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November 22nd, 2004 10:54 pm
Third-Party Candidates Seek Ohio Recount
By Terry Kinney / Associated Press
CINCINNATI - Two third-party presidential candidates filed a federal
lawsuit Monday to force a recount of Ohio ballots, and a spokesman for
the state Democratic Party said it intends to join the suit.
The lawsuit was filed Monday evening in U.S. District Court in Toledo,
according to Blair Bobier, a spokesman for Green Party candidate David
Cobb, who brought the suit along with Libertarian Michael Badnarik.
Court officials could not be reached for comment Monday night. The case
did not immediately show up on the court's Web site.
The third-party candidates have said they are not interested in
overturning President Bush's victory in the state. But they say they
are concerned about reports of voting irregularities and believe a
recount is necessary to ensure accuracy.
Dan Trevas, spokesman for the Ohio Democratic Party, said the party
would join the recount request after the secretary of state certified
the results, or sooner if an early recount is ordered by a court.
Carlo LoParo, spokesman for Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, has
said results will be certified by Dec. 6, and said Monday it would not
be feasible to conduct a recount beforehand because there are no final
Bush led Democrat John Kerry by 136,000 votes in the unofficial count,
and Kerry conceded that there were not enough provisional ballots to
change the outcome. But Kerry supporters have made numerous claims of
voting irregularities in Ohio.
The two third-party candidates received a combined 0.26 percent of the
vote in unofficial results.
Keith Cunningham, director of the Allen County Board of Elections and
incoming president of the Ohio Association of Election Officials,
called the lawsuit "frivolous," adding that he might mobilize counties
to resist a recount.
"Commissioners are beginning to understand â and if they don't, will
understand soon â what kind of financial impact this is going to have
on them, in a year when elections already cost a great deal more than
expected," said Cunningham, a Republican.
The two former third-party candidates have said they raised more than
$150,000 to cover the state's fee for a recount. Ohio law requires
payment of $10 per precinct, or $113,600 statewide, but election
officials say the true expense would be far greater.
LoParo has estimated the actual cost at $1.5 million
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|The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels||| Print ||
In the 19th century, two high-society sisters take their inheritance on a journey to explore the Holy Land in Janet Soskice's The Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels.
Traveling to exotic lands, riding camels, finding lost treasure and ancient texts: sounds like a real-life Indiana Jones story, doesn’t it? Twin English sisters Agnes and Margaret Smith did all these things and more. At the end of the 19th century, when ladies were supposed to act like, well, ladies, the sisters turned their lives into an adventure. After the death of their father, when they were middle-aged, they became very wealthy and they took off on the first of their Middle Eastern travels. They journeyed through such places as Egypt, Syria, and Greece at a time when few Westerners did, living in tents and interacting with locals, learning the languages so they wouldn’t need to rely on a translator. Their greatest achievement was helping to recover one of the earliest-known versions of the Gospels (which they also helped transcribe), a find that would greatly influence New Testament studies. They also founded Westminster College at Cambridge, despite the fact that, as women, they were excluded from higher education in Great Britain.

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Bengaluru, 13th March, 2024: Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), a leading Fortune 500 Maharatna Energy Conglomerate, is proud to announce a significant milestone in its commitment to sustainable energy solutions. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on Wednesday between BPCL, the Chhattisgarh Biofuel Development Authority, and Municipal Corporations of Raipur and Bhilai for the production of Compressed Bio Gas (CBG) in Chhattisgarh, marking a transformative leap towards a cleaner and greener future.
Under the terms of the agreement, BPCL, a central Public Sector Undertaking (PSU), will spearhead the establishment of CBG plants in Raipur and Bhilai with an investment of approximately Rs 100 crore each. These state-of-the-art plants will boast a processing capacity of 100-150 tonnes per day, harnessing the potential of municipal solid waste to produce biofuel.
The MoU signing ceremony took place in the esteemed presence of Honorable Chief Minister Shri Vishnu Deo Sai and Honorable Deputy Chief Minister Shri Arun Sao at the former’s official residence. Chief Minister Sai underscored the pivotal role of CBG plants in fostering clean cities, clean energy, and zero carbon emissions, emphasizing the government’s unwavering commitment to environmental stewardship.
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A Doctor of Acupuncture (D.Ac., D.Acu.) program can be taken completely online or on a hybrid format. In an on-campus setup. D.Ac. or D.Acu. coursework and training within the classroom setting center on a theoretical foundation. The program also fosters community engagement through actual sessions with patients.
A D.Acu. degree may be geared toward becoming an acupuncturist; however, pursuing it is a major generally advances your career in the field of traditional medicine.
What does an Acupuncturist do?
In the contemporary world, an acupuncturist is a medical practitioner who relieves a patient’s physical pain and stresses through stimulating specific points in the body. An acupuncturist is highly skilled in Traditional Chinese Medicine, an alternative form of medicine recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The practice, which is considered safe and non-invasive involves the insertion of specialized needles to “acupuncture points”. By stimulating these body points, the acupuncturist balances the flow of “Qi” (Chi) or the life force of energy. These principles are also rooted in an understanding of the nervous system from the Western medicine perspective. Western medicine affirms that the insertion of needles triggers the release of hormones which will promote a person’s physical and mental well-being.
What sort of accreditation should I look for in a school?
The Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ACAOM) is an essential accreditation body for acupuncture at a national level. Regional accreditation bodies like Western Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC), Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) and Higher Learning Commission (HLC) may secondarily calibrate the quality of acupuncture programs.
How do I earn my Doctor of Acupuncture (D.Ac., D.Acu.) degree?
Many schools that specialize in Oriental and alternative medical degrees offer doctorate programs in Acupuncture. If you wish to enroll in such a program, you need at least a Master’s Degree in Acupuncture or any related field. Coursework and training usually reach four years, or around 13 trimesters or 8 semesters.
Some acupuncture schools have dedicated programs for bachelor’s degree holders who wish to finish both master and doctorate degrees in 5 to 6 years. Other colleges prioritize the admission of current acupuncture practitioners to their transitional programs instead of inexperienced students.
While a Master’s Degree in Acupuncture is the minimum educational requirement for practice, a D.Acu degree is necessary for the improvement of medical theory and practice of the discipline. Most accredited institutions require at least two years of study at the baccalaureate level.
Doctor of Acupuncture coursework involves rigorous exposure to clinical experience. Here you can observe actual acupuncturists impaling ultra-thin needles on the right spots. Your supervisor will oversee your practice on actual patients. Lectures and hands-on training consist of a long survey of different clinical approaches, e.g. Chinese and Western nutrition therapy, qi gong, cupping, gua sha, moxibustion, scalp acupuncture, electro-acupuncture, and tuina.
Doctor of Acupuncture programs offers several opportunities to connect with diverse backgrounds through community outreach programs. A D.Acu graduate student may also opt to specialize in a specific population cohort. For example, you can focus on developing new acupuncture approaches that will serve the needs of women. Current trends of D.Acu programs draw in the integration of biomedicine to traditional practices while seeking new methods to diagnose patients better.
