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Okay, seriously, is anything going to slow this girl down? Barely a fortnight after the release of he DJ-Kicks mix (which happens to be receiving rave reviews, thank you) the London producer already has a new brand new remix to offer, and it's a banger. Head over to XLR8R for the download, and don't miss Maya on tour all year (like we said, she never stops!).


text: Everything is “Growing as Planned” at Canara Farm, since our last visit the bees have begun to help pollinate the tomatoes & the plants are really starting to develop and we even saw the very first fruit appearing amongst the leaves. The Strawberry plants... This fantastic weather in Cornwall has coincided with the start of the early season Summer fruits from Europe, this week we are seeing good levels of peaches, nectarines, apricots and the always popular flat (or doughnut peach). Flat peaches are smaller and flatter... In the fridge this morning we have these wonderful looking Strasberries. The Strasberry is a combination of the words “raspberry” and “strawberry”. It refers to a strawberry that has the genetic make-up of a strawberry, but the small size and deeply positioned seeds... Today at Canara Farm there was a very unusual box delivered, inside the box were several hundred bees. The bees will be released into our Tomato tunnel & will help to pollinate our tomato crop. As you can see from the photograph the tomato crop is already... While we can’t tell you where to find it, we have put together a seasonal guide to which Foraged Foods should be available . If you would like a printed version of this please contact us by email.

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All-Star Pulp Comics, published by Redbud Studios, has new black-and-white comic stories of original and New Pulp characters. Three issues are out so far, available in digital and hardcopy versions. The first two issues can be obtained from IndyPlanet, while the third is on Amazon.
Redbud Studios is associated with Airship 27, so there a lot of crossover of characters. Several pulp character that Airship 27 has put out new stories of appear in these comics. Do not know which, if any of these are adaptations of those stories.
Issue number one has a cover with Green Lama and Domino Lady.
Inside we get stories of:
- The Green Lama, by Adam Lance Garcia. The Green Lama is a shorter lived pulp character who is a Buddhist lama, and appeared in pulps and comics. As Garcia is now the official author of the character, I assume this story is considered “canon.” Here the Lama goes up against Nazis in an original story.
We have been getting new Green Lama stories from Moonstone under the authorship of Adam Lance Garcia, and now finally the long-promised novel, Crimson Circle.
Created for the Munsey pulps, The Green Lama was really American Jethro Dumont. He had traveled to Tibet, and was a real Buddhist lama, though he disguised himself as the Rev. Dr. Pali and the Green Lama. With a small group of associates, he fought crime.
Written by Kendal Foster Crossen under the pen-name Richard Foster, the series lasted for 14 pulp novels. Foster was able to keep the rights to the character, and also wrote the comic-book series at Prize Comics, and with his own comic-book company, Spark, published a Green Lama title. The comic-book versions made him more of a superhero who could fly.Read More
I have previously posted about the Green Lama. While a minor pulp character, he has been fairly successful, appearing in two separate comic-book series (including his own title), a radio show, and making new appearances in comics and prose.
Altus Press has reprinted his original pulp stories and Airship 27 was doing new stories, with Adam Lance Garcia in the lead, which I’ve covered in prior postings. It appeared that the character was in the public domain (in fact Dynamite Comics made that claim about their use of one of the comic-book versions). But it seems that the character was copyrighted by his creator, and his family still held the rights. So further new stories stalled until things were worked out.
Well, it appears that they are cleared, as we are now seeing new stories by Garcia, as well as Airship 27.Read More
In the next in this series of articles, I take an overview of one of the major pulp publishers and their pulp heroes: the Frank Munsey Co.
Frank Munsey is very important to the pulp field because he created the idea of pulp magazines: inexpensive all-fiction magazines published on cheap pulp paper. The first pulp magazine is considered The Argosy. Other early pulps his company published would include Munsey Magazine, All-Story Magazine, Cavalier and others.
It was in Munsey’s magazines that characters like Tarzan, Zorro, Semi-Dual, The Mongoose, The Park Avenue Hunt Club, and others were published. Munsey passed away in 1925, but the company continued until they sold out to Popular Publications in 1942 which continued several of their magazines.Read More
In a prior posting, I covered the connection between pulp publishers and comic book publishers.
This time, I’ll delve further into comic book versions of pulp heroes. This post, the first of a two-part series, looks at the comic book versions published during the original hero pulp period (1930s-50s). The second article will look at the various adaptions of pulp heroes into comics, along with original pulp hero comic book characters that also came out.
The pulp hero period basically ran from 1931 (with the debut of The Shadow) until 1953 with the demise of the pulp heroes and the ending of the last pulp heroes The Black Bat and The Phantom Detective. This more or less corresponds with the Golden Age of comic books, which lasted from the beginning of comic books in the 1930s to the early 1950s.Read More
Few pulp heroes were able during the classic period to make the transition from the pulp magazines to other medium such as movies/movie serials, radio, comics books, or comic strips. And even fewer were able to appear in multiple media.
One of the few who did was The Green Lama. Unusual, because he was published by a small company, and more unusual, all his non-pulp appearances were under the aegis of his creator, who was somehow able to maintain ownership of the character. He appeared in pulps, comics books and radio. There was apparently talk about doing a TV show!
The Green Lama appeared during what pulp historian Will Murray calls the “third wave” of pulp heroes. More colorful than heroes in the previous waves, the “third wave” pulp heroes would be a better able to compete against the new comic book heroes.Read More

