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For seven years, I was the associate principal of Ashland Middle School (AMS) in Ashland, OR. With a population of 25,000, Ashland is a city in the southwest corner of the state, just over the border from California. Home to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Southern Oregon University, Ashland has a small-town feel and a progressive community. Yet despite the area’s general commitment to social equality, transgender and non-binary students didn’t always feel comfortable being themselves in school. Going into my second year at AMS in 2017, I was starting to better understand their needs and how we could meet them.
At the time, our district did not have a gender identity policy. Governor Kate Brown had only recently released “Guidance to School Districts: Creating a Safe and Supportive School Environment for Transgender Students.” So, resources and a greater awareness were just starting to emerge.
A few students in our school had started coming to staff members with whom they had a connection and felt comfortable talking and sharing preferred names or pronouns. Staff members were unsure of what to do with that information. Teachers and education assistants were asking me how they should respond and whether a student who identified as a gender different from their biological sex could, for example, use the other bathroom or go by a preferred name at school.
While I did not yet fully understand how best to respond to our students’ needs, I knew that we wanted to create an environment where all students felt comfortable and supported. I had taught at AMS since 2012, and we had worked steadily to reduce incidents of bullying and promote a positive school climate. Learning how to better support our transgender students was a natural next step.
In the spring of 2016, I was contacted by a family whose child was transgender and would enroll in sixth grade at AMS the following school year. She had transitioned to female in fourth grade, and while her elementary school teachers and administrators had been supportive, there was no documentation in place to support her as she moved to middle school.
Recognizing my role in ensuring “an educational environment safe and free from discrimination and harassment,” per the Governor’s “Guidance to School Districts” from May 2016, I worked with the family to create the “AMS Personal Education and Support Plan: Gender Identity,” that was later adopted by the district as a PEP: Gender Identity Plan. As the plan’s introduction makes clear, the document’s purpose “is to create shared understandings among school staff, caregivers, parents, and the student about the ways in which the student’s authentic gender will be accounted for and supported at school.”
To develop this plan, I leaned on advice from Jenn Burleton, the founder and executive director of the TransActive Gender Project in Portland, an organization that advocates for transgender youth and their families. I also used the “Examples of Policies and Emerging Practices for Supporting Transgender Students,” from the U.S. Department of Education, as well as input from the student’s parents and the student’s pediatrician.
To prepare our staff, I made sure to lead a training during our August in-service, introducing them to the new “AMS Personal Education and Support Plan: Gender Identity.” Including both certified teaching staff and classified education assistants was important so that everyone on campus understood the components of the plan. To protect the student’s privacy, I did not share her name. Part of the PEP requires we be intentional about who on campus is made aware of a student’s gender identity. As is stated in the plan, “Information about [Preferred Name]’s transgender status, legal name, or assigned sex at birth is CONFIDENTIAL. It is never appropriate for any school staff to talk about pronoun gender identity or transition to any other persons (including parents and students).” It was important to help staff understand that part of making a student feel comfortable is ensuring that their privacy will be respected.
Last school year, 31 out of about 500 students were supported with some level of a Gender Identity Plan, which is about 6% of our student body. Some parents are not as comfortable or supportive when a student starts talking about their gender identity, and students are acutely aware of how their families are likely to respond to this information. When a student seeks out support at AMS, the goal is to bring parents in while being sensitive to the needs of the student as they navigate how and when to include their parents in the conversation. For guidance on how to accomplish this goal, we have used “Transgender Students in Schools,” published by the National School Boards Association, and “Schools in Transition: A Guide for Supporting Transgender Students in K–12 Schools,” produced by the National Center for Lesbian Rights, Gender Spectrum, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the National Education Association.
“In supporting students in this process, it is important to honor where they are in terms of sharing this information with their family,” says Allison Hass, the student support specialist at AMS. “Sometimes students have shared their authentic gender identity with their family and sometimes they have not shared that information yet. In situations in which a student’s family does not know about the student’s gender identity, it is important that we hold space for the student to safely move through their process at their own pace.”
Hass is often the staff member helping the student through this process. Once the student feels comfortable sharing with their families, providing families with support networks, referrals, and literature is a helpful next step. “A Guide to Being an Ally to Transgender and Nonbinary Youth,” by the Trevor Project, is a highly accessible educational resource that we recommend to families as they navigate how to support their child.
Partnering with families is an important piece in supporting transgender students at school. Every student travels their own path of self-discovery and identity formation and, whenever possible, having the opportunity to partner with the student and their family can be a meaningful opportunity in honoring the student’s authentic gender identity.
Affirming Gender Identity at School
There are a number of ways that a school community can help transgender students feel supported on campus, including through the language that is used, the images that are displayed, access to gender neutral bathrooms, and ongoing care.
- Dress Code Posters
One way that AMS has adapted and strengthened a commitment to supporting all students, including gender non-binary students, is to modify dress code guidance by removing all gender specific language or images. Instead of outlining expectations for girls or boys, we have developed guidance that works for everyone, regardless of gender, including expectation #3 “Cover that bod! From your Armpit Equator to your thighs.”
- Gender-Affirming Language
One small but meaningful way for a school to increase support of LGBTQ+ students is to practice using inclusive language. Simply put, this is language that includes all people of all genders. For example, instead of using terms such as “you guys” or “boys and girls,” educators can be mindful of using terms such as “you all” or “everyone” or “everybody” when addressing a class or group of students.
- Visual Environment
In 2018, I facilitated an activity with staff called the “Environmental Scan.” Teachers were given a worksheet that asked questions about the messages that were being communicated based on the art, signs, and posters presented throughout the school. The scan asked, “To what degree is the diversity of the area, and the world, represented? Are these differences reflected and honored in a positive and equitable way? What are the explicit messages about difference that are being conveyed? What messages are missing? What is being communicated by the omission? Who is being overlooked?
This schoolwide inventory allowed staff members to see their classroom, and each other’s classrooms, and the common spaces throughout the school through a new lens. The effect was powerful: We realized the images didn’t represent the value we held about diversity. After recognizing that our physical space lacked images of people of color, women, and messages of inclusion, teachers were more motivated to intentionally post diverse images. We then provided teachers with high-quality posters of images that they requested, as well as artwork that communicated two very specific messages: This is a safe space for queer and transgender people, and all are welcome here.
Special education teacher Rosie Russell explains, “Leadership from administration and encouragement to hang Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion posters, including images representing the LGBTQIA+ population, helped the staff be bold in our support of these kids.”
Questions about bathrooms and locker rooms commonly arise from staff and parents when they are trying to understand how supporting transgender students might impact the school community. Typically, schools have gender-specific restrooms. Some people are concerned that in making transgender people feel comfortable, it will be difficult to maintain the comfort of cisgender community members. At AMS, any transgender or cisgender student can use single-person, nongender options, even when it means allowing students to use the staff bathroom in the office. Most of the time people just need to understand that there is a solution for what they anticipate will be a problem. When we announced this approach, the administration worked with individual families by sitting down with them, listening to their concerns, providing them with options, and assuring them that we were committed to ensuring that every student on campus had a bathroom they felt comfortable using.
In AMS’s remodeled campus, restrooms have been added to provide more single-person, nongender options and with a design that improves supervision. It provides a “wash closet” style, where students—regardless of their gender—can use a single-person bathroom in private and then wash their hands in an open sink area that is visible to the rest of the hallway (see image above). The intention behind this design is to provide more options that don’t require special permission for subgroups of students.
- Check-Ins With Students
AMS staff members recognize that all students benefit from caring adults as they navigate the middle school experience. “We understand that a middle school student is in the process of forming and understanding their identity, in general, and a part of one’s identity is their gender and sexual orientation,” says language arts teacher Austin Wallace. “Having this understanding as a foundation is key to supporting students. We understand that educators guide all students during this process to develop pro-social skills, organization skills, academic skills, or simply by affirming their identity.”
As Kai Williams, a ninth grader who attended AMS last year, explains, gender identity can be fluid. “Our identities might not stay the same forever,” he says. “One month we might identify as a man, but the next we might identify as non-binary. As we grow and change, our identities do too, so it’s important to check up on trans students and be flexible.” To that end, Hass, the student support specialist, and the mental health counselors at AMS regularly check-in with transgender students, particularly those who are currently in the process of exploring their gender.
- Affinity Groups and Student Unions
Given that affinity groups offer supports for students, in the last five years, AMS has directed resources into establishing clubs and student unions. A Black Student Union, an Asian Student Union, a Latino Student Union, a Native Student Union, and a Queer Straight Alliance provide students with networks to share their lived experiences with peers. Recognizing our students of color and our LGBTQ+ community, and giving them a voice, has impacted awareness and respect for different cultures and student groups on campus.
Some staff say they want to support students but feel overwhelmed initially by the thought of learning a student’s pronouns or using a different name mid-year. Recognizing that this can cause stress for some teachers is important, as is giving them support.
One of the practical ways that AMS helps educators is by adjusting names in our student information system to reflect a student’s preferred name. “It’s a small detail but makes all the difference in helping teachers support their students,” says Russell. “This type of clerical adjustment is easy and should be embraced by any district hoping to support their LGBTQIA+ population in a tangible way.”
Teachers know that if they need help navigating a situation, they can talk openly with school leaders and the student support specialist who will listen to their concerns. Sometimes, the support that is needed has to do with a simple clarification or logistics. Other times, staff members need to process their own thoughts and feelings about gender-affirming care.
Response of the Larger School Community
How do we know that our efforts to make AMS a comfortable, inclusive environment are working? The behaviors of students who do not identify as queer or transgender show that a culture of inclusion is widespread.
“Because of the support and spaces AMS has for LGBTQ+ students, I’ve heard so many positive things from other students who otherwise might not know much about the LGBTQ+ community firsthand,” Wallace says. “For example, I’ve heard many students ask others about their pronouns, or if they’re using the correct pronouns when talking to an LGBTQ+ student. I hear white male cisgender religious students being conscious of pronouns in a way that shows they have no bias toward LGBTQ+ students, that they want to understand and act with respect, and I believe this is at least in part because of the vocal and open position AMS has taken to create spaces for LGBTQ+ students and to show them unwavering allegiance.”
Williams can attest to this inclusive environment, recalling a time when he felt supported by another student at AMS. “This guy in the boys’ bathroom started talking to me and asked, ‘Wait, are you a girl?’ and I got kind of scared and said, ‘Biologically yes, mentally no.’
“Then he said, ‘So, you’re a guy?’ and I said yes. And he just went, ‘Okay! Nice to meet you, dude!’ and left. It was awesome.”
Katherine Holden is the principal of Talent Middle School in Talent, OR, and the 2022 NASSP Assistant Principal of the Year. Previously, she was the associate principal of Ashland Middle School in Ashland, OR.