What type of degree do I need to pursue research in or educate others about Acupuncture?
Currently, no higher institution in the United States offers Ph.D. in Acupuncture. However, colleges accredited by ACAOM maintain a network of faculty continuously producing new knowledge in acupuncture. Most professors in these schools have earned at least a Master’s Degree in Acupuncture, a license, and relevant, extensive experience. Some professors are also holders of advanced degrees in various related fields like Physiology, Biology, and Medicine.
While official titles of vary in different places, practitioners and scholars in the field of Acupuncture contribute to the academic community through journal publications. These include The American Journal of Chinese Medicine, Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics Research, and Acupuncture in Medicine.
How do I earn a transitional or bridge D.Acu degree?
If you have a master’s degree in Acupuncture, you can apply to transitional or bridge D.Acu degree that you can earn online while continuing your practice. Some institutions also award a joint degree, i.e. “Doctor in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine” if you already hold a Masters in Oriental Medicine.
What kind of career and salary can I expect with my D.Acu degree?
Acupuncture doctors heal their patients through needles, herbs, and other therapeutic techniques. They work along with physical therapists, reflexologists, chiropractors, and naturopathic practitioners. Acupuncturists work in a clinic or a major hospital that caters to traditional practices.
Upon earning the degree, an Acupuncturist gets an annual salary between $75,000 and $80,000. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median yearly of acupuncturists and other diagnostic and treating practitioners is $74, 530.
Do I need a license to be an acupuncturist?
Yes. Majority of the states require acupuncturists to obtain a license before clinical practice. Aspiring acupuncturists need to pass the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM) examinations or complete the NCCAOM certification program. Some states such as California hold licensing examination for acupuncturists.
What schools offer Doctor of Acupuncture degrees?
Acupuncturists who wish to advance their career while continuing their practice have several institutions options. Some universities like the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine offers a transitional program 100% online without the need to attend on-campus classes.
To prevent disrupting acupuncture practice, top acupuncture schools in the country, such as Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, Emperor’s College School of Traditional Oriental Medicine, and Maryland University of Integrated Health (MUIH) offer flexible school schedules for students. A typical scenario, in this case, is a D.Acu candidate attending extended weekends or 5 days of coursework and training four times within an academic semester.
Most acupuncture schools adopt a hybrid curriculum of on-campus and online courses to emphasize quality education and research literacy among students. Others like the Five Branches University extend their scope further by offering extra learning with their Chinese university partners.
Becoming an acupuncturist in the contemporary world is an unconventional way to serve the sick without fear of invasive surgery. Your profession is the embodiment of the old meeting the new, of tradition integrating with modernity, and of the East understanding the West.

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August 2012: The beginning
After assesing very carefully and profoundly where i want to go and who i want to be in life (or better what i want to spend my time doing), i reached a carefully balanced out decision. I want to be a musician. My family have a guitar that has been borrowed to family friends.There so happenes to be a guitar (classical) at the place i hang out every day. My first move is to look up on youtube how to play my favorite songs. So i look at tutorials every day,a new one, carefully study them (spend like 1 hour pausing videos and trying to do the things), write down the chords and practice them. The first two weeks are very hard (technically) when i strum the chords, my fingers are all out of place, the chords are "lagging" , the sounds are not quite right. This does not discourage me in the slightest. If anything it encourages me, i just keep going every day and repeat what i learned and practice it, adding new things as i go on. After a week i hear the progress i made on the first song i learned, "africa unite" by Robert Nesta Marley aka Bob marley. I keep going on like this for 2 months, i get to the point where i confortably can change chords easily and get it right, learning new songs, and start managing to sing along while i play. In the meantime i get back my family' s acoustic guitar, an Ibanez performance.
my most sentimental possesion. Not real image, but pretty close
After having it for one month, i get a setback. A friend a mine, who is a very talented percussionist, while trying the guitar brakes the lower E chord. This sets me back because it takes me 2 weeks to get a new string. (he broke it and never got me a new one, which i was expecting from him. But its easier to expect things like that from people you know less).
After that lesson (and 2 weeks of inactivity) i promised myself never to let hardware or material things ever stop me from progressing, and so it has been since. Truth is, you can easily play and have fun with 1 single chord, but i did not know that at the time.
In this period i keep playing, and get interested in theory of music. I get ahold of a program called "musescore" and start messing around with it. I realize from reading on the internet, that i must take some kind of lessons lest i continue into the music. I cannot understand why these sites are talking about, what i need is a proper introduction to music Theory. After research, i find the place for me. Start taking theory and guitar lessons once a week 2 hours. Theory hits me very hard and i like it right away. From the first lessons, i take what music really is. music=math for me. Notes in relation to each other are nothing else than a matemathical progression and sequence of numbers. Music can be broken down to numbers of all sorts.
All music theory is written in a language that developed from Medievil times; a conventional way to record music and allow easier comunication, and also record it for historical reasons. WIthout it, they probably would not have been any classical music coming our way.
The guitar lessons go south right away, i never study the material that my teacher teaches me, but nonetheless it makes me progress anyway, and makes me understand the single notes on the guitar. I like my teacher, he is young and loves music, and says one must play and study, and find the right balance beetwen the too. After seeying i don t follow his classical teaching metod, he introduces me to some strumming patterns which i love right away and practice hard. He teaches me that reggae is almost always on the upbeat, and a style, not really its own gendre (guitar speaking ofc)
On the theory side, my teacher is oriented towards me doing "solfeggio" (reading music sheet). He says i must learn this and practice this every day. He is correct, as i am to find out later on. Once you learn to do solfeggio (counting the beats trough notes) i realise later, you can pick up much easily most musical instruments. Every time i have doubt he encourages me to look into it, and apply the theory. Very basic stuff, but until i get it right and it right he refuses to progress me any furthur
The book used, is the most popular Italian solfeggio book for beginners, called "bona"
This book is boring. But it is a correct approach
I forgot to mention that, as soon as i started to see how notes worked, i was much more interested in how i can put notes together than applying or executing other peoples work. I am fascinated on what can be done here. I have had much more success in studying theory and solfeggio when i have studied and practiced my work, than that of other people (with the exception of Edward Grieg, Verdi, tchaikovsky, and recently discovered Eric Satie)
Spring 2013: A whole new world
Anyways i was going to these lessons regularly for 2 months, and creating some stuff with musescore in the meantime. After i posted a blog on tl, i got some good advice from some musicians suggesting that i get ahold of some more advanced software to make music. After research (always do your research!) i get ahold of a program called reason. Immediatly i start watching tutorials on how to use this program, and start applying what i learn. This leads me to my first theory oriented work (a song in F minor Harmonic, i have only ever used Harmonic minor) and another non-theory oriented work, a 12 minute track called "aliens children playground"
which took a lot of work and effort, but in the end i broke trough, after a moment of difficulty; Have faith, put hard work and effort, and things just fall into the right place. And they did.