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The acoustic ecology of an Amazonian bird assemblage: the role of allometry, competition and environmental filtering in the acoustic structure. Torres, I. M. D., Barreiros, M. H. M. & De Araujo, C. B. 2019. IBIS. DOI: 10.1111/ibi.12720. VIEW
Birds produce sounds to attract mates and defend territories. It is crucial that the message comes across, so birds need to call and sing while taking into account several confounding factors. Imagine you are a song bird in the Brazilian rainforest. You don’t want your songs to get overpowered by loud neighbours (Seddon 2005). And if your territory is in a dense patch with numerous leaves hindering your songs from reaching potential partners, you will need to adjust your singing accordingly (Morton 1975). Moreover, the frequencies you can produce are limited by your body mass (Brumm 2009). If you are a big bird, you cannot reach the high frequencies that smaller birds easily generate. Together, these factors – competition, environment and body mass – shape bird sound, but which one is most important?
A team of Brazilian ornithologists travelled to Carajás National Forest in Pará State (Brazil) to characterize the diversity in bird sounds. In total, they recorded the songs and calls of 284 species. For each species they determined three parameters: minimum frequency, maximum frequency and dominant frequency. Next, they correlated these parameters with body mass. A perfect correlation between these variables would indicate that body mass is the main driver in shaping sounds. However, deviations from this correlation would point to either competition or environment as crucial factors. If frequencies are lower than expected, environment is the most important driver. Lower frequency sounds tend to be propagated more efficiently in a dense forest. Alternatively, if competition is the driving force, birds will tend to use available frequencies, regardless of where they are located on the frequency spectrum.
Figure 1 The sonogram of a Screaming Piha Lipaugus vociferans shows the frequency parameters used in the study, namely the maximum fundamental frequency (FFMAX), the minimum fundamental frequency (FFMIN) and the dominant frequency (FDOM).
Statistical analyses of the three song parameters revealed that small-sized species tend to produce sounds at higher frequencies than expected. This suggests that competition is the main factor shaping bird sound in the Brazilian rainforest. Small birds will preferably sing at higher frequencies because these frequencies are available in the spectrum. Because of this choice, their songs and calls might be attenuated by environmental conditions (e.g., leaf cover). Possibly, the birds are compensating for this by repeating their songs more often or singing from high branches (Ey & Fischer 2009). Among larger species, the frequency parameters nicely correlated with body mass. This indicates that body mass itself is the main driver of bird sound in larger birds. The lower species richness among large species leads to less competition and there is no need to sing or call at different frequencies. The interplay between body mass and competition thus shapes the characteristic soundscape of the Brazilian rainforest.
Brumm, H. 2009. Song amplitude and body size in birds. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63: 1157-1165. VIEW
Ey, E. & Fischer, J. 2009. The ‘Acoustic Adaptation Hypothesis’ – a review of the evidence from birds, anurans and mammals. Bioacoustics 19: 21-48. VIEW
Morton, E. S. 1975. Ecological sources of selection on avian sounds. The American Naturalis 109: 17-34. VIEW
Seddon, N. 2005. Ecological adaptation and species recognition drives vocal evolution in neotropical suboscine birds. Evolution 59: 200-215. VIEW
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Chiropractic treatment is commonly puzzled with the technique of Conventional Chinese Medicine or TCM. Chiropractic care, nonetheless, has numerous differences from TCM. Chiropractic includes a number of certain sub-specialties such as orthopedics, geriatrics, pediatrics, neurology, orthopedics, sports medicine and also nutrition treatment. Additionally, chiropractic likewise incorporates various other approaches such as acupuncture, reflexology, therapy, speech pathology, dietetics, physical therapy, psychophysiological feedback and also various other methods. These methods, in conjunction with hands-on treatment, objective to fix up the body back right into a normal and generally working state.
Chiropractic medical professionals are educated for a certain set of tasks and as a result must be accredited in their specific field of expertise. The very best method to make sure you are collaborating with a qualified and experienced chiropractic specialist is to get your chiropractor training from certified programs. You need to check whether the college or program is recognized. There are nationwide certification authorities for chiropractic care in the united states. Many states additionally have their very own individual state-specific regulatory bodies. Back Pain Doctor
There was a study performed by a College of Florida researcher that took a look at over a thousand instances of intense and also persistent low neck and back pain. Of these situations, seventy percent were treated with manual treatment et cetera with chiropractic care treatment. The outcomes revealed that chiropractic treatment was more reliable than hands-on treatment when it involved soothing discomfort. The research study was released in the Annual Review of Rheumatology.
Another research study was performed by the University of Pittsburgh Discomfort Facility, which found that chiropractic care therapies were a lot more efficient than regular pain medications for severe lower neck and back pain. Chiropractic doctors use different sorts of manipulative therapies and changes to treat discomfort. One of one of the most common manipulative treatments they utilize is the application of mild pressures on the spinal column and also various other joints and also components of the body. Some of these include applying regulated pressure to joints and also soft tissues. Some chiropractic specialists utilize the thumbs, fingers, palms and often also elbows to use these kinds of treatments. Some researches show that chiropractic care treatments can be effective for conditions such as degenerative disc illness and also herniated disks.
Chiropractic treatment may aid individuals dealing with sciatica. A study released by the journal Health and wellness Scientific research reported that a significant percentage of patients that consulted a chiropractor for relief from sciatic nerve pain experienced improvement. One of the most usual problems from people that had gone through chiropractic therapy included pain and spasms. Virtually fifty percent of these people were totally discomfort cost-free, while one more forty percent were able to lower their spasms and pain levels after talking to a chiropractic doctor. Even more research studies are needed to sustain using chiropractic look after sciatica, however initial evidence seems to suggest that it may be an efficient method for discomfort alleviation.
Chiropractic care can also give alleviation to people who have had strokes as well as are not able to perform great motions on their own. A research study published in the Record of Internal Medication reported that eighty-one percent of those that undertook spine adjustment reported a reduction suffering as well as swelling after the therapy. Most of these clients had the ability to reclaim some function after the treatment. Most of these stroke sufferers had previously been prescribed drug for their problem, but most were not able to take this drug as a result of negative side effects that they experienced. online chiropractic
Chiropractic care manipulation and also warmth treatment are typically incorporated. Many individuals find that chiropractic manipulations aid to minimize the discomfort that comes with conditions such as shingles and migraine headache frustrations. Warmth therapy can additionally be used to treat problems that cause discomfort by relaxing limited muscle mass and also soft cells throughout the body. Chiropractic specialists are educated to identify the areas of problem for individuals. As soon as the areas of concern are recognized, the chiropractic practitioner will certainly then start treatment procedures.
Chiropractic is often considered a complementary therapy treatment that supplies the same advantages of modern medicine. Lots of chiropractic doctors execute spine adjustments and also other hand-operated treatment treatments that complement conventional medication. Spinal adjustments as well as other sorts of hands-on treatment can help to lower discomfort, loosen up muscles, improve range of movement, as well as boost the health and performance of your body. If you are suffering from persistent discomfort or low back pain, you might wish to speak with a certified chiropractor to figure out if spine adjustments as well as other manual treatments might be handy in your scenario.
Chiropractic care therapy is usually perplexed with other health care fields such as chiropractic care medicine. Chiropractic is an alternative medical science that is concentrated on the medical diagnosis as well as treatment of non-verifiable mechanical disorders of the skeletal system, specifically the back. Chiropractics physician are likewise referred to as chiropractic doctors. Their main job is to identify, deal with and avoid disorders as well as illness of the bone and joint systems with analysis tests, professional treatments as well as research. Some chiropractic medical professionals also focus on a specific field of medication such as orthopedics, pediatrics, geriatrics, and homeopathy.
The technique of chiropractic therapy is often thought about controversial because of its dependence on back adjustment or joint control for dealing with some problems or diseases. This dependence on intrusive approaches has been questioned by numerous traditional experts of conventional medicine, that assert that the conventional approaches of medical therapy are a lot more effective in the avoidance and treatment of disease. As an example, although there is no clinical evidence that chiropractic care therapy can cure cerebral palsy, it has been extensively used by individuals experiencing this incapacitating condition. Thus, some patients believe that chiropractic treatment can help them conquer the debilitating effects of spastic paralysis.
There are several reasons that chiropractic care therapy is preferred among patients and medical professionals alike. It provides discomfort alleviation as well as is thought about very secure for practically every person, even those at high risk for injury or unexpected health problem. Chiropractic care universities give students with hands-on experience of just how a chiropractic doctor deals with their individuals. Students learn how to control different joints and also other parts of the body utilizing their hands, therefore acquiring beneficial expertise about the physiology and also makeup of the body. Naturopathic Health Care
Chiropractic practitioners perform spinal modifications and other therapeutic treatments to help reduce pain in the human body. People dealing with conditions such as diabetes, migraine frustrations, joint as well as muscle mass pain, back pain, menstruation discomforts as well as various other comparable problems can be dealt with effectively with chiropractic therapy. Lots of doctors think that chiropractic care treatment can assist improve the general health of an individual and also she or he might be able to prevent future health and wellness issues and health problem. Chiropractic care college prepares pupils to come to be competent, skilled and also qualified chiropractic practitioners, who can offer in a selection of healthcare setups such as medical facilities, centers and also various other healthcare facilities.

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You Are The Strongest Person I Know Card
You Are The Strongest Person I Know and You Can Overcome Anything That Comes Your Way
This card is a wonderful reminder for anyone who may be going through a hard time in their life. A breakup, an unexpected illness, dealing with loss, etc. This touching card is a gentle reminder to let them know that although things may be hard right now, they are so incredibly strong and they can and will get through this.
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I know I am late to the game in doing a full food OC fair 2015 food review because this year I didn’t get to go to the fair right when it opened. Normally my wife and I would have just rushed down opening weekend but this year we wanted to take a it slow since we were bringing our 5 month old daughter for the first time. With that being said, I still want to share the three dishes that I did have because I made sure to pick the best three dishes that I would recommend to others. As an appetizer I will always recommend the fire roasted corn. I included a map at the end of this post to help guide you to the three spots where you can find my recommended dishes.
If you order the sausage dog, make sure you are either super hungry or you will need to share it because it is massive. Bang for your buck, this is one of the best dishes that tastes great and fills you up. In my opinion, most of the fried fair food is a waste of money (fried corn on the cob, fried cheesecake, fried twinky?). The sausage dog is a great dish that will fill you up while not breaking the bank. If you want to eat a lot of other items then I highly recommend splitting the sausage dog.
Samoa doughnut… Yes, you are not dreaming. Someone finally made the ultimate fair food dessert. Please be warned, this doughnut is massive, I had to split it with four people and we still had a hard time finishing it. It tastes exactly like a Samoa cookie but with a doughnut texture. I highly recommend eating this with a big glass of ice cold milk.
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If you want a full OC fair 2015 food guide check out Tom’s Food Blog, he did a great job in covering all of the new dishes at the fair this year. Hopefully next year I can do a better fair food review, but this year I was busy introducing the OC fair to Juliet. Picture below is our 2014 OC Fair photo booth picture side-by-side with our 2015 one.

