problems with cognition and difficulty walking. If the blood vessels become completely blocked, it can cause a stroke. The disease also is associated with a heightened risk for multiple forms of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease.
Typically, doctors diagnose CSVD with an MRI after a person has experienced dementia or suffered a stroke. About a quarter of all strokes in the U.S. are associated with CSVD. But many cases of the disease go undiagnosed because of mild symptoms, such as trouble with walking or memory, that can often be attributed to normal aging.
In the new study, Dr. Hinman and colleagues focused on six proteins related to the immune system’s inflammatory response and centered on a molecule called interleukin-18 (IL-18). They hypothesized that inflammatory proteins that damage the brain in CSVD may be detectable in the bloodstream. The researchers measured the levels of the proteins in the blood of 167 people whose average age was 76 and who had either normal cognition or mild cognitive impairment. As part of their voluntary participation in the study, 110 participants also underwent an MRI brain scan, and 49 received a more advanced scan called diffusion tensor imaging.
People whose MRI or diffusion tensor imaging tests showed signs of CSVD had significantly higher levels of the six blood proteins, the researchers discovered. Those with higher-than-average levels of the six inflammatory proteins were twice as likely to have signs of CSVD on an MRI scan and 10% more likely to show very early signs of white matter damage. Moreover, for every CSVD risk factor that a person had — such as high blood pressure, diabetes or a previous stroke — the inflammatory protein levels in their blood were twice as high, on average.
To confirm the results, the team performed the blood test in a group with a much higher risk for CSVD: 131 people who visited a UCLA Health emergency department with signs of stroke. Once again, the blood test results were correlated with white matter changes in the brain that were detected by an MRI.
The blood test is a step forward, Dr. Hinman says, because it could provide a quantitative scale for evaluating the disease. That means it could be used to follow the progression of the disease or to identify people who are candidates for prevention efforts or treatments for CSVD.
— Sarah C.P. Williams
“An IL-18-Centered Inflammatory Network as a Biomarker for Cerebral White Matter Injury,” PLoS One, January 24, 2020