I have always been fascinated by music and sounds, not only those coming from humans, but also those coming from animals. i made this with the built in nature sounds of the program, crickets birds and other stuff. The program has a vast array of instruments, effects, drums, but just a couple of nature samples.
After finishing that work, i realize that i must sample my own sounds from nature so i can be free and indipendent and use the sounds i want and need. I also bought a Xylophone and a very basic flute (recorder) to experiment.
without the decorations on the side
With the guitar, at this point, my abilities are strumming, singing and playing together at a stable rythim. In the winter i had approached bar chords. These are difficult at the beginning, but constant practice and hand sour along, it gets much better during the spring. As at the beginning, rewards start to come after practice. I think i practice so hard even beacuse i like playing reggae with guitar, and bar chord up-strum with mute are what i like to hear. In reaggae, the guitar is not a main instrument most of the time, mostly a companion, muted on the downbeat. Again here, 90% of what i play is of bob marley or other reggae, other than that very famous song of Paul Dukas from "fantasia"
During this summer i continued on the studying and going to lessons. I also got my hands on a state of the art semi-professional recorder, the maratz pmd 620
Starting to sample sounds and trying to understand how that shit works. I learned about decibels, and that most sounds in the professional movie industry are lower than -16 decibels . The lower the decibels, the better the sound quality in general. I learnt just enough to be able to sample, there is still a lot of learning to do.
By experience i start to understand that not only i can make nature samples, but also instrument and sound samples of instruments and just sounds, as long as they are sampled properly.
Metal clangs, hits, percussion samples.
so i start sampling everything that i like, in an underground room. Its not sound-proof, but being underground is already a small soundproof and thats all the minerals i have to make it happen. You gotta work with what you have. And you will manage.
Continued to play that xylophone as well, and then i moved to started playing with the piano. With the piano i only play things i write. With the guitar, i continue to practice and have fun and start playing around at parties and stuff. PLaying around and with other people is great fun.
I also write my own songs with lyrics. After hearing what the computer can do with single guitar strings and arpeggios, i want to do this with guitar.These sounds are part of what i am writing. so i delve into arpeggios and practicing, using the chords that i know, so that i can actually play the things i write. Coincidently this period clashes with the fact that, i want to sing as well. Even do i had started to sing since the start of last november, i wanted to learn how to reasnably and acceptably sing. So i started taking singing lessons 2 months ago (did 8 of them so far). Let me tell you, singing is the most difficult instrument of all that i have undertaken until now. Its hard beacuse, you cannot cheat. While with instruments outside your body you can find a way around something, "you can' t run away from yourself" . In order to sing you have to be in close contact with yourself, other than the fact of properly using your instrument (body diafram stomac breath mouth) . But i have patience and no hurry, the important thing in the end is getting it right. Smoking cigarettes doesn' t help either. Playing the recorder (or in italian known as sweet or straight Flute) helps on the other hand.
In the month of August (schools are open in the summer here thanks to the economical state of things) while browsing my works, i encounter a piece in G minor which i forgot that i wrote. Opening it and re-hearing it, i get a sudden Flash, a stroke of inspiration. I start working on this piece. Days and nights go by, i hardly remember to eat and sleep, so deep into this i am; I just have to work on this right now; Stopped going to school as well for 2 weeks. Upon completion, my life turns back to normal. A 22 minute work, called "burning Blue Suns" . Everything wrote in G minor, G major (natural) and A minor. I am very satisfied with this work. Funny how this came more or less casually and in the beginning i had actually forgot i ever wrote that 2 minute piece, and that it turned into something much bigger.
And this brings me to September, where i have taken a break, resting if you will, from creative work, while keeping going to lessons, Theory and singing; i have dropped guitar lessons cause my music teacher was not available during the summer and i didn' t like the substitute they proposed.
also if you want to listen to stuff i made, go here
From here, i am not exactly sure how to go on. I know my objective, but am in doubt of the path to take. I mean i know i want to become a composer, but not sure how to get there.
There is the possibility of signing up for a conservatoire. Requirements are to be able to read music sheets of a medium difficulty properly, known basic music theory, and have some knowledge of composers history. If i devolved myself this year, next year i could sign up. But i' m not sure i want to take this path.
The Italian education system has dissapointed me so many times before, i have lost faith. Italy has the least % of people graduating from a uni or art school in relation to the # of people that sign up. The worst in all of Europe (eastern and western). That is a fact, and in my experience is true. Then again, this is the first thing in my life, that i am sure and clear i know i want to do.
I am trying also, to get into a group of musicians, or form a group. I play and jam with people, I know many people who do music, but 90% of them are interested in it as a hobby, where i want this to become my work and eventually have an economical income from it. Granted, thats not an easy task for people who have been playing for 20 years, and apart from all the famous people its not that easy to make a living off it. but as in anything, even economically, there is way to make it happen. I quote the film "pirates of silicon valley" for that reason: You know how you survive? You make people need you. You survive because you make them need what you have. And then they have no where else to go. Right now nobody needs us.
Back to the point of the group. What i really am seeking for is players that want to do this full time.
To create something together. Insieme.
Also there' s the problem of getting out of the confort zone. The actual fact of putting yourself out there. I have seen a lot of videos this month on motivation and how to get your music out there.
I am not a solo player. Except for with friends, i don' t want to go out and do performances on my own. I want to be making music and performing with other people. At this point, after realizing that not many people in my area are interested in making a reggae group, i must accept and get into some kind of whatever group. Classical, rock 60/70, thats all fine.
So yeah i guess if you have any pointers or observations, post them. For now i will keep studying and practicing, and jamming, seeing what comes my way
Also, sorry for broken English

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Boyz II Men have paid tribute to the viral video sensation – #TheSingingDoctor – Dr Brandon Rogers who was killed in a car accident.
The band posted to their Facebook page immediately on hearing the tragic news.
‘Today our hearts are deeply saddened to learn about the sudden death of Dr. Brandon Rogers in a car accident,’ they wrote.
‘A few months back we brought this young man out to the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas to perform with us.
‘He was great all 3 nights! Just a genuinely nice person and a really good singer! Gone too young and gone too soon.
‘It hurts to know that the world will never have a chance to witness what his impact on the world could have been as a Doctor and even on the music world.
‘A great spirit and a great voice. Even for the little time we knew you, you will be sorely missed. May God Bless, keep and comfort your family in this difficult time.’
The talented doctor shot to fame last year when his earth shattering one-minute cover of Boyz II Men’s On Bended Knee went viral and caught the attention of the band.
So impressed were the trio that they reposted the clip on their official Instagram page and invited him to Las Vegas shows to perform with them.
No details have been released as to where the accident happened but an unnamed friend of the amateur singer said his family ‘are devastated.’