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What weighs 30,000 pounds? Big Ben's Westminster bell. A navy ship anchor. Or as we found out during our first drive program for the 2015 Ford F-Series Super Duty, seven pallets of cinder blocks loaded onto a dual-axle gooseneck trailer. The test was part of a raft of towing demonstrations that showcased the new Super Duty's impressive tug capacity, which maxes out at 32,100 pounds. That's 1,200 more than its nearest rival, the Ram 3500, when equipped with its upgraded 6.7-liter Power Stroke diesel V8. Such is the heavy-duty pickup truck business, a diesel-fueled game of one-upmanship with only three players: Ford, Chevrolet/GMC and Ram. And in this game, the one with the most torque wins.
Until 2014, Ford was the one to beat, with its 6.7-liter Power Stroke diesel bringing 400 hp and a massive 800 lb-ft of torque to the table. Then last year, Ram did exactly that, serving Ford with a beefed-up Cummins turbodiesel inline-six in its freshened Ram Heavy Duty truck line with 385 hp and 850 lb-ft of torque, enabling it to tow up to 30,000 pounds. But Ford claims it had designed its engine to be relatively easy to upgrade when the time called for it, so for 2015, Ford bolted a larger turbo to the Power Stroke, bringing output to an insane 440 hp and 860 lb-ft of twist, all without reducing fuel efficiency. Maximum tow capacity rises from 24,700 lbs to an incredible 31,200 lbs for the F-450 dually.
As for GM's HDs? They lag behind the lot with their 6.6-liter Duramax V-8, producing 397 hp and 765 lb-ft of torque. Yeah, you know things are serious when the trucks with 765 lb-ft are the knock-kneed wimps of the lot.
This year more than most, it's pleasant when we can string together a few days without word of an automaker or the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announcing a bunch of new recalls. It's seemingly been a little quiet on this front lately (barring a spider-related Suzuki issue revealed early today), but now we have word of the government safety agency opening a Preliminary Evaluation into the 2013 Ford Explorer Police Interceptor, a probe that could potentially affect an estimated 20,000 vehicles.
The issue being investigated concerns failures of the front brake hose on the vehicle that show "small splits in the hoses near the body side ferrule of the hose assembly," according to the agency, and the issue could result in longer stopping distances. The feds have reports of 13 malfunctions affecting 11 Explorer units. However, it's important to note that all of the incidents come from a single, unnamed metropolitan police fleet that operates 46 of them. According to The Detroit News, the failures generally took place between December and July.
NHTSA is investigating further to find if this is a more widespread issue than just this one fleet. Ford spokesperson Kelli Felker confirmed to us, "We are cooperating with NHTSA on this investigation, as we always do." Scroll down to read the agency's report.
The arrival of a new Ford Mustang means many things to many people, but not least of them is drag racers. The pony car has always been a mainstay of the drag strip, and the Ford Racing team aims to carry that reputation forward with this latest generation. So it cooked up a few basic modifications on three new 'Stangs and headed to the strips at US 131 and Milan Dragway to see what they could coax out of 'em.
Impressively, the 5.0-liter V8 Mustang GT with a few modifications (but no forced induction) managed to clock a quarter-mile time of 11.77 seconds. Another Mustang GT fitted with a supercharger clocked a blistering 10.97 seconds. But just as intriguing was the modified EcoBoost model that, with only four cylinders and 2.3 liters of displacement, still passed the gates in just 12.56 seconds - nearly half a second better than expected. This with modification limited to a new subframe, half-shaft, drive shaft loops, exhaust, engine calibration, slicks, roll cage and bucket seat. Well done, boys.


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Its Japanese print is very symbolic: a wave - reminiscent of the famous Great Wave off Kanagawa
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Archive for the 'Conservation & Collections Care' Category
Our Historical Society Museums and Genealogical societies are our communities scrapbooks and antique collections – most of what is there is being preserved and in storage waiting for the appropriate exhibit or program to be featured. And managing all of this is complicated. Congratulations to the Monroe Historical Society for winning the grant for a […]
Snohomish County Community Heritage Grant Program Application Deadline August 10th!
Great Thanks to Mark Vessey of the Heritage Resource Center for arranging the Collections Care Workshop for our League of Snohomish County Heritage Organizations members. Sixteen members representing historical societies from Mukilteo, Snohomish, Monroe, Alderwood Manor, Sky Valley, Marysville, Stanwood and Everett’s Museum of Snohomish County History were present for Lynette Miller’s useful instructions and […]

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In the summer of 1923, Harold Schram Sr. was working for the Oakland Motor Car Company when he decided to start a recycling business. The operation was on a corner lot of Jessie and Auburn in Pontiac Michigan. His primary business was the recovery of metals. However, it soon became apparent that reselling parts and components was his future.
When World War II started, the government needed all the metal it could find for the war effort. Harold sold all of his vehicles and worked for the government, hauling military vehicles to the East Coast for shipment overseas.
In 1946 he purchased a 7-acre parcel in Waterford Michigan, which is the current home of Schram Auto Parts - Waterford. In 1957, Harold Schram Jr. took over the business. In 1969, he built a 23,000 sq. foot warehouse and dismantling building. The new building consisted of 2 dismantling bays (with hoists), a shipping and receiving area, racks for seat, engines, transmissions, doors, and many other parts. In 1972, the Schram family decided to specialize in General Motors parts exclusively. Along with making Schram Auto Parts a leader in automotive recycling, Harold also took the time to become involved in the Automotive Recycler Association, which culminated in his presidency of the association in 1975.
In the early 80's, the third generation of the Schram family took over the business. Under the leadership of Ken, Bob, and Tom Schram, the company has continued the goal of making Schram Auto Parts a leader in the Automotive Recycling industry. In 1989, Ken Schram completed over 15 years of service to both the Automotive Recyclers of Michigan (ARM) and the Automotive Recyclers Association (ARA), and became the second member of the Schram family to serve as president of ARA. Ken is currently a member of the board of directors of the ARA. Tom Schram has also served as Vice president of the ARM, and is on the Insurance Committee as well.
In 1993, Ken Schram was chosen by ARA to become involved in the Vehicle Recycling Partnership (VRP), a joint effort of General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, American Plastic Council, Aluminum Association, Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, and the Automotive Recyclers Association. The partnership decided to form a group research facility and started the Vehicle Recycling Development Center, in which Ken was the program manager.
In 1998, a new 14,000 sq foot warehouse and 7500 sq foot dismantling area was added to the existing facility. The result was 55,000 sq feet of ware house, 5 dismantling bays, and a state of the art fluid reclamation area. The facility became the largest exclusive GM late model recycled parts businesses in the World.
In 1999, the Schram family purchased Buds Auto Parts in Mason Michigan, a 20-acre site with a two-year-old, 16,000 sq. foot facility. The site features two dismantling bays, a warehouse, shipping and receiving department, and recycles late model Ford, Chrysler, and GM vehicles.
Now, with over 27 acres and 140,000 sq feet of warehouse space, Schram Auto Parts is becoming the most progressive dismantling and recycling facility in the world. With daily shipments across the country, and throughout the world, Schram Auto is ready to serve all of your late model domestic part needs.
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In addition to making modern crazy quilts, I collect antique crazy quilts. And not just crazy quilts, but needlework booklets, some needlework tools and other vintage linens. There had been discussion on a list about a book which talks about historical quilting news. Mention was made of a catalog which listed items in a crazy work exhibit. I have a catalog similar in my collection. The cover is shown above. Inside, there is a listing of 1808 items on exhibit. There are also ideas for crazy quilt stitches within the catalog.
Not everything listed is of a crazy nature. Examples:
7. Picture, "English Line of Battle Ship," worked by Capt. Thomas Wood, during his leisure hours at sea. For sale.
115. A painting on Velvet, exhibited by Mrs. H. C. Blake.
202. Pillow Shams, drawn thread, exhibited by Miss A. McDonald.
1443. Crocheted skirt, exhibited by Miss Mary Woods.
Some of the crazies:
2. Crazy Quilt, consists of 5,000 pieces, exhibited by Miss Ella McArthur.
19. Pin Cushion of Crazy Work, made forty years ago, exhibited by Mrs. Roach.
29. Sofa Pillow of Crazy Work, exhibited by Mrs. I. W. Derby, made by a gentleman, and contains 2,500 pieces.
42. Crazy Quilt, entered by Miss H.I. Ellis, made of pieces of the dresses of the leading society ladies in Washington.
123. Crazy Chair, upholstered by the exhibitor, Mrs. E. Dunne.
189. Crazy Quilt, made by a lady sixty-four years of age, exhibited by Mrs. Thos. Cahill.
273. Crazy Fan, exhibited by Mrs. H. Hart
Interesting to note that in this 1885 exhibit, #19 was a "Pin Cushion of Crazy Work", made forty years ago. That would make it 1845. I would like to see what the pin cushion looked like! Was it as I define crazy quilting now, i.e., random piecing and decorative embroidery? If so, that would date crazy quilting well before the 1876 centennial exhibition. I believe crazy quilting had been around for a number of years and simply acquired the name of crazy quilting (or crazy patch or crazy patchwork or crazy word) after the centennial exhibition of 1876. The mosaic-like patches in a crazy quilt reminded viewers of the crackled/crazed glazing on Japanese pottery of the time.