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Chiswick's Ultimate DJ
The first term of Chiswick’s ultimate DJ was a good start to something new. Students showed great skills in beat matching and mixing during the lessons. Mutwakel (7GR) & Magnus (8HA) showed a keen interest in the club and hope to continue next year. The stand out performer this year was Tylen (8FI). Tylen was able to mix, beat match and loop tracks with ease showing good rhythm and choice of music. He also showed off these skills with Talha (8CH) on the mic during the summer arts festival.

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· Signature Microbiome metabolic diseases:
· Profile of circulating microRNAs metabolic diseases
· Signature epigenomics of metabolic diseases
· Interaction between Systems Biology and Microbiome / miRNAs / innate immune system
· Image metabolic
Main lines of research:
Inflammation and insulin resistance.
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Principal investigator: José Manuel Fernández-Real

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Practice notes: On lingering
There are times when I languidly linger and times when I awaken and hurry in search of my goal; but cruelly thou hidest thyself from before me.
Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali Poem #14
1. to remain or stay in a place longer than is usual or expected, as if from reluctance to leave
2. to remain alive; continue or persist, although gradually dying, ceasing, disappearing, etc.
3. to dwell in contemplation, thought, or enjoyment.
4. to be tardy in action; delay; dawdle
5. to walk slowly; saunter along
Last year, on my birthday, we went to the Whitechapel Gallery in London, where we experienced Zarina Bhimji’s haunting film – Yellow Patch. There was one sequence – where the camera zooms slowly towards the crumbling facade of an old Indian palace, revealing a world of untold richness and depth. Afterwards, I was struck by the thought that it is when we slow down – even momentarily – that the world – in particularly the everyday or mundane world that so much of contemporary magical writing tends to disdain – becomes wondrous.
Recalling one of my first posts on enfolding – Pondering Daily Practice I noted that Tantra is not so much about pursuing a distinct set of practices but living one’s life in a particular way. A particular concern for me has been how to “think” beyond the concept of bracketed “exercises” (which are usually cast as productive trajectories) and the valorisation of the interruptive non-ordinary “altered state” and to refocus attention towards the everyday world which we seem to spend so much time, it seems, attempting to mount an escape from, or mourning the loss of enchantment within.
1. The sensation body: I am sad. I am hungry. I am happy and so on.
2. The energy body/the BwO; a body of energetic qualities, intensities, and speeds.
3. The emanation body: a body of expression and value.
Three Bodies Practice: Project three bodies as modes of each other. Roll up the sensation and the energy bodies into the emanation body. Experience yourself as the world: the moving expressive creation.
Everything is a body. The body expresses everything. The body is a city, a cosmopolis. Oh, how wondrous are the habits of the human body – Calcutta!
“Three Bodies” Anne Weinstone, Avatar Bodies: A Tantra for Posthumanism
Reflecting on the everyday experience that life is lived at different speeds – and times – and increasingly, it seems, the emphasis is on times/speeds being productive of something. Going places, moving through space, progressing towards goals, aims, tasks, achievements, with all the attendent self-monitoring and policing. The language, the speeds, the (regulatory) time of work has colonised every sphere of activity. Magic – and all it’s attendant extra-daily practices and attainments – has become work. At the same time, less present and less theorised, there are the gaps: the intermissions, spaces, the distractions; the pauses between and within purposeful activities and trajectories, in which a magic dwells (see the sidelong glance for some earlier reflections).
…a meaningful practice does not coincide with a sign; meaning cannot be reduced to a sign which exists on a separate ‘level’ outside the immediate sphere of the body’s acts. Habit is a knowledge and a remembering in the hands and in the body; and in the cultivation of habit it is our body which ‘understands.
Paul Connerton How Societies Remember
Lingerings can be thought of as nonproductive micro-practices, momentary intensifications, sought and found within the gaps and pauses of purposive activity. I let my eyes wander around me, alighting – resting in the shadow between keyboard and desk; on the shimmer of a peeling sticker on the side of the Dell box on my desk, on the stick figure frozen in the act of running on the fire exit sign over to my right. I let my hand caress an iron railing as I walk down some steps on the Thames embankment. Reading onscreen, I idly caress the computer, the vibrations of its drives thrills throughout me. Pausing for a moment on the way to get my lunch, I’m momentarily enthralled by the way ripples dance across a pavement puddle. Such moments are small instances of finding/remembering the sense of immanent presence – the feeling of alive-ness.
Lingering also suggests the hauntings and traces of other moments on us; in memories, shared histories and affects; there at the edge of conscious awareness, the felt ghost-presences – at once familiar and strange; the co-minglings of thresholds that continually whirl around us, that we are immersed in. More of that perhaps, another time.