‘You may have known him for his Boyz II Men covers, he was also invited to sing on stage with them in January. He passed away in a car accident,’ they wrote in an online forum.
‘Dr. Brandon was in residency and always created his Instagram stories showing his office routines, singing and his free days with his siblings.
‘I know his family is devasted because they are VERY close. I always said I wanted to marry him because of how close he was with his family and how sweet he was.’

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The stress and fatigue testing is to grasp.
An important part of quality.
It is directly related to fiber quality grading and terminal applications, such as clothing, home textiles, automotive interior decorations and many other uses.
Any textile has to undergo repeated changes in strength and stress. Therefore, testing the fatigue degree of textiles is particularly important.
Fiber fatigue in India
The core of
The engineering fiber materials and engineering textile structures need to undergo varying stresses at different intensities during use.
If the stress is very small, the alternating loading and unloading will usually result in stress concentration, thus greatly reducing the strength of the fabric.
Because of the cumulative wear, with the increase of the number of stress cycles, the strength of fiber resistance to external force will gradually decrease.
When the alternating stress is far less than the limit of strength under static load, damage may occur, which we call fatigue damage.
Fatigue damage has a major impact on the quality and market prospects of products, such as fabric, home furnishings, automotive interior materials, and conveyor belts in the application of industrial textiles.
For high stability multifilament yarns, the strength of fatigue resistance has a direct impact on the processing performance.
We can see its effect in weaving and sizing and twisting of multifilament yarns.
The final stability is closely related to fatigue properties of single fiber and filament.
With the continuous application of a large number of new fibers to garment fabrics and other industries, textile experts all over the world have shown great interest in the study of fatigue properties of fibers, and the textile fiber industry in India is one of the countries in the world that carried out early and in-depth testing of fiber fatigue.
The India industry believes that the textile fibers themselves do not have much elastic interval. Therefore, it is the main method to obtain the fatigue test results by finding the direct effect of periodic load causing damage.
In 1993, India textile expert Ann Nanji Ed La and others proposed that under the cyclic loading, the wear and fatigue failure caused by tensile compressive stress and bending stress should have three criteria: 1. fatigue failure, 2. mechanical property loss, 3. appearance damage. Anandjiwala
Fatigue failure usually occurs when the cumulative damage caused by cyclic fatigue reaches the limit, and the yarn stress exceeds the allowable stress. Failure of mechanical properties is that before the fatigue life and consequences of mechanical loss (usually tensile strength) produce, the yarn stress reaches the known value of cyclic fatigue. The appearance damage is based on the fine structure of the yarn, and the qualitative data are obtained according to the influence mode and influence degree of fatigue damage, so that the fatigue resistance of different kinds of fibers can be concluded and compared.
This may be the core of India textile fatigue research.
The birth of various cyclic tensile loading methods
The conditions of fiber breakage can be measured by various methods.
In order to facilitate classification, they are generally divided into the normal breaking load range of cyclic tensile loading (0%~50%); deflection, fiber stress overrun, surface friction caused by the forward and backward swing of rollers measured; and double shaft roller rotation.
In 1963, cyclic tensile loading technology was first applied to fiber fatigue measurement by Indian Buss (Booth) and Hearle.
The sample is extracted with two clips, one of which is used for displacement cycle.
The defect of this method is that the stress relaxation is aggravated due to incomplete recovery of specimens, and most of the specimens are no longer subjected to tension loading in each stress cycle.
Only when the tensile strength exceeds the allowable range will the fiber be broken.
In order to overcome fiber breakage, India researchers have adopted a cumulative tension cycle technology.
At the end of each tension cycle, this technique inhibits stress relaxation and adds fixed tension to the next cycle to help restore the stress of the sample.
This method makes fiber easier to observe in circulation.
In 1970 and 1971, he and other testing technicians identified them as one of the main detection methods in their experimental instruments and regarded them as guidelines.
Since then, this method has begun to spread in the textile industry of India.
The first step is to clamp the fibers with two sets of clamps, one of which is connected to the vibrator in 0-10kHz frequency and 3 millimeters at 50kHz frequency.
The upper clamp is connected to the piezoelectric sensor, and the single arm bridge is bonded to the cantilever beam.
By means of this method, the electronic signals are analyzed from the periodic load and the average load of fiber proportioning.
In 1974, another expert in India also used the bending fracture test technology, and one end of the sample was fixed on the shaft clamp of the suspension vibrator, so the fiber was flexed in the amplitude of about 2 millimeters.
In 1983, engineers in India developed a device that can generate cyclic friction in any structure under a controlled temperature and a specific chemical environment, thereby exerting constant axial tensile load on filament, yarn or fabric stripe.
This effect enables fiber materials to simulate stress stretching, bending and wear endurance while processing.
In 1993, according to the three standards of fatigue failure, wear rate and appearance damage, India researchers studied the fatigue properties of high stability yarn (Warp) by using a network detector called Sulzer-Ruti.
Since then, another expert in India, James Lyons, has developed a new test method, that is, using two upper and lower stoppers to hang up the fibers, and the bottom clamps are supported by two handles.
The slightly lower handle runs through the adjustable slider in the vertical swing, which is one of the constant displacement test methods -- the amplitude of the torsion fatigue test.
Since then, other India fiber test experts have used flexural fatigue tests in fiber samples to study the reverse deformation of positive and negative substitution.
The most frequently used method is to make the fiber with a length of 10 cm under torsion under constant pulling force to determine whether the fiber is broken.
Thus, India experts invented a shaft rotation detection technology.
That is, fiber is rotated by variable torsion deformation.
Fiber fatigue monitoring data are provided in the combination of torsion and tensile mode.
Since then, they have designed a set of equipment specially for compression type twisted fiber test.
This mode of action makes it easy to observe the fatigue of both ends of fibers and produces buckles under compressive axial loads.
They have developed a bending fracture testing technology successively.
This not only improves the accuracy of the test of abrasion resistance and fatigue resistance caused by the cyclic stretching of yarns, but also expands the distribution of stress fatigue produced by cyclic bending of fibers.
Two axis rotation detection technology
Of all the fatigue tests, the most effective test is the biaxial test.
It can effectively combine cyclic bending and torsion to obtain corresponding results.
At present, this method is similar to the fracture in actual use because of the breakage of fibers after multiple splitting.
Therefore, in the observation of textile yarn processing, biaxial rotation technology is more popular.
Biaxial rotation means that the fibers rotate axially in the bending configuration.
But India experts did not stop. In 1980, an expert named Carlisle proposed several methods for testing equipment.
One way is that the coarse fibers of a single filament can easily be twisted and clamped so that the ends of the fibers can be knobs together.
This method leads to anticipated changes in stress stretching and compression, but is not suitable for filaments with diameters of 10 microns.
Free biaxial rotation technology
The expected changes in stress stretching and compression are not suitable for filament diameters of 10 microns.