Recently, there is an increased interest to use composites as alternative materials for naval structures. In addition to the important advantage of weight reduction, the deformation of the structure can be tailored to improve the hydrodynamic and/or elastodynamic performance. For naval propulsors in particular, hydroelastic tailoring can help to reduce load variations, delay cavitation inception, and improve propeller efficiency by allowing each blade to automatically adjust its shape with the local inflow. In this work, a coupled boundary element method (BEM)-finite element method (FEM) is presented for the hydroelastic analysis of flexible composite propellers in wake inflow. An overview of the formulation for both the fluid and solid domains, and the fluid-structure interaction algorithms are presented. Experimental validation studies are shown for two 0.6096 m (24 inch) model-scale composite propellers: a flexible composite propeller and a rigid composite propeller. The deformed shape of the flexible composite propeller was designed to match the rigid propeller so both propellers yield the same thrust and efficiency under the design condition. The propellers were manufactured by A.I.R. Fertigung-Technologie GmbH and designed in cooperation with the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWCCD). The experimental studies were conducted by NSWCCD. The numerical predictions compared well with experimental measurements. Additional numerical results were also shown for a different rigid and flexible composite propeller pair using the same strategy. Both steady (open water flow) and unsteady (wake inflow) results show that the flexible composite propeller achieved higher efficiency than the rigid propeller at off-design conditions by tailored load-dependent deformations that changes with the local inflow. Moreover, the enhancement in propeller efficiency due to load-dependent deformations increases when the operating condition is moved further away from the design condition for both open water inflow and wake inflow.
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Young, YL, & Liu, Z. "Hydroelastic Tailoring of Composite Naval Propulsors." Proceedings of the ASME 2007 26th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering. Volume 4: Materials Technology; Ocean Engineering. San Diego, California, USA. June 10–15, 2007. pp. 777-787. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/OMAE2007-29648
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This article reports on the results of a study on surveillance and plural policing in the Stockholm public transport system. More specifically, it analyses a SEK 500 million (EUR 55 million) investment called The Security Project, through which the Stockholm public transport authority seeks to address a perceived security deficit among its passengers. At its core, the Security Project was an investment in Sweden's largest CCTV system, and many other surveillance measures. The article describes how surveillance became central to addressing security concerns in the Stockholm public transport system. It applies a diachronic case study methodology and uses a framework that highlights centralisation of governance networks and normative cohesion as means to study plural policing and surveillance. The article addresses current debates on these topics, primarily Coaffee's and Duijnhoven's recent work on urban security. It aims to show how the roles of the police, private security and surveillance practices in general have been altered by the Security Project, and how the project produced contradictory effects through centralisation on the one hand, and a maintained (chaotic) diversity of policing on the other.
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We are loving our reading of Mr Pipes And The British Hymn Makers. One of the reasons is it's author, Douglas Bond. We have enjoyed a number of books by Douglas Bond and the Mr. Pipes books are no different. We now own all three of the Mr. Pipes books. Douglas Bond is such a talented writer. Mr Pipes And The British Hymn Makers is the first book in the series. I wish we had had Mr. Pipes and Psalms and Hymns of the Reformation last year when we covered that time period, but we didn't. The boys and I like Douglas Bond books so much that I am sure we will be able to read the Reformation book also, just for fun, as personal reading. We will cover the hymns of the British Hymn writers and the book Mr. Pipes comes to America as we get to them in our study of History.
In Mr Pipes And The British Hymn Makers we meet Annie and Drew. Their mother is working and has brought them to a little town in England for the summer. Drew is especially bummed to be in this little old town, where everything felt and looked old, and thinks it will be a long and boring summer. While out exploring on one of their first days in town they hear music in the old church and meet... who do you think... Mr. Pipes of course. Mr. Pipes real name is David McCallum, but the day we meet him is the only time his given name is used (at least so far... but we are only in chapter 3). Everyone calls him Mr. Pipes. Why is that?? It is because he plays the big pipe organ in the little church in town... and he knows a lot about music, especially church music, Godly music, Hymns. Mr. Pipes, a man of God, knows about hymns and their writers and takes the children under his wing and shares the Gospel with them through music. The children have gone to church, but only once in a while. They are not saved, not children of God. But hopefully they will be by the end of the book. They are already questioning and thinking about the things Mr. Pipes is sharing with them.
I love hymns. I like a lot of more popular praise and worship music that we sing at our church each week. I do not like them as much as the old hymns I grew up with. Most of the praise and worship music of today does not have the substance that the hymns have. Thankfully we also sing them each week at church.
We read the introductory chapter where we meet all the characters. We read the second chapter about Thomas Ken. Today we read the third chapter about Isaac Watts. Some of Isaac Watts hymns are my favorite hymns. I love how Mr. Pipes weaves the story of Isaac Watts background, his upbringing, and how he came to write hymns. We get not only the words of the hymns but a biography of the hymn writer. This book, this series, will be a great addition to our homeschool. I can't wait to read more and I highly recommend these books to anyone. I love adding music and music history to our studies.
Update: Amy, the hostess of Read-Aloud Thursday asked what age I think these books are most appropriate for. I chatted with my children and we decided ages 8 and up.. though I think you may be able to go younger than that if you are reading to all you children with younger children listening in. Good readers from grades 3 or 4 up could read the book by themselves just fine.
To combine our studies the boys have also been copying the stanza's of Isaac Watts hymns during the first weeks of school. We do hymn study one day each week. I had them do a hymn that we didn't know before this study and they will do a couple of well known ones as well.
I was excited to find books by Isaac Watts available at Amazon.com (there are a lot more, I linked to the cheapest/Free ones which I downloaded to my free Kindle for the PC from Amazon). I am looking forward to checking out each of these books and reading them, singing the songs and learning more about Isaac Watts.
- Divine and Moral Songs for the Use of Children
- Divine Songs
- The Psalms and Hymns of Isaac Watts
- A Short Essay Toward the Improvement of Psalmody Or, An Enquiry How the Psalms of David Ought to Be Translated into Christian Songs, and How Lawful and ... Gospel, for the Use of the Christian Church.
We are also reading aloud A Jacobite Exile by G.A. Henty. Tomorrow we will finish reading that. It is a really good Henty... but then again I have not met a Henty I didn't like... yet anyway. A Jacobite Exile is about the Great Northern War, a battle between Russia and Sweden with a few of their neighbors thrown in. The main character is a young man from England. How he gets involved in the war and the escapades he encounters are worth your reading of this book. Time period is the last decade of the 17th century up to 1703.The Russians wanted a seaport and boy did they fight to get one. Here is the link to the free Kindle edition - A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden and here is the search results for all the copies for A Jacobite Exile at Amazon.com.
We also finished reading Mystery of History yesterday, so I added that book to my Reading 2011 - 100+ Books Challenge. For the 100+ book challenge I am up to 31/100. I should also finish reading some personal reading books in the next day or two to add to that.
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Celebrity fashion round-up – who was best dressed this time? Presenting Selena Gomez, Lady Gaga, Anne Hathaway, Diane Kruger and Kim Kardashian’s ensembles.
Teen Choice Awards 2011
Selena Gomez rocked the blue carpet of Teen Choice Awards in a champagne, cream and white Erin Fetherston Fall 2011 dress with train. She completed her strapless frock with playful purple accessories: Brian Atwood sandals and a M.C.L. By Matthew Campbell Laurenza minaudière. Sheer glamour!
One Day London premiere
Anne walked the red carpet in a stunning Alexander McQueen embroidered dress from Sarah Burton’s Resort 2012 collection. She completed her sophisticated look with side swept wavy hairstyle, whipstitch peep-toes in caramel and Tiffany & Co. jewelry. Anne paired her unique ensemble with a contrasting skull clutch.
Tiffany & Co. dinner in Beverly Hills
Diane looked marvellous in a hand-painted metallic gown from Prabal Gurung’s Fall 2011 collection. As of accessories accompanzing the flawless long-sleeve design, she chose Giuseppe Zanotti suede and satin platform sandals and a Salvatore Ferragamo clutch. Seductive.
VH1 Do Something Awards
Kim chose a strong-shouldered Antonio Berardi crepe and ruched chiffon gown. She accessorized her figure-hugging wedding-ready ensemble with Judith Leiber minaudière, Karma Diamond ring and studded Christian Louboutin pumps in silver. Yummy!
La Maison De Fashion in Los Angeles
Lady Gaga surprised us with an unusual fashion choice. This time she ditched the couture gowns made of meat and bubbles in favour of an elegant black one-shoulder dress from Versace Fall 2011 collection. It was decorated with a purple and yellow tulip print that covered the front. She accessorized it with Christian Louboutin Daffodil heels.