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Motorworld’s newspaper №54
In 1940, the Wehrmacht’s Ordering Department announced a tender for developing a heavy motorcycle with a sidecar, with 3×2 axle configuration, capable of towing a light artillery gun or a munition trailer. By the end of the year, the Bayerische Motoren Werke, AG developed one of the best military motorcycles ever, the BMW R75.
Clearly, all test runs in general, and especially the International Six Days Trial, played a very important role in the development of German military motorcycles. This had a particularly strong impact on the preparation of numerous motorcycle bodies, which became the vanguard of the German armored divisions.
Before the beginning of World War II, Germany paid a lot of attention to motorcycles with sidecars, this was clearly visible in the number of participants in the International competitions, among which the most Germans were on motorcycles with sidecars. Later on, the German advocacy openly admitted that it was these sports competitions that helped identify design flaws and train top-class drivers using the harsh conditions of the competition.
Of course, the military operations were very different from the competition: drivers had to pass thousands of kilometers within months, often unable to make major repairs. In addition, the terrain was much harsher than in the trials, and the fact that no one specifically selected these motorcycles, as the best of the produced, had an impact on further requirements for these ‘cross-country vehicles’.
In the mid-1930s, bikes with sidecar wheel drive began to appear in Belgium (FN M12a SM), France (Gnome-Rhone AXII), England (Norton Big Four), and even Japan (Rikuo Type 97). These motorcycles with the 3×2 axle configuration showed the perfect results, but the German war machine was not in a hurry to pick. The Wehrmacht wanted the best off-road motorcycle for itself.
FN M12a SM located at the motorcycle museum “Motorworld by V.Sheyanov”
Gnome Rhone AXII located at the motorcycle museum “Motorworld by V.Sheyanov”
Norton Big Four located at the motorcycle museum “Motorworld by V.Sheyanov”
Rikuo Type 97 located at the motorcycle museum “Motorworld by V.Sheyanov”
By the autumn of 1937, the Wehrmacht’s Supreme Command came up with the requirements for a new off-road motorcycle, and two of Germany’s largest motorcycle manufacturers, BMW and Zündapp, undertook the order. The final prototypes were similar both externally and constructively, but today we will only talk in detail about the BMW R75, and the Zündapp KS750 will be left for later.
The ancestor of the R75 was the R12 model, introduced in 1935, which was distinguished by a telescopic front fork with hydraulic shock absorbers. The powerful 746 cc engine, 4-speed gearbox, and shaft drive made the machine fast and reliable, but the short distance between the wheel and wing caused many problems for German motorcyclists on the Eastern Front.
BMW R12 located at the motorcycle museum “Motorworld by V.Sheyanov”
The engine was something like the flathead engine of the R71 model. The gasoline four-stroke, two-cylinder ‘square’ engine (bore and stroke = 78 mm) with a working volume of 745 cc was mounted across the frame, but in contrast to its more peaceful ‘ancestor’, the new engine has become an OHV. For ease of maintenance, the rocker arm of each valve had a separate cover. The new power unit, designed not so much for maximum power as for long service life, developed 26 hp at 4400 rpm.
The motorcycle had a kickstarter. The magneto used in the ignition system with the mechanism of automatic adjustment of the ignition timing made the whole system reliable, as evidenced by the spark plugs, which functioned flawlessly for more than 12 thousand kilometers without cleaning or replacement. The magneto, also used on the Zundapp KS600 and BMW R71, was supplied by two manufacturers: Noris ZGA2 and Bosch FJ2 R134. The copy from Motorworld’s collection has the magneto Noris, which proved to be excellent.
The magneto and camshaft were driven by a gear system. The engine turned out to be very reliable, did not overheat at low speeds, and worked perfectly in the cold, thanks to two carburetors Graetzin Sa 24. Good cross-country ability in overcoming water obstacles provided rubber caps on mixing chambers of carburetors and special tips for spark plugs.
Let’s make it clear, there were several modifications of the motorcycle R75 that changed throughout the production. The engine parts, suspension, and even coloring were subject to changes. Officially, the first version had no name, but there were such nicknames as “Europe” and “Siberia”, the most famous of later versions was named “Sahara”.
Valve caps also changed, and in the case of “Sahara”, they were no longer painted in the color of the motorcycle. A slight ribbing has been added for better cooling of the cylinders
The first versions of the motorcycle were painted dark gray (aka Feldgrau color). The “Sahara” was one of the first to get yellow-sand color, and a little later, in February 1943, ‘sand camouflage’ received all fighting vehicles of the Wehrmacht, except for those that served on the Eastern Front.
On the first versions of R75, the filtering element was located under the gas tank, on a standard for BMW spot, in the casting of the body of the gearbox. The decision to change its location was affected by the sands of African deserts and the mud of Russian roads, which clogged the air filter too quickly. On “Sahara” the filter took the place of a glove box on top of the gas tank and was covered with a lid, very similar in shape to a German helmet. The design and layout of the air filter, with a device to provide suction during engine start-up, made the launch less problematic.
The exhaust system was also with a twist. The exhaust line from the cylinders came to a small receiver located in front of the engine crankcase, and only then went to the back of the bike, to the silencer. This part of the silencer was covered with a perforated sheet of iron to protect the rear passenger’s legs from burns.
In 1943, the Germans changed the exhaust system of “Siberia”. Now the exhaust fumes passed through a heat exchanger, warm air from which was used to heat the legs and hands of the driver, as well as heating the bottom of the sidecar.
The engine and gearbox were mounted in one unit. The clutch in the BMW R75 wasn’t any special, it was dry, single disc. But the four-speed gearbox with reverse gear and demultiplier was a real work of art. The gear was changed either with the left foot or with an internal lever mounted on the right side of the gas tank. The sidecar wheel-drive was controlled only by a hand lever. The outside lever controlled the demultiplier.
The torque from the gearbox was transmitted with a help of a cardan shaft to the differential. Through the differential, the torque was transferred to the rear wheel of the motorcycle and the wheel of the sidecar. Thanks to the differential, the bike went straight and didn’t go off its trajectory even at high speeds. If the bike got stuck in the mud, so that one wheel spins freely, you could turn on the differential lock, which greatly increases the performance of the bike. The lever to activate the differential lock was located under the gas tank on the right side.
To the gear ratio, received by bevel and root gears of the differential was added an additional gear ratio, received in the transmission of the rear wheel and wheel of the sidecar by two additional spur gears. This was similar to the transmission of heavy trucks of those years.
The wheel of the sidecar had a torsion suspension while the sidecar itself had leaf springs. The MG 34 or MG 42 machine guns were installed on the front part of the sidecar. If necessary, the sidecar could be detached.
The spatial frame, built of pipes and stamped parts, was strong and could withstand high loads and difficulties of the battlefields.
The seats on the R75 were supplied by the well-known company Drilastic. The “Sahara” had the changed shape of the seats, differed from the first versions.
“Sahara” is a heavy motorcycle, much heavier than its contemporaries, which according to the traffic rules are limited to a weight of 350 kg.
The R75 weighs 420 kg and it goes very smoothly, despite the unsprung rear wheel. The R75 is easy to handle, thanks to the wide handlebars. The low seat allows you to reach the ground with your feet, especially with the left one. And this is very helpful in dangerous situations on the slopes, where the motorcycle could tip over on a slippery forest road.
The BMW R75 is easy to control, thanks to the wide handlebars and the low seat allows you to reach the ground with your feet.
All controls are modern and in place. The ignition starts by turning the toggle switch, without keys, which are so easy to lose in wartime!
The drive of the rear wheel and the wheel of the sidecar are so reliable that you can drag anything until the wheels get buried in the sand or mud gets stuck between the front wheel and the fender.
The BMW R75 is undoubtedly a technical masterpiece. The drive of the rear wheel and the wheel of the sidecar are so reliable that you can drag anything until the wheels get buried in the sand or mud gets stuck between the front wheel and the fender.
The hydraulic brake works very well! It stops the bike no worse than modern ones if everything is correctly maintained, of course. However, the maintenance of the brakes is also a challenge. As well as a ride on a solo R-75 – to detach a sidecar you have to sweat a lot!
Still, despite all the shortcomings, the BMW R75 is a central part of the “Motorworld by V. Sheyanov” collection. Vyacheslav set himself the goal to collect under one roof the best motorcycles of the Golden Age of motorcycling, which peaked in the 30s-40s of the last century. The museum’s collection contains over 100 exhibits, each of which is lovingly maintained and jealously guarded. But most importantly, all the exhibits are ‘alive’ and take part in small test-drives alternately, which are held in the fields and forests of the Samara region.
The front suspension is a telescopic fork with hydraulic damping. The first versions of the bike used metal shields that protected the moving parts of the shock absorber, but dirt and sand very quickly clogged in the slots, thus moving parts quickly came into disrepair. In the case of “Sahara”, this problem was solved by installing rubber dust collars, which reliably protected the shock absorbers.
At least that was the case on paper, but in reality, when you start to look at war pictures, you are surprised at the variety that was found on the battlefields: versions with a ‘helmet’-filter and metal shields, with glove box on the gas tank or with the valve caps of the old model.
Spokes used on R75 were reinforced to withstand high loads. All three wheels are interchangeable, the spare wheel was attached to the trunk lid of the sidecar. The tire size (4.5 x 16 inches) was unified with the Volkswagen Typ 82 (Kübelwagen).
Unrepairable motorcycles of various brands are dumped along the road somewhere on the coast of France. Motorcycle with sidecar – BMW R75.
All three wheels had drum brakes, but the front brake was driven by a cable and the rear brakes were hydraulic. The principle of operation has not changed since then: the driver presses the pedal on the R75 and it drives the main brake cylinder, which is in the casting of the body of the gearbox. The cylinder moves the brake fluid, which comes through the tubes to the rear wheels and ejected pistons’ brake cylinders.
Thanks to the high arches, it was possible to install chains on the wheels, which further increased the passability of the motorcycle. A part of the rear wheel arch tilts down to make it easier to change the wheel. In the “Sahara” version, the arches are made narrower and are located further away from the wheel than the first R75. Like any other off-road vehicle, with the help of the crew, the BMW R75 could overcome almost any off-road obstacles.
The fuel tank of the R75 with the volume of 24 liters provided a power reserve of 350 km, which corresponds to the consumption of 7L/100km on the track. To increase its power reserve, gasoline canisters with additional fuel were attached to the sidecar.
Today, gasoline cans are an integral part of our life, almost every motorist has such cans in the trunk, and for experienced motorists, it is an obligatory attribute of equipment.
During World War II, the Allies called a canister of fuel ‘Jerrycan’. The word ‘Jerry’ is a part of the military slang of English-speaking allies, which meant ‘Germans’).
The three handles on the ‘Jerrycan’ were not made by chance, but to meet the Wehrmacht specifications, which required the soldier to carry two full cans or four empty ones.
The motorcycle could carry a trailer weighing up to 450 kg. It could also be a 37 mm PaK-35/36 anti-tank gun and 81 mm s.Gr.W.34 mortar. According to some reports, the R75 could carry up to 8 (!) trailers coupled to each other.
Although the BMW R75 could be compared in terms of cross-country ability with the new SUV Jeep, but only with a very experienced rider. This qualification made R75’s operation even more difficult. In general, the R75 – one of the most advanced motorcycles of the Second World War, but perfection has its own price, in this case, the price was too high. The motorcycle costs the Wehrmacht the same amount as 3 Kübelwagen. Such expenses during the war were unacceptable, and in 1944 production was shut down. In total, 16,500 BMW R75 motorcycles were produced.
All fans of German motorcycles simply have to visit the motorcycle museum “Motorworld by V. Sheyanov”, where the perfectly restored BMW R75 “Sahara” is now located.
|Manufacturer||Bayerische Motoren Werke, AG, Munich (Germany)|
|Years of manufacture||1940 – 1944|
|Quantity produced, units||16 510|
|Price||1 595 RМ|
|Today’s value||10 309, 6 $|
|ENGINE AND TRANSMISSION|
|Type||twin-cylinder, OHV, with horizontally opposed cylinders, 4-stroke type|
|Engine capacity, cc||746|
|Bore and stroke, mm||78 х 78|
|Engine rating||26 h.p. at 4000 rpm|
|Sparking||Magneto generator, left-side kickstarter arrangement|
|Carburetor||2 units: Graetzin Sa 24 / 1 type and Sa 24|
|Clutch||Single dry plate|
|Transmission||4-speed + reverse gear|
|FRAME AND WHEELBASE|
|Frame type||Tubular welded|
|Brakes||Drum type with hydraulic drive, including the sidecar wheel|
|Wheel size||4,50 х 16 (3 wheels)|
|Ground clearance, mm||
|Seat height, mm||
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Legal and ethical issues in nurse prescribing
Co-prescribing unlicensed medicines with a gp it is not for you to give the gp legal and ethical advice, but hopefully the following helps you to understand the . Ethical, legal, and professional challenges ethical, and legal issues that prescribing controlled medications to someone who is known. “there is an ethical problem in that the close relationship could cloud the practitioner’s judgment,” buppert said in the legal and professional issues for nurses section of medscape nurse depending on the state, fnps could face legal implications for prescribing to family and friends.
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Legal and ethical issues in nurse prescribing
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(May 31, 1994)
NEVER DAM THE THREE GORGES
An Interview with Professor Huang Wanli1
by Dai Qing
Dai Qing: We know you were the only person who contended in 1957 that damming the Sanmenxia Gorge on the Yellow River should not be allowed. Now, you hold the same view on the Three Gorges project. May I ask, then, whether you oppose damming any river?
Huang Wanli: No. As a hydraulic engineer, I’ve never opposed the idea that a flood-control project should, wherever possible, combine such functions as irrigation, navigation, and power generation. However, in designing a major project, we cannot be concerned solely with engineering calculations. We must have insight into the many fields of science and the humanities, and have sufficient understanding not only of engineering, but also of hydrology and geomorphology. As far as the Yellow and Yangtze rivers are concerned, I maintain that damming the deposition reach of a main river course, such as at the Sanmenxia Gorge project, should not be allowed. The Three Gorges project, however, is located in the scouring reach of the Sichuan Basin. It could be constructed if the bed-forming material of the reach were not so coarse. Such coarse material will not pass through the dam and will block Chongqing harbor after the dam is constructed.
Dai Qing: What do you mean by the “deposition reach”? Isn’t it the case that the Yellow River’s sediment builds up mainly in the alluvial plain2 at its lower reaches? Why do you call Sanmenxia Gorge a “deposition reach”?
Huang Wanli: Sanmenxia Gorge’s situation is rather complicated. From the town of Mengjin upstream, the Yellow River does have a deposition reach. But only at Sanmen (Three Gates) has the base rock of the river bed been lifted up due to igneous intrusion. This is a deposition reach inserted into the middle of the scouring reach of the Yellow River-a very irregular topographic formation. In 1957, it had yet to be studied; water engineers couldn’t appreciate its peculiarity. It was said that once water conservation was improved in the upstream areas, there would no longer be sediment flushed down from the Yellow River. In the feasibility study for the Sanmenxia Gorge dam project, I was alone in insisting that the dam should not even be considered. Furthermore, only one engineer argued for a smaller dam. To reconcile with the majority opinion, I suggested that, if the dam must be built, then the sluice gate at its base should be left open in order to flush out sediment. For when we were dealing with the Yellow River, at least we knew it was a river with extremely high sediment content. Everyone agreed with my idea, except the Soviet experts, who insisted that it be blocked. As a result, the upstream course was silted up in barely two years, and the project had to be reconstructed.
Dai Qing: Is the silting pattern of the Yangtze in any way different from that of the Yellow River? Do you believe that no dam should be built on the deposition reach of a river?
Huang Wanli: In the Yangtze Valley, from Chongqing upstream, there exists the Sichuan Basin, which experiences high rainfall. There, ground vegetation cannot totally absorb the abundant volume of water, so the surplus rainfall flushes down to the lower positions, creating thousands of creeks and streams which are eventually gathered in the Yangtze’s upstream tributaries. For the last 100,000 years this water has been reshaping the surface of the earth and deepening the river course, creating the gorgeous scenery along the Yangtze Valley from Sichuan downstream to Yichang. The topographic formation determines that the debris of igneous rock and sand created by weathering is carried by the river all the way through Chongqing and Yichang to the mouth of the Yangtze, where it is deposited on the slope of China’s eastern continental shelf. The debris deposited on the continental shelf by this process is several kilometers deep. This continuous process has left us with the Yangtze’s alluvial plains, which support the livelihoods of 500 million Chinese people.
The scouring and deposition process is the reason why the Sichuan Basin-which is on the scouring reach-has never silted up. The Yangtze and its tributaries upstream of Chongqing scour large amounts of gravel mixed with coarse sand which is flushed down river when floods occur. All of this sediment-from the Yangtze and its upstream tributaries-must pass through the Three Gorges. Once the Three Gorges is dammed, the river’s flow will slow and the sediment will deposit in the backwater reach where it will block Chongqing harbor.
While a dam should not be built on a deposition reach, one may be constructed on the scouring reach. The Gongzui Reservoir on the Dadu River is a successful example. The Dadu Valley is small but the flow of the river is strong. In the 16 years since its completion, the dead storage of the reservoir has completely silted up. Although it can no longer perform its flood-control function, we do not have to remove it by blowing it up; its power plant still works. So what I mean is that, as long as a dam does not obstruct navigation upstream, nor claim arable land, it may be constructed on a scouring reach. Once it becomes silted up, let it be.
There is a German practice however, that as a small dam is built, a sluice gate is left underneath, so that the sediment can be removed at a later date.3 Most dams built in this manner remain in good condition, and can be used for power generation, flood regulation, and irrigation. The focal point of the present controversy over the Three Gorges project is whether or not the Yangtze has a significant amount of coarse sand and gravel (i.e., bedload) and whether such material moves downstream. The Yangtze Valley Planning Office (YVPO) considers the movable bedload immovable, remaining constant at one spot. A simulation test under this assumption is meaningless. According to basic hydrogeologic theory, all of the rocks in this area may move downstream. This of course constitutes a huge amount of sediment, and it is from here that I start my argument. Do not forget that I have witnessed this movement. When I headed a survey team in the 1940s I saw rocks rolling in the flow with my own eyes.
Dai Qing: Is it possible to measure the movement of the rocks and gravel that the water carries down? What factors determine this movement?
Huang Wanli: It is measurable upstream. For instance, the Gongzui Reservoir was silted up in 16 years. Therefore, it is possible to measure the river’s annual sediment load from this point upstream . From the Dujiangyan dam, it is reported that the river’s annual sediment load is about 2 million m3. If we add the sediment of each tributary, we will get the aggregate amount that goes through the Three Gorges. In principle, it is hard to investigate this factor in a deposition reach, because there the river may drop some of the load it carries before it moves it along again. But it is feasible to measure the amount of rock from the Yangtze that the river carries past Yichang each year, by synthesizing data derived from the small valleys upstream, in proportion to the total area to be investigated. My own estimation of that amount is in the neighborhood of 100 million tonnes.
Dai Qing: Do you mean to say that, in the past few decades, a geomorphic perspective has never been derived from the research of so many engineers?
Huang Wanli: This is a lesson that rivers and mountains continue to teach human beings even though we think we are knowledgeable in the area. Eighty years ago, an American engineer said that a dam builder must be well versed in two areas. One was hydro-engineering, which meant you had to understand how to construct a dam. The other was natural geography and geomorphololgy-in order to tell what impact the dam construction, once complete, would have on nature. This was his advice to the U.S. government. It is also why, in the Tennessee Valley Authority, chief responsibility was shifted from J. L. Savage, an engineer, who knew only how to build dams, to Arthur E. Morgan, a specialist in comprehensive river planning from Ohio. Morgan invited S. M. Woodward, a professor from the University of Iowa, to join him. At that time, geomorphology researchers were dissatisfied with engineers, saying they often made mistakes, whereas the engineers involved in the concrete work were dissatisfied with scientists, saying that they couldn’t solve problems. Few people were well versed in both methodologies.
When I arrived in the United States in 1934, I had already had two years’ experience as a railway and structural engineer; then at Cornell University, the University of Iowa, and the Engineering Institute of Illinois, I branched out to astronomy, meteorology and topography. This has enabled me to really know whether a dam should be built, and where it can be built. A water engineer does not have to be a geomorphologist, but with a basic understanding of the field, he can gain a deeper insight and a broader view. In other words, any engineering project must involve both comprehensive and technical understanding; you must have the former before you can start the latter.
Dai Qing: But many distinguished scientists were also involved in the leading group’s assessment of the Three Gorges project. Why, in your opinion, did their theoretical expertise have little influence on the project’s key technological issues?
Huang Wanli: I don’t mean scientists should be used to design a dam’s operational processes. What I recommend is that engineers be informed of the findings of scientific research. To ask a geomorphologist to choose a location for a water engineering project is to ask him to do something for which he is not trained. On the other hand, to ask a water engineer to learn some geomorphology is a much more reasonable request. Scientists have their domains, their theoretical approaches, and are preoccupied with the most fundamental issues. In the field of application, it is up to the engineers to grasp the theories that scientists have provided and develop their own operational processes. One of the remarks that led me to be labeled as a “rightist” in 1957 was made exactly on this relationship. Mao Zedong proposed to relate theory to reality in the 1940s, saying that doctrines were useless and that only the kind of Marxism-Leninism that was produced in the rural hinterland4 could solve China’s real problems. In the 1950s, following this “great teaching,” a batch of people started to use “reality” as an excuse for theoretical ignorance. I said: “There is no theory that cannot be related to reality, only realities that one fails to explain in theory.” Now, 35 years have passed, and we still have different views and estimations of the Yangtze’s sediment.
Dai Qing: Why has it been decided to build the dam at Sandouping, where the river is about two kilometers wide, when there are so many narrow gorges in the Yangtze? Wasn’t the building of a two-kilometer-long dam decided, I’m afraid, just for the project to look magnificent?
Huang Wanli: For all water engineers, the narrower a dam is, the more cost-efficient it is from an economic point of view. Otherwise, why build a dam in a valley? But the Three Gorges is a complete reversal of the ideal: The dam designed for Sandouping only has a reservoir width between 500 meters and one kilometer. But it expands to two kilometers at its crest length, creating a winding reservoir 600 kilometers long. This is unprecedented. The rationale for this design, which the YVPO does not seem to want to address openly, is that there is actually no other alternative. For in the entire reach of the Three Gorges, only at Sandouping is the river bed made of igneous rock. But they seem to have forgotten that there is still about 35 meters of gravel on top of the base rock. During construction, this deposit is to be totally excavated, and 35 meters is to be added to the height of the dam, which will contribute nothing to the reservoir’s storage capacity-uneconomic indeed. In addition, the resettlement of more than one million people, which will cost one-third of the entire budget, is unheard of. In my calculation, the combination of these factors will produce total costs seven times more than that for a power plant of the same capacity! The design is absurd, and overpriced. By contrast, just look at the Wujiang River hydro power station. On the narrow watercourse, there is just an arch dam to let the flood spill over it, with the power plant fixed within, combining its three functions perfectly. And at the Guanting Reservoir in Beijing, the body of its earth dam extends only 100 meters. Of course, half of the space above the dam is silted up, and so a large part of its flood-control capacity has been lost. But it has been there for 40 years.
Dai Qing: If, according to the present plan, a 175-meter-high dam is built at the Three Gorges, how long will it take before things begin to go wrong upstream?
Huang Wanli: In terms of sedimentation, the Yangtze is different from the Yellow River. The silt head of the Yellow River has passed Chang’an and reached Xi’an. It will stop only when it meets with an upstream slope. The Yangtze’s alluvial reach is originally steep enough to eliminate sedimentation. But if the flow of the river slows down, and drops the gravel at Chongqing, that would be equivalent to erecting a new dam, making it possible for the sediment to build up. This is unavoidable unless the river bed is somehow lowered. But who can do that? There is no chance for the sediment build-up to travel very far; it will stop where the slope becomes abrupt. But this is enough to raise the flood levels at Jiangjin and Hechuan (Sichuan), and cause frequent flooding. The affected area will not exceed one-fifth of Sichuan. But, think of it, one-fifth of Sichuan subject to floods-what a catastrophe!
The most serious problem is that once water storage begins, Chongqing harbor will silt up in less than 10 years. Under these conditions, in order to ensure upstream navigation, the dam will have to be blasted off. But the dam is deep in the valley. Where can the debris be put when there is no level ground? This would be extremely costly. To the east of Sichuan will be the reservoir’s submergence zone, to its west will lie the destruction of Hechuan and Jiangjin, and with the obstruction of navigation will come problems with external communication. The residents of Sichuan will naturally begin to ask why, for no reason at all, they must make such sacrifices: I would not be surprised. You must know of the “Road Protection” movement5 toward the end of the Qing Dynasty. It was when local interests were compromised in 1911 that an opportunity for the Republican Revolution to topple the imperial regime occurred.
Dai Qing: But how can the Three Gorges project, now already under way, be stopped? So many years have been spent on its assessment, and so much has been done for its preparation. If it is stopped at this point, does it mean that all the previous efforts are totally wasted?
Huang Wanli: My view is different from many others. They are concerned with whether, according to the state’s economic capabilities, the project should be started somewhat earlier or somewhat later. But I insist that never should the deposition reach of a river be dammed. The scouring reach may be dammed, provided it’s not navigable, and the project does not claim arable land. The Three Gorges project is on a scouring reach; it is on a golden waterway, as it is commonly called. This project would also involve the submergence of 500,000 mu of farmland and the resettlement of more than 1 million people-it should not be taken lightly. Unfortunately, even if I tried to explain this point to my students, they might not accept it. The people who have devoted so much work to the project and have spent so much money will try anything to defend their project. Until 1986, when its publicity campaign began, I never really thought that someone would try to build a dam at the Three Gorges. So, I declared my point of view in the newspaper, Science and Technology Tribune. I hoped that there would be a public debate so I could elaborate on my concerns. Damming the Three Gorges might well have been Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s grand view of the future, and it might well have fit Mao Zedong’s poetic fantasy, but we engineers must treat the issue with a sense of responsibility. I have never been given a chance to speak out.
The construction of the Three Gorges dam (to follow the present preparatory works for the project) has not yet begun. What has been done so far is of no major consequence. It does not do serious harm to the river valley to relocate some local residents, to plant some trees on higher ground, and to build some bridges. This work would not be a total waste even if the dam project was canceled. However, the sooner it is canceled, the better.
Sources and Further Commentary
1Huang Wanli has been a professor in the Hydraulic Engineering Department of Qinghua University, Beijing, since 1953. He obtained his doctorate in engineering from the Engineering Institute of Illinois. He returned to China in 1937, after having worked at the Tennessee Valley Authority, and has held various positions including: chief advisor in water engineering technologies at the State Commission of Economic Affairs, chief of the bureau of water resources of Gansu province, and chief advisor to the Northeast China General Bureau of Water Resources. This interview, conducted in August, 1993, was not part of the original Chinese edition of Yangtze! Yangtze!
2Flood plain created by deposition of sediment from river floods.
3The debris may be flushed through the sluice gate by manipulating the river flow by upstream reservoir operations.
4 Marxism derived directly from the experience of guerrilla warfare not from bookish readings of Marx. Implicit is a lopsided emphasis on practice and contempt for theory.
5A reference to the outbreak of violence in Sichuan as local elites resisted the efforts of the central government to take over the province’s railroads and run them with foreign financial assistance.
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You may not know what value-investing is.
But if not, you should find out. Let me explain.
Value-investing comes from investing in stocks – pretty sure an old-timer named Benjamin Graham was the one who first worked with the concept. Others have embraced the strategy over the years. It’s very popular among certain groups of folks with certain personalities and styles of investment preference.
Here’s the basic idea:
You buy something for less than it’s worth.
For stocks, that means – whatever the market price is, there’s actually some intrinsic value (which you as an investor see) but which the market as a whole does not yet recognize. You get to buy something that’s on-sale, but the seller doesn’t realize he’s selling it at a bargain. It’s almost like insider trading – except all the “insider knowledge” comes simply from your own skills and experience about valuing business and understanding stock markets.
So it’s like winning the lottery?
Sounds like a great idea, right? But easier said than done.
Because often the value of a thing is very different from what it appears, and it can take a lot of skill and experience to understand the difference between…
“actual value” vs. “perceived value”
But if you can get the hang of it, you can make a great profit. You’ll spend less to get more. Which is awesome.
(Or so I am told – I’m not a stock guy, I just like to take the same concept and apply it to other areas of life where I do have more skills and experience.)
We were talking about my life…
So what does value-investing have to do with life, and with areas of business outside of straight-up stock investing?
Well, you can look at the time you invest in all your various:
- personal and professional projects
- goals, hobbies, and recreations
As real and serious investment – just like when investing in a stock market. 🙂
- Your time is limited, just like money.
- Your time is valuable, just like money.
- Your time becomes more valuable when it is invested in doing things that pay you back in the form of happiness, opportunities, great memories, accomplished goals, or personal development. (Just like money, sort of – it’s a metaphor, okay?)
The bottom line
Your time is something to think about. Not all the time, of course – you can’t make yourself crazy, you need to chill-out too.
Think, and feel great
You should be investing your time in a thoughtful way that helps you get to the end of each day in a way that makes you feel positive and awesome.
After all, if you get to the end of a day and you feel crappy, can you really put the blame on anyone other than yourself? (Yeah, I know sometimes a day is out of your control, but it’s not out of our control as often as we like to pretend.)
Unpopular doesn’t mean loser
A key strategy when looking to value-invest in stocks is to buy the stocks that other people aren’t interested in. The reason for that is pretty obvious – in a stock market if everybody is interested in buying a stock then the price goes up – so whatever intrinsic (hidden?) value the stock had is now absorbed into the inflated price. It’s no longer a value.
Likewise with your investment of time in your day, and your life.
Look to where everybody else is not
What do most people do? Do something different.
Where do most people spend their time? Think about the benefits of spending your time elsewhere.
Unpopular doesn’t mean outcast
That doesn’t mean you have to be the renegade, or that you have to be a lonely anti-social miserly investor of your time.
Think about the pro’s and con’s of spending your time in all the various ways that are possible. Many times, the easy way to spend your time, or the one that you are used to doing, just out of habit, is not really something that’s going to help you get to where you want to be.
And the truth is, if you walk off into the weeds to explore some new adventure in an area where none of the people around you seem to find any value – you know what?
There’s other like-minded folks out here in the weeds!
When you get there, you’ll find like-minded folks. 🙂
Just because something is under-valued or is a bargain doesn’t mean that nobody finds any value in it. It just means it’s a little off the beaten path – it’s not where everybody is scrambling to get in on the action.
So you go where it is a little calmer, where the opportunities are more reasonably priced, where time spent is more often time well spent.
And you hang-out in that realm.
Chances are, you’ll find some amazing adventures, meet some incredible people, do some awesome work, and just generally become an all-around great contributor to the community you are part of.
Find the value!