The other method is that the author overcomes the disadvantages of the first method. On the basis of this, a small curvature radius force is applied to make the fiber pass through the roller shaft or metal wire through a certain tension, so that one end of the fiber is torsional and bears the load to produce stress stretching.
Roll driving technology with unidirectional driving
In 1979, India expert Carl and Halle further studied.
The outstanding feature of the test method is that the ends of the fiber samples are clamped by two clamps in the 90 degree direction.
The fiber is forced, bending on the roller, moving axially through one of the clamp shaft under its hanging tension, and placing the fiber under constant tension.
The clamp has no influence on the net twist at the same speed and direction.
This test result is related to the roll that is controlled by compression and elongation during rotation.
This fatigue effect eventually leads to fiber breakage, thus obtaining data.
In 1979, he and other experts re developed a set of more advanced equipment.
Fiber tension is easier to control and is controlled by rollers connected to a cantilever fixed on a phase measuring device.
Then another technology came out in India, which follows similar inspection principles but is parallel to the clamp shaft.
The combined effect of stress stretching is that it allows fibers to bend around 8 degrees of curvature around the roll, and the fiber length varies between 700-1700.
In the system, the end of the fiber sample is connected to the two clamp shaft.
In addition, another new tension system has been successfully invented. The roller installed on the online polarized beam can move freely along the stainless steel shaft on the bearing.
In this way, the tension can be tested simply by increasing gravity.
However, this method enables the roller to rotate and compress the fibers, which will cause fiber damage.
Factors affecting the formation of fracture data
Since the method of measuring fiber breakage is different, the data obtained from the test are different from each other. This is logical, and the circular data obtained is the most widely used method to reflect fiber fracture.
From this, we can see that the main factors that affect fatigue life are the following:
1. the toughness of the fiber itself.
The study found that the stronger the toughness formed in fiber processing, the longer the fiber life, while the polypropylene fiber was more resilience than nylon and polyester.
Later, it was also said that the thickness of the cell wall of cotton fiber had a significant effect on its life span.
2. the influence of environmental temperature.
With the increase of temperature, the fatigue life of nylon shows a downward trend.
Other studies have come to the same conclusion that the fatigue life of polyester and single nylon filament decreases with increasing temperature.
3. the influence of relative humidity.
By changing the relative humidity, India technical experts found that different humidity could affect the fatigue life of polyester and nylon wires.
However, the fatigue temperature of polyester filament is stable at every level of humidity, while the fatigue life of nylon filament increases with the increase of humidity from 50% to 100% in cyclic fatigue. The temperature increases from 0 to 200 degrees, and the fatigue life shows a downward trend.
The influence of 4.pH value.
In 1977, he proved that the pH value (0~14) of nylon fiber was in the range of 6.6 pH, and the conclusion was that if the pH value was between 0~2, the fatigue life of nylon increased obviously.
In fact, as early as in 1952, an expert in the carbonation parameter of 46 wool samples after the study concluded: carbonized fibers than the processed fibers in flexural fatigue resistance is smaller.
5. mercerizing mercerizing.
Due to the improvement of fiber processing technology and the removal of many weak elements in the controlled fiber, the length of the flexural fatigue life of the fiber is also affected by the mercerizing process.
Experiments show that the processing technology can shorten and prolong the fiber life.
6. the effect of resin.
Some resins will be added to the fiber.
According to India expert research, resin processing will significantly reduce the fatigue life of cotton fibers.
7. the effect of water.
Studies have shown that moisture has a crucial effect on pH value and affects fatigue properties of nylon filament, cotton fiber, polyester and nylon single filament, but the degree of influence is different.
However, India experts believe that the life of unprocessed cotton fibers in water is significantly longer than that in air.
Although the life of mercerized fiber is the same as that of water, it is still more than two times higher than that of untreated cotton.
However, the fatigue life of polyester and nylon filament immersed in seawater is shorter than that in distilled water.
The life of cotton fiber in air is longer than that in wet condition.
Application of fatigue technology research in textile industry
The conventional test method of fatigue performance in India is cyclic loading test under certain stress / tension.
This method can be reflected in the daily production application.
In textile processing, tensile fatigue produces warp breakage.
This mechanical deflection factor has great influence on textile wear, and its flexural fatigue life is closely related to wear.
For example, the wear of carpet is mainly caused by flexural fatigue.
Tires are also subjected to periodic stress and unequal stress, stress relaxation and stress compression under different humidity and temperature conditions. Therefore, the tire fatigue resistance is particularly important in tire performance, because the reinforcement performance of tire is a major factor in the structural load of motor vehicles.
Laundry and sizing also play a decisive role in fatigue. These processes can change the insulation and permeability of clothing.
The stress and tension fatigue produced by the conveyor belt deteriorates in the high modulus interlayer, resulting in fatigue damage occurring in the pull after the ship's haulage and docking.
Fatigue damage will also deteriorate in textile machinery, including distortion, interweaving, intertwining or entanglement of fibers.
Local deformation is usually caused by stress stretching, bending, lateral pressure, shear force and non bending.
The fatigue damage performance of multifilament in deformation and distortion operation, under repeated stress of different stress, the fatigue property of fiber is very important for the application of many end products, such as clothing, home furnishings, automobile decoration materials and other industrial fabrics.
The tensile fatigue properties of yarns with high stability under periodic tensile and damage can also be detected by other methods. The yardstick of yarns also includes fracture, damage rate, visual appearance and so on.
The fatigue testing technology of India has a certain reference value. Several of the fatigue influencing factors commonly exist in various fields of textile fibers, so it is of great significance for us to study how to improve the testing technology and product quality of fibers.


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The Splendid Table
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American Public Media's The Splendid Table is public radio's culinary, culture, and lifestyle program that celebrates food and its ability to touch the lives and feed the souls of everyone. Each week, award-winning host Lynne Rossetto Kasper leads listeners on a journey of the senses and hosts discussions with a variety of writers and personalities who share their passion for the culinary delights updated every Friday.
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In case you aren't familiar, The Splendid Table is broken into two parts: the first half being interviews, stories and profiles made by true professionals in the food and beverage industry. It's the best! The second half is "joe and jane public" calling in and talking to Lynne about mystery ingredients and recipes. This is fine, but it's the part of Lynne's show when I usually begin cooking and pay loose attention to what's being said. However, I would not miss the first half if you tried to drag me away. When will we see the podcast of this first, far better, half of the show? (updated 11/14 - The entire show is now being podcast here and it is truly great. Thanks Lynne! No other food/wine/beer/etc podcast compares.)
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Furniture and Belongings are particularly useful when
28mm Scale models supplied unassembled. Miniatures not included.
This kit is rated 4Ground skill level 4
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Two Injured, Airlifted To St. Louis Hospitals After Serious Crash On Route 67
JERSEY COUNTY - Two individuals were airlifted by helicopter to St. Louis hospitals in a serious crash Tuesday afternoon on Highway 67 near Delhi Road in Jersey County.