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A Dragon from ancient Egyptian mythology. It is seen in a circular motion eating its own tail to signify eternity. This became an emblem to many magicians and is depicted on talismans. As it eats itself, it renews itself. If this process is interrupted it would result in the end of the world.
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Sorting through nine calendar proposals for the 2013-14 school year will occupy a good bit of the Cobb Board of Education's for the next couple of weeks.
That's how many different proposals were presented during Wednesday's work session. The board is expected to vote at its business meeting on Oct. 25, but the job of whittling down that list has become more complicated.
Board member David Banks and Superintendent Michael Hinojosa detailed their calendars prior to the work session.
According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, board member Alison Bartlett also has submitted a proposal (see attached PDF), as has a calendar committee created last year at the behest of Hinojosa, who said during the meeting he has no preference.


Idaho Falls police arrested a 20-year-old man on Monday morning on charges of possession of methamphetamine and a loaded handgun after an attempted traffic stop.
According to the police report, police attempted to stop the man who was driving a green Chevrolet Cavalier at Woodruff and Hoopes around 1 a.m. However, driver sped away.
Officers said they found the car and while looking for the driver found two bags of methamphetamine, equaling about 4.825 grams, on the ground near the driver?s side door.
Officers located the driver about 100 feet away. He was in possession of a concealed handgun, police said.