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Today, Congressman G. K. Butterfield (NC-01), joined by his Democratic colleagues on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, sent a letter to Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) urging him to hold hearings as soon as possible to address gun violence in America.
The letter requests the Committee hold hearings on the gun violence epidemic in America, including explorations of: who gun violence hurts; whether mass shootings are becoming increasingly deadly; the distribution of guns, ammunition, and accessories through e-commerce, and whether federal agencies have the resources necessary to exercise effective oversight of such activity; and the extent to which social media may be increasing the hostility surrounding the gun debate.
“In eastern North Carolina and across the country, we’ve seen too many lives lost due to gun violence,” said Congressman Butterfield. “We can no longer ignore the problem and go about our lives after another one of these tragedies as if it’s business as usual. Congress must finally act.”
“The American people rightfully have questions about the ever-increasing capacity of guns to kill or seriously harm in large numbers and why these weapons are so easy to obtain in the marketplace,” the Members wrote in their letter to Chairman Walden. “There are also legitimate questions this Committee must take up, including the ease of purchasing ammunition and gun accessories online and whether social media is contributing to the societal divisions on the topic of gun violence.”
Today’s letter follows a February 16th letter from Congressman Butterfield and Democratic Committee members to Chairman Walden and Subcommittee Chairman Michael Burgess (R-TX) calling on them to hold a hearing on gun violence prevention research. The Republican leaders have neither responded to that request nor scheduled a hearing on the subject.
Congressman Butterfield is also a co-sponsor of the bipartisan H.R. 4240, the Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act, to help states strengthen and expand the background checks system and close a number of gun sale loopholes. Another bipartisan bill he supports is H.R. 1478, the Gun Violence Research Act, which would repeal a provision in federal appropriations law that would allow the CDC and other agencies to perform gun violence research. He also supports H.R. 3464, the Background Checks Completion Act, to prohibit licensed gun dealers from selling guns to buyers without completing a background check. This would close the “Charleston Loophole” that allowed the sale of a gun that was used in the racially motivated attack at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina that took nine lives two years ago.
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That said, Nicki Minaj, who , is backing that thang up once again.
Please stop criticizing everything everyone does!!!!! She isn't ashamed of her curves and owns them, taking every opportunity to show 'em off.
Please leave young women alone.
So you best believe that when the actress saw that the photos of herself in denim short-shorts while grocery shopping were making headlines on Tuesday, she had something to say about it.