Jersey County Sheriff Nick Manns provided the following report about the accident:
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"One vehicle crossing Highway 67 heading eastbound across the four lanes of traffic was struck by another vehicle, traveling northbound on Highway 67," he said. "A 63-year-old woman and a 51-year-old woman were flown to St. Louis area hospitals. A 59-year-old man was taken by ambulance to an area hospital.
"Two helicopters and three ambulances were called to the scene. Betsy Anne Fire Department and Jersey Community Hospital - Ambulance were first on the scene with Jersey County Sheriff’s Deputies. The Jerseyville Police Department also assisted. The crash is still under investigation by the Jersey County Sheriff’s office."
Sheriff Manns also remarked this marked the fourth time that helicopters have been summoned to a major crash in Jersey County in the last two weeks.
"Jersey County Sheriff’s Office prays for the recovery of the victims and wants to remind everyone to pay close attention and be cautious when traveling our roadways," he said.
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Moderna Signs $1B Deal to Develop mRNA Drugs for China
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Moderna has signed a memorandum of understanding and a land collaboration agreement with China to develop mRNA medicines for Chinese use-only with a total investment of $1 billion, according to multiple media reports.
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel arrived in Shanghai on Tuesday to attend a signing ceremony for the investment, according to Chinese media outlet Yicai.
“Any medicines produced under this agreement will be exclusively for the Chinese people ... and will not be exported,” a Moderna spokesperson told Reuters in an email.
The move is a first for the company and comes amid recent efforts by both Moderna and the Chinese government to make inroads. Moderna opened an office in Hong Kong in 2022. In April 2023, Bancel visited Shanghai and told local media that the company would be accelerating its investment in China, while looking for local research and development opportunities with Chinese partners.
By May, Moderna had set up a biotechnology unit in Shanghai. Moderna (China) Biotech was registered May 24 with $100 million in capital. A company spokesperson at the time said: “We are exploring opportunities to engage in the market and bring the power of Moderna's mRNA platform to the people of China.” Moderna also said that while it wanted to sell its vaccine in China, the government was insisting on only using Chinese-made vaccines.
China, meanwhile, has been indicating its own interest in working with foreign pharma companies. Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao said at a Wednesday industry roundtable that foreign drugmakers can expect “more development opportunities.” Among the 12 pharma companies in attendance at Wednesday’s meeting were representatives from AstraZeneca, Bayer, Merck, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi and Takeda.
Currently, Moderna’s only U.S. approved product is its mRNA vaccine. But demand has been falling sharply for COVID-19 vaccines. Discussions last year between Moderna and China to sell its vaccine in China fell apart after the company refused to reveal the core intellectual property behind its vaccine and to partner with a Chinese pharma company, according to reporting by the Financial Times. At the time, the company said it was still “eager” to sell the vaccine to China.
Meanwhile, Moderna has been making moves to diversify its income base. The company announced Wednesday that it made applications around the world for approval of its investigational mRNA vaccine to treat respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
The virus is the second-leading cause of death for infants under one year old, after malaria, but is even more serious in older adults, which is the group Moderna is targeting with its vaccine. Among adults over 65, the fatality rate for RSV is nearly six times higher than for infants under a year. The vaccine is also currently undergoing Phase I trials for use in pediatric populations.
The company also has Phase III trials for an influenza vaccine ongoing, as well as for a next-generation COVID-19 vaccine. In addition, Moderna has four influenza vaccines in its pipeline and five combination vaccine programs.
Connor Lynch is a freelance writer based in Ottawa, Canada. Reach him at email@example.com.


Economic experts are suggesting that a weaker peso also has its advantages as the Philippine currency gained three centavos from Monday’s almost eight-year low.
The domestic currency closed at 49.17:$1, slightly stronger than Monday’s close of 49.2:$1, the weakest since Dec. 4, 2008, reported Inquirer.
At the Philippine Dealing System, the peso reached an intraday high of 49.05:$1 and a low of 49.27:$1 after opening at 49.13:$1, the report said, adding that the total volume traded slid to $600.9 million from $661.85 million.
Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III was quoted as saying that a weaker peso was “not 100-percent bad for us.”
“It’s good for OFWs, BPOs and the export sector,” Dominguez pointed out, as the peso value of their dollars would increase.
“But for importers, that is not so good news, especially now because we are importing capital goods and that is a very good sign because [factories] are investing in new capacity,” the finance chief said.
Separately, Budget Secretary Benjamin E. Diokno agreed that the peso’s depreciation was “not necessarily bad for us.”
“In fact, for every peso depreciation, our revenues will increase by P9.2 billion because of higher collections by the Bureau of Customs (BoC) as the peso value of imports increase. But that’s P9.2 billion minus P2 billion on the expenditure side because our foreign debt servicing would rise. On the net, for every peso depreciation, the impact on the budget would be a P7.2-billion reduction in the deficit,” Diokno reportedly said.
The budget chief added that he deemed the peso-dollar pair would revert to the 48:$1 level after markets settled down following adverse reactions to Donald Trump’s triumph in the US presidential election.
Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto M. Pernia noted that it was not only the peso but all regional currencies that were affected because of the global uncertainty.
Pernia, who also heads the state planning agency National Economic and Development Authority, reportedly said that the peso at 50:$1 level “will be okay.”
“It will be good for exports, also OFW families who are getting remittances, and BPOs. The downside would be imports will be expensive, but there are always pros and cons. I think the pros outweigh the cons,” the Neda chief was quoted as saying by Inquirer.


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Accounts of the Public Revenues, Taxes and Loans, Xmas, 1691-Lady Day, 1692
Accounts of the Public Revenues, Taxes and Loans (both receipts and payments), Xmas, 1691-Lady Day, 1692.
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- Creation: Xmas, 1691-Lady Day, 1692
Language of Materials
MS. Eng. hist. b. 72
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Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. V, no. 29973.
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One Way Coupling Of CFX And ANSYS For Thermal Stress Analysis
With the release of ANSYS 11.0, the process of performing fluid structure interaction analysis has been significantly streamlined. In this brief demonstration, we will review the process of performing thermal stress analysis for a T-junction assembly. CFD analysis including heat transfer in the solid ws will be performed in ANSYS CFX. The temperature distribution on the inside ws is mapped onto the mechanical model and an ANSYS solution is performed in order to determine the resulting thermal stress and deformation. of this is performed in a single integrated CAE environment, ANSYS Workbench.


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Published on: July 12, 2022
Calibration is an important step in DEM simulations in order for engineers to make sure that virtual materials accurately represent their real-world counterparts. In fact, the quality of your DEM results depends on having the right contact and material parameters. But standard values may not be an ideal representation of your material’s values, and calibration can take a long time. Rocky’s Material Wizard speeds up the process by automatically finding optimized parameters for your project, making project set-up much easier.
When setting up your case in the Material Wizard, you answer simple questions, such as “Is your material dry or wet?” You can use specific material values taken from a material testing report or from field measurements. And if you don’t know the exact value of the material properties, you can use ranges or your best guesses, and Rocky can still finish the calibration for you.