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Welcome to the Media/Research Center
The past 30 years have provided ample time and attempts by the “free market” to develop alternatives to gasoline and reduce crude oil imports. Today, ethanol appears to be in the forefront of possible solutions to those growing societal problems. Ethanol is at the forefront because of its lower consumer resistance-to-change when compared to dedicated alternative fuel vehicles (e.g., electric, natural gas, hydrogen), it has a faster time-to-market, a lower comparable overall cost, it has privileged infrastructure and vehicle compatibility because it is a liquid and blends with gasoline, it is ease-to-use and is transparent to consumers, and it has a lower cost hurdle to overcome when building large scale public refueling infrastructure.
It is also self evident, that the production and use of ethanol would not exist at this time without federal and state government incentives to hedge against lower cost crude oil and very volatile global oil supply and demand swings. As a result, the past 20 years have provided CFDC with an exhaustive research library that comes from the debate in Congress and in the media about the various public policy merits of supporting the development of ethanol by federal and state governments. CFDC’s Media/Research Center is designed to provide researchers with objective and peer reviewed information to help answer two important and fundamental questions.
In spite of the threats imposed on our society by growing oil imports and air pollution, ethanol and biofuels continue to be subjected to rumors and unfounded concerns based on outdated research and biased public relations campaigns played out in the media. As a result, there is a constant need for high quality and consistent information about clean fuels provided by CFDC and supported by validated research from government, industry, and academia. CFDC works with the media to counter the myths and miscommunications surrounding the development of clean fuels by providing letters to the editors, publications, and other educational information (see publications).
Examples of Anti-Ethanol Media Coverage and CFDC Responses:
Many studies have confirmed the environmental benefits of biofuels such as ethanol and ethanol's ability to mitigate carbon emissions. While the recently published studies in Science, which Jacoby cites, indicate otherwise, a recent study by the US Department of Agriculture shows that ethanol made from feed stocks with low or even no energy inputs emits 94 percent fewer greenhouse gases than petroleum. Ethanol also played a key role in the reformulated gasoline programs of the 1990s, helping to meet Clean Air Act standards. Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency confirmed that these programs have exceeded expectations in significantly improving ground, water, and air quality. The recently passed energy bill calls for increases in ethanol production, but it does so in an environmentally responsible manner. The architects of the energy bill anticipated new developments in research, and built in global warming and pollution reduction standards that ensure that all new technologies meet a carbon benchmark before implementation. The nation will move toward energy sustainability in an environmentally responsible manner. Studies such as those published in Science are no cause for alarm.
~ Douglas A.
Investor's Business Daily
Re "Bio-Foolish Behavior" (Editorial, Tuesday), the media uproar over the studies alleging biofuels do more harm in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions than fossil fuels is truly much ado about nothing.
Land-use scenarios of converting grasslands or chopping down forests are simply not where the U.S. biofuels movement is headed. Answering to outrageous hypotheticals is accomplishing what critics who stand to lose market share really want, which is to have the ethanol industry running around stamping out brush fires while they attempt to reverse the public will of reducing our use of petroleum.
Corn yields are steadily on the rise, meaning we are meeting the increased use of biofuels with the land we have. And we have capped the amount of corn that can be used in these programs.
For the few "prominent scientists" who requested that we shape these policies so that they do not increase global warming, at least from the U.S. perspective, we have good news: We did.
Architects of the energy bill included lifecycle global warming-reduction standards that ensure all new and emerging technologies meet a carbon benchmark before policies are implemented.
We stand by our data and the support of the Energy Department and EPA that biofuels such as ethanol significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, particularly when used as E85.
~ Douglas A. Durante
It’s irresponsible to blame water shortages in the Ogallala Aquifer on ethanol production (“Liquid Gold,” Feb. 21, 2008). A number of factors have contributed to water level decreases over the past few years, most significantly the booming livestock industry. A West Texas A&M University study from 2004 cites that increased feed for cattle and a growing hog industry have taken a toll on the underground water reserves. Furthermore, levels have been depleting for years, predating increased ethanol demand, and from varied industries that have made the Ogallala region a destination for operation.
Nearly nine out of ten acres of corn require no water other than natural rainfall, according to the National Corn Growers Association, and in 2006, 87 percent of corn cropland in the U.S. was non-irrigated. New technologies are making it possible to produce ethanol from non-crop sources like waste and tires, further reducing the minimal demands the industry places on water supply.
Water is a precious resource used in a number of industries. However, it’s simply inaccurate and misinformed to lay the blame of decreasing water levels, which have been transpiring for generations, on corn-based ethanol.
~ Douglas A. Durante
The Hill, Letter to the Editor
~ Douglas A. Durante,
Business Week Letter to the Editor,
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Topeka Capital-Journal, Letter to the
~ Douglas A. Durante
CFDC Letter to
the Editor – Atlanta Journal Constitution: Controversial ethanol being
forced on us
It's important to point out that ethanol-blended gasoline is nothing new, contrary to what Tex Pitfield implies ("Controversial ethanol being forced on us," issue, Jan. 28). Pitfield neglects to mention that roughly 46 percent of the nation's gasoline already contains ethanol, which is credited with a 20-year track record of reducing pollution. In a report released in January, the EPA recognizes that ethanol-blended gasoline programs have improved air, water and ground quality beyond original expectations. Furthermore, technologies are being developed that will allow ethanol to be produced from virtually any feedstock at far lower prices. This combination of environmental and economic benefits makes ethanol an essential fuel that will help reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
~ Douglas A. Durante
Durante is executive director of the Clean Fuels Development Coalition
in Bethesda, Md.
CFDC Letter to the Editor -- Christian Science Monitor: The Global
In response to your Jan. 18 editorial on rising grain prices: Naming ethanol as the main driver of rising food costs is misinformed. Multiple studies have shown that a number of factors affect the cost of food, most notably labor, fuels, transportation, packaging, and other nonfarm costs.
A study released in December of 2007 by a Memphis-based research firm shows that corn prices have minimal impact on the US Consumer Price Index for food, based on 20 years of price data.
Additionally, studies by the federal government have shown that one-third of the grain used in the ethanol process is maintained and goes back into the feeding cycle. Increases in corn yields will allow the US not only to meet fuel needs but also to increase both exports and reserves.
The new US energy bill does require the use of 36 billion gallons of biofuels within the next 15 years. However, the majority of that must come from nonfood sources including wood chips, switchgrass, and other inexpensive and readily available biomass.
These second-generation biofuels will provide a host of financial, environmental, and energy benefits in contrast to environmentally costly and increasingly expensive fossil fuels.
~ Doug Durante
The Letter to the Editor above was in response to The Christian Science Monitor, The Global Grain Bubble: As Prices Soar, Riots Rise. But It's Not For Lack of Crops. The Cause? A Rush to Biofuel and Grain-Fed Meat
CFDC Letter to the Editor -
Kudos for providing balanced coverage of the energy bill (“As Ethanol Takes Its First Steps, Congress Proposes a Giant Leap,” Business Day, Dec. 18).
The passage of the bill could shine a light on next-generation biofuels, as Congress sets a new standard that cellulose-based ethanol make up 21 billion gallons of the national fuel supply by 2022. This is a critical development, underscoring the importance of investing in the commercialization of the fuel, which can be produced from various biomass feedstock, like wood chips and even waste.
With skyrocketing investment in innovative technologies by private entities and the federal government under way, it’s important to embrace the elements that an ideal cellulosic technology should exhibit: low production and retail costs, ability to draw on a wide variety of feedstock, ability to cut greenhouse gas emissions and other toxic pollutants and be high-performing.
This is a pivotal time to potentially revolutionize the country’s future fueling needs.
~ Douglas A. Durante,
Re "Drunk on ethanol," editorial, Aug. 20, 2007
The editorial, using one-sided arguments that make the pursuit of ethanol look like a fruitless effort, failed to mention that ethanol reduces greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 20%, has a 34% net gain in overall energy and is the highest-performing fuel. The Times instead focused on reciting environmental statistics from a Stanford University study that has been widely challenged by experts and misinterpreted by the mass media. American farmers have the means and ability to feed and fuel this country. It's unfortunate that The Times would strategically pick and choose statistics to skew the reality of ethanol.
~ Douglas A.
The Letter to the Editor above was in response to Drunk on Ethanol here. Click here for the PDF
CFDC Letter to the Editor – Detroit
Free Press: Michigan Must Lead The Way On Alternative Fuels
While The Detroit News should be applauded for its forward-looking editorial on the virtues of homegrown, renewable fuels ("Michigan must lead on alternative fuels," Aug. 5), it also missed an opportunity to correct a wildly exaggerated myth that ethanol has caused some food prices to double or triple.
We couldn't agree more with the editorial's theme that ethanol has provided tremendous benefits. From a significant reduction in greenhouse gases to the decreased reliance on foreign oil; from the estimated creation of 147,000 jobs to the economic income from additional tax revenues; it is without debate that ethanol has ushered in a new era of fuel economy and efficiency for all Americans.
However, contrary to the misinformation, the pursuit of expanded ethanol production does not greatly impact retail food prices. This latest myth is likely promulgated by special interest groups with specific agendas.
In fact, a recent study done by independent economist John Urbanchuk found that oil and gasoline prices have twice the impact on consumer food prices that corn prices have. Furthermore, the U.S. Department of Agriculture projects overall food prices will increase 1.9 percent in 2007 and 2.8 percent in 2008.
This compares with food price increases of 2.4 percent in both 2005 and 2006, and an average of 2.9 percent in the past 25 years. It is also interesting to note that corn prices have been down more than $1 since the beginning of this year.
The News is right on when it said America must lead on alternative fuels. We can accomplish this through sensible policies that will both feed and fuel our country.
~ Douglas A. Durante
Why Support the Development of Ethanol?
It stated in 1973 when the United States suffered its first domestic energy crisis directly caused by international forces. With the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973, Americans witnessed the effects of our dependence on imported oil: long lines at gas stations; lost productivity; declines in the stock market; economic recession; and general economic uncertainty. Today, we are now also concerned with the effects of climate change and a long term conflict in the Middle East – part of the world with the largest crude oil reserves. Because of its proven benefits ethanol has a long history of support from the White House and United States Congress. The Energy Tax Act, Energy Security Act, Alternative Motor Fuels Act, Clean Air Act, and the Energy Policy Act and the Renewable Fuel Standard all identify ethanol as a way to achieve a variety of important public policy goals. Today, The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 will create a market for 36 billion gallons of renewable ethanol. Learn more about the societal and public policy benefits of ethanol in the Ethanol Fact Book.
On the state level ethanol has proven to be a great economic development tool creating millions of jobs and billions of dollars in state tax revenue support to help decrease taxes and increase services. Economic Impact of Ethanol Production. Every region in the country with it abundant biomass, waste and other renewable resources stand to gain tremendously from ethanol and the development of cellulose based ethanol production from government research and private research and development.
What is fuel ethanol?
Ethanol is currently blended into half of the nation’s gasoline in nearly every state in the country. Ethanol, otherwise known as ethyl alcohol, alcohol, grain-spirit, or neutral spirit, is a clear, colorless and flammable oxygenated fuel. Ethanol is used to increase octane and improve the emissions quality of gasoline as required by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 for carbon monoxide and ozone non attainment areas. Thus, in areas of the country where clean air standards are not met, which include many metropolitan areas around the country, ethanol is mixed into conventional gasoline. You may see a sign on your gas pump- “This fuel contains ethanol”, or a percentage ethanol may be noted. It is blended with gasoline to extend fuel supplies at volume levels of 5.7 volume percent, 7.7 volume percent or 10 volume percent, in reformulated gasoline or conventional gasoline. Ethanol burns cleaner than gasoline, and reduces a number of priority pollutants, including carbon monoxide, particulate matter, and hydrocarbons. It is considered carbon dioxide neutral, since, though carbon dioxide is produced when ethanol burns, the plants used to make ethanol use carbon dioxide during photosynthesis. Some studies show a very slight increase in aldehydes from ethanol combustion.
Ethanol is also considered an alternative fuel when used in an 85% blend (E85) to meet goals outlined in the Energy Policy Act of 2005. E85 uses ethanol blended at 85% in the summer time, but uses a slightly lower 70% in the winter. E85 can be used in numerous vehicles currently on the road, called Flexible Fuel Vehicles, or FFV’s for short. The major automobile manufacturers produce numerous models of FFV’s; you may even own one. Many retailers become interested in E85 when they see the many FFV’s coming into their stations, and seek to bring in E85 to serve these customers. You can tell by looking in the fuel door of the vehicle, where a small sticker may state: This vehicle runs on E85 or gasoline. You may also check the owner’s manual or VIN number. You can switch between E85 and gasoline in your FFV with no problem. These fuel formulations are approved by all automakers and the Environmental Protection Agency. In the future, ethanol can be used as a fuel to power fuel cells, airplanes and other energy applications.
Will Ethanol perform well in my customer’s vehicles and is it covered under their automobile warranty? YES
All automobile manufacturers approve the use of ethanol/gasoline blends. Approval of ethanol blends is found in the owner’s manual under references to refueling or gasoline. General Motors Corporation states in its owner’s manual they recommend the use of fuel oxygenates, such as ethanol, when and where available. Fuel ethanol blends are sold in nearly every state and can be found in 46% of the nation’s gasoline. Fuel ethanol blended gasoline has achieved nearly 100% market share of all gasoline sold in certain carbon monoxide (oxygenated gasoline) and ozone non attainment areas (reformulated gasoline, RFG). Minnesota has adopted a statewide oxygenated fuel program that has resulted in ethanol being blended in over 95% of the State’s gasoline. Therefore, fuel ethanol is successfully used in all types of vehicles and engines that require gasoline.
Does ethanol take more energy to make than you get from using it?
No, contrary to various media pronouncements, ethanol does not take more energy to produce than is gained from using it. The most recent comprehensive study performed by researchers in California reviewed the previous studies regarding this issue, and concluded that ethanol does not take more energy to produce than you get from it. An article explaining the study was published in Science Magazine in January 2007, and can be reviewed here: http://rael.berkeley.edu/EBAMM/FarrellEthanolScience012706.pdf The authors found that reports to the contrary “incorrectly ignored co-products [other things produced during ethanol distillation] and used some obsolete data” (see article referenced above, on page 1). The United States Department of Agriculture, and the United States Department of Energy agree with this position.
What is E85 and a Flexible Fuel Vehicle?
E85 is a mixture of 85% ethanol, and 15% gasoline. It is an alcohol-based fuel that can run in six million vehicles that are on the road, right now. Standard model vehicles that can run on either E85 or gasoline are called “flexible fuel vehicles” or FFVs. These vehicles do not have to run solely on E85; they can go back and forth between E85 and gasoline with no problem. They are made by the major auto manufacturers, including General Motors, Daimler Chrysler, Ford, and Nissan. There are currently more than 6 million of these vehicles on the road, and you, a friend or relative may have an FFV. To learn more about E85 and see a list of the many vehicles that are able to use E85, go to National Ethanol Vehicle Coaltion Vehicle List or Alternative Fuels & Advanced Vehicles Data Center. To find and E85 station near you go to the National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition.
Production Hits 1 Billion
A new research study “Net Energy of Cellulosic Ethanol from Switchgrass” was released on January 7, 2007 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers from US Department of Agriculture and the University of Nebraska found that switchgrass yields more than five times the energy used to grow it and produce it, which makes it even more efficient than then the existing positive energy balance in corn-based ethanol plants (see http://rael.berkeley.edu/EBAMM/FarrellEthanolScience012706.pdf for more details). The five year study also found greenhouse gas emissions from cellulosic ethanol made from switchgrass were 94 percent lower than estimated greenhouse gas emissions from gasoline production.
EPA Says Ethanol Helps Clean the Air and Water
Ethanol Industry Quick To Respond to Health Claims
Transportation's Effects on Global Warming:
More than 5 million
jobs and $700 billion in economic activity could be generated
if the U.S. pursued a plan to get 25 percent of its energy from homegrown
sources by the year 2025.
Nebraska ethanol industry creates thousands
Nation’s First Commercial Cellulosic Ethanol
Cellulosic Ethanol: Not Just Any Liquid Fuel
The federal government has 20 tax incentives and states offer nearly 400 incentives for the production and sale of renewable fuels like ethanol and E85 for use in flexible fuel vehicles . These incentives are designed to accelerate the development of ethanol plants, reduce the cost of installing E85 refueling infrastructure, reduce the cost of selling ethanol and E85 to consumers, and encourage fleet owners to purchase alternative fuel vehicles like FFVs.
The following link will take you to an up-to-date list of federal and state incentives for ethanol which is provided by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Missouri Implements New Ethanol Mandate
CFDC Releases New Harris Poll Results
Ethanol Helps Lower
Change: What Americans Think
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association Says E10 Ethanol Saved Iowa Drivers
$120 Million in 2007
(See Ethanol Fact Book, pages, 45-48)
Happy "New Energy" Year
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WHEELING, W.Va. -- Here is a look at what I learned from this weekend's Cancer Research Classic. Jenkins raised the bar With Nate Britt (Washington, D.C./Gonzaga) struggling to find his zone, forward Kris Jenkins stepped up his game.
Multiple sources are reporting on Tuesday that small forward Daniel Dingle (Bronx, N.Y./St. Raymond's) has committed to sign with Temple. Dingle, the younger brother of former Massachusetts star Dana Dingle, chose the Owls over the Minutemen, along with Rutgers, Dayton, Seton Hall and Auburn.