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When a vehicle changes hands, transferring the Certificate of Title alerts the authorities to the fact that the vehicle has been sold, and the old owner is no longer legally responsible for it. The procedure involved in transferring an auto title varies, depending on where the vehicle is sold, but the basic mechanics are usually more or less the same. For people buying a vehicle from the dealer, the dealer will take care of the transfer of title, and the same holds true for people selling autos to dealers. However, in private transactions, buyer and seller will need to transfer the title.
To transfer an auto title, it is usually necessary to have the legal Certificate of Title. If the title has been lost or mislaid, the Department of Motor Vehicles can issue a new one, after the owner has provided clear proof of ownership. Often, the Certificate of Title includes a form which is used to transfer the title to a new owner, and the form includes lines for information about the buyer and seller, along with the selling price and odometer reading. In other cases, it will be necessary to obtain a form from the Department of Motor Vehicles to transfer an auto title.
In addition to the Certificate of Title filled out with the appropriate information, it will usually be necessary to have a bill of sale, odometer reading, identification for all people involved in the transaction, and vehicle identification number for the vehicle being transferred. In some regions, a smog certificate and proof of insurance are also required to transfer a title, and it may be necessary to notarize the document to confirm that the vehicle is being surrendered by the legal owner. If there is a lien on the vehicle from a lender, the lender will need to release the lien before the vehicle can be legally transferred.
While transfer can often be handled through the mail, some buyers and sellers find it helpful to go into the office at the Department of Motor Vehicles together to transfer an auto title. This is a good idea for a number of reasons. In the first place, it ensures that any problems with the transfer are identified and addressed immediately. In the second place, it allows the seller of the vehicle to confirm that the title has been transferred, so that he or she will not be held liable for the actions of the new owner, although it's a good idea to request confirmation that the title transferred successfully around 30 days later.
It is important to handle all aspects of the title transfer properly to avoid legal liabilities and other problems. Most regions have publications which provide people with the information they need to have in hand to transfer an auto title, including legal requirements and recommendations.