The Material Wizard will provide you with starting parameters that you can sort, such as friction factor, rolling resistance, particle density, and stiffness fraction. These initial settings can be used to jump-start your calibration work.
Once you have the initial particle settings from the Material Wizard, you can use the Rocky Calibration suite on the Rocky Customer Portal if you’d like to go further in setting up your particle definitions. Then, Rocky can calibrate particle-particle properties such as static/dynamic friction and cohesive energy, or you can measure the static angle of repose in a pile of granular material, and the dynamic angle observed can be recreated. And you can measure torque, which depends on the coefficient of friction/rolling resistance, in a rheometer for different angular velocities.
Watch the video below from Dr. Daniel Schiochet Nasato at the Technical University of Munich to learn more about simple experiments you can run to get the information you need to calibrate your material for Rocky simulation.
In developing the Material Wizard, the Rocky team has used machine learning methods to create a general metamodel, based on results from the Calibration Suite simulations. The Wizard compares experimental data with the metamodel prediction and finds the inputs.
Rocky provides a combination of a basic material database and calibration suite, and now the material wizard, providing access to easy, fast, and a science based approach for your material characterization for DEM calculations.
Material Wizard is available in Rocky’s 2022 R1 release. For more information or if you have any questions about Rocky material characterization of the Material Wizard, contact us today.


The U.K. decision to ban the herbal stimulant khat has caused an uproar in Kenya, where the multimillion-dollar export provides a livelihood for tens of thousands of farmers and traders.
According to the Star:
“The recent ban on miraa ( also known as khat) by Britain is part of a campaign that gathered momentum in 1980 when the World Health Organization classified the shrub as ‘a drug of abuse that can produce mild to moderate psychological dependence.’ ”
“Since then miraa or khat has been targeted by many anti-drug bodies across the world and remains illegal in several countries.
“The U.K. decision, said to be political, is a major blow to farmers in key growing areas of Meru and Embu counties.
“Farmers’ representatives in Meru claim that miraa brings more than Sh500 million ($5.7 million) to the county (Other reports say this figure could be as high as Sh2 billion). It is also fast replacing coffee as a cash crop in neighboring Embu County.
“The National Authority for Campaign against Alcohol and Drug Abuse supports ban on miraa in Kenya, but has not classified it as a narcotic yet, pending more studies.”


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It usually doesn’t matter how great your theme, template, or another digital product is if your item’s featured and add-ons are presented poorly. Let’s face it… if the presentation isn’t great, your chances of having strong, ongoing sales are going to be marginal.
So, that’s why we’ve taken some time to put together some of the best tips to follow when submitting an item for sale on the ThemeSnap marketplace. These tips should help you create awesome item pages and present your items in the best way possible to customers, while taking advantage of all of our new marketplace features.
Item / Product Thumbnails
Let’s start with the item thumbnails. That tiny little 80 x 80px item image, which in many cases is the first contact between your product and the potential buyer, is quite an important little image. Here’s how to make the best of creating a winning thumbnail image for your item:
- While creating the thumbnail take into consideration the fact that ThemeSnap automatically applies rounded corners to thumbnail images. The border radius is 2px. So if you have a border / stroke, take into consideration the rounded corners.
- Include your product name (if possible) in the thumbnail.
- Include the CMS / platform or the file type (for example WordPress (WP), Drupal or PSD, AI, etc). Sometimes, the icons, such as those for Drupal, WordPress, AI, etc. work well too.
- It’s also helpful to include the category the item is designed for (i.e. Directory, Photography, etc.).
- Try to avoid white color at the borders, because it will be confused with background, unless you do that on purpose or for aesthetic reasons.
- Make the thumbnail retina-ready: that means you should design it at 160 x 160px and take into account that the border radius is 4px at this size.
- Include payment method if your item includes a monetization method / payments. For example if you have pricing plans which your customers can customize on their theme and the theme uses PayPal, you could include the PayPal logo in the thumbnail to showcase this feature.
- If you have more than a few themes / items submitted to the marketplace, you could choose to use a unique styling for all of the thumbnails. This helps customers who view an item thumbnail for one of your products understand that it’s your theme in case he / she previously saw or liked another item of yours.
- And, of course, a logo is great to include in case you designed a specific logo for your theme — or another relevant graphic or icon.
- Use .PNG file format – it’s the best for preserving the quality (jpg compression affects the image quality), plus you can play with transparency.
Having mentioned the above to help you along, you’ll see that there are a lot of things to take into account while designing your thumbnail image. Following these tips really does make a difference in a sale versus no sale of your items.
Image Poster / Main Product Image
Product image “poster” is the mandatory image each item uses as the main or leading image. For normal screens the size is 590 x 300px and 2x the size for retina displays, at 1180 x 600px. This poster image includes more information than the thumbnail. Here’s a quick checklist that you should include or help guide you when creating the poster images:
- Include the Product / Item name.
- Platform / File type (i.e.WordPress, WP, Drupal or PSD, AI, etc).
- Small description, bullet list, etc. of the item.
- Category the item most belongs to, such as Directory, Photography, Hotel.
- Imagery (maybe product snapshots, or relevant background images, icons and the product logo, in case there is one)
- Product main features
- Make it retina-ready: that means you should design it at 1180 x 600px. But be aware that the buyers will see it at 590 x 300px (50% ratio), so please don’t include any tiny, unreadable text / elements.
- Include payment method if your item includes a monetization method / payments. For example, as noted in the first set of tips for thumbnails above, if you have pricing or an item that features a commerce process, then you could include the PayPal logo, Skrill logo, Drupal or Woo Commerce logo, etc. into this poster image.
- Mention if the product is mobile ready and show some previews on mobile devices too (in case we are talking about a theme here).
Here are some product posters examples (not retina-ready):
Product Description & Other Submission Fields
Though the fields from the “Upload a product” interface help you a lot in describing your product, please make sure to include the following into your item description:
- Detailed description – Tell potential buyers more about your product. Be as descriptive as possible since this is what a potential customer will use for their purchasing decision. It’s also what search engines will use to interpret what type of item you have submitted.
- Features – You worked a lot on developing your awesome item features, so take your time and write them down, being sure to describe them clearly so that any potential customer can understand those features. We know this may sound obvious, but many authors consume so much of their time on developing their product and submitting it for review without properly or fully describing the product features.
- Credits – Specify a list of links with all the resources you used while creating the item (i.e. FontAwesome icons, Google WebFonts, plugin or module names, etc.).
- Dummy content disclaimer – In case your item doesn’t come with all the dummy content used in the product demo, please specify this in the product description. Also, specify whether you are using placeholders or purchased, stock images in the item demo or product description that may not come with the item when purchased.