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New Delhi: Chinese handset maker Xiaomi will offer 40,000 handsets of the entry-level Redmi 1S smartphone in a flash sale on September 2. It is almost four times the number of Mi 3 units put up for sale in the first batch.
The registrations for the Redmi 1S commenced Tuesday on Flipkart.com, the sole retailer of the Chinese company's products in India.
The decision to put Redmi 1S handsets on flash sale comes after the overhweming response from putting up the most coveted smartphones this season, the Xiaomi Mi 3. However, unlike Mi3, the Redmi 1S is a budget handset and should appeal to mid-range buyers who want good specs in a smartphone.
Despite the affordable price tag, the Redmi 1S comes with a 4.7-inch 720p IPS display, portected by Dragontrail, and is powered by a 1.6GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 quad-core processor coupled with 1GB RAM and an Adreno 305 GPU.
The device offers 16GB of in-built storage and a microSD card slot that further expands it up to 64GB. The device gets its juice from a 2400mAh battery and runs Android 4.3 Jelly Bean with Xiaomi's MIUI layer on top. There is also an 8MP rear shooter and a 1.6MP front camera.
Connectivity options include 3G, GPRS/ EDGE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n with Direct and hotspot functionality, Micro-USB, Bluetooth 4.0, FM radio, GPS/ A-GPS, and USB OTG connectivity options. It weighs 158 grams, and has dimensions of 137x69x9.9mm.
It packs a 2,000mAh battery, runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) with MIUI v5 skin on top.