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Winning and losing--with class
It's called "March Madness" — the time for basketball tournaments and playoffs — high school and college. The high school tournaments are finished now and college playoffs have culled the field down to the Final Four: Villanova, Kansas, Loyola-Chicago and Michigan. There have been 60 games in the tournament so far and 60 losers. Only four teams have avoided losing to this point.
Two weeks ago, I witnessed a high school team with a 29-0 record lose a game that would have taken them to the state tournament: Heartbreak. Disappointment. Tears. Yet at the end of the game, the players and coaches formed two lines and each winning player and coach shook the hand of each player and coach on the losing side. There were some pats on the back as well, remarks like "good game" and occasional hugs. That can't be easy for the losers.
And last Sunday on TV, I saw two biggies, Duke and Kansas go down to the wire before Kansas won in overtime. Again, the players and coaches (two big-time, well known coaches) went through the same handshaking and good sportsmanship routine.
About the same time all this basketball excitement has been going on, I've been reading about General Ulysses S. Grant and the winners and losers in the Civil War. At Vicksburg in the middle of the war, and at Appomattox at the end, Grant, the winning general, was dealing with a losing general who had been a West Point classmate (Pemberton at Vicksburg and Robert E. Lee at Appomattox). Thousands of Confederate soldiers were surrendering in each case. They could have been slaughtered by the Union troops. If spared, they could have been subjected to humiliation by Grant.
Although gaining an unconditional surrender rather than taking prisoners, weapons were confiscated (although Confederate officers were allowed to keep their sidearms and one horse and at the end of the war all prisoners were allowed to keep their horses — to return home and resume farming). The Union troops did not boast or cheer but watched silently and respectfully while the losers slowly paraded away. After all, the union was still intact and life would go on after the war was over.
Back when our local football team was beating everybody and winning state championships, I was proud of our coach, Rick, who refused to deliberately humiliate losing opponents. The team played full throttle in the first half and built up impressive leads, then the reserves played in the second half and many times when they could have piled up the score, they deliberately knelt the ball down and refused to score. I'm sure the losers appreciated the gesture. Classy winners know how to act when they win and classy losers know how to act when they lose.
Life goes on after wars, after political elections, after ball games and even after divorces. Winning and losing can bring out the best or the worst in the participants, quite often the worst. Winners who taunt "losers," gloat or boast and losers who whine, alibi, or wallow in bitterness only express pettiness, not class. We all need to remember the cliché "what goes around often comes around."
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Portable Water Analyzer adopts the pulse xenon lamp as light source and the ultraviolet optical fiber spectrometer as detector is capable for real-time gathering of absorption spectrum of water pollutants ranging from 200nm to 800nm and real-time analysis of the content of water pollutants by means of chemometric algorithm technology. Optical path as shown below for more information
Portable Water Analyzer includes two parts: the control box and the probe. The control box is installed in the analysis cabin and the probe is submerged in the water and fixed by means of mounting bracket the two parts are connected via cable. The control box provides power supply to the probe and at the same time receives the measurement value from the probe and displays them on the interface.