- Support – Be very clear regarding your provided support. If you provide no support for a PSD item, then state that in the product description and other, related fields marking support for each product. If you do provide support, let the customers know your working hours and / or timezone. Plus, adding an approximation of how quick you’ll get back to a customer (i.e. in less than 48 hours, within 24 hours) helps clear up expectations.
- Images – Include other images right in the item description. You know what they say… it’s worth a thousand words.
We hope these item submission tips listed above help you obtain more sales for your ThemeSnap marketplace items. Please let us know if you have any other tips for author-submitted items and we’ll be sure to add it to this list!

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Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program.
Georgia Department of Agriculture.
Cornell University (New York). New York State Agricultural Experiment Station.
Montana State University.
The Center for Invasive Species Management closed in 2015. Archives of relevant materials are available here.
Clemson University Cooperative Extension. Home and Garden Information Center.
Hilton Head Island Municipal Government (South Carolina).
Cornell University. Agriculture and Life Sciences.
This guide provides photographs and descriptions of biological control (or biocontrol) agents of insect, disease, and weed pests in North America. It is also a tutorial on the concept and practice of biological control and integrated pest management (IPM). Whether you are an educator, a commercial grower, a student, a researcher, a land manager, or an extension or regulatory agent, we hope you will find this information useful.
Montana State University Extension.
Montana State University Extension.
DOI. NPS. Yellowstone National Park.
If you plan to use your own boat or angler float tube, you’ll need a permit and a free Yellowstone aquatic invasive species inspection. You can speed up the inspection process by arriving with a boat that is clean, drained, and dry. Watercraft that arrive dirty or with standing water will be subject to decontamination. Watercraft that cannot be properly decontaminated will be prohibited from launching.
University of Georgia. Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health.
Provides comprehensive information on cogongrass in Georgia along with links to other southeastern state efforts on cogongrass. To date, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas have on-going research, education and/or control programs that are supported by university, state and federal agency cooperators.
Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry. Maine Forest Service.
South Carolina Forestry Commission.
The emerald ash borer, a beetle pest that has devastated ash trees throughout the eastern United States, was officially detected in Greenville, Oconee and Spartanburg counties in August 2017. According to a Clemson University press release, the beetles were found Aug. 3 during a routine check of Emerald Ash Borer traps and confirmed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In response to the discovery of EAB in the Upstate, the State Crop Pest Commission likely will establish a quarantine area involving at least the three affected counties; it is also possible the quarantine could be expanded to additional counties or even the entire state.
South Dakota Department of Agriculture. Conservation and Forestry.
Forest health management in South Dakota encompasses a wide array of growing conditions, management practices and host species.
Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. Forestry Division.
Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry.
New York State. Governor Andew Cuomo.
Funding Supports Invasive Species Rapid Response and Control, Research, Lake Management Planning, and Aquatic Invasive Species Spread Prevention Programs. Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced more than $2.8 million in grants have been awarded to 42 projects that will reduce the negative impacts of invasive species through control or removal activities, research, and spread prevention. These grants are part of the State Department of Environmental Conservation's Invasive Species Grant Program and are funded by the State's Environmental Protection Fund.
DOI. NPS. Glacier National Park.
Glacier National Park waters are generally open for boating from mid-May through October. All watercraft require an NPS inspection and permit before launching. Prior cleaning, draining, and drying of all watercraft, both externally and internally, will reduce inspection time significantly.
South Carolina Department of Natural Resources. Aquatic Nuisance Species Program.
Clemson University. College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Life Sciences.
The Clemson University IPM Program provides support for research and Extension outreach activities focused on managing pests affecting crops, landscapes and urban settings with practices that are environmentally and economically sound.


text: Gene and Chris present David G. Robertson, author of UFOs, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age: Millennial Conspiracism. In this scholarly work, the author asks, “How-and why- were UFOs so prevalent in both conspiracy theories and the New Age milieu in the post-Cold War period? In this groundbreaking book, [the author] argues that UFOs symbolized an uncertainty about the boundaries between scientific knowledge and other ways of validating knowledge, and thus became part of a shared vocabulary.” The book focuses on Whitley Strieber, David Icke and David Wilcock. Yes, we know the hardcover edition of this book is extremely expensive. A low-cost paperback edition will be released in 2017.

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The world existed for him in shades of gray. Everything was the same dreary color, drab and unoriginal in every way as if it were all a badly made photocopy of what had once stood in its place. It was like one of those movies shot in grainy black and white where everyone and everything just kind of blended together in a poverty of beauty.
She was part of the gray moving picture he looked upon with general disdain and lack of interest. Then something changed. He saw her tears, and with those tears her face found color, came to life and as he witnessed this unfolding before his eyes he also noticed she was smiling at him. Smiling through her tears. It was a smile of the meekest kind, intended to acknowledge him, unaware of why he was looking at her, why he was looking into her eyes.
He saw things in her perhaps no one had ever seen in her before. He looked deeper into her eyes and felt a great warmth behind her sorrow and when he stepped back he realized she was, in her own way, the most beautiful creature he had ever seen. From her warmth and her beauty, the rest of the movie came to life. Color filled the picture, people came to life and took on a new kind of energy. Each of them were unique and interesting, worthy of knowing and listening to, but she was at the heart of it. Her warmth and her beauty was the key that unlocked his world. Gray skies became blue, grass became green, and everything around him resounded with newfound beauty.
He wrote to her, telling her of how he saw her, how beautiful she was, and how she had given life to everything in the world around him. He had not seen a world this alive in a very long time. He had not been this alive in a very long time. He told her of what he saw in her eyes, what he felt in her heart and how much he wanted to understand who she was and why she carried this great weight of sorrow.
She did not tell him, so he accepted patience as the key to understanding. He longed every day to see her smile at him the way she had smiled at him on that night he saw her tears. And she would, almost every day, but it was all she could give him. That smile would have to be enough, at least for now, at least until she could find a way to let him understand her sorrow, to let him know her story. She would give him bits and pieces, never the whole picture, but she tried. She tried the best she could to give him what her life and her weight allowed. He accepted this, breathed deeply, and then he wept. He wept because he knew. He knew there was more, that this story was far from complete. He wept because the beauty of the world, so long stark and frozen in his sight, had returned before his eyes.
And every night, alone in his bed waiting for sleep, the last thing he hears is her saying goodnight to him. The world is filled with color once more. And so are his dreams.


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Meeting health care needs
Recently, I was watching the local news. There was a story about somebody in the U.P. needing a kidney and there was a spaghetti dinner to raise money.
Later on in the newscast there was another story about another person needing another body part, so there was yet another spaghetti dinner to raise money.
I think this area is just screaming for universal health care. In Europe, where they have universal health care (and tax the citizens at the 50 percent rate), they are ruled by kings and queens. They don’t call universal health care “socialism” because they have a monarchy.
The people call their health plan their health plan and don’t call it “socialized medicine”… which is what the Republicans in this country call it. I would rather have their health plan rather than needing to have a spaghetti dinner to pay for a new kidney.