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But while in pursuit of their final mark, deceptions threaten to floor and people hired to fix problems turn out to be problems themselves. The central message of those disciplines is that quantum mechanics supplies an excellent – generally exponential – enchancment in the info processing power of a physical system. From celestial mechanics to the quantum principle of fields, it has always played a central role, which this little notice sets out to analyse briefly. A paradigmatic case of an accurate closed principle is quantum mechanics. It ended up costing about half of what it will have value otherwise.
And then when it got here time to buy another car, the mechanic came out twice to check out automobiles and give me a full report over the cellphone. We didn’t should make time to take our automobile somewhere and drop it off to be repaired. However, quantum mechanics or quantum physics don’t essentially mean the same factor as a result of Physics is a really broad time period the place as mechanics is a specialised area of physics dealing with movement of bodies in a body of reference.
Students in these applications sometimes spend alternating periods attending classes full time and dealing full time in service shops under the steering of an skilled technician. Technicians who work on farm tools, development vehicles, and railcars are described in the heavy vehicle and cellular gear service technicians profile. Technicians who work on massive vans and buses are described in the diesel service technicians and mechanics profile. Automotive air-conditioning technicians set up and restore air-conditioners and elements, such as compressors, condensers, and controls.
These workers have to be educated and licensed in dealing with refrigerants. Although service technicians work on traditional mechanical techniques, corresponding to engines, transmissions, and drivebelts, additionally they have to be familiar with a rising variety of electronic methods. captionKeep things simple.sourceNewspress This is extra my thing, but I distrust mechanics who suppose it’s acceptable to jake up cars with aftermarket particulars, similar to spoilers, weird wheels, and unique paint jobs.
It is a 17-digit number that identifies your automotive’s manufacture date, place, make, mannequin, engine measurement, and so forth. You must know where to seek out this quantity, however you don’t have to memorize it. The best method to discover it’s to face outdoors of the vehicle on the motive force’s facet and have a look at the corner of the dashboard where it meets the windshield.
captionSometimes, it’s just time to trade it in.sourceScreenshot via KPCC.org See slide number 5. The ultimate achievement for a TRUE mechanic is getting your automotive to vintage status, with a few hundred thousands miles on the odometer and paint that appears new.


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During the Democrat response to President Trump’s Oval Office address, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed the United States-Mexico border could be fully secured without a border wall.
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“As a veteran Border Patrol agent, I know firsthand that a secure border with the big beautiful wall the president is building is the only humane and permanent solution to the crisis at the border,” President of the National Border Patrol Council Brandon Judd told Breitbart News last month.
On average today, more than 2,000 illegal border crossers pass through the southern border every day, overwhelming and straining manpower and detention space.
“A wall for this sector is necessary and needs to happen now,” Border Patrol Agent Chris Cabrera told Breitbart News’ Bob Price last year.
In the last two years, the Republican-controlled Congress refused to adequately fund more detention space, more Border Patrol agents, and more Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to deal with the illegal immigration crisis.


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Cambridge with a digital twin prototype to explore the future of commuting and how to tackle congestion and air quality
The project aims to help the city develop more holistic policies which will assist in addressing some of the very real challenges Cambridge faces
- March 14, 2019 14:30
- Olya Georgieva
Smart Cambridge and researchers from Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) will create a digital twin of the city to explore the future of commuting and supports policies to improve air quality and reduce congestion. The collaboration focus on delivering a digital prototype, combining traditional urban modelling techniques, new data sources and advanced data analytics.
The initial version of the prototype will be delivered in eight weeks and will include the recent trends of journeys to work in Cambridge, including how people of different ages and employment status travel to work and how different factors affect their travel. The web-based modelling platform will also visualise future development options and give people an opportunity for feedback.
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During the flooding crisis recently, talk turned to similar weather in recent years. Extreme weather seems to be a form of shared public trauma that evokes the memory of previous storms. A Freeman's Journal account of the worst storm in Irish recorded history, the "Night of the Big Wind" of January 6th, 1839, during which the Shannon burst its banks and parts of the country experienced torrential rain, flash-floods, and salt-water showers driven miles inland, notes that it was the most "violent" weather event since the storm "in February 1802".
Subsequent oral recollection of the event appears to have been prompted by comparable weather or simply the winter season – a National Folklore Collection account from Roscommon in 1937 noted, “During the winter nights my father often tells us of the stories he heard about the Big Wind.” Moreover, in an anticipation of trauma to be repeated, a 2015 RTÉ-BBC documentary on the 1839 storm gave much airtime to discussion of the storm of January 6th, 2014, and that event’s implications for coming extreme weather in light of global warming. Thus, when a storm is experienced, the weather trauma of the past (and of the future, increasingly, as consciousness of climate change grows) is simultaneously conjured up.
The hurricane-like storm of 1839 arrived suddenly after a strangely calm day, plunging towns into immediate darkness, which magnified the terror. Author Peter Carr notes that eddying winds caused the contents of houses to dance in the air and the din forced those huddled together to sign in order to communicate. Thousands hastily abandoned badly built and suddenly roofless houses, innumerable farm animals perished, and the Shannon flooded vast areas of the surrounding countryside.
Going eastward from the Shannon floods, one would have encountered the flooded Liffey quays in the wider spectacle of what the Dublin Evening Mail called a "sacked city" – "Houses burning , others unroofed, as if by storm of shot and shell; a few levelled with the ground, with all their furniture within; while the rattling of engines, cries of firemen, and labours of the military, present the very aspect and mimicry of real war." FE Dixon records that 38 houses in Dublin were blown down, 364 were partly demolished or unroofed, and an astonishing 4,846 were partly unroofed.
Countrywide, the destruction encompassed the cabins of the poor, Big Houses, and Belfast factory stacks.Three hundred lives were lost on land and sea that night, and many injured victims died in the weeks that followed. Newspapers surmised that 250,000 trees were destroyed, and folklore accounts indicate that the storm further altered the landscape by prompting the building of sturdier rural housing.
The storm's impact may be gauged by the fact that the Freeman's Journal covered the aftermath on every day bar one between January 8th and 17th of 1839. The Dublin Evening Post editor worried that, almost a week later, he had not "as yet, however, heard anything from the exposed coast of Connemara, or from the north-western part of Mayo".These Irish-speaking areas constituted the island's poorest and most isolated regions, so there is a double silence to their unrecorded and unrecordable suffering. Due to a complex mix of logistical and linguistic reasons, the rural and the poor were generally left to enumerate their dead themselves, since the English-language newspapers from the principle towns concentrated on the losses of named landowners and substantial urban proprietors. Indeed, metropolitan readers of the Dublin Evening Post appeared to have become jaded with the sustained coverage of the storm's effects in more isolated areas, for in response to readers' complaints regarding the sameness of accounts in the week following the storm, the editor rejoined: "It is not for the purpose . . . of interesting, or still less of amusing, the reader, that we have deemed it necessary day after day, to repeat, in respect of different places, the same thing. It is . . . to put upon record . . . the extent and nature of the calamity." That editorial marked the last such account carried by the paper.
Although a letter to the Dublin Evening Mail called the storm "the vengeance of Providence" visited upon "peer and peasant" alike, working-class victims, when enumerated in the press, were rarely individuated, while the rural poor, for whom the loss of livestock or crops would have been catastrophic, were the least likely to have had their trauma memorialised in detail in print. Despite this patchiness in coverage, and as with accounts of recent flooding, the Dublin Evening Post's survey nevertheless suggests an island united by trauma – "every part of Ireland – every field, every town, every village in Ireland have felt [the storm's] dire effects, from Galway to Dublin – from the Giant's Causeway to Valentia".
Mary Burke directs the University of Connecticut's Irish literature programme and is the author of "Tinkers" – Synge and the Cultural History of the Irish Traveller (Oxford University Press)

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