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US to bar Chinese carriers amid spat over resumption of flights by Delta and United
U.S. authorities will bar Chinese airlines from serving the United States amid a growing spat over plans by Delta Air Lines and United Airlines to resume flights to China.
In an order issued Wednesday morning, the Department of Transportation said Chinese passenger carriers will be barred from serving the U.S. after June 16. Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines and Xiamen Airlines are currently operating limited flights, while Sichuan Airlines plans to resume service on June 12 and Hainan Airlines on July 1.
The move is in response to the failure of the Chinese government to grant Delta and United approval to resume passenger flights in June. However, it also comes amid a rise in tensions between U.S. president Trump and China over the handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic, as well as a recent security law governing Hong Kong.
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Delta hoped to resume service to Shanghai Pudong (PVG) on June 3. It planned two daily flights, one from Detroit (DTW) and one from Seattle (SEA), both stopping at Seoul Incheon (ICN) enroute to Shanghai.
United hoped to resume flights to both Beijing Capital (PEK) and Shanghai on June 15. It planned to connect both cities with its San Francisco (SFO) hub, as well as Shanghai with its Newark (EWR) hub.
All five planned passenger flights cannot begin until approval is granted by Chinese authorities.
Related: A country-by-country guide to coronavirus recovery
At the center of the issue is a March 26 order by China’s aviation authority, the CAAC, allowing foreign airlines to operate one weekly passenger flight to the country in order to minimize spread of COVID-19. That order set the baseline for service resumptions as schedule airlines operated as of March 12.
However, U.S. carriers suspended all passenger flights to China in February.
The DOT said that the March 12 baseline “effectively precludes U.S. carriers from reinstating scheduled passenger flights to and from China.”
Related: Delta adds Seoul stop on planned Shanghai route to protect crews
The CAAC, in a response to the DOT, said it was enforcing its March order "equally" across all Chinese and foreign carriers in a "fair, equal and transparent" manner.
The spat between China and the U.S. is the first of what may be more to come as airlines seek to resume flights but country's remain wary of the coronavirus. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has warned that a patchwork of country-by-country restrictions will slow the recovery of international travel.
IATA is calling for the implementation of global health and safety standards to facilitate the resumption of flights — and air travel — between countries.
Related: Delta and United ready to return to China as international routes slowly resume
American Airlines also serves China but does not plan to resume flights until October.
Below is a list of flights operated by Chinese carriers to the U.S. that could affected by the DOT order:
- Beijing-Los Angeles (LAX) on Sundays
- Shanghai-New York John F. Kennedy (JFK) on Tuesdays (eastbound) and Thursdays (westbound)
- Guangzhou (CAN)-Los Angeles on Saturdays (eastbound) and Sundays (westbound)
- Xiamen (XMN)-Los Angeles on Sundays (eastbound) and Mondays (westbound)
More from TPG: Every Airbus A380 in the world is grounded — except for one airlinel

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Farmers-Centre meeting today amid protest: Amid a continuous deadlock over farm laws 2020 between farmers’ organizations and the Centre, both sides held the 9th round of meeting today.
Today’s meeting between the leaders of farmers’ organizations and Centre, which is struggling over agricultural laws, also ended in a deadlock. The next meeting will now be held on January 19 at 12 noon.
During the meeting, a heated exchange was witnessed between the farmers and Agriculture Minister Narinder Singh Tomar. The Centre again suggested talking to the farmers ‘clause by clause’, which was rejected.
The farmers said nothing will be acceptable except repeal of the laws.
In the meeting, Narinder Singh Tomar said that now farmers should discuss on reforming the laws.
Even today the government asked the farmers to form a small committee but the farmers flatly refused.
Farmers said that the government was running away from the issue of MSP. To which Centre replied, “If you do not approve the Supreme Court committee, join us and form a committee,” Tomar said. Adding that if the MSP comes under the law, will the agitation end? The Supreme Court had yesterday stayed the implementation of the three agriculture laws till further orders.
At the same time, the farmers’ leaders raised the issue of opposition to the Haryana Chief Minister in Karnal and the farmers objected to the FIR registered against 900 farmers.
Ahead of the meeting with the farmers, Union Agriculture Minister Narinder Singh Tomar had said, “The government welcomes the committee constituted by the Supreme Court. “When the committee calls the government, we will put our case before the committee,” he said.
So far, eight meetings have been held between the Centre and Farmers but all of them remained inconclusive. Farmers have been adamant on their demand that farm laws 2020 be repealed.
Farmers have already announced that they will be taking out the tractor march on 26th January.
BKU Spokesperson Rakesh Tikait said that “On Jan 26, we’ll take out a procession from Red Fort to India Gate. We will hoist the flag where we’ll meet at the Amar Jawan Jyoti. It will be a historic scene where on one side we will have ‘kisan’ and on the other side, ‘jawan’.”
The farmers’ have been protesting at Delhi borders against the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, and Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.

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Park County’s former homeland security director is no longer employed by the county after being charged with driving under the influence of alcohol on Oct. 24. The Park County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Jack Tatum had his last day of employment on Friday.
“I’m disappointed he chose the direction he chose,” Park County Commissioner Chairman Lee Livingston said.
Tatum, 33, was pulled over by a Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper while traveling on U.S. Highway 20-26 between Casper and Shoshoni. He is accused of exhibiting a .272% blood alcohol content. An opened bottle of vodka was found in his vehicle.
Highway Patrol Trooper Eric Sanstead responded to the road on a report of a pickup truck with “Park County Homeland Security” written on its side cut off another driver and was swerving across the road while traveling at speeds well below the speed limit.
When Sanstead first made contact with Tatum, he was traveling 44 MPH in the 70 MPH speed zone.
As Sanstead approached Tatum in his vehicle on the outskirts of the city, he said Tatum swerved to his left and then performed a U-turn, almost striking a traffic light pole on the north side of the road and entering into the median and the westbound lane of travel.
The smell of alcohol was emitting from Tatum and he was given a standard field sobriety test.
Tatum was unable to give a breath test after three attempts and he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. He was unable to sit in the back of Sanstead’s patrol car due to his level of impairment and ended up being given a ride to the Natrona County Detention Center by a Sheriff’s deputy.
At the detention center he was able to successfully give a breath sample.
During the summer, Tatum had been approved for $167,852 in funding for his department to pay for a $82,000 mobile communications platform trailer, a new diesel pickup truck and other emergency response-related equipment.
Livingston confirmed he was not arrested in the new diesel truck.
Since being hired in June 2019, Tatum had been lauded for his performance on the job.
In his duties, he was responsible for planning, directing and overseeing the activities and emergency operations for the county and ensuring that local emergency operations response agencies and the general public are prepared for any hazard or emergency.
Although he worked under Park County Sheriff Scott Steward, he is not considered a law enforcement officer.

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The challenges of the pandemic are far from over for grassroot local community groups, according to a new survey from the Co-op.
It found more than three quarters of surveyed community causes expected demand for their services to increase over the next six months, including a huge 94 per cent of groups working to support mental wellbeing, 96 per cent of groups supporting young people and 83 per cent of those tackling food poverty.
To address this and help create fairer communities, Co-op is inviting grassroots projects in Mansfield that support access to food, help improve mental wellbeing or provide opportunities for young people, to apply for the Local Community Fund.
Rebecca Birkbeck, Director of Community and Shared Value at the Co-op said: “Findings from the survey, our own Community Wellbeing Index, members and colleagues has shown us that we can all come together to make the world a fairer place. Even with the easing of lockdown, the communities across the UK will still need our help.
“Members are encouraged to select a cause each round, allowing them to support grassroots causes in Mansfield that they really care about.
“This year, when a group applies for the Local Community Fund, we will also connect them to Co-operate, our online community centre, where they can come together and benefit from help and support from like-minded people and causes. This is an exciting development which shows the power of co-operation beyond funding.”
Applications close on Sunday, May 30, and to apply visit www.causes.coop.co.uk.


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Little Moons Honey Roasted Pistachio Ice Cream Mochi, 192 G
Even the smallest things can be the sweetest treat when they're as fragrantly nutty and creamy as these Little Moons ice cream mochi. A chewy mochi coating filled with honey roasted pistachio ice cream, each of these 6 frozen bites makes for an indulgent snack or dessert.
Delivered frozen. Please ensure this product is transferred to the freezer immediately.

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As for metal textures, i usually start off with a flat gray and then use grunge pattern brushes in photoshop with darker and lighter tones to create a textured effect. Just google "grunge brushes" and you'll find lots. It's of course also a good idea to study the dynamics of light reflected on a metal surface, there are lots of tutorials on this. For metal bolts/spheres specifically there is a technique that i could go deeper into if you want.
As for the shield, it is possible to set materials to two-sided. It will cause the backfacing side to be darker, but this is usually a benefit rather than a problem. If you don't want this, you can copy the whole (flat) shield mesh and move it backwards a bit, and use the "normal" modifier to flip the normals. This would allow you to use a different texture for the back of the shield (i do this for my roman models). I generally advice against modeling the side edges of the shield, it's better to just use planes since this allows you to use alpha textures with great advantage.
Haha, you have got to be one of the most patient people out there then! Waiting 8 years for a second tutorial, that's quite a while. I'm afraid there won't be anymore of those, though I've stopped modding Wc3, and almost can't even remember how to model it, either. I'm sure there are other tutorials out there far superior
Ah, yes. I managed to catch the flu just as i got home, so i've been knocked out for the last 24 hours. Anyhow, you can start out with this stuff, i've got some more in-depth slides regarding animation and unwrapping which i could share later.
Link 1, Link 2
Also, make sure you check out the hive tutorial section on modeling in 3ds max, they've got lots of useful material there.


Hey guys and hello from a newb. I've recently gotten the aforementioned smoker and I've used it twice so far and just managed to ruin two slabs of ribs. So I'm giving it another go this Sunday. But my main question is in regards to a mod for this smoker. I saw, I believe on page one of the thread about adding the fire resistant silicone to help seal the doors. I picked up some of that today and please pardon my ignorance but not sure I've ever even used silicone before much less a caulk gun. But my question is, I assume that when applying the silicone that I need to keep the doors open until the stuff hardens. Is that the case? Sounds like, if I don't the door will be more/less permanently shut. :)
I also have me a 3rd party thermometer coming today from Amazon, so I hope that helps with my temperature control. I guess in regards to that is, where's the best place you all have found to place the probe? Near the firebox? Center? etc etc.


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Sunday's BET Awards were full of important moments — Nicki Minaj's "no shade" acceptance speech, Jay Z calling out TMZ, and Robin Thicke tearfully begging Paula to take him back — but nothing compares to the surprise return of Missy Elliott. Perhaps you know her as Misdemeanor. During Pharrell's performance of "Come Get It Bae," Missy appeared to do a rendition of her 2003 hit "Pass That Dutch." Pharrell introduced her as "the Empress," which is an extremely fitting title for the woman who gave the world "Work It." See Missy in action below, and then start writing her letters begging her to make a new album.
Nicki Minaj Sets a New Standard for Awards Show Acceptance Speeches, No Shade
Jay Z Called Out TMZ at the BET Awards
Robin Thicke Dedicates His Sad, Sniffly BET Awards Performance to Paula Patton
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Reading finished the 2021-22 EFL Championship season in 21st place, just one spot above the relegation zone. This was a far cry from the side that finished 7th, which is just one spot below the promotion play-offs, in the season prior to the last one. Were it not for Derby County’s 21 point deduction, it might well have been the Royals who would have been relegated to EFL League One as they themselves were deducted six points. The only thing Reading now have is to look forward to the next season where they will hope to improve. The Royals have signed Tom Ince from Stoke City on a permanent basis to achieve that.
Ince played 26 matches in the recent EFL Championship season for both Stoke City and Reading (11 for the former and 15 for the latter). He played a total of 1781 minutes for both clubs. During his time on the pitch, he scored five goals at a rate of 0.23 per 90. Ince registered just over 1.7 shots per 90 and mustered only 27% of these attempts on target. His biggest strength, though, came in his dribbling as he attempted 4.64 dribbles per 90 at a respectable success rate of 68%. He also won nearly 53% of the offensive duels he contested, putting him in the top 6% among forwards.
Ince also registered one assist in addition to his five goals. He was more active and involved in build-up play than 84% of the forwards, averaging 25 pass attempts per 90 at a near 80% accuracy. He was also more than capable of ball progression from deep, completing just a shade below 70% of his balls into the attacking third. Ince made 2.37 progressive runs per 90, which put him in the top 12% among forwards. He was also placed in the 92nd percentile among forwards for long balls, with 1.81 per 90 to his name.
In the above heat map, we can see that Ince primarily featured on the right wing for Reading during the second half of the EFL Championship season. He completed 14 tackles, 11 interceptions and drew more fouls (25) than committed them (14). Additionally, he also completed 61 crosses for the Royals.
As seen from the above pass map, Ince made the overwhelming majority of the passes on the right hand side of the pitch. He also completed more than 25 passes into the opponents’ penalty area, showing his ability to create threats. Judging by his advanced position on the pitch, he also received lots of progressive passes from teammates.
Tom Ince played a lot more minutes for Reading on loan from Stoke City in the second half of the season than at Stoke in the first half. It is clear why the Royals opted to sign the winger on a permanent basis heading into the 2022-23 season.

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Lennon, Weinberg, Inc.
The exhibition presents new works by five abstract painters. Several use high-keyed colors, some use or refer to geometric forms, others concentrate on process and the properties of their materials. All have made distinctive, clean-lined abstract works, immediately recognizeble and unforgettable.
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Kenneth Noland (b. 1924, Asheville, North Caroline) has turned again to the center-weighted "target" form. The matte, subtly iridescent bands and fields of color permeate the canvas, bounded sometimes by pencilled lines. Edges are crisp or smoky, colors contrast sharply or barely shift in tone and hue.
Five years ago, Valerie Jaudon (b. 1945) Greenville, Mississippi) changed her process and materials. She layered complex ornamental patterns over poured grounds of oil and alkyd and achieved rich depths and shiny surfaces. Early on, Jaudon limited herself to black, white and grey; in the new paintings, colored fields smoulder beneath crisp motifs painted in the blackest black.
Bruno Rousselot (b. 1957, Joinville-en-Vallage, France) uses the sturdy geometry of the rectangle in the series he calls Concorde, ongoing since 1995. The strategic placement of rectangles initiates an active dialogue between figure and ground, furthered by the interaction of the carefully mixed colors. Rousselot applies acrylic paint with rollers and taped edges for an understated and succinct surface.
In each painting, Gwen Hardie (b. 1962, Fife, Scotland) works a single color through a range of tonality from light to dark. She establishes the appearance of a topographical surface described by the passage of light and shadow across its contours. Hardie vigorously and skillfully blends oil paint on the canvas until she has eliminated nearly every trace of her hand and unified the surface to a silky matte expanse.
The paintings of Rachel Howard (b. 1969, County Durham, England) are seemingly effortless pours of glossy household paint over canvas. Colors are straight from the can, familiar yet daring in combinations of three or four per painting. Almost sculptural in their pristine physicality, the paintings achieve a decorative intensity with an economy of means and strength of purpose.
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The Jenkins House Concert series is thrilled to announce that jazz violinist, Christian Howes, accepted our invitation to open our 8th season next month. Reid recently met Chris at the MOC-NYC String Camp where this concert opportunity fell into place. August 10th marked the release of Christian's latest album, “Out of the Blue” on Resonance Records featuring the legendary jazz and blues guitarist, Robben Ford. He has officially begun his ambitious tour of performances and clinics, including over 20 U.S. cities, assorted European dates, concluding with several engagements in Asia by the end of the fall. We welcome Chris to New York's Upper West Side.
Christian grew up in Columbus, Ohio and received a degree in Philosophy from the Ohio State University. After spending 8 years based here in New York City and touring the world, he recently returned to Columbus to reclaim his roots. As an educator, performer and composer, Christian Howes has gained great notoriety and respect from critics and players alike. Christian was a favorite of the late Les Paul, with whom he worked for 11 years. Says Christian of his mentor, ”Les defied categorization in terms of age or genre. His character, approach to life, and musicianship taught me many valuable lessons which I hope never to forget”. In recent years, Howes has become an in-demand violinist on the New York scene, performing and recording with a bevy of jazz artists, including alto saxophonist Greg Osby, pianist D.D. Jackson, guitarists Les Paul , Frank Vignola, and Joel Harrison, drummer Dafnis Prieto, vibraphonist Dave Samuels’s Caribbean Jazz Project, crossover pioneers Spyro Gyra, and a 4-yr chair in Bill Evans Soulgrass. On his recent cd, Heartfelt, the violinist collaborates with pianist-arranger Roger Kellaway, a legendary figure in his own right.
In August, 2009, Christian was ranked (for the third time) as the #2 violinist in the Downbeat Critics Poll “Rising Stars”. Says All About Jazz ,”as a jazz violinist he has no peer”. The Minneapolis Tribune called Christian ”arguably the most intriguing young violinist in jazz”. According to the Chicago Reader, “Not since Jean Luc Ponty has a violinist ranged from pure classical to fuzz-tone rock to convincing jazz with such authority”. An Associate Professor at the Berklee College of Music, he is also the founder of the Creative Strings Workshop and Festival, which convenes during the first week of July every year at Otterbein College.
Chris will appear net Friday night with his trio: David Grossman, bass, Donald Vega, piano, and Jordan Perlson drums. For details and reservations please contact Sandy at; Sandilion49@gmail.com


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Fans of Roald Dahl (and who isn’t one?) will relish Roald Dahl’s Twit or Miss (Penguin,iOS Free; Gr 3-7), “a completely and utterly disgusting” game inspired by the author’s Twits (Cape,1980), the story of a notoriously mean and revolting couple.
Looking for some new tunes to listen to? Here are a few standout CDs we've recently added to the collection.
Fall 2015 classes have been announced. Library U is committed to creating and fostering a variety of intellectually stimulating opportunities for Highland Park residents. Learn more